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• Endometriosis: The condition that can take over seven years to diagnose

  06-10-2019 23:59 via bbc.co.uk
  Three women out of 13,500 who took part in BBC research, explain how the condition affects them.
  
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• Ohio University suspended all 15 fraternities on-campus after National Hazing Prevention Week was followed by 7 hazing allegations

  06-10-2019 23:49 via news.yahoo.com
  After OU sororities and fraternities held National Hazing Prevention Week events, 7 allegations against separate fraternities were brought forward.
  
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• Iowa teacher on leave after 'sniper rifle' comment about Greta Thunberg visit

  06-10-2019 23:47 via news.yahoo.com
  The high school science teacher wrote "Dont have my sniper rifle" on a post about Greta Thunberg, a 16-year-old climate activist's visit to Iowa City.
  
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• Former President Jimmy Carter 'feels fine' after fall

  06-10-2019 23:38 via news.yahoo.com
  Former President Jimmy Carter fell Sunday at his home in Georgia and needed some stitches above his brow, but "feels fine," his spokeswoman said.Deanna Congileo said in an email that the 39th president fell Sunday in Plains, Georgia, and received stitches.Carter turned 95 on Tuesday, becoming the first U.S. president to reach that milestone.
  
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• Latest: Restaurant owner among 5 hurt in electrical blasts

  06-10-2019 23:18 via news.yahoo.com
  The owner of a restaurant had evacuated a dining area about 40 minutes before a series of electrical vault explosions injured him and four others during an Oktoberfest celebration in Southern California.Revelers scrambled for safety after the blasts sent flames shooting into the sky Saturday night at Old World Village, a German-themed dining and shopping complex in Huntington Beach.Owner Bernie Bischoff called firefighters and cleared the dining area after noticing an odd smell coming from the e
  
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• Women lead US gold rush on final day of World Athletics Championships

  06-10-2019 23:11 via cnn.com
  US women led its gold rush on the final day of the World Athletics Championship in Doha Sunday with a 4 x 400m relay romp and a standout victory for Nia Ali in the women's 100m hurdles.
  
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• National Geographic journalist shot while interviewing purported drug dealer in Mexico

  06-10-2019 23:07 via news.yahoo.com
  Mexico is the most dangerous country for journalists in the Western Hemisphere. The purported drug dealer was killed in the Friday evening ambush.
  
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• Shocking video of Hong Kong taxi driver slamming into protestors

  06-10-2019 23:05 via cnn.com
  A Hong Kong taxi driver plowed his vehicle into a crowd of protesters who were demonstrating against the new anti-mask law. Soon after the driver ran into the protesters, a crowd dragged the man from the car and attacked him.
  
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• Iraq blames 'malicious' hands as toll from unrest tops 100

  06-10-2019 22:40 via news.yahoo.com
  Twelve anti-government demonstrators were killed Sunday in ongoing protests in the capital Baghdad, the latest fatalities in six days of clashes that have left more than 100 dead and thousands wounded.Iraq's government has scrambled to contain the popular anger that has racked Baghdad and a number of southern cities since Tuesday.In the first official statement from the government accounting for the violence, Interior Ministry spokesman Saad Maan said Sunday that 104 people had been killed in th
  
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• I sat through 6 hours of town halls. Here’s what I learned about impeachment.

  06-10-2019 22:31 via politico.com
  For Democrats, it was a reflection of their pride that this suburban Chicago district flipped from red to blue last year after more than 45 years as a reliable Republican stronghold.Conservatives, on the other hand, wanted to emphasize to me that Rep. Sean Casten is just too liberal for Illinois’ 6th Congressional District, and that voters here support President Donald Trump and his agenda.Casten is among those who’ve been dubbed “frontliners” by their party — fresh
  
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• Trump's sudden 'corruption' fixation doesn't add up

  06-10-2019 22:25 via cnn.com
  Facing potential impeachment for pressuring Ukraine to help him secure re-election next year, President Donald Trump has pivoted to a new defense, saying his efforts were apolitical and solely motivated by his good-faith desire to root out "corruption."
  
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• Trump's fixation on corruption doesn't add up

  06-10-2019 22:25 via cnn.com
  Facing potential impeachment for pressuring Ukraine to help him secure re-election next year, President Donald Trump has pivoted to a new defense, saying his efforts were apolitical and solely motivated by his good-faith desire to root out "corruption."
  
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• Rep. Jordan suggests Trump was only joking when asking China to investigate the Bidens — despite private plea to Xi

  06-10-2019 22:11 via news.yahoo.com
  Rep. Jim Jordan on Sunday insisted President Trump was not “serious” about asking China to investigate former Vice President Joe Biden and his son Hunter.
  
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• North Korea accuses the Trump administration of 'misleading' the public after nuclear talks break down

  06-10-2019 22:10 via news.yahoo.com
  Nuclear talks between the US and North Korea have seemingly broken down once again, and the two sides have conflicting stories on the matter.
  
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• Israel unveils remains of 5,000-year-old city

  06-10-2019 21:51 via news.yahoo.com
  Israeli archaeologists on Sunday unveiled the remains of a 5,000-year-old city they said was among the biggest from its era in the region, including fortifications, a ritual temple and a cemetery."We have here an immense urban construction, planned with streets that separate neighbourhoods and public spaces," Yitzhak Paz of the Israel Antiquities Authority told AFP at the site near the Mediterranean in the country's centre.The archaeological site known as En Esur "is the largest site and the mos
  
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• The Philippines May Be About to Jump Ship For Russia

  06-10-2019 21:30 via news.yahoo.com
  The Pentagon won't be happy.
  
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• A Chinese hog farmer is breeding giant, polar bear-sized pigs that weigh over 1,100 pounds, while the country contends with pork shortages

  06-10-2019 21:28 via news.yahoo.com
  As African swine fever decimates Chinese pork production, some farmers are breeding the biggest pigs possible, with some as large as polar bears.
  
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• Ex-Trump Organization exec says she expects Trump will resign

  06-10-2019 21:15 via cnn.com
  A former Trump Organization executive says she thinks President Donald Trump may resign rather than face possible removal from office by impeachment.
  
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• Teachers suspended after unsupervised toddlers escape preschool, wander into traffic

  06-10-2019 21:04 via news.yahoo.com
  A woman reported seeing a group of toddlers wandering the streets near Little Sunshine's Playhouse & Preschool in Gilbert, Arizona, on Friday morning.
  
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• Passengers stranded for hours in Disney World's new gondola

  06-10-2019 20:59 via cnn.com
  Walt Disney World lost a bit of its magic for visitors who spent Saturday night stranded on the theme park's new Skyliner gondola.
  
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• Disney World visitors stranded in sky for hours after new gondola stalls

  06-10-2019 20:59 via cnn.com
  Walt Disney World lost a bit of its magic for visitors who spent Saturday night stranded on the theme park's new Skyliner gondola.
  
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• A Delta flight was delayed 3 hours after a passenger managed to board without a ticket (DAL)

  06-10-2019 20:45 via news.yahoo.com
  A TSA spokesperson said the person did go through security, but all passengers were re-screened out of an abundance of caution.
  
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• Groom sexually assaulted wife's bridesmaid before wedding, police say

  06-10-2019 20:16 via news.yahoo.com
  According to police, the assault stopped when the bride caught him.
  
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• Protesters in Ukraine rally against election in rebel east

  06-10-2019 20:05 via news.yahoo.com
  Thousands rallied in Ukraine's capital Sunday against the president's plan to hold a local election in the country's rebel-held east, a move seen by some as a major concession to Russia.Ukraine, Russia and Russia-backed separatists on Tuesday signed a tentative agreement on guidelines for holding a local election in eastern Ukraine, where a five-year conflict between the rebels and Ukrainian troops has killed more than 13,000 people.France and Germany, which help broker the talks, hailed the agr
  
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• The shot of Scotch whisky that doesn't require a glass

  06-10-2019 19:54 via cnn.com
  After the Tide pods craze, now we have Scotch pods, or "glassless cocktails" for drinkers who can't be bothered to pour.
  
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• Man charged in deaths of 4 homeless NYC men attacked while they slept

  06-10-2019 19:54 via cnn.com
  The suspect in Saturday's fatal attacks on sleeping homeless men in Manhattan's Chinatown neighborhood has been charged with four counts of murder, according to NYPD Detective Ahmed Nasser.
  
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• Trump is dragging down Biden with him as the Ukraine scandal threatens to upend his presidency

  06-10-2019 19:52 via news.yahoo.com
  Trump is seeking to sow doubts about Biden as the impeachment inquiry escalates and ahead of 2020, and there are growing signs it's working.
  
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• New York man charged with killing four homeless men using metal pipe

  06-10-2019 19:51 via news.yahoo.com
  New York police have charged a man with murder for using a metal pipe to beat four fellow homeless men to death as they slept in the city's Chinatown district, authorities said on Sunday.Randy Santos, 24, was charged with four counts of murder, one count of attempted murder and one count of unlawful possession of marijuana, said New York City Police Department spokesman Martin Brown.The suspect's mother, Fioraliza Rodriguez, told the New York Daily News that she had kicked her son out of her hou
  
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• Rwanda kills 19 assailants after deadly national park attack

  06-10-2019 19:45 via news.yahoo.com
  Rwandan security forces have killed 19 people who were part of a group that carried out a deadly attack in a tourist hub in the north of the country on Friday, a police spokesman said.The assailants, who mostly carried traditional weapons like knives, attacked the Kinigi sector in Musanze district, where the Volcanoes National Park offers tourists the chance to view endangered mountain gorillas.In a statement on Sunday, police spokesman John Bosco Kabera said security personnel pursuing the atta
  
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• Enable misses out on historic third Prix de l'Arc de Triomphe

  06-10-2019 19:19 via cnn.com
  Shock and a large dose of disappointment fell on Longchamp as favorite Enable fell agonizingly short in her historic quest for a third straight Prix de l'Arc de Triomphe.
  
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• Rowdy deer crashes through salon window, wreaking havoc on haircuts

  06-10-2019 19:16 via cnn.com
  A Saturday at the hair salon should be a tranquil experience: A thorough shampooing, a soothing scalp massage, the satisfying snip of the stylists' scissors.
  
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• There's a second Trump-Ukraine whistleblower and this one has first-hand knowledge of the allegations

  06-10-2019 19:15 via news.yahoo.com
  Attorney Mark Zaid says he is now representing both the first whistleblower who sparked the Trump impeachment inquiry and the second whistleblower.
  
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• Key witness in ex-Dallas officer Amber Guyger’s murder trial shot and killed

  06-10-2019 19:13 via news.yahoo.com
  The 28-year-old Joshua Brown testified in Amber Guyger’s trial about the night that their neighbor Botham Jean was killed.
  
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• Pope urges bold action to protect the Amazon at start of divisive synod

  06-10-2019 18:59 via news.yahoo.com
  Pope Francis has urged Roman Catholic Church leaders to make bold changes to better protect the Amazon and its indigenous people at the start of a three-week meeting that could become one of the most controversial moments in his papacy. The Pope celebrated an opening Mass in St Peter's Basilica on Sunday, where he criticised a “new colonialism” that puts profit ahead of protecting the environment.   He prayed that God's "daring prudence" would inspire religious representatives t
  
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• Donald Trump's tricky maneuver

  06-10-2019 18:44 via cnn.com
  President Donald Trump says his phone call with the Ukrainian president was "absolutely perfect."
  
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• The Latest: Evers issuing 1st Wisconsin pardons in 9 years

  06-10-2019 18:42 via news.yahoo.com
  Wisconsin Democratic Gov. Tony Evers is pardoning four people.It's the first time a Wisconsin governor has invoked his constitutional power to grant clemency in nearly nine years.Evers on Monday planned to issue the pardons, the first he's making as governor after he re-started the Pardons Board in June.
  
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• Ron Johnson interview: 'I do not trust the FBI or CIA'

  06-10-2019 18:36 via news.yahoo.com
  In a heated interview with Meet the Press anchor Chuck Todd on Sunday, Sen. Ron Johnson (R-WI) declared that he does not trust the CIA or FBI while beginning a series of conspiratorial attacks on Democrats and intelligence officials regarding the Ukraine scandal.
  
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• Thousands protest Ukraine leader's peace plan

  06-10-2019 18:30 via news.yahoo.com
  About 10,000 people including Ukraine's former president Petro Poroshenko gathered in central Kiev on Sunday to protest a plan for broader autonomy for separatist territories ahead of a high-stakes summit with Russian leader Vladimir Putin.The protesters, who descended on Kiev's Independence Square known locally as Maidan, chanted "No to surrender!", some holding placards critical of President Volodymyr Zelensky.Zelensky's predecessor Poroshenko, who was trounced in an April election, joined the
  
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• Chuck Todd rips GOP senator for responding to Trump-Ukraine question with 'Fox News conspiracy propaganda stuff'

  06-10-2019 18:30 via news.yahoo.com
  Chuck Todd slammed Republican Sen. Ron Johnson for bringing up “Fox News conspiracy propaganda stuff” on “Meet the Press” Sunday when Johnson failed to answer a question about President Trump.
  
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• Eight world titles and counting for Marquez after Thai thriller

  06-10-2019 18:19 via cnn.com
  Marc Marquez clinched his eighth world title, his sixth in the MotoGP premier class, on Sunday with a thrilling final corner victory at the Thailand Grand Prix in Buriram.
  
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• Aide: Perry pushed Trump for Ukraine call, for energy issues

  06-10-2019 18:01 via news.yahoo.com
  Energy Secretary Rick Perry encouraged President Donald Trump to speak to Ukraine's president — but on energy and economic issues, Perry's spokeswoman said Sunday, addressing Perry's role in a telephone call that's at the center of a congressional impeachment probe for Trump. "Secretary Perry absolutely supported and encouraged the president to speak to the new president of Ukraine to discuss matters related to their energy security and economic development," Perry's Energy Department spok
  
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• This Sunken Russian Submarine Has Buried 'Nuclear Treasure' (Think Nuclear Weapons)

  06-10-2019 18:00 via news.yahoo.com
  They can be yours, if you can dive down to crushing depths.
  
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• Driver mows down Hong Kong protesters as political unrest continues

  06-10-2019 17:58 via cnn.com
  Hong Kong's political unrest took another dark turn Sunday when a driver mowed down protesters with a taxi cab and a man was beaten bloody by a mob, video shows.
  
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• US envoy's wife who fled UK was driving on wrong side of road before fatal crash

  06-10-2019 17:50 via cnn.com
  An American diplomat's wife, who left the United Kingdom after becoming a suspect in a fatal traffic collision, was driving on the wrong side of the road at the time of the crash, according to the police.
  
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• Germany could face refugee influx bigger than 2015 if EU does not agree quota system, interior minister warns

  06-10-2019 17:48 via news.yahoo.com
  Germany's interior minister warned on Sunday that the country could soon face a refugee influx bigger than the one it dealt with in 2015, as he sought support for his plans for an EU quota system for rescued migrants. "We need to do more to help our European partners with controls at the EU's external borders. We’ve left them alone for too long," Horst Seehofer told Bild newspaper. "If we don’t do this, we’ll experience a wave of refugees like in 2015 - or perhaps an
  
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• Woman 'Consumed' by Columbine and Oklahoma City Killings Had 24 Pipe Bombs, Police Say

  06-10-2019 17:47 via news.yahoo.com
  A Florida woman obsessed with the Columbine High School massacre and the Oklahoma City bombing was arrested after her parents discovered two dozen pipe bombs in her bedroom, authorities said Friday.The woman, Michelle Kolts, 27, was charged with 24 counts of making a destructive device with intent to harm, Chad Chronister, the sheriff of Hillsborough County, said at a news conference.Kolts had been on the radar of authorities for more than a year, Chronister said.A printing company had contacted
  
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• GOP Sen. Ron Johnson Loses It on ‘Meet the Press’: I Do Not Trust the FBI or CIA

  06-10-2019 17:45 via news.yahoo.com
  In an extremely contentious and heated interview with Meet the Press anchor Chuck Todd on Sunday, Sen. Ron Johnson (R-WI) declared that he does not trust the CIA or FBI while launching into a series of conspiratorial attacks on Democrats and intelligence officials regarding the Ukraine scandal.Johnson—who last week said he was told about a quid pro quo involving Ukrainian investigation into the 2016 election and that President Trump blocked him from telling Ukraine military aid was coming&
  
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• Pigs seen using tools for the first time

  06-10-2019 17:37 via cnn.com
  Pigs aren't heralded for their intelligence, but swine are smarter than they seem. They're test subjects in studies that lead to life-saving discoveries. They're reliable and beloved therapy animals. Thirty to 50 of them took Twitter by storm earlier this year in an early bid for the year's best meme.
  
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• 'Joker' shatters box office records despite its controversial depiction of violence

  06-10-2019 17:23 via cnn.com
  "Joker" broke box office records this weekend, even as its controversial depiction of violence made some potential theatergoers anxious.
  
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• Controversy doesn't stop 'Joker' from shattering box office records

  06-10-2019 17:23 via cnn.com
  "Joker" broke box office records this weekend, even as its controversial depiction of violence made some potential theatergoers anxious.
  
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