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• Black Georgia lawmaker says white man told her to 'go back' where she came from

  20-07-2019 23:59 via nbcnews.com
  "It hurt me so bad because everything in me just wanted to tell him who I am. But I couldn't get anything out," Erica Thomas said in a Facebook video.
  
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• Britain urges Iran to free seized tanker

  20-07-2019 23:58 via news.yahoo.com
  Britain on Saturday urged Iran to de-escalate tensions in the Gulf by releasing a UK-flagged ship it said had been illegally seized in Omani waters in an "utterly unacceptable" gambit. Tehran was defiantly ignoring mounting European appeals to free the captured oil tanker and its mostly Indian crew, as the United States prepared to redeploy troops to Iran's regional arch-rival Saudi Arabia. Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) said it seized the Stena Impero ship on Friday for breakin
  
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• Keanu Reeves' most excellent surprise for one fan is 'breathtaking'

  20-07-2019 23:47 via cnn.com
  Most excellent, Keanu Reeves fans: The affable actor heard your prayers, and he answered with a "breathtaking" act of kindness.
  
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• Keanu Reeves' gifts the internet with a 'breathtaking' surprise for a fan

  20-07-2019 23:47 via cnn.com
  Most excellent, Keanu Reeves fans: The affable actor heard your prayers, and he answered with a "breathtaking" act of kindness.
  
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• Two shot at nursing home

  20-07-2019 23:35 via nbcnews.com
  State police were called to the scene early Saturday afternoon.
  
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• Two fatally shot at Delaware nursing home

  20-07-2019 23:35 via nbcnews.com
  The victims were an 82-year-old man and a 79-year-old woman, police said.
  
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• Former NASA intern gets $1.82 million for moon landing videos he bought for $217.77

  20-07-2019 23:35 via cnn.com
  While the world celebrated the 50th anniversary of the Apollo 11 moon landing Saturday, Sotheby's auctioned off three original NASA videotapes of the event for a whopping $1.82 million.
  
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• AOC: Trump's immigration policies are about 'ethnicity and racism'

  20-07-2019 23:30 via cnn.com
  Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez on Saturday slammed President Donald Trump's policies on immigration in her latest argument against the President's handling of the situation at the southern border, saying that his signature agenda is really about "ethnicity and racism."
  
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• Nigeria president condemns latest killings in northwestern Sokoto state

  20-07-2019 23:23 via news.yahoo.com
  Nigeria's President Muhammadu Buhari condemns the killing of 37 people by bandits in the northwestern state of Sokoto, his spokesman said in a statement.Armed gangs have killed hundreds of people in northwest Nigeria this year and forced at least 20,000 to flee to neighboring Niger, adding to security problems in a country also struggling with an Islamist insurgency in the northeast and clashes between farmers and herders in central states."President Muhammadu Buhari strongly condemns the killin
  
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• Hundreds protest plan to detain migrant children at former internment camp

  20-07-2019 23:22 via nbcnews.com
  “We will not allow history to repeat itself with a concentration camp for immigrant children,” said a program coordinator with Dream Action Oklahoma.
  
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• Top Gun 2: How the U.S. Military Helped Make This Must See Movie

  20-07-2019 23:20 via news.yahoo.com
  The internet was set ablaze on Jul. 18, 2019 when the first, sierra hotel trailer for Top Gun: Maverick debuted.As reported by Washington Business Journal, we still must wait a year for the finished product to hit the screen, but we know the Pentagon had a lot to do with the production of this long-awaited sequel to 1986 blockbuster “Top Gun.” Shooting began in September 2018, but delays pushed the release date to June 2020.Actually the Pentagon gave Paramount Pic
  
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• Swedish prime minister warns Donald Trump he cannot influence ASAP Rocky judicial process

  20-07-2019 23:16 via news.yahoo.com
  The Swedish prime minister has disputed Donald Trump’s claim over the treatment of a detained American rapper following a phone call between the two leaders.  Platinum-selling artist A$AP Rocky was arrested in Sweden in early July on suspicion of assault following a street brawl. Mr Trump tweeted on Saturday that he had spoken to Prime Minister Stefan Lofven offering to personally vouch for his bail. Mr Trump said the Swedish PM assured him that the rapper would be treated fairly. &ld
  
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• 'Six years and I didn't achieve anything': inside Manus, a tropical purgatory

  20-07-2019 23:00 via theguardian.com
  As 200 men enter their seventh year in limbo, Australia’s offshore detention experiment is winding down. But the loose ends left behind are devastating For six years Shamindan Kanapathi has been lying to his parents.Since 2013 the Sri Lankan refugee has been telling his mother and father he successfully made it to Australia and resettled safely in a new life. Only his siblings know that the 28-year-old has spent the entire time detained on Manus Island. Continue reading...
  
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• Foreskin reclaimers: the ‘intactivists’ fighting infant male circumcision

  20-07-2019 23:00 via theguardian.com
  Emboldened by the body-positive movement and a sense of rage, a growing chorus is pushing back against a common customThe media officer of one of the UK’s top medical schools doesn’t realise she hasn’t muted herself as she puts me on hold.She sniggers with her colleague as she passes on my request – to speak to an expert on male circumcision – before informing me they don’t have one. Continue reading...
  
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• Coalition accused of ignoring bipartisan advice over scrutiny of security powers

  20-07-2019 23:00 via theguardian.com
  Labor and Centre Alliance fear government will proceed with two key bills without recommended safeguardsThe Morrison government is being accused of ignoring bipartisan recommendations and breaching commitments to reform the spy agency’s powers as it prepares a fresh push on national security when parliament resumes on Monday.Labor and Centre Alliance fear the government is set to ignore advice to improve scrutiny of proposed new powers for the home affairs minister, Peter Dutton, to exclud
  
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• Twitter blocks accounts of Iranian state media outlets

  20-07-2019 22:55 via news.yahoo.com
  A day after Twitter suspended the accounts of several Iranian state media outlets, the social networking service said Saturday it acted after harassment of people linked to the Baha'i faith.Amid soaring tensions in the region, heightened by Iran's seizure on Friday of a British-flagged tanker, some of the affected media outlets had speculated that the suspensions were related to their coverage of the seizure.
  
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• 2 children and 3 adults dead and seven others injured in Texas highway accident

  20-07-2019 22:46 via nbcnews.com
  An 18-wheeler, a heavy-duty pickup truck and a large passenger van collided on a highway in Texas.
  
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• 'Offensive' poem about Condoleezza Rice stokes New Hampshire verse rift

  20-07-2019 22:44 via theguardian.com
  Governor drops nominee over sexually suggestive poemDaniel Patrick Moran was published by Asinine PoetryNew Hampshire governor Chris Sununu has abandoned his pick for state poet laureate, amid growing criticism of the man’s work and how he was selected. Related: Trump revives the idea of a ‘white man’s country’, America’s original sin | Nell PainterContinue reading...
  
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• What to expect from Mueller's testimony

  20-07-2019 22:41 via cnn.com
  What can we expect July 24 when Robert Mueller, the former special counsel, testifies in back-to-back hearings before the House Judiciary and House Intelligence Committees?
  
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• Shanlon Wu: What to expect from Mueller's testimony

  20-07-2019 22:41 via cnn.com
  What can we expect July 24 when Robert Mueller, the former special counsel, testifies in back-to-back hearings before the House Judiciary and House Intelligence Committees?
  
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• Shane Lowry lights up Open with stunning charge

  20-07-2019 22:25 via cnn.com
  The roars for Shane Lowry were just different. Deeper, more throaty, more heartfelt.
  
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• 24-year-old U.S. woman, Australian boyfriend killed on road trip in Canada

  20-07-2019 22:23 via nbcnews.com
  Chynna Deese and Lucas Fowler were found dead along a highway in British Columbia. A manhunt is underway to find their killer.
  
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• Our next PM needs to become an Iran expert. And fast | Alistair Burt

  20-07-2019 22:00 via theguardian.com
  We must understand the Gulf state’s point of view instead of rushing into conflictAn incoming prime minister could be forgiven for feeling that the fates have been a touch unkind. As well as no majority in parliament, an uncertain domestic agenda and the vortex of Brexit, now a fully formed international crisis sits in the in-tray marked “Iran”. It will be an early test of diplomatic dexterity.We should not be here. As always, it helps to see the world as others see it, without
  
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• Lawmaker describes 'unacceptable' border detention conditions, meets with US citizen in Border Patrol custody

  20-07-2019 21:46 via news.yahoo.com
  A U.S. lawmaker described 'unacceptable' border detention facilities while meeting with a U.S. citizen in Border Patrol custody.
  
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• Venezuela Claims U.S. Military Aircraft Violated Its Airspace

  20-07-2019 21:37 via news.yahoo.com
  (Bloomberg) -- A U.S. intelligence aircraft flew over Venezuelan airspace on Friday in “a clear provocation” and in violation of international treaties, officials with President Nicolas Maduro‘s defense ministry said.The alleged incident may further roil Washington-Caracas relations at a time Secretary of State Michael Pompeo is visiting Latin America, and as a summit of so-called anti-imperialist countries is held in Venezuela’s capital.The U.S. military aircraft entered
  
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• Explosion in popularity of hemp products leaves Texas unable to bust marijuana users

  20-07-2019 21:30 via news.yahoo.com
  Texas politicians thought they were clear: the bill they overwhelmingly passed allowing the growth and sale of hemp had nothing to do with legalising cannabis.“This is no slippery slope towards marijuana,” Charles Perry, a Republican state senator who sponsored the bill, said in May, according to The Dallas Morning News.But since Greg Abbott signed the measure into law in June, county prosecutors around Texas have been dropping some marijuana possession charges and declining to file
  
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• Iran crisis: How a British oil tanker was seized by Iran's balaclava-clad Revolutionary Guards

  20-07-2019 21:14 via news.yahoo.com
  “Allahu akbar”, or God is great, the Iranian Revolutionary Guard marine was heard shouting off camera as the group took control of the British-flagged Stena Impero. Scaling down ropes onto its bow, the balaclava-wearing hijackers made a daring - and seemingly well-rehearsed - raid of the oil tanker, as seen in alleged footage released by Fars news agency last night.  The wind was choppy, the skies overcast. With no navy escort, the Stena stood little chance. Minutes later, at 4.
  
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• Animal shelter uses Area 51 meme in textbook display of chaotic good

  20-07-2019 21:12 via news.yahoo.com
  The internet's collective plan to storm Area 51 in September may or may not pan out -- but the viral moment has already done some good, helping 22 dogs find their forever homes at an animal shelter in Oklahoma.On Friday, Oklahoma City Animal Welfare events coordinator Natalie Winfree dressed up three of the shelter's most photogenic (and cooperative) pups in tinfoil hats in hopes of raising awareness for the organization's cause. "Come storm our shelter," read Winfree's now-viral post on th
  
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• Thousands protest in Moscow after opposition figures barred from city council ballot

  20-07-2019 21:10 via news.yahoo.com
  As many as 25,000 protesters turned out in central Moscow Saturday to protest the refusal by city election officials to allow several opposition figures to run for the Moscow city council.
  
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• Hungary backs Trump on asylum crackdown as it touts its own border success

  20-07-2019 21:04 via feeds.foxnews.com
  Hungary is backing President Trump in his crackdown on migrants claiming asylum at the southern borders -- as the government touts its own success in drastically reducing the influx of migrants into the country.
  
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• Secrets: Everything You Wanted to Know About Israel's Nuclear Weapons

  20-07-2019 21:00 via news.yahoo.com
  The Iranian nuclear nonproliferation agreement has been the top foreign policy issue throughout Washington for the past two months.  Approving or disapproving the deal was the first order of business for the U.S. Congress until the very last day of congressional action under the Iran Nuclear Agreement Review Act (September 17).  Hours of debate have been conducted on the floors of the House and Senate, both chambers have held roll call votes, and Senate Democrats bonded together to fil
  
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• Iran tanker crisis 'ominous' for Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe, husband says

  20-07-2019 20:59 via news.yahoo.com
  The husband of jailed British-Iranian charity worker Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe has said he is worried her future has become “more uncertain and ominous” after Iran’s seizing of a UK tanker in the Gulf. Richard Ratcliffe has expressed concerned for his wife, whom he has not heard from since she was moved on Monday from Tehran’s Evin prison to a psychiatric hospital. Mr Ratcliffe said Mrs Zaghari-Ratcliffe, 40, who had recently ended a 15-day hunger strike, has not been all
  
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• Soccer star calls Trump's racist tweets 'disgusting'

  20-07-2019 20:52 via cnn.com
  US Women's National Soccer Team co-captain Megan Rapinoe has once again criticized President Donald Trump, calling his racist tweets about four Democratic congresswomen of color "disgusting."
  
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• Megan Rapinoe calls Trump's racist tweets 'disgusting'

  20-07-2019 20:52 via cnn.com
  US Women's National Soccer Team co-captain Megan Rapinoe has once again criticized President Donald Trump, calling his racist tweets about four Democratic congresswomen of color "disgusting."
  
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• How 'Veronica Mars' helps some sexual assault survivors heal

  20-07-2019 20:51 via cnn.com
  "Veronica Mars," the noir-style drama that starred Kristen Bell as a teen gumshoe known for her pithy one-liners and fearless investigation techniques, found a fan-base in the underappreciated or outsiders when it aired on UPN and then The CW in the mid-aughts -- and has the potential to do the same now that those first seasons are available on Hulu, along with a new season that debuted Friday.
  
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• Latino votes could swing the Democratic primary. And the candidates know it.

  20-07-2019 20:50 via nbcnews.com
  For the first time, Latino elected officials and voters are getting a real full-court press from presidential hopefuls — because they might pick the nominee.
  
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• 'Send Him Back': Virginia Democrats vow to boycott Jamestown celebration if Trump attends

  20-07-2019 20:43 via news.yahoo.com
  Virginia state Democrats say they'll boycott an event commemorating representative democracy in America if President Donald Trump comes.
  
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• Polish Gay Pride marchers defy stone-throwing hooligans

  20-07-2019 20:42 via news.yahoo.com
  The first-ever Gay Pride parade was held in the eastern Polish city of Bialystok on Saturday, but the march was marred by violence from soccer hooligans and conservative campaigners staged counter protests, local police said.Some 800 supporters of LGBT+ rights marched through the city some 200 kilometres (124 miles) northeast of Warsaw, waving rainbow-coloured flags and banners with slogans such as "love is not a sin".
  
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• UK 'asked US not to sabre rattle over tanker seized by Iran'

  20-07-2019 20:41 via news.yahoo.com
  The UK is believed to have asked its US ally to initially refrain from making inflammatory public statements about the seizure of the Stena Impero by Iran as they sought a diplomatic solution to the crisis. Donald Trump was noticeably muted in his immediate response and Mike Pompeo, the US secretary of state, said little in the immediate aftermath. Jeremy Hunt, the foreign secretary, spoke with his counterpart Mike Pompeo, who was in Argentina, on Friday night. British and US officials continued
  
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• Vatican college space holds bones of dozens, expert says

  20-07-2019 20:38 via news.yahoo.com
  The expert, Giorgio Portera, said the "enormous" size of the collection under the Teutonic College was revealed when Vatican-appointed experts began cataloguing the remains, which were discovered last week ."We didn't expect such an enormous number" of bones and other remains which "had been thrown into a cavity," Portera said."We want to know why and how" the bones ended up there.
  
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• Letter: press freedom campaigners call for action on 'vexatious lawsuits’

  20-07-2019 20:14 via theguardian.com
  In an open letter to Jeremy Hunt, the foreign secretary, and Jeremy Wright, the culture secretary, the Observer’s editor, charities and campaigners urge new legislation to stop the abuse of defamation lawFollowing the recent global conference on media freedom held in London by the UK government, we write to draw your attention to what appears to be a growing trend to use strategic litigation against public participation (“SLAPP”) lawsuits as a means of intimidating and silencin
  
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• Tour de France: Alaphilippe extends lead as Frenchmen shine in Pyrenees

  20-07-2019 20:08 via cnn.com
  Going into the Tour de France's first big mountain climb in the Pyrenees, the question was: How much time would Geraint Thomas make up on Julian Alaphilippe?
  
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• British Airways suspends Cairo flights as security precaution

  20-07-2019 20:02 via theguardian.com
  Services to Egyptian capital halted for seven days to allow for security review, says airline British Airways has suspended all flights to Cairo for seven days as a security precaution. The airline announced on Saturday evening that all flights into the Egyptian capital were halted.A statement said: “We constantly review our security arrangements at all our airports around the world, and have suspended flights to Cairo for seven days as a precaution to allow for further assessment. The saf
  
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• The Great Hack: the film that goes behind the scenes of the Facebook data scandal

  20-07-2019 19:59 via theguardian.com
  This week, a Netflix documentary on Cambridge Analytica sheds light on one of the most complex scandals of our time. Carole Cadwalladr, who broke the story and appears in the film, looks at the fallout – and finds ‘surveillance capitalism’ out of control Related: Arron Banks threatens Netflix over Great Hack documentary Cambridge Analytica may have become the byword for a scandal, but it’s not entirely clear that anyone knows exactly what that scandal is. It’s more
  
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• Brexit funder Arron Banks threatens Netflix over Great Hack documentary

  20-07-2019 19:59 via theguardian.com
  Legal threat comes as campaigners warn UK government that courts are being used to intimidate journalistsLetter: press freedom campaigners call for action on ‘vexatious lawsuits’ Related: The Great Hack: the film that goes behind the scenes of the Facebook data scandal The businessman Arron Banks and the unofficial Brexit campaign Leave.EU have issued a legal threat against streaming giant Netflix in relation to The Great Hack, a new documentary about the Cambridge Analytica scandal
  
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• Jeffrey Epstein: Florida looks at possible lax monitoring after 2008 plea deal

  20-07-2019 19:56 via theguardian.com
  Epstein joined program that gave him time away from jailOfficials: ‘All aspects of the matter will be fully investigated’Authorities in Florida have launched an investigation into whether the financier Jeffrey Epstein was properly monitored during a 13-month sentence for soliciting prostitution from underage girls, the product of a controversial 2008 deal with federal authorities. Related: The Jeffrey Epstein scandal - podcastContinue reading...
  
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• Two soldiers, civilian killed in east Ukraine ahead of polls

  20-07-2019 19:46 via news.yahoo.com
  Two Ukrainian soldiers and one civilian were killed in incidents involving Kremlin-backed separatists, Kiev said Saturday, a day before the country votes in a parliamentary election.The Ukrainian army's press secretary, Dmytro Gutsulyak, said the two soldiers were killed by sniper fire, and added that four other servicemen were injured.Ukraine is to hold a parliamentary election on Sunday in which President Volodymyr Zelensky's party is expected to win the largest share of votes.
  
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• Miss Michigan stripped of her title over 'offensive' social media posts

  20-07-2019 19:44 via abcnews.go.com
  Kathy Zhu, Miss Michigan 2019, was stripped of her title over posts that were deemed offensive by Miss World America.
  
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• Golfers feud after caddie's mom hit by stray ball

  20-07-2019 19:44 via cnn.com
  His drive hit his playing partner's caddie's mom, but Kyle Stanley's refusal to shout "fore" sparked a war of words in the Open at Royal Portrush Friday.
  
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• White Christians have a God problem

  20-07-2019 19:30 via cnn.com
  Shock is not the right word when I heard the crowd at a Trump rally chanting "send her back." There has been so much shock recently that it is hard to know what to call it anymore.
  
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