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• Looking for a boost, Beto O'Rourke to try new strategy in second debates

  26-07-2019 23:36 via news.yahoo.com
  Beto O’Rourke will try to make up for what some critics saw as an uneven performance in the first round of debates.
  
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• Looking for a boost, Beto O'Rourke to try new strategy in second debate

  26-07-2019 23:36 via news.yahoo.com
  Beto O’Rourke will try to make up for what some critics saw as an uneven performance in the first round of debates.
  
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• Teenagers' trail of mayhem across Canada leads to wilds of Manitoba

  26-07-2019 23:35 via theguardian.com
  Fugitives Bryer Schmegelsky and Kam McLeod, wanted in connection with three murders, are believed to be on foot If they have not already managed to evade a police dragnet, Bryer Schmegelsky,18, and Kam McLeod, 19, are believed to be stumbling around the unforgiving terrain that surrounds the remote Canadian town of Gillam.Police believe the two fugitives are still close to the sprawling settlement of about 1,300 residents dotted across 2,000 square km. They are not thought to have a vehicle, and
  
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• Donald Trump rips book deal for Barack, Michelle Obama, complains about White House AC

  26-07-2019 23:34 via news.yahoo.com
  President Trump said Friday that investigators ought to look into a book deal signed by former President Barack Obama and former first lady Michelle Obama.
  
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• Hordes of grasshoppers invade Las Vegas

  26-07-2019 23:32 via cnn.com
  Massive swarms of grasshoppers have descended upon Las Vegas this week, and it's startling some residents.
  
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• House Dems go to court for Mueller grand jury evidence, a step toward impeachment

  26-07-2019 23:30 via abcnews.go.com
  House Judiciary Chairman Jerrold Nadler filed a lawsuit to obtain grand jury material underlying former special counsel Robert Mueller’s report.
  
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• $250 million Sandmann lawsuit against Washington Post dismissed by federal judge

  26-07-2019 23:29 via news.yahoo.com
  Nick Sandmann and Nathan Phillips were captured on videos that went viral in January when they stood across from each other on the National Mall.
  
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• 'Armed and dangerous' pair wanted by New Jersey State Police

  26-07-2019 23:28 via news.yahoo.com
  New Jersey State Police are looking for a Mount Holly couple wanted for possession of weapons, homemade explosives and drugs, after their home was searched earlier this week.
  
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• School will accept donations to cover student lunch debt after threatening child with foster care

  26-07-2019 23:17 via news.yahoo.com
  A school district in Pennsylvania will accept a donation to cover debts owed to pay for students’ school lunches, instead of sending parents in debt to court.Wyoming Valley West School District sparked outrage when it threatened parents who did not send their children to school with either food or money for a provided lunch with a summons to a so-called dependency court. “This is a failure to provide your child with proper nutrition and you can be sent to dependency court for neglect
  
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• Pelosi downplays differences with Ocasio-Cortez after 'very positive' meeting

  26-07-2019 23:11 via news.yahoo.com
  Pelosi told reporters that "I don't think we have that many differences" despite some sharp words back and forth recently.
  
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• Syrian airstrikes kill more than 100 civilians in 10 days: UN

  26-07-2019 23:09 via feeds.foxnews.com
  The seemingly endless Syrian war has claimed the lives of more than 100 civilians over the past ten days, the United Nations stated on Friday.
  
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• Thieves make off with more than $30M worth of gold, precious metals at airport

  26-07-2019 23:08 via abcnews.go.com
  Authorities in Brazil said the gang of robbers may have had access to internal information about operations at Sao Paulo's airport.
  
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• Syrian girl dies after saving sister's life in heart-stopping airstrike photo

  26-07-2019 22:46 via cnn.com
  A father looks with horror at his three young daughters, teetering on the destroyed edge of a bombed building in northern Syria. One of them, Reham, 5, grabs the shirt of her 7-month-old sister Tuqa in an attempt to save her from falling from the rubble.
  
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• No, McConnell Isn’t ‘Moscow Mitch’

  26-07-2019 22:17 via news.yahoo.com
  As an act of political theater, the Democrats’ recent attempt to cast Mitch McConnell in a bad light has been quite successful. The Internet is awash in headlines contending that he blocked election-security reforms despite warnings about ongoing Russian interference from Robert Mueller and the Senate Intelligence Committee.The reactions are overwrought and unfair. McConnell was right to stop the two bills at the center of the controversy, and the Democrats knew full well ahead of time tha
  
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• Trump says he does not blame Turkey for buying Russian air defense system

  26-07-2019 22:16 via news.yahoo.com
  U.S. President Donald Trump said on Friday he does not blame Turkey for buying a Russian missile defense system, which prompted his administration to remove the NATO ally from the F-35 fighter jet program.Trump, who was speaking to reporters at the White House, did not say when he would decide on imposing sanctions on Turkey for doing business with the Russian military, as required by a 2017 U.S. sanctions law."We're looking at the whole Turkey situation," Trump said.
  
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• 9 campus officers fired for sexist, racist posts, historically black university says

  26-07-2019 22:14 via news.yahoo.com
  Hampton University said in a statement that it fired the officers over “egregious violations" of the university's code of conduct.
  
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• Ex-Nazi testimony casts fresh doubt on 1933 Reichstag blaze: media

  26-07-2019 22:12 via news.yahoo.com
  Newly found German testimony from 60 years ago has cast fresh doubt on Nazi-era claims a Dutch communist was responsible for the 1933 fire that gutted the Reichstag building, German media reported on Friday.The Reichstag blaze remains a source of controversy in Germany as Adolf Hitler used the fire to claim a Communist plot and consolidate his influence with a crackdown.Germany's RND newspaper group on Friday published an affidavit of a former Nazi paramilitary dating from 1955 and found in arch
  
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• World's largest steam locomotive roars again

  26-07-2019 22:06 via cnn.com
  With plumes of smoke billowing into the sky, the world's largest steam locomotive left Wisconsin on Friday morning, bound for an afternoon stop in West Chicago.
  
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• Look up! The Delta Aquariid meteor shower will light up the night sky Sunday night

  26-07-2019 22:04 via news.yahoo.com
  The nights may be short, but with the weather warm it's a great time to check out a few meteors: The Delta Aquariid meteor shower peaks Sunday night, July 28.
  
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• Stealth Rules: Israel's F-35I Adir Is the First to Attack an Enemy

  26-07-2019 21:43 via news.yahoo.com
  Israel said its recent air strikes inside Syria targeted Iranian military infrastructure, in response to rocket fire aimed at Israeli military positions in the occupied Golan Heights.The F-35 stealth fighter has seen its first ever combat action, flying in an operation for the Israeli Air Force (IAF).On May 22, 2018 in fact Maj Gen Amikam Norkin, IAF chief, told heads of 20 foreign air forces meeting in Israel at the International Air Force Commander Conference that “The ‘Adir&r
  
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• Father of slain Mississippi student Ally Kostial shares heartbreaking photo on day of her vigil

  26-07-2019 21:35 via news.yahoo.com
  The father of murdered University of Mississippi student Ally Kostial took to Facebook to share a photo of his daughter taken when she was a small child.
  
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• Impeachment Would Probably Cost Democrats the House

  26-07-2019 21:29 via news.yahoo.com
  The New York Times reports that House Judiciary Committee chairman Jerrold Nadler has “gradually become convinced that his panel should proceed with impeachment hearings and do so as expeditiously as possible, though he has not stated so publicly,” citing “lawmakers and aides familiar with his thinking.”Nadler should not be surprised that he’s encountering so much resistance to this idea from House speaker Nancy Pelosi. A great deal has been written about how impeac
  
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• Democrats Raise Impeaching Trump in Suit for Mueller's Evidence

  26-07-2019 21:16 via news.yahoo.com
  (Bloomberg) -- House Democrats took a significant step toward opening an inquiry into impeaching President Donald Trump as the Judiciary Committee asked a federal court to force the release of grand jury information from Robert Mueller’s investigation.The suit filed Friday and approved by panel chairman Jerrold Nadler, explicitly cited Congress’s impeachment authority, marking the first time the Democrats have made an official move in that direction.“Because Department of Justi
  
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• Wildfires: blazes rage in Arctic during severe heatwave – video

  26-07-2019 21:11 via theguardian.com
  The Arctic Circle is suffering from an unprecedented number of wildfires in the latest sign of a climate crisis. With some blazes the size of 100,000 football pitches, vast areas in Siberia, Alaska and Greenland are engulfed in flames. The World Meteorological Organisation has said these fires emitted as much carbon dioxide in a month as the whole of Sweden does in a yearThe world is literally on fire – so why is it business as usual for politicians? Continue reading...
  
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• 'Unprecedented': more than 100 Arctic wildfires burn in worst ever season

  26-07-2019 21:08 via theguardian.com
  Huge blazes in Greenland, Siberia and Alaska are producing plumes of smoke that can be seen from spaceThe Arctic is suffering its worst wildfire season on record, with huge blazes in Greenland, Siberia and Alaska producing plumes of smoke that can be seen from space.The Arctic region has recorded its hottest June ever. Since the start of that month, more than 100 wildfires have burned in the Arctic circle. In Russia, 11 of 49 regions are experiencing wildfires. Continue reading...
  
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• 'Unprecedented': more than 100 Arctic wildfires burn in worst ever season

  26-07-2019 21:08 via news.yahoo.com
  Huge blazes in Greenland, Siberia and Alaska are producing plumes of smoke that can be seen from spaceThe Arctic is suffering its worst wildfire season on record, with huge blazes in Greenland, Siberia and Alaska producing plumes of smoke that can be seen from space.The Arctic region has recorded its hottest June ever. Since the start of that month, more than 100 wildfires have burned in the Arctic circle. In Russia, 11 of 49 regions are experiencing wildfires.The World Meteorological Organizati
  
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• Basil From Mexico Is Likely Cause of Cyclospora Food Poisoning Outbreak

  26-07-2019 21:04 via news.yahoo.com
  A food poisoning outbreak tied to 132 cyclospora illnesses in 11 states was likely caused by fresh basil imported from Mexico by Siga Logistics de RL de CV, the Food and Drug Administration annou...
  
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• Widow of serial killer's victim: 'Mr. Kohlhepp, I forgive you'

  26-07-2019 21:00 via news.yahoo.com
  Sixteen years after her husband was gunned down, Melissa Brackman and her teenage son were face-to-face with the killer inside a courtroom.
  
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• $30M of precious metals stolen from airport

  26-07-2019 21:00 via cnn.com
  A group of armed men stole a haul of gold and other precious metals worth at least $30 million from a Brazilian airport Thursday, according to Brazilian state news agency Agencia Brasil.
  
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• What we know about the arrest of 16 Marines on human smuggling, drug charges

  26-07-2019 20:50 via news.yahoo.com
  The arrest of 16 Marines at Camp Pendleton is related to an two earlier arrests on human smuggling charges.
  
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• Another Judge Blocks Trump, and the Immigration Stalemate Drags On

  26-07-2019 20:50 via news.yahoo.com
  Here’s news you may have missed. On Wednesday evening, while most of the American political world was debating the impact of Robert Mueller’s testimony, a federal judge in California shut down the Trump administration’s latest regulatory attempt to ameliorate the grave immigration and humanitarian challenges on the southern border. Judge Jon Tigar of the Northern District of California issued an injunction blocking implementation of a new Trump-administration interim final rule
  
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• US teenager detained at border lost 26 pounds in a month: 'It was inhumane how they treated us'

  26-07-2019 20:38 via news.yahoo.com
  A US teenager who was detained by border agents for nearly a month, has detailed bleak conditions during his stay, saying: “They were not treating us humanely.”Francisco Galicia, who was born in Texas, was detained at a customs and border agency (CBP) checkpoint in Falfurrias, Texas on June 27 while travelling with his brother Marlon, a 17-year-old who was born in Mexico, who was also detained. After two days of detention, Marlon signed a voluntary deportation form and was released t
  
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• Alexandraia Ocasio-Cortez can't get very far without Nancy Pelosi, says Run for America co-founder

  26-07-2019 20:37 via news.yahoo.com
  Hoover Institute fellow Lanhee Chen and Run for America co-founder David Burstein weigh in on Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and House Speaker Nancy Pelosi's meeting.
  
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• Murdered Israelis involved in 'money laundering,' says Mexico government

  26-07-2019 20:36 via news.yahoo.com
  Two Israelis shot dead in Mexico City were involved in money laundering and had links to local mafias, Mexico's government said on Friday.Alon Azulay, 41, and Benjamin Yeshurun Sutchi, 44, were gunned down in a restaurant inside a mall in the south of the sprawling capital city on Thursday."These are a settling of scores between organized criminal gangs with various interests," said Alfonso Durazo, the secretary of security and civilian protection.
  
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• Bronx man arrested at JFK Airport for allegedly seeking to join Taliban

  26-07-2019 20:26 via abcnews.go.com
  A Bronx man has been arrested Friday at John F. Kennedy International Airport on terror-related charges, a law enforcement official told ABC News.
  
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• Iranian cargo ship sinks in Caspian Sea

  26-07-2019 20:21 via cnn.com
  An Iranian cargo ship sank in the Caspian Sea near Azerbaijan's Lankaran port on Friday, according to Iran's state-run news agency IRNA.
  
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• Iranian cargo ship sinks

  26-07-2019 20:21 via cnn.com
  An Iranian cargo ship sank in the Caspian Sea near Azerbaijan's Lankaran port on Friday, according to Iran's state-run news agency IRNA.
  
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• Australian border officials find $1 million in liquid meth inside snow globes

  26-07-2019 20:18 via cnn.com
  In a unique drug bust that could have come straight out of the movie "Traffic" or the TV show "Breaking Bad," border officials in Sydney, Australia, say they've intercepted more than $1 million worth of liquid methamphetamine that arrived by air from Canada.
  
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• $1 million in liquid meth found inside snow globes

  26-07-2019 20:18 via cnn.com
  In a unique drug bust that could have come straight out of the movie "Traffic" or the TV show "Breaking Bad," border officials in Sydney, Australia, say they've intercepted more than $1 million worth of liquid methamphetamine that arrived by air from Canada.
  
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• Nancy Pelosi says Democrats demanding impeachment ‘only gives me leverage’ as over 100 House members call for removal of Trump

  26-07-2019 20:10 via news.yahoo.com
  House Speaker Nancy Pelosi has defended herself at a press conference against accusations from a growing number of members within her own party, that she was “trying to run out the clock” on impeaching Donald Trump. “Everybody has the liberty and the luxury to espouse their own position and to criticise me for trying to go down the path in the most determined, positive way,” Ms Pelosi said about her stance on launching an impeachment inquiry into the president. The House
  
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• Kidnapped Austrian triathlete sweet-talks captor into letting her go: report

  26-07-2019 20:09 via feeds.foxnews.com
  An Austrian triathlete said she was kidnapped and stripped naked by a van-driver earlier this week but managed to sweet-talk him into returning her home before he could do worse, according to Friday report.   
  
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• Equifax settlement: What you need to know to claim part of the $700 million settlement

  26-07-2019 20:09 via nbcnews.com
  The Federal Trade Commission opened up the online claims process on Wednesday, where affected consumers can file a digital form to claim some of the settlement.
  
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• U.S. tax collectors urge owners of virtual currencies to pay back taxes, file amended returns

  26-07-2019 20:06 via news.yahoo.com
  The U.S. Internal Revenue Service on Friday said it was sending thousands of letters to taxpayers who failed to report virtual currency transactions, saying they may owe taxes.The IRS said it planned to send over 10,000 letters to taxpayers in an effort that began earlier in July and will continue through August."Taxpayers who do not properly report the income tax consequences of virtual currency transactions are, when appropriate, liable for tax, penalties and interest," the agency said in a st
  
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• Turkey determined to destroy 'terror corridor' in Syria

  26-07-2019 20:06 via news.yahoo.com
  Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said Friday his country is determined to destroy what he called a "terror corridor" in northern Syria — regardless of whether or not Turkey and the United States agree on the establishment of a so-called "safe zone" there.U.S. and Turkish officials have been holding talks on creating a safe zone east of the Euphrates River to address Turkey's security concerns stemming from the presence of Syrian Kurdish fighters in the region.Turkey views Kurdish fig
  
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• Listeria found on leafy greens at major grocery stores including Costco, Whole Foods

  26-07-2019 20:04 via news.yahoo.com
  Consumer Reports has found that major grocery stores such as Whole Foods, Acme, Costco and Hannaford have been selling some greens carrying listeria.
  
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• Hezbollah denies using Lebanon's port for arms smuggling

  26-07-2019 19:51 via news.yahoo.com
  Lebanon's heavily armed, Iran-backed Hezbollah group on Friday denied using Beirut's sea port to import arms in response to an accusation by Israel's United Nations envoy this week."I completely deny the claim of the Israeli representative in the Security Council that Hezbollah uses the Beirut port to transfer weapons or weapon components into Lebanon," Hezbollah leader Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah said in a television speech.
  
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• Tennessee inmate declines to choose execution method

  26-07-2019 19:45 via news.yahoo.com
  A Tennessee death row inmate has declined to choose the method of his execution scheduled for mid-August, a non-decision that would result in his death by lethal injection.Tennessee Department of Correction spokeswoman Neysa Taylor confirmed in an email Friday that Stephen West declined to pick his method of execution when given the opportunity.Four inmates have been executed in Tennessee since August 2018.
  
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• Nadler: We’re Pursuing a De Facto Impeachment Inquiry

  26-07-2019 19:45 via news.yahoo.com
  Mark Wilson/GettyHouse Judiciary Chairman Jerry Nadler (D-N.Y.) said on Friday that his committee was “in effect” conducting an impeachment inquiry, even as he shied away from using that exact phrase. “The committee is exercising its authority to investigate all of these scandals and to decide what to do about them, which could include articles of impeachment,” said Nadler at a press conference. “Whether you call that an inquiry, or whatever you want to call th
  
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• Bahrain urged to halt imminent execution of two men

  26-07-2019 19:41 via theguardian.com
  UN official issues last-minute appeal amid reports pair may be executed in next 24 hoursA last-minute appeal to stop the imminent execution of two men in Bahrain has been issued by the UN special rapporteur on extrajudicial killings, Agnès Callamard, as pressure mounts on the country’s king to revoke the death sentences.Ali Mohamed Hakeem al-Arab and Ahmed Isa Ahmed Isa al-Malali may be executed in the next 24 hours, according to human rights groups. Continue reading...
  
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• Dozens of bodies found after migrant boat capsizes off Libya

  26-07-2019 19:39 via theguardian.com
  Up to 150 have died in what is thought be deadliest incident in Mediterranean this yearDozens of bodies have been recovered from the Mediterranean, a day after the shipwreck that caused the deaths of up to 150 migrants.Eyewitnesses described harrowing scenes in the sea, in what a senior UN official called the “the worst Mediterranean tragedy” so far this year. Continue reading...
  
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