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• Tennis player calls chair umpire a 'weirdo' during dramatic loss

  27-08-2019 23:58 via cnn.com
  For the second straight major, Stefanos Tsitsipas is out after the first round, and it came with drama.
  
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• Deutsche Bank says it has Trump-related tax returns

  27-08-2019 23:51 via cnn.com
  Deutsche Bank wouldn't say publicly on Tuesday whether it has President Donald Trump's tax returns. Yet the bank acknowledges the US House would see people's tax returns -- possibly even those of Trump family members -- if the bank fulfilled a subpoena related to Trump, according to a letter from the bank to a federal appeals court on Tuesday.
  
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• US approves $3.3bn sale of anti-ballistic missiles to Japan

  27-08-2019 23:46 via news.yahoo.com
  Washington approved the $3.3 billion sale of anti-ballistic missiles to Japan Tuesday, following close behind a series of new ballistic missile tests by North Korea that could threaten the US ally.Japan will buy up to 73 of the Raytheon-made SM-3 Block IIA missiles, which are designed to be fired by the ship-board Aegis system to intercept incoming ballistic missiles, the Pentagon said.The sale came as North Korea is expanding its offensive missile capabilities, having proven over the past two y
  
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• Prostitute Arrested in Connection to Deaths of 3 Men, Apparently Including NY Chef: Officials

  27-08-2019 23:43 via news.yahoo.com
  A prostitute has been arrested on drug charges in connection to the deaths of three men, officials say.
  
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• Trump administration leaves menstruating migrant girls ‘bleeding through’ underwear at detention centres, lawsuit claims

  27-08-2019 23:35 via news.yahoo.com
  Migrant girls being held by the Trump administration are being given only very limited access to items as basic as sanitary pads and tampons, according to a lawsuit that claims to put fresh light on the “appalling” conditions being endured by youngsters.Earlier this year, it was revealed children being held in facilities in Texas operated by immigration authorities, were being detained in circumstances United Nations (UN) human rights chief Michelle Bachelet said appalled her. Childr
  
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• Leslie Jones is leaving 'SNL'

  27-08-2019 23:25 via cnn.com
  "Saturday Night Live" cast member Leslie Jones is making her exit from Studio 8H.
  
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• Biden campaign does damage control after electability takes hit in recent poll

  27-08-2019 23:24 via news.yahoo.com
  Two new polls do show Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden back on top, but is the damage already done? Reaction and analysis on 'The Five.'
  
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• OxyContin maker Purdue Pharma reportedly offering opioid settlement up to $12B

  27-08-2019 22:50 via news.yahoo.com
  OxyContin maker Purdue Pharma is reportedly offering a settlement worth up to $12 billion to resolve claims over its role in the opioid crisis.
  
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• Trump privately clashed with G7 allies over Putin

  27-08-2019 22:46 via cnn.com
  A sharp and sometimes bitter disagreement broke out between President Donald Trump and several G7 leaders over whether to allow Russia back into their club during a welcome dinner on Saturday, according to two diplomatic officials and a senior US official with knowledge of the exchange.
  
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• Ex-Uber exec charged with alleged theft of Google trade secrets

  27-08-2019 22:46 via cnn.com
  Anthony Levandowski, a former Uber exec who oversaw its self-driving efforts, was charged by federal prosecutors on Tuesday with 33 counts of theft and attempted theft of trade secrets from his former employer, Google.
  
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• A sharp and sometimes bitter disagreement broke out during a welcome dinner on Saturday, officials tell CNN

  27-08-2019 22:46 via cnn.com
  A sharp and sometimes bitter disagreement broke out between President Donald Trump and several G7 leaders over whether to allow Russia back into their club during a welcome dinner on Saturday, according to two diplomatic officials and a senior US official with knowledge of the exchange.
  
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• Epstein accusers detail sexual abuse in emotional court hearing

  27-08-2019 22:38 via news.yahoo.com
  Alleged victims of Jeffrey Epstein wept in court Tuesday as they told an extraordinary US hearing held weeks after his death how they were sexually abused by the disgraced financier.Epstein, 66, hung himself in his New York prison cell earlier this month while awaiting trial on charges he trafficked young women for sex, depriving alleged victims of their day in court.It was the first time most of the women had spoken publicly about Epstein.
  
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• Deutsche Bank has tax returns but doesn't say if they are Trump's

  27-08-2019 22:30 via cnn.com
  Deutsche Bank wouldn't say publicly on Tuesday whether it has President Donald Trump's tax returns. Yet the bank acknowledges the US House would see people's tax returns -- possibly even those of Trump family members -- if the bank fulfilled a subpoena related to Trump, according to a letter from the bank to a federal appeals court on Tuesday.
  
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• Zoo trade in baby elephants banned internationally

  27-08-2019 22:29 via bbc.co.uk
  The international wildlife regulator bans the capture and export of baby African elephants.
  
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• Why these ballet dancers leapt to Prince George's defence

  27-08-2019 22:28 via bbc.co.uk
  A US TV host mocked the idea of a boy doing ballet, and provoked the most graceful protest ever.
  
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• Frida Ghitis: Bolsonaro's ego stands in the way of saving the Amazon

  27-08-2019 22:27 via cnn.com
  "Did I say that? Did I?" That was Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro talking to reporters on Tuesday morning, apparently denying what his office had told CNN exactly one hour earlier, that he would reject a $20 million pledge from the G7 countries to help fight the fires consuming the Amazon. It was a touch of gaslighting, Bolsonaro style.
  
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• Trump admin. reallocates FEMA funds to ICE as hurricane season ramps up

  27-08-2019 22:25 via cnn.com
  The Trump administration plans to shift at least $155 million from the Federal Emergency Management Agency disaster relief fund to support its policy of returning some migrants to Mexico.
  
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• Florida city, under fire for imposing massive fines on homeowners, drops lawsuit against woman

  27-08-2019 22:25 via news.yahoo.com
  The city of Dunedin, Florida, has been under scrutiny for massive fines lodged against homeowners over code enforcement violations.
  
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• Trump shows voters his true colors

  27-08-2019 22:20 via cnn.com
  • Melania's moment with Trudeau goes viral
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• Brazil rebuffs $20 million in aid for Amazon fires in spat with world leaders

  27-08-2019 22:16 via cnn.com
  Bolsonaro's ego stands in the way of saving the Amazon
  
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• TV anchor apologizes after comparing black cohost to gorilla

  27-08-2019 22:14 via cnn.com
  A morning TV anchor in Oklahoma apologized a day after likening her black cohost to a gorilla.
  
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• A nurse was sentenced to 12 years in prison for paying $12,000 in bitcoin to have her former lover's wife killed through a website that ended up being a scam

  27-08-2019 21:51 via news.yahoo.com
  Cops were tipped off to Tina Jones' plan thanks to journalists reporting on a story about the dark web for CBS News' "48 Hours."
  
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• Incoming Harvard freshman denied entry by immigration officials

  27-08-2019 21:48 via cnn.com
  When Harvard University's dorms opened their doors to first-year students on Tuesday, one was missing. Ismail Ajjawi, an incoming first-year student, was denied entry to the United States last week, according to the university.
  
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• Harvard freshman denied entry by immigration officials

  27-08-2019 21:48 via cnn.com
  When Harvard University's dorms opened their doors to first-year students on Tuesday, one was missing. Ismail Ajjawi, an incoming first-year student, was denied entry to the United States last week, according to the university.
  
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• Black homeowner handcuffed and detained after burglar alarm went off

  27-08-2019 21:28 via cnn.com
  When Kazeem Oyeneyin's friend accidentally set off his burglar alarm, the North Carolina man went downstairs, turned it off, and went back upstairs to sleep.
  
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• U.S. yield inversion deepens, stokes recession fears

  27-08-2019 21:24 via news.yahoo.com
  The U.S. yield curve inversion deepened on Tuesday to levels not seen since 2007, rekindling fears of a looming recession that spurred a sell-off on Wall Street and stoked even more safe-haven demand for government bonds.The intense interest in Treasuries supported demand for $40 billion worth of two-year government debt for sale, part of this week's $113 billion fixed-rate Treasury supply.The yield curve often inverts prior to a U.S. recession.
  
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• Obituary: Volkswagen's visionary leader Ferdinand Piëch

  27-08-2019 21:21 via bbc.co.uk
  Volkswagen became a global giant under tough perfectionist Ferdinand Piëch, who has died at 82.
  
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• Trump suggested using bombs to fight hurricanes. These 4 graphics show why that would never work.

  27-08-2019 21:19 via news.yahoo.com
  President Trump has suggested hitting hurricanes with nuclear weapons. But no nuclear bomb is powerful enough to continuously disrupt a hurricane.
  
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• Brazil farmers deforesting Amazon 'to survive'

  27-08-2019 21:18 via news.yahoo.com
  On his block of land deep in the Amazon rainforest, Aurelio Andrade says deforestation is the only way he and other farmers can survive in the remote region where fires are raging."Here we have no support from the federal government or anyone else, only from God," Andrade tells AFP, wearing an army camouflage T-shirt and matching hat, on his property 120 kilometers (75 miles) from Porto Velho in the northwestern state of Rondonia."We cut trees to plant grass to survive, so that the cattle eat,"
  
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• An 18-foot-long Burmese python was found in the Florida Everglades

  27-08-2019 21:09 via news.yahoo.com
  The animal, which is really, really long, was removed by the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission.
  
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• Woman diagnosed with terminal cancer gets to live dream with ride-along with police

  27-08-2019 21:08 via news.yahoo.com
  A Minnesota woman who is battling terminal cancer checked off riding alongside a police officer off her bucket list.
  
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• A man's truck was stolen while he was robbing a store across the street, police say

  27-08-2019 20:41 via news.yahoo.com
  A Washington man called police to report his vehicle as stolen. Police say surveillance footage shows he was stealing from a store when it happened.
  
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• Trump said his Florida resort where he wants to host the next G7 has 'no bed bugs.' The resort settled a lawsuit over bed bugs there in 2017

  27-08-2019 20:38 via news.yahoo.com
  Trump said his Florida resort doesn't have bed bugs. In 2017, the Doral resort reached a settlement with a guest who was allegedly bitten by the bugs.
  
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• Bolsonaro says Macron must take back 'insults' for Brazil to accept G7 Amazon aid

  27-08-2019 20:30 via news.yahoo.com
  Jair Bolsonaro, the Brazilian president, has said he may accept the $22 million (£18 million) of aid offered by G7 countries to help combat forest fires in the Amazon, providing that French president Emmanuel Macron apologises for calling him a "liar". Mr Bolsonaro initially rejected the $22 million, showing concern that the offer of aid was a veiled attempt to undermine Brazil's sovereignty in the region. This sentiment is shared by farmers associations and regional governments, who fear
  
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• Fuzzy math: Democrats spend big to draw small-dollar donors

  27-08-2019 20:26 via news.yahoo.com
  Montana Gov. Steve Bullock was told how he could qualify for the next presidential debate, but it didn't make much sense: Spend $60."You spend $60 on Facebook right now to get a $1 donor," Bullock said last week while campaigning in Iowa , referring to the 130,000 donor threshold that is one of the requirements to reach the debate stage in Houston next month.Facing a Wednesday deadline, a handful of Democratic White House hopefuls are racing against time — and odds — to qualify, tryi
  
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• Mysterious US Air Force plane sets new record for time in space

  27-08-2019 20:23 via cnn.com
  An Air Force X-37B spaceplane just completed its 718th day in orbit, making it the longest mission yet for a secretive military test program.
  
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• Mormon church clarifies gun policy: No lethal weapons on church property

  27-08-2019 20:23 via news.yahoo.com
  The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints tweaked its rule on guns and lethal weapons after previously calling them inappropriate at churches.
  
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• In photos: Fires raging in the Amazon rainforest

  27-08-2019 20:22 via cnn.com
  Every year, farmers in the Amazon rainforest wait until this, the dry season, to clear out areas so their cattle can graze.
  
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• Bangladesh court rules to drop 'virgin' question on marriage forms

  27-08-2019 20:20 via feeds.foxnews.com
  A Bangladeshi court recently ruled that women in the Muslim-majority country will no longer have to declare whether they are virgins on their marriage registration forms - a decision women's rights groups say is a step in the right direction toward gender equality.   
  
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• Jill Filipovic: Taylor Swift's imperfect activism

  27-08-2019 20:06 via cnn.com
  At MTV's Video Music Awards on Monday night, Taylor Swift used her Video of the Year acceptance speech to promote LGBTQ equality and take a swipe atPresident Donald Trump.
  
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• Spanish warship picks up 15 migrants to fire political shot

  27-08-2019 20:02 via news.yahoo.com
  A Spanish warship collected 15 rescued migrants from an Italian port on Tuesday, having sailed halfway across the Mediterranean to fetch the small group in a high-profile maneuver that sharply contrasted with Italy's refusal to accept them.Madrid dispatched the ship a week ago to pick up the migrants at the end of a prolonged standoff between Italian authorities and a Spanish-registered private rescue boat which had plucked more than 100 people, most of them Africans, from seas off Libya.France,
  
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• Former CIA director thinks foreign leaders see Trump as 'incompetent,' 'delusional'

  27-08-2019 20:01 via feeds.foxnews.com
  Former CIA Director John Brennan took another shot at President Trump, telling MSNBC on Monday that foreign leaders hold a slew of negative views about him.
  
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• The 39 wackiest lines from Trump's freewheeling G7 press conference

  27-08-2019 19:59 via cnn.com
  Before leaving France -- and the G7 conference -- behind, President Donald Trump took questions from the White House press corps. It was a typical Trump performance -- chaotic, confrontational and very, very loose with facts.
  
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• Most unbelievable lines from Trump's freewheeling press conference

  27-08-2019 19:59 via cnn.com
  Before leaving France -- and the G7 conference -- behind, President Donald Trump took questions from the White House press corps. It was a typical Trump performance -- chaotic, confrontational and very, very loose with facts.
  
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• 39 wackiest lines from Trump's press conference

  27-08-2019 19:59 via cnn.com
  Before leaving France -- and the G7 conference -- behind, President Donald Trump took questions from the White House press corps. It was a typical Trump performance -- chaotic, confrontational and very, very loose with facts.
  
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• US judge blocks law that would ban abortions before many women know they're pregnant

  27-08-2019 19:49 via cnn.com
  A federal judge on Tuesday blocked a Missouri law banning abortions after eight weeks from going into effect.
  
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• Another resignation shakes LGBT Republican group after Trump endorsement

  27-08-2019 19:49 via news.yahoo.com
  The first female executive director of the Log Cabin Republicans resigned this week following the group’s endorsement of President Trump’s reelection, the second official to step down in as many weeks.
  
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• Students rally in Pakistan-held Kashmir against India

  27-08-2019 19:44 via news.yahoo.com
  More than a thousand students rallied Tuesday in the capital of Pakistan-held Kashmir to denounce India's downgrading of the special status of the portion of the disputed region it controls.The demonstrators chanted "We want freedom" and denounced human rights violations in Indian-administrated Kashmir.Kashmir, which is split between two countries and claimed by both, has been the cause of two of wars between Pakistan and India since they won independence from British colonialists in 1947.
  
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• UK alone will be to blame for no-deal Brexit: EU tells Johnson

  27-08-2019 19:40 via news.yahoo.com
  Britain will be solely to blame if it crashes out of the EU in a chaotic "no-deal" Brexit, the bloc told Prime Minister Boris Johnson Tuesday in the latest clash between Brussels and London.With the clock ticking and Johnson adamant the EU must accept significant changes to the existing withdrawal agreement, fears are growing that Britain could leave without a deal, causing major economic turmoil.Days after Johnson and EU Council President Donald Tusk traded jibes over who would be responsible i
  
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• Meet Rosalía, the star that lit up the VMAs

  27-08-2019 19:39 via cnn.com
  If you didn't know who Rosalía was before, she's making sure you do now.
  
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