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• Tapper: I thought Trump letter was a joke ... it's real

  16-10-2019 23:57 via cnn.com
  CNN's Jake Tapper reads a letter President Donald Trump sent Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan on October 9, 2019.
  
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• Jake Tapper: I thought Trump letter was a joke ... it's real

  16-10-2019 23:57 via cnn.com
  CNN's Jake Tapper reads a letter President Donald Trump sent Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan on October 9, 2019.
  
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• Fox’s Neil Cavuto Challenges Trump-Boosting Colleague: ‘Do You Fault the President for Anything?’

  16-10-2019 23:42 via news.yahoo.com
  Fox News anchor Neil Cavuto on Wednesday confronted one of the network’s most loyal Trump defenders, dismantling Fox News legal analyst Gregg Jarrett’s latest pro-Trump book that asserts the president is the victim of an ongoing “witch hunt” by the so-called Deep State and Democrats.As Jarrett promoted his new book on Cavuto’s show, the pro-Trump pundit immediately remarked that his host’s copy of the book was marked with a “lot of yellow Post-It notes.&
  
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• Americans Now Need at Least $500,000 a Year to Enter Top 1%

  16-10-2019 23:35 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.One definition of rich is getting into the top 1%. If that’s your goal, it’s becoming harder to reach.The income needed to exit the bottom 99% of U.S. taxpayers hit $515,371 in 2017, according to Internal Revenue Service data released this week. That’s up 7.2% from a year earlier, even after adjusting for inflation.Since
  
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• Mormon church opposes Utah LGBTQ 'conversion therapy' ban

  16-10-2019 23:32 via news.yahoo.com
  A proposed ban on so-called conversion therapy in Utah is in danger of being derailed after the influential Church of Jesus of Christ of Latter-day Saints came out Tuesday night in opposition, just months after it said it wouldn't stand in the way of a similar measure under consideration.State regulators crafted the rule at the request of Republican Gov. Gary Herbert, a member of the church, who in June asked for a set of rules after a similar bill died in the Legislature despite the church not
  
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• Scientists discover big storms can create 'stormquakes'

  16-10-2019 22:59 via news.yahoo.com
  The shaking of the sea floor during hurricanes and nor'easters can rumble like a magnitude 3.5 earthquake and can last for days, according to a study in this week's journal Geophysical Research Letters.A stormquake is more an oddity than something that can hurt you, because no one is standing on the sea floor during a hurricane, said Wenyuan Fan, a Florida State University seismologist who was the study's lead author."This is the last thing you need to worry about," Fan told The Associated Press
  
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• Puerto Rico Senator Pushes Anticorruption Bill After Arrests

  16-10-2019 22:58 via news.yahoo.com
  (Bloomberg) -- Puerto Rico’s senate majority leader has introduced a bill to combat corruption in the bankrupt U.S. commonwealth, whose officials have faced presidential criticism and federal prosecution as it rebuilds after 2017’s devastating Hurricane Maria.The bill by Senator Carmelo J. Rios-Santiago of the ruling New Progressive Party, would require government contractors to use software that would track hours worked, screen time used and subject matter handled.“This is a g
  
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• Ocasio-Cortez endorsement gives Sanders shot in the arm at critical time

  16-10-2019 22:53 via news.yahoo.com
  Sanders’ recent heart attack was a reminder that he would be the oldest person ever elected president Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez speaks alongside Senator Bernie Sanders during a press conference to introduce college affordability legislation outside the US Capitol in June. Photograph: Saul Loeb/AFP via Getty ImagesBernie Sanders was in trouble. Why, pundits asked, would anyone vote for a 78-year-old white man – and socialist! – who just had a heart attack?On Tuesda
  
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• Senate Republicans are preparing for a speedy impeachment trial

  16-10-2019 22:50 via news.yahoo.com
  Senate Republicans are preparing for a speedy impeachment trial that concludes before the end of the year.
  Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell surmised that the Senate could deal with the trial by Christmas, concluding the impeachment proceedings before the Democratic presidential primaries begin.
  
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• McGrath fundraising tops $10 million in Senate race

  16-10-2019 22:45 via news.yahoo.com
  Showing her mettle as a campaign fundraiser, retired Marine combat pilot Amy McGrath hauled in more than $10.7 million since launching her bid to unseat Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell in Kentucky.McGrath has outpaced the powerful Republican lawmaker in fundraising since entering the race.McGrath entered the race in July, and candidates post some of their best fundraising totals in the opening months of their campaigns.
  
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• Blizzard Bans Three Student Gamers Over ‘Free Hong Kong’ Sign

  16-10-2019 22:43 via news.yahoo.com
  PATRIK STOLLARZ/AFP/Getty ImagesActivision Blizzard has suspended three collegiate gamers for expressing support for the Hong Kong protests and advocating for a boycott of the company. The three players—American University students identified by Vice as Casey Chambers, Corwin Dark, and one only by his handle TJammer—held up a sign that read “Free Hong Kong, boycott Blizz” during an official Blizzard broadcast of a tournament for the strategy card game Hearthstone. No
  
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• Trump rule may mean 1 million kids lose automatic free lunch

  16-10-2019 22:36 via news.yahoo.com
  Nearly a million children could lose their automatic eligibility for free school lunches under a Trump administration proposal that would reduce the number of people who get food stamps.The U.S. Department of Agriculture has released an analysis that says as many as 982,000 children could be affected by the change.About half would have to pay a reduced price of 40 cents for school lunch and 30 cents for breakfast.
  
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• Trump trashes Lindsey Graham over criticism of Syria policy

  16-10-2019 22:30 via cnn.com
  President Donald Trump slammed one of his key allies on Capitol Hill, Sen. Lindsey Graham, over his approach to Turkey's incursion in Syria.
  
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• Brexit breakthrough 'unlikely' on eve of crucial summit

  16-10-2019 22:23 via cnn.com
  UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson's hopes of securing a Brexit deal with the European Union may be tantalizingly close but the final breakthrough failed to emerge Wednesday night.
  
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• Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez’s endorsement of Bernie Sanders is a huge win for him and a way for her to hit back at the Democratic Party

  16-10-2019 22:19 via news.yahoo.com
  Bernie Sanders gets a political rock star's endorsement. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez gets to prove her left-wing credibility to the progressive wing.
  
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• Actress comes under fire over use of n-word

  16-10-2019 22:10 via cnn.com
  Actress Gina Rodriguez is facing yet another racial scandal -- this time over a social media post in which she used the n-word.
  
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• How Can This Be? The Mid-Engine Corvette's Forward Visibility is Actually Worse Than the Front-Engine C7's

  16-10-2019 22:00 via news.yahoo.com
  And our test data proves that it's not just a perception.
  
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• Boston pension votes to fire money manager Fisher, withdrawals surge toward $1 billion

  16-10-2019 21:48 via news.yahoo.com
  The City of Boston's retirement board on Wednesday voted unanimously to end its relationship with money manager Kenneth Fisher, whose firm has lost almost $1 billion in assets after allegations he made disparaging remarks about women last week."Boston will not invest in companies led by people who treat women like commodities.
  
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• US weather: 'Bomb cyclone' expected to lash northeast with fierce winds and rain

  16-10-2019 21:44 via news.yahoo.com
  A potential bomb cyclone is expected to hit the Northeast of the US Wednesday, according to the National Weather Service in Boston.New York City, Boston, and Maine will be affected, among other New England locations. It follows last week’s storm in the same area, which brought strong winds to beach’s along the East Coast.
  
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• Mystery as plane carrying Russian arms smugglers crashes in Congo

  16-10-2019 21:43 via news.yahoo.com
  The Democratic Republic of Congo has one of the world’s worst aviation safety records, so reports that an aircraft had tumbled into a remote forest last week caused few international ripples. Since then, however, a deepening mystery over the nature of the cargo and the identity of those on board has left the Congolese government facing awkward questions. The fate of the stricken plane, a mysterious Antonov-72 so far only identified by its former registration number, EK-72903, may also prov
  
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• House approves resolution opposing Trump administration Syria troop withdrawal

  16-10-2019 21:37 via cnn.com
  The House of Representatives on Wednesday approved a resolution opposing the Trump administration's move to withdraw US forces from Syria. The vote was 354-60 with four members voting present.
  
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• Republicans infuriated by Schiff's secrecy

  16-10-2019 21:36 via news.yahoo.com
  Secrecy and strategic leaks in the impeachment inquiry have enraged Republicans, who charge that House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and House Intelligence Chairman Adam Schiff are circumventing the kind of public accounting that an impeachment should involve.
  
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• The world's oldest leftovers stashed at Israel's Qesem Cave

  16-10-2019 21:30 via cnn.com
  It seems stashing your leftovers from dinner is hardly a new concept.
  
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• NYPD death by suicide is 2nd US officer within 24 hours

  16-10-2019 21:29 via abcnews.go.com
  Two U.S. police officers have died by suicide within 24 hours.
  
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• Trump on Turkey going into Syria: 'It's not our border'

  16-10-2019 21:22 via abcnews.go.com
  President Donald Trump on Turkey going into Syria: 'It's not our border'
  
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• U.S. tells Chinese diplomats to give notice of meetings

  16-10-2019 21:18 via news.yahoo.com
  Chinese diplomats in the United States must now give advance notice of any meetings with state, local and municipal officials, as well as at educational and research institutions, senior State Department officials said on Wednesday.The officials told reporters the move was an effort to "add reciprocity" to the way U.S. diplomats are treated in China."This action is a response to what the PRC (Peoples Republic of China) government does to limit the interaction our diplomats can have in China with
  
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• An Equestrian Was Shot by Her Olympic Trainer, Then Pummeled Online

  16-10-2019 21:18 via news.yahoo.com
  LONG VALLEY, N.J. -- The gunshots rang out from the back porch of the farmhouse, a little ways off from the stables and Olympic-level dressage arena, the improbable sound rising over the 53-acre estate. A woman had been shot twice in the chest by a man well known not merely to her but also to just about everyone in the rarefied dressage community: Michael Barisone, an Olympic rider, the owner of the farm and the woman's trainer. The shooting was the shocking culmination of a landlord-tenant disp
  
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• ‘Barbaric’: DLA Piper Partner Who Said Boss Assaulted Her Four Times Has Been Put on Leave

  16-10-2019 21:16 via news.yahoo.com
  Photo Illustration by The Daily Beast / Photos HandoutThe junior partner at top-grossing law firm DLA Piper who claimed she was sexually assaulted four times by her boss in 2018 has been placed on paid administrative leave.Vanina Guerrero, who works out of the multinational firm’s Silicon Valley corporate practice, filed a complaint with the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission earlier this month, claiming that the $2.84-billion firm discriminated against her and retaliated when sh
  
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• Protests continue for supporters of Catalan Independence

  16-10-2019 21:11 via abcnews.go.com
  Violent protests have been underway in Catalonia after Spain's Supreme Court sentenced nine Catalan leaders to long prison sentences.Many people in Catalonia have long sought independence from Spain to form a new European nation.The protests broke out into riots on Tuesday when over 40,000 people took to the streets.Spain's government said it would do whatever it takes to stop the violence and issued the statement that it "will act, if needed, with firmness, proportionality and unity."
  
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• Trump says PKK is worse than ISIS, and that Graham would stay in Middle East for ‘the next thousand years’

  16-10-2019 21:10 via news.yahoo.com
  At a press conference with the president of Italy, President Trump said that the Kurdish group PKK is worse than ISIS, and that Sen. Lindsey Graham, R-S.C., would keep the U.S. in the Middle East for “the next thousand years with thousands of soldiers fighting other people’s wars.”
  
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• Vatican launches $110 rosary

  16-10-2019 21:04 via cnn.com
  The Rosary is going mobile.
  
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• Trump's former top Russia adviser reportedly testified that EU ambassador Gordon Sondland was a national security threat

  16-10-2019 21:04 via news.yahoo.com
  Fiona Hill, President Trump's former top Russia and Europe adviser, was reportedly quite concerned that Gordon Sondland, the U.S. ambassador to the European Union, would accidentally divulge national security secrets while on the job, two people familiar with her private congressional testimony told The New York Times.Hill reportedly testified on Monday that Sondland was so unprepared for his job that she considered him a national security threat, though she reportedly did not accuse him of inte
  
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• Donald Trump claims Boris Johnson suggested 'bombshell' on-camera meeting of Harry Dunn's parents and Anne Sacoolas

  16-10-2019 21:03 via news.yahoo.com
  Donald Trump claimed today that he tried to broker a meeting between Harry Dunn’s grieving parents and the American woman who killed him, Anne Sacoolas, because Boris Johnson suggested he do so.  Mr Dunn’s parents, Charlotte Charles and Tim Dunn, arrived at the White House on Tuesday night to be told that Mrs Sacoolas was in the room next door. The couple refused to meet her and the family’s lawyer, Mark Stephens, on Wednesday called the attempt at a surprise a “garg
  
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• Buttigieg Raises over $1 Million from ‘Tens of Thousands of Donors’ after Debate

  16-10-2019 20:59 via news.yahoo.com
  South Bend, Ind. mayor Pete Buttigieg’s campaign pulled in more than $1 million from thousands of donations in the immediate aftermath of the fourth Democratic debate, senior campaign adviser Lis Smith announced Wednesday.> ?????? ?????? ?????? > > We are officially over $1M raised in the past 24 hours from tens of thousands of donors https://t.co/ceJDEzi8AF> > -- Lis Smith (@Lis_Smith) October 16, 2019Multiple news outlets listed Buttigieg as a winner of Tuesday’s deb
  
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• Pakistan PM: Trump asked me to be a 'go-between' with Iran

  16-10-2019 20:58 via cnn.com
  Pakistan's Prime Minister Imran Khan is positioning himself as a political mediator, starting with the dispute between Saudi Arabia and Iran.
  
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• General Motors and United Auto Workers union reach tentative deal

  16-10-2019 20:51 via abcnews.go.com
  General Motors and United Auto Workers have reached a tentative deal to end a nationwide strike.
  
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• U.S. Supreme Court wrestles over 'D.C. Sniper' life sentence appeal

  16-10-2019 20:45 via news.yahoo.com
  U.S. Supreme Court justices on Wednesday questioned whether a lower court sufficiently considered that a man convicted in the deadly 2002 "D.C. Sniper" shooting spree in the Washington area was a minor at the time of the crimes when he was sentenced to life in prison.The nine justices heard arguments in an appeal by the state of Virginia objecting to the lower court's decision ordering that Lee Boyd Malvo's sentence of life in prison without parole be thrown out.The most likely contender based o
  
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• Tracking the nor'easter: Where the heavy rain, gusty winds are heading

  16-10-2019 20:44 via abcnews.go.com
  Philadelphia, New York City and Boston could see winds reaching 50 mph.
  
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• September 2019 ties for warmest on the planet: NOAA

  16-10-2019 20:39 via abcnews.go.com
  Last month tied for the warmest September since temperatures began being recorded in 1880, according to the National Oceanic and Atmosphere Administration.
  
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• Alan Dershowitz Gets Rival Lawyer Booted From Epstein Victim’s Case

  16-10-2019 20:34 via news.yahoo.com
  REUTERS/Andrew InnerarityAlan Dershowitz may have lost his battle to dismiss a defamation lawsuit brought by Virginia Roberts Giuffre—who claims Jeffrey Epstein kept her as his “sex slave” and forced her to have sex with Dershowitz. But the Harvard Law professor scored his own victory: persuading a federal judge to disqualify Giuffre’s attorney, David Boies, and his firm, from her case.In an opinion filed Wednesday, U.S. District Judge Loretta Preska said she would d
  
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• Frustration mounts from Republicans during 'heated' meeting

  16-10-2019 20:31 via cnn.com
  Defense Secretary Mark Esper faced tough questions Wednesday during a meeting on Capitol Hill with Republican lawmakers who have grown frustrated with the Trump administration's policy in Syria, according to multiple people familiar with the meeting.
  
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• Five killed in Indian Kashmir as violence spikes

  16-10-2019 20:18 via news.yahoo.com
  Two non-Kashmiris were shot dead by suspected militants and three alleged rebels were killed by security forces, police said Wednesday, the deadliest day in the Indian-administered Kashmir valley since New Delhi revoked its autonomy.Ahead of the autonomy decision, the head of Kashmir's largest militant group Hizbul Mujahideen, Riyaz Naikoo, had warned that Indians in the territory would become legitimate targets if the valley's status were changed.In a separate shooting earlier Wednesday, suspec
  
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• Kansas lawmaker who left GOP running for Senate as Democrat

  16-10-2019 20:04 via news.yahoo.com
  One of four Kansas legislators who made headlines last year by defecting from the Republican Party is running for the U.S. Senate as a "pragmatic" Democrat, entering a race in which some GOP leaders are worried about immigration hardliner Kris Kobach 's chances should he win their party's nomination.State Sen. Barbara Bollier, a retired suburban Kansas City anesthesiologist, launched her bid Wednesday, a day after campaign finance reports showed that Kobach is well behind a GOP rival, U.S. Rep.
  
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• Complaint could make up to 234K Wisconsin voters ineligible

  16-10-2019 19:49 via abcnews.go.com
  More than a quarter-million voters in Wisconsin identified as having moved could be made ineligible to vote before next year's presidential primary election if a complaint filed by a conservative law firm is successful
  
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• Teenage Briton's retraction in Cyprus gang rape case was 'dictated by police' and written in poor English

  16-10-2019 19:45 via news.yahoo.com
  A British teenager who says she was gang raped by Israeli tourists in a beach resort in Cyprus told a court today that she was forced to sign a retraction by Cypriot police after they wrote it for her. During a three-hour cross-examination, the 19-year-old said the statement was in such broken English that “there is not one sentence that an English person would write. It does not make grammatical sense.” “It isn’t in proper English, it’s in Greek English. I'm a very
  
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• Noah: Democratic Party is like a club on Tuesday night; anyone can get in

  16-10-2019 19:40 via news.yahoo.com
  A look at the most recent debate in Best of Late Night
  
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• Kenya launches second phase of billion-dollar Chinese railway project

  16-10-2019 19:34 via cnn.com
  Two years after the completion of the first phase of the Standard Gauge Railway project (SGR), Kenya's largest infrastructure project since independence, President Uhuru Kenyatta on Wednesday launched its second phase.
  
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• Joe Biden, Bleeding Cash, Spent Nearly $1 Million on Private Jets

  16-10-2019 19:26 via news.yahoo.com
  REUTERSJoe Biden’s presidential campaign is bleeding cash. And a big reason why appears to be an antiquated, higher-end approach to electoral politics that the former vice president has adopted. Biden’s team spent more than $923,000 on private jets during the third quarter of 2019, according to recently filed Federal Election Commission data. The expenses, all made to the company EJCR, LLC Dba Advanced Aviation Team, represented a major chunk of change—accounting for rough
  
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• 'I like killing people': Man allegedly said he 'wants to be a serial killer'

  16-10-2019 19:20 via abcnews.go.com
  Stanley Mossburg, 35, was arrested Tuesday after barricading himself in a Florida home.
  
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• Three US diplomats held near Russian test site where mystery blast killed five

  16-10-2019 19:18 via news.yahoo.com
  * Russian foreign ministry says trio ‘obviously got lost’* August explosion caused radiation levels to surgeA Russian navy official works on the Akula nuclear-powered ballistic missile submarine at the Severodvinsk site in July. The August explosion there killed at least five people. Photograph: Sergei Bobylev/TassThree American diplomats were briefly detained in Russia near the military test site where a mysterious explosion released radiation in August, several Russia state news ag
  
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