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• Crash that killed 20 highlights safety problems with stretch limos

  08-10-2018 23:49 via nbcnews.com
  Experts said such modified vehicles face less regulations than typical passenger cars and often remove features intended to keep occupants safe.
  
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• U.S.' Pompeo hails 'significant' North Korea progress; experts skeptical

  08-10-2018 23:45 via yahoo.com
  Pompeo told reporters Kim had said he was ready to allow international inspectors into North Korea's Punggye-ri nuclear testing site and the Sohae missile engine test facility as soon as the two sides agreed on logistics.North Korea has said an inspection of that site would be allowed if the United States took "corresponding measures," of which there has been no sign.
  
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• Correction: Chicago Police-Laquan McDonald-BLM story

  08-10-2018 23:44 via yahoo.com
  In a story Oct. 6 about the conviction of a white Chicago police officer in the death of black teenager Laquan McDonald, The Associated Press erroneously reported that another black teen, Michael Brown, was killed by a white officer in Missouri in August 2013. Brown was killed by the officer in August 2014.
  
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• Typhus spreads across Los Angeles area

  08-10-2018 23:39 via cnn.com
  A rise in typhus, a bacterial disease spread by lice or fleas, has hit the Los Angeles area, and public health officials are sounding the alarm.
  
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• ‘Sobering’ New UN Report Challenges Republican Climate Hawks’ Free-Market Dogma

  08-10-2018 23:21 via yahoo.com
  A landmark new United Nations report warning of catastrophic global warming
  
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• Duolingo adds Hawaiian language lessons

  08-10-2018 23:16 via nbcnews.com
  “It’s really to help our people first learn their language so it can come back in the hearts of those who own it, but also to share with everyone else.”
  
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• Baldwin: Trump's hoax comment 'is disgraceful'

  08-10-2018 23:12 via cnn.com
  CNN's Brooke Baldwin slammed President Donald Trump's comments that the sexual assault allegations made against Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh by Christine Blasey Ford were "a hoax set by the Democrats."
  
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• World transgender bodybuilding competition comes to Atlanta

  08-10-2018 23:07 via nbcnews.com
  The annual International Association of Trans Bodybuilders competition started in 2014 and has since drawn competitors from the U.S.
  
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• Trouble for Hubble: gyro fails on space telescope

  08-10-2018 23:07 via yahoo.com
  The Hubble space telescope, which has been in orbit since 1990, has temporarily suspended operations because of a gyroscope failure, the US space agency said Monday.The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) said Hubble went into "safe mode" on Friday."Hubble entered safe mode after one of the three gyroscopes actively being used to point and steady the telescope failed," NASA said in a statement.
  
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• Parents Storm School After Finding Out Teacher Allegedly Assaulting Student

  08-10-2018 23:05 via yahoo.com
  A Michigan school district is investigating an alleged assault of a second-grade student by a teacher at Kent Hills Elementary.
  
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• Schoolgirls beaten up after confronting boys over lewd drawings

  08-10-2018 23:04 via cnn.com
  Thirty Indian girls are recovering at a government-run boarding school in the country's eastern Bihar state after they were beat up by a group of teenage boys -- and their parents -- on Sunday.
  
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• Schoolgirls beat up after confronting boys over lewd drawings

  08-10-2018 23:04 via cnn.com
  Thirty Indian girls are recovering at a government-run boarding school in the country's eastern Bihar state after they were beat up by a group of teenage boys -- and their parents -- on Sunday.
  
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• Middle school student says teacher attacked him in computer class

  08-10-2018 22:53 via yahoo.com
  "He went towards me and slammed (me) on the desk," the sixth-grader said. "He started scratching me, hit me once or twice."
  
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• President Trump speaks at International Police Chiefs Association

  08-10-2018 22:33 via yahoo.com
  The President slams Senate democrats for Kavanaugh opposition.
  
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• Indonesia is in rubble. Why so little help from America?

  08-10-2018 22:21 via cnn.com
  On the Indonesian island of Sulawesi, nearly 1,800 people are confirmed dead, and more than 5,000 people could still be missing after a 7.5 magnitude earthquake triggered a devastating tsunami less than two weeks ago. Bodies are still being dug out of the rubble, and family members continue to search for loved ones.
  
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• Trump says he has no plans to fire Rosenstein – video

  08-10-2018 22:13
  Donald Trump has said he does not plan to dismiss Rod Rosenstein, the justice department official in charge of the investigation into Russian meddling in the 2016 presidential election. “No,I don’t, no,” Trump told reporters on Monday morning, adding that he had a “very good relationship” with Rosenstein.Rod Rosenstein: Trump says he has no plans to fire deputy attorney general Continue reading...
  
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• Former Trump aide Hope Hicks joins Fox

  08-10-2018 22:10 via cnn.com
  Hope Hicks, previously one of President Trump's closest aides, is becoming a key executive at Fox News Channel's parent company.
  
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• U.S. Stocks Reverse Losses as Tech Gets Beat Up: Markets Wrap

  08-10-2018 22:07 via yahoo.com
  Technology firms remained lower on concerns that trade tensions with China are rising again.The S&P 500 Index retraced an earlier slide to trade little changed, while the Nasdaq 100 Index tumbled to the lowest since Aug. 1 on its third day of declines, with software companies and semiconductor manufacturers the worst performing groups in the market.Volatility appears to be returning, with the Cboe Volatility Index, or VIX, at one point touching its highest intraday level since June.
  
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• Trump: Kavanaugh allegations a 'hoax'

  08-10-2018 21:58 via cnn.com
  President Donald Trump on Monday claimed Brett Kavanaugh's Supreme Court nomination was "caught up in a hoax set up by the Democrats." Kavanaugh is set to be sworn in by Trump later in the day.
  
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• Trumpism is winning

  08-10-2018 21:45 via cnn.com
  To many, Brett Kavanaugh's confirmation to the US Supreme Court is a not just a victory for President Donald Trump, but for Trumpism at large. And it is this fact that unsettles so much of the nation.
  
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• Fox in the mouse house — Disney names batch of new executives

  08-10-2018 21:35 via nbcnews.com
  The appointments, which were long anticipated, amount to a Fox-ification of Disney's television unit.
  
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• Google+ to shut down after security flaw revealed

  08-10-2018 21:34 via cnn.com
  For Google, a data privacy reckoning may finally come as a result of a service that it admits almost no one uses much anymore.
  
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• Google+ shutting down after security flaw

  08-10-2018 21:34 via cnn.com
  For Google, a data privacy reckoning may finally come as a result of a service that it admits almost no one uses much anymore.
  
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• Trump Lawyers Ask Judge to Dismiss Stormy Daniels Lawsuit

  08-10-2018 21:29 via yahoo.com
  Lawyers for the president asked a Los Angeles federal judge Monday to throw out the lawsuit filed by the adult-movie star, whose real name is Stephanie Clifford, that challenges the validity of the non-disclosure agreement she signed with Trump’s longtime fixer and lawyer, Michael Cohen.The lawsuit is moot because Trump has consented that the agreement, as she has claimed, was never formed because he didn’t sign it and he has agreed not to try to enforce it, Trump said in his court f
  
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• WATCH: Mysterious illness leaves children paralyzed

  08-10-2018 21:28 via abcnews.go.com
  Doctors are racing to find answers after six kids were struck by a rare, polio-like disease in Minnesota.
  
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• Jihadists pull heavy weapons from Syria buffer zone as deadline nears

  08-10-2018 21:19 via yahoo.com
  Jihadist factions including Syria's former Al-Qaeda branch have withdrawn heavy weapons from parts of a planned buffer zone in Idlib province, a monitor said Monday, two days ahead of a deadline.Hayat Tahrir al-Sham "and other less influential jihadist groups have withdrawn their heavy weapons from large areas of the demilitarised zone" ringing Idlib province, said Rami Abdel Rahman of the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights.The development comes ahead of Wednesday's cut-off date for all rebels
  
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• WATCH: 'Evil' people to blame for Kavanaugh controversy: Trump

  08-10-2018 21:18 via abcnews.go.com
  Trump spoke of the newest Supreme Court justice during a speech in Florida.
  
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• Trump seeks dismissal of Stormy Daniels hush money lawsuit

  08-10-2018 21:17 via yahoo.com
  In a filing with the U.S. District Court in Los Angeles, Trump's lawyer said the lawsuit by Daniels, whose real name is Stephanie Clifford, is moot because Trump never signed the agreement and has said he will not try to enforce it."There is no actual controversy between plaintiff and Mr. Trump," the president's lawyer Charles Harder wrote.
  
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• Mandatory evacuations ordered as Hurricane Michael moves closer to Florida

  08-10-2018 21:17 via abcnews.go.com
  Michael is projected to make landfall somewhere along the Florida Panhandle.
  
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• Turkey says Syrian rebels withdraw heavy weapons in Idlib

  08-10-2018 21:15 via yahoo.com
  ANKARA, Turkey (AP) — Syrian rebels finished withdrawing all their heavy weapons from the front lines in the northwestern province of Idlib on Monday, Turkey's state-run news agency said, quoting unnamed opposition figures and Turkish officials.
  
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• Hubble Space Telescope sidelined by serious pointing failure

  08-10-2018 21:12 via yahoo.com
  CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — The Hubble Space Telescope has been sidelined by a serious pointing problem.
  
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• Google Plus to close after bug leaks personal information

  08-10-2018 21:12 via abcnews.go.com
  Google to close main version of Plus social networking service after 6-month delay in disclosing privacy leak
  
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• 'Evil' people to blame for Kavanaugh controversy: Trump

  08-10-2018 21:08 via abcnews.go.com
  The president spoke of the newest Supreme Court justice during a speech in Florida.
  
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• 'Life-threatening' hurricane aims at Florida

  08-10-2018 21:05 via cnn.com
  Michael, now a Category 1 hurricane slashing Cuba, is forecast to be a "dangerous major hurricane" when it smacks the US Gulf Coast on Wednesday, the National Hurricane Center said.
  
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• As global temperatures rise, so will mental health issues, study says

  08-10-2018 21:00 via cnn.com
  No matter where we live, weather touches each of us daily and the warming effects of climate change go beyond the physical environment.
  
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• Nobel peace prize winner wants IS jihadists to face trial

  08-10-2018 20:52 via yahoo.com
  Nobel peace prize winner Nadia Murad wants to see members of the Islamic State jihadist group face justice -- not death, but trial in a courtroom, she said on Monday.Murad was one of thousands of young women from the Yazidi religious minority who were kidnapped by IS in Iraq four years ago and held in sexual slavery, but was able to escape.Older women and men faced summary execution during the IS assault on the Yazidis, which the United Nations has described as a genocide.
  
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• Limo in deadly crash failed inspection last month

  08-10-2018 20:50 via yahoo.com
  The limo involved in a crash that killed 20 failed a vehicle inspection last month
  
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• Amazon fires employee for sharing customer email addresses

  08-10-2018 20:50 via abcnews.go.com
  The worker gave the information to a third party seller who was blocked from the platform.
  
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• Rwandan opposition party leader feared dead

  08-10-2018 20:48 via cnn.com
  The jailed vice president of Rwanda's opposition FDU-Inkingi party escaped from prison on Sunday, according to the country's correctional service.
  
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• Trump blasts 'evil' Kavanaugh opposition

  08-10-2018 20:46 via cnn.com
  While addressing the International Association of Chiefs of Police Annual Convention, President Donald Trump slammed "false charges" and "false accusations" made against now-confirmed Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh during the confirmation process.
  
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• Climate change effects could be 'irreversible' without drastic action: Scientists

  08-10-2018 20:44 via abcnews.go.com
  Scientists with the United Nations issued an alarming report on Monday, warning that global temperatures could reach an irreversible tipping point as soon as 2030.
  
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• US Senate: key battle lines that could change the upper chamber at the midterms

  08-10-2018 20:41 via yahoo.com
  The US Senate is the upper chamber on Capitol Hill. There are 100 Senators, two from each state, and Republicans currently hold a razor thin majority with 51 seats. The US Senate writes and passes laws but has a number of other powers and responsibilities. Among these are approving important presidential appointments, ratifying treaties with other countries and overseeing investigations of officials and public bodies. Senators have six-year terms and just 35 seats are up for re-election. Most of
  
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• Thousands Of Marriott Workers Strike In 7 Cities

  08-10-2018 20:38 via yahoo.com
  Nearly 3,000 Marriott employees went on strike in Hawaii on Monday, adding to
  
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• Saudi Arabia's Defenders Offer Conspiracy Theories About Missing Journalist

  08-10-2018 20:30 via yahoo.com
  Close to two days after Turkish government sources first said prominent Saudi
  
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• Limo in New York crash that killed 20 failed inspection, driver had wrong license

  08-10-2018 20:27 via abcnews.go.com
  All 18 people inside the limo and 2 pedestrians were killed.
  
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• Trump says he won't fire Rod Rosenstein; says they have a 'good relationship'

  08-10-2018 20:23 via abcnews.go.com
  President Donald Trump says he and Rod Rosenstein, the deputy Attorney General, have a "good relationship".
  
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• Former Trump Aide Hope Hicks Lands Job as Communications Director for Fox

  08-10-2018 20:18 via yahoo.com
  President Donald Trump’s former communications chief Hope Hicks has been hired as communications director at the newly revamped Fox company.
  
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• Bill and Hillary Clinton launch U.S. tour and tickets aren't cheap

  08-10-2018 20:17 via yahoo.com
  The former first couple will embark on a 13-city speaking tour after the midterm elections.
  
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• Limo in crash that killed 20 people had failed inspection

  08-10-2018 20:10 via cnn.com
  This was a limo filled with exuberance -- 17 birthday party guests who had many reasons to celebrate.
  
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• Susan Collins Just Sealed Her Fate

  08-10-2018 20:02 via yahoo.com
  In her Senate floor speech on Friday, Sen. Susan Collins (R-Maine) resolutely
  
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