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• Trump claims ‘UK is thrilled’ and he ‘consulted with everyone’ in rambling defence of decision to let Turkey invade Syria

  07-10-2019 23:59 via news.yahoo.com
  Donald Trump has issued a strange, rambling defence of his controversial decision to green light Turkey’s invasion of Syria, insisting he had consulted with everyone before acting and that Britain was among those parties “thrilled by the decision.Just hours after the White House announced, in what represented a major policy shift in the Middle East, that it was withdrawing US troops from part of northern Syria ahead of a planned Turkish military operation, the president claimed more
  
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• Which role is Barr actually playing?: Today's Toon

  07-10-2019 23:50 via news.yahoo.com
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• 'Miracle dog' survives Hurricane Dorian

  07-10-2019 23:30 via cnn.com
  A young puppy was rescued from beneath an air conditioner amidst the extensive damage left by Hurricane Dorian in the Bahamas. Watch "Full Circle" every weeknight at 5pm E.T.
  
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• Fox News host blasts Trump's move: Are you kidding me?

  07-10-2019 23:29 via cnn.com
  Fox News host Brian Kilmeade slams President Trump's decision to withdraw troops from Northern Syria.
  
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• Key points from Ethiopian Airlines whistleblower complaint

  07-10-2019 23:24 via news.yahoo.com
  — Yonas Yeshanew said in his complaint filed with regulators that while it is unclear what, if anything, in the downed plane's records was altered, the decision to go into them at all when they should have been sealed reflects a government-owned carrier with plenty to hide.
  
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• The Latest: Police called to bar 2 hours before shootings

  07-10-2019 23:23 via news.yahoo.com
  The Kansas City, Kansas, police chief says officers responded to reports of a disturbance at a bar two hours before a shooting left four people dead and five wounded.Interim police Chief Michael York said Monday that officers could not find the man suspected of causing the disturbance and had no information that he planned return to the Tequila KC bar.Police said Javier Alatorre, 23, and Hugo Villanueva-Morales, 29, were each charged with four counts of first-degree murder.
  
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• Extinction Rebellion protests launch around the world – video

  07-10-2019 23:03 via theguardian.com
  The activist group kicked off two weeks of peaceful protests, with thousands of demonstrators blocking roads in London, New York, Sydney, Amsterdam and other cities, calling for their governments to take urgent action to curb carbon emissions Continue reading...
  
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• Harley falters with electric bike debut, struggles to attract new generation

  07-10-2019 22:49 via news.yahoo.com
  Harley-Davidson is betting on electric motorcycles to attract the next generation of younger and more environmentally conscious riders to reverse declining U.S. sales.
  
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• Why the EU is rejecting Boris Johnson's latest Brexit plan

  07-10-2019 22:43 via news.yahoo.com
  It was no secret that the European Union wasn't prepared to accept U.K. Prime Minister Boris Johnson's latest Brexit proposal, but The Guardian obtained leaked documents with the EU's point-by-point reasoning for its rejection.Johnson's plan included Northern Ireland remaining in an all-Ireland regulatory zone within the EU's single market for goods and electricity, but with a catch that the EU reportedly couldn't come to terms with. Northern Ireland's parliament would hang on to veto powers to
  
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• Officials block thousands marching in Pakistani Kashmir

  07-10-2019 22:43 via news.yahoo.com
  Police blocked a march Sunday by thousands of protesters in Pakistani-controlled Kashmir who wanted to move toward the highly militarized Line of Control that divides the territory between Pakistan and India. The marchers are protesting the lockdown in Indian-administered Kashmir.
  
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• House Democrats are so afraid Trump allies will expose the whistleblower that they might mask their voice and face when they testify

  07-10-2019 22:41 via news.yahoo.com
  The debate comes as President Trump's allies amplify his claims that the whistleblower broke the law and is guilty of espionage.
  
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• House Democrats are so afraid Trump allies will expose the whistleblower that they might mask the person's voice and face during testimony

  07-10-2019 22:41 via news.yahoo.com
  The debate comes as President Donald Trump's allies amplify his claims that the whistleblower broke the law and is guilty of espionage.
  
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• The United States Almost Bombed Iran in the 1990s

  07-10-2019 22:39 via news.yahoo.com
  “The Pentagon drew up military plans which ranged from launching cruise missiles at Iranian targets to undertaking a full-blown ground invasion of Iran.”
  
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• Jimmy Carter makes public appearance with black eye

  07-10-2019 22:21 via bbc.co.uk
  The former US president, who recently turned 95, was hospitalised at the weekend after a fall.
  
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• Extinction Rebellion: Arrests at Sydney and Amsterdam protests

  07-10-2019 22:20 via bbc.co.uk
  Hundreds of activists have been arrested as climate change protests start across the world.
  
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• Passenger forcibly removed from American Airlines plane by police at Miami airport

  07-10-2019 22:18 via news.yahoo.com
  On Monday morning, a man was removed from an American Airlines plane by Miami-Dade Police using force.
  
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• Israeli PM's pre-indictment hearing concludes: lawyer

  07-10-2019 22:04 via news.yahoo.com
  A four-day hearing into allegations of corruption against Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu came to an end on Monday, one of his lawyers said."The hearing ended tonight," the premier's lawyer, Yossi Ashkenazy, told reporters."We presented all our arguments which must, logically, confirm that all the indictments must be annulled," he added.
  
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• World Bank Joins Warning About Dimming Global Growth Prospects

  07-10-2019 22:00 via news.yahoo.com
  (Bloomberg) -- Explore what’s moving the global economy in the new season of the Stephanomics podcast. Subscribe via Pocket Cast or iTunes.World Bank President David Malpass said the global economic outlook is deteriorating amid Brexit-related uncertainty, trade tensions and a downturn in Europe.“Global growth is slowing,” Malpass said in Montreal on Monday in a speech ahead of the the IMF and World Bank annual meetings. The world economy now looks even weaker th
  
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• In a Conflict, Iran Would Wage a Missile War Against America

  07-10-2019 22:00 via news.yahoo.com
  So many missiles.
  
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• Supreme Court, trying to remain above the partisan fray, opens 2019 term with a debate about insanity

  07-10-2019 21:50 via news.yahoo.com
  The justices also focused their attention on new guidelines encouraging them to wait two minutes before asking questions, which they barely managed.
  
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• Fat is fabulous for bears in Alaska's Katmai National Park

  07-10-2019 21:50 via news.yahoo.com
  Alaska grizzly bears packing on pounds (kilos) for the winter are competing for more than the season's last salmon.Fat Bear Week has become a national internet sensation, pitting individual bears against each other in an online voting contest.At Katmai, a park in southwestern Alaska known for its bountiful salmon runs and the huge grizzlies - Alaskans call them "brown bears" - that feed on them, Fat Bear Week is an annual highlight.
  
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• Chicago Attorney Who Interfered In Jussie Smollet Probe Tapped to Run ‘Time’s Up’ Women’s Org

  07-10-2019 21:50 via news.yahoo.com
  Tina Tchen, a Chicago attorney who served as Michelle Obama’s chief-of-staff, was tapped as the new chief executive of the national advocacy organization "Time’s Up" on Monday. “[We’re going to] work hard at the root cause of sexual harassment: because sexual harassment occurs when we have workplaces that aren’t diverse, that aren’t inclusive, that don’t respect their workers,” Tchen said in the announcement on Twitter. “And so we’
  
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• Sen. Graham: Congress will call for Turkey's NATO suspension and hit it with sanctions if it attacks Kurds

  07-10-2019 21:43 via news.yahoo.com
  Republican Sen. Lindsey Graham of South Carolina on Monday warned Turkey a bipartisan group of lawmakers would introduce sanctions against it and “call for their suspension from NATO” if it attacks the Kurds in Syria.
  
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• Lawyer Claims Congress Is ‘Harassing’ Rudy Giuliani’s Allies—by Asking Them for Ukraine Documents

  07-10-2019 21:42 via news.yahoo.com
  REUTERSTwo of Rudy Giuliani’s associates will not meet a congressional committee’s deadline to produce documents related to their work in Ukraine, according to their lawyer. That attorney, who previously represented President Donald Trump, accused congressional investigators of trying to harass and intimidate the two men in a letter that The Daily Beast obtained. The men—Lev Parnas and Igor Fruman—had tried to help Giuliani investigate Hunter Biden, a project at the core
  
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• Republicans -- including McConnell -- rip Trump's Syria move

  07-10-2019 21:41 via cnn.com
  Top Republicans in Congress -- including Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell -- criticized President Donald Trump over his decision to remove US troops from northern Syria as Turkey plans a military offensive there.
  
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• US envoy's wife who fled UK after fatal crash is named

  07-10-2019 21:37 via cnn.com
  UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson vowed to talk to the US ambassador -- and US President Donald Trump if necessary -- about an incident involving an American diplomat's wife who left Britain after becoming a suspect in a traffic collision that killed a teenager.
  
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• Johnson names US envoy's wife who fled UK after fatal crash and vows resolution

  07-10-2019 21:37 via cnn.com
  UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson vowed to talk to the US ambassador -- and US President Donald Trump if necessary -- about an incident involving an American diplomat's wife who left Britain after becoming a suspect in a traffic collision that killed a teenager.
  
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• Moving on from scandal, Swedish Academy to award two Nobel literature prizes

  07-10-2019 21:34 via news.yahoo.com
  The Swedish body that awards the annual Nobel prize for literature will name two winners this week, including one for 2018 when the ceremony was scuttled by a sexual assault scandal that prompted reforms by the long secretive organization.The Swedish Academy was forced to shelve the 2018 prize when it was engulfed by rape accusations against the husband of an Academy member."I think they can, and to some extent they have already begun doing so, act more openly than they have done in the past and
  
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• Swedish King Carl Gustaf removes grandchildren from royal house

  07-10-2019 21:31 via bbc.co.uk
  The five children lose the status of royal highness and are not expected to perform official duties.
  
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• Pennsylvania Groom Sexually Assaulted Bridesmaid Two Days Before His Wedding, Police Say

  07-10-2019 21:21 via news.yahoo.com
  He's now charged with the involuntary deviate sexual intercourse of an unconscious person
  
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• Turkey v Syria's Kurds: The short, medium and long story

  07-10-2019 21:18 via bbc.co.uk
  A US pullout from north-east Syria could put Turkish and Kurdish fighters on collision course there.
  
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• Cambridge Analytica Whistleblower: Google Boss’ Daughter Scrubbed From Guardian Exposé

  07-10-2019 21:18 via news.yahoo.com
  Fairfax Media/GettyLONDON—Christopher Wylie, the Cambridge Analytica whistleblower, claims that Sophie Schmidt, the daughter of former Google CEO Eric Schmidt, successfully campaigned for The Guardian to scrub her name from one of their bombshell data-abuse stories.In a memoir that will be published Tuesday, he says that The Guardian’s willingness to back down in the face of Schmidt’s legal threats—and “water down” a story that had already been published&mdash
  
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• Archaeologists find 5,000-year-old 'New York' in Israel

  07-10-2019 21:18 via cnn.com
  Archaeologists in Israel have uncovered the remains of an "immense" 5,000-year-old city, the Israel Antiquities Authority said, shedding new light on a period when the region's rural population began building larger urban centers.
  
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• Harris Releases Plan for Six Months of Taxpayer-Funded Family Leave

  07-10-2019 21:17 via news.yahoo.com
  Senator Kamala Harris on Monday released a paid family leave proposal that is significantly more generous than those embraced by the rest of the Democratic presidential field.As she campaigns in Iowa, the California Democrat detailed her plan to give workers up to six months of taxpayer-funded paid family and medical leave, twice the length of time provided by a family leave bill currently under consideration in Congress.Americans who earn less than $75,000 annually would receive their full wage
  
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• Barricades burn as Haiti enters 4th week of deadly protests

  07-10-2019 21:15 via news.yahoo.com
  PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (AP) — Stones flew and barricades burned in parts of Haiti's capital on Monday as the country entered its fourth week of anti-government protests that have paralyzed the economy and shuttered schools.Opposition supporters gathered in areas including the front of the National Palace to demand the resignation of President Jovenel Moïse as tear gas wafted through some neighborhoods."Jovenel Moïse has to go because people can't go to school, people are hungry,"
  
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• Pastor: I hope Supreme Court agrees LGBTQ people should be free from job discrimination

  07-10-2019 21:11 via news.yahoo.com
  When we talk about life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness for all, there should be no ambiguity in what the word "all" means.
  
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• Accomplice in killing of North Dakota woman gets 20 years

  07-10-2019 21:08 via news.yahoo.com
  A man whose life sentence was overturned in the death of a North Dakota woman whose baby was cut from her womb was re-sentenced Monday to 20 years in prison after he apologized and pleaded for leniency in front of a nearly empty courtroom.There were no apologies from East Central District Judge Tom Olson for the life sentence he gave to William Hoehn last year for his role in the 2017 killing of Savanna Greywind, only for the state Supreme Court to overturn it on appeal."I want to sentence you t
  
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• The GM strike is costing the company $90 million a day

  07-10-2019 21:04 via cnn.com
  The United Auto Workers union strike at General Motors started its fourth week Monday. With no immediate end in sight, losses are mounting for both the automaker, its workers, and the company's suppliers.
  
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• GM's redesigned Corvette Stingray to be delayed by UAW strike

  07-10-2019 21:04 via news.yahoo.com
  General Motors' much-anticipated redesigned Corvette Stingray will be delayed going on sale because of the ongoing United Auto Workers strike.
  
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• Rudy Giuliani brags about his law school grades as he promises to sue Adam Schiff

  07-10-2019 21:01 via news.yahoo.com
  Rudy Giuliani is an expert at the Constitution, thank you very much.The former New York City mayor turned personal lawyer to President Trump has been on an absolute media blitz in his attempt to defend Trump and himself in the impeachment inquiry -- not that it's gone too well. So he changed the subject during a series of weekend calls with Yahoo News, attempting to turn the blame on House Intelligence Chair Adam Schiff (D-Calif.) and bringing up his own studies in constitutional law to back it
  
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• FBI seeks help identifying victims of America's most prolific serial killer

  07-10-2019 20:57 via cnn.com
  Samuel Little, 79, confessed to strangling 93 victims between 1970 and 2005 last year -- triple the number of victims that Ted Bundy confessed to killing.
  
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• As PG&E Is Remade, Will Wildfire Victims Be Left Behind?

  07-10-2019 20:53 via news.yahoo.com
  SAN FRANCISCO -- After a succession of devastating wildfires in the last four years, tens of thousands of Californians -- many with broken spirits, many homeless -- may now lose out on compensation from the company that was to blame.A deadline for victims to file claims is less than three weeks away. About 30,000 have done so with the help of lawyers, along with 1,500 acting on their own. But the deadline could pass without claims from as many as 70,000 others eligible for compensation.They incl
  
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• The Latest: Standing ovation for Nobel winner

  07-10-2019 20:46 via yahoo.com
  Dr. Gregg L. Semenza received a standing ovation from faculty members and students as he walked into an auditorium at Johns Hopkins University's School of Medicine in Baltimore.Semenza said he was in a "daze" when he received the news that he was one of three scientists receiving the 2019 Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine.Semenza and Drs. William G. Kaelin Jr. of Harvard University and Peter J. Ratcliffe at the Francis Crick Institute in Britain and Oxford University are being lauded for di
  
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• Kentucky officials are getting a lot of attention from Transportation Secretary Elaine Chao

  07-10-2019 20:43 via news.yahoo.com
  Transportation Secretary Elaine Chao's frequent meetings with officials from Kentucky are raising some eyebrows, Politico reports.Between January 2017 and March 2018, records show that 25 percent of Chao's scheduled meetings with local officials of any state seeking federal grant money were with Kentuckians. For reference, Indiana and Georgia were next in line with 6 percent of the meetings, apiece, Politico reports. Chao is married to Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.), who represen
  
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• The Latest: Justices weigh case over unanimous verdicts

  07-10-2019 20:42 via news.yahoo.com
  The Supreme Court appears ready to require that juries in state criminal trials be unanimous.The justices heard arguments on the first day of the term Monday in an appeal by a Louisiana man who is serving a life term for killing a woman after a jury voted 10-2 to convict him.The Supreme Court has begun its election-year term by wrestling over whether states must allow criminal defendants to mount an insanity defense.
  
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• Taliban commanders released as hopes rise for resumption of US peace negotiations

  07-10-2019 20:34 via news.yahoo.com
  Hopes are rising for the resumption of the abandoned Taliban and US peace talks after eleven senior Taliban members were freed from prison in an exchange with three kidnapped Indian engineers. Among those freed are two former provincial governors of the Taliban and Abdul Rashid Baluch, a notorious regional leader sentenced to 18 years imprisonment for trafficking opium. The men were being held near Bagram air base outside Kabul.  It is believed American authorities must have
  
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• 'Zombie' deer roam 24 US states

  07-10-2019 20:32 via cnn.com
  "Zombie" deer roam 24 states in the US, sickened by a neurodegenerative disease that reduces them to stumbling, drooling creatures.
  
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• UPDATE 1-Russian defence minister holds talks by phone with U.S. counterpart -RIA

  07-10-2019 20:32 via news.yahoo.com
  MOSCOW/WASHINGTON, Oct 7 (Reuters) - Russian Defence Minister Sergei Shoigu held talks by phone with U.S. Defense Secretary Mark Esper, the RIA news agency reported on Monday, citing the Russian ministry.The Russian ministry did not disclose details of the talks, Interfax, another news agency, said.In Washington, the Pentagon confirmed Esper and his Russian counterpart had spoken but declined to provide any details on what was discussed.
  
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• Hunters warned about 'zombie' deer

  07-10-2019 20:27 via cnn.com
  Nevada wildlife officials are warning hunters to be on the lookout for deer infected with Chronic Wasting Disease, also known as "zombie" deer.
  
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• Extinction Rebellion protesters pour fake blood over New York's capitalist bull

  07-10-2019 20:26 via news.yahoo.com
  Demonstrators were arrested in a wave of US protests that are part of a global week of action by the UK-based groupExtinction Rebellion climate crisis activists protest at New York City’s famous Charging Bull statue. Photograph: Mike Segar/ReutersMore than 20 people were arrested by police in New York City’s financial district after Extinction Rebellion climate protesters poured fake blood over the famous Charging Bull statue, a symbol of American capitalist might.The protesters laun
  
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