| Before a notorious phone call, the Trump administration was lauded for helping Ukraine Posted: 04 Oct 2019 03:00 PM PDT  A central irony of the controversy over President Trump's alleged efforts to condition military aid to Ukraine on political favors is that Trump has presided over the shipment of more lethal weaponry to Ukraine than had his predecessor, President Barack Obama.
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| 'I've never had a crystal': Marianne Williamson demands to be taken seriously Posted: 04 Oct 2019 12:05 PM PDT  Marianne Williamson wants you to know she's not a "crystal woo woo lady."
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| Dallas ex-cop's conviction: Was justice served? Posted: 04 Oct 2019 12:47 PM PDT  Former Dallas police officer Amber Guyger was sentenced to 10 years in prison for the murder of her neighbor Botham Jean. Guyger said she had accidently entered Jean's apartment thinking it was her own and shot him because she believed he was an intruder.
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| China is filling a 'strategic vacuum' in the Pacific left by the US and its allies, and that's bad news for Taiwan Posted: 05 Oct 2019 07:38 AM PDT  The benign neglect of the US and its partners in the Pacific created an opening for China, according to Dr. Anna Powles.
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| Pro-Trump group takes credit for woman talking about eating babies at AOC town hall Posted: 04 Oct 2019 10:41 AM PDT  At a town hall for Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, D-N.Y., a woman in a T-shirt that read "Save the planet Eat the Children" stood up and suggested people should eat babies to fight climate change. A pro-Trump group, LaRouchePAC, took credit for the stunt.
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| Andrew Yang Shouldn’t Retreat from His Past Success in Revitalizing Depressed Cities Posted: 04 Oct 2019 01:22 PM PDT  As Peter Beinart has trenchantly observed in The Atlantic, formerly moderate Generation X Democratic candidates Cory Booker and Kamala Harris have chosen to turn their backs on policies they once championed. Booker no longer talks up his successful expansion of charter schools as mayor of Newark, while Harris has run away from her common-sense decision, as San Francisco district attorney, to enforce truancy laws as a means to get the attention of parents of disadvantaged students. But there's another Gen X candidate, unmentioned by Beinart, who's run away from past successes: Andrew Yang.While he promotes government-led efforts to redistribute income, Yang has been silent about his own groundbreaking efforts to help declining cities — not through government, but through civil society. In 2011, after a successful career as corporate lawyer and business-school test-prep entrepreneur, Yang founded Venture for America (VFA). Modeled on Teach for America, VFA aimed to attract applicants from elite colleges to work as paid interns at start-up companies in poor cities such as Detroit, Cleveland, Birmingham, and Baltimore. Its funding came entirely from philanthropists, most importantly Detroit's Dan Gilbert, the founder of Quicken Loans. Like Dan Markowits, the author of the new The Meritocracy Trap, Yang saw the best and brightest as having "too limited a vision of what career success looks like," and got to work fixing the problem.Today, VFA is still in operation, with fellowships in 14 different cities around the country. The organization has supported more than 1,000 fellows, working in business incubators and often going on to found start-ups of their own. It says that 51 percent of them continue to live in the cities where their fellowship was based, and they've been involved in starting 129 new companies.Bringing graduates of some 300 colleges to cities that ambitious young people have long been fleeing is nothing to sneeze at. It's a record of success that gives Yang, if he'd only use it, a ready-made, positive message on the stump: Talented people can start new businesses, help power established ones, and in the process, make cities thrive. This message is all the more powerful when juxtaposed with generations of failed local, state, and federal policies based on the idea that subsidies to attract business are the best way of rejuvenating cities in decline.Indeed, what is striking about Yang's Venture for America is its fundamental separation from those failed government policies and from government itself. This is a private organization, fueled by philanthropic dollars and private start-up seed money. And its economic underpinnings are sound, as the work of Harvard's Ed Glaeser on the key impact of the "divergence" of human capital on urban economies has shown. Seattle never recruited Starbucks, Amazon, or Microsoft; those companies grew organically, thanks to talented founders and a skilled labor pool.It is depressing, then, that Yang has downplayed VFA's record of success in favor of a campaign built on a more dispiriting message: American capitalism is so broken, he says, that only a universal basic income, funded by a national value-added sales tax, can mitigate its destructive impact. One wishes that he would point to his own record in teaching Democrats that government is not the best route to prosperity. Indeed, government — through cumbersome permitting processes, high taxes, and burdensome licensing requirements — often holds back the fortunes of down-on-their-luck cities such as those Venture for America has helped revitalize. To be sure, this would be a more politically fraught path: Yang is a Democrat, and redistribution is the coin of his party's realm. But if he were braver, he could do quite a lot to change that state of affairs.
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| UK police arrest 10 climate activists before protests Posted: 05 Oct 2019 07:14 AM PDT  British police arrested 10 climate change activists in London ahead of a planned new round of protests by Extinction Rebellion on Monday, police said. A Reuters photographer said he saw police using a battering ram to break down a door and enter a former court building that was used by Extinction Rebellion to store equipment.
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| Theranos founder accused of bilking lawyers in civil case Posted: 04 Oct 2019 03:02 PM PDT  The founder of scandalized blood-testing startup Theranos is now being accused of skipping out on bills owed to the lawyers defending her against fraud charges in a civil lawsuit. Elizabeth Holmes, who ran Theranos until its 2018 collapse, hasn't paid her Palo Alto, California, attorney John Dwyer and his colleagues for the past year, according to documents filed Monday in Phoenix federal court. The documents cited Holmes "current financial situation" without elaborating.
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| India-Pakistan Nuclear War Could Destroy the Ozone Layer and Kill Millions Posted: 04 Oct 2019 12:34 AM PDT  Soot particles may also deplete between 30 to 50 percent of the ozone layer, allowing more of the sun's radiation to penetrate the atmosphere, causing increased sunburns and rates of cancer. Oh, and that is just the beginning.
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| How impeachment is playing in one swing district Posted: 04 Oct 2019 09:17 AM PDT  Congresswoman Elaine Luria of Virginia hears both cheers and boos in a town hall meeting, as she defends her support of an impeachment investigation.
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| Ethiopia's largest ethnic group marks thanksgiving festival Posted: 05 Oct 2019 12:01 AM PDT  Members of Ethiopia's largest ethnic group chanted and waved flags as they gathered for the first time to celebrate their thanksgiving festival in the capital -- a city that prominent members of the group claim belongs to them. The annual Irreecha festival of the Oromo people marks the end of the rainy season and the start of the harvest season. It is traditionally held in the city of Bishoftu, located in the Oromia region some 50 kilometres (30 miles) southeast of the capital, Addis Ababa.
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| 2020 Lincoln Continental Coach Door Edition Priced at $116,645 Posted: 05 Oct 2019 10:05 AM PDT  High-dollar, old-school American opulence is back for 2020, suicide doors and all.
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| UPDATE 1-Grenade attack in Kashmir injures 10 amid India clampdown Posted: 05 Oct 2019 12:24 AM PDT ![UPDATE 1-Grenade attack in Kashmir injures 10 amid India clampdown]( "UPDATE 1-Grenade attack in Kashmir injures 10 amid India clampdown") A grenade attack on Saturday in Kashmir's southern city of Anantnag injured 10 people, including a traffic policeman and a journalist, police said on Twitter, blaming "terrorists". Many people in Kashmir have been seething since India stripped its portion of the Muslim-majority region of autonomy on Aug. 5, shutting off phone networks and imposing curfew-like restrictions in some areas to dampen discontent. Some of those curbs have been slowly relaxed, but mobile and internet communications in the Kashmir valley are largely still blocked.
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| NOT REAL NEWS: A look at what didn't happen this week Posted: 04 Oct 2019 12:14 PM PDT  None of these is legit, even though they were shared widely on social media. CLAIM: So-called "climate change" is mostly driven by factors unrelated to human activity, NASA scientists say. THE FACTS: Articles circulating online in early October wrongly suggest that NASA has rejected human responsibility for climate change and, instead, attributed the phenomenon to variations in Earth's axis and tilt.
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| Sunk U.S. Battleships During the Gulf War? Saddam Could Have Pulled It Off. Posted: 05 Oct 2019 01:34 AM PDT  A difficult task.
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| Trump told China he would keep quiet on Hong Kong protests, report says Posted: 04 Oct 2019 04:15 AM PDT  Donald Trump reportedly told China's president he would remain quiet on protests in Hong Kong as trade talks between Washington and Beijing progressed.The US president pledged not speak out over the months-long unrest in the Chinese territory during a phone call with Xi Jinping in which he also discussed his political rivals Joe Biden and Elizabeth Warren, according to US broadcaster CNN.
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| Turkey Boosts Syria Border Troops as Erdogan Flags Incursion Posted: 05 Oct 2019 02:48 PM PDT  (Bloomberg) -- Turkey reinforced army units at the Syrian border hours after President Recep Tayyip Erdogan signaled an imminent cross-border operation against U.S.-backed Kurdish militants in Syria.Turkey sent additional armored vehicles and troops to the border town of Akcakale late Saturday, across from Tal Abyad in Syria, according to state TV television TRT.Erdogan said earlier in the day that Turkey was ready to start a military operation in northern Syria to claim areas from the Kurdish militant group YPG and may act "as soon as today or tomorrow." "We have made our preparations, completed our operation plans," Erdogan said at an AK Party meeting in Kizilcahamam in Ankara Province. "We have given the necessary orders." The operation in the east of the Euphrates river in northern Syria will be carried out by land and air, he said.Erdogan has vowed to create a buffer zone inside Syria by pushing back Kurdish militants and settling Syrian refugees in the country's north. Turkey suspects that the U.S. is backing Kurdish aspirations for self-rule in Syria and is prepared to use military force to prevent what it perceives as an attempt to redraw the region's map.Turkey wants to act before winter conditions make it difficult for tanks to operate in muddy terrain, leaving little room for a last-minute agreement with the U.S.Erdogan has repeatedly called on the U.S. to join forces in expanding a previously negotiated security zone in Syria -- designed to be off-limits to American-backed Kurdish YPG forces -- while threatening an incursion if he didn't get his way by the end of last month.The YPG, which helped defeat Islamic State, has been at the heart of Turkey-U.S. tensions. Turkey sees the fighters as a critical threat given their link to the separatist PKK, an autonomy-seeking Kurdish group. It's considered a terrorist organization by the U.S. and the European Union.Erdogan wants to resettle some of the more than 3.6 million Syrians who fled their country's civil war in the buffer area to alleviate the burden on Turkey's economy and defuse social tensions over hosting the world's largest refugee population.(Adds context starting with fifth paragraph)To contact the reporter on this story: Selcan Hacaoglu in Ankara at shacaoglu@bloomberg.netTo contact the editors responsible for this story: Onur Ant at oant@bloomberg.net, ;Alaa Shahine at asalha@bloomberg.net, Tony CzuczkaFor more articles like this, please visit us at bloomberg.com©2019 Bloomberg L.P.
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| Second man found guilty in the murder of 9-year-old Tyshawn Lee in Chicago Posted: 04 Oct 2019 12:39 PM PDT  On Friday, Corey Morgan was found guilty of first degree murder in the killing of 9-year-old Tyshawn Lee in Chicago.
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| A 3.5 magnitude earthquake hit south of San Francisco Posted: 05 Oct 2019 10:07 AM PDT  A 3.5 magnitude earthquake hit west of Colma, which is just south of San Francisco. Colma is known as "The City of the Dead" because of its cemeteries
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| Border Agent Harasses Journalist at U.S. Customs—Again Posted: 04 Oct 2019 03:53 PM PDT  REUTERSA U.S. Customs and Border Protection official reportedly refused to allow a reporter through customs on Thursday unless he answered the repeated question "You write propaganda, right?" in the affirmative, at least the third such incident involving harassment of a journalist by a passport official this year.Ben Watson, a news editor at Defense One, was returning to the United States from a reporting assignment in Denmark when a USCBP official, after asking whether Watson was carrying any undeclared foods, inquired into his profession. When Watson responded that he worked in journalism, the official began repeatedly badgering him into "admitting" that he writes propaganda, Watson wrote of his experience."So you write propaganda, right?" Watson recalled the official asking, a question posed at least four times before the passport officer returned Watson's passport and allowed him to enter the country.Watson, who covers national security and homeland security, eventually told the official that the closest he came to writing propaganda was during his time as a public affairs officer for the U.S. Army. The official was, apparently, unamused. Watson finally told the officer that he wrote propaganda, "for the purposes of expediting this conversation," before being asked the question one more time."I've honestly never had a human attempt to provoke me like this before in my life," Watson told his colleagues after the incident. "This behavior is totally normal now, I guess?"In response to questions from The Daily Beast about the incident, a CBP spokesperson said that the agency is aware of Watson's allegations and is investigating the incident."We hold our employees accountable to our core values of vigilance, integrity and service to country, and do not tolerate inappropriate comments or behavior by our employees," the spokesperson said, adding that travelers have the right to ask to speak with a supervisor to address concerns they have.Harassment of non-citizen reporters on visas by USCBP officials calling them "fake news" has been a persistent issue within the agency. In February, BuzzFeed News reporter David Mack, an Australian citizen, received a personal apology from then-USCBP Assistant Commissioner for Public Affairs Andrew Meehan, after Mack was interrogated at John F. Kennedy International Airport for ten minutes about the outlet's coverage of Michael Cohen and the special counsel investigation into President Donald Trump."The immigration agent at JFK just saw that I work for BuzzFeed and just grilled me for 10 minutes about the Cohen story, which was fun given he gets to decide whether to let me back into the country," Mack tweeted at the time. (Disclosure: Mack is a personal friend of this reporter.)British journalist James Dyer, who writes about pop culture, tweeted in August that he was harassed as "fake news" by a USCBP official upon arriving at Los Angeles International Airport. "He wanted to know if I'd ever worked for CNN or MSNBC or other outlets that are 'spreading lies to the American people,'" Dyer said at the time, adding that he was only let go "after I said that I was just here to write about Star Wars, and would keep the fake news about that to a bare minimum."After Watson shared his story on Friday, TIME Washington Correspondent Vera Bergengruen shared a similar story."This has happened to me coming back into the country too, last year," Bergengruen said. "A pretty aggressive questioning about who I worked for and 'fake news.'"After Dyer's experience, a USCBP spokesperson told The Daily Beast that "unappropriated comments or behavior are not tolerated, and do not reflect our values of vigilance, integrity and professionalism."After the incident with Mack in February, USCBP said that the officer's comments "do not reflect CBP's commitment to integrity and professionalism of its workforce," and vowed to immediately review the event."I hope—I can only hope that you treat this incident as incidental," said Meehan. "It does not reflect the agency, and certainly not the professionalism that its officers strive to maintain."Read more at The Daily Beast.Got a tip? Send it to The Daily Beast hereGet our top stories in your inbox every day. Sign up now!Daily Beast Membership: Beast Inside goes deeper on the stories that matter to you. Learn more.
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| Payouts for Vegas victims a 'cold, mathematical calculation' Posted: 04 Oct 2019 10:48 AM PDT  They may have been united by a love for country music, but the people gunned down two years ago at a Las Vegas concert will not be seen as equals when up to $800 million is paid out from a legal settlement. The administrator overseeing the process will have the icy task of calculating the value of a life based on how much victims earned, the gravity of survivors' wounds and the hazy concepts of pain, suffering and emotional distress. "It is a cold, mathematical calculation," said attorney Kenneth Feinberg, who has administered payouts for the nation's highest-profile tragedies but isn't involved in the Las Vegas settlement.
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| WKD: Russia Is Giving Its Su-57s Anti-Ship Missiles To Fight The U.S. Navy Posted: 05 Oct 2019 02:00 AM PDT  The Navy has its hands full.
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| Greta Thunberg tells Yahoo News: Powerful men like Trump 'want to silence' young climate activists Posted: 04 Oct 2019 01:09 PM PDT  Greta Thunberg tells Yahoo News that youth climate activists are "making a difference."
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| Ruth Bader Ginsburg says people will see this period in American history as 'an aberration' Posted: 05 Oct 2019 05:14 AM PDT  US Supreme Court justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg has said people will look back at this period of American politics as "an aberration".The 86-year-old judge made the comment during an event at Amherst College, Massachusetts, according to The Boston Globe.
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| Turkey detains five Germans on terror charges: report Posted: 05 Oct 2019 06:17 AM PDT  Turkish authorities have detained five Germans over alleged links to Kurdish militants, pro-Kurdish media reported. The PKK is considered to be a terror group by Ankara, the United States and the European Union. The five, who were detained this week, were being held in Ankara, the agency said.
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| Giuliani gives bizarre interview before posting angry 4:54 a.m. tweet Posted: 05 Oct 2019 11:05 AM PDT  President Trump's personal lawyer Rudy Giuliani said his mission was "to disrupt the world" as he attempted to defend his involvement in the Ukraine scandal.
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| Texas execution halted over claims judge was anti-Semitic Posted: 04 Oct 2019 03:58 PM PDT  A Jewish death row inmate who was part of the "Texas 7" gang of escaped prisoners and faced execution in less than a week won a reprieve on Friday after claiming the former judge at his trial was anti-Semitic and frequently used racial slurs. The Texas Court of Criminal Appeals granted a stay of execution for Randy Halprin, who had been scheduled to receive a lethal injection on Oct. 10. The appeals court ordered Halprin's case be sent back to the Dallas County court that convicted him, so it can review his claims that his trial judge was biased against him because he is Jewish.
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| Sasse Breaks with Republicans to Condemn Trump’s Suggestion China Should Investigate Biden Posted: 04 Oct 2019 06:52 AM PDT  Senator Ben Sasse offered the strongest criticism yet from a Senate Republican of President Trump's suggestion that China investigate Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden's son's business dealings."Hold up: Americans don't look to Chinese commies for the truth. If the Biden kid broke laws by selling his name to Beijing, that's a matter for American courts, not communist tyrants running torture camps," the Nebraska Republican said in a statement to the Omaha World-Herald.Sasse's condemnation came a day after Trump accused the former vice president's son, Hunter Biden, of engaging in "crooked" business dealings with Ukraine and China.Trump accused the younger Biden of flying on Air Force Two in 2013 with his father, then the vice president, in order to obtain $1.5 billion from Chinese investors for his private equity fund."China should start an investigation into the Bidens," the president told reporters Thursday outside the White House. "He got kicked out of the Navy. All of the sudden he's getting billions of dollars. You know what they call that? They call that a payoff."The president added that "if [Ukraine] were honest about it they'd start a major investigation into the Bidens."Sasse did not spare House Intelligence Committee Chairman Adam Schiff in his remarks either, accusing the California Democrat of partisanship in the House's formal impeachment inquiry against the president."Congressman Schiff is running a partisan clown show in the House — that's his right because the Constitution doesn't prohibit clown shows, but fortunately, in the Senate, we're working to follow the facts one step at a time," Sasse said.Sasse sits on the Republican-led Senate Intelligence Committee, which is working on its own investigation into the whistleblower complaint accusing Trump of a potential quid pro scheme with Ukraine involving the temporary withholding of U.S. military aid on the condition that Ukraine investigates the Bidens.Another Republican senator, Ron Johnson, defended Trump's comments on China."First of all one of my comments would be as a member of the Democratic Party wouldn't you want to know if there's some real corruption before you choose Joe Biden," the Wisconsin senator said.
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| Fourteen-year-old shot in clashes between Hong Kong protesters and police in wake of face mask ban Posted: 04 Oct 2019 01:05 PM PDT  A 14-year-old boy was shot as clashes broke out between protesters and police in Hong Kong on Friday in the wake of a blanket ban on face masks. Demonstrators stormed the city's shopping district and set fire to Chinese banks. Police said a 14-year-old boy was shot in the thigh, but said it was unclear if he was hit by a stray bullet or shot by a police officer who fired his gun after being attacked by a group of protesters. The Hospital Authority said a 14-year-old boy was taken to hospital and was last night in serious condition. The incident would mark the second time live rounds have been fired against protesters since the demonstrations began. The face-mask ban invokes colonial-era emergency powers for the first time since the UK handed the city back to China in 1997. Police fired tear gas and all metro services to Hong Kong Island were halted as some stations also came under attack from protesters. The new face mask law will ban demonstrators from covering their faces in full or partially to prevent their identification during protests, marches or illegal assemblies, with violators facing up to one year of imprisonment or a maximum fine of $3,190. Authorities sent in rows of riot police to quell the protests Credit: NICOLAS ASFOURI/AFP At a press conference flanked by her most senior ministers, Carrie Lam, the embattled Chief Executive, said the government enacted the unpopular measure out of duty to "end violence and restore order" to the city, which was now in a "very critical state of public danger" after four months of anti-government protests. The decision to invoke the colonial-era Emergency Regulations Ordinance to push through the face mask ban was "difficult but necessary for the public interest" after scenes of chaos and panic, she argued. As protesters gathered following the announcement, China voiced support for "extremely necessary" ban. The new law is aimed primarily at students, the most active participants in the city's protests, which began in June against a contentious bill that would have allowed extradition to mainland China, but has since snowballed into a demand for greater rights, including universal suffrage. Schools across the financial hub have already been issued with details of the "Anti-mask act." The ban was introduced after the worst street violence in decades this week when an 18-year-old demonstrator was shot and critically wounded during a clash with the police. However, the dramatic step by Carrie Lam's government threatens to inflame tensions further. Hong Kong chief executive confirmed the ban on Friday Credit: PHILIP FONG/AFP Opponents of the measure fear that the use of the Emergency Regulations Ordinance – a colonial-era law first used by the British government to quell a seamen's strike in Hong Kong harbour in 1922 – could open the door to sweeping controls. They fear that the government could use the ordinance as a form of martial law that would permit authorities to implement any new regulation the government believes would help end "an occasion of emergency or public danger." Examples could include greater powers to arrest citizens, censor publications, shut off communications networks and search premises without warrants.
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| Canadian police illegally shared info on Huawei exec: lawyers Posted: 03 Oct 2019 11:34 PM PDT  Canadian police illegally shared details of Meng Wanzhou's phone with US authorities, lawyers said Thursday, in a bid to have an extradition case against the top Huawei executive thrown out. The United States wants to put Meng on trial for fraud for allegedly violating Iran sanctions and lying about it to US banks -- accusations her lawyers dispute. Meng's lawyers alleged that Canadian border agents and police conducted a "covert criminal investigation" of the Huawei executive on behalf of the American Federal Bureau of Investigations.
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| A Jeffrey Epstein accuser blames Victoria's Secret owner Les Wexner for sexual assault that she says occurred on his Ohio property Posted: 05 Oct 2019 01:04 PM PDT  In New Albany, Ohio, Maria Farmer says Jeffrey Epstein assaulted her in a home owned by CEO Les Wexner, with guards who wouldn't let her leave.
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| 6 wild elephants die after falling from waterfall in Thailand, reports say Posted: 05 Oct 2019 03:20 PM PDT  The Thai elephants may have been trying to save each other from dangerous falls where a similar incident occurred in the past, reports say.
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| Former 'Fixer Upper' stars Chip and Joanna Gaines to open boutique hotel in Waco, Texas Posted: 04 Oct 2019 11:11 AM PDT  Chip and Joanna Gaines, owners of Magnolia Homes and the former stars of HGTV's show 'Fixer Upper,' have a new project.
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| National Geographic journalist injured in shootout in Mexico: local authorities Posted: 05 Oct 2019 07:58 AM PDT ![National Geographic journalist injured in shootout in Mexico: local authorities]( "National Geographic journalist injured in shootout in Mexico: local authorities") A National Geographic journalist was shot in the leg in Mexico late Friday while interviewing an alleged drug dealer, who was killed when four armed men stormed in on the interview, local prosecutors said. It said the journalist was taken to a local hospital for treatment and that the rest of the team were being protected by the Attorney General's office. Representatives from National Geographic did not immediately reply to a request for comment.
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| 10 Parking Feats That Are Completely Next Level Posted: 04 Oct 2019 08:27 AM PDT |
| Mitt Romney's Revenge: Working to Impeach Donald Trump? Posted: 04 Oct 2019 07:44 AM PDT  Will Romney lead a crusade to topple Trump and restore the old guard of the Republican party?
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| Thousands protest mask ban in Hong Kong as city's leader toughens stance Posted: 04 Oct 2019 07:05 AM PDT  Thousands of defiant masked protesters streamed into Hong's streets Friday after the city's embattled leader invoked rarely used emergency powers to ban masks at rallies in a hardening of the government's stance after four months of antigovernment demonstrations.
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| Lifers: Stories of non-violent incarceration in federal prison Posted: 04 Oct 2019 06:55 PM PDT  Multi-platform series on non-violent offenders who are in for life despite the First Step Act.
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| Nine jihadists killed in Russia strikes on Idlib: monitor Posted: 05 Oct 2019 03:17 AM PDT  Nine jihadists were killed Saturday in Russian airstrikes on Syria's war-torn province of Idlib, a monitoring group said. "Russian strikes this morning targeted the Hurras al-Deen group and Ansar al-Tahwid in eastern Idlib... killing nine jihadists," said the Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, adding eight others were wounded. Moscow is a key ally of Syria's President Bashar al-Assad in the country's civil war, and despite an Idlib ceasefire deal reached on August 31, the province has continued to be targeted by Russian air attacks.
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