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• Pro-Touring 1965 Ford Mustang GT Up For Grabs

  25-10-2019 23:58 via news.yahoo.com
  There's just something extra special about the first-gen fastback Mustangs.We see so many six-figure restomods and pro-touring cars these days that they've almost lost the shock value. If you're yearning for a classic that has an old-school look and feel with a modernized ride and improved handling, then this 1965 Ford Mustang GT Fastback that will be going up for auction online through All Collector Cars Auctions starting this weekend is a great fit.From the outside, there's little to signify t
  
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• The Latest: 'Dangerous' tornado reported in Alabama

  25-10-2019 23:56 via news.yahoo.com
  A tornado has been reported on the ground in southwestern Alabama.The National Weather Service on Friday afternoon issued a tornado warning for Mobile County.The National Weather Service in Mobile tweeted that a there was a large and dangerous" tornado on the ground near Semmes, Alabama and people should seek shelter immediately.
  
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• 'Joker' sets R-rated film record

  25-10-2019 23:42 via cnn.com
  
  "Joker," the gritty comic book film about the origins of the crazed Batman villain, has become the highest-grossing R-rated film of all time.
  
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• 'Joker' becomes the highest-grossing R-rated film ever

  25-10-2019 23:42 via cnn.com
  
  "Joker," the gritty comic book film about the origins of the crazed Batman villain, has become the highest-grossing R-rated film of all time.
  
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• Emergency declared as California wildfires force evacuations

  25-10-2019 23:31 via abcnews.go.com
  Wildfires are burning across the map in California, scorching thousands of acres and forcing tens of thousands of people to evacuate.
  
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• Ram Recalls 107,898 Diesel Pickups Due to a Fire Risk

  25-10-2019 23:30 via news.yahoo.com
  Fiat Chrysler Automobiles (FCA) is recalling 107,898 diesel pickups after discovering cracked emissions-control components that can cause fires.  The microscopic cracks are in the exhaust-gas rec...
  
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• Trump speaks at South Carolina HBCU at forum on criminal justice reform

  25-10-2019 23:19 via news.yahoo.com
  President Trump delivers remarks at a forum on criminal justice reform at Benedict College, a historically black college in Columbia, S.C.
  
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• Elijah Cummings: Obama, Clinton and Pelosi remember the late congressman at funeral - video

  25-10-2019 23:19 via theguardian.com
  Congressman and civil rights leader Elijah Cummings was remembered on Friday as a 'fierce champion of truth, justice and kindness' at a funeral that brought Washington politicians and ordinary people alike to the Baltimore church where he worshipped for nearly four decades.Elijah Cummings remembered as ‘fierce champion of truth’ at funeralContinue reading...
  
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• John Bolton may be ready to come forward

  25-10-2019 23:14 via cnn.com
  
  Lawyers for former national security adviser John Bolton have had talks with the three House committees leading the impeachment inquiry about a possible deposition, according to a source familiar.
  
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• Bolton may be ready to come forward

  25-10-2019 23:14 via cnn.com
  
  Lawyers for former national security adviser John Bolton have had talks with the three House committees leading the impeachment inquiry about a possible deposition, according to a source familiar.
  
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• In a victory for Democrats, a federal judge says that their impeachment inquiry is legal and justifies disclosing redacted grand jury material

  25-10-2019 23:13 via cnn.com
  
  A federal judge on Friday handed a major victory to House Democrats investigating President Donald Trump and ordered the Justice Department to release grand jury information redacted from special counsel Robert Mueller's investigation.
  
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• House Democrats can see Mueller grand jury evidence

  25-10-2019 23:13 via cnn.com
  
  • The latest on the Trump impeachment inquiry
  
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• Union votes to ratify deal ending strike at General Motors

  25-10-2019 23:08 via abcnews.go.com
  The United Auto Workers union had been on strike at GM for over a month.
  
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• House Democrats win court case to see Mueller's grand jury evidence

  25-10-2019 23:06 via news.yahoo.com
  Here comes another two wins for impeachment Democrats.Washington's top federal judge ruled Friday that the House should get to see the previously withheld grand jury evidence from ex-Special Counsel Robert Mueller's investigation. The Justice Department will have to hand over the evidence by Oct. 30, Judge Beryl Howell ruled Friday -- along with issuing a ruling in favor of Democrats' impeachment inquiry.House Democrats sued the DOJ for access to the redacted Mueller evidence in July, but the Wh
  
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• Georgia high court declines to hear appeal or halt execution

  25-10-2019 23:05 via news.yahoo.com
  Ray Jefferson Cromartie, 52 is scheduled for a lethal injection Wednesday at the state prison in Jackson.Cromartie maintains his innocence, and his lawyers asked the Georgia Supreme Court for permission to appeal a lower court's rejection of a request for DNA testing and a request for a new trial.Cromartie still has other requests for relief pending in the courts.
  
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• Trump Organization explores selling DC hotel

  25-10-2019 22:56 via cnn.com
  
  The Trump Organization is considering selling its three-year-old hotel in downtown Washington, DC, that's been a focus of ongoing complaints that Donald Trump is profiting off his role as President.
  
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• Why chicken sandwiches are taking over US

  25-10-2019 22:55 via cnn.com
  
  Months after this summer's brief but brutal fried chicken sandwich battle, rivals are diligently plotting to win the longer war.
  
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• Reps. Schiff, Nadler criticize DOJ for elevating Russia probe to criminal investigation

  25-10-2019 22:54 via news.yahoo.com
  Reps. Adam Schiff, D-Calif., and Jerry Nadler, D-N.Y., criticized the Justice Department late Thursday after the DOJ upgraded its inquiry into the origins of the Russia probe to a criminal investigation.
  
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• Kellyanne Conway defends her comments in viral phone interview: 'Exactly none of it is anyone's business'

  25-10-2019 22:47 via news.yahoo.com
  White House counselor Kellyanne Conway stood by her statements during a phone conversation with a Washington Examiner reporter that went viral.
  
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• Pakistan confirms arrest of activist following US criticism

  25-10-2019 22:46 via news.yahoo.com
  Pakistan on Friday confirmed it detained the father of a prominent activist who has fled the country, in an incident that's fueled fears of a clampdown on dissent and sparked condemnation from the United States."Prof. Mohammad Ismail has been detained by the law enforcement authorities in Peshawar in a case of cybercrime as per our laws," Foreign Ministry spokesman Mohammad Faisal said on Twitter."Being a citizen of Pakistan, Prof. Ismail is entitled to due process and right of defence provided
  
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• Beto O'Rourke 'open to the idea' of letting people use AR-15s, AK-47s at hunting clubs, gun ranges

  25-10-2019 22:41 via news.yahoo.com
  Beto O'Rourke on Friday left the door open for allowing some people to keep assault-style weapons like AR-15s and AK-47s at gun ranges and hunting clubs.
  
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• Flynn’s Lawyer Claims FBI Tampered with Interview Notes, Demands Charges Be Dropped

  25-10-2019 22:40 via news.yahoo.com
  Former national-security adviser Michael Flynn's lawyer claims in a new bombshell court filing that the FBI tampered with notes from his 2017 interview, during which Flynn pleaded guilty to lying.In a 37-page motion, attorney Sidney Powell called on the court to “dismiss the entire prosecution for outrageous government misconduct” over allegations that FBI agents manipulated a form summarizing Flynn's statements to investigators.The interview dealt with Flynn's contacts with Rus
  
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• How Israel’s Justice System Dealt With Alleged Jewish Collaborators in Concentration Camps—And Why That Still Matters Today

  25-10-2019 22:30 via news.yahoo.com
  Only in recent years has the Israel State Archives made the transcripts of some of these trials publicly available
  
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• Esper: US troops, armored vehicles going to Syria oil fields

  25-10-2019 22:23 via news.yahoo.com
  The United States will send armored vehicles and combat troops into eastern Syria to keep oil fields from potentially falling into the hands of Islamic State militants, U.S. Defense Secretary Mark Esper said Friday.It was the latest sign that extracting the military from Syria is more uncertain and complicated than President Donald Trump is making it out to be.
  
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• Some Stories Never Die

  25-10-2019 22:18 via news.yahoo.com
  This is an excerpt from episode 172 of The Editors podcast.Rich: Without further ado, let’s get into the week’s news. Jim Geraghty, the news that dominated this week was the testimony from acting Ukrainian ambassador William Taylor behind closed doors, although we’ve seen his 15-page opening statement, which, if you’re into these sort of things, is gripping reading. Seems more detailed and credible than the opening statements of Kurt Volker and then Sondland, whose f
  
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• Amnesty leaders condemn US's Remain in Mexico policy as 'disgrace'

  25-10-2019 22:13 via news.yahoo.com
  Leaders from US, UK, Kenya, Mexico, Greece and Canada said immigration program manufactured a crisis at borderAsylum seekers play at a migrant shelter in Tijuana, Baja California state, Mexico, on 18 October.Photograph: Guillermo Arias/AFP via Getty ImagesAmnesty International leaders from around the world on Friday decried the US policy of sending asylum-seekers back to dangerous Mexican border towns to wait for their immigration cases as an “international disgrace” that must be end
  
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• Big VIX Options Trade Braces for a 2008-Like Volatility Surge

  25-10-2019 22:10 via news.yahoo.com
  (Bloomberg) -- Someone is betting big that the U.S. stock market is on track for the kind of turbulence not seen since the global financial crisis.Trading in call options on the Cboe Volatility Index, known as the VIX, outweighed puts by more than 2-to-1 on Friday with the index at its lowest level since July as stocks rallied. The standout trade was one block of 50,000 April $65 calls that were bought for 10 cents. Those contracts would imply a surge in the VIX of almost 500% from its current l
  
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• Rudy Giuliani rants about money, Middle East and Bidens in accidental call to reporter

  25-10-2019 22:04 via news.yahoo.com
  President Donald Trump's attorney Rudy Giuliani can be heard discussing Joe Biden, his son Hunter Biden, former secretary of state John Kerry and a need for cash on two voicemails accidentally left on a reporter's mobile phone.Mr Giuliani had reportedly "butt dialled" NBC reporter Rob Shapiro when Mr Giuliani was in the middle of a conversation with another man about business in the Middle East, a few weeks after he had accidentally called the same reporter, leaving a voicemail attacking the Bid
  
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• Trump's company looking to offload DC hotel

  25-10-2019 21:58 via abcnews.go.com
  The company is aiming to make more than $500 million for the lease rights, sources go on to tell ABC News.
  
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• Pope Francis asks for forgiveness after Amazon statues stolen, thrown into river in Rome

  25-10-2019 21:54 via feeds.foxnews.com
  Pope Francis asked Amazonian bishops and tribal leaders for forgiveness Friday after indigenous statues were stolen from a Vatican-area church and thrown into a nearby river. 
  
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• Doctor seeks to legalize FGM

  25-10-2019 21:54 via cnn.com
  
  A female doctor in Kenya wants female genital mutilation to be decriminalized.
  
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• Doctor is seeking to legalize female genital mutilation

  25-10-2019 21:54 via cnn.com
  
  A female doctor in Kenya wants female genital mutilation to be decriminalized.
  
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• Kanye West: 'I'm the greatest artist of all time'

  25-10-2019 21:41 via bbc.co.uk
  The musician spoke about sex addiction, religion, Drake, and running for President in a new interview.
  
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• Why the U.S. Has Nuclear Weapons in Turkey—And May Try to Put the Bombs Away

  25-10-2019 21:39 via news.yahoo.com
  By publicly confirming that the weapons were in Turkey, Trump has raised the political stakes should he try to remove them, and made it more difficult for the United States and Turkey to strike a quiet deal to that effect.
  
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• Moscow, Damascus deploy forces to Syria-Turkey border

  25-10-2019 21:39 via news.yahoo.com
  Damascus and Moscow deployed extra forces Friday to Syria's border with Turkey, even as Washington partially reversed a drawback to boost its own military presence near key Syrian oil fields.The United States earlier this month announced a pullout from Kurdish-held areas in northeast Syria, allowing Damascus, Ankara and Moscow to carve up the Kurds' now-defunct autonomous region.
  
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• Judge validates Trump impeachment inquiry, orders Mueller document release

  25-10-2019 21:38 via news.yahoo.com
  U.S. District Judge Beryl Howell, handing a major victory to the Democratic-led House of Representatives, undercut an argument that Trump's fellow Republicans have made in attacking the impeachment inquiry.The U.S. Constitution gives the House wide latitude in handling impeachment.The judge gave the Justice Department until next Wednesday to provide the blacked out material from the Mueller report that was subpoenaed by the House Judiciary Committee.
  
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• Obama and Clinton honor Elijah Cummings: 'I love this man'

  25-10-2019 21:30 via abcnews.go.com
  Rep. Elijah Cummings' funeral is taking place in Baltimore, featuring speeches from former President Barack Obama, the Clintons, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and more.
  
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• Meth, not fentanyl, driving overdose deaths in western US

  25-10-2019 21:30 via abcnews.go.com
  In the majority of states west of the Mississippi River, methamphetamine was the most common drug implicated in drug overdose deaths, according to a government report.
  
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• Officials Called It a Heart Attack. Inmates Saw a Bloody Beating.

  25-10-2019 21:14 via news.yahoo.com
  NEW YORK -- After spending nearly a quarter-century behind bars, John McMillon was counting down to the day that he would be eligible to be released on parole."I'm going home," a fellow inmate recalled him saying.McMillon suffered from mental illness and had disciplinary problems over the years. He was punished for assaulting a guard and for fighting with another inmate, but had then vowed to stay out of trouble, and was looking forward to his parole board hearing.He never made it there.One day
  
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• China Wants To Control What The American People Think

  25-10-2019 21:09 via news.yahoo.com
  Can they do that?
  
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• As impeachment gathers steam, Trump allies throw whatever they have at it

  25-10-2019 21:08 via news.yahoo.com
  The president's defenders have attacked the process of the impeachment hearings as well as Trump's own temperament when arguing he should not be removed from office.
  
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• Walmart’s Early Black Friday Deals on Tech Have Begun

  25-10-2019 21:07 via news.yahoo.com
  Save on electronics, home appliances, and more for the holidays.
  
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• Republicans enabled the impeachment process they're now criticizing

  25-10-2019 21:05 via news.yahoo.com
  The biggest problem with Republican critiques of the impeachment inquiry is that Democrats in the House are following a playbook for investigations that was first written by Republicans in large part over the past several years.
  
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• Turkey forcibly returned refugees to war-torn Syria: Report

  25-10-2019 21:00 via abcnews.go.com
  Amnesty International report today says Turkey has been forcibly returning refugees to war-torn Syria over the past few months.
  
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• Nearly 50,000 ordered to evacuate Los Angeles-area homes as Tick Fire picks up speed, jumps freeway

  25-10-2019 20:47 via news.yahoo.com
  Nearly 50,000 people near Los Angeles are evacuating due to the Tick Fire; meanwhile in northern California, the Kincade Fire has grown to 25 miles.
  
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• Ex-SS guard on trial: I saw people led into gas chamber

  25-10-2019 20:26 via news.yahoo.com
  A 93-year-old former guard at the Nazis' Stutthof concentration camp testified at his trial Friday that he once saw people being led into the gas chamber, followed by screaming and banging sounds behind the locked door. Bruno Dey, a former SS private, went on trial Oct. 17 at the Hamburg state court. Asked Friday by the presiding judge what exactly he saw from his sentry's watchtower, Dey replied: "That people were led in, into the gas chamber, that the door was locked," news agency dpa reported
  
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• Ex-SS guard from Nazi camp on trial: I saw people led into gas chamber

  25-10-2019 20:24 via news.yahoo.com
  A 93-year-old former guard at the Nazi Stutthof concentration camp testified at his trial Friday in Germany that he once saw people being led into the gas chamber, followed by screaming and banging sounds behind the locked door.
  
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• Comedian calls out Harvey Weinstein during live show

  25-10-2019 20:24 via cnn.com
  
  Harvey Weinstein was out at a New York comedy show when a performer and an audience member confronted him.
  
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• Hizbollah leader warns of civil war after days of Lebanon protests

  25-10-2019 20:21 via news.yahoo.com
  The leader of Hizbollah on Friday warned Lebanon that nationwide protests calling for the overthrow of the government could lead to chaos and civil war.  Hassan Nasrallah praised protesters for achieving “unprecedented” economic reforms but also suggested foreign intervention had a role in the demonstrations.  Over a quarter of Lebanon’s population are reported to have taken to the streets in anti-corruption protests over the past week. Hizbollah supporters have in re
  
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• Felicity Huffman released from prison after stint for college admissions scandal

  25-10-2019 20:19 via abcnews.go.com
  Actress Felicity Huffman was released from prison Friday after serving time for her involvement in the college admissions scandal.
  
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