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• Amazon fires multiple employees for leaking customer data, a year after a similar incident

  10-01-2020 23:56 via news.yahoo.com
  
  It reflects Amazon's recent efforts to protect personal customer data, but also shows Amazon employees looking to benefit from customer data leaks.
  
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• President of Brazil's Supreme Court overturned a ban on a Netflix comedy that portrays Jesus as gay

  10-01-2020 23:51 via cnn.com
  
  The president of Brazil's Supreme Court authorized Netflix to show a comedy that depicts Jesus as gay after a lower court ordered the streaming service to remove the film from its platform, according to state news agency Agencia Brasil.
  
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• Court overturns ban on a Netflix comedy that portrays Jesus as gay

  10-01-2020 23:51 via cnn.com
  
  The president of Brazil's Supreme Court authorized Netflix to show a comedy that depicts Jesus as gay after a lower court ordered the streaming service to remove the film from its platform, according to state news agency Agencia Brasil.
  
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• Boeing's former CEO, who was fired over the 737 Max crisis, got no severance pay but left with $62 million Boeing says he was 'contractually entitled' to

  10-01-2020 23:37 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Boeings former CEO received 'the benefits to which he was contractually entitled and he did not receive any severance pay or a 2019 annual bonus.'
  
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• The 100-Year-Search for a Missing Impact Crater Is Over

  10-01-2020 23:36 via news.yahoo.com
  
  It's buried beneath a lava bed in Laos.
  
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• Gun case delayed for man cleared of San Francisco pier death

  10-01-2020 23:32 via news.yahoo.com
  
  A federal judge on Friday delayed a gun possession trial against a Mexican man who was acquitted of killing a woman on a San Francisco pier in a case that became a national flashpoint, saying he has questions about the man's mental competency.U.S. District Judge Vince Chhabria postponed a trial expected to start next week until a psychiatrist evaluates Jose Inez Garcia-Zarate.“It appears that Garcia-Zarate may not understand the charges against him, and it's possible that he's not currentl
  
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• Pentagon launched second attack on an Iranian militant the same day it killed Soleimani

  10-01-2020 23:28 via news.yahoo.com
  
  The Pentagon launched a separate attack on an Iranian military leader in Yemen the same day it killed the Maj. Gen. Qasem Soleimani.
  
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• There's a glaring loophole in Trump's latest claim that Soleimani was plotting to attack US embassies when he was assassinated

  10-01-2020 23:14 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Why wasn't Congress informed about Soleimani's alleged attacks when administration officials briefed them on the strike this week?
  
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• LIVE: Power outages increase across South as battered communities survey damage from deadly storms

  10-01-2020 22:50 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Intense winds, flooding downpours and tornadoes are leaving behind a trail of destruction as the first severe weather outbreak of 2020 sweeps across the southern United States.The severe weather outbreak initiated on Friday morning as thunderstorms erupted across Oklahoma, before expanding into Missouri and Texas, on Friday afternoon and advancing eastward through Arkansas and Louisiana, on Friday night.At least three fatalities have been confirmed in Louisiana after violent storms battered the
  
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• Boeing's ousted CEO departs with $62 million, even without severance pay

  10-01-2020 22:48 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Muilenburg was fired from the job in December as Boeing failed to contain the fallout from a pair of fatal crashes that halted output of the company's bestselling 737 MAX jetliner and tarnished its reputation with airlines and regulators.The compensation figures were disclosed in a regulatory filing late on Friday during a difficult week for Boeing when it also released hundreds of internal messages -- two major issues hanging over the company before new CEO David Calhoun starts on Monday.
  
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• Man burned as huge wildfire forms during Australia crisis

  10-01-2020 22:47 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Two wildfires merged to form a massive inferno in southeast Australia on Saturday, near where a man suffered serious burns protecting a home during a night of treacherous conditions during the nation’s unprecedented fire crisis.Authorities were assessing the damage after firefighters battled flames fanned by strong winds through the night and lightning strikes sparked new blazes in New South Wales and Victoria, Australia’s most populous states.New South Wales Rural Fire Service Commi
  
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• 2 Aussie wildfires merge into inferno; man seriously burned

  10-01-2020 22:47 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Two wildfires merged to form a massive inferno in southeastern Australia and a man suffered serious burns protecting a home, in a night of treacherous conditions during the nation’s unprecedented wildfire crisis, officials said Saturday.Authorities were assessing the damage after firefighters battled flames fanned by strong winds through the night and lightning strikes sparked new blazes in New South Wales and Victoria, Australia’s most populous states.New South Wales Rural Fire Serv
  
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• A viral photo of a tiger and her 5 cubs shows how the species is bouncing back from extinction

  10-01-2020 22:43 via news.yahoo.com
  
  India's wild tiger population is finally on the rise. An Indian Forest Service officer recently shared an inspiring photo of a tiger with five cubs.
  
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• Analysis: Coming or going, Meghan gets the blame -- and it's because of her race

  10-01-2020 22:41 via cnn.com
  
  From the moment Prince Harry and Meghan Markle made their relationship known to the public in 2016, the message many Britons sent to her was clear:
  
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• U.S. reportedly tried and failed to kill another Iranian leader the same night as the Soleimani strike

  10-01-2020 22:33 via news.yahoo.com
  
  The assassination of Iranian Gen. Qassem Soleimani may not have been the only attack the U.S. carried out last week.On the night of Jan. 2, the U.S. sent a drone to attack the leader of Iran's Quds Forces in Baghdad, killing the powerful Iranian figure. But on that same night, U.S. forces also tried and failed to kill another Quds leader, The Washington Post first reported.U.S. forces embarked on the top secret mission in Yemen to kill Abdul Reza Shahlai, a top commander of the Quds, U.S. offici
  
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• US sharply reduces flights to Cuba

  10-01-2020 22:32 via news.yahoo.com
  
  The United States on Friday sharply reduced flights allowed to go to Cuba in a bid to reduce revenue to the communist island.Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said that charter flights would only be allowed to fly to Havana, not other airports -- a step already taken with commercial flights.The restrictions "will further restrict the Cuban regime's ability to obtain revenue, which it uses to finance its ongoing repression of the Cuban people and its unconscionable support for dictator Nicolas Madur
  
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• Does the US Navy have its robot-warship concept all wrong?

  10-01-2020 22:21 via news.yahoo.com
  
  The Navy wants a fully autonomous ship for its large unmanned surface vessel, but is that the best approach?
  
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• Texas becomes first state to refuse refugees under Trump order

  10-01-2020 22:18 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Governor Greg Abbott of Texas on Friday became the first governor in the United States to refuse to accept refugees under an executive order requiring local jurisdictions to actively opt in to the federal resettlement program.The decision is a major blow to the program since Texas is the largest recipient of refugees in the country."At this time, the state and non-profit organizations have a responsibility to dedicate available resources to those who are already here, including refugees, migrant
  
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• New Yahoo News/YouGov poll shows Americans view Obama as 'more effective' than Trump on Iran

  10-01-2020 22:18 via news.yahoo.com
  
  According to a new Yahoo News/YouGov poll, Americans are evenly divided over President Trump’s decision to kill Iranian Gen. Qassem Soleimani, but a plurality opposes Trump’s overall approach to the Islamic Republic and believes Barack Obama was more effective in dealing with Tehran.
  
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• Pelosi to Initiate Trump Trial Next Week; Witness Fight Heats Up

  10-01-2020 22:04 via news.yahoo.com
  
  (Bloomberg) -- Speaker Nancy Pelosi said the House will prepare to send articles of impeachment against President Donald Trump to the Senate next week, triggering a new, more serious phase of the battle over witnesses at the trial.Shortly after Pelosi’s announcement on Friday, Republican Senator Susan Collins said she’s talking with her GOP colleagues about agreeing to hear testimony, and Trump vowed to invoke executive privilege to limit his former national security adviser, John Bo
  
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• Without presenting any evidence, Trump now claims that Soleimani was plotting against 4 US embassies before he was assassinated

  10-01-2020 22:01 via news.yahoo.com
  
  "Soleimani was actively planning new attacks, and he was looking very seriously at our embassies, and not just the embassy in Baghdad," Trump said.
  
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• U.S. rebuffs Britain's extradition request for diplomat's wife after fatal crash

  10-01-2020 21:57 via news.yahoo.com
  
  WASHINGTON/LONDON (Reuters) - The United States on Friday rejected a formal request from Britain for the extradition of a U.S. diplomat's wife who left the country last year after a road collision that killed 19-year-old Briton Harry Dunn.British prosecutors are seeking the extradition of Anne Sacoolas over the crash last August in which Dunn was killed while riding his motorbike."Following the Crown Prosecution Service's charging decision, the Home Office has sent an extradition request to the
  
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• A growing number of Americans believe the government should tackle economic inequality instead of illegal immigration, new poll finds

  10-01-2020 21:56 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Pew found 42% of Americans said cutting inequality should be a top federal priority, above the 39% identifying illegal immigration as a problem.
  
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• Texas governor to reject new refugees, first under Trump

  10-01-2020 21:51 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Texas will no longer accept the resettlement of new refugees, becoming the first state known to do so under a recent Trump administration order, Gov. Greg Abbott said Friday.Abbott's announcement could have major implications for refugees coming to the United States.Texas has large refugee populations in several of its cities and has long been a leader in settling refugees, taking in more than any other state during the 2018 governmental fiscal year, according to the United Nations High Commissi
  
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• Court in breakaway Georgian region annuls contested vote

  10-01-2020 21:51 via news.yahoo.com
  
  The Supreme Court of breakaway Georgian region Abkhazia on Friday overturned a presidential election that had returned the incumbent but triggered rowdy protests.The isolated region, which broke away from Georgia after the Soviet Union collapsed, saw protesters on Thursday break into government headquarters to demand the exit of local president Raul Khajimba, who was re-elected in September.A majority of lawmakers in the local legislature had voted on Thursday for his resignation, TASS news agen
  
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• Trump tried and failed to kill another top Iranian military leader the same day of the deadly strike on Soleimani, US officials say

  10-01-2020 21:46 via news.yahoo.com
  
  The top-secret mission took place in Yemen and targeted Abdul Reza Shahlai, according to a Washington Post report.
  
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• Amazon's Ring fires four employees for snooping on customers' doorbell camera video feeds

  10-01-2020 21:46 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Amazon said its Ring investigated reports of employees viewing doorbell camera video and dismissed those involved after finding company violations.
  
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• Trump tells Fox News Iran had planned to attack four U.S. embassies

  10-01-2020 21:45 via news.yahoo.com
  
  President Trump said Iran had been targeting four American embassies before he ordered the killing of a top Iranian general.
  
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• Canadians would back Prince Harry as governor general: poll

  10-01-2020 21:42 via news.yahoo.com
  
  A majority of Canadians would support making Britain's Prince Harry the country's next governor general, according to a poll published Friday as his wife, Meghan, returned to Canada.Sixty-one percent of the Canadians polled said they would support having Harry replace current governor general Julie Payette when her term expires, the National Post said.Payette, a former astronaut, was named to the post in 2017.
  
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• Trump Is Handing Iran Its Biggest Strategic Objective: Iraq

  10-01-2020 21:41 via news.yahoo.com
  
  It was barely a year ago that the U.S. outmaneuvered Qassem Soleimani to install Adil Abdul-Mahdi as Iraq’s prime minister. But with Soleimani dead in a U.S. drone strike, the U.S. is treating the Iraqi government that U.S. forces created during the 2003-2011 occupation as little more than an adjunct of Iranian strategy. As the Iranians vow that revenge for Soleimani will include the eviction of the U.S. from the Middle East (Tehran’s longtime goal), the administration is refusi
  
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• US tried to take out another Iranian leader, but failed

  10-01-2020 21:40 via news.yahoo.com
  
  The U.S. military tried, but failed, to take out another senior Iranian commander on the same day that an American airstrike killed the Revolutionary Guard's top general, U.S. officials said Friday. The officials said a military airstrike targeted Abdul Reza Shahlai, a high-ranking commander in Iran's Islamic Republican Guard Corps but the mission was not successful. Officials said both Iranian Gen. Qassem Soleimani and Shahlai were on approved military targeting lists, which indicates a deliber
  
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• Pompeo faces questions about the 'imminent threat' that led to the strike on Iran's Soleimani

  10-01-2020 21:39 via news.yahoo.com
  
  In a briefing on Friday, Secretary of State Mike Pompeo insisted the U.S. government had “specific information” that Iran was planning an “imminent” attack on American facilities before President Trump ordered a drone strike that killed Gen. Qassem Soleimani. 
  
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• U.S. military tried to take out another Iranian leader, but failed

  10-01-2020 21:38 via news.yahoo.com
  
  The U.S. military tried, but failed, to take out another senior Iranian commander on the same day that an American airstrike killed a Revolutionary Guard commander, U.S. officials said Friday.
  
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• Trump news: Pelosi will send impeachment articles to Senate as president announces new Iran sanctions

  10-01-2020 21:35 via news.yahoo.com
  
  A judge in New York has refused a request by Donald Trump’s legal team to have a defamation lawsuit brought against him by the writer E Jean Carroll dismissed, ensuring her allegations of sexual assault are heard while the president seeks re-election.Mr Trump went after his domestic rivals over the Iran crisis during a wild campaign rally in Ohio on Thursday night, suggesting House speaker Nancy Pelosi would have leaked the US plan to assassinate Qassem Soleimani to the media had she had p
  
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• Nancy Pelosi lost the impeachment standoff

  10-01-2020 21:35 via news.yahoo.com
  
  After nearly a month of dithering, Nancy Pelosi is finally accepting defeat in her standoff with Mitch McConnell over impeachment. Despite insisting as recently as Thursday that she would wait to transmit the articles of impeachment against Donald Trump to the Senate until she was confident that the trial in the upper chamber would proceed on terms favorable to her party, she quietly backed down on Friday morning. Her letter to Democratic colleagues in the House announced that the articles would
  
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• Boy kills teacher, self in Mexico school shooting

  10-01-2020 21:34 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Torreón (Mexico) (AFP) - An 11-year-old boy shot and killed his teacher Friday at a school in northern Mexico and wounded six other people before killing himself, authorities said.As shocked Mexicans searched for explanations for the school shooting -- a rare event for the country -- officials said they were investigating a possible link to the Columbine High School massacre in the US in 1999.Panicked parents rushed to the private elementary school, the Colegio Cervantes, in Torreon as of
  
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• White House falsely claims 'Obama killed Gaddafi' to justify Soleimani strike

  10-01-2020 21:28 via news.yahoo.com
  
  White House spokesperson Hogan Gidley didn't do a great job defending his employer on this one.As Democrats and some Republicans continue to criticize President Trump's decision to assassinate Iranian Gen. Qassem Soleimani, Gidley chimed in to compare it to the killings of several controversial leaders during former President Barack Obama's presidency. But as journalists and former Obama officials made clear, Gidley's comparisons weren't exactly accurate.> Obama didn't kill Gaddafi -- a milit
  
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• Trump Says Iran Had Planned to Attack Four U.S. Embassies

  10-01-2020 21:28 via news.yahoo.com
  
  (Bloomberg) -- President Donald Trump said Iran had been targeting four American embassies before he ordered the killing of a top Iranian general.“I can reveal that I believe it would’ve been four embassies,” Trump said in an interview with Fox News’s Laura Ingraham scheduled to air Friday.On Thursday, Trump said Iran was “looking to blow up” the U.S. embassy in Baghdad, without mentioning the three other embassies.Trump ordered the Jan. 2 strike on Qassem Sol
  
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• Fed's on hold but next move may be rate cut, Kashkari says

  10-01-2020 21:21 via news.yahoo.com
  
  U.S. monetary policy is in a holding pattern for now, but the Federal Reserve's next move may well be to cut interest rates given signs the economy may be weakening, Minneapolis Federal Reserve Bank chief Neel Kashkari told Reuters on Friday."The fact that job growth appears to be more muted and wage growth is slowing doesn't tell me we are running out of workers, it tells me the underlying economy is slowing," Kashkari said in an interview in his office at his bank's headquarters, citing a repo
  
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• Pentagon: 'aggressive' Russian naval ship nearly caused Arabian Sea collision

  10-01-2020 21:18 via news.yahoo.com
  
  The Pentagon accused the Russian navy on Friday of aggressive actions in the Arabian Sea after one of its ships very nearly collided with a US Navy destroyer.The Russian ship ignored collision warning blasts from the USS Farragut and came extremely close before turning away, narrowly averting a crash on Thursday, said the US Navy 5th Fleet, which released video footage of the incident."While the Russian ship took action, the initial delay in complying with international rules while it was making
  
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• US destroyer fires warning blasts at Russian warship in Arabian Sea

  10-01-2020 21:09 via news.yahoo.com
  
  A Russian warship ignored warnings from a US Navy destroyer in the North Arabian Sea on Thursday as the Russian craft "aggressively approached" the vessel.Crew aboard the USS Farragut "fired five short blasts" to signal the Russian ship's danger of collision, according to a statement from the US Navy's Fifth Fleet. Video footage onboard the Farragut shows the Russian Navy's craft steering towards the destroyer and coming within 180 feet of its rear.
  
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• Ukraine Plane Crash: Roulette in the Sky

  10-01-2020 21:09 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Why did Iran not ground flights as its air space became a war zone? And why would a missile battery be so close an international airport? Those are just a couple of the questions surrounding the crash of Ukrainian International Airlines Flight PS752.How the Hell Do You Shoot Down a Passenger Jet by Accident?Well over 1,000 people flew out of Tehran on the night when Iran launched its cruise missile attack on U.S. bases in Iraq early Wednesday morning local time, and they were on exactly the same
  
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• Susan Collins says she's working with a small group of Republicans to ensure there will be witnesses at Trump's impeachment trial

  10-01-2020 21:06 via news.yahoo.com
  
  "We should be completely open to calling witnesses," Collins said on Friday, according to Maine's Bangor Daily News.
  
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• Russian ship 'aggressively approached' a US destroyer in North Arabian Sea, Navy says

  10-01-2020 21:02 via news.yahoo.com
  
  A Russian Navy ship "aggressively approached" a US destroyer conducting routine operations in the North Arabian Sea Thursday, the Navy said.
  
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• Former Bolivia minister leaves Mexican embassy, faces charges

  10-01-2020 21:02 via news.yahoo.com
  
  A former Bolivian minister who took refuge inside the Mexican ambassador's residence in La Paz has returned to his home and been placed under investigation for corruption.Three other ministers inside the Mexican diplomatic residence have been charged with sedition and terror-related offenses.
  
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• White House considering dramatic expansion of travel ban

  10-01-2020 20:50 via news.yahoo.com
  
  The White House is considering dramatically expanding its much-litigated travel ban to additional countries amid a renewed election-year focus on immigration by President Donald Trump, according to six people familiar with the deliberations.A document outlining the plans — timed to coincide with the third anniversary of Trump's January 2017 executive order — has been circulating the White House.The most recent iteration of the ban includes restrictions on five majority-Muslim nations
  
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• Egyptian restores historic synagogue, but few Jews remain

  10-01-2020 20:47 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Egypt reopened a historic synagogue on Friday in the Mediterranean coastal city of Alexandria after a yearslong government renovation.The country's Jews largely left more than 60 years ago amid the hostilities between Egypt and Israel.The two-story Eliyahu Hanavi synagogue in Alexandria partially collapsed in 2016.
  
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• Trump ordered Soleimani attack to appease Republicans he views as important for impeachment, report says

  10-01-2020 20:40 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Donald Trump ordered the airstrike that killed an Iranian general last week at least in part due to fears about his upcoming impeachment trial in the Senate, according to a new report.An article in the Wall Street Journal indicates that Mr Trump has told associates that he ordered the killing of Quds Force leader Qassem Soleimani amid pressure from Republicans who wanted him to take a stronger stance towards Iran.
  
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• Susan Collins Working with Group of Republican Senators to Allow Impeachment Witnesses

  10-01-2020 20:39 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Republican Senator Susan Collins said Friday that she is working with a “fairly small group” of GOP senators to arrange for witnesses to be called during the Senate impeachment trial of President Trump.“We should be completely open to calling witnesses,” Collins said, according to the Bangor Daily News. “I am hopeful that we can reach an agreement on how to proceed with the trial that will allow the opportunity for both the House and the president’s counsel if
  
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• Prepare for severe weather this weekend: Massive storm to bring tornadoes, floods, snow, ice

  10-01-2020 20:32 via news.yahoo.com
  
  A large, powerhouse storm is poised to deliver a variety of nasty weather across the U.S. starting this weekend.
  
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