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• Keep city as white 'as much as possible,' council candidate says, stunning forum in Michigan

  24-08-2019 23:33 via news.yahoo.com
  Jean Cramer, a candidate for city council in Marysville, Michigan, made the comment at Thursday night in response to a question about diversity.
  
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• Tropical Storm Dorian is threatening the Caribbean and more storms could soak the US coast

  24-08-2019 23:29 via cnn.com
  A tropical depression formed Saturday and gained intensity within hours to become Tropical Storm Dorian, the fourth named storm of the Atlantic hurricane season, the National Hurricane Center said. Forecasters believe it could approach hurricane strength early next week.
  
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• Man U boss: Racists 'hide behind' fake identities

  24-08-2019 23:27 via bbc.co.uk
  People who post racist abuse on social media "hide behind fake identities", says Manchester United manager Ole Gunnar Solskjaer.
  
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• Doubling down on racist comments, council candidate says she opposes interracial marriage

  24-08-2019 23:27 via news.yahoo.com
  Marysville, Michigan mayor Dan Damman has called for city council candidate Jean Cramer to withdraw. She says she doesn't plan to.
  
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• Retailers Dealt Another Blow as Trump Steps Up China Tariffs

  24-08-2019 23:23 via news.yahoo.com
  (Bloomberg) -- Terms of Trade is a daily newsletter that untangles a world embroiled in trade wars. Sign up here. For American retailers, what Trump giveth, Trump taketh away.President Donald Trump’s administration, which said just 10 days ago it would delay until December some of its new tariffs on Chinese goods, has hit the retail sector with a new blow: The new levies will be raised to 15% from 10% as retaliation after China threatened to impose additional tariffs on $75 billion of
  
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• Britain will withhold $37 billion from EU in no-deal Brexit: Mail on Sunday

  24-08-2019 23:14 via news.yahoo.com
  British Prime Minister Boris Johnson plans to tell European Union leaders he will withhold 30 billion pounds ($37 billion) from the Brexit divorce bill unless they agree to changes to the deal, the Mail on Sunday reported.If Britain leaves the bloc without a trade deal, lawyers have concluded the government's will only have to pay the EU 9 billion pounds, rather than 39 billion pounds, the newspaper reported.
  
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• 'Black Panther' sequel release announced

  24-08-2019 23:14 via cnn.com
  "Black Panther" fans can finally mark their calendars for the highly-anticipated sequel.
  
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• US seizes 52,000 gun parts imported from China

  24-08-2019 23:08 via cnn.com
  Federal officials say they've seized more than 52,000 firearms parts that arrived illegally from China at California's Los Angeles and Long Beach ports.
  
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• Immigration: Baby girl in critical condition after illegal border crossing in Texas

  24-08-2019 22:57 via news.yahoo.com
  A baby girl is in critical condition after being detained by the U.S. with her father. They had crossed the Rio Grande illegally in a group of 21 people.
  
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• Israel hits Iranian force in Syria to stop 'killer drones': military

  24-08-2019 22:56 via news.yahoo.com
  JERUSALEM/DAMASCUS (Reuters) - Israeli aircraft on Saturday struck Iranian forces near Damascus that had been planning to launch "killer drones" at targets in Israel, an Israeli military spokesman said."The strike targeted Iranian Quds Force operatives and Shiite militias which were preparing to advance attack plans targeting sites in Israel from within Syria over the last number of days," the military said in a statement.The elite Quds Force is the overseas arm of Iran's Revolutionary Guards (I
  
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• UPDATE 3-Israel hits Iranian force in Syria to stop 'killer drones' - military

  24-08-2019 22:55 via news.yahoo.com
  JERUSALEM/DAMASCUS, Aug 24 (Reuters) - Israeli aircraft on Saturday struck Iranian forces near Damascus that had been planning to launch "killer drones" at targets in Israel, an Israeli military spokesman said."The strike targeted Iranian Quds Force operatives and Shiite militias which were preparing to advance attack plans targeting sites in Israel from within Syria over the last number of days," the military said in a statement.
  
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• U.S. ‘Starting to Lose China,’ Says Global Times’ Hu Xijin

  24-08-2019 22:54 via news.yahoo.com
  (Bloomberg) -- Terms of Trade is a daily newsletter that untangles a world embroiled in trade wars. Sign up here. China will follow through with retaliatory measures announced Friday and fight the trade war to the end, in the face of the U.S.’s failure to keep its promises, the state-run People’s Daily wrote in a Saturday editorial.Later, the influential Chinese journalist Hu Xijin said on Twitter that the U.S. is “starting to lose China.”On Friday, Beijing unveiled
  
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• Oregon defends past nonunanimous jury verdicts to high court

  24-08-2019 22:29 via news.yahoo.com
  Oregon's criminal justice system would be "overwhelmed" if the U.S. Supreme Court rules in an upcoming case that nonunanimous jury verdicts are unconstitutional, the state's attorney general has told the court.Attorney General Ellen Rosenblum said in an amicus brief on Friday that if the U.S. Supreme Court finds nonunanimous juries unconstitutional, it could invalidate hundreds or even thousands of convictions in Oregon.Oregon is the only state in America allowing 11-1 or 10-2 jury verdicts in c
  
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• Revered as a saint by online extremists, how Christchurch shooter inspired copycat terrorists around the world

  24-08-2019 22:22 via news.yahoo.com
  “Brenton Tarrant was a catalyst for me personally. He showed me that it could be done. And that it needed to be done.”Those were the words written by John Timothy Earnest shortly before he stormed a synagogue in Poway, California, and opened fire on the Jewish congregation.
  
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• Teachers and parents prepare students for a new school year after a deadly summer

  24-08-2019 22:06 via cnn.com
  At the end of a recent meeting, middle school teacher Cassie Lopez and her colleagues were handed a large bucket, kitty litter and a pop-up shower curtain.
  
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• Six-month-old girl in critical condition after father brings her across border illegally, officials say

  24-08-2019 22:06 via foxnews.com
  A six-month-old girl is in critical condition at a Texas hospital after U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) agents apprehended her, her father and 21 other people who illegally crossed the Rio Grande into the United States, officials said Saturday.
  
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• Boris Johnson seeks legal advice on five-week parliament closure ahead of Brexit

  24-08-2019 22:02 via theguardian.com
  Secret plan to block any delay in leaving EU is likely to anger European leaders at G7 summitBoris Johnson has asked the attorney general, Geoffrey Cox, whether parliament can be shut down for five weeks from 9 September in what appears to be a concerted plan to stop MPs forcing a further extension to Brexit, according to leaked government correspondence.An email from senior government advisers to an adviser in No 10 – written within the last 10 days and seen by the Observer – makes
  
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• Syrian troops surround Turkish post in country's northwest

  24-08-2019 21:46 via news.yahoo.com
  A heavily fortified Turkish observation post in the northwestern village of Morek stood surrounded on all sides by Syrian troops Saturday, a testament to the rapid advance of President Bashar Assad's forces in Syria's northwest over the past three weeks as rebel defenses collapsed.Syrian authorities took a group of journalists to tour the observation post, several newly captured villages and the town of Khan Sheikhoun, which was a major rebel stronghold until it was taken by government forces ea
  
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• Elle Macpherson, 55, shows off massage technique that she claims shrinks her waist

  24-08-2019 21:32 via foxnews.com
  Elle Macpherson is a huge fan of a new beauty technique.
  
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• England 57-15 Ireland: All 10 tries in two minutes as England run riot against Ireland

  24-08-2019 21:30 via bbc.co.uk
  Watch highlights as England produce a dominant performance and run in eight tries as they hammer Ireland 57-15 in the World Cup warm-up match at Twickenham.
  
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• Rashida Tlaib says Trump is ‘scared’ of her and the ‘Squad’

  24-08-2019 21:25 via foxnews.com
  Rep. Rashida Tlaib, in an interview published Saturday, said that President Trump is “scared” of her and her fellow “Squad” members – in the wake of her canceled trip to Israel and the subsequent feud with the president.
  
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• Evoking 1968, Joe Biden asks New Hampshire voters: What if Barack Obama had been assassinated in 2008?

  24-08-2019 21:08 via news.yahoo.com
  Reflecting on a turbulent period in the late 1960s that included high-profile assassinations of prominent U.S. political figures, former VP Joe Biden asked voters in New Hampshire to imagine what would have happened if Barack Obama had been assassinated in 2008.
  
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• California health officials warn of possible measles exposure at Disneyland, Universal Studios

  24-08-2019 21:04 via foxnews.com
  California health officials say visitors to Disneyland, Universal Studios and other tourist destinations in the Los Angeles area may have been exposed to measles earlier this month.
  
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• Trump’s Offer to Help N.Y. With Subway Baffles Governor's Office

  24-08-2019 21:03 via news.yahoo.com
  (Bloomberg) -- President Donald Trump said he is ready to help New York extend the Second Avenue subway in New York City, an announcement that left even state Governor Andrew Cuomo baffled.“Looking forward to helping New York City and Governor @andrewcuomo complete the long anticipated, and partially built, Second Avenue Subway,” President Donald Trump said in a tweet.Cuomo’s office on Saturday said that while the governor is involved in discussions with the president and the D
  
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• Trump’s bid to buy Greenland shows that the ‘scramble for the Arctic’ is truly upon us

  24-08-2019 21:00 via theguardian.com
  World powers are racing to exploit the vast untapped resources of the Arctic as global heating opens up a new frontierDonald Trump’s cack-handed attempt to buy Greenland, and the shirty response of Denmark’s prime minister, provoked amusement last week. But it was mostly nervous laughter. The US intervention shone a cold light on a rapidly developing yet neglected crisis at the top of the world – the pillage of the Arctic.Like the late 19th-century “scramble for Africa&rd
  
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• Felix Sater: Trump wanted to reveal my secret CIA, FBI work during the campaign

  24-08-2019 21:00 via news.yahoo.com
  During the 2016 presidential campaign, Donald Trump wanted to reveal years of secret work that his one-time real estate adviser Felix Sater did for the CIA and FBI, Sater tells the Yahoo News “Skullduggery” podcast.
  
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• Trump wants to welcome Russia back to G7. John McCain must be rolling in his grave

  24-08-2019 20:54 via cnn.com
  When Russia forcibly annexed Crimea in the spring of 2014, sending heavily armed masked men onto the peninsula that indisputably belonged to Ukraine, it triggered a collective gasp of disbelief across Europe. After all, it was the first time since the break-up of the Soviet Union that Russian troops occupied the sovereign territory of one of its former states.
  
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• Trump wants to welcome Russia back into G7. John McCain must be rolling in his grave

  24-08-2019 20:54 via cnn.com
  When Russia forcibly annexed Crimea in the spring of 2014, sending heavily armed masked men onto the peninsula that indisputably belonged to Ukraine, it triggered a collective gasp of disbelief across Europe. After all, it was the first time since the break-up of the Soviet Union that Russian troops occupied the sovereign territory of one of its former states.
  
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• Trump may be doing Putin's bidding in vain

  24-08-2019 20:54 via cnn.com
  When Russia forcibly annexed Crimea in the spring of 2014, sending heavily armed masked men onto the peninsula that indisputably belonged to Ukraine, it triggered a collective gasp of disbelief across Europe. After all, it was the first time since the break-up of the Soviet Union that Russian troops occupied the sovereign territory of one of its former states.
  
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• Michael Bociurkiw: Trump may be doing Putin's bidding in vain

  24-08-2019 20:54 via cnn.com
  When Russia forcibly annexed Crimea in the spring of 2014, sending heavily armed masked men onto the peninsula that indisputably belonged to Ukraine, it triggered a collective gasp of disbelief across Europe. After all, it was the first time since the break-up of the Soviet Union that Russian troops occupied the sovereign territory of one of its former states.
  
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• Divorcing Spouse Claims NASA Astronaut Committed Crime in Space: Report

  24-08-2019 20:54 via news.yahoo.com
  NASA astronaut Anne McClain's former partner has accused her of committing identity theft from the International Space Station, according to a report.
  
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• US seizes 52,000 gun parts illegally imported from China

  24-08-2019 20:39 via cnn.com
  Federal officials say they've seized more than 52,000 firearms parts that arrived illegally from China at California's Los Angeles and Long Beach ports.
  
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• Radio host criticizes Dems using Bible to push taxes, economic policy

  24-08-2019 20:34 via foxnews.com
  Democrats shouldn't use Jesus to justify socialist economic policies and doing so cheapens the historic figure, radio host Mike Slater argued on Saturday.
  
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• Shaw Air Force Base will pause operations after rise in suicides

  24-08-2019 20:30 via foxnews.com
  Shaw Air Force Base in South Carolina is planning a tactical stand-down over three days in August and September to help those at the base "recharge" following the suicides of three airmen in the past year
  
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• How Trump Fits Into the Long, Fraught History of the Relationship Between Israel and American Jews

  24-08-2019 20:30 via news.yahoo.com
  Daniel Gordis, author of 'We Stand Divided: The Rift Between American Jews and Israel,' talks to TIME
  
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• A man was training to get a gun permit. The instructor accidentally shot him, police say

  24-08-2019 20:27 via news.yahoo.com
  The instructor, a Riverside County Sheriff's Department trainer, accidentally shot a student attending the class to get a concealed weapons permit.
  
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• Britain sends another warship to Gulf

  24-08-2019 20:26 via news.yahoo.com
  A third British warship is heading to the Gulf, the Royal Navy announced Saturday, amid heightened tensions in the region.Britain has already sent the HMS Kent to cover for frigate HMS Montrose while it undergoes maintenance in nearby Bahrain, and is now redirecting the Type 45 destroyer HMS Defender from its mission to the Pacific.Britain outraged Iran by seizing one of its tankers -- the Grace 1 -- on July 4 on suspicion it was carrying oil to Syria in violation of EU sanctions.
  
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• Bolsonaro enjoys comedy club outing as Amazon fires rage on

  24-08-2019 20:26 via theguardian.com
  President watches rightwing comic as pre-recorded speech to nation on fighting fires airs While the Amazon burned and Brazilians demonstrated their outrage, Brazil’s far-right president Jair Bolsonaro went to a comedy club.As the president’s pre-recorded speech to the nation explaining how he planned to use the army to fight the fires – while simultaneously insisting that the rate of burning of the forest was nothing out of the ordinary – was broadcast on television on Fr
  
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• 2020 Democratic presidential field begins to shrink

  24-08-2019 20:25 via news.yahoo.com
  Christian Hanley and Kristen Hawn weigh in on the field of 2020 Democratic hopefuls as candidates begin to drop out of the race.
  
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• The Latest: Trump dining with G-7 leaders in France

  24-08-2019 20:18 via news.yahoo.com
  President Donald Trump is dining with world leaders attending the annual Group of Seven summit in France.The French presidency has chosen five local chefs, all with Michelin stars, to prepare meals featuring local Basque cuisine for the summit.President Donald Trump French and French President Emmanuel Macron discussed economic and trade issues, as well as security challenges, during their private lunch ahead of the Group of Seven summit in Biarritz.
  
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• Florida mom teaches young daughter a lesson in gratitude: 'sis needed a small wake up call'

  24-08-2019 20:18 via foxnews.com
  Parents everywhere are praising one Florida mom after she showed her daughter some tough love earlier this month in a lesson about being grateful. 
  
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• Amb. Grenell: German CEOs 'racing' into the US because of pro-growth environment

  24-08-2019 20:14 via foxnews.com
  Richard Grenell, the U.S. ambassador to Germany, that America's pro-growth strategies attracted German CEOs to the nation's "humming" economy.
  
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• Kit Harington to play Dane Whitman in Marvel's 'Eternals'

  24-08-2019 20:01 via foxnews.com
  Kit Harington is set to play Dane Whitman/Black Knight in Marvel's "Eternals."
  
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• Golfer ignores alligator strolling next to him

  24-08-2019 20:01 via cnn.com
  In Florida, golfers play by a different set of rules. And one of the rules may or may not include ignoring giant, scary alligators.
  
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• Will the real Mr. No-Deal step forward please?

  24-08-2019 19:55 via news.yahoo.com
  As world leaders touched down in the French seaside resort of Biarritz for the Group of Seven summit, the long-running tensions over Britain's departure from the EU got a tad personal.British Prime Minister Boris Johnson and EU Council president Donald Tusk each suggested that the other is bent on scuttling the chances that the UK will break away from the single market of 500 million with an agreement.
  
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• Singer Eddie Money reveals he has stage 4 esophageal cancer

  24-08-2019 19:54 via foxnews.com
  Eddie Money says he has stage 4 esophageal cancer.
  
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• We are facing a global emergency in the Amazon. Here's what we can do

  24-08-2019 19:49 via cnn.com
  Called "the lungs of the Earth", the Amazon rainforest and its lush trees make roughly 20% of the oxygen on Earth. Yet, right now, the skies of Sao Paolo, Brazil are black and the smoke can be seen from space
  
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• The Latest: Iran imposes sanctions on US think tank

  24-08-2019 19:43 via news.yahoo.com
  Iran's Foreign Ministry says it has imposed sanctions on the Washington-based Foundation for Defense of Democracies and its CEO for its role in promoting sanctions and "economic terrorism" against Iran.A Saturday report by Iranian media, including the semi-official Fars news agency, quoted a statement by Iran's Foreign Ministry as saying the foundation and its CEO Mark Dubowitz "intentionally" damaged vital interests of Iran through spreading lies and negative campaigning against Iran.
  
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• Britain sends another warship to boost presence in the Gulf

  24-08-2019 19:39 via news.yahoo.com
  Britain is sending another warship to the Gulf to defend freedom of navigation, the defence minister said on Saturday, after Iran seized a British-flagged tanker in the region.Tensions have risen between Iran and Britain after Iranian commandos seized a British-flagged tanker last month.
  
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• Israel arrests Palestinians after deadly West Bank blast

  24-08-2019 19:32 via news.yahoo.com
  Israeli security forces have arrested a number of Palestinians in the West Bank as part of a manhunt after an explosion that killed an Israeli teenager, the army said Saturday.The homemade bomb on Friday near the settlement of Dolev, northwest of Ramallah, killed 17-year-old Rina Shnerb and wounded her father Eitan and brother Dvir.No Palestinian group took responsibility for the blast.
  
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