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• Turkey Boosts Syria Border Troops as Erdogan Flags Incursion

  05-10-2019 23:48 via news.yahoo.com
  (Bloomberg) -- Turkey reinforced army units at the Syrian border hours after President Recep Tayyip Erdogan signaled an imminent cross-border operation against U.S.-backed Kurdish militants in Syria.Turkey sent additional armored vehicles and troops to the border town of Akcakale late Saturday, across from Tal Abyad in Syria, according to state TV television TRT.Erdogan said earlier in the day that Turkey was ready to start a military operation in northern Syria to claim areas from the Kurdish m
  
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• Iran frees Australian travel bloggers in possible prisoner swap

  05-10-2019 23:47 via feeds.foxnews.com
  Iran on Saturday freed two Australian travel bloggers who were detained for three months after being arrested for flying a drone near a military zone without a license.
  
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• Massive 98-pound Burmese python captured in Florida

  05-10-2019 23:36 via cnn.com
  What would you do if you encountered a 98-pound Burmese python while out on a hike in Florida?
  
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• McConnell fundraises off impeachment, says effort will fail 'with me as majority leader'

  05-10-2019 23:28 via news.yahoo.com
  Standing in front of a picture of an elephant, the Kentucky Republican said impeachment efforts will stop in the Senate with him as majority leader.
  
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• US-China trade war forcing many farmers to take 2nd jobs to make ends meet

  05-10-2019 23:16 via abcnews.go.com
  Farmers across the country rely on the Market Facilitation Program for financial aid, but many say that it isn't enough to pay the bills.
  
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• Two inmates escape from Canadian penitentiary, police say

  05-10-2019 23:08 via cnn.com
  Two inmates believed to be dangerous escaped from a Canadian prison in Saskatchewan Friday night and are still on the run, police said.
  
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• Jay Parini: Bernie Sanders' heart attack raises questions

  05-10-2019 22:14 via cnn.com
  We've recently learned two things about Bernie Sanders: that he had a heart attack, and that he was not immediately forthcoming with the news. I wouldn't go so far to call this a "cover-up," not in the Age of Trump, where an entire presidency is a cover-up. But it's dismaying, as it feels like political "business as usual" for Bernie to lack transparency, even for a few days, and even under these vulnerable conditions.
  
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• Prince Harry: tabloids hid hacking crimes for 20 years

  05-10-2019 22:05 via theguardian.com
  Duke of Sussex joins case against Sun and Mirror in group action alleging documents were destroyedLeading tabloid newspapers concealed or destroyed evidence that they illegally targeted Prince Harry and his circle of friends and advisers over many years, according to allegations contained in his unprecedented legal action against two media groups.He is joining scores of other people in a group claim that alleges editors and executives at Mirror Group Newspapers, publisher of the Daily Mirror, an
  
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• A Jeffrey Epstein accuser blames Victoria's Secret owner Les Wexner for sexual assault that she says occurred on his Ohio property

  05-10-2019 22:04 via news.yahoo.com
  In New Albany, Ohio, Maria Farmer says Jeffrey Epstein assaulted her in a home owned by CEO Les Wexner, with guards who wouldn't let her leave.
  
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• The Latest: Gunmen attack TV offices in Baghdad amid unrest

  05-10-2019 21:56 via news.yahoo.com
  Unknown gunmen have attacked the offices of television stations in the Iraqi capital amid the unrest gripping the country.The Saudi-owned Al-Arabiya news channel says masked gunmen who arrived in black cars wearing black clothes stormed the offices of the station in Abu Nawas street Saturday evening, beat up some of the employees and smashed equipment before they fled.Majed Hamid, the channel's correspondent in Baghdad, said several colleagues were injured.
  
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• Trump crudely insults fellow Republican Romney after criticism

  05-10-2019 21:19 via cnn.com
  President Donald Trump lashed out at Republican Sen. Mitt Romney of Utah Saturday after Romney rebuked him for calling on Ukraine and China to investigate the family of former Vice President Joe Biden.
  
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• The US President lashed out at a sitting senator from his own party, while ignoring other critical Republicans

  05-10-2019 21:19 via cnn.com
  President Donald Trump lashed out at Republican Sen. Mitt Romney of Utah Saturday after Romney rebuked him for calling on Ukraine and China to investigate the family of former Vice President Joe Biden.
  
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• The President lashed out at a sitting senator from his own party, while ignoring other critical Republicans

  05-10-2019 21:19 via cnn.com
  President Donald Trump lashed out at Republican Sen. Mitt Romney of Utah Saturday after Romney rebuked him for calling on Ukraine and China to investigate the family of former Vice President Joe Biden.
  
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• 4 homeless men killed as they slept in NY

  05-10-2019 21:19 via cnn.com
  Four homeless men in Manhattan have been killed -- and a fifth injured -- in what investigators believe were attacks that began while they were sleeping, New York City police said Saturday.
  
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• Egypt says talks over Ethiopia's Nile dam deadlocked, calls for mediation

  05-10-2019 21:17 via news.yahoo.com
  Egypt said on Saturday that talks with Sudan and Ethiopia over the operation of a $4 billion hydropower dam that Ethiopia is constructing on the Nile have reached a deadlock, and it called for international mediation.Egypt relies on the Nile for 90% of its fresh water.
  
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• Hong Kong protesters defy mask ban as city grinds to halt

  05-10-2019 21:15 via news.yahoo.com
  Masked pro-democracy protesters marched through Hong Kong in defiance of a ban on face coverings as much of the city ground to a halt on Saturday, with the subway suspended and many shops shuttered following another night of violence.Thousands of protesters staged unsanctioned marches and flashmob protests at multiple locations, a day after the city's leader outlawed face coverings at protests, invoking colonial-era emergency powers not used for half a century.The latest acts of resistance came
  
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• Michel Barnier: blame Boris Johnson for a no-deal Brexit

  05-10-2019 21:11 via theguardian.com
  EU’s chief negotiator issues warning to UK government as talks appear on brink of collapse
  • ‘We cannot change what we are’: Michel Barnier stares down Tory threatsThe EU’s chief negotiator, Michel Barnier, has said Boris Johnson’s government will have to bear full responsibility for a no-deal Brexit, as more than three years of talks between the UK and Brussels appeared on the brink of collapse last night.In what appeared to be the opening shots in a blame gam
  
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• For Hong Kong protesters, masks shield against Big Brother

  05-10-2019 21:11 via abcnews.go.com
  The lengths to which Hong Kong protesters go to conceal their identities are a consequence of living in the shadow of Big Brother
  
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• Sculptor Antony Gormley plans Brexit giants off the French coast

  05-10-2019 21:05 via theguardian.com
  Iron figures would extend four miles out to sea to celebrate shared Celtic and neolithic heritage of UK and BrittanyStark on a hill over Gateshead, Sir Antony Gormley’s Angel of the North stands as a symbol of Britain’s northern identity. And across the country, on the Mersey estuary, the sculptor’s group of imposing solo figures at Crosby beach has become part of the landscape.Now, on the eve of Britain’s potential departure from Europe, Gormley is planning a new and dra
  
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• Electric company PG&E to pay $65M over claims it falsified records

  05-10-2019 21:02 via abcnews.go.com
  The money will not come from customers, according to the settlement terms.
  
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• Tens of thousands march for independence in Scottish capital

  05-10-2019 21:00 via news.yahoo.com
  Tens of thousands of Scottish independence supporters marched in Edinburgh on Saturday, as calls grow for a fresh vote on Scotland breaking away from the United Kingdom with Brexit scheduled for within weeks.Independence" as the throng of people made its way up the city's famous Royal Mile."Scotland is second class in this union," said Peter Johnston, 22, one of the organisers of the march.
  
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• ‘Delicate moment’: was Scott Morrison’s Lowy speech a pivot towards Trumpism?

  05-10-2019 21:00 via theguardian.com
  The PM has taken a barely veiled swipe at the United Nations and the international institutions Australia previously championedAs Scott Morrison took to his feet in the imperial surrounds of Sydney town hall on Thursday night for a major foreign policy speech, he quietly observed he found himself governing at “an unusually delicate moment in time”.His government had spent a frenzied week caught in the chaos and calumny of the Trump administration, with Morrison himself facing questio
  
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• US diplomat's wife leaves the UK as police probe deadly August crash

  05-10-2019 20:56 via feeds.foxnews.com
  The wife of an American diplomat has left the United Kingdom after becoming a suspect in a fatal traffic accident.
  
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• Spurs thrashed again as Lloris stretchered off

  05-10-2019 20:56 via cnn.com
  Tottenham Hotspur's French World Cup-winning goalkeeper Hugo Lloris was stretchered off in agony after his early blunder led to Brighton's opener in a 3-0 win over Mauricio Pochettino's faltering side.
  
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• Lloris suffers freak injury in Spurs defeat

  05-10-2019 20:56 via cnn.com
  Tottenham Hotspur's French World Cup winning goalkeeper Hugo Lloris was stretchered off in agony after his early blunder led to Brighton's opener in a 3-0 win over Mauricio Pochettino's faltering side.
  
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• Baby turtle found with 104 pieces of plastic in its belly

  05-10-2019 20:54 via cnn.com
  A baby turtle that washed up in Boca Raton, Florida, and died shortly after was found with 104 pieces of plastic in its stomach.
  
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• If the House Won’t Vote, Impeachment Inquiry Is Just a Democratic Stunt

  05-10-2019 20:53 via news.yahoo.com
  ‘The House of Representatives . . . shall have the sole Power of Impeachment.”It’s right there in black-and-white: In article I, section 2, clause 5, our Constitution vests the entirety of the power to call for removal of the president of the United States in a single body — the House.Not in the Speaker of the House. In the House of Representatives. The institution, not one of its members.To be sure, Speaker Nancy Pelosi is a very powerful government official: s
  
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• Et tu, Mitt? Trump blasts Republican senator as impeachment battle heats up

  05-10-2019 20:38 via news.yahoo.com
  WASHINGTON/ATHENS, Oct 5 (Reuters) - U.S. President Donald Trump on Saturday opened a new front in the impeachment battle that threatens his administration, blasting a prominent member of his party for criticizing his push to get foreign nations to probe a leading Democratic rival.Romney, who lost the 2012 election to Democratic incumbent President Barack Obama, criticized Trump on Friday for asking China to investigate former Vice President Joe Biden, who is seeking the 2020 Democratic presiden
  
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• Joe diGenova trashes his Fox colleague Chris Wallace

  05-10-2019 20:37 via news.yahoo.com
  Days after Fox News anchor Chris Wallace said that husband-wife lawyer team Joe diGenova and Victoria Toensing worked “off the books” with President Trump's lawyer Rudy Giuliani to investigate Joe Biden, the two attorneys attacked Wallace during a Fox Business Network appearance, and Trump-supporting host Lou Dobbs largely stood by.
  
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• Toddlers wander from daycare unnoticed, stopped by drivers

  05-10-2019 20:30 via abcnews.go.com
  A suburban Phoenix preschool is under investigation after several toddlers wandered away and onto a street without notice
  
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• 37 injured after double-decker bus overturns

  05-10-2019 20:30 via cnn.com
  Thirty-seven people were injured Saturday when a double-decker bus overturned in Devon in southern England.
  
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• 37 hurt when double-decker bus overturns in south England

  05-10-2019 20:30 via cnn.com
  Thirty-seven people were injured Saturday when a double-decker bus overturned in Devon in southern England.
  
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• 37 hurt when double-decker bus overturns

  05-10-2019 20:30 via cnn.com
  Thirty-seven people were injured Saturday when a double-decker bus overturned in Devon in southern England.
  
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• North Korea blocks high-rise windows to prevent information leaks: report

  05-10-2019 20:25 via feeds.foxnews.com
  Officials in North Korea have blocked the windows of Pyongyang’s high-rises in an effort to prevent people from spying on government buildings and leaking information, according to reports. 
  
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• Newspaper photographer Sally Soames dies at 82

  05-10-2019 20:23 via theguardian.com
  Famous for her engaging portraits, Soames’ work is held in collections around the world The newspaper photographer Sally Soames has died at the age of 82. Speaking on Saturday to the Observer, the newspaper that gave Soames her first assignment, her only child, Trevor, said she had died that morning at her home in north London, surrounded by her family and after a long period of illness. Continue reading...
  
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• An anti-Muslim group is hosting a $1,500-per-ticket gala at Trump’s Mar-a-Lago

  05-10-2019 20:22 via news.yahoo.com
  The club is just one part of Trump's business network that has sparked concerns over ethics guidelines and possible pay-for-play association.
  
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• 6 plead guilty in $48M drug treatment fraud scheme

  05-10-2019 20:10 via abcnews.go.com
  Federal authorities say six people have pleaded guilty to charges involving a $48 million Medicaid fraud scheme involving an Ohio addiction services company
  
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• Giuliani gives bizarre interview before posting angry 4:54 a.m. tweet

  05-10-2019 20:05 via news.yahoo.com
  President Trump’s personal lawyer Rudy Giuliani said his mission was “to disrupt the world” as he attempted to defend his involvement in the Ukraine scandal.
  
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• Purdue's proposed settlement could be in trouble after it was revealed how much Sacklers profited

  05-10-2019 19:51 via news.yahoo.com
  It's becoming a little clearer just how much cash the Sackler family raked in from their ownership of Purdue Pharma, the pharmaceutical giant known for making OxyContin and allegedly playing a major role in the opioid epidemic plaguing the United States.Bankruptcy court filings revealed that Purdue reportedly sent $12 billion or $13 billion in profits to the Sacklers, The Wall Street Journal reports, though it's not clear what years the distribution covered.The figure is relevant as some states,
  
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• Six elephants die while trying to save each other in 'Hell's Abyss' Thai waterfall

  05-10-2019 19:45 via news.yahoo.com
  Six wild elephants drowned after slipping off a waterfall in northeast Thailand, authorities said on Saturday, with two others saved after they became stranded while apparently trying to rescue one of those that fell into the current. Officials in the northeastern Khao Yai national park were alerted to elephants "crying" for help at 3am, the Thai Department of National Parks, Wildlife and Plant Conservation said in a statement. Hours later, they found six bodies at the bottom of the gushing Haew
  
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• Trump told Theresa May he doubted Russia was behind Skripal poisoning

  05-10-2019 19:44 via theguardian.com
  The US president reportedly disputed UK’s ‘overwhelming evidence’ of Russian involvement in Salisbury attack Donald Trump disputed that Russia was behind the attempted murder of a former Russian spy in a tense call with Theresa May, it has emerged.Despite the widespread conclusion that Vladimir Putin’s regime was behind the poisoning of Sergei Skripal and his daughter Yulia last year, the US president is said to have spent 10 minutes expressing his doubts about Russian in
  
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• Six elephants fall to their death trying to save each other at Thai waterfall

  05-10-2019 19:32 via feeds.foxnews.com
  Six elephants plummeted to their deaths in Thailand on Saturday while trying to save each other from a treacherous waterfall.
  
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• Singer Sia reveals neurological disease

  05-10-2019 19:27 via cnn.com
  Sia revealed something deeply personal on Twitter Friday.
  
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• Nearly 100 killed, 4,000 wounded in Iraq as anti-government protests reach fifth day

  05-10-2019 19:25 via feeds.foxnews.com
  At least 94 people have been killed and over 4,000 have been wounded as tens of thousands of protesters have taken to the streets in Baghdad and southern Iraq over the past five days, according to the Iraqi High Commission for Human Rights.
  
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• Paris police attacker a radicalised Islamist, says French prosecutor

  05-10-2019 19:21 via theguardian.com
  Police now believe stabbings were terrorist attack reveals Jean-François RicardA police administrator who stabbed and killed four people at Paris’s police headquarters on Thursday was a radicalised Islamist who slit the throat of at least one of his victims, the French anti-terrorist prosecutor revealed on Saturday.Mickael H acted with premeditation, buying two knives shortly before the attack on Thursday lunchtime in the centre of the city, and exchanging more than 30 religious tex
  
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• Rod Stewart crashes wedding

  05-10-2019 19:16 via cnn.com
  A British couple got a big surprise at their wedding in Las Vegas when rock legend Rod Stewart turned up unannounced to sing at the ceremony at Caesars Palace.
  
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• Magnitude 3.6 Earthquake Awakens Bay Area Californians

  05-10-2019 19:16 via news.yahoo.com
  There have been no reported injuries
  
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• Journalist says CBP agent refused to return passport until he admitted to writing 'propaganda'

  05-10-2019 19:12 via news.yahoo.com
  A U.S. Customs and Border Protection official withheld journalist Ben Watson's passport until he admitted to writing 'propaganda.'
  
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• A 3.5 magnitude earthquake hit south of San Francisco

  05-10-2019 19:07 via news.yahoo.com
  A 3.5 magnitude earthquake hit west of Colma, which is just south of San Francisco. Colma is known as "The City of the Dead" because of its cemeteries
  
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• 2020 Lincoln Continental Coach Door Edition Priced at $116,645

  05-10-2019 19:05 via news.yahoo.com
  High-dollar, old-school American opulence is back for 2020, suicide doors and all.
  
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