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• 'Follow the damn law': Ted Cruz scolds Trump admin on arms sales

  10-07-2019 23:58 via cnn.com
  Texas Republican Sen. Ted Cruz had a simple message for the Trump administration during Wednesday's hearing on foreign arms sales: "Follow the damn law."
  
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• 'Follow the damn law': Cruz scolds Trump admin on arms sales

  10-07-2019 23:58 via cnn.com
  Texas Republican Sen. Ted Cruz had a simple message for the Trump administration during Wednesday's hearing on foreign arms sales: "Follow the damn law."
  
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• American scientist who went missing on Crete was asphyxiated

  10-07-2019 23:30 via cnn.com
  Police in Greece say they have opened a homicide investigation in the case of an American scientist who went missing on the island of Crete a week ago, according to her employer.
  
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• Hurricane predicted to make landfall this weekend | Houston is in the cone

  10-07-2019 23:21 via news.yahoo.com
  We have our first forecast from the National Hurricane Center on the tropical disturbance in the Gulf.
  
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• Julio Iglesias ruled to be father of man, 43

  10-07-2019 23:12 via cnn.com
  A Spanish judge has ruled that singer Julio Iglesias is the biological father of a 43-year-old Spanish man, in a judgment published on Wednesday.
  
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• Julio Iglesias ruled to be father of 43-year-old

  10-07-2019 23:12 via cnn.com
  A Spanish judge has ruled that singer Julio Iglesias is the biological father of a 43-year-old Spanish man, in a judgment published on Wednesday.
  
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• New Orleans is flooding, and a hurricane is still on its way

  10-07-2019 23:04 via cnn.com
  The first tropical system to slam the US this year is expected to make landfall as a hurricane. But days before landfall, it's already walloping New Orleans with widespread flooding.
  
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• The guest list at White House social media summit is raising eyebrows

  10-07-2019 23:01 via cnn.com
  Some of the right-wing media universe's biggest stars are set to descend on the White House Thursday for what has been billed as a "social media summit" and will likely become a forum for airing claims of anti-conservative social media bias.
  
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• Jeffrey Epstein's alleged sex trafficking targets: 'The more vulnerable the better,' investigator says

  10-07-2019 22:53 via news.yahoo.com
  "Vulnerable children and girls are all he targets. The more vulnerable ... the better," claims private investigator Mike Fisten of Jeffrey Epstein.
  
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• Pelosi and Schumer: Trump Labor Secretary Acosta must resign over plea deal for Jeffrey Epstein

  10-07-2019 22:52 via news.yahoo.com
  Former Vice President Joe Biden also called on Acosta to resign, writing on Twitter that "The abuse of a child is one of the most heinous, despicable abuses of power imaginable."
  
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• Antarctica's ice is quickly becoming a ticking time bomb

  10-07-2019 22:49 via cnn.com
  There are plenty of ominous indicators of the consequences of climate change, but few are more worrying to scientists than the ice sheets of Antarctica at our planet's southern pole.
  
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• Donald Trump defends Acosta role in plea deal involving accused sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein

  10-07-2019 22:45 via news.yahoo.com
  President Donald Trump defended Labor Secretary Alex Acosta amid calls for his resignation over his role in cutting a plea deal with Jeffrey Epstein.
  
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• Wimbledon gets long-awaited sequel to greatest match ever

  10-07-2019 22:34 via cnn.com
  It's just like old times at Wimbledon in more ways than one.
  
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• Epstein accuser Jennifer Araoz says she was 15 when 'he forcibly raped me'

  10-07-2019 22:34 via news.yahoo.com
  A new accuser says she was forcibly raped at age 15 by Jeffrey Epstein, the wealthy hedge fund leader now jailed on statutory rape charges.
  
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• Inside Jeffrey Epstein's New York mansion: 'Vast trove' of lewd photos, a life-size doll and other oddities

  10-07-2019 22:31 via news.yahoo.com
  Federal agents who searched  the East Side mansion of sex  offender Jeffrey Epstein turned up a 'vast trove' of lewd photos of young-looking girls.
  
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• Mazda Recalls 262,000 Vehicles Because They Could Stall

  10-07-2019 22:19 via news.yahoo.com
  Mazda is recalling more than 260,000 cars and SUVs because a software problem could cause them to stall while driving. The recall includes the 2018 and 2019 CX-5 SUV, 2018 and 2019 Mazda6 sedan, ...
  
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• Mississippi Republican says gay female journalist covering his campaign must have male chaperone

  10-07-2019 22:18 via news.yahoo.com
  A Republican candidate for governor in Mississippi has banned a female reporter from riding along on a campaign trip unless she brought a male colleague to accompany her, citing concerns that the journalist could be used in a smear campaign alleging an extramarital affair.The reporter, Mississippi Today’s Larrison Campbell, wrote about the incident with state representative and candidate Robert Foster on Tuesday, noting that two other candidates in the state’s Republican primary agre
  
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• Accuser says Jeffrey Epstein raped her when she was 15

  10-07-2019 22:14 via news.yahoo.com
  A new accuser of Jeffrey Epstein said Wednesday that the wealthy financier raped her at his New York mansion when she was 15.
  
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• Children banned from Dutch playground for playing too loudly

  10-07-2019 22:00 via feeds.foxnews.com
  A city in the Netherlands has banned children from a school's playground after neighbors complained their play was too noisy. 
  
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• New Epstein accuser: I was 'recruited' at 14

  10-07-2019 21:57 via cnn.com
  "I was terrified and I was telling him to stop, please stop."
  
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• Jennifer Araoz describes her alleged encounters and says she told the multimillionaire to 'stop, please stop'

  10-07-2019 21:57 via cnn.com
  "I was terrified and I was telling him to stop, please stop."
  
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• Toddler cruise ship death: Grandfather thought window was closed, lawyer says

  10-07-2019 21:49 via news.yahoo.com
  An attorney said that Chloe Wiegand's grandfather sat the 1-year-old girl on a railing in a play area near what he believed was a closed window.
  
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• Legalize it, marijuana advocates tell Congress

  10-07-2019 21:47 via news.yahoo.com
  Marijuana, the subject of a Wednesday hearing of the House Judiciary Committee, has become increasingly uncontroversial, with even a majority of Republicans in a 2018 poll saying they wanted the drug made legal.
  
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• Indiana teacher fired for same-sex marriage sues archdiocese

  10-07-2019 21:42 via news.yahoo.com
  A Catholic high school teacher who was fired because he's in a same-sex marriage sued the Archdiocese of Indianapolis on Wednesday, accusing it of discrimination and interfering with his teaching contract.Joshua Payne-Elliott is suing the archdiocese in Marion County court and seeking unspecified compensatory, emotional distress and other damages.Payne-Elliott taught at Cathedral High School for 13 years and Cathedral renewed his annual teaching contract on May 21, his attorney, Kathleen DeLaney
  
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• Trump's labor secretary defends sweetheart deal for Epstein

  10-07-2019 21:33 via cnn.com
  Labor Secretary Alex Acosta is expected to make a statement Wednesday afternoon amid renewed scrutiny of his role securing a sweetheart deal for Jeffrey Epstein more than a decade ago.
  
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• Russian Navy Claims Sailors Prevented 'Planetary Catastrophe'

  10-07-2019 21:33 via news.yahoo.com
  Was the damaged submarine’s reactor in danger of causing a nuclear accident?
  
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• New Orleans threatened by floods as big storm forms

  10-07-2019 21:31 via news.yahoo.com
  The US city of New Orleans was under a storm-surge watch Wednesday along with a stretch of Louisiana coast as a tropical storm formed in the Gulf of Mexico, threatening the region with potentially life-threatening rains."Conditions appear favorable for this system to strengthen to a hurricane as it approaches the central Gulf Coast by the weekend," the Miami-based National Hurricane Center said.A flash flood emergency was declared earlier Wednesday in New Orleans, part of which is built below se
  
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• Addicted to the internet? Behavioral therapy could work, researchers find

  10-07-2019 21:31 via cnn.com
  Many people spend hours on the internet every week -- but some people can't pull away.
  
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• Border arrests dropped sharply in June

  10-07-2019 21:29 via news.yahoo.com
  Border Patrol arrested roughly 95,000 migrants in June, according to figures released Wednesday by Customs and Border Protection.
  
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• Ex-White House Counsel Gregory Craig Asks Judge to Toss Lobbying Case

  10-07-2019 21:22 via news.yahoo.com
  (Bloomberg) -- Gregory Craig, the former White House counsel accused of misleading the U.S. about work he did for a pro-Russia government in Ukraine, asked a judge to throw out the two-count criminal indictment against him.Craig’s lawyers told U.S. District Judge Amy Berman Jackson on Wednesday the charges are technically flawed and their client is being accused of failing to disclose information he hadn’t been asked about and had no duty to reveal to enforcers of the Foreign Agents
  
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• FOREX-Dollar slammed after Powell's bleak U.S. outlook

  10-07-2019 21:08 via news.yahoo.com
  * GRAPHIC-World FX rates in 2019: http://tmsnrt.rs/2egbfVh* Fed's Powell says trade, global concerns weigh on U.S. economy* Dollar hits session low vs yen, euro after Powell remarks* Markets expect 25-basis-point cut later this month(Adds analyst comment, updates prices)By Gertrude Chavez-DreyfussNEW YORK, July 10 (Reuters) - The dollar retreated on Wednesday after Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell struck a downbeat tone in congressional testimony, saying trade uncertainties and concerns ab
  
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• Body of Slain University of Utah Student Mackenzie Lueck Was Found Bound in Shallow Grave

  10-07-2019 21:04 via news.yahoo.com
  The man accused of killing University of Utah student Mackenzie Lueck has been charged with murder days after police found her body in a shallow grave, the Salt Lake County District Attorney’s Office said on Wednesday.Ayoola Ajayi, a 31-year-old former Army IT specialist, was formally charged Tuesday with aggravated murder, aggravated kidnapping, desecration of a human body, and obstruction of justice. On June 3, authorities found Lueck’s body in a shallow grave about an hour from th
  
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• Labor secretary Acosta defends role in Epstein's 'sweetheart' plea deal – live

  10-07-2019 20:59
  Embattled former US attorney claims in 2008 he stepped in to secure guilty plea when it looked like Epstein was going to walk freeSign up for the US briefing and get a new perspective 7.58pm BST Acosta says he believed his team proceeded “appropriately” but won’t say whether he harbors any regrets, saying the goal was to avoid a deal allowing Epstein to “walk free”. “We did what we did because we wanted to see Epstein go to jail,” Acosta said. “He
  
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• El Salvador rape victim jailed for murder after stillbirth faces retrial

  10-07-2019 20:52
  Pro-choice activists say Evelyn Beatríz Hernández’s case will be important in determining the stance of the country’s new leader A teenage rape victim in El Salvador who was convicted for murdering her child and jailed for nearly three years after a stillbirth will face a retrial next week, her lawyers said on Wednesday.Evelyn Beatríz Hernández was handed a 30-year prison sentence in 2017 for aggravated murder by a female judge who ruled the teenager had i
  
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• Virginia Lt. Gov. Fairfax says eyewitness backs up his story

  10-07-2019 20:28 via news.yahoo.com
  An attorney for Virginia Lt. Gov. Justin Fairfax says there's a witness who can corroborate his story that he did not rape a woman while they were students at Duke University nearly 20 years ago.Fairfax lawyer Barry Pollack sent a letter Tuesday to a North Carolina prosecutor saying the unnamed witness "has stated unequivocally" that the allegations made against Fairfax are false.Once a rising star among Virginia Democrats, Fairfax has fended off widespread calls for his resignation after two wo
  
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• Another Woman Has Come Forward Alleging Jeffrey Epstein Sexually Assaulted Her When She Was 15 Years Old

  10-07-2019 20:26 via news.yahoo.com
  "I was terrified and I was telling him to stop, 'please stop.'"
  
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• Jennifer Araoz describes her alleged encounters and says she told the multi-millionaire to 'stop, please stop'

  10-07-2019 20:23 via cnn.com
  "I was terrified and I was telling him to stop, please stop."
  
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• Iran, Russia pour scorn on US moves at UN nuclear watchdog

  10-07-2019 20:13 via news.yahoo.com
  Iran and Russia on Wednesday poured scorn on America's call for Tehran to adhere to limits in a 2015 nuclear deal with world powers, at a special meeting of the UN's nuclear watchdog.The meeting of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) was requested by the US after it was confirmed last week that Iran had exceeded the stockpile of enriched uranium permitted under the 2015 Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA).The US Ambassador to International Organizations in Vienna Jackie Wolcott
  
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• Gatwick airport halts all flights due to control tower problem

  10-07-2019 20:02
  Flights were suspended at 5pm because of ‘air traffic control system issue’ Gatwick airport has suspended all flights due to an “air traffic control system issue” in its control tower.The London airport said on Twitter: “We are working with [Air Navigation Systems], our provider, to rectify this issue as quickly as possible. We apologise and advise passengers to check flight info with your airline.” Continue reading...
  
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• World's major cities to face 'unknown' climate conditions by 2050

  10-07-2019 20:00 via news.yahoo.com
  A fifth of the world's major cities will face "unknown" climate conditions by 2050, researchers warned on Wednesday, as rising temperatures heighten the risks of drought and flooding.Climate scientists at the Crowther Lab, a research group based at ETH Zurich, a science and technology university, analysed 520 cities across the world, including all capitals and most urban centres with a population of more than 1 million.Looking at current climate conditions in these cities - including precipitati
  
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• Global heating: London to have climate similar to Barcelona by 2050

  10-07-2019 20:00
  Nearly 80% of cities to undergo dramatic and potentially disastrous changes, study findsLondon will have a similar climate in three decades’ time to that of Barcelona today, according to research – but if that seems enticing, a warning: the change could be accompanied by severe drought.Madrid will feel like present-day Marrakech by 2050, and Stockholm like Budapest, according to a report on the likely impacts of the climate crisis. Around the world, cities that are currently in tempe
  
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• CORRECTED-World's major cities to face 'unknown' climate conditions by 2050

  10-07-2019 20:00 via news.yahoo.com
  A fifth of the world's major cities will face "unknown" climate conditions by 2050, researchers warned on Wednesday, as rising temperatures heighten the risks of drought and flooding.Climate scientists at the Crowther Lab, a research group based at ETH Zurich, a science and technology university, analysed 520 cities across the world, including all capitals and most urban centres with a population of more than 1 million.Looking at current climate conditions in these cities - including precipitati
  
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• Australians locked out of NDIS because they declined invasive surgery, advocate finds

  10-07-2019 20:00
  Man with chronic back pain rejected after declining operation his doctor said had only 50% chance of successAustralians are being denied access to the National Disability Insurance Scheme because they have declined to undergo invasive surgery or take psychiatric drugs.Under NDIS rules, a person must have a permanent condition and there must be no “appropriate evidence-based clinical, medical or other treatments” available that would be likely cure their condition. Continue reading...
  
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• Australia urged to invest in recycling manufacturing after Indonesia sends rubbish back

  10-07-2019 20:00
  Kickstart the domestic market so Asian countries rejecting Australian waste is no longer a problem, industry suggestsIndonesia and other countries rejecting Australian waste will no longer be a problem if governments quickly invest in recycling manufacturing as promised and require public servants to use recycled material, industry and environmental groups say.Jakarta announced on Tuesday it would return 210 tonnes of Australian household rubbish – the latest demonstration of opposition in
  
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• 12-year-old Broadway fan shines on 'America's Got Talent'

  10-07-2019 19:58 via cnn.com
  "America's Got Talent" judge Julianne Hough brought 12-year-old aspiring Broadway star Luke Islam to tears by awarding him the golden buzzer.
  
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• 'Breaking Bad' stars reveal secret project

  10-07-2019 19:55 via cnn.com
  "Breaking Bad" stars Aaron Paul and Bryan Cranston finally reveal the secret project they reunited to collaborate on. HLN's Robin Meade reports.
  
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• NASA's plan to keep the Voyager spacecraft awake and flying

  10-07-2019 19:54 via cnn.com
  NASA's Voyager 1 and 2 are the longest-flying spacecraft in history; 42 years after they launched, both are still going strong and sending back data as they explore interstellar space. It's the farthest we've ever pushed into space. And the spacecraft were initially designed to last only five years.
  
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• A man survives plunge over Niagara Falls

  10-07-2019 19:53 via news.yahoo.com
  A man who was swept over the largest of the Niagara Falls has been recovered alive, found sitting on a rock in the river below with non-life threatening injuries, Canadian police said Wednesday.Niagara Park police responded to a call at 4:00 am Tuesday about a "man in crisis" on the brink of Horseshoe Falls, a 188-foot (57-meter) plunge."Male was found sitting on rocks after search of lower river w/non life threatening injuries," the police report said.
  
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• Integrity of China’s Three Gorges Dam questioned despite officials dismissing it as safe

  10-07-2019 19:44 via feeds.foxnews.com
  China’s Three Gorges Dam, the world’s biggest and most controversial hydropower structure, was rumored to have been cracking and splitting as people posted satellite images of the structure last week. Chinese officials stated the structure was sound, denying online rumors that the construction was at risk of collapse.
  
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• Al Qaeda chief calls for unrelenting Kashmir jihad against India and says Pakistan cannot be trusted

  10-07-2019 19:40 via news.yahoo.com
  Al Qaeda's chief has called on jihadists in Kashmir to launch unrelenting blows against India as he also attacked Pakistan's army, ,saying it could not be trusted to liberate the territory. Ayman al-Zawahiri used a video statement to call militants to wage attacks “to bleed the Indian economy and make India suffer sustained losses in manpower and equipment”. The statement was an attempt by the group to stake a claim to Islamist jihad in South Asia after competition from Islamic State
  
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