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• Sanders touts $16 trillion climate plan in fire-ravaged town

  22-08-2019 23:55 via news.yahoo.com
  Democratic presidential candidate Bernie Sanders released a $16.3 trillion climate plan on Thursday before touring a Northern California town ravaged by wildfire, declaring the setting a "wake-up call for our entire nation" to the dangers of a warming planet."Climate change is a major, major crisis for our country, and the entire world, and one of the manifestations of that crisis is what happened here," the Vermont senator said as he walked through a burned-out mobile home park in Paradise alon
  
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• Inslee: 'We elevated the climate change crisis'

  22-08-2019 23:55 via news.yahoo.com
  Washington Gov. Jay Inslee dropped out of the 2020 Democratic presidential race, but he says he’s proud of elevating the climate crisis topic (Aug. 22)
  
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• UPDATE 1-U.S. will aggressively enforce sanctions over Iran tanker -State Dept official

  22-08-2019 23:52 via news.yahoo.com
  The United States will aggressively enforce its sanctions to prevent the private sector from assisting an Iranian oil tanker that is traveling through the Mediterranean and that Washington wants seized, a State Department official said on Thursday."The shipping sector is on notice that we will aggressively enforce U.S. sanctions," the official told Reuters days after warning countries not to allow the tanker to dock.Ship tracking data has shown the ship, Adrian Darya, formerly called Grace 1, la
  
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• U.S. will aggressively enforce sanctions over Iran tanker: State Department official

  22-08-2019 23:34 via news.yahoo.com
  The United States will aggressively enforce its sanctions to prevent the private sector from assisting an Iranian oil tanker that is traveling through the Mediterranean and that Washington wants seized, a State Department official said on Thursday."The shipping sector is on notice that we will aggressively enforce U.S. sanctions," the official told Reuters days after warning countries not to allow the tanker to dock.Ship tracking data has shown the ship, Adrian Darya, formerly called Grace 1, la
  
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• 'Bullies' abusing Meghan Markle, friend says

  22-08-2019 23:22 via cnn.com
  A friend of Meghan, the Duchess of Sussex, has defended Prince Harry's wife in a post on Instagram, calling out the "racist bullies" who criticize her, following years of "undeserved hate and abuse."
  
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• Brexit Held at the Border

  22-08-2019 23:22 via news.yahoo.com
  In the last two days Prime Minister Boris Johnson has proposed that Ireland temporarily leave the European Union to align with the economic rules of a post-Brexit U.K. German chancellor Angela Merkel has suggested, somewhat flippantly, that the U.K. could figure out a special trading arrangement for itself and Ireland in the next 30 days. And French president Emmanuel Macron has said that there’s still room for negotiation between the U.K. and the EU, but he’s willing to be “th
  
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• Critics of Missouri abortion law sue over referendum failure

  22-08-2019 23:19 via news.yahoo.com
  Abortion-rights advocates on Thursday sued Missouri's top election official, alleging his actions and state laws denied them the right to put one of the nation's most restrictive abortion laws to a public vote.No Bans on Choice Committee and the American Civil Liberties Union sought to put the law on the 2020 ballot in hopes that voters would overturn it.Attorneys for those who sued put the blame on Republican Secretary of State Jay Ashcroft.
  
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• Mexico struggles: whether to talk to vigilantes or jail them

  22-08-2019 23:14 via news.yahoo.com
  Mexico's government appears to be split about whether it should talk to armed vigilante groups, or treat them as criminals.President Andres Manuel López Obrador said Thursday he disagreed with his assistant interior secretary's decision to attend a ceremony with vigilantes, who often call themselves "self-defense" groups.The debate came to a head Wednesday when Ricardo Peralta, an assistant secretary of the interior, attended the groundbreaking of an agricultural processing plant in the v
  
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• Modi Ally Calls for Boycott of China Companies on Kashmir, Trade

  22-08-2019 23:00 via news.yahoo.com
  (Bloomberg) -- Indians should stop buying from Chinese companies and the government should reconsider trade concessions to its biggest neighbor after China allied with Pakistan on Kashmir, according to an economic policy group linked with the ruling Bharatiya Janata Party.Companies like technology giant Huawei Technologies Co. should be barred from accessing the Indian market in the future and Chinese companies should be banned from state tenders, Ashwani Mahajan, co-convenor of the Swadeshi Jag
  
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• Parking lot shooter told detectives he feared severe injury

  22-08-2019 22:50 via news.yahoo.com
  Prosecutors played Michael Drejka's interview with Pinellas County detectives during his manslaughter trial in Clearwater, Florida.Drejka, who is white, shot while on his back from close range seconds after McGlockton shoved him as Drejka argued with McGlockton's girlfriend.Pinellas County Sheriff's Detective Richard Redman testified that Drejka, 49, willingly spoke to him and Detective George Moffett about five hours after the shooting without an attorney.
  
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• Overstock.com CEO Resigns after Disclosing Relationship with Russian Agent Maria Butina

  22-08-2019 22:46 via news.yahoo.com
  Overstock.com CEO Patrick Byrne stepped down Thursday amid the backlash to his disclosure of a romantic relationship with Russian agent Maria Butina.Byrne caused Overstock's shares to plummet last week after he admitted to carrying on a romantic relationship with Butina from 2015 to 2016. The fallout from his disclosure complicated “all manner of business relationships,” he said in a statement announcing his resignation.“Thus, while I believe that I did what was necessary
  
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• New images from asteroid probe yield clues on planet formation

  22-08-2019 22:41 via news.yahoo.com
  Photographs snapped by a shoebox-sized probe that explored the near-Earth asteroid Ryugu offer new clues about its composition, insights that are expected to help scientists understand the formation of our solar system.The German-French Mobile Asteroid Surface Scout (MASCOT) was dropped off by Japan's Hayabusa2 spacecraft on October 3, 2018, free-falling from a height of 41 meters (135 feet) for six minutes before it hit the surface.Ryugu is just 900 meters wide and so its gravity is 66,500 time
  
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• Man arrested for holding woman as sex slave and keeping her eight-month-old baby captive

  22-08-2019 22:37 via news.yahoo.com
  A North Carolina man has been arrested after holding a woman and her 8-month-old baby captive for over a month, authorities said.The Pender County Sheriff’s department said in a press release they received an emergency call on 9 August from a woman who said she was being held against her will at a home in Willard, North Carolina.
  
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• Man convicted of killing college student 40 years ago found innocent of the crime

  22-08-2019 22:24 via news.yahoo.com
  A three-judge panel found a convicted murderer innocent of the 1979 murder that sent him to prison.
  
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• US travel to Canada highest since 2007

  22-08-2019 22:20 via cnn.com
  Some 12.3 million US residents headed to Canada in the first half of 2019, the highest first-half record since 2007, according to Statistics Canada.
  
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• The Latest: No visits for serial killer set to be executed

  22-08-2019 22:20 via news.yahoo.com
  A serial killer who preyed on older gay men during a rampage that left six dead a quarter century ago received no visitors in the hours before his planned execution.Officials at Florida State Prison in Starke say 57-year-old Gary Ray Bowles did eat a meal of three cheeseburgers, French fries and bacon as execution preparations were being made.Hinton was Bowles' sixth and final known victim in a spree that began in Daytona Beach with the slaying of John Hardy Roberts.
  
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• Trump Invited Himself to Denmark Before Canceling Trip, Danes Say

  22-08-2019 22:18 via news.yahoo.com
  Photo Illustration by The Daily Beast / Photos GettySpeaking to reporters on the White House’s South Lawn in late July, President Donald Trump revealed that he was “looking at” a stop in Denmark after an upcoming trip to Poland to attend a World War II commemorative ceremony.For officials in Copenhagen, the comment came as a surprise. Although it is customary in Denmark for there to be a standing invitation for the U.S. president—and though officials in both countries had
  
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• White House drops attempt to cancel $4 billion in foreign aid

  22-08-2019 21:44 via cnn.com
  The White House has dropped its attempt to move forward with a controversial plan to eliminate up to $4 billion in foreign aid funding without congressional approval, several officials confirmed Thursday.
  
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• Should I stay or should I run? Pompeo under pressure over U.S. Senate seat

  22-08-2019 21:39 via news.yahoo.com
  Republican pressure on Secretary of State Mike Pompeo to run for the U.S. Senate next year to help keep the party's majority intact is coming up against President Donald Trump's hope of keeping one of his most trusted aides in his administration.Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell and other Senate Republicans believe the former U.S. congressman from Kansas would be a strong candidate should he decide to run for one of the state's Senate seats in 2020."Secretary Pompeo would clear the field an
  
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• Judge hurries U.S. naturalization as pregnant woman gets contractions

  22-08-2019 21:36 via news.yahoo.com
  A judge in California had to speed up the naturalization of a pregnant immigrant on Thursday when the woman, anxious to become a U.S. citizen because of President Donald Trump's immigration policies, started experiencing contractions. The 31-year-old Armenian-American woman, who was scheduled to give birth to her second child next week by cesarean section, said she started to feel contractions after a walk to a Los Angeles convention center where the judge was naturalizing about 3,200 immigrants
  
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• Ashes highlights: England bowl Australia out on day one of third Test

  22-08-2019 21:33 via bbc.co.uk
  England bowl Australia out for 179, with Jofra Archer taking 6-45, on day one of the third Ashes Test at Headingley.
  
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• Strong winds sweep restaurant employees off their feet during storm

  22-08-2019 21:24 via cnn.com
  A group of employees were setting up tents for an event at The Esso Club in Clemson, South Carolina, when a huge gust of wind sent one man flying in the air.
  
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• Half of Venezuela's Oil Rigs May Disappear If U.S. Waivers Lapse

  22-08-2019 21:19 via news.yahoo.com
  (Bloomberg) -- A looming U.S. sanctions deadline is threatening to clobber Venezuela’s dwindling oil-rig fleet and hamper energy production in the nation with the world’s largest crude reserves.Almost half the rigs operating in Venezuela will shut down by Oct. 25 if the Trump administration doesn’t extend a 90-day waiver from its sanctions, according to data compiled from consultancy Caracas Capital Markets. That could further cripple the OPEC member’s production because
  
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• Trump’s new press secretary was arrested for DUI while working on the 2016 campaign during her rocky rise to the White House

  22-08-2019 21:16 via news.yahoo.com
  Stephanie Grisham has taken an unconventional approach to her White House post, and hasn't held a single on-camera briefing since taking over in July.
  
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• We should welcome deep digs into 1619. Slavery and white supremacy shaped today's America.

  22-08-2019 21:12 via news.yahoo.com
  You don't have to be black to see the importance of slavery to the American story. It has fundamentally shaped who we are. Erasing that erases history.
  
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• 'Help America Grow': Republican group selling T-shirts with map of US that includes Greenland

  22-08-2019 21:08 via news.yahoo.com
  A fundraising group dedicated to electing Republicans to Congress is selling a T-shirt that includes Greenland on a map of the US, just after the president cancelled a trip to Denmark in protest at the prime minister saying he could not buy the country.Casey Tolan, a reporter based in California, spotted the T-shirt on a fundraising message from the National Republican Congressional Committee, which asked donors to "Support President Trump and his efforts to help America grow!" It appears to hav
  
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• American man on trial for killing hotel worker in Anguilla fears for life: attorney

  22-08-2019 21:02 via feeds.foxnews.com
  The attorney of an American man facing manslaughter charges in the death of a resort worker in Anguilla says prosecutors are knowingly putting her client's life in danger by demanding he show up in person to every procedural hearing despite credible threats against him. 
  
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• Federal judge rules that immigration law is unconstitutional

  22-08-2019 20:56 via news.yahoo.com
  A federal judge in Kansas has ruled that a law making it a crime to "encourage" or "induce" immigrants to enter or live in the country illegally is unconstitutional.KCUR-FM reports that U.S. District Judge Carlos Murguia issued his ruling from the bench Wednesday before throwing out the convictions of Jose Felipe Hernandez-Calvillo and Mauro Papalotzi.Kansas isn't governed by the Ninth Circuit, but Murguia found the argument persuasive.
  
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• Archer rescues England with six wickets against Australia on day one

  22-08-2019 20:43 via bbc.co.uk
  Jofra Archer takes 6-45 to help England bowl out Australia for 179 on a truncated first day of the third Ashes Test at Headingley.
  
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• Ashes: England's Ben Stokes' full toss removes Australia's Marnus Labuschagne at Headingley

  22-08-2019 20:40 via bbc.co.uk
  Australia's Marnus Labuschagne is trapped lbw by England's Ben Stokes on day one of the third Ashes Test at Headingley.
  
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• Italy crisis: Centre left and Five Star set tough coalition demands

  22-08-2019 20:30 via bbc.co.uk
  The centre left and populist Five Star movement say they favour a new coalition but impose conditions.
  
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• Ashes: England's Jofra Archer dismisses Australia's Pat Cummins to complete his first five-wicket haul in Test cricket

  22-08-2019 20:29 via bbc.co.uk
  England's Jofra Archer dismisses Australia's Pat Cummins to complete his first five-wicket haul in Test cricket on day one of the third Ashes Test at Headingley.
  
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• Hispanic Journalism Group Boots Fox News Over Immigrant ‘Invasion’ Rhetoric

  22-08-2019 20:25 via news.yahoo.com
  Kevin HagenA major organization for Hispanic journalists on Thursday gave Fox News the boot from its upcoming conference in response to the network’s use “invasion” rhetoric when discussing immigration.Fox News was set to appear as a sponsor at the National Association of Hispanic Journalists’ confab next month in San Antonio, but in a letter to the group’s members, NAHJ President Hugo Balta said that invitation has been revoked.“The line between commentary an
  
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• Beijing fires back after Trudeau vows to stand up to China

  22-08-2019 20:21 via news.yahoo.com
  Beijing on Thursday accused Ottawa of worsening relations after Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau promised to stand up to China amid deepening diplomatic and trade disputes.
  
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• German theme park shuts down ride that looks like 'flying swastikas'

  22-08-2019 20:09 via feeds.foxnews.com
  A German theme park quickly shut down a new ride not due to safety reasons, but because critics said it resembled "flying swastikas."
  
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• New images from asteroid probe offer clues on planet formation

  22-08-2019 20:08 via news.yahoo.com
  Photographs snapped by a shoebox-sized probe that explored the near-Earth asteroid Ryugu have offered new clues about its composition, insights that will help scientists understand the formation of our solar system.The German-French Mobile Asteroid Surface Scout (MASCOT) hitched a ride on Japan's Hayabusa2 spaceship, touching down on the 900-meter (3,000 feet) wide asteroid, whose orbit lies mostly between Earth and Mars, on October 3, 2018.Ryugu's gravity is 66,500 times weaker than Earth's, an
  
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• Greenland sees spike in tourism interest

  22-08-2019 20:07 via cnn.com
  Greenland might be the new travel hot spot, thanks to President Trump.
  
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• 'Rude' Boris Johnson puts foot up on Elysee furniture during key Brexit talks with Macron

  22-08-2019 20:04 via feeds.foxnews.com
  The British prime minister was labeled “rude” and “embarrassing” after a photo showed him with his foot on top of a table in France’s Elysee Palace while meeting with French President Emmanuel Macron on Wednesday.
  
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• A woman caught a fish with two mouths and the photo is just as shocking as you would expect

  22-08-2019 20:04 via news.yahoo.com
  A woman in upstate New York surely found the "catch-of-the-day" when she reeled in a fish with two mouths. A photo of the fish has since gone viral.
  
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• US formally pulls Turkey's Patriot missile system offer

  22-08-2019 20:00 via cnn.com
  The Trump administration has formally withdrawn its offer for Turkey to purchase a Patriot missile system in retaliation for Turkey's receipt of the Russian-made S-400 missile system.
  
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• Police are trying to arrest their way out of a mass shooting epidemic, and experts warn it could have dire consequences

  22-08-2019 19:50 via news.yahoo.com
  The arrests won't fully or permanently stop a person determined to inflict mass death — and the US is nowhere near close to tackling the root causes.
  
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• 'Sorry!' Johnson puts foot in it at Macron's palace

  22-08-2019 19:39 via news.yahoo.com
  An invitation to the gilded Elysee palace of France's president in Paris usually prompts a sense of decorum and formality in a visitor of any rank.During crunch talks over Brexit with French President Emmanuel Macron -- who Johnson insisted on repeatedly addressing as "Monsieur le President" -- the British premier joked and waved his hands flamboyantly.The episode appeared part of a shared joke with Macron, who could be seen laughing heartily.
  
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• Albanian restaurant owner at center of viral windshield smash video has business torn down

  22-08-2019 19:32 via feeds.foxnews.com
  The Albanian man caught on camera punching through the windshield of a moving car following a dispute with a group of Spanish tourists has had his restaurant torn down less than a week after the video went viral, reports say. 
  
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• Poland lightning strike kills three in Tatra mountains storm

  22-08-2019 19:28 via bbc.co.uk
  A group of tourists was struck at the peak of Giewont, a popular mountain, rescuers say.
  
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• Williams to face Sharapova in first round of US Open

  22-08-2019 19:22 via bbc.co.uk
  Serena Williams will play Maria Sharapova in the first round of the US Open at Flushing Meadows in New York.
  
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• Trump fumes over emissions deal between automakers and California

  22-08-2019 19:22 via news.yahoo.com
  The president decried a deal between the most populous U.S. state and four major automakers.
  
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• Correctional officers subpoenaed in Epstein death investigation, a source says

  22-08-2019 19:05 via cnn.com
  As many as 20 correctional officers who work at the federal detention center where Jeffrey Epstein died by suicide received grand jury subpoenas last week relating to an investigation into his death, according to a source with knowledge of the situation.
  
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• China Buys American Soybeans after Vowing to Boycott U.S. Farm Products

  22-08-2019 19:05 via news.yahoo.com
  China purchased a comparatively small amount of U.S. soybeans several days ago after promising to boycott U.S. farm products amid deteriorating trade negotiations with the Trump administration.Beijing reached agreements last week to buy 9,589 metric tons of American soybeans for the current marketing year and 66,000 metric tons for the following year, which starts September 1, according to data from the U.S. Department of Agriculture released Thursday.An August 5 statement from Ch
  
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• Sarah Sanders becomes the latest ex-Trump official to join Fox News

  22-08-2019 18:59 via cnn.com
  Former White House press secretary Sarah Sanders has joined Fox News as a contributor, the network announced on Thursday. It is the latest sign of the revolving door relationship between Fox and the Trump administration.
  
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• Vegan Australian parents spared jail after ‘completely inadequate’ diet left baby malnourished

  22-08-2019 18:57 via feeds.foxnews.com
  An Australian couple who put their baby on a strict vegan diet that left her malnourished and suffering from long-term medical issues avoided a jail sentence on Thursday.
  
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