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• Trump Says Don't Do It as Mueller Testimony Tentatively Set

  05-05-2019 23:56 via news.yahoo.com
  The president’s comment, in a pair of Twitter postings on Sunday, came hours after a Democratic member of the House Judiciary Committee said that a “tentative date” of May 15 had been set for testimony by the former FBI director to discuss his investigation into the 2016 election.Democrats have been eager for Mueller to testify at least since last month, when his report on Russian election interference and Trump’s subsequent actions to squelch the investigation became pub
  
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• Tammy Bruce: False smear against Pete Buttigieg is sickening -- I don’t care what side of the aisle you’re on

  05-05-2019 23:51 via foxnews.com
  In the meantime, the Democratic Party has issued no apology or mea culpa in their obscene attempt to virtually assassinate Justice Kavanaugh.
  
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• Larry Kudlow fires back at Cory Booker's claim Obama deserves credit for economic recovery

  05-05-2019 23:47 via foxnews.com
  National Economic Council Director Larry Kudlow fired back at Sen. Cory Booker, D-N.J., Sunday after the Democratic presidential candidate said President Trump was "taking credit for a recovery that started under Obama."
  
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• 'The flames were huge': At least 41 dead in fiery Moscow jet landing caught on video

  05-05-2019 23:44 via news.yahoo.com
  A Russian Aeroflot jet landed in Moscow engulfed in flames and billowing smoke Sunday, which was captured on video.
  
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• North Carolina officer slain in traffic stop; suspect dead

  05-05-2019 23:42 via foxnews.com
  A North Carolina police officer and his suspected killer are dead in a Charlotte suburb.
  
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• Rep. Peter King blasts Mueller for not announcing probe results sooner

  05-05-2019 23:38 via foxnews.com
  ​Rep. Peter King slammed special counsel Robert Mueller for not informing President Trump and the American public sooner that there was no collusion between the Russians and Trump or his campaign associates.
  
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• BTS brings glamour to sold-out show at Rose Bowl

  05-05-2019 23:34 via cnn.com
  What do Michael Jackson, The Rolling Stones, and the K-pop group BTS all have in common? As of this weekend, they've all performed at California's legendary Rose Bowl Stadium.
  
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• Venezuela helicopter crash kills seven military officers near Caracas

  05-05-2019 23:31 via news.yahoo.com
  Seven military officers have died in Venezuela after their helicopter crashed on Saturday.The group had been travelling to San Carlos in Cojedes state, where Nicolas Maduro, the country’s president, was overseeing training exercises at a military facility.The Cougar helicopter the men were travelling in plunged into a mountain outside Caracas, Venezuela’s capital in the early hours of the day.An investigation has been opened into the cause of the crash.Two lieutenant colonels and fiv
  
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• SUVs are hot sellers and that means you'll find sweet deals on sedans

  05-05-2019 23:29 via news.yahoo.com
  SUVs are hot, and that means there are good deals on some terrific cars, like the Honda Accord, Toyota Camry, Ford Focus, VW Jetta and Chevy Malibu.
  
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• 5-year-old Houston girl allegedly abducted by three men

  05-05-2019 23:12 via nbcnews.com
  The girl was believed to be with three Hispanic men in a 2010 blue Chevrolet crew cab pickup truck, police said.
  
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• Gandhi Family Faces Tough Fight to Secure Key Seats: India Votes

  05-05-2019 23:00 via news.yahoo.com
  Rahul Gandhi is contesting for the fourth time from the seat of Amethi in Uttar Pradesh -- a family bastion that he has not lost since his first election in 2004.A former model and television soap opera actress, the outspoken Irani was beaten in 2014 but narrowed Gandhi’s margin of victory.
  
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• Gandhi Family Faces Tough Fight to Secure Key Seats in India’s Elections

  05-05-2019 23:00 via news.yahoo.com
  Rahul Gandhi is contesting for the fourth time from the seat of Amethi in Uttar Pradesh -- a family bastion that he has not lost since his first election in 2004.A former model and television soap opera actress, the outspoken Irani was beaten in 2014 but narrowed Gandhi’s margin of victory.
  
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• Trump reverses position, says Mueller should not testify to Congress

  05-05-2019 22:59 via nbcnews.com
  Rep. David Cicilline, D-R.I., said Sunday that the House Judiciary Committee is aiming for the special counsel to testify on May 15.
  
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• 7 dead in Venezuela military chopper crash

  05-05-2019 22:59 via cnn.com
  A Venezuelan military helicopter crashed on Saturday in Hatillo, a municipality near Caracas, killing all seven on board, according to a statement released by the Ministry of Defense.
  
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• How far-right sites spread a fake story about Pete Buttigieg

  05-05-2019 22:55 via cnn.com
  This is a story about how political operatives tried to take down a presidential candidate, and ended up just humiliating themselves.
  
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• Trump picks Obama-era Border Patrol head to lead ICE after several recent Fox News appearances

  05-05-2019 22:53 via news.yahoo.com
  President Trump tapped former Border Patrol chief under former President Barack Obama to run the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agency.
  
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• Russia: Airport says landing started plane fire with 13 dead

  05-05-2019 22:48 via news.yahoo.com
  MOSCOW (AP) — Thirteen people died Sunday in a fiery airplane accident at Moscow's Sheremetyevo Airport, a spokeswoman for the Russian Investigative Committee said.
  
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• Report: Red Sox skipper Cora won't go to White House

  05-05-2019 22:47 via news.yahoo.com
  Boston manager Alex Cora will not be with his team Thursday when the Red Sox celebrate winning the 2018 World Series at the White House.El Nuevo Dia in Puerto Rico reported the news Sunday and said Cora has declined the invitation because his native land continues to struggle to recover from Hurricane Maria, which hit Puerto Rico in September 2017.Last year, Cora criticized President Donald Trump for his tweets downplaying the number of Puerto Ricans who died as a result of the natural disaster.
  
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• Nancy Pelosi tries to herd Democrats: Today's Toon

  05-05-2019 22:40 via news.yahoo.com
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• 90 Cubans escape migration detention in southern Mexico

  05-05-2019 22:37 via feeds.foxnews.com
  Ninety Cubans have broken out of the Siglo XXI migrant detention center in southern Mexico, the latest escape of migrants at the overextended facility.
  
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• Tentative Mueller testimony triggers Trump Twitter tirade

  05-05-2019 22:34 via cnn.com
  • NYT: Pelosi worries Trump won't give up power
  • Shocked by Trump win, Obama blamed Clinton
  
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• Tentative Mueller testimony sends Trump on Twitter tirade

  05-05-2019 22:34 via cnn.com
  • Opinion: Democrats facing a huge problem
  
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• North Korea State Media: Kim Jong Un Oversees Missile Firing Drills and Calls for 'High Alert Posture'

  05-05-2019 22:34 via news.yahoo.com
  North Korea State Media: Kim Jong Un Oversees Missile Firing Drills and Calls for 'High Alert Posture'
  
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• Donald Trump set for new clash with Democrats as he urges Robert Mueller not to testify before Congress

  05-05-2019 22:23 via news.yahoo.com
  Donald Trump is on course for a new clash with Democrats after he called on Robert Mueller not to testify before Congress. The US president intervened on Twitter, after it was reported that Mr Mueller had "tentatively agreed" to appear before the Democrat-led House of Representatives Judiciary Committee on May 15. Democrats are keen to hear from Mr Mueller, who carried out a two-year investigation into allegations of Russian interference in the 2016 US presidential election. But Mr Trump accused
  
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• Shelved Woody Allen film 'A Rainy Day in New York' to be released in Italy

  05-05-2019 22:21 via foxnews.com
  After being put on the shelf by Amazon, Woody Allen’s “A Rainy Day in New York” is to be released in Italy in the fall via distributor Lucky Red, with other European territories also believed to have closed local distribution deals.
  
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• 'Game of Thrones' star Bella Ramsey says she's not allowed to watch the show

  05-05-2019 22:11 via foxnews.com
  "Game of Thrones" star Bella Ramsey isn't even allowed to watch the show.
  
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• Trump: 'Best horse did NOT win Kentucky Derby'

  05-05-2019 22:04 via cnn.com
  President Donald Trump vented his frustrations Sunday about the unexpected Kentucky Derby results, tweeting that the "best horse did NOT win the Kentucky Derby" and chalking it up to "political correctness."
  
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• Why climate 'paralysis' looms over Australia's election

  05-05-2019 21:50 via bbc.co.uk
  The climate will be a big issue for voters on 18 May but they face confusing messages from main parties.
  
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• Bond girl Ana de Armas fled Cuba to become a movie star

  05-05-2019 21:47 via foxnews.com
  Ana de Armas, who stars in the upcoming "Bond 25," fled Communist Cuba to become a movie star.
  
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• Sanders Pitches to Iowa, Wants Halt to Agriculture Mega-Mergers

  05-05-2019 21:37 via news.yahoo.com
  Speaking to supporters in tiny Osage, Iowa -- a farming community with about 4,000 residents -- Sanders also promised to steer more farm subsidies away from bigger companies and to strengthen antitrust laws governing the industry.“In rural America, we are seeing giant agribusiness conglomerates extract as much wealth out of small communities as they possibly can, while family farmers are going bankrupt and in many ways are being treated like modern-day indentured servants,” Sanders s
  
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• Michael Cohen set to head to minimum-security prison on Monday

  05-05-2019 21:36 via foxnews.com
  President Trump’s former personal attorney Michael Cohen heads to jail on Monday to begin serving a three-year sentence for campaign-finance violations, tax evasion, bank fraud and lying to Congress.
  
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• Muslim society: 'Disturbing' video of children wasn't vetted

  05-05-2019 21:24 via foxnews.com
  The Muslim American Society says "disturbing" video showing children speaking in Arabic about sacrifice and chopping off heads wasn't vetted before being posted on its Philadelphia chapter's Facebook page.
  
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• Oregon man accused of getting revenge on former friend with dog poop 'bomb'

  05-05-2019 21:22 via foxnews.com
  An Oregon man accused of making a homemade bomb filled with dog feces is facing criminal charges after investigators said a former friend accidentally set it off and got an unwelcome surprise.
  
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• Plane Crash in Moscow: At Least 40 Dead After Russian Aeroflot Jet’s Fiery Crash Landing

  05-05-2019 21:07 via news.yahoo.com
  Viktor Marchukaites/AFP/GettyAt least 40 people were killed Sunday when a Russian plane made a fiery crash landing at Moscow’s Sheremetyevo Airport, according to Russian officials. The Russian Aeroflot carrier plane had reportedly departed from Moscow, en route to the northern city of Murmansk. But video shows the plane quickly returning at about 7:30 p.m. local time, skidding across the Moscow runway with the back half engulfed in flames and billowing thick clouds of black smoke. It&rsquo
  
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• Plane Crash in Moscow: 41 Dead After Russian Aeroflot Jet’s Fiery Crash Landing

  05-05-2019 21:07 via news.yahoo.com
  Viktor Marchukaites/AFP/GettyAt least 41 people, including one U.S. citizen, were killed Sunday when a Russian plane made a fiery crash landing at Moscow’s Sheremetyevo Airport, according to Russian officials. The Russian Aeroflot carrier plane departed from Moscow, en route to the northern city of Murmansk. But flight tracking data shows the jet making a loop in Moscow’s skies before turning back to the airport. In shocking video, the plane can be seen attempting to land at about 7:
  
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• Adam Sandler returns to ‘SNL’ with emotional tribute to Chris Farley

  05-05-2019 21:03 via foxnews.com
  Adam Sandler returned to “Saturday Night Live” this weekend with an emotional tribute to his late friend and co-star Chris Farley.
  
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• USC crew team posters mocked after Lori Loughlin, Olivia Jade college admissions scandal

  05-05-2019 20:59 via foxnews.com
  Did the University of Southern California (USC) crew team foreshadow the college admissions scandal on Twitter?
  
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• Pompeo insists North Korea nuclear deal still possible despite weapons test

  05-05-2019 20:58 via news.yahoo.com
  Secretary of state echoes the president, saying ‘there’s opportunity to get a negotiated outcome’ on a denuclearization dealThe secretary of state, Mike Pompeo, said the latest missile launches ‘landed in the water east of North Korea and didn’t present a threat to the US or to South Korea or Japan’. Photograph: Nicholas Kamm/AFP/Getty ImagesSecretary of State Mike Pompeo insisted Sunday that a nuclear disarmament deal between the US and North Korea was still
  
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• Elderly caught in brutal trap of Venezuelan crisis

  05-05-2019 20:58 via cnn.com
  The slap of dominoes on the rickety wooden table echoes around the courtyard of the Mother Teresa Senior Home on the outskirts of Caracas.
  
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• Correction: Trump-Russia Probe-Congress story

  05-05-2019 20:54 via news.yahoo.com
  WASHINGTON (AP) — In a story May 5 about congressional efforts to force the White House to comply with requests for information related to the special counsel's Russia investigation, The Associated Press reported erroneously that the House Judiciary Committee is demanding a redacted version of Mueller's report. The committee wants an unredacted version.
  
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• Joe Biden Pivots to Courting Black Voters in South Carolina

  05-05-2019 20:45 via news.yahoo.com
  “We’ve got Jim Crow sneaking back in,” the former vice president said Saturday at a rally in Columbia, comparing new restrictions on voting to the racial segregation laws of the past.Biden capped his first week as an official candidate for the Democratic presidential nomination with a weekend trip to the Palmetto State.Both groups will be key to Democrats’ chances of defeating President Donald Trump in 2020.
  
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• Marathon course was too long, organizers admit

  05-05-2019 20:42 via cnn.com
  At 26.2 miles long, running a marathon is no small feat, with those crossing the finish line looking forward to celebrating with anything other than some extra time pounding the pavement.
  
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• UN calls for weeklong truce in Libya's Tripoli

  05-05-2019 20:41 via feeds.foxnews.com
  The U.N. mission to Libya is calling for a weeklong cease-fire in the capital, Tripoli, where forces loyal to a military commander are battling militias loosely allied with a U.N.-supported government.
  
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• Julian Zelizer: Democrats are facing a huge problem

  05-05-2019 20:40 via cnn.com
  If Democrats are not careful, they will end up in the worst of all political worlds.
  
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• Month of Ramadan fasting for many Muslims begins Monday

  05-05-2019 20:30 via feeds.foxnews.com
  Muslims in Southeast Asia and much of the Middle East, including Iraq and Saudi Arabia, are starting the fasting month of Ramadan on Monday.
  
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• 'Tentative date' of May 15 agreed for Mueller to testify before Congress

  05-05-2019 20:28 via news.yahoo.com
  Democratic congressman says: ‘We hope that the special counsel will appear’ while Trump tweets: ‘Bob Mueller should not testify’Special counsel Robert Mueller. Photograph: Tasos Katopodis/Getty ImagesRobert Mueller may be one step closer to being questioned in public on Capitol Hill, with a representative of the special counsel saying he has agreed to testify before Congress, according to a Democratic congressman on Sunday.Rhode Island congressional Representative David C
  
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• New York now has a Wu-Tang Clan District

  05-05-2019 20:21 via cnn.com
  The Wu-Tang Clan will live on forever in New York City's streets.
  
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• 'A duty and an honor': Madonna reflects on decades of LGBTQ activism

  05-05-2019 20:12 via nbcnews.com
  Madonna delivered an emotional acceptance speech at Saturday's 30th annual GLAAD Media Awards, where she received the Advocate for Change award.
  
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• More than 600 rockets fired at Israel from Gaza in less than 24 hours, death toll rises

  05-05-2019 20:02 via feeds.foxnews.com
  The death toll continues to rise Sunday on both sides of the Israel-Gaza border in one of the most intense flare-ups of violence in the region in years, shattering a month-long lull in attacks.
  
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• The Latest: Burning plane lands at Moscow airport; 1 death

  05-05-2019 19:40 via feeds.foxnews.com
  The Latest on an airplane that landed in flames at a Moscow airport (all times local): 8:00 p.m. Russian officials say one person died and at least four were injured after a plane belonging to flagship carrier Aeroflot made an emergency landing in Moscow with flames and smoke billowing from its rear section.
  
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