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• Arizona Cardinals Pick Cindy McCain As Honorary Captain For Season Opener Against Washington

  07-09-2018 23:56 via yahoo.com
  Cindy McCain is the latest member of her family to get the tribute treatment
  
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• These nuns buy stock in gun companies to fight for gun safety

  07-09-2018 23:53 via yahoo.com
  These nuns are fighting guns with guns. Sort of.  The Northwest Coalition for Responsible Investment, a collective of about a dozen nun associations, invests in companies so they can then use their shareholder status to sway the companies into supporting human rights issues.  SEE ALSO: Brett Kavanaugh snubs Parkland victim's father at Senate confirmation hearing Issues have ranged from climate change to indigenous rights, but in the last few years, the nuns have shifted their focus to
  
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• Mac Miller's Los Angeles home is scene of death investigation

  07-09-2018 23:53 via yahoo.com
  Authorities say a death investigation is underway at rapper Mac Miller's Studio City home
  
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• Stars who think bras are tops

  07-09-2018 23:49 via foxnews.com
  Saving money or showing off? These celebs decided a shirt simply isn't necessary when you've got a great bra.
  
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• Letter confirms Vatican received McCarrick complaint in 2000

  07-09-2018 23:48 via yahoo.com
  VATICAN CITY (AP) — A 2006 letter from a top Vatican official confirms that the Holy See received information in 2000 about the sexual misconduct of now-resigned U.S. cardinal, lending credibility to bombshell accusations of a cover-up at the highest echelons of the Roman Catholic Church.
  
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• Could Nasa's James Webb Space Telescope detect alien life?

  07-09-2018 23:42 via bbc.co.uk
  It's come close to cancellation several times, but could the successor to the Hubble telescope make the greatest ever discovery?
  
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• Mac Miller mourned by Post Malone, Chance the Rapper and other stars

  07-09-2018 23:40 via foxnews.com
  Mac Miller was praised for having a "great soul" and being one of the "sweetest guys" to celebrity friends who knew him on Friday after word spread about the 26-year-old rapper's alleged death.
  
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• World's most dangerous cities: Ben Zand comes face to face with Caracas' kidnap gangs

  07-09-2018 23:33 via bbc.co.uk
  Ben Zand goes in under the radar to see what’s truly happening in Caracas, Venezuela, the world’s most violent city.
  
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• The couple who fell in love on an airplane

  07-09-2018 23:32 via cnn.com
  August 2003. Noel Taxin, 33, pulled up at Salt Lake City International Airport and grabbed her bags from the car. Out of the corner of her eye, she spotted a man kissing a girl goodbye.
  
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• Mac Miller, rapper and ex-boyfriend of Ariana Grande, dead at 26: report

  07-09-2018 23:32 via foxnews.com
  Rapper Mac Miller has reportedly died, according to multiple outlets. He was 26.
  
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• Former President Obama gives rousing speech while accepting ethics award

  07-09-2018 23:31 via yahoo.com
  Former President Barack Obama talks about the state of democracy, rips into Republicans and encourages young people to vote during speech on Friday.
  
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• Obama tries to demonize Trump voters, following Hillary's losing strategy

  07-09-2018 23:30 via foxnews.com
  Former President Obama gave the nation some insights into the Democratic Party’s midterm election strategy Friday with a political speech demonizing Americans who elected Donald Trump as president and doubling down on the failed liberal ideology that devastated our economy.
  
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• Connecticut mom suffers 'extreme' injuries after lighting dynamite she mistook for candle: officials

  07-09-2018 23:30 via foxnews.com
  A Connecticut mother suffered severe injuries after lighting what she believed was a candle, but was actually “a quarter stick of dynamite,” officials said.
  
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• WATCH: Wildfire rages in California

  07-09-2018 23:25 via abcnews.go.com
  The Delta fire has grown to 22,000 acres with no containment.
  
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• California slayings suspect yells 'I am not guilty!' to jury

  07-09-2018 23:22 via foxnews.com
  A career criminal accused by authorities of raping and killing six women in the 1970s yelled "I am not guilty" to a jury at the start of his trial Friday for two of the killings.
  
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• The Latest: Hundreds remember victims at vigil in Cincinnati

  07-09-2018 23:16 via foxnews.com
  The Latest on a fatal shooting at a downtown Cincinnati bank (all times local): 12:10 p.m.
  
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• Crews battle for 3rd day to outflank Northern California wildfire

  07-09-2018 23:16 via yahoo.com
  A fierce wildfire that has forced the closure of an interstate highway in Northern California raged for a third day on Friday through explosively dry mountain timber in the Shasta-Trinity National Forest, as crews battled to outflank the flames.The Delta Fire has scorched nearly 25,000 acres (10,000 hectares) in the Cascade range since erupting on Wednesday in a forest canyon along the Sacramento River, about 250 miles (402 km) north of San Francisco, fire officials said.The underbrush is being
  
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• Trump wants US Justice Dept to investigate op-ed

  07-09-2018 23:14 via cnn.com
  President Donald Trump said Friday he wants Attorney General Jeff Sessions to investigate and uncover the identity of the senior administration official who penned an anonymous op-ed in The New York Times this week.
  
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• Kentucky lawyer behind disability fraud given 15 more years

  07-09-2018 23:12 via foxnews.com
  An eastern Kentucky disability attorney who masterminded the largest Social Security fraud in history has been sentenced to an additional 15 years in prison for fleeing the country in an effort to avoid prosecution.
  
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• Vermont town honors the nation's 1st ordained black minister

  07-09-2018 23:03 via foxnews.com
  More than 220 years after the nation's first ordained black minister became a pastor in a small predominantly white community in Vermont, people there are honoring his life and work with an historic marker.
  
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• Zara Tindall says she felt 'helpless' after devastating miscarriages: 'It’s been a horrible road'

  07-09-2018 23:01 via foxnews.com
  Queen Elizabeth's granddaughter Zara Tindall and her husband Mike recently celebrated the birth of their second child — but the road to grow their family wasn't an easy one.
  
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• Trump's Supreme Court nominee on track as Senate hearing ends

  07-09-2018 22:52 via yahoo.com
  Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, asked if he had any doubts about Kavanaugh's confirmation, replied: "None whatsoever."
  
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• Off-Duty Texas Cop Enters Wrong Apartment, Kills Man Inside: Police

  07-09-2018 22:52 via yahoo.com
  A Dallas police officer who entered the wrong apartment, having allegedly
  
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• Serbia, Kosovo leaders abruptly cancel EU-brokered meeting on land swap

  07-09-2018 22:50 via yahoo.com
  Kosovo's President Hashim Thaci was due to discuss the swap plan with his Serbian counterpart Aleksandar Vucic for the first time in talks brokered by the EU's top diplomat Federica Mogherini."Difficulties remain," Mogherini said in a statement, although she said she would seek another meeting with the two presidents later this month.In an address to the nation on Friday evening, Serbia's Vucic said he would visit Kosovo this weekend as planned.
  
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• The end for Italian coffee?

  07-09-2018 22:42 via cnn.com
  US caffeine retailer's bold arrival in Italy has caused a buzz but can it really jolt a culture where daily coffee rituals are almost a religion.
  
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• US begins military exercise in Syria

  07-09-2018 22:37 via cnn.com
  More than 100 US troops began an unexpected exercise in southern Syria on Friday in direct response to a series of Russian military threats, according to a US defense official.
  
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• A Trillion Dollars Saved: What Would the Air Force Look Like with No F-35?

  07-09-2018 22:28 via yahoo.com
  Think about how much more could have been accomplished with just a part of that cash. 
  
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• OK, everybody: Stop pot-shaming Elon Musk

  07-09-2018 22:27 via yahoo.com
  Last night, a man took a relaxing hit off a joint. Or, to put it another way for readers in California, Oregon, Washington, Colorado, Alaska, Nevada, Maine, Massachusetts, Vermont, and the District of Columbia: It was a Thursday. The man happened to be Elon Musk, founder of Tesla and SpaceX. The joint — technically a spliff or blunt, as it was marijuana mixed with tobacco — happened to be proffered by comedian and wrestling commentator Joe Rogan, who was streaming his show live from
  
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• Japan recognizes first death related to Fukushima cleanup

  07-09-2018 22:27 via cnn.com
  The Japanese government has recognized the first death associated with cleanup work at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant after the tsunami disaster in March 2011, according to the Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare.
  
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• Hundreds arrested in multi-day protests of Supreme Court nominee

  07-09-2018 22:27 via yahoo.com
  In an unusually intense episode of civil disobedience on Capitol Hill, the four-day Senate Judiciary Committee hearing was targeted for "creative resistance" by liberal activist groups, said Linda Sarsour, Women's March board member."This is a travesty of justice! Adjourn the hearing!" Sarsour, 38, yelled on Tuesday morning as she was the first to be taken out of the hearing room by police officers.Sarsour told Reuters that her group's members accounted for 209 of the 212 arrests made Tuesday th
  
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• Associates speculate: Did Mattis use the F word — fifth-grader — about Trump?

  07-09-2018 22:23 via yahoo.com
  People who have spent time around Defense Secretary James Mattis are divided over the plausibility that he disparaged President Trump.
  
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• Cincinnati police release video showing officers engaging gunman who killed 3

  07-09-2018 22:07 via yahoo.com
  Omar Perez, 29, was killed after four Cincinnati police officers fired 11 rounds at him.
  
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• Photos of the week: 8/31 - 9/7

  07-09-2018 22:00 via yahoo.com
  Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh's confirmation hearings began this week.
  
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• Trump has ‘not ruled out’ answering questions in Russia probe, says Giuliani

  07-09-2018 21:59 via yahoo.com
  Donald Trump’s personal lawyer, Rudy Giuliani, has said the president may still answer special prosecutor Robert Mueller’s questions about possible obstruction of justice.Later, Mr Giuliani told NBC News the president has "not ruled in or out” whether to submit to questioning in the FBI investigation of alleged collusion between the 2016 campaign team and Russian officials, as well as any alleged efforts made by Mr Trump to derail the probe.One such example of obstruction could
  
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• The Latest: Syria says it's committed to 'liberate' Idlib

  07-09-2018 21:59 via yahoo.com
  TEHRAN, Iran (AP) — The Latest on Syria talks in Iran (all times local):
  
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• 'It's the day when I can remove my mask'

  07-09-2018 21:57 via bbc.co.uk
  Party time in India after a court ruling which means gay sex is no longer a crime.
  
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• Georgia extradites Russian data theft suspect to US

  07-09-2018 21:55 via yahoo.com
  A 35-year-old Russian was extradited to the United States from Georgia on Friday to answer criminal charges over the massive theft of customer data from JPMorgan Chase and Dow Jones, officials announced.Andrei Tyurin is accused of orchestrating major hacking crimes against US financial institutions, brokerage firms and financial news publishers, including the largest theft of customer data from a US financial institution.The scheme compromised data from millions of customers of JPMorgan Chase an
  
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• NOT REAL NEWS: Michael Jordan not selling Air Jordan brand

  07-09-2018 21:45 via yahoo.com
  Basketball legend Michael Jordan is not leaving the Nike Inc. board of directors, and his namesake brand, the Air Jordan sneaker, remains with the shoe and apparel company.
  
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• Court scraps multibillion-dollar Ecuador damages against Chevron

  07-09-2018 21:45 via yahoo.com
  An appeals court in The Hague has cancelled $9.5 billion in damages handed down by an Ecuadoran court against American energy giant Chevron for causing oil pollution in the Amazon jungle, Quito said Friday.The original ruling dates back to 2011 and was twice upheld on appeal in Ecuador, but Chevron took its protest to The Hague's Permanent Court of Arbitration, claiming it had already been exonerated of any wrongdoing.The Dutch court decided Ecuador was guilty of "denial of justice" and ordered
  
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• Yemen rebels grounded in Sanaa as peace talks falter

  07-09-2018 21:42 via yahoo.com
  Long-awaited UN-backed talks between Yemen's warring parties were sputtering Friday before even starting, with Huthi rebels refusing to travel to Geneva and fresh fighting breaking out on the ground.The Huthis, powerful armed tribes locked in a war with Yemen's Saudi-backed government, have refused to take off from the rebel-held capital of Sanaa unless the United Nations meets a list of conditions, which includes securing a safe return from Geneva to Sanaa for their delegation.At the same time,
  
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• New wildfire rips through northern California

  07-09-2018 21:37 via yahoo.com
  A new wildfire was raging in northern California on Friday, having already devastated almost 25,000 acres (10,000 hectares) in just two days and continuing to spread.Dubbed the Delta Fire, the blaze was the latest outbreak to hit the region this summer, and was said by officials to have been triggered by arson.The fire was initially reported in the Lakehead area, 150 miles (240 kilometers) north of the state capital Sacramento and at the heart of the Shasta-Trinity National Forest around midday
  
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• Mugabe reconciles with the man who ousted him after Mnangagwa sends private jet to pick up Grace

  07-09-2018 21:32 via yahoo.com
  Robert Mugabe has forgiven Emmerson Mnangagwa, the man who threw him out of power last year, and says that the new president is the right man to rule Zimbabwe.  Mr Mugabe, 94, on Thursday said: "There was an election. Zanu-PF was represented by Emmerson Mnangagwa and [Nelson] Chamisa represented MDC-Alliance and results came out saying the person who won was Emmerson Mnangagwa.  "We have accepted the result and we hope that we will continue respecting the will of the people. The g
  
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• Obama's 'state of our democracy' speech is a stinging rebuke of Donald Trump

  07-09-2018 21:27 via cnn.com
  Former President Barack Obama said President Donald Trump is "capitalizing on resentment that politicians have been fanning for years" and questioned "What happened to the Republican party?" a preview of Obama's message for the fall's midterms and his most pointed rebuke to date of his successor in the White House.
  
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• Amid warnings of Idlib massacre, a last try at diplomacy in Syria

  07-09-2018 21:27 via yahoo.com
  The possibility that Syria's Idlib province would provide the setting for a tragic coda to the humanitarian catastrophe of the country’s seven-year civil war seemed enhanced Friday after a last-ditch summit meeting in Tehran of the main outside powers.Fresh Russian and Syrian airstrikes on Idlib were reported Friday morning.UN Syria mediator Staffan de Mistura said there were “all the ingredients for a perfect storm,” Reuters reported.
  
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• Palestinian teen killed by Israeli fire at Gaza border rally

  07-09-2018 21:26 via yahoo.com
  GAZA CITY, Gaza Strip (AP) — A teenager was killed and dozens of other Palestinians wounded by Israeli fire at a border protest, Gaza officials said Friday, as efforts by Egypt to mediate a possible ceasefire between the territory's Hamas rulers and Israel appear to have stalled.
  
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• Yemen's Houthis want U.N. guarantees for delegation as peace talks in Geneva stall

  07-09-2018 21:13 via yahoo.com
  U.N.-brokered talks to end Yemen's three-year war were meant to begin on Sept. 6, but only representatives of the Yemeni government of Abd-Rabbu Mansour Hadi turned up as the Houthis insisted their plane to Geneva be allowed to evacuate dozens of injured people to neighboring Oman."The United Nations is now facing a choice where it should prove that it refuses the violation of the international and humanitarian law .... not allowing the Omani plane to take the delegation and the wounded is a fla
  
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• Is Meghan Markle Pregnant? 'Date Night' Photo Has the Internet Buzzing About a Royal Baby

  07-09-2018 21:12 via yahoo.com
  The former "Suits" star was wearing a blue dress with ruffles around the midsection.
  
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• Taylor Smith Pleads Not Guilty to Reckless Endangerment After Pushing Friend Off 60-Foot Bridge

  07-09-2018 20:56 via yahoo.com
  'All I can do is hope for the best,' the teen has said.
  
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• How much house can you afford? Use the 28/36 rule to find out

  07-09-2018 20:54 via nbcnews.com
  Buying a home is probably the biggest financial commitment of your lifetime. Use this simple rule to help you figure out how much you can comfortably afford.
  
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• Trump warns about impact for Canada of tax on cars

  07-09-2018 20:52 via abcnews.go.com
  President Donald Trump says he does not want to hurt Canada's economy but also warns that if he imposes taxes on cars it would be "devastating" for the neighboring country
  
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