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• House withdraws subpoena for Trump official -- a sign Democrats are confident in inquiry

  06-11-2019 23:52 via cnn.com
  
  The House of Representatives says it no longer needs to subpoena former deputy national security adviser Charles Kupperman for his testimony, another sign that Democrats don't want or feel they need a prolonged battle to gather more details in their impeachment probe.
  
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• 200m among four events cut from 'core' Diamond League list

  06-11-2019 23:52 via bbc.co.uk
  The 200m is one of number of events which will no longer feature at all Diamond League meetings in the 2020 season.
  
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• In Iowa, Pete Buttigieg's youth is attracting older voters

  06-11-2019 23:46 via abcnews.go.com
  Mixed in among the Iowans who attend Pete Buttigieg events is an important voting bloc in the state that could help him in 2020: older voters.
  
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• US believes reports Turkey misused US-supplied weapons in Syria incursion are 'credible'

  06-11-2019 23:45 via cnn.com
  
  The US is investigating whether Turkey violated agreements with Washington about the use of US-provided weapons and equipment, including whether Ankara improperly transferred US-supplied weapons to its proxies in Syria, groups that some US officials say may have committed war crimes as part of the Turkish-led incursion targeting America's Kurdish allies.
  
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• New Jersey man who purposely faked slip and fall at workplace sentenced

  06-11-2019 23:43 via news.yahoo.com
  A man accused of faking a slip and fall at a New Jersey business in January was sentenced Monday to probation, community service and ordered to pay restitution.
  
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• Fox News to staff: Do not identify the whistleblower

  06-11-2019 23:43 via cnn.com
  
  Fox News hosts and personalities have been instructed over the last several days not to identify the whistleblower whose complaint sparked an impeachment probe against President Trump, people familiar with the matter told CNN Business.
  
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• Fox News to personalities: Do not identify the whistleblower

  06-11-2019 23:43 via cnn.com
  
  Fox News hosts and personalities have been instructed over the last several days not to identify the whistleblower whose complaint sparked an impeachment probe against President Trump, people familiar with the matter told CNN Business.
  
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• Texas cop who shot woman was critiqued for 'tunnel vision'

  06-11-2019 23:36 via news.yahoo.com
  Aaron Dean's supervisor commended him in his most recent evaluation, in April 2019, for working at the level of more experienced officers, exhorting him to "keep up the good work," according to records obtained by the Fort Worth Star-Telegram .The records offer new insight into the 35-year-old who is facing a murder charge for shooting 28-year-old Atatiana Jefferson through her back window after responding to a call about an open front door.During his 2017 police department job interview, Dean s
  
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• Iraq protesters storm Baghdad bridge, medic killed

  06-11-2019 23:34 via news.yahoo.com
  Anti-government protesters in Iraq stormed a bridge Wednesday in central Baghdad, where security forces pushed them back with batons and tear gas, wounding dozens.A medic was killed while aiding demonstrators.The military called on the protesters to stop blocking roads and ports, saying they had cost Iraq $6 billion, and it vowed to arrest those responsible.
  
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• Top US diplomat: Giuliani pushed Ukraine to 'intervene' in US politics

  06-11-2019 23:28 via cnn.com
  
  The top US diplomat in Ukraine told House impeachment investigators that President Donald Trump's personal attorney Rudy Giuliani was pressing Ukraine "to intervene in US domestic policy or politics" by launching investigations into Trump's political rivals, according to a transcript of Bill Taylor's deposition released Wednesday.
  
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• 'I'd wiped out half a family': F-16 pilot grapples with guilt after a bungled bombing mission in Iraq killed at least 4 civilians

  06-11-2019 23:26 via news.yahoo.com
  
  "Doing nothing is even worse," the F-16 fighter pilot said. "War is a game that we play because all else has failed."
  
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• Bill Gates addressed his multiple meetings with Jeffrey Epstein: 'I made a mistake in judgment'

  06-11-2019 23:22 via news.yahoo.com
  Bill Gates addressed his ties to Jeffrey Epstein Wednesday, saying that he "made a mistake in judgement" by associating with the convicted sex offender.
  
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• Insomnia in younger adults linked to heart attack, stroke

  06-11-2019 23:17 via cnn.com
  
  A new study of a half a million adults found a significant link between symptoms of insomnia and a higher risk for heart attacks and stroke.
  
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• Motive one of the many questions after family is massacred in Mexico

  06-11-2019 23:14 via news.yahoo.com
  Amid the horror, eight children survived the slayings on a road near Rancho La Mora in the Mexican state of Sonora.
  
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• Standing tall: Scientists find oldest example of upright ape

  06-11-2019 23:02 via news.yahoo.com
  An international team of researchers says the fossilized partial skeleton of a male ape that lived almost 12 million years ago in the humid forests of what is now southern Germany bears a striking resemblance to modern human bones.The findings "raise fundamental questions about our previous understanding of the evolution of the great apes and humans," said Madelaine Boehme of the University of Tuebingen, Germany, who led the research.Boehme, along with researchers from Bulgaria, Germany, Canada
  
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• Senate unanimously passes bill making animal cruelty a felony

  06-11-2019 22:52 via abcnews.go.com
  Congress has passed a bill making certain types of animal cruelty a federal felony.
  
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• New ISIS leader is 'a nobody,' but US knows 'almost nothing' about him: Official

  06-11-2019 22:51 via abcnews.go.com
  ISIS has a new leader but a State Department official calls him "a nobody."
  
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• What to know about hepatitis A outbreaks in the US

  06-11-2019 22:43 via abcnews.go.com
  The United States' nationwide Hepatitis A outbreak began in 2016 and has led to 27,634 infections and 16,679 hospitalizations.
  
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• Russia may have taken Israel's most advanced missile from Syria — and could figure out how to defeat it

  06-11-2019 22:40 via news.yahoo.com
  Experts worry that the Russian military could learn how to defeat the missile system or refine its air defense systems.
  
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• Chris Brown draws a crowd for his yard sale

  06-11-2019 22:30 via cnn.com
  
  When most people hold a yard sale to get rid of stuff, they post on Craigslist. Chris Brown has bigger ideas.
  
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• Boris Johnson compared Jeremy Corbyn to Stalin and it shows how nasty British politics has become

  06-11-2019 22:24 via cnn.com
  
  The UK is barely hours into its general election campaign, but that hasn't stopped Boris Johnson comparing his opposite number to a brutal dictator and mass murderer.
  
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• Authorities descend on Amsterdam airport after jet's warning button hit 'by mistake'

  06-11-2019 22:24 via abcnews.go.com
  Air Europa said on Twitter a pilot accidentally hit an emergency button.
  
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• Macron warns of 'profound shift' in Iran deal as new report finds Tehran is dominant power in Middle East

  06-11-2019 22:10 via news.yahoo.com
  Iran’s breach of the 2015 nuclear agreement by enriching uranium at an underground facility “marks a profound shift” which could signal the ultimate collapse of the deal, Emmanuel Macron said Wednesday.  The French president, who has worked vigorously to save the nuclear deal since Donald Trump withdrew the US last year, said he was deeply alarmed Iran’s decision to resume enrichment at Fordow, a nuclear facility carved into a mountain. “I think that for t
  
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• White House officials worried public hearings will consume Trump

  06-11-2019 22:09 via cnn.com
  
  President Donald Trump and his allies are bracing for open hearings that will preoccupy Washington and bring to life the vivid picture of presidential behavior that until now has been confined to written statements and private testimony.
  
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• Rep. Tulsi Gabbard fights back against Clinton's remarks, calls them 'demeaning'

  06-11-2019 22:08 via abcnews.go.com
  Standards approvedHawaii Rep. Tulsi Gabbard joined "The View" on Wednesday fighting back against those who have questioned her loyalty to the U.S. and Democratic party.
  
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• New HIV strain discovered

  06-11-2019 22:08 via cnn.com
  
  For the first time in 19 years, a team of scientists has detected a new strain of HIV.
  
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• The Latest: Dems withdraw subpoena for former WH adviser

  06-11-2019 22:07 via news.yahoo.com
  
  House Democrats say they've withdrawn a subpoena for testimony from the former deputy national security adviser as part of their impeachment inquiry.The Democrats say in court papers filed Wednesday that they have no plans to try to compel the testimony of Charles Kupperman as the pace of the impeachment inquiry quickens, with public hearings scheduled to begin next week.Kupperman may have listened in on the July telephone call between President Donald Trump and the Ukrainian president that spar
  
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• Bolton thought Trump-Zelensky call would be 'a disaster,' Taylor said: impeachment inquiry latest

  06-11-2019 22:00 via news.yahoo.com
  Taylor had testified about the quid pro quo established by the conditioning of military aid on the opening of investigations.
  
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• Warning signs for Donald Trump as suburban voters abandon Republicans in statewide elections

  06-11-2019 21:52 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Donald Trump has been handed a warning ahead of his 2020 re-election bid after a string of statewide elections suggested Republican voters in the suburbs are abandoning the party.  In Kentucky, a state Mr Trump won by almost 30 percentage points in the 2016 election, the Democratic candidate for governor appeared to have won a narrow victory over the Republican incumbent. In Virginia, the Democrats flipped a string of Republican seats and now control the state legislature and the governorsh
  
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• AP Explains: Kentucky race for governor too close to call

  06-11-2019 21:46 via news.yahoo.com
  
  As the tally of votes in Kentucky's race for governor drew to a close late Tuesday night, Democrat Andy Beshear held a lead of a few thousand votes over Republican incumbent Matthew Bevin out of more than 1.4 million votes counted.Beshear's lead of a little over 5,000 votes is less than 0.4 percentage points.There is no mandatory recount law in Kentucky.
  
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• November Democratic debate to feature 'balanced' number of questions for candidates

  06-11-2019 21:45 via nbcnews.com
  The two-hour debate is being held at Tyler Perry Studios in Atlanta on Nov. 20.
  
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• Donald Trump's son tweets alleged name of whistleblower who triggered impeachment inquiry

  06-11-2019 21:41 via news.yahoo.com
  Donald Trump’s son has tweeted the name of the alleged whistleblower whose complaint about the US president’s behaviour towards Ukraine kick-started the impeachment inquiry. For days now conservative websites have been publishing stories claiming to have discovered the identity of the CIA officer who filed a complaint about Mr Trump’s behaviour.  Amid a backdrop of growing partisan attacks on the whistleblower’s credibility, the president’s eldest son, Donald T
  
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• Top diplomat in Ukraine directly ties Trump to quid pro quo

  06-11-2019 21:40 via nbcnews.com
  "That was my clear understanding, that security assistance money would not come until the president (of Ukraine) committed to pursue" investigations, Bill Taylor told Congress.
  
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• Sen. Tom Cotton says the only answer to heavily armed Mexican cartels is more bullets and bigger bullets

  06-11-2019 21:36 via news.yahoo.com
  If the Mexican government can't protect U.S. citizens in Mexico, the U.S. may have to take matters into our own hands, says Arkansas Senator Tom Cotton, Republican member of the Senate Armed Services Committee.
  
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• Feds charge former UAW vice president with money laundering and bribery

  06-11-2019 21:33 via nbcnews.com
  Joe Ashton is the 13th person charged in connection with embezzlement of union funds.
  
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• Official: 2 escaped inmates arrested at US-Mexico border

  06-11-2019 21:31 via news.yahoo.com
  Two murder suspects who escaped from a jail on California's central coast eluded an intense manhunt, traveled hundreds of miles and crossed into Mexico but were arrested trying to walk back into the United States, authorities said Wednesday.Jonathan Salazar, 20, and Santos Fonseca, 21, were arrested by U.S. Customs and Border Protection officials at a port of entry in San Ysidro — the nation's largest border crossing — early Wednesday, said Monterey County Sheriff's Office Capt.
  
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• Get Your History Book Out: The 5 Battles that Created India

  06-11-2019 21:31 via news.yahoo.com
  A military history from elephants to cannons.
  
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• Iranians plead guilty after arrest for spying on dissidents

  06-11-2019 21:30 via news.yahoo.com
  Two men arrested last year for spying on Iranian dissidents in the United States have pleaded guilty to charges in a Washington court, the Justice Department announced Wednesday.Iranian-US dual citizen Ahmadreza Mohammadi Doostdar and Majid Ghorbani, an Iranian resident of California, tried to penetrate the Mujahedin-e Khalq (MEK), a group of Iranian dissidents in exile, in New York and Washington from 2017-2018, according to the department.Doostdar traveled to the United States form Iran on thr
  
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• Thief steals about $5,000 from reception of Florida newlyweds

  06-11-2019 21:28 via nbcnews.com
  The nuptials bandit swiped the couple's marriage certificate, gift cards and cash.
  
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• Rep. Tulsi Gabbard clashes with 'View' co-host

  06-11-2019 21:28 via news.yahoo.com
  Rep. Tulsi Gabbard, D-Hawaii, a 2020 candidate who as of now is still running as a Democrat, returned to "The View" for the third time on Wednesday morning and immediately confronted co-host Joy Behar for accusing her of “being a traitor to my country, a Russian asset, a Trojan horse or a useful idiot, ... which basically means that I am naive or lack intelligence.”
  
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• False hijacking alarm brought one of Europe's biggest airports to standstill

  06-11-2019 21:28 via cnn.com
  
  The Dutch Royal Military Police is investigating a "suspicious situation" at Amsterdam's Schiphol Airport, the spokesperson for the force told CNN.
  
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• False hijacking alarm brought Amsterdam's Schiphol airport to a standstill

  06-11-2019 21:28 via cnn.com
  
  The Dutch Royal Military Police is investigating a "suspicious situation" at Amsterdam's Schiphol Airport, the spokesperson for the force told CNN.
  
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• White House to add staff for impeachment response

  06-11-2019 21:22 via nbcnews.com
  Former Florida Attorney General Pam Bondi and ex-Treasury spokesman Tony Sayegh are being brought on board to help the White House.
  
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• Airman who fell from plane above Gulf of Mexico still missing

  06-11-2019 21:22 via nbcnews.com
  The massive C-130 is based out of Hurlburt Field, in far northwest Florida.
  
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• Kentucky Gov. Bevin calls for vote recanvass as he refuses to concede

  06-11-2019 21:20 via nbcnews.com
  The incumbent governor insisted on Wednesday, without evidence, that "irregularities" had made a recount of the gubernatorial election necessary.
  
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• False alarm triggers police response at Amsterdam airport

  06-11-2019 21:16 via nbcnews.com
  The Royal Netherlands Marechaussee said it was investigating a security incident on an aircraft, but the airline later apologized for a false alarm.
  
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• Huge DNA Database Just Waiting for Big Ol' Hack

  06-11-2019 21:10 via news.yahoo.com
  
  It's the one police used to catch the Golden State Killer.
  
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• Trump impeachment inquiry: Live updates and the latest news

  06-11-2019 21:07 via nbcnews.com
  Stay informed about Democrats' impeachment efforts and the Trump administration's responses.
  
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• The Latest: Man charged with hate crime in acid attack

  06-11-2019 21:05 via news.yahoo.com
  Milwaukee prosecutors have charged a 61-year-old man with a hate crime for allegedly throwing battery acid on a Hispanic man's face.The decision Wednesday from prosecutors means Clifton Blackwell could face an enhanced sentence if convicted of the charge of first-degree reckless injury.Prosecutors added the sentencing enhancers of hate crime and use of a dangerous weapon.
  
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• 'Drag Race' stars descend upon small towns in new HBO series

  06-11-2019 21:05 via nbcnews.com
  “We’re Here” — starring Bob the Drag Queen, Shangela and Eureka O’Hara — is the latest show to feature “Drag Race” alums.
  
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