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• House Panel Defends Impeachment Process From GOP Criticism

  07-12-2019 23:54 via news.yahoo.com
  
  (Bloomberg) -- The House Judiciary Committee defended the process to build a case for impeachment against Donald Trump, dismissing complaints by the president and his congressional backers about a lack of first-hand evidence and his claim to exert sweeping powers.The 55-page majority staff report reviews the historical record on impeachment as envisioned by the drafters of the U.S. Constitution, which was the subject of a hearing this week.The report also tackles “six falsehoods” abo
  
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• American Samoa declares measles outbreak, closes schools

  07-12-2019 23:48 via news.yahoo.com
  
  The government of American Samoa declared that the U.S. territory has an outbreak of measles, a move that will lead to the closure of public schools starting Monday and a ban on gatherings in parks.In its announcement Friday of the measles outbreak, the government says the territory has nine cases of the disease.As for the other four people who tested positive for measles, “we’re suspecting that is local transmission — meaning that it’s most likely, that some of these tra
  
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• Former Rep. Katie Hill says the wave of harassment she faced after alleged revenge porn leak left her contemplating suicide

  07-12-2019 23:30 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Former Rep. Katie Hill now says that she has "to keep going forward, and be part of the fight to create the change" to protect young women.
  
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• Anthony Joshua wins rematch with Andy Ruiz Jr. in Saudi Arabia 'Clash on the Dunes'

  07-12-2019 23:29 via cnn.com
  
  Anthony Joshua reclaimed the WBO, IBF and WBA heavyweight titles on Saturday night after defeating Andy Ruiz Jr. in Saudi Arabia's "Clash on the Dunes."
  
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• AOC calls out Trump after news that Amazon plans to hire 1,500 employees in New York City

  07-12-2019 23:07 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Following reports that Amazon plans to open a new office in New York City, Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez tweeted that the Trump administration "should focus more on cutting public assistance to billionaires instead of poor families."
  
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• How A Dangerous Court Ruling Could Give China The Lead In 5G Technology

  07-12-2019 23:00 via news.yahoo.com
  
  And permanently impair U.S. security.
  
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• Racist incident mars Manchester derby

  07-12-2019 22:29 via cnn.com
  
  An incident of racist abuse by a supporter is thought to have occurred at the match between Manchester City and Manchester United, according to a statement released by City.
  
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• Trump: Giuliani 'wants to go before Congress' about Ukraine trip

  07-12-2019 22:20 via politico.com
  
  Trump added that Giuliani will “make a report” of his findings to submit to Attorney General William Barr and Congress.
  
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• Over 500 law professors say Trump engaged in 'impeachable conduct' in his dealings with Ukraine

  07-12-2019 22:17 via news.yahoo.com
  
  The scholars said both chambers of Congress "would be acting well within their constitutional powers" if they vote to impeach and remove Trump.
  
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• In Florida, Trump says he's Israel's best pal in White House

  07-12-2019 22:15 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Trump energized an audience that numbered in the hundreds at the Israeli American Council National Summit in Florida by recounting his record on issues of importance to Jews, including an extensive riff on his promise to recognize Jerusalem as the Israeli capital and relocate the U.S. Embassy there from Tel Aviv.Trump said his predecessors only paid lip service to the issue.“They never had any intention of doing it, in my opinion,” Trump said.
  
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• Why care about the Trump impeachment? Your right to vote in free elections is at stake.

  07-12-2019 22:14 via news.yahoo.com
  
  The Trump impeachment is about protecting our freedom and right to vote from lawless foreign election manipulation invited by a dangerous president.
  
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• Biden calls Sanders' pitch to leverage Israel aid 'bizarre'

  07-12-2019 22:10 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Joe Biden said Saturday that it is “bizarre” for Bernie Sanders to propose withholding U.S. military aid from Israel if the government there doesn’t moderate its treatment of Palestinians.Biden and Sanders support a “two-state solution” for Israel and the Palestinians, and both men have criticized political leaders on each side of the long-standing conflict.
  
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• Trump Says Giuliani Will File a Report on Findings From Ukraine

  07-12-2019 22:09 via news.yahoo.com
  
  (Bloomberg) -- President Donald Trump said that his personal attorney, Rudy Giuliani, plans to prepare a report for the U.S. Justice Department and Congress about allegations of misconduct the former New York mayor says he uncovered during a recent trip to Ukraine.Trump said Giuliani, a central figure in the impeachment investigation into whether Trump pressured Ukraine into a politically-motivated investigation into former Vice President Joe Biden, hadn’t briefed him on his findings.But,
  
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• Netanyahu Calls for Direct Vote If Israel’s Coalition Talks Fail

  07-12-2019 21:56 via news.yahoo.com
  
  (Bloomberg) -- Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said Israelis should elect the next government leader directly if lawmakers fail to end the country’s political impasse.Israel’s parliament has until midnight Wednesday to establish a governing coalition and stave off a third election in less than a year. Caretaker governments have been in charge since December, after two inconclusive elections ended with both Netanyahu and chief rival Benny Gantz failing to garner enough support for a
  
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• Racist incident mars Manchester derby as United stuns City

  07-12-2019 21:46 via cnn.com
  
  An incident of racist abuse by a supporter is thought to have occurred at the match between Manchester City and Manchester United, according to a statement released by City.
  
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• Trump hails himself 'greatest of all presidents' as Democrats meet to prepare impeachment charges

  07-12-2019 21:45 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Democrats are meeting this weekend to prepare impeachment charges against Donald Trump, as he railed against the process on Twitter and declared himself "greatest of all presidents".The Judiciary Committee is expected to draft at least three articles of impeachment -- essentially charges of wrongdoing -- against Mr Trump which the whole House of Representatives is expected to vote on before Christmas.
  
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• Is Russia's New Anti-Tank Weapon Aimed at the Army's M1 Abrams?

  07-12-2019 21:42 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Maybe, but Russia has its own problem.
  
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• France shuts down as Macron touches the third rail of French politics

  07-12-2019 21:35 via cnn.com
  
  The one-day general strike that was supposed to shut down France last Thursday is now stretching at least into next week as President Emmanuel Macron perseveres in his efforts to drag his nation into the 21st century.
  
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• David A. Andelman: Macron touches the third rail of French politics

  07-12-2019 21:35 via cnn.com
  
  The one-day general strike that was supposed to shut down France last Thursday is now stretching at least into next week as President Emmanuel Macron perseveres in his efforts to drag his nation into the 21st century.
  
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• New Jersey journalist re-arrested in Nigeria after brief glimpse of freedom

  07-12-2019 21:13 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Omoyele Sowore, imprisoned in his home country of Nigeria since August, has been freed from government custody, but still has to stand trial.
  
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• Pentagon chief plans to shift US focus to China and Russia

  07-12-2019 21:12 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Defense Secretary Mark Esper said Saturday he still plans to shift the American military’s focus to competing with China and Russia, even as security threats pile up in the Middle East.Esper outlined his strategic goals and priorities in a speech at the Reagan National Defense Forum, an annual gathering of government, defense industry and military officials.Esper, who became Pentagon chief in late July, said he is sticking to the national defense priorities set by his predecessor, Jim Matt
  
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• Could Mexico's Version of the Marine Corps Crush the Cartels?

  07-12-2019 21:00 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Could this work?
  
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• Zeldin and Ray: Do Democrats have enough to impeach? Two legal experts duke it out

  07-12-2019 20:51 via cnn.com
  
  Speaker Nancy Pelosi's announcement Thursday that the Democrats would move ahead on drafting articles of impeachment is giving new ferocity to the debate over President Donald Trump's actions and the way Congress should respond. To gain more insight, CNN Opinion has asked two prominent Washington legal experts to bat the issues back and forth in a series of email exchanges.
  
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• Israeli aircraft strike Hamas sites in Gaza after 3 rockets

  07-12-2019 20:42 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Israeli aircraft bombed several militants’ sites in Gaza early Sunday, hours after three rockets were fired from the Palestinian enclave toward southern Israel.On Saturday evening, Israel announced that its air defenses, known as “Iron Dome,” intercepted two of three missiles coming from Gaza.Later, it said all three rockets had been shot down.
  
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• North Korean official: Denuclearization is off the table

  07-12-2019 20:38 via cnn.com
  
  Denuclearization is off the table in negotiations with the United States, North Korea's ambassador to the United Nations said in a statement Saturday.
  
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• Denuclearization is off the table, North Korea's UN envoy says

  07-12-2019 20:38 via cnn.com
  
  Denuclearization is off the table in negotiations with the United States, North Korea's ambassador to the United Nations said in a statement Saturday.
  
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• Writer Handke steers clear of controversy in Nobel lecture

  07-12-2019 20:27 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Austrian writer Peter Handke devoted his Nobel Academy speech to literary questions Saturday, avoiding the controversy over his pro-Serbian views that led Kosovo to announce a boycott of next week's awards ceremony.The winner of the 2019 Nobel Prize for Literature discussed the role of memories in his work, in a speech ahead of the awards ceremony on Tuesday.Earlier Saturday, Kosovo's Foreign Minister Behgjet Pacolli said his country's envoy to Sweden would not attend the awards ceremony in Stoc
  
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• Mike Pence's office says it doesn't know what Adam Schiff wants declassified in impeachment inquiry

  07-12-2019 20:08 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Democrat has asked the vice president to declassify supplemental testimony over his Sept. 18 phone call with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky.
  
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• Reddit Says Leaked U.S.-U.K. Trade Documents Posted on the Site Are Linked to a Russian Information Campaign

  07-12-2019 19:44 via news.yahoo.com
  
  The site said it is banning one subreddit and 61 accounts for breaking Reddit's policies
  
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• French murder suspect emerges from coma after swallowing poison

  07-12-2019 19:39 via news.yahoo.com
  
  The suspect for the rape and murder of a young woman in northern France almost two decades ago was slowly emerging from a coma while under guard in hospital Saturday after he swallowed pesticide in an apparent suicide bid following his conviction.Willy Bardon, on trial over the murder of Elodie Kulik in 2002 in a case that has attracted strong interest in France for years, ingested the substance at the courthouse in the northern city of Amiens late on Friday.Bardon, 45, is under round-the-clock
  
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• 'I felt like I was going to die': A harrowing look into CIA torture from the eyes of a detainee

  07-12-2019 19:27 via news.yahoo.com
  
  A CIA detainee's drawings detail the brutal reach of torture. They are part of a new Seton Hall report called "How America Tortures."
  
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• ‘We’ve seen enough’: LA Times board announces backing for Trump impeachment

  07-12-2019 19:23 via news.yahoo.com
  
  One of the largest newspapers in the US has come out in favour of the impeachment of Donald Trump for his “flagrant abuse of power”.The LA Times said that the inquiry hearings had produced “overwhelming” evidence that the president had “perverted US foreign policy for his own political gain”.
  
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• Gambia to crack down on traffickers after migrant deaths

  07-12-2019 19:16 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Gambian President Adama Barrow on Saturday vowed to punish people traffickers as he mourned the deaths of 60 Europe-bound migrants who drowned off Mauritania when their boat capsized."To lose 60 young lives at sea is a national tragedy and a matter of grave concern to my government," he said on national television.Barrow said 60 people were confirmed dead in Wednesday's tragedy.
  
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• 3 Guard members killed in Minnesota Black Hawk crash identified

  07-12-2019 19:09 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Killed were Chief Warrant Officer 2 James A. Rogers Jr., age 28; Chief Warrant Officer 2 Charles P. Nord, 30; and Sgt. Kort M. Plantenberg, 28.
  
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• The LA Times joined the growing group of major papers calling for Trump's impeachment

  07-12-2019 19:07 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Several major newspapers have publicly called for Trump's impeachment while criticizing his efforts to stonewall the impeachment inquiry.
  
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• US student held captive since 2016 released in Iran prisoner swap

  07-12-2019 18:57 via cnn.com
  
  An American graduate student, who had been held for three years in Iran on suspicion of being a spy, is in "good spirits" after being freed from Iranian custody, a senior administration official said Saturday.
  
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• Acting Navy secretary promises he'll fix the 'Ford' aircraft carrier

  07-12-2019 18:39 via news.yahoo.com
  
  The acting Navy secretary is reportedly under pressure from President Trump to get the U.S.S. Gerald R. Ford to work, something his predecessor failed to do.
  
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• North Korea says US denuclearization talks 'out of negotiation table'

  07-12-2019 18:31 via news.yahoo.com
  
  North Korea on Saturday said denuclearization talks with the United States were "out of the negotiation table," while slamming European UN Security Council members who had recently denounced its "provocative" ballistic missile launches.The statement from North Korea's ambassador to the UN Kim Song came after Belgium, Estonia, France, Germany, Poland and the United Kingdom on Wednesday condemned North Korea's "continued testing of ballistic missiles," and called for strict enforcement of sanction
  
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• Former South Carolina Governor Nikki Haley Says South Carolinians Saw the Confederate Flag as 'Service' Before Dylan Roof 'Hijacked' It

  07-12-2019 18:13 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Many argued Haley was not fully acknowledging the flag's Civil War and segregationists origins
  
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• Pensacola shooting victim saved 'countless lives' during attack, brother says

  07-12-2019 17:41 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Joshua Kaleb Watson, an Alabama native and Naval Academy graduate was identified as one of the victims of the Naval Air Station Pensacola shooting.
  
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• North Korea's U.N. envoy says denuclearization off negotiating table with United States

  07-12-2019 17:25 via news.yahoo.com
  
  UNITED NATIONS/WASHINGTON (Reuters) - North Korea's ambassador to the United Nations said on Saturday that denuclearization is off the negotiating table with the United States and lengthy talks with Washington are not needed, the starkest statement yet emphasizing the gulf between the two sides ahead of a year-end deadline set by Pyongyang.U.S. President Donald Trump sought to play down a recent surge in tensions with North Korea, stressing what he said was his good relationship with its leader
  
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• British caver 'a hero' and should have won against Elon Musk, friends say

  07-12-2019 17:21 via news.yahoo.com
  
  A British caver who last year helped in the rescue of a Thai football team remains “a hero” and should have won his libel case against the “publicity-seeking” Elon Musk, his friends and fellow rescuers have said.  Vernon Unsworth sought £145m in damages from the Tesla founder, arguing in court that his “defamatory” tweet calling him a “pedo guy” after the rescue of the 12 boys and their football coach damaged his
  
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• Scientists discovered 71 new species this year. Here are some of their favorites

  07-12-2019 17:10 via cnn.com
  
  The quest for the unknown revealed exciting new discoveries this year. California Academy of Sciences researchers discovered 71 new animal and plant species in 2019.
  
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• Scientists discovered 71 new species this year

  07-12-2019 17:10 via cnn.com
  
  The quest for the unknown revealed exciting new discoveries this year. California Academy of Sciences researchers discovered 71 new animal and plant species in 2019.
  
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• Trump administration wins 1, loses another Supreme Court decision

  07-12-2019 17:01 via news.yahoo.com
  
  President Trump received some good news and some bad news from the Supreme Court on Friday.First, Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg temporarily blocked a congressional subpoena for President Trump's financial records from Deutsche Bank. The decision comes after Trump's emergency request to block a lower court ruling that required him to hand over the records as part of the House Financial Services and Intelligence Committees' investigation into Trump's relationship with the bank.The stay on the ruling
  
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• Caitlyn Jenner kicked off of TV show, no loved one waiting

  07-12-2019 16:45 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Caitlyn Jenner’s elimination from the jungle made "I’m a Celebrity ... Get Me Out of Here" history last night as she became the first person voted out not to have a loved one waiting for them at the end of the bridge.
  
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• Ceremony to remember those killed in Pearl Harbor attack

  07-12-2019 16:38 via news.yahoo.com
  
  More than 2,000 people are expected at a ceremony Saturday to remember those killed when Japanese planes bombed Pearl Harbor 78 years ago and launched the U.S. into World War II.Organizers of the public event at the Hawaii naval base say attendees will include about a dozen survivors of the Dec. 7, 1941, attack, the youngest of whom are now in their late 90s.U.S. Air Force fighter jets flying overhead in missing man formation will break the quiet.
  
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• Aging survivors return to Pearl Harbor to recall '41 attack

  07-12-2019 16:38 via news.yahoo.com
  
  A dozen frail survivors of the attack on Pearl Harbor returned Saturday to honor those who perished when Japanese planes pierced a quiet sunny morning 78 years ago and rained bombs on battleships lined up below.About 30 World War II veterans and some 2,000 members of the public joined the survivors, the youngest of whom are now in their late 90s, to commemorate the anniversary of the Dec. 7, 1941, attack that launched the U.S. into World War II.Herb Elfring, 97, of Jackson, Michigan, said being
  
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• Strip-Searching of 8-Year-Old at Prison Leads Virginia to Halt the Practice

  07-12-2019 16:26 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Gov. Ralph Northam of Virginia on Friday ordered the suspension of a policy that allows prison officials to strip-search children after an 8-year-old girl was told to remove her clothes before being allowed to see her father, an inmate."I am deeply disturbed by these reports, not just as governor, but as a pediatrician and a dad," Northam said in a statement. "I've directed the secretary of public safety and homeland security to suspend this policy while the department conducts an immediate inve
  
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• Polyamorous 20-year-old is dating 4 men while pregnant with her first child

  07-12-2019 16:18 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Tory Ojeda is a 20-year-old woman from Jacksonville, Fla., who is in a polyamorous relationship with four men. She is now expecting her first child with one of her partners. Ojeda told Barcroft Media that while the baby is biologically one of her partner's, the five of them plan on raising the child together as a family.
  
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