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• Texas cop who shot woman was critiqued for 'tunnel vision'

  06-11-2019 23:36 via news.yahoo.com
  Aaron Dean's supervisor commended him in his most recent evaluation, in April 2019, for working at the level of more experienced officers, exhorting him to "keep up the good work," according to records obtained by the Fort Worth Star-Telegram .The records offer new insight into the 35-year-old who is facing a murder charge for shooting 28-year-old Atatiana Jefferson through her back window after responding to a call about an open front door.During his 2017 police department job interview, Dean s
  
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• Iraq protesters storm Baghdad bridge, medic killed

  06-11-2019 23:34 via news.yahoo.com
  Anti-government protesters in Iraq stormed a bridge Wednesday in central Baghdad, where security forces pushed them back with batons and tear gas, wounding dozens.A medic was killed while aiding demonstrators.The military called on the protesters to stop blocking roads and ports, saying they had cost Iraq $6 billion, and it vowed to arrest those responsible.
  
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• After Democratic legislative gains, Virginia governor vows new gun-control push

  06-11-2019 23:27 via news.yahoo.com
  "They want us to finally pass commonsense gun safety legislation, so no one has to fear being hurt or killed while at school, at work, or at their place of worship," Northam said hours after the election results.The United States has seen a steady stream of mass shootings in recent years, including the massacre of 58 people at a Las Vegas country music concert in 2017, and a pair of back-to-back shootings this past summer in Texas and Ohio that left 22 dead.
  
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• 'I'd wiped out half a family': F-16 pilot grapples with guilt after a bungled bombing mission in Iraq killed at least 4 civilians

  06-11-2019 23:26 via news.yahoo.com
  "Doing nothing is even worse," the F-16 fighter pilot said. "War is a game that we play because all else has failed."
  
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• Bill Gates addressed his multiple meetings with Jeffrey Epstein: 'I made a mistake in judgment'

  06-11-2019 23:22 via news.yahoo.com
  Bill Gates addressed his ties to Jeffrey Epstein Wednesday, saying that he "made a mistake in judgement" by associating with the convicted sex offender.
  
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• Standing tall: Scientists find oldest example of upright ape

  06-11-2019 23:02 via news.yahoo.com
  An international team of researchers says the fossilized partial skeleton of a male ape that lived almost 12 million years ago in the humid forests of what is now southern Germany bears a striking resemblance to modern human bones.The findings "raise fundamental questions about our previous understanding of the evolution of the great apes and humans," said Madelaine Boehme of the University of Tuebingen, Germany, who led the research.Boehme, along with researchers from Bulgaria, Germany, Canada
  
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• Top Republican McConnell says Twitter ban on political ads undermines free speech

  06-11-2019 23:01 via news.yahoo.com
  U.S. Senate Republican leader Mitch McConnell said on Wednesday Twitter's basis for its recent decision to ban political advertisements boiled down to the same "misunderstandings" that he said have been used to undermine free speech in the past. Last month, Twitter announced the ad ban https://www.reuters.com/article/us-twitter-ads/twitter-bans-political-ads-facebooks-zuckerberg-defends-them-idUSKBN1X92IK that would be effective from November, winning some praise from Democrats and scorn from U.
  
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• Russia may have taken Israel's most advanced missile from Syria — and could figure out how to defeat it

  06-11-2019 22:40 via news.yahoo.com
  Experts worry that the Russian military could learn how to defeat the missile system or refine its air defense systems.
  
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• Erdogan: Turkey captured slain IS leader al-Baghdadi's wife

  06-11-2019 22:19 via news.yahoo.com
  Turkey has captured a wife of the slain leader of the Islamic State group, Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said Wednesday.Erdogan made the announcement while delivering a speech in the capital of Ankara but gave no other details.A senior Turkish official, however, said the woman was among a group of 11 Islamic State suspects detained in a police operation in Turkey's Hatay province, near the border with Syria, on June 2, 2018.
  
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• Macron warns of 'profound shift' in Iran deal as new report finds Tehran is dominant power in Middle East

  06-11-2019 22:10 via news.yahoo.com
  Iran’s breach of the 2015 nuclear agreement by enriching uranium at an underground facility “marks a profound shift” which could signal the ultimate collapse of the deal, Emmanuel Macron said Wednesday.  The French president, who has worked vigorously to save the nuclear deal since Donald Trump withdrew the US last year, said he was deeply alarmed Iran’s decision to resume enrichment at Fordow, a nuclear facility carved into a mountain. “I think that for t
  
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• Warning signs for Donald Trump as suburban voters abandon Republicans in statewide elections

  06-11-2019 21:52 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Donald Trump has been handed a warning ahead of his 2020 re-election bid after a string of statewide elections suggested Republican voters in the suburbs are abandoning the party.  In Kentucky, a state Mr Trump won by almost 30 percentage points in the 2016 election, the Democratic candidate for governor appeared to have won a narrow victory over the Republican incumbent. In Virginia, the Democrats flipped a string of Republican seats and now control the state legislature and the governorsh
  
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• Bevin officially requests election recanvass in Kentucky governor race

  06-11-2019 21:40 via news.yahoo.com
  Democratic Attorney General Andy Beshear led Gov. Matt Bevin by 5,189 votes after 100% of precincts reported results Tuesday, after which Beshear declared victory.
  
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• Sen. Tom Cotton says the only answer to heavily armed Mexican cartels is more bullets and bigger bullets

  06-11-2019 21:36 via news.yahoo.com
  If the Mexican government can't protect U.S. citizens in Mexico, the U.S. may have to take matters into our own hands, says Arkansas Senator Tom Cotton, Republican member of the Senate Armed Services Committee.
  
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• Get Your History Book Out: The 5 Battles that Created India

  06-11-2019 21:31 via news.yahoo.com
  A military history from elephants to cannons.
  
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• Iranians plead guilty after arrest for spying on dissidents

  06-11-2019 21:30 via news.yahoo.com
  Two men arrested last year for spying on Iranian dissidents in the United States have pleaded guilty to charges in a Washington court, the Justice Department announced Wednesday.Iranian-US dual citizen Ahmadreza Mohammadi Doostdar and Majid Ghorbani, an Iranian resident of California, tried to penetrate the Mujahedin-e Khalq (MEK), a group of Iranian dissidents in exile, in New York and Washington from 2017-2018, according to the department.Doostdar traveled to the United States form Iran on thr
  
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• Rep. Tulsi Gabbard clashes with 'View' co-host

  06-11-2019 21:28 via news.yahoo.com
  Rep. Tulsi Gabbard, D-Hawaii, a 2020 candidate who as of now is still running as a Democrat, returned to "The View" for the third time on Wednesday morning and immediately confronted co-host Joy Behar for accusing her of “being a traitor to my country, a Russian asset, a Trojan horse or a useful idiot, ... which basically means that I am naive or lack intelligence.”
  
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• Gordon Ramsey Drives Dozens Of His Insane Cars On Track

  06-11-2019 21:04 via news.yahoo.com
  This includes his rare McLaren Senna,Gordon Ramsey is one of the biggest celebrity chef's in existence and is a household name spoken in living rooms across the world. Sure, the British chef is known for his no-filter lashings toward contestants on Hell's Kitchen and for his five-star restaurants found in major cities, but he is also a well-known car guy with quite the collection.For a day full of fun with family and friends, Ramsey heads to the Brands Hatch racetrack with a dozen of his cars in
  
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• Canadian man who lost eye after police beating says he had 'no chance to fight back'

  06-11-2019 20:50 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Dafonte Miller speaks publicly for first time about 2016 incident in which two white men allegedly assaulted himDespite being off-duty at the time, Michael Theriault told three friends he was a police officer, and said he could ask them whatever he wanted. Photograph: Chris Helgren/ReutersA Canadian man who was beaten so badly by an off-duty police officer and his brother that he lost his eye, said he had “no chance to fight back” in the violent encounter that left him fearful he wou
  
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• Bill Taylor testimony transcript released in impeachment inquiry

  06-11-2019 20:47 via news.yahoo.com
  
  The House committees leading the impeachment inquiry into President Trump on Wednesday released a transcript of their closed-door interview with the top former U.S. ambassador to Ukraine Bill Taylor.
  
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• Attacker stabs 8 at popular Jordanian tourist site

  06-11-2019 20:41 via news.yahoo.com
  A young man from a Palestinian refugee camp on Wednesday stabbed eight people, including four foreign tourists and their tour guide, at a popular archaeological site in northern Jordan, security officials said.The suspect's family identified him as Mustafa Abu Tuameh."Today he told his mother that he has only 35 piasters (50 cents) and he was going out and might not come back," said an uncle, Younis Abu Amrah.
  
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• The Latest: Mexico official says suspect not tied to attack

  06-11-2019 20:36 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Mexican officials say a suspect who was arrested in the border city of Agua Prieta with assault rifles was not involved in the killing of three American women and six children.Alfonso Durazo, a public security official, said Wednesday that preliminary information indicates that the suspect who was detained Tuesday is not linked to the attack.Criminal investigators in northern Mexico earlier said the suspect was under investigation for a possible connection to the killings.
  
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• Why offshoots of the Mormon church fled to Mexico

  06-11-2019 20:27 via news.yahoo.com
  
  A deadly ambush in Mexico highlights the long history of fundamentalist members of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in the country.
  
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• Graham now says Trump's Ukraine policy was too 'incoherent' for quid pro quo

  06-11-2019 20:22 via news.yahoo.com
  A day after saying he wouldn’t bother to read the testimony, Sen. Lindsey Graham now says he did read it, and his conclusion is that the Trump administration’s Ukraine policy was too "incoherent" for it to have orchestrated the quid pro quo at the heart of the impeachment inquiry.
  
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• The Latest: 2 escaped inmates arrested at US-Mexico border

  06-11-2019 20:21 via news.yahoo.com
  An official says two murder suspects who escaped a California jail were captured Wednesday by U.S. Customs and Border Protection agents as they tried to enter the United States from Mexico.Monterey County Sheriff's Office Capt. John Thornburg says authorities received a tip that 20-year-old Jonathan Salazar and 21-year-old Santos Fonseca had been spotted in Tijuana, across the border from San Diego, and had alerted federal officials.Thornburg says the two are in the custody of Monterey County of
  
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• Elizabeth Warren Thinks Voters Are Stupid

  06-11-2019 20:19 via news.yahoo.com
  
  The bad news is, Elizabeth Warren has some barmy ideas about raising your taxes. The good news is, she’s a proven coward. She says she likes to “nerd out” on the policy details. Okay, let’s do that.Warren estimates that her health-care scheme would cost about $2 trillion — every year, forever. As often is the case when we are talking about the federal budget, the numbers sound incomprehensible to many people: millions, billions, trillions, squidillions, whatever. To
  
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• DOJ Admits in Michael Flynn Case That FBI ‘Mistakenly Identified’ Peter Strzok Notes

  06-11-2019 20:07 via news.yahoo.com
  The attorneys prosecuting former White House National Security Adviser Michael Flynn were forced to admit in a Tuesday letter to Flynn’s legal defense that the notes which formed the official document describing Flynn’s January 2017 interview were not written by agent Peter Strzok, as they've maintained throughout the case.“We were informed that the notes we had identified as Peter Strzok’s, were actually the other agent’s notes (see Surreply, Exhibit 1), and what w
  
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• The Reason Russia Wants Its Own Scary “Spookovik” Gunship

  06-11-2019 20:00 via news.yahoo.com
  Could it be as spooky as America's AC-130?
  
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• Teacher suspended for 'segregating students based on religion and mocking them for their beliefs'

  06-11-2019 19:44 via news.yahoo.com
  A teacher in North Carolina has been suspended for allegedly segregating her students based upon their religious beliefs, as well as their views on gay marriage and abortion.According to local media reports, Julia Lopp, a Spanish language teacher at South Johnston High School, first divvied up the students based on their religion. Then, she asked them about abortion. Finally, she asked them for their views on LGBT rights, according to the Johnston County Report.
  
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• Polish citizens to travel visa-free to US from next week

  06-11-2019 19:39 via news.yahoo.com
  Polish citizens will be able to travel to the U.S. without a visa from next week, officials said.The U.S. Department of Homeland Security said Wednesday that including Poland — a "trusted partner" — in the Visa Waiver Program was testament to the two countries' "special relationship" and close cooperation on security issues.Poland becomes the 39th nation to be covered by the program.
  
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• Israel approves controversial Jerusalem cable car

  06-11-2019 19:38 via news.yahoo.com
  Israel’s government has approved a controversial Jerusalem cable car that will ferry thousands of passengers an hour over Palestinian homes in the east of the city to within a few hundred yards of the Western Wall. The plan, which was given the green light this week, imagines a cable car beginning in west Jerusalem and swooping over a valley towards the Old City, where it will deposit visitors at the 16th-century Dung Gate.  The cars will carry up to 3,000 people an hour and Israel&rs
  
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• ABC News Refuses to Give on-Air Coverage to Anchors’ Allegation that Execs Killed Epstein Reporting

  06-11-2019 19:20 via news.yahoo.com
  ABC News will not further investigate one of their anchors' claims that company executives killed her reporting on Jeffrey Epstein and will not comment on the situation on-air.ABC News told journalist Yashar Ali that they would not provide further commentary or reporting on the situation on Wednesday. The refusal to engage further comes just one day after the network denied all allegations of wrongdoing in a statement issued in response to the release of a leaked video showing anchor Amy Robach
  
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• U.S.-China trade deal signing could be delayed until December: Source

  06-11-2019 19:15 via news.yahoo.com
  A meeting between President Trump and Chinese President Xi Jinping to sign a long-awaited interim trade deal could be delayed until December as discussions continue over terms and venue, a senior Trump administration official told Reuters on Wednesday.
  
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• EU’s Malmstrom Hopes U.S. Car-Duty Threat to Be Lifted Next Week

  06-11-2019 19:15 via news.yahoo.com
  
  (Bloomberg) -- Terms of Trade is a daily newsletter that untangles a world embroiled in trade wars. Sign up here. The European Union’s trade chief said a U.S. threat to impose tariffs on EU automotive goods later this month persists while sounding a cautiously optimistic note that levies will be avoided.European Trade Commissioner Cecilia Malmstrom repeated that the EU would retaliate with duties on a range of American products should the Trump administration hit imported cars and aut
  
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• Blade of glory: The mystery around a late president's sword

  06-11-2019 19:09 via news.yahoo.com
  An Ohio sheriff wearing white gloves displayed a sword wielded in the American Revolution and by a future U.S. president in the War of 1812, and pledged Wednesday an exhaustive investigation to determine whether it's the one that disappeared from Cincinnati four decades ago.It's believed the sword Hamilton County Sheriff Jim Neil held up was carried in battle by President William Henry Harrison and before him, Continental Army Col. John Cleves Symmes, Harrison's future father-in-law.Police in Co
  
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• Consulting Firm Hired by Burisma Leveraged Biden’s Name to Secure Meeting with State Dept.

  06-11-2019 19:07 via news.yahoo.com
  A consulting firm representing Burisma Holdings used the Biden name to leverage a meeting between the gas company and State Department officials, according to documents released this week.The firm, Washington-based Blue Star Strategies, mentioned the name of Hunter Biden, who then sat on Burisma's board, in a request for the Ukrainian natural gas company executives to meet with State Department officials, according to internal State Department email exchanges obtained by journalist John Solomon
  
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• Libarchive Vulnerability Impacts Multiple Linux Distributions

  06-11-2019 18:57
  A vulnerability discovered in multi-format archive and compression library libarchive could lead to arbitrary code execution. 
  The compression library is mostly known for being used in software to copy files to and from archives, to create archives, and compress and expand data. 
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• Yoga teacher barred from using church hall as practice not 'compatible' with Christianity

  06-11-2019 18:46 via news.yahoo.com
  A yoga teacher has been barred from using a church hall for her classes after a clergyman claimed the practice was not "compatible" with Christianity.  Atsuko Kato, 54, has run sessions at a range of venues for 25 years, building up a client base across Devon. But when she looked for new venues to host classes in Barnstaple she was rejected from hiring a church hall in the village of Pilton due to religious reasons.  Reverend Nigel Dilkes said St Mary's Church could not accommodat
  
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• Lebanon's Hariri meets Bassil, all ideas on table -source close to Hariri

  06-11-2019 18:44 via news.yahoo.com
  Lebanon's Saad al-Hariri, who resigned as prime minister last week, had a positive meeting with leading politician Gebran Bassil on Wednesday and all ideas were discussed for getting the country out of economic crisis, a source close to Hariri said.Hariri's resignation was prompted by an unprecedented wave of protests against the ruling elite that has swept Lebanon since Oct. 17, tipping it into political turmoil at a time of acute economic crisis.Bassil, a son-in-law of President Michel Aoun, w
  
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• ICE Rounds Up Illegal Alien Opioid Dealers In Four-Day Massachusetts Sting Operation

  06-11-2019 18:38 via news.yahoo.com
  U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers have concluded a four-day operation in Massachusetts which resulted in the arrest of 19 illegal immigrants previously convicted or charged with criminal offenses.Several of the illegal immigrants had been released by local law enforcement agencies without notifying immigration authorities, according to ICE."This operation clearly shows that ICE’s enforcement efforts continue to target criminal aliens with serious drug offenses who clearly r
  
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• Nepal cries foul over new India map

  06-11-2019 18:08 via news.yahoo.com
  Nepal on Wednesday objected to a new map released by India that places the disputed area of Kalapani within Delhi's borders, saying it was "clear" the territory belonged to Kathmandu.On Saturday, India released the new map following its decision to split the state of Jammu and Kashmir into two administrative territories.On the map, India's border cuts into Kalapani -- long a source of contention between the two countries, particularly because Indian troops have been deployed in the area for more
  
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• Trump Jr. tweets name of alleged whistleblower

  06-11-2019 17:44 via news.yahoo.com
  For weeks, President Trump and his supporters have demanded the identity of the whistleblower who triggered the impeachment inquiry be exposed. On Wednesday, Trump’s eldest son revealed the name of the alleged whistleblower in a tweet.
  
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• Donald Trump Jr. tweets name of alleged whistleblower

  06-11-2019 17:38 via news.yahoo.com
  President Trump's son published on Wednesday the name of the alleged anonymous whistleblower whose complaint fired the impeachment inquiry against Trump, breaking strict conventions for protecting officials who reveal wrongdoing in government.
  
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• EU Taps Romanian Commissioner as U.K. Remains the Last Holdout

  06-11-2019 17:34 via news.yahoo.com
  (Bloomberg) -- European Commission President-elect Ursula von der Leyen selected a new Romanian member of her team, leaving only the U.K. to announce its nominee.Von der Leyen assigned Adina-Ioana Valean to be European Union transport commissioner when the new leadership of the commission, the 28-nation EU’s executive arm, takes office as soon as Dec. 1. Valean is currently a Romanian member of the European Parliament, where she chairs its industry committee.The entry into office of von de
  
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• How the Taliban Won America's Nineteen-Year War

  06-11-2019 17:26 via news.yahoo.com
  It is likely that more and more Afghans will start either associating themselves with—or relating to—the Taliban insurgency.
  
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• Donald Trump Jr. condemned for tweeting alleged whistleblower's name despite death threats

  06-11-2019 17:13 via news.yahoo.com
  Donald Trump Jr. is throwing caution to the wind at someone else's expense.Credible mainstream media sources have so far refused to speculate on the name of the whistleblower who launched President Trump's Ukraine scandal, especially because the whistleblower's lawyer has warned of possibly violent consequences for their yet-unnamed client. But that didn't stop the president's son from tweeting out the name right-wing sites are circulating on Wednesday, ignoring any death threats against the whi
  
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• Impeachment: Trump's son tweets name of alleged whistleblower

  06-11-2019 17:10 via news.yahoo.com
  President Donald Trump's son published on Wednesday the name of the alleged anonymous whistleblower whose complaint fired the impeachment inquiry against Trump, breaking strict conventions for protecting officials who reveal wrongdoing in government. Amid calls by the president himself to expose the whistleblower, Donald Trump Jr. tweeted the name of a CIA analyst which has circulated online for weeks, and linked to a Breitbart news article implying the person was pro-Democrat and anti-Trump. AF
  
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• Authorities: Man killed after trying to take deputy's gun

  06-11-2019 17:09 via news.yahoo.com
  A North Carolina police officer who happened to be at a hospital for an investigation intervened in a struggle Wednesday between a deputy and a suspect who was trying to take his gun.A deputy had taken the suspect to Cape Fear Valley Medical Center for medical attention, Cumberland County Sheriff Ennis Wright said at a news conference Wednesday.While there, the suspect tried to take the deputy's gun, Wright said.
  
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• The 10 most-viewed fake-news stories on Facebook in 2019 were just revealed in a new report — take a look (FB)

  06-11-2019 17:06 via news.yahoo.com
  Fake news stories targeting American voters are still rife on Facebook, and a new investigation from Avaaz just revealed the 10 most-viewed in 2019.
  
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• The 10 most-viewed fake-news stories on Facebook in 2019 were just revealed in a new report (FB)

  06-11-2019 17:06 via news.yahoo.com
  Fake news stories targeting American voters are still rife on Facebook, and a new investigation from Avaaz just revealed the 10 most-viewed in 2019.
  
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• America vs. China vs. Russia: Who Should You Buy Your Fighter Jets From?

  06-11-2019 17:00 via news.yahoo.com
  The U.S. government has a message for those nations that would buy Russian and Chines weapons: buyer beware.
  
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