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• Princess Anne shrugs as Queen gestures for her to greet Trump in viral video

  04-12-2019 23:58 via cnn.com
  
  Justin Trudeau's conversation with several world leaders about US President Donald Trump isn't the only moment to get people talking about NATO's two-day summit, after Britain's Princess Anne was caught on camera shrugging at Queen Elizabeth II.
  
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• 'Princess Anne' is trending after NATO reception

  04-12-2019 23:58 via cnn.com
  
  • London mayor: Trump cares about white America
  • Macron corrects Trump: Let's be serious
  
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• 'Princess Anne' is trending after NATO

  04-12-2019 23:58 via cnn.com
  
  • London mayor: Trump cares about white America
  • Macron corrects Trump: Let's be serious
  
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• Boredom, not public persuasion, is the goal in Judiciary phase of impeachment

  04-12-2019 23:54 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Wednesday's House Judiciary Committee impeachment hearing of President Trump proved a mostly dull affair — and that may have been the point.
  
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• Postal worker shot at a Virginia post office

  04-12-2019 23:52 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Authorities say a postal worker has been shot at a northern Virginia post office by an agent for the Postal Service's Inspector General's office.News outletsreport that it happened Wednesday morning at the parking lot of the Lovettsville post office in Loudoun County.The Loudoun County Sheriff's Office is investigating the shooting along with the inspector general's office.
  
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• Scientists show how to make airplane emissions less harmful

  04-12-2019 23:47 via cnn.com
  
  MIT scientists are putting wind beneath policy makers' wings, suggesting ways to modify airplane emissions, which worsen air quality and contribute to thousands of deaths annually.
  
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• Pablo Escobar's brother releases foldable smartphone and says only fire can destroy it

  04-12-2019 23:44 via cnn.com
  
  For years, Pablo Escobar's brother worked as an accountant in the brutal Medellín Cartel as it reinvented the global cocaine trade.
  
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• The most anticipated movies and shows of 2020

  04-12-2019 23:42 via cnn.com
  
  After decades of waiting, moviegoers will see several fan favorites return to the big screen in the form of sequels including "Top Gun," "Bad Boys" and "Bill & Ted." Check out this list of movies and TV shows to get excited about in 2020.
  
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• 25 gifts travelers will actually want in 2019

  04-12-2019 23:36 via cnn.com
  
  'Tis the season to go crazy figuring out what to buy all your friends and family on your ever-growing gift list.
  
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• Joe Biden said 'of course' he would consider Kamala Harris as his Vice President pick

  04-12-2019 23:27 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Harris, once seen as a front-runner for the White House, left the race Tuesday, stating the shortfall of "financial resources" needed to continue.
  
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• UN says 58 migrants dead as boat capsizes off Mauritania

  04-12-2019 23:22 via news.yahoo.com
  
  At least 58 people are dead after a boat carrying dozens of migrants capsized in the Atlantic Ocean off the West African nation of Mauritania, the U.N. migration agency said Wednesday.It was one of the deadliest disasters this year among migrants trying to make the perilous journey to Europe.The boat carrying at least 150 people had been low on fuel while approaching Mauritania, the International Organization for Migration said in a statement.
  
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• Law professor Pamela Karlan testified when the US President asked Ukraine's leader to do 'us' a favor, he really meant a personal favor

  04-12-2019 23:18 via edition.cnn.com
  
  Opening statements: Jonathan Turley, Noah Feldman, Michael Gerhardt, Pamela Karlan
  
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• Transgender teen charged in fatal school shooting will be tried as an adult

  04-12-2019 23:11 via news.yahoo.com
  
  A transgender teenager who told police that he and a friend opened fire at a suburban Denver high school to exact revenge on classmates who bullied him should be tried on murder charges as an adult, a judge ruled on Wednesday.Alec McKinney, 16, was ordered along with Devon Erickson, 19, to stand trial on first-degree murder, attempted murder and weapons charges in the May 7 shooting rampage at the Science, Technology, Engineering and Math (STEM) School in Highlands Ranch, Colorado, in which one
  
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• NATO allies just want the United States to subsidize European defense

  04-12-2019 23:11 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Reform NATO. China is our foremost adversary, not Russia, writes Jordan Schachtel, an investigative journalist based in Washington, D.C.
  
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• Mike Bloomberg Just Made Trump Look Reasonable

  04-12-2019 23:10 via politico.com
  
  Their spat makes the case against moguls running our civic life.
  
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• Transgender teen charged in school shooting will be tried as an adult

  04-12-2019 23:09 via news.yahoo.com
  
  A 16-year-old transgender teenager should be tried as an adult on murder charges stemming from a shooting rampage at a suburban Denver high school in which one student was killed and eight others wounded, a Colorado judge ruled on Wednesday.Alec McKinney, 16, was ordered along with Devon Erickson, 19, to stand trial on first-degree murder, attempted murder and weapons charges in the May 7 shooting at the Science, Technology, Engineering and Math (STEM) School in Highlands Ranch, Colorado, on May
  
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• William Barr Is Making It Harder to Protect the 2020 Election

  04-12-2019 23:00 via news.yahoo.com
  
  (Bloomberg Opinion) -- The attorney general of the United States is commonly described as the nation’s “chief law enforcement officer.” Yet the current attorney general, William Barr, seems to have a pronounced aversion to enforcing certain laws.Since February, when he became attorney general for the second time in his long career, Barr’s most notable priority has been undermining his own department’s investigation into Russian interference in the 2016 election. Now
  
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• Battle of Stealth: America's F-22 Raptor vs. Russia's Su-57 (Who Dies?)

  04-12-2019 23:00 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Who comes out on top?
  
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• GOP Rep. Matt Gaetz yells at the impeachment witnesses for mentioning Barron Trump

  04-12-2019 22:53 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Rep. Matt Gaetz's (R-Fla.) five minutes of questioning are apparently for him to talk and for witnesses to listen.On Wednesday, legal experts gathered before the House Judiciary Committee for an impeachment hearing, during which Gaetz didn't do much hearing at all. Instead, he used most of his questioning opportunity to bring up the witnesses' apparent liberal bias, and then devolved into a one-sided shouting match once they started to answer his question.Gaetz first tried to trap Harvard Law Pr
  
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• Former Trump housekeepers revealed some of his odd habits involving Tic Tacs, soap, and straws

  04-12-2019 22:53 via news.yahoo.com
  
  It's no secret President Trump has some peculiar habits.Several undocumented workers who spoke to The Washington Post about their time employed by the Trump organization's properties in Florida, New Jersey, New York, and Virginia, provided a closer look at some of his stranger practices, to which they attended.For starters, he reportedly needed two full containers of white Tic Tacs in his bedroom bureau at all times, along with -- for some reason -- a container that was half full. His meals were
  
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• Navy warship seizes suspected Iran missile parts set for Yemen

  04-12-2019 22:51 via news.yahoo.com
  
  A Navy warship has seized a “significant cache” of suspected Iranian guided missile parts headed to rebels in Yemen, U.S. officials said Wednesday, marking the first time that such sophisticated components have been taken en route to the war there.
  
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• Law professor Pamela Karlan testifies action is needed now to prevent foreign interference in next year's US election

  04-12-2019 22:45 via edition.cnn.com
  
  Opening statements: Jonathan Turley, Noah Feldman, Michael Gerhardt, Pamela Karlan
  
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• Democrats face prospect of no black candidates on December debate stage

  04-12-2019 22:43 via news.yahoo.com
  
  The most diverse Democratic candidate field will likely be represented by no black candidates in the next televised debate.
  
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• Florida Republican: 'We should hang’ treasonous Democrats

  04-12-2019 22:40 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Local and national GOP leaders distanced themselves Wednesday from a Florida congressional candidate who sent a fundraising letter stating that “anti-American radical Democrats” should be hung for treason.Omar was born in Somalia and came to the U.S. as a child.In the recent letter to potential donors, he said that “we should hang” Omar and other “traitors” for “abusing our system to destroy our country.” He mentioned “tinfoil hat accusations
  
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• New York City sued over 'unlawful' programme sending homeless families to live in 'uninhabitable' conditions in New Jersey

  04-12-2019 22:35 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Warning that vulnerable households are bracing for brutal winter conditions, the city of Newark, New Jersey is suing New York City to shut down a controversial programme that provides families in the city's homeless shelters with a year of rent. But a lawsuit says the initiative has sent hundreds of people into substandard housing outside the city's jurisdiction.A lawsuit filed in US District Court on Monday describes squalid conditions in homes rented to people through the programme, from resid
  
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• US Navy seizes suspected Iranian missile parts set for Yemen

  04-12-2019 22:29 via news.yahoo.com
  
  A Navy warship has seized a “significant cache” of suspected Iranian guided missile parts headed to rebels in Yemen, U.S. officials said Wednesday, marking the first time that such sophisticated components have been taken en route to the war there. The seizure from a small boat by the U.S. Navy and a U.S. Coast Guard boarding team happened last Wednesday in the northern Arabian Sea, and the weapons have been linked to Iran. Officials said the incident illustrates the continuing illeg
  
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• Judge dismisses lawsuit in 1930s gangster John Dillinger case

  04-12-2019 22:29 via news.yahoo.com
  
  A judge dismissed a lawsuit Wednesday by a nephew of 1930s gangster John Dillinger who wants to exhume the notorious criminal's Indianapolis gravesite to prove whether he's actually buried there, ruling that he must get the cemetery's permission.
  
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• Trump's very unhappy trip

  04-12-2019 22:28 via cnn.com
  
  Maybe even Donald Trump has had enough.
  
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• Pageant queen stripped of title because she's a mom

  04-12-2019 22:22 via cnn.com
  
  Veronika Didusenko won the 2018 Miss Ukraine contest, but was later disqualified because of a rule that prohibits participants from ever being married or having children.
  
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• Jim Banks Asks Graham to Subpoena Adam Schiff’s Call Records in Letter

  04-12-2019 22:14 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Representative Jim Banks (R., Ind.) sent a letter to Senator Lindsey Graham (R., S.C.) on Wednesday asking the Senate Judiciary Committee chairman to subpoena the call records of House Intelligence Chairman Adam Schiff (D., Calif.), a day after Democrats revealed they subpoenaed AT&T phone records showing contact between Representative Devin Nunes (R., Calif.) and Lev Parnas.Banks also called for the phone records of Joe Biden, Hunter Biden, and the whistleblower’s lawyer Mark Zaid, in
  
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• Stroll the world's most beautiful streets

  04-12-2019 22:08 via cnn.com
  
  Architecture is typically famous for its big, bold statements -- the huge skyscrapers, opera houses, bridges and airports that tower over cityscapes, dwarfing their occupants.
  
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• London Bridge terrorist was upgraded to a 'high risk' category A prisoner after threats to staff

  04-12-2019 22:00 via news.yahoo.com
  
  London Bridge terrorist Usman Khan was upgraded to a “high risk” category A prisoner after making threats to senior prison staff, The Telegraph can reveal. Prison officials increased the convicted terrorist’s threat level in prison from “standard risk” after he breached security and put staff in danger.  Only the most serious offenders have such a classification, requiring a constant watch and armed police escort when moved from prison. Prison sources clai
  
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• Democrats See USMCA Deal Near, Urge Mexico to Accept Compromise

  04-12-2019 21:58 via news.yahoo.com
  
  (Bloomberg) -- Terms of Trade is a daily newsletter that untangles a world embroiled in trade wars. Sign up here. House Democrats said Wednesday that a deal on the stalled U.S.-Mexico-Canada free-trade agreement is within reach and urged Mexico to accept a compromise on labor-rights enforcement.“We are on the 2 1/2-yard line,“ Ways and Means Chairman Richard Neal said about efforts to wrap up negotiations on the replacement for Nafta and clear the way for approval in Congre
  
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• Psychiatrists: Trump’s mental state is deteriorating dangerously due to impeachment with potentially ‘catastrophic outcomes’

  04-12-2019 21:54 via news.yahoo.com
  
  A group of mental health professionals led by a trio of preeminent psychiatrists is urging the House Judiciary Committee to consider President Trump‘s “dangerous” mental state arising from his “brittle sense of self-worth” as part of its inquiry into whether to approve articles of impeachment against him.
  
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• George Zimmerman is suing Trayvon Martin's family

  04-12-2019 21:35 via news.yahoo.com
  
  George Zimmerman, who in 2013 was acquitted of charges in the fatal shooting of Trayvon Martin, is suing Martin's family and others for $100 million, the Miami Herald reports.Martin's mother, Sybrina Fulton, is the lead defendant in Zimmerman's lawsuit filed in Polk County Circuit Court. Also being sued are the former prosecutors in the previous Zimmerman case, and Harper Collins, which published a book written by Ben Crump, the attorney who represented Martin's family.Prosecutors during the 201
  
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• Judge Blocks Construction of Privately-Funded Border Wall to Protect Butterfly Sanctuary

  04-12-2019 21:34 via news.yahoo.com
  
  A Texas state judge ordered a temporary halt to the construction of a privately-funded section of border wall on Wednesday, saying the construction would infringe on land owned by a butterfly sanctuary.State District Judge Keno Vasquez of Hidalgo County granted a temporary restraining order against We Build the Wall to stop construction of the group's wall on border land owned by the National Butterfly Center.The 100-acre wild butterfly sanctuary sued We Build the Wall, calling "illegal" th
  
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• Trump Campaign Uses Footage from Poland, South Africa in ‘American Dream’ Thanksgiving Ad

  04-12-2019 21:29 via news.yahoo.com
  
  President Donald Trump’s campaign released a Thanksgiving-themed ad earlier this week celebrating America’s inherent greatness. But some of the video’s Americana imagery was taken from foreign countries.The 43-second video displayed various, traditionally patriotic scenes: families gathering in the kitchen, a kid looking into a telescope, a game of catch, and steelworkers leaving a steel mill. However, two of those vignettes were filmed in, respectively, Poland and South Africa
  
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• The GOP's only impeachment witness on Wednesday contradicted his own previous testimony

  04-12-2019 21:23 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Jonathan Turley, a law professor who testified as a Republican witness, made a number of claims that directly contradicted his previous statements.
  
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• Former UAW official pleads guilty to accepting kickbacks

  04-12-2019 21:19 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Former United Auto Workers vice president Joseph Ashton pleaded guilty on Wednesday to conspiracy to commit money laundering and wire fraud as part of a wide-ranging federal corruption probe into the union.Ashton, a former General Motors Co board member, was charged last month with conspiring with other union officials to receive "hundreds of thousands of dollars in bribes and kickbacks" according to documents filed in U.S. District Court in Detroit.Ashton, when asked by the judge whether he was
  
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• Unforgettable Photos From The Attack On Pearl Harbor, 73 Years Ago Today

  04-12-2019 21:14 via news.yahoo.com
  
  The surprise attack that changed history.
  
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• Trump’s Commonsensical Food-Stamp Rule

  04-12-2019 21:10 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Our food-stamp program has some bizarre loopholes in it, and the Trump administration is trying to close them. A new rule finalized today attacks one in particular.In theory, the program has a strict time limit for "ABAWDs," or able-bodied adults without dependents: If they don't meet their work requirement or receive a case-by-case exemption from their state, they may receive food stamps for at most three months in any 36-month period. But in practice, the executive branch has broad discretion
  
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• Levinson family in court 13 years after Iran disappearance

  04-12-2019 21:09 via news.yahoo.com
  
  “I was worried something would happen to him,” Levinson told a Washington courtroom on Wednesday.Robert Levinson never returned from that trip, and his family members are now testifying in court about the devastating impact of his disappearance.Levinson, a former FBI agent, disappeared on March 9, 2007, when he was scheduled to meet a source on the Iranian island of Kish.
  
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• UPDATE 3-George Zimmerman, who fatally shot Trayvon Martin, sues Martin family in Florida

  04-12-2019 21:04 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Former Florida volunteer community watchman George Zimmerman, whose 2012 killing of unarmed black teen Trayvon Martin drew attention across the United States, sued Martin's family and lawyers on Wednesday, saying they used a fake witness against him.Zimmerman is seeking at least $100 million in damages from Martin's parents, state prosecutors and two women, who are accused in a Polk County, Florida, lawsuit of helping provide false statements to investigators and during the trial, according to c
  
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• Professor fires back at GOP lawmaker: I'm insulted

  04-12-2019 21:00 via cnn.com
  
  The ranking minority member of the House Judiciary Committee, Doug Collins (R-GA), implied the witnesses called for Wednesday's hearing did not have enough time to accurately prepare their testimony. Professor Pamela Karlan had a strong response.
  
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• George Zimmerman, who fatally shot Trayvon Martin, sues Martin family in Florida

  04-12-2019 20:56 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Former Florida volunteer community watchman George Zimmerman, whose 2012 killing of unarmed black teen Trayvon Martin drew attention across the United States, sued Martin's family and lawyers on Wednesday, saying they used a fake witness against him.Zimmerman is seeking at least $100 million in damages from Martin's parents, state prosecutors and two women, who are accused in a Polk County, Florida, lawsuit of helping provide false statements to investigators and during the trial, according to c
  
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• Fox News Legal Analysts: GOP Impeachment Witness Is ‘Simply Wrong’

  04-12-2019 20:56 via news.yahoo.com
  
  During a break in Wednesday’s House Judiciary impeachment hearing, two Fox News analysts who have largely been on opposite sides of the impeachment fence found themselves in agreement on one thing: Republican witness Jonathan Turley was “simply wrong” to argue that Congress was abusing its power by impeaching the president.In his opening statement and throughout his early testimony, Turley—a George Washington University law professor—pointed the finger at House Demo
  
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• Fox News Legal Analysts: GOP Impeachment Witness Is 'Simply Wrong'

  04-12-2019 20:56 via news.yahoo.com
  
  During a break in Wednesday’s House Judiciary impeachment hearing, two Fox News analysts who have largely been on opposite sides of the impeachment fence found themselves in agreement on one thing: Republican witness Jonathan Turley was “simply wrong” to argue that Congress was abusing its power by impeaching the president.In his opening statement and throughout his early testimony, Turley—a George Washington University law professor—pointed the finger at House Demo
  
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• Sun yields its secrets to Parker Solar Probe

  04-12-2019 20:50 via news.yahoo.com
  
  NASA's Parker Solar Probe, having survived its closest encounter so far with the Sun, has sent back a "spectacular trove" of data on its corona, the super-hot outer edge of its atmosphere, scientists said Wednesday.The car-sized probe, launched in August last year, will come within some four million miles (six million kilometres) of the sun's surface during a series of fly-bys at other distances and trajectories over seven years.It is hoped it will allow a better understanding of the solar wind
  
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• Democratic congressman announces retirement, says 'countless hours' investigating impeachment 'rendered my soul weary'

  04-12-2019 20:37 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Rep. Denny Heck (D-Wash.) was not shy about why he won't seek re-election next year. Heck, who recently could be seen in a recurring role on the House Intelligence Committee, said the "countless hours" he spent investing both 2016 Russian election interference and President Trump's impeachment "rendered my soul weary," prompting him to leave his lawmaking days behind and spend more time with his wife of 44 years.The 67-year-old congressman said the work simply took too much of a toll. But he was
  
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• Colombia: thousands take to the streets in third national strike in two weeks

  04-12-2019 20:22 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Protests put more pressure on unpopular president Iván Duque, who is engaged in a ‘national dialogue’ with strike organisers Colombians have taken to the streets for a third national strike in two weeks, piling more pressure on the unpopular rightwing president, Iván Duque, and his proposed tax reforms.Thousands thronged the streets of Bogotá, the capital, shutting down much of the city’s historic centre, indicating that the unrest will continue while Duque
  
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