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• Small plane crashes on Phoenix street; pilot, passenger dead

  20-08-2018 23:58 via yahoo.com
  PHOENIX (AP) — A homemade plane crashed in a Phoenix intersection Monday, killing the pilot and the sole passenger, authorities said.
  
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• This is now the top-selling album in history

  20-08-2018 23:50 via cnn.com
  The Eagles now have the top-selling album in history, surpassing Michael Jackson's "Thriller." CNN's Jake Tapper reports.
  
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• Why you should block big corporations on Twitter

  20-08-2018 23:46 via yahoo.com
  This is You Won't Regret It
  , a new weekly column featuring recommendations, tips, and unsolicited advice from the Mashable culture team. Nothing feels better than blocking an obnoxious branded Twitter account — whether you're doing it to spite Alex Jones, to protect yourself from insidious marketing, or some combination of the two. Look at what's happening on Twitter, for example. As we reported earlier this month, #GrabYourWallet co-founder Shannon Coulter recently put pressure on the pl
  
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• Judge weighs suit challenging arrests of married immigrants

  20-08-2018 23:39 via yahoo.com
  BOSTON (AP) — A federal judge in Boston heard arguments on Monday in a case centered on whether immigrants married to U.S. citizens but facing deportation should be allowed to remain in the country while they seek to become legal residents.
  
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• WATCH: Goats roam onto subway tracks in Brooklyn, NY

  20-08-2018 23:35 via abcnews.go.com
  The two animals were tranquilized and brought to an animal sanctuary.
  
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• WATCH: Little League World Series, lightning and whirlwinds: World in Photos

  20-08-2018 23:32 via abcnews.go.com
  Here's a look at the top photos from around the globe.
  
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• Argento not under investigation over sex abuse claims: police

  20-08-2018 23:31 via yahoo.com
  Italian actress and sexual abuse campaigner Asia Argento is not under investigation over bombshell allegations that she had sex five years ago with an underage teen, police told AFP on Monday.The New York Times reported on Sunday that Argento, a Harvey Weinstein accuser and leading figure in the #MeToo movement, had paid Jimmy Bennett $380,000 over the 2013 incident at a Los Angeles hotel.Bennett was 17 at the time of the alleged assault -- a year younger than California's age of consent.
  
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• Hillary Clinton steps back into the fray to fundraise for Democrats this fall

  20-08-2018 23:29 via nbcnews.com
  The 2016 presidential nominee will headline events in California, Illinois and New York.
  
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• Utah firefighter killed while battling Mendocino Complex Fire died after retardant drop

  20-08-2018 23:21 via yahoo.com
  A Utah firefighter died last week from falling tree debris after thousands of gallons of retardant were dropped on the area where he was helping battle California's largest-ever wildfire, according to a preliminary report from investigators.
  
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• Weinstein's lawyer slams accuser for 'stunning level of hypocrisy' amid sex claims

  20-08-2018 23:16 via abcnews.go.com
  Months after actress Asia Argento accused Harvey Weinstein of sexual assault, she's now accused of paying off a young male actor who accused her of sexual misconduct.
  
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• Trump Praises Border Patrol Agent Who 'Speaks Perfect English’ At Immigration Event

  20-08-2018 23:11 via yahoo.com
  President Donald Trump introduced a border patrol agent at the White House on
  
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• Muslim pilgrims in Muzdalifa prepare for final stages of haj

  20-08-2018 23:09 via yahoo.com
  Clad in white robes signifying a state of purity, the pilgrims spent the previous night in an encampment around the hill where Islam holds that God tested Abraham's faith by commanding him to sacrifice his son Ismail and Prophet Mohammad gave his final sermon.Pakistani pilgrim Mohamed Forqan, 30, said it was a great day to be a Muslim.Hilal Issa, 70, from Algeria, said he was praying for God to pardon all Muslims and save the Arab world from its afflictions.
  
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• Employee opens fire at Texas food warehouse, killing manager, police say

  20-08-2018 23:07 via abcnews.go.com
  A woman opened fire at a large food warehouse in Texas early Monday, killing a manager and injuring a fellow employee, authorities said.
  
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• UK woman 'sang to stay awake' after falling off cruise ship

  20-08-2018 22:59 via yahoo.com
  PULA, Croatia (AP) — A British woman who fell from a cruise ship and spent 10 hours in the Adriatic Sea at night sang to stay alive, her rescuers said Monday.
  
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• Kavanaugh in memo pushed graphic sex questions for Clinton

  20-08-2018 22:58 via nbcnews.com
  The questions are part of a memo in which Kavanaugh advised Independent Counsel Ken Starrnot to give the president "any break" during questioning.
  
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• Melania Trump confirms her first big solo trip as first lady, to Africa

  20-08-2018 22:55 via cnn.com
  Melania Trump announced Monday afternoon that she will go to Africa in October for her first major solo trip since becoming first lady.
  
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• New project uncovers Deep South's hidden LGBTQ history

  20-08-2018 22:54 via nbcnews.com
  The Invisible Histories Project documents the history of LGBTQ people in the Deep South, a region that once all but forced gays to live in hiding.
  
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• Trump mocks 'phony blue wave,' says immigration will carry GOP to midterm wins

  20-08-2018 22:51 via nbcnews.com
  At White House event honoring ICE, Trump again said Democrats "just don't mind crime."
  
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• Eight hikers die as flash flood hits Italy's Calabria

  20-08-2018 22:46 via yahoo.com
  Eight hikers died when a mountain river suddenly flooded in Italy's southern Calabria region, with five people still missing, local emergency services said on Monday."We have eight dead but we can't rule out the toll increasing," the local civil protection unit told AFP.It also said there were two groups of 18 hikers at the site.
  
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• Why It Is Time for All U.S. Bishops to Resign

  20-08-2018 22:34 via yahoo.com
  In the midst of the Catholic Church's latest reckoning
  
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• What's on Obama's summer reading list? A book called 'Factfulness'

  20-08-2018 22:30 via nbcnews.com
  Open your mind with books like Tara Westover's "Educated," suggests the former president.
  
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• Cruise ship survivor plucked out of sea 'a stupid woman' says mother of liner's boss

  20-08-2018 22:30 via yahoo.com
  A passenger who survived ten hours in the sea is a “stupid woman” who must have jumped off the ship, the mother of the cruise line’s president has told the Telegraph. Kay Longstaff, 46, an air hostess, was accused of causing massive disruption to fellow passengers while costing Norwegian Cruise Line (NCL) hundreds of thousands of pounds in compensation. Allegations surfaced on Monday suggesting Miss Longstaff had been arguing with her boyfriend in the hours before she plun
  
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• Aaron Hernandez fiancée addresses his sexual orientation in new book

  20-08-2018 22:30 via nbcnews.com
  "I wouldn’t have disowned him. I would have been supportive,” Jenkins-Hernandez wrote of rumors that Hernandez was gay.
  
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• No One Lost the South China Sea (And No One Will)

  20-08-2018 22:23 via yahoo.com
  America's excessive involvement in the South China Sea has forced China to deploy more defensive equipment in the area. What happens now?
  
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• Trump says agent 'speaks perfect English'

  20-08-2018 22:11 via cnn.com
  While delivering remarks to honor immigration and border protection officials, President Donald Trump brings an officer on stage and points out the officer "speaks perfect English."
  
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• Trump: Agent 'speaks perfect English'

  20-08-2018 22:11 via cnn.com
  While delivering remarks to honor immigration and border protection officials, President Donald Trump brings an officer on stage and points out the officer "speaks perfect English."
  
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• Beach hazard issued for several states after 3 boys pulled from Lake Michigan died

  20-08-2018 22:09 via abcnews.go.com
  Dangerous conditions extend to Illinois, Wisconsin, Chicago and Indiana beaches.
  
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• Running back Adrian Peterson to sign with Washington Redskins

  20-08-2018 21:55 via profootballtalk.nbcsports.com
  He played in 10 games for the Saints and Cardinals last year before a neck injury sent him to injured reserve.
  
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• WATCH: Surveillance video shows moment Italian bridge collapses

  20-08-2018 21:54 via abcnews.go.com
  A security camera shows vehicles below the bridge in Genoa as it collapses and creates a cloud of dust.
  
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• ConocoPhillips says PDVSA agreed to pay $2 bn to settle dispute

  20-08-2018 21:53 via yahoo.com
  Venezuela has agreed to pay a $2 billion settlement to US oil giant ConocoPhillips, to stop the seizure of the South American nation's assets, the American firm announced Monday.PDVSA, the state oil company once the crown jewel of Venezuela's now imploding economy, will make initial payments of $500 million over the next 90 days, ConocoPhillips said in a statement.In return, ConocoPhillips said it agreed to halt the seizure of PDVSA's oil and assets in the Caribbean -- which it took over after C
  
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• Ohio State trustees set Wednesday meeting on Meyer's future

  20-08-2018 21:52 via yahoo.com
  COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — Ohio State trustees set a private meeting for Wednesday to talk about the future of coach Urban Meyer as the university seeks to quickly move past a scandal that has consumed the football program for nearly a month.
  
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• Venezuela cuts five zeros from currency as economic plan sows confusion

  20-08-2018 21:46 via yahoo.com
  Streets were quiet and shops were closed due to a national holiday that Maduro decreed for the first day of the new pricing plan for the stricken economy, which the International Monetary Fund has estimated will have 1 million percent inflation by year end.The price change comes with a 3,000 percent minimum wage hike, tax increases meant to shore up state coffers and a plan to peg salaries, prices and the country's exchange rate to the petro, an elusive state-backed cryptocurrency.
  
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• GOP Gubernatorial Candidate Jokes, 'The Russians Are Going To Help Me'

  20-08-2018 21:46 via yahoo.com
  Pennsylvania state Sen. Scott Wagner, the Republican candidate to unseat Gov.
  
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• Hurricane could turn toward Hawaii

  20-08-2018 21:43 via cnn.com
  Another hurricane is threatening to impact Hawaii this week, as dangerous Category 3 Hurricane Lane approaches the Central Pacific island chain just two weeks after Hurricane Hector passed the islands.
  
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• Russia investigation timeline: Robert Mueller and the probe into the Trump campaign's alleged collusion

  20-08-2018 21:40 via yahoo.com
  Since Donald Trump's election a shadow has hung over his administration - a federal investigation into possible collusion between the president's campaign and Russian agents. Robert Mueller, the stern former FBI director now leading the investigation, has charged dozens of individuals with crimes ranging from election interference to fraud along the way. Mr Trump has denounced the probe as a "witch hunt" - a view held by a number of leading Republicans. However the alleged crimes
  
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• This Is How South Africa Could Become the Next Zimbabwe

  20-08-2018 21:36 via yahoo.com
  Forced land redistribution was tried eighteen years ago by Zimbabwe and it did not go well.
  
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• 9-month-old boy dies after father finds him in hot car in Florida

  20-08-2018 21:26 via abcnews.go.com
  No one has been charged at this time.
  
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• How to spot a liar, according to researchers

  20-08-2018 21:22 via nbcnews.com
  It’s our conscious biases and decision making skills that interfere with the natural ability to detect deception. Here are the nonverbal clues that can reveal someone isn’t telling the truth.
  
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• Ibtihaj Muhammad defied cultural norms to compete in the Olympics

  20-08-2018 21:20 via nbcnews.com
  And she wants you to know you don't need permission to be who you are and go after what you want.
  
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• ConocoPhillips, Venezuela's PDVSA reach $2 billion settlement

  20-08-2018 21:19 via yahoo.com
  Venezuela's crude production, a major source of revenue, has fallen to a six-decade low this year as lack of investment, recession and hyperinflation pushed the OPEC-member country's economy to near collapse.The settlement could restore a portion of lost exports by resuming shipping from the Caribbean.Conoco will suspend legal enforcement of the arbitration award as long as payments continue, spokesman Daren Beaudo said.
  
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• Boy Dying of Terminal Cancer Wants Racing Stickers for His Casket

  20-08-2018 21:16 via yahoo.com
  The 11-year-old is suffering from leukemia
  
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• Woman recounts how bear ‘ripped this whole side of my face off’

  20-08-2018 21:08 via abcnews.go.com
  The bear came into her kitchen through a screen door that was not fully latched.
  
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• US woman killed in apparent alligator attack

  20-08-2018 21:03 via cnn.com
  A woman was killed Monday morning in an apparent alligator attack on Hilton Head Island, South Carolina, the Beaufort County Sheriff's Office said.
  
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• Pepsi hopes to add some fizz to its beverage lineup with SodaStream purchase

  20-08-2018 21:03 via nbcnews.com
  “It’s the razor and blade system,” said one analyst. “This plays very, very well to the way millennials and Gen Z are thinking and buying today.”
  
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• Alabama ranked No. 1 in AP Top 25 preseason poll for third straight year

  20-08-2018 21:02 via collegefootballtalk.nbcsports.com
  Alabama is the second program to top the preseason AP poll for three straight years. Clemson, Georgia and Wisconsin round out the top four.
  
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• Pope vows no more cover ups on sexual abuse in letter to Catholics

  20-08-2018 20:59 via yahoo.com
  Pope Francis, facing sexual abuse crises in several countries, wrote an unprecedented letter to all Catholics on Monday, asking each one of them to help root out "this culture of death" and vowing there would be no more cover ups.In a highly personal letter addressed to "the people of God," Church language for all members, the pope appeared to be launching an appeal for all Catholics to face the crisis together and not let it tear the Church apart.The Catholic Church in the United States, Chile,
  
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• Old-time union boss returns triumphant in Mexico

  20-08-2018 20:59 via feeds.foxnews.com
  One of Mexico's powerful old-time union bosses has made an unrepentant, triumphal return to the public spotlight after being freed from nearly five years of prison and house arrest.
  
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• 2 detained after shots are fired at US Embassy in Turkey

  20-08-2018 20:59 via yahoo.com
  ISTANBUL (AP) — Shots were fired from a moving car at the U.S. Embassy in Turkey before dawn Monday, an attack that came during heightened tensions between the two NATO allies. Officials said two people with criminal records were detained.
  
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• Nigeria narrowly escapes FIFA ban

  20-08-2018 20:58 via cnn.com
  Nigeria has narrowly escaped an international football ban after its government responded to a FIFA ultimatum shortly before a suspension took effect on Monday.
  
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• Police: 1 dead after woman opens fire at Texas warehouse

  20-08-2018 20:57 via yahoo.com
  MISSOURI CITY, Texas (AP) — A female employee opened fire at a Houston-area food distribution center early Monday, killing a company manager and wounding another worker, police said.
  
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