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• Footballer cut after he's accused of punching woman who's pregnant with his baby

  20-11-2019 00:27 via CNN.com - RSS Channel - App International Edition
  
  The Miami Dolphins waived second-year running back Mark Walton after he was arrested Tuesday morning, with police accusing him of repeatedly punching the mother of his unborn child in the face.
  
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• Longtime Big Bird puppeteer dies at 85

  08-12-2019 20:23 via CNN.com - RSS Channel - App International Edition
  
  Caroll Spinney, the puppeteer who brought beloved "Sesame Street" characters Big Bird and Oscar the Grouch to life, died on Sunday, according to Sesame Workshop.
  
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• Life may soon become miserable for Senate Republicans

  08-12-2019 20:16 via CNN.com - RSS Channel - App International Edition
  
  With House Speaker Nancy Pelosi's decision to move forward with impeachment, and the White House decision not to participate in the House process, the impeachment of President Donald Trump is virtually sealed.
  
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• 5-Year-Old Carried a Toddler Through Minus 31-Degree Weather After Left Alone in Alaska Home

  08-12-2019 20:08 via Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines
  
  The children, who were dressed just in socks and light clothing, both received cold-related injuries
  
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• Brazil Scraps Envoy Trip to Fernandez Ceremony as Spat Worsens

  08-12-2019 20:06 via Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines
  
  (Bloomberg) -- Brazil’s government scrapped plans to send a delegate to Alberto Fernandez’s inauguration ceremony in Argentina, representing an escalation in tensions between South America’s top economies.President Jair Bolsonaro has opted not to send anyone to the Dec. 10 swearing-in ceremony in Buenos Aires, according to a Brazilian official with direct knowledge of the matter. The move comes after he decided that Citizenship Minister Osmar Terra will no longer represent Braz
  
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• Ukraine crowds protest over Russia summit

  08-12-2019 19:46 via Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines
  
  Some 5,000 Ukrainians rallied in Kiev on Sunday warning President Volodymyr Zelensky to resist pressure from Russia's Vladimir Putin when the two men meet on Monday for talks on the conflict in Ukraine's east.Protesters held placards with slogans such as "No to capitulation", "Stay away from Moscow" and "Russian gas is a noose around our necks" during the rally, led by Zelensky's political opponents.The two leaders are due to meet for the first time since Zelensky's election in April at the talk
  
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• Meet the lawyer at the center of the Trump universe

  08-12-2019 19:35 via Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines
  
  Marc Mukasey has deep, personal connections within President Trump’s orbit, and he has worked on a number of high-profile cases involving the president.
  
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• Nadler: Impeachment would be guilty verdict in '3 minutes flat'

  08-12-2019 19:28 via CNN.com - RSS Channel - App International Edition
  
  With sources telling CNN a vote in the Judiciary Committee to impeach President Donald Trump is expected as soon as this week, House Judiciary Chairman Jerry Nadler said Sunday that he sees the Ukraine evidence as part of "a pattern" of conduct by the President.
  
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• Ukrainians fear 'capitulation' to Putin amid worries of waning US support

  08-12-2019 19:14 via CNN.com - RSS Channel - App International Edition
  
  As the US pushes forward with impeachment hearings into President Donald Trump and his dealings with Volodymyr Zelensky, the Ukrainian leader is set to sit down Monday with the man overseeing another conflict involving his country: Russian President Vladimir Putin.
  
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• One of USS Arizona's last survivors interred on sunken warship

  08-12-2019 18:49 via CNN.com - RSS Channel - App International Edition
  
  A World War II veteran who was the second-to-last man to escape the USS Arizona during the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor was interred on the ship's wreckage on Saturday.
  
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• Children aged 11 and 12 charged with killing boy who was hit by car

  08-12-2019 18:44 via Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines
  
  Authorities have charged two children with involuntary manslaughter after another child was hit by a car and killed, apparently following an argument.Police said they charged the suspects, an 11-year-old boy and a 12-year-old girl, after interviewing them at a police station in Charlotte, North Carolina.
  
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• Catholic Celebrity to Challenge Polish President in 2020 Vote

  08-12-2019 18:22 via Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines
  
  (Bloomberg) -- Szymon Holownia, a TV show host and writer known for his Catholic views, announced plans to run against incumbent Andrzej Duda in next year’s presidential election.The 43-year-old political newcomer focused his announcement on social solidarity, climate protection and higher standards in Polish politics, characterized by what he called “a devouring clinch” between the ruling Law & Justice and the main opposition party Civic Platform.“It’s time for
  
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• Hong Kong protesters keep up pressure with mass march

  08-12-2019 18:21 via CNN.com - RSS Channel - App International Edition
  
  The organizers of the large-scale demonstrations which kicked off Hong Kong's months-long protest movement earlier this year are taking to the streets again Sunday, in a bid to maintain pressure on the city'sgovernment following the success of pro-democracy groups at recent elections.
  
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• Flu season arrives early, driven by an unexpected virus

  08-12-2019 18:20 via Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines
  
  The winter flu season is off to its earliest start in more than 15 years. An early wave of illness in the South has begun to spread more broadly, and there’s a chance flu season could peak much earlier than normal, health officials say.
  
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• 'Last and most extraordinary resort': House Democrats release report on legal basis for impeachment

  08-12-2019 18:07 via Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines
  
  "President Trump abused his power, betrayed our national security, and corrupted our elections, all for personal gain," said Chairman Nadler.
  
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• Ukrainians Are Sick of Trump, Impeachment and Being Talked About

  08-12-2019 17:58 via Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines
  
  (Bloomberg) -- Ukrainian leader Volodymyr Zelenskiy is getting used to being peppered with questions about Donald Trump.At a briefing during a recent tour of the Baltic region, he interrupted an interpreter relaying a question from a reporter.“Even without knowing your beautiful language, I understood,” he said. “We’re in Estonia now, but unfortunately everyone’s interested in what’s happening with Trump. I’m interested in relations between our countries
  
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• Trump warns Kim has 'everything' to lose through hostility

  08-12-2019 17:57 via Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines
  
  President Donald Trump warned on Sunday that North Korea's Kim Jong-un had "everything" to lose through hostility towards the United States, after Pyongyang said it had carried out a major new weapons test. "Kim Jong Un is too smart and has far too much to lose, everything actually, if he acts in a hostile way," Mr Trump tweeted in response to the unspecified test at the Sohae space launch center. The announcement of Saturday's test came just hours after Mr Trump said he would be "surprised" by
  
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• Katie Hill: It's Not Over After All

  08-12-2019 17:55 via Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines
  
  I OVERCAME THE DESPERATION I FELT AFTER STEPPING DOWN FROM CONGRESS, AND I'M STILL IN THE FIGHT.On Nov. 6, 2018, I was elected to Congress; at 31, I was one of the youngest women ever elected to the House of Representatives. One year later, I was sitting on a train to New York to meet with my lawyers about suing The Daily Mail for cyber exploitation -- and I was no longer a member of Congress.A few days earlier, on Oct. 31, 2019, I stepped up to the microphone to deliver my final speech on the h
  
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• 'I Got Tired of Hunting Black and Hispanic People'

  08-12-2019 17:55 via Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines
  
  NEW YORK -- At a police station tucked into an end-of-the-line subway terminal in South Brooklyn, the new commander instructed officers to think of white and Asian people as "soft targets" and urged them to instead go after blacks and Latinos for minor offenses like jumping the turnstile, a half-dozen officers said in sworn statements."You are stopping too many Russian and Chinese," one of the officers, Daniel Perez, recalled the commander telling him earlier this decade.Another officer, Aaron D
  
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• Secret Service agent who planned JFK's Dallas motorcade dies at 91

  08-12-2019 17:46 via CNN.com - RSS Channel - App International Edition
  
  Winston Lawson, the Secret Service agent who planned President John F. Kennedy's motorcade route in Dallas and rode in a car immediately in front when Kennedy was assassinated, died November 7 in Norfolk, Virginia, his son, Jeff Lawson, told CNN.
  
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• Rep. Mark Meadows Denies Trump Asked Ukraine About Biden: ‘He Didn’t Do That’

  08-12-2019 17:42 via Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines
  
  Rep. Mark Meadows (R-NC) denied on Sunday morning that President Donald Trump ever asked the Ukrainian president to investigate Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden, contradicting President Donald Trump’s own words.During an interview on CNN’s State of the Union, host Dana Bash immediately noted that the central charge of the impeachment inquiry against Trump is that “the president asked a leader of a foreign country to investigate his political rival.”“So, o
  
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• Rapper and singer Juice Wrld dead at 21

  08-12-2019 17:32 via CNN.com - RSS Channel - App International Edition
  
  Rapper and singer Juice Wrld has died in Chicago, the Cook County Medical Examiner's Office said Sunday.
  
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• North Dakota county may become US's 1st to bar new refugees

  08-12-2019 17:19 via Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines
  
  Reuben Panchol was forced to leave war-torn Sudan decades ago as a child, embarking on an odyssey that eventually brought him to the American Midwest and left him eternally grateful to the country that took him in.“I am an American citizen, a North Dakotan,” said Panchol, a 38-year-old father of four.If they vote to bar refugees, as expected, Burleigh County — home to about 95,000 people and the capital city of Bismarck — could become the first local government to do so s
  
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• Iran unveils 'budget of resistance' backed by $5bn Russian loan

  08-12-2019 17:10 via Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines
  
  Iran's President Hassan Rouhani announced Sunday a "budget of resistance" against US sanctions targeting the country's vital oil sector, backed by a $5 billion Russian investment. Rouhani said the aim was to reduce "hardships" in Iran where a shock fuel price hike last month triggered nationwide demonstrations that turned deadly. After unilaterally withdrawing from a 2015 nuclear deal between Iran and world powers in May last year, the US began imposing sanctions on Tehr
  
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• Biden, 'The Irishman' and the enduring power of aging white men

  08-12-2019 17:09 via CNN.com - RSS Channel - App International Edition
  
  Joe Biden this week had a tense exchange with an audience member during an Iowa town hall who had asserted, among other things, that the former vice president is "too old" to helm the White House.
  
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• American soldiers banned from Italian main street after vicious brawl

  08-12-2019 16:59 via Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines
  
  Around 2,000 US Army soldiers have been banned from one of the main streets in the Italian city of Vicenza after a  brawl between soldiers and locals.  The temporary ban, which affects members of the 173rd Airborne Brigade stationed in the city, involves the quaint via  Contra' Pescherie Vecchie, where two young Vicenza men say they were surrounded and beaten by several soldiers after a verbal exchange just outside a popular watering hole for off duty combat paratroopers.  &l
  
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• Syrian Kurds who fled Turkish incursion head home to 'die with dignity'

  08-12-2019 16:57 via Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines
  
  Hundreds of Syrian Kurds have returned home over recent weeks despite fears for their safety, amid complaints that thousands have been ‘imprisoned’ in refugee camps in Iraq with little access to food, healthcare and work. Over the past month, around 100 people have been voluntarily returning each week from camps in Iraq after fleeing northern Syria at the start of a Turkish offensive in October designed to force out Kurdish forces. With winter setting in and resources dwindling, the
  
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• Desperate Syrian Kurds who fled Turkish incursion head home to uncertainty

  08-12-2019 16:57 via Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines
  
  Hundreds of Syrian Kurds have returned home over recent weeks despite fears for their safety, amid complaints that thousands have been ‘imprisoned’ in refugee camps in Iraq with little access to food, healthcare and work. Over the past month, around 100 people have been voluntarily returning each week from camps in Iraq after fleeing northern Syria at the start of a Turkish offensive in October designed to force out Kurdish forces. With winter setting in and resources dwindling, the
  
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• Nadler says committee vote on impeachment possible this week

  08-12-2019 16:49 via Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines
  
  Speeding toward impeachment, the chairman of the House Judiciary Committee said Sunday he expects a committee vote soon on charges against President Donald Trump that will focus on abuse of power on Ukrainein a bid to get an unfair advantage in U.S. electionsand obstruction in the congressional inquiry.“We’ll bring articles of impeachment presumably before the committee at some point later in the week," said Rep. Jerrold Nadler, D-N.Y.Last week, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif.,
  
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• Court weighs whether Boston Marathon bomber got a fair trial

  08-12-2019 16:46 via Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines
  
  A federal appeals court in Boston will consider whether Boston Marathon bomber Dzhokhar Tsarnaev received a fair trial in the city where the bombs exploded.Oral arguments before the 1st U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals are scheduled for Thursday, according to The Boston Globe.Tsarnaev was convicted and sentenced to death in 2015 for carrying out the April 15, 2013, attack at the marathon finish line with his older brother Tamerlan Tsarnaev, who was killed by authorities.
  
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