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• Johnson & Johnson to pay $8 billion after drug is linked to male breast growth

  09-10-2019 23:59 via cnn.com
  Johnson & Johnson will have to pay $8 billion in punitive damages after a man claims the company didn't warn young men that the drug Risperdal could grow breasts, a jury said Tuesday, according to Reuters.
  
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• Trump dismisses concerns about leaving Kurds at the mercy of Turkey

  09-10-2019 23:57 via news.yahoo.com
  President Trump was unconcerned about what is widely characterized as a betrayal of the Kurdish fighters who bore the brunt of the battle against ISIS.
  
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• CNN reporter details scene of Turkish strikes against Kurds

  09-10-2019 23:53 via cnn.com
  Anderson Cooper speaks with CNN's Clarissa Ward, the only US network reporter in northern Syria, as Turkey continues its attacks against US-allied Kurds . Watch "Full Circle" every weeknight at 5pm E.T.
  
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• 2 dead in attack targeting German synagogue on Yom Kippur

  09-10-2019 23:38 via news.yahoo.com
  A heavily armed assailant ranting about Jews tried to force his way into a synagogue in Germany on Yom Kippur, Judaism's holiest day, then shot two people to death nearby in an attack Wednesday that was livestreamed on a popular gaming site.The attacker shot at the door of the synagogue in the eastern city of Halle but did not get in as 70 to 80 people inside were observing the holy day.It said a roughly 36-minute video posted online featured the assailant, who spoke a combination of English and
  
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• Brazil minister says oil on beaches likely from Venezuela

  09-10-2019 23:36 via news.yahoo.com
  The oil that has been polluting Brazil's northeastern beaches since early September is likely coming from Venezuela, according to a report by Brazil's state oil company cited by the country's environment minister.The oil "very probably comes from Venezuela, as says the Petrobras study," Brazilian environment minister Ricardo Salles told members of the lower house of Congress' environmental commission.
  
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• These 14,000 Nikes were worth almost $2 million. Except they were fake

  09-10-2019 23:34 via cnn.com
  A large shipment of popular retro Nike shoes turned out to be counterfeits.
  
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• About 14,000 fake Nikes were seized in LA

  09-10-2019 23:34 via cnn.com
  A large shipment of popular retro Nike shoes turned out to be counterfeits.
  
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• For Trump, an impeachment vote is a race against the clock. Not so for Pelosi.

  09-10-2019 23:32 via nbcnews.com
  Analysis: The politics of impeachment have reached the when — not if — stage, and the president and the speaker have engaged in an unlikely role reversal.
  
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• 'PG&E clearly hasn’t made its system safe.' California lawmakers slam utility amid widespread power outage

  09-10-2019 23:23 via news.yahoo.com
  As millions in California lose power during a fire-prevention blackout, lawmakers charge that PG&E; didn't take proper safety steps ahead of time.
  
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• Biden for First Time Says Trump Should Be Impeached by Congress

  09-10-2019 22:39 via news.yahoo.com
  (Bloomberg) -- Joe Biden said for the first time Wednesday that President Donald Trump should be impeached.“He should be impeached,” Biden said to a standing ovation from supporters in Rochester, New Hampshire.Biden had yet to explicitly call for Trump’s impeachment, saying only that Congress would have no choice but to impeach if the Trump administration refused to cooperate with a probe into his behavior.On Tuesday, the White House said it would not participate in an impeachm
  
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• EPA: Our goal is to improve California’s air quality

  09-10-2019 22:14 via news.yahoo.com
  'If the EPA disapproves ... that triggers statutory clocks for highway funding sanctions. ... We request a response from (California) by Oct. 10'
  
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• Warren jumps ahead of Biden in latest 2020 polls

  09-10-2019 22:11 via news.yahoo.com
  Elizabeth Warren is leading the crowded pack of candidates vying for the 2020 Democratic primary nomination for the first time, according to new results from polling aggregation website RealClearPolitics, which averages poll data from across the US. The numbers released on Wednesday show the progressive Massachusetts senator polling at 26.6 per cent, with former Vice President Joe Biden slightly behind her at 26.4 per cent.The latest numbers follow Tuesday’s Quinnipiac University poll, whi
  
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• Trump-Ukraine scandal puts spotlight on Rudy Giuliani's business ties. Is he a 'foreign agent'?

  09-10-2019 22:09 via news.yahoo.com
  Rudy Giuliani's emergence as a central figure in the impeachment inquiry has raised questions about his business ties with foreign governments.
  
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• Gunman live-streamed deadly shooting near synagogue in Germany

  09-10-2019 22:06 via cnn.com
  • Two dead, one suspect arrested after shooting
  
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• Prospects of major US-China trade deal dim

  09-10-2019 22:02 via cnn.com
  Prospects of a sweeping trade deal between the United States and China appear to be dimming as negotiators prepare to resume two days of talks on Thursday.
  
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• Yes, America Probably Has Secret Stealth Drones Around Iran

  09-10-2019 22:00 via news.yahoo.com
  So much spying.
  
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• Turkey launched offensive days after Trump announced US troops pullback

  09-10-2019 21:57 via cnn.com
  Turkey's military is set to cross into northern Syria "shortly," the Turkish communications director said, as part of an impending offensive to move US-backed Kurdish forces away from its border.
  
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• The biggest question in Canada's election

  09-10-2019 21:53 via bbc.co.uk
  The BBC travelled to Canadian cities to talk to voters ahead of the federal election on 21 October.
  
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• Humans will not 'migrate' to other planets, Nobel winner says

  09-10-2019 21:42 via news.yahoo.com
  Humans will never migrate to a planet outside of Earth's solar system because it would take far too long to get there, Swiss Nobel laureate Michel Mayor said Wednesday.Mayor and his colleague Didier Queloz were on Tuesday awarded the Nobel Prize for Physics for their research refining techniques to detect so-called exoplanets."If we are talking about exoplanets, things should be clear: we will not migrate there," Mayor told AFP near Madrid on the sidelines of a conference when asked about the po
  
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• A winner of this year's Nobel prize in physics is convinced we'll detect alien life in 100 years. Here are 13 reasons why we haven't made contact yet.

  09-10-2019 21:39 via news.yahoo.com
  A Nobel prize-winner thinks we'll detect aliens within 100 years, possibly sooner. Other scientists think we might never make contact.
  
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• Donald Trump, facing scathing criticism over Syria pullout, warns Turkey that invasion is a 'bad idea'

  09-10-2019 21:23 via news.yahoo.com
  As Turkey began an invasion of northern Syria, Donald Trump is facing a fierce backlash over his decision to pull U.S. troops from Kurdish territory.
  
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• Remainer Speaker John Bercow Met With EU Counterpart to Stymie A Clean Brexit

  09-10-2019 21:20 via news.yahoo.com
  British Parliament Speaker John Bercow met with European Union President David Sassoli to discuss how best to prevent Britain from making a clean break with the EU, Sassoli revealed on the floor of the European parliament on Wednesday.Sassoli, whose position is equivalent to Bercow's former post as Parliament speaker, revealed on Wednesday that the two met in Brussels and were on the "same wavelength" regarding Brexit."We share an awareness that a chaotic exit of the UK from the EU would work to
  
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• Arizona Official Smuggled Pregnant Women Into the U.S. and Paid Them to Give Up Their Babies: Authorities

  09-10-2019 21:19 via news.yahoo.com
  Photo Illustration by The Daily BeastAn Arizona official faces charges in two states for his alleged role in an international adoption fraud scheme that involved smuggling pregnant women into the U.S. from the Marshall Islands and then paying them to give up their babies, according to court documents.Maricopa County Assessor Paul Petersen was charged Tuesday night with 11 felony offenses, including human smuggling, the sale of a child, and communications fraud, the Utah Attorney General’s
  
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• A tweet snowballed into the NBA's nightmare

  09-10-2019 21:09 via cnn.com
  A simple image consisting of seven words might be the most troublesome tweet in corporate America this year.
  
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• Fossils of 'shark-toothed' carnivorous dinosaur found in Thailand

  09-10-2019 21:07 via news.yahoo.com
  Fossils of a large carnivorous dinosaur that was a top predator about 115 million years ago have been unearthed in Thailand --a brute that was among the early members of an impressive group of flesh-ripping dinosaurs known for their shark-like teeth.Siamraptor, the largest carnivorous dinosaur ever discovered in Thailand, lived during the Cretaceous Period in an environment centered on a meandering river system and preyed on plant-eating dinosaurs, the researchers said.Paleontologist Duangsuda C
  
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• California gov. calls for Trump's removal

  09-10-2019 20:53 via news.yahoo.com
  California Gov. Gavin Newsom has all the evidence to believe "completely corrupt" President Trump should be removed from office by Congress, but with Republicans in control of the U.S. Senate he says the best way to boot Trump from the White House is at the ballot box.
  
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• Israelis Watch U.S. Abandon Kurds, and Worry: Who's Next?

  09-10-2019 20:48 via news.yahoo.com
  JERUSALEM -- Israel's national security does not immediately depend on who controls the border of Turkey and northern Syria, more than 500 miles from its own territory.Yet President Donald Trump's abrupt order to withdraw U.S. troops there and abandon Kurdish forces, who have been stalwart U.S. allies against the Islamic State, set off clanging alarm bells among officials in Jerusalem and Tel Aviv.And for a simple reason: If such a betrayal could befall the Kurds, Israelis from across the politi
  
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• Republican anger at Trump grows over 'sickening' attack on allies

  09-10-2019 20:42 via cnn.com
  Turkey launched its military operation to flush Kurds allied with the US out of northeastern Syria Wednesday, sparking outrage in Congress and creating rare bipartisan unity about the risks to Kurds, US national security interests, regional stability and the fight against ISIS.
  
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• Republican anger at Trump grows as Turkey launches 'sickening' attack on US allies

  09-10-2019 20:42 via cnn.com
  Turkey launched its military operation to flush Kurds allied with the US out of northeastern Syria Wednesday, sparking outrage in Congress and creating rare bipartisan unity about the risks to Kurds, US national security interests, regional stability and the fight against ISIS.
  
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• Company Selling Big Stash Of Nissan Skylines

  09-10-2019 20:35 via news.yahoo.com
  The cars are currently sitting in a secret Warehouse in Japan. With R32 and R33 Skylines now legal to import into the United States, and the mighty R34 not too far off, Americans are looking for deals on these cars. There’s a secret location in rural Japan where a company called Trust Kikaku has been stashing Skylines, and they’re going for prices you won’t believe.This was all documented by a YouTube user called SAMMIT, a British car enthusiast living in Japan. It starts in a
  
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• Trump's Ukraine dishonesty blitz: The most egregious, revealing, and absurd claims

  09-10-2019 20:19 via cnn.com
  • Democrats: We're done asking nicely
  • Influential conservative sours on Trump
  
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• Back from the dead: Some corals regrow after 'fatal' warming

  09-10-2019 20:16 via news.yahoo.com
  For the first time ever, scientists have found corals that were thought to have been killed by heat stress have recovered, a glimmer of hope for the world's climate change-threatened reefs.The chance discovery, made by Diego K. Kersting from the Freie University of Berlin and the University of Barcelona during diving expeditions in the Spanish Mediterranean, was reported in the journal Science Advances on Wednesday.Kersting and co-author Cristina Linares have been carrying out long-term monitori
  
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• Teacher at Elite Boarding School Used Nightly ‘Check-In’ System to Molest Sleeping Students, Cops Say

  09-10-2019 20:01 via news.yahoo.com
  Nelson Almeida/GettyA teacher at an elite boarding school in New Jersey used his position as a dorm “duty master”—who is responsible for nightly check-ins with students—to molest two teens while they slept, police said.Dominic Brown, a 23-year-old history teacher and water polo coach at The Lawrenceville School, was charged with endangering the welfare of a child and two counts of aggravated criminal sexual contact, the Mercer County Prosecutor’s Office said in a Mo
  
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• Pelosi hits back over letter and warns Trump: 'You will be held accountable'

  09-10-2019 20:01 via news.yahoo.com
  * House speaker says Democrats will push ahead with inquiry* Trump warned: ‘Mr President, you are not above the law’Nancy Pelosi said: ‘The White House letter is only the latest attempt to cover up his betrayal of our democracy, and to insist that the president is above the law.’ Photograph: J Scott Applewhite/APThe leader of congressional opposition to Donald Trump has declared that his attempts to stall an impeachment inquiry will prove futile, warning the US president:
  
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• 20 companies are responsible for 35 percent of carbon emissions in the modern era, study shows

  09-10-2019 19:59 via news.yahoo.com
  A new study put 20 of the world's biggest fossil fuels in the spotlight, The Guardian reports. Unsurprisingly, it's not for a very flattering reason.The analysis by Richard Heede at the Climate Accountability Institute reveals that the 20 companies have contributed to 35 percent of all energy-related carbon emissions since 1965. Among the firms are Chevron, ExxonMobil, and BP, which contributed the second, fourth, and sixth most tonnage of carbon dioxide, respectively. Meanwhile, 12 of the 20 co
  
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• The candidates who have qualified for the next Democratic debate

  09-10-2019 19:51 via news.yahoo.com
  The Democratic National Committee announced its fifth presidential debate will be held in Georgia in November
  
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• Trump’s Defiance of the House Inquiry Is Hard to Defend

  09-10-2019 19:48 via news.yahoo.com
  (Bloomberg Opinion) -- The White House’s fierce response to the impeachment inquiry by the House of Representatives, calling the enterprise “an unconstitutional effort” and a violation of “constitutionally mandated due process,” seems to make one commitment: noncooperation.The key sentence in the eight-page letter, signed by White House counsel Pat A. Cipollone, is this: “Given that your inquiry lacks any legitimate constitutional foundation, any pretense of f
  
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• Opioid makers' latest legal woe: West Virginia handyman

  09-10-2019 19:47 via news.yahoo.com
  A small home-improvement company in West Virginia is taking on the nation's opioid giants in a lawsuit blaming the drugmakers for a rise in insurance costs. The handymen at Al Marino Inc. filed the federal class-action suit last week in U.S. District Court against Purdue Pharma, Johnson & Johnson and a host of other companies. The case claims the drug businesses created a public health crisis that increased the need for expensive medical treatments, leading to skyrocketing health insurance c
  
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• U.S. arrests counterterrorism analyst over leaks to journalists

  09-10-2019 19:41 via news.yahoo.com
  A counterterrorism analyst with the U.S. Defense Intelligence Agency was arrested on Wednesday over charges he leaked classified materials about a foreign country's weapons system to two journalists in 2018 and 2019, the U.S. Justice Department said in federal court filings on Wednesday.Information that 30-year-old Henry Kyle Frese passed to the journalists appeared in at least eight different news stories, the Justice Department alleged in an indictment unsealed in the U.S. District Court for t
  
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• The Warren pregnancy debate is another example of sexism in the guise of scrutiny

  09-10-2019 19:27 via cnn.com
  It was another instance of that most common of events: a woman, diminished.
  
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• Ex-Trump aide Manafort not shielded by earlier conviction for similar crimes: N.Y. prosecutors

  09-10-2019 19:20 via news.yahoo.com
  Former Trump campaign chairman Paul Manafort must face mortgage fraud charges against him in New York, even though he is already serving a prison sentence after being convicted of similar federal crimes, New York state prosecutors said on Wednesday.Manafort's lawyers had sought to dismiss the state charges in September, arguing that they subjected him to illegal double jeopardy, or prosecution of a person twice for the same offense.“We continue to believe that the indictment should be dism
  
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• Popstar escapes house arrest in daring motorbike stunt

  09-10-2019 19:18 via cnn.com
  Ugandan popstar Bobi Wine has made a daring motorbike escape from security forces after they barricaded his home on Wednesday.
  
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• Explosions hit Syrian town of Ras al-Ayn on Turkish border – video

  09-10-2019 19:14 via theguardian.com
  There were signs of panic in Ras al-Ayn on Wednesday after Turkish forces launched an offensive into northern Syria. The move was triggered by Donald Trump's announcement that US troops would withdraw from the area, where thousands of captured Isis fighters and their families are held by Kurdish forcesTurkey launches military operation in northern SyriaContinue reading...
  
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• Romania to open its first Holocaust museum

  09-10-2019 19:10 via cnn.com
  Nearly three-quarters of a century since the end of World War II, Romanian President Klaus Iohannis has backed the creation of the country's first Holocaust museum.
  
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• Miley Cyrus posts health updates from bed

  09-10-2019 19:08 via cnn.com
  Miley Cyrus wants some TLC from her fans as she remains in the hospital with tonsillitis.
  
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• Can a Nobel winner save Boris Johnson's Brexit talks from collapse?

  09-10-2019 19:07 via cnn.com
  While Boris Johnson is cheered by supporters for his tough talk on Brexit, people in Brussels are becoming increasingly unsure if the British Prime Minister really wants to strike a deal with the EU. And that's the crucial question, because if he doesn't, then there won't be a deal.
  
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• Shooting in Germany was anti-Semitic attack - interior minister

  09-10-2019 19:00 via news.yahoo.com
  German Interior Minister Horst Seehofer said on Wednesday that a shooting in eastern Germany was anti-Semitic, adding that federal prosecutors who have taken on the investigation thought there were signs that it could be a right-wing extremist attack.According to the federal prosecutors' office, there are enough indications that it was possibly a right-wing extremist motive.
  
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• Italian court blocks loan of Leonardo's famed 'Vitruvian Man' to Louvre

  09-10-2019 18:52 via cnn.com
  An Italian court has blocked the loan of a famed sketch by Leonardo da Vinci to the Louvre museum in Paris, ahead of a highly anticipated exhibition of the artist's greatest works.
  
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• Elizabeth Warren defends story that she was fired for being pregnant after more details surface

  09-10-2019 18:52 via news.yahoo.com
  2020 Democratic candidate Elizabeth Warren is now asking supporters to share their own stories of pregnancy discrimination.
  
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• Court blocks loan of da Vinci's famed 'Vitruvian Man' to Louvre

  09-10-2019 18:52 via cnn.com
  An Italian court has blocked the loan of a famed sketch by Leonardo da Vinci to the Louvre museum in Paris, ahead of a highly anticipated exhibition of the artist's greatest works.
  
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