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• Trump says he is weighing Putin invitation to Russia parade

  08-11-2019 23:59 via nbcnews.com
  
  "I would love to go if I could," the president told reporters.
  
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• Supporters cheer Brazil's former president Lula as he is freed from jail – video

  08-11-2019 23:51 via theguardian.com
  
  Brazil’s former president Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva was greeted by overjoyed supporters as he was released from prison, where he was serving a 12-year corruption sentence, after a supreme court ruling.Lula was greeted on Friday by supporters wearing T-shirts emblazoned with his face and waving red flags outside the federal police HQ in the city of Curitiba, where he had been imprisoned for 580 days.Brazil’s former president Lula walks free from prison after supreme court rulin
  
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• Family traveling to victims' funeral stop at scene of Mexico ambush, find bullet casings

  08-11-2019 23:47 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Family members scouted the site, locating several bullet casings they believe were from the attack, in which gunmen killed nine people on Monday.
  
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• Brazilian ex-president released from prison

  08-11-2019 23:47 via nbcnews.com
  
  Lula had been favored to win the 2018 presidential election, but his conviction in a corruption investigation prohibited him from running.
  
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• Trump wants whistleblower named despite 'physical danger'

  08-11-2019 23:21 via bbc.co.uk
  
  A lawyer for the anonymous official says the president will be to blame if his client comes to harm.
  
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• The 40 wildest lines from Donald Trump's impromptu Friday press conference

  08-11-2019 23:19 via cnn.com
  
  • Bolton has 'relevant' info on Ukraine probe not yet disclosed, lawyer says
  • LIVE: Former Russia adviser said aid was held at the direction of the chief of staff's office
  
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• Donald Trump gives impromptu press conference: What he said was wild

  08-11-2019 23:19 via cnn.com
  
  • 'Anonymous' author: Trump deals with each new crisis 'like a 12-year-old'
  
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• Prosecutors seize New Jersey man's rifle over his alleged anti-Semitism

  08-11-2019 23:17 via nbcnews.com
  
  The 51-year-old man allegedly "advocated and celebrated the killing of Jewish people," according to court records.
  
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• The Berlin Wall: Then and now — 30 years later

  08-11-2019 23:16 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Nov. 9, 2019, will mark the 30th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall, which quickly led to the collapse of the communist East German government. Revolutions across other communist countries of the East bloc soon followed.
  
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• White House official says he heard U.S. envoy push for investigation of Bidens

  08-11-2019 23:15 via news.yahoo.com
  
  An official on the White House's National Security Council said he heard the U.S. ambassador to the European Union explicitly press Ukrainian officials to investigate Joe Biden and his son, according to a transcript released on Friday by Democrats leading the impeachment probe of President Donald Trump. Alexander Vindman, a U.S. Army lieutenant colonel and Ukraine expert on the NSC, said Ambassador Gordon Sondland made it clear in a July 10 meeting at the White House that the investigations of t
  
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• Latest: Nurse charged in cognitively impaired woman's death

  08-11-2019 23:14 via news.yahoo.com
  
  A criminal complaint says a cognitively impaired Illinois woman whose body was dumped in southeastern Wisconsin in 1999 suffered burns, abrasions, lacerations and broken bones at the hands of a nurse who employed her as a nanny and housekeeper.The victim's identity had been a mystery since her body was found in a Racine County cornfield, but officials on Friday identified her as 23-year-old Peggy Lynn Johnson.Racine County Sheriff Christopher Schmaling said Friday that Johnson met La Roche when
  
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• Rep. Jim Jordan tapped by GOP leader to grill witnesses at impeachment hearing

  08-11-2019 23:11 via nbcnews.com
  
  The Ohio lawmaker got the nod a day after a second man accused him of ignoring abuse while working as a wrestling coach at Ohio State University.
  
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• How to set a stunning holiday table without spending a lot of money

  08-11-2019 23:10 via nbcnews.com
  
  Design a festive tablescape that will look good now through Christmas with these simple tips.
  
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• The Ocean Cleanups Latest Invention Collects 110,000 Pounds of Trash From Rivers Each Day

  08-11-2019 23:08 via news.yahoo.com
  
  The Dutch non-profit helmed by Boyan Slat has the lofty goal of reducing 90-percent of plastic trash in the world’s oceans by 2040
  
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• Woman accuses Roman Polanski of raping her in 1975 when she was 18

  08-11-2019 23:07 via theguardian.com
  
  Film director denies claim by Valentine Monnier about alleged incident at ski resortA Frenchwoman has accused Oscar-winning director Roman Polanski of raping her in a Swiss ski resort when she was a teenager.It is the latest accusation against the Polish-born director who fled from the US to France in 1978 after admitting the statutory rape of a 13-year-old girl. Continue reading...
  
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• County resolution threatens journalists with prosecution

  08-11-2019 23:01 via news.yahoo.com
  
  At least one Wisconsin county official wants to warn any journalists who cover the upcoming release of a regional water quality study: Publish the county's news release summarizing the findings in its entirety without any alterations or risk criminal prosecution.The Lafayette County Conservation Committee plans to vote Tuesday on the resolution, which would warn reporters to print the upcoming news release without any edits or alterations or face prosecution.It isn't clear which committee member
  
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• Wisconsin Guard whistleblower says he's being discharged

  08-11-2019 23:00 via news.yahoo.com
  
  A Wisconsin National Guard sergeant said Friday that his superiors have decided to discharge him from the service and deny him retirement benefits in retaliation for complaining about sexual misconduct in his unit.Wisconsin Air National Guard Master Sgt. Jay Ellis' complaints about sexual assault and sexual harassment within the 115th Fighter Wing last year sparked two federal investigations."I just think it's funny how there is so much in the national news right now about whistleblowers, but no
  
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• How Trump's Visit to an Alabama Football Game Caused Controversy Before He Even Arrived

  08-11-2019 22:55 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Students at the University of Alabama were warned not to be "disruptive" while Trump attends the Alabama-LSU game.
  
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• Spanish court agrees to extradite Venezuelan ex-spy chief to US: report

  08-11-2019 22:51 via feeds.foxnews.com
  
  Spain’s High Court has reversed its previous decision and agreed to arrest and extradite Venezuela’s ex-intelligence chief Hugo Carvajal to the United States, where he is wanted on drug trafficking charges, EFE news agency reported Friday, citing judicial sources.
  
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• 'Beautiful boys': Victims in Mexico ambush remembered at funerals

  08-11-2019 22:47 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Relatives gathered Thursday to remember the women and children killed in an ambush earlier this week in Mexico.
  
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• Wisconsin governor returns 'holiday tree' name to evergreen

  08-11-2019 22:45 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Wisconsin Gov. Tony Evers has gone back to calling the evergreen on display at the state Capitol a holiday tree, reversing his predecessor who declared it a Christmas tree.The state Department of Administration places a huge evergreen in the Capitol rotunda every year ahead of Christmas.Politicians called it a Christmas tree until 1985, when they began referring to it as a holiday tree to avoid perceptions that they were endorsing religion.
  
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• Rockets fired on Iraq base with US troops, no one injured, Pentagon says

  08-11-2019 22:44 via feeds.foxnews.com
  
  An air base in northern Iraq that houses U.S. troops was targeted Friday evening with a barrage of rockets, security officials said, as violence continues to mount in parts of the country amid fights with Islamic State militants and angry anti-government protesters. 
  
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• Impeachment inquiry: Fiona Hill tells lawmakers she's received death threats

  08-11-2019 22:44 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Former top Russia expert at White House says harassment reached a peak after she agreed to testify in impeachment hearingsFiona Hill arrives for a closed door meeting as part of the House impeachment inquiry into Donald Trump on Capitol Hill in Washington, 4 November 2019.Photograph: Andrew Harnik/APThe former top Russia expert at the White House has said she has been subjected to a campaign of harassment and intimidation, including death threats, which reached a new peak after she agreed to tes
  
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• Facebook will remove posts that name the Ukraine whistleblower

  08-11-2019 22:34 via nbcnews.com
  
  The decision comes after the whistleblower’s name had been widely shared on social media and in conservative news articles in recent weeks.
  
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• Steal Your Friend's Netflix Password While You Still Can

  08-11-2019 22:33 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Streaming companies are finally ready to crack down on account sharing.
  
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• 'Indian El Niño' behind east Africa flooding

  08-11-2019 22:30 via theguardian.com
  
  Irregularity known as Indian Ocean dipole bringing weather extremes across regionTwenty years ago in 1999 a new weather pattern was described for the first time. Now it has shifted up a gear and is causing devastation across east Africa.The Indian Ocean dipole, sometimes called the Indian El Niño, is an irregular oscillation in which the surface temperature of the sea is alternatively greater in the ocean’s west and its east. The positive phase, when it is warmer in the west, sees m
  
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• My 'OK boomer' comment in parliament symbolised exhaustion of multiple generations

  08-11-2019 22:22 via theguardian.com
  
  For a very long time, our politics has been run by older dudes in suits – but for democracy to work it must look like all of usGood comedy is supposed to prompt reflection on privilege and power structures, bringing to light the unsaid. It’s supposed to serve as a fuse-breaker for conversation about things we take for granted, things that we don’t question about the culture and society we’re deeply imbedded in.Baby boomers had stand-up. Gen X got the Netflix specials. Mil
  
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• Inside the decline of rural America's police force and its pipeline of new recruits

  08-11-2019 22:22 via nbcnews.com
  
  The lack of staff plagues rural police and sheriff departments in Iowa as the national trend of police shortages continues to rise. That means law enforcement more often enter unknown situations without backup nearby.
  
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• Intelligence community unveils plans for disclosing foreign electoral interference; promises no 'partisan politics'

  08-11-2019 22:21 via news.yahoo.com
  
  New guidelines are designed to enable the prompt disclosure of information about threats.
  
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• AP Explains: Brazil judge orders ex-leader Da Silva freed

  08-11-2019 22:20 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Former Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva has left a Curitiba prison, less than a day after the Supreme Court ruled that a person can be imprisoned only after all the appeals have been exhausted.The court ruling also stands to free other inmates who are appealing convictions, including politicians and executives jailed in a sprawling corruption investigation known as Car Wash, or Lava Jato in Portuguese.The probe was praised for working to dismantle Brazil's culture of impunity
  
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• Former Russia adviser said aid was held at the direction of the chief of staff's office

  08-11-2019 22:19 via cnn.com
  
  • Bolton has 'relevant' info on Ukraine probe not yet disclosed, lawyer says
  • ANALYSIS: Impeachment inquiry hits overdrive
  
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• Opinion: How to stop the horrifying resurgence of anti-Semitism

  08-11-2019 22:18 via cnn.com
  
  Numerous historians have concluded that Kristallnacht, the "Night of the Broken Glass" in 1938, changed everything. During a single night throughout Germany and Austria, almost one hundred Jews were murdered, hundreds of synagogues destroyed, thousands of Jewish shops and businesses ransacked and tens of thousands sent to concentration camps.
  
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• A former NSC official revealed stunning details of a meeting at the heart of Trump's quid pro quo that ended with John Bolton storming out

  08-11-2019 22:14 via news.yahoo.com
  
  "You go and tell Eisenberg that I am not part of whatever drug deal Sondland and Mulvaney are cooking up on this," Bolton said, according to Hill.
  
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• Brazil Is Once Again Lula’s Political Prisoner

  08-11-2019 22:12 via news.yahoo.com
  
  (Bloomberg Opinion) -- When he walked out of jail in Curitiba in southern Brazil after 580 days, former President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva was not an entirely free man. He is merely the highest-profile beneficiary of the Nov. 7 Supreme Court decision to allow convicted criminals to remain at liberty until they exhaust all possible appeals.Yet for loyalists of the practically beatified political leader, apparition is absolution. “Lula Livre!” — Lula in liber
  
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• The B-21 Stealth Bomber is Almost Here (And It Will Be Glorious)

  08-11-2019 22:10 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Stealth technology is being pursued by a determined U.S. Air Force.
  
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• Two dead following explosion involving 18-wheeler in Texas

  08-11-2019 21:58 via nbcnews.com
  
  The multi-vehicle crash occurred in the northbound lanes, the Denton Police Department said.
  
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• Jake Tapper: WH has a point on anonymous book

  08-11-2019 21:56 via cnn.com
  
  The anonymous senior Trump administration official claims in their forthcoming book that Trump officials considered resigning together last year, according to an excerpt obtained by The Washington Post. The White House responded, saying "real authors reach out to their subjects to get things fact checked." CNN's Jake Tapper says the White House has a point.
  
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• Jake Tapper: The White House has a point on anonymous book

  08-11-2019 21:56 via cnn.com
  
  The anonymous senior Trump administration official claims in their forthcoming book that Trump officials considered resigning together last year, according to an excerpt obtained by The Washington Post. The White House responded, saying "real authors reach out to their subjects to get things fact checked." CNN's Jake Tapper says the White House has a point.
  
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• Brazil's former president Lula walks free from prison after supreme court ruling

  08-11-2019 21:55 via theguardian.com
  
  Workers’ party leader had been held for 580 days for corruptionCourt rules incarceration unlawful until appeals exhaustedBrazil’s former president Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva has been released from prison where he was serving a 12-year corruption sentence, after a supreme court ruling that delighted his supporters and infuriated followers of the far-right president Jair Bolsonaro.He was greeted by hundreds of supporters wearing red vests emblazoned with his face outside the fede
  
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• Nicotine vaping age to go up as CDC calls discovery of THC additive in lungs a 'breakthrough'

  08-11-2019 21:53 via news.yahoo.com
  
  President Trump said the legal age for vaping probably will be raised to 21 nationally when the much-anticipated rule on flavored vaping is released next week.
  
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• Donald Trump Jr wants to trigger and expose liberals, and they’re letting him | Poppy Noor

  08-11-2019 21:46 via theguardian.com
  
  A war of words on The View showed the president’s opponents falling straight into his son’s trapLast night, ABC’s The View invited Donald Trump Jr on as a guest – because having just one child of a famous politician on the show is not enough (the co-host Meghan McCain is the daughter of the late senator John McCain). They also invited Trump Jr’s girlfriend – because in today’s political landscape, even the most tenuous link to fame or power seems as good
  
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• Greta Thunberg shuts down heckler at climate rally

  08-11-2019 21:40 via news.yahoo.com
  
  “I think if you want to speak with me personally, maybe you can do it later,” the 16-year-old Swedish activist said to a woman who tried to interrupt her speech in Charlotte, N.C., on Friday.
  
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• Mick Mulvaney: new testimony draws Trump chief of staff into Ukraine scandal

  08-11-2019 21:31 via theguardian.com
  
  Congress hears Mulvaney approved Trump-Zelenskiy meeting on condition Ukraine announced investigations tied to Joe BidenDonald Trump’s acting chief of staff Mick Mulvaney approved a White House meeting with the president for the Ukrainian president on condition Ukraine announced investigations tied to Trump’s political rival Joe Biden, according to testimony released on Friday. Related: Trump impeachment inquiry: Mick Mulvaney implicated in released transcripts – liveContinue r
  
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• Judge stays 'Texas 7' gang member execution for 2nd time

  08-11-2019 21:21 via news.yahoo.com
  
  A federal judge on Thursday stayed the execution of a "Texas 7" gang member who was convicted in the killing of a police officer because the state has refused to provide him with a Buddhist chaplain in the death chamber. The U.S. Supreme Court initially blocked Patrick Murphy's execution in March, saying his religious rights would be violated if no Buddhist chaplain was present. Justice Brett Kavanaugh wrote in a concurring opinion that Texas can't move forward with Murphy's execution unless the
  
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• Judge stays 'Texas 7' gang member execution for second time

  08-11-2019 21:20 via news.yahoo.com
  
  A federal judge on Thursday stayed the execution of a "Texas 7" gang member who was convicted in the killing of a police officer because the state has refused to provide him with a Buddhist chaplain in the death chamber.
  
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• Why Is Lindsey Graham Clinging to the ‘No Quid Pro Quo’ Defense?

  08-11-2019 21:10 via news.yahoo.com
  
  When the written record of President Trump’s July 25 phone call with Ukrainian president Volodomyr Zelensky was released, South Carolina senator Lindsey Graham was adamant that there was no quid pro quo in which President Trump threatened to withhold military aid to Ukraine unless Zelensky opened official investigations into the family of Joe Biden and a conspiracy theory about the 2016 U.S. presidential election.“From my point of view, to impeach any president over a phone call like
  
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• US wants UN to take up Dalai Lama succession: envoy

  08-11-2019 21:08 via news.yahoo.com
  
  The United States wants the United Nations to take up the Dalai Lama's succession in an intensifying bid to stop China from trying to handpick his successor, an envoy said after meeting the Tibetan spiritual leader.Sam Brownback, the US ambassador-at-large for international religious freedom, said he spoke at length about the succession issue with the 84-year-old Dalai Lama last week in the monk's home-in-exile of Dharamsala, India."I would hope that the UN would take the issue up," Brownback to
  
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• Rockets hit Iraq base with US troops; no word on casualties

  08-11-2019 20:53 via news.yahoo.com
  
  A barrage of Katyusha rockets targeted an Iraqi air base that houses American troops south of the city of Mosul on Friday, two security officials said.The rocket fire appears to have originated in Mosul and struck the Iraqi army base in Qayyara, about 60 kilometers (38 miles) south of Mosul, where a U.S.-led coalition is helping Iraqi forces battle remnants of the Islamic State group.Iraq announced victory over IS two years ago, but the extremist group is still active through sleeper cells and f
  
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• Bloodhound aims to be world's fastest car in South Africa

  08-11-2019 20:51 via news.yahoo.com
  
  An earthbound jet known as the Bloodhound became one of the world's 10 fastest cars this week, on target for its goal to set a new land speed record."The feeling in this car is fantastic," driver Andy Green told The Associated Press on Friday, days after the Bloodhound hit 501 mph (806 kph) in South Africa's northern desert.Bloodhound's next goal is to reach 550 mph (885 kph), possibly in the coming week.
  
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• Bacteria that killed 3 infants traced to hospital equipment

  08-11-2019 20:51 via news.yahoo.com
  
  A Pennsylvania hospital said Friday it has discovered the source of a waterborne germ that sickened at least eight premature infants, killing three.Geisinger Medical Center in Danville said the process it was using to prepare donor breast milk led to the deadly outbreak in the hospital's neonatal intensive care unit.Infection control specialists used DNA testing to trace the Pseudomonas bacterium to equipment used to measure and administer donor breast milk.
  
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