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• Tottenham suffers record-breaking defeat at hands of Bayern

  01-10-2019 23:55 via cnn.com
  Tottenham fans probably thought they had seen the last of Serge Gnabry after the German left rivals Arsenal in 2016 but he was back with a vengeance in north London Tuesday to help Bayern Munich thrash Spurs 7-2 in the Champions League.
  
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• Serge Gnabry stars as Bayern Munich humiliates Tottenham

  01-10-2019 23:55 via cnn.com
  Tottenham fans probably thought they had seen the last of Serge Gnabry after the German left rivals Arsenal in 2016 but he was back with a vengeance in north London Tuesday to help Bayern Munich thrash Spurs 7-2 in the Champions League.
  
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• US judge rules Harvard does not discriminate against Asian Americans

  01-10-2019 23:50 via cnn.com
  A US district judge in Boston has upheld Harvard's admissions process following a challenge from a group of Asian American applicants who believe the school discriminated against them.
  
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• Owners of dive boat that sank off California coast, killing 34, suspend operations

  01-10-2019 23:47 via news.yahoo.com
  The owners of a dive boat that caught fire and sank off the California coast on Labor Day, killing 34 people, said on Tuesday they had suspended operations indefinitely during an investigation of one of the state's worst maritime disasters.The 75-foot Conception, owned by dive tour company Truth Aquatics, burst into flames on Sept. 2, killing 33 passengers and a crew member who had been sleeping below decks."With the continued calls and request for tours, we want to announce that we are official
  
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• A teen died by suicide after being outed online. His family worries the DA is 'anti-gay'

  01-10-2019 23:47 via news.yahoo.com
  Channing Smith, 16, died by suicide after two teens outed him on social media. His family is worried that the county DA could affect the case.
  
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• Lindsey Graham's startling evolution on Trump

  01-10-2019 23:46 via cnn.com
  Over the past four years, Lindsey Graham has gone from one of Donald Trump's most vociferous critics to one of his most vociferous defenders, even as evidence mounted that the President had crossed policy and ethical lines the old Graham might not have tolerated.
  
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• Visiting South Africa a 'really powerful' experience for Meghan, Duchess of Sussex

  01-10-2019 23:35 via cnn.com
  Meghan, the Duchess of Sussex, has said that visiting South Africa for the first time has been a "really powerful" experience and described her tour of southern Africa with her husband Harry as a "really special trip."
  
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• Seven-goal Bayern demolish Spurs as Gnabry scores four

  01-10-2019 23:28 via bbc.co.uk
  Serge Gnabry scores four goals as Bayern Munich demolish Tottenham Hotspur in the Champions League.
  
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• Meghan sues tabloid as Harry rips 'intentionally destructive' publication of private letter

  01-10-2019 23:27 via cnn.com
  Prince Harry and his wife Meghan are suing a UK tabloid over a private letter it published, with the Duke and Duchess of Sussex alleging it was published illegally and edited selectively to hide "lies" the paper had told about the Duchess.
  
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• Trump’s Treacherous Ties to a Murderous Prince

  01-10-2019 23:17 via news.yahoo.com
  Photo Illustration by Kelly Caminero/The Daily Beast/GettyWarning: This post mentions violent contentPARIS—The documents have been handed over by the Trump administration ever so slowly. There may be hundreds of thousands to sift through, and at the rate things are going, as a federal judge has pointed out, that could take at least eight years. So far, after more than nine months, only a couple of thousand pages have been culled from the intelligence community, the Defense Department, the
  
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• Ukraine agrees to election in separatist-controlled east

  01-10-2019 23:16 via news.yahoo.com
  Ukraine on Tuesday signed much-anticipated accords with separatists from the country's east, Russia and European monitors that agree a local election can be held in separatist-controlled territory, paving the way for peace talks with Moscow.The signing at a meeting in the Belarusian capital of Minsk was largely seen as the new Ukrainian government taking a major step toward resolving the prolonged armed conflict in eastern Ukraine that has killed more than 13,000 people and displaced more than 1
  
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• Man gored by bison sees date undergo same fate months later

  01-10-2019 23:16 via bbc.co.uk
  He hoped to watch the sunset with his date... so he took her to the same place he'd been gored.
  
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• US secretary of state refuses to cooperate with impeachment inquiry request as Dems accuse him of 'intimidating' witnesses

  01-10-2019 23:02 via cnn.com
  Secretary of State Mike Pompeo on Tuesday accused House Democrats of intimidating and bullying State Department officials by calling for their depositions in the Ukraine inquiry starting this week, something he says is "not feasible."
  
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• Democrats turn eye to Rick Perry in Ukrainian probe

  01-10-2019 23:00 via politico.com
  Democrats investigating a whistleblower’s allegations against President Donald Trump pressed Rick Perry on Tuesday for information about his May travels to Ukraine, opening a rare window into the energy secretary’s role as an emissary for some of the administration’s most sensitive international missions.Sen. Bob Menendez of New Jersey posed the questions in a letter to Perry as House Democrats push forward with their impeachment inquiry into whether Trump used a July 25 phone
  
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• Shipwrecked Colombians clung to cocaine bales

  01-10-2019 22:46 via news.yahoo.com
  Three suspected drug smugglers survived in shark-infested Pacific waters by clinging for hours to floating bales of cocaine, Colombia's navy said Tuesday.The three Colombians are suspected of smuggling 1.2 tons of cocaine from Tumaco in Colombia when their boat was hit by a wave Saturday and capsized, Captain Jorge Maldonado of Colombia's Task Force Against Drug Trafficking told AFP."The coastguard arrived and these three people were floating on a material that by its characteristics resembled d
  
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• Lyles wins 200m as Gemili misses out on medal - highlights & report

  01-10-2019 22:43 via bbc.co.uk
  Noah Lyles caps off a marvellous season with victory in the world 200m final in 19.83 seconds but Briton Adam Gemili narrowly misses out on a medal.
  
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• Rouhani would not take Trump's call, says French diplomatic source

  01-10-2019 22:42 via news.yahoo.com
  US President Donald Trump phoned his Iranian counterpart Hassan Rouhani on the sidelines of the UN summit last month but he refused to take the call, a French diplomatic source said on Tuesday.The call happened on September 24, the source said, after French President Emmanuel Macron had shuttled between the US and Iranian leaders in a bid to arrange a historic encounter that he hoped would reduce the risk of all-out war in the Middle East."In New York, up to the last moment, Emmanuel Macron trie
  
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• 9-year-old accidentally wins 10k race

  01-10-2019 22:38 via cnn.com
  A Minnesota boy came out ahead of several adults despite running a race that was twice as long as he signed up for
  
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• Florida teen died protecting his 5-year-old sister during a burglary, police say

  01-10-2019 22:31 via news.yahoo.com
  A 15-year-old boy in Florida died Thursday while protecting his younger sister during "a violent encounter" with a burglar.
  
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• Usain Bolt's heir apparent may be stepping up

  01-10-2019 22:26 via cnn.com
  Athletics has been crying out for the next Usain Bolt and Noah Lyles, the sprinter with the silver hair, proved he might just be the heir apparent to the fastest man of all time.
  
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• 22-year-old steps up to be Usain Bolt's heir apparent

  01-10-2019 22:26 via cnn.com
  Athletics has been crying out for the next Usain Bolt and Noah Lyles, the sprinter with the silver hair, proved he might just be the heir apparent to the fastest man of all time.
  
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• Mexico’s Government Should Sell Marijuana, Key Lawmaker Proposes

  01-10-2019 22:20 via news.yahoo.com
  (Bloomberg) -- Mexico’s government shouldn’t only regulate pot, it should be the main bulk buyer and seller of the drug, lower house majority leader Mario Delgado proposed in a new bill.A public company named Cannsalud would be authorized exclusively to acquire cannabis from growers with permits and then sell the drug to franchises authorized to sell small amounts to the public, according to the bill.“This way the cannabis market wouldn’t be left to the autonomous regulat
  
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• Georgia abortion law: Judge temporarily blocks heartbeat bill, one of most restrictive laws in US

  01-10-2019 22:07 via news.yahoo.com
  A federal judge in Georgia has temporarily blocked a controversial new law dubbed the "heartbeat bill," considered one of the most restrictive in regards to women’s reproductive rights across the country.The law, signed in May by Republican Governor Brian Kemp, would ban abortions once a fetal heartbeat is detected, which can happen as early as six weeks into a pregnancy, before many women realise they're expecting.
  
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• Mom sentenced in deaths of 2 girls banished by doomsday cult

  01-10-2019 22:05 via news.yahoo.com
  A Colorado woman will spend the rest of her life behind bars for killing her two daughters after she and other members of a doomsday religious group banished them to a car without food or water because the girls were thought to have been impure.Nashika Bramble was sentenced to life in prison without parole Tuesday in the deaths of Makayla Roberts, 10, and Hannah Marshall, 8.The sisters' bodies were found in September 2017 in a car parked on a farm near Norwood, a town of about 500 people 30 mile
  
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• Former 'Top Gear' host told Greta Thunberg to 'be a good girl' and 'shut up'

  01-10-2019 22:05 via news.yahoo.com
  The former "Top Gear" presenter Jeremy Clarkson criticize climate activist Greta Thunberg in an op-ed article, following the 16-year-old's address at the United Nations Climate Action Summit.
  
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• Arizona boy dead after man attempted exorcism to get 'demon' out of him, officials say

  01-10-2019 22:00 via news.yahoo.com
  Pablo Martinez told police and the FBI that within the last week, he had noticed that “his son … had a demon inside of him."
  
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• NASA lander captures marsquakes, other Martian sounds

  01-10-2019 21:51 via news.yahoo.com
  NASA's InSight lander on Mars has captured the low rumble of marsquakes and a symphony of other otherworldly sounds.InSight's seismometer has detected more than 100 events, but only 21 are considered strong marsquake candidates.The French seismometer is so sensitive it can hear the Martian wind as well as movements by the lander's robot arm and other mechanical "dinks and donks " as the team calls them.
  
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• Why the Senate might impeach Trump

  01-10-2019 21:42 via cnn.com
  With the House now headed down a path that virtually guarantees President Donald Trump will be impeached, conventional wisdom has settled on the idea that the Republican-led Senate will never, ever remove him from office.
  
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• IG rebuts claims by Trump and his backers that rules were changed to allow whistleblower complaint

  01-10-2019 21:41 via news.yahoo.com
  President Donald Trump and his allies allege the inspector general changed the rules to allow a whistleblower complaint to proceed. The IG says not true.
  
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• UPDATE 2-Missouri executes man convicted of killing ex-girlfriend's boyfriend - media

  01-10-2019 21:40 via news.yahoo.com
  Missouri executed a man convicted of killing his ex-girlfriend's lover more than 20 years ago on Tuesday, media reported, after a court rejected his argument that he faced cruel and unusual punishment because of a rare medical condition that would make lethal injection severely painful.Russell Bucklew, 51, was pronounced dead at 6:23 p.m. CDT at the state's death chamber in Bonne Terre for the 1996 murder of Michael Sanders, shortly after he moved in with Bucklew's ex-girlfriend Stephanie Ray, C
  
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• WTO warns trade wars threaten living standards and jobs

  01-10-2019 21:39 via bbc.co.uk
  The World Trade Organization has slashed its forecast for trade growth this year by more than half.
  
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• This brewery in Maine gifts its employees with a free trip to Belgium on their 5 year work anniversary

  01-10-2019 21:37 via news.yahoo.com
  Allagash Brewing Company was voted Best Place to Work in Maine for 7 years running according to Outside Magazine — and has the best work perks.
  
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• Stranded Asylum Seekers Ask Appeals Court to Let Them In

  01-10-2019 21:32 via news.yahoo.com
  (Bloomberg) -- Central Americans seeking asylum in the U.S. said they’ve waited long enough in Mexico for their applications to be assessed under a Trump administration policy they call unlawful.On Tuesday, their advocates asked the federal appeals court in San Francisco to rule that the policy is illegal. Such a ruling would open the border gates to about 45,000 people, according to the American Civil Liberties Union.The three-judge panel didn’t decide whether to uphold a judge&rsqu
  
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• Trump impeachment: Pompeo accuses Democrats of 'bullying'

  01-10-2019 21:22 via bbc.co.uk
  The US secretary of state said five officials due to testify before committees this week would not appear.
  
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• World Athletics Championships: Asher-Smith cruises into 200m final

  01-10-2019 21:09 via bbc.co.uk
  Britain's Dina Asher-Smith eases into the 200m final after dominating her semi-final at the World Athletics Championships in Doha.
  
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• Ukraine opens Chernobyl's infamous reactor four control room to tourists

  01-10-2019 21:00 via news.yahoo.com
  Ukraine has opened the control room of Chernobyl reactor four, the epicentre of the worst nuclear disaster in history, to the public as part of a tourist boom. It was in this room in April 1986 that Soviet engineers shut down cooling pumps as part of a test, causing an out-of-control reaction, explosion and fire that killed at least 54 people and exposed hundreds of thousands to harmful radiation.  Now those brave or foolhardy enough to venture inside can catch a very brief glimpse of the p
  
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• North Korea Plans to Wage War from Secret Underground Air Bases

  01-10-2019 21:00 via news.yahoo.com
  How would they pull it off?
  
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• Man severely burned after falling into hot spring by Old Faithful in Yellowstone

  01-10-2019 20:56 via news.yahoo.com
  Walking off the boardwalks in Old Faithful is illegal, punishable by up to six months in prison and a $5,000 fine. Siemers may face criminal charges.
  
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• Killer with rare condition facing 'one of most gruesome executions' in US history

  01-10-2019 20:46 via news.yahoo.com
  A killer due to be executed in Missouri could get a last minute reprieve because of a rare condition that would cause him a “gruesome” death.Russell “Rusty” Bucklew was due to be put to death by lethal injection on Tuesday evening for crimes including murder, kidnapping and rape.
  
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• Chris Collins' is still worth a staggering amount despite resignation, indictment charges

  01-10-2019 20:32 via news.yahoo.com
  Chris Collins is worth a hefty amount as he faces trial — even if the exact amount is still somewhat elusive.
  
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• India defends e-cigarette ban in court with attack on Juul

  01-10-2019 20:30 via news.yahoo.com
  The impending introduction of Juul e-cigarettes in India was a factor in the government's decision to ban the sale of vaping products, a top government lawyer said in court on Tuesday while defending the order.The government took the step last month, warning Indians of a vaping "epidemic" among young people and dashing plans of companies such as U.S.-based Juul Labs Inc and Philip Morris International to sell products in the country.Juul had aimed to start offering e-cigarettes in India in late
  
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• Trump just went on an unprecedented Twitter tirade

  01-10-2019 20:28 via cnn.com
  President Donald Trump was very active on Twitter in September.CNN's Daniel Dale explains.
  
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• What China's parade told us about its military might

  01-10-2019 20:24 via bbc.co.uk
  Deep-sea drones and a new ICBM are displayed in public for the first time at a huge Beijing parade.
  
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• In pictures: China shows off military might at 70th anniversary parade

  01-10-2019 20:24 via bbc.co.uk
  Deep-sea drones and a new ICBM are displayed in public for the first time at a huge Beijing parade.
  
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• Trump's hugely misleading morning tweet

  01-10-2019 20:21 via cnn.com
  On Tuesday morning, President Donald Trump tweeted a 2016 map with the words "Try to impeach this" written across it.
  
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• White US cop convicted for shooting unarmed black neighbor in his home

  01-10-2019 20:09 via cnn.com
  (CNN) -- A Dallas jury on Tuesday found former police officer Amber Guyger guilty of murder for fatally shooting her unarmed neighbor, Botham Jean, in his own apartment, which she said she mistook for hers.
  
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• Zimbabwe Rejects U.S. Claim That Diamond Mine Uses Forced Labor

  01-10-2019 20:07 via news.yahoo.com
  (Bloomberg) -- Zimbabwe accused the U.S. of ignorance after the U.S. Customs and Border Protection announced it’s blocking rough diamond imports from the Marange fields because they were produced with forced labor. “It’s unfortunate that the U.S. authorities have been misinformed or misled to believe that Zimbabwe is mining diamonds through forced labor,” government spokesman Nick Mangwana said Tuesday by text message. “As a government we have a very strong revulsio
  
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• A 30-year-old man was gored by a bison at a Utah state park, then brought his 22-year-old date there and she was gored too

  01-10-2019 19:59 via news.yahoo.com
  Kyler Bourgeous says he probably won't return to the same park again, because he has "this weird feeling that the bison there really don't like me."
  
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• NASA listens to Mars' strange sounds

  01-10-2019 19:55 via cnn.com
  Mars is full of subtle sounds and thanks to NASA's InSight mission, we're finally able to hear them.
  
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• Finland college attack: Sword attacker kills woman in Kuopio

  01-10-2019 19:54 via bbc.co.uk
  A student carrying a sword entered the vocational school and began stabbing people.
  
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