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• Wisconsin school guard fired for repeating racial slur

  17-10-2019 23:55 via news.yahoo.com
  A black security guard at a Wisconsin high school who was fired after he says he repeated a racial slur while telling a student who had called him that word not to use it has filed a grievance seeking his job back.The Madison School District has a policy forbidding employees from saying racial slurs.West High Principal Karen Boran sent an email to families on Wednesday asaying that racial slurs are not acceptable in schools, regardless of context or circumstance, the Wisconsin State Journal repo
  
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• Ambassador breaks with Trump, testifying the President directed diplomats to work with Giuliani on Ukraine

  17-10-2019 23:54 via cnn.com
  US Ambassador to the European Union Gordon Sondland was directed by President Donald Trump to work with Rudy Giuliani on Ukraine, he plans to tell Congress Thursday, and was left with a choice: Abandon efforts to bolster a key strategic alliance or work to satisfy the demands of the President's personal lawyer.
  
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• Protesters bar Haiti's president from visiting historic site

  17-10-2019 23:45 via news.yahoo.com
  PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (AP) — Haiti's embattled president was forced on Thursday to hold a private ceremony amid heavy security for what is usually a public celebration of one of the country's founding fathers.Jovenel Moïse and other officials appeared at the National Pantheon Museum in downtown Port-au-Prince as hundreds of armed police officers closed down the surrounding area while protesters who demanded his resignation began to gather nearby.
  
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• Doing it for the 'gram? Royal Caribbean says no to that, bans guest from ever sailing again

  17-10-2019 23:44 via news.yahoo.com
  Doing it for the 'gram? Royal Caribbean Cruises doesn't seem to think that's a good idea, particularly when it's dangerous.
  
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• White House admits to quid pro quo with Ukraine

  17-10-2019 23:43 via cnn.com
  White House acting chief of staff Mick Mulvaney made a stunning admission Thursday by confirming that President Donald Trump froze nearly $400 million in US security aid to Ukraine in part to pressure that country into investigating Democrats.
  
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• Nancy Pelosi took a photo that Trump tweeted to accuse her of having a 'meltdown' and made it her cover photo

  17-10-2019 23:42 via news.yahoo.com
  The photo was taken at a meeting after the House voted to condemn the US withdrawal from Syria. Pelosi also said the president had a "meltdown."
  
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• Mexico flies 300 Indian migrants to New Delhi in mass deportation

  17-10-2019 23:32 via news.yahoo.com
  Mexico has deported more than 300 Indian nationals to New Delhi, the National Migration Institute said late on Wednesday, in what it described as an unprecedented transatlantic deportation.
  
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• Former top Navy SEAL who oversaw the Osama bin Laden raid says the US is 'under attack from the president'

  17-10-2019 23:25 via news.yahoo.com
  The retired Navy SEAL William McRaven said a retired general told him, "'I don't like the Democrats, but Trump is destroying the Republic!'"
  
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• Trump holds Dallas rally as impeachment fight messes with his lead in Texas

  17-10-2019 23:23 via politico.com
  Texas on Thursday night offered President Donald Trump a much-needed break from the backlash over his Syria decision and the relentlessness of the Democrats’ impeachment inquiry.To an adoring crowd at his campaign rally, he tested out new, aggressive messaging as he sought to cast Democrats as politically extreme, the Biden family as corrupt, and the media in cahoots with both of them as part of a grand conspiracy.It was good to let Turkey attack the Kurds, longtime U.S. allies in the figh
  
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• Joe Biden digs at Elizabeth Warren after debate: Polls don't show 'anybody else as a frontrunner'

  17-10-2019 23:23 via news.yahoo.com
  "You know, I haven't seen any polling showing that nationally, on average, that anybody else is a front-runner," Joe Biden said.
  
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• The most shocking part of the 'meltdown' photo Trump tweeted isn't who's in it — it's who isn't

  17-10-2019 23:17 via news.yahoo.com
  House Speaker Nancy Pelosi was one of two women at the table at a Wednesday meeting, joined only by Rep. Liz Cheney.
  
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• Serial Bank Robber Who Wrote Book About Prison Time With Bernie Madoff Faces Fifth Robbery Charge

  17-10-2019 23:15 via news.yahoo.com
  Multnomah County Detention CenterRalph Griffith, a serial bank robber who penned a self-published book about his time in prison with Bernie Madoff, appeared in federal court Wednesday to face his fifth bank robbery charge.Griffith spent his 68th birthday at the Mark O. Hatfield United States Courthouse, where he was ordered to remain in jail pending his trial for an alleged armed robbery of a Milwaukie Wells Fargo Bank in July, The Oregonian first reported.The career criminal, who describes hims
  
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• Syrian Kurdish-led force says it will abide by cease-fire

  17-10-2019 23:06 via news.yahoo.com
  The commander of Kurdish-led forces in Syria on Thursday said they will abide by a cease-fire agreement announced in Turkey by U.S. Vice President Mike Pence.Mazloum Abdi, speaking on Kurdish Ronahi TV, said the extent of the cease-fire stretches about 100 kilometers (60 miles) along the middle of the border — between the towns of Tal Abyad and Ras al-Ayn."We hope that this cease fire will be successful, and we will do our best to make it successful," Abdi said Thursday, describing it as a
  
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• Pence announces Syria ceasefire that appears to give Turkey everything it wants

  17-10-2019 23:06 via cnn.com
  • LIVE UPDATES: SDF commander says they are ready to abide by the ceasefire
  
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• Say Cheese! Satellite Photos Reveal China’s New Aircraft Carrier

  17-10-2019 23:00 via news.yahoo.com
  High-resolution, commercial satellite images of China’s Jiangnan shipyard in September 2019 provided the clearest glimpse yet of the Chinese navy’s third and largest aircraft carrier.
  
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• Border Patrol's growing presence at hospitals creates fear

  17-10-2019 22:58 via news.yahoo.com
  An armed Border Patrol agent roamed the hallways of an emergency room in Miami on a recent day as nurses wheeled stretchers and medical carts through the hospital and families waited for physicians to treat their loved ones. The agent in the olive-green uniform freely stepped in and out of the room where a woman was taken by ambulance after throwing up and fainting while being detained on an immigration violation, according to advocates who witnessed the scene. The presence of immigration author
  
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• Fox’s Judge Napolitano: G7 at Trump Doral Is as ‘Profound a Violation’ as ‘One Could Create’

  17-10-2019 22:51 via news.yahoo.com
  Immediately after acting White House Chief of Staff Mick Mulvaney announced Thursday that President Donald Trump’s Doral golf club will host next year’s G7 summit, Fox News senior judicial analyst Judge Andrew Napolitano declared such a move represents a clear emoluments clause violation.During Thursday’s broadcast of Fox Business Network’s Cavuto: Coast to Coast, eponymous host Neil Cavuto noted that the announcement of the G7 location “is effectively saying the pr
  
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• Romney Demands Answers from White House on Syria Decision: ‘American Honor Has Already Been Tarnished’

  17-10-2019 22:45 via news.yahoo.com
  A day after he called President Trump’s handling of Turkey's invasion of northern Syria “unacceptable,” Senator Mitt Romney (R., Utah) gave a speech on the Senate floor Thursday afternoon demanding answers from the administration, and proposing that public hearings be held by the Senate to look into what he called “a blood stain in the annals of American history.”Romney’s speech came several hours after Vice President Mike Pence announced that a ceasefire agre
  
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• Pelosi's Twitter flex subverts Trump's attempt to stereotype powerful women

  17-10-2019 22:44 via cnn.com
  
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• Mike Pence: US and Turkey have agreed to a ceasefire in Syria – video

  17-10-2019 22:36 via theguardian.com
  US vice president Mike Pence on Thursday announced that the Turkish president, Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, had agreed to a ceasefire in Syria, where Turkey had launched an offensive on Kurdish forces once allied with the US in the fight against the Islamic State group. Ankara will suspend its operation on Kurdish-led forces in north-east Syria for the next five days in order to allow Kurdish troops to withdrawPence and Erdoğan agree on ceasefire plan to allow Kurdish withdrawal Continue read
  
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• Plane carrying Prince William and Kate forced to abort landing twice amid storms

  17-10-2019 22:20 via cnn.com
  A British Royal Air Force plane carrying the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge was forced to abandon landing twice in Pakistan due to bad weather on Thursday.
  
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• From the inner city to the polo field

  17-10-2019 22:20 via bbc.co.uk
  A scheme in Philadelphia takes inner-city youths and gives them the chance to play polo.
  
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• 'Climate change will not be on the agenda' of next G-7, White House says

  17-10-2019 22:14 via news.yahoo.com
  President Trump will not be discussing climate change at the next G-7 meeting, his acting chief of staff says.
  
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• Sallie Mae execs tan at Maui retreat while student debt crisis tops $1.6 trillion

  17-10-2019 22:12 via nbcnews.com
  As borrowers struggle to keep up with their payments, Sallie Mae flew more than 100 employees on its sales team to Hawaii to celebrate $5 billion in sales.
  
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• Florida school resource officer fired after accidentally discharging gun in cafeteria

  17-10-2019 22:12 via news.yahoo.com
  Jonathan Cross, a resource officer at Thomas E. Weightman Middle School in Wesley Chapel, Florida, was fired for "mishandling" a gun.
  
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• U.S. Navy Submarines Are Losing Their Stealth Coatings. Who’s to Blame?

  17-10-2019 22:09 via news.yahoo.com
  A former employee of Huntington Ingalls Industries, the Virginia-based shipbuilder that helps to construct all of the U.S. Navy’s submarines, has sued the company in federal court, claiming that the firm lied about problems with the external coating on Virginia-class attack subs.
  
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• How Elijah Cummings' unexpected death could affect the impeachment inquiry

  17-10-2019 22:07 via news.yahoo.com
  New York Democrat Carolyn Maloney takes over as chair of the House Oversight and Reform Committee and will play a key role in the impeachment inquiry.
  
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• Mars lander's digger is burrowing again after snag

  17-10-2019 22:05 via news.yahoo.com
  A Mars lander's digger is burrowing into the red planet again after hitting a snag seven months ago.NASA said Thursday the mechanical mole has penetrated three-quarters of an inch (2 centimeters) over the past week."We're rooting for our mole to keep going," said the experiment's lead scientist, Tilman Spohn of the German Aerospace Center, in a statement.
  
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• Trump praised Erdogan for a cease-fire in Syria that Turkey says is 'not a cease-fire'

  17-10-2019 22:00 via news.yahoo.com
  Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu during a news conference said, "This is not a cease-fire."
  
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• Marine Corps says another WWII hero misidentified in iconic, flag-raising Iwo Jima photo

  17-10-2019 21:45 via news.yahoo.com
  Three historians using film footage from Mount Suribachi identified one of the six flag-raisers as Cpl. Harold 'Pie' Keller - not Pfc. Rene Gagnon.
  
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• Why Mexico Is Cooperating with Us on Immigration

  17-10-2019 21:42 via news.yahoo.com
  One of the reasons border apprehensions have dropped from their alarming peak in May is that Mexico has been pretty aggressive in stopping third-country nationals from traversing its territory on their way north to make bogus asylum claims so they can be released into the U.S.But why has Mexico been willing to work with us like this? It's especially curious because in the past, Mexico was not at all eager to help us limit illegal immigration, a pattern we might have expected to intensify with la
  
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• Woman who was missing for days is rescued thanks to SOS message in the sand

  17-10-2019 21:36 via cnn.com
  An Australian woman has a surveillance camera to thank for her rescue after she got lost while camping with friends.
  
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• Brazil police kill three robbers during dramatic airport heist

  17-10-2019 21:33 via news.yahoo.com
  Two of the men were killed while fleeing the Viracopos International Airport in the city of Campinas, near Sao Paulo, while the third ran to a house and took a family hostage.Two private security guards were shot and injured in the robbery but remain alive.At least one of the cars used by the armed men was disguised as an airforce car that would routinely have access to the airport.
  
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• Mexico Throws $900 Million at Labor to Entice Democrats on USMCA

  17-10-2019 21:30 via news.yahoo.com
  (Bloomberg) -- Mexico’s President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador is pledging close to $1 billion to implement a law to improve labor conditions that U.S. Democrats say is key to passing a stalled North American trade accord.Mexico’s Finance Ministry will ask lawmakers to boost the budget that was already presented to congress by $69 million for next year, Lopez Obrador stated in a letter he sent to U.S. Representative Richard Neal, chairman of the House Ways and Means Committee. He prom
  
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• Record-smashing bomb cyclone or 'explosive cyclogenesis' wreaks havoc in the Northeast

  17-10-2019 21:29 via news.yahoo.com
  An 'explosive cyclogenesis' or bomb cyclone hit the Northeast, causing widespread power outages in Massachusetts, Maine, Connecticut, New Hampshire.
  
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• Trump's Nancy Pelosi 'meltdown' tweet was the perfect self-own. Here's why.

  17-10-2019 21:17 via nbcnews.com
  The White House's photo clearly shows that the last man standing in that room is, in fact, Nancy Pelosi.
  
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• UPDATE 1-U.S., Turkey agree Ankara to primarily control Syria 'safe zone'

  17-10-2019 21:08 via news.yahoo.com
  Turkey will primarily enforce a "safe zone" in northern Syria, according to a joint statement with the United States after high-level talks in Ankara at which the sides agreed the Turkish military would pause attacks against a Kurdish militia. Under the agreement the NATO allies reached on Thursday, Turkey would stop its operation for five days in northern Syria against the Kurdish YPG militia, while it withdraws from a region along the Turkish border. Speaking after four hours of meetings betwe
  
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• Jim Acosta: Mulvaney news conference was mindblowing

  17-10-2019 21:04 via cnn.com
  President Trump's acting chief of staff Mick Mulvaney says that aid to Ukraine was in fact tied to President Trump's wish for an investigation into the 2016 election.
  
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• Acosta: Mulvaney news conference was mindblowing

  17-10-2019 21:04 via cnn.com
  President Trump's acting chief of staff Mick Mulvaney says that aid to Ukraine was in fact tied to President Trump's wish for an investigation into the 2016 election.
  
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• Life in a Nigerian torture 'school': I was treated like an animal

  17-10-2019 21:00 via bbc.co.uk
  Police discovered more than 70 men and boys in shackles when they raided the private Islamic school.
  
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• Donald Tusk refuses to rule out granting further Brexit extension – video

  17-10-2019 20:50 via theguardian.com
  Donald Tusk has failed to back Jean-Claude Juncker by refusing to rule out granting a further extension to the date of the UK's departure from the EU. Speaking at a press conference after a new Brexit deal was endorsed by the EU, the European council president said he had 'no idea' what would happen in the House of CommonsBrexit: Tusk fails to back Juncker as he refuses to rule out granting further extension – live news
  EU leaves door open to Brexit extension in blow for Boris JohnsonConti
  
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• Marines correct ID of second man who raised flag at Iwo Jima

  17-10-2019 20:40 via news.yahoo.com
  The Marine Corps on Thursday corrected the identity of a second man in the iconic photograph of U.S. forces raising an American flag during the Battle of Iwo Jima.Rene Gagnon, as had long been believed, but Cpl.Harold P. Keller, the Marines said in a statement, noting that Gagnon did help obtain the flag.
  
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• Pelosi says Trump is melting down. There's lots of evidence she's right.

  17-10-2019 20:39 via cnn.com
  • LIVE UPDATES: Mulvaney says Ukraine aid was tied to Trump's desire for investigation
  • Trump told diplomats to work with Giuliani, EU Ambassador says
  
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• Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez is endorsing Bernie Sanders this weekend, and polling shows that could be a hit to Elizabeth Warren

  17-10-2019 20:39 via news.yahoo.com
  AOC is most popular among voters who support Warren, which makes her endorsement of Sanders particularly unfortunate for the Massachusetts lawmaker.
  
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• What his letter to Erdoğan tells us about Donald Trump

  17-10-2019 20:23 via theguardian.com
  US president’s letter to his Turkish counterpart is ‘the product of an amateur’, say criticsWe now know – not that there was ever much doubt – that Donald Trump writes presidential letters like he talks – with a blustery mix of flattery and threats. His letter to the Turkish president, Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, has all the charm and elegance of an eviction notice from a slumlord, but on White House stationery.Those who have observed him the longest say this i
  
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• New Brexit deal: Four ways it's different, one way it's the same

  17-10-2019 20:17 via bbc.co.uk
  Brussels correspondent Adam Fleming compares Boris Johnson's withdrawal agreement with Theresa May's.
  
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• Opinion: A letter to Kurdish soldiers from a US military wife

  17-10-2019 20:12 via cnn.com
  The wife of a Special Operations soldier, who has served throughout the Middle East writes: "To read in international newspapers that the United States, my country, has abandoned the Kurds is absolutely heartbreaking."
  
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• White House confirms it tied Ukraine aid to help in pursuing conspiracy theory on DNC hack

  17-10-2019 20:08 via news.yahoo.com
  Acting White House chief of staff Mick Mulvaney confirmed that the president withheld military aid from Ukraine because he wanted the country to look for a computer server belonging to the Democratic National Committee.
  
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• Tropical storm likely to hit northern Gulf Coast

  17-10-2019 20:06 via news.yahoo.com
  A disturbance in the southwestern Gulf of Mexico is likely to become a tropical storm that will hit the northern U.S. Gulf Coast with wind and rain, forecasters said Thursday.
  
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• This sick 5-year-old boy got a wish trip to Disney World — and another wish on the flight there

  17-10-2019 19:49 via news.yahoo.com
  Allegiant, working with the Make-A-Wish Foundation, made a five-year-old boy's dream vacation to Walt Disney World that much more special.
  
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