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• How to stop your Alexa voice recordings from being reviewed by a human

  05-08-2019 23:54 via cnn.com
  Digital voice assistants like Amazon's Alexa have become household staples. But recent reports that they're listening more often than people realize, and recording snippets of conversations that are sometimes reviewed by humans, have people once again worried about their privacy.
  
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• Furious Trump denounces 'major violation' as China intensifies trade war and markets plunge

  05-08-2019 23:50 via news.yahoo.com
  US stocks suffered their worst day of the year as China devalued its currency in a move condemned as a “major violation” by a furious Donald Trump.The Dow closed down 767.27 points, or 2.9%. The S&P 500 dropped about 3%, its biggest one-day decline since December, representing a paper loss of $766 billion, according to Refinitiv data. The Nadaq Composite was down 278.03 points, or 3.47%.It came as the yuan was weakened to its lowest level in 11 years, in what was interpreted as a
  
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• Chicago suffers bloody weekend as gun violence leaves seven dead

  05-08-2019 23:45 via news.yahoo.com
  Mass shootings command widespread media coverage, but lost in the national conversations about guns are everyday killings A memorial where 26-year-old Chantell Grant and 35-year-old Andrea Stoudemire were shot and killed on 28 July in the South Side of Chicago. Photograph: Kamil Krzaczyński/AFP/Getty ImagesAs deadly mass shootings devastated communities in Texas and Ohio and reignited calls for lawmakers to act on gun reform, Chicago experienced yet another bloody weekend – suffering
  
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• R. Kelly charged with engaging in prostitution, soliciting a minor in Minnesota

  05-08-2019 23:38 via nbcnews.com
  The musician already faces multiple federal and state sex crime charges in New York and Illinois.
  
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• The guns used to kill dozens in Dayton and El Paso were legal — high-capacity options included

  05-08-2019 23:34 via news.yahoo.com
  More details about the weapons used in the weekend's deadly shooting rampages in Ohio and Dayton
  
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• Puerto Rico's Senate challenges new governor's legality in court

  05-08-2019 23:34 via nbcnews.com
  Gov. Pedro Pierluisi argues a law allowed him to be named secretary of state with just House and not Senate confirmation, but others disagree.
  
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• Dow plunges nearly 1,000 points as trade war rocks markets

  05-08-2019 23:31 via cnn.com
  A dramatic escalation of the trade war between the United States and China sparked a worldwide sell off in markets on Monday. The Dow plunged as much as 950 points and the Nasdaq — a proxy for the technology companies that are particularly tied into the Chinese economy — suffered its longest losing streak since November 2016.
  
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• Video games are unlikely to cause real-world violence, experts say

  05-08-2019 23:30 via cnn.com
  As mass shootings roil the nation, President Trump and top Republicans are citing video games as one explanation for the bloodshed.
  
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• Gilroy victims died of gunshot wounds to the chest and back, coroner says

  05-08-2019 23:21 via nbcnews.com
  Two of the victims of last week's Garlic Festival shooting died of wounds to their chests and a third died of a back wound, according to the coroner's office.
  
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• The US and China may be headed for a currency war

  05-08-2019 23:20 via cnn.com
  China may have just fired the opening shot of a currency war with the United States.
  
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• Cyclist dies after crashing in Tour de Poland

  05-08-2019 23:15 via cnn.com
  Tragedy struck the Tour de Poland on Monday, when cyclist Bjorg Lambrecht died after a crash.
  
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• Sharks bite 3 people in one day at beach

  05-08-2019 23:06 via cnn.com
  Experts describe New Smyrna Beach in Volusia County, Florida, as the shark attack capital of the world, and it lived up to that reputation this weekend, when three people were bitten by sharks over two days.
  
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• Pipe-bomb mailer who targeted Trump critics sentenced to 20 years

  05-08-2019 23:05 via nbcnews.com
  The series of mailed pipe bombs, which prosecutors described in court papers as "a domestic terror attack," spurred a nationwide scare last year.
  
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• Joe Biden's brother and hedge fund manager accused of fraud

  05-08-2019 23:05 via news.yahoo.com
  A federal lawsuit accuses the brother of former Vice President Joe Biden, hedge fund manager Michael Lewitt, and others of attempting to defraud a Tennessee business.The Knoxville News Sentinel reports that the defendants have until mid-August to respond to the lawsuit filed last month by Michael Frey and Dr. Mohannad Azzam.It says the plaintiffs founded Diverse Medical Management to reform failing rural hospitals, and Jim Biden promised to sell the health care plan to investors.
  
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• Fans are best used during humid heat waves, study says

  05-08-2019 23:03 via nbcnews.com
  A small Australian study found that fans were more effective in hot, humid conditions like the heat waves of the Midwest and Northeast versus hot, dry conditions in the Southwest.
  
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• Obama: Americans must not let racist views become normalized

  05-08-2019 22:57 via news.yahoo.com
  The statement , which did not mention President Donald Trump directly, also reminded Americans that "we are not helpless" in the face of the nation's high frequency of mass shootings compared to other countries."And until all of us stand up and insist on holding public officials accountable for changing our gun laws, these tragedies will keep happening," Obama wrote.A shooting at a Walmart in El Paso, Texas, on Saturday killed 22 people, and a second shooting outside a crowded bar in Dayton, Ohi
  
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• Mars mission could cause learning impairment and anxiety, study says

  05-08-2019 22:55 via cnn.com
  On a long-term spaceflight mission to Mars, astronauts will be continuously exposed to low-dose radiation in deep space. A new study found that this exposure can cause impairments in the brains of mice, resulting in learning and memory issues as well as anxiety.
  
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• Did Dayton gunman target his own sister? Idea 'defies believability,' police chief says

  05-08-2019 22:55 via news.yahoo.com
  Ohio officials were reluctant to guess what set 24-year-old Connor Betts on his rampage.
  
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• Mexican man who shielded wife in Texas mass shooting dies

  05-08-2019 22:48 via news.yahoo.com
  A Mexican man who threw himself in front of his wife to shield her from bullets in a mass shooting in El Paso, Texas, died on Monday, officials and his family said, raising the toll of Mexican nationals killed in one of two weekend mass shootings in the United States to eight.Juan de Dios Velazquez, 77, had moved to El Paso with his wife Estela Nicolasa, 65, from Ciudad Juarez, just across the border in Mexico, six months before they were caught in Saturday's mass shooting at a Walmart store."He
  
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• Abandoned boat the latest clue in manhunt for suspected Canadian killers

  05-08-2019 22:47 via cnn.com
  The manhunt in Canada for suspects Kam McLeod and Bryer Schmegelsky involved an underwater search over the weekend after a damaged aluminum boat was found near a river in Manitoba.
  
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• A Texas man planned a mass shooting. His grandmother stopped him and 'saved lives,' officials say

  05-08-2019 22:47 via news.yahoo.com
  A 19-year-old allegedly told his grandma he bought an AK-47 and planned to "shoot up" a local hotel. She convinced him to go to a hospital instead.
  
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• Irene Sanchez: El Paso horror spotlights long history of anti-Latino violence in the US

  05-08-2019 22:44 via cnn.com
  We cannot fight back against white supremacy if we don't even know the history of what has taken place. It takes knowing that history to know that the rise in hate crimes since Donald Trump's election to President as well as this past week's horror is a continuation of a long legacy of violence since before 1848. What happened in El Paso was a massacre and a hate crime.
  
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• People are texting phone numbers identical to their own, with one key difference

  05-08-2019 22:43 via cnn.com
  Knock knock. Who's there? It's your (number) neighbor!
  
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• El Paso absorbs more grief as shooting deaths climb to 22

  05-08-2019 22:42 via news.yahoo.com
  The Texas border city jolted by a weekend massacre at a Walmart absorbed still more grief Monday as the death toll climbed to 22 and fear lingered in El Paso, where the shooting rampage claimed more lives than the number of murders here just two years ago.Anger also simmered, including toward President Donald Trump, who on Monday addressed the nation for the first time since the attack in Texas and another in Ohio that killed 31 people in all and wounded dozens more.The possibility that Trump wo
  
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• Yield Curve Blares Loudest U.S. Recession Warning Since 2007

  05-08-2019 22:41 via news.yahoo.com
  (Bloomberg) -- The latest eruption in the U.S.-China trade dispute pushed a widely watched Treasury-market recession indicator to the highest alert since 2007.Rates on 10-year notes sank to 1.714% on Monday, completely erasing the surge that followed President Donald Trump’s 2016 election. At one point, they yielded 32 basis points less than three-month bills, the most extreme yield-curve inversion since the lead-up to the 2008 crisis.The moves follow reports that China is responding to th
  
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• Man allegedly tries to rob bank in Cleveland, gets caught after leaving a note with his name, address

  05-08-2019 22:40 via news.yahoo.com
  An Ohio man accused of robbing a bank was caught by police last week after hemade a pretty unfortunate mistake
  
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• There have been 3 mass shootings in the last week

  05-08-2019 22:36 via nbcnews.com
  Three mass shootings in the United States have left 34 people dead and dozens more wounded in the past week.
  
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• Passenger locked in bus luggage hold, driver arrested

  05-08-2019 22:35 via nbcnews.com
  A Peter Pan bus driver was booked on suspicion of unlawful restraint, reckless endangerment and breach of peace.
  
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• Trump condemns 'racism, bigotry and white supremacy' after weekend of mass shootings

  05-08-2019 22:33 via nbcnews.com
  The president did not call for additional gun control measures on Monday, instead blaming violent video games and mental illness, among other factors, for the scourge of mass shootings.
  
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• Vienna subway riders vote against scented subway cars

  05-08-2019 22:31 via feeds.foxnews.com
  Commuters on Vienna subway trains have decided they would prefer their transit rides to remain unscented, according to an online survey released Monday. 
  
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• Suspect arrested in murders of man, nanny found dead at suburban New Jersey home

  05-08-2019 22:28 via news.yahoo.com
  Police have made an arrest in the killings of a man and a live-in nanny who worked with his family in New Jersey.
  
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• Newspaper chain GateHouse buying Gannett, USA Today owner

  05-08-2019 22:20 via nbcnews.com
  Newspaper consolidation has picked up as local papers find it hard to grow digital businesses and replace declines in print ads and circulation.
  
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• Man who sent pipe bombs to prominent Democrats and CNN sentenced to 20 years

  05-08-2019 22:19 via cnn.com
  Cesar Sayoc, who plead guilty to sending pipe bombs to prominent Democrats and CNN, was sentenced Monday to 20 years in prison followed by five years of supervised release.
  
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• The NRA issued a statement supporting Trump's call to focus on mental illness to reduce gun violence after the shootings in El Paso and Dayton

  05-08-2019 22:17 via news.yahoo.com
  The NRA backed Trump's call to focus on mental illness after the shootings in El Paso and Dayton, despite research showing no link between them.
  
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• Probe: No bias by TSA supervisor, but profiling concerns

  05-08-2019 22:15 via news.yahoo.com
  Investigators were unable to corroborate specific allegations that a Transportation Security Administration supervisor instructed air marshals to racially discriminate against passengers at Florida's busiest airport.The Office of Inspector General launched the investigation a year ago at the request of U.S. lawmakers after three air marshals went public with the discrimination allegations about the supervisor.
  
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• After Mass Shootings, Trump Veers Quickly From Horror to Score Settling

  05-08-2019 22:09 via news.yahoo.com
  Bloomberg/GettyIn Dayton, in El Paso, in Parkland and in Pittsburgh, Donald Trump always reacts the same way. First, behind closed doors, with horror and compassion, followed almost immediately by grievance and scorn.It’s the latter feelings that dictate the moments and days directly following, demolishing any chance for constructive dialogue or major reform.For this president, it’s the same script every time, read haltingly from a teleprompter, just with differing numbers of dead.Ac
  
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• In veiled shot at Trump, Obama urges rejection of leaders who feed 'climate of fear and hatred'

  05-08-2019 22:07 via nbcnews.com
  The former president issued a lengthy statement Monday in response to the two mass shootings over the weekend.
  
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• Barack Obama shares heartfelt response to mass shootings, calls for stricter gun laws

  05-08-2019 22:03 via news.yahoo.com
  Barack Obama has finally released a statement on the deadly mass shootings that took place over the weekend in El Paso, Texas, and Dayton, Ohio.The former president shared a heartfelt four-paragraph message on Twitter Monday afternoon, explaining that he and Michelle "grieve with all the families in El Paso and Dayton who endured these latest mass shootings.""Even if details are still emerging," Obama wrote, "there are a few things we already know to be true."> pic.twitter.com/nNOVtQ50O4>
  
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• Emma Watson helps launch legal advice line for women harassed at work

  05-08-2019 21:56 via cnn.com
  Emma Watson is staying busy. The 29-year-old "Harry Potter" star announced Monday that she's helping launch a free legal advice line for those experiencing sexual harassment at work in England and Wales.
  
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• The stock market just tanked. Here's what to do with your 401(k)

  05-08-2019 21:55 via nbcnews.com
  The Dow Jones Industrial Average dropped by more than 700 points today. Financial advisers share advice to help you plot your next move.
  
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• Rand Paul has part of lung removed after 2017 assault by neighbor

  05-08-2019 21:55 via nbcnews.com
  Rene Boucher broke several of the senator’s ribs when he tackled him while Paul was doing yard work at his home in Kentucky in 2017.
  
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• A 'hero' grandfather, a teen, an Army vet: These are the victims of the El Paso massacre

  05-08-2019 21:53 via nbcnews.com
  A gunman opened fire at a Walmart Saturday, killing 22.
  
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• White nationalism-fueled violence is on the rise, but FBI is slow to call it domestic terrorism

  05-08-2019 21:49 via nbcnews.com
  When the feds choose not to classify attacks carried out by white nationalists as domestic terrorism, investigations into these crimes are stripped of resources.
  
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• One inmate killed and five others hospitalized after clash between white and black federal prisoners

  05-08-2019 21:45 via news.yahoo.com
  One inmate was killed and five others were injured in a violent clash between black and white inmates at a Florida federal prison.
  
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• Ugandan presidential hopeful says ally dead after abduction, torture

  05-08-2019 21:37 via news.yahoo.com
  A Ugandan musician-turned-legislator who is seeking to challenge veteran President Yoweri Museveni said on Monday a supporter and fellow singer had died after being abducted and tortured, in what police are treating as a homicide.Since joining politics two years ago Robert Kyagulanyi has rattled authorities in the East African country with his growing popularity and biting criticism of Museveni, who has ruled since taking power in a 1986 coup.In a statement, Kyagulanyi said that Michael Kalinda,
  
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• O.C. murder fugitive who allegedly murdered wife in 2012 captured in Mexico, authorities say

  05-08-2019 21:33 via news.yahoo.com
  A Southern California multimillionaire who went on the run after he was charged in the 2012 death of his wife was captured in Mexico, according to the Newport Beach Police Department.
  
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• Dayton police still don't know if gunman targeted sister in mass shooting

  05-08-2019 21:31 via nbcnews.com
  "It’s a question I’ve asked more than once. And I don’t think we can know that for certain," the city's police chief said.
  
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• Why India scrapped Article 370 now

  05-08-2019 21:30 via cnn.com
  Article 370 of India's constitution has been a bone of contention in the country's politics for years.
  
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• A 6-year-old boy was thrown from the 10th floor of London's Tate Modern

  05-08-2019 21:29 via news.yahoo.com
  A teen was arrested and charged with attempted murder after allegedly throwing a boy from the 10th floor of London's Tate Modern gallery.
  
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• Dow plunges more than 950 points after China devalues its currency

  05-08-2019 21:21 via cnn.com
  The Dow tumbled more than 950 points and global stocks were in disarray on Monday after China escalated the trade war with the United States.
  
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