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• Jeffrey Epstein's cause of death was suicide by hanging, two law enforcement officials say

  16-08-2019 23:57 via cnn.com
  Jeffrey Epstein's cause of death was suicide by hanging, the New York City medical examiner's office has determined, according to two law enforcement officials.
  
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• Jeffrey Epstein's cause of death was suicide by hanging, medical examiner says

  16-08-2019 23:57 via cnn.com
  Jeffrey Epstein's cause of death was suicide by hanging, the New York City medical examiner's office has determined, according to two law enforcement officials.
  
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• Child found dead in hot vehicle at New Jersey train station

  16-08-2019 23:56 via news.yahoo.com
  Authorities are investigating the death of a young child who was left in a vehicle parked at a commuter train station in New Jersey.
  
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• Arrests precede major demonstrations in Portland, Oregon

  16-08-2019 23:50 via news.yahoo.com
  Authorities arrested the leader of a right-wing group on the eve of a rally that's expected to draw people from around the U.S. to Portland, Oregon, on Saturday, prompting Patriot Prayer's Joey Gibson to urge his followers to "show up one hundred-fold" in response.Self-described anti-fascists have vowed to confront the right-wing groups at the downtown rally and the arrests of Gibson and five other right-wing supporters appeared to be intended to send a signal from police to organizers to remain
  
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• VA wrongly denied $53 million in vets' medical claims in just 6 months, says report

  16-08-2019 23:47 via nbcnews.com
  In one recent six-month period, the VA left 17,400 veterans to pay out of pocket for emergency medical care the government should have covered.
  
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• California joins other states to sue Trump administration over new immigration rule

  16-08-2019 23:47 via news.yahoo.com
  In its 56th lawsuit against Trump administration, California is challenging the new "public charge" rule that adds restrictions on legal immigration
  
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• Tennessee store clerk found guilty of gunning down teen over stolen beer

  16-08-2019 23:43 via nbcnews.com
  Dorian Harris, 17, was shot and killed on March 29, 2018, after leaving the Top Stop Shop in Memphis without paying for a beer. His body was found days later.
  
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• Georgia teen collapses, dies in summer heat

  16-08-2019 23:42 via nbcnews.com
  "Being a former basketball player myself, I know those practices are mandatory, you can't just not go," the family's representative said.
  
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• US Customs is experiencing a nationwide computer issue, airports say

  16-08-2019 23:41 via cnn.com
  The US Customs and Border Protection computer system is down, according to tweets from John F. Kennedy International Airport in New York and Los Angeles International Airport.
  
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• NASA picks Alabama's 'Rocket City' for lunar lander job

  16-08-2019 23:39 via news.yahoo.com
  NASA picked Alabama's "Rocket City" on Friday to lead development of the next moon lander for astronauts.Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville beat out Johnson Space Center in Houston, which managed the Apollo lunar lander a half-century ago.The new lunar lander — not yet built or even designed — is meant to carry an American woman and a man to the moon's south pole by 2024.
  
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• Smiling cops take selfie near where dead baby was just found. Missouri city apologizes

  16-08-2019 23:33 via news.yahoo.com
  “The photos were by no means meant to take away from the extremely serious nature of the incident,” city officials say.
  
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• Bugatti is making only 10 of these $9 million supercars

  16-08-2019 23:32 via cnn.com
  Bugatti unveiled its latest limited-edition model at a classic car show in California Friday. The Bugatti Centodieci will cost $9 million and only 10 will be made.
  
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• Jeffrey Epstein died by suicide in Manhattan jail cell, autopsy report says

  16-08-2019 23:31 via nbcnews.com
  Epstein was not on suicide watch at the time of his death, even though he was found alone in his cell two weeks prior with marks on his neck.
  
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• Afghan palace emerges from ruins as centenary nears

  16-08-2019 23:29 via news.yahoo.com
  Inside an imposing building in Kabul, a team of welders hastily fuse a sweeping metal bannister to a grand staircase.With questions looming over Afghanistan's future and a possible deal between the US and the Taliban imminent, the war-torn nation is this month hoping to briefly celebrate its past -- and Darulaman will be the centrepiece.Work at the famed palace must be completed by August 19, the date marking 100 years of Afghan independence from Britain, when President Ashraf Ghani will inaugur
  
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• Tlaib refuses to visit under Israel's set conditions

  16-08-2019 23:23 via news.yahoo.com
  Diala Shamas of the Center for Constitutional Rights says Israel's decision to ban Tlaib is "troubling," and that the country is treating congresswomen "the same way they deal with all Palestinians."
  
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• Flooded land leaves farmers little choice but to rebuild the levees that failed them

  16-08-2019 23:23 via nbcnews.com
  “We keep tightening our belts, but we’re running out of holes,” one farmer said.
  
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• Here’s what the NRA’s Marion Hammer says about Florida’s proposed assault weapons ban

  16-08-2019 23:21 via news.yahoo.com
  Florida National Rifle Association lobbyist Marion Hammer warned state economists Friday that a proposed assault rifle ban would be devastating to gun manufacturers lured to the state over the last eight years.
  
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• Jeffrey Epstein death ruled 'suicide by hanging'

  16-08-2019 23:11 via bbc.co.uk
  The financier awaiting trial for sex trafficking killed himself in jail, says post-mortem in New York.
  
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• Ilhan Omar and Rashida Tlaib Partnered with Vicious Anti-Semites to Plan Their Trip to Israel

  16-08-2019 23:04 via news.yahoo.com
  To the extent that I care at all about Israel blocking entry to two U.S. congresswomen who partner with anti-Semites who seek its destruction, I agree with critics who argue that Bibi Netanyahu should not appear to bow to Donald Trump’s tweeted demands and that blocking Rashida Tlaib and Ilhan Omar from visiting Israel handed them a short-term propaganda victory. But that’s not the most important part of the story.The most important element of the story is the fact that two American
  
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• New North Korea missile poses threat to allies, but doesn't bother Trump

  16-08-2019 22:58 via cnn.com
  A recent spate of North Korean missile launches involving a potential new missile has rankled America's regional allies, but have received little criticism from the Trump administration -- even though they reveal Pyongyang is making technological advances.
  
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• Watch a giant glacier collapse in front of two kayakers

  16-08-2019 22:57 via cnn.com
  Andrew Hooper and Josh Bastyr were kayaking near Spencer Glacier in Alaska when they heard cracking noises. Moments later, the massive glacier collapsed right in front of them.
  
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• Dale Earnhardt Jr.'s plane bounced multiple times, went off runway during crash

  16-08-2019 22:57 via nbcnews.com
  Earnhardt was with wife Amy, 15-month-old daughter Isla, two pilots and a dog.
  
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• Colorado OKs electric car requirement to fight air pollution

  16-08-2019 22:56 via news.yahoo.com
  Colorado tightened its air quality regulations on Friday, requiring that at least 5% of the vehicles sold in the state by 2023 emit zero pollution.The state Air Quality Control Commission, which passed the rule on an 8-1 vote, said the requirement applies to auto manufacturers, not buyers.It's intended to boost the number of electric vehicles in a state struggling to control ozone pollution in its most heavily populated area.
  
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• Florida man uses front-end loader to dump dirt on car his girlfriend drove, cops say

  16-08-2019 22:54 via news.yahoo.com
  Beware boyfriends in front-end loaders.
  
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• DNA leads to arrest in another Florida rape case from 1980s

  16-08-2019 22:52 via news.yahoo.com
  For the second time in a year, authorities in a south Florida community have used DNA evidence to identify and arrest a suspect in a decades-old rape case.Timothy Norris, 60, is charged in the knifepoint rape of a Florida woman at her home in 1983, Coral Springs police spokesman Tyler Reik said Friday.Authorities found Norris serving time for bank robbery at a West Virginia federal prison, Reik said.
  
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• Al Qaeda mocks terror rival ISIS by leaking 'blooper' reel

  16-08-2019 22:48 via feeds.foxnews.com
  Al Qaeda has leaked a video of outtakes featuring an Islamic State fighter in Yemen trying to renew his allegiance, only to be interrupted by a loud bird that causes him to forget what he is saying.
  
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• GPS monitoring violates some sex offenders’ rights, NC Supreme Court rules

  16-08-2019 22:42 via news.yahoo.com
  Sex offenders have rights, too, and in some cases the state has been violating those rights, the NC Supreme Court ruled on Friday.
  
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• Family, friends bid goodbye to slain corrections employee

  16-08-2019 22:42 via news.yahoo.com
  Hundreds of family and friends gathered Friday in a Tennessee church to bid goodbye to a beloved correctional administrator killed last week, allegedly by an escaped inmate who sparked a four-day manhunt.The 64-year-old Debra Johnson was remembered for being a devout Christian, with loved ones noting her willingness to greet church congregants with a big smile and even bigger hug.
  
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• Why Trump wants to buy Greenland

  16-08-2019 22:36 via cnn.com
  President Donald Trump has repeatedly expressed interest in recent weeks in buying Greenland.
  
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• Rashida Tlaib rejects Israel's offer of 'humanitarian' visit

  16-08-2019 22:29 via bbc.co.uk
  Rashida Tlaib said permission to see family in the West Bank was subject to "oppressive conditions".
  
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• Mexico does not want El Paso shooter executed

  16-08-2019 22:24 via news.yahoo.com
  President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador said Friday that Mexico does not want the El Paso shooter who killed 22 people, including eight Mexicans, to be executed, and may seek to extradite him from the United States.The confessed shooter in the mass killing in the Texas border city, 21-year-old Patrick Crusius, potentially faces the death penalty in the US.Lopez Obrador, an anti-establishment leftist, said that while Mexico condemns Crusius's "reprehensible, abominable" crimes, it does not want to
  
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• Man forced from home by literal vultures

  16-08-2019 22:23 via cnn.com
  A Florida community has been swarmed by black vultures, making one family's home uninhabitable, according to a report by CNN affiliate WPBF.
  
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• 7th child gunned down this year in St. Louis leaves city reeling

  16-08-2019 22:23 via abcnews.go.com
  Xavier Usanga, 7, was fatally struck by a stray bullet near his home.
  
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• The week that Cathay Pacific surrendered to China

  16-08-2019 22:19 via cnn.com
  One of the world's top airlines has discovered just how dangerous Hong Kong's pro-democracy protests are becoming for companies based in the city and doing business with mainland China.
  
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• Analysis: The week that Cathay Pacific surrendered to China

  16-08-2019 22:19 via cnn.com
  One of the world's top airlines has discovered just how dangerous Hong Kong's pro-democracy protests are becoming for companies based in the city and doing business with mainland China.
  
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• Frustrated Philadelphia mayor calls for gun control. Here's why it hasn't happened in his city.

  16-08-2019 22:16 via news.yahoo.com
  Following a standoff between police and an armed gunman, Philadelphia's mayor calls on legislators to let the city pass its own gun laws.
  
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• Greenland responds to reports Trump talked about buying the territory

  16-08-2019 22:13 via abcnews.go.com
  The Greenland Ministry of Foreign Affairs responded to reports that President Donald Trump discussed buying the territory.
  
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• Mexico's president is just beginning his 'Fourth Transformation' of the country

  16-08-2019 22:00 via cnn.com
  It was early April 2018. The Mexican presidential campaigns were heating up and Andrés Manuel López Obrador, running for the third time for the highest office in the land, sounded defiant. Donald Trump's foreign policy was "wrong," he told supporters at a rally in Ciudad Juárez, across the border from El Paso, Texas. He also denounced what he called the US president's "derogatory attitude towards Mexicans."
  
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• How a far-left president is turning Mexico upside down

  16-08-2019 22:00 via cnn.com
  It was early April 2018. The Mexican presidential campaigns were heating up and Andrés Manuel López Obrador, running for the third time for the highest office in the land, sounded defiant. Donald Trump's foreign policy was "wrong," he told supporters at a rally in Ciudad Juárez, across the border from El Paso, Texas. He also denounced what he called the US president's "derogatory attitude towards Mexicans."
  
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• Venezuelan exodus may soon double, triggering a bigger regional crisis | Opinion

  16-08-2019 21:56 via news.yahoo.com
  One of the things that surprised me the most during a lengthy interview with Juan Guaidó, the Venezuelan National Assembly president who is recognized by the United States and more than 50 countries as Venezuela’s legitimate leader, was his forecast that the number of Venezuelan exiles may “easily” reach 8 million by next year.It’s a mindboggling figure, because it would be twice the 4 million exiles that, according to a recent United Nations report, have already f
  
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• Jeffrey Epstein’s Body Claimed by His Brother

  16-08-2019 21:54 via news.yahoo.com
  Jeenah Moon/ReutersJeffrey Esptein’s body was claimed from the New York City medical examiner’s office by his brother Mark Epstein, a person with direct knowledge of the situation told The Daily Beast on Friday.The exclusive details come as Chief Medical Examiner Barbara Sampson is preparing to issue a report on Epstein’s autopsy and a final ruling on his cause of death. Officials have previously said Epstein’s death is being investigated as a suicide.Epstein, 66, was fou
  
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• Mexico president opposes prosecuting predecessors

  16-08-2019 21:45 via news.yahoo.com
  Mexico President Andrés Manuel López Obrador repeated Friday his opposition to prosecuting former presidents even as he said that a president would know everything that happened during his administration.The question of prosecuting ex-presidents has taken new life with prosecutors' pursuit of Rosario Robles, an ex-Cabinet minister of former President Enrique Peña Nieto.This week a judge ordered that Robles be held in jail pending trial for allegedly knowing about the diversi
  
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• Hundreds of Latino celebrities condemn hate in new letter

  16-08-2019 21:43 via nbcnews.com
  Jennifer López, Ricky Martin and Lin-Manuel Miranda also showed their support toward Latino communities impacted by the El Paso shooting and ICE raids in Mississippi.
  
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• Warren Named as No. 2 Choice Among Democrats: Campaign Update

  16-08-2019 21:41 via news.yahoo.com
  (Bloomberg) -- Elizabeth Warren is the second choice for the greatest number of Democratic primary voters, suggesting more upside for the Massachusetts senator as the field begins to narrow.Polls have consistently shown that Joe Biden is the first choice of a plurality of Democrats. But he’s still well under 50%, giving ample room for Democrats to coalesce around another candidate.A new Pew Research Center survey suggests that other than Biden, Warren is best positioned to be that candidat
  
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• The 25 most relatable 'Friends' episodes as the show turns 25

  16-08-2019 21:34 via cnn.com
  "Friends," the ubiquitous sitcom about six New York City companions, turns 25 this year.
  
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• Taliban chief's brother killed in Pakistan blast: militant sources

  16-08-2019 21:33 via news.yahoo.com
  The Afghan Taliban leader's brother was among four people killed in a blast at a mosque in southwestern Pakistan Friday, insurgent sources and a Pakistani official told AFP.The Taliban have not officially commented, but an unofficial statement circulating among Taliban fighters on WhatsApp and seen by AFP confirmed the claim.The blast comes at a delicate moment as a deal between the insurgents and Washington to end America's war in Afghanistan is believed to be imminent.
  
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• Democratic pollster divulges details to jurors about Greg Craig's Ukraine work

  16-08-2019 21:25 via news.yahoo.com
  As the pollster and consultant entered the witness box, he seemed to give a nod in Craig’s direction.
  
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• Why Nora's family may never know the truth behind her mysterious death

  16-08-2019 21:24 via news.yahoo.com
  Nora Quoirin’s parents did not have to say that their hearts were broken over her terrible death in an unforgiving Malaysian jungle. For days the horror of losing their eldest child in mystifying circumstances in a country far from home had been etched on their agonised faces. The discovery of the 15-year-old’s body on Tuesday brought a final, painful end to the question of what had happened to the young girl nine days after she disappeared from her Franco-Irish family’s holida
  
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• Some US citizens are carrying their passports daily. Here's why

  16-08-2019 21:22 via cnn.com
  Alejandra Duran was devastated the day she decided it was time to get US passport cards for her children.
  
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• Mexico to deport U.S. citizen suspected of supporting 'violent jihad'

  16-08-2019 21:20 via news.yahoo.com
  Mexican authorities arrested a U.S. citizen suspected of supporting militant Islamists in an example of Mexico's security cooperation with the United States even as the two neighbors grapple with sharp disagreements over trade and migration.The unidentified American man sought by Interpol was under investigation for supporting terrorist groups and will be deported to the United States later on Friday, the Mexico's attorney general's office said in a statement.The man was detained at a migrants o
  
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