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• 21-year-old surrenders newborn to fire station

  10-10-2019 23:55 via abcnews.go.com
  In California you can surrender a baby within 72 hours of birth.
  
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• Trump pushed Tillerson to help Giuliani's client out of DOJ probe: Source

  10-10-2019 23:50 via abcnews.go.com
  President Donald Trump urged then-Secretary of State Rex Tillerson to push the Department of Justice to drop a criminal case against a client of Rudy Giuliani.
  
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• ‘Trey is a joke among us’: Gowdy seen as divisive addition to Trump’s legal team

  10-10-2019 23:47 via news.yahoo.com
  The president’s decision to bulk up his legal team with former congressman Trey Gowdy amid a widening impeachment inquiry is drawing criticism from one of his high-profile supporters.
  
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• Lindsey Graham prank called by Russians pretending to be Turkish defense minister

  10-10-2019 23:47 via cnn.com
  Sen. Lindsey Graham of South Carolina was pranked by two Russians pretending to be Turkey's minister of defense in an August phone call, his office said on Thursday.
  
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• Democrat running against Mitch McConnell raises $10.7 million in third quarter

  10-10-2019 23:43 via news.yahoo.com
  Amy McGrath, a former Marine fighter pilot, is running to replace the Senate Majority Leader, who has represented Kentucky on Capitol Hill since 1985
  
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• Free Speech Isn’t Dangerous, but Minimizing It Is

  10-10-2019 23:32 via news.yahoo.com
  A piece published late last week in the New York Times argues that our free-speech rights are literally endangering us -- but the truth is, they keep us safe.In a piece titled “Free Speech Is Killing Us,” Andrew Marantz argues that “noxious speech is causing tangible harm,” using tragedies such as Heather Heyer’s murder in Charlottesville, the massacre at the Walmart in El Paso, and the shootings in Christchurch, New Zealand, as evidence of this. Marantz then declar
  
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• Man gets 100 years in prison for killing, dismembering woman

  10-10-2019 23:23 via news.yahoo.com
  Jared Chance, 30, had turned down a plea deal that would have made him eligible for parole after 31 years.Ashley Young's torso was found in December in the basement of Chance's Grand Rapids rental home.Chance and Young knew each other and were last seen together at a Grand Rapids bar in late November.
  
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• Migrant Alleged to Have Raped Woman Immediately after Sheriff’s Office Ignored ICE Detainer and Released Him Is Arrested

  10-10-2019 23:22 via news.yahoo.com
  An undocumented Salvadoran immigrant accused of raping a woman immediately after he was released from custody by the Oklahoma County Sheriff’s Office, which failed to honor an Immigration and Customs Enforcement order to detain him, was arrested by ICE agents on Wednesday, the agency has announced.Antonio Ulises Perez, 38, was released from the Oklahoma County Jail on Wednesday and went "almost immediately" to the house of the woman he is accused of raping. ICE arrested Ulises Perez later
  
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• Protesters Parade Police Hostages and Demand IMF Leave Ecuador

  10-10-2019 23:19 via news.yahoo.com
  (Bloomberg) -- A throng of indigenous Ecuadorian protesters grabbed six policemen off the streets in central Quito on Thursday to cries of “murderers, murderers,” hours before seizing more than two dozen reporters who came to cover the event.The policemen had their motorcycles seized before being hustled to the stage of a theater to the delight of thousands of anti-government protesters resisting an International Monetary Fund-backed austerity drive by President Lenin Moreno. They we
  
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• Evidence from ex-Dallas police officer's murder trial fuels mistrust

  10-10-2019 23:18 via news.yahoo.com
  Evidence from the trial of a former Dallas police officer convicted of killing her neighbor has fueled new questions about whether accused officers are treated differently than other suspects, including testimony that a camera in the cruiser where the officer sat after the shooting was flipped off and that her sexual text messages with her partner were deleted.
  
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• Trump EPA proposes overhaul of lead in drinking water rule, critics call plan weak

  10-10-2019 23:17 via news.yahoo.com
  The Trump administration on Thursday proposed retooling a 1991 rule on lead and cooper contamination in drinking water, butcritics said the change slows by 20 years the timeline for removing aging lead service lines that could expose children to a toxin known to harm developing brains.Under the rule, community water systems would be required among other things to identify the most impacted areas to find and fix sources of lead when a sample in a home exceeds 15 parts per billion.The EPA said wat
  
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• Kia Telluride, Subaru Forester Owners Complaining to NHTSA about Windshields

  10-10-2019 23:04 via news.yahoo.com
  NHTSA has received dozens of complaints of broken or cracked windshields on the two vehicles, along with beefs that it takes too long to get replacements.
  
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• UAW Demands GM Stop Importing Cars; GM CEO Mary Barra Meets with Union

  10-10-2019 22:58 via news.yahoo.com
  The auto workers' union also demands that General Motors turn back its move toward electric vehicles.
  
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• Fitbit production moving out of China because of tariffs threat

  10-10-2019 22:53 via abcnews.go.com
  The company joins a growing number of U.S. businesses making a China exodus.
  
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• Home Depot is having an amazing sale for Columbus Day

  10-10-2019 22:50 via news.yahoo.com
  Home Depot is an unexpected destination for gorgeous home furnishings, and right now they're having a Columbus Day sale on select furniture.
  
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• DC joins over 100 cities in changing Columbus Day to Indigenous Peoples' Day

  10-10-2019 22:49 via abcnews.go.com
  The D.C. Council passed emergency legislation on Tuesday to change Columbus Day to Indigenous Peoples' Day.
  
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• Trump's lawyer appears to be in the middle of virtually every Ukraine controversy coming out of the White House

  10-10-2019 22:46 via cnn.com
  On Wednesday, two Ukrainian men -- Lev Parnas and Igor Fruman -- were arrested at Dulles International Airport as they tried to board an international flight. Earlier that day, the two, according to The Wall Street Journal, had lunch with Rudy Giuliani.
  
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• Giuliani's entanglements seriously threaten Trump's presidency

  10-10-2019 22:46 via cnn.com
  • Live updates: Trump signals he may not let ex-ambassador to Ukraine testify tomorrow
  • Former prosecutor: Giuliani should be worried
  
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• WWII Lesson for Trump: Turkey Was in Bed With the Nazis

  10-10-2019 22:42 via news.yahoo.com
  The Nazis melted gold dental fillings from concentration camp victims and found the best price for it was in neutral Turkey.At the same time, Turkey kept selling Germany the chromium ore it needed to build weapons and continue the war. But in harkening back to World War II in an effort to justify giving Turkey a green light to crush the Kurds, President Trump ignored such damning truths. He instead said of the Kurds, “They didn't help us with Normandy.”Never mind that prese
  
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• WSJ: Giuliani lunched with men hours before their arrest

  10-10-2019 22:42 via cnn.com
  Rudy Giuliani lunched with two associates at the Trump International Hotel in Washington on Wednesday just hours before the duo was arrested at a Washington-area airport, according to the Wall Street Journal.
  
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• Tim Cook defends Apple's removal of Hong Kong mapping app

  10-10-2019 22:42 via theguardian.com
  Apple chief said in a letter HKmap.live was ‘used maliciously to target’ officers as claim was disputed by those on the groundTim Cook has written to Apple employees defending the company’s decision to remove an app used by Hong Kong protesters to coordinate movements and avoid concentrations of police.But the chief executive has been criticised for “taking at face value” the claims of the Hong Kong police, which don’t chime with the experiences of internation
  
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• Rick Perry subpoenaed by House committees in impeachment inquiry – live news

  10-10-2019 22:42 via theguardian.com
  House committees give the president’s energy secretary a deadline of 18 October to turn over documents related to Trump’s Ukraine dealingsSign up for the US briefing and get a new perspective 9.40pm BST The president claimed he did not know Lev Parnas or Igor Fruman, the two Republican donors who gave money to a pro-Trump super PAC and have been arrested on campaign-finance charges.Trump has previously been photographed with the two men and reportedly met with them as recently as las
  
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• Brexit: Varadkar says new agreement 'possible' by end of October after talks with Johnson - live news

  10-10-2019 22:37 via theguardian.com
  Rolling coverage of the day’s political developments as they happen, including Boris Johnson’s meeting with Leo Varadkar to discuss BrexitJohnson and Varadkar ‘agreed they could see pathway to possible deal’What does Johnson-Varadkar statement mean?Jeremy Corbyn’s speech on Labour’s agenda
  EU nationals lacking settled status ‘could be deported’ 9.37pm BST The London Assembly has asked Boris Johnson to explain by 5pm on Monday why his response to an
  
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• 'We will win or we will die,' say defiant Kurds facing Turkish operation in Syria

  10-10-2019 22:33 via cnn.com
  The road into Tal Abyad was eerily empty. The Syrian border town's shops were all shuttered, following a steady stream of artillery strikes on its outskirts that began Thursday.
  
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• Uganda government to push bill imposing death penalty on homosexuals

  10-10-2019 22:33 via feeds.foxnews.com
  Uganda's government said Thursday it would revive a bill that would impose the death penalty on homosexuals it claims are "involved in promotion and recruitment" in the East African nation.
  
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• Climate Change Is Shaping Up As an Utter Disaster for Much of America's Bird Life

  10-10-2019 22:27 via news.yahoo.com
  Two thirds of American bird species are at risk, according to a new report
  
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• California hospital chain going to court over high prices

  10-10-2019 22:21 via abcnews.go.com
  One of California's largest hospital systems faces trial over accusations that it has used its market dominance to snuff out competition and overcharge patients for medical bills
  
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• Taiwan president rejects China's offer of ‘one country, two systems’

  10-10-2019 22:14 via feeds.foxnews.com
  Taiwan’s president on Thursday delivered a fiery rebuke to China’s offer of a “one country, two systems” formula to unify the self-governing island with the mainland, saying that such a framework has taken Hong Kong to “the brink of disorder.”
  
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• CNN anchor shut down for NBA question

  10-10-2019 22:13 via cnn.com
  CNN Sports Correspondent Christina Macfarlane was shut down at a press conference when she asked Houston Rockets players how they feel about speaking out on social issues in the future.
  
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• Graham Tricked By Russian Prank Call, Called Kurds a ‘Problem’ for Turkey

  10-10-2019 22:09 via news.yahoo.com
  Senator Lindsey Graham (R., S.C.) spoke in August with a Russian prank caller who identified himself as the Turkish defense minister in order to fool Graham's office into patching him through to the senator, according to Politico.While speaking with who he thought was Turkish Defense Minister Hulusi Akar, Graham acknowledged  that the Kurdish YPG forces pose a security threat to Turkey. That acknowledgement stands in sharp contrast to the praise that Graham has heaped on the Kurds in recent
  
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• Morning mail: Civilians flee Turkish offensive, coalmine warning, Socceroos triumph

  10-10-2019 22:07 via theguardian.com
  Friday: Erdoğan defiant as tens of thousands run from fighting. Plus, Australia thrash Nepal in World Cup qualifierGood morning, this is Helen Sullivan bringing you the main stories and must-reads on Friday 11 October. Continue reading...
  
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• Hopes rise for Brexit breakthrough

  10-10-2019 22:07 via cnn.com
  British and Irish leaders Boris Johnson and Leo Varadkar raised hopes of a breakthrough in the deadlocked Brexit process Thursday, saying they saw a "pathway" to a deal.
  
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• Parking-space enforcer in Florida 'stand your ground' case sentenced to 20 years in prison

  10-10-2019 22:06 via news.yahoo.com
  A white man who cited Florida's "stand your ground'' law in the killing of an unarmed black man after a parking dispute was sentenced to 20 years in prison.
  
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• Outrage in Albania, Bosnia, Kosovo over Handke's Nobel win

  10-10-2019 22:05 via news.yahoo.com
  Austrian writer Peter Handke's Nobel literature prize win on Thursday sparked outrage in Albania, Bosnia and Kosovo, where he is widely seen as an admirer of late Serbian strongman Slobodan Milosevic.In the 1990s, Handke emerged as a vocal defender of the Serbs during the bloody collapse of the former Yugoslavia, even comparing them to Jews under the Nazis, a remark he later retracted."Never thought would feel to vomit because of a Nobel Prize," Albanian Prime Minister Edi Rama wrote on Twitter.
  
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• 2020 Toyota Hybrids and EVs Get 10-Year, 150,000-Mile Battery Warranty

  10-10-2019 22:00 via news.yahoo.com
  Eight 2020 models get the longer coverage including Prius and other hybrids, Prius Prime plug-in, even the Mirai fuel-cell vehicle.
  
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• The Media Scramble the Jets for Elizabeth Warren’s Lies

  10-10-2019 21:42 via news.yahoo.com
  Elizabeth Warren is telling a lie about herself. Again. The media are covering for her. Again.It is by now well established that Elizabeth Warren is a serial liar. She lied about her parents having to elope because of racism against her mother, who was white. She lied about being the first nursing mother to take the bar exam in New Jersey (which doesn’t keep such records). She lied about being a “single mom” when she met her second and present husband (she was still married, an
  
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• 'Somebody answered my dead brother's number'

  10-10-2019 21:39 via bbc.co.uk
  Ruth Murray wanted to stay connected to her late brother but then a stranger answered his phone.
  
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• California power outage: Isn't there an easier way?

  10-10-2019 21:36 via news.yahoo.com
  Power to hundreds of thousands of homes and businesses has been cut off, affecting millions of people in California.Pacific Gas and Electric Co. said a forecast of extreme wind and dry weather has created fire danger of an unprecedented scope, prompting it to initiate the largest preventive outage in state history to reduce the risk of wildfires sparked by faulty power lines.HOW LONG WILL THE POWER BE OUT?
  
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• Activists Can't Agree on How to Fight Climate Change. The IMF Says Just Do Something.

  10-10-2019 21:34 via news.yahoo.com
  The IMF says a carbon tax is best to fight climate change but says countries should do what works best for them — so long as they do something.
  
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• The Royal Caribbean has named the world's next biggest ocean liner, set for China

  10-10-2019 21:31 via news.yahoo.com
  Make that five: Royal Caribbean's Oasis class, which is synonymous with some of the biggest cruise ships in the world, will officially welcome in 2021 its newest creation, the name of which was unveiled on October 10, during a keel-laying ceremony held at the Chantiers de l'Atlantique shipyard in Saint-Nazaire, France.Come 2021, the Royal Caribbean cruise line will be the proud owner of a new ocean liner, dedicated to the Chinese market.It will also be the first of the Oasis class to cruise the
  
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• Trump defends diplomat's wife who killed teenage Briton in crash: 'It happens'

  10-10-2019 21:22 via news.yahoo.com
  President Trump has defended the wife of a U.S. diplomat who killed a British teenager in a road accident, suggesting it is difficult to drive on the other side of the road and that "we've all done it."
  
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• Melisa Raney: What I learned when coming out to my parents

  10-10-2019 21:21 via cnn.com
  Coming out to my parents was the hardest thing I have ever done. I didn't know what to say. I didn't know how to say it. I wasn't even sure if I could force my brain to physically form the words and allow my mouth to say, "I'm gay."
  
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• UPDATE 2-GM CEO Barra takes role in talks to end UAW strike

  10-10-2019 21:09 via news.yahoo.com
  General Motors Chief Executive Mary Barra met with senior United Auto Workers officials to discuss the No. 1 U.S. automaker's most recent proposal to end a more than three-week-old strike that has cost it over $1 billion, a union spokesman said on Thursday.Barra met with UAW President Gary Jones and senior union negotiator Terry Dittes on Wednesday at a time when GM had not yet received a formal response to a new offer made on Monday morning, sources briefed on the matter said.GM declined to com
  
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• ICE, sheriff say immigration ruling threatens public safety

  10-10-2019 21:08 via news.yahoo.com
  The acting director of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement on Thursday criticized a judge's ruling barring his agency from relying solely on databases that have at times led to the wrongful detention of American citizens.Speaking Thursday at the White House, Matthew Albence called the September ruling an example of "judicial overreach" that threatened public safety.Following Albence was a Texas sheriff who suggested the ruling would require releasing jailed immigrants who were "drunks" and
  
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• Teenager stabbed to death in Stratford, east London

  10-10-2019 21:00 via theguardian.com
  Police trying to formally identify young male who was killed outside McDonald’s on Thursday afternoonA teenager has been stabbed to death outside a McDonald’s in east London.The Metropolitan police and the London ambulance service were called to Stratford Broadway shortly after 3pm on Thursday. Continue reading...
  
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• Boy, 12, among casualties as Turkey intensifies assault on Kurds in northern Syria

  10-10-2019 20:58 via news.yahoo.com
  Turkish mortars killed one 12-year-old boy and ripped off a young girl’s leg as Turkey pummeled Kurdish-held towns on the second day of its assault on northern Syria on Thursday.  Muhammad Yusuf Hussein and his 7-year-old sister Sarah were hit in a strike on Qamishli, the de facto capital of the unrecognised Kurdish statelet of Rojava.      On the other side of the border, Turkish authorities said four children including a nine-month old baby had been killed in ret
  
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• Ukraine's Zelensky 'breaks record' for world's longest press conference

  10-10-2019 20:57 via news.yahoo.com
  Volodymyr Zelensky, a popular comedian before he was elected president of Ukraine this spring, promised to bring a fresh kind of politics to the ex-Soviet nation.Around eight hours into the marathon event, Zelensky's first major press conference since coming to power in May, a representative of the agency stood up to deliver the news.The previous record was held by Belarus strongman Alexander Lukashenko, with a press conference that lasted over seven hours, Ukrainian media reported.
  
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• CNN anchor shut down for asking question about the NBA's standoff with China

  10-10-2019 20:57 via cnn.com
  CNN anchor Christina Macfarlane was quickly shut down by the Houston Rockets' media officer as she tried to ask a question about the NBA's ongoing standoff with China.
  
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• CNN anchor shut down for asking about NBA's standoff with China

  10-10-2019 20:57 via cnn.com
  • Lakers and Nets warmly greeted by Chinese fans but NBA remains jittery
  
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• 'Betrayal leaves a bitter taste': spurned Kurds flee Turkish onslaught

  10-10-2019 20:48 via theguardian.com
  As they seek safety away from Turkish shells, Syrian Kurds burn with anger at Donald Trump’s betrayal Waiting at a roadside depot, Hussein Rammo, a stooped elderly Kurd, his eyes wet with tears, had the look of a broken man. “Betrayal leaves the bitterest taste,” he said, his voice at a whisper as he discussed Donald Trump’s decision to abandon Syria’s Kurds.“I am 63 years old and I have never seen anything like this. Before there was regime oppression and now
  
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