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• Seth Ator Identified as Odessa Gunman

  01-09-2019 23:43 via news.yahoo.com
  Texas Department of Public SafetyODESSA, Texas—The gunman who killed seven people and injured roughly 20 others during a 20-mile trail of carnage across West Texas was identified by law enforcement on Sunday as 36-year-old Seth Aaron Ator. Odessa Police refused to publicly identify Ator during a press conference on Sunday, stating that they were not going to give the gunman any notoriety for “what he did.” Police Chief Michael Gerke said the gunman’s name would be officia
  
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• Saudi-led airstrikes kill at least 100 in rebel-run prison

  01-09-2019 23:35 via news.yahoo.com
  The Saudi-led coalition fighting in Yemen staged multiple airstrikes on a detention center operated by the Houthi rebels in the southwestern province of Dhamar, killing at least 100 people and wounding dozens more Sunday, officials and the rebels' health ministry said.Franz Rauchenstein, the head of the Red Cross delegation in Yemen, suggested that the death toll could be higher after visiting the site of the attack, saying relatively few detainees survived.A Red Cross statement said the detenti
  
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• Two dead, 5 missing after flash flood at Kenyan park

  01-09-2019 23:31 via news.yahoo.com
  Six tourists, including a foreigner, and their guide were swept away Sunday after a flash flood at Kenya's Hell's Gate national park, the Kenya Wildlife Service said, confirming at least two dead.Two bodies were recovered but the five others remained missing, the Kenya Wildlife Service (KWS) said on Twitter, adding that the search and rescue operation would continue through the night."It is with deep sorrow that we announce a tragedy in Hell's Gate National Park," it said.
  
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• Hurricane Dorian has struck the Bahamas, with Florida, Georgia, and the Carolinas in its path – Here is where and when it's due to strike next

  01-09-2019 23:26 via news.yahoo.com
  Hurricane Dorian's path is nearing Florida, where it is no longer projected to make landfall, but still cause 'devastating hurricane-force winds.'
  
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• 7 dead, 22 injured in Odessa, Midland, Texas shooting: Here's what we know now

  01-09-2019 23:16 via news.yahoo.com
  The shooting occurred between Odessa and Midland, Texas, after a routine traffic stop turned violent around 3 p.m. local time Saturday.
  
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• Texas shooter who killed 7 in Odessa, Midland identified

  01-09-2019 23:04 via news.yahoo.com
  Police refused to release the gunman's identity in the shooting in Odessa and Midland, Texas, so as not to give him additional notoriety.
  
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• Criminal justice reform turns to list of problem officers

  01-09-2019 22:52 via news.yahoo.com
  During the 22 years he spent in prison after being convicted of killing a Boston police detective, Sean Ellis believed there was something suspicious about the officers who led the murder investigation.It would take years of digging and scores of public information requests from his attorneys to uncover evidence that several officers investigating the 1993 murder case were involved in criminal activity — information that wasn't shared with the defense.Defense attorneys have long run up aga
  
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• Israel and Hezbollah exchange border fire for first time in years

  01-09-2019 22:51 via cnn.com
  The Iran-backed Lebanese militant group Hezbollah has attacked an Israeli army base and a nearby military vehicle as tensions remain high along the border between Israel and Lebanon.
  
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• Hurricane Dorian made landfall in the Bahamas as a Category 5 storm, with maximum winds up to 185 mph

  01-09-2019 22:28 via cnn.com
  • Bahamas could see as much as 24 hours of devastating wind and rain
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• Reporter calls White House ‘unprofessional’ in cutting off his access

  01-09-2019 22:22 via news.yahoo.com
  Suspended journalist Brian Karem accuses the Trump administration of mistreating the press.
  
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• Texas shooting toll rises to seven

  01-09-2019 22:20 via news.yahoo.com
  The death toll in a chaotic mass shooting in Texas has risen to seven, the local police chief confirmed Sunday, adding that it might have been far worse had the shooter not been stopped before entering a crowded movie theater.Police had said Saturday that five people died in the frantic shootout spread out over several miles on roads between the cities of Midland and Odessa in the west of the state.At the end of the shooting spree, the assailant -- whose identity police said they were not ready
  
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• Death toll in Odessa shooting rises to 7, a 17-month-old child among those injured

  01-09-2019 22:19 via nbcnews.com
  The death toll from the Texas rampage rose to seven on Sunday morning. The gunman is also dead.
  
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• Hurricane Dorian makes landfall in Bahamas with 'life-threatening' 185 mph winds

  01-09-2019 22:12 via nbcnews.com
  The hurricane shifted Saturday as forecasters said it was on course to get close to Florida but make landfall in Georgia and the Carolinas.
  
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• The Latest: Red Cross: 100 presumed dead in Yemen airstrike

  01-09-2019 22:05 via news.yahoo.com
  The Red Cross says more than 100 people are "presumed killed" in Yemen after airstrikes by the Saudi-led coalition hit a detention center run by the Houthi rebels.The head of the Red Cross delegation in Yemen, Franz Rauchenstein, says: "Witnessing this massive damage, seeing the bodies lying among the rubble, was a real shock.The Red Cross said the final death toll from Sunday's attack was not yet confirmed.
  
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• Hurricane Dorian: ‘Huge damage' in Bahamas as storm becomes joint strongest ever with 220mph gusts

  01-09-2019 21:59 via news.yahoo.com
  Hurricane Dorian has caused major damage in the Bahamas – destroying homes and ripping roofs from buildings – as it made landfall as the joint-strongest ever Atlantic storm. There were no immediate reports of deaths.Residents in places such as the Abaco Islands and Marsh Harbour took shelter in schools and churches when Dorian made landfall as a category 5 storm with gusts of up to 220mph and a sustained speed of 185mph. When it struck land twice on Sunday afternoon – first in
  
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• Arsenal comes from two goals down to earn draw against Tottenham

  01-09-2019 21:50 via cnn.com
  Arsenal and Tottenham played out yet another thrilling north London derby as the Gunners came from two goals down to earn a draw.
  
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• New Texas laws loosening gun control draw outrage after Odessa shooting

  01-09-2019 21:36 via nbcnews.com
  “If more guns and fewer gun laws made us safer ... Texas would be the safest state in the country,” Shannon Watts of Moms Demand Action said.
  
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• Trump Stumped by Category 5 Storm Bearing Down on East Coast

  01-09-2019 21:21 via news.yahoo.com
  (Bloomberg) -- President Donald Trump expressed surprise as Hurricane Dorian slammed the Bahamas on Sunday and headed for the U.S. East Coast, hours after being updated to a Category Five storm.“I’m not sure that I’ve ever even heard of a Category Five,” Trump said during a televised briefing at Federal Emergency Management Agency headquarters in Washington.“I’ve seen some Category Fours, you don’t even see them that much,” he said. “But a Ca
  
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• Israel, Hezbollah engage in brief, intense fighting

  01-09-2019 21:07 via news.yahoo.com
  Hezbollah militants on Sunday fired a barrage of anti-tank missiles into Israel, prompting a reprisal of heavy Israeli artillery fire in a rare burst of fighting between the bitter enemies.The bitter enemies, which fought a monthlong war in 2006, have indicated they do not want to go to war but appeared on a collision course in recent days after a pair of Israeli strikes against Hezbollah.The U.N. peacekeeping mission in southern Lebanon, known as UNIFIL, said it was in contact with all sides an
  
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• Trump downplays background checks push after Odessa mass shooting

  01-09-2019 21:06 via nbcnews.com
  "Over the last five, six, or seven years, no matter how strong you need the background checks, it wouldn’t have stopped any of it," he claimed.
  
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• Kashmiri militant calls for Pakistan military intervention in disputed region

  01-09-2019 20:32 via news.yahoo.com
  A Kashmiri militant commander said on Sunday that Pakistan should send troops to protect the people of India-controlled Kashmir if the United Nations does not send peacekeepers, after New Delhi revoked its autonomy last month."It's binding upon the armed forces of Pakistan, the first Islamic nuclear power, to enter India-occupied Kashmir to militarily help the people of the territory," Syed Salahuddin, who heads an alliance of over a dozen groups fighting Indian rule in Kashmir, said.Khan has so
  
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• Calls to end inhumane border conditions aren’t enough. Ice must be abolished

  01-09-2019 20:30 via news.yahoo.com
  What is there to salvage in an agency that exists solely to hunt, catalogue and detain the most vulnerable among us? Ice’s violence is as systematic as it is cruel‘Abolitionist movements have always been discredited as impossible until they are realized.’ Photograph: Anadolu Agency/Anadolu Agency via Getty ImagesThis summer, a coalition of award-winning authors came together with a plea to Congress: they called for an end to the inhumane conditions in detention centers, where w
  
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• Nine killed in Philippine air-ambulance crash

  01-09-2019 20:28 via news.yahoo.com
  Nine people were killed when an air-ambulance plane crashed at a resort area near the Philippine capital on Sunday, sparking a fierce blaze and sending terrified locals fleeing, authorities said.Dramatic video on social media showed emergency vehicles rushing toward a building engulfed in roaring flames in Calamba City as authorities urged crowds to move away for their own safety.After dousing the blaze, rescuers found nine bodies in the smoking ruins -- believed to be those aboard the King Air
  
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• National Weather Service appears to correct Trump on Hurricane Dorian hitting Alabama

  01-09-2019 20:12 via news.yahoo.com
  "Alabama will NOT see any impacts from Dorian.," wrote the NWS. "We repeat, no impacts from Hurricane Dorian will be felt across Alabama."
  
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• Trump rips into actress Debra Messing after the 'Will & Grace' star praised signs trashing the president

  01-09-2019 20:01 via news.yahoo.com
  President Trump took a swipe at Hollywood actress Debra Messing after the “Will & Grace” star praised an Alabama church sign that read “A black vote for Trump is mental illness.”
  
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• Chemicals used in apparent suicide at San Jose hotel force evacuations

  01-09-2019 19:56 via news.yahoo.com
  The Fairmont San Jose reopened late Saturday afternoon after four floors of the high-end hotel were evacuated that morning.
  
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• Dorian strikes Bahamas as dangerous Category 5 storm

  01-09-2019 19:52 via news.yahoo.com
  McLEAN'S TOWN CAY, Bahamas (AP) — Hurricane Dorian struck the northern Bahamas on Sunday as a catastrophic Category 5 storm, its 185 mph winds ripping off roofs and tearing down power lines as hundreds hunkered in schools, churches and other shelters.The second-strongest Atlantic hurricane since 1950, Dorian hit land in Elbow Cay in the Abaco Islands after authorities made last-minute pleas for those in low-lying areas to evacuate.Millions from Florida to the Carolinas kept a wary eye on t
  
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• Hurricane pounds Bahamas with record fury

  01-09-2019 19:44 via news.yahoo.com
  Dorian tied the record for the most powerful Atlantic hurricane ever to come ashore.
  
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• Inspired by teen climate activist Thunberg, Latin American activists converge in Chile

  01-09-2019 19:41 via news.yahoo.com
  Inspired by Swedish teenage climate activist Greta Thunberg, a group of young activists from several Latin American countries have converged in Chile to exchange ideas on how to battle climate change.In a mountainous area on the outskirts of Santiago, representatives of Argentina, Bolivia, Chile, Costa Rica, Colombia, Ecuador, Mexico, Peru, Paraguay and Uruguay exchanged ideas for actions to pressure changes in their countries' policies."Our goal here is to enable them so that they have more too
  
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• 'Very, very powerful': Trump briefed on Hurricane Dorian as storm becomes Category 5

  01-09-2019 19:31 via news.yahoo.com
  President Donald Trump on Sunday described Hurricane Dorian as "one of the biggest hurricanes that we've ever seen" as he took part in a FEMA briefing.
  
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• 'Congress has a lot of thinking to do' on gun control after Midland-Odessa shooting

  01-09-2019 19:31 via news.yahoo.com
  The shootings and deaths have brought mixed messages from Trump on gun control, and lawmakers have split on ways for Congress to address the issue.
  
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• Rio-Paris crash relatives finger Airbus in new report

  01-09-2019 19:24 via news.yahoo.com
  Relatives of victims of the 2009 Rio-Paris air crash have provided evidence they say supports their claim that Airbus knew of problems with an onboard instrument five years earlier, it emerged Sunday.The news comes a decade into a legal wrangle and weeks after French prosecutors recommended that only Air France face trial over allegations that it had known about the instrument problem on its Airbus A330 plane.On the night of the crash it is alleged the tubes frosted over and caused the speed sen
  
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• Afghan killer sparks far-right criticism in France

  01-09-2019 19:04 via news.yahoo.com
  Jacquet said the knifeman had been first registered in France in 2009 as a minor, but travelled to Germany, Norway, Britain and Italy before returning to France in 2016 where he was granted temporary residency rights.France has been the victim of a string of Islamist-inspired terror attacks since 2015 that have cost hundreds of lives.
  
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• Netanyahu: Israel ready for any scenario after Hezbollah clash

  01-09-2019 18:45 via news.yahoo.com
  JERUSALEM/BEIRUT (Reuters) - Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said on Sunday that Israel was prepared for any scenario after a cross-border clash with Lebanon's Hezbollah, but neither side seemed eager for another conflict.Israel's military said anti-tank missiles from Lebanon targeted an army base and vehicles.It responded with fire into southern Lebanon, after a week of growing tension raised fears of a new war with long-time enemy Hezbollah.
  
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• Israeli army fires into Lebanon after military targets hit by missiles

  01-09-2019 18:44 via nbcnews.com
  Following the exchange, residents near the border were told to stay in their homes and open shelters.
  
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• 15 years on, relatives of Beslan massacre victims demand answers

  01-09-2019 18:39 via news.yahoo.com
  Relatives of victims of the Beslan massacre on Sunday said they were still waiting for answers, 15 years after the tragedy that left over 330 dead including 186 children.Sunday marks the anniversary of the school siege in the town of Beslan in the Russian Caucasus when Chechen militants stormed the school, herding over 1,100 people into a gymnasium and rigging the building with explosives.The European Court of Human Rights ruled in 2017 that Russia's handling of the siege had "serious failings"
  
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• Rapists who target drunk women cannot be charged with rape under New York law, prosecutor says

  01-09-2019 18:38 via news.yahoo.com
  The scenario is unfortunately common: A woman goes to a bar and chooses to have several drinks. Later that night, she becomes a victim of sexual assault.In New York, Manhattan's top prosecutor says, the assaulter can not be charged with a sex crime because of a legal loophole stipulating that someone who becomes voluntarily intoxicated is not considered "mentally incapacitated" for purposes of giving consent.
  
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• Hurricane Dorian is a dangerous Category 5 storm. Here's a look at just how powerful it is

  01-09-2019 18:35 via cnn.com
  • Here's what Dorian is expected to do as it approaches land
  
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• Here are the Apple products affected by Trump's latest move in the trade war with China (AAPL)

  01-09-2019 18:33 via news.yahoo.com
  Trump's tariff on Chinese imports goes into effect on September 1, impacting Apple products like AirPods and the Apple Watch.
  
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• Hurricane Dorian: where will the storm hit and what damage will it bring?

  01-09-2019 18:21 via theguardian.com
  Dorian is one of the six strongest hurricanes recorded in the Atlantic, but meteorologists are finding its path difficult to predictHurricane Dorian is proving a slippery customer. Not only is it one of the six strongest hurricanes recorded in the Atlantic in the past 70 years, but meteorologists are finding its path very difficult to predict because of its wide “cone of uncertainty”. It is impossible to say just where the storm will hit – and with how much deadly force.Within
  
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• Iran unveils jet-powered precision drone

  01-09-2019 18:14 via news.yahoo.com
  Iran on Sunday unveiled a jet-propelled drone it said is capable of finding and attacking targets far from the country's borders with precision. Dubbed the "Kian", the unmanned aerial vehicle was designed, produced and tested by experts of the air defence force within about a year, said the head of the force, Brigadier General Alireza Sabahifard. The drone comes in two models capable of "surveillance and reconnaissance missions and continuous flight for precision mission
  
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• Charles Leclerc dedicates first F1 victory to driver killed in crash

  01-09-2019 18:14 via cnn.com
  Charles Leclerc claimed the first Formula 1 victory of his young career and dedicated the Belgian Grand Prix win to friend Anthoine Hubert, who died following a crash on Saturday.
  
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• Rep. Ocasio-Cortez slams 'Straight Pride' parade

  01-09-2019 18:03 via news.yahoo.com
  Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez rebuked Boston’s “Straight Pride” parade and its apparent lack of female participants, calling it an "'I-Struggle-With-Masculinity' parade."
  
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• RPT-Merkel allies suffer double blow in German regional elections

  01-09-2019 18:01 via news.yahoo.com
  Chancellor Angela Merkel's conservatives and her Social Democrat (SPD) coalition partners bled support to the far right in two state elections in eastern Germany on Sunday, dealing a double blow to her already unstable ruling alliance.Merkel's Christian Democrats (CDU) remained the largest party in Saxony, but saw their share of the vote drop by 7.4 points from the last election in 2014 to 32%, with the far-right Alternative for Germany (AfD) coming second, an exit poll for broadcaster ARD showe
  
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• More than 100 killed after Saudi-led airstrike in Yemen

  01-09-2019 18:01 via news.yahoo.com
  More than 100 people are believed to have been killed in an air strike by the Saudi-led military coalition on a detention centre in Yemen, the International Committee of the Red Cross said Sunday. The coalition said it targeted a facility run by the Huthi rebels that "stores drones and missiles", but the rebels said the attack had levelled a building they used as a prison. The ICRC rushed to the scene in the city of Dhamar with medical teams and hundreds of body bags. "The location that was
  
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• Fox anchor says he doesn't believe Trump ever lies

  01-09-2019 17:59 via cnn.com
  One of the most complicated relationships in Washington is between President Donald Trump and Fox News. CNN's Brian Stelter discusses with the Reliable Sources panel after Fox Business anchor Stuart Varney tells Joe Walsh he doesn't believe Trump never tells lies.
  
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• Protesters target airport after Hong Kong violence

  01-09-2019 17:58 via news.yahoo.com
  Thousands of protesters blocked transport routes to Hong Kong's international airport on Sunday (September 1), the day after some of the most intense violence in more than three months of civil unrest.At the airport, planes have been taking off and landing - albeit with delays. But trains to the airport were suspended and approach roads impassable forcing protesters and passengers alike to walk.Trolleys were overturned and barricades erected at the airport and the nearby town of Tung Chung.There
  
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• Ceasefire in Syria at risk of collapse after US airstrike

  01-09-2019 17:57 via news.yahoo.com
  The tentative ceasefire in northwestern ceasefire in Syria, the second in a month, threatened to unravel on Sunday after the US launched an airstrike targeting al-Qaeda figures near the city of Idlib.  At least 40 people were killed after a missile struck a meeting of al-Qaeda leaders at a base near Idlib on Saturday, just hours after a Russia-brokered ceasefire ended months of bombardment of Syria’s last significant anti-regime holdout. A spokesman for US Central Command sa
  
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• Pope Francis trapped in Vatican lift for 25 minutes

  01-09-2019 17:44 via news.yahoo.com
  It has long been claimed by supporters of the Catholic faith that God moves in mysterious ways.  But so, apparently, does Pope Francis's personal lift in the Vatican - which broke down on Sunday, trapping the world's most powerful clergyman inside for 25 minutes.  The 82-year-old pontiff had to be freed by Vatican firefighters after an electrical fault brought his tiny private lift to a halt inside the ornate Apostolic Palace.  He arrived about 10 minutes late for his regular Sund
  
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• Hong Kong protesters clash with police in airport and shut down roads as calls grow for British protection

  01-09-2019 17:43 via news.yahoo.com
  Pro-democracy protesters obstructed access to the Hong Kong airport on Sunday after police arrested dozens the night before and deployed water cannon and tear gas in response to activists lobbing petrol bombs and bricks. Activists snarled road and rail links, erecting barriers and flooding stations en route to the airport, while shouting: “Stand with Hong Kong, fight for freedom!” Others drove slowly on purposes to hinder traffic. Some built barricades outsid
  
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