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• 'Whistleblower' must testify under oath and in person: Rep. Jim Jordan

  05-11-2019 23:56 via news.yahoo.com
  Democrats’ impeachment push on anonymous, secondhand complaint is unfair, writes Jim Jordan, ranking member of the Committee on Oversight and Reform.
  
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• White House lawyers expected to take lead in impeachment

  05-11-2019 23:50 via news.yahoo.com
  As House Democrats prepare for public impeachment hearings, President Donald Trump and his legal team are working to organize a defense that will rely heavily on White House attorneys and congressional Republicans to stave off the threat to his presidency.Democrats consider the hearings to be their best chance to put Trump's behavior on public display before a politically fraught impeachment vote.Trump's allies, for their part, see the hearings as an opportunity to take the fight to the presiden
  
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• China Tried to Curb Criticism in British Universities, Times Reports

  05-11-2019 23:44 via news.yahoo.com
  (Bloomberg) -- China has tried to curb criticism of its government in U.K campuses by pressurizing universities to limit academic freedom, the Times newspaper reported, citing a report from the Commons foreign affairs committee.Evidence of Chinese interference appears to be coming from the embassy in London, according to the report titled Defending Democracy in an Age of Autocracies.The battle for fees from Chinese students, which number more than 100,000, and other investment “should not
  
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• Krispy Kreme is giving 500 boxes of doughnuts to a student after trying to shut down his business reselling them in his hometown

  05-11-2019 23:40 via news.yahoo.com
  Krispy Kreme is encouraging Jayson Gonzalez to continue his business venture after initially telling him to stop all operations.
  
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• The Trump Organization reportedly can't get anyone to fill retail space in its Chicago hotel

  05-11-2019 23:28 via news.yahoo.com
  Any takers?Apparently not for the Trump Organization, which can't seem to find anyone to fill the street-level retail space at the Trump International Hotel & Tower Chicago, The Washington Post reports.The hotel has reportedly been struggling on several fronts during Trump's presidency, with profits reportedly falling 89 percent between 2015 and 2018, but the vacant space is a stark reminder. The Post obtained documents the company filed with Cook County tax assessors showing how difficult i
  
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• 9 Mormon women and children shot dead in ambush near US-Mexico border

  05-11-2019 23:25 via cnn.com
  
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• Trump's EU envoy admits Ukraine quid pro quo in updated testimony

  05-11-2019 23:18 via theguardian.com
  Gordon Sondland says he told Ukraine it was unlikely to get $400m in aid unless it announced investigations into Trump rivalsImpeachment news – liveAn ally of Donald Trump has changed his impeachment inquiry testimony to confirm that the US president offered Ukraine a quid pro quo to investigate a political rival.Gordon Sondland, the US ambassador to the European Union, said he had told a senior official in Ukraine that nearly $400m in military aid would probably be withheld until the coun
  
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• AP FACT CHECK: Trump's wildfire tweets not grounded in facts

  05-11-2019 23:11 via news.yahoo.com
  President Donald Trump is scorching the facts about California's wildfires.The president in recent tweets blamed California and Democratic Gov. Gavin Newsom for the fires because of state forest management practices and said California's fires were too expensive and worse than in other states.The bulk of California's forests are also federally managed, and other parts of the U.S. are burning even more.
  
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• Donald Trump offers to send the US army to Mexico in response to Mormon murders

  05-11-2019 23:09 via news.yahoo.com
  Donald Trump has offered to send in the US army to take on Mexican drugs cartels after at least three women and six children from an American Mormon community based in northern Mexico were killed in an ambush. Mr Trump tweeted that “the United States stands ready, willing and able to get involved and do the job quickly and effectively,” adding that “sometimes need an army to defeat an army!” He added: “This is the time for Mexico, with the help of the United St
  
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• Why 'Fortnite' superstar is banned for life

  05-11-2019 23:01 via cnn.com
  
  FaZe Jarvis has been permanently banned from "Fortnite" after the game's creator, Epic Games, discovered that he had been using a hacking method to cheat in the game.
  
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• This 'Fortnite' superstar is banned for life. Here's why

  05-11-2019 23:01 via cnn.com
  
  FaZe Jarvis has been permanently banned from "Fortnite" after the game's creator, Epic Games, discovered that he had been using a hacking method to cheat in the game.
  
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• 'Fortnite' superstar is banned for life. Here's why

  05-11-2019 23:01 via cnn.com
  FaZe Jarvis has been permanently banned from "Fortnite" after the game's creator, Epic Games, discovered that he had been using a hacking method to cheat in the game.
  
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• Georgia high court declines to hear condemned man's appeal

  05-11-2019 22:58 via news.yahoo.com
  After temporarily halting an execution last week, the Georgia Supreme Court declined on Tuesday to hear a condemned man's appeal or block a new plan to give him a lethal injection next week.Ray Jefferson Cromartie, 52, is scheduled to be put to death Nov. 13 at the state prison in Jackson.The state says Cromartie also shot and seriously injured another convenience store clerk a few days earlier.
  
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• Trump accuser says phone records 'corroborate' sexual assault allegations

  05-11-2019 22:53 via cnn.com
  
  Newly public cell phone records for President Donald Trump further corroborate allegations of sexual assault against him by former "Apprentice" star Summer Zervos, according to a memo filed by Zervos' attorney.
  
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• 100 'most inspiring' novels revealed by BBC Arts

  05-11-2019 22:49 via bbc.co.uk
  Pride and Prejudice and Bridget Jones are on a list of top page-turners selected by a BBC-led panel.
  
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• Best US airports if you have a layover

  05-11-2019 22:48 via cnn.com
  
  HLN's Jennifer Westhoven lists the top airports for passengers with long layovers.
  
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• Kansas City votes to remove King's name from historic street

  05-11-2019 22:42 via news.yahoo.com
  Kansas City voters on Tuesday overwhelmingly approved removing Dr. Martin Luther King's name from one of the city's most historic boulevards, less than a year after the city council decided to rename The Paseo for the civil rights icon. Unofficial results vote showed the proposal to remove King's name received nearly 70% of the vote, with just over 30% voting to retain King's name. The debate over the name of the 10-mile (16.1 kilometer) boulevard on the city's mostly black east side began short
  
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• Man killed at Popeyes in fight linked to popular chicken sandwich

  05-11-2019 22:40 via news.yahoo.com
  A 28-year-old man was stabbed to death when a fight broke out in the chicken sandwich line at a Popeye's in Maryland on Monday night following the nationwide return of the popular food item.Police said the fight erupted as one man accused another of cutting the line designated for the chicken sandwich, which the chain brought back on Sunday after selling out of the new item during an initial release earlier this year.
  
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• US navy prepares allies to 'protect navigation' in Gulf

  05-11-2019 22:26 via news.yahoo.com
  The United States is training Gulf allies to "protect navigation" in the region's troubled waterways, as it seeks to build an alliance to contain Iran.Washington's three-week International Maritime Exercise (IMX), which started on October 21, came after a number of commercial vessels were attacked in the Gulf from May, ratcheting up regional tensions.Washington and other Western powers blamed the incidents on Iran, which has denied any involvement.
  
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• 2 inmates escape California jail through hole in ceiling

  05-11-2019 22:24 via news.yahoo.com
  Officials say two inmates accused of murder escaped a California jail over the weekend through a hole they made in a bathroom ceiling that's in a blind spot from the guards.
  
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• Ex-special envoy to Ukraine backed up a key Trump defense

  05-11-2019 22:19 via cnn.com
  
  In a significant reversal, a top us diplomat has changed his testimony Monday to the impeachment inquiry to now admit there was a quid pro quo linking US aid to Ukraine with an investigation into President Donald Trump's political rival.
  
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• Canadian man told his curb, damaged 26 years ago, to be repaired in 2037

  05-11-2019 22:18 via feeds.foxnews.com
  Getting local governments to address much-needed street repairs can sometimes take years.
  
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• Trump leads Warren 49 percent to 27 percent among swing voters, poll shows

  05-11-2019 22:04 via news.yahoo.com
  Swing voters are real, The New York Times reports, and they don't seem to be too keen on Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) right now. In a new poll conducted alongside Siena college, the Times found that these swing, or "persuadable," voters -- whose most common attribute is that they're ideologically inconsistent -- represent about 15 percent of the electorate. The voters, a majority of whom are men, have a favorable view of former Vice President Joe Biden and Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.), but tha
  
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• The Air Force Has a Huge Basing Problem

  05-11-2019 22:00 via news.yahoo.com
  To scatter or to concentrate? That is the question.
  
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• Key Donald Trump impeachment witness changes testimony over Ukraine 'quid pro quo'

  05-11-2019 21:57 via news.yahoo.com
  A key witness in the Donald Trump impeachment inquiry has reversed his evidence, indicating he did believe there was a quid pro quo in which US military aid would be denied to Ukraine unless it publicly launched a corruption investigation into Joe Biden. Gordon Sondland, the US ambassador to the European Union, had initially denied any knowledge of a link between the $391 million in aid and Mr Trump's request that Ukraine launch an inquiry into his political rival. But in a revised statement Mr
  
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• Trump trails Biden, Warren, Sanders, Harris, Buttigieg by double-digit margins in new poll

  05-11-2019 21:55 via news.yahoo.com
  Trump, according to a Washington Post-ABC News poll, trailed Biden, Warren, Sanders, Harris and Buttigieg by sizable margins.
  
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• Ponzi schemer 'King Perry' pleads guilty; had lived lavishly

  05-11-2019 21:49 via news.yahoo.com
  The fraudster called himself "King Perry," and for a while he lived like royalty. Perry Santillo masterminded a long-running investment scam that collected more than $115 million from 1,000 investors around the country, using some of the proceeds to fund a lavish lifestyle of cars, casino junkets and houses in multiple states, according to federal securities regulators. At one point, Santillo threw himself a party at a Las Vegas club and had a song written for the occasion — the lyrics of
  
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• Swedish police arrest 3 in bombings amid increase in gang violence

  05-11-2019 21:41 via foxnews.com
  Swedish police have arrested three suspects in connection with multiple bomb blasts over the weekend, explosions that reflect a wider trend of attacks by criminal gangs over the past year, according to reports.
  
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• Cruise passengers appear to keep drinking while storm causes deck to flood

  05-11-2019 21:40 via foxnews.com
  Some people are going to enjoy their vacation, no matter what.
  
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• McConnell Dismisses Impeachment Updates: ‘It Would Not Lead to a Removal’

  05-11-2019 21:36 via news.yahoo.com
  Just minutes after the House released testimony confirming a likely quid pro quo between the Trump Administration and Ukraine, Senate Majority leader Mitch McConnell (R., Ky.) told reporters that he will “withhold judgement on the daily revelations, charges, witnesses, and all the rest,” until the case reaches the Senate.McConnell’s comments came as Senate Republicans held a press conference to criticize Democrats for filibustering military funding and to warn Americans of the
  
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• A U.S. diplomat texted Ukraine a script for their president to say about the Biden investigation

  05-11-2019 21:34 via news.yahoo.com
  More revelations pertaining to the congressional impeachment inquiry flowed Tuesday after House committees released two more transcripts of testimony from U.S. Ambassador to the European Union Gordon Sondland and Kurt Volker, the former special representative to Ukraine.Volker also supplied text messages to House investigators, which included an exchange he had with Andrey Yermak, one of Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky's top aides. In the message, Volker sent Yermak what was more or less
  
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• Louis Eppolito: 'Mafia cop' who murdered people for infamous crime family dies in prison

  05-11-2019 21:22 via news.yahoo.com
  So-called “mafia cop” Louis Eppolito, who was convicted of murdering several people for the Lucchese crime family and who appeared in the mob movie Goodfellas, has died in federal prison while serving a life sentence. He was 71 years old.Eppolito was convicted of helping to orchestrate eight mob killings roughly between 1986-1990 along with his partner Stephen Caracappa.
  
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• Gohmert rips 'political correctness' on anniversary of Fort Hood shooting

  05-11-2019 21:22 via foxnews.com
  On the tenth anniversary of the deadly shooting, the Texas congressman implored Americans to honor the lives lost by "fighting apathy or political correctness."
  
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• Texas cheerleading squad helps man propose to coach during game

  05-11-2019 21:05 via foxnews.com
  Five, six, seven, eight – “Yes!”
  
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• Trump's EU Ambassador told investigators Giuliani's push for Ukraine to investigate the Bidens was potentially illegal

  05-11-2019 21:04 via cnn.com
  
  ANALYSIS: New impeachment disclosures lay bare Trump's power game
  
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• First electric Ford Mustang is a powerful peek at the brand's future

  05-11-2019 21:00 via foxnews.com
  Shocker.
  
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• WeWork still on life support, rivals say it must cut costs fast

  05-11-2019 20:59 via news.yahoo.com
  SoftBank may be rescuing WeWork with a $9.5 billion cash injection but most rivals say they believe the office space sharing company is still in critical condition.In interviews, six rivals were mostly more sober than gleeful about WeWork's fall to earth, which has seen estimates of its valuation drop from $47 billion or more in August to as little as $5.9 billion based on terms of the SoftBank lifeline.The company was forced to abandon its plan for an initial public offering as investors questi
  
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• Jamie Lee Curtis reflects on addiction battle: 'I chased that feeling for a long time'

  05-11-2019 20:56 via foxnews.com
  Jamie Lee Curtis is celebrating 20 years of sobriety talking about it in a new interview.
  
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• Tucson to vote on becoming Arizona’s only sanctuary city

  05-11-2019 20:51 via foxnews.com
  Tucson voters on Tuesday will decide whether to make the liberal enclave Arizona's only sanctuary city in a rebuke to President Trump’s immigration policies and a tough state anti-illegal immigration law that drew international condemnation nearly a decade ago.
  
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• Varney: Media 'panic' over Elizabeth Warren's 'major gaffe that cannot be taken back'

  05-11-2019 20:49 via foxnews.com
  'Woah, I was shocked this morning when I scanned the headlines in the liberal media? They've woken up to the economic lunacy of Elizabeth Warren's Medicare-for-All," said Stu Varney on the latest edition of Fox Nation's "My Take."
  
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• Faith Hill made Tim McGraw choose between hard partying and his family

  05-11-2019 20:46 via foxnews.com
  Country singer Tim McGraw opened up about the time his wife, Faith Hill, forced him to choose between his hard-partying ways or his family. 
  
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• Rapper Tekashi69's testimony reveals how music industry is intertwined with gang culture

  05-11-2019 20:42 via foxnews.com
  Rapper Tekashi69 -- the stage name for Danny Hernandez -- shattered the informal charter of silence typical of celebrity defendants and lifted the lid on gang ties in the entertainment industry during an illuminating appearance in New York City court last month.
  
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• Several blasts of arctic cold will bring an early winter to millions across the US

  05-11-2019 20:31 via news.yahoo.com
  Arctic cold blasts will hit much of the United States this week, bringing an early winter to millions with frosts, freezes and cold temperatures
  
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• Trump news: Released impeachment testimony describes Ukraine quid pro quo, as White House chief of staff called to testify

  05-11-2019 20:29 via news.yahoo.com
  A key witness has agreed to cooperate with congress’ impeachment inquiry, as the president faces increasing congressional scrutiny over his behaviour.Lev Parnas, an indicted businessman who has been linked to the Ukraine scandal is prepared to provide testimony and records to congress, his lawyer said.
  
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• Teacher put on leave after video shows him in blackface as rapper Common for Halloween

  05-11-2019 20:28 via news.yahoo.com
  As part of a Halloween costume, the teacher mimicked Microsoft commercials in which the rapper showcases the future of artificial intelligence.
  
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• Lamborghini's newest breakthrough could forever change electric cars

  05-11-2019 20:25 via cnn.com
  
  Lamborghini doesn't just make supercars, it invented them.
  
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• Sondland Confirms He Told Ukrainian Official That Military Aid ‘Likely’ Depended on Announcement of Burisma Probe

  05-11-2019 20:22 via news.yahoo.com
  U.S. Ambassador to the European Union Gordon Sondland implied in revised testimony to House Democrats that a potential meeting between President Trump and his Ukrainian counterpart Volodymyr Zelensky, as well as the release of military aid to the country, was contingent on the announcement of an anti-corruption probe into Burisma Holdings.The testimony, updated over the past month and released on Tuesday, is part of an impeachment investigation against President Trump by House Democrats, who sus
  
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• Scientists foresee 'untold suffering', another climate record falls

  05-11-2019 20:22 via news.yahoo.com
  More than 11,000 scientists warned Tuesday of "untold suffering" due to global warming, even as another team said Paris carbon-cutting pledges are "too little, too late".The European Union, meanwhile, confirmed that last month was the warmest October ever registered, fast on heels of a record September and the hottest month ever in July.Three-quarters of national commitments under the Paris climate accord to curb greenhouse gases will not even slow the accelerating pace of global warming, accord
  
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• The Latest: Croatia police find 9 migrants in crate in van

  05-11-2019 20:19 via news.yahoo.com
  Police in Croatia say they have discovered nine migrants crammed in a bolted crate at the back of a van.Police say they found the migrants early Tuesday in eastern Croatia after stopping the van with Polish license plates and hearing voices coming from the crate.The migrants included three men, two women and four minors who said they were from Iran and Iraq.
  
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• Indian official burned alive by land owner over reported property dispute

  05-11-2019 20:19 via feeds.foxnews.com
  A property dispute in southern India dramatically escalated on Monday after a revenue official was burnt alive by an angry landowner in an attack that left another member of her staff dead.
  
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