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• 'Will & Grace' coming to an end -- again

  25-07-2019 23:57 via cnn.com
  "Will & Grace" is saying goodbye ... again.
  
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• 950 miles in two days. Taking an electric road trip in a Tesla

  25-07-2019 23:51 via cnn.com
  In 2013, I drove a Tesla Model S from Washington, DC, to Boston. Back then, the trip was a sensation as we tweeted about our progress and bloggers followed along. Tesla's Supercharger network of charging stations barely qualified as a network. The car I was driving had 270 miles of range, which seemed like a whole lot at the time. But there were no Superchargers at all in the entire state of New Jersey, which made it an arid electricity desert. We made it through, but only after stopping for a c
  
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• Fox News Poll, July 25

  25-07-2019 23:50 via foxnews.com
  Joe Biden is the lone top tier candidate in the Democratic nomination race, according to the latest Fox News Poll. 
  
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• Fox News Poll: Biden holds commanding lead for Democratic nomination

  25-07-2019 23:50 via foxnews.com
  Joe Biden is the lone top tier candidate in the Democratic nomination race, according to the latest Fox News Poll. 
  
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• Alphabet and Amazon rake in higher revenues

  25-07-2019 23:46 via bbc.co.uk
  The tech giants have both reported around 20% growth in revenues as regulators scrutinise market dominance.
  
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• Trump straws: How the US president is using straws to beat liberals with

  25-07-2019 23:43 via bbc.co.uk
  Why Trump is selling plastic straws at $15 a pack - and using them as a stick to beat liberals with.
  
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• California charity that sends care packages to troops misused money, lawsuit states

  25-07-2019 23:38 via foxnews.com
  Move America Forward and its directors are accused of self-dealing and illegal electioneering.
  
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• Canada killings: Police says teen suspects may be hiding in woods

  25-07-2019 23:37 via bbc.co.uk
  The father of one suspect says his son may want to die in a "blaze of glory".
  
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• VIDEO: Police break window to rescue 2 girls locked in hot car outside Ohio Walmart

  25-07-2019 23:26 via news.yahoo.com
  DRAMATIC RESCUE: Police officers break window to save two young girls locked in a hot car outside a Walmart.
  
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• Two Israeli men shot dead in apparent Mexico City shopping mall hit

  25-07-2019 23:25 via news.yahoo.com
  Two Israeli men were shot dead in an apparent gangland hit at a luxury Mexico City shopping mall, authorities said on Thursday, in the latest flare-up of violence convulsing the capital.Mexico City police said a woman and a man opened fire on the Israelis on Wednesday afternoon in a restaurant in the upscale Plaza Artz Pedregal in the southwest of the capital, then fled.The Israeli embassy in Mexico identified the men as Alon Azulay, 41, and Benjamin Yeshurun Sutchi, 44.
  
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• Wolves beat Crusaders in Europa League qualifier first leg

  25-07-2019 23:21 via bbc.co.uk
  Ruben Vinagre's injury-time goal gives Wolves a two-goal lead at the halfway point of their Europa League second round qualifier against Crusaders.
  
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• Gambia ex-president accused of ordering murder of two US businessmen

  25-07-2019 23:16 via news.yahoo.com
  Former members of a Gambian death squad known as the Junglers on Thursday accused ex-president Yahya Jammeh of ordering the murder of two US citizens in 2013, having already confessed to the killing of a well known journalist.Since Monday, Gambians have been gripped by live coverage of three ex-Junglers -- Malick Jatta, Omar Jallow and Amadou Badjie -- before the West African country's Truth and Reconciliation Commission.On the last day of hearings before the commission adjourns until August 5,
  
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• Drawing found in a thrift store valued over $100,000

  25-07-2019 23:09 via cnn.com
  A previously unknown drawing by Egon Schiele turned up in a Habitat for Humanity thrift store in Queens, New York, more than 100 years after the Austrian painter's death -- and it could sell for more than $100,000.
  
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• Woman shoots 2 Israeli men to death at Mexico shopping mall

  25-07-2019 23:03 via news.yahoo.com
  A woman wearing a blond wig disguise fatally shot two Israeli men at a restaurant in an upscale Mexico City shopping mall, and authorities said Thursday they were investigating links to organized crime.Authorities said the woman and another man sat down Wednesday at a table near the victims at a restaurant in the Plaza Artz mall.Ulises Lara, spokesman for the city prosecutor's office, said a total of four suspects were involved in either the killing, logistics or getaway.
  
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• CNN anchor flew in stunt jet. It didn't go well

  25-07-2019 23:03 via cnn.com
  CNN's Richard Quest took to the skies with the Breitling Jet Team for a once-in-a-lifetime flight involving daring spins, punishing G-force, and speeds of more than 500 miles per hour.
  
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• The sunny highs and sweaty lows of Europe's heatwave

  25-07-2019 23:01 via bbc.co.uk
  Several countries have seen record temperatures with Western Europe in the grip of its second heatwave in a month.
  
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• Europe heatwave: From pool parties to heatwave horrors

  25-07-2019 23:01 via bbc.co.uk
  Several countries have seen record temperatures with Western Europe in the grip of its second heatwave in a month.
  
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• The Latest: Lawmaker who asked for Epstein probe threatened

  25-07-2019 22:47 via news.yahoo.com
  A Florida lawmaker says she has gotten threats since asking the governor to order an investigation into why financier Jeffrey Epstein was allowed out on work release while serving a jail sentence.Democratic state Sen. Lauren Book told news outlets Thursday she has received a dozen threatening text messages and phone calls telling her to back off from pushing a probe into the Palm Beach County Sheriff's Office.Epstein was allowed to go to his office on work release while in the Palm Beach County
  
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• Libya shipwreck: Scores of migrants feared drowned

  25-07-2019 22:46 via bbc.co.uk
  At least 115 people are missing and more than 130 have been rescued, a Libyan naval official says.
  
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• Exclusive: 15-year-old girl shot 7 times in New Jersey drive-by shooting

  25-07-2019 22:42 via news.yahoo.com
  Eyewitness News has obtained exclusive surveillance video that captured the chaotic scene.
  
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• Arsenal stars hit by armed carjacking

  25-07-2019 22:40 via bbc.co.uk
  Robbers attempt to take a car from Mesut Ozil and Sead Kolasinac on a street in London.
  
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• Boris Johnson's Brexit policy 'unacceptable' - EU negotiator

  25-07-2019 22:16 via bbc.co.uk
  The EU chief negotiator calls a proposal to scrap the Northern Ireland backstop "unacceptable".
  
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• France's Flyboard hero failed to cross English Channel

  25-07-2019 22:14 via cnn.com
  Some people swim the English Channel between Britain and France, others prefer to sail. French inventor Franky Zapata has attempted to do the same on a jet-powered hoverboard -- but failed.
  
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• Trump Might Launch an Amphibious Assault Against Iran If a War Starts

  25-07-2019 22:06 via news.yahoo.com
  If tensions with Iran continue to heat up, one option would be to stage an amphibious raid against a land or sea-based Iranian military facility. One of the greatest truisms of life is that land wars in Asia are futile. The continent’s vastness allows defenders to trade space for time, extending the logistical lifelines of invaders to the breaking point. This argument holds for Iran, which at a population of one quarter that of the United States and the size of the West Coast is too large
  
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• Einstein's theory of general relativity stands, a study says -- for now

  25-07-2019 22:04 via cnn.com
  Albert Einstein's theory of general relativity, which suggests that gravity is due to the curvature of space and time, is more than 100 years old. And it's holding up as researchers analyze the behavior of gravity in space -- but it may not last forever, according to a new study.
  
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• Palestinian president says to stop agreements with Israel

  25-07-2019 21:55 via news.yahoo.com
  Palestinian president Mahmud Abbas said Thursday he has decided to stop implementing agreements with Israel amid worsening relations between the two sides."We announce the leadership's decision to stop implementing the agreements signed with the Israeli side," he said in a speech in the West Bank city of Ramallah.Abbas had previously not spoken so clearly and definitively of a break in cooperation, although Palestinian officials have in the past made threats to stop implementing all accords with
  
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• 150 migrants die in shipwreck off the coast of Libya

  25-07-2019 21:43 via cnn.com
  At least 150 people have drowned after their boat sank off the Libyan coast Thursday, the UN Refugee Agency (UNHCR) confirmed.
  
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• 150 migrants die in shipwreck

  25-07-2019 21:43 via cnn.com
  At least 150 people have drowned after their boat sank off the Libyan coast Thursday, the UN Refugee Agency (UNHCR) confirmed.
  
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• Glaciers Are Melting Underwater. It's Worse Than Previously Thought

  25-07-2019 21:40 via news.yahoo.com
  Underwater glacier melt could be happening faster than previously thought, a dangerous finding as melting ice and glaciers raise sea levels
  
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• In pictures: Record-breaking heat wave in Europe

  25-07-2019 21:39 via cnn.com
  Belgium, Germany, the Netherlands and the United Kingdom all reached record-breaking temperatures this week as Europe suffers through its latest heat wave.
  
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• Is the Infamous Russian Troll Farm Pushing Deadly LGBT Hate?

  25-07-2019 21:34 via news.yahoo.com
  Pavlo Gonchar/SOPA Images/GettyMOSCOW—Thousands of people stood in silence at an anti-government rally in downtown St.Petersburg, Russia, on Wednesday night. The demonstrators demanded an end to violence against Russia’s LGBT community and political opposition. The minute of silence was devoted to the victim of a terrible murder, Yelena Grigoryeva, a 41-year-old gay activist who was stabbed to death last week.A pedestrian found her body in some bushes near Pulkovskaya Street on Sunda
  
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• Giant dinosaur bone found in southwestern France

  25-07-2019 21:28 via news.yahoo.com
  The thigh bone of a giant dinosaur was found this week by French paleontologists at an excavation site in southwestern France where remains of some of the largest animals that ever lived on land have been dug up since 2010.The two-meter long femur at the Angeac-Charente site is thought to have belonged to a sauropod, herbivorous dinosaurs with long necks and tails which were widespread in the late Jurassic era, over 140 million years ago."This is a major discovery," Ronan Allain, a paleontologis
  
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• Suspected Killer of Ole Miss Student Ally Kostial Seen in Pictures with Her at Parties

  25-07-2019 21:26 via news.yahoo.com
  The suspected killer of Ally Kostial is pictured with her at parties at Ole Miss. It's just part of the new discoveries in the murder investigation that spans from St. Louis to Mississipi.
  
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• Star orbiting massive black hole lends support to Einstein's theory

  25-07-2019 21:26 via news.yahoo.com
  Observations of light coming from a star zipping in orbit around the humongous black hole at the center of our galaxy have provided fresh evidence backing Albert Einstein's 1915 theory of general relativity, astronomers said on Thursday.Researchers studied a star called S0-2, boasting a mass roughly 10 times larger than the sun, as it travels in an elliptical orbit lasting 16 years around the supermassive black hole called Sagittarius A* residing at the center of the Milky Way 26,000 light years
  
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• Celebrations as Puerto Rico Governor Rosselló resigns

  25-07-2019 21:23 via bbc.co.uk
  Thousands of people took to the streets of San Juan after Governor Ricardo Rosselló announced his resignation.
  
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• Guatemalan mother begs soldier to let her enter U.S. in Reuters photo

  25-07-2019 21:08 via news.yahoo.com
  Lety Perez fell to her haunches, a clenched hand covering her face as she wept, an arm clutching her small 6-year old son, who glared defiantly at the Mexican National Guard soldier blocking them from crossing into the United States.The plight of this mother and son who had traveled some 1,500 miles (2,410 km) from their home country of Guatemala to the border city of Ciudad Juarez, only to be stopped mere feet from the United States, was captured by Reuters photographer Jose Luis Gonzalez as tw
  
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• Russia warns of 'consequences' after Ukraine seizes tanker

  25-07-2019 20:55 via news.yahoo.com
  Ukraine on Thursday seized a Russian tanker it said was used in a naval confrontation last November amid sensitive prisoner swap talks between the two countries who have been at loggerheads since 2014.Kiev's SBU security service said it stopped the tanker, the Neyma, as it entered the port of Izmail in the southern Odessa region.Investigators seized documents onboard and questioned crew members, an SBU statement said.
  
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• Chris Wallace says Mueller's testimony does not give Trump a 'clean bill of health'

  25-07-2019 20:54 via news.yahoo.com
  Chris Wallace says former Special Counsel Robert Mueller's Capitol Hill testimony was a win for House Speaker Nancy Pelosi because she doesn't want to spend the political capital on impeachment.
  
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• Slain Ole Miss Sorority Sister Called Accused Killer ‘Crazy Aggressive’: Friend

  25-07-2019 20:47 via news.yahoo.com
  HandoutPolice on Thursday released surveillance video showing murdered University of Mississippi sorority sister Alexandria “Ally” Kostial walking out of a bar just hours before her tragic death. The footage shows the 21-year-old, who was wearing a white shirt and blue shorts, walking away from the bar Friday night with her head down and apparently texting.The next morning, Kostial’s bullet-riddled body was found by a sheriff’s deputy during his Saturday morning patrol ne
  
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• Bison charges at nine-year-old girl at Yellowstone National Park

  25-07-2019 20:47 via bbc.co.uk
  The nine-year-old child was part of a group of tourists who were reportedly too close to the animal.
  
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• Ally Kostial murder: Former-neighbor shares dark details about suspect in Ole Miss student's death

  25-07-2019 20:46 via news.yahoo.com
  " "I'm not going to sugar coat it, he was pretty much a daddy's boy type,"University of Mississippi student Rex Ravita told KMOV
  
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• Financier Jeffrey Epstein found injured in jail cell

  25-07-2019 20:43 via news.yahoo.com
  Wealthy financier Jeffrey Epstein was found on the floor of his jail cell with bruises on his neck early this week while awaiting trial on sex-trafficking charges, a person familiar with the matter said Thursday.Epstein, 66, was treated and, according to the U.S. Bureau of Prisons, remains in custody at the federal Metropolitan Correctional Center in New York City.In a statement, the bureau gave no other details and would not comment on Epstein's condition.
  
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• Car window smashed in viral ICE raid

  25-07-2019 20:37 via bbc.co.uk
  An undocumented immigrant stayed in his vehicle demanding to see an arrest warrant - the agent gave up waiting.
  
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• McConnell Nixes Two Dem. Election-Security Bills

  25-07-2019 20:36 via news.yahoo.com
  Senate majority leader Mitch McConnell on Thursday blocked votes on two bills designed to combat election interference, accusing Democrats of pushing them for political purposes.McConnell rejected Minority Leader Chuck Schumer's request for consent to pass legislation approved by the House that funds the Election Assistance Commission and sets up a requirement to use paper ballots, calling it "partisan legislation.""Clearly this request is not a serious effort to make a law. Clearly so
  
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• US ship sails through Taiwan Strait after threat of force from China against independence

  25-07-2019 20:20 via news.yahoo.com
  An American warship sailed through the Taiwan Strait, the US Navy and Taiwanese authorities said on Thursday, a day after China - which views Taiwan as a renegade province - unveiled a defence white paper threatening to use force to thwart any move towards the self-ruled island's independence, and accusing the United States of undermining global stability. It also followed an unprecedented joint Chinese-Russian air force exercise this week that triggered furious protests of airspace violations f
  
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• Four teens charged over London bus attack on lesbians

  25-07-2019 20:16 via news.yahoo.com
  British police on Thursday charged four teenage boys over an alleged homophobic attack on a lesbian couple who refused to kiss in front of them on a London night bus.Melania Geymonat, 28, said she and her girlfriend Chris were robbed and left covered in blood after the incident in the trendy Camden Town area on May 30.The four boys, aged between 15 and 17, were all charged with committing "an aggravated hate crime", London's Metropolitan Police said in a statement.
  
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• Trump's doctored presidential seal leads to firing

  25-07-2019 20:15 via bbc.co.uk
  Someone is out of a job after a fake seal appeared behind Mr Trump. Can you spot what's wrong?
  
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• SpaceX aborts test after flames erupt

  25-07-2019 20:14 via cnn.com
  On July 24th, SpaceX conducted the most ambitious test yet of its Starhopper prototype. Seconds in, bursts of flames shot over the top of the vehicle and the test was stopped.
  
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• North Korea fires new type of short-range ballistic missiles

  25-07-2019 20:13 via news.yahoo.com
  North Korea fired a new type of short-range ballistic missile in two launches into the sea Thursday, South Korean officials said.The South's Joint Chiefs of Staff said the missiles were fired from near the eastern coastal town of Wonsan and flew about 430 kilometers (270 miles) and 690 kilometers (430 miles) respectively before landing off the country's east coast.The Joint Chiefs of Staff described both missiles as short-range but didn't elaborate.
  
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• Teens charged in attack on lesbian couple

  25-07-2019 20:09 via cnn.com
  Four teenagers have been charged in a homophobic attack on a London bus that sparked widespread outrage in the UK.
  
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