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• UPDATE 2-Suspect caught after seven bodies found at two Tennessee homes

  28-04-2019 23:55 via news.yahoo.com
  A suspect in the killings of seven people in rural Tennessee was shot and captured by police after an hours-long manhunt triggered by the discovery of the bodies in two separate homes, authorities said on Sunday.Dozens of people gathered to commemorate the victims on Sunday evening at a Methodist church in Westmoreland, a town in the area where the shootings occurred, according to Nashville television station FOX 17.The suspect, Michael Cummins, 25, was in custody after suffering non-life threat
  
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• The Latest: Sri Lanka emergency law bans face coverings

  28-04-2019 23:53 via news.yahoo.com
  AMPARA, Sri Lanka (AP) — The Latest on the Easter bombings in Sri Lanka (all times local):
  
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• Synagogue Shooting Suspect Was a Piano-Playing Nursing Student From Religious Family With a Racist Secret

  28-04-2019 23:47 via news.yahoo.com
  Sandy Huffaker/AFP/GettyPOWAY, California—Nineteen-year-old nursing student John T. Earnest, who was charged with murder Sunday as the lone gunman in the deadly Poway Synagogue shooting, played piano for hours a day and earned a 4.31 grade point average. His father was a church elder whom neighbors called “the sweetest man.”But somewhere on his path, Earnest took a terrible turn, claiming Adolf Hitler as an idol and writing what appears to be his own rambling manifesto that Jew
  
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• Southwest: Boeing didn't say it had deactivated safety alert

  28-04-2019 23:44 via news.yahoo.com
  Southwest Airlines says Boeing did not disclose that it had deactivated a safety feature on its 737 Max jets until after one of the airliners crashed last year.
  
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• Synagogue shooting victim died saving rabbi

  28-04-2019 23:19 via cnn.com
  When a gunman opened fire in a synagogue in California, killing one and injuring three others, Lori Kaye jumped between the shooter and the rabbi.
  
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• 7 found dead in two rural Tennessee homes

  28-04-2019 23:17 via cnn.com
  Six people were found dead in two homes Saturday evening in Sumner County, Tennessee, in what investigators are calling "related homicides."
  
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• One Of A Kind Corvette Hatchback Needs Saving

  28-04-2019 23:15 via news.yahoo.com
  Corvettes are arguably the definitive American sports car, and their popularity over the decades has spurred the model from one generation to the next.This unique Corvette hatchback is one of just one.Found on Ebay, this rather distressed looking Chevrolet Corvette might be written off by many, but it is, in fact, something rather special.
  
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• NYT 'deeply sorry' for anti-Semitic cartoon

  28-04-2019 23:13 via cnn.com
  After a barrage of criticism, the New York Times said Sunday it was deeply sorry about publishing an anti-Semitic cartoon depicting Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu as a dog on a leash held by a blind President Donald Trump.
  
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• Richard Lugar, US foreign-policy luminary, dies at 87

  28-04-2019 23:08 via news.yahoo.com
  Senator Richard Lugar, a leading US voice on foreign policy for decades and a onetime presidential candidate known for his civility and bipartisan ways, has died at a medical center in Falls Church, Virginia.Lugar died of chronic inflammatory polyneuropathy, according to a statement from the Lugar Center in Washington, a global policy institute which he founded in 2013.A soft-spoken Republican moderate, Lugar was twice chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee and built a reputation as
  
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• Is This Jewel-Encrusted Ford Escort The Most Expensive Ever?

  28-04-2019 22:52 via news.yahoo.com
  This 6-inch replica of Ari Vatanen's 1970s Ford Escort RS1800 is crafted from silver, gold, platnium and diamonds - and could just be the most expensive Ford Escort of all time.Glance towards an Escort Cosworth or RS2000 and you’ll be hit with the Ford tax harder than Conor McGregor takes a punch.In truth, it’s been cheaper to purchase jewellery over adrenaline-fuelled Ford classics as of late.
  
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• Attacks on churches, mosques and a synagogue in 6 weeks

  28-04-2019 22:47 via cnn.com
  In the past six weeks, churches, mosques and a synagogue have been targeted in a series of shootings and bombings spanning three countries.
  
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• New York Archdiocese releases list of 120 priests accused of child sexual abuse

  28-04-2019 22:41 via news.yahoo.com
  The list released by the New York Archdiocese includes 120 men, none of them in active ministry now.
  
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• Father Edward Beck: Hate crimes in houses of worship a threat to religious freedom

  28-04-2019 22:25 via cnn.com
  A friend texted me: "Feels like openly worshipping is like being a sitting duck." Her text was in response to yet one more act of violence in a religious venue -- this time, once again, in a Jewish house of prayer.
  
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• Trump calls for changes to immigration laws, says the border is 'like Disneyland'

  28-04-2019 22:22 via news.yahoo.com
  President Trump took to Fox News this morning to rail against what he said are "the worst immigration laws ever"
  
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• The Latest: Pence says Lugar was 'leader on the world stage'

  28-04-2019 22:19 via news.yahoo.com
  INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — The Latest on the death of former Sen. Richard Lugar (all times local):
  
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• UPDATE 1-Gunmen kidnap Canadian, Scottish oil workers from Nigerian oil rig

  28-04-2019 22:11 via news.yahoo.com
  Gunman kidnapped three oil workers from Canada, Scotland and Nigeria at a rig in Nigeria's Delta region on Saturday, officials said - the second abduction in the area in less than a week.The attackers raided the rig owned by Niger Delta Petroleum Resources in Ogbele, Rivers State at around 8 a.m. (0700 GMT), the spokesman for the area's military operations, Major Ibrahim Abubakar, said.The Niger Delta produces the bulk of Nigeria's crude.
  
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• Samantha Vinograd: Trump, the deal breaker, aims for a grand bargain

  28-04-2019 22:01 via cnn.com
  Deal-breaking, rather than deal-making, is defining the President's record on national security issues -- from the Iran Nuclear Deal and Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces Treaty to the Trans Pacific Partnership and the Arms Control Treaty. With the New Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty (START) -- a major arms control agreement that limits the number of strategic weapons that the US and Russia have-- set to expire in 2021, the global arms control architecture is getting significantly weaker under T
  
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• Rabbi Yisroel Goldstein recounts Poway synagogue shooting: 'I met the terrorist face-to-face'

  28-04-2019 22:00 via news.yahoo.com
  Despite the harrowing experience, Rabbi Yisroel Goldstein said he and his congregation will not be "intimidated or deterred" by the threat of violence.
  
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• Mexican man traps himself in hole dug to spy on ex

  28-04-2019 22:00 via feeds.foxnews.com
  Officials in northern Mexico say a man accidentally trapped himself in a hole he'd dug so that he could spy surreptitiously on his former girlfriend, in violation of a restraining order.
  
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• REFILE-No clear majority in Spain's election with 50 pct of votes counted

  28-04-2019 21:53 via news.yahoo.com
  Neither the rightist or the leftist political bloc in Spain was holding a clear majority in Sunday's national election, according to a tally of results from the interior ministry with 50 percent of votes counted.The partial results, which in past Spanish elections have not always accurately reflected the final outcome, suggested neither bloc would be able to form a government on its own, and would need to ally with smaller regional parties to prevent a deadlocked parliament.
  
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• What's next for the NRA? Subpoenas, investigations and leadership turmoil

  28-04-2019 21:43 via news.yahoo.com
  The New York Attorney General's Office announced that it would be opening an investigation into the NRA's tax-exempt status.
  
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• Dean Obeidallah: A funny historian outclassed Trump

  28-04-2019 21:38 via cnn.com
  When White House Correspondents' Association President Olivier Knox announced in November that the 2019 White House Correspondents' Dinner would not feature a comedian, as it has done for many years, Trump praised the move on Twitter as a "good first step" and added, "Maybe I will go?"
  
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• A funny historian outclassed Trump

  28-04-2019 21:38 via cnn.com
  When White House Correspondents' Association President Olivier Knox announced in November that the 2019 White House Correspondents' Dinner would not feature a comedian, as it has done for many years, Trump praised the move on Twitter as a "good first step" and added, "Maybe I will go?"
  
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• NFL draft pick shot hours after selection

  28-04-2019 21:37 via cnn.com
  Corey Ballentine went from the highest of highs to the lowest of lows over the weekend.
  
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• Former U.S. deputy attorney general: If Trump was not president, he would be indicted

  28-04-2019 21:37 via news.yahoo.com
  Former top Justice Department official Sally Yates said on Sunday that if Donald Trump were not president, he would have been indicted on obstruction charges in Special Counsel Robert Mueller's Russia investigation.Yates, a career federal prosecutor who rose to acting attorney general before Trump fired her in 2017 less than two weeks into his presidency, told NBC's "Meet the Press" the Republican president was shielded by department guidelines that a sitting president should not be indicted."I'
  
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• Sri Lankans attend Mass at home with churches shut down after bombings

  28-04-2019 21:36 via feeds.foxnews.com
  With churches in Sri Lanka closed a week after suicide bombings killed more than 250 people on Easter, Catholics in the island nation celebrated Mass in their homes Sunday via a televised broadcast on Sunday.
  
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• 'Avengers: Endgame' shatters global records

  28-04-2019 21:34 via cnn.com
  The Avengers assembled the biggest box office in film history, far surpassing multiple records on the books.
  
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• VIDEO: Killer Whales play with food, teach calf how to hunt

  28-04-2019 21:33 via news.yahoo.com
  A rare sight was caught on camera- killer whales playing with their food.
  
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• Tears and troops as Sri Lanka mourns suicide bomb dead

  28-04-2019 21:32 via news.yahoo.com
  Sri Lanka's churches remained shut Sunday, forcing Christians to say prayers of grief in private over the Easter suicide attacks that the country's Roman Catholic leader called "an insult to humanity".Fearing a repeat of the Easter Sunday bombings of churches and hotels in which 253 people died, the archbishop of Colombo, Cardinal Malcolm Ranjith, held a private Mass after cancelling all public services."Today during this Mass we are paying attention to last Sunday's tragedy and we try to unders
  
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• Attorney general balks at closed-door testimony on Mueller findings

  28-04-2019 21:27 via news.yahoo.com
  The committee's chairman, Democrat Jerrold Nadler, has proposed that Barr's public testimony be followed by a second round of questioning, where sensitive matters would be discussed behind closed doors and include committee staff lawyers, a House Democratic aide told Reuters.The attorney general is also scheduled to testify before the Senate Judiciary Committee on Wednesday.A Justice Department spokeswoman did not immediately return calls for comment.
  
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• Rep. Clyburn slams Trump's praise for Robert E. Lee: 'The president is now glorifying a loser'

  28-04-2019 21:10 via news.yahoo.com
  “Robert E. Lee was a slave owner and a brutal slave master. Robert E. Lee was a loser.”
  
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• Ocasio-Cortez fires back at Kellyanne Conway for slamming her response to Sri Lanka attacks

  28-04-2019 20:44 via news.yahoo.com
  Ocasio-Cortez called the series of bombings in Sri Lanka, which death toll has risen to 290, “horrifying.” “The Sri Lanka massacre was horrifying.
  
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• No Mass for Sri Lanka's Catholics; no veils for Muslim women

  28-04-2019 20:44 via news.yahoo.com
  AMPARA, Sri Lanka (AP) — The effects of Sri Lanka's Easter suicide bombings reverberated across two faiths Sunday, with Catholics shut out of their churches for fear of new attacks, left with only a televised Mass, and Muslim women ordered to stop wearing veils in public.
  
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• Extreme Right Vox Party Set to Enter Spain’s Parliament, But Socialists Will Govern

  28-04-2019 20:42 via news.yahoo.com
  Pablo Blazquez Dominguez/GettyBARCELONA—It was 10 a.m. and Antonia Huguet, 75, trundled home from a dilapidated school in the middle of Barcelona’s Gothic neighborhood after voting in Spain’s general election. With her dyed blond hair done up in a bun, Huguet looked like a character out of a Pedro Almodóvar movie—which seems rather appropriate since Spanish democracy these days could easily be mistaken for something on the verge of a nervous breakdown.  Like m
  
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• Barr's testimony to House on Mueller in doubt amid dispute

  28-04-2019 20:40 via news.yahoo.com
  WASHINGTON (AP) — The Justice Department has informed the House Judiciary Committee that Attorney General William Barr may skip a Thursday hearing on special counsel Robert Mueller's report if committee lawyers seek to question him.
  
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• Barr's House appearance in doubt over dispute with Democrats

  28-04-2019 20:36 via cnn.com
  Attorney General William Barr has warned Democrats on the House Judiciary Committee he won't show up to this week's highly anticipated hearing if they stick to the format the chairman has proposed for the questioning, according to a committee source with knowledge of the matter.
  
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• Zakaria: America is tired of the Donald Trump circus

  28-04-2019 20:32 via cnn.com
  CNN's Fareed Zakaria discusses the growing call for the impeachment of President Donald Trump.
  
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• Kellyanne Conway defends Trump's Charlottesville remarks: 'That is darn near perfection'

  28-04-2019 20:32 via news.yahoo.com
  Kellyanne Conway defends Trump's Charlottesville remarks, calls them "darn near perfection"
  
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• Historian Ron Chernow Used Past Presidents to Call for Civility at the White House Correspondents' Dinner

  28-04-2019 20:16 via news.yahoo.com
  "Civility has been an essential lubricant in our democratic culture"
  
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• The Problem with Russia's New Armata Tank

  28-04-2019 20:00 via news.yahoo.com
  Along with the Armata production problems, the Su-57 5th generation stealth fighter has also been shelved for the time being due to budgetary constraints.When Russia first unveiled the T-14 Armata tank to the public in 2015, western militaries took note of next-generation juggernaut’s futuristic and flexible design, which was built to replace several armored ground units. But unfortunately for the Russian armed forces, a sluggish economy hit by sanctions and massive corruption doesn’
  
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• Idris Elba marries model Sabrina Dhowre

  28-04-2019 19:56 via cnn.com
  Idris Elba married model Sabrina Dhowre in a secret ceremony in Morocco. The ceremony took place at Ksar Char-Bagh, a luxury hotel in Marrakech, the hotel's special events manager Gigi Saadani told CNN.
  
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• Global migrants' journey stalls in southern Mexico

  28-04-2019 19:51 via feeds.foxnews.com
  Thousands fleeing conflict or poverty in Nigeria, Cameroon, Bangladesh, Haiti and Cuba have traveled across oceans, through the jungles and mountains of South America, up through Central America, on a route that — so far — ends here: the steamy, crumbling Mexican city of Tapachula, near the Guatemala border.
  
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• Big Ben runner has bad time at end of London Marathon

  28-04-2019 19:46 via feeds.foxnews.com
  One runner in the 39th London Marathon had a bad time at the end.
  
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• Russia's Vladimir Putin blasts U.S. sentencing of Maria Butina as a 'travesty of justice'

  28-04-2019 19:40 via news.yahoo.com
  Gun-rights activist Maria Butina was sentenced to 18 months in prison on Friday for her role in a Russian effort to infiltrate U.S. politics.
  
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• FAA considered grounding some Boeing 737 Max planes last year: source

  28-04-2019 19:21 via news.yahoo.com
  US regulators considered grounding some Boeing 737 MAX planes last year after learning belatedly of a problem with a system that is now the main suspect in two deadly crashes, a source close to the matter said.Investigators in the Lion Air crash in October and the Ethiopia Airlines disaster in March have zeroed in on the planes' anti-stall system, the Maneuvering Characteristics Augmentation System, or MCAS.Last year, before the Lion crash, inspectors with the Federal Aviation Administration dis
  
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• Israeli leaders mourn death of Holocaust survivor rabbi

  28-04-2019 19:02 via feeds.foxnews.com
  Israeli leaders are mourning the death of a prominent Hassidic rabbi who survived Auschwitz and championed Holocaust remembrance among ultra-Orthodox Jews.
  
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• 'Avengers: Endgame' shatters global box office records

  28-04-2019 18:56 via cnn.com
  The Avengers assembled the biggest box office in film history, far surpassing multiple records on the books.
  
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• Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez deletes tweet after mistaking a Democrat for a Republican

  28-04-2019 18:54 via news.yahoo.com
  Democratic Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez deleted a tweet Thursday after she attempted to call out "older male" Republicans for posing next to a cardboard cutout of her.
  
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• Father, 2 brothers of suspected Sri Lanka bombings organizer killed in gun battle

  28-04-2019 18:51 via news.yahoo.com
  The father and two brothers of the suspected mastermind of Sri Lanka's Easter Sunday bombings were killed when security forces stormed their safe house two days ago, police sources and a relative of the suspected ringleader in the bombings told Reuters on Sunday.
  
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• Trump's attorney general may refuse to attend congressional hearing on Mueller report, officials says

  28-04-2019 18:48 via news.yahoo.com
  Donald Trump’s attorney general William Barr may refuse to attend this week's scheduled congressional hearing to review special counsel Robert Mueller’s report on Russian election interference. The Justice Department has told the House Judiciary Committee it has objections over the format of planned questioning, according a Democratic senior committee aide.The department disapproves of plans to allow committee lawyers from both sides to question Mr Barr after the traditional round of
  
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