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An Afghan campaigner who took part in breakthrough talks with the Taliban said Thursday that she saw subtle improvements in the attitude towards women of the insurgents, who severely curtailed their rights while in power. The conference, co-organized by Germany, came as the United States negotiates with the Taliban to pull troops from Afghanistan -- with women's rights not explicitly on the agenda. Asila Wardak, a women's rights campaigner who works for the Afghan foreign ministry, said she was surprised at the positive atmosphere in Doha as women mingled directly with the Taliban over dinner and tea breaks. from Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines https://ift.tt/2S8XBE1 via Latest News

Sen. Bernie Sanders has slipped from his second-place standing in several recent polls. In a new NBC News/WSJ poll, Sen. Elizabeth Warren has claimed second place behind Joe Biden. from Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines https://ift.tt/2JD0YPz via Latest News

A wildfire spreading through Hawaii's Maui island forced thousands of residents and tourists to evacuate on Thursday, according to local officials. from Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines https://ift.tt/2LYKtAn via Latest News

U.S. prosecutors said they want the Mexican drug lord Joaquin "El Chapo" Guzman to spend the rest of his life - plus 30 years - in prison, after he hears from a victim who survived one of his murder plots. Guzman, 62, faces a mandatory minimum of life in prison at his scheduled sentencing hearing next Wednesday, following his February conviction on a variety of drug charges. In a Wednesday night letter, prosecutors asked U.S. District Judge Brian Cogan in Brooklyn to add another 30 years because jurors convicted Guzman of illegally using a firearm, including a machine gun, in connection with drug trafficking. from Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines https://ift.tt/2S9bEJA via Latest News

The still undeveloped disturbance in the Gulf is expected to make landfall along the Gulf coast this weekend as Hurricane Barry. from Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines https://ift.tt/2NR8VWK via Latest News

The US Coast Guard has released bodycam footage of a raid on a moving submarine-type vessel filled with £185m of cocaine.A crew member on board US Coastguard cutter Munro can be heard shouting “stop your boat now” in Spanish over the sound of the waves as he draws up beside the semi-submersible vessel, nicknamed a “narco-submarine”.The coastguardsman can then be heard saying “that’s going to be hard to get on”, before he and another crew member, both dressed in green camouflage uniforms, leap on top of the self-propelled vessel in the middle of the Pacific Ocean.The first man bangs his fist on the hatch of the hull before a man opens it and raises his hands in the area as commands are screamed at him.Inside was 17,000lbs of cocaine worth about $232 million (£185m).The drugs bust was just one of 14 similar raids by the US Coast Guard off the coasts of Mexico, Central America and South America between May and July this year.In total, they have recovered more than 39,00lbs of cocaine and

Vincent Lambert, the man at the centre of a years-long life-support battle that played out right up until his death on Thursday, was the silent witness to the wrenching public feud between his parents and wife. Lambert was a rebellious teenager who had settled down and was due to become a father when was in a devastating car crash in 2008 that left him in a vegetative state. In the end, his wife Rachel and the medical team at Reims University Hospital prevailed, with doctors taking him off life support on July 2 after France's top court ruled that doctors could remove his feeding tubes. from Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines https://ift.tt/32jfTal via Latest News

The attorney general for Washington D.C. has issued subpoenas to the National Rifle Association and its related charitable foundation as part of an investigation into allegations of financial misconduct inside the powerful gun lobbying organization. The subpoenas add to a host of difficulties for the NRA, which is facing internal turmoil and multiple external inquiries as it gears up for a 2020 election push in support of President Donald Trump. Attorney General Karl Racine said in a statement that his office is examining both the NRA and the NRA Foundation. from Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines https://ift.tt/2XMkWfQ via Latest News

Sarah King, founder of local nonprofit Casper's Bird Rescue, was contacted by a member of her staff who discovered corella birds falling out of nearby trees and the sky. from Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines https://ift.tt/30wK6B2 via Latest News

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Researcher says Zoom web server is vulnerable to remote code execution    ZDNet If the Zoom web server is still lurking on your Mac, best delete it now. View full coverage on Google News from Technology - Latest - Google News https://ift.tt/2XHMfwu via Technology

After President Trump invited a group of right-wing and fringe media figures to the White House for a “social media summit” on Thursday, the event ended with a former presidential adviser and a CNN political analyst getting into a heated exchange in the Rose Garden. from Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines https://ift.tt/30oY1sC via Latest News

(Bloomberg) -- When accused child sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein filed a bail request this week, he provided a glimpse of the strategies he is likely to use in his defense.Epstein was arrested last Saturday on federal charges of conspiracy and sex trafficking in minors and has pleaded not guilty. The 66-year-old fund manager and globe-trotting socialite, accused of molesting girls as young as 14 from 2002 to 2005, could spend the rest of his life in prison if convicted.On Thursday, in a letter to U.S. District Judge Richard Berman in Manhattan, his lawyers asked that he be released from jail while he awaits trial.“Mr. Epstein has substantial grounds to challenge the allegations charged by the government in its indictment, and he has every intention of doing so in a lawful, professional, and principled manner,” they told Berman in the filing.Here are some of the defenses they cited.Done DealEpstein claims he is immune from the charges as a result of a non-prosecution agreement he signed

Authorities say all five people killed in a fiery crash in southeastern New Mexico's oil country were from Texas. New Mexico State Police say the crash happened Thursday morning on a state road east of Jal when the driver of a pickup truck crossed the center line into eastbound traffic and collided head-on with a tractor-trailer rig. Officer Ray Wilson said Friday it's unclear what caused the driver, identified as 22-year-old Arturo Barboza of Odessa, to cross the center line. from Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines https://ift.tt/2XH6Xwv via Latest News

ShowtimePresident Donald Trump and former President Bill Clinton have each had very little to say about their respective connections to alleged sex trafficker and pedophile Jeffrey Epstein. But their cartoon personas are being a bit more forthcoming. In a hastily assembled cold open clip from this coming Sunday’s episode of the Stephen Colbert-produced Our Cartoon President on Showtime, Trump begins by addressing the nation about his ties to Epstein.“Sure, I told New York Magazine in 2002 that Epstein is a ‘terrific guy,’” Trump says, citing a real quote. “But that was before I found out that I said, later in the same sentence, that ‘he likes beautiful women…on the younger side.’” Then, cartoon Bill Clinton joins him. “Hey, everybody it’s me, America’s cold sore,” he says. “Every few years I pop up to remind you of your bad choices in the ‘90s.” Jeffrey Epstein Investigated for Child TraffickingREVEALED: We Found Billionaire Pedophile Jeffrey Epstein’s Secret CharityBoth men acknowledg

A lawsuit filed by four reality show sisters can proceed against an Arkansas city that released confidential information about their alleged sexual abuse by a brother, a federal appeals court ruled Friday. The Eighth Circuit Court of Appeals ruled that Jill Duggar Dillard, Jessa Duggar Seewald, Jinger Duggar Vuolo and Joy Duggar had an expectation of privacy when officials from the city of Springdale and Washington County investigated allegations that their brother Josh sexually abused them between 2002 and 2003, when they were minors. from Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines https://ift.tt/2XJ3EoD via Latest News

Police in Pennsylvania say rising floodwaters killed a pregnant mother and her son Thursday. from Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines https://ift.tt/2G8WgYS via Latest News

Facing dismal poll numbers among black voters, Democratic presidential candidate Pete Buttigieg released a multipronged plan addressing everything from promoting black history and culture and ensuring Washington, D.C., statehood to tackling the racial wealth gap. from Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines https://ift.tt/2LOeaEa via Latest News

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Four Britons have been arrested in an eastern China province, the British embassy said Friday, two days after Chinese police announced a drug bust there involving 16 foreigners. Police in the city of Xuzhou in Jiangsu province said on Wednesday that a total of 19 people were arrested in a drugs case centring on a local branch of a language school. "We are in contact with the Chinese authorities following the arrest of four British people in Jiangsu province, and are providing consular assistance," a spokeswoman with the British embassy in Beijing told AFP. from Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines https://ift.tt/2YPIemh via Latest News

Samsung Galaxy A10e now available at AT&T for $210    Android Central AT&T picks up the obscure Galaxy A10e — a $210 Samsung budget phone    Android Police The Galaxy A10e has arrived in the US through AT&T    SamMobile View full coverage on Google News from Technology - Latest - Google News https://ift.tt/2XIEoyX via Technology

These robo-ants can work together in swarms to navigate tricky terrain    TechCrunch While the agility of a Spot or Atlas robot is something to behold, there's a special merit reserved for tiny, simple robots that work not as a versatile individual but ... from Technology - Latest - Google News https://ift.tt/2xOBCIQ via Technology