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• Twitter accuses Michelle Obama of pushing 'racist' literature onto children

  29-09-2017 23:47 via yahoo.com
  Former first lady Michelle Obama is facing accusations of pushing "racist" literature onto children by Twitter users after a school librarian rejected a donation of books from first lady Melania Trump and wrote a blog criticizing her literary choices.
  
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• HHS Secretary Tom Price Resigns Over Chartered Plane Scandal

  29-09-2017 23:42 via nbcnews.com
  Tom Price is out as President Donald Trump's Health and Human Services Secretary.
  
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• Catalonia on collision course with Spain

  29-09-2017 23:42 via cnn.com
  Campaigners for Catalan independence are making their final push for support Friday ahead of a referendum Sunday which is fiercely opposed by Spain's central government.
  
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• Tenn. church suspect's car had note referencing retaliation for Dylann Roof's attack

  29-09-2017 23:32 via abcnews.go.com
  Emanuel Samson is accused of opening fire at a church in Antioch,Tennessee.
  
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• Iowa mom jailed after leaving kids for European jaunt

  29-09-2017 23:30 via yahoo.com
  Erin Lee Macke, 30, traveled from Johnston, Iowa, a suburb of Des Moines, to Germany on Sept. 20 without arranging child care for her children, two aged 12 and the others 6 and 7, Johnson police said.The children also had access to a gun in the house."The police have seen times when people have left their children to go somewhere, but to go to another country is completely different," said Janet Wilwerding, a spokeswoman for the city of 22,000.
  
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• Trump Tax Plan a Boon for the 1 Percent, New Analysis Finds

  29-09-2017 23:20 via nbcnews.com
  The top 1 percent of earners would reap the lion's share of benefits under a new tax-cut proposal unveiled by President Donald Trump, a new study finds.
  
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• FEMA Insists Containers Sitting In San Juan Port Aren’t Filled With Aid

  29-09-2017 23:16 via yahoo.com
  Puerto Rico Gov. Ricardo Rosselló told CBS just two days ago that thousands of shipping containers with food, water and medicine are just sitting in the port of San Juan not being distributed. The Federal Emergency Management Agency is disputing those claims. 
  
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• What Saudi Women Need More Than a Driver's License

  29-09-2017 23:12 via yahoo.com
  Social media helped Saudi women win the right to drive. Next battle: the right to be referred to by their own names
  
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• Tapper: Puerto Rico doesn't need tweets

  29-09-2017 23:12 via cnn.com
  CNN's Jake Tapper discusses the growing division between the crisis in Puerto Rico and the Trump administration in Washington.
  
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• 'We Are Dying and You Are Killing Us.' San Juan Mayor Slams White House Response to Hurricane Maria

  29-09-2017 23:09 via yahoo.com
  "I am begging you. Begging anyone that can hear us to save us from dying"
  
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• Last flight departs as Iraq imposes ban for Kurdish independence vote

  29-09-2017 23:07 via yahoo.com
  By Maher Chmaytelli and Tulay KaradenizERBIL, Iraq/ANKARA (Reuters) - The last international flight left Erbil airport on Friday as the Baghdad government imposed an air ban on Iraqi Kurdistan in retaliation for an independence vote that has drawn widespread opposition from foreign powers.Iraq's Kurds overwhelmingly backed independence in Monday's referendum, defying neighboring countries, which fear the vote could lead to renewed conflict in the region.Erbil airport was busier than usual as pas
  
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• ACLU Challenges Trump's New Travel Ban

  29-09-2017 23:06 via yahoo.com
  The American Civil Liberties Union announced Friday that it is suing President Donald Trump’s administration over its new travel ban.
  
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• Health Secretary Tom Price resigns amid private-plane controversy

  29-09-2017 22:52 via yahoo.com
  The White House announced Friday that President Trump had accepted the resignation of beleaguered Health and Human Services Secretary Tom Price.Press secretary Sarah Sanders released a statement saying that Price had submitted his resignation earlier Friday and Trump had accepted it.
  
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• The Latest: Massive Yosemite rock falls don't deter climbers

  29-09-2017 22:51 via yahoo.com
  YOSEMITE NATIONAL PARK, Calif. (AP) — The Latest on two rock falls in Yosemite that killed one person and injured two others (all times local):
  
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• Duchess Kate slammed by member of Parliament over 'disgusting' shopping habits

  29-09-2017 22:45 via yahoo.com
  There's now at least one person in the world who isn't envious of Duchess Kate's wardrobe.
  
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• Lynda 'Wonder Woman' Carter calls out James Cameron

  29-09-2017 22:39 via cnn.com
  Lynda Carter wants James Cameron to "stop dissing" "Wonder Woman."
  
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• OJ to focus on 'friends, family and golf'

  29-09-2017 22:34 via cnn.com
  The last leg of O.J. Simpson's odyssey to freedom will cut through one of the grayest, most desolate stretches of America. Signposts suggest it will end at one of the country's most affluent green enclaves.
  
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• No, this NFL player didn't burn a U.S. flag in the locker room

  29-09-2017 22:19 via yahoo.com
  Another day, another chapter in the ongoing feud between Donald Trump and NFL players who are taking the knee in protest against police brutality.
  
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• 'I Don't Have an Ounce of Guilt.' Woman Is Charged With Trying to Kill Infant With Drug-Laced Milk

  29-09-2017 22:18 via yahoo.com
  "I thought it was funny"
  
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• Who Is Thelma Williams? Facebook Kidnapping ‘Victim’ Faked Abduction

  29-09-2017 22:17 via yahoo.com
  “Do you think she'll look pretty with her insides spilled all over the basement floor?” Williams wrote before the fake abduction.
  
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• Ex-Husband Rips Mom After She Allegedly Leaves Her 4 Kids Home Alone While She's in Europe

  29-09-2017 22:10 via yahoo.com
  The woman's ex-husband spoke to Inside Edition exclusively.
  
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• Andrea Yates’ Life in Prison After Drowning Her 5 Children: She ‘Misses Them Every Day’

  29-09-2017 22:04 via yahoo.com
  Andrea Yates was a 36-year-old mother of five young children. When her husband went to work on June 20, 2001, Yates methodically drowned all five children in the bathtub of their Houston-area home
  
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• Landslide hits El Salvador home, kills 4 sleeping inside

  29-09-2017 22:01 via feeds.foxnews.com
  Authorities in El Salvador say a landslide touched off by days of torrential rains has killed four members of a family as they slept in a home.
  
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• 'Point/Counterpoint: Contemporary Mexican Photography'

  29-09-2017 21:56 via yahoo.com
  The exhibition at MOPA in San Diego brings together 19 artists whose images (from 2000-2015) explore the political, economic and social changes in Mexico.
  
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• Syrian army and allies secure road after IS attack in Deir al-Zor: Hezbollah

  29-09-2017 21:49 via yahoo.com
  The Syrian army and its allies have secured the Palmyra to Deir al-Zor road, a major supply route from government territory to the eastern city, defeating a strong Islamic State attack, a military media unit run by Lebanon's Hezbollah said on Friday.Islamic State's assault, which began on Thursday, is the first major counterattack against the Syrian army and its allies since they broke through a swathe of territory to reach the city of Deir al-Zor this month.
  
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• Georgia police capture man suspected of killing officer

  29-09-2017 21:37 via yahoo.com
  "CAPTURED" was the single-word Twitter message sent by theagency after it said earlier that a suspect was at large and "armed and dangerous." Authorities had said they were searching for suspect Seth Spangler.Two police officers in Polk County had approached a car believed to be stolen when one of the people inside fired at them, killing a female officer and wounding a male officer, Polk County manager Mark Denton said by telephone.A female suspect in the stopped car was taken into custody at th
  
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• For Some, Delayed Response to Puerto Rico Has Echoes of Katrina

  29-09-2017 21:37 via nbcnews.com
  A lingering lesson in the years after Hurricane Katrina was how the federal government failed to respond effectively in those first crucial days.
  
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• 10 Companies Hiring Right Now for the Holiday Season - And How Much They Pay

  29-09-2017 21:35 via yahoo.com
  10 Companies Hiring Right Now for the Holiday Season - And How Much They Pay
  
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• Chinese scientists edit disease out of human embryos

  29-09-2017 21:30 via cnn.com
  In the future, it might be possible to prevent inherited illnesses by making a change to a single faulty gene. That was recently demonstrated in a new study.
  
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• Merkel's party, nationalists oppose aid for neo-Nazi victims

  29-09-2017 21:29 via feeds.foxnews.com
  Lawmakers from Chancellor Angela Merkel's conservative Christian Democratic Union and the right-wing nationalist Alternative for Germany party have voted against giving financial support to relatives of people killed by a suspected far-right group.
  
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• Iraq plans to take control of Kurdistan region's border 'in coordination' with Iran, Turkey

  29-09-2017 21:24 via yahoo.com
  Iraq plans to take control of the borders of its autonomous Kurdistan region "in coordination" with Iran and Turkey, the Iraqi Defence Ministry said on Friday.The statement did not give more detail or indicate specifically whether Iraqi forces were planning to move toward the external border posts controlled by the Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG) from the Iranian and Turkish side.The move to seize the border posts is a response to a Kurdish referendum on Monday that produced a vote in favor
  
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• The Real Reason Tom Price Resigned

  29-09-2017 21:20 via yahoo.com
  HHS Secretary Tom Price resigns amid reports he spent $1 million of taxpayers' money on private flights. Is Price's resignation Trump draining the swamp or action on Price's failure on health care reform?
  
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• Refugee girl who challenged Merkel can to stay indefinitely

  29-09-2017 21:19 via feeds.foxnews.com
  A Palestinian girl who challenged Chancellor Angela Merkel about Germany's treatment of refugees has been given permission to remain in the country indefinitely.
  
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• Trump tax plan for 'average Americans' would mainly help richest 1%, study finds

  29-09-2017 21:18 via yahoo.com
  Donald Trump himself would be a big beneficiary of the plan, despite his claims that the proposals had ‘very little benefit for people of wealth’.Donald Trump’s “once-in-a-lifetime” plan to cut taxes for “average Americans” would mainly benefit the richest 1% and deliver only modest cuts for most US households, according to an independent analysis released on Friday.Trump announced a radical overhaul of the US tax system on Wednesday, claiming the plan w
  
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• Hillary Clinton meets 'adorable' little girl dressed in pantsuit at book signing

  29-09-2017 21:14 via yahoo.com
  A little girl wore her own version of Hillary Clinton’s signature pantsuit to meet her role model at a book signing.Ms Clinton appeared at an event showcasing It Takes A Village, the picture book adaptation of her 2006 book of the same name.In a photo, the former US Secretary of State is seen smiling at her mini-me, named Grace, while signing picture books.
  
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• Under Trump, the swamp takes to the air — in private jets — and the public pays

  29-09-2017 21:12 via yahoo.com
  Despite a history of attacking wasteful spending by Democrats, HHS Secretary Tom Price has led a host of Trump Cabinet members in taxpayer-funded private travel. Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke, EPA head Scott Pruitt, Treasury Secretary Steve Mnuchin — all have been called out for flying high on the government's dime.
  
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• Ryan Zinke Calls Private Plane Controversy 'A Little BS'

  29-09-2017 21:07 via yahoo.com
  Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke on Friday characterized the controversy surrounding his use of private planes as “a little BS.”
  
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• UN appeals for $31 million for hurricane-battered Dominica

  29-09-2017 21:04 via feeds.foxnews.com
  The U.N. humanitarian office has launched a $31 million emergency appeal for Dominica, which was left in tatters after Hurricane Maria battered the Caribbean island as a category 5 storm.
  
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• Police Officer Fatally Shot and Another Wounded in Georgia

  29-09-2017 21:03 via yahoo.com
  Two suspects have been arrested while a third remains at large
  
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• Putin critic Navalny detained by police before pre-election rally

  29-09-2017 21:01 via yahoo.com
  Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny was detained by police as he left his Moscow home on Friday to attend a pre-election rally in a provincial town.Russia holds a presidential election in March which incumbent Vladimir Putin is widely expected to contest.Navalny hopes to run despite Russia's central election commission declaring him ineligible because of a suspended prison sentence which he says was politically-motivated.
  
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• Now I Get It: North Korea’s quest to develop a hydrogen bomb

  29-09-2017 20:55 via yahoo.com
  Fiery rhetoric between the U.S. and North Korea has further motivated North Korea’s leader, Kim Jong Un, to develop and launch a nuclear weapon.North Korea has conducted six underground nuclear tests and a series of successful missile launches.North Korean foreign minister, Ri Yong Ho, says they’re planning to test a hydrogen bomb over the Pacific Ocean.
  
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• Uber driver stabbed in New York City road rage case, police say

  29-09-2017 20:48 via foxnews.com
  Police in New York City are searching for a suspect who reportedly stabbed an Uber driver during a fit of road rage Thursday afternoon.
  
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• Does Olaplex Really Work? Your Split Ends Will Think So

  29-09-2017 20:47 via yahoo.com
  Give me your color-treated, your damaged strands, and your poor dry locks.
  
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• A Steelers fan painted a swastika on the team flag because the NFL protests made him angry

  29-09-2017 20:47 via yahoo.com
  A Pennsylvania man upset his neighbors by painting a red swastika over the Pittsburgh Steelers flag following their decision to stay in the locker room last Sunday.
  
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• Tom Price probably wishes he could take back these tweets on 'reckless' government spending

  29-09-2017 20:45 via yahoo.com
  As the taxpayer-footed price tag of Health and Human Services Secretary Tom Price's private travel balloons to over $1 million, he’s probably wishing that he could take back some of his harsh statements about "reckless" government spending right about now. On Sept. 21,Politico reported that Price took private charter planes when inexpensive commercial options were available. These private flights reportedly ended up costing the public more than $300,000.  SEE ALSO: If you thought Tom
  
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• How The GOP Tax Plan Could Radically Reshape U.S. Housing Policy

  29-09-2017 20:45 via yahoo.com
  WASHINGTON ― The tax reform blueprint Republicans unveiled this week would upend U.S. housing policy if it becomes law.“This proposal will take away any tax benefit for owning homes for the vast majority of people who own homes,” said Gregg Polsky, a tax expert at the University of Georgia.Mortgage interest and property tax deductions cost the U.S. Treasury more than $100 billion a year in lost tax revenue, expenditures that are bigger in dollar terms than any other housing pro
  
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• Female teacher, 25, had sex romp with boy student, 11, while watching 'Deadpool'

  29-09-2017 20:38 via foxnews.com
  A Milwaukee judge is hoping that a lengthy prison sentence for a former prep school teacher who had sexual contact with an 11-year-old student is enough to warn educators and others not to go down the same path.
  
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• Celebrities post childhood photos to raise money for Puerto Rico – in pictures

  29-09-2017 20:36 via theguardian.com
  TV host Stephen Colbert and actor Nick Kroll said they would donate to the Puerto Rico relief effort for every celebrity who posted a photo of their teenage self. Many obliged Continue reading...
  
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• Authorities: Police officer shot in Georgia; man sought

  29-09-2017 20:34 via foxnews.com
  Authorities say a Georgia police officer has been shot.
  
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• The Latest: Man killed at Yosemite loved mountains, outdoors

  29-09-2017 20:30 via foxnews.com
  The Latest on two rock falls in Yosemite that killed one and injured two others (all times local): 8:30 a.m.
  
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