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• UFOs: Where your state ranks for unexplained sightings

  02-07-2019 23:42 via news.yahoo.com
  The five states with the most UFO sightings per capita are in the north, a new report says. The least frequent sightings of UFOs come from the south.
  
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• Trump administration to print census forms without citizenship question

  02-07-2019 23:31 via news.yahoo.com
  The Trump administration announced Tuesday that the 2020 census questionnaire will be printed without a citizenship question.
  
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• House Democrats Sue Treasury, IRS Head for Trump Tax Returns

  02-07-2019 23:24 via news.yahoo.com
  (Bloomberg) -- House Democrats asked a U.S. court to force the Treasury Department to turn over six years of President Donald Trump’s personal and business tax returns.The long-expected lawsuit filed in a Washington federal court on Tuesday is Congress’s latest attempt to assert oversight over the executive branch, as the Trump administration has either rejected or ignored various subpoenas since Democrats took the majority in the House in January."In refusing to comply with the stat
  
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• Poll: Two-Thirds of Voters Say Citizenship Question Should Be Allowed on Census

  02-07-2019 23:16 via news.yahoo.com
  Two-thirds of voters support allowing the U.S. census to include a question about an individual's citizenship status, disagreeing with the Supreme Court's decision to block the question.In a Harvard CAPS/Harris poll released Tuesday, 67 percent of respondents said the question, "Is this person a citizen of the United States?" should be allowed on the census. That number included about 88 percent of Republicans, 52 percent of Democrats, and 63 percent of independents agreed."The public here
  
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• Suspect in woman's death barred from campus, report says

  02-07-2019 23:08 via news.yahoo.com
  A man arrested in the death of a Utah college student whose charred remains were found in his backyard was banned from the campus of Utah State University in 2012, according to documents released on Tuesday.The school took the step after Ayoola A. Ajayi's student visa expired and he was arrested on suspicion of having a stolen an iPad, a misdemeanor, according to university police reports.Jail documents show Ajayi is now a U.S. citizen.
  
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• EU, France, Germany and UK urge Iran to reverse uranium decision

  02-07-2019 23:06 via news.yahoo.com
  The diplomatic chiefs of the EU, France, Germany and Britain said Tuesday they were "extremely concerned" and urged Iran to reverse its decision to breach a limit on enriched uranium reserves under a 2015 nuclear deal."We urge Iran to reverse this step and to refrain from further measures that undermine the nuclear deal," said the joint statement signed by EU diplomatic chief Federica Mogherini and the three countries' foreign ministers -- France's Jean-Yves Le Drian, Germany's Heiko Maas and Br
  
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• Toyota Prius Stalling Problems Continue, Highlighted by a Dealer’s Lawsuit over Five-Year Problem

  02-07-2019 23:00 via news.yahoo.com
  Three recalls to fix more than 800,000 cars have allegedly not remedied tens of thousands of reported failures.
  
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• Harris surges, Biden slips after debates: polls

  02-07-2019 23:00 via news.yahoo.com
  The two Democratic presidential candidate debates appear to have reshuffled the deck in the crowded field, with California Senator Kamala Harris surging and former vice president Joe Biden slipping.Three polls conducted since last week's debates have shown eroding support for the 76-year-old Biden, who has been the frontrunner since entering the race for the 2020 Democratic presidential nomination in late April.Harris, the 54-year-old junior senator from California, picked up substantial backing
  
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• Trump's Fourth of July extravaganza troubles former military leaders

  02-07-2019 22:48 via news.yahoo.com
  "This looks like it’s becoming much more of a Republican Party event," says one retired general.
  
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• Jury reviews testimony on knife in Navy SEAL murder case

  02-07-2019 22:45 via news.yahoo.com
  A jury of seasoned combat veterans reviewed the partial testimony of a prosecution witness Tuesday before resuming deliberations in the murder case of a decorated Navy SEAL accused of fatally stabbing a wounded war prisoner in Iraq and shooting civilians in separate incidents in 2017.Jurors took notes as they listened to a recording of Lt. Thomas MacNeil, the first of nearly a dozen SEALs who testified at the court-martial of Special Operations Chief Edward Gallagher at Naval Base San Diego.MacN
  
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• Silver Frost 1966 Ford Mustang Fastback Will Send Chills Down Your Back

  02-07-2019 22:32 via news.yahoo.com
  Better act fast on this Fastback deal. Vintage Car Collector is pleased to announce this stunning 1966 Ford Mustang Fastback for sale. It will set you back about $44,000, but it’s worth it for such a rare and sought-after classic that will only go up in value from here. This silver-on-black ’66 Mustang Fastback has under 50,000 miles on the dash and its whole life ahead of it. You will get many smiles to the gallon for years to come, as well as heads turning no matter where you take
  
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• Texas migrant detention facilities 'dangerously overcrowded' – US government report

  02-07-2019 22:21 via news.yahoo.com
  Report from government’s own auditors includes images of children and adults penned into roomsA picture of an overcrowded area holding families at a border patrol facility in Weslaco, released as part of a report by the US Department of Homeland Security’s Office of Inspector General. Photograph: Handout/ReutersNew images of children and adults in “dangerously” overcrowded US border patrol facilities in Texas have been released as part of a report from government auditors
  
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• Federal Inspectors Release Photos to Blast DHS for ‘Dangerous’ Overcrowding at Border Facilities

  02-07-2019 22:17 via news.yahoo.com
  CBPA Republican congressman dismissed a constituent’s concerns about the migrant detention crisis during a heated town hall meeting over the weekend, telling her that children being held in squalid conditions in U.S. Customs and Border Protection facilities are free to leave whenever they want.“The people that are there, they can leave,” said Rep. Jim Hagedorn (R-MN), a first-term congressman. “Nobody is holding them against their will—they can leave.”The rema
  
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• Trump administration charging undocumented immigrants $500,000 ahead of planned mass raids

  02-07-2019 21:58 via news.yahoo.com
  Donald Trump’s White House has sent notices of fines totalling nearly $500,000 (£396,715) to some undocumented immigrants in recent weeks, as the federal government prepares to conduct sweeping immigration raids nationwide after the 4 July holiday. Letters notifying undocumented immigrants of the administration’s intention were obtained by NPR, which included copies of the statements in a report published on Tuesday afternoon.The US department of homeland security stated the fi
  
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• The U.S. is 'headed to fascism,' says Ocasio-Cortez after tour of detention facilities at southern border

  02-07-2019 21:58 via news.yahoo.com
  Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez called the conditions at U.S. migrant detention facilities “horrifying” in an interview Monday evening and doubled down on her comparisons of the situation at the border to World War II.
  
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• Hong Kong grapples with protest aftermath as China demands criminal probe

  02-07-2019 21:49 via news.yahoo.com
  Hong Kong on Tuesday grappled with the aftermath of unprecedented anti-government protests which saw parliament ransacked, as Beijing called for a criminal probe into the unparalleled challenge to its authority.The semi-autonomous financial hub has been thrown into crisis by weeks of demonstrations over a bill that would allow extraditions to the Chinese mainland, with the issue becoming a lightning rod for resentment towards Beijing.On Monday -- the 22nd anniversary of the city's handover to Ch
  
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• Iran trying to 'blackmail' world by violating nuclear deal: Netanyahu

  02-07-2019 21:31 via news.yahoo.com
  Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Tuesday accused Iran of breaching the nuclear deal in order to "blackmail" the international community into relieving economic pressure on the Islamic republic."This week Iran openly violated the nuclear deal by increasing the stockpile of enriched uranium (to beyond that) allowed under the deal," Netanyahu said at an early reception in Jerusalem marking the United States' July 4 independence day.Iran said Monday it had exceeded a limit on its enriche
  
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• Kamala Harris Vaults Into Second Place as Joe Biden Slips After First Debate

  02-07-2019 21:21 via news.yahoo.com
  (Bloomberg) -- The first debate shuffled the Democratic presidential race, vaulting Kamala Harris into second place and highlighting vulnerabilities for front-runner Joe Biden.Meanwhile, Elizabeth Warren continues to rise and 2016 runner-up Bernie Sanders is slipping as voters search for alternatives in the historically large field of candidates.That’s the conclusion from four polls taken since last week’s debate that also show those four candidates clearly make up the top tier at th
  
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• Huawei Remains Blocked From US 5G: White House Trade Advisor

  02-07-2019 21:07
  China's telecoms giant Huawei remains barred from the development of 5G wireless networks in the United States, a senior White House trade advisor said Tuesday.
  "US policy on Huawei with respect to 5g in this country has not changed," Peter Navarro told CNBC.
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• Adware Gathers 9 Million Downloads in Google Play

  02-07-2019 20:59
  A recently identified adware campaign has gathered over 9 million downloads via 111 infected applications distributed through Google Play, Trend Micro’s security researchers reveal.
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• Harris surges, Biden slips after debate: new poll

  02-07-2019 20:57 via news.yahoo.com
  Senator Kamala Harris has received a surge in support among Democrats following last week's US presidential candidate debate while former vice president Joe Biden has slipped, according to a poll published Tuesday.Twenty percent of Democrats surveyed in the Quinnipiac University poll said they backed Harris, the junior senator from California, up from just seven percent in a June 11 Quinnipiac poll.Biden, who served as vice president under Barack Obama and has been seen as the frontrunner in the
  
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• Exclusive: Migrant children report verbal abuse, threats while in Border Patrol custody

  02-07-2019 20:51 via news.yahoo.com
  Migrant children kept in Customs and Border Protection custody have faced unsanitary conditions, verbal abuse and threats since arriving in the country, reports submitted to the Office of Refugee Resettlement by clinicians and case managers show.
  
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• The Honda e Urban EV Is a Small, Lightweight, and Torquey Recipe Destined for Fun

  02-07-2019 20:50 via news.yahoo.com
  The little electric commuter packs 148 horsepower and 221 lb-ft of torque.
  
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• US vice president cancels trip, sparking speculation

  02-07-2019 20:49 via news.yahoo.com
  A representative of Pence told an audience in New Hampshire -- where the vice president was scheduled to give a speech on drug addiction -- that he had been "called back" to Washington.The vice president was asked to return to Washington," said a Pence office representative, Randy Gentry, in a video posted online.
  
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• Video: Vintage MotorWeek Compares A Camaro Z/28, Mustang GT in 1982

  02-07-2019 20:48 via news.yahoo.com
  Masters of malaise muscle.Watching old car reviews might be the best way to kill time on YouTube, and with 38 seasons of video reviews under its belt, MotorWeek definitely has some of the best. If you're into malaise-era performance vehicles, the retro comparison review between the 1982 Chevrolet Camaro Z/28 and 1982 Ford Mustang GT is a must-see. At the time, the Camaro was all new entering its third generation, while the Fox-body Mustang was three years old and was still more than a decade awa
  
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• Biden Support Shrinks in Second Post-Debate Poll as Harris Rises

  02-07-2019 20:42 via news.yahoo.com
  (Bloomberg) -- Joe Biden is barely clinging to front-runner status and Bernie Sanders has fallen sharply as Democratic voters give new attention to Kamala Harris and Elizabeth Warren after their strong debate performances.Biden remains at the head of the pack of Democratic presidential contenders -- though barely -- in a Quinnipiac University national poll released Tuesday. The former vice president had support from 22% followed by Harris with 20%, a result within the margin of error. Warren had
  
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• Americans Want to Protect Their Information, but Don't Know How: Survey

  02-07-2019 20:40
  Americans are keen on security, but do not necessarily understand it. This is the conclusion of a new survey of 1,300 Americans undertaken by YouGov, which basically suggests that attitudes towards cybersecurity exceed actions taken to ensure cybersecurity.
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• Senator Warren asks former FDA chief Gottlieb to resign from Pfizer board

  02-07-2019 20:15 via news.yahoo.com
  U.S. Senator Elizabeth Warren urged former U.S. Food and Drug Administration Commissioner Scott Gottlieb to immediately step down from Pfizer Inc's board, three months after his departure from the health regulator.Gottlieb, who won bipartisan support for his efforts to curb use of flavored e-cigarettes by youths, stepped down from the FDA in April, a role he had held since May 2017.
  
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• Man who claimed to have protected students during school shooting revealed to be a hoax

  02-07-2019 20:08 via news.yahoo.com
  A man who gained media attention after claiming he saved students from a mass shooting while working as a substitute teacher never worked at the school, officials say.David Briscoe had spoken to numerous news organisations in the wake of the May 2018 Santa Fe High School shooting in Texas, which left 10 people dead and thirteen others wounded.He recounted stories of barricading children from an English class into their room, telling them to find cover and muffle their screams to avoid detection.
  
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• Christine Lagarde continues to break glass ceilings

  02-07-2019 19:53 via news.yahoo.com
  Christine Lagarde has made a career out of breaking glass ceilings in the halls of international finance and is now poised to break one more, leading the European Central Bank.The former lawyer was the first woman to serve as finance minister from any Group of Seven nation and then the first to lead the International Monetary Fund.The silver-haired Lagarde, 63, took the helm in 2011 in the aftermath of the global financial crisis, and is credited with steering the Washington-based IMF through tu
  
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• Mike Pence abruptly returns to White House as reports of ‘emergency’ situation spark online misinformation

  02-07-2019 19:48 via news.yahoo.com
  Vice President Mike Pence was sent back to the White House on Tuesday after originally being scheduled to attend an event on the nationwide opioid crisis in New Hampshire. The development of Mr Pence’s abrupt change in plans was initially reported by Fox News, which stated the vice president was returning to Washington due to an “emergency”. However, officials declined to publicly cite the reason for the change throughout the day, sparking confusion and apparent online misinfor
  
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• Cruz Asks DHS to Create Process for Collecting Donations to Migrants in U.S. Custody

  02-07-2019 19:45 via news.yahoo.com
  Senator Ted Cruz on Monday sent a letter to the Department of Homeland Security asking for the creation of a process that would allow DHS to accept donations meant for migrants in U.S. custody.Currently, no such process for collecting a distributing privately donated aid exists, which has caused generous citizens who have offered supplies to overcrowded migrant-detention facilities to be turned away.Curz called on Acting Secretary of Homeland Security Kevin McAleenan to "establish and publi
  
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• Best Grocery Stores for Your Fourth of July Weekend Cookout

  02-07-2019 19:43 via news.yahoo.com
  Rather than toss any old burgers and dogs on the grill this July 4th weekend, take a minute to think about where you’ll buy your cookout fixings. In addition to fresh food for grilling, you might...
  
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• AP analysis: Trump smiles with North Korea, threatens Iran

  02-07-2019 19:34 via news.yahoo.com
  With North Korea, President Donald Trump puts on the charm.Nuclear weapons are at the heart of the difficult U.S. relations with both Pyongyang and Tehran.Kim Jong Un has seemed as willing to meet with Trump as the U.S. president has been to talk and shake hands for the cameras with him.
  
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• Jury deliberates case of Navy SEAL charged with murder

  02-07-2019 19:31 via news.yahoo.com
  The panel sought the testimony of Lt. Thomas MacNeil, the first of nearly a dozen SEALs who testified at the court-martial of Special Operations Chief Edward Gallagher at Naval Base San Diego.MacNeil, a former roommate of Gallagher, identified the defendant's special knife and described hearing a radio transmission that an airstrike in support of Iraqi forces had wounded an Islamic State fighter."I heard Chief Gallagher announce, 'Lay off, he's mine,'" MacNeil said.
  
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• Pence's abrupt travel cancellation sparks speculation

  02-07-2019 19:29 via news.yahoo.com
  Pence was previously scheduled to travel to Manchester, N.H.
  
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• The Latest: European powers concerned about Iran nuke deal

  02-07-2019 19:27 via news.yahoo.com
  European powers that have been trying to preserve the nuclear deal with Iran are underlining their concern at Tehran exceeding its stockpile limit for low-enriched uranium and their demand that it comply in full with the accord.
  
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• Trump's Political Plan for the Palestinian-Israeli Conflict

  02-07-2019 19:19 via news.yahoo.com
  A few days after President Donald Trump’s son-in-law and senior adviser, Jared Kushner, unveiled the U.S. economic peace plan in Bahrain, Trump addressed the topic during a press conference at the end of the G20 summit in Japan. The president said that there would never be an Israeli-Palestinian peace agreement if one is not negotiated during his presidency. He also opined that there is a “very good chance” his proposal for solving the decades-long conflict could succeed.The co
  
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• Secret Service agent who served president dies in tragic accident

  02-07-2019 19:14 via news.yahoo.com
  Special Agent Stephanie Hancock died Saturday after her body was recovered around 9:30 pm, approximately six hours after she was last seen when her kayak capsized in a Maryland river. The veteran U.S. Secret Service agent, who had last served on a Presidential Protective Detail, was with her boyfriend at the time of the accident and, according to officials, he attempted to rescue her to no avail.
  
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• Know This: A U.S.-Iran War Would Not Be Fought Only in Iran

  02-07-2019 19:11 via news.yahoo.com
  Residents in northern Cyprus were surprised on July 1 when a S-200 missile slammed into the side of a mountain in the wake of an Israeli airstrike in northern Syria. Israel has targeted Iranian bases and weapons transfers to Hezbollah more than a thousand times in the last seven years. Iran has threatened to respond, but Tehran now faces larger concerns as it wrestles with Washington and seeks to raise tensions in both the Gulf, Iraq and Yemen among its allies and proxies.An arc of simmering con
  
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• Australian man dies 10 days after eating gecko at party

  02-07-2019 19:00 via news.yahoo.com
  An Australian family is still grieving over the unexpected loss of their father, who fell gravely ill after allegedly eating a gecko on a dare.
  
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• Threat Actor Targets Libyans with Malware via Facebook

  02-07-2019 18:54
  A threat group has been targeting mobile and desktop users in Libya with malware through Facebook pages, Check Point has discovered.
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• Biden’s Flip-Flops on China

  02-07-2019 18:44 via news.yahoo.com
  Democratic candidate and former Vice President Joe Biden has been ridiculed for his recent flip-flopping on China, but few have noticed that his original pronouncement actually revealed a disagreement with former President Barack Obama.Here is what Biden said while campaigning in Iowa in May: “China is going to eat our lunch? Come on, man. . . . They’re not competition for us.”In New Hampshire, a few weeks later, he reiterated these sentiments: “Our workers
  
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• Bruce Schneier Moves on from IBM

  02-07-2019 18:36
  Bruce Schneier announced in a brief blog post, "I'm leaving IBM." His three-year stint with what he calls "the nicely ambiguous title of 'Special Advisor'" ended at the end of June 2019. He gives no specific future plans beyond saying that he will continue to write, speak, teach and occasionally consult.
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• Defending Downwind as the Cyberwar Heats up

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• 'Help, 40 days here': Photos show migrants crammed into U.S. border facilities

  02-07-2019 18:29 via news.yahoo.com
  WASHINGTON/NEW YORK (Reuters) - Government investigators warned of dangerous overcrowding at more migrant facilities on the southwest U.S. border, publishing photos on Tuesday of packed cells in Texas' Rio Grande Valley where some children have no access to showers or hot meals.The DHS watchdog issued the report after June visits to five U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) agency facilities inthe Rio Grande Valley (RGV) sector, the busiest area of the border for migrant arrests.
  
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• Iran's Guards kill two militants in northwestern region - Fars

  02-07-2019 18:27 via news.yahoo.com
  Iran's elite Revolutionary Guards killed two members of an "anti-revolutionary terrorist" group in a security operation in the northwest of the country, the semi-official Fars news agency reported on Tuesday.Fars did not identify the group but clashes are common in the area with Iranian Kurdish militant groups based in Iraq and the Party of Free Life of Kurdistan (PJAK), which has links to Turkey’s militant Kurdish Workers’ Party (PKK).
  
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• Nike pulls sneaker after Kaepernick objection, prompting Republican fury

  02-07-2019 18:23 via news.yahoo.com
  ‘Betsy Ross Flag’ featuring 13 stars in a circle is embraced by white nationalists – Republicans criticize move, calling it ‘anti-American’Nike’s Air Max 1 sneakers, features 13 white stars in a circle. The flag has been embraced by white nationalists and the American Nazi party. Photograph: Lucas Jackson/ReutersNike has withdrawn a pair of shoes featuring an early version of the American flag that has been embraced by white nationalists, after former NFL quar
  
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• White House, border officials push back against detention critics

  02-07-2019 18:18 via news.yahoo.com
  The White House and US Customs and Border Protection (CBP) officials pushed back Tuesday against criticism from Democratic lawmakers who toured migrant detention facilities and denounced conditions there."Everybody who has control over that facility, or control for the Border Patrol, has said that's not true, they’ve not heard of this," Conway said.
  
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• US Border Patrol chief responds to lewd officer Facebook group, after reports of 'hostility' from members of congress

  02-07-2019 17:59 via news.yahoo.com
  The US Border Patrol has responded to reports that a Facebook group allegedly made up of past and present members was rampant with racist, sexist and xenophobic posts.In an interview with CNN’s Brooke Baldwin, US Border Patrol Chief of Operations Brian Hastings said that “each one of these allegations will be thoroughly investigated”.On Monday, ProPublica reported that a closed Facebook group joined only by invitation contained roughly 9,500 members, thought to be current or pa
  
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