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• As Inquiry Widens, McConnell Sees Impeachment Trial as Inevitable

  19-10-2019 23:57 via news.yahoo.com
  WASHINGTON -- It was only a few weeks ago that the top Senate Republican was hinting that his chamber would make short work of impeachment.But this week, Sen. Mitch McConnell, the majority leader, sat his colleagues down over lunch in the Capitol and warned them to prepare for an extended impeachment trial of President Donald Trump.According to people who were there, he came equipped with a PowerPoint presentation, complete with quotes from the Constitution, as he schooled fellow senators on the
  
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• Halloween's coming so here are 7 movies to scream...uh stream in honor of the holiday

  19-10-2019 23:35 via cnn.com
  
  Don't read any further if you frighten easily.
  
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• The Latest: Lebanon party pulls out of embattled government

  19-10-2019 23:26 via news.yahoo.com
  A Lebanese Christian leader has asked his four ministers in the Cabinet to resign amid nationwide protests against the country's political elite.Samir Geagea, who heads the right-wing Lebanese Forces party, said late Saturday he no longer believes the current national unity government headed by Premier Saad Hariri can steer the country out of a deepening economic crisis.The protesters are calling for the government to resign.
  
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• 'The halls of Congress are no joke': AOC reflects on Congress as she endorses Sanders

  19-10-2019 23:12 via news.yahoo.com
  Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez said the pressure she'd felt in Congress led her to "appreciate the enormous, consistent, and non-stop advocacy" of Bernie Sanders.
  
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• How Would Taiwan Slowdown a Chinese Invasion? Think Lots of Missile Boats.

  19-10-2019 23:00 via news.yahoo.com
  The Taiwanese navy needs to start building small, cheap, missile-armed attack boats, and fast. It’s the only way Taipei can hope to hold off a Chinese invasion force long enough for the United States to intervene on the island country’s behalf.
  
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• Andrew Yang’s ‘Freedom Dividend’ Echoes a 1930s Basic Income Proposal that Reshaped Social Security

  19-10-2019 23:00 via news.yahoo.com
  Andrew Yang wants to give Americans $1,000 a month.
  
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• Turkey urges US to use 'leverage' to get Kurdish force pullout: AFP interview

  19-10-2019 22:56 via news.yahoo.com
  Turkey on Saturday urged the United States to use its "leverage" over Syrian Kurdish forces to ensure an orderly pullout under an agreement reached with Washington, a presidential spokesman told AFP.Ankara had no intention of "occupying" any part of the neighbouring country, he insisted.Turkey and the United States reached an agreement that gives Kurdish forces five days for a complete withdrawal from a safe zone along the border -- a deadline which expires Tuesday night.
  
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• San Francisco man completes 'figure-8' sail around the world in one season

  19-10-2019 22:55 via cnn.com
  
  Randall Reeves was destined to be a seaman.
  
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• Trump calls Mexico's president to express 'solidarity'

  19-10-2019 22:42 via news.yahoo.com
  Mexico's president, Andrés Manuel López Obrador, said on Saturday that President Trump called him to express his "solidarity" following an attempt to arrest a drug kingpin's son that prompted a wave of violence in the city of Culiacan.
  
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• The Latest: Syria Kurds say they will withdraw from border

  19-10-2019 22:38 via news.yahoo.com
  A senior Syrian Kurdish official says his forces will pull back from a border area in accordance with a U.S.-brokered deal after Turkey allows the evacuation of its remaining fighters and civilians from a besieged town there.Redur Khalil, a senior Syrian Democratic Forces official, said Saturday the plan for evacuation from the town of Ras al-Ayn is set for the following day, if there are no delays.Khalil said a partial evacuation happened earlier Saturday from Ras al-Ayn after much stalling and
  
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• Florida authorities bust trafficking ring smuggling thousands of native turtles

  19-10-2019 22:30 via cnn.com
  
  Two men have been charged for poaching thousands of Florida turtles and selling them illegally, according to the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission.
  
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• Russian Media Cheers Trump’s Moves in Syria: ‘Putin Won the Lottery!’

  19-10-2019 22:28 via news.yahoo.com
  BRENDAN SMIALOWSKI/AFP/GettyPresident Trump has boasted he’s “getting a lot of praise” for his abrupt decision to withdraw U.S. troops out of northern Syria, abandoning the Kurds—America’s longstanding allies—to Turkey’s incursion. On the home front, the controversial move has been met with criticism on both sides of the political aisle, but the reaction in Moscow was far from mixed. As Trump uncorked chaos in the Middle East, champagne tops were likely
  
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• Hondurans call for president to step down after drug verdict

  19-10-2019 22:28 via news.yahoo.com
  Opposition groups called Saturday for continuing protests to demand that Honduran President Juan Orlando Hernández be removed from office after his younger brother was convicted of drug trafficking in a New York court.President Hernández insisted via Twitter that the verdict is not against the state of Honduras, saying his government has fought drug trafficking.On Saturday he attended a parade to honor the country's armed forces and posted pictures of himself on Twitter smiling alo
  
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• This high school football coach disarmed a student. Then he hugged him.

  19-10-2019 22:15 via cnn.com
  
  A high school football and track coach in Portland, Oregon, was celebrated as a hero earlier this year after he disarmed a student with a shotgun.
  
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• Chicago strike means day off for some, emergency for others

  19-10-2019 21:48 via news.yahoo.com
  Chicago parents leaned on family, friends and community groups as 25,000 teachers in the nation's third-largest school district went on strike this past week, canceling classes for more than 300,000 kids.For some families, the Chicago Teachers Union walkout meant a day off and a bit of inconvenience for parents juggling work schedules.Both Mayor Lori Lightfoot and union leaders said negotiators have several major disputes to resolve, including pay and benefits, class size, and school staffing.
  
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• Turkey urges US to use 'leverage' to ensure Kurdish force pullout: AFP interview 

  19-10-2019 21:15 via news.yahoo.com
  Turkey on Saturday urged the United States to use its "leverage" over Syrian Kurdish forces to ensure an orderly pullout under an agreement reached with Washington, the presidency spokesman said."We are committed to this agreement: Within five days they are supposed to leave and we have told our American colleagues to use their leverage, their connections to make sure that they leave without any incidents," spokesman Ibrahim Kalin told AFP in an interview in Istanbul.Turkey and Kurdish forces on
  
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• Hong Kong democracy activist injured in knife attack

  19-10-2019 21:12 via news.yahoo.com
  A man handing out leaflets for a Hong Kong pro-democracy protest was attacked by a knife-wielding assailant who slashed his neck and abdomen on Saturday, days after a leading activist was left bloodied in another street attack.The injured 19-year-old, wearing black clothes and a black face mask, was knifed near one of the large "Lennon Walls" that have sprung up around the city during months of demonstrations, police said.Footage posted on social media showed another man holding a knife shortly
  
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• Turkey wants Syrian forces to leave border areas, aide says

  19-10-2019 21:06 via news.yahoo.com
  Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan wants Syrian government forces to move out of areas near the Turkish border so it can resettle up to 2 million refugees there, his spokesman told The Associated Press on Saturday, adding that Erdogan will raise the issue in talks next week with Syria's ally, Russian President Vladimir Putin.Government troops have moved in to several locations in northeastern Syria this week, invited by Kurdish-led fighters to protect them from Turkey's invasion.
  
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• Michigan Farmers Suffered a Massive Apple and Pumpkin Heist, Losing Thousands of Dollars in Produce

  19-10-2019 21:03 via news.yahoo.com
  "This was not a one man job"
  
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• 'Please leave': why the Sydney archbishop's same-sex marriage message has Anglicans rattled | Andrew West

  19-10-2019 21:00 via theguardian.com
  Glenn Davies’ blunt words come at a critical moment for Australian churches amid demands for religious freedomFor a man renowned for his civility, the language was blunt. During his annual speech to the Anglican Church’s Sydney synod, Archbishop Glenn Davies told supporters of same-sex marriage to “please leave us”.“My own view is that if people wish to change the doctrine of our church, they should start a new church or join a church more aligned to their views,&rd
  
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• FACT: Cuba Hosted Russian Spy Planes to Use Against America

  19-10-2019 21:00 via news.yahoo.com
  A forgotten tale of the cold war.
  
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• 7 Things To Do With Your Old Smartphone

  19-10-2019 21:00 via news.yahoo.com
  Put those outdated gadgets to good use.From Popular Mechanics
  
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• Ocasio-Cortez throws her support to Bernie Sanders

  19-10-2019 20:57 via news.yahoo.com
  At a rally Saturday in Queens, N.Y., Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez made her endorsement of Sen. Bernie Sanders for president official.
  
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• India's Nuclear Weapons Arsenal Keeps Getting Bigger and Bigger

  19-10-2019 20:30 via news.yahoo.com
  A large arsenal in a dangerous part of the world.
  
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• Do Germans Know a Hate Crime When They See It?

  19-10-2019 20:24 via news.yahoo.com
  Jens Schlueter/GettyFRANKFURT—Slowly, many would say too slowly, Germany is waking up to the threat of far right terrorism. How could it not after a gunman attacked a synagogue in the eastern city of Halle on Yom Kippur, the holiest day in the Jewish calendar? Unable to enter, he killed a woman on the street and a man in a kebab shop. The shooter’s “manifesto” was a typical anti-Semitic screed, but his mother’s words, in their way, were more chilling. She told
  
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• Watch Jennifer Aniston and Reese Witherspoon reenact a scene from 'Friends'

  19-10-2019 20:10 via cnn.com
  
  It's been almost 20 years, but Reese Witherspoon and Jennifer Aniston still got it.
  
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• 'She stole their lives': Woman convicted of passing school bus, killing 3 kids in crash

  19-10-2019 20:08 via news.yahoo.com
  Alyssa Shepherd was found guilty of three felony counts of reckless homicide for the Oct. 2018 crash that killed three siblings.
  
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• Women gather in Paris to protest against deadly domestic violence

  19-10-2019 20:04 via news.yahoo.com
  Hundreds of women took part in so-called "die-in" protests in central Paris on Saturday, hoping to draw attention to domestic violence against women.More than 120 women are believed to have been killed as a direct result of domestic violence in France so far this year according to local associations.Sandrine Bouchait, who heads a victims' association and whose sister was burned to death in 2017 by her partner in front of her seven year-old daughter, told Reuters Television the death toll was una
  
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• GOP congressman who was open to impeachment calls it quits

  19-10-2019 19:53 via politico.com
  Rep. Francis Rooney (R-Fla.), who was the first House Republican express openness to voting to impeach President Donald Trump, announced his retirement on Saturday.“I thought the idea was you came and did your public service and left, you accomplish what you want to accomplish and you left," Rooney said on Fox News.The two-term congressman confirmed his plans shortly afterward in an interview with POLITICO.
  
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• The Latest: New Orleans delays plans to collapse 2 cranes

  19-10-2019 19:45 via news.yahoo.com
  New Orleans officials say they must delay plans to topple two cranes that had been looming precariously over the ruins of a partially collapsed hotel.The delay comes a week after the shocking collapse of the Hard Rock Hotel on Saturday that was being built near a corner of the city's historic French Quarter.People living and working near a corner of New Orleans' historic French Quarter are being told they should prepare to leave for several hours as preparations continue for a controlled explosi
  
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• Legionnaires' outbreak linked to hot tub display at North Carolina fair claims fourth fatality

  19-10-2019 19:43 via news.yahoo.com
  The epicenter of the deadly Legionnaires' outbreak was the Mountain State Fair, held at the Western North Carolina Agricultural Center in September.
  
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• Huge crowds march to demand second Brexit referendum

  19-10-2019 19:43 via cnn.com
  
  Take a look at the vast crowds gathering in central London, as part of a People's Vote march demanding a second referendum on Brexit.
  
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• Hillary Clinton claims Tulsi Gabbard is being 'groomed' by Russia

  19-10-2019 19:26 via news.yahoo.com
  Hillary Clinton has claimed a Democrat presidential candidate is being "groomed" by the Kremlin to run as an independent in 2020. In an astonishing attack on Tulsi Gabbard, a congresswoman from Hawaii, Mrs Clinton suggested Russia would use her to damage the Democrats' chances of taking the White House. Ms Gabbard, 38, responded by calling Mrs Clinton the "queen of warmongers" and the cause of "rot" in the Democrat party. The bitter row began when Mrs Clinton was being interviewed about the pros
  
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• 70,000 California wildfire victims may miss out on payments

  19-10-2019 19:09 via news.yahoo.com
  As many as 100,000 Californians are eligible to receive payments for the damages they suffered from a series of devastating wildfires over the last several years.Concerned that as many as 70,000 victims may miss out on payments, attorneys filed court papers Friday to alert the bankruptcy judge that wildfire survivors — many still traumatized and struggling to get back on their feet — aren't aware of their rights to file a claim."People really are overwhelmed and don't understand what
  
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• What happened with Brexit today, and what happens next?

  19-10-2019 18:42 via cnn.com
  
  After three and a half years of torturous impasse, this was meant to be it.
  
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• Video shows Oregon coach disarming student then embracing him before police arrive

  19-10-2019 18:40 via abcnews.go.com
  Video showed the moment Oregon coach Keanon Lowe disarmed and embraced a student who entered the school with a shotgun.
  
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• Video shows emotional moment after coach disarms student

  19-10-2019 18:24 via cnn.com
  
  Security video shows the moment a high school football coach disarmed a student with a shotgun, then hugs him until police arrive.
  
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• Thousands demonstrate in Lebanon despite crackdown on protesters

  19-10-2019 18:19 via cnn.com
  
  Thousands of demonstrators poured into downtown Beirut for a third day on Saturday, hours after overnight clashes erupted between security forces and protesters leading to large-scale arrests and several injuries.
  
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• The Latest: Service canceled for Texas woman shot by police

  19-10-2019 17:42 via news.yahoo.com
  A service for a woman shot in her home by a Fort Worth police officer has been canceled.Saturday's service for Atatiana Jefferson was to be held at Potter's House Church in Dallas.Church representative Mara Silverio says the service hasn't been rescheduled.
  
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• Johnson Says He’ll Press on After Commons Defeat: Brexit Update

  19-10-2019 17:33 via news.yahoo.com
  (Bloomberg) -- Sign up to our Brexit Bulletin, follow us @Brexit and subscribe to our podcast.Parliament voted for Boris Johnson to request a further delay to Brexit after a day of high tension in the House of Commons in London. The prime minister, who said the choice is his deal or no deal, said he will not “negotiate delay” with the European Union and will introduce the legislation needed next week for the U.K. to leave the EU on Oct. 31.Lawmakers voted 322 to 3
  
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• Post-tropical storm Nestor batters Florida with storm surge, tornadoes

  19-10-2019 17:29 via abcnews.go.com
  Nestor expected to make landfall in Florida today as it brings heavy rain, gusty winds, storm surge, and possible tornadoes to parts of the Southeast U.S.
  
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• Royal Caribbean’s ‘Adventure of the Seas’ requests help from Coast Guard off Jersey Shore

  19-10-2019 17:25 via news.yahoo.com
  The cruise ship is on a 13-day, one-way cruise from Quebec City, Canada to Fort Lauderdale, Florida.
  
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• Service canceled for Texas woman shot at home by officer

  19-10-2019 17:22 via news.yahoo.com
  A service for a woman shot in her home by a Fort Worth police officer that had been scheduled for Saturday was canceled amid a family dispute over funeral arrangements.Atatiana Jefferson's funeral had been set to be held at Potter's House Church in Dallas.Church representative Mara Silverio said the service hasn't been rescheduled, but that no events would be held for her Saturday.
  
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• Rudy Giuliani reportedly tried to get a visa for a former Ukrainian prosecutor ousted with the help of Joe Biden

  19-10-2019 17:09 via news.yahoo.com
  President Trump's personal lawyer and former New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani reportedly attempted to secure a visa for former Ukraine prosecutor Viktor Shokin, CNN reported Friday.George Kent, the deputy assistant of state for European and Eurasian affairs, reportedly told congressional investigators that Giuliani asked both the State Department and the White House for a visa, two people familiar with his closed-door deposition earlier this week said. The State Department reportedly objected t
  
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• Israel, Russia, and the US are in a diplomatic standoff over a 26-year-old woman smuggling 9 and a half grams of marijuana

  19-10-2019 17:05 via news.yahoo.com
  Naama Issachar, 26, was sentenced to 7.5 years of prison in Moscow, and negotiating her release is part of a bigger diplomatic dispute.
  
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• What is the Letwin amendment that UK MPs have voted for?

  19-10-2019 17:00 via cnn.com
  
  An amendment to Boris Johnson's Brexit deal has the potential to shake everything up -- rendering Super Saturday, the first weekend sitting of the UK Parliament for 37 years, something of an anti-climax.
  
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• Deadly protests in Guinea as Russia calls for change of rules to keep despot in power

  19-10-2019 16:54 via news.yahoo.com
  When police shot dead nine pro-democracy protesters in Guinea this week, Western embassies quietly shared their misgivings with the country’s president, Alpha Conde. International human rights groups were more unequivocal. François Patuel of Amnesty International denounced “a shameful attempt by Guinean authorities to stifle dissent by any means necessary”. But one major power seemed unperturbed. Mr Conde’s ruthless response to protests against his apparent efforts
  
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• Catalonian president calls for negotiations with Spain after fifth night of violent unrest

  19-10-2019 16:54 via cnn.com
  
  Catalonia president Quim Torra has called for talks with the Spanish government after a fifth consecutive night of violence in the streets of Barcelona, and other parts of the region, as anger over the jailing of Catalan separatist leaders continued.
  
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• Boris Johnson: I will not negotiate a delay with the EU

  19-10-2019 16:48 via cnn.com
  
  "The opportunity to have a meaningful vote has effectively been passed up," Boris Johnson said in Parliament, after losing the vote on Oliver Letwin's amendment. "The meaningful vote has been voided of meaning."
  
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• U.K. serial killers had affair in prison, lawyer claims

  19-10-2019 16:47 via news.yahoo.com
  Notorious U.K. serial killers Rose West and Myra Hindley were lovers in prison, according to one of their former lawyers. West’s ex-attorney Leo Goatley claimed his client fell for the Moors murderer in 1995 after they were both jailed in the hospital wing of Durham prison.
  
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