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• Mother questions why 14-year-old son fatally shot by officer

  09-11-2017 23:55 via yahoo.com
  MILWAUKEE (AP) — Family members of a 14-year-old boy fatally shot by a sheriff's deputy on a northern Wisconsin reservation questioned on Thursday why the teen, who they describe as loving and kind, was gunned down.
  
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• Hundreds Of Students Flood Senate Building To Protest For Dream Act

  09-11-2017 23:52 via yahoo.com
  On Thursday, hundreds of students across the country walked out of class to demand that Congress take swift action to protect young undocumented immigrants from deportation.
  
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• Japan's magical digital forest

  09-11-2017 23:51 via cnn.com
  I haven't been walking around "A Forest Where Gods Live" for long, when I realize I've become part of the exhibit. As I stroll through a vast azalea garden, the bushes light up, their bright gold glow radiating across the field as sensors on the plants transmit the news of my presence to each other.
  
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• Japan forest transformed to art

  09-11-2017 23:51 via cnn.com
  I haven't been walking around "A Forest Where Gods Live" for long, when I realize I've become part of the exhibit. As I stroll through a vast azalea garden, the bushes light up, their bright gold glow radiating across the field as sensors on the plants transmit the news of my presence to each other.
  
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• The Russia investigation has reached Trump's inner circle

  09-11-2017 23:43 via cnn.com
  White House senior policy adviser Stephen Miller has been interviewed as part of special counsel Robert Mueller's Russia probe, according to sources familiar with the investigation.
  
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• China aimed to impress US President Trump, allowing the visit to play out on its terms

  09-11-2017 23:33 via cnn.com
  US President Donald Trump's visit to China caps a month of grand political theater for Beijing, as Chinese President Xi Jinping seeks to position himself as a supremely powerful world leader.
  
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• Can Trump counter China's influence over a longtime US ally?

  09-11-2017 23:33 via cnn.com
  US President Donald Trump may have left China for the final leg of his Asia tour, but the specter of Beijing will loom large over his discussions with Southeast Asian nations on the issues dominating the region.
  
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• Roy Moore scandal in Alabama might slow Bannon’s insurgency, GOP leaders hope

  09-11-2017 23:30 via yahoo.com
  When Steve Bannon backed Roy Moore in the Republican Senate primary in Alabama, it looked like a shrewd move, and Bannon said his target was the Senate Majority Leader. Now that Moore’s candidacy is in question, so is Bannon’s influence.
  
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• It Sure Seems Like Paul Manafort Is Misleading A Federal Judge So He Can Winter In Florida

  09-11-2017 23:30 via yahoo.com
  WASHINGTON ― A lawyer for Paul Manafort, the former Donald Trump campaign manager who was indicted on federal charges last week, told a judge on Monday that Manafort is working with a company in Florida that’s developing secure, “virtually indestructible” cellphones.
  
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• Veterans Day 2017: When is it and how does the US mark it?

  09-11-2017 23:18 via yahoo.com
  It also coincides with other holidays, including Armistice Day and Remembrance Day, which are celebrated in other countries to mark the end of World War I.The US previously observed Armistice Day, but the holiday was was renamed Veterans Day in 1954.Veterans Day is observed annually on November 11.
  
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• Exclusive: Lebanon believes Saudi holds Hariri, demands his return

  09-11-2017 23:17 via yahoo.com
  By Laila Bassam and Tom PerryBEIRUT (Reuters) - Lebanon believes Saad al-Hariri is being held in Saudi Arabia, from where he resigned as Lebanese prime minister, two top government officials in Beirut said, amid a deepening crisis pushing Lebanon onto the frontlines of a power struggle between Saudi Arabia and Iran.A third source, a senior politician close to Saudi-allied Hariri, said Saudi Arabia had ordered him to resign and put him under house arrest.A fourth source familiar with the situatio
  
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• Republicans to candidate: bow out if sexual allegations are true

  09-11-2017 23:14 via cnn.com
  Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell and other Republicans say Roy Moore, the Republican nominee in Alabama for a Senate seat, should step aside if an explosive Washington Post report that accuses him of engaging in sexual conduct with underage women is true.
  
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• Ex-Trump bodyguard: I rejected Russian offer of women for Trump

  09-11-2017 23:10 via cnn.com
  President Donald Trump's long-time confidant Keith Schiller privately testified that he rejected a Russian offer to send five women to then private-citizen Trump's hotel room during their 2013 trip to Moscow for the Miss Universe pageant, according to multiple sources from both political parties with direct knowledge of the testimony.
  
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• O.J. Simpson Reportedly Banned From Cosmopolitan Hotel in Vegas After Becoming 'Extremely Unruly'

  09-11-2017 23:00 via yahoo.com
  Simpson has been out of prison for a little more than a month.
  
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• Angry mob lights baby elephant on fire with flaming tar ball in horrific photo

  09-11-2017 22:58 via yahoo.com
  A horrific photo of a mother and baby elephant fleeing an angry mob in West Bengal, India, has won the top award in a wildlife photography competition.
  
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• Here’s What Could Happen With Roy Moore And The Alabama Senate Ballot

  09-11-2017 22:56 via yahoo.com
  WASHINGTON ― Allegations that Roy Moore, the Republican Senate candidate in Alabama, sexually assaulted a 14-year-old and sought or maintained relationships with other teenage girls when he was in his early 30s has prompted calls from his fellow Republicans for him to step aside.
  
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• Drinking water killed 13 in US in 2013-14

  09-11-2017 22:55 via cnn.com
  Clear water is not always a sign of clean water -- or so suggest two new reports on water-associated disease outbreaks published Thursday by the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
  
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• Contaminated water killed 13 in US in 2013-14

  09-11-2017 22:55 via cnn.com
  Clear water is not always a sign of clean water -- or so suggest two new reports on water-associated disease outbreaks published Thursday by the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
  
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• Puerto Rico hit by massive new power outage

  09-11-2017 22:47 via cnn.com
  A massive outage has wiped out power to Puerto Rico's capital San Juan.
  
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• German killer nurse's suspected victims pass 100

  09-11-2017 22:46 via yahoo.com
  A German nurse who used lethal drugs on patients out of "boredom" is responsible for the deaths of 106 people, investigators said Thursday, noting the toll could rise further as more bodies are studied.Niels Hoegel, 41, was convicted in 2015 of two murders and four counts of attempted murder or causing bodily harm on intensive-care patients at the Delmenhorst hospital near the northern city of Bremen.More deaths may still be uncovered with toxicology studies under way for five other cases, and e
  
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• North Korea going online with heavy surveillance

  09-11-2017 22:45 via feeds.foxnews.com
  Ever so cautiously, North Korea is going online.
  
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• Nigerian police arrest 2 suspects, kill 1 in kidnappings

  09-11-2017 22:42 via feeds.foxnews.com
  Nigerian police say two suspects in the abduction of four British missionaries have been arrested while a third was killed in a shootout.
  
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• Texas church pastor wants to demolish building after shooting: official

  09-11-2017 22:39 via yahoo.com
  The pastor of the Texas church that was the scene of the United States' latest mass shooting wants to demolish the building to create a memorial for the victims, an official said Thursday.Pastor Frank Pomeroy, whose 14-year-old daughter Annabelle was among those killed Sunday at the First Baptist Church in Sutherland Springs told national church governing officials of his wishes earlier this week.Resuming services in the same small rural church building would be an "emotional and physical imposs
  
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• Texas gunman 'bought animals for target practice'

  09-11-2017 22:37 via cnn.com
  Texas church shooter Devin Kelley claimed he bought animals on Craigslist with the sole intention of killing them, a former Air Force colleague told CNN.
  
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• Lebanese PM's fate in doubt amid Saudi-Lebanon escalation

  09-11-2017 22:36 via yahoo.com
  BEIRUT (AP) — Saudi Arabia on Thursday ordered its citizens out of Lebanon in its first concrete action against the Mediterranean country, while officials in Beirut demanded the immediate return of Prime Minister Saad Hariri, who abruptly announced his resignation last week in a television appearance from the kingdom, where he has been holed up since.
  
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• Rand Paul's accused attacker pleads not guilty to assault

  09-11-2017 22:19 via yahoo.com
  Rene Boucher, 59, waived the formal reading of the charge at a hearing in Bowling Green, Kentucky, Warren County Attorney Amy Milliken said by telephone.Boucher, the Republican senator's neighbor, is charged with fourth-degree assault causing minor injury, for which he faces up to a year in jail if convicted.Paul, 54, told police that Boucher came onto his property in a gated community near Bowling Green and tackled him from behind, the Bowling Green Daily News reported, citing an arrest warrant
  
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• Aaron Hernandez Had Most Severe CTE Ever Found For Someone His Age, Researchers Say

  09-11-2017 22:16 via yahoo.com
  Former New England Patriots tight end Aaron Hernandez had the most severe case of chronic traumatic encephalopathy ever discovered in someone his age, researchers at the Boston University School of Medicine disclosed at a conference Thursday.
  
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• Roy Moore child sex claims: Republican candidate accused of having sexual encounter with 14-year-old girl

  09-11-2017 22:12 via yahoo.com
  Alabama Senate candidate Roy Moore has been accused of initiating a sexual encounter with a 14-year-old girl, nearly 40 years ago when he was 32 - an accusation that could have serious implications for the election one month before voting day.The Republican nominee running to fill Attorney General Jeff Sessions’ old seat has been accused of the assault by Leigh Corfman, who told the Washington Post that Mr Moore approached her and her mother at an Alabama courthouse in 1979, and convinced
  
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• Men Are Finally Waking Up to Sexual Harassment. But They Still Have a Lot to Learn

  09-11-2017 22:05 via yahoo.com
  The writer talks about discussing harassment with her male friends and colleagues
  
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• 4 Women Accused Roy Moore Of Sexual Misconduct. GOP Senators Need More Proof.

  09-11-2017 21:59 via yahoo.com
  On Thursday, The Washington Post published a bombshell report with the stories of four women who say that Roy Moore, the Republican nominee in the Alabama Senate race, pursued them sexually when he was in his 30s and they were between the ages of 14 and 18.
  
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• Former Bodyguard Says Russian Offered To Send Women To Trump's Moscow Hotel Room: Report

  09-11-2017 21:58 via yahoo.com
  The existence of the famed Russian “pee tape” may remain shrouded in mystery, but a former bodyguard for President Donald Trump reportedly has confirmed Trump was given the opportunity to host five women in his Moscow hotel room in 2013.
  
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• Ex-Trump security chief testifies he rejected Russian offer of women for Trump

  09-11-2017 21:48 via cnn.com
  President Donald Trump's long-time confidante Keith Schiller privately testified that he rejected a Russian offer to send five women to then private-citizen Trump's hotel room during their 2013 trip to Moscow for the Miss Universe pageant, according to multiple sources from both political parties with direct knowledge of the testimony.
  
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• Sebastian Gorka, Ex-Trump Aide Known For Anti-Islamic Views, Set To Join Fox News

  09-11-2017 21:40 via yahoo.com
  Sebastian Gorka, the endlessly controversial former aide to President Donald Trump, has been hired by Fox News.
  
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• Poll: Growing Concern About Trump Russia

  09-11-2017 21:40 via yahoo.com
  Rachel Maddow reviews the results of a CNN/SSRS poll showing that Americans increasingly see Russia's operations against the U.S. as a problem, are increasingly concerned about Trump campaign contacts with Russians, and most believe Trump knew about it.
  
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• Amid Lebanon crisis, France's Macron flies to Riyadh to see crown prince

  09-11-2017 21:40 via yahoo.com
  Macron, who flew in from a visit to the United Arab Emirates, had earlier declined to discuss a wave of high-level arrests for corruption in Saudi Arabia, but said it was vital to work with the kingdom for the stability of the region.Two top Lebanese government officials said on Thursday that Riyadh was holding Lebanon's Saad al-Hariri captive and a third told Reuters that the Saudi authorities had ordered Hariri to resign while he was in Riyadh last weekend, and put him under house arrest.
  
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• Charm offensive: Trump's seismic shift on trade with China

  09-11-2017 21:37 via cnn.com
  Outside the Great Hall of the People here on Thursday, President Donald Trump watched with an unmistakable air of satisfaction as cordons of Chinese troops marched stiff-legged in his honor, an eight-cannon salute preceding their parade.
  
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• AP FACT CHECK: China-US business deals are largely gloss

  09-11-2017 21:32 via yahoo.com
  BEIJING (AP) — A trade and investment package announced during President Donald Trump's visit to China is more about the art of diplomacy than the art of the deal.
  
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• Kingdom orders its citizens to leave Lebanon

  09-11-2017 21:21 via cnn.com
  Saudi Arabia has ordered its citizens to leave Lebanon and avoid travel there as tensions between the two countries hits a fever pitch.
  
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• GOP figures call on Moore to leave Alabama race after allegations of sexual misconduct

  09-11-2017 21:19 via yahoo.com
  Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell and a slew of other Republicans called on Senate candidate Roy Moore of Alabama to “step aside” if new allegations that he had sexual contact with a 14-year-old girl — in 1979, when he was 32 — are true.
  
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• 5 Women Accuse Louis C.K. Of Sexual Misconduct

  09-11-2017 21:17 via yahoo.com
  The New York Times released a damning report Thursday detailing multiple allegations of sexual misconduct against comedian Louis C.K., who had disputed rumors of such troubling behavior for years, most recently in September.
  
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• Sen. Rand Paul's neighbor pleads not guilty in attack

  09-11-2017 21:13 via yahoo.com
  BOWLING GREEN, Ky. (AP) — U.S. Sen. Rand Paul's longtime neighbor pleaded not guilty Thursday to charges that he assaulted the Kentucky Republican while the senator was mowing his lawn.
  
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• Actor 'living in fear' as he tries to expose industry's pedophilia

  09-11-2017 21:12 via cnn.com
  As Hollywood grapples with accusations of sexual harassment and abuse, actor Corey Feldman says he's living in fear as he tries to expose pedophilia in the industry.
  
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• Here Are the Best Black Friday Deals That Are Leaked Online

  09-11-2017 21:11 via yahoo.com
  If you haven't made a game plan yet, you're already behind.
  
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• Mark Cuban again speaks to a potential 2020 bid: I'd have to convince my wife

  09-11-2017 21:08 via yahoo.com
  Mark Cuban continued to speak to the possibility of his running for president on Thursday, this time noting his wife's reaction to such a future political endeavor.
  
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• Where Could North Korea Strike the US?

  09-11-2017 21:03 via yahoo.com
  It's a fiendishly tricky question.
  
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• WATCH: Dad turns into puddle of tears after receiving new puppy

  09-11-2017 20:59
  James Xuereb of Ontario was overcome with emotion when his family surprised him with a new bichon frise puppy after he recently lost two of his beloved dogs.
  
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• Ex-Airman Sentenced to Life for Murdering the 4-Year-Old Son He Had Just Met

  09-11-2017 20:49 via yahoo.com
  A former airman was sentenced on Monday in Colorado to life in prison for the murder of his 4-year-old son, whom he had only recently met, PEOPLE confirms
  
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• Moroccan teachers demand better protection from violence

  09-11-2017 20:47 via feeds.foxnews.com
  Moroccan teachers are protesting violence in schools and have urged the government to better protect them in a two-day nationwide strike.
  
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• John Paul I closer to sainthood as book debunks conspiracies

  09-11-2017 20:46 via feeds.foxnews.com
  Pope Francis has moved Pope John Paul I — the pope who reigned for only 33 days in 1978 — a step closer to possible sainthood.
  
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• Backlash Erupts Against DJ After He Says Roy Halladay 'Got What He Deserves' in Plane Crash

  09-11-2017 20:40 via yahoo.com
  Michael Felger made the comment in reaction to a video that shows Halladay making low dives before the crash.
  
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