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• Body of missing Illinois boy found in shallow grave, parents arrested

  24-04-2019 23:54 via news.yahoo.com
  The remains of Andrew "AJ" Freund, wrapped in plastic, were found in a community near his home town of Crystal Lake, based on information provided to investigators by his mother and father, Crystal Lake Deputy Police Chief Tom Kotlowski said in a statement."To AJ's family, it is our hope that you may have some solace in knowing that AJ is no longer suffering and his killers have been brought to justice," Kotlowski said in the statement."To AJ, we know you are at peace playing in heaven's playgro
  
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• Boeing says suffering $1 bn hit from 737 MAX crisis

  24-04-2019 23:44 via news.yahoo.com
  Aviation giant Boeing has suffered a $1 billion hit to its bottom line amid the crisis over its 737 MAX aircraft, grounded worldwide after two deadly crashes, the company said Wednesday.In its first quarterly earnings report since entering crisis mode, Boeing also withdrew its 2019 profit forecast due to continued uncertainty about when the grounded jets will return to the skies.Boeing has been under scrutiny since the March 10 crash of an Ethiopian Airlines jet, which along with an October Lion
  
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• At a women of color forum, Beto O'Rourke criticizes Obama on deportations

  24-04-2019 23:42 via news.yahoo.com
  The former House member from Texas also said Trump administration officials could face punishment over their handling of migrants seeking asylum.
  
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• 13-year-old girl dies after being jumped by classmates in Texas

  24-04-2019 23:35 via news.yahoo.com
  A 13-year-old Texas girl has died after slipping into a coma following a fight with two teens who jumped her as she walked home from school - including one assailant who kicked her in the head, the girl's mother said.
  
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• Man City inch closer to back-to-back titles

  24-04-2019 23:30 via cnn.com
  Manchester City cleared a major hurdle in the quest to win back-to-back English Premier League titles for the first time in its history with a battling 2-0 victory at the home of crosstown rival Manchester United on Wednesday.
  
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• Officer killed helping stranger change tire

  24-04-2019 23:28 via cnn.com
  Col. Gregory Townsend stopped on Route 460 in Virginia to help a stranger change a tire. His act of kindness cost him his life.
  
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• Army officer killed helping stranger change flat tire

  24-04-2019 23:28 via cnn.com
  Col. Gregory Townsend stopped on Route 460 in Virginia to help a stranger change a tire. His act of kindness cost him his life.
  
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• Man City return to top with derby win over Man Utd

  24-04-2019 23:27 via bbc.co.uk
  Manchester City strike an important blow in their pursuit of a second successive Premier League title with a convincing derby victory over Manchester United at Old Trafford.
  
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• Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe: Iran offers prisoner swap

  24-04-2019 23:23 via bbc.co.uk
  Iran says it would free the British-Iranian in return for Iranians detained in the US and Australia.
  
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• 7,800 ex-Boy Scouts leaders likely involved in sex abuse

  24-04-2019 23:23 via cnn.com
  The Boy Scouts of America (BSA) believed more than 7,800 of its former leaders were involved in sexually abusing children over the course of 72 years, according to newly exposed court testimony -- about 2,800 more leaders than previously known publicly.
  
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• 7,800 ex-Boy Scouts leaders believed to be involved in sex abuse

  24-04-2019 23:23 via cnn.com
  The Boy Scouts of America (BSA) believed more than 7,800 of its former leaders were involved in sexually abusing children over the course of 72 years, according to newly exposed court testimony -- about 2,800 more leaders than previously known publicly.
  
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• Superb Wolves dent Arsenal's top-four hopes

  24-04-2019 23:21 via bbc.co.uk
  Arsenal miss the chance to go fourth in the Premier League as they are outplayed by rampant Wolves in losing 3-1 at Molineux.
  
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• Charity 'Sunshine' Tillemann-Dick: Opera singer with transplanted lungs dies

  24-04-2019 23:14 via bbc.co.uk
  The 35-year-old singer performed across the world despite undergoing two double-lung transplants.
  
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• Twitter not amused by long wait for Tesla earnings

  24-04-2019 23:12 via news.yahoo.com
  SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Twitter was ablaze on Wednesday with humorous commentary and speculation over why Tesla Inc's first-quarter earnings release was so late. As of 5:05 p.m. ET (2105 GMT), one hour after the market close, the results still had not been released. Here is a sampling of comments on Twitter: "Tesla forgot to get Deepak's password when he left and now they can't release the earnings. 40 minute late and counting... ...
  
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• Facebook sets aside $3bn for privacy probe

  24-04-2019 23:09 via bbc.co.uk
  The social media giant said sales for the first three months of the year leapt 26% to $15.08bn
  
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• Sunnyvale Car Crash: Man accused of driving into 8 pedestrians ID'd; FBI to assist police in determining motive

  24-04-2019 23:04 via news.yahoo.com
  A man accused of driving into eight pedestrians in Sunnyvale has been identified.
  
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• Sri Lankan president shakes up defense forces, says attack warnings went unheeded

  24-04-2019 23:04 via news.yahoo.com
  Sri Lanka’s president has demanded that the defense secretary and national police chief resign after the Easter Sunday suicide bombings.
  
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• Occidental challenges Chevron with higher bid for Anadarko

  24-04-2019 23:02 via news.yahoo.com
  Occidental Petroleum launched a campaign on Wednesday to buy Anadarko Petroleum in a hostile takeover, challenging Chevron's proposed acquisition in a battle over key US shale assets.Shares of Anadarko surged, while Chevron and Occidental both fell, suggesting investors believe the proposal could launch a bidding war between global heavyweight Chevron and the much smaller Occidental, which is based in Houston.The latter said it was repeatedly spurned by Anadarko despite offering more money in th
  
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• Priest applauded at murdered NI journalist's funeral

  24-04-2019 23:00 via bbc.co.uk
  Fr Martin Magill receives a standing ovation when he asks why it took the journalist's death to unite parties.
  
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• NASA's Insight lander detects first "marsquake"

  24-04-2019 23:00 via news.yahoo.com
  For the first time, NASA has confirmed the first "marsquake" detected by the Insight lander on the Red Planet on April 6.Marsquakes differ from earthquakes back home, let's find out how
  
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• Police: Sketch of suspect in 2 girls' killings more accurate

  24-04-2019 22:58 via news.yahoo.com
  DELPHI, Ind. (AP) — A newly released sketch of a man suspected of killing two Indiana teenagers in 2017 "more accurately represents" the man believed to be their killer than a sketch released months after the girls were slain, state police said Wednesday.
  
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• Three-year-old boy 'abandoned' at US-Mexico border: agency

  24-04-2019 22:57 via news.yahoo.com
  US border patrol agents found a crying three-year-old boy in a Texas cornfield on Tuesday with his name and a phone number written on his shoes, the US Customs and Border Protection (CBP) agency said Wednesday.The boy was "abandoned" by a group of suspected illegal immigrants who had crossed into the United States from Mexico near Brownsville, Texas, the CBP said."As agents attempted to intercept the group, the suspected illegal aliens scattered in the overgrown field," the CBP said in a stateme
  
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• Facebook expects $5B fine for data scandals

  24-04-2019 22:55 via cnn.com
  Facebook is bracing for a massive fine from federal regulators after a year of data privacy scandals.
  
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• What's behind the rise of anti-abortion 'heartbeat bills'?

  24-04-2019 22:44 via bbc.co.uk
  What's behind the surge in the anti-abortion movement and what exactly is a heartbeat bill?
  
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• Deutsche Bank handing over Trump loan documents: source

  24-04-2019 22:44 via news.yahoo.com
  Deutsche Bank has begun to provide documents on financing for some of President Donald Trump's projects to New York State authorities, a source familiar with the matter told AFP on Wednesday.In mid-March, New York Attorney General Letitia James subpoenaed the German bank, demanding records related to loans and lines of credit granted to the Trump Organization.The money was intended to finance projects such as Trump hotels in Washington, DC, Miami and Chicago, another source told AFP last month o
  
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• Explainer: Congress no longer runs a jail, so just how powerful are its subpoenas?

  24-04-2019 22:40 via news.yahoo.com
  "We're fighting all the subpoenas," Trump told reporters at the White House on Wednesday.In another display of his disregard for Washington norms, Trump is defying subpoenas issued by Democrats in the House of Representatives, who have launched numerous investigations of him, his businesses, family and administration.Here is how the congressional subpoena, contempt and enforcement process works.
  
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• Texas set to execute second killer in dragging death of black man

  24-04-2019 22:38 via cnn.com
  A man who helped carry out the dragging death of James Byrd Jr. -- one of the most horrific hate crimes in modern American history -- is scheduled to die Wednesday evening by lethal injection.
  
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• Parents of missing 5-year-old charged with murder

  24-04-2019 22:33 via cnn.com
  The body of a 5-year-old boy reported as missing last week was found wrapped in plastic in a shallow grave on Wednesday, and his parents have been charged with murder, police said.
  
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• Iran FM proposes swap for jailed British national

  24-04-2019 22:23 via news.yahoo.com
  Iran's foreign minister on Wednesday proposed a prisoner swap for a British-Iranian mother detained in Tehran, saying the United States should drop charges against an Iranian woman it is seeking in Australia.Britain has been trying unsuccessfully to free Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe, a dual national who worked for the Thomson Reuters Foundation and was arrested in 2016.Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif drew a parallel to Negar Ghodskani, an Iranian woman who was arrested by Australia in 2017 an
  
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• UPDATE 3-Visa profit jumps, lower cross-border volume weighs on shares

  24-04-2019 22:22 via news.yahoo.com
  Visa Inc reported higher expenses and lower spending by people using its cards abroad on Wednesday even as increased overall consumer spending drove quarterly profit 14 percent higher.Shares of the company were trading lower after the bell as investors worried over a slide in cross-border volume growth, which measures the value of transactions made on a Visa card outside a customer's home country.The company and its rival Mastercard had recently come under fire for charging high fees on tourist
  
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• Joe Biden: Third time lucky in 2020 US president election?

  24-04-2019 22:20 via bbc.co.uk
  The former US vice-president is set to announce that he's running for the White House - again.
  
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• Iran's Zarif warns U.S. of 'consequences' over oil sanctions, offer prisoner swap

  24-04-2019 22:17 via news.yahoo.com
  The United States on Monday demanded buyers of Iranian oil stop purchases by May or face sanctions, ending six months of waivers which allowed Iran's eight biggest buyers, most of them in Asia, to continue importing limited volumes."We believe that Iran will continue to sell its oil.Reinforcing Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei's stance, Zarif warned: "If the United States takes the crazy measure of trying to prevent us from doing that, then it should be prepared for the consequences." He di
  
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• 2020 Democrats confronting debate over letting felons vote

  24-04-2019 22:16 via news.yahoo.com
  Democratic presidential contenders are facing a new debate over whether criminals in prison, even notorious ones like the Boston Marathon bomber, should be able to win back their right to vote.
  
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• The Latest: Missing boy's body was buried in shallow grave

  24-04-2019 22:12 via news.yahoo.com
  CRYSTAL LAKE, Ill. (AP) — The Latest on the search for a missing 5-year-old Illinois boy (all times local):
  
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• Sri Lanka attacks: Government admits 'major intelligence lapse'

  24-04-2019 22:07 via bbc.co.uk
  An official says the government must answer for its failure to prevent the Easter Sunday bombings.
  
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• Mo Farah may come out of track retirement for Tokyo 2020

  24-04-2019 22:05 via bbc.co.uk
  Four-time Olympic champion Mo Farah hints that he may come out of retirement from track events and compete at the Tokyo 2020 Olympics.
  
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• High-resolution Pixel 3a leak reveals the design of Google’s next phone

  24-04-2019 21:53 via news.yahoo.com
  Much like the Galaxy S10 and Galaxy Fold before it, Google's Pixel 3a appears to have leaked in full ahead of its unveiling next month. On Wednesday morning, VentureBeat's Evan Blass piled on with a leak of his own -- a high-resolution Pixel 3a render that gives us our clearest look yet at the midrange phone.As previous leaks revealed, the Pixel 3a is a blast from the past, with a design more reminiscent of the phones that came before the iPhone X than the phones that have made their debut over
  
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• Trump threatens more troops to border after Mexico incident

  24-04-2019 21:40 via news.yahoo.com
  WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump renewed his threat Wednesday to send more troops to the U.S.-Mexico border following an incident in which Mexican soldiers confronted U.S. personnel. Mexico blamed the incident on confusion, and said it was not looking for confrontation with the U.S.
  
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• Trump at war with Democrats: 'We're fighting all the subpoenas'

  24-04-2019 21:40 via cnn.com
  • Opinion: Don McGahn could decide Trump's political fate
  • Republican joins Democrats because of Trump
  
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• Three-year-old boy found alone near US border with name and number written on his shoes

  24-04-2019 21:39 via news.yahoo.com
  Border Patrol agents found a three-year-old boy alone in a field in Texas after likely being abandoned by smugglers at the southern border, authorities said. US Customs and Border Protection said that the boy’s name and a phone number were written on his shoes when agents found him on Tuesday morning. The agency said it is trying to reach the boy’s family and that the boy “does not speak well enough to communicate.” The boy was crying and in distress when the agents found
  
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• The Latest: Police clarify suspect sketch in girls' killings

  24-04-2019 21:38 via news.yahoo.com
  DELPHI, Ind. (AP) — The Latest on the investigation into the 2017 killings of two northern Indiana girls (all times local):
  
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• Body of Andrew Freund found, parents who reported him missing charged with murder

  24-04-2019 21:37 via nbcnews.com
  The 5-year-old was reported missing from his family's Crystal Lake, Illinois, home last week.
  
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• Iranian minister makes public prisoner swap offer to US

  24-04-2019 21:36 via news.yahoo.com
  NEW YORK (AP) — Iran's top diplomat on Wednesday made public an offer to the U.S. government for a prisoner swap that he said he made six months ago.
  
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• Trump Wants More ‘Armed Soldiers’ on Border After Mexico Mix-Up

  24-04-2019 21:27 via news.yahoo.com
  “Mexico’s Soldiers recently pulled guns on our National Guard Soldiers, probably as a diversionary tactic for drug smugglers on the Border,” he wrote in a Wednesday morning tweet.The April 13 incident actually involved Mexican soldiers briefly confronting U.S. counterparts in Texas, with the Mexican soldiers believing that they were on their own soil, according to accounts from the Pentagon and Mexico’s Foreign Ministry.
  
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• Florida House passes GOP bill banning sanctuary cities

  24-04-2019 21:27 via nbcnews.com
  The bill prompted the American Civil Liberties Union to warn immigrants against traveling to Florida and triggered protests around the state.
  
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• 4 Texas prison guards fired, 2 resign for #FeelingCute posts

  24-04-2019 21:27 via news.yahoo.com
  HOUSTON (AP) — Four Texas prison guards have been fired and two others resigned over selfies accompanied by insensitive comments posted on social media, a Texas Department of Criminal Justice official said Wednesday.
  
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• Elizabeth Warren's plan for student loan forgiveness: Don't bank on it

  24-04-2019 21:23 via news.yahoo.com
  Massachusetts Sen. Elizabeth Warren wants to roll out a broad plan to cancel up to $50,000 of college debt for lose making less than $100,000.
  
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• NRA sues Los Angeles over disclosure law for contractors

  24-04-2019 21:21 via news.yahoo.com
  LOS ANGELES (AP) — The National Rifle Association sued Los Angeles on Wednesday over a new law requiring companies that want city contracts to disclose whether they have ties to the gun rights group.
  
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• Leader of armed militia in New Mexico allegedly beaten in jail

  24-04-2019 21:17 via nbcnews.com
  “I talked to him afterwards yesterday and he was beaten, bruised, injured, dazed — and thoroughly demoralized,” the man's attorney wrote.
  
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• Migrant caravan on the 'Beast' train to avoid Mexican police raids and make it to U.S. border

  24-04-2019 21:16 via news.yahoo.com
  A long freight train loaded with about 300 to 400 migrants pulled out of the southern city of Ixtepec on Tuesday.
  
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