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• Slim chance of ever finding Chinese scholar's body

  19-07-2019 23:54 via news.yahoo.com
  Brendt Christensen, a former doctoral student in physics at the University of Illinois, abducted Yingying Zhang in 2017 from a bus stop.In filings before the trial began in June, prosecutors acknowledged they considered a plea deal with Christensen after his arrest in late 2017 in which they would abandon plans to seek the death penalty if he divulged what he did with the remains and where they could be found.State and federal officials conducted widespread searches for Zhang's remains for month
  
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• S. Korean man kills himself as dispute with Japan escalates

  19-07-2019 23:52 via news.yahoo.com
  An elderly South Korean man died on Friday after setting himself on fire outside the Japanese embassy in Seoul as a bitter diplomatic dispute over wartime forced labour compensation took a fatal turn.The row has seen Tokyo restrict exports of chemicals vital to Seoul's world-leading chip and smartphone industry in an escalation of a decades-long dispute over Japanese forced labour during World War II.
  
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• 'Manhole' becomes 'maintenance hole' as Berkeley switches to gender-neutral language

  19-07-2019 23:46 via abcnews.go.com
  Berkeley City Council votes to revise the city’s municipal code to include gender-neutral language.
  
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• Pompeo rejects North Korean charges on military drills

  19-07-2019 23:35 via news.yahoo.com
  U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo has rejected charges from North Korea's Foreign Ministry that U.S. plans for military exercises with South Korea are in breach of agreements between North Korean leader Kim Jong Un and President Donald Trump.North Korea's Foreign Ministry spokesman said on Tuesday Trump had reaffirmed in a meeting with Kim last month that joint exercises would be halted and the U.S. decision to forge ahead with them was "clearly a breach" of the two leaders' agreements at a su
  
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• US offers $7 mn to find Hezbollah agent as Pompeo visits Argentina

  19-07-2019 23:33 via news.yahoo.com
  The United States on Friday offered a $7 million reward to find a Hezbollah operative accused of masterminding a deadly 1994 attack on a Jewish center in Buenos Aires, as Secretary of State Mike Pompeo sought to unite Latin American nations against the militants.Pompeo visited to mark the 25th anniversary of Argentina's deadliest attack, lighting a candle at the site of the Argentine Israelite Mutual Association where a plaque lists the names of the 85 dead.
  
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• This bird was nearly extinct. Now, its population could double thanks to an 'epic' breeding season

  19-07-2019 23:14 via cnn.com
  The orange-fronted parakeet is one of the rarest birds in New Zealand, but its population may have doubled after an "epic" season of mating.
  
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• Pittsburgh marks its 4th alligator sighting since May

  19-07-2019 23:09 via news.yahoo.com
  A baby alligator was found far from the tropics in the parking lot of a grocery store outside Pittsburgh on Friday morning, the fourth alligator discovered near the city since May.An employee found the 2-foot-long (60-centimeter-long) creature near a garbage can at the Giant Eagle grocery store in Shaler, about 10 miles (15 kilometers) north of Pittsburgh."It looks like a little baby alligator," Shaler Township Police Lt. Dave Banko told the Tribune Review newspaper.
  
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• Donald Trump's accusers: 'The forgotten' women of the #MeToo movement

  19-07-2019 23:09 via cnn.com
  Each woman remembers without a shadow of a doubt exactly what they were wearing the moment they say Donald Trump assaulted them.
  
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• Trump accuser: This moment was my tipping point

  19-07-2019 23:06 via cnn.com
  The women who have accused Donald Trump of sexual misconduct say they feel left behind by the #MeToo movement. CNN's MJ Lee has their stories.
  
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• Drone targets base of Iran-backed militia in northern Iraq

  19-07-2019 23:03 via feeds.foxnews.com
  Iraqi security officials announced Friday that an unmanned drone dropped explosives on a base belonging to Iran-backed paramilitary forces in northern Iraq, wounding two people.
  
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• Man Arrested After Allegedly Raping 4-Year-Old at Oklahoma McDonald's

  19-07-2019 22:51 via news.yahoo.com
  A man was arrested after he allegedly raped a 4-year-old inside a bathroom at a McDonald's in Midwest City, Oklahoma.
  
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• A second ship has been seized: US officials

  19-07-2019 22:51 via cnn.com
  Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) says its navy has captured the British-flagged oil tanker, Stena Impero, in the Strait of Hormuz, according to Iran's state-run Press TV.
  
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• Venezuelan teen blinded by police fire still wants to study

  19-07-2019 22:50 via news.yahoo.com
  A Venezuelan teenager who lost his eyesight when he was hit by police buckshot during a protest said Friday that he wants to continue studying.Wearing reflective sunglasses, 16-year-old Rufo Chacón also spoke about difficult living conditions in his home state of Táchira, where he was injured during a demonstration over a lack of cooking gas early this month."You see continuous darkness," Chacón told journalists outside the Caracas office of Foro Penal, a human rights group.
  
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• Apollo 11 astronaut Buzz Aldrin complains about current U.S. lunar ability

  19-07-2019 22:48 via news.yahoo.com
  When President Donald Trump asked Buzz Aldrin, the second human ever to walk on the moon, what he thought about the United States' current ability to operate in space 50 years after the Apollo 11 mission, the ex-astronaut had a ready response."Actually, I've been a little disappointed over the last 10 or 15 years," Aldrin told Trump on Friday.With the 50th anniversary of the first moon landing being celebrated this week, Trump brought into the Oval Office the surviving astronauts from that missi
  
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• Immigrants seeking asylum leave home countries because of 'unlivable conditions'

  19-07-2019 22:44 via news.yahoo.com
  Eitan Pelen, manager of UNICEF USA's Child Migration & Protection, explains why immigrant families seek asylum and why action must be taken to protect them.
  
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• Charges dropped in case alleging girl's forced birth control

  19-07-2019 22:44 via news.yahoo.com
  Charges were dropped Friday against a woman accused of forcing her friend's 12-year-old daughter to get a birth control implant without the mother's permission.Online court documents show two felony counts of endangering the welfare of children and a misdemeanor charge of recklessly endangering another person were withdrawn against 29-year-old Valerie Fullum.Fullum's attorney, Steve Townsend, said that the girl was never forced to get the implant, and that story was fabricated by others who want
  
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• Bernie Sanders defends staff pay after complaints his campaign isn't paying $15 an hour

  19-07-2019 22:44 via news.yahoo.com
  Bernie Sanders defended his campaign’s compensation package after an article highlighted concerns that staffers weren't receiving the $15-an-hour wage he champions.
  
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• A lost archive of LA crime scenes

  19-07-2019 22:32 via bbc.co.uk
  Unseen for up to 80 years, this trove of crime scene photos blurs the line between evidence and art.
  
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• Laws banning gay sex under challenge in tiny Caribbean nation

  19-07-2019 22:31 via news.yahoo.com
  A gay man in the tiny Caribbean nation of Dominica filed a legal claim challenging its laws that ban gay sex and punish same-sex relations with prison terms and psychiatric confinement, a Canada-based rights group said on Friday.Dominica is one of nine Caribbean countries that outlaw gay sex, and taking down its ban could build momentum to address the anti-gay laws throughout the region, supporters said.The challenge seeks to prove the law violates Dominica's constitution that guarantees rights
  
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• Tiger Woods misses Open cut, yearns for 'hot weeks'

  19-07-2019 22:26 via cnn.com
  Questions, questions.
  
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• Tiger Woods misses Open cut

  19-07-2019 22:26 via cnn.com
  Questions, questions.
  
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• 2.2 earthquake rattles Berks County, Pa.

  19-07-2019 22:21 via news.yahoo.com
  A small earthquake was recorded in parts of Berks County on Friday.
  
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• U.S. citizen accused of becoming ISIS sniper and training fighters in Syria

  19-07-2019 22:19
  Ruslan Maratovich Asainov is accused of trying to recruit someone he didn't know was a confidential informant for the New York City Police Department.
  
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• Mother seeks answers in son Joseph Miranda's Maryland workplace death

  19-07-2019 22:19
  Joseph Miranda was run over by farming equipment at his workplace in Baltimore, Maryland on July 20, 2006. Originally ruled an accident, Joseph’s death has since been reclassified as a homicide.
  
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• Michelle Obama counters Trump: 'There's a place for us all'

  19-07-2019 22:18 via news.yahoo.com
  Former First Lady Michelle Obama countered President Trump’s attacks on four Democratic congresswomen of color by emphasizing the importance of America’s diversity.
  
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• Ahead of U.S. deadline, Mexico minister has fulfilled migration enforcement pledge

  19-07-2019 22:18 via news.yahoo.com
  Mexican Foreign Minister Marcelo Ebrard said on Friday that Mexico has followed through on its commitment to the United States to reduce migration from Central America, as a deadline in a bilateral pact approaches.U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo is scheduled to travel to Mexico City to discuss migration and trade with Ebrard on Sunday, a day before the end of a 45-day period in which the Mexican government pledged to significantly lower the number of people trying to cross the U.S. border il
  
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• Baby's family mad about hospital bills in cut-from-womb case

  19-07-2019 22:17 via news.yahoo.com
  A Chicago-area hospital says it regrets sending bills to the family of a baby boy who died about seven weeks after attackers cut him from his mother's womb.Advocate Christ Medical Center in Oak Lawn sent bills for Yovanny Lopez's care that totaled about $300,000, said the family's lawyer, Frank Avila.Some bills even referred to Yovanny as "Figueroa, boy" — the last name of Clarisa Figueroa, who is accused of orchestrating the attack on the baby's mother so that she could claim him as her o
  
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• Brazil alerted companies about U.S. embargo on Iran: Bolsonaro

  19-07-2019 22:13 via news.yahoo.com
  The Brazilian government has been alerting local companies about the extent of sanctions imposed by the United States on Iran and the possible consequences in case of noncompliance, President Jair Bolsonaro said on Friday."There is this problem, the U.S. unilaterally imposed these sanctions on Iran.Brazilian companies have been informed by us about this situation and are running a risk there," Bolsonaro told reporters.
  
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• UPDATE 1-Britain says seizure of two vessels by Iran is unacceptable

  19-07-2019 22:04 via news.yahoo.com
  Britain said Iran's seizure of a British-flagged vessel and a Liberian-flagged vessel in the Strait of Hormuz was unacceptable and called for freedom of navigation in the Gulf."I'm extremely concerned by the seizure of two vessels by Iranian authorities in the Strait of Hormuz," Foreign Secretary Jeremy Hunt said."I will shortly attend a COBR (national security) meeting to review what we know and what we can do to swiftly secure the release of the two vessels - a British-flagged vessel and a Lib
  
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• Spanish politician arrested for alleged underground marijuana operation

  19-07-2019 21:58 via feeds.foxnews.com
  A Spanish politician from the conservative Popular Party (PP) resigned Thursday after being arrested on charges of running an underground marijuana-growing operation.
  
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• Mom, daughter accused in pregnant teen's murder now charged in her baby's death

  19-07-2019 21:53 via news.yahoo.com
  The suspects are accused of killing a teen who carried her baby to full term before she was killed.
  
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• Five ways the US heatproofs 50C cities

  19-07-2019 21:44 via bbc.co.uk
  Much of the US is baking this weekend. But several cities are doing innovative things to combat rising temperatures.
  
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• Man arrested after allegedly raping 4-year-old girl in McDonald's play area bathroom

  19-07-2019 21:34 via news.yahoo.com
  Oklahoma authorities are investigating after a man allegedly raped a 4-year-old girl inside the bathroom of a McDonald's in Midwest City.
  
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• Trump rebuffs Tehran's claim that U.S. did not destroy Iranian drone

  19-07-2019 21:22
  "No doubt about it," Trump said on Friday.
  
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• Iran Guards say they confiscated British tanker in Strait of Hormuz

  19-07-2019 21:22 via news.yahoo.com
  Iran's Revolutionary Guards announced Friday they had confiscated a British tanker in the strategic Strait of Hormuz for breaking "international maritime rules".The Stena Impero tanker "was confiscated by the Revolutionary Guards at the request of Hormozgan Ports and Maritime Organisation when passing through the strait of Hormuz, for failing to respect international maritime rules," the Guards' official website Sepahnews announced.
  
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• Iran claims video shows U.S. did not down its drone

  19-07-2019 21:21 via feeds.foxnews.com
  Iran on Friday released what it said was video proof that the USS Boxer did not destroy its drone as President Trump has asserted.
  
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• Iran says U.S. may have shot down its own drone by mistake

  19-07-2019 21:20 via news.yahoo.com
  Iran denied it lost a drone in the Strait of Hormuz after the United States said it had 'destroyed' an Iranian drone that was threatening a U.S. ship.
  
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• Lawsuit: North Dakota officers used 'violence' on protester

  19-07-2019 21:08 via news.yahoo.com
  Marcus Mitchell, 24, filed the lawsuit Thursday against Morton County, the city of Bismarck and state Highway Patrol officers.Highway Patrol spokesman Wade Kadrmas declined comment, citing pending litigation.A Morton County official didn't immediately respond to the Bismarck Tribune's request for comment Thursday.
  
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• Oklahoma man accused of raping 4-year-old girl in McDonald's bathroom

  19-07-2019 21:04 via news.yahoo.com
  Authorities say the incident happened while the child was visiting the fast-food restaurant during a day care field trip.
  
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• Mueller probe witness now faces child sex trafficking charge

  19-07-2019 21:04 via news.yahoo.com
  A businessman who served as a key witness in special counsel Robert Mueller's investigation now faces a charge of child sex trafficking in addition to transporting child pornography.An indictment made public Friday in federal court in Alexandria charges Lebanese-American businessman George Nader, 60, with transporting a 14-year-old boy from Europe to Washington, D.C., in February 2000 and engaging in sex acts with him.It details his efforts to serve as liaison between a Russian banker close to R
  
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• Scarlett Keeling's Goa killer jailed for 10 years as mother welcomes 'closure' after long wait for justice

  19-07-2019 21:03 via news.yahoo.com
  A Indian former bartender was sentenced on Friday to 10 years in prison for sexually assaulting and killing British teenager Scarlett Keeling on a beach in Goa in 2008. Scarlett's mother, Fiona MacKeown, 55, said she felt “relieved” and it was a “kind of closure” after waiting 11 years for justice. The Bombay High Court at Goa sentenced Samson D’Souza, 39, after convicting him on Wednesday of administering drugs to 15-year-old Scarlett, sexual assault, culpable homi
  
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• Texas governor signs 'Save Chick-fil-A' bill

  19-07-2019 21:01
  Proponents of the bill say it will protect religious freedom. Critics however, say it will be used to discriminate against LGBTQ people.
  
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• Russia's Military Is Transforming (And Getting Stronger) Right Before Our Eyes

  19-07-2019 21:00 via news.yahoo.com
  At a meeting of the military-industrial commission in Moscow in September 2017, Russian President Vladimir Putin had instructed the Ministry of Defense to organize work on the creation of the Military Innovative Technopolis ERA (MIT ERA).In an age of cyber security and artificial intelligence, it is only fair to assume that the technological sophistication of warfare has been upgraded as well. Russia has made headlines for orchestrating an international campaign of information warfare, courtesy
  
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• A nursing home chain collapses amid allegations of poor care, unpaid bills

  19-07-2019 20:54
  Advocates and analysts are still wondering how Joseph Schwartz's empire was allowed to grow so large so quickly without authorities sounding alarm bells.
  
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• 2020 Vision: Democratic candidates raise funds off 'Send her back' chant at Trump rally

  19-07-2019 20:48 via news.yahoo.com
  Amid outrage over the chant, Bernie Sanders, Beto O'Rourke and other Democratic groups are using the episode in their fundraising emails.
  
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• Klipsch home speakers unlike anything you’ve seen before are down to all-time low prices, today only

  19-07-2019 20:46 via news.yahoo.com
  What, you thought that all the great deals on Amazon were done now that Prime Day is over? Psssshhhh, fat chance! Amazon is running a killer one-day sale on Friday with all-time low prices on Klipsch home speakers that are unlike anything you've ever seen before. Of course, this is Klipsch we're talking about here, so these speakers sound just as good as they look. Klipsch R-24F Floorstanding Speaker retail for $220 a piece, but they're down to just $139.99 each right now. Want the matching subw
  
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• U.S. intelligence chief creates election security position

  19-07-2019 20:37 via news.yahoo.com
  Director of National Intelligence Dan Coats, who has drawn criticism from President Donald Trump for assessments that countered his policies, said on Friday he was creating a new position to focus solely on U.S. election security."Election security is an enduring challenge and a top priority for the IC (international community)," Coats said in a statement.Coats said he had tapped Shelby Pierson, the DNI's crisis manager for election security during the 2018 congressional elections, for the job.
  
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• UPDATE 6-Britain says Iran seizes two oil tankers in Gulf, Iran says captured one

  19-07-2019 20:18 via news.yahoo.com
  LONDON/DUBAI, July 19 (Reuters) - Britain said Iran seized two oil tankers in the Gulf on Friday and told Tehran to return the vessels or face consequences in the latest confrontation to ratchet up tension along a vital international oil shipping route.Iran's Revolutionary Guards said they had captured the British-flagged Stena Impero, announcing the move two weeks after the British navy seized an Iranian tanker in Gibraltar.
  
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• Iran's Revolutionary Guard seizes one UK-operated tanker in Strait of Hormuz, briefly detains another

  19-07-2019 20:16 via feeds.foxnews.com
  Iran seized two British-operated oil tankers in the Strait of Hormuz Friday, marking a fresh escalation of tensions between Tehran and the West.
  
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• He jumped on a plane wing as it prepared for takeoff

  19-07-2019 20:14 via cnn.com
  A man who climbed onto the wing of a plane as it prepared for takeoff at the airport in Nigeria's Lagos city has been arrested, authorities said.
  
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