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• Renault lose Japanese GP points after Racing Point protest

  23-10-2019 23:45 via bbc.co.uk
  Renault lose the nine points they won at the Japanese Grand Prix after a Racing Point protest regarding an alleged breach of regulations is upheld.
  
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• State Dept. ordered to turn over Ukraine documents

  23-10-2019 23:15 via news.yahoo.com
  In what could prove a highly consequential ruling, a federal judge has ordered the Trump administration to start turning over documents regarding potentially improper influence on Ukraine diplomacy.
  
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• Country singer reveals how she handles husband's infidelity

  23-10-2019 23:12 via cnn.com
  
  Country music singer Jana Kramer and her ex-nfl husband Mike Caussin open up about infidelity in their marriage during an interview on ABC's "Tamron Hall Show."
  
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• Best-Selling Author of ‘Modern Girl’s Guide to Sticky Situations’ Gets Prison Time in College Scam

  23-10-2019 23:07 via news.yahoo.com
  Brian Synder/ReutersThe Los Angeles marketing executive and best-selling author Jane Buckingham, who honest-to-god wrote a book entitled The Modern Girl’s Guide to Sticky Situations, was sentenced to three weeks in prison on Wednesday for her role in the college-admissions scandal.A judge also ordered the 51-year-old to fork over a $40,000 fine after she pleaded guilty in May to fraud and conspiracy after agreeing to pay $50,000 for a test proctor to take the ACT exam for her son in 2018,
  
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• 'Who gives a s--- about Afghanistan?': Trump stunned officials with his comments during a military briefing, former aide says

  23-10-2019 23:04 via news.yahoo.com
  Trump made the remarks during a meeting with top military officials, according to Jim Mattis' former speechwriter, Guy Snodgrass.
  
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• The Army Wants to Bring the "Linebacker" Bradley Back from the Grave

  23-10-2019 23:00 via news.yahoo.com
  A good idea?
  
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• Many of the Republicans involved were at a White House meeting on Tuesday, and Trump had advance knowledge of the plan, a source tells CNN

  23-10-2019 22:58 via cnn.com
  
  Roughly two-dozen House Republicans on Wednesday stormed a closed-door deposition in secure House Intelligence Committee spaces to rail against the Democratic-led impeachment inquiry, a political stunt ratcheting up the GOP complaints about the process that threw the deposition into doubt.
  
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• Murder suspect whose case was catalyst for Hong Kong protests released

  23-10-2019 22:55 via news.yahoo.com
  A murder suspect whose proposed deportation to Taiwan was a catalyst for massive anti-government protests in Hong Kong was released from prison Wednesday, but despite saying he wants to face justice will remain in the city for now.The proposed law -- which was formally scrapped on Wednesday -- was prompted by the case of Hong Konger Chan Tong-kai, 20, who is wanted in Taiwan for the 2018 murder of his pregnant girlfriend, Poon Hiu-wing.Chan was released from a Hong Kong maximum security prison o
  
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• Messi breaks another record as Barcelona win in Prague

  23-10-2019 22:55 via bbc.co.uk
  Lionel Messi becomes the first player to score in 15 consecutive Champions League seasons as Barcelona claim a narrow win at Slavia Prague.
  
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• Women to be banned from seeking abortions in South Carolina even in cases of rape or incest

  23-10-2019 22:51 via news.yahoo.com
  Republicans in South Carolina have voted to proceed on a measure that would strip abortion exemptions in cases of rape or incest, and criminalise the procedure almost entirely as soon as a foetal heartbeat is detected.The proposed bill is the latest attack on abortion rights throughout the United States, in an effort by conservatives keen on bringing the issue before the Supreme Court. There, they hope, they may finally be able to make good on a long held dream of repealing some or all of the la
  
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• Lawyer for Kavanaugh accuser to investigate Baltimore police

  23-10-2019 22:48 via news.yahoo.com
  A former federal prosecutor who represented one of U.S. Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh's accusers has been picked to lead an independent review of a corruption-plagued unit of the Baltimore Police Department, the department's chief announced Wednesday.Michael Bromwich will have "full autonomy" to conduct the review of the department's Gun Trace Task Force "without interference from us," said Police Commissioner Michael Harrison.Bromwich was the Justice Department's inspector general from
  
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• Trump lifts Turkey sanctions, hails 'great outcome' in Syria as his envoy says there were war crimes

  23-10-2019 22:41 via cnn.com
  
  • Analysis: Putin's dream come true
  
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• Facebook's Zuckerberg grilled by AOC on fact-checking policy for political ads

  23-10-2019 22:35 via news.yahoo.com
  Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg struggled to explain the social media company’s new policy on fact-checking political ads under questioning from Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez during a Wednesday hearing.
  
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• Lebanon protests: key moments from a week of unrest – video

  23-10-2019 22:34 via theguardian.com
  The largest protests in Lebanon in 14 years have shut down the country as a revolt against a weak government, ailing services and a looming economic collapse continues to gain momentum. The demonstrations began last week amid anger over the government's plan to impose new taxes, and have since widened into demands for resignations and a secular state Continue reading...
  
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• Toyota Recalls More Than 900,000 Vehicles to Replace Their Airbags Again

  23-10-2019 22:21 via news.yahoo.com
  Toyota is entering the final phase of its Takata airbag replacement efforts with the announcement of a recall involving 928,000 Toyota, Scion, and Lexus models. These vehicles previously had thei...
  
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• Eating this can raise Alzhemier's risk by 75%

  23-10-2019 22:15 via cnn.com
  
  The trans fats still hidden in many foods increased the risk of Alzheimer's and other types of dementia by up to 75%, according to a long-term study.
  
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• Meet the Fox reporter who is bedeviling Trump on Syria

  23-10-2019 22:12 via politico.com
  When President Donald Trump claimed in a Monday Cabinet meeting that “we never gave a commitment to the Kurds,” the U.S. ally recently abandoned in northern Syria, an immediate rebuke came from a source not easily dismissed as “fake news”: a Fox News correspondent.“Not true,” Jennifer Griffin tweeted.“According to a former top senior military adviser to President Trump, ‘We told them over and over ‘We are your friends.
  
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• A Single Bird Takes Down the U.S. Navy's 'Doomsday' Plane

  23-10-2019 22:01 via news.yahoo.com
  Built for nuclear war, but not errant bird strikes.
  
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• WeWork's disgraced CEO got a huge payout. Lots of staffers may get pink slips

  23-10-2019 21:43 via cnn.com
  
  Current and former staffers at WeWork are outraged that former CEO and cofounder Adam Neumann would get a massive payout after he all but ran the company into the ground.
  
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• Trump's plan to leave some US troops in Syria to guard its oil is now doomed, thanks to Putin

  23-10-2019 21:41 via news.yahoo.com
  "The implementation of this memorandum will strongly interfere with these plans," a Russian official said. "We will work to nullify them."
  
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• Cummings lying in repose at historically black college

  23-10-2019 21:35 via news.yahoo.com
  Mourners, constituents and other well-wishers paid respects to U.S. Rep. Elijah Cummings on Wednesday as his body lay in repose at a historically black college in Baltimore ahead of the first in a series of services.A tan hearse with a U.S. House of Representatives seal carrying Cummings' body arrived Wednesday morning at Morgan State University's Murphy Fine Arts Center.A group of mourners led by Cummings' widow, Maya Rockeymoore, followed pallbearers who wheeled the black casket with silver tr
  
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• Trump’s Impeachment Will Be Trump’s Fault

  23-10-2019 21:24 via news.yahoo.com
  ‘I have news for everybody: Get over it.” So saith acting White House chief of staff Mick Mulvaney. “There’s going to be political influence in foreign policy,” he added.Well, if that’s what he thinks, I have news for him. Get over it: Your boss is going to be impeached. And he has nobody but himself (and Rudy Giuliani) to blame for it.Let’s get as much throat clearing done as quickly as possible. Yes, the so-called Resistance has wanted Trump’s 20
  
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• Former ICE Head Slams L.A. Police for Releasing Illegal Immigrants

  23-10-2019 21:16 via news.yahoo.com
  The former head of the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agency Tom Homan slammed the Los Angeles police department on Tuesday after an ICE spokesman testified to Congress that L.A. police were releasing as many as 100 illegal immigrants from custody per day.The L.A. police chief "has taken a political stance," Homan asserted during an interview on Fox and Friends. "He forgot the oath he's taken; he stopped being a cop and became a politician."During a Monday Senate Judiciary Committee he
  
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• Missouri farmer Garland Nelson charged with murder in deaths of Wisconsin brothers

  23-10-2019 21:15 via news.yahoo.com
  Wisconsin brothers Nicholas and Justin Diemel were reported missing after they missed a flight back to Wisconsin following a business trip in July.
  
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• Royal War Escalates: Palace Source Slams Meghan and Harry as ‘Paranoid’ and ‘Promoting Discord’

  23-10-2019 21:09 via news.yahoo.com
  Chris Jackson/GettyBritain’s royal family descended into an undignified war of tit-for-tat briefings reminiscent of the era of Princess Diana on Wednesday, as royal sources accused Harry and Meghan of “paranoia” and angrily refuted claims made by Team Sussex that Meghan and Harry were “singlehandedly responsible for modernizing the royal family.”A source, said to be a “well-placed royal insider,” told the Daily Mail it was “just plain wrong”
  
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• U.S. attorney general calls for counseling, intervention to prevent mass shootings

  23-10-2019 21:02 via news.yahoo.com
  U.S. Attorney General William Barr on Wednesday announced a new effort to prevent mass shootings through court-ordered counseling and supervision of potentially violent individuals. The effort, announced in a memo to federal prosecutors and law enforcement officials, follows dozens of deadly mass shootings in the United States this year, including a massacre of 22 people at a Walmart in El Paso, Texas, and another just one day later in Dayton, Ohio, in which nine people were killed. The FBI was
  
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• Kim Orders 'Shabby' South Korean Hotels in Resort Town Destroyed

  23-10-2019 21:00 via news.yahoo.com
  SEOUL, South Korea -- North Korea said Wednesday that its leader, Kim Jong Un, had ordered the demolition of South Korean hotels and other buildings in a resort complex that the two countries once operated together.The resort town at Diamond Mountain, or Kumgang, just north of the inter-Korean border, opened in 1998, at a time of reduced tensions between the Koreas. Until it was closed during a dispute in 2008, it served as a major source of foreign currency for the cash-starved North, frequentl
  
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• Court upholds law banning child marriage

  23-10-2019 20:56 via cnn.com
  
  Tanzania's Supreme Court of Appeal on Wednesday upheld an earlier ruling banning parents from marrying off girls as young as 15.
  
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• 'Johnny Reb' no longer welcome in Norfolk: Virginia city gets OK to move Confederate statue

  23-10-2019 20:56 via news.yahoo.com
  Virginia's attorney general says the city of Norfolk can move its "Johnny Reb" Confederate statue from a busy downtown intersection to a cemetery
  
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• What happens when planets crash into each other?

  23-10-2019 20:55 via cnn.com
  
  More than 300 light-years from Earth, there's a double star system where evidence exists that two exoplanets, or planets outside of our solar system, recently collided.
  
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• As teachers strike, Chicago mayor touts $838M deficit fix

  23-10-2019 20:54 via news.yahoo.com
  Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot, who's still trying to settle a nearly week-old teacher's strike, proposed a combination of debt refinancing, tax and fee hikes and assistance from the state Legislature on Wednesday to close a massive $838 million budget deficit.
  
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• Zuckerberg stumbles over AOC's questions about white supremacy during Congress hearing

  23-10-2019 20:52 via news.yahoo.com
  Mark Zuckerberg appeared to stumble when confronted with tough questioning by congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, who asked the Facebook CEO if a right-wing news outlet known for its ties to white supremacist groups is an appropriate fact-checking group to help oversee the social media giant's content.Ms Ocasio-Cortez confronted Mr Zuckerberg during congressional testimony on Wednesday, where the CEO was due to discuss a cryptocurrency favoured by his company. But the Democrat instead chose
  
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• Only 7 Republican senators rule out removing Trump

  23-10-2019 20:52 via cnn.com
  
  Earlier this week, the conservative Daily Caller website asked the offices of each of the 53 Republican senators whether they opposed the impeachment and removal of President Donald Trump. Just seven of them said yes.
  
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• CNN poll says impeachment support is at all-time high

  23-10-2019 20:46 via news.yahoo.com
  Support for President Trump’s impeachment and removal from office is continuing to climb, but not among Republicans. That’s according to a new CNN/SSRS poll released Tuesday showing support for Trump’s impeachment and removal at 50 percent, a new high.
  
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• Democrat Buttigieg used marijuana 'a handful of times'

  23-10-2019 20:45 via news.yahoo.com
  Democratic presidential candidate Pete Buttigieg said Wednesday that he's used marijuana "a handful of times a long time ago," and that it's time for the U.S. to legalize marijuana. Buttigieg, speaking to reporters after touring a legal pot dispensary in suburban Las Vegas, was asked about whether he'd ever used marijuana. A handful of times a long time ago," he said.
  
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• As Pentagon official was sitting down to testify, roughly two-dozen Republicans barged through three doors

  23-10-2019 20:43 via cnn.com
  
  • Analysis: Bombshell testimony rocks Trump impeachment defense
  
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• Tanzanian court upholds a law banning child marriage

  23-10-2019 20:42 via cnn.com
  
  Tanzania's Supreme Court of Appeal on Wednesday upheld an earlier ruling banning parents from marrying off girls as young as 14.
  
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• Trump signed off on GOP crashing impeachment testimony, Bloomberg says

  23-10-2019 20:37 via news.yahoo.com
  Members of the conservative Freedom Caucus stormed the Sensitive Compartmented Information Facilities and blasted Democrats for conducting closed-door interviews in the impeachment inquiry of President Trump.
  
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• Zuckerberg reacts when a lawmaker compares him to Trump

  23-10-2019 20:35 via cnn.com
  During a hearing on Capitol Hill, a lawmaker compared Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg to President Trump. The reactions were...well, awkward.
  
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• Zuckerberg react when a lawmaker compares him to Trump

  23-10-2019 20:35 via cnn.com
  During a hearing on Capitol Hill, a lawmaker compared Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg to President Trump. The reactions were...well, awkward.
  
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• Watch Zuckerberg react when a lawmaker compares him to Trump

  23-10-2019 20:35 via cnn.com
  During a hearing on Capitol Hill, a lawmaker compared Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg to President Trump. The reactions were...well, awkward.
  
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• 3 children found living ankle-deep in trash in house with 245 animals

  23-10-2019 20:34 via cnn.com
  
  Three young girls--all under the age of 10 -- were found living in a house with 245 animals, police said. Among them were four dogs, 10 sugar gliders, a hedge hog, 14 birds and 60 adult rats with 23 babies.
  
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• Why Trump Can't Win the Trade War

  23-10-2019 20:32 via news.yahoo.com
  China has proven that it can go toe-to-toe with the United States.
  
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• Elijah Cummings lies in repose; visitors pay respects

  23-10-2019 20:27 via news.yahoo.com
  Mourners, constituents and other well-wishers paid respects to U.S. Rep. Elijah Cummings on Wednesday as his body lay in repose at a historically black college in Baltimore ahead of the first in a series of services.A tan hearse with a U.S. House of Representatives seal carrying Cummings' body arrived Wednesday morning at Morgan State University's Murphy Fine Arts Center.A group of mourners led by Cummings' widow, Maya Rockeymoore, followed pallbearers who wheeled the black casket with silver tr
  
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• The Latest: Employee: Brothers' were lured to their deaths

  23-10-2019 20:26 via news.yahoo.com
  An employee of two slain Wisconsin brothers says he believes a Missouri cattleman promised to give the men money to lure them to his farm so he could kill them.Twenty-five-year-old Garland Nelson, of Braymer, was charged Wednesday with two counts of first-degree murder in the deaths of 35-year-old Nick Diemel and 24-year-old Justin Diemel, of Shawano County, Wisconsin.Rob Chubb managed the feeder cattle side of the business operated by the brothers.
  
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• Trump lawyer: President would have immunity if he shot someone

  23-10-2019 20:24 via cnn.com
  
  A federal appeals court expressed skepticism Wednesday that President Donald Trump can block a subpoena from New York state prosecutors for his tax returns, in a case that all sides agree is likely headed toward the Supreme Court for an election-year showdown.
  
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• Former acting AG: 'Abuse of power is not a crime'

  23-10-2019 20:24 via news.yahoo.com
  Following Tuesday’s House testimony by Bill Taylor, the top U.S. diplomat in Ukraine, about President Trump allegedly pressuring the Ukrainian president to investigate the Biden family, former acting Attorney General Matthew Whitaker defended the president by claiming that “abuse of power is not a crime.”
  
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• Support for Trump impeachment rises as 59% say he pursued personal interests in Ukraine, poll finds

  23-10-2019 20:16 via news.yahoo.com
  Only 33% of voters said they believe Trump was acting in the national interest in Ukraine, while 59% say he was pursuing his own interests there.
  
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• Source in the room: 'Closest thing I've seen around here to mass civil unrest as a member of Congress'

  23-10-2019 20:13 via cnn.com
  
  Roughly two-dozen House Republicans on Wednesday stormed a closed-door deposition in secure House Intelligence Committee spaces to rail against the Democratic-led impeachment inquiry, a political stunt ratcheting up the GOP complaints about the process that threw the deposition into doubt.
  
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• Rats and Mold in Kushner-Managed Apartments, Maryland Claims

  23-10-2019 20:10 via news.yahoo.com
  (Bloomberg) -- An apartment management firm run by Jared Kushner’s family was sued by Maryland’s attorney general, who claims the company engaged in numerous “illegal and harmful” practices.Westminster Management lied about the quality of rental units and the level of maintenance the company would provide, routinely failing to address hazardous conditions in the properties, including infestations by rodents and other vermin, water leaks and mold growth, Attorney General B
  
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