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• Uber's app can secretly spy on your iPhone

  08-10-2017 23:47 via foxnews.com
  The Uber app for iOS has been given a unique privilege on the operating system which allows the app to spy on the iPhone’s screen, a researcher has discovered. ZDNet reports that the Uber app can read the screen buffer in iOS, allowing it to view and potentially record anything on your iPhone’s screen without your knowledge.
  
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• Dr. Seuss museum mural accused of being racist could get new owner

  08-10-2017 23:30 via foxnews.com
  The mural inside the Amazing World of Dr. Seuss Museum in Massachusetts features illustrations from the author's first children's book, "And to Think That I Saw It on Mulberry Street."
  
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• Dove apologizes for 'racist' ad that triggered outcry

  08-10-2017 23:30 via foxnews.com
  Soap company Dove is apologizing for a Facebook ad it says “missed the mark in representing women of color thoughtfully.”
  
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• US and Turkey suspend bilateral non-immigrant visa services

  08-10-2017 23:24 via yahoo.com
  ISTANBUL (AP) — The U.S. said Sunday it was suspending non-immigrant visa services at its diplomatic facilities in Turkey following the arrest of a consulate employee, prompting Turkey to halt visa services in the U.S.
  
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• Dove apologises for advert showing black woman transforming into white model 

  08-10-2017 23:20 via yahoo.com
  Dove has issued an apology for an advertising campaign branded “racist” which included an image of a black woman removing her top to reveal a white model underneath. The series of adverts, which have provoked outcry on social media after being circulated on Facebook, also showed a third image portraying a caucasian woman transforming into an Asian woman as she undresses. Following the furore, Dove published a statement which stated: “An image we recently posted on Facebook
  
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• U.S., Turkey mutually suspend visa services for security reasons

  08-10-2017 23:18 via yahoo.com
  By Ece ToksabayANKARA (Reuters) - The U.S. mission in Turkey and subsequently Turkish mission in Washington mutually reduced visa services after a U.S. mission employee was detained in Turkey last week, saying they needed to reassess each other's commitment to the security of their personnel.Last week, a U.S. consulate employee in Istanbul was arrested on charges of links to a cleric blamed for last year's failed coup, a move condemned by Washington as baseless and damaging to ties between the N
  
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• Trump slams Corker, who calls White House 'adult day care center'

  08-10-2017 23:15 via foxnews.com
  President Trump on Sunday ripped increasingly vocal critic Sen. Bob Corker, saying the Tennessee Republican gutlessly dropped his reelection bid after “begging for the Trump endorsement he never received.
  
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• Chicago Marathon sees first American winner in 15 years

  08-10-2017 23:09 via foxnews.com
  Galen Rupp won the Chicago Marathon on Sunday to become the first American winner in 15 years.
  
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• Chargers pick up first win of the season, 27-22 over Giants

  08-10-2017 23:09 via foxnews.com
  Los Angeles Chargers win 27-22 over New York Giants
  
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• Hurricane Nate unleashes flooding, power outages on Gulf Coast

  08-10-2017 23:00 via foxnews.com
  The South may have been mostly spared yet another catastrophic storm, but not before Hurricane Nate brought a burst of flooding and power outages to the U.S. Gulf Coast.
  
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• Jury convicts activist who targeted North Dakota pipeline

  08-10-2017 22:52 via foxnews.com
  A North Dakota jury has convicted an environmental activist who targeted an oil pipeline a year ago.
  
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• Venezuela leader thanks hostile Trump for making him 'famous'

  08-10-2017 22:50 via yahoo.com
  Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro baited U.S. President Donald Trump on Sunday by thanking him for a barrage of criticism that had made him famous worldwide."It's an honor that the head of the empire mentions me every day," said the 54-year-old president, just back in Venezuela from a trip to Russia, Belarus and Turkey."That means I'm doing something right!" Maduro laughed, during his weekly program on state TV.
  
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• America is the land of opportunity, and should be proud of it

  08-10-2017 22:45 via foxnews.com
  In many parts of the world, if you are born poor you will almost certainly stay poor for your entire life.
  
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• Dolphins overcome continued offensive struggles to beat Titans in home debut

  08-10-2017 22:38 via foxnews.com
  Jay Cutler finally silenced the boobirds with a fourth-quarter touchdown pass, and the Dolphins overcame another dismal offensive showing to beat the Titans.
  
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• Donald Trump Revels In Recounting The 'Very Good Towels' He Threw To Hurricane Victims

  08-10-2017 22:20 via yahoo.com
  President Donald Trump congratulated himself on his trip to hurricane-ravaged Puerto Rico last week by celebrating the “incredible” cheering of the “crowd of a lot of people” who watched him throw rolls of paper towels.
  
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• Hurricane Nate lets Gulf coast off with flooding and some power outages

  08-10-2017 21:45 via theguardian.com
  No deaths or injuries and minimal structural damage reported on US mainland from storm that killed at least 22 in Central AmericaHurricane Nate brought a burst of flooding and power outages to the US Gulf coast before weakening rapidly on Sunday, sparing the region the kind of catastrophic damage left by hurricanes that hit the southern US and Caribbean in recent weeks.Related: Nate heralds latest US destruction as 2017 poised for record clean-up billContinue reading...
  
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• White House Official Gives Lip Service To Puerto Rican Debt Relief But Offers No New Deal

  08-10-2017 21:31 via yahoo.com
  Mick Mulvaney, director of the White House Office of Management and Budget, said Sunday that existing legislation is enough to provide Puerto Rico with the debt relief it needs to get back on its feet.
  
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• Bob Corker says White House is 'adult day care center' after Trump Twitter hit

  08-10-2017 21:29 via theguardian.com
  Trump blasts Corker on Iran, ‘negative voice’ and ‘begging’ for endorsement
  Senator’s spokesman says president in fact asked him not to retireAfter Donald Trump issued a fierce Twitter rebuke of Bob Corker, the retiring Republican senator tweeted back: “It’s a shame the White House has become an adult day care center. Someone obviously missed their shift this morning.” Related: Donald Trump's Scottish golf resorts suffer heavy lossesContinue readin
  
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• Pence leaves NFL game after protest during anthem

  08-10-2017 21:16 via cnn.com
  Vice President Mike Pence left a football game between the Indianapolis Colts and the San Francisco 49ers on Sunday after some players knelt during the National Anthem, saying he did not want to "dignify" the event.
  
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• Pence follows Trump order and walks out of 49ers-Colts after players kneel

  08-10-2017 21:11 via theguardian.com
  VP leaves NFL game after about a dozen San Francisco players kneelTrump confirms walkout was planned and says he is ‘proud’Vice-president Mike Pence left the 49ers-Colts NFL game in Indianapolis on Sunday in a planned walkout, after about a dozen San Francisco players kneeled during the playing of the national anthem. Related: Colin Kaepernick tells CBS he'll stand for anthem if given chance to play againContinue reading...
  
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• High steaks: the Vladimir Putin birthday burger that never existed

  08-10-2017 21:03 via theguardian.com
  Russian state media reports New York restaurant created special meal to honour president – but restaurant says otherwiseA hamburger is not the sort of thing you would expect to spark an international disagreement.But the apparent creation of a special birthday burger for the Russian president, Vladimir Putin, has dragged a New York restaurant into an argument over what critics say is fake news from the Kremlin. Continue reading...
  
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• Donald Trump is playing zero-dimensional chess

  08-10-2017 21:03 via cnn.com
  On Sunday morning, President Donald Trump decided to go after Bob Corker.
  
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• The Latest: Demonstrators disrupt Columbus wreath-laying

  08-10-2017 20:43 via yahoo.com
  NEW YORK (AP) — The Latest on a movement to replace Columbus Day with Indigenous Peoples Day (all times local):
  
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• Democrats cut ties with Harvey Weinstein as fresh allegations emerge

  08-10-2017 20:40 via theguardian.com
  Senators donate film producer’s campaign contributions to women’s charities after allegations of sexual harassmentDozens of Democrats have moved quickly to sever ties with Harvey Weinstein, with many donating his campaign contributions to women’s charities, as more allegations of sexual harassment emerged.The Senate minority leader, Chuck Schumer, said he would donate $14,200 received from the Hollywood producer to women’s charities. Another senator, Kristen Gillibrand, s
  
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• Speaker's visit to Kurds divides Iraqi parliament

  08-10-2017 20:23 via yahoo.com
  BAGHDAD (AP) — A leading Iraqi parliamentarian upbraided the legislative body's leader for meeting with Kurdish leader Masoud Barzani on Sunday as Baghdad's politicians voiced their differences over how best to respond to a controversial Kurdish referendum for independence.
  
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• 'We have to raise our voices' – Catalans rally to the pro-unity cause

  08-10-2017 20:21 via theguardian.com
  The so-called silent majority in Catalonia who oppose independence from Spain make their feelings known in BarcelonaBarcelona was a city accustomed to protests even before the independence referendum earlier this month that has provoked Spain’s biggest political crisis in 40 years.Every 11 September for the past five years, hundreds of thousands of people have thronged its streets on Catalonia’s national day – La Diada de Catalunya – to call loudly but peacefully for inde
  
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• Mass Shooting Episode Of 'American Horror Story: Cult' Edited Following Vegas Attack

  08-10-2017 20:20 via yahoo.com
  Ryan Murphy has decided to re-edit an upcoming episode of “American Horror Story: Cult,” which included a graphic mass shooting scene, in the wake of the attack in Las Vegas that killed 58 people and injured almost 500 others.
  
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• Democrats look to distance themselves from Weinstein

  08-10-2017 20:12 via yahoo.com
  “This is a pretty bad guy who did some really awful things,” Sen. Chris Murphy said Sunday. “People that took money from him should probably give it back.”
  
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• Scottish government to pay residency fees for EU citizens in public sector

  08-10-2017 20:11 via theguardian.com
  Nicola Sturgeon says promise, to be set out in SNP conference speech, ‘sends message to EU nationals that we want them to stay’Nicola Sturgeon has offered to pay the residency fees for EU citizens who currently work in the Scottish public sector, in an effort to reinforce her anti-Brexit credentials as her party’s conference opened in Glasgow.Sturgeon said the pledge would protect up to 20,000 EU nationals who work in Scotland’s hospitals, schools, universities and public
  
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• Chris Cornell’s Widow Vicky Meets with Detroit Medical Examiner Four Months After Rocker’s Death

  08-10-2017 20:08 via yahoo.com
  Four months after Chris Cornell‘s shocking death, his widow is still searching for answers
  
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• Teenager 'thrown out of school' for sitting during Pledge of Allegiance

  08-10-2017 20:02 via yahoo.com
  A 17-year-old student is suing her high school district after she claims she was suspended for refusing to stand during the Pledge of Allegiance.India Landry, from Houston, said she was asked to leave Windfern High School after the incident, despite having sat during the Pledge to the flag hundreds of times before.The federal lawsuit alleges administrators at the school had been "recently whipped into a frenzy" by NFL players kneeling for the national anthem, according to the NY Daily News.
  
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• A dangerous time for Catalonia, Spain and the rest of Europe | Letters

  08-10-2017 19:59 via theguardian.com
  Manuel Ostos on the mistakes made by both sides; Green MEP Molly Scott Cato on the EU’s failure to intervene; academic philosophers on a proposed way forward; Richard Bourne on the potential for an Anglo-Scottish mission; Michael Pravica on secessionist movements since KosovoTuesday promises to be a historic day for the future of Catalonia. On that day, the president of the regional community, Carles Puigdemont, will have to bow to the most radical sector of the parliament and unilaterally
  
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• Speed is crucial in helping the Rohingya | Letters

  08-10-2017 19:58 via theguardian.com
  Former UN adviser to Burma Dr Joseph Mullen calls for more clarity on the aid programme for the Bangladesh campsThe appeal for the displaced Rohingya in Bangladeshi camps is commendable and deserves universal support (Report, 28 September). However, as a former development worker in both Burma and Bangladesh, and a long-term advocate of the Rohingya cause, I am concerned by the lack of detail in the appeal.Speed of response to reach the affected populations on the ground is critical to outcomes.
  
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• Father of Las Vegas gunman Stephen Paddock 'ran illegal bingo parlour and tried to start his own church'

  08-10-2017 19:55 via yahoo.com
  The father of Las Vegas gunman Stephen Paddock was reportedly a self-ordained minister who carried out marriage ceremonies and wanted to start his own church as well as being on the FBI’s Ten Most Wanted list of fugitives.In the search to understand the psychology of the mass murderer, attention has focused on the colourful criminal life of his father Benjamin Hoskins Paddock.Although the killer had no previous criminal convictions and apparently lived in the shadows of society, rarely spe
  
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• South of New Orleans, Nate spares parish devastated by Hurricane Katrina

  08-10-2017 19:52 via yahoo.com
  By Jessica Resnick-AultBELLE CHASSE, La. (Reuters) - Residents of Louisiana's lower Plaquemines Parish, the swampy peninsula that shadows the Mississippi River as it empties into the Gulf of Mexico, know Nate let them off very easy, certainly when compared with hurricanes of years past.As the Category 1 storm approached this weekend, memories of the devastation of Katrina 12 years ago, and to a lesser extent, Issac in 2012, loomed large in the scattered hamlets that cling to the few spots of ter
  
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• Prayers and flamethrowers: Liberia's raucous rallies

  08-10-2017 19:48 via yahoo.com
  Liberia's presidential campaign neared its close on Sunday with a quiet day of prayer, but campaigning in the west African nation is not for the faint-hearted -- or those sensitive to noise.Liberians go to the polls on Tuesday to pick their first new president in 12 years as Ellen Johnson Sirleaf closes the page on two terms dominated by post-war reconstruction and the Ebola crisis.The biggest crowds, packed with young men, are usually reserved for footballing superstar turned politician George
  
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• Turkey shells Syria's northern Idlib province

  08-10-2017 19:45 via yahoo.com
  BEIRUT (AP) — Turkish forces on Sunday shelled areas along its border with Syria's northwestern province, an area dominated by al-Qaida-linked militants, as Turkey's president says an operation in the area to enforce a "de-escalation" zone was underway "without problems."
  
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• Nate weakens to a tropical depression

  08-10-2017 19:42 via cnn.com
  Hurricane Nate made its second US landfall near Biloxi, Mississippi, shortly after midnightlocal time Sunday as a Category 1 hurricane.
  
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• Catalonia's President: Freedom fighter, or disloyal radical?

  08-10-2017 19:39 via cnn.com
  Catalan President Carles Puigdemont is either a freedom fighter, defender of the Catalan voice or disloyal radical risking it all to break Spain apart. It depends on how you view Catalonia's push for independence. CNN's Erin McLaughlin reports.
  
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• Catalonia leader: Freedom fighter or disloyal radical?

  08-10-2017 19:39 via cnn.com
  Catalan President Carles Puigdemont is either a freedom fighter, defender of the Catalan voice or disloyal radical risking it all to break Spain apart. It depends on how you view Catalonia's push for independence. CNN's Erin McLaughlin reports.
  
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• White nationalists impose deadline for OK on campus speeches

  08-10-2017 19:37 via yahoo.com
  CLEVELAND (AP) — An attorney for associates of white nationalist leader Richard Spencer said Sunday he'll sue Ohio State University and the University of Cincinnati if they don't agree by Friday to make campus space available for Spencer to speak.
  
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• Kitten Rescued With Homemade Pole After Being Trapped in Pipe, 25 Feet Underground

  08-10-2017 19:32 via yahoo.com
  "Animals don't always understand that we are there to help, so making the grab is never easy," one of the rescuers said.
  
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• Dove apologises for ad showing black woman turning into white one

  08-10-2017 19:31 via theguardian.com
  Brand says it ‘missed mark’ after being accused of racism in campaign promoting body lotionDove has apologised after publishing an advert on its Facebook page which showed a black woman turning into a white woman. The brand was accused of racism over the online advertising campaign and it later admitted it had “missed the mark” with an image posted on Facebook. Continue reading...
  
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• Sudan Airways seeks post-embargo Boeing, Airbus spare parts

  08-10-2017 19:30 via yahoo.com
  Sudan's national carrier aims to revive its fleet by procuring new components from Boeing and Airbus after Washington lifted its 20-year-old trade embargo on Khartoum, a minister said Sunday.Sudan Airways, one of the oldest airlines in Africa, has 12 of its 14-strong fleet of aircraft grounded after failing to source spare parts from Boeing and Airbus because of the sanctions imposed in 1997.
  
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• NRA backs down over possible ban on 'bump stocks' 

  08-10-2017 19:30 via yahoo.com
  The National Rifle Association, America's biggest gun lobby group appeared to backtrack on Sunday on calls for regulation of deadly "bump stocks", as the country's gun control debate returned to familiar impasse. Only days after the NRA appeared open to a possible ban on the devices which convert semi-automatic guns into fully automatic weapons, the group's leaders began to quibble over the idea. "We don't believe bans ever worked on anything," said Chris Cox, the NRA’s executive director,
  
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• San Juan Mayor Pleads For Help: 'We Need Water!'

  08-10-2017 19:29 via yahoo.com
  Carmen Yulín Cruz, the mayor of San Juan, Puerto Rico, said on Sunday that despite the compassion of the U.S. public, the federal government “does not want to help” Puerto Rico.
  
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• North Korea nuclear test leaves Chinese city shaken

  08-10-2017 19:29 via cnn.com
  As CNN's Matt Rivers reports, North Korea's latest nuclear test leaves one Chinese city on edge.
  
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• A handful of racists snuck back to Charlottesville under the cover of night for another 'protest'

  08-10-2017 19:23 via yahoo.com
  They're back with the same mission, and far, far fewer numbers. A group of white nationalists, led by Richard Spencer (a man who was punched in the face twice on President Trump's Inauguration Day) marched in Charlottesville, Virginia Saturday night with torches in hand toward the statue of Robert E. Lee.  Spencer dubbed the small gathering "Charlottesville 3.0" in a tweet, referencing earlier protests in May and August, the latter of which led to the death of one anti-hate protester Heathe
  
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• UK trade department draws half its secondees from arms industry

  08-10-2017 19:16 via theguardian.com
  Department run by former defence secretary Liam Fox accused of being ‘shamelessly cosy’ with manufacturersHalf of the private sector employees seconded to the Department for International Trade have strong links to the defence industry, according to new figures.The revelation has drawn accusations that Liam Fox’s department, which promotes Britain’s commercial exports, is “shamelessly cosy” with arms traders and ignoring other industries. Continue reading...
  
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• Head of US emergency response says he has 'filtered out' Puerto Rican mayor's calls for help

  08-10-2017 19:14 via yahoo.com
  The head of US emergency response has dismissed a Puerto Rican official's calls for help as “political noise,” claiming to have “filtered [her] out a long time ago”.Fema Administrator Brock Long spoke out against San Juan Mayor Carmen Yulín Cruz in an interview with ABC's This Week.Ms Cruz has repeatedly called for more federal assistance in the wake of Hurricane Maria.
  
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