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• Mom aims head-on at a tanker to kill herself, sons. When truck dodges, she doubles back

  17-08-2019 23:14 via news.yahoo.com
  Police say a Gainesville, Florida, mom of two young boys told a friend she was going to kill herself and her sons by crashing her car with everyone inside.
  
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• Trump Administration Asks Supreme Court to Permit Employment Discrimination Against Transgender Workers

  17-08-2019 23:12 via news.yahoo.com
  DOJ argued that Title VII does not protect transgender people
  
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• More than 40 charged in federal court from Mississippi ICE raid, but no company officials

  17-08-2019 23:04 via news.yahoo.com
  So far, more than 40 arrest warrants have been filed in federal court resulting from the Aug. 7 immigration raid.
  
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• Patterson Fire is fully contained, while Cottage Fire is nearly so

  17-08-2019 22:56 via news.yahoo.com
  Firefighters in California have mostly contained two of the wildfires threatening parts of Northern California this week, according to Cal Fire.
  
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• Not 'invaders': Some Hispanic families in the Southwest predate the US entirely

  17-08-2019 22:55 via news.yahoo.com
  In the Southwest U.S., some Hispanics can trace their families back generations. The region once belonged to Mexico, Spain and Native Americans.
  
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• 10 of the most bizarre details people have reported finding in Jeffrey Epstein's NYC mansion, from a painting of Bill Clinton in a dress to prosthetic breasts mounted on a bathroom wall

  17-08-2019 22:49 via news.yahoo.com
  Business Insider has compiled a list of the strangest ways registered sex offender Jeffrey Epstein reportedly decorated his NYC mansion.
  
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• Mayor of Canadian capital city Ottawa comes out as gay

  17-08-2019 22:31 via news.yahoo.com
  Montreal (AFP) - The mayor of Ottawa revealed Saturday that he is gay, an announcement that comes on the eve of gay pride week in the Canadian capital city.
  
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• The White House quietly appointed a new China director who could rattle Beijing and make a US-China trade deal even less likely

  17-08-2019 22:22 via news.yahoo.com
  The National Security Council has hired Elnigar Iltebir, a Uighur-American, to direct its China policy. Uighurs face severe oppression in China.
  
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• Dozens dead, wounded in Afghanistan wedding hall suicide attack, witnesses say

  17-08-2019 22:05 via feeds.foxnews.com
  Dozens of people were killed or wounded Saturday after an explosion ripped through a wedding hall in Afghanistan's capital, local officials say.
  
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• 'Portland is being watched very closely': Trump stokes tension over far right rally

  17-08-2019 22:03 via news.yahoo.com
  * President links leftwing ‘antifa’ groups to terror* Portland mayor: ‘Frankly, it’s not helpful’Rightwing groups rally in Portland, Oregon.Photograph: Karen Ducey/Getty ImagesAs Portland prepared for what was likely to be one of the biggest political demonstrations of the summer, which authorities expected would lead to violence, Donald Trump threw into the mix a characteristically explosive tweet.“Major consideration is being given to naming ANTIFA an &lsquo
  
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• White House to Proceed With Ending Some Foreign Aid Payments

  17-08-2019 21:36 via news.yahoo.com
  (Bloomberg) -- The Trump administration will move forward within days with a plan to cancel certain foreign aid payments authorized by Congress, setting up a fight with lawmakers opposed to the move.A senior administration official confirmed that the so-called rescissions package would be announced early next week.Some of the funding being zeroed out was for projects like installing solar panels in the Caribbean and creating safe spaces in Ireland for people upset about Brexit, said the administ
  
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• Richard Williams, 'Roger Rabbit' and 'Pink Panther' animator, dead at 86

  17-08-2019 21:09 via cnn.com
  Richard Williams, the animator known for his work on "Who Framed Roger Rabbit" and two "Pink Panther" films, is dead, his family told PA Media, the UK national news agency.
  
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• The car was moving when the woman fell onto I-95. Police want to know how it happened

  17-08-2019 20:49 via news.yahoo.com
  After a night out at a popular Brickell bar, a woman fell out of a moving car on Interstate 95 near Little Haiti early Saturday, police say.
  
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• Red-faced: Adrian's Liverpool career is proving quite eventful

  17-08-2019 20:48 via cnn.com
  Goalkeeper Adrian's Liverpool career is proving quite a roller coaster.
  
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• Liverpool holds on for win against Southampton despite Adrian howler

  17-08-2019 20:48 via cnn.com
  Goalkeeper Adrian's Liverpool career is proving quite a roller coaster.
  
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• AOC Laughs Off Trump’s Suggestion She’s Jealous of Squad Sisters

  17-08-2019 20:44 via news.yahoo.com
  (Bloomberg) -- Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez responded by “crying with laughter” at President Donald Trump’s suggestion that she feels overshadowed by other members of the cohort of female, left-leaning first-term Democrats known as the Squad.Trump tweeted late Friday that Representatives Rashida Tlaib of Michigan and Ilhan Omar of Minnesota are becoming the face of the Democratic Party, adding, “Cortez (AOC) is fuming, not happy about this!”The Trump twee
  
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• ‘A good 100 kills would be nice.’ Another Florida man arrested for mass shooting threats

  17-08-2019 20:44 via news.yahoo.com
  In the weeks following the mass shootings in El Paso, Texas and Dayton, Ohio, Florida has seen a fair share of mass shooting threats — from Walmarts to schools.
  
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• Steel mill sorry for spill that killed fish, closed beaches

  17-08-2019 20:43 via news.yahoo.com
  A steel company apologized for a spill of cyanide and ammonia that led to a fish kill and prompted the closure of beaches along Lake Michigan.The National Park Service closed the Portage Lakefront and Riverwalk beach areas at Indiana Dunes National Park and waters out to 300 feet (91 meters).
  
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• UPDATE 1-Several injured in Kashmir in clashes with Indian police

  17-08-2019 20:30 via news.yahoo.com
  Indian security forces injured at least six people on Saturday in Srinagar, the main city in the Indian-controlled part of Kashmir, as several protests broke out against New Delhi's revocation of the region's autonomy last week.In New York, the U.N. Security Council held its first meeting in almost 50 years on Kashmir, a majority Muslim region claimed by both India and Pakistan - which controls its western third.
  
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• Netanyahu dismisses Hezbollah warning

  17-08-2019 20:24 via news.yahoo.com
  Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said Saturday he was "unimpressed" by a speech from Hezbollah chief Hassan Nasrallah in which the Lebanese Shiite leader warned of his movement's military strength.Nasrallah spoke in a TV broadcast Friday marking the anniversary of a 2006 war between Hezbollah and Israel.Nasrallah said that the 2006 war had helped Hezbollah develop "a military system to defend our villages, towns and cities".
  
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• US mother ruled too Western by Saudi court will appeal

  17-08-2019 20:16 via cnn.com
  Last month, an American mother named Bethany Vierra lost custody of her young daughter Zaina, on the grounds that she was too Western to raise the child well. Now her own parents worry that they will lose both grand-daughter and daughter, as the window to appeal closes in Saudi Arabia.
  
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• French waiter shot dead for being 'too slow with sandwich'

  17-08-2019 19:40 via news.yahoo.com
  A customer shot a waiter dead at an eatery on the outskirts of Paris, apparently enraged at being made to wait for a sandwich, a source close to the investigation said Saturday. The waiter's colleagues called police after he was shot in the shoulder with a handgun in the Noisy-le-Grand suburb east of Paris on Friday night, the source said. The gunman, who a witness said lost his temper "as his sandwich wasn't prepared quickly enough", fled the scene.
  
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• 27 unaccompanied minors will be allowed to get off a migrant ship in Italy after far-right Salvini loosens his ban

  17-08-2019 19:31 via cnn.com
  The 27 unaccompanied minors aboard a Spanish humanitarian ship will be allowed to disembark in Italy following a bitter political standoff between Prime Minister Giuseppe Conte and far-right Interior Minister Matteo Salvini.
  
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• Yemen rebel drone attack targets remote Saudi oil field

  17-08-2019 19:04 via news.yahoo.com
  Drones launched by Yemen's Houthi rebels attacked a massive oil and gas field deep inside Saudi Arabia's sprawling desert on Saturday, causing what the kingdom described as a "limited fire" in the second such recent attack on its crucial energy industry.The attack on the Shaybah oil field, which produces some 1 million barrels of crude oil a day near the kingdom's border with the United Arab Emirates, again shows the reach of the Houthis' drone program.Shaybah sits some 1,200 kilometers (750 mil
  
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• Indian authorities begin easing clampdown in Kashmir

  17-08-2019 19:01 via news.yahoo.com
  Authorities in Indian-administered Kashmir began restoring landline phone services on Saturday after a nearly two-week security crackdown and news blackout following a decision by India's government to downgrade the Muslim-majority region's autonomy.Shahid Choudhary, a government administrator in Srinagar, the region's main city, said restrictions were being lifted in most areas and government offices were open.Rohit Kansal, another administrator in Srinagar, said there were six to seven minor i
  
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• Epstein's last days were spent emptying vending machines with his lawyers in a private meeting room, avoiding suicide watch, and paying other inmates' commissaries

  17-08-2019 19:00 via news.yahoo.com
  Before he died of suicide by hanging, The New York Times reports Epstein used his wealth to try and manipulate his circumstances in federal custody.
  
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• Philadelphia standoff suspect charged with attempted murder

  17-08-2019 18:58 via abcnews.go.com
  Man accused of barricading himself in a Philadelphia row house, shooting 6 cops.
  
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• Portland gears for dueling rallies amid fears of violence

  17-08-2019 18:50 via news.yahoo.com
  President Donald Trump said Saturday that the city of Portland, Oregon is being monitored closely as it hosts a far-right rally amid fears of clashes with leftist counter-demonstrators."Portland is being watched very carefully.Hopefully the Mayor will be able to properly do his job!," Trump tweeted.
  
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• Epstein used his jail bed sheet to commit suicide while his guards slept, according to report

  17-08-2019 18:47 via news.yahoo.com
  While in federal custody at the Metropolitan Correctional Center, Jeffrey Epstein used his jail bed sheet to commit suicide.
  
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• Epstein died by suicide using his jail bed sheet while his guards slept, according to report

  17-08-2019 18:47 via news.yahoo.com
  While in federal custody at the Metropolitan Correctional Center, Jeffrey Epstein used his jail bed sheet to commit suicide.
  
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• 'I should be on a plane to see her': Tlaib on decision not to visit grandma in West Bank

  17-08-2019 18:43 via cnn.com
  Rep. Rashida Tlaib got emotional Friday following her announcement that she would not visit the West Bank to see her 90-year-old grandmother "potentially for the last time" after Israel ultimately reversed its decision to bar the congresswoman from the region.
  
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• Italy's Salvini agrees to let 27 minors off migrant ship

  17-08-2019 18:42 via news.yahoo.com
  Italy's hard-line interior minister buckled under pressure Saturday and agreed to let 27 unaccompanied minors leave a migrant rescue ship after two weeks at sea, temporarily easing a political standoff that has threatened the viability of the populist government.In recent days, Premier Giuseppe Conte had written to Interior Minister Matteo Salvini demanding that minors be allowed off the boat.After initially refusing, Salvini wrote back Saturday with a three-page missive of his own saying he wou
  
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• Migrant children have been molested in federal care, according to families, and the government could end up paying $200 million for it

  17-08-2019 18:38 via news.yahoo.com
  Migrant families are suing the government for millions of dollars after their children were allegedly hurt or molested while in federal care.
  
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• Sudan just got a step closer to full democracy. Big obstacles remain

  17-08-2019 18:17 via cnn.com
  After almost nine months of violence and wrangling, Sudan came a step closer to a civilian government on Saturday when opposition leaders and military generals signed a power-sharing agreement in the capital, Khartoum.
  
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• More than 120 cases of lung disease could be linked to vaping

  17-08-2019 18:17 via cnn.com
  At least 15 states have identified more than 120 cases of lung disease or injury that could be linked to vaping, a CNN survey of state health departments has found.
  
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• Lung disease cases could be linked to vaping

  17-08-2019 18:17 via cnn.com
  At least 15 states have identified more than 120 cases of lung disease or injury that could be linked to vaping, a CNN survey of state health departments has found.
  
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• Shell workers in Pennsylvania say they were told to either attend a recent Trump event, or not get paid

  17-08-2019 18:10 via news.yahoo.com
  Workers at a new Shell plant in Pennsylvania were told they had to attend a speech by President Donald Trump in order to get paid.
  
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• Small plane makes emergency highway landing in Croatia

  17-08-2019 17:59 via news.yahoo.com
  A small plane made an emergency landing Saturday on a main highway in Croatia after its engine failed, surprising drivers but causing no injuries.The pilot of the single-engine Cessna 150 said he had a choice either to land on a field or on the highway after the engine malfunctioned.A video from the scene made from a driving car showed the plane landing heavily on the highway, swaying left and right with one wing apparently scraping the road before stopping on the emergency lane near a metal bar
  
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• New video shows dramatic escape from Dale Earnhardt Jr.'s burning plane

  17-08-2019 17:58 via news.yahoo.com
  A man can be seen pulling Dale Earnhardt Jr.'s infant daughter out of the plane as smoke and flames billow from the Cessna.
  
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• Treasure hunter finds GoPro camera near waterfall containing man's final moments alive

  17-08-2019 17:57 via news.yahoo.com
  Video of the final moments of a man who drowned at a waterfall have been discovered two years later - by a diver who spotted his GoPro deep underwater.Richard Ragland got into difficult and drowned at Foster Falls State Park in Tennessee in 2017 just a few days before his 23rd birthday, and, ever since, his parents have sought the closure of knowing about his last few hours alive.Now, they’ve had that breakthrough, after YouTuber Rich Aloha - a diver and self-described treasure hunter disc
  
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• Sen. Markey faces 2 challengers; now some pushing for a 3rd

  17-08-2019 17:53 via news.yahoo.com
  Some Massachusetts voters see Sen. Edward Markey as potentially vulnerable to a primary challenge, and one group is even trying to persuade U.S. Rep. Joe Kennedy to run for his seat.Markey, a Democrat, has represented Massachusetts in Congress for decades — first in the House before winning John Kerry's former Senate seat in 2013 — but the state saw an incumbent lose just last year as Democrats elected more women and minorities.Ayanna Pressley defeated longtime incumbent U.S. Rep. Mi
  
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• LGBT Republican group that declined to back Trump in 2016 endorses him for 2020

  17-08-2019 17:51 via news.yahoo.com
  The Log Cabin Republicans declined to endorse Donald Trump in 2016 but said he had taken "bold actions that benefit the LGBTQ community" as president.
  
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• Hundreds of strangers queue for El Paso shooting victim’s funeral after husband feared no one would show up

  17-08-2019 17:41 via news.yahoo.com
  Just about every morning for the past two weeks, Antonio Basco has risen before dawn to buy as many floral bouquets as he can fit in his car and carried them to a makeshift memorial for the victims of the mass shooting in El Paso.He places the flowers one by one around the white wooden cross for Margie Reckard, his wife. This is his solemn ritual, born of grief and unmooring: tending her garden.“She loved any kind of flowers. I could walk down the street and find flowers that had been run
  
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• Iranian tanker to leave Gibraltar soon despite US pressure

  17-08-2019 17:39 via news.yahoo.com
  The shipping agent for an Iranian supertanker caught in a diplomatic standoff says the vessel is ready to depart Gibraltar on Sunday or Monday, as the U.S. made a last-minute effort to seize it again.The head of the company sorting paperwork and procuring for the Grace 1 oil tanker in the British overseas territory said the vessel could be sailing away in the next "24 to 48 hours," once new crews dispatched to the territory take over command of the ship."The vessel is ongoing some logistical cha
  
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• Roller coaster malfunction causes cars to collide; multiple kids taken to hospital

  17-08-2019 17:08 via news.yahoo.com
  Five people were taken to the hospital Friday night after malfunctioning roller coaster failed to stop in Ocean City, Maryland.
  
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• Aides told Trump tariffs could 'ruin Christmas'

  17-08-2019 16:54 via cnn.com
  As President Donald Trump's trade advisers were searching last week for a strategy to forestall his threatened tariffs on China, they struck upon a novel approach: appeal to his Christmas cheer.
  
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• Aides got Trump to delay tariffs by telling him it could ruin Christmas

  17-08-2019 16:54 via cnn.com
  As President Donald Trump's trade advisers were searching last week for a strategy to forestall his threatened tariffs on China, they struck upon a novel approach: appeal to his Christmas cheer.
  
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• Forensic pathologist Cyril Wecht on revelations from Jeffrey Epstein's autopsy

  17-08-2019 16:51 via news.yahoo.com
  New York City's medical examiner rules Jeffrey Epstein's death a suicide, but questions still remain.
  
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• Jewelry store owner fights men with sledgehammers

  17-08-2019 16:46 via cnn.com
  A jewelry store owner fought off men armed with sledgehammers after they smashed one of the jewelry cases and tried to run off with the jewelry.
  
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• Heavy downpours wreak havoc in Istanbul, flooding historic Grand Bazaar

  17-08-2019 16:42 via news.yahoo.com
  Strong rains in Istanbul on Saturday flooded several neighbourhoods, as well as the Grand Bazaar, while officials said one person was found dead in the city. Rain started early in the day in parts of Istanbul and picked up pace around noon. Footage from parts of the Grand Bazaar showed shopkeepers, ankle-deep in water, clearing the water out of their stores and the halls.
  
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