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• Tax returns show Biden income spiked after leaving office

  09-07-2019 23:57 via news.yahoo.com
  Democrat Joe Biden made more than $15 million in the two years since leaving the US vice presidency, according to tax returns released Tuesday, making him the wealthiest major 2020 challenger to President Donald Trump.The Democratic frontrunner's income spiked to $11 million in 2017 from just under $400,000 one year earlier, when he was serving his final year as vice president.The majority of the $11,037,751 in 2017 income and the $4,580,437 in 2018 is attributable to book payments -- Biden wrot
  
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• Tory leadership: Johnson and Hunt trade blows over Brexit and Trump

  09-07-2019 23:56 via bbc.co.uk
  Jeremy Hunt and Boris Johnson trade blows over Europe and US diplomatic row in fractious ITV encounter.
  
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• UK envoy's leaked views inspire more insults in Trump tweets

  09-07-2019 23:48 via news.yahoo.com
  U.S. President Donald Trump lashed out at Britain's ambassador to the United States for a second day, describing him as "wacky" and a "pompous fool" after leaked documents revealed the envoy's dim view of Trump's administration.Trump fired off a series of tweets about Ambassador Kim Darroch hours after British Prime Minister Theresa May gave the veteran diplomat her continued support."The wacky Ambassador that the U.K. foisted upon the United States is not someone we are thrilled with, a very st
  
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• US family blames cruise company for toddler's death

  09-07-2019 23:38 via bbc.co.uk
  The family's lawyer says the cruise company should not have left an open window in a play area.
  
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• Fox News host calls USWNT 'unpatriotic'

  09-07-2019 23:30 via cnn.com
  Fox News host Jesse Watters criticizes the US Women's National Team for their political activism, alleging that it will hurt their case for equal pay.
  
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• Federal judges grill Democratic attorneys general over Obamacare' existence

  09-07-2019 23:25 via nbcnews.com
  The focus was on whether the Affordable Care Act lost its justification after Trump eliminated the tax penalty for not having insurance.
  
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• Nicki Minaj cancels Saudi Arabia concert

  09-07-2019 23:22 via nbcnews.com
  "There is no good reason for Minaj to do business with the Saudi dictatorship,” the Human Rights Foundation's president said.
  
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• Lady Gaga in exclusive Amazon deal to launch beauty range

  09-07-2019 23:20 via bbc.co.uk
  The star is bypassing traditional retailers by selling Haus Laboratories through the online giant.
  
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• Report: Focus on Mexican border may cost northern resources

  09-07-2019 23:18 via news.yahoo.com
  Plans to reduce staffing shortages on the U.S. border with Canada could be hindered because the focus is on border security at the U.S. border with Mexico, according to a report by the federal Government Accountability Office.The U.S. Border Patrol, the agency responsible for securing the land border with Canada between ports and entry, and the Air and Marine Operations, which provides aerial surveillance and along waterways both said they were experiencing shortages of staff and equipment that'
  
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• Biden made almost $16 million in two years after leaving White House, tax returns show

  09-07-2019 23:15 via nbcnews.com
  The former vice president, who is leading in the presidential polls, released financial information about his and his wife's sources of income.
  
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• Vice President Pence to visit border amid outcry over conditions at migrant detention centers

  09-07-2019 23:09 via news.yahoo.com
  Vice President Mike Pence is traveling to the southern border Friday, the same day that House Democrats are holding a hearing on migrant detention centers.
  
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• Trump's envoy spat divides British PM rivals

  09-07-2019 23:07 via cnn.com
  British Foreign Secretary Jeremy Hunt lashed out at US President Donald Trump on Tuesday, describing his public criticism of the UK ambassador to the US as "disrespectful and wrong."
  
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• Boris Johnson refuses to rule out firing ambassador to US after Jeremy Hunt earlier called Trump 'disrespectful'

  09-07-2019 23:07 via cnn.com
  British Foreign Secretary Jeremy Hunt lashed out at US President Donald Trump on Tuesday, describing his public criticism of the UK ambassador to the US as "disrespectful and wrong."
  
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• Boris Johnson refused to rule out firing ambassador

  09-07-2019 23:07 via cnn.com
  Boris Johnson, the favorite to succeed Theresa May as British Prime Minister, has refused to rule out firing the UK ambassador to Washington who provoked the ire of US President Donald Trump.
  
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• Fact: America Has No Way to Attack Venezula Using Navy Aircraft Carriers

  09-07-2019 23:06 via news.yahoo.com
  It’s true that U.S. Southern Command permanently controls none of the U.S. Navy’s 11 aircraft carrier and few other major forces.A failed coup attempt targeting Venezuelan president Nicolas Maduro on April 30 ended in confusion and failure. Russian and Cuban advisors and a strong core of the Venezuelan military continues to support Maduro amid economic collapse and widespread protests.(This first appeared several weeks ago.)U.S. president Donald Trump in 2018 threatened military acti
  
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• Billionaire and activist Tom Steyer announces run for president

  09-07-2019 23:06 via news.yahoo.com
  On Tuesday morning, billionaire and activist Tom Steyer became the most recent Democrat to join the race for president.
  
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• France sends top diplomat to Iran as Europe urges uranium enrichment cutback

  09-07-2019 23:05 via feeds.foxnews.com
  France dispatched a top diplomat to Iran Tuesday while joining Germany and Britain in calling for the Tehran regime to scale back its recent uranium enrichment activities "without delay."
  
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• Conspiracy theory about slain DNC staffer was planted by Russian intelligence, report finds

  09-07-2019 23:04 via nbcnews.com
  A former assistant U.S. attorney told Yahoo that U.S. intelligence officials found Russia had planted and fomented the theory.
  
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• Michael Flynn's prospects for lenient sentence now in doubt

  09-07-2019 23:02 via nbcnews.com
  Prosecutors said they don't agree with Trump's former national security adviser's explanations related to his conduct on behalf of the Turkish government.
  
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• UNESCO's new World Heritage sites for 2019

  09-07-2019 22:49 via cnn.com
  From the ruins of ancient Babylon in Iraq to the architecture of Frank Lloyd Wright to the Prosecco region of northeast Italy, UNESCO's World Heritage Committee added 29 new cultural and natural sites to its World Heritage List at its annual meeting in Baku, Azerbaijan.
  
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• You too can soon get Gaga glammed

  09-07-2019 22:48 via cnn.com
  Lady Gaga knows the world already has plenty of beauty brands. She still wants to introduce you to hers.
  
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• Britain's PM hopefuls battle over Brexit in bad-tempered debate

  09-07-2019 22:45 via news.yahoo.com
  Boris Johnson and Jeremy Hunt, rivals to become Britain's next prime minister, clashed over who could be most trusted on Brexit on Tuesday in a sometimes bad-natured television debate just two weeks before one will be crowned. With Johnson way out in front of the race to replace Prime Minister Theresa May, both were asked repeatedly to prove that they would take Britain out of the European Union on Oct. 31 and would protect business from a so-called no-deal Brexit. More than three years since Br
  
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• Boeing falls behind Airbus in deliveries as 737 MAX crisis bites

  09-07-2019 22:45 via news.yahoo.com
  Airbus is on track to overtake Boeing in commercial plane deliveries for 2019 after outpacing its US rival at mid-year following the 737 MAX grounding, according to data released Tuesday.Boeing, which has halted deliveries of the top-selling plane since mid-March, reported 239 commercial plane deliveries in 2019 through the year's midpoint, down 37 percent from the year-ago period.Airbus reported 389 deliveries for the same period, up 28 percent from the same period in 2018, according to data on
  
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• Israel shoots down drone, discovers tunnel from Gaza

  09-07-2019 22:37 via news.yahoo.com
  Israel's military shot down a drone on Monday that crossed into its territory from the Gaza Strip and found an attack tunnel running under the Gaza perimeter fence.
  
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• Saudi princess tried in absentia for alleged Paris beating

  09-07-2019 22:36 via news.yahoo.com
  The only daughter of Saudi Arabia's King Salman was put on trial in absentia Tuesday in Paris for allegedly ordering her bodyguard to strike a plumber she suspected of taking photos and video at the Saudi royal family's apartment in the French capital.Prosecutors allege Princess Hessa bint Salman became enraged when she saw the plumber allegedly capturing her image, fearing the pictures could be used to harm her as the Saudi monarch's daughter due to her country's conservative traditions.The pri
  
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• After Epstein fallout, Acosta's critics warn of 'troubling' lack of resources for trafficking victims

  09-07-2019 22:36 via nbcnews.com
  "I can tell you with a high degree of certainty that the new procedures will slow down the process exponentially," one advocate for human trafficking victims said.
  
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• Wimbledon 2019: The making of MurRena and umpire goes flying - day eight funnies

  09-07-2019 22:31 via bbc.co.uk
  Watch the quirkier moments from day eight at Wimbledon as Andy Murray declares Serena Williams the "boss" of MurRena and an umpire takes a comedy fall.
  
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• US Marines charged with smuggling in migrants

  09-07-2019 22:28 via cnn.com
  Two US Marines are accused of smuggling Mexican immigrants into the United States, according to court documents.
  
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• Julian Zelizer: Ross Perot, who lost an election and transformed the world

  09-07-2019 22:25 via cnn.com
  Sometimes the losers in presidential politics still have an immense impact on the way that we conduct our democracy.
  
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• $3.7 million in cash discovered in abandoned boat in Puerto Rico, Border Patrol says

  09-07-2019 22:25 via news.yahoo.com
  Authorities followed a boat to the island’s coast and found five duffel bags containing $3.7 million in cash.
  
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• Two active-duty Marines accused of smuggling migrants from Mexico for cash

  09-07-2019 22:24 via news.yahoo.com
  Lance Cpls. Byron Darnell Law II and David Salazar-Quintero, both active-duty Marines stationed at Camp Pendleton, were arrested by Border Patrol agents.
  
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• 91 Freeway shooting: Family releases photo of teen girl killed in officer-involved shooting

  09-07-2019 22:24 via news.yahoo.com
  Family members have released the photo of a 17-year-old girl killed in an officer-involved shooting on the 91 Freeway in Anaheim.
  
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• Canine capers as dog owners dress up pets

  09-07-2019 22:14 via bbc.co.uk
  The PAWmicon event saw pet owners in San Diego get creative with costumes for themselves and their pets.
  
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• McConnell: I’m with Obama on reparations

  09-07-2019 22:11 via news.yahoo.com
  The former president also opposed the idea.
  
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• Drugmakers Boost Prices Up to 909%, Defying Political Pressure

  09-07-2019 22:03 via news.yahoo.com
  (Bloomberg) -- Bipartisan efforts to lower drug prices in Washington have not prevented drugmakers from going about their business and raising drug prices, according to Wells Fargo & Co.In fact, analysts at the firm found that pharmaceutical companies are getting aggressive in their price hikes again. Wells Fargo’s analysis of Wolters Kluwer PriceRx data found that companies have raised medicine costs by 27% on average last month, with a subsidiary of Teva Pharmaceutical Industries Ltd
  
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• Delta airlines flight makes emergency landing after broken plane part flies into engine after takeoff

  09-07-2019 22:03 via news.yahoo.com
  A flight made an emergency landing after a piece of the plane broke off and flew into the engine. The malfunction occurred nearly an hour into Delta flight number 1425, after the plane had departed from Atlanta to Baltimore on Monday. Passengers described smoke filling the cabin area before a tense emergency landing in North Carolina.“After we heard the boom, we just saw all this smoke come up into the cabin and that’s when we really started freaking out,” one passenger told Ba
  
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• McConnell cites Obama in reparations debate: 'We both are the descendants of slave owners'

  09-07-2019 21:55 via news.yahoo.com
  Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell responds to reports that his great-great-grandfathers owned slaves.
  
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• Iran Guards commander says U.S. bases are in range of its missiles: Tasnim

  09-07-2019 21:55 via news.yahoo.com
  A commander in Iran's elite Revolutionary Guards said on Tuesdaythat U.S. regional bases and its aircraft carriers in the Gulf are within the range of Iranian missiles, the Tasnim news agency reported, amid heightened tension between Tehran and Washington."American bases are within the range of our missiles ... Our missiles will destroy their aircraft carriers if they make a mistake," said Hossein Nejat.
  
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• Doctors urged to look for early signs of polio-like condition in kids

  09-07-2019 21:55 via nbcnews.com
  Cases tend to pop up in late summer and early fall, but doctors aren't expecting many cases this year.
  
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• Celtic claim vital Champions League win in Sarajevo

  09-07-2019 21:50 via bbc.co.uk
  Celtic took a significant step towards the second round of Champions League qualifying after an impressive 3-1 win over FK Sarajevo in Bosnia.
  
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• Biden and wife made more than $15 million after leaving office

  09-07-2019 21:50 via news.yahoo.com
  Former U.S. Vice President Joe Biden and his wife, Jill, earned more than $15 million in the two years after Biden left government in early 2017, according to tax records released by his campaign on Tuesday.The majority of their income came from speaking engagements and payments for two books written by Biden, a top contender for the 2020 Democratic presidential nomination.Biden earned more than $775,000 in salary as a professor at the University of Pennsylvania in 2017 and 2018.
  
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• Nicki Minaj pulls out of Saudi Arabia festival after backlash

  09-07-2019 21:41 via bbc.co.uk
  The rapper says she has "better educated" herself amid a human rights backlash.
  
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• Serena fined $10,000 for damaging court

  09-07-2019 21:40 via cnn.com
  • Phones 'ringing off the hook' for Coco Gauff
  
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• A shark was eaten whole in a deep-sea feeding frenzy

  09-07-2019 21:40 via cnn.com
  Perhaps the old saying is true: You are what you eat.
  
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• A hundred years of spy gadgets at Britain's GCHQ

  09-07-2019 21:23 via bbc.co.uk
  GCHQ is 100 years old - here are some of their previously unseen gadgets, including "secret dust".
  
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• American scientist who vanished in Greece found dead

  09-07-2019 21:16 via nbcnews.com
  Suzanne Eaton, a molecular biologist from California working in Germany, went missing July 2. Her body was found in Crete on Monday.
  
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• Ross Perot: The self-made billionaire who upended US politics

  09-07-2019 21:07 via bbc.co.uk
  The self-made Texan billionaire and business pathfinder who twice ran for president.
  
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• Shark swallowed whole during rarely seen deep-sea feast

  09-07-2019 21:06 via cnn.com
  
  A rare video from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration captures the moment a wreckfish ambushes and swallows a whole shark.
  
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• Shark eaten whole in feeding frenzy

  09-07-2019 21:06 via cnn.com
  A rare video from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration captures the moment a wreckfish ambushes and swallows a whole shark.
  
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• Rare underwater video shows shark feeding frenzy

  09-07-2019 21:06 via cnn.com
  A rare video from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration captures the moment a wreckfish ambushes and swallows a whole shark.
  
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