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• Organic compounds found on one of Saturn's moons

  02-10-2019 23:52 via cnn.com
  Organic compounds have been found in the plumes rising from the subsurface ocean on Enceladus, adding to the evidence that one of Saturn's most intriguing moons should be explored further.
  
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• A vegan said she was 'poisoned for life' after accidentally eating meat. Here's the reality of what happens when you stop being vegan.

  02-10-2019 23:44 via news.yahoo.com
  Eating meat after years of veganism is rarely dangerous, but it may cause physical and mental symptoms, a dietitian said.
  
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• 6 arrested in connection to death of HQ Trivia co-founder

  02-10-2019 23:43 via abcnews.go.com
  Six alleged members of a drug delivery service were arrested by police and federal agents and charged with distributing drugs, including a dose that killed Colin Kroll.
  
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• Floating device created to clean up plastic from the ocean is finally working

  02-10-2019 23:16 via cnn.com
  A huge trash-collecting system designed to clean up plastic floating in the Pacific Ocean is finally picking up plastic, its inventor announced Wednesday.
  
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• Authorities searching for suspect who punched 73-year-old man in road rage attack

  02-10-2019 23:13 via abcnews.go.com
  Authorities in California are searching for a suspect who punched a 73-year-old man in the face outside a Dollar General.
  
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• The ocean on Saturn's moon Enceladus contains the building blocks of life, NASA data reveals

  02-10-2019 23:07 via news.yahoo.com
  NASA data revealed the most basic ingredients of life in bursts from an ocean on Saturn's moon Enceladus.
  
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• North Korea tests sub-launched ballistic missile ahead of US talks

  02-10-2019 23:07 via cnn.com
  The US has assessed that North Korea tested a medium-range missile on Wednesday local time. It was fired from a launcher placed on a floating barge off the coast of the country, according to two US officials familiar with the latest assessment.
  
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• Bernie Sanders was hospitalized with chest discomfort and has cancelled all 2020 campaign events until further notice

  02-10-2019 23:07 via news.yahoo.com
  Sen. Bernie Sanders, 78, was hospitalized in Las Vegas, Nevada, due to chest discomfort and has canceled all 2020 campaign events indefinitely.
  
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• A new Google tool will tell you if your passwords have been hacked

  02-10-2019 23:04 via news.yahoo.com
  Google on Wednesday announced new tools meant to enhance user privacy across its products, such as Google Maps incognito mode, YouTube history deletion, and privacy management via Google Assistant. But Google also announced a feature that should enhance your security online by telling you which passwords may have been compromised during security breaches targeting various sites, and advising immediate action.The feature is hardly new, and Google Chrome isn't the only browser that can help you wi
  
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• Tensions over Hong Kong unrest flare on US college campuses

  02-10-2019 23:02 via news.yahoo.com
  As political tensions flare back home, Hong Kong students on U.S. college campuses say they have been ostracized and in some cases threatened by fellow students from mainland China, and they suspect they are being watched from afar by Beijing.Some say they see the hand of the Chinese government working in ways that threaten academic freedom.
  
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• Jeff Bezos speaks at Jamal Khashoggi's vigil

  02-10-2019 22:53 via cnn.com
  Amazon founder and CEO Jeff Bezos delivers speech at the anniversary vigil of Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi, who was killed a year ago.
  
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• 'Urgent' briefing held with State Dept. inspector general

  02-10-2019 22:49 via cnn.com
  The State Department inspector general is briefing congressional staff Wednesday afternoon after requesting an urgent meeting to share documents related to the State Department and Ukraine.
  
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• This is how much plastic lives in the stomach of a sea turtle

  02-10-2019 22:39 via cnn.com
  After a failed deployment in 2018, The Ocean Cleanup has now developed a massive floating system it says will be capable of cleaning up 90% of ocean plastic by the year 2040.
  
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• 'Gigantic' iceberg breaks away from ice shelf in Antarctica

  02-10-2019 22:38 via news.yahoo.com
  A colossal iceberg roughly the size of Los Angeles or Sydney, Australia, and weighing an estimated 347 billion tons broke off from the Amery Ice Shelf in Antarctica last week.The 630-square-mile iceberg, named D28, separated from the ice shelf on September 26, next to a location scientists had been watching for nearly 20 years. The area was known as the "Loose Tooth," because it appeared to be barely hanging on to the ice shelf in recent years."We first noticed a rift at the front of the ice she
  
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• Exclusive: Ships with 1 million tonnes of grain stuck outside Iran's ports in payment crisis

  02-10-2019 22:32 via news.yahoo.com
  LONDON/DUBAI (Reuters) - More than 20 ships carrying around one million tonnes of grain are stuck outside Iranian ports as U.S. sanctions create payment problems and hamper the country's efforts to import vital commodities, sources directly involved in the trade said. Trading companies such as Bunge and China’s COFCO International have been hit by payment delays and additional costs of up to $15,000 a day as the renewed U.S. restrictions stifle the processing of transactions, trade sources
  
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• Police officer suspended after turning in driver involved in accident to ICE: Chief

  02-10-2019 22:24 via abcnews.go.com
  A Virginia police department has suspended one of its officers after he turned in a driver involved in a traffic accident to U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement.
  
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• Trump claims, without evidence, Schiff 'helped write' whistleblower complaint. The committee didn't see it in advance

  02-10-2019 22:21 via cnn.com
  The whistleblower at the center of the House's impeachment inquiry of President Donald Trump first contacted the staff of the House Intelligence Committee for guidance before sending the complaint to the Trump administration, according to a spokesman and a new report.
  
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• Five Eritrean soccer players go missing during tournament in Uganda

  02-10-2019 22:20 via feeds.foxnews.com
  Five Eritrean soccer players disappeared from the team hotel in Uganda ahead of their semifinal game in a regional tournament, officials said Wednesday.
  
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• Fairfax County, Va., cop suspended for turning individual over to ICE

  02-10-2019 22:14 via news.yahoo.com
  The Fairfax County, Va., Police Department has suspended an officer for detaining and turning the driver in an accident over to Immigration and Customs Enforcement on Saturday in violation of the department’s policy not to assist ICE with civil enforcement.
  
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• Markets take a nosedive over US economy fears

  02-10-2019 22:13 via cnn.com
  The Dow and the broader stock market are flashing deep red on Wednesday.
  
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• Mike Pompeo made at least 4 significantly misleading statements about his role in the Trump-Ukraine phone call

  02-10-2019 22:05 via news.yahoo.com
  Pompeo made at least four misleading statements in recent days about his knowledge of the contents of a whistleblower's complaint about the call.
  
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• 9 dead, hundreds wounded in two days of antigovernment protests in Iraq

  02-10-2019 21:59 via feeds.foxnews.com
  Nine have been killed and hundreds more wounded over the past two days in a series of anti-government protests turned violent in Iraq. 
  
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• Trump berates reporter, refuses to answer question about Ukraine and Biden

  02-10-2019 21:55 via news.yahoo.com
  At a press conference with the president of Finland, President Trump berated Reuters reporter Jeff Mason and refused to answer a question about what he wanted the Ukrainian president to do regarding former Vice President Joe Biden.
  
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• Joe Biden’s Gun-Control Plan Is a Constitutional Disaster

  02-10-2019 21:22 via news.yahoo.com
  This morning, Democratic presidential front-runner Joe Biden unveiled his “Plan to End Our Gun Violence Epidemic,” and it’s a mess. It contains provisions that would bankrupt gun manufacturers for the crime of selling fully functional, legal firearms. It would ban the sale of the most popular rifles in America and the standard-capacity magazines made for America’s most commonly used handguns. Oh, and to incentivize a voluntary buyback of existing “assault weapons,&r
  
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• A North Carolina man just won a $750,000 lawsuit after suing his wife's lover

  02-10-2019 21:20 via cnn.com
  A North Carolina man says his divorce was almost unbearable, but an unusual legal claim just landed him a $750,000 judgment.
  
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• Prosecutor: ‘El Chapo’ gave $1M to Honduras leader’s brother

  02-10-2019 21:13 via news.yahoo.com
  Prosecutors alleged Wednesday that convicted Mexican drug lord Joaquín “El Chapo” Guzmán personally gave $1 million in bribes to the brother of Honduras’ president to pass on to the Central American leader, who swiftly denied wrongdoing.Prosecutor Jason Richman revealed the allegation in a federal court in Manhattan where Juan Antonio “Tony” Hernández, 41, is accused of using his government connections to smuggle U.S.-bound cocaine through Hondu
  
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• Placido Domingo exits LA Opera amid sexual harassment investigation

  02-10-2019 21:13 via abcnews.go.com
  Placido Domingo announced he was resigning from LA Opera amid a sexual harassment investigation the company was running.
  
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• NASA discovered a black spot on Jupiter 2,200 miles long

  02-10-2019 21:13 via cnn.com
  A NASA space mission found a large black spot on Jupiter, and it isn't what you think.
  
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• Fast food drive-thrus: Which chains are the fastest and slowest?

  02-10-2019 21:09 via news.yahoo.com
  Time spent in fast food drive-thrus was 20 seconds slower in 2019 than the year before, a new performance study suggests.
  
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• 'Joker' toes fine line in portraying the making of a monster

  02-10-2019 21:08 via cnn.com
  "Joker" might bring to mind a caped crusader, but it's another vigilante, "Taxi Driver's" Travis Bickle, who provides the movie's spiritual sire. Joaquin Phoenix's electric, disturbing performance is thus dogged by history and questions about the "why" of it all -- that is, a Joker without Batman -- an answer that isn't really in the cards.
  
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• 'Poor President of Finland,' California gov. tweets after Trump's lengthy press conference

  02-10-2019 21:08 via news.yahoo.com
  California Gov. Gavin Newsom tweeted after Trump's lengthy diatribes during a press conference: "just feel bad for the poor President of Finland"
  
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• The FBI is running Facebook ads targeting Russians in Washington

  02-10-2019 21:04 via cnn.com
  The FBI is running ads on Facebook in the Washington DC area seemingly designed to target and recruit Russian spies as well as those who know about their work, CNN has learned.
  
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• Anonymous letters detail alleged misconduct at police department

  02-10-2019 20:55 via abcnews.go.com
  More than a dozen letters from police officers and employees allege that there is rampant racism and mistreatment inside the Columbus Police Department.
  
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• Afghanistan security adviser says hard-line Taliban members defecting to ISIS, merging with Al Qaeda

  02-10-2019 20:50 via feeds.foxnews.com
  More than eighteen years after U.S. forces entered Afghanistan and usurped the Taliban government from power, the country remains a patchwork of progress, pain, and bloodletting. 
  
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• Warren’s Poll Numbers Surge with Rising Support Among Black Voters

  02-10-2019 20:49 via news.yahoo.com
  Elizabeth Warren’s polling numbers continue to surge among African Americans, an important demographic in the race for the Democratic nomination, according to the most recent Morning Consult poll released on Wednesday.The poll indicated Warren is up by five points among black voters since August, a shift confirmed by the latest Quinnipiac national poll, which showed the Massachusetts senator winning 19 percent of the African-American vote — a nine-point jump over earlier polling.In t
  
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• Fall or summer? Scorching, record-breaking heat hits Northeast

  02-10-2019 20:49 via abcnews.go.com
  New York City hit 92 degrees Wednesday.
  
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• You can weigh in on Fat Bear Week

  02-10-2019 20:46 via cnn.com
  The Katmai National Park & Preserve in Alaska holds an annual competition for the fattest bear in the state's Brooks River as the bears pack on pounds ahead of hibernation.
  
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• Pelosi says Trump 'scared' of impeachment inquiry in exclusive ABC News interview

  02-10-2019 20:44 via abcnews.go.com
  Speaker Nancy Pelosi tells ABC News' George Stephanopoulos that President Donald Trump is “scared” of the impeachment inquiry amid whistleblower complaint.
  
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• Uganda warns of prison for anyone wearing red beret of pop star presidential challenger

  02-10-2019 20:41 via feeds.foxnews.com
  Uganda has warned that anyone who wears a red beret in support of pop star-turned-presidential challenger Bobi Wine could go to prison for life.
  
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• DNC announces 12-candidate, single night lineup for 4th presidential debate

  02-10-2019 20:41 via abcnews.go.com
  The Democratic National Committee announced Wednesday the 12 candidates set to face off against each other on Oct. 15 for the fourth primary debate of the cycle.
  
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• The Trump whistleblower told the House Intelligence Committee about their concerns before filing an official complaint

  02-10-2019 20:30 via news.yahoo.com
  A committee aide told the whistleblower to hire a lawyer and get advice about filing an official complaint through the US intelligence community.
  
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• Hurricane Lorenzo lashes Azores with high waves, heavy rain as storm takes aim at British Isles

  02-10-2019 20:25 via feeds.foxnews.com
  Hurricane Lorenzo lashed the Azores Islands with heavy rains, powerful winds and high waves Wednesday.
  
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• Ohio School Allows Police to Fire Shotgun Blanks in Active Shooter Drill

  02-10-2019 20:17 via news.yahoo.com
  An Ohio school conducted an active shooter drill Tuesday in which two police officers fired blank shells from a shotgun and a rifle inside the school as students sheltered in place.Principal Kelli Fromm of Franklin High School told the Dayton Daily News that school officials were certain the students could handle it."We want them to feel empowered" to deal with the situation, Fromm said.Teachers were put through a similar drill several weeks beforehand in order to prepare, and students were debr
  
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• India-Pakistan nuclear war could kill 100 million, trigger global cooling

  02-10-2019 20:12 via news.yahoo.com
  The year is 2025 and militants have attacked India's parliament, killing most of its leaders.New Delhi retaliates by sending tanks into the part of Kashmir controlled by Pakistan.Fearing it will be overrun, Islamabad hits the invading forces with its battlefield nuclear weapons, triggering an escalating exchange that becomes the deadliest conflict in history and sends millions of tons of thick, black smoke into the upper atmosphere.
  
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• How daughter of serial killer victim uncovered the chilling truth about her family

  02-10-2019 20:12 via abcnews.go.com
  She and her biological mother vanished in 1985, when she was just 4 months old, and their family presumed they were dead. She was adopted and renamed Heather Robinson.
  
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• Schiff takes charge of impeachment, issues stern warnings to Trump and Pompeo

  02-10-2019 20:11 via news.yahoo.com
  House Intelligence Committee Chairman Adam Schiff charged President Trump with “incitement of violence” in his combative response to the whistleblower complaint.
  
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• Greta Thunberg doesn't understand complexities of ‘modern world,’ says Putin

  02-10-2019 20:08 via news.yahoo.com
  At an energy forum in Moscow, the Russian president dismissed the Swedish teenage climate activist’s viral U.N. speech — and took a swipe at her parents.
  
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• Greta Thunberg doesn't understand 'complex and different' modern world, says Putin

  02-10-2019 20:08 via news.yahoo.com
  At an energy forum in Moscow, the Russian president dismissed the Swedish teenage climate activist’s viral U.N. speech — and took a swipe at her parents.
  
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• Stocks extend slide on increasing economic growth concerns

  02-10-2019 20:07 via abcnews.go.com
  U.S. stocks accelerated their losses in midday trading Wednesday as investors retreated amid more disappointing economic news and the growing threat of an economic slowdown
  
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• Fox Host David Asman Fawns Over Trump for Attacking Wrong Paper for NYT’s Border Moat Story

  02-10-2019 20:00 via news.yahoo.com
  Minutes after President Donald Trump unleashed a lengthy and vicious attack against the wrong newspaper for reporting on his desire for snake-filled moats and the ability to shoot migrants at the border, Fox Business Network host David Asman gushed over the president’s unhinged and false remarks.Serving Wednesday as the “One Lucky Guy” on Fox’s daytime talk show Outnumbered, Asman immediately applauded Trump for railing against the media and Democrats while speaking to re
  
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