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• Trump's plan to name Herman Cain to Fed meets Republican pushback

  09-04-2019 23:58 via news.yahoo.com
  Members of the president's own party signal that the former Godfather's Pizza CEO faces an uphill confirmation battle.
  
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• Liverpool 2-0 Porto: Naby Keita and Roberto Firmino put Reds in control

  09-04-2019 23:49 via bbc.co.uk
  Liverpool take command of their Champions League quarter-final with Porto thanks to two first-half goals in the first leg at Anfield.
  
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• Algeria protests: Police use water cannon to disperse demonstrators

  09-04-2019 23:46 via bbc.co.uk
  The demonstrators oppose the appointment of Abdelkader Bensalah as interim president.
  
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• Son gives Tottenham first-leg victory over Man City

  09-04-2019 23:45 via bbc.co.uk
  Son Heung-min scores the only goal as Tottenham beat Manchester City in the first leg of their Champions League quarter-final.
  
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• White and Mead help England to beat Spain - highlights & report

  09-04-2019 23:37 via bbc.co.uk
  England return to winning ways against Spain in their second of four warm-up matches before the Women's World Cup.
  
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• Superstitious minds: The habits of winners

  09-04-2019 23:29 via cnn.com
  Whatever you do, don't call it superstitious.
  
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• Trump denies he will restart family separation policy

  09-04-2019 23:26 via cnn.com
  President Donald Trump told reporters Tuesday that his administration is not looking to resume the separation of parents and children at the US-Mexico border, denying reports that it is something he has been pushing for.
  
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• More Trump firings of senior U.S. immigration officials seen likely

  09-04-2019 23:15 via news.yahoo.com
  Two days after Homeland Security Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen announced her departure, a senior administration official said others at DHS were not doing enough to enact Trump's promised immigration crackdown, a top priority for him since he announced his candidacy for the White House four years ago.Several DHS officials could be forced out soon, said an official familiar with the matter.Among them were the department's acting No. 2 official, Claire Grady, DHS general counsel John Mitnick and U.S.
  
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• Border chaos forces truckers to wait hours, sometimes days

  09-04-2019 23:15 via feeds.foxnews.com
  To deal with a surge of migrating Central American families, the Trump administration has reassigned so many inspectors from U.S.-Mexico border crossings that truckers are waiting in line for hours and sometimes days to get shipments to the United States.
  
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• Polls suggest Bibi may have better chance at forming coalition

  09-04-2019 23:14 via cnn.com
  Benjamin Netanyahu's hopes of securing a record fifth term as Israeli Prime Minister are on hold for the moment, after exit polls showed a tight election race with his main rival on Tuesday.
  
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• Caroline Polisi: The endless wait for the Mueller report is almost over

  09-04-2019 23:12 via cnn.com
  If newly-minted Attorney General William Barr thought he could skate through his Congressional testimony -- purportedly about the Justice Department's budget proposal for the fiscal year 2020 -- without addressing what one congressional leader referred to as the "elephant in the room," he was sorely mistaken.
  
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• Japan's air force loses contact with F-35 stealth fighter

  09-04-2019 23:09 via news.yahoo.com
  Japan's military said on Tuesday it lost contact with one of its Lockheed Martin F-35 stealth fighters over the Pacific Ocean close to northern Japan.Japan's first squadron of F-35s has just become operational at the Misawa air base and the government plans to buy 87 of the stealth fighters to modernize its air defenses as China's military power grows.The advanced single-seat jet was flying about 135 km (84 miles) east of the air base in Aomori Prefecture at about 7:27 p.m. (1027 GMT) on Tuesday
  
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• Boeing orders and deliveries tumble as Max jet is grounded

  09-04-2019 23:09 via news.yahoo.com
  DALLAS (AP) — Boeing failed to win any orders for its 737 Max airliner in March as scrutiny of the plane increased following a second deadly crash in less than five months.
  
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• Mnuchin Says He Isn’t Afraid of Getting Fired Over Trump’s Tax Returns

  09-04-2019 23:06 via news.yahoo.com
  “I’m not afraid of being fired at all,” he told House Financial Services Chairwoman Maxine Waters, a California Democrat, at a hearing on Tuesday afternoon.House Ways and Means Chairman Richard Neal of Massachusetts has requested six years of Trump’s personal returns as well as those for several of the president’s business entities, citing a law that allows the chairmen of congressional tax-writing committees to request any filer’s returns.
  
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• Poll: 56 percent of Americans say President Trump has made race relations worse

  09-04-2019 23:00 via news.yahoo.com
  According to a new poll, 56 percent of Americans think President Trump has made race relations in America worse. What do you think?
  
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• Son strikes late to give Spurs the edge over Man City

  09-04-2019 22:56 via cnn.com
  Son Heung-min's late strike gave Tottenham a crucial 1-0 victory over Manchester City in the first leg of their Champions League quarterfinal.
  
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• Israel Elections a Cliffhanger for Netanyahu, New Hope for His Opposition

  09-04-2019 22:55 via news.yahoo.com
  GALI TIBBONJERUSALEM–It will be a long night in Israel, where initial exit polls Tuesday evening indicated a close electoral victory for opposition head Benny Gantz, a former army chief of staff. But the prognosis for his chances to form a winning coalition block against right-wing parties led by the Likud Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, who has held office for 10 years, and dominated Israeli politics for a generation.Both candidates declared immediate victory, though Gantz’s decl
  
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• Suit filed over gun controls inspired by synagogue shooting

  09-04-2019 22:53 via news.yahoo.com
  PITTSBURGH (AP) — Gun rights groups sued Tuesday to block Pittsburgh from enforcing firearms legislation passed after a mass shooting at a synagogue, accusing city officials of blatantly defying the state's prohibition on municipal gun regulation.
  
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• UN to help human rights training of Mexico's National Guard

  09-04-2019 22:50 via feeds.foxnews.com
  Mexico's efforts to calm critics of its newly formed National Guard received a boost Tuesday in the form of an agreement from the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights to assist in the force's training.
  
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• UPDATE 4-U.S. judge defers ruling on PG&E $350 mln bonus plan

  09-04-2019 22:44 via news.yahoo.com
  A U.S. bankruptcy judge on Tuesday deferred a ruling on whether to approve a PG&E Corp plan to pay up to $350 million in bonuses to 10,000 employees, saying he wants more details from the California power producer that is facing bankruptcy following last year's wildfires.Judge Dennis Montali of the U.S. Bankruptcy Court in San Francisco set April 23 as the next date for a hearing on the plan, saying he wants PG&E to give him a "tutorial" on it.The plan covers 2019 and takes the place of
  
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• Actress hit with more charges in the college admissions scam

  09-04-2019 22:37 via cnn.com
  Actress Lori Loughlin and 15 other wealthy parents now face additional charges of conspiring to commit fraud and money laundering as part of the growing college admissions scandal.
  
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• U.S. judge defers hearing on PG&E $350 mln bonus plan

  09-04-2019 22:30 via news.yahoo.com
  A U.S. bankruptcy judge on Tuesday deferred a ruling on whether to approve or reject a motion by PG&E Corp to pay up to $350 million in bonuses to 10,000 employees after the power producer said the plan excluded senior executives and would help it fight devastating wildfires.The plan covers 2019 and takes the place of a previously proposed 2018 bonus program for some 14,000 employees that PG&E scuttled after criticism from wildfire victims and their lawyers.The U.S. Trustee, the governme
  
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• Rental car of US couple missing in Dominican Republic seen at toll booth

  09-04-2019 22:14 via cnn.com
  Authorities in the Dominican Republic said Tuesday there is no evidence of foul play in the disappearance of a New York couple who were vacationing in the Caribbean country.
  
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• Mnuchin's Chief of Staff Eli Miller Plans to Join Blackstone

  09-04-2019 22:13 via news.yahoo.com
  Miller will work on public policy at the world’s largest alternative asset manager, according to a spokeswoman for New York-based Blackstone.Mnuchin last week announced that Miller is leaving the Treasury Department.Miller’s role has been less as a Wall Street liaison and more a trusted adviser to Mnuchin, helping ensure his boss’s political survival in a White House full of adversaries vying for influence.
  
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• Ecuador reminds Assange embassy stay can't be permanent

  09-04-2019 22:10 via feeds.foxnews.com
  Ecuador is reminding WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange once again that he can't stay indefinitely in the nation's London embassy.
  
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• Fox News’ Shep Smith and John Roberts Tag-Team to Fact-Check Trump Lies on Family Separation

  09-04-2019 22:07 via news.yahoo.com
  Hours after President Trump falsely claimed his predecessor was the one responsible for separating migrant children from their families, Fox News anchor Shepard Smith and chief White House correspondent John Roberts tag-teamed to deliver a comprehensive fact-check of the president’s lies.During a press spray at the White House on Tuesday, Trump repeated the falsehood that President Obama’s administration instituted the specific policy of separating families at the border, wildly clai
  
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• Southwest flight canceled? Here's why the airline won't book you on another carrier

  09-04-2019 22:06 via news.yahoo.com
  Frustrated Southwest Airlines passengers have bombarded the airline with questions in the wake of heavy Boeing 737 Max 8 flight cancellations.
  
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• Netanyahu shows slight edge in bid for reelection, exit polls indicate

  09-04-2019 21:36 via feeds.foxnews.com
  Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu had a slight edge in his bid for reelection on Tuesday ahead of challenger Benny Gantz, exit polls showed.
  
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• Apple just made the experience of upgrading to a new Mac far less painful

  09-04-2019 21:34 via news.yahoo.com
  While the cost alone is a deterrent for many shoppers, the scariest risk when upgrading to a new computer is the risk of losing all of your data in the transfer process. Apple has made that process somewhat less painful by offering Data Migrations with the purchase of a new Mac, but charged a whopping $99 for the service. At least, the company used to charge $99, as the exorbitant fee has apparently been eliminated as of this month.According to TidBITS, the MacBook maker just recently made the c
  
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• The US-Taliban peace talks: What you need to know

  09-04-2019 21:32 via bbc.co.uk
  Is the US finally ready to end its longest war? Talks with the Taliban seem to be a start.
  
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• Tiger Woods: 'I don't need to win the Masters, but I really want to'

  09-04-2019 21:30 via cnn.com
  He may be battling time, an ailing body and a raft of young guns inspired by his past heroics, but Tiger Woods is once again the talk of the town ahead of the 83rd Masters at Augusta this week.
  
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• Nipsey Hussle death: Rapper died 35 minutes after shooting, death certificate says

  09-04-2019 21:22 via news.yahoo.com
  Rapper Nipsey Hussle was not pronounced dead until a full 35 minutes after the shooting outside of his store, a newly released death certificate says.The new information comes a week after the artist was gunned down in Los Angeles’s Hyde Park neighbourhood.After the shooting, Nipsy — whose birth name is Ermias Asghedom — was rushed to the hospital, where his family and friends then flocked.He was 33-years-old when he died.The shooting was caught on surveillance camera, with the
  
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• Key moments from Barr testimony on Mueller report

  09-04-2019 21:18 via cnn.com
  For the first time since the end of special counsel Robert Mueller's investigation into Russian interference in the 2016 election, Attorney General William Barr faced questions on Capitol Hill regarding his handling of Mueller's findings, when he plans to release the report and how he will handle the issue of redacted information.
  
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• Protect your precious Apple Watch Series 4 with a $9 clear case

  09-04-2019 21:11 via news.yahoo.com
  If you're going to spend hundreds of dollars on a new Apple Watch Series 4, you might want to consider spending an additional few bucks to ensure that it's protected from scratches. The Smiling Apple Watch 4 Clear Case with Built in TPU Screen Protector is a top-rated Apple Watch clear case on Amazon, and it's available for 40mm and 44mm Apple Watch Series 4 models. A two pack is only $9 in either size, and the case's great design leaves the back open so it doesn't interfere at all with heart ra
  
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• Cyprus: Difficulties remain in restarting peace talks

  09-04-2019 21:11 via feeds.foxnews.com
  Cypriot government officials say there are "very serious difficulties" in rekindling formal talks to reunify the ethnically split island nation.
  
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• South Sudan opposition leader blocked from Vatican meeting

  09-04-2019 21:06 via feeds.foxnews.com
  South Sudan opposition leader Riek Machar is still waiting for permission to travel to a peace retreat at the Vatican on Wednesday, according to a letter seen by The Associated Press.
  
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• North Macedonia group complains over Muslim leader's remarks

  09-04-2019 21:04 via feeds.foxnews.com
  A leading human rights group in North Macedonia has called on the country's authorities to prosecute the head of the country's Muslim community for alleged hate speech, over remarks he made last month during a foundation-laying ceremony for a new mosque near the capital Skopje.
  
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• Can we talk? McConnell says it's time for new spending pact

  09-04-2019 20:57 via news.yahoo.com
  WASHINGTON (AP) — Top Senate Republican Mitch McConnell said Tuesday it's time to kick off bipartisan talks on a new budget pact to fund federal agencies over the next two years.
  
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• Turkey denies Aegean dolphin deaths linked to navy drill

  09-04-2019 20:51 via feeds.foxnews.com
  Turkey's military has sought to defend itself against accusations from a Greek marine conservation group that its naval exercises have been behind a recent spike in the number of dolphin deaths.
  
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• Turkey says US move against Iran Guards creates 'instability'

  09-04-2019 20:49 via news.yahoo.com
  Turkey on Tuesday condemned the US move to designate Iran's elite Revolutionary Guards a "terrorist group", saying the decision would create "instability" in the region.Washington's move against the Revolutionary Guards was the first time that the United States has branded part of a foreign government a terrorist group."These kinds of decisions will pave the way for instability in our region," Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu told reporters in Ankara.
  
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• The Mercedes Handbuilt By Porsche’s 959 Factory

  09-04-2019 20:49 via news.yahoo.com
  If someone asks you what sleeper you would have given the choice, most of us would throw out suggestions like an RS2, a V70R or maybe even a Mercury Marauder.When looking at Mercedes’ lineup of the last thirty years, nothing really screams sleeper to you, or does it?Porsche wasn’t doing too well in the late eighties, with their product range being rather aged.
  
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• SpaceX’s Falcon Heavy will now fly on Wednesday, hopefully

  09-04-2019 20:48 via news.yahoo.com
  If you were eagerly anticipating the second-ever launch of SpaceX's Falcon Heavy rocket this past weekend, you were sorely disappointed when the company was forced to delay the launch. We had a feeling that might happen, and the launch was pushed back to today, Tuesday, April 9th, but now yet another delay has pushed it back even further.SpaceX now says that Falcon Heavy will likely launch tomorrow, Wednesday, April 10th. Today's would-be launch was scrubbed due to inclement weather, but Wednesd
  
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• Europe grudgingly prepares to offer Britain Brexit delay

  09-04-2019 20:45 via news.yahoo.com
  European leaders were grudgingly preparing to postpone Brexit on Tuesday, after Prime Minister Theresa May made last-ditch visits to Paris and Berlin to beg for more time.May asked to be given until June 30 to arrange Britain's orderly departure, but EU leaders fear that won't be long enough and are now expected to offer her up to a year."There are times when you need to give time time," EU Council president Donald Tusk tweeted, as he issued invitations to an emergency EU summit in Brussels on W
  
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• Iraq says tried to stop US blacklist of Iran Revolutionary Guard

  09-04-2019 20:37 via news.yahoo.com
  Baghdad tried to stop Washington from blacklisting Iran's Revolutionary Guards as a "terrorist organisation," Iraqi Prime Minister Adel Abdel Mahdi said Tuesday, warning that the decision could further destabilise the region.The United States declared the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps a "terrorist" group on Monday, prompting Tehran to quickly slap US troops with the same designation.
  
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• Soldier surprises wife, kids after nearly a year in Iraq

  09-04-2019 20:33 via cnn.com
  Army Capt. Justin Brown has been deployed in Iraq, away from his wife and children, for nearly a year. He decided to surprise his family, making it home in time for his wedding anniversary, after his deployment wrapped up early.
  
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• Stanford kicks out student linked to largest-ever college admissions scandal

  09-04-2019 20:32 via news.yahoo.com
  A Stanford University student linked to the wide-ranging admissions scandal involving elite schools across the nation has been kicked out of school.
  
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• New York City declares public health emergency, orders mandatory measles vaccinations

  09-04-2019 20:30 via news.yahoo.com
  Mayor Bill de Blasio says the city has "the power to do this."
  
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• Yahoo strikes $117.5 million data breach settlement after earlier accord rejected

  09-04-2019 20:29 via news.yahoo.com
  The proposed class-action settlement made public on Tuesday was designed to address criticisms of U.S. District Judge Lucy Koh in San Jose, California.Koh said the original settlement was not "fundamentally fair, adequate and reasonable" because it had no overall dollar value and did not say how much victims might expect to recover.Yahoo, now part of New York-based Verizon Communications Inc, had been accused of being slow to disclose three data breaches affecting about 3 billion accounts from 2
  
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• The Latest: NRA backs suit on synagogue-inspired gun control

  09-04-2019 20:16 via news.yahoo.com
  PITTSBURGH (AP) — The Latest on Pittsburgh's effort to restrict firearms and ammunition (all times local):
  
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• Inside Stephen Miller's 'under-the-radar' role

  09-04-2019 20:11 via cnn.com
  As Donald Trump pursues a purge of the Department of Homeland Security amid what he is promising will be a tougher immigration policy, attention has, again, turned to Stephen Miller -- one of the President's top aides. Miller is one of the youngest and least high-profile members of Trump's inner circle, but on immigration has long been a leading advocate of a strong hand as it relates to the handling of undocumented immigrants trying to enter the United States.
  
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