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• Trump cancels Poland visit as hurricane heads for Florida

  29-08-2019 23:49 via news.yahoo.com
  US President Donald Trump on Thursday cancelled a trip to Poland as Hurricane Dorian bore down on Florida, where it could make landfall as a dangerous Category 4 storm.Trump, who had been scheduled to attend World War II anniversary commemorations in Poland this weekend, said he would focus instead on preparations for the approaching hurricane.Vice President Mike Pence would go to Poland in his place, Trump said.
  
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• US discards thousands of donated kidneys each year as patients die on waitlist, study says

  29-08-2019 23:47 via news.yahoo.com
  About 12 people die every day waiting for a kidney, while at least 10 kidneys are discarded daily.
  
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• The Pentagon was apparently blindsided by a Trump administration move that affects some children of deployed troops

  29-08-2019 23:47 via news.yahoo.com
  A new policy affecting the citizenship of children born to some US service members appears to have surprised the Department of Defense.
  
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• Kentucky principal who faces child porn charges once banned books with 'homosexual content'

  29-08-2019 23:40 via news.yahoo.com
  Phillip Todd Wilson has been charged with 30 counts of child pornography-related offenses. He once banned books with 'homosexual content.'
  
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• WATCH: Video of raid on Jeffrey Epstein's Palm Beach mansion reveals home decorated in part with illicit photos

  29-08-2019 23:34 via news.yahoo.com
  In 2005 the Palm Beach Police Department conducted a raid on the Palm Beach mansion of Jeffrey Epstein. Newly obtained footage of the raid revealed a home decorated in part with multiple nude photos and paintings of young women. Included in the photos is one of a naked woman lying on a sandy beach, reportedly Epstein's ex-girlfriend and alleged madam Ghislaine Maxwell.
  
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• Video of raid on Jeffrey Epstein's Palm Beach mansion reveals home decorated in part with illicit photos

  29-08-2019 23:34 via news.yahoo.com
  In 2005 the Palm Beach Police Department conducted a raid on the Palm Beach mansion of Jeffrey Epstein. Newly obtained footage of the raid revealed a home decorated in part with multiple nude photos and paintings of young women. Included in the photos is one of a naked woman lying on a sandy beach, reportedly Epstein's ex-girlfriend and alleged madam Ghislaine Maxwell.
  
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• Final lineup set for ABC Democratic primary debate; de Blasio, others miss cut

  29-08-2019 23:28 via news.yahoo.com
  Eight months into the campaign season, the third matchup in a series of Democratic National Committee-sanctioned primary debates will feature a winnowed field. It's the smallest qualifying roster yet for a debate with 20 candidates still in the running.
  
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• Mattis suggests he might not like Trump 'one fricking bit' but says he's holding fire on him — for now

  29-08-2019 23:18 via news.yahoo.com
  The widely respected former defense secretary says he is keeping his criticisms of Trump to himself for now, but this won't last "forever."
  
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• Exclusive: Second homicide identified in string of deaths at VA hospital; family 'floored'

  29-08-2019 23:13 via news.yahoo.com
  The death of veteran George Shaw, 81, in April 2018 was ruled a homicide, one of 10 suspicious deaths at a Veterans Affairs hospital in West Virginia.
  
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• Surgeon General to teens and pregnant women: Weed is way too risky for developing brains

  29-08-2019 23:09 via news.yahoo.com
  'No amount of marijuana use in pregnancy or adolescence is safe,' said Surgeon General Jerome Adams.
  
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• Prosecutors are looking into the network of women they believe Jeffrey Epstein used to recruit underage girls for sex-trafficking

  29-08-2019 23:09 via news.yahoo.com
  The convicted sex offender was charged with sex trafficking and accused of molesting dozens of underage girls. The case was dismissed after his death.
  
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• Israel: Iran, Hezbollah intensifying missile efforts

  29-08-2019 23:09 via news.yahoo.com
  "Today we uncovered part of Iran and Hezbollah's precision missile project.Hezbollah denies harboring missile factories.Israel considers Iran to be its greatest enemy and has identified Hezbollah as the most potent military threat on its borders.
  
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• The next big ‘Pokemon’ mobile game is out now for free on iOS and Android

  29-08-2019 23:04 via news.yahoo.com
  There were Pokemon games on mobile devices before Pokemon Go arrived, and several have been released in the years since, but none have had even a fraction of the impact as Niantic's mega-hit. That might change this week, as DeNA and The Pokemon Company have teamed up for a new game called Pokemon Masters.Pokemon Masters follows trainers who visit the artificial island of Pasio to compete in the Pokemon Masters League, which consists of a series of 3-on-3 tournaments where every trainer can only
  
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• Why President Trump Cut a Methane Regulation That Even Big Oil Companies Wanted to Keep

  29-08-2019 23:03 via news.yahoo.com
  The decision to side with a group of smaller fossil fuel producers shows the influence these companies retain within the administration
  
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• Trump may have made up 'high-level' Chinese phone calls at the G7 summit to boost jolted markets

  29-08-2019 22:55 via news.yahoo.com
  "We were called and we're going to start very shortly to negotiate," Trump said. But China said the calls never happened.
  
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• North Korea says it won't give up arms modernization

  29-08-2019 22:48 via news.yahoo.com
  North Korea accused the United Kingdom, France and Germany on Thursday of meddling in its "self-defensive measures for arms modernization," saying the West will make "no greater mistake" than thinking Pyongyang will give up its right to have weapons that it says are needed to ensure peace.The North's official Korean Central News Agency circulated a statement from Kim Son Gyong, an adviser at the Korea-Europe Association, in response to a joint statement Tuesday from the three important U.S. alli
  
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• Israel Is Escalating Its Shadow War With Iran. Here's What to Know

  29-08-2019 22:35 via news.yahoo.com
  Israel-attributed attacks on targets in Syria, Lebanon and Iraq highlight the risks of a wider confrontation
  
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• Woman cleared of murder charges after 35 years in prison gets $3 million

  29-08-2019 22:19 via news.yahoo.com
  A woman who spent 35 years in prison for a Nevada murder she didn't commit before she was exonerated by DNA evidence will get $3 million in a partial settlement of a federal civil rights lawsuit, her attorney said Wednesday.
  
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• Ohio man accused of planning to attack Jewish center faces federal charge

  29-08-2019 22:17 via news.yahoo.com
  James Reardon, 20, whose case is one of many thwarted potential mass shootings reported by U.S. law enforcement in recent weeks, faces one count of transmitting threatening communications via interstate commerce, federal prosecutors said as his indictment was unsealed on Thursday.Federal authorities said their investigation is ongoing.
  
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• Puerto Ricans who fled to Florida from storm face new storm

  29-08-2019 22:09 via news.yahoo.com
  Jose Santiago was worried about his two adult daughters as Hurricane Dorian threatened Puerto Rico midweek."One of them told me, 'Daddy, this isn't going to hit Puerto Rico directly, but now I'm worried about you,'" said Santiago, who drives cars for an auction house in Orlando.Like Santiago, tens of thousands of Puerto Ricans moved to Florida after Hurricane Maria to escape the devastation of the Category 4 storm.
  
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• Colombia FARC negotiators say they are taking up arms again

  29-08-2019 21:59 via news.yahoo.com
  Colombian President Ivan Duque offered a nearly $1 million reward for the arrest of the top peace negotiator for the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia on Thursday after the rebel and a small cadre of hardliners vowed to resume their insurgency in a major reversal for the country's efforts to end decades of bloody fighting.In a televised address, Duque also accused Venezuela's socialist leadership of providing safe haven to the rebels — underscoring the risks to regional stability from
  
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• White House slams Comey for violating FBI policies and falsely claims the Russia investigation was launched because he 'shamefully leaked information to the press'

  29-08-2019 21:47 via news.yahoo.com
  The FBI's investigation into Russian interference in the 2016 election was well underway by the time Comey shared his memos with the media.
  
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• Alabama Gov. Kay Ivey apologizes for participating in blackface skit in college

  29-08-2019 21:47 via news.yahoo.com
  "I offer my heartfelt apologies for the pain and embarrassment this causes," Ivey said.
  
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• Woman Claims She Gave Birth Alone in Denver County Jail Cell with No Medical Treatment

  29-08-2019 21:34 via news.yahoo.com
  A woman has filed a lawsuit after she said she was forced to deliver a baby alone on a bench in a jail cell at the Denver County Jail.
  
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• Judge ends case against Epstein, with a nod to the accusers

  29-08-2019 21:32 via news.yahoo.com
  A judge formally ended the criminal case against Jeffrey Epstein on Thursday, but not without a final tribute to the women who spoke out against the financier.
  
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• North Carolina student arrested with guns in his dorm room was planning shooting spree, police say

  29-08-2019 21:26 via news.yahoo.com
  A 19-year-old freshman arrested in his dorm room at a North Carolina university with two firearms was planning a shooting spree, police say.
  
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• Brigitte Macron speaks out against sexism amid G7 Amazon fire funding row with Brazilian president

  29-08-2019 21:22 via news.yahoo.com
  France’s first lady, Brigitte Macron, hit back on Thursday at mockery of her age and appearance on Jair Bolsonaro’s Facebook page amid a war of words between the Brazilian president and her husband that has left £18m in emergency funding for the Amazon in limbo. Her comments came as Mr Bolsonaro, accused by critics of allowing tens of thousands of fires to rage unchecked in the Amazon rainforest, announced a two-month ban on fires deliberately started by farmers. Critics have a
  
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• Longest-ever wrongfully imprisoned woman in US history gets $3m in lawsuit settlement

  29-08-2019 21:15 via news.yahoo.com
  A woman who spent 35 years in prison for a murder she didn’t commit has been awarded $3m (£2.5m) as a partial settlement in her civil rights case, according to her lawyers.Cathy Woods, 68, was released from prison in 2015 after she was exonerated due to new DNA evidence found on a cigarette stub.
  
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• El Salvador busts alleged migrant smuggling network, nabs 25

  29-08-2019 21:10 via news.yahoo.com
  At least 25 people were arrested across El Salvador on Thursday, including businesspeople, lawyers and a former police officer, as part of an operation to break up an alleged migrant smuggling network.Authorities said they conducted raids in a number of municipalities and seized 23 vehicles and 14 properties with a collective value of about $1 million.The director of the attorney general's office anticorruption unit said 32 arrest warrants were issued.
  
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• US intelligence suggests Russia was fishing Putin's doomsday missile out of the sea when it mysteriously exploded

  29-08-2019 21:07 via news.yahoo.com
  Sources familiar with an intelligence report told CNBC that Russia was trying to recover the weapon after another unsuccessful flight test.
  
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• Israeli PM, libertarians hash out weed deal ahead of polls

  29-08-2019 21:07 via news.yahoo.com
  Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Thursday announced a deal with a far-right party which agreed to withdraw from elections next month in exchange for a pledge to legalise medicinal cannabis.Zehut, a libertarian Jewish nationalist party, was also promised a ministerial portfolio in exchange for not putting up candidates for the September 17 legislative elections, its head Moshe Feiglin said.The veteran Israeli prime minister and Likud party chair is trying to secure right-wing votes fo
  
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• Democrat O'Rourke vows to end Trump's trade war with China under new plan

  29-08-2019 20:45 via news.yahoo.com
  Democratic presidential candidate Beto O'Rourke released a plan on Thursday that would end Republican President Donald Trump's trade war with China, but would also demand that China stop unfair practices such as currency manipulation and corporate espionage.The former Texas congressman said that, if elected president he would immediately eliminate Trump's tariffs against Chinese goods, demanding in exchange that China revoke its retaliatory tariffs against American products including soybeans, b
  
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• Woman pleads guilty to shooting man in the head inside car while on Facebook Live

  29-08-2019 20:44 via news.yahoo.com
  Sentencing is scheduled for a later date, which will include statements from the victim.
  
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• Idaho artifacts show human presence in Americas 16,600 years ago

  29-08-2019 20:40 via news.yahoo.com
  Artifacts including stone tools and animal bone fragments found in Idaho dating back about 16,600 years represent what may be the oldest evidence of humans in the Americas and offer insight into the routes people took as they spread into the New World.Scientists on Thursday said they used a technique called radiocarbon dating to determine the age of artifacts unearthed at an archeological site called Cooper's Ferry along the Salmon River in western Idaho near the town of Cottonwood.People were p
  
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• A 360-pound alligator that snuck up on a kayaker was captured after a 3-hour hunt

  29-08-2019 20:18 via news.yahoo.com
  The alligator chased Bo Storey out of the pond. Hours later, it was caught because it was deemed to be a nuisance due to its size and demeanor.
  
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• Fox News Host Jeanine Pirro: Dems Plotting to ‘Replace American Citizens With Illegals’

  29-08-2019 20:06 via news.yahoo.com
  MIKE THEILERNearly a month after an accused shooter reportedly said he deliberately targeted “Mexicans” while killing more than 20 people in El Paso, Fox News personalities are still echoing the same talking points from the gunman’s racist manifesto, in which he complained about a “Hispanic invasion” of America.Appearing on Fox Nation’s The Todd Starnes Show on Thursday, Fox News host Jeanine Pirro was asked by Starnes—who recently likened migrants to a
  
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• U.S. officials defend new citizenship rules for some military families

  29-08-2019 20:05 via news.yahoo.com
  U.S. immigration officials on Thursday defended a new policy that ends automatic citizenship for some children born to U.S. citizens stationed abroad as government employees or members of the U.S. military, saying it would only affect a "handful" of families every year. Under current policy, children of service members and other officials stationed abroad are considered to be "residing in" the United States, so they receive the same automatic citizenship as if they were born on U.S. soil.
  
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• 'Well heck, I'm not doing anything': This Arizona couple moved to Iowa to volunteer for Tulsi Gabbard

  29-08-2019 20:05 via news.yahoo.com
  Lawn signs, billboards and a very dedicated volunteer corps make up Tulsi Gabbards' Iowa campaign
  
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• Tulsi Gabbard tells Fox News host Tucker Carlson that DNC debate criteria isn't transparent

  29-08-2019 20:00 via news.yahoo.com
  Rep. Tulsi Gabbard is among the many Democratic presidential candidates who did not qualify for September’s debate round by yesterday’s deadline.
  
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• A nearly 18-foot python was caught in Florida. Hours later, a second one was captured

  29-08-2019 19:51 via news.yahoo.com
  Two invasive Burmese pythons, each nearly 18-feet long, were captured in Southwest Florida within hours of each other this.
  
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• Satellite photos show burning Iran space center launch pad

  29-08-2019 19:33 via news.yahoo.com
  A rocket at an Iranian space center that was to conduct a satellite launch criticized by the U.S. apparently exploded on its launch pad Thursday, satellite images show, suggesting the Islamic Republic suffered its third failed launch this year alone.State media and officials did not immediately acknowledge the incident at the Imam Khomeini Space Center in Iran's Semnan province.In previous days, satellite images had shown officials there repainted the launch pad blue.
  
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• In a Major Milestone, the James Webb Space Telescope Is Whole at Last

  29-08-2019 19:29 via news.yahoo.com
  Engineers have successfully connected the two halves of NASA's troubled Hubble successor.
  
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• Another Iranian rocket launch has ended in failure after it apparently blew up on the launch pad

  29-08-2019 19:25 via news.yahoo.com
  Iran has tried three times this year to put a satellite into space, but each time, something has gone wrong with the rocket.
  
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• Here's the Real Reason DARPA Is Looking for 'Underground Urban Tunnels' for 'Research and Experimentation'

  29-08-2019 19:07 via news.yahoo.com
  It's less bizarre than it sounds
  
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• Most powerful hurricane in US history was a nameless storm that rocked Florida on Labor Day 1935

  29-08-2019 18:59 via news.yahoo.com
  On Labor Day that year, some 500 people died as the most powerful hurricane ever to make landfall in the U.S. ripped the Upper Florida Keys to shreds.
  
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• Democrats' Medicare for All must consider union-won plans: AFL-CIO

  29-08-2019 18:48 via news.yahoo.com
  Democratic White House hopefuls should ensure their Medicare for All proposals honor union-negotiated private insurance, AFL-CIO President Richard Trumka, head of the largest federation of U.S. labor unions, said on Thursday.How to best extend health coverage to millions of uninsured or under-insured Americans has been one of the early issues defining the Democratic nominating contest to take on Republican President Donald Trump in November 2020."You can't ask the American worker, who sacrificed
  
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• Justice declines prosecution of ex-FBI Dir. James Comey for leaked Trump memos, found he violated policy

  29-08-2019 18:47 via news.yahoo.com
  The Department of Justice declined prosecution of ex-FBI Dir. James Comey for leaked Trump memos, but the inspector general found he violated policy.
  
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• Imran Khan to sound sirens to summon Pakistanis to noon protest over Kashmir

  29-08-2019 18:31 via news.yahoo.com
  Pakistanis have been urged to come onto the streets at noon Friday amid blaring sirens and renditions of the national anthem, as Imran Khan called for a mass display of solidarity with Kashmir. Sirens and the national anthem will be sounded at midday to summon people out of their homes and workplaces to mark what will become a weekly “Kashmir hour”, the military's information wing has said. The mass demonstrations are being staged protest against Delhi's abolition of autonomy fo
  
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• Report: El Paso shooter bought weapon from Romania, ammo from Russia

  29-08-2019 18:25 via news.yahoo.com
  The gunman accused of killing 22 people at an El Paso Walmart has told law enforcement that he bought his weapon online from Romania, report says.
  
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• How Undocumented Students Can Access Financial Aid for College

  29-08-2019 18:21 via news.yahoo.com
  One of the first roadblocks undocumented immigrant youths living in the U.S. might face because of their status is learning they are ineligible for federal financial aid like student loans and the Pell Grant, used to pay for college.When Damian, an undocumented immigrant who preferred to only give his first name, decided he wanted to study beyond high school, he relied on private scholarships and paid out of pocket to cover the remaining tuition bills at a local community college.Achieving a com
  
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