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• Gold star husband: On Syria withdrawal, Trump is right

  24-10-2019 23:57 via cnn.com
  
  • Trump suggests Kurds relocate as US considers deploying military to protect oil fields
  
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• Why the 'quid pro quo' defense may not matter

  24-10-2019 23:45 via cnn.com
  
  CNN's Tom Foreman explains why evidence of a quid pro quo between President Donald Trump and Ukraine may not be necessary in the impeachment process.
  
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• Gaming star Shroud is leaving Twitch for Microsoft's Mixer

  24-10-2019 23:44 via cnn.com
  
  Competition between Amazon's livestreaming platform Twitch and Microsoft's Mixer is heating up. Mega Twitch star Shroud announced Thursday he will stream exclusively on Mixer, starting at 8PM ET.
  
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• Sea urchin population soars 10,000% in five years, devastating US coastline

  24-10-2019 23:41 via theguardian.com
  Voracious purple urchins in waters of California and Oregon pose threat to kelp forests and risk upending delicate ecosystemsTens of millions of voracious purple sea urchins that have already chomped their way through towering underwater kelp forests in California are spreading north to Oregon, sending the delicate marine ecosystem off the shore into such disarray that other critical species are starving to death.A recent count found 350m purple sea urchins on one Oregon reef alone – more
  
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• House Republicans are trying to discredit key witnesses and are taking a more confrontational stance against the impeachment process against President Trump

  24-10-2019 23:36 via cnn.com
  
  Faced with a barrage of damaging headlines for President Donald Trump stemming from impeachment inquiry testimony, congressional Republicans are beginning to coalesce around a strategy aimed at discrediting key witnesses and taking a more confrontational stance against the Democratic-led impeachment process.
  
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• Apple tweaked the iPhone email app — and people are trashing it

  24-10-2019 23:36 via nbcnews.com
  Apple’s devoted fan base came to expect design perfectionafter a string of breakthrough products over the years.
  
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• California: wind-driven Kincade wildfire forces evacuations in north of state – video

  24-10-2019 23:32 via theguardian.com
  A wind-driven wildfire has forced evacuations north of San Francisco in Sonoma County. The blaze near Geyserville had grown to 15 sq miles (39 sq km) by early Thursday, according to the state firefighting agency Cal Fire. Winds around the county’s highest areas were blowing at speeds of up to 70mph, and elsewhere in the region between 30mph and 50mph, the National Weather Service saidCalifornia wildfire rages as PG&E warns more power outages may occur Continue reading...
  
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• Trump suggests Kurds relocate as US considers deploying armored vehicles to protect oil fields

  24-10-2019 23:31 via cnn.com
  
  President Donald Trump tweeted Thursday that the US military would continue securing oil fields in Syria while also suggesting that America's onetime allies in the fight against ISIS, the Syrian Kurds, consider moving to the region that houses those oil fields, a move that would see them relocate from their traditional homelands to a desert area hundreds of miles away.
  
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• A thousand needle workers volunteer to finish dead woman's quilt

  24-10-2019 23:22 via bbc.co.uk
  Craft enthusiasts from all over the US and Canada work on a deceased woman's quilting project.
  
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• Senate GOP to Trump: You’re Not Helping Yourself by Attacking Us

  24-10-2019 23:17 via news.yahoo.com
  A sense of irritation is setting in among Senate Republicans as President Donald Trump and his close political allies demand more aggressive pushback to the House impeachment investigation. On Thursday, Senator Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) introduced a symbolic resolution condemning the Democrats’ impeachment inquiry as inherently unfair and constitutionally problematic. Among other things, the non-binding bill called on the House to hold a vote to open an inquiry, to allow Trump to call w
  
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• Curiosity rover snaps new selfie while conducting a chemistry experiment

  24-10-2019 23:08 via cnn.com
  
  In between conducting scientific experiments on Mars, NASA's Curiosity rover paused to take a selfie.
  
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• Why CEOs are paid so much

  24-10-2019 23:01 via cnn.com
  
  There is no shortage of headlines about CEOs getting paid seriously big money. Last week, for instance, it was revealed that Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella got a 66% raise, bringing his total compensation to nearly $43 million. And this summer Abigail Disney, an heir to the Disney fortune, publicly criticized CEO Bob Iger's $66 million pay package, which is more than 1,000 times the median pay of Disney employees.
  
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• Chile protests: UN to investigate claims of human rights abuses after 18 deaths

  24-10-2019 23:01 via theguardian.com
  Unrest has led to thousands of arrests and hundreds of injuries, prompting action by former president turned UN high commissionerThe UN high commission on human rights is sending a team to Chile to investigate allegations of human rights abuses against demonstrators, amid a swell of furious street protests over inequality, falling wages and the rising cost of education and healthcare.“Having monitored the crisis from the beginning I have decided to send a verification mission to examine re
  
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• Weld: I'd vote for Biden 'in a heartbeat' against Trump

  24-10-2019 22:54 via news.yahoo.com
  One of President Donald Trump's Republican challengers says he'd vote for Joe Biden "in a heartbeat" against Trump in the 2020 general election.Former Massachusetts Gov. Bill Weld says, "Could I vote for a Democrat?Weld's comments came during an appearance at the CITIZEN by CNN conference.
  
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• Chinese orienteering team disqualified at Military World Games over cheating

  24-10-2019 22:45 via feeds.foxnews.com
  A Chinese orienteering team was disqualified this week for cheating at the Military World Games being hosted in their country for using secret paths and markings in the navigation competition, organizers said. 
  
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• Graham, other senators ask Pompeo to expedite visa for Kurdish commander in Syria

  24-10-2019 22:36 via feeds.foxnews.com
  A bipartisan group of senators on Wednesday requested the State Department expedite a visa for the Kurdish commander of the Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) so he could travel to the U.S. and speak firsthand to the situation happening on the ground in Syria.
  
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• Suspected gang members found dead amid surge of violence in Mexico

  24-10-2019 22:35 via news.yahoo.com
  Nine men allegedly linked to organized crime were shot dead in southern Mexico during a confrontation with other armed civilians, state authorities said, as the country grapples with a wave of violence.The bodies were found Wednesday night in the remote village of Zitlala, according to the prosecutor's office in the state of Guerrero, one of the country's poorest and hardest-hit by Mexico's long-running drug war.In recent weeks, Mexico has been shaken especially hard by several outbursts of viol
  
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• Trump is about to give Putin another gift

  24-10-2019 22:34 via cnn.com
  
  Another critical legacy of the post-Cold War era may be on the verge of biting the dust now that President Donald Trump's administration is planning to withdraw from the Treaty on Open Skies, which allows member states to conduct unarmed surveillance over one another's territories and helps verify arms control agreements. Watching Trump drive a stake through the heart of this treaty should be quite a pleasant prospect for Russian President Vladimir Putin.
  
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• Israel Has Spent The Last Decade Preparing For Its Next Ground War

  24-10-2019 22:00 via news.yahoo.com
  And it has more than tanks waiting for its enemies.
  
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• Syria says Turkish-led forces attacked its troops

  24-10-2019 21:57 via news.yahoo.com
  Turkish forces and their allies attacked Syrian government troops in northeastern Syria on Thursday, killing some of them, and they also clashed with Kurdish-led fighters, the state news agency in Damascus and a war monitoring group said.Most worrisome has been the prospect of a collision between forces of the Syrian government' and those backed by Turkey, which include Syrian rebel fighters and Islamic extremists opposed to President Bashar Assad.All sides have said they are abiding by a cease-
  
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• Philippine vice president says time for Duterte to halt failed drug war; 'It's not working'

  24-10-2019 21:49 via news.yahoo.com
  Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte should allow the United Nations to investigate his war on drugs, and abandon a deadly campaign that has been failure and a dent on the country's international image, its vice president said on Wednesday.
  
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• Congress bids tearful farewell to 'sweet Elijah' Cummings

  24-10-2019 21:49 via news.yahoo.com
  Members of Congress bid a tearful farewell Thursday to Rep. Elijah Cummings , hailing the son of sharecroppers as a "master of the House" as the Maryland Democrat became the first African American lawmaker to lie in state in the U.S. Capitol.Lawmakers eulogized Cummings as a mentor and close friend, with a voice that could "shake mountains," in the words of Senate Democratic Leader Schumer, and a passion for legislating and his hometown of Baltimore."Perhaps this place and this country would be
  
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• Rose McGowan sues Harvey Weinstein for alleged campaign against her

  24-10-2019 21:45 via cnn.com
  
  One of Harvey Weinstein's most vocal accusers has filed suit against him and his former attorneys for allegedly attempting to discredit her rape claim against him.
  
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• 17 Malware-Infested Apps You Need to Delete ASAP

  24-10-2019 21:42 via news.yahoo.com
  Do you have any of these on your iPhone?
  
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• Trump Student Loan Official Quits, Calling for Debt Forgiveness

  24-10-2019 21:41 via news.yahoo.com
  (Bloomberg) -- The Trump administration’s point person for overhauling the federal student loan system abruptly resigned Thursday after calling for the government to wipe out most of the nation’s $1.6 trillion of student debt.A. Wayne Johnson -- a Republican and former financial services executive who U.S. Education Secretary Betsy DeVos had appointed to a series of senior roles -- said that the federal government needs to wipe out the first $50,000 of debt owed for higher education
  
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• 2 passengers, emotional support French bulldogs booted off Norwegian Air flight

  24-10-2019 21:40 via news.yahoo.com
  Two passengers and their emotional support French bulldogs were escorted off a Norwegian Air flight when their dogs started showing signs of distress.
  
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• Labour poised to block bid for 12 December general election

  24-10-2019 21:36 via theguardian.com
  MPs may be told to abstain in Monday’s vote, with Jeremy Corbyn to make call on FridayLabour appears poised to block Boris Johnson’s offer of a pre-Christmas general election on 12 December by telling MPs to abstain in Monday’s vote.The party previously said that it would back an early election when a no-deal Brexit scenario could be firmly ruled out, and has twice rejected attempts by Johnson to go to the polls before 2022. Continue reading...
  
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• Republicans who staged the sit-in are taking obstruction literally

  24-10-2019 21:33 via theguardian.com
  The charade may seem desperate, but it’s a strategy straight out of Trump’s playbook when he faced Mueller In addition to an abuse-of-power allegation, Democrats leading the impeachment inquiry into Donald Trump are said to be building a case against the president for alleged obstruction of justice.But it had not occurred to anyone that the obstruction in question might literally amount to the physical obstruction by Republican lawmakers of impeachment proceedings. Continue reading..
  
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• Painting stolen by the Nazis before WWII recovered from a New York museum

  24-10-2019 21:27 via cnn.com
  
  A painting that has been in a New York museum for decades has been recovered by the FBI because the Nazis stole it from a Jewish family that fled Germany before World War II.
  
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• A hunter was gored by the deer he thought he shot and killed

  24-10-2019 21:27 via cnn.com
  
  An experienced Arkansas hunter was found severely injured in the woods Tuesday night, his body riddled with antler puncture wounds. He later died.
  
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• Hunter gored and killed by deer he shot

  24-10-2019 21:26 via cnn.com
  
  An experienced Arkansas hunter was found severely injured in the woods, his body riddled with antler puncture wounds. He later died.
  
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• Lorry victims were trapped before reaching Belgian coast, officials say

  24-10-2019 21:14 via theguardian.com
  Chinese nationals would have been locked in refrigerated trailer for at least 10 hoursThe 39 people who were found dead in a refrigerated lorry trailer in Essex on Wednesday were already trapped when they arrived at the Belgian coast en route to England, local officials have said, as police confirmed that the victims were all Chinese nationals.The Belgian officials said the eight women and 31 men would have been locked in the trailer at temperatures as low as -25C for at least 10 hours after the
  
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• What's the dispute between Hillary Clinton and Tulsi Gabbard about?

  24-10-2019 21:05 via news.yahoo.com
  Much of the controversy is actually based on a misquote of Hillary Clinton's remarks about Rep. Tulsi Gabbard on a podcast.
  
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• Martial's penalty ends Man Utd's winless away run

  24-10-2019 21:05 via bbc.co.uk
  Anthony Martial's first-half penalty proved decisive as Manchester United moved top of their Europa League group with victory at Partizan Belgrade.
  
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• Massachusetts accuses Exxon in lawsuit of climate change deceit

  24-10-2019 21:04 via news.yahoo.com
  The state of Massachusetts sued Exxon Mobil Corpon Thursday, accusing the oil giant of misleading investors and consumers for decades about the role fossil fuels play in climate change.Attorney General Maura Healey filed the lawsuit shortly after Exxon lost a bid to delay the filing until after it is done defending itself in a trial that began Tuesday over similar allegations brought by the state of New York.The lawsuit in Suffolk County Superior Court in Boston alleged Exxon systematically misl
  
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• Exclusive: Son of producer who worked with Ukraine's president gets senior government job

  24-10-2019 21:04 via news.yahoo.com
  The son of a film producer who helped President Volodymyr Zelenskiy become a household name as an actor has been appointed the Ukrainian government's chief economic adviser, a senior government official said on Thursday.A former comedian and actor, Zelenskiy swept to power casting himself as a political outsider who would clean up Ukrainian politics and bring in new faces, but he has facedscrutiny over his appointments since taking office in May.Alexander Rodnyansky, an economist at Britain's Ca
  
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• Hamilton defends environmental posts amid claims of hypocrisy

  24-10-2019 21:02 via bbc.co.uk
  Lewis Hamilton defends his use of social media to raise awareness about global environmental issues.
  
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• Lebanon president hints at reforms amid widespread anti-government demonstrations

  24-10-2019 20:59 via feeds.foxnews.com
  Lebanon’s president has said he is willing to meet with protesters, suggesting a political reshuffle was on the table after anti-government demonstrations continued for an eighth day Thursday.
  
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• Ilhan Omar Misquotes Article, Falsely Claims Child ‘Died’ Due to Dropped Medicaid Coverage

  24-10-2019 20:55 via news.yahoo.com
  Representative Ilhan Omar tweeted a link to a New York Times article Thursday morning and falsely claimed a child “died as a direct result of Trump’s cuts to Medicaid and CHIP,” even though the article makes no such claim.After critics pointed out Omar’s inaccuracy on Twitter, her account tweeted an addendum saying the child had “almost died.”> almost died*> > -- Rep. Ilhan Omar (@Ilhan) October 24, 2019The Times’ article paints a fearful accoun
  
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• Republicans say Trump impeachment probe is happening in 'secret,' but 47 GOP lawmakers have access

  24-10-2019 20:53 via news.yahoo.com
  There are 47 Republican members of Congress who are part of committees that can take part in the Trump impeachment proceedings.
  
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• Trump 'kidding' about Colorado border wall

  24-10-2019 20:33 via bbc.co.uk
  Politicians in the state have dismissed President Trump's comment that Colorado will get a "wall".
  
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• Paul Whelan: Russia spy suspect 'more Mr Bean than James Bond'

  24-10-2019 20:29 via bbc.co.uk
  Ten months after his arrest in Russia, ex-US marine Paul Whelan ridicules a charge of espionage.
  
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• Investigation into custody battle involving 7-year-old's gender

  24-10-2019 20:27 via news.yahoo.com
  Texas Gov. Greg Abbott announced Wednesday night that the Texas attorney general’s office and the Texas Department of Family and Protective Services are looking into a case regarding a 7-year-old whose gender identity is at the core of a custody battle.
  
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• Franco exhumation: Dictator's move stirs fury in divided Spain

  24-10-2019 20:21 via bbc.co.uk
  Monuments are defaced after the transfer of General Franco's remains from a mausoleum to a cemetery.
  
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• What these rare 19th-century photos reveal

  24-10-2019 20:16 via cnn.com
  
  Even in its grainy, black-and-white nascence nearly 200 years ago, it was clear that photography would be a game-changing invention.
  
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• AmEx just changed its most iconic card

  24-10-2019 20:15 via cnn.com
  
  The American Express Green Card is turning 50, and it's showing its age, particularly compared to newer credit card rivals with attractive perks. Now, the iconic Green Card is getting a makeover.
  
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• Pentagon 'likely' deploying tanks to Syria, officials say

  24-10-2019 20:08 via feeds.foxnews.com
  The Pentagon is "likely" to order tanks and hundreds of soldiers to eastern Syria, U.S. officials tell Fox News.
  
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• Ford Electric Crossover Will Be Unveiled on November 17

  24-10-2019 20:00 via news.yahoo.com
  Most likely called the Mach E, the electric crossover will have 300 miles of driving range.
  
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• PHOTOS: 'White death' in Argentina: The hunger of poverty feeds tuberculosis

  24-10-2019 19:53 via news.yahoo.com
  In a poor Buenos Aires suburb, Cristian Molina’s jeans and denim jacket hide his unhealthily slight frame, his legacy from years of a poor diet that left him susceptible to the tuberculosis infection he contracted earlier this year, a disease of poverty that is making a comeback in Argentina.
  
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• Mike Pence says NBA is 'acting like a wholly owned subsidiary' of China

  24-10-2019 19:46 via theguardian.com
  US vice president rips NBA and Nike in Thursday speechPence says league failed to adequately back Rockets GMUS vice-president Mike Pence accused the National Basketball Association of “acting like a wholly owned subsidiary” of China’s ruling Communist party for what he deemed the league’s failure to stand up for Houston Rockets general manager Daryl Morey, whose tweet in support of pro-democracy protests in Hong Kong caused an international rift. Related: How the NBA's ri
  
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