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• Joe Biden Challenges Iowa Man to a Push-Up Contest During Heated Exchange

  05-12-2019 23:55 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Biden also called the man a 'damn liar' after comments about his son
  
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• Impeachment Witness Turley Claims Home, Professorship Threatened during Testimony

  05-12-2019 23:47 via news.yahoo.com
  
  In an opinion article penned Thursday, George Washington University law professor Jonathan Turley claimed that his home and office were flooded with “threatening messages and demands that I be fired from George Washington University” over opposing President Trump’s impeachment in congressional testimony Wednesday.“I remained a tad naive in hoping that an academic discussion on the history and standards of it might offer a brief hiatus from hateful rhetoric on both sides,&
  
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• Trump Administration Authorizes 'Cyanide Bombs' to Kill Predators Again, Months After Backlash

  05-12-2019 23:42 via news.yahoo.com
  
  The devices have been used to poison thousands of coyotes, foxes and feral dogs to protect wildlife
  
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• The Four Fatal Flaws That Doomed Kamala Harris’s Campaign

  05-12-2019 23:30 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Eight months ago, pundits from across the political spectrum were putting their money on Kamala Harris.“If she was a stock right now, I’d buy her,” Jim Messina, Barack Obama’s 2012 campaign manager, told MSNBC’s Morning Joe on April 11. “A combination . . . of Harris for president and Beto O'Rourke for VP is a way to mobilize [Democrats’] base and give” them their “best shot” at beating Donald Trump in 2020, former Trump adviser Steve B
  
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• Is Melania Secretly the Smartest Trump?

  05-12-2019 23:28 via news.yahoo.com
  
  The best anecdote I ever heard about a first lady involved Laura Bush. Early in her relationship with George W. Bush, she was taken to his family’s compound in Maine, where Bush kin busied themselves with preppie jock activities like boating or tennis or touch football. “And what do you do, Laura?” asked Bush’s grandmother. “I read, I smoke, and I watch,” replied the retiring Laura.Laura Bush seems never to have cared much for the spotlight she was forced to s
  
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• Tennessee high court rules against paper in defamation case

  05-12-2019 23:16 via news.yahoo.com
  
  The Tennessee Supreme Court ruled on Thursday that a newspaper cannot use the state's fair report privilege law as a shield against a defamation lawsuit for a story that was based on a one-on-one interview with a police detective.The case concerns Jeffery Burke, who was accused in 2013 of stealing money from a White County football team’s cookie dough fundraiser.The original trial court judge found that the story fell under Tennessee’s fair report privilege, a law that shields report
  
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• Report: Investigators ask about Illinois House leader

  05-12-2019 23:15 via news.yahoo.com
  
  The longest-serving state House speaker in modern American history is a subject of inquiries in an ongoing federal corruption investigation that has already entangled several top Illinois Democrats, according to a newspaper report published Thursday.Four people interviewed by investigators told the Chicago Tribune that FBI agents and prosecutors asked about Illinois House Speaker Michael Madigan’s ties to ComEd lobbyists, contracts the utility had with Madigan associates and government job
  
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• New satellite image shows activity at previously dismantled North Korean test site

  05-12-2019 23:11 via cnn.com
  
  A new satellite image obtained by CNN indicates North Korea may be preparing to resume testing engines used to power satellite launchers and intercontinental ballistic missiles at a site President Donald Trump previously claimed was dismantled after his Singapore summit with dictator Kim Jong Un this summer, according to experts who analyzed the photo.
  
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• Joe Biden goes off on voter over Ukraine question

  05-12-2019 23:11 via cnn.com
  
  Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden confronts a voter at a New Hampton, Iowa, town hall after being asked about his son Hunter.
  
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• Biden to voter: You're a damn liar, man

  05-12-2019 23:11 via cnn.com
  
  Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden confronts a voter at a New Hampton, Iowa, town hall after being asked about his son Hunter.
  
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• President Trump sets his sights on GOP-led Senate as he comes to grips with impeachment

  05-12-2019 23:06 via cnn.com
  
  With his impeachment now all-but-certain, President Donald Trump and his allies are beginning to look past the House of Representatives, shifting their sights to the Republican-led Senate where the President will face trial.
  
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• 19 unforgettable images from the Pearl Harbor attack 78 years ago

  05-12-2019 23:03 via news.yahoo.com
  
  December 7, 1941 began as a perfect Sunday morning. These photos show the attack by Imperial Japan that changed history.
  
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• Bombs Away! The Powerful B-52 Bomber Is Getting Even More Deadly

  05-12-2019 23:00 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Time for an upgrade.
  
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• Report: Officer recorded kissing Chicago chief reassigned

  05-12-2019 22:50 via news.yahoo.com
  
  A female officer who was reportedly caught on video kissing then-Chicago Police Superintendent Eddie Johnson at a popular restaurant in October was transferred weeks later from his personal security detail to another role on the police force, a department spokesman said.Police spokesman Anthony Guglielmi confirmed to WBEZ that the officer, who was appointed to Johnson's security detail in 2016, was reassigned in early November to the technical services bureau.Johnson’s attorney, Thomas Nee
  
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• Black South Bend Councilman-Elect Blasts Buttigieg’s Mayoral Record: ‘We Need Someone That’s Accountable’

  05-12-2019 22:50 via news.yahoo.com
  
  South Bend, Ind., city councilman-elect Henry Davis Jr. said on Thursday that it “is not an excuse at this point” for mayor Pete Buttigieg to claim he was "slow to realize” desegregation in city schools had not been successful during an interview Thursday, in the latest African-American criticism leveled at the Democratic presidential candidate.On Sunday, Buttigieg said during a campaign stop in North Carolina that “I worked for years under the illusion that our schools i
  
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• Trump news: President rages against Pelosi after she orders Congress to draw up articles of impeachment

  05-12-2019 22:49 via news.yahoo.com
  
  House speaker Nancy Pelosi has ordered the House to draw up articles of impeachment against Donald Trump over the Ukraine scandal.“The facts are uncontested. The president abused power for his personal benefit at the expense of national security by withholding military aid and crucial Oval Office meeting in exchange for an announcement of an investigation into his political rival,” she said at a short press conference on Capitol Hill.
  
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• Mariah Carey's famous Christmas tune is getting a documentary

  05-12-2019 22:48 via cnn.com
  
  Amazon is debuting a mini documentary, "Mariah Carey is Christmas" on Carey's 1994 record, "All I Want For Christmas Is You." The film will look into the history of the 25-year old song.
  
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• California bars insurers from dropping customers in fire-prone zones

  05-12-2019 22:45 via news.yahoo.com
  
  California state regulators on Thursday banned insurance companies from dropping customers who live in fire-prone areas, a move aimed at helping some 800,000 people across the state.The decision calls for a mandatory one-year moratorium on insurance companies refusing to renew policies in areas at high risk for wildfire."This wildfire insurance crisis has been years in the making, but it is an emergency we must deal with now if we are going to keep the California dream of home ownership from bec
  
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• Bloomberg says ending 'nationwide madness' of gun violence drives his White House bid

  05-12-2019 22:44 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Democratic presidential candidate Michael Bloomberg said on Thursday he wants to become president to end "the nationwide madness" of U.S. gun violence, calling it evil and saying he would allow its victims to file lawsuits against gun manufacturers. The billionaire media mogul, who jumped into the crowded field of Democratic White House candidates last month, unveiled a national gun control plan at a forum with survivors of gun violence in Aurora, Colorado, where 12 people were killed during a m
  
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• Iran gas explosion kills at least 11 people, injures dozens: Mehr

  05-12-2019 22:40 via news.yahoo.com
  
  At least 11 people were killed and dozens were injured in a gas explosion in Iran's western Kurdistan province on Thursday, the country's semi-official Mehr news agency quoted a provincial emergency official as saying."At least 11 people were killed and unfortunately five children were among them when the gas explosion occurred at a wedding hall at night at Saqqez city," Mehr reported, adding that dozens were injured when trying to escape.
  
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• How producer caught that NATO moment

  05-12-2019 22:29 via cnn.com
  
  Chris Rands, a producer for the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, explains how he caught a hot mic moment between Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and several other world leaders.
  
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• Hot mic moment went unnoticed until producer did this

  05-12-2019 22:29 via cnn.com
  
  Chris Rands, a producer for the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, explains how he caught a hot mic moment between Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and several other world leaders.
  
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• A woman Photoshopped her family's Christmas card to include her military husband who's serving overseas

  05-12-2019 22:27 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Danielle Cobo's husband is serving overseas in the military, but they still wanted to take a family picture together for this year's Christmas card.
  
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• Opposition figure freed in Nigeria after court ruling

  05-12-2019 22:24 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Nigerian opposition activist Omoyele Sowore and co-defendant Olawale Bakare were set free on Thursday after months in detention, for alleged treason.The pair were released hours after a judge gave the secret police 24 hours to release Sowore, who had been held since August by the Department of State Services (DSS) after urging protests under the online banner "#RevolutionNow".Sowore, 48, also ran unsuccessfully against President Muhammadu Buhari in the February polls.
  
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• US considers sending thousands more troops to Middle East to deter Iran

  05-12-2019 22:16 via cnn.com
  
  The Pentagon is considering sending thousands more troops to the Middle East as part of an effort to beef up air defense capabilities in the face of Iranian moves that include its recent transfer of short-range missiles into Iraq, CNN has learned from multiple defense officials.
  
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• Students Want Professor Fired for Writing About ‘Pederasty’ but University of Texas Says It’s Protected Speech

  05-12-2019 22:13 via news.yahoo.com
  
  A group of students at the University of Texas are calling for the firing of a classics professor who has written extensively on “pederasty”—socially acknowledged romantic relationships between adult men and teen boys—in ancient Greece.Students claim Thomas Hubbard’s academic work “advocates for violent crime against teen boys” and is being celebrated in online communities that promote pedophilia. In writings reviewed by The Austin American-Stateman, whi
  
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• Judge: Turkish bank can't deny knowledge of criminal charges

  05-12-2019 22:13 via news.yahoo.com
  
  A judge cited “extraordinary” and “remarkable” meetings two years ago involving top U.S. and Turkey political figures to intervene in a New York prosecution Thursday as he rejected efforts by a state-owned bank in Turkey to now feign ignorance of criminal charges it faces in the same case.U.S. District Judge Richard M. Berman in Manhattan said Halkbank, in effect, could be labeled a fugitive if it refused to send lawyers to represent it against the charges.At a hearing la
  
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• Giuliani Is in Kyiv, and Ukrainian Officials Are Steering Clear

  05-12-2019 22:13 via news.yahoo.com
  
  (Bloomberg) -- Rudy Giuliani, whose work in Ukraine is at the heart of U.S. impeachment proceedings, is back in the country -- and officials in Kyiv appear to be keeping their distance.People with knowledge of his trip say Giuliani flew into Kyiv from Budapest on Wednesday, the same day that U.S. hearings stemming from his shadow diplomacy in Ukraine kicked over to the House Judiciary Committee. Social media postings show him meeting with current and previous Ukrainian political figures as part
  
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• Buttigieg backs black leaders after Indiana event disrupted

  05-12-2019 22:12 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Democratic presidential candidate Pete Buttigieg is applauding African American leaders in his home city for “speaking their truth” after a protester disrupted an event held to demonstrate black support for the mayor in South Bend, Indiana.African American leaders held an event Wednesday night to dispute the notion that Buttigieg lacks support from the black community in South Bend, the South Bend Tribune reported.The man was wearing a T-shirt that said “Black Lives Matter Sout
  
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• Virginia Commission Calls for Repeal of ‘Explicitly Racist’ and ‘Segregationist’ Laws

  05-12-2019 22:11 via news.yahoo.com
  
  A Virginia state commission released a report Thursday calling for the official repeal of “deeply troubling” state laws still on the books that contain “explicitly racist language and segregationist policies.”The Commission to Examine Racial Inequity in Virginia Law published a lengthy report saying that the outdated laws should not “remain enshrined in law” despite no longer being in effect.“The commission believes that such vestiges of V
  
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• The speaker virtually guaranteed Trump will be only the third president in American history to be impeached by the House

  05-12-2019 22:11 via cnn.com
  
  Don't miss what happened in Washington on Thursday morning: House Speaker Nancy Pelosi virtually guaranteed that President Donald Trump will be only the third president in American history to be impeached by the House.
  
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• Pelosi just wrote Trump's name in the history books

  05-12-2019 22:11 via cnn.com
  
  Don't miss what happened in Washington on Thursday morning: House Speaker Nancy Pelosi virtually guaranteed that President Donald Trump will be only the third president in American history to be impeached by the House.
  
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• US airmen in Florida practiced getting the A-10 Warthog ready to fight any time, any place

  05-12-2019 22:09 via news.yahoo.com
  
  During the exercise, airmen set up on a remote corner of the base to practice getting an A-10 ready for combat on short notice with limited supplies.
  
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• Two school shootings a day apart: Wisconsin reckons with impact of armed guards

  05-12-2019 22:04 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Shootings involving resource officers renew debate over the role of armed teachers or police in schools Shootings a day apart at two high schools in Wisconsin have shaken the state and sparked a renewed debate over how to combat violence in American schools.An Oshkosh police department resource officer shot a 16-year-old student Tuesday after the boy stabbed him in the officer’s office at Oshkosh West high school. A day earlier, a resource officer at Waukesha South high school helped clear
  
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• Hong Kong Protest Momentum Faces Test With Weekend Rally, Strike

  05-12-2019 22:00 via news.yahoo.com
  
  (Bloomberg) -- As Hong Kong’s protesters gear up for another mass march downtown this weekend and possibly a strike next Monday, some of those who have fought on the front lines are reassessing their strategy.The Civil Human Rights Front (CHRF), which has organized some of the biggest rallies since unrest began in June, said Thursday night it received police approval for a rally -- the first time it has gotten a permit in more than four months. The Sunday march will start at 3 p.m. in Vict
  
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• Temperatures will plummet by 30 degrees next week as another Arctic blast rolls in

  05-12-2019 21:45 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Another Arctic blast is on the way next week, one that will bring some bitterly cold temperatures to portions of the central U.S.
  
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• No More North Korea: Could America Have Won The Korean War With Nuclear Weapons?

  05-12-2019 21:30 via news.yahoo.com
  
  We're lucky that we did not have to find out.
  
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• Bloomberg unveils sweeping gun control plan

  05-12-2019 21:30 via politico.com
  
  The billionaire businessman is calling for stronger background checks and permit requirements.
  
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• Biden shows his tough side in Iowa and in attack ad: 'You're a dаmn liar'

  05-12-2019 21:30 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Joe Biden defended his son and released a new ad that went after President Trump as he campaigned in Iowa.
  
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• Pelosi Puts House on Quick Timetable for Impeaching Trump

  05-12-2019 21:27 via news.yahoo.com
  
  (Bloomberg) -- Speaker Nancy Pelosi set the House in motion toward a historic vote to impeach President Donald Trump on a rapid timetable that could bring the process to conclusion before the Christmas holiday.She directed the heads of the House committees that have been investigating the president to begin drafting articles of impeachment, saying that Congress must hold Trump accountable for his “profound violation” of the public trust.“The facts are uncontested,’’
  
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• NATO is finally talking about China, and there are 3 big problems it has to address

  05-12-2019 21:23 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Many of NATO's longstanding problems were under discussion at its leaders summit this week, but the agenda included a relatively new challenge: China.
  
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• Bloomberg gun plan: Permits, assault weapon ban, age limits

  05-12-2019 21:22 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Democratic presidential contender Michael Bloomberg unveiled a gun control policy on Thursday just steps from the site of one of Colorado's worst mass shootings, calling for a ban on all assault weapons, mandatory permits for gun purchasers and a new position in the White House to coordinate gun violence prevention.“I’ve been all in on the fight against gun violence for 15 years, and I’m just getting started,” Bloomberg declared.
  
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• 'The Amazon Is Completely Lawless': The Rainforest After Bolsonaro's First Year

  05-12-2019 21:11 via news.yahoo.com
  
  RIO DE JANEIRO -- When the smoke cleared, the Amazon could breathe easy again.For months, black clouds had hung over the rainforest as work crews burned and chain-sawed through it. Now the rainy season had arrived, offering a respite to the jungle and a clearer view of the damage to the world.The picture that emerged was anything but reassuring: Brazil's space agency reported that in one year, more than 3,700 square miles of the Amazon had been razed -- a swath of jungle nearly the size of Leban
  
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• St. Louis Woman Looked Up ‘What to Do if Your Husband Is Upset You Are Pregnant’ Before Her Murder: Warrants

  05-12-2019 20:58 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Before she went missing last month, a St. Louis woman looked up “what to do if you husband is upset you are pregnant” on her phone, according to search warrants.Beau Rothwell, 28, reported the disappearance of his six-weeks-pregnant wife, Jennifer Rothwell, on Nov. 12, after she failed to show up for work at a chemical engineering firm. Two days later, authorities charged him with second-degree murder and tampering with physical evidence in connection with his 28-year-old wife’
  
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• Bernie Sanders isn't polling in first place. His early-state organizing may mean that doesn't matter.

  05-12-2019 20:57 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Bernie Sanders doesn't have 1st place polls in Iowa. Two months out, his staff say they have something better: The most solid base to organize on.
  
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• Biden calls Iowan a 'damn liar'

  05-12-2019 20:49 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Joe Biden came out swinging on the campaign trail this week. After a wave of criticism about his measured response to President Trump’s relentless accusations that his son Hunter had relied on nepotism to land a lucrative position on the board of directors of Ukrainian oil company, Biden confronted a voter in Iowa who parroted that claim.
  
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• Lawsuit: McCarrick victim told pope of sex abuse in 1988

  05-12-2019 20:44 via news.yahoo.com
  
  A man claims in a lawsuit filed under a recently enacted New Jersey law that he told Pope John Paul II in 1988 about being sexually abused as a child by the priest who would become Cardinal Theodore McCarrick but that the Vatican did nothing — claims he also made in a lawsuit this summer in New York.James Grein alleged Thursday that McCarrick, a family friend, abused him for two decades starting when he was 11 in the late 1960s when McCarrick was serving in New Jersey.Some of the abuse all
  
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• Mueller witness bragged about access to Clintons secured with illegal campaign cash, says Justice Department

  05-12-2019 20:38 via news.yahoo.com
  
  An emissary for two Arab princes boasted to unnamed officials of a Middle Eastern government about his direct access to Hillary and Bill Clinton while funneling more than $3.5 million in illegal campaign contributions to the 2016 Clinton campaign and Democratic fundraising committees, according to a federal indictment.
  
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• Unfounded rumors about suspicious white vans are going viral on Facebook and putting drivers' lives at risk

  05-12-2019 20:27 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Multiple people who drive white vans have spoken out to say they've been harassed because of the posts, and one driver was even killed.
  
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• Texas Democrats Urge Pelosi to Press for Border Security as Part of USMCA Deal

  05-12-2019 20:16 via news.yahoo.com
  
  As USMCA negotiations drag on, Texas Democrats Vicente Gonzalez and Filemon Vela urged House Speaker Nancy Pelosi to press Mexico for firm security commitments in the war on Mexican cartels to protect U.S. trade and tourism.“We can no longer afford to be silent. This trade pact is critical to our economy and we need to get this right or risk standing in the way of our own economic success,” Gonzalez said in the release. The representatives, who serve in districts that border Mexico,
  
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