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• The US attorney general, who's 'appalled' over the millionaire and accused sex trafficker's apparent suicide in jail, announces an investigation

  10-08-2019 23:41 via cnn.com
  The Justice Department's inspector general is opening an investigation into the circumstances surrounding the death of multimillionaire financier and accused sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein, Attorney General William Barr announced on Saturday.
  
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• Mother of 2 missing for nearly a month, vehicle found: Officials

  10-08-2019 23:10 via abcnews.go.com
  Heather Gumina, a California mother of two children, has been missing for nearly a month.
  
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• Biden: 'Look, I misspoke' about poor kids

  10-08-2019 23:01 via news.yahoo.com
  “Poor kids are just as bright and just as talented as white kids," Biden said earlier this week.
  
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• Jeffrey Epstein is dead. His cases could live on for years

  10-08-2019 22:59 via cnn.com
  The apparent suicide of financier and accused sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein early Saturday could lead to more accusers and witnesses stepping forward as well as a flurry of civil suits against the multimillionaire's estate, according to legal experts.
  
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• Accused millionaire sex trafficker is dead. His cases could live on for years

  10-08-2019 22:59 via cnn.com
  The apparent suicide of financier and accused sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein early Saturday could lead to more accusers and witnesses stepping forward as well as a flurry of civil suits against the multimillionaire's estate, according to legal experts.
  
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• Two people wounded in mosque shooting outside Oslo

  10-08-2019 22:51 via cnn.com
  Two people were wounded Saturday during a shooting at a mosque in a suburb of the Norwegian capital of Oslo, police said.
  
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• Pastor accused of sexually assaulting sex abuse victim when she was 15 years old

  10-08-2019 22:45 via news.yahoo.com
  The woman, who is now 30 years old, said she was visiting the pastor for counseling after experiencing a previous sexual assault.
  
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• Democratic candidates blame Trump, NRA for inaction on guns

  10-08-2019 22:45 via news.yahoo.com
  Democratic presidential candidates on Saturday placed responsibility for inaction on gun violence in the hands of President Donald Trump and the National Rifle Association, in the face of broad national support for some gun control measures. "If most Americans insist that something be done and it doesn't happen, it means we need fundamental reform," Pete Buttigieg, the mayor of South Bend, Indiana, said at a presidential forum on gun violence in downtown Des Moines. The forum comes a week after
  
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• Alleged Dayton gunman showed signs of misogyny, mirroring a grim pattern for shooters

  10-08-2019 22:42 via abcnews.go.com
  Alleged Dayton gunman Connor Betts demonstrated hate in the form of misogyny, which follows a pattern in mass shootings.
  
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• FBI Arrests Las Vegas Man Allegedly Planning Attack on Synagogue, LGBTQ Community

  10-08-2019 22:39 via news.yahoo.com
  Conor Climo, 23, was arrested Thursday morning for allegedly owning parts of an explosive device
  
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• Universal Pictures cancels release of movie 'The Hunt' after mass shootings

  10-08-2019 22:32 via nbcnews.com
  Previously, Universal put a temporary halt on marketing for the film following a series of mass shootings.
  
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• Background Checks Won't Stop Many Mass Shootings. We Need Them Anyway, Experts Say

  10-08-2019 22:30 via news.yahoo.com
  Many public health experts agree background checks are a crucial part of efforts to limit gun deaths
  
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• Jeffrey Epstein dead by apparent suicide in jail, Justice Department investigating

  10-08-2019 22:17 via nbcnews.com
  Attorney General William Barr said he was 'appalled to learn that Jeffrey Epstein was found dead' and that his death 'raises serious questions that must be answered.'
  
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• Jeffrey Epstein, accused sex trafficker, dies by suicide: Officials

  10-08-2019 22:17 via abcnews.go.com
  Jeffrey Epstein was facing federal sex trafficking charges.
  
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• US military says service member dead in Iraq mission

  10-08-2019 21:55 via news.yahoo.com
  The US military said Saturday that an American service member died during an operation alongside Iraqi security personnel in Nineveh province."One US service member died today during an Iraqi Security Force mission in... Iraq, while advising and accompanying the ISF during a planned operation," US Central Command said in a statement.Iraq's government in late 2017 declared victory against IS, which seized vast swathes of the country including the key northern city of Mosul in a lightning 2014 off
  
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• Man who alleged police locked him in closet awarded $50M

  10-08-2019 21:50 via news.yahoo.com
  A jury in Cleveland on Friday awarded $50 million to a man who claimed police beat him while he was handcuffed and locked him in a storage closet for four days with no toilet and nothing to eat or drink but a carton of milk.A different Cuyahoga County jury awarded Black $22 million in June 2016 during a three-day trial where no attorneys representing East Cleveland attended.The city subsequently appealed, and the lawsuit was sent back to Cuyahoga County Common Pleas Court for another trial.
  
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• Elon Musk Says He Supports 2020 White House Hopeful Andrew Yang

  10-08-2019 21:33 via news.yahoo.com
  (Bloomberg) -- Elon Musk supports Andrew Yang, the Tesla Inc. chief executive officer said in a tweet that could give the tech entrepreneur’s 2020 White House bid a boost.Musk, who often interacts with some of his almost 28 million followers on Twitter, made the declaration while responding to political commentator Dan Carlin, who uses the handle @HardcoreHistory. Carlin’s tweet had cited Yang’s earlier tweet on leadership.Musk said in a separate tweet that universal basic inco
  
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• Vegas man accused of plotting to bomb synagogues, LGBTQ bar

  10-08-2019 21:32 via news.yahoo.com
  Court documents say Conor Climo, 23, of Las Vegas told an FBI informant in recent weeks that he was scouting places to attack.
  
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• Why was Jeffrey Epstein taken off suicide watch?

  10-08-2019 21:24 via nbcnews.com
  'For them to pull him off suicide watch is shocking,' one former federal prison warden told NBC News.
  
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• ICE used ankle monitors, informants to plan immigration raids where 680 people were arrested

  10-08-2019 21:16 via news.yahoo.com
  On Wednesday, hundreds of immigration officials descended on seven Mississippi plants owned by four companies. Here's how ICE planned the operation.
  
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• Singer recovering from rattlesnake bite

  10-08-2019 21:08 via cnn.com
  Singer and songwriter Mike Posner, who has been documenting his walk across the US on social media, was bitten by a baby rattlesnake in Colorado
  
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• Israeli army kills 4 militants trying to cross Gaza fence

  10-08-2019 21:06 via news.yahoo.com
  Israeli troops killed four Palestinian militants who attempted to cross through the perimeter fence from the Gaza Strip on Saturday, and in the West Bank arrested members of a Palestinian cell suspected in the killing of an off-duty soldier this week.The army said in a statement that militants who killed Dvir Sorek, 18, outside a settlement near Hebron were arrested and the car they used in the attack was seized.Israel's Channel 13 TV reported that the suspects included two brothers from Hebron.
  
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• Tens of thousands rally in Moscow in growing election protest

  10-08-2019 20:56 via news.yahoo.com
  Tens of thousands of demonstrators took to the streets in Moscow Saturday to protest the refusal of authorities to allow a slate of independent candidates on the fall city council elections.
  
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• Man threatens Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez on Facebook: 'She should be shot'

  10-08-2019 20:45 via abcnews.go.com
  New York Democratic Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez receives gun threats from Toledo, Ohio man now being charged in court
  
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• 'Justice must still be served': Epstein's accusers demand accountability after his death

  10-08-2019 20:44 via nbcnews.com
  'We have to live with the scars of his actions for the rest of our lives, while he will never face the consequences of the crimes he committed,' one victim said.
  
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• Police are investigating a social media threat of the 'biggest mass shooting in modern American history' targeting Walmart stores in Missouri

  10-08-2019 20:33 via news.yahoo.com
  The threat was posted this week to Reddit by someone claiming to have two AR-15 semi-automatic weapons and 22 pipe bombs.
  
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• Inside the El Paso shooting: A store manager, a frantic father, grateful survivors

  10-08-2019 20:24 via news.yahoo.com
  Here is how the shooting at an El Paso Walmart unfolded through the eyes of those who were there.
  
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• El Paso crowd decries racism week after mass shooting

  10-08-2019 20:21 via news.yahoo.com
  More than 100 people marched through the Texas border city of El Paso on Saturday, denouncing racism and calling for stronger gun laws one week after 22 people were killed in a mass shooting that authorities say was carried out by a man targeting Mexicans.Chanting "gun reform now," '' El Paso strong" and "aquí estamos y no nos vamos" — Spanish for "here we are and we are not leaving" — the marchers included Hispanic, white and black people dressed in white to symbolize peace a
  
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• Man who feared facial tattoos would affect trial convicted of murder

  10-08-2019 20:16 via nbcnews.com
  William Bottoms Jr. was found guilty Friday by a Louisiana jury in the 2017 double shooting of 29-year-old Muhammad Hussain and 23-year-old Dedrick Williams.
  
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• Moscow election protest attracts huge crowd, spurs spinoffs

  10-08-2019 20:15 via news.yahoo.com
  Tens of thousands of people rallied Saturday against the exclusion of some city council candidates from Moscow's upcoming election, turning out for one of the Russian capital's biggest political protests in years.After the rally, which was officially sanctioned, hundreds of participants streamed to an area near the presidential administration building to continue with an unauthorized demonstration.The rally was the fourth consecutive weekend demonstration in Moscow over the local election.
  
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• Dozens arrested at huge opposition rally in Moscow

  10-08-2019 20:11 via news.yahoo.com
  Nearly 50,000 opposition supporters rallied and dozens were arrested in Moscow on Saturday at one of the largest authorised protests since President Vladimir Putin's return to the Kremlin in 2012.Demonstrators crowded the central Prospekt Andreya Sakharova street, where city authorities deployed a massive police presence, including officers in riot gear, after giving permission for the rally to go ahead.The White Counter, an NGO that tracks participants in rallies, counted 49,900 people, while M
  
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• Devastating photos show the damage of Typhoon Lekima, which killed at least 18 people and forced 1 million to evacuate in China

  10-08-2019 20:09 via news.yahoo.com
  A million people were evacuated from their homes and thousands of flights were cancelled across major airports in China.
  
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• Gun debate hits home for families dealing with myths about violence, mental illness

  10-08-2019 19:56 via abcnews.go.com
  The recent Florida school shooting has brought concerns to the forefront.
  
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• The Latest: Israel says suspects in soldier's death arrested

  10-08-2019 19:55 via news.yahoo.com
  The Israeli military says it has arrested Palestinians suspected of involvement in the killing of an off-duty Israeli soldier in the West Bank this week.Israel's Channel 13 TV reported that the suspects were two brothers from Hebron.A Hamas spokesman says four Palestinian militants who were killed crossing the Gaza perimeter fence were engaging in "an individual act," stressing that the operation was not planned by Hamas.
  
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• New Democratic Unity Can Overpower the NRA

  10-08-2019 19:44 via news.yahoo.com
  (Bloomberg Opinion) -- The following is an adaptation of remarks delivered at a candidate forum on gun safety in Des Moines, Iowa. The forum was sponsored by Mike Bloomberg’s Everytown for Gun Safety Action Fund, Moms Demand Action and Students Demand Action.This has been a tragically sad week in America.But we are ending the week on a hopeful note — because all of you are here today. You’re here because you know America can answer this challenge and because you refuse to settl
  
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• 66 killed in floods, mudslides in southern India

  10-08-2019 19:21 via news.yahoo.com
  At least 66 people have died and some 360,000 have moved to relief camps following flash floods and mudslides caused by days of torrential rains in the southern Indian states of Kerala and Karnataka, a news report said Saturday. The Press Trust of India news agency, or PTI, quoted officials as saying that 42 people have died in Kerala since Thursday. Authorities have set up 1,111 relief camps with about 125,000 people.
  
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• Thousands march in Moscow demanding open city elections

  10-08-2019 19:19 via theguardian.com
  More than 100 arrested in biggest opposition rally in six years, prompted by disqualification of independent candidates Russia’s opposition held its largest protest in years in central Moscow in a show of strength and defiance after previous rallies were forcefully dispersed with mass arrests.Monitors from the White Counter group, an NGO that counts participants at rallies, reported that nearly 50,000 people attended the demonstration on Saturday, making it the largest opposition rally sin
  
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• Queues form in Srinagar as cut-off Kashmiris face growing food shortages

  10-08-2019 19:19 via theguardian.com
  India’s only Muslim-majority state fears a miserable Eid as lockdown continues.People in Indian-administered Kashmir face spending the Eid religious holiday under curfew, hungry and unable to contact friends and relatives, with food shortages in locked-down urban areas.Queues formed at cash machines and food shops yesterday as officials announced an easing of restrictions that have prevented millions from leaving their homes for almost a week. It followed major protests on Friday that repo
  
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• Families mourn as funerals begin for mass shooting victims

  10-08-2019 19:18 via news.yahoo.com
  Funerals were being held Saturday for some of the victims of mass shootings in Dayton, Ohio and El Paso, Texas.Several funerals are were set for victims in the attack in Dayton that killed nine people and left more than 30 injured.Burial services for 38-year-old Saeed Saleh were held Saturday morning in Dayton, according to the Dayton Daily News.
  
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• Judge rejects bid for new trial in 'Making a Murderer' case

  10-08-2019 19:10 via abcnews.go.com
  A judge has rejected a man's bid for a new trial in a Wisconsin killing featured in the Netflix series "Making a Murderer."
  
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• Elizabeth Warren and Kamala Harris cross paths in northern Iowa, where voters say bumping into 2020 candidates is 'normal'

  10-08-2019 19:05 via news.yahoo.com
  Just as Elizabeth Warren finished up her short speech at the Iowa Wing Ding dinner — “2020 is our chance, we can make this government work for all of America”, she said — a key rival of her’s was leaning down, just a stone’s throw away, and talking to a 10-year-old girl.Swarmed by reporters on the side of the venue in Clear Lake, Iowa, a town with just under 8,000 residents, Kamala Harris took a moment to hear from Eva Shannon, a little girl wearing a bright r
  
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• 'Justice must still be served': Epstein accusers express anger over his death

  10-08-2019 18:52 via theguardian.com
  Victims of his alleged sex trafficking operation say they wanted to see him held accountable and call for investigations to continueVictims of Jeffrey Epstein’s alleged sex trafficking operation have reacted with anger that his apparent suicide injail will prevent the disgraced financier from facing justice.As they detailed the traumas they still deal with, they also called for investigations to continue in the hope that anyone who aided and abetted Epstein’s alleged actions would st
  
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• Fuel tanker explosion kills at least 61 in Tanzania

  10-08-2019 18:50 via cnn.com
  At least 61 people have been killed and 70 injured when a fuel tanker exploded on a busy road in Tanzania, government spokesperson Hassan Abbas said.
  
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• At least 61 people killed in a fuel tanker explosion in Tanzania

  10-08-2019 18:50 via cnn.com
  At least 61 people have been killed and 70 injured when a fuel tanker exploded on a busy road in Tanzania, government spokesperson Hassan Abbas said.
  
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• 'I was terrified': How Epstein allegedly built a network of victims

  10-08-2019 18:41 via news.yahoo.com
  A month before Jeffrey Epstein's death by apparent suicide in a New York prison, a federal indictment cast light on what prosecutors said was a sprawling network of high school and college students lined up by young recruiters and then forced to satisfy the hedge fund billionaire's insatiable sexual appetite."He likes beautiful women... and many of them are on the younger side," Donald Trump, then a friend of Epstein's, said in 2002.At the time, the Brooklyn native was considered beyond reproach
  
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• VAR at the center of Man City's Premier League opener

  10-08-2019 18:35 via cnn.com
  Any doubts that Manchester City was the favorite to defend its Premier League crown were quickly extinguished at the London Stadium Saturday.
  
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• Some signs of normality return to Kashmir, but India's clampdown still strict

  10-08-2019 18:30 via news.yahoo.com
  For the first time in six days, India eased travel restrictions in some parts of Srinagar on Saturday, and people flooded the streets of Kashmir's summer capital to buy provisions ahead of the Muslim festival of Eid-al-Adha on Monday.Seeking to tighten its grip on the region also claimed by neighbouring Pakistan, New Delhi on Monday scrapped the state's right to frame its own laws and allowed non-residents to buy property there.Prime Minister Narendra Modi's government also locked down the revol
  
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• Jeffrey Epstein's death is a perfect storm for conspiracy theories

  10-08-2019 18:30 via news.yahoo.com
  The death Saturday morning of financier Jeffrey Epstein, an accused sex trafficker with connections to some of the most powerful people in the world, represents a perfect storm in the world of conspiracy theories.
  
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• UPDATE 4-Norway mosque shooter may have killed family member first -police

  10-08-2019 18:08 via news.yahoo.com
  The man suspected of a shooting at a mosque in Norway may also have killed a relative before launching the attack, police said late on Saturday."A young woman was found dead at the suspect's address," assistant chief of police Rune Skjold told a news conference, adding that the man was suspected of murder.
  
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• Hong Kong police clear barricades and fire teargas at protesters – video

  10-08-2019 18:07 via theguardian.com
  Riot police fire teargas at crowds in the Tai Wai district of Hong Kong on Saturday night in an attempt to disperse demonstrators and clear barricades set up by protesters to block roads in the regionHong Kong riot police fire teargas at protest groups Continue reading...
  
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