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• Liverpool stunned by Napoli late strikes

  17-09-2019 23:50 via cnn.com
  Champions League holder Liverpool was brought crashing back down to earth, as it started the defense of its title with a 2-0 defeat away to Napoli.
  
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• Teen activist to lawmakers: Forget praise, work on climate

  17-09-2019 23:47 via news.yahoo.com
  Members of Congress hailed Swedish teenager Greta Thunberg as a "superpower" for her work to spark a worldwide, youth-driven push to fight climate change.Massachusetts Sen. Ed Markey said the 16-year-old Thunberg and other young activists bring "moral clarity" to the fight against global warming.Thunberg was not impressed.
  
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• Houston area preparing for heavy rain, flooding from Imelda

  17-09-2019 23:40 via news.yahoo.com
  Officials in the Houston area were preparing high-water vehicles and staging rescue boats Tuesday as Tropical Storm Imelda moved in from the Gulf of Mexico, threatening to dump up to 18 inches of rain in parts of Southeast Texas and southwestern Louisiana over the next few days.The storm, which formed Tuesday, made landfall near Freeport, Texas, with maximum sustained winds of 40 mph.Jeff Lindner, a meteorologist and director of flood operations for the Harris County Flood Control District in Ho
  
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• Migrants say they face danger before court in Texas tents

  17-09-2019 23:25 via news.yahoo.com
  Abel Oset was seized with panic.The two were going to plead their case in a court set up inside a tent in Laredo, Texas, beamed via video conference to a judge in another city — the latest attempt to clear a massive backlog of asylum cases.Oset dreaded the very real possibility that he and his 22-year-old son would be sent back over the international bridge, back to Nuevo Laredo, in Tamaulipas, and its cartels and violence.
  
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• Latest Parent Named in U.S. College Scam Arrested in Spain

  17-09-2019 23:15 via news.yahoo.com
  (Bloomberg) -- A Canadian woman became the latest defendant named in the college admissions scandal, as more than a dozen parents prepare for sentencing as early as next week and almost 20 others fight the charges ahead of trial.Xiaoning Sui was arrested in Spain and charged with fraud conspiracy for allegedly paying $400,000 to get her son into the University of California at Los Angeles, according to the U.S. attorney’s office in Massachusetts, which is seeking her extradition to Boston.
  
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• Georgia homeowner kills three teens wearing masks in possible 'stand your ground' case

  17-09-2019 23:15 via news.yahoo.com
  The fatal shooting of three teens by a Georgia homeowner this week could be a 'stand your ground' case, the Rockdale County Sheriff says.
  
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• Tropical Storm Imelda makes landfall near Freeport

  17-09-2019 23:10 via news.yahoo.com
  The storm system soaking the greater Houston area is Tropical Storm Imelda, and it has already made landfall near Freeport.
  
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• Plumber fixes boiler of 91-year-old terminally ill woman and bills her $0

  17-09-2019 23:07 via cnn.com
  "It's totally free of charge." These are words you wouldn't normally associate with a broken boiler.
  
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• US attorneys reportedly knew that Jeffrey Epstein didn't qualify for Florida jail work release where he allegedly abused women

  17-09-2019 23:02 via news.yahoo.com
  A secretive sentencing deal penned by then-US Attorney Alex Acosta let Epstein leave jail to work in his private office 12 hours a day.
  
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• Trump to bar California from setting vehicle emission rules: sources

  17-09-2019 22:38 via news.yahoo.com
  The Trump administration will announce as early as Wednesday it is revoking California’s authority to set its own greenhouse gas and vehicle fuel efficiency standards and barring all states from setting such rules, two auto industry officials said on Tuesday. The move is sure to spark legal challenges over issues including states' rights and climate change that administration officials say could ultimately be decided by the U.S. Supreme Court. Trump met with senior officials last Thursday
  
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• US sanctions Italy, Panama and Colombia firms over Venezuela ties

  17-09-2019 22:28 via news.yahoo.com
  The United States on Tuesday imposed sanctions on 16 companies linked to Colombian businessman Alex Nain Saab Moran, an associate of Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro.The move is the latest US escalation of sanctions targeting the inner circle of Maduro, who is grappling with a political and economic crisis that the United Nations says has left a quarter of Venezuela's 30 million people in need of humanitarian aid.
  
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• Trump on Cokie Roberts: She 'never treated me nicely' but she was a 'professional'

  17-09-2019 22:24 via news.yahoo.com
  Cokie Roberts was a veteran and award winning journalist who passed away on Tuesday at the age of 75.
  
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• Belgian F-16s scrambled to intercept 2 Russian nuclear-capable supersonic bombers over the Baltic Sea

  17-09-2019 22:23 via news.yahoo.com
  The Belgian Air Force intercepted two Russian Tu-160 supersonic, nuclear-capable bombers at close range in Baltic airspace.
  
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• Judge refuses to free extremists who attacked protesters

  17-09-2019 22:19 via news.yahoo.com
  A federal judge on Tuesday refused to free members of a white supremacist group on bond while they appeal their convictions for attacking protesters at a white nationalist rally in Virginia.U.S. District Judge Norman Moon ruled that Rise Above Movement members Benjamin Daley, Michael Miselis and Thomas Gillen haven't adequately shown that releasing them from custody wouldn't pose a danger to others.All three men pleaded guilty to riot conspiracy charges stemming from violence at the Unite the Ri
  
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• Cricket star slams 'utterly disgusting' tabloid story on family

  17-09-2019 22:14 via cnn.com
  England's World Cup and Ashes cricket hero Ben Stokes has called The Sun newspaper's front-page story about a family tragedy "heartless" and "utterly disgusting."
  
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• Tight contest has Netanyahu's re-election plans in limbo

  17-09-2019 21:58 via cnn.com
  As counting gets underway in Israel's unprecedented repeat general election, exit poll projections show the country's longest-serving Prime Minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, and former military chief, Benny Gantz, locked in a tight race.
  
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• Israeli election too close to call

  17-09-2019 21:58 via cnn.com
  As counting gets underway in Israel's unprecedented repeat general election, exit poll projections show the country's longest-serving Prime Minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, and former military chief, Benny Gantz, locked in a tight race.
  
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• KFC is testing a fried chicken sandwich with donuts as the buns

  17-09-2019 21:49 via news.yahoo.com
  Just when you thought it was time to bring home the troops from the great chicken sandwich war between Popeyes and Chick-fil-A, KFC introduces a new sandwich. And it's bold.The new sandwich features the chain's Extra Crispy™ chicken filet between two hot glazed donuts.If stacking food isn't your thing you can also enjoy the components side-by-side. KFC is also introducing a Kentucky Fried Chicken & Donut Basket meal, which includes the option of chicken on the bone or chicken tenders,
  
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• Retired federal judge gets fined and barred for 2016 anti-Republican comments

  17-09-2019 21:39 via news.yahoo.com
  The U.S. Office of Special Counsel ruled against Carmene ‘Zsa Zsa’ DePaolo, a former immigration judge, for comments she made during a 2016 immigration hearing. Her comments reflected her beliefs that a Clinton administration would do more for immigration reform. She was fined the maximum possible civil penalty of $1,000 and slapped with a 30-month debarment from federal service.
  
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• Israel election: early exit polls suggest Netanyahu is in trouble

  17-09-2019 21:37 via news.yahoo.com
  Israel was holding its breath on Tuesday after early election exit polls suggested Benjamin Netanyahu’s centrist rivals had won more seats in parliament, potentially endangering the prime minister’s 13 years in power.  While no final results were available, two out of three early exit polls indicated that Mr Netanyahu’s Likud had fallen slightly behind Blue & White, the centrist coalition led by former army general Benny Gantz. A third poll showed the parties tied
  
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• Cokie Roberts, longtime political journalist, dies at 75

  17-09-2019 21:32 via news.yahoo.com
  Cokie Roberts, the daughter of politicians and a pioneering journalist who chronicled Washington from Jimmy Carter to Donald Trump for NPR and ABC News, died Tuesday of complications from breast cancer.ABC broke into network programming to announce her death and politicians including former presidents George W. Bush and Barack Obama offered sympathy.Roberts devoted most of her attention to covering Congress, where her father Hale Boggs was a House majority leader who died in 1972 when his plane
  
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• Yemen Houthi drones, missiles defy years of Saudi air strikes

  17-09-2019 21:24 via news.yahoo.com
  At a weapons exhibition in July in Yemen's Houthi-controlled capital Sanaa, military officials whipped silken sheets off what they said were newly-developed drones and missiles.The theatrical gesture revealed the proud slogan "Made in Yemen" spray-painted onto the weapons' bodywork.The moment was a celebration of sorts for Yemen's Houthi fighters.
  
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• Trump arrives in Bay Area for first time as president

  17-09-2019 21:19 via news.yahoo.com
  President Trump has arrived in the Bay Area for the first time as Commander in Chief and is expected to attend a fundraiser in Silicon Valley.
  
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• Pentagon Refuses Funding for 20-Miles of Border Barrier Due to Cost

  17-09-2019 21:16 via news.yahoo.com
  The Defense Department has decided not to move forward with three border-barrier projects in California and Arizona, indicating that the estimated $2.5 billion cost of the 20 miles of planned construction would be too high.Funding for the projects -- three 30-foot-high barriers on the U.S.–Mexico border -- was originally allocated from a counter-drug initiative, which the Pentagon approved pending final analysis of cost projections. That analysis found that the cost would be prohibitive, a
  
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• The Latest: Mormon leader speaks about LGBT policies

  17-09-2019 21:09 via news.yahoo.com
  The leader of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints' is reaffirming that the religion must stick to its opposition of gay marriage because God's law states that marriage should only be between a man and a woman.Church president Russell M. Nelson also said Tuesday in a speech to students at the church-owned Brigham Young University that a 2015 policy banning baptisms for children of parents in same-sex relationship was rescinded earlier this year because leaders took note of the "hearta
  
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• DOJ sues Edward Snowden over intelligence secrets in new book

  17-09-2019 21:06 via cnn.com
  The Justice Department has sued Edward Snowden, who leaked American intelligence secrets in 2013, for allegedly breaking decade-old contracts he signed with intelligence agencies when he published a book this week.
  
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• Taiwan president accuses China of ‘dollar diplomacy’ after country loses recognition from largest Pacific ally

  17-09-2019 21:05 via feeds.foxnews.com
  Taiwan’s president on Monday accused China of “dollar diplomacy” after the Solomon Islands, one of the few remaining countries to recognize Taiwan, switched allegiance to China.
  
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• Funeral precession at London Fashion Week

  17-09-2019 21:05 via cnn.com
  Climate change activist group Extinction Rebellion staged a funeral procession in London Tuesday, the last day of London Fashion Week.
  
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• Extinction Rebellion stages funeral procession to end London Fashion Week

  17-09-2019 21:05 via cnn.com
  Climate change activist group Extinction Rebellion staged a funeral procession in London Tuesday, the last day of London Fashion Week.
  
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• 29 bodies found in plastic bags in Mexico mass grave

  17-09-2019 21:05 via news.yahoo.com
  Mexican forensics experts have found at least 29 bodies stuffed in 119 plastic bags that were dumped in the bottom of a well outside the western city of Guadalajara, officials said Tuesday.Experts have been working to establish how many victims are in the mass grave since it was discovered earlier this month in a remote area known as La Primavera, about a 45-minute drive outside Guadalajara, Mexico's second city."We have 13 complete corpses and 16 incomplete, for a total of 29 bodies," said Gera
  
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• Italian solider stabbed in neck, shoulder by man carrying scissors, shouting 'Allahu Akbar'

  17-09-2019 21:04 via feeds.foxnews.com
  An Italian soldier was stabbed in the neck and shoulder outside a Milan train station Tuesday by a man wielding a pair of scissors and shouting “Allahu Akbar."
  
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• Cornell medical school to offer full scholarships for students who qualify for financial aid

  17-09-2019 21:01 via news.yahoo.com
  Cornell joins a growing list of medical schools that offer similar programs, including New York University and Columbia University.
  
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• Merriam-Webster adds the nonbinary pronoun 'they' to its dictionary

  17-09-2019 20:59 via cnn.com
  Merriam-Webster has officially added the nonbinary pronoun "they" as an entry in its dictionary.
  
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• Sheriff indicted for plotting to kill deputy who had tape of his 'racially offensive' remarks

  17-09-2019 20:57 via news.yahoo.com
  A North Carolina sheriff was indicted for obstruction of justice for allegedly plotting to kill one of his deputies.
  
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• Bill Gates says he regrets meeting Epstein after his conviction and agreeing to donate $2m to MIT

  17-09-2019 20:53 via news.yahoo.com
  Bill Gates said he regrets meeting with Jeffrey Epstein and giving a $2 million donation to the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) through him after the financier was convicted of sex offences. Mr Gates, who co-founded Microsoft, met with Epstein in 2013, five years after he pleaded guilty to two charges of soliciting a minor for prostitution, and later made an an anonymous donation to MIT's Media Lab. Focus has fallen on the pair's relationships after US media reports suggested Epstein
  
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• Iranian cruise missiles and drones used in Saudi oil facilities, US officials say

  17-09-2019 20:47 via feeds.foxnews.com
  It has been more than 3 days since Saudi Arabia’s oil infrastructure was crippled, and as the investigation continues, fingers are pointing towards Iran as not only the perpetrator, but also the launch territory.
  
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• Toyota invests $391 million in its Texas truck assembly plant

  17-09-2019 20:46 via news.yahoo.com
  Toyota Motor Corp said on Tuesday it was investing $391 million in its pickup truck assembly plant in San Antonio, Texas, as part of the Japanese automaker's plan to invest $13 billion in its U.S. operations over five years through 2021.Christopher Reynolds, Toyota Motor North America's chief administrative officer, told Reuters the investment could allow the company to eventually boost the plant's capacity but no decision has been made.Toyota's San Antonio truck plant assembles full-size Tundra
  
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• DEA agent accuses Chavez of easing drug trafficking to US: Spain court

  17-09-2019 20:31 via news.yahoo.com
  A US Drug Enforcement Administration agent accused late Venezuelan leader Hugo Chavez of cooperating with Colombian rebel group FARC to ease the shipment of cocaine into the United States, a Spanish court ruling published Tuesday showed.The accusation was cited in a ruling by Spain's National Court, the country's top criminal court, rejecting a US request to extradite Venezuela's former military intelligence chief, General Hugo Armando Carvajal, on drug trafficking charges.The ruling includes a
  
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• Trump Names His Leading Five Candidates for Top Security Job

  17-09-2019 20:29 via news.yahoo.com
  (Bloomberg) -- President Donald Trump said he’s considering five candidates for national security adviser to replace John Bolton, who left the White House abruptly last week.Trump told reporters on Tuesday that candidates include Ricky Waddell, a former national security official in the Trump administration, and Robert C. O’Brien, a presidential envoy for hostage affairs.Trump is also considering Lisa E. Gordon-Hagerty, the under secretary for nuclear security at the Energy Departmen
  
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• Shark circles oblivious Australian surfer in drone footage

  17-09-2019 20:17 via feeds.foxnews.com
  A surfer in Australia was busy looking for his next wave when a drone user alerted him to a circling shark.
  
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• New York Times reporters respond to clarification and controversy on new Kavanaugh accusation

  17-09-2019 20:14 via news.yahoo.com
  Speaking on MSNBC, Robin Pogrebin, said that her editors had removed clarifying information during the editing process.
  
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• Las Vegas man faces weapons charge in synagogue, other plots

  17-09-2019 20:03 via news.yahoo.com
  A former security guard accused of compiling bomb components and guns to kill people at a Las Vegas synagogue and of drawing up plans to attack a bar catering to LGBTQ customers or a fast-food restaurant has been indicted on a federal firearm charge, court records show.Conor Climo's court-appointed attorney, Paul Riddle, said Tuesday that Climo plans to plead not guilty at his arraignment Wednesday on the one-count indictment filed Sept. 11 in U.S. District Court in Nevada.Climo, 23, was arreste
  
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• Trump news - live: Impeachment hearing exposes 'absolute coverup by White House', as former top aide dodges questions

  17-09-2019 20:02 via news.yahoo.com
  Democrats in the House Judiciary Committee have launched the first impeachment hearings into allegations that Donald Trump obstructed justice and abused power, with the president's former campaign manager Corey Lewandowski appearing before the committee as the first witness to testify on questions that were raised by the Mueller report released earlier this year.The witness had been gagged by the White House, however, and two more aides – Rick Dearborn and Rob Porter – were reportedl
  
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• Spain breaks up huge drug ring but 'Messi of hashish' still on the run

  17-09-2019 19:58 via feeds.foxnews.com
  Spanish police said Sunday they've broken up a dangerous Moroccan drug ring but say it’s notorious leader, nicknamed the “Messi of hashish,” is still on the run.
  
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• Here's why Iran would target major Saudi oil fields and risk a US military response

  17-09-2019 19:50 via news.yahoo.com
  If Iran was responsible for the shocking attack, it falls in line with a pattern of dangerous escalations to harm the US for its harsh sanctions.
  
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• Woman arrested after buying AK-47 and threatening her old school

  17-09-2019 19:48 via cnn.com
  An 18-year-old Oklahoma woman was arrested for making terroristic threats against her former high school, according to a Pittsburg County Sheriff's Office arrest report.
  
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• Chinese parent arrested for bribery as part of US college admissions scam

  17-09-2019 19:41 via cnn.com
  A Chinese woman who allegedly paid $400,000 in bribes to get her son into UCLA as a fake soccer recruit was arrested in Spain as part of the sprawling college admissions scam, federal prosecutors said Tuesday.
  
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• Warren spent hours taking selfies with supporters after her big rally. Here's why.

  17-09-2019 19:39 via nbcnews.com
  The Massachusetts senator has devoted many hours to fan photos on the 2020 campaign trail. She's not alone.
  
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• Biden's 1960s gang fight yarn: Son of 'bad dude' Corn Pop confirms his father knew Dem frontrunner

  17-09-2019 19:27 via news.yahoo.com
  The saga of Joe Biden’s mysterious story from the 1960s, in which he and a man called Corn Pop almost battled with a knife and a chain but ultimately did not, may have been confirmed.Mr Biden has told the story of a 1962 confrontation with a man who frequented a public pool in Wilmington, Delaware where he was a lifeguard several times, including in his book. But a video of him retelling it at an event in 2017, at the pool’s dedication ceremony after it was renamed for him, resurface
  
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• US-Russia nuclear war would kill 34 million people within hours and is increasingly likely, Princeton study concludes

  17-09-2019 19:26 via news.yahoo.com
  More than 90 million people would be killed or injured in a nuclear war between the US and Russia if a conventional conflict went too far, according to a new simulation created by researchers.Such a scenario has become “dramatically” more plausible in the last two years because the two countries have dropped support for arms-control measures, according to a team from Princeton University.
  
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