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• Lori Loughlin's daughters break silence on her birthday

  29-07-2019 23:48 via cnn.com
  Lori Loughlin's daughter Bella Giannulli broke her social media silence to wish her mother a happy birthday.
  
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• Mark Meadows breaks silence on Trump's attacks on Elijah Cummings

  29-07-2019 23:35 via cnn.com
  In a statement to CNN contributor Rick Santorum, Republican Rep. Mark Meadows defended both Democratic Rep. Elijah Cummings and President Donald Trump in the wake of Trump's attacks on Cummings and his Baltimore district by saying that "neither is a racist."
  
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• Britain's youngest terrorist's identity to remain secret

  29-07-2019 23:32 via theguardian.com
  Lifelong anonymity for Blackburn teenager who plotted to murder Australian police officersThe identity of Britain’s youngest terrorist, who plotted to murder police officers in Australia, will remain a secret for the rest of his life following a high court ruling.The teenager, from Blackburn, Lancashire, who can be identified only as RXG, sent encrypted messages when he was 14 instructing an Australian jihadist to launch attacks during a 2015 Anzac Day parade. Now 18, he was jailed for lif
  
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• Boris Johnson Issues Ultimatum to EU Over Brexit Talks as Pound Slumps

  29-07-2019 23:30 via news.yahoo.com
  (Bloomberg) -- Prime Minister Boris Johnson will not start talks with European Union leaders over Brexit unless they first agree to his demand to reopen the divorce deal they struck with his predecessor, Theresa May, his office warned Monday. So far, EU leaders have refused.The pound fell to its lowest in two years on growing fears the new premier will steer Britain into an economically damaging no-deal split. Johnson stepped up the government’s preparations for leaving the EU without an a
  
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• California has strict gun laws. Here's how the Gilroy gunman evaded them

  29-07-2019 23:27 via theguardian.com
  US lawmakers renew calls for federal gun reform after shooter purchased weapon legally in NevadaCalifornia has some of the most stringent gun laws in the country, including a ban on the type of rifle that a shooter used to kill three and wound 15 at the garlic food festival in Gilroy on Sunday.But the gunman had legally purchased the “assault-type rifle”, in the style of an AK-47, from the neighboring state Nevada on 9 July before carrying it illegally over state lines into Californi
  
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• California has strict gun laws. Here's how the Gilroy gunman evaded them

  29-07-2019 23:27 via news.yahoo.com
  US lawmakers renew calls for federal gun reform after shooter purchased weapon legally in NevadaPolice officers escort people from Christmas Hill Park following the shooting. Photograph: Noah Berger/APCalifornia has some of the most stringent gun laws in the country, including a ban on the type of rifle that a shooter used to kill three and wound 15 at the garlic food festival in Gilroy on Sunday.But the gunman had legally purchased the “assault-type rifle”, in the style of an AK-47,
  
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• Tennessee woman finds snake in hotel bed

  29-07-2019 23:14 via news.yahoo.com
  A Tennessee woman got the kind of wake-up call no one ever wants during a recent hotel stay.
  
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• Follow the law, get pulled over: Why a police plan to 'ticket' drivers backfired in Arizona

  29-07-2019 23:10 via news.yahoo.com
  Tempe Police Department started a "Positive Ticketing Campaign" initiative to hand out Circle K drink coupons for following traffic laws.
  
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• 15 memes about student loans for when you're in debt and need to laugh it off

  29-07-2019 23:01 via news.yahoo.com
  Congrats graduates! Your student loan debt might be forgiven if, and only if, you are left-handed, live in Iowa, apprentice under a wizard, and it's the third cycle of the fifth blood moon. So in the mean time, we might just have to fork over the cash every month. It can be hard to be slapped with an adult-sized bill when you still feel like an exhausted child, except taller and with the ability to drink alcohol. Who gave us this responsibility of tens of thousands of dollars for the next f
  
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• Hong Kong Police Strain Under Pressure to Solve Political Crisis

  29-07-2019 23:00 via news.yahoo.com
  (Bloomberg) -- When thousands of black-clad protesters flooded a Hong Kong suburb Saturday to express anger over mob violence on their fellow activists, the police found themselves under attack.Mask-wearing demonstrators surrounded a police van, breaking a window while officers were still trapped inside. They spray-painted “dirty cops” and the names of local triad gangs on the vehicle before some protesters eventually convinced the crowd to let it escape.The tense episode in the nort
  
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• Uber lays off 400 people

  29-07-2019 22:59 via cnn.com
  Uber is laying off roughly one-third of its global marketing staff.
  
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• Rare 2,000-year-old scroll about early years of Buddhism made public

  29-07-2019 22:53 via cnn.com
  The Library of Congress made public a rare 2,000-year-old text of early Buddhism on Monday, and it offers a glimpse into early Buddhist history during its formative years.
  
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• President Trump's Attacks on Baltimore Came as Elijah Cummings Quietly Built Effective Investigations Into the Administration

  29-07-2019 22:52 via news.yahoo.com
  President Trump's Twitter tirade against Elijah Cummings highlighted the effectiveness of the Congressman's oversight strategy
  
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• Mitch McConnell: Top Trump ally angrily hits back at 'modern-day McCarthyism' amid row over election security and Russia

  29-07-2019 22:43 via news.yahoo.com
  Senate majority leader Mitch McConnell has angrily hit out at critics who accused of him ignoring threats to US elections from Russia, claiming the “unhinged smears” amounted to “modern-day McCarthyism”.Last week, Mr McConnell, a leading Republican ally of the president, blocked two measures designed to strengthen election security.He claimed the bills, proposed by Democrats, were being tabled for the party’s political benefits. But a number of people accused of ign
  
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• Kamala Harris, AOC partnering on climate-justice bill

  29-07-2019 22:41 via news.yahoo.com
  The California senator and the Green New Deal co-sponsor join forces on legislation to help low-income communities.
  
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• Harris, AOC partnering on climate-justice bill

  29-07-2019 22:41 via news.yahoo.com
  The California senator and the Green New Deal co-sponsor join forces on legislation to help low-income communities.
  
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• Man accused of killing internet personality pleads not guilty

  29-07-2019 22:38 via cnn.com
  Brandon Clark, who is accused of killing 17-year-old Bianca Devins, has pleaded not guilty to second-degree murder, according to his attorney, Luke Nebush of the Oneida County Public Defender's Office.
  
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• McConnell accuses media outlets of 'modern-day McCarthyism'

  29-07-2019 22:36 via news.yahoo.com
  McConnell also defended his opposition to the election security bill.
  
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• Ironman cyclist dies after she was hit by truck during race

  29-07-2019 22:32 via cnn.com
  A cyclist participating in an Ohio Ironman triathlon died Sunday after being hit by a semi during the race.
  
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• TSA finds unusual souvenir from Kuwait: missile launcher

  29-07-2019 22:30 via cnn.com
  TSA agents are used to finding strange and alarming objects in travelers' luggage, whether it's snakes, switchblades or swords. The latest addition to that list: a missile launcher.
  
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• Italian police officer allegedly killed by American teens remembered as hero

  29-07-2019 22:15 via feeds.foxnews.com
  Mario Cerciello Rega’s funeral took place in the same church where his wedding did, just 43 days ago. The church, in the shadow of Mount Vesuvius, was overflowing with dignitaries and police brass.
  
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• 'Dangerous' UK government intent on forcing no deal, says Sturgeon

  29-07-2019 22:07 via theguardian.com
  Scotland’s first minister criticises Boris Johnson’s ‘hardline position’ on Brexit Boris Johnson has been accused by Nicola Sturgeon of intentionally pushing the UK towards a no-deal Brexit, despite his “bluff and bluster” about wanting an agreement with EU leaders.After meeting Johnson face-to-face in Edinburgh, the Scottish first minister said she believed he was pursuing a “dangerous” hardline strategy with EU leaders, with the likely outcome of
  
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• Dan Coats resignation: Trump values leaders who protect him over those who defend America

  29-07-2019 22:03 via news.yahoo.com
  By pushing John Ratcliffe to replace Dan Coats, Trump is signaling, again, that he values leaders who protect him over those who defend America.
  
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• Trump pardons and commutes sentences for 7 people

  29-07-2019 22:01 via cnn.com
  President Donald Trump on Monday issued full pardons to five individuals and commuted the sentences of two others convicted of a variety of federal crimes.
  
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• Mosquitos carrying deadly, brain-swelling virus detected in Florida

  29-07-2019 22:00 via news.yahoo.com
  A potentially deadly mosquito-borne virus known to cause brain swelling hasbeen detected in Florida, according to the state's health department
  
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• Coalition says strike kills 5 IS jihadists in Syria

  29-07-2019 22:00 via news.yahoo.com
  A US-led coalition air strike killed five jihadists in eastern Syria on Monday, a spokesman said, in the first such raid since the collapse of the Islamic State group's "caliphate"."Coalition forces conducted a strike against a Daesh cell near Busayrah", a town in Deir Ezzor province, said coalition spokesman James Rawlinson, using an Arabic acronym for IS.The five jihadists were all Syrian, according to the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights war monitor.
  
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• Gang violence leaves more than 50 dead in Brazil prison riot

  29-07-2019 21:55 via theguardian.com
  Prisoners decapitated and asphyxiated in city of Altamira, in dispute linked to local drug tradeAt least 57 people have been killed in a gruesome gang battle that broke out in an prison in the Brazilian Amazon on Monday morning.Officials said a local drug gang had invaded the wing controlled by its rivals in the city of Altamira in the state of Pará, decapitated 16 prisoners and set mattresses on fire, with dozens more thought to have asphyxiated in the smoke. Continue reading...
  
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• 'Old Town Road' becomes longest-running No.1 hit on Billboard's Hot 100

  29-07-2019 21:50 via cnn.com
  Lil Nas X has now made Billboard chart history.
  
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• Another tourist injured by bison at a national park; second such incident in a week

  29-07-2019 21:44 via news.yahoo.com
  Park regulations require that visitors stay at least 25 yards away from large animals such as bison, elk, deer and horses.
  
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• Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell defends himself from criticism for blocking election security bills

  29-07-2019 21:41 via news.yahoo.com
  Speaking on the Senate floor, Mitch McConnell vows not to be intimidated by liars and bullies.
  
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• Cory Booker Qualifies To Join Third Round Of Democratic Debates

  29-07-2019 21:36 via news.yahoo.com
  Presidential candidate Cory Booker has qualified to participate in the third round of Democratic debates, according to his campaign.Booker, a New Jersey senator, passed the threshold of 130,000 unique donors, his campaign said Monday, CNN reported. He had already met the polling requirements for the September debate.More than a quarter of the donors came after the first debate in June, his campaign said.“We’re building this campaign the right way, brick by brick from the gr
  
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• School Shooter Dies in Car Crash, 21 Years After Opening Fire at Arkansas Middle School

  29-07-2019 21:33 via news.yahoo.com
  Drew Grant and a friend shot and killed five people at Westside Middle School in 1998
  
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• Deputy who plays bailiff on courtroom TV show hurt in weekend shooting that killed his wife

  29-07-2019 21:21 via news.yahoo.com
  The deputy, who also does acting work, was hurt in the shooting that killed his wife in southeast Houston.
  
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• Canadian 'thrill-kill' suspects face bears, blood-sucking flies as the law's long arm closes in

  29-07-2019 21:21 via feeds.foxnews.com
  In the remote and rugged northern Canadian territory where two teenaged killers are believed to be hiding, threats to survival range in size from blood-sucking sandflies to man-eating bears.
  
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• Whither Evangelical Purity Culture? Thoughts on the Legacy of a Lost Pastor

  29-07-2019 21:17 via news.yahoo.com
  If you don’t live in Evangelical-world, you probably missed this news. An influential Evangelical author and pastor named Joshua Harris announced on Saturday that he was in the process of “deconstruction.” His statement was clear. “By all the measurements I have for defining a Christian,” he said, “I am not a Christian.” He apologized to the LGBT community for not affirming gay marriage and for the ways that his writing and speaking “contributed to
  
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• He wrote the Christian case against dating. Now he's splitting from his wife and faith.

  29-07-2019 21:17 via news.yahoo.com
  Joshua Harris, author of "I Kissed Dating Goodbye" and a former megachurch pastor,  wrote that he "lived in repentance" for his prior teachings.
  
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• New York reduces penalties for marijuana possession

  29-07-2019 21:00 via news.yahoo.com
  New York's governor signed a bill Monday that softens penalties for possessing small amounts of marijuana and allows for the expungement of some past offenses.The law changes an unlawful possession of marijuana statute into a violation that's similar to a traffic ticket, instead of a criminal charge.The law also requires that records tied to low-level marijuana cases be automatically sealed and creates a process for expungement.
  
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• Donald Trump Just Granted 5 Full Pardons. Check Out to Who.

  29-07-2019 21:00 via news.yahoo.com
  President Donald Trump granted five full pardons Monday to John Richard Bubala, Roy Wayne McKeever, Rodney Takumi, Michael Tedesco and Chalmer Lee Williams.The president decided each man was worthy of Executive Grants of Clemency after “a careful review of the files” of each individual, according to an official statement from the Office of the Press Secretary.John Richard BubalaBubala pled guilty to improper use of Federal Government in 1990 in an effort to transport automo
  
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• Italy judge: teen claims he knifed officer in self-defense

  29-07-2019 20:45 via news.yahoo.com
  An Italian judge says one of the two American teenagers jailed in Rome for the slaying of a police officer has stated he stabbed the plainclothes officer because he feared he was being strangled, according to an order obtained by The Associated Press.
  
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• Venezuela Faces the Loss of Citgo -- and Desperately Needed Dollars

  29-07-2019 20:31 via news.yahoo.com
  (Bloomberg) -- Venezuela could lose its largest U.S. asset after a court allowed a Canadian gold miner to seize shares of Citgo Petroleum Corp.’s parent to satisfy an arbitration award.A U.S. appeals court ruled on Monday that Crystallex International Corp. may seize U.S.-based stock of Citgo’s parent, which is part of Venezuela’s state-owned oil company, to cover a $1.4 billion award over the nationalization of gold fields.Unless reversed on appeal or blocked by the Trump admi
  
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• Speculation swirls over Jessica Alba's Twitter outbursts

  29-07-2019 20:28 via cnn.com
  A series of racist, anti-semitic and generally offensive screenshots which appeared to be from actress Jessica Alba's verified Twitter account were making the rounds on social media this weekend.
  
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• 2 US troops killed in Afghanistan in apparent insider attack, official says

  29-07-2019 20:28 via feeds.foxnews.com
  Two American service members were killed in an apparent insider attack in Afghanistan on Monday, a U.S. official told Fox News.
  
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• Brazil prison riot leaves at least 57 dead -- including 16 decapitated

  29-07-2019 20:24 via feeds.foxnews.com
  At least 57 inmates were killed -- including 16 found decapitated -- during a bloody riot between rival criminal factions that erupted Monday morning inside a northern Brazil prison, authorities said.
  
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• Brazil prison riot leaves at least 52 dead -- including 16 decapitated

  29-07-2019 20:24 via feeds.foxnews.com
  At least 52 inmates were killed -- including 16 found decapitated -- during a bloody riot between rival criminal factions that erupted Monday morning inside a northern Brazil prison, authorities said.
  
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• Brazil investigates death of indigenous leader after miners reportedly attack village

  29-07-2019 20:19 via feeds.foxnews.com
  Brazilian authorities are investigating the death of an indigenous man after villagers reported illegal miners invaded their land and fatally stabbed their leader.
  
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• Four teenage protesters killed by security forces in central Sudan

  29-07-2019 20:12 via theguardian.com
  Rapid Support Forces opened fire on peaceful protest against shortages in El-ObaidAt least four students were killed when security forces opened fire on a protest in central Sudan on Monday. The oldest was 16, the youngest 14, locals said. The death toll is expected to rise.Witnesses described how militia from the feared Rapid Support Forces (RSF) fired on teenagers, many of whom were wearing school uniforms and carrying school bags, as they marched peacefully in protest at shortages of water, e
  
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• Trump Ends Prison Term for Arkansas Man Backed by Mike Huckabee

  29-07-2019 20:03 via news.yahoo.com
  (Bloomberg) -- Donald Trump ended the prison sentence of an Arkansas man convicted of bribery, whose cause had been taken up by one of the president’s close political allies, former Arkansas Governor Mike Huckabee.Trump awarded a commutation to Ted Suhl, who operated a “faith-based behavioral healthcare treatment center for juveniles” in the state, according to a White House statement. An appeals court had affirmed Suhl’s conviction and sentence in March 2018, according t
  
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• You'll never believe what Donald Trump just said about 9/11

  29-07-2019 19:55 via cnn.com
  Donald Trump has always had a bit of Walter Mitty in him. But on Monday morning, in a speech to first responders and others impacted by the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks, he took his fantastical memory of himself to new and not-at-all-appropriate heights.
  
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• Trump Makes Tone-Deaf Joke About Stage Collapsing Under First Responders During 9/11 Bill Signing

  29-07-2019 19:52 via news.yahoo.com
  Carlos Barria/ReutersJust before signing into law a permanent extension of the 9/11 victims compensation fund on Monday, President Donald Trump jokingly told the 9/11 first responders in attendance that they shouldn’t worry if the Rose Garden stage collapsed underneath them because they wouldn’t fall “very far.”After suggesting that he was directly involved with the cleanup efforts at Ground Zero immediately after the Sept. 11 terror attacks—a claim that has been di
  
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• Hong Kong protests condemned by China as 'horrendous' as state media calls on 'forceful' action to end unrest

  29-07-2019 19:52 via feeds.foxnews.com
  Another weekend of violent clashes between protestors and police in Hong Kong spurred officials in China on Monday to blame Western forces while also calling for authorities to take more "forceful" action to restore order in the city.
  
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