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• Virus could be the cause of mysterious polio-like illness, study says

  21-10-2019 23:54 via cnn.com
  
  Researchers found evidence of what might cause acute flaccid myelitis, known as AFM, a rare polio-like illness that affects children. According to a study published Monday in the journal Nature Medicine, a virus seems to be the culprit.
  
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• U.S. Wins Court Seizure of North Korean Cargo Vessel

  21-10-2019 23:44 via news.yahoo.com
  (Bloomberg) -- The U.S. won a court battle to take control of a North Korean cargo ship that had been used to sell coal and import heavy machinery, skirting economic sanctions on the country.Federal prosecutors in New York said Monday that they secured a judgment from U.S. District Judge Kevin Castel awarding the ship, a Handysize bulk carrier known as the “Wise Honest,” to the U.S., after the government filed a forfeiture action to seize it this year.The ship was interdicted by Indo
  
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• These Trump photos posted on private Instagram raise eyebrows

  21-10-2019 23:36 via cnn.com
  
  The Wall Street Journal has uncovered photos on a private Instagram page that shows indicted Rudy Giuliani associate, Lev Parnas, with President Donald Trump and members of his family.
  
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• Cupp: Don't be surprised if this is what undoes Trump

  21-10-2019 23:30 via cnn.com
  
  SE Cupp says President Donald Trump's Syria policy is one of the only issues that has prompted swift criticism from the Republican party, and argues it may be the one issue that could put his presidency in danger.
  
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• Memes are an easy, digestible way to share your thoughts. The Kremlin agrees.

  21-10-2019 23:25 via nbcnews.com
  Facebook announced Monday that it removed 50 Instagram accounts linked to a Russian-backed influence campaign — and just one Facebook account.
  
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• Klobuchar tries to turn debate spotlight into momentum

  21-10-2019 23:20 via news.yahoo.com
  Several days removed from a marathon Democratic presidential debate, Amy Klobuchar was still feeling an afterglow.On the debate stage, the Minnesota senator repeatedly hit Elizabeth Warren for failing to level with voters about how she would pay for her ambitious policy proposals, exposing a vulnerability in her progressive rival and earning much needed attention for herself in a crowded primary field."It was really important to make the case that there are other ways to do things, and it doesn'
  
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• William Taylor has emerged as an unlikely hero in the Trump impeachment inquiry

  21-10-2019 23:17 via news.yahoo.com
  William Taylor has emerged as an unlikely hero in the impeachment inquiry of President Trump. The former Army officer and retired career civil servant is chargé d'affaires at the U.S. embassy in Ukraine. But he was drawn into a Trump administration effort to leverage U.S. military aid for Ukraine, an effort Taylor believed was improper and tried to stop.
  
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• Tupac Shakur — no, not that one — arrested on drug charges in Tennessee

  21-10-2019 23:11 via nbcnews.com
  Shakur — not at all related to the hip-hop icon —was busted on meth and assault charges.
  
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• Storm system that tore across Texas leaves one dead in Arkansas

  21-10-2019 23:10 via nbcnews.com
  The storm produced a tornado in the Dallas area with wind speeds of 140 mph, the National Weather Service said.
  
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• Democrats Seek Insider Trading Probe After ‘Trump Chaos’ Article

  21-10-2019 23:09 via news.yahoo.com
  (Bloomberg) -- Democratic lawmakers are increasingly demanding that U.S. authorities investigate allegations raised in a recent magazine article that traders might be using non-public government information to reap huge illegal profits, even as the exchange where the transactions purportedly took place called the story “patently false.”In a Monday letter, 14 Democratic senators urged the heads of the Justice Department, FBI, Commodity Futures Trading Commission and Securities and Exc
  
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• No longer the obedient NATO ally, Erdogan floats nuclear option

  21-10-2019 23:06 via cnn.com
  
  It's no secret that Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan sees his country as the pre-eminent Muslim power in the Middle East. He regards his vision of political Islam as competing with that of Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates. He frequently accuses the United States of trying to belittle his country, and ruminates about a "greater Turkey."
  
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• 41 most out-there lines from Trump's Cabinet meeting

  21-10-2019 23:05 via cnn.com
  
  On Monday, President Donald Trump held a Cabinet meeting. And, as often happens in these meetings, he spent the first half of the gathering monologuing while taking the occasional question from the assembled reporters. His Cabinet laughed when they were supposed to laugh, but otherwise sat idly by.
  
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• Russia’s Troll Farm Is Kind of Sh*tting the Bed on Facebook

  21-10-2019 23:04 via news.yahoo.com
  Photo Illustration by The Daily Beast/GettyFacebook on Monday removed nearly 200 newly discovered fake accounts linked separately to Iran and to Russia’s Internet Research Agency. The takedowns demonstrate that foreign influence operations are already targeting the 2020 election, but provide evidence that Russia’s notorious troll farm is struggling to regain anything close to the influence in held in 2016.The new wave of takedowns targeted separate networks of deceptive accounts crea
  
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• Lonely Planet reveals best destinations for 2020

  21-10-2019 23:04 via cnn.com
  
  Bhutan, Washington D.C., and Galway, Ireland are just a few of the places Lonely Planet thinks you should go in 2020, and they based much of this year's list on one key detail.
  
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• Billionaire Isabel dos Santos Denies Wrongdoing at Sonangol

  21-10-2019 22:58 via news.yahoo.com
  (Bloomberg) -- Isabel dos Santos, Africa’s richest woman and the daughter of former Angolan President Jose Eduardo dos Santos, said she did nothing wrong when she was chairwoman of state-owned oil company Sonangol and called a probe into the transfer of millions of dollars from the Luanda-based firm “political vengeance.”Angolan newspaper Novo Jornal reported on Oct. 18 that Angola’s prosecuting authority started a criminal investigation into the transfer of $38 million f
  
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• Correction: Crane Demolition story

  21-10-2019 22:55 via news.yahoo.com
  In a story Oct. 20 about the demolition of two construction cranes at the site of a partially collapsed building in New Orleans, The Associated Press reported erroneously that the cranes weighed thousands of tons.NEW ORLEANS (AP) — Thundering explosions toppled two cranes Sunday that had loomed precariously for days over a partially collapsed hotel in New Orleans, in what city officials hailed as a success and said efforts now would focus on retrieving two bodies still inside the ruined bu
  
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• Truck driver indicted on 23 counts in motorcyclist deaths

  21-10-2019 22:53 via news.yahoo.com
  A pickup truck driver accused of causing a collision that killed seven motorcyclists in New Hampshire has been indicted on 23 charges saying he negligently caused the deaths and was under the influence of one or more drugs at the time.Volodymyr Zhukovskyy , 23, of Springfield, Massachusetts, is to be arraigned by video on Nov. 5.The negligent homicide-DUI charges accuse Zhukovskyy of driving under the influence of a controlled drug or drugs at the time of the crash.
  
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• Steve Harvey's stepdaughter arrested after hit-and-run

  21-10-2019 22:53 via nbcnews.com
  Harvey, 22, allegedly hit an unoccupied parked vehicle in Los Angeles Sunday night and then fled the scene, Beverly Hills Police Department says.
  
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• Romney confirms he's behind anonymous 'Pierre Delecto' Twitter account

  21-10-2019 22:49 via nbcnews.com
  Through the account, now private, Romney defended himself and liked tweets critical of President Donald Trump.
  
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• A West Point cadet and his M4 rifle have been missing for three days

  21-10-2019 22:49 via news.yahoo.com
  Officials said that the cadet, member of the class of 2021, is not believed to be a threat to the public, but could be a threat to himself.
  
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• U.K.'s first Chick-fil-A to close following LGBTQ protests

  21-10-2019 22:42 via nbcnews.com
  The recently opened location in Reading, England, faced protests over its LGBTQ track record. It will close in six months.
  
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• There's a reasonable explanation why this mom saw a 'ghost baby' in her sleeping son's crib

  21-10-2019 22:38 via news.yahoo.com
  This mom's 'ghost baby' baby monitor mix-up has us all laughing.
  
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• Mobile billboard used to protest OSU's handling of sex abuse scandal

  21-10-2019 22:33 via nbcnews.com
  The Ohio State Accountability Project, which is advocating on behalf of the hundreds of men who say they were sexually abused by Strauss, is planning to raise awareness nationwide.
  
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• Netanyahu can't form new Israeli government... again

  21-10-2019 22:31 via cnn.com
  
  For the second time this year, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has failed to form a government, opening the door for his main rival Benny Gantz to do so.
  
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• Brothers allegedly left grandma to die in fire while they saved meth equipment

  21-10-2019 22:23 via nbcnews.com
  Upstate New York men left 82-year-old grandmother in burning house, saved drug materials instead, then left to buy cigarettes, district attorney says.
  
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• The Antarctic ozone hole is the smallest since it was discovered

  21-10-2019 22:14 via cnn.com
  
  While the ozone hole over Antarctica typically grows in September and October, scientists observed the smallest ozone hole since they first began observing it in 1982, according to a joint release by NASA and NOAA.
  
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• Biggest public pension fund in U.S. divests from firms that run ICE migrant detention centers

  21-10-2019 22:08 via nbcnews.com
  The California state workers' pension fund known as CalPERS is the latest pension fund or business to pull financial backing from GEO Group and CoreCivic.
  
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• Burning tires, brides and 'Baby Shark.' What you need to know about protests engulfing Lebanon

  21-10-2019 22:07 via cnn.com
  
  Fury at political elites has engulfed Lebanon. Hundreds of thousands have taken to the streets across the country for anti-government protests, paralyzing its economy and blindsiding its government.
  
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• Warren Calls on DHS to Allow Transgender Migrants Immediate Entry Into U.S.

  21-10-2019 22:05 via news.yahoo.com
  Senators Elizabeth Warren (D., Mass.) and Tammy Baldwin (D., Wisc.) sent a letter on Thursday to the Department of Homeland Security urging the agency to allow transgender migrants to remain in the U.S. while their asylum cases are processed, rather than being returned to Mexico in accordance with current policy.Under the recently-introduced Migrant Protection Protocols, the Trump administration requires that asylum-seekers who arrive at the southern border remain in Mexico while their claims ar
  
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• Pentagon draws up plans for Afghanistan withdrawal in case Trump blindsides military

  21-10-2019 22:04 via nbcnews.com
  Officials cautioned, however, that the planning is a precaution and there is currently no White House directive to pull all U.S. troops out of Afghanistan.
  
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• 2-year-old shot dead in mother's arms in Philadelphia

  21-10-2019 22:04 via nbcnews.com
  An 11-month-old boy was also shot in Philly, struck four times while in the backseat of a car Saturday. He was fighting for his life, officials said.
  
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• San Jose to propose turning PG&E into giant customer-owned utility - WSJ

  21-10-2019 22:01 via news.yahoo.com
  Mayor Sam Liccardo said in an interview to the WSJ the city served by PG&E hopes to persuade other cities and counties in coming weeks to line up behind the plan.The plan is to strip PG&E of its status as an investor-owned company and turn it into a nonprofit, electric-and-gas cooperative, the Monday's report https://on.wsj.com/2JaJWJg added.Liccardo told the WSJ the time has come for the people dependent on PG&E for essential services to propose a new direction.
  
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• Supreme Court wipes out ruling on Michigan partisan gerrymander

  21-10-2019 21:59 via nbcnews.com
  The court had already declared in June that such challenges involve an essentially political issue, beyond the authority of federal courts to resolve.
  
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• Syrian residents pelt retreating US troops with food and insults

  21-10-2019 21:57 via theguardian.com
  Angry scenes demonstrate sense of betrayal amid rushed US pullout as Trump says remaining force is to protect oil not KurdsPelted with fruit and hounded by insults, the American military’s exit from Syria was very different from its time on the ground. The remnants of the US presence in the north-east of the country made an ignominious departure on Monday, driving through towns that had welcomed them for the past four years.The regional capital of Qamishli, a hub of cooperation between US
  
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• Pompeo says Trump is ‘fully prepared’ to take military action against Turkey if necessary, which would shatter NATO to pieces

  21-10-2019 21:55 via news.yahoo.com
  This comment came a little over two weeks after Trump's decision to withdraw US troops from northeast Syria, which paved the way for Turkey to invade.
  
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• Pompeo says Trump is 'fully prepared' to take military action against Turkey if necessary, which would shatter NATO to pieces

  21-10-2019 21:55 via news.yahoo.com
  This comment came a little over two weeks after Trump's decision to withdraw US troops from northeast Syria, which paved the way for Turkey to invade.
  
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• The first human on Mars may be a woman, NASA chief says

  21-10-2019 21:54 via nbcnews.com
  "If my 11-year-old daughter has her way, we'll have a woman on Mars in the not-too-distant future," NASA Administrator Jim Bridenstine said.
  
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• Baha'i community fears deportations as Yemen sentence looms

  21-10-2019 21:52 via news.yahoo.com
  The Baha'i community voiced fear Monday that a court under Yemen's Huthi rebels could order the mass expulsion of members of the faith.The community said that an appeals court in Yemen's capital Sanaa, which is controlled by the insurgents, is expected to rule Tuesday on a death sentence handed down on religious grounds to Hamed bin Haydara, a Baha'i detained since 2013.Citing statements by the prosecutor, the Baha'i International Community said it feared the judge would not only uphold the exec
  
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• Facebook discloses operations by Russia and Iran to meddle in 2020 election

  21-10-2019 21:50 via theguardian.com
  The company confirmed it had dismantled the four accounts and announced initiatives to prevent foreign interference in US campaignsFacebook on Monday disclosed it had taken down four new foreign interference operations originating from Iran and Russia, including one targeting the US 2020 presidential elections that appears to be linked to the Russian troll agency, the Internet Research Agency (IRA).The suspected IRA campaign “had the hallmarks of a well-resourced operation that took consis
  
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• Deep-sea researchers discover second missing Battle of Midway ship

  21-10-2019 21:45 via news.yahoo.com
  After the recent discovery of a Japanese aircraft carrier that was destroyed in the 1942 Battle of Midway, researchers combing through the deep seas for lost World War II-era warships have found the remains of another craft.Discovered nearly 5,500-metres below the surface in the Papahanaumokuakea Marine National Monument, roughly 2,000 kilometres from Pearl Harbour, the carrier Akagi was found by a crew using an autonomous underwater vehicle on Sunday morning.
  
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• Democrats are lining up to take Elijah Cummings' Oversight Committee chairmanship

  21-10-2019 21:43 via news.yahoo.com
  There's a long line of Democrats ready to take up one helm of the impeachment probe.House Oversight Committee Chair Elijah Cummings (D-Md.) died last week after longstanding health problems, leaving open his spot at one of the committees investigating President Trump. Talks of his replacement have been quiet out of respect for Cummings, but a handful of Democrats have said they're looking to take the position, The Washington Post reports.Rep. Carolyn B. Maloney (D-N.Y.) is the most senior Democr
  
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• Trump blames 'phony emoluments clause' for scrapped plan to host G-7 at his Miami resort

  21-10-2019 21:42 via nbcnews.com
  The president also brought up Obama's post-White House Netflix deal as part of a lengthy defense of the summit choice and his business interests.
  
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• Trump says he's 'the one that did the capturing' in Syria

  21-10-2019 21:41 via cnn.com
  
  President Donald Trump spoke at length during a Cabinet meeting on Monday about his decision to withdraw US troops from northern Syria -- arguing that the US never agreed to protect Syrian Kurds forever, suggesting the US may secure an oil deal for the Kurds to bolster their finances and saying he's "the one that did the capturing" of ISIS fighters in Syria.
  
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• The Orionids meteor shower peaks this week. Here's how to see the shooting stars from the dust of Halley's Comet.

  21-10-2019 21:39 via news.yahoo.com
  The Orionids make for a dramatic show, with shooting stars leaving glowing trains of dust and fireballs exploding in the sky.
  
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• The story behind a soldier's act of solidarity with the US allies Trump is leaving behind in Syria

  21-10-2019 21:32 via news.yahoo.com
  A US solider was photographed wearing a patch in apparent solidarity with the Kurdish-backed forces that the US is leaving behind.
  
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• Castro says he needs $800,000 in 10 days or campaign is over

  21-10-2019 21:29 via news.yahoo.com
  Former Obama administration housing secretary Julián Castro said Monday that he'd drop out of the presidential race if he doesn't raise $800,000 in 10 days — following the lead of rival Cory Booker, who rode a similar plea to a recent uptick in donations. Last month, Booker, a New Jersey senator, made a similar request and raised $2.1 million in just 10 days , after a number of his opponents and other elected officials rallied around him and encouraged people to donate. Castro has t
  
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• Mexico's president says they'll arrest El Chapo's son if public is not at risk

  21-10-2019 21:26 via nbcnews.com
  The younger Guzmán was briefly detained last week but released after officials realized they were outmatched by the drug traffickers.
  
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• Man in MAGA hat sprays Trump protesters with bear repellant

  21-10-2019 21:25 via cnn.com
  
  A man wearing a "Make America Great Again" hat blasted anti-Trump protesters on Santa Monica Pier with bear repellent.
  
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• Trump cites ‘phony Emoluments Clause’ for G-7 controversy

  21-10-2019 21:19 via news.yahoo.com
  At a Cabinet meeting, President Trump blamed the “phony Emoluments Clause” in the U.S. Constitution for the controversy over his decision to have the G-7 summit at his resort in Doral, Fla.
  
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• Luggage explodes after being run over at Midway Airport

  21-10-2019 21:05 via nbcnews.com
  Police say the incident stemmed from a cellphone battery or charger being run over by a vehicle and no injuries were reported.
  
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