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• UPDATE 1-China signals veto in standoff with U.S. over Afghanistan U.N. mission -diplomats

  16-09-2019 23:59 via news.yahoo.com
  China and the United States are deadlocked over a U.N. Security Council resolution to extend the world body's political mission in Afghanistan, with Beijing signaling it will cast a veto because there is no reference to its global Belt and Road infrastructure project, diplomats said on Monday.A planned vote on Monday by the 15-member Security Council to renew the mission, known as UNAMA, was delayed to Tuesday to allow for further negotiations.
  
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• 'SNL' fires new hire over racist comments

  16-09-2019 23:59 via cnn.com
  "Saturday Night Live" has fired one of its most recent hires, Shane Gillis, just days after videos of comedian making bigoted comments came to light.
  
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• 'SNL' fires new hire after racist comments come to light

  16-09-2019 23:59 via cnn.com
  "Saturday Night Live" has fired one of its most recent hires, Shane Gillis, just days after videos of comedian making bigoted comments came to light.
  
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• Wisconsin man accused of making THC cartridges charged

  16-09-2019 23:55 via news.yahoo.com
  A Wisconsin man suspected of running an illegal operation to manufacture vaping cartridges flew to California last month to get THC oil in bulk to fill thousands of cartridges to sell, prosecutors said Monday in charging documents.Authorities in Kenosha, Wisconsin, arrested 20-year-old Tyler Huffhines on Sept. 5 after parents tipped off police when they saw their teenage son with one of the cartridges.Prosecutors say Huffhines employed 10 people to fill the cartridges with THC oil at a condo he
  
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• Donald Trump says Iran appears to be responsible for Saudi oil attacks – video

  16-09-2019 23:50 via theguardian.com
  Donald Trump has hinted that the US believes Iran is responsible for attacks on oil plants in Saudi Arabia over the weekend that raised fears of a fresh conflict in the Middle East. "It would look the most like it was Iran," he told reporters at the White House. Iran has denied responsibility for the attacks which damaged the world's biggest crude processing plant in Saudi Arabia and triggered the largest jump in crude prices in decades. Iran's president, Hassan Rouhani, suggested on Monday
  
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• California governor issues order to crack down on sales of e-cigarettes to minors

  16-09-2019 23:50
  California has become the third state to issue an executive order regarding the sale of e-cigarettes but fell short of an outright ban on flavored products.
  
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• Trump: It looks like Iran was behind Saudi oil field attack

  16-09-2019 23:46 via cnn.com
  President Donald Trump told reporters Monday that "it's looking like" Iran was behind this weekend's attack on oil facilities in Saudi Arabia but suggested it was too early to say for sure. He also said he was "not looking to get into new conflict, but sometimes you have to."
  
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• Tent court hearings for migrants ramp up in Texas as lawyers decry lack of access

  16-09-2019 23:41 via nbcnews.com
  About half the migrants scheduled to appear in a tent courtrooms in Texas showed up for their first hearings as part of a new Trump administration tactic.
  
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• Air Force's newest aircraft named T-7A Red Hawk in honor of Tuskegee Airmen

  16-09-2019 23:40
  The Air Force's newest aircraft honors the legacy of the legendary Tuskegee Airmen, the nation's first squadron of African American pilots.
  
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• Dog Shot, Killed During Virginia Beach Home Burglary

  16-09-2019 23:37 via news.yahoo.com
  Police in Virginia Beach are investigating after a dog was shot and killed during a burglary attempt at a home in the city around 4 a.m.
  
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• Medical guidelines say daily aspirin is too risky for most healthy people. A new study says some can benefit

  16-09-2019 23:36 via cnn.com
  For decades, healthy patients were told to take a low-dose aspirin as a precaution to help prevent heart problems, but the guidelines changed this year. For patients who have had a heart attack, stroke or open heart surgery, a daily aspirin is still recommended and can be a lifesaver. But the blood-thinning effect from aspirin could cause a major bleeding event, so for many healthy patients, the daily aspirin habit was not worth the risk.
  
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• The Latest: GOP stands by Kavanaugh, rips NY Times

  16-09-2019 23:35 via news.yahoo.com
  The chairman of the Senate committee that hosted Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh's confirmation hearings is ripping The New York Times for publishing "unsubstantiated" allegations.Iowa Republican Sen. Chuck Grassley on Monday said the paper's publication of a new, uninvestigated allegation of sexual misconduct against Kavanaugh is a "shameful" and "irresponsible" move that undermines the paper's credibility.
  
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• Detroit mayor wants to wipe out residential blight with bonds

  16-09-2019 23:32 via news.yahoo.com
  Detroit Mayor Mike Duggan unveiled a plan on Monday to sell up to $250 million of bonds to tackle the city's remaining blighted and abandoned houses over the next five years.If approved by the Detroit City Council, a bond measure would be placed on the March ballot, marking the first vote by residents on bonds since the city exited municipal bankruptcy in 2014.Proceeds from the 30-year bonds, along with annual appropriations from the city's budget, would be used to accelerate the demolition of 1
  
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• The 10-year-old girl who contracted a brain-eating amoeba while swimming has died

  16-09-2019 23:27 via cnn.com
  A Texas girl has died after battling a brain-eating amoeba for more than a week, according to her family and school.
  
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• Girl dies after battling brain-eating amoeba

  16-09-2019 23:27 via cnn.com
  A Texas girl has died after battling a brain-eating amoeba for more than a week, according to her family and school.
  
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• Girl, 10, who contracted brain-eating amoeba while swimming has died

  16-09-2019 23:27 via cnn.com
  A Texas girl has died after battling a brain-eating amoeba for more than a week, according to her family and school.
  
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• 10-year-old who contracted brain-eating amoeba while swimming has died

  16-09-2019 23:27 via cnn.com
  A Texas girl has died after battling a brain-eating amoeba for more than a week, according to her family and school.
  
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• Veteran fire captain killed in massive explosion that demolished Maine building

  16-09-2019 23:24
  The cause of the explosion in Maine is believed to be a propane leak.
  
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• Move over, kale. The lowly cabbage has become a culinary star.

  16-09-2019 23:18 via nbcnews.com
  Cabbage is cheap, versatile, has a long shelf life ... and it's having a moment.
  
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• Democrats are calling for Brett Kavanaugh to be impeached. How would that work?

  16-09-2019 23:14 via news.yahoo.com
  The battered copy of the Constitution that Kavanaugh carried to his confirmation hearings makes clear that federal judges, like other officials, can be impeached.
  
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• Guy Ziv and Benjamin L. Shaver: Silence on annexation from Netanyahu's rivals

  16-09-2019 23:08 via cnn.com
  Benjamin Netanyahu's plan to annex the Jordan Valley, announced one week before Israel's election re-do, is an act of desperation by an embattled prime minister looking to shore up his right-wing base. Yet without the acquiescence of his friend in the White House, President Donald Trump, and the virtual silence of his centrist rivals on the territorial issue, Netanyahu would not be upping the ante in this way—after declining to make such plans during his 13 years in power.
  
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• Man who dragged shark to death in viral video is sentenced

  16-09-2019 23:07 via cnn.com
  A man involved in a viral video showing him laughing and smiling as a shark gets dragged to death behind a high-speed boat in Florida was sentenced to 10 days in jail.
  
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• Trump's long history of making threats against Iran

  16-09-2019 22:57
  Trump's long history of threats against Iran. Trump Sunday hinted at military action against Iran saying the U.S. is "locked and loaded."
  
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• Elon Musk defends calling rescue worker a 'pedo'

  16-09-2019 22:56 via cnn.com
  Elon Musk is hoping to put an end to a defamation lawsuit filed against him after he called a rescue worker in Thailand a "pedo guy."
  
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• 'SNL' rescinds cast invitation to Gillis over YouTube video

  16-09-2019 22:51
  "Saturday Night Live" has rescinded its invitation to cast member Shane Gillis, who posted a video last year in which he used a racial slur for Chinese people and derided Asians trying to learn English.
  
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• Low-tier candidates could threaten Sanders in New Hampshire

  16-09-2019 22:45 via news.yahoo.com
  Bernie Sanders turned his outsider credentials and call for political revolution into a commanding victory in the 2016 New Hampshire primary.On their own, Andrew Yang, Tulsi Gabbard and Marianne Williamson sit near the bottom of the New Hampshire polls."There could be six points there that Bernie loses," said veteran Democratic operative Mark Longabaugh, who previously worked for Sanders.
  
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• 'SNL' fires Shane Gillis after video surfaces of comedian using Asian slur

  16-09-2019 22:38 via nbcnews.com
  "We were not aware of his prior remarks that have surfaced over the past few days. The language he used is offensive, hurtful and unacceptable."
  
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• Supply, demand and 'geopolitical tensions': How oil prices rise

  16-09-2019 22:34
  "The tentacles of oil reach far beyond the country where action or inaction take place," an expert told ABC News.
  
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• Trump says oil price rise after attack on Saudi plants 'not a problem'

  16-09-2019 22:23 via news.yahoo.com
  U.S. President Donald Trump on Monday downplayed the impact of a spike in oil prices in the wake of the attacks on Saudi oil plants, saying prices had not risen much and that the United States and other countries could offset the increase by releasing more supply."They haven't risen very much and we have the strategic oil reserves, which are massive, and we can release a little bit of that, and other countries ... can be a little bit more generous with the oil, and you'd bring it right down," Tr
  
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• 3-year-old's lemonade stand raises hundreds for police K-9

  16-09-2019 22:20
  Lainie Stephens raised $754 by selling snacks and lemonade during her family's three-day garage sale to help the Germantown Police Department.
  
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• California homeowner scares off masked men who kicked in door

  16-09-2019 22:17 via news.yahoo.com
  Two masked-man kicked in the front door of a Pleasanton home in an attempted home-invasion -- and it was all caught on surveillance video.
  
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• A look at the revived allegations against Justice Kavanaugh

  16-09-2019 22:11 via news.yahoo.com
  A new claim of decades-old sexual impropriety by Justice Brett Kavanaugh is rekindling the controversy that nearly derailed his confirmation to the Supreme Court last year.The allegation was unearthed by two New York Times reporters in their research for a book about the Kavanaugh confirmation.The book says the FBI was made aware of but did not investigate the incident, purported to take place when Kavanaugh was a Yale University student in the 1980s.
  
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• Warren Goes After Trump’s Sister in Anti-Corruption Push

  16-09-2019 22:08 via news.yahoo.com
  Brian Snyder/ReutersSen. Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) is adding some new proposals to her anti-corruption plan, this time with one particularly provocative target: President Trump’s sister. In a Medium post published Monday, the Massachusetts Democrat proposes closing the loophole that “allows federal judges to escape investigations for misconduct by stepping down from their post.” In outlining the idea, Warren specifically references a case involving Trump’s sister
  
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• Manhattan District Attorney Issues Subpoena for Trump’s Tax Returns

  16-09-2019 22:06 via news.yahoo.com
  New York state prosecutors, led by Manhattan district attorney Cyrus R. Vance Jr., have subpoenaed President Trump's accounting firm for records of his tax returns for the last eight years, according to a report from the New York Times.The subpoena is part of an investigation into hush-money payments made by the president to adult-film actress Stormy Daniels during the 2016 presidential campaign. Trump's lawyer and fixer, Michael D. Cohen, was convicted in federal court of breaking campaign-fina
  
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• Explainer: U.S. enacts sweeping new asylum bar following Supreme Court decision

  16-09-2019 21:57 via news.yahoo.com
  Judges and asylum officers are now being directed to implement it.Immigration is central to U.S. President Donald Trump's agenda and the government has said the new rule will reduce fraudulent asylum claims, while immigrant advocates say it risks returning vulnerable migrants to danger and even death.In the interim, tens of thousands of asylum claims are likely to be denied.
  
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• The drumbeat to hold Iran responsible gets louder

  16-09-2019 21:56 via cnn.com
  After this weekend's attacks on the world's largest oil processing plant, the questions are simple: Who did it, from where and what will the response be?
  
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• If it is confirmed Iran was behind the Saudi oil attacks, safe options are scarce and warnings abound: 'The entire region will burn'

  16-09-2019 21:56 via cnn.com
  After this weekend's attacks on the world's largest oil processing plant, the questions are simple: Who did it, from where and what will the response be?
  
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• Ex-PM Cameron says Johnson believed Brexit would be 'crushed'

  16-09-2019 21:53 via news.yahoo.com
  Former prime minister David Cameron, who quit after calling Britain's EU membership referendum in 2016 -- said Boris Johnson had told him he was sure Brexit would be "crushed like a toad".Cameron has broken a long spell of silence that followed his resignation to promote a tell-all book about who said what as Britain approached the historic vote."He thought that the Brexit vote would be lost but he didn't want to give up the chance of being on the romantic, patriotic nationalistic side of Brexit
  
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• The team turning soccer into 'art'

  16-09-2019 21:52 via cnn.com
  Lille's return to the Champions League after a seven-year absence is thanks, in part, to a little bit of football "art."
  
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• As their home melts, Greenlanders confront the fallout of climate change

  16-09-2019 21:52 via nbcnews.com
  As their home melts, Greenlanders confront the fallout of global warming.
  
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• An island imperiled: Climate change threatens Greenland — and its way of life

  16-09-2019 21:52 via nbcnews.com
  As their home melts, Greenlanders confront the fallout of global warming.
  
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• Qatar announces new residency scheme for investors

  16-09-2019 21:50 via news.yahoo.com
  Qatar announced Monday it will grant residency to foreign investors for the first time, state media reported, the latest in a series of measures designed to diversify the economy.Foreigners investing an unspecified level of "non-Qatari capital" in the economy will be eligible for renewable five-year residency permits, the state-run Qatar News Agency reported.Real estate developers active in Qatar's property market will also be eligible for the scheme, under the new law.
  
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• Dutch court to hear case against Israel's Gantz

  16-09-2019 21:47 via news.yahoo.com
  A Dutch court will consider on Tuesday a request to hear a civil suit seeking damages from former Israeli armed forces chief Benny Gantz, who is standing against Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in a parliamentary election.The hearing on admissibility will be held in a Dutch district court as voting gets under way in Israel.The case has been brought by a Dutch national of Palestinian descent using Dutch universal jurisdiction laws.
  
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• They were once the face of the anti-Trump resistance, but now 3 original Women’s March co-chairs are out after accusations of anti-Semitism

  16-09-2019 21:40 via news.yahoo.com
  Women's March leaders Linda Sarsour, Tamika Mallory, and Bob Bland are officially out of the organization, following numerous controversies.
  
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• Nadler: Judiciary too busy impeaching Trump to focus on Kavanaugh claims

  16-09-2019 21:32 via nbcnews.com
  "We have our hands full with impeaching the president right now and that’s going to take up our limited resources and time for a while," Nadler said.
  
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• California Bans State-Sponsored Travel to Iowa over Refusal to Provide Medicaid Coverage for Gender-Reassignment Surgeries

  16-09-2019 21:25 via news.yahoo.com
  California added an eleventh state to its travel blacklist on Friday, banning state-sponsored travel to Iowa over that state's refusal to cover gender-transition surgeries under its Medicaid program.California attorney general Xavier Becerra announced the decision to add Iowa to the travel-ban list, which takes effect October 4 and means public employees and college students will not be able to travel to Iowa on the taxpayer's dime.In May, Iowa governor Kim Reynolds signed a law blocking Medicai
  
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• Peter Bergen: Trump gets amnesia on Iran

  16-09-2019 21:24 via cnn.com
  The leaders of Iran have reason to be confused about what President Trump's goals are when it comes to their country. Trump pulled the United States out of the Iranian nuclear deal last year and then imposed draconian new sanctions on Iran. In June, Trump ordered military strikes against Iran and then called them off at the last minute. Trump has also said he would sit down with the Iranian leadership without preconditions, but now he appears to have reversed himself.
  
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• Dr Who star says he was anorexic while in the role

  16-09-2019 21:18 via cnn.com
  Christopher Eccleston, the British actor who starred as the ninth Doctor in the long-running sci-fi series "Doctor Who," has spoken out about his struggle with anorexia and suicidal depression.
  
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• Scientists discover most massive neutron star ever seen

  16-09-2019 21:17 via nbcnews.com
  A sugar-cube's worth of the dead star's material has a mass of about 100 million tons.
  
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• Letter to FBI flagged info on Kavanaugh's alleged conduct before his confirmation

  16-09-2019 21:09 via cnn.com
  • Analysis: Why Kavanaugh isn't going anywhere
  
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