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• 'Worst cover-up ever': Trump on apparent Khashoggi murder plot – video

  23-10-2018 23:44
  Donald Trump has criticised the apparent Saudi plot to kill journalist Jamal Khashoggi, calling it one of the ‘worst in the history of cover-ups’. Trump told reporters he expected a full report on Khashoggi’s death soon. Saudi Arabia has claimed Khashoggi’s death was accidental, while Turkish officials say a 15-man hit squad was used to kill the journalist Continue reading...
  
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• Trump admits there's no proof of 'Middle Easterners' caravan claim

  23-10-2018 23:36 via cnn.com
  President Donald Trump on Tuesday defended his unsubstantiated assertion that "unknown Middle Easterners" are traveling in a migrant caravan traveling north to the United States from Central America, but admitted "there's no proof of anything."
  
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• 20 hurt after Rome escalator loses control

  23-10-2018 23:21 via cnn.com
  Twenty people have been injured after an escalator malfunctioned and rapidly sped downward at a Rome metro station, leaving passengers in a jumble at the bottom, Italian officials say.
  
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• No evidence backs up Trump’s claim of ‘unknown Middle Easterners' in migrant caravan

  23-10-2018 23:19 via yahoo.com
  The White House can’t provide evidence to back up President Trump's recent claim that Middle Easterners are part of the migrant caravan heading through Mexico to the U.S.
  
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• Agents trace bomb found in mailbox at Soros' N.Y. home

  23-10-2018 23:16 via yahoo.com
  Federal agents were piecing together on Tuesday how a small bomb ended up in a mailbox outside a New York home owned by billionaire financier George Soros.Soros, one of the world's biggest donors to liberal groups and causes, was not there at the time on Monday.Investigators have not named any suspects or disclosed a possible motive, but Soros has become a hated figure among some right-wing activists in the United States and Eastern Europe, and the target of a hostile media campaign by the natio
  
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• Best gifts for her: What to get for the lady in your life

  23-10-2018 23:14 via yahoo.com
  Holiday gifting to a special lady usually goes one of two ways:  1.You've been planning gifts all year and cannot handle keeping them a secret. 2. You push off gift shopping until the last minute and end up begging her friends for ideas. If you're in the latter camp, we get it — picking out the perfect gift to encapsulate how much she means to you can be a lot of pressure. Obviously, you know that wowing her is a must — but what'sactually romantic is proving that youactuall
  
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• Senate race in Indiana tests 'Hoosier' independence from Trump

  23-10-2018 23:05 via yahoo.com
  Incumbent Democrat Joe Donnelly and his Republican challenger, Mike Braun, are suddenly locked in a tight Senate race.
  
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• 'Assault on our country': Trump sows racial division as midterms approach

  23-10-2018 22:59
  As president presents vision of lawless nation, fellow Republicans follow his lead by fueling anxiety over raceDonald Trump is returning to the inflammatory playbook that helped lift him to victory nearly two years ago, waging a campaign of fear and racial division in an effort to save his party’s majorities in Congress.With two weeks left before the midterm elections, Trump is amplifying a dark vision of what the country could look like if Democrats gain control in Congress. At campaign r
  
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• What tax cut? Here’s what Trump and the GOP want to talk about instead

  23-10-2018 22:34 via yahoo.com
  With less than two weeks until the midterm elections, Republicans from President Trump down are not talking about tax cuts — and have been backing away from that message for months.
  
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• Mega Millions lottery jackpot climbs to $1.6 billion - the largest in US history

  23-10-2018 22:34 via yahoo.com
  A lucky American could walk away with a record-breaking $1.6 billion (£1.2 billion) in prize money during Tuesday night's Mega Millions draw, spreading lottery fever across the US. It comes after the latest round of the country's lottery draw on Friday night failed to produce a winner. The total amount has now swelled to an estimated $1.6 billion jackpot for the latest draw, which costs $2 to play. Should Tuesday produce a winner, it will be the largest prize in US history -
  
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• Grandma's act of kindness to remember stillborn baby

  23-10-2018 22:34 via bbc.co.uk
  The mum on the receiving end of Vanessa Philips' anonymous gift explains what it meant to her family.
  
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• Israel to resume Gaza fuel flow Wednesday: defence ministry

  23-10-2018 22:33 via yahoo.com
  Israel will on Wednesday resume supplies of fuel to the Gaza Strip after a 12-day halt imposed over violent border clashes, the defence ministry said.Israel suspended the desperately needed deliveries of Qatari-financed diesel on October 12, hours after Israeli troops shot dead five Palestinians who the army said broke through the border fence and attacked a military post inside Israel.On Sunday, Defence Minister Avigdor Lieberman ordered the reopening of Gaza's goods and pedestrian crossings in
  
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• Mom may have stopped US school shooting hundreds of miles away

  23-10-2018 22:30 via cnn.com
  Koeberle Bull got on Facebook and saw several racist, cruel messages that used the N-word and wished death on her three African-American children.
  
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• The Rams are a real Super Bowl contender

  23-10-2018 22:11 via cnn.com
  Two-time Super Bowl champion and CNN sports contributor Hines Ward spoke to CNN's Jill Martin this week to share some of his takeaways through Week 7 in the NFL.
  
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• Turkish Outrage Over Khashoggi Hints at Changing World Order

  23-10-2018 21:50 via yahoo.com
  Any cover-up of the true authors of such a savage attack “would be an affront to humanity’s conscience,” Turkey’s President Recep Tayyip Erdogan told his parliamentary party on Tuesday.The contrast with U.S. President Donald Trump’s more tepid response -- Trump said Erdogan had been “pretty rough on Saudi Arabia” -- underscores changes in the post-Cold War order, as Washington’s global dominance declines alongside its promotion of so-called values-
  
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• Scientists Discovered the World's Oldest Intact Shipwreck. It's 2,400 Years Old

  23-10-2018 21:45 via yahoo.com
  Scientists Discovered the World's Oldest Intact Shipwreck. It's 2,400 Years Old
  
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• Russian football fans injured after escalator collapses in Rome – video

  23-10-2018 21:22
  Russian football fans were hurt after an escalator broke at a Rome metro station on Tuesday. Twenty people have been injured, one seriously, with the majority of them being CSKA Moscow fans. In the footage the escalator seems to speed up suddenly, hurting people towards the bottom of the stairs Continue reading...
  
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• Bolton says he told officials vote meddling hurt Russia

  23-10-2018 21:20 via yahoo.com
  MOSCOW (AP) — U.S. National Security Adviser John Bolton said Tuesday that he told Russian officials the Kremlin hurt itself by meddling in the 2016 U.S. presidential election.
  
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• Palestinian authorities routinely 'arrest and torture' critics: report

  23-10-2018 21:09 via cnn.com
  Palestinian authorities in the West Bank and Gaza have engaged in a systematic crackdown on dissent, including the use of torture that may amount to a crime against humanity, according to a new report from Human Rights Watch.
  
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• Megyn Kelly under fire for defending blackface Halloween costumes

  23-10-2018 21:08 via cnn.com
  An awkward conversation about racist Halloween gags prompted a swift backlash against NBC host Megyn Kelly on Tuesday.
  
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• The Latest: Suspect in university killing was sex offender

  23-10-2018 21:03 via yahoo.com
  SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — The Latest on a fatal shooting on the University of Utah campus (all times local):
  
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• US national security advisor John Bolton tells Vladimir Putin US will leave nuclear treaty

  23-10-2018 21:00 via yahoo.com
  US national security advisor John Bolton has said after meeting Vladimir Putin that the United States cannot prevent Russia from violating a key nuclear arms control treaty and will withdraw from it. Donald Trump said last week he would leave the Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces Treaty, a landmark US-Russian agreement dating to 1987, but some have wondered if the sudden announcement was simply an attempt to force Russia to renegotiate the treaty or come to a new understanding. Speaking to repor
  
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• 'Trump says it's OK,' says man accused of groping airline passenger

  23-10-2018 20:56 via cnn.com
  A Florida man accused of groping a passenger on Southwest Airlines told an FBI agent after his arrest that the "President of the United States says it's OK to grab women by their private parts," according to a criminal complaint.
  
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• 'Everybody Has to Do More.' How Chef José Andrés Is Serving Millions of People Displaced By Hurricanes

  23-10-2018 20:51 via yahoo.com
  Jose Andres discussed what needs to happen next to end hunger throughout the world in a TIME 100 x WeWork Speaker series event.
  
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• Explosive device found near George Soros' home

  23-10-2018 20:48 via cnn.com
  A suspicious package targeting billionaire investor and philanthropist George Soros was rendered safe in Bedford, New York Monday, a law enforcement source tells CNN.
  
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• Hurricane Willa expected to wallop Mexico's Pacific coast

  23-10-2018 20:46 via cnn.com
  Mexico is bracing for a Category 3 hurricane to hit its Pacific coast.
  
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• 6 children dead, 12 ill in virus outbreak at NJ medical facility

  23-10-2018 20:42 via cnn.com
  Six children have died as a result of adenovirus at the Wanaque Center for Nursing and Rehabilitation in Haskell, New Jersey. Twelve additional pediatric residents at the Center have been infected, according to a statement from the New Jersey Department of Health.
  
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• Woman Busted for Allegedly Stealing Vehicle Drives Off While Handcuffed — in Cop Car

  23-10-2018 20:39 via yahoo.com
  She reached speeds of 90 mph, with police in hot pursuit.
  
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• QAnon Adherents Cry 'False Flag' About Explosive Found Near George Soros' Home

  23-10-2018 20:28 via yahoo.com
  Conspiracy theorists who believe George Soros is behind many of the imagined
  
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• Bolton tells Kremlin: 'Don't mess with U.S. elections'

  23-10-2018 20:19 via yahoo.com
  U.S. national security adviser John Bolton said on Tuesday that Russian meddling in U.S. elections had backfired on Moscow, providing a lesson to the Kremlin: "Don't mess with American elections."Speaking during a visit to Moscow, Bolton said there was no evidence that the meddling - which Russia has denied - materially affected the outcome of the 2016 presidential election, but that it did create mistrust toward Russia.U.S. intelligence agencies say Russia carried out a campaign of hacking and
  
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• 14 days until the midterm elections: Where things stand

  23-10-2018 20:19 via yahoo.com
  Close contests in Florida and positioning among possible 2020 candidates color the midterm landscape with just two weeks to go until Election Day.
  
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• Cruise ship spills thousands of liters of waste in Great Barrier Reef

  23-10-2018 20:18 via cnn.com
  A cruise ship spilled thousands of gallons of liquid food waste in the Great Barrier Reef in August, according to an ongoing investigation by the Australian Maritime Safety Authority -- potentially damaging a reef already plagued by pollution and coral bleaching.
  
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• European elections 'face growing threat of manipulation'

  23-10-2018 20:15
  Commission says Facebook scandal is ‘wake-up call’ as it calls for monitoring networkEU governments cannot treat the next year’s European parliamentary elections as “business as usual” given the growing risk of foreign and corporate manipulation, according to the European commission.The scandal over the misuse of Facebook data by Cambridge Analytica and the growing evidence of illegal interference in elections were described by the commission as a “wake-up cal
  
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• Meet the man behind the debit card that's helped families save over $2 million since 2017

  23-10-2018 20:06 via yahoo.com
  As parents, you can’t control every decision that your child makes -- it's
  
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• Meet the man behind the debit card that's helped families save over $1 million since 2017

  23-10-2018 20:06 via yahoo.com
  As parents, you can’t control every decision that your child makes -- it's
  
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• The Fortune and Misfortune Surrounding Big Lottery Jackpot Winners

  23-10-2018 19:55 via yahoo.com
  America will be holding its collective breath ahead of Tuesday night's Mega Millions drawing. 
  
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• Sinkhole leads to discovery of massive cave

  23-10-2018 19:51 via cnn.com
  Climbers were studying a sinkhole when they realized one of the largest cave halls in the world was beneath them.
  
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• University of Utah student athlete was on phone with mother when she was shot dead

  23-10-2018 19:40 via yahoo.com
  "The trauma of last night's event has clearly impacted our entire campus community," Lori McDonald, associate vice president and dean of students, said at a news conference Tuesday.
  
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• Dyson chooses Singapore over Britain to build electric car

  23-10-2018 19:38 via yahoo.com
  James Dyson, the billionaire British inventor of the bagless vacuum cleaner, has chosen to build his electric car in Singapore to be close to Asian customers, supply chains and a highly skilled workforce.The 71-year-old entrepreneur, who backed Brexit in the 2016 referendum, already manufactures products such as hair dryers, air purification systems and bladeless fans in Asia, while the company's research and development remains in Britain.Dyson said last year that a 400-strong, British-based en
  
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• Erdogan keeps Saudi under pressure but shuns confrontation

  23-10-2018 19:36 via yahoo.com
  President Recep Tayyip Erdogan's key speech on the murder of journalist Jamal Khashoggi shows that Turkey wants to shun confrontation with Saudi Arabia and work closely with King Salman while keeping up the pressure on Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman, analysts say.Erdogan appeared to deflect blame from King Salman, with whom he has a cordial personal relationship, by expressing confidence of the ageing monarch's full cooperation, they said.
  
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• Retired US Justice Sandra O'Connor diagnosed with dementia

  23-10-2018 19:14 via cnn.com
  Retired Justice Sandra Day O'Connor revealed in a letter on Tuesday that she has been diagnosed with the "beginning stages of dementia, probably Alzheimer's disease."
  
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• NASA launches 450,000 gallons of water

  23-10-2018 19:11 via cnn.com
  Watch NASA release 450,000 gallons of water in less than one minute while testing its water deluge system at one of the Kennedy Space Center's launch pads.
  
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• Welcome to Trump's midterm campaign of fear

  23-10-2018 19:10 via cnn.com
  Donald Trump is waging one of the most inflammatory closing arguments of any modern campaign, lacing his midterm rhetoric with easily disprovable claims that are building on the fact-challenged foundation of his presidency.
  
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• New York Attorney Killed While Vacationing In Turks And Caicos

  23-10-2018 19:08 via yahoo.com
  The Royal Turks and Caicos Islands police are investigating the murder of an
  
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• Dutch king bemoans 'shadow of uncertainty' of Brexit

  23-10-2018 19:07 via yahoo.com
  The Dutch king on Tuesday bemoaned the "shadow of uncertainty" hanging over tens of thousands of Dutch and UK expatriates ahead of Britain's split from the EU in March.King Willem-Alexander and his wife Queen Maxima met Britain's Queen Elizabeth II in Buckingham Palace during a two-day state visit concluding on Wednesday.In a keynote speech to parliament attended by Prime Minister Theresa May, the Dutch royal said seeing Britain go its separate way "truly saddens us".
  
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• New Jersey Woman Claims Her Dunkin' Donuts Sandwich Was Crawling With Bugs

  23-10-2018 19:03 via yahoo.com
  New Jersey mom Krystle Platzer was seriously bugged by the breakfast sandwich
  
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• US stealth bomber forced to make emergency landing

  23-10-2018 19:02 via cnn.com
  A US Air Force B-2 stealth bomber safely landed at Colorado Springs Airport Tuesday morning after suffering an in-flight emergency, a spokesperson with the 21st Space Wing at Peterson Air Force Base confirmed to CNN.
  
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• Japanese journalist 'likely' released from captivity in Syria

  23-10-2018 18:53 via cnn.com
  A Japanese journalist who was captured by militants in Syria three years ago is believed to have been released, Japan's Chief Cabinet Secretary Yoshihide Suga told reporters on Tuesday.
  
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• Mega Millions Drawing: These are the most common numbers drawn

  23-10-2018 18:49 via yahoo.com
  With the Mega Millions drawing tonight, you could become an instant billionaire.
  
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• Sandra Day O'Connor, first woman to serve on the US Supreme Court, reveals she has dementia

  23-10-2018 18:23 via yahoo.com
  Sandra Day O'Connor, a pioneer in the legal profession who made history in 1981 by becoming the first woman to serve on the US Supreme Court and remained on the bench for a quarter century, announced on Tuesday that she has been diagnosed with dementia. "Some time ago, doctors diagnosed me with the beginning stages of dementia, probably Alzheimer's disease," Mrs O'Connor, 88, said in a letter issued by the court. Alzheimer's is an irreversible, progressive brain disorder that
  
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