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• Judge issues setback to Trump child migrant policy

  27-09-2019 23:59 via bbc.co.uk
  A federal judge in California blocked the latest White House effort to detain families indefinitely.
  
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• Orangutan with human rights to begin new life in Florida

  27-09-2019 23:56 via bbc.co.uk
  Lawyers for Sandra the orangutan won a landmark appeal in 2014 which deemed her a "nonhuman person".
  
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• UK PM referred to police watchdog

  27-09-2019 23:51 via bbc.co.uk
  It is alleged Jennifer Arcuri received favourable treatment due to her friendship with Boris Johnson.
  
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• Rob Garrison, 'Karate Kid' actor, dead at 59

  27-09-2019 23:50 via cnn.com
  Rob Garrison, best known for his work as part of the "Karate Kid" franchise has died, his representative confirmed to CNN.
  
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• Optimism has a surprising benefit: Better heart health, study finds

  27-09-2019 23:50
  Looking on the bright side is more than a tool for taking life’s ups and downs in stride. An optimistic outlook is also good for your health, according to new research.
  
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• 'Karate Kid' actor, dead at 59

  27-09-2019 23:50 via cnn.com
  Rob Garrison, best known for his work as part of the "Karate Kid" franchise has died, his representative confirmed to CNN.
  
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• The Latest: Ex-tenants say building confused them, too

  27-09-2019 23:49 via news.yahoo.com
  The former building residents testified Friday after the now-former officer, Amber Guyger, took the stand in her own defense. Guyger is charged with murder in the fatal shooting of 26-year-old Botham Jean last September.
  
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• Purple Heart recipient dies saving 3-year-old granddaughter

  27-09-2019 23:45 via news.yahoo.com
  A Purple Heart recipient has died saving his 3-year-old granddaughter from a house explosion in Oklahoma.
  
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• Second wave of Climate Strike protests take to the streets around the world

  27-09-2019 23:39
  Tens of thousands participated in the global Climate Strike Friday.
  
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• If you need a seat map to avoid crying babies, you're the problem

  27-09-2019 23:39 via cnn.com
  When my daughter was about 6 months old and on one of her first cross-country flights, she began to cry.
  
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• A seat map to avoid crying babies

  27-09-2019 23:39 via cnn.com
  When my daughter was about 6 months old and on one of her first cross-country flights, she began to cry.
  
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• Judge blocks plan that would have allowed indefinite detention of migrant families

  27-09-2019 23:33
  A federal judge has blocked the Trump administration’s plan that would have allowed the government to detain undocumented families with children indefinitely.
  
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• North Carolina Detective Fired After Allegedly Sending Inappropriate Messages to Women Whose Rape Cases He Handled

  27-09-2019 23:32 via news.yahoo.com
  Paul G. Matrafailo III was fired in May from the Fayetteville Police Department for allegedly writing inappropriate messages to rape victims.
  
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• Democrats have a long list of possible witnesses in Trump impeachment inquiry

  27-09-2019 23:22 via news.yahoo.com
  The list of people Democrats may seek information from regarding President Trump's attempt to obtain dirt on Joe Biden seems to grow by the minute.
  
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• Chris Wallace Clashes With Fox News Colleague Over Trump Defenders’ ‘Deeply Misleading’ Spin on Ukraine

  27-09-2019 23:22 via news.yahoo.com
  The first question Fox News host Sandra Smith asked her colleague Chris Wallace when he joined her to talk about the whistleblower complaint against President Trump at the end of a week packed with bombshell news was: “Did it change anything?” “Oh, I think it’s changed quite a lot, Sandra,” the Fox News Sunday host replied. “And the spinning that has been done by the president’s defenders over the last 24 hours since this very damaging whistleblower
  
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• Bogota in photos row over Venezuela at UN

  27-09-2019 23:21 via news.yahoo.com
  Colombian President Ivan Duque said he handed the UN photographic evidence this week proving Venezuela was sheltering ELN rebels, but the images were duds.The pictures were contained in a 128-page dossier he handed to UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres at the General Assembly in New York on Thursday.One purportedly shows guerrillas carrying out "indoctrination" of rural schoolchildren in the Venezuelan state of Tachira in April 2018.
  
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• The Latest: Education Department responds to ACLU letter

  27-09-2019 23:11 via news.yahoo.com
  A letter sent Friday by the American Civil Liberties Union urged Education Secretary Betsy DeVos to revoke a threat to cut grant funding to the Duke-UNC Consortium for Middle East Studies unless it revises its programs.The ACLU says the Education Department is abusing grant rules to push its own viewpoint.
  
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• Jake Tapper: Trump has something Nixon did not have

  27-09-2019 23:08 via cnn.com
  CNN's Jake Tapper says President Trump has defense components to help him in the impeachment fight that former President Nixon did not have.
  
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• Afghanistan's presidential election: All you need to know

  27-09-2019 23:08 via bbc.co.uk
  Millions of Afghans will vote for a president on Saturday but many will stay away for fear of violence.
  
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• 12 candidates, one night: Here's who has made the October debate

  27-09-2019 23:07 via news.yahoo.com
  Rep. Tulsi Gabbard and billionaire Tom Steyer are additions to this stage from the September debate, where only 10 candidates faced off.
  
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• St Helens thrash Wigan to reach Grand Final

  27-09-2019 23:00 via bbc.co.uk
  St Helens reach their first Super League Grand Final since 2014 as they thrash reigning champions Wigan.
  
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• Hong Kong’s ‘Frontliners’ Say They’re Ready to Die for the Movement

  27-09-2019 23:00 via news.yahoo.com
  (Bloomberg) -- Fung, a 24-year-old doctor, seems an unlikely candidate to stand on the front line of Hong Kong’s most violent civil unrest in half a century. Before this year, he never took part in a protest, and during Hong Kong’s last major pro-democracy uprising, the 2014 Umbrella Movement, he only stopped by to take photos.Now, Fung is part of a cell of 20 protesters who face off each weekend against police on the streets of Hong Kong in clashes that have escalated from peaceful
  
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• Saudi Arabia: As kingdom opens up to tourists, will people visit?

  27-09-2019 22:59 via news.yahoo.com
  Those who study international tourism say a combination of geography, history and culture could make the kingdom an attractive tourist destination.
  
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• Parisians fight climate change with a surprising weapon

  27-09-2019 22:53 via bbc.co.uk
  An initiative in Paris is trying to persuade restaurants to turn food waste into compost.
  
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• Kremlin says it hopes US wouldn't release Trump-Putin calls

  27-09-2019 22:38
  A transcript of a call between Trump and Ukraine's leader has been made public.
  
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• Joseph Wilson, US envoy who defied Bush over Iraq, dies aged 69

  27-09-2019 22:33 via bbc.co.uk
  Joseph Wilson is known for disproving claims that Saddam Hussein bought uranium in Niger.
  
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• US denies Iran's claim it was willing to lift sanctions for meeting at UN

  27-09-2019 22:31
  The US denies that Trump offered to lift sanctions on Iran in exchange for a meeting with Rouhani, as the Iranian president claims
  
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• Police rescue hundreds of men, boys from Nigerian ‘torture house’ thought to be Islamic school: report

  27-09-2019 22:30 via feeds.foxnews.com
  Nigerian police say more than 300 men and boys have been rescued from a building thought to be an Islamic school where they were held against their will, sexually abused, starved and tortured.
  
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• 91-year-old widower attacked while visiting late wife's grave

  27-09-2019 22:16
  A 91-year-old man was attacked while visiting his wife's grave in California, police said.
  
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• Parents upset over Trump question on quiz

  27-09-2019 22:13 via cnn.com
  A Florida teacher has been reassigned after a parent complained about a question on his child's quiz that involved President Donald Trump.CNN affiliate WPTV reports.
  
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• Parents upset over this Trump question on quiz

  27-09-2019 22:13 via cnn.com
  A Florida teacher has been reassigned after a parent complained about a question on his child's quiz that involved President Donald Trump.CNN affiliate WPTV reports.
  
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• Trump calls out CNN for missing punctuation mark as impeachment looms

  27-09-2019 22:12 via news.yahoo.com
  An impeachment inquiry is looming, and the revelations in the whistleblower scandal pop up hour by hour, but President Trump took CNN to task on Friday over the use of the word “liddle.”
  
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• Trump-Ukraine scandal: Hillary Clinton says US president 'endangered' the country – video

  27-09-2019 22:09 via theguardian.com
  Hillary Clinton criticised Donald Trump’s communications with Ukraine, saying he had ‘turned American diplomacy into a cheap extortion racket'. Speaking at Georgetown University on Friday, the former Democratic presidential candidate said the US president had ‘endangered us all by putting his personal and political interests ahead of the interests of the American people'. Clinton's comments come in the wake of a whistleblower complaint that revealed Trump attempt
  
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• Naga Munchetty: BBC not impartial on racism, senior bosses say

  27-09-2019 22:09 via bbc.co.uk
  An email to all staff about the Naga Munchetty complaint decision says racism is "not an opinion".
  
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• Don't let your guard down: Hurricane season 2019 has hit some records. And it's not over yet

  27-09-2019 22:08 via news.yahoo.com
  We're still in the middle of hurricane season 2019, and that means coastal residents should stay prepared for possible more record-breaking storms
  
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• Woman linked to chef's overdose death denies another

  27-09-2019 22:00
  A woman has pleaded not guilty to charges she is behind the overdose death of a man whose body was found in a New York City motel
  
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• 'Spider-Man' remains in MCU as Marvel and Sony end feud

  27-09-2019 21:59 via cnn.com
  After a public divorce, Spider-Man's parents have patched up their differences.
  
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• Marvel and Sony end 'Spider-Man' feud

  27-09-2019 21:59 via cnn.com
  After a public divorce, Spider-Man's parents have patched up their differences.
  
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• Rudy Giuliani claims he's 'the real whistleblower' and that no one will know the real story on Trump and Ukraine 'if I get killed'

  27-09-2019 21:56 via news.yahoo.com
  Giuliani told Politico he believes he deserves whistleblower protection, but his attempts to defend himself have only further incriminated him.
  
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• Mike Dean moonlights as caddy at Ladies European Tour

  27-09-2019 21:49 via bbc.co.uk
  Premier League referee, Mike Dean celebrates a hole in one by Australian golfer Whitney Hillier while working as her caddy on the European Ladies Tour.
  
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• The whistleblower complaint, annotated

  27-09-2019 21:42 via cnn.com
  • Read: Inspector General's letter on whistleblower complaint
  • Trump's Ukraine phone call, annotated
  • Whistleblower: Officials tried to 'lock down' Trump's call records
  
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• Jennifer Lee and Van C. Tran: Harvard admissions can be barometer of our deepest divides

  27-09-2019 21:40 via cnn.com
  A new academic year is underway, and universities nationwide await the verdict in the latest case placing affirmative action on trial.
  
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• Third Libya airstrike in eight days kills 17 ISIS terrorists, US military says

  27-09-2019 21:36 via feeds.foxnews.com
  The U.S. military said Friday it had killed 17 Islamic State (ISIS) fighters in an airstrike Thursday outside Murzuq in southwest Libya.
  
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• ACLU argues pregnant women wrongly returned to Mexico

  27-09-2019 21:26 via news.yahoo.com
  Civil rights groups are demanding an investigation by Homeland Security's watchdog into the practice of sending pregnant women back over the U.S.-Mexico border to wait out their asylum claims.Pregnant women have been forced to sleep on the floor and were provided inadequate food and water in U.S. custody, only to then be sent to Mexico, where their medical needs are largely ignored unless they are in labor, according to the complaint filed Friday by the American Civil Liberties Union and Texas C
  
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• Man who released Canadian PM's brownface photo says he has no political affiliation

  27-09-2019 21:20 via news.yahoo.com
  The man who gave Time magazine the photo of Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau wearing brownface at a school event said on Friday he had no political affiliation nor did he receive any payment for releasing the image.Vancouver businessman Michael Adamson said in a statement he was motivated solely by the belief that "Canadian public had a right" to see the photo.The photo was taken at a gala dinner of British Columbia private school West Point Grey Academy (WPGA) in 2001, when Trudeau was a
  
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• Forget the Galaxy Fold, Motorola’s foldable Razr will launch before the end of the year

  27-09-2019 21:11 via news.yahoo.com
  The Galaxy Fold was just released on Friday, that is, if you can find one in stores -- and if you want to buy a $2,000 device that's incredibly easy to render unusable. The Fold is five months late, and 2019 no longer looks like the year of the foldable device. Huawei's Mate X is also delayed and, unsurprisingly, the Motorola Razr foldable device that we expected to see in stores this summer is a no-show. However, Motorola plans to at least unveil the handset this year, although it might not be
  
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• Ruth Ben-Ghiat: Trump's authoritarian tendencies come back to bite him

  27-09-2019 21:05 via cnn.com
  Here's a secret about authoritarian-minded leaders like President Donald Trump: They are their own best friends (they usually have few real friends), and they are their own worst enemies, especially when things are not going well for them.
  
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• Investigations touch Illinois powerbroker's confidants

  27-09-2019 21:04 via news.yahoo.com
  One of the nation's most powerful state legislators has for decades tended to shrug off the latest scandal involving Illinois politicians, but the sight of FBI agents hauling bags of evidence from an office on the Democratic side of the Capitol building this week may have startled the normally unflappable Mike Madigan.Madigan, the longest-serving state House speaker in modern American history and the head of the Democratic Party in Illinois, hasn't been accused of wrongdoing.Court papers mistake
  
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• CDC Says for First Time That THC Could Be Behind Vaping Deaths and Illnesses

  27-09-2019 21:00 via news.yahoo.com
  During a press briefing on Friday, the Center for Disease Control (CDC), said that Tetrahydrocannabinol (THC) containing products plays a role in the recent cases of reported illnesses associated with vaping or e-cigarette use
  
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• 18 Transgender Killings This Year Raise Fears of an 'Epidemic'

  27-09-2019 20:55 via news.yahoo.com
  ATLANTA -- In the most recent killing of a transgender woman, her body was found inside an abandoned car, burned beyond recognition. In another case, the woman was pulled from a lake at a Dallas park. And in a third, she was found dead near a golf course, just weeks after she survived a brutal beating that was captured on video.In the United States this year, at least 18 transgender people -- most of them transgender women of color -- have been killed in a wave of violence that the American Medi
  
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