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• Vulnerable Democrats face new challenge

  31-10-2019 23:59 via cnn.com
  
  One after the other, almost every Democrat in tough House races across the country voted on Thursday to establish the rules for the impeachment inquiry into President Donald Trump, despite Republican predictions it will end their political careers.
  
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• Trump’s Presidency on Treacherous New Ground After House Vote

  31-10-2019 23:59 via news.yahoo.com
  (Bloomberg) -- Donald Trump’s presidency stands on its most treacherous ground after the House voted Thursday to approve and proceed with its impeachment inquiry.The resolution, passed on a largely party-line 232-196 vote, does not just lay out a road map for the public phase of the inquiry. It sends a clear signal that a vote to impeach Trump, and a trial in the Senate, is all but inevitable.Trump becomes just the fourth president to be subject to a formal impeachment effort. Two of them,
  
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• Survivors say burning train took 20 minutes to stop, 74 dead

  31-10-2019 23:59 via news.yahoo.com
  A raging fire swept through a train in Pakistan's eastern Punjab Province on Thursday, killing 74 people, and survivors said afterward it took nearly 20 minutes for the train to stop amid contradictory reports about the condition of the train's brakes.Conductor Sadiue Ahmed Khan told The Associated Press the train's emergency breaking system was in perfect working order and the train stopped within three minutes after the first signs of fire.Investigators said they will be looking at the train's
  
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• Woman found dead at home with 8-foot python around neck

  31-10-2019 23:56 via cnn.com
  
  A woman was found dead yesterday with an 8-foot python snake wrapped around her neck, according to Indiana State Police.
  
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• Mark Zuckerberg fires back at Aaron Sorkin's op-ed critical of Facebook -- by quoting Sorkin's own movie

  31-10-2019 23:56 via foxnews.com
  Facebook CEO and founder Mark Zuckerberg turned the tables on Hollywood screenwriter Aaron Sorkin by using Sorkin's own words against him in response to an op-ed critical of Facebook's stance on political speech. 
  
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• Protests instead of parties for Halloween in Hong Kong

  31-10-2019 23:51 via cnn.com
  
  More protests erupt on Halloween night as Hong Kong demonstrations enter the 22nd week. CNN's Will Ripley reports.
  
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• Woman finds husband hilariously terrorizing neighborhood in Michael Myers costume

  31-10-2019 23:45 via foxnews.com
  A video shared on Facebook by Sabrina Zimmerman shows her husband, Greg, riding a bicycle down the street, wearing the famed mask from the cult horror film “Halloween.” Attached to the bicycle is a small carriage with a baby skeleton inside.
  
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• Gutfeld on the media falling for the dog meme

  31-10-2019 23:45 via foxnews.com
  An obviously altered photo of President Trump and the dog involved in the raid against ISIS leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi got the media all worked up.
  
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• Russia must withdraw troops from Ukraine, NATO chief says

  31-10-2019 23:41 via foxnews.com
  Jens Stoltenberg, secretary general of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO), said this week that Russia should withdraw all troops from war-torn Eastern Ukraine, where armed conflict between Moscow-backed separatists and Ukrainians has been ongoing for more than five years.
  
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• Hedge fund billionaire fires back at Warren: 'Your vilification of the rich is misguided'

  31-10-2019 23:38 via news.yahoo.com
  Hedge fund mogul Leon Cooperman takes issue with Sen. Warren's plans for a wealth tax.
  
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• White House, Congress square off in court over whether Trump officials can be forced to testify

  31-10-2019 23:36 via foxnews.com
  The executive branch and the House of Representatives squared off in federal court Thursday on two separate cases over whether former White House officials can be forced to testify before congressional committees amid the Trump impeachment inquiry.
  
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• Gerrymandering case could lead to laws invalidated, criminals freed, N. Carolina GOP warns

  31-10-2019 23:31 via nbcnews.com
  The issue is being taken up by the state Court of Appeals in a lawsuit brought by the NAACP over the disenfranchisement of black voters.
  
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• How a Freak Chemistry Accident Sunk One of Russia's Most Powerful Submarines

  31-10-2019 23:30 via news.yahoo.com
  In the end, the sinking of the Kursk appears to have been caused by a simple, freak accident of chemistry. The tragedy only reinforces how dangerous life aboard a submarine really is, and how important safety is in the underwater realm.
  
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• Indiana woman found dead with 8-foot python around her neck

  31-10-2019 23:29 via nbcnews.com
  There were approximately 140 caged snakes in the home, an Indiana State Police sergeant said, adding that no one lived at the residence.
  
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• Russia is openly honing its fake-news skills in Africa

  31-10-2019 23:27 via cnn.com
  
  In the runup to the 2020 election, the graduates of Russia's infamous "troll factory" are honing their fake-news skills. This time, they are doing it openly, using Africa as a proving ground — and with the help of Alexander Malkevich, a Russian propagandist exiled from the US.
  
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• US judge dismisses case against legal brothels in Nevada

  31-10-2019 23:25 via news.yahoo.com
  A federal judge in Nevada has dismissed a lawsuit that invoked sex trafficking laws in a bid to close the nation's only legal brothels.U.S. District Judge Miranda Du in Reno said in her Tuesday ruling that she empathized with three women who claim they were victims of sexual violence in Nevada and other places."That plaintiffs were unlawfully forced into prostitution and sex trafficked in Nevada and other states is not sufficiently traceable to Nevada laws ... as opposed to other factors, namely
  
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• Ex-acting CIA boss expresses gratitude for 'deep state' involvement in impeachment inquiry

  31-10-2019 23:25 via foxnews.com
  Former Acting CIA Director John McLaughlin indicated on Wednesday that he was grateful for the "deep state's" role in prompting the impeachment inquiry into President Trump.
  
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• Burmese actors get 1-year jail term for satirizing military

  31-10-2019 23:25 via foxnews.com
  Five members of a theatrical troupe in Burma were sentenced Wednesday to a year in prison for sketches that satirized the country’s military.
  
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• Marie Osmond recreates Gwen Stefani's 'Sweet Escape' look for Halloween

  31-10-2019 23:17 via foxnews.com
  Marie Osmond is joining in on the Halloween fun.
  
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• Ex-beauty queen accuses former Gambia president of rape

  31-10-2019 23:16 via news.yahoo.com
  A Gambian former beauty queen on Thursday accused former President Yahya Jammeh of raping her to punish her for rejecting his marriage proposal, in evidence to the country's truth and reconciliation commission."What he wanted to do was to teach me a lesson, what he wanted to do is manifest his ego," Fatou Jallow said."There were words like 'who do you think you are?', that he is the president and that he gets any woman that he wants," Jallow told Gambia's Truth, Reconciliation and Reparations Co
  
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• Judge declines to delay South Dakota execution

  31-10-2019 23:14 via news.yahoo.com
  A judge on Thursday denied a South Dakota inmate's request to delay his execution over concerns about the drug that the state plans to use, rejecting the man's contention that it doesn't act quickly enough.Charles Rhines, scheduled to die by lethal injection next week in the 1992 stabbing of a 22-year-old doughnut shop worker, had argued that pentobarbital is not an "ultra-short-acting" drug as required by state law.In fact, Sogn said, pentobarbital in lethal doses may even be faster to induce u
  
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• These cute babies just won Halloween

  31-10-2019 23:10 via cnn.com
  
  Photos of newborns from NICUs all over the US are going viral because of their adorable Halloween costumes. Watch "Full Circle" weeknights at 5 p.m. ET.
  
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• Doctors use wine hack to free boy's tongue stuck in bottle

  31-10-2019 23:00 via nbcnews.com
  The memory of opening a wine bottle without a corkscrew was the trick to freeing the little boy.
  
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• US Rep Katie Hill's anger at leak of intimate photos

  31-10-2019 22:58 via bbc.co.uk
  In a House speech, Katie Hill decries publication of her intimate photos for "sexual entertainment".
  
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• Tomi Lahren dressed up as AOC for Halloween

  31-10-2019 22:50 via news.yahoo.com
  “This Halloween I decided to dress up as the thing that scares me most, the Democratic Dimwit Darling herself,” the Conservative pundit wrote in an Instagram post.
  
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• Trump news: President rages over historic impeachment vote as White House expert reveals details of Ukraine policy

  31-10-2019 22:43 via news.yahoo.com
  The House of Representatives has voted to formalise the Democrat-led impeachment inquiry against Donald Trump by 232-196, firmly along party lines, establishing key ground rules for the ongoing investigation and setting up a potentially explosive public hearing phase.Before the ballots were cast, House speaker Nancy Pelosi and Adam Schiff reminded members of the “solemnity” of the day before angry Republicans Devin Nunes and Steve Scalise accused the opposition of “acting like
  
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• Trump administration considers adding more countries to travel ban list

  31-10-2019 22:42 via cnn.com
  
  Trump administration officials are discussing adding more countries to the travel ban list, two sources tell CNN, potentially expanding the controversial ban that has been criticized as discriminating against Muslims.
  
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• Anthony Scaramucci and Steve Bullock trade jabs over prank endorsement

  31-10-2019 22:35 via politico.com
  Anthony Scaramucci, President Donald Trump’s former, short-lived White House communications director-turned-detractor, saw his fame exploited Thursday in a campaign stunt by a Democratic presidential candidate.The stunt unfolded on Twitter when Steve Bullock — Montana’s governor and a long-shot candidate who’s failed to qualify for all but one Democratic primary debate this year — posted a video recorded by “The Mooch” for the celebrity-shout-out site Ca
  
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• Philadelphia Man Allegedly Confesses to Killing Four Relatives in Shooting at Family Home

  31-10-2019 22:32 via news.yahoo.com
  29-year-old Maurice Louis had bought the shotgun used a day beforehand
  
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• Kentucky Supreme Court dismisses gay pride T-shirt case

  31-10-2019 22:32 via news.yahoo.com
  The Kentucky Supreme Court has sided with a print shop owner who refused to make a gay pride T-shirt because he says it was against his religious beliefs.The state's high court dismissed the claim after two lower courts also ruled in favor of Lexington print shop Hands-On Originals.The company declined a T-shirt order from Lexington's Gay and Lesbian Services Organization for the city's 2012 Gay Pride Festival.
  
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• Keystone oil pipeline leaks 383,000 gallons in North Dakota

  31-10-2019 22:31 via news.yahoo.com
  TC Energy's Keystone pipeline has leaked an estimated 383,000 gallons (1.4 million liters) of oil in northeastern North Dakota, marking the second significant spill in two years along the line that carries Canadian tar sands oil through seven states, regulators said Thursday.Crews on Tuesday shut down the pipeline after the leak was discovered, said Karl Rockeman, North Dakota's water quality division director."Our emergency response team contained the impacted area and oil has not migrated beyo
  
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• We now know exactly how Trump is going to try to get reelected

  31-10-2019 22:30 via cnn.com
  
  During Game 7 of the World Series on Wednesday night, President Donald Trump's campaign launched a seven-figure national ad buy -- a 30-second commercial touting his first-term accomplishments on terrorism, the economy and immigration.
  
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• Five hundred goats save the Ronald Reagan library from wildfires

  31-10-2019 22:27 via news.yahoo.com
  Animal team charged with eating through 13 acres of scrubland that could have fueled California’s Easy fireGoats are released at the Ronald Reagan library in Simi Valley, California, during a similar crisis in 2012. Photograph: Juan Carlo/APDiligent work by a team of 500 goats has helped save the Ronald Reagan Presidential Library from wildfires that are ravaging parts of California.The library deployed the goat squadron during the spring in order to munch their way through around 13 acres
  
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• Democratic strategist: Trump campaign ad is really good

  31-10-2019 22:26 via cnn.com
  
  President Donald Trump's reelection campaign ran a political ad during Game 7 of the World Series, one year before voters head to the polls.
  
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• North Korea says it conducted successful test of multiple rocket launchers

  31-10-2019 22:23 via news.yahoo.com
  North Korean state news agency KCNA said on Friday another test of super-large multiple rocket launchers a day earlier had been a success, but the test drew protests from neighboring Japan and South Korea.KCNA said the latest test of the "super-large multiple rocket launchers", following two tests of the same weapon in August and September overseen by North Korean leader Kim Jong Un, indicated the progress of Pyongyang's weapons development while talks with the United States remain in limbo.The
  
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• Chicago teacher strike ends, classes to resume Friday

  31-10-2019 22:21 via nbcnews.com
  Teachers didn't get everything they wanted, "but it’s not a day for photo-ops and victory laps," the union president said.
  
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• Chicago mayor announces 11-day teacher strike has ended, classes to resume Friday

  31-10-2019 22:21 via nbcnews.com
  After two weeks of cancelled classes, instructors and students will be back in school.
  
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• 'An incredible victory': N.C. lawmakers close sexual assault loopholes

  31-10-2019 22:20 via nbcnews.com
  One loophole effectively prevented women from legally revoking consent during sex, and was part of a ruling dating back to 1979.
  
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• Kurds call on US to block Turkish military drones from Syrian air space

  31-10-2019 22:09 via news.yahoo.com
  * Unmanned weapons ‘targeting anything they wish to’* Kurds say Turks have killed 509 civilians and 412 troopsA member of the Kurdish internal security services known as Asayish stands guard during a demonstration by Syrian Kurds against the Turkish assault on north-eastern Syria in Qamishli on 28 October. Photograph: Delil Souleiman/AFP via Getty ImagesSyrian Kurds are asking the Pentagon to block US-controlled air space over north-eastern Syria to Turkish armed drones which they cl
  
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• WWE Hosts Saudi Arabia's First Women's Wrestling Match

  31-10-2019 22:07 via nbcnews.com
  "I couldn't stop smiling when this was announced. When I speak about women driving, or even just sharing space with men, these are rights that didn't exist when I was growing up," tweeted WWE's first Saudi Arabian Wrestler Mansoor Al-Shehail.
  
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• ISIS says it has a new leader less than a week after US raid that left Baghdadi dead

  31-10-2019 22:06 via news.yahoo.com
  Less than a week after President Donald Trump celebrated Baghdadi's death, ISIS has a brand new leader.
  
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• Trump judicial pick breaks down when pressed on LGBTQ views

  31-10-2019 22:00 via nbcnews.com
  Despite Lawrence VanDyke’s stated commitment to treating gay litigants with respect if confirmed, some advocates remain skeptical.
  
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• ISIS names a new leader and no-one knows who he is

  31-10-2019 22:00 via cnn.com
  
  ISIS confirmed the death of former leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi and named his replacement in an audio message on Thursday.
  
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• Trump says he 'can understand' Meghan, the Duchess of Sussex

  31-10-2019 21:53 via cnn.com
  
  US President Donald Trump said he "can understand" Meghan, Duchess of Sussex, when asked whether he felt sorry for her on Tuesday.
  
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• Congresswoman Katie Hill calls out 'double standards' and misogyny in resignation speech – video

  31-10-2019 21:50 via theguardian.com
  The Democratic US representative Katie Hill has delivered her final speech on the House floor, in which she called out the 'double standards' and 'misogynistic culture' that led to her resignation. The California congresswoman said she would be stepping down after she admitted to being involved in a relationship with a congressional staffer in possible violation of House rules, and nude photographs of her were published online  Continue reading...
  
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• The House voted for an impeachment inquiry, and Republicans failed a test of character

  31-10-2019 21:49 via news.yahoo.com
  There isn’t much more ground to cover between the historic vote on Halloween and the final immolation of the Republican Party.
  
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• US House formally backs Democrats' impeachment plan

  31-10-2019 21:43 via cnn.com
  
  The House of Representatives on Thursday approved a resolution to formalize the procedures of the impeachment inquiry into President Donald Trump, marking a significant step in the ongoing investigation and setting the stage for the next phase in the investigation.
  
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• How employee activism at Google started a movement

  31-10-2019 21:36 via cnn.com
  
  Claire Stapleton and Meredith Whittaker say organizing a global protest at Google cost them their jobs, a claim that Google denies. They tell CNN Business' Rachel Crane why it was all worth it.
  
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• High-tech California relies on a startup in Utah to see how smoky its air is

  31-10-2019 21:31 via nbcnews.com
  The company has become a a case in point for the tech community’s larger frustrations with what many see as mismanagement by California’s government and national gridlock.
  
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• Jail officer in coma dies after being attacked by inmate

  31-10-2019 21:29 via news.yahoo.com
  An inmate's deadly attack on a Phoenix area jail officer was completely unprovoked, according to court documents made available Thursday.Maricopa County Jail video shows inmate Daniel Davitt talking with Officer Gene Lee on Tuesday outside a holding space before suddenly grabbing Lee by the throat, charging documents said.Davitt then pushed Lee backward and used his right leg to knock the officer off his feet.
  
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