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• Unregulated vaping spawns new teenage nicotine addicts. And now adult vapers are dying.

  05-09-2019 23:59 via news.yahoo.com
  Lung illnesses have emerged among at least 215 people who used e-cigarettes. THC could be a common factor. Where's the oversight?: Our view
  
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• Holly Thomas: The lesson Bieber could teach Johnson and Trump

  05-09-2019 23:57 via cnn.com
  By most people's standards, Justin Bieber has lived a full and -- to put it kindly -- experience-rich life.
  
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• Dive-boat fire: What we know about the victims in deadly blaze off Santa Cruz Island

  05-09-2019 23:56 via news.yahoo.com
  More details are emerging about the 34 people who died when a diving boat burst into flames off the coast of Santa Barbara.
  
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• Confrontation between ICE and suspect leads to shots fired

  05-09-2019 23:54 via news.yahoo.com
  An Immigration and Customs Enforcement agent opened fire in a grocery store parking lot in Tennessee early Thursday during an attempted apprehension, ICE spokesman Bryan Cox said.ICE called Nashville police about the weapons discharge just after 7 a.m., but the suspect had not been apprehended as of midafternoon.Nashville Mayor David Briley released a statement saying police were looking for the man so that he could receive medical assistance.
  
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• Russian, Italian charged with stealing GE Aviation secrets

  05-09-2019 23:53 via news.yahoo.com
  A Russian with government ties and an Italian aerospace expert have been charged with the theft of jet engine technology from leading American manufacturer GE Aviation, the US Justice Department announced Thursday.Alexander Yuryevich Korshunov, 57, and Maurizio Paolo Bianchi, 59 were charged in a just-unsealed criminal complaint with stealing trade secrets in the latest case involving theft of US aviation industry intellectual property.The Justice Department said that from 2013 to 2018, Korshuno
  
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• Trial begins for high school student accused of killing newborn

  05-09-2019 23:39 via cnn.com
  Brooke Skylar Richardson is accused of killing her newborn daughter and secretly burying the remains in her family's backyard while she was in high school.
  
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• Hurricane Dorian: Royal Caribbean, Disney Cruise Line, Carnival, others pledge support to Bahamas

  05-09-2019 23:30 via news.yahoo.com
  Royal Caribbean, The Walt Disney Co. and others are offering support to the Bahamas after Hurricane Dorian ripped a destructive path across the nation
  
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• Flooding rains and damaging winds are expected over the next few hours as storm continues toward the Carolinas

  05-09-2019 23:27 via cnn.com
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• Gun Used in Texas Shooting Was Illegally Manufactured and Sold: REPORT

  05-09-2019 23:19 via news.yahoo.com
  Authorities believe the gun used in the drive-by shooting in Midland and Odessa, Texas this past weekend was illegally manufactured and sold by a Lubbock, Texas man, the Wall Street Journal reported Wednesday.The U.S. Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives is currently investigating a man who they believe illegally manufactured and sold the AR-15-style rifle that Seth Ator used to kill seven people and injure 22 more on Saturday, before he was shot and killed by police.Ator, 36
  
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• Amazon's Ring camera raises civil liberties concerns: U.S. senator

  05-09-2019 23:14 via news.yahoo.com
  U.S. Democratic Senator Edward Markey raised concerns on Thursday that law enforcement use of Amazon.com Inc's Ring doorbell camera in investigations could disproportionately affect people of color and encourage racial profiling.In a letter to Amazon Chief Executive Jeff Bezos, Markey said sharing information from Ring's at-home camera systems with police departments "could easily create a surveillance network that places dangerous burdens on people of color" and stoke "racial anxieties" in comm
  
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• Trump prepares to pitch gun proposals few really want

  05-09-2019 23:10 via news.yahoo.com
  The president is considering tougher penalties for straw buyers, the death penalty for mass shooters and bringing more records to the background check database.
  
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• UK PM launches non-election campaign with awkward speech

  05-09-2019 23:08 via cnn.com
  Boris Johnson continued his terrible political week with a long, rambling speech in which the UK Prime Minister said he'd rather be "dead in the ditch" than ask Europe to delay Brexit.
  
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• Trudeau says China uses detentions as political tool

  05-09-2019 23:06 via news.yahoo.com
  Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau on Thursday accused Beijing of using "arbitrary detentions" as a tool in pursuit of political goals -- the latest broadside in a diplomatic and trade row with China.Canada's relations with China soured after its arrest of Chinese Huawei executive Meng Wanzhou on a US warrant last December.Nine days later, Beijing detained two Canadians -- former diplomat Michael Kovrig and businessman Michael Spavor -- accusing them of espionage in a move widely viewed as r
  
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• Hurricane Dorian has killed at least 30 people in the Bahamas, including an 8-year-old boy who reportedly drowned

  05-09-2019 23:04 via news.yahoo.com
  Hurricane Dorian pummeled the Bahamas this past weekend as a Category 5 storm, destroying houses and creating a storm surge of up to 23 feet.
  
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• Florida inmate says beating by guards left her paralyzed

  05-09-2019 23:00 via news.yahoo.com
  A female inmate at a Florida prison is suing the state corrections agency, saying she was left paralyzed after being beaten by four guards.Cheryl Weimar and her husband, Karl, said in their lawsuit that her civil rights were violated when she was nearly beaten to death by guards last month at the Lowell Correctional Institution in Ocala, Florida.Weimar was left with a broken neck and is now a paraplegic because of the guards' use of force, according to the lawsuit.
  
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• Decades of allegations against R. Kelly

  05-09-2019 22:48 via cnn.com
  
  For more than 20 years, allegations of sexual misconduct have been mounting against R. Kelly. The R&B singer has repeatedly denied all accusations of wrongdoing.
  
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• Neanderthal-like human relatives had hands similar to modern humans, study says

  05-09-2019 22:43 via cnn.com
  Another puzzle piece has been recovered in the quest to understand a close and relatively recent addition to the human family tree.
  
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• U.S. Treasury warns anyone fueling Iran tanker risks being blacklisted

  05-09-2019 22:33 via news.yahoo.com
  The U.S. Treasury Department on Thursday warned that anyone around the world who helps fuel Iranian vessels blacklisted by Washington runs the risk of being designated as well.The Treasury Department blacklisted the Adrian Darya, a tanker at the center of a confrontation between Washington and Tehran, on Aug. 30.Washington has warned that it would regard any assistance given to the ship as support for a terrorist group, namely, Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps.
  
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• Nicki Minaj announces retirement

  05-09-2019 22:33 via cnn.com
  Forget "Pink Friday." It looks to be a blue Thursday for Nicki Minaj fans.
  
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• Stunning satellite images show Hurricane Dorian's floodwaters engulfing The Bahamas

  05-09-2019 22:28 via news.yahoo.com
  A satellite image taken Monday shows the floodwaters that engulfed Grand Bahama Island after Hurricane Dorian struck the Bahamas.
  
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• Japanese museum demands compensation before it will return stolen £1m painting to family of British Baronet

  05-09-2019 22:14 via news.yahoo.com
  A Japanese museum is refusing to return a £1 million Joshua Reynolds painting stolen from a Sussex home in 1984 unless it receives “just and reasonable compensation”. The oil-on-canvas portrait was painted in about 1780 but stolen from the home of Sir Henry and Lady Price with a number of other works of art and family heirlooms.   Four years after the theft, the painting is thought to have been auctioned at Sotheby’s in London to an art dealer, who sold it
  
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• Iran poised for faster centrifuges as nuclear deal collapses

  05-09-2019 22:11 via news.yahoo.com
  Iran was poised Thursday to begin work on advanced centrifuges that will enrich uranium faster as the 2015 nuclear deal unravels further and a last-minute French proposal offering a $15-billion line of credit to compensate Iran for not being able to sell its crude oil abroad because of U.S. sanctions looked increasingly unlikely.Meanwhile, Iran released seven crew members from a detained British-flagged oil tanker Stena Impero in a goodwill gesture and the mariners flew out of Iran, the ship's o
  
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• Kevin Hart 911 call: 'He's not coherent at all'

  05-09-2019 21:55 via cnn.com
  As Kevin Hart recuperates from a car accident, reported audio of a 911 call is giving some insight into the seriousness of the crash.
  
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• Hurricane Dorian may have weakened to Category 2, but it's still unleashing fury on North and South Carolina

  05-09-2019 21:51 via cnn.com
  • Video shows extensive damage in Bahamas
  • In photos: The destruction caused by Dorian
  
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• Turkey threatens to ‘open gates’ for Syrian refugees to leave and move to the West if it doesn't get safe zone

  05-09-2019 21:48 via news.yahoo.com
  Turkey has threatened to allow millions of Syrian refugees to cross into the West unless the US agrees to help establish a safe zone to resettle them in northern Syria immediately. "We will be forced to open the gates,” said Turkish president Recep Tayyip Erdogan. “We cannot be forced to handle the burden alone.” Mr Erdogan wants to establish the so-called safe zone along its border with Syria and resettle at least 1m of the 3.6m Syrian refugees currently living in Turkey there
  
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• Boris Johnson launches non-election campaign with awkward, rambling speech

  05-09-2019 21:42 via cnn.com
  Boris Johnson continued his terrible political week with a long, rambling speech in which the UK Prime Minister said he'd rather be "dead in the ditch" than ask Europe to delay Brexit.
  
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• Manafort's lawyers: State charges are double jeopardy

  05-09-2019 21:32 via news.yahoo.com
  Lawyers for former Trump campaign chairman Paul Manafort filed court papers seeking the dismissal of his New York mortgage fraud case, arguing that the charges brought in the wake of his federal convictions amount to double jeopardy. The state case involves some of the same allegations as federal cases that have landed Manafort behind bars, violating a state law that bars repeat prosecutions for the same general conduct, lawyer Todd Blanche wrote in the filing late Wednesday. Manhattan District
  
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• ‘Fox & Friends’ Host Brian Kilmeade: Trump ‘Never Should Have Said’ Mexico Would Pay for Wall

  05-09-2019 21:22 via news.yahoo.com
  Fox & Friends host Brian Kilmeade admitted on Thursday morning that President Donald Trump “never should have said” Mexico would pay for his border wall, a promise he made constantly during his 2016 campaign. During a segment about backlash to the Trump administration using Pentagon money to fund the project, Kilmeade first attempted to highlight the hypocrisy of “the people that could not care less, as President Obama’s administration starved the military year a
  
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• Photos show the mangled airplanes and buildings at Grand Bahama airport that Hurricane Dorian left behind

  05-09-2019 21:21 via news.yahoo.com
  Buildings and airplanes at Grand Bahama Island's only international airport were left mangled and shattered following the storm.
  
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• Kushner's Middle East peace plan drifts further astray as envoy resigns

  05-09-2019 21:21 via news.yahoo.com
  The ‘ultimate deal’ for resolving the Israeli-Palestinian conflict is due to come out after the Israeli elections on 17 SeptemberJason Greenblatt, the US special envoy for Middle East peace, will leave his post. Photograph: Handout/ReutersJason Greenblatt, the Trump administration’s special envoy for Middle East peace, tasked with working on the “ultimate deal” for resolving the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, is to leave the post, it has been announced.Greenblatt may
  
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• DR Congo cabinet chief fingered in $15mn graft scandal

  05-09-2019 21:18 via news.yahoo.com
  DR Congo President Felix Tshisekedi's cabinet chief has been accused of playing a role in the siphoning off $15 million (13.6 million euros) from government coffers, with an opposition movement calling Thursday for a protest march.Lutte pour le Changement (Struggle for Change) said it would stage a march on Friday in defiance of an official ban.The document blamed several officials for the "irregularity" including cabinet chief Vital Kamerhe.
  
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• Amid Tensions With U.S., China Is Solidifying Relationships in Latin America

  05-09-2019 21:18 via news.yahoo.com
  China's decadeslong economic has fueled its growing presence around the world, funding programs and infrastructure projects across Asia, Africa and into Latin America.Trade between China and Latin America reached a reported $306 billion in 2018, a dramatic increase from the $12 billion figure in 2000.Factor in the White House seeking to build walls and reduce foreign aid to Latin America and it becomes clear that Central and South American leaders need to craft trade strategies that balance thei
  
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• A Fast-Moving Wildfire Has Burned 2,000 Acres in Southern California. What to Know About the Tenaja Fire

  05-09-2019 21:06 via news.yahoo.com
  Fire officials have issued mandatory evacuation orders to over 400 homes in Riverside County
  
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• A Fast-Moving Wildfire Burned 1,400 Acres in Less Than a Day. What to Know About the Tenaja Fire

  05-09-2019 21:06 via news.yahoo.com
  Fire officials have issued mandatory evacuation orders to over 400 homes in Riverside County
  
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• So...Why Did This Underwater Data Station Suddenly Just Disappear?

  05-09-2019 21:01 via news.yahoo.com
  The scientific instruments have vanished. Only questions remain.
  
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• Bernie Sanders Advocates Population Control in ‘Poor Countries’

  05-09-2019 20:59 via news.yahoo.com
  During yesterday evening’s lengthy climate-change town hall, Democratic candidates proposed a variety of increasingly absurd policies to address environmental issues. California senator Kamala Harris, for instance, continued her theme of promising to arrogate unconstitutional power to herself as president, announcing that she would deal with supposed GOP obstruction on climate change by abolishing the filibuster.Entirely ignored during the course of the event was the fact that all seven De
  
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• Texas Governor Issues Spate of Executive Orders Designed to Prevent Mass Shootings

  05-09-2019 20:46 via news.yahoo.com
  Texas governor Greg Abbott on Thursday issued eight executive orders aimed at preventing mass shootings after two massacres last month left the Lone Star State shaken."Mental instability, racial hatred, extremist ideology, a desire to sow domestic terror, and other factors have contributed to these horrific mass shootings in varying degrees," the executive orders said. They also pointed out that police had been alerted to both shooters before they carried out their attacks.Abbott ordered the sta
  
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• Ukraine releases 'key MH17 suspect' ahead of expected prisoner swap with Russia

  05-09-2019 20:43 via news.yahoo.com
  A Kiev court has released a “key suspect” in the downing of Malaysian Airlines flight 17 shortly before Vladimir Putin said prisoner swap negotiations with Ukraine were in their final stages, raising fears among European politicians that the man will be sent to Russia. That would put him out of the reach of international investigators, as Russia doesn't typically extradite its citizens.  Vladimir Tsemakh, a former fighter for Russia-backed separatists in eastern Ukraine who was
  
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• Why House Republicans could be looking at a retirement avalanche in 2020

  05-09-2019 20:37 via cnn.com
  The retirements of two House Republicans on Wednesday is, on its face, not that big a deal.
  
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• The lesson Bieber could teach Johnson and Trump

  05-09-2019 20:31 via cnn.com
  By most people's standards, Justin Bieber has lived a full and -- to put it kindly -- experience-rich life.
  
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• An ICE Agent Opened Fire at Truck During an Apprehension Near Nashville

  05-09-2019 20:19 via news.yahoo.com
  An ICE agent fired a gun during an attempted apprehension in the Antioch neighborhood of Nashville on Thursday morning, according to police.
  
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• Hear this family's harrowing account of riding out Dorian

  05-09-2019 20:14 via cnn.com
  After surviving Hurricane Dorian on Man-O-War Cay inAbaco, Bahamas, Sherrie Roberts fights back tears describing what her family had to endure. Roberts says the destruction "can't be categorized," and that her community has come together in the wake of Dorian.
  
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• Dear 2020 Democrats, If you want to slow climate change, carbon pricing is a necessity.

  05-09-2019 20:12 via news.yahoo.com
  It's a policy that's hard to sell in a quippy slogan. That doesn't mean it can be neglected.
  
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• Hurricane Dorian vs. East Coast: How popular destinations from Florida to Maryland are faring

  05-09-2019 20:08 via news.yahoo.com
  A preliminary look at how Hurricane Dorian is affecting popular East Coast destinations, from Florida to Maryland.
  
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• Scientists may have found a fiery exomoon that's like a volcanic planet from 'Star Wars'

  05-09-2019 20:07 via cnn.com
  Although thousands of exoplanets have been discovered outside our solar system since the 1990s, astronomers are still hunting for something that remains elusive there: exomoons.
  
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• Jeffrey Epstein gave hundreds of thousands of dollars to MIT's Media Lab, and its founder said he would accept the donations again if given the chance

  05-09-2019 20:00 via news.yahoo.com
  "If you wind back the clock, I would still say, 'Take it,'" MIT Media Lab founder Nicholas Negroponte reportedly said in an all-hands meeting.
  
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• Mexico president says El Chapo's drug wealth should go to Mexico

  05-09-2019 19:47 via news.yahoo.com
  Mexico's president on Thursday welcomed a proposal to give the alleged fortune of drug kingpin Joaquin "El Chapo" Guzman to the country's indigenous people, and said the wealth of Mexican criminals in the United States should be returned to Mexico.Jose Luis Gonzalez Meza, a lawyer for Guzman, said this week his client had proposed that billions of dollars in revenue that U.S. authorities had attributed to his business operations should be handed to indigenous communities in Mexico.Speaking at hi
  
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• Trump's Alabama obsession reveals a very deep flaw

  05-09-2019 19:37 via cnn.com
  • Analysis: Where's Trump getting bogus info?
  • Buttigieg: 'I feel sorry for the President'
  
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• 2020 Lexus RX Sharpens Its Look and Purports to Fix Its Infotainment Issues

  05-09-2019 19:35 via news.yahoo.com
  Lexus's updated best-seller gets a slight price hike, a touchscreen, and adds Apple CarPlay and Android Auto capability.
  
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• The sky turned purple over Florida as Dorian passed by

  05-09-2019 19:33 via cnn.com
  People in Florida have been watching the skies as Hurricane Dorian lumbered toward the US East Coast and last night they got a bit of a surprise -- a purple sunset.
  
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