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• Hanoi's most enchanting hotels

  06-11-2017 23:58 via cnn.com
  Hanoi might be famous for its impenetrable walls of Vespas, but the city isn't quite as chaotic as it's chalked up to be.
  
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• Mexico says upcoming U.S. execution of national is 'illegal'

  06-11-2017 23:57 via yahoo.com
  Senior Mexican diplomats on Monday condemned the upcoming execution of a Mexican inmate on death row in Texas, calling his sentence "illegal" and vowing to exhaust all possible efforts to prevent him from being killed later this week.In a news conference in Mexico City, Carlos Sada, Mexico's deputy foreign minister for North America, told reporters that Texas prosecutors did not follow due process in the case of Ruben Cardenas, who was sentenced to death for raping and killing his 15-year-old co
  
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• Air Force Failed To Enter Church Shooter's Domestic Violence Record In U.S. Database

  06-11-2017 23:51 via yahoo.com
  The Air Force failed to record the Texas church shooter’s domestic violence conviction in a federal database that would have kept him from buying a gun, according a source who spoke to NPR and a purported leaked draft statement from the Air Force obtained by HuffPost.
  
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• Paradise Papers: Apple's secret tax bolthole revealed

  06-11-2017 23:49 via bbc.co.uk
  The US multinational has used a Channel Island to protect its low tax regime, the Paradise Papers show.
  
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• Saudi Arabia says Lebanon declares war, deepening crisis

  06-11-2017 23:46 via yahoo.com
  By Tom Perry and Lisa BarringtonBEIRUT (Reuters) - Saudi Arabia accused Lebanon on Monday of declaring war against it because of aggression by the Iran-backed Lebanese Shi'ite group Hezbollah, a dramatic escalation of a crisis threatening to destabilize the tiny Arab country.Lebanon has been thrust to the center of regional rivalry between Saudi Arabia and Iran since the Saudi-allied Lebanese politician Saad al-Hariri quit as prime minister on Saturday, blaming Iran and Hezbollah in his resignat
  
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• Florida senator accused of groping removed as budget chair

  06-11-2017 23:44 via yahoo.com
  TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (AP) — A Florida senator accused by six women of groping or making demeaning comments about their bodies was removed from his powerful position as budget chairman on Monday.
  
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• Democrats Are Terrified Of Losing Virginia's Big Election. They Should Be.

  06-11-2017 23:43 via yahoo.com
  In Virginia’s gubernatorial race on Tuesday, the Democratic Party has a chance to score its first major political win since President Donald Trump’s election.
  
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• Republicans push ahead with U.S. tax bill as Democrats sharpen attacks

  06-11-2017 23:42 via yahoo.com
  By Amanda BeckerWASHINGTON (Reuters) - Republican lawmakers on Monday began revising their proposed overhaul of the U.S. tax code, as Democrats pointed to the loss of popular deductions as proof the legislation was an assault on the middle class.A draft bill unveiled last week by Republicans in the House of Representatives, if enacted, would be the biggest restructuring of the tax system since the 1980s and the first major legislative victory of the Trump presidency.Although Republicans generall
  
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• 'Here Is Where The Action Happens': Meet The People Of Houston

  06-11-2017 23:40 via yahoo.com
  Houston was the 24th stop on our Listen To America road trip.
  
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• Florida State suspends Greek life following alcohol death

  06-11-2017 23:32 via yahoo.com
  Florida State University indefinitely suspended its fraternities and sororities Monday after the alcohol-related death of a freshman pledge and cocaine charges for another fraternity member.
  
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• Tiffany & Co. is selling a $9,000 ball of yarn and everything is ridiculous

  06-11-2017 23:29 via yahoo.com
  It's unclear whether Tiffany & Co. is trolling or fishing for press, but they're definitely succeeding with the latter.  The luxury company unleashed a line of needlessly expensive everyday objects, appropriately named Everyday Objects. While ridiculously expensive pants and needlessly flashy objects have become somewhat of a mocking trend on the internet recently, Tiffany & Co. has pushed the envelope with this one. SEE ALSO: Moncler is selling a dog parka and boy is it expensive T
  
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• Pregnant mother, three of her children and 18-month-old among Texas victims

  06-11-2017 23:16 via yahoo.com
  Pastor Frank Pomeroy and his wife Sherri speak at a press conference on Monday.A heavily pregnant woman, three of her children and her father-in-law have been identified as five of the 26 victims of the mass shooting in a Texas church on Sunday.Officials said at a Monday press conference those killed ranged in age from 18 months to 77 years old.
  
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• The moon will have close encounters with two star clusters this week

  06-11-2017 23:13 via yahoo.com
  The moon is taking center stage this month in skies around the world.  Earth's only natural satellite will have two impressive encounters with star clusters this week as the moon slides by the far-off stellar objects.  SEE ALSO: Pieces of a famous comet will fall to Earth this weekend On Nov. 7, the moon will pass by the M-35 star cluster, and on Nov. 10, the moon will be near the Beehive cluster, according to NASA.While you can see this conjunction with your naked eye, you'll be able
  
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• The Latest: Stepsister: LSD damaged Walmart shooting suspect

  06-11-2017 23:01 via yahoo.com
  DENVER (AP) — The Latest on the fatal shooting at a Colorado Walmart (all times local):
  
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• Florida State University announces ban on all fraternities and sororities following death of student

  06-11-2017 22:58 via yahoo.com
  Florida State University has announced a ban on all fraternities and sororities following the death of a student at a house party on Friday. John Thrasher, the FSU president, announced the indefinite ban on Monday in the wake of the alcohol-related death during a freshman pledge and cocaine charges for another fraternity member. “This pause is needed to review and reflect on the loss of a young life and to implement serious changes,” Mr Thrasher said.  “For this suspension
  
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• Devin Kelley: Texas shooter 'preached atheism' and was an outcast, say former classmates

  06-11-2017 22:58 via yahoo.com
  Former classmates of Devin Kelley have described the gunman responsible for the worst shooting in Texas history as “twisted” and “strange”.“He was always twisted in high school,” said Kayla Marie Shearer, one of Mr Kelley's former classmate at New Braunfels High School.On Sunday, he walked into a church in Sutherland Springs, a small rural town where he had relatives, and left at least 26 people dead and several others wounded.
  
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• Trump approval at new low over Russia concerns

  06-11-2017 22:56 via cnn.com
  Donald Trump's approval rating stands at its lowest point in CNN's polling as concerns about contacts between Trump's presidential campaign and Russian operatives have grown sharply in the wake of the first indictments from the special counsel investigating Russian meddling in the US election.
  
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• 26 teenage girls found dead at sea

  06-11-2017 22:52 via cnn.com
  Italian authorities have launched an investigation into the cause of death of 26 teenage girls whose bodies were recovered in the Mediterranean Sea on Sunday.
  
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• More border crossers prosecuted in 'new era' of enforcement

  06-11-2017 22:50 via yahoo.com
  When U.S. Attorney General Jeff Sessions delivered his get-tough-on-immigration speech in the border city of Nogales early this year, he promised a "new era" in immigration enforcement.
  
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• Lawyer: Rand Paul Was Assaulted Over a 'Trivial' Dispute

  06-11-2017 22:45 via yahoo.com
  Lawyers said the assault was not politically motivated
  
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• Gunman killed wife's grandmother in church massacre

  06-11-2017 22:42 via cnn.com
  A shooter killed 26 people at a Texas church and at least eight of those victims were members of the same family, according to a relative and a community leader who both spoke to CNN.
  
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• The shooter: Neighbor heard gunshots every morning for a week

  06-11-2017 22:36 via cnn.com
  The dead gunman in the Sutherland Springs, Texas, church shooting was a former airman who was discharged from the military for bad conduct and may have been conducting target practice on his property last week, sources say.
  
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• The victims: 8 family members among the 26 killed

  06-11-2017 22:31 via cnn.com
  Many of them had known each other for years. That's no surprise in a small town like Sutherland Springs, Texas, where lives intersect daily on the street, at the school and in the church.
  
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• Attack on US senator a neighborly dispute: attorney

  06-11-2017 22:30 via cnn.com
  The attorney representing the man who was charged with assaulting Sen. Rand Paul said Monday that attacking the Kentucky Republican had "absolutely nothing" to do with politics.
  
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• Lin-Manuel Miranda's 3-Year-Old Son Has Some Thoughts About 'Hamilton'

  06-11-2017 22:27 via yahoo.com
  When Lin-Manuel Miranda first debuted “Hamilton” at New York’s Public Theater in 2015, his son, Sebastian, was just a few months old.Miranda revealed on Twitter Monday that he and wife Vanessa Nadal took their son to see the first act of “Hamilton” for his third birthday.In advance of his 3rd birthday, we took lil man to Act One of Hamilton on Saturday.
  
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• Gun violence: More complicated than a 'mental health problem'

  06-11-2017 22:27 via cnn.com
  According to President Donald Trump, the tragic Texas church shooting that left 26 people dead was "a mental health problem at the highest level."
  
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• Texas Shooting Once Again Proves Trump's Double Standard On Mass Shootings

  06-11-2017 22:26 via yahoo.com
  The massacre that took place at First Baptist Church in Sutherland Springs on Sunday was the deadliest mass shooting in Texas history.
  
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• A Same-Sex Couple Gets Cozy In Starbucks' New Holiday Commercial

  06-11-2017 22:23 via yahoo.com
  Starbucks’ holiday cups are back and more inclusive than ever.
  
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• Did Sessions Really Commit Perjury?

  06-11-2017 22:22 via yahoo.com
  Every week brings a new “gotcha!” moment from President Donald Trump’s critics in the media and Congress.Right now much of the buzz is all about what Trump and Jeff Sessions knew about campaign underlings’ contacts with Russia in 2016.
  
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• Saudi-led forces close air, sea and land access to Yemen

  06-11-2017 22:15 via yahoo.com
  The Saudi-led military coalition fighting against the Houthi movement in Yemen said on Monday it would close all air, land and sea ports to the Arabian Peninsula country to stem the flow of arms to the Houthis from Iran.The move, which follows the interception of a missile fired toward the Saudi capital Riyadh on Saturday, is likely to worsen a humanitarian crisis in Yemen that according to the United Nations has pushed some seven million people to the brink of famine and left nearly 900,000 inf
  
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• 'Wild card' Trump heads into North Korea's line of sight

  06-11-2017 22:11 via cnn.com
  For the first time as US President, Donald Trump will be in Kim Jong Un's immediate neighborhood.
  
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• Gary Younge interviews Richard Spencer: 'Africans have benefited from white supremacy' - video

  06-11-2017 22:05 via theguardian.com
  In a dramatic interview, the Guardian's Gary Younge speaks to white supremacist Richard Spencer about why he wants to create an 'ethno-state' for white people, and why he believes that Africans have 'benefited from white supremacy'Watch the full-length documentary Angry, White and American on Channel 4 on Thursday 9 November at 10pm• Gary Younge: My travels in white America – a land of anxiety, division and pockets of painContinue reading...
  
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• Target's Best and Worst Black Friday TV Deals

  06-11-2017 21:56 via yahoo.com
  This year's Target Black Friday TV deals are similar to the retailer's offerings in years past. They include TVs with prices that range from $90 for a 32-inch second-tier brand HD set to almost $...
  
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• Two legal petitions filed to challenge Kenyan election, again

  06-11-2017 21:54 via yahoo.com
  Kenya's Supreme Court received two petitions Monday to overturn the result of last month's presidential election, which was already a re-run poll ordered by the court after it annulled an earlier vote in August.In a flurry of legal activity before the midnight deadline to challenge the October 26 vote, the Supreme Court also received a petition to declare opposition leader Raila Odinga guilty of electoral offences linked to his boycott of the re-run.Kenyan President Uhuru Kenyatta won the electi
  
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• Russian Lawyer Says Trump Jr. Offered Deal

  06-11-2017 21:40 via yahoo.com
  Henry Meyer, Bloomberg News, talks with Rachel Maddow about his interview with Natalia Veselnitskaya and her claim that Donald Trump Jr. offered a potential deal on Russian sanctions in exchange for Hillary Clinton dirt.
  
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• GOP Tax Bill Mostly Benefits The Wealthy, Tax Policy Center Finds

  06-11-2017 21:37 via yahoo.com
  WASHINGTON ― The richest 1 percent of Americans would reap 48 percent of the benefits of Republican tax reform legislation, according to a new analysis by the nonpartisan Tax Policy Center.
  
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• Devin Kelley: Texas shooter killed his wife's grandma in church massacre

  06-11-2017 21:32 via yahoo.com
  Police have confirmed that Devin Kelley, the gunman who killed 26 and injured 20 in the Texas church mass shooting, also killed his grandmother-in-law in the church.Lula Woicinski White, a 71-year-old member and volunteer at the First Baptist Church in Sutherland Springs, Texas, was Mr Kelley's wife's grandmother.Mr Kelley's in-laws and second wife Danielle were also members of the church, but none were present during the day of the shooting according to police.
  
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• Apple tax avoidance plan laid bare in leaked documents

  06-11-2017 21:31 via yahoo.com
  Apple shifted much of its offshore wealth in the face of a tax crackdown on a haven it had in Ireland, according to reporting Monday on the Paradise Papers on the iPhone maker's tax strategy.After the US technology colossus stated publicly in 2013 that it was paying its proper share of taxes, it moved the bulk of its untaxed overseas cash to the Channel Islands jurisdiction Jersey, the New York Times and BBC reported based on a once-secret cache of documents referred to as the Paradise Papers.Th
  
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• Mom Charged With Killing Daughter, 4, and Dumping Her Body in Trash Bin

  06-11-2017 21:27 via yahoo.com
  The Florida mother drove around with her young daughter's body in the trunk, cops said.
  
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• Not your imagination: mass shootings now happen more frequently in the US

  06-11-2017 21:25 via theguardian.com
  The Texas church shooting will be the fifth-worst in recent history – and three of the deadliest shootings of the past 35 years have occurred in the past 18 monthsTwenty-six people were killed when a gunman opened fire in a church in Texas on Sunday. The violence is consistent with a trend in recent US history – mass shootings have become more frequent and more deadly. If the number of fatalities remains at 26, Sunday’s shooting will be the fifth-worst mass shooting in recent h
  
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• Page Told Congress Who Knew About Russia Trip

  06-11-2017 21:24 via yahoo.com
  Rachel Maddow shares a passage from the House Intelligence Committee of former Donald Trump advisor Carter Page in which he tells members of the committee which high ranking Trump officials he told about his contacts with Russians.
  
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• Sutherland Springs Church Shooting: How You Can Help

  06-11-2017 21:12 via yahoo.com
  A shooting at a small church in Sutherland Springs, Texas, this weekend claimed the lives of 26 people ― around half of them children ― and left 20 more wounded, 10 of whom are in critical condition.
  
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• WATCH: Football team pushes ambulance off field

  06-11-2017 21:08
  After it turned out an ambulance wasn't needed at this high school football game, it took an entire team to push it off the field.
  
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• WATCH: 14 people injured after fireworks malfunction

  06-11-2017 21:08
  A fireworks display malfunctioned at a United Kingdom hotel, injuring 14 people. All were treated at the scene.
  
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• White House Lawyer Represented Arrested Saudi Billionaire Trump Called 'Dopey'

  06-11-2017 21:07 via yahoo.com
  WASHINGTON ― President Donald Trump’s Russia probe lawyer, Ty Cobb, previously represented billionaire Saudi Prince Alwaleed bin Talal, according to previously overlooked media reports and emails shared with HuffPost.
  
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• German army 'plans for break up of the European Union' in war game scenario

  06-11-2017 20:56 via yahoo.com
  The German army has war-gamed the break up of the European Union in study of security crises that could face the country by  2040.   Military planners in Berlin played out a scenario in which a growing number of countries follow Britain in leaving the EU, resulting in an "increasingly disorderly" world, Der Spiegel reported.  "The EU enlargement has been largely abandoned, more states have left the bloc," strategists wrote in a study cited by the magazine. Armored infantryman of t
  
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• Former Heroin Addict Asks Judge to Officiate Her Wedding During Final Court Appearance

  06-11-2017 20:56 via yahoo.com
  Judge Chris Wilton could have thrown the book at Jennifer Jensen and take her son away, but he instead gave her a second chance.
  
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• 'Let's go': Texas man recounts high-speed chase of fleeing church gunman

  06-11-2017 20:47 via yahoo.com
  Johnnie Langendorff was driving to his girlfriend's house on Sunday morning when he spotted a barefoot stranger exchanging gunfire with a man outside a church across the street.Devin Kelley, 26, had just exited the First Baptist Church where he had shot and killed 26 worshipers with an assault rifle and was headed for his Ford Explorer, which had a door open and the engine running.According to the authorities, a neighbor who lived across the street had grabbed his own AR-15 rifle and was exchang
  
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• 'Every morning I could hear a lot of gunfire': Texas gunman's neighbours speak after massacre

  06-11-2017 20:41 via yahoo.com
  The residents of New Braunfels, where Texas church shooter Devin Patrick Kelley lived, are happy to talk about their “quiet” neighbourhood.Few had seen the 26-year-old around before his rampage that left 26 dead and 20 injured, but one thing did jump out to some – the morning gunfire.“Everybody around here is pretty much to themselves... Quiet,” neighbour Robin Gonzales told The Independent.
  
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• Sharon Osbourne asks Harvey Weinstein 'What's wrong with me?' as she reveals he never touched her

  06-11-2017 20:40 via yahoo.com
  Sharon Osbourne has revealed that she is wondering what is “wrong” with her in the wake of the Harvey Weinstein scandal, with the X Factor judge confirming that the disgraced film producer never made inappropriate advances towards her.
  
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