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• He wore blackface. Him, too. Virginia, explained.

  07-02-2019 23:52 via news.yahoo.com
  Also Thursday: A seven-hour ER wait and what Trump's wall idea really looks like.
  
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• 'No regrets' for Allen as he concedes frame with 11 reds remaining to hand Carter the match

  07-02-2019 23:48 via bbc.co.uk
  Mark Allen has no regrets despite facing a fine after conceding his game against Ali Carter in bizarre fashion at the World Grand Prix.
  
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• Trump's biggest nightmare isn't Mueller

  07-02-2019 23:46 via cnn.com
  This week, we learned that the Southern District of New York -- my former office -- dropped an incendiary subpoena on President Donald Trump's inaugural committee seeking evidence of mail fraud, wire fraud, money laundering, conspiracy and illegal foreign contributions, and has requested interviews with Trump Organization executives. This is particularly bad news for Trump because, in many respects, the SDNY poses an even more potent threat than special counsel Robert Mueller.
  
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• Russia investigation: Trump complains of ‘presidential harassment’ as Schiff and Democrats launch new probe

  07-02-2019 23:37 via news.yahoo.com
  Just days after Donald Trump criticised congressional Democrats for “ridiculous partisan investigations”, the president is facing a renewed Russia inquiry from Congress that has left him complaining about presidential harassment.Mr Trump said as much in response to the announcement that Democrats in the House Intelligence Committee have re-opened their probe into Russian meddling in the 2016 election, marking yet another official investigation into the issue that has dogged the White
  
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• Elie Honig: Has Mueller eaten from 'poisonous tree'?

  07-02-2019 23:33 via cnn.com
  As another dramatic week unfolded in the legal world, we asked for your questions, and the response was overwhelming.
  
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• We thought we'd lost the league - Man City's Silva

  07-02-2019 23:32 via bbc.co.uk
  Manchester City midfielder Bernardo Silva says he and his team-mates thought they had lost the league when they dropped five points behind rivals Liverpool eight days ago.
  
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• The 'Green New Deal' Was Unveiled Thursday. But Parts of It Are Already Underway

  07-02-2019 23:27 via news.yahoo.com
  While the sweeping first draft of the proposal was unveiled Thursday, some of its ideas are already being implemented around the country.
  
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• Trump lashes out as Democrats open probes into his taxes, Russia ties

  07-02-2019 23:24 via news.yahoo.com
  Trump lashed out about "presidential harassment" as one House committee opened a hearing into forcing the release of his long-hidden tax returns, and another began questioning his controversial policy to separate immigrant children from their parents at the US-Mexico border."The Dems and their committees are going 'nuts,'" Trump tweeted."The Republicans never did this to President Obama, there would be no time left to run government," he said.
  
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• Body Found Inside Suitcase in Connecticut Identified as Missing NY Woman: Police

  07-02-2019 23:22 via news.yahoo.com
  Police identified the body found inside a suitcase at an upscale Connecticut town as a missing woman from New Rochelle, New York.
  
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• Lawmakers revive push to hold Saudi Arabia accountable for Jamal Khashoggi murder

  07-02-2019 23:21 via news.yahoo.com
  Top lawmakers in both parties unveiled legislation Thursday to block U.S. arms sales to Saudi Arabia.
  
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• Apple rolls out fix for FaceTime eavesdropping bug

  07-02-2019 23:18 via cnn.com
  Apple has fixed the FaceTime group chat bug that let people eavesdrop on unanswered group-video calls.
  
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• Hey, how do you think a sentient baguette would move?

  07-02-2019 23:15 via news.yahoo.com
  If a baguette was alive and could move around, how would it move?This is the vital question posed by a comedian and animator named Dave (@sheepfilms on Twitter), who gave the internet its latest thing to debate on Thursday. According to Dave, there are four possible ways a baguette could move: worm, gallop, robot rotate, and caterpillar.Please observe: SEE ALSO: Is there something wrong with me if I only hear Yanny and not Laurel?A poll tweeted shortly after the video reveals number 3 (robo
  
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• Brazil's mining dams: A disaster waiting to happen?

  07-02-2019 23:14 via bbc.co.uk
  How a torrent of toxic sludge buried buildings in Brumadinho - and the risk of it happening again.
  
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• US banks BB&T and SunTrust announce $66 billion merger 

  07-02-2019 23:07 via news.yahoo.com
  BB&T and SunTrust announced Thursday they will combine in a $66 billion transaction to create a regional banking giant in the industry's largest merger since the 2008 financial crisis.The two midsize banks operating in the fast-growing Southeastern United States described the move as a merger of equals that would enable them to compete against heavyweights like Bank of America and Wells Fargo and save some $1.6 billion in administrative costs.Shares of both companies soared on the announceme
  
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• The 2019 Mazda MX-5 Miata 30th Anniversary Edition Remembers All the Times We Had Together

  07-02-2019 23:03 via news.yahoo.com
  Mazda finally gives Miata fans what they've been waiting for: a new color.
  
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• Twitter hammered as user losses overshadow improving finances

  07-02-2019 22:50 via news.yahoo.com
  Twitter shares took a pounding Thursday as an unsettling update on its global user base offset upbeat figures on revenues and profits in the past quarter.Shares skidded 9.8 percent to close at $30.80 following Twitter's fourth quarter update, which showed a consistent profit trend despite a shrinking number of users.Chief executive Jack Dorsey said the results reflect Twitter's efforts at "promoting healthy conversation" by weeding out fraudulent accounts used for abuse, harassment and political
  
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• Trump Fears Schiff Is Recruiting White House Employees for Probe

  07-02-2019 22:43 via news.yahoo.com
  Schiff has hired one former career official at the National Security Council, Abigail Grace, who left the White House last year, the people said.A second career employee detailed to the Trump White House is also considering joining Schiff’s staff, according to people familiar with the matter.
  
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• Delta and Coke thought these flirtatious napkins were clever

  07-02-2019 22:37 via cnn.com
  Maybe Delta should stick to flying planes instead of playing matchmaker.
  
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• Delta and Coke sorry for napkin promo

  07-02-2019 22:37 via cnn.com
  Maybe Delta should stick to flying planes instead of playing matchmaker.
  
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• Trump furious over Schiff's oversight hires

  07-02-2019 22:32 via cnn.com
  House Intelligence Committee Chairman Adam Schiff has hired officials with experience at the National Security Council to help with its oversight of President Donald Trump's administration, according to a committee aide.
  
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• Aid Trucks Arrive as Maduro’s Forces Dig In at Border Bridge

  07-02-2019 22:32 via news.yahoo.com
  Two trucks arrived in the Colombian border town of Cucuta, and took the supplies to a warehouse next to an unused bridge that connects the countries.The supplies will be sent into Venezuela next week, opposition lawmaker Gaby Arellano said in a phone interview.
  
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• Taxes 2019: 10 common filing mistakes to avoid this year

  07-02-2019 22:18 via news.yahoo.com
  Every year, tax professionals see the same common errors, but this year is extra thorny after the tax law's major changes. Here are mistakes to avoid.
  
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• Woody Allen sues Amazon for dropping A Rainy Day in New York

  07-02-2019 22:17 via bbc.co.uk
  The film-maker takes legal action against the company for allegedly refusing to release his latest film.
  
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• GOP Rep. Gaetz calls for border wall at gun hearing, asks for Parkland dads to be removed

  07-02-2019 22:11 via news.yahoo.com
  "If we really cared about safer streets, we would build a wall and secure the border," said Rep. Matt Gaetz, R-Fla., at a hearing on gun violence.
  
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• Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez’s wipes away tears at protest to defund US border agency: ‘They don't deserve a dime’

  07-02-2019 21:58 via news.yahoo.com
  Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez was seen wiping tears from her face after using the death of a seven-year-old migrant child to demand an end to funding for the nation’s border agency.At the event on Capitol Hill in Washington DC, the New York congresswoman said US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) did “not deserve a dime”, until it showed it cared about human rights.“Not only will we not agree to fund [ICE], but we are here to say that an agency like ICE, which repeatedl
  
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• Virginia Republican embroiled in blackface scandal

  07-02-2019 21:55 via bbc.co.uk
  A racist yearbook returns to haunt a top Republican, whose party had claimed the moral high ground.
  
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• Ocasio-Cortez: ICE Doesn’t ‘Deserve a Dime’ of Funding

  07-02-2019 21:50 via news.yahoo.com
  Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D., N.Y.) said Thursday that she would work to deprive the Department of Homeland Security of funding until the agency adopts more permissive immigration-enforcement policies.“This is one of the most urgent moral issues and crises that we have in America right now,” Ocasio-Cortez said during a rally outside the Capitol building.Children dying in detention centers should not be a partisan concern.
  
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• What is the Irish backstop?

  07-02-2019 21:39 via cnn.com
  Two years after the UK voted to leave the EU, its only overland border has brought Brexit negotiations to a halt, thanks to something called the backstop. So what is it?
  
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• Democrats float 'Green New Deal' to end fossil fuel era

  07-02-2019 21:38 via news.yahoo.com
  The document, unveiled by rising political star Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and Senator Edward Markey, marks the first formal attempt by lawmakers to define potential legislation to create big government-led investments in clean energy and infrastructure to transition the U.S. economy away from fossil fuels.The plan, which takes the form of a non-binding congressional resolution, outlines some of the most aggressive climate goals ever put forward by Democratic lawmakers and clashes d
  
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• US Democrats unveil carbon-neutral 'Green New Deal'

  07-02-2019 21:34 via news.yahoo.com
  Congressional Democrats on Thursday unveiled an unprecedented plan to reverse climate change and eliminate all US carbon emissions within 10 years, by taking drastic steps that would require transformational action across the economy.The "Green New Deal" introduced by liberal congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, a rising Democratic star in the House, and Senator Ed Markey is a dramatic, potentially unrealistic, statement of intent on a sustainable path forward."This is our first step," Ocasio
  
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• Noel Gallagher & Vincent Kompany: Manchester City, music & drama

  07-02-2019 21:32 via bbc.co.uk
  They are two of the biggest names in football and music, but what happened when Man City captain Vincent Kompany met City fan Noel Gallagher?
  
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• How US Hispanics are affected by wall debate

  07-02-2019 21:31 via bbc.co.uk
  Wheaton in Maryland has a large Salvadoran population who are feeling the impact of the current news cycle.
  
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• Virginia Democrats hunker down amid blackface, sex assault scandal

  07-02-2019 21:30 via news.yahoo.com
  "I have never appeared in blackface," Cox, 61, said."As you know, I was a schoolteacher, and that's abhorrent."Both Governor Ralph Northam and Attorney General Mark Herring, who is second in line to be governor, have admitted to wearing blackface while in college in the 1980s.With its historic ties to 19th-century U.S. minstrel shows in which white performers would caricature black slaves, blackface is widely seen as racist in modern America, though it remained a trope of popular television show
  
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• Senators Seek to Punish Saudis Over Khashoggi Murder, Yemen War

  07-02-2019 21:27 via news.yahoo.com
  The bill would prohibit some arms sales to Saudi Arabia and bar U.S. in-flight refueling of Saudi coalition aircraft involved in the civil war in Yemen.The administration has said it already has halted the refueling.
  
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• Brazil's President Jair Bolsonaro has pneumonia - hospital

  07-02-2019 21:26 via bbc.co.uk
  The Brazilian leader has been in hospital since an operation last week to reverse a colostomy.
  
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• Green New Deal: Ocasio-Cortez plan has yet to have Pelosi backing as both emphasize climate change

  07-02-2019 21:25 via news.yahoo.com
  House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez say they're committed to tackling climate change but they don't yet agree on an answer.
  
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• Trucks carrying US humanitarian aid arrive at Venezuela border: AFP

  07-02-2019 21:22 via news.yahoo.com
  Cúcuta (Colombia) (AFP) - Trucks carrying desperately-needed US humanitarian aid arrived at the Venezuelan border on Wednesday, AFP reporters said.President Nicolas Maduro has refused foreign aid shipments, saying they would open the way for US military intervention to depose him.The convoy, which departed the day before from the city of Bucaramanga in northeastern Colombia, was cheered on its arrival by a group of Venezuelan migrants in Tienditas.
  
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• Jennifer Rodgers: Taking a pause on Michael Cohen testimony is smart

  07-02-2019 21:19 via cnn.com
  Jennifer Rodgers says it was a misstep for the Democrats to focus a lot of their early attention on getting testimony from Michael Cohen; there are so many other pressing issues for them to investigate
  
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• U.S. border security talks progressing: negotiators

  07-02-2019 21:18 via news.yahoo.com
  Speaking to reporters, Tester said it was "entirely possible we could have a deal in a timely manner, which could be tomorrow but certainly by the weekend."Senate Appropriations Committee Chairman Richard Shelby, who met earlier on Thursday at the White House with Trump, told reporters the 17 Senate and House of Representatives negotiators were on "a positive trajectory".Shelby, a Republican, would not provide any details on a possible deal but said the situation had improved now that there was
  
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• Canadian envoys sue own government over mystery Cuba illness

  07-02-2019 21:08 via cnn.com
  Fourteen Canadian diplomats are suing their government over a mysterious and lingering illness that they and US diplomats seem to have developed while posted in Cuba's capital.
  
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• UN inquiry says Khashoggi murder 'planned and perpetrated' by Saudi officials

  07-02-2019 21:07 via news.yahoo.com
  A United Nations-led inquiry into the murder of Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi said on Thursday that evidence pointed to a brutal crime "planned and perpetrated" by Saudi officials. Khashoggi's killing by a team of Saudi operatives on Oct. 2 provoked widespread revulsion and tarnished the image of Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman, previously admired in the West for pushing deep changes including tax reform, infrastructure projects and allowing women to d
  
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• Harris, Gillibrand Call for Probe of Fairfax Accuser’s Allegations

  07-02-2019 21:06 via news.yahoo.com
  College professor Vanessa Tyson has alleged that Fairfax forced her to perform oral sex on him during the 2004 Democratic National Convention.Fairfax has forcefully denied the allegation.“I think there should be an investigation to determine what happened,” Harris told reporters on Capitol Hill. “Certainly her letter reads — it’s quite detailed, and suggests that there’s credibility there.
  
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• The transformation of Juan Guaido

  07-02-2019 21:03 via cnn.com
  Juan Guaido spent his entire adult life living under the promises of a socialist utopia, first under Hugo Chavez, then Nicolas Maduro. Now as he battles for Venezuela's presidency, the 35-year-old has adopted the early campaign slogan and stylings of a US president.
  
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• The Misguided Sliming of High-School Sports

  07-02-2019 21:01 via news.yahoo.com
  In the long shadow of this week’s Super Bowl, high-school football drew some unflattering attention, including headlines such as “As the Super Bowl Approaches, Is High School Football Dying a Slow Death?” (the Guardian) and “Rams’ Run to 2019 Super Bowl Reveals Cracks in Football from High School to the NFL” (Forbes).In recent years, high-school sports have had a tough go of it.Football’s concussion problem has spawned headlines such as CBS’s &ldqu
  
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• No bag fees, no problem: Southwest Airlines takes in $642 million in other fees in 2018

  07-02-2019 20:49 via news.yahoo.com
  The airline is the only carrier to offer two free checked bags and no ticket change fees, but priority boarding fees and other fees bring in big bucks.
  
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• Amazon invests in self-driving car startup Aurora

  07-02-2019 20:46 via news.yahoo.com
  A self-driving car technology startup founded by former Google, Tesla and Uber executives said Thursday it secured $530 million in new funding that included a "significant" investment from Amazon.The funding round for Aurora Innovation led by Silicon Valley venture capital powerhouse Sequoia reportedly valued the startup launched just two years ago at more than $2.5 billion."We are always looking to invest in innovative, customer-obsessed companies, and Aurora is just that," Amazon said in respo
  
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• No, Trump Probably Isn’t Going to Negotiate a New Nuclear Treaty With China

  07-02-2019 20:43 via news.yahoo.com
  Beijing would want something in return that Trump likely won’t give up.
  
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• Woman found dead in suitcase identified as NY resident

  07-02-2019 20:42 via news.yahoo.com
  HARTFORD, Conn. (AP) — A woman found dead and bound in a suitcase in a wooded area of Connecticut was identified Thursday as a 24-year-old New York resident who worked at a bookstore and aspired to be a tattoo artist, according to police and co-workers.
  
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• Michael Cohen Search Warrant Documents to Be Made Partly Public

  07-02-2019 20:41 via news.yahoo.com
  Over objections from federal prosecutors, U.S. District Judge William Pauley on Thursday granted a request by media organizations for access to documents related to the April 9 FBI search of Cohen’s home, office and hotel room, while agreeing with the government that some materials must remain secret to protect ongoing investigations."The public interest in the underlying subject matter of the materials -- which implicates the integrity of the 2016 presidential election -- is substantial,"
  
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• Instagram vows to remove all graphic self-harm images from site

  07-02-2019 20:40 via bbc.co.uk
  But some pictures - such as scars - will be allowed to remain, the head of the platform says.
  
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