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• Former congressman John Conyers dies at age 90

  27-10-2019 23:52 via news.yahoo.com
  John Conyers, the longest-serving African-American member of the US Congress who resigned following sexual harassment allegations in 2017, died Sunday, his family said."Today, the city of Detroit, The United States and the world lost a fearless civil rights leader and hero," his family said in a statement.Conyers was a political powerhouse from Detroit who co-founded the Congressional Black Caucus and employed civil rights icon Rosa Parks on his congressional staff, where she worked for 23 years
  
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• The killing of al-Baghdadi is a win Trump needed, but the credit could be fleeting

  27-10-2019 23:35 via nbcnews.com
  Analysis: The ISIS leader is hardly a household name, as was Osama bin Laden.
  
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• Ex-CIA officer linked to 2003 kidnapping of terror suspect leaves Italy, fears for safety, report says

  27-10-2019 23:29 via feeds.foxnews.com
  A former CIA officer implicated in the 2003 kidnapping of a terrorism suspect in Milan has fled Italy out of fears for her safety, Italian media reported Sunday.
  
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• A baby woke up from a coma and smiled at his dad

  27-10-2019 23:29 via cnn.com
  
  As 14-month-old baby Michael began to wake up from a five-day coma, he recognized his dad and smiled in the precious way that only babies can.
  
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• 14-month-old baby wakes from coma and smiles at dad

  27-10-2019 23:29 via cnn.com
  
  As 14-month-old baby Michael began to wake up from a five-day coma, he recognized his dad and smiled in the precious way that only babies can.
  
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• Man in MAGA hat sprays Trump protesters with bear repellent

  27-10-2019 23:13 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 claims Baghdadi died 'crying, whimpering, screaming'

  27-10-2019 22:59 via cnn.com
  
  A senior administration official says President Donald Trump approved the mission aimed at targeting ISIS leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi in a US military raid in northwest Syria.
  
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• Hamilton's sixth F1 title kept on ice

  27-10-2019 22:51 via cnn.com
  
  Lewis Hamilton's sixth Formula One title was kept on ice despite a hard-fought victory at the Mexican Grand Prix on Sunday.
  
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• Samsung's 'Space Selfie' falls out of sky, lands on Michigan couple's property

  27-10-2019 22:48 via nbcnews.com
  "We realized it had fallen from the sky," the woman who found the device said. "It looked like a satellite."
  
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• U.S. lawmakers will press Boeing CEO for answers on 737 MAX crashes

  27-10-2019 22:41 via news.yahoo.com
  The head of a U.S. Senate panel reviewing two catastrophic Boeing 737 MAX crashes told Reuters ahead of hearings this week that the plane would not return to U.S. skies until "99.9% of the American public" and policymakers are convinced it is safe.Boeing Co Chief Executive Dennis Muilenburg will testify for two days before Congress starting on Tuesday, which is the anniversary of the Lion Air 737 MAX crash in Indonesia, the first of two crashes within five months that killed a total of 346 peopl
  
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• Kentucky gov's race stirs clash over casino suicide claims

  27-10-2019 22:36 via news.yahoo.com
  Entering the final days of Kentucky's bitter race for governor, Republican incumbent Matt Bevin exposed himself to a new attack by flatly denying his recorded claim that suicides happen nightly in casinos.Telling a debate audience Saturday night that the truth matters, Bevin challenged his opponent to produce a tape proving his denial wrong.Democrat Andy Beshear offered up the audiotape Sunday.
  
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• Reporter's Notebook: Covering the elusive al-Baghdadi and his reign of terror for years

  27-10-2019 22:27 via feeds.foxnews.com
  News of the death of Islamic State leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi by U.S. Special Operations Forces was for me, as it was for many, of real interest. My teams and I have been some of the few who have seen his and his terror group’s handiwork, first-hand.
  
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• John Conyers, longest serving black congressman, dies at 90

  27-10-2019 22:03 via nbcnews.com
  The former U.S. representative's reliably liberal stance on civil rights made him a political institution in DC and back home in Detroit, despite scandals.
  
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• Nearly 200,000 flee as statewide emergency declared over California wildfires

  27-10-2019 22:01 via cnn.com
  
  Whipping winds and dangerously dry conditions fueled wildfires in northern and southern California on Sunday, with more trouble expected later this week.
  
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• Trump kept top Democrats in the dark about al-Baghdadi raid

  27-10-2019 21:57 via nbcnews.com
  "The House must be briefed on this raid, which the Russians but not top Congressional Leadership were notified of in advance," Pelosi said.
  
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• Samsung pseudo satellite falls out of the sky, lands in rural Michigan neighborhood

  27-10-2019 21:55 via news.yahoo.com
  According to a statement from Samsung, the landing was planned, and no injuries occurred when the "Samsung Europe's SpaceSelfie balloon" landed.
  
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• Pelosi slams Trump for cutting Democrats out of loop on Baghdadi raid

  27-10-2019 21:53 via theguardian.com
  ‘Gang of Eight’ leaders not informed of strike against Isis chiefKilling of Baghdadi gives Trump lifeline amid political battleTop Democrats reacted with anger to Donald Trump’s decision to go ahead with the Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi raid without giving them advance notice, on grounds that they were not to be trusted with such highly sensitive information. Related: Trump impeachment: Schiff expects battle over key witness John BoltonContinue reading...
  
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• Prosecutors want black judge who criticized incarceration rates of African Americans removed

  27-10-2019 21:45 via news.yahoo.com
  Iberia Parish judge Lori Landry has questioned the large number of black Louisianans incarcerated by the district attorney's office
  
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• Long-serving former Democratic U.S. congressman John Conyers dies at age 90

  27-10-2019 21:43 via news.yahoo.com
  John Conyers, a liberal Democrat who was the longest-serving African-American member of the U.S. House of Representatives, serving for more than half a century, died on Sunday at the age of 90.Conyers joined the House in 1965 and stepped down in 2017, after his reputation was sullied by sexual harassment accusations.The Detroit-area congressman was a founding member of the Congressional Black Caucus.
  
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• Dallas police officer shoots own son after mistaking him for intruder

  27-10-2019 21:36 via nbcnews.com
  The officer shot his son in his right forearm. The injury did not appear to be life-threatening, police said.
  
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• Situation Room: 2 photos capture vastly different presidents

  27-10-2019 21:35 via news.yahoo.com
  Photos taken in the White House Situation Room during the killings of Islamic State leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi on Saturday and of al-Qaida leader Osama bin Laden eight years earlier capture the vastly different styles of two American presidents. The White House on Sunday released a photo of President Donald Trump with five of his senior national security advisers monitoring the Saturday night operation against al-Baghdadi in Syria. The photo invites comparisons to the Situation Room photo relea
  
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• House Republicans Are Taking Another Shot At Reforming America's Healthcare

  27-10-2019 21:33 via news.yahoo.com
  Is this the right policy for Americans?
  
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• Lebanon puts temporary ban on taking large sums of dollar cash out of country - NNA

  27-10-2019 21:19 via news.yahoo.com
  A Lebanese state prosecutor on Sunday banned traders and money exchangers from taking significant amounts of physical dollar currency out of the country at air and land borders, state news agency NNA said.The order, which it said was issued by Public Prosecutor Ghassan Oueidat, imposed the ban until the central bank determines a new mechanism for regulating such transfers, NNA reported.People had previously been able to take large sums of dollar cash out of Lebanon with a permit from customs aut
  
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• 900 children test positive for HIV in Pakistani city

  27-10-2019 21:19 via news.yahoo.com
  Nearly 900 children under 12 in the small Pakistani city of Ratodero were affected by an HIV outbreak that overwhelmingly affected children. Health officials initially blamed the outbreak on a single pediatrician, saying he was reusing syringes.
  
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• Pelosi: Russians but not top Democrats were notified in advance

  27-10-2019 21:08 via cnn.com
  
  President Donald Trump admitted on Sunday the White House did not inform some key Democrats about the daring raid that resulted in the death of ISIS leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi.
  
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• Long hunt for ISIS leader came to dramatic end as US forces overcame gunfire, a booby trap and explosive vests

  27-10-2019 21:07 via cnn.com
  
  President Donald Trump announced Sunday morning in a televised address at the White House that the "world's number one terrorist leader" is dead.
  
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• Trump deserves to take a victory lap

  27-10-2019 20:57 via cnn.com
  
  President Donald Trump can certainly take a victory lap for the operation that killed the leader of ISIS, Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi. Prior to his death, Baghdadi had declared ISIS a "caliphate," as his terrorist army stormed across Syria and Iraq, seizing territory the size of Portugal and ruling over some 8 million subjects.
  
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• The most shocking lines from Trump's announcement

  27-10-2019 20:51 via cnn.com
  
  On Sunday morning, President Donald Trump announced that ISIS leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi had died as a result of a US raid in northern Syria. And then he kept talking. And taking questions. And more questions.
  
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• 41 most shocking lines from Trump's announcement

  27-10-2019 20:51 via cnn.com
  
  On Sunday morning, President Donald Trump announced that ISIS leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi had died as a result of a US raid in northern Syria. And then he kept talking. And taking questions. And more questions.
  
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• The CIA got key information for the raid on al-Baghdadi's ISIS compound after a wife of the leader and a courier were arrested

  27-10-2019 20:49 via news.yahoo.com
  The agency worked with Iraqi and Kurdish intelligence officials to narrow down the leader's exact location and place local spies.
  
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• Trump's Baghdadi raid Situation Room photo has one big difference to Obama's bin Laden picture ⁠— and it tells you everything about their styles

  27-10-2019 20:48 via news.yahoo.com
  The Situation Room photo of Trump during the raid against ISIS leader Baghdadi differs significantly from Obama's during the Osama bin Laden raid.
  
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• NASA posts a photo of the sun looking like a giant flaming jack-o'-lantern

  27-10-2019 20:40 via cnn.com
  
  If you thought the super blood wolf moon was scary, you haven't seen what the sun is capable of.
  
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• Pregnant Shawn Johnson squeezes into Olympics leotard at 40 weeks, reveals who baby looks like

  27-10-2019 20:31 via news.yahoo.com
  Shawn Johnson, who is expecting a baby any day now, squeezed into her Olympic leotard. The couple invited fans to "see" what the child will look like.
  
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• Why Democrats Should Be Cautious About Breaking Up Big Tech

  27-10-2019 20:30 via news.yahoo.com
  More than antitrust.
  
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• Pilots live streamed video from plane's bathroom to cockpit, lawsuit alleges

  27-10-2019 20:09 via cnn.com
  
  A Southwest Airlines flight attendant says two pilots live streamed video from a hidden camera in a commercial airliner's lavatory to an iPad in the cockpit, a lawsuit says.
  
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• The ASEAN-U.S. Maritime Exercises Are More Important Than Ever

  27-10-2019 20:05 via news.yahoo.com
  Washington, in turn, has been stepping up cooperation, including with regional maritime law enforcement agencies, some of which are relatively new, ill-trained and under-equipped to confront a myriad of security challenges facing them.
  
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• Nowhere left to run: how the US finally caught up with Isis leader Baghdadi

  27-10-2019 20:00 via theguardian.com
  The hunt for the Islamic State leader had lasted years until Iraqi officials got a break last monthCornered in a dead-end tunnel, with a robot creeping towards him, Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi had nowhere left to run. Dogs barked in the darkness, a US soldier called out … and then came the thundering explosion that killed the world’s most wanted man – together with three terrified children he was using as human shields.The US military finally caught up with the Islamic State leader i
  
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• The Latest: California governor declares statewide emergency

  27-10-2019 19:50 via news.yahoo.com
  California Gov. Gavin Newsom has declared a statewide emergency as wildfires and extreme weather conditions forced almost 200,000 people from their homes. The flames came dangerously close to homes in Vallejo. In the south, a wildfire in the Santa Clarita area north of Los Angeles has destroyed 18 structures, threatened homes and critical infrastructure.
  
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• Trump smacks GOP rebellion with Baghdadi killing

  27-10-2019 19:41 via politico.com
  President Donald Trump received widespread Republican criticism for his decision to withdraw troops from northern Syria just weeks ago.The death of Baghdadi in Syria came after Republicans warned the president that removing troops from the region would lead to the escape of ISIS prisoners and prompt the re-emergence of the terrorist group.“What I see happening in Syria makes sense to me,” said Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.), who spoke at the White House on Sunday and previously denounc
  
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• Iowa woman killed by gender reveal party explosion

  27-10-2019 19:40 via nbcnews.com
  The woman, 56, was struck by debris from an explosion at a gender reveal party in Knoxville, Iowa. She was pronounced dead at the scene.
  
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• UAE, Brazil ink deals in first visit for Bolsonaro

  27-10-2019 19:38 via news.yahoo.com
  The United Arab Emirates and Brazil signed several agreements Sunday during President Jair Bolsonaro's visit to Abu Dhabi, which marks his first official trip to the Arab world."Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro and I witnessed the exchange of agreements and MoUs between our countries," tweeted Abu Dhabi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Zayed after a meeting between the two men.
  
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• Number of bodies found near Mexican resort town rises to 42

  27-10-2019 19:30 via news.yahoo.com
  Searching Mothers of Sonora uncovered a mass grave with the remains of 13 people inside, located near the popular beach resort town of Puerto Peñasco.
  
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• New Mexico funds progressive policy through fracking

  27-10-2019 19:23 via nbcnews.com
  New Mexico's tuition-free college plan would be among the most progressive in the country. But student activists say it relies too much on money from oil.
  
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• Iowa woman dies after gender-reveal-party explosion

  27-10-2019 19:20 via news.yahoo.com
  An Iowa woman died after an explosion at a gender reveal party created debris that hit her. The Marion County Sheriff's office says that the explosion happened at a home in central Iowa around 4 p.m. on Saturday during a party to announce the gender of a baby a couple is expecting.
  
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• Wildfires in California wine country force nearly 200,000 to flee

  27-10-2019 19:18 via cnn.com
  
  Whipping winds and dangerously dry conditions fueled wildfires in northern and southern California on Sunday, with more trouble expected later this week.
  
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• Firefighters struggle against massive, wind-whipped California wildfire

  27-10-2019 19:18 via news.yahoo.com
  Crews lost ground on Sunday against a wind-driven wildfire that has blackened a wide swath of California's picturesque wine country and driven 180,000 people from their homes as they hoped for a break in the hot, dry weather.About 3,000 people were battling the Kinkade Fire, the worst of more than a dozen major blazes that have damaged or destroyed nearly 400 structures, and prompted Governor Gavin Newsom to declare a statewide emergency.Newsom said its containment had "slipped" to about half of
  
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• Trump: ISIS leader 'died like a coward'

  27-10-2019 19:12 via cnn.com
  
  A senior administration official says President Donald Trump approved the mission aimed at targeting ISIS leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi in a US military raid in northwest Syria.
  
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• UPDATE 2-Firefighters struggle against massive, wind-whipped California wildfire

  27-10-2019 19:08 via news.yahoo.com
  Crews lost ground on Sunday against a wind-driven wildfire that has blackened a wide swath of California's picturesque wine country and driven 180,000 people from their homes as they hoped for a break in the hot, dry weather.About 3,000 people were battling the Kinkade Fire, the worst of more than a dozen major blazes that have damaged or destroyed nearly 400 structures, and prompted Governor Gavin Newsom to declare a statewide emergency.Newsom said its containment had "slipped" to about half of
  
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• UPDATE 1-Northern California wildfire evacuation orders rise to 180,000

  27-10-2019 19:08 via news.yahoo.com
  The southward march of a Northern California wildfire toward the more populated areas above the San Francisco Bay led officials on Sunday to raise the number of residents ordered to leave their homes in the area to 180,000.The increase, from 130,000 earlier on Sunday, came as wind gusts pushed the Kincade Fire down from the rolling hills and wine regions of northern Sonoma County and threatened communities as far south as northern Santa Rosa, officials said.Sonoma County Sheriff Mark Essick, def
  
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• Trump admits key Democrats were left in the dark about raid

  27-10-2019 19:03 via cnn.com
  
  President Donald Trump admitted on Sunday the White House did not inform some key Democrats about the daring raid that resulted in the death of ISIS leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi.
  
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