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• WaPo: Russian company invests in US after McConnell kills sanctions

  14-08-2019 23:40 via cnn.com
  A Russian company with ties to the Kremlin made a major investment in a new mill in Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell's home state of Kentucky weeks after McConnell killed sanctions on Russia, according to the Washington Post.
  
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• U.S. scientist to file whistleblower complaint after agency halts his climate work

  14-08-2019 23:33 via news.yahoo.com
  A climate scientist for the Trump administration's health protection agency who was ordered to drop work on climate issues will file a whistleblower complaint this week with the U.S. Office of Special Counsel, his lawyers said on Wednesday.George Luber, who ran the climate and health program at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, is an expert on the health impacts of climate change including risks to hospitals and public health infrastructure and of diseases borne by mosquitoes and t
  
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• Florida woman sues American Airlines, claims her emotional support dog was confined to a bathroom

  14-08-2019 23:32 via news.yahoo.com
  A Florida woman is suing American Airlines after her emotional support dog was allegedly confined to a bathroom on a flight from Miami to Los Angeles.
  
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• Intermittent Fasting: unlocking a key to a longer life

  14-08-2019 23:23 via cnn.com
  When you eat is as important as what you eat. How a couch potato lost 100 lbs. intermittent fasting
  
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• Trump administration aims to shift money to immigration enforcement

  14-08-2019 23:21 via news.yahoo.com
  The move is sure to rile Democrats already angered by what they see as President Donald Trump's harsh immigration policies.
  
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• Police respond to Philadelphia shooting

  14-08-2019 23:11 via cnn.com
  Philadelphia police swarmed the area near a shooting in the city, Sgt. Eric Gripp said Wednesday via Twitter.
  
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• Steve King questions if there would be any population left if not for rape and incest

  14-08-2019 23:09 via cnn.com
  Republican Rep. Steve King of Iowa questioned on Wednesday whether there would be any population left on Earth if not for rape and incest.
  
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• Family of Dayton gunman apologizes for writing 'insensitive' obituary

  14-08-2019 22:53 via news.yahoo.com
  An obituary for Connor Betts, the gunman in Dayton, Ohio, who killed nine, was removed from a funeral home's website at the request of the family.
  
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• 'It is raining plastic': Scientists find colorful microplastic in rain

  14-08-2019 22:51 via cnn.com
  It's raining plastic -- that's what a survey of rainfall in Denver and Boulder, Colorado, concluded recently.
  
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• Chinese paramilitary members are gathered near Hong Kong border

  14-08-2019 22:46 via cnn.com
  As protests continue to sweep through Hong Kong, large numbers of China's paramilitary force are just miles away from Hong Kong's border with mainland China, according to a CNN team on the ground in Shenzhen.
  
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• Mike Tyson spends $40K on weed a month

  14-08-2019 22:44 via cnn.com
  Mike Tyson isn't shy about his love for marijuana.
  
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• Mike Tyson spends $40,000 on pot monthly

  14-08-2019 22:44 via cnn.com
  Mike Tyson isn't shy about his love for marijuana.
  
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• Italian court allows migrant ship to dock. But Salvini says he will 'deny the landing.'

  14-08-2019 22:44 via cnn.com
  An Italian court ruled Wednesday that a ship carrying 147 rescued migrants should be allowed to dock in Italy -- in defiance of a ban by Italy's far right Interior Minister Matteo Salvini.
  
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• CNN reporter on Wall Street: It was a bloodbath

  14-08-2019 22:40 via cnn.com
  CNN's Cristina Alesci explains why the Dow took a massive drop amid warning signs of a looming recession.
  
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• Man dies after taco-eating contest

  14-08-2019 22:34 via cnn.com
  A man died Tuesday night after participating in a taco eating competition at a minor league baseball game. The competition took place last night at Chukchansi Park in Fresno, California, during a game between the Fresno Grizzlies and Memphis Redbirds.
  
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• Planned Parenthood sets exit from family planning program

  14-08-2019 22:31 via news.yahoo.com
  Raising the stakes in an ideologically charged standoff over women's health, Planned Parenthood said Wednesday it will soon leave the federal family planning program unless a court puts a hold on Trump administration rules that bar clinics from referring patients for abortions. The administration responded that it is ready to operate the Title X family planning program without the organization that has been the largest provider. About 4 million women are served nationwide under the program, whic
  
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• Glacier National Park death: Utah teen killed by falling rocks during family vacation

  14-08-2019 22:30 via news.yahoo.com
  A 14-year-old girl was killed in Montana's Glacier National Park on Mondayafter large rocks fell from a mountainside and struck her family's vehicle
  
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• Ex-Blackwater contractor sentenced to life in Iraq shootings

  14-08-2019 22:24 via news.yahoo.com
  A former Blackwater security contractor was sentenced Wednesday to life in prison for his role in the 2007 shooting of unarmed civilians in Iraq that left 14 people dead.Federal judge Royce Lamberth issued the sentence after a succession of friends and relatives requested leniency for Nicholas Slatten, who was found guilty of first-degree murder by a jury in December.Prosecutors charged that Slatten, 35, was the first to fire shots in the September 2007 massacre of Iraqi civilians at a crowded t
  
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• United after pilot arrests: No drinking 12 hours before work, longer than FAA requires

  14-08-2019 22:10 via news.yahoo.com
  United Airlines now requires pilots and flight attendants to refrain from drinking alcohol 12 hours before work. The FAA minimum is eight hours.
  
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• Tens of thousands of women march in Brazil against Bolsonaro

  14-08-2019 22:08 via news.yahoo.com
  Brasília (AFP) - Tens of thousands of women took to the streets of Brazil's capital Wednesday to denounce President Jair Bolsonaro, in the third anti-government protest in the city in two days.The huge demonstration in Brasilia comes as Bolsonaro faces increasing heat over rampant deforestation in the Amazon rainforest as well as education funding cuts, which have sparked nationwide protests by students and professors in recent months, including one in the capital on Tuesday.The "March of
  
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• Surfer survives after a shark bites a chunk out of his surfboard

  14-08-2019 22:08 via cnn.com
  On Sunday evening, Max Keliikipi was driving home from work when he saw the waves at Makaha Beach on Oahu, Hawaii.
  
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• 16-year-old surfer survives after a shark bites a chunk out of his surfboard

  14-08-2019 22:08 via cnn.com
  On Sunday evening, Max Keliikipi was driving home from work when he saw the waves at Makaha Beach on Oahu, Hawaii.
  
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• Ex-lover of dead woman stuffed in suitcase is being hunted by FBI, Mo. officials say

  14-08-2019 22:06 via news.yahoo.com
  The suspect is charged with kidnapping the children of a woman found dead by a Missouri highway, federal prosecutors say.
  
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• The Dow fell 800 points after an eerily accurate warning signal flashed for the first time in over a decade

  14-08-2019 22:05 via cnn.com
  Dow futures slid nearly 200 points Wednesday after the bond market, for the first time in over a decade, flashed a warning signal that has an eerily accurate track record for predicting recessions.
  
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• Dow plunges on US recession fears

  14-08-2019 22:05 via cnn.com
  Dow futures slid nearly 200 points Wednesday after the bond market, for the first time in over a decade, flashed a warning signal that has an eerily accurate track record for predicting recessions.
  
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• China doesn't need US soybeans, thanks to Richard Nixon

  14-08-2019 21:33 via cnn.com
  President Donald Trump is upset with China for buying Brazilian soybeans instead of American ones amid the ongoing trade war, but the South American industry got its start thanks to an earlier round of protectionist policies under President Richard Nixon.
  
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• Hundreds of child sex abuse claims filed on first day of New York's Child Victims Act

  14-08-2019 21:28 via news.yahoo.com
  The Child Victims Act provides a one-year window for filing old civil claims for child sexual abuse in New York with no age or time limit.
  
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• Democratic Dishonesty on Assault-Weapon Bans

  14-08-2019 21:28 via news.yahoo.com
  ‘The 1994 assault weapons and high-capacity magazines bans worked. And if I am elected president, we’re going to pass them again — and this time, we’ll make them even stronger,” Joe Biden promised this week.The only thing stopping the assault-weapon ban from getting through the Republican-controlled Senate, Biden wrote in a New York Times op-ed on Monday, is “weak-willed leaders who care more about their campaign coffers than children in coffins.”Accusin
  
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• Greenland's ice is melting at the rate scientists thought would be our worst-case scenario in 2070

  14-08-2019 21:25 via news.yahoo.com
  Summer heat waves have caused Greenland's ice to melt at rates scientists didn't expect to see for another 50 years.
  
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• Key Mexico Lawmaker Recommends Narrowing 2020 Primary Surplus

  14-08-2019 21:12 via news.yahoo.com
  (Bloomberg) -- A key lower house lawmaker is recommending that Mexico narrow its primary budget surplus by half next year to alleviate fiscal pressure on the government and send more resources to strengthen Petroleos Mexicanos. The peso extended its decline.Mario Delgado, the lower house majority leader for President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador’s Morena party, said in an interview Wednesday that targeting a surplus of 0.5%, instead of the 1.3% outlined by the Finance Ministry in April, wou
  
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• The black hole at the center of our galaxy just lit up twice as bright as ever. Who knows why

  14-08-2019 21:09 via news.yahoo.com
  Astronomers observing the black hole at the center of our galaxy watched it light up with "unprecedented brightness." And they aren't sure why.
  
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• Inmate asks for electric chair death in Thursday execution

  14-08-2019 21:08 via news.yahoo.com
  A Tennessee inmate has made a last-minute request to be put to death in the electric chair, an option his lawyer described as "also unconstitutional, yet still less painful" than the state's preference of a three-drug lethal injection. The state Department of Correction on Wednesday confirmed 56-year-old Stephen West made the request and said the Thursday execution will be carried out by electrocution. West previously opted against selecting a preference, which would have resulted in lethal inje
  
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• UPDATE 2-Russia flies nuclear-capable bombers to region facing Alaska

  14-08-2019 21:06 via news.yahoo.com
  * State media says it shows Moscow can deploy close to U.S.MOSCOW, Aug 14 (Reuters) - Russia said on Wednesday it had flown two nuclear-capable TU-160 bombers to a far eastern Russian region opposite Alaska as part of a training exercise that state media said showed Moscow's ability to park nuclear arms on the United States' doorstep.
  
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• He spent three days pinned to a tree after an ATV crash and survived

  14-08-2019 21:05 via cnn.com
  A 66-year-old Idaho man spent three days pinned against a tree after he crashed his ATV, according to Kootenai County Sheriff's Office.
  
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• After His Wife's Death in Walmart Mass Shooting, El Paso Man With No Other Immediate Family Invites Public to Her Funeral

  14-08-2019 20:53 via news.yahoo.com
  A man whose wife of 22 years was killed in the El Paso, Texas shooting is inviting the public to her funeral services because he has no other family in the area, a funeral home said Tuesday
  
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• The Trump administration is starting to publicly recognize the costs of the US-China trade war on Americans

  14-08-2019 20:40 via news.yahoo.com
  The Trump administration has insisted that China is bearing the brunt of the tariffs, but officials are starting to acknowledge the costs at home.
  
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• Exposure to polluted air is like smoking a pack a day, study says

  14-08-2019 20:38 via cnn.com
  Long-term exposure to air pollution, especially ground-level ozone, is like smoking about a pack of cigarettes a day for many years, a new study says, and like smoking, it can can lead to emphysema.
  
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• John Boehner and Joe Crowley: America is facing a pension crisis. Retirees will pay the price if we don't act now

  14-08-2019 20:29 via cnn.com
  Few have seen firsthand the frustration of Washington gridlock and partisanship more than we have. We know all too well when something doesn't get fixed in D.C., it can end up hurting people back home. When it comes to the multiemployer pension plan crisis, the effects are already real.
  
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• Novices banned from Everest after deadliest climbing season in four years

  14-08-2019 20:16 via news.yahoo.com
  Amateur climbers will be banned from scaling Everest under tough new proposals unveiled by Nepal in the wake of a spate of deaths on the world's highest peak. Training and experience in high altitude climbing must be mandatory for all climbers on mountain and other high peaks, a government panel said on Wednesday, following the deadliest climbing season in four years. Eleven climbers were killed or went missing on the 8,850 metre (29,035 feet) mountain in May – nine on the Nepali side and
  
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• 3 killed in a foiled Al-Shabaab attack

  14-08-2019 20:10 via cnn.com
  Three people were killed in a foiled attack Wednesday against a newly established military camp near Mogadishu, Somali army officials said.
  
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• Huawei technicians have been helping governments in Uganda and Zambia spy on their political opponents, a new report says

  14-08-2019 19:55 via news.yahoo.com
  The Ugandan and Zambian governments reportedly enlisted help from Huawei employees to spy on their political opponents.
  
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• Sanctuary closure prompts search for new homes for animals

  14-08-2019 19:53 via news.yahoo.com
  A search is underway to find new homes for nearly 500 animals, including lions, tigers, alligators, owls and wolves, after officials announced a long-struggling Southern California sanctuary is shutting down.The board of directors of the Wildlife Waystation in Angeles National Forest voted to close the site after 43 years, the Los Angeles Times reported Tuesday.The state Department of Fish and Wildlife is collaborating with the facility and animal welfare organizations across the country to relo
  
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• Julian Castro says 'Americans were killed' because of Trump in new ad

  14-08-2019 19:48 via news.yahoo.com
  2020 Democrat Julian Castro releases a new TV ad blaming President Trump for the mass shooting in El Paso, Texas.
  
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• Montel Williams: Trump has gone off a narcissistic cliff. Does anything matter anymore?

  14-08-2019 19:47 via news.yahoo.com
  We are likely stuck with an incompetent, emotionally unstable president through 2020. Please treat voting like our country’s future depends on it.
  
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• White Mississippi sheriff calls lawmaker ‘worse than a black person’ in text

  14-08-2019 19:44 via news.yahoo.com
  White Mississippi Sheriff Jim Johnson made a racist remark in a text message, a public records request by a local newspaper reveals.
  
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• Widows sue over troopers' deaths in helicopter crash

  14-08-2019 19:43 via news.yahoo.com
  The widows of two Virginia state troopers killed in a helicopter crash the day of a violent white nationalist rally have sued the state and others over their husbands' deaths, alleging the aircraft was not properly maintained or repaired.Amanda Bates and Karen Cullen filed wrongful death lawsuits Monday.H. Jay Cullen and Berke M.M. Bates were aboard the Bell 407 single-engine helicopter on Aug. 12, 2017, to provide video surveillance of public demonstrations in Charlottesville.
  
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• What to Know About Ghislaine Maxwell, the U.K. Socialite Who Became Jeffrey Epstein's Confidante

  14-08-2019 19:43 via news.yahoo.com
  After Jeffrey Epstein's death, focus has shifted to the British socialite Ghislaine Maxwell, accused of helping him groom underage girls.
  
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• What a Deadly Nuclear Explosion In Russia Tells Us About the World's New Arms Race

  14-08-2019 19:41 via news.yahoo.com
  "Accidents happen," said Vladimir Putin. But this wasn't simply a case of rotten luck
  
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• Satellite photos: Chinese armored vehicles near Hong Kong

  14-08-2019 19:38 via news.yahoo.com
  Satellite photos show what appear to be armored personnel carriers and other vehicles belonging to the China's paramilitary People's Armed Police parked in a sports complex in the city of Shenzhen, in what some have interpreted as a threat from Beijing to use increased force against pro-democracy protesters across the border in Hong Kong.The pictures collected on Monday by Maxar's WorldView show 500 or more vehicles sitting on and around the soccer stadium at the Shenzhen Bay Sports Center just
  
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• U.S. Rep. Steve King: If not for rape and incest, 'would there be any population left?'

  14-08-2019 19:35 via news.yahoo.com
  King said some conservatives told him he would get more support on abortion legislation if he allowed certain exemptions. He did not agree to the caveats.
  
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