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• California woman reported missing while hiking in Kings Canyon National Park

  30-09-2018 23:59 via foxnews.com
  A California woman who went hiking in Kings Canyon National Park was reported missing on Friday, officials said.
  
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• California stages 10th annual Surf City surf dog competition – in pictures

  30-09-2018 23:53
  Solo surfing, two-dog surfing and human/dog surfing were among the events held at Huntington Beach Continue reading...
  
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• Macedonia leader vows to press on with name change despite referendum failure

  30-09-2018 23:38 via yahoo.com
  The proposed name change is part of an agreement reached in June by pro-Western Prime Minister Zoran Zaev with Greece to resolve the dispute over the country's name, which had prevented Macedonia from joining NATO or the EU.The people who did vote overwhelmingly backed the name change -- more than 90 percent voted yes with 63 percent of polling stations reporting.The nationalist opposition holds 49 seats in the 120-seat parliament, enough to block the two-thirds majority required to change the c
  
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• The Latest: Macedonian PM says vote shows will of people

  30-09-2018 23:24 via yahoo.com
  SKOPJE, Macedonia (AP) — The Latest on Macedonia's referendum on a name change for the country (all times local):
  
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• North Carolina Has A Massive Mosquito Problem After Hurricane Florence

  30-09-2018 23:22 via yahoo.com
  Some of the largest known mosquitoes in the world are creating a buzz across
  
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• Three men killed in Pennsylvania car explosion, officials say

  30-09-2018 23:15 via foxnews.com
  At least one person was killed after a car exploded Saturday night in Pennsylvania's third-largest city, drawing a massive law enforcement response and involvement of federal officials.
  
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• Florida woman allegedly kept dozens of cats, dog locked in U-Haul truck

  30-09-2018 23:15 via foxnews.com
  A Florida woman was arrested after she allegedly locked up dozens of animals inside of a U-Haul truck without food or water, deputies said.
  
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• Gwyneth Paltrow shows off her and new husband Brad Falchuk's wedding rings

  30-09-2018 23:07 via foxnews.com
  Gwyneth Paltrow is proudly showing off her and husband Brad Falchuk's brand-new wedding bling.
  
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• Next battle in war over Kavanaugh: FBI probe

  30-09-2018 23:03 via yahoo.com
  President Donald Trump bowed to pressure from moderate Senate Republicans on Friday and ordered the probe after Christine Blasey Ford, a California university professor, detailed her allegations at a Senate hearing that Kavanaugh assaulted her in 1982 when the two were teenagers in high school.The stunning reversal capped two weeks of allegations, followed by furious denials, that roiled prospects for Trump's nominee, a conservative federal appeals court judge once expected to sail through Senat
  
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• 3 dead after car explosion on Pennsylvania street in 'isolated incident'

  30-09-2018 22:58 via yahoo.com
  "We have a high degree of confidence that the perpetrator was probably killed in the incident," the district attorney said.
  
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• Kim is playing Trump -- and it could come at great cost

  30-09-2018 22:57 via cnn.com
  Every week, I offer a glimpse of the kind of intelligence assessments that are likely to come across the desk of the President of the United States. Modeled on the President's Daily Briefing, or PDB, which the director of national intelligence prepares for the President almost daily, my Presidential Weekly Briefing focuses on the topics and issues President Trump needs to know to make informed decisions.
  
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• Las Vegas pauses but looks ahead a year after mass shooting

  30-09-2018 22:37 via yahoo.com
  LAS VEGAS (AP) — A small bouquet of dried flowers was wedged inside the padlock on Gate 5 of the killing ground that was the Route 91 Harvest Festival one recent day, the only visible reminder that it was the site of the worst mass shooting in modern American history.
  
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• The Latest: Over 800 dead in Indonesia quake and tsunami

  30-09-2018 22:33 via yahoo.com
  PALU, Indonesia (AP) — The Latest on a powerful earthquake and tsunami that hit Indonesia (all times local):
  
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• Kavanaugh accuser Julie Swetnick to be excluded from FBI investigation

  30-09-2018 21:49 via yahoo.com
  Julie Swetnick has alleged that Brett Kavanaugh and his friend Mark Judge placed drugs or alcohol in punch in order to inebriate women so they could be ‘gang raped’ by other partygoers.The FBI will not interview Julie Swetnick, the third woman to accuse Brett Kavanaugh of sexual misconduct, according to multiple reports and Republican senator Lindsey Graham, highlighting the narrow scope of the agency’s supplemental investigation into Donald Trump’s supreme court nominee.
  
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• Jeffrey Dean Morgan admits he's never seen wife Hilarie Burton's show 'One Tree Hill'

  30-09-2018 21:32 via foxnews.com
  Jeffrey Dean Morgan loves his wife, Hilarie Burton. But the TV show that made her famous? Well, he hasn't even seen it.
  
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• Over 800 dead in Indonesia quake and tsunami; toll may rise

  30-09-2018 21:31 via yahoo.com
  PALU, Indonesia (AP) — Rescuers struggled Sunday to reach victims in several large coastal towns in Indonesia that were hit by an earthquake and tsunami, and authorities feared that the toll of more than 800 confirmed dead would rise.
  
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• Pakistan open to Afridi talks with US, foreign minister says

  30-09-2018 21:30 via foxnews.com
  From the outset, the situation has gone from bad to worse for Dr. Shakil Afridi, the “hero” CIA asset who helped the U.S. capture Usama bin Laden in Pakistan by running a fake vaccination program to collect DNA but since then has languished behind bars.
  
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• McDonald's employee accused of putting peroxide-based cleaner in cop's drink

  30-09-2018 21:30 via foxnews.com
  If convicted of the felony charge, the man could face 4.5 years to 20.5 years in jail.
  
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• Kanye West is now Ye, but unchanged on backing Trump

  30-09-2018 21:29 via yahoo.com
  New York (AFP) - Kanye West has decided that he now wants to be called Ye. But on political matters, nothing has changed for the pro-Donald Trump rapper.
  
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• Aerial video shows scene of fatal Pa. car explosion

  30-09-2018 21:28 via yahoo.com
  A car exploded on a downtown street, killing at least one person and leading to a shelter-in-place order for nearby residents, and federal authorities are helping local officials in the investigation. (Sept. 30)
  
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• FBI investigates after car blast kills 1 on downtown street

  30-09-2018 21:27 via foxnews.com
  A car exploded on a downtown street, killing at least one person and leading to a shelter-in-place order for nearby residents, and federal authorities are helping local officials in the investigation.
  
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• Man Accused of Throwing Four-Year-Old Brother Off Roof of Brooklyn Building, Killing Him

  30-09-2018 21:20 via yahoo.com
  The older brother of a four-year-old boy who was found dead outside a Brooklyn apartment has been charged with murder, officials said.
  
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• Syria rebels deny withdrawing arms from north under deal

  30-09-2018 21:18 via yahoo.com
  Syrian rebels on Sunday denied pulling any heavy arms out of a major opposition bastion in the north, as the deadline to implement a demilitarisation deal there draws closer.Regime ally Moscow and rebel backer Ankara agreed earlier in September to create a buffer zone around the opposition stronghold of Idlib that would be free of both jihadists and heavy arms.The deal has so far averted a massive assault on the region by Syrian President Bashar al-Assad's government, but its implementation is e
  
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• Europe dominates US to regain Ryder Cup

  30-09-2018 21:15 via foxnews.com
  Payback belongs to Europe, and so does the Ryder Cup.
  
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• Willie Nelson debuts new song 'Vote 'Em Out' at concert supporting Beto O'Rourke

  30-09-2018 20:56 via foxnews.com
  Willie Nelson debuted a new, politically-driven song during his free concert in support of Texas Senate candidate Beto O’Rourke on Saturday night in Austin.
  
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• Macedonia expected to support new name, but low turnout

  30-09-2018 20:54 via yahoo.com
  Macedonia's Prime Minister Zoran Zaev voiced confidence that those who voted in Sunday's national referendum have accepted the plan to rename the country and thereby end a decades-long spat with Greece."I think the huge majority of the citizens who voted have chosen the European path for Macedonia," the social-democrat leader said, stopping short to explicitly announce the victory of the 'yes' camp at a press conference held an hour after the polls closed at 7:00 pm (1700 GMT).Two-thirds of vote
  
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• Cotton says Feinstein will be investigated over leaked letter by Kavanaugh accuser

  30-09-2018 20:51 via foxnews.com
  Sen. Tom Cotton, R-Ark., said Sunday that Dianne Feinstein’s office will be investigated to determine whether or not they leaked the confidential letter from Christine Blasey Ford that detailed allegations of sexual misconduct by Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh.
  
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• The moment the tsunami hit

  30-09-2018 20:43 via cnn.com
  A 7.5 magnitude earthquake hit the Indonesian island of Sulawesi and triggered a tsunami, killing hundreds of people.
  
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• Kanye West promises a return to 'SNL' in 2018 following controversial pro-Trump speech

  30-09-2018 20:37 via foxnews.com
  After delivering an impromptu speech showing support for Donald Trump during the Season 44 premiere of “Saturday Night Live,” Kanye West says that he’ll be back on the show by the end of the year.
  
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• Lawyer, 99, will retire 'when they carry me out of here'

  30-09-2018 20:36 via foxnews.com
  Attorney Morton Katz, 99, recalls just one client assigned to him as a special public defender who made an issue of his age.
  
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• Trump praises Kanye West for 'leading the charge' after anti-Democrat speech on 'SNL'

  30-09-2018 20:31 via yahoo.com
  President Trump praised Kanye West after he gave an impromptu pro-Trump speech while wearing his “Make America Great Again” hat on “Saturday Night Live.”
  
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• North Carolina's first alligator hunt in 40 years to end without kill

  30-09-2018 20:30 via foxnews.com
  The state had not allowed alligator hunting since 1973.
  
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• McIlroy again unreliable in Ryder Cup singles

  30-09-2018 20:18 via yahoo.com
  SAINT-QUENTIN-EN-YVELINES, France (AP) — Rory McIlroy stared at his ball buried deep in the French sand and held out his arms. His body language said: What am I meant to do with that?
  
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• Two Mississippi Police Officers Killed During Shootout; Suspect in Custody

  30-09-2018 20:17 via yahoo.com
  Brookhaven Corporal Zack Moak and Patrolman James White were killed in the line of duty early Saturday morning.
  
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• As Brexit divisions widen, PM May challenges Brexit critics

  30-09-2018 20:14 via yahoo.com
  At the start of what is set to be one of the Conservative Party's stormiest annual conferences, May's plans were once again attacked by two former ministers, with her ex-foreign secretary, Boris Johnson, calling them "deranged".Just six months before Britain is due to leave the EU in the country's biggest shift in foreign and trade policy in more than 40 years, the debate over how to leave the bloc is still raging in the center-right Conservative Party, and even in government.May's already fragi
  
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• Elizabeth Warren To Consider A 2020 Presidential Run After Midterms

  30-09-2018 20:05 via yahoo.com
  A presidential run may soon be on the horizon for Sen. Elizabeth Warren.
  
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• Democrats Needed To Match Lindsey Graham's Fury

  30-09-2018 19:56 via yahoo.com
  Now that those of us committed to truth and justice have, we hope, at least
  
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• Israel says ready for UN crossing with Syria to reopen

  30-09-2018 19:51 via yahoo.com
  Israel is prepared to open its side of the crossing point with Syria following the return of UN peacekeepers to the Golan Heights following a four-year absence, the army said.Defence Minister Avigdor Lieberman "authorised the reopening of the Alpha gate of the Quneitra crossing between Israel and Syria, allowing the UN to resume activity via the crossing pending Syria's reopening their side," it said in a statement Saturday.
  
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• FBI investigation appears limited in scope

  30-09-2018 19:21 via cnn.com
  The FBI investigation into allegations against Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh is narrowly focused, top officials said in interviews on Sunday, with sources telling CNN that the White House controlling the scope of the probe.
  
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• Johnson ups the pressure as UK's May gathers fractious party

  30-09-2018 19:13 via yahoo.com
  British Prime Minister Theresa May and her allies called for unity Sunday after former colleague Boris Johnson hijacked the opening of their Conservative party's annual conference with another attack on the government's Brexit plan.Johnson's successor, Foreign Secretary Jeremy Hunt, warned EU leaders not to make the bloc a prison, or "we won't be the only prisoner that will want to escape".
  
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• Three years of Russia strikes on Syria kill 18,000: monitor

  30-09-2018 19:06 via yahoo.com
  More than 18,000 people, nearly half of them civilians, have been killed in Russian air strikes on Syria since Moscow began its game-changing intervention exactly three years ago, a monitor said Sunday.Russia, for its part, said its "accurate" strikes had killed 85,000 "terrorists".A steadfast ally of Syria's ruling regime, Russia began carrying out bombing raids in the country on September 30, 2015 -- more than four years into the devastating conflict.
  
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• Classmates mourn boy shot dead by Israeli troops in Gaza border

  30-09-2018 18:51 via yahoo.com
  The school friends of Nassir al-Mosabeh sat tearfully in their classroom in Khan Younis on Sunday and mourned their 12-year-old friend who was killed in a protest on the Gaza-Israel border.Gaza health officials said Israeli soldiers on Friday shot dead seven Palestinians, who were among thousands who thronged to the fortified border as part of weekly protests launched six months ago.Mosabeh's classmates in the school in the southern Gaza Strip decorated his chair with his picture ringed by red a
  
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• May's 'Brexit festival' idea roundly mocked

  30-09-2018 18:42 via cnn.com
  UK Prime Minister Theresa May announced plans to hold a nationwide festival in 2022 to celebrate Britain's scheduled departure from the European Union next year, but it was quickly mocked on social media.
  
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• Hailie Deegan, 17, becomes 1st female winner in NASCAR K&N

  30-09-2018 18:39 via yahoo.com
  MERIDIAN, Idaho (AP) — Seventeen-year-old Hailie Deegan used a bump-and-run on her teammate to become the first female winner of a NASCAR K&N West Series race. Her last-lap shove of Cole Rouse at Meridian Speedway in Idaho gave her the victory.
  
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• China manufacturing weakens amid US tariff battle

  30-09-2018 18:30 via yahoo.com
  BEIJING (AP) — China's export orders shrank in September as a tariff battle with Washington over technology escalated, adding to downward pressure on the world's No. 2 economy, two surveys showed Sunday.
  
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• Sen. Grassley Asks FBI To Investigate Retracted Kavanaugh Allegations

  30-09-2018 18:26 via yahoo.com
  Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley is asking the FBI to
  
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• Ryder Cup: Europe beats US at Le Golf National

  30-09-2018 18:26 via cnn.com
  Europe has won the Ryder Cup after defeating the US team at Le Golf National in France.
  
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• Halep retires from China Open 1st round with back injury

  30-09-2018 17:56 via yahoo.com
  BEIJING (AP) — Top-ranked Simona Halep retired Sunday from her first-round match at the China Open.
  
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• Hundreds killed in powerful Indonesia earthquake and tsunami and more bodies may still be found

  30-09-2018 17:53 via cnn.com
  Rescue workers are still combing through chunks of concrete and lumber searching for survivors after a powerful earthquake and tsunami ravaged the Indonesian island of Sulawesi.
  
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• After powerful Indonesia earthquake and tsunami, more bodies expected to be found

  30-09-2018 17:53 via cnn.com
  Rescue workers are still combing through chunks of concrete and lumber searching for survivors after a powerful earthquake and tsunami ravaged the Indonesian island of Sulawesi.
  
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