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Gingrich on Tlaib visiting Israel, Trump's New Hampshire rally, 2020 Democrat polls

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Former House speaker and Fox News contributor Newt Gingrich talks the news of the day on 'Fox & Friends.' from Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines https://ift.tt/2YUpGW3 via Latest News

Claims: Migrant children molested in US-funded foster care

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This story is part of an ongoing joint investigation between The Associated Press and the PBS series FRONTLINE on the treatment of migrant children, which includes an upcoming film. The boy, now 8, went into a U.S.-funded foster home for migrant children in New York. The foster care programs are aimed at providing migrant children with care while authorities work to connect them with parents, relatives or other sponsors. from Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines https://ift.tt/2Z42hkt via Latest News

UPDATE 1-Several injured in Kashmir in clashes with Indian police

Indian security forces injured at least six people on Saturday in Srinagar, the main city in the Indian-controlled part of Kashmir, as several protests broke out against New Delhi's revocation of the region's autonomy last week. In New York, the U.N. Security Council held its first meeting in almost 50 years on Kashmir, a majority Muslim region claimed by both India and Pakistan - which controls its western third. from Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines https://ift.tt/30gxsX8 via Latest News

Jeffrey Epstein’s Body Claimed by His Brother

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Jeenah Moon/ReutersJeffrey Esptein’s body was claimed from the New York City medical examiner’s office by his brother Mark Epstein, a person with direct knowledge of the situation told The Daily Beast on Friday.The exclusive details come as Chief Medical Examiner Barbara Sampson is preparing to issue a report on Epstein’s autopsy and a final ruling on his cause of death. Officials have previously said Epstein’s death is being investigated as a suicide.Epstein, 66, was found unconcious Aug. 10 in a cell at the Metropolitan Correctional Center where he was being held while awaiting trial on federal sex-trafficking charges. He was pronounced dead about an hour later after being transported to a nearby hospital. Authorities are investigating how the federal prison apparently failed to prevent Epstein’s death. The Man Who Could Inherit Jeffrey Epstein’s MillionsEpstein’s lawyers have said in court papers that Mark Epstein is their client’s only surviving next of kin. The brother, a former a

Tlaib Says She Will Not Visit Grandmother in Israel After Being Treated ‘Like a Criminal’

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Representative Rashida Tlaib said she will not visit Israel to visit her grandmother and other Palestinian relatives on the West Bank after being treated "like a criminal" by Israel, which announced Thursday that Tlaib and Representative Ilhan Omar would not be allowed into the country on a planned political visit."Silencing me & treating me like a criminal is not what she wants for me," the Michigan Democrat said of her grandmother. "It would kill a piece of me. I have decided that visiting my grandmother under these oppressive conditions stands against everything I believe in-fighting against racism, oppression & injustice."Israel's interior minister Aryeh Deri announced Friday that the country would sanction Tlaib's humanitarian request for a visit to her grandmother, who is 90, as long as the congresswoman pledges not to promote boycotts against Israel during such a visit.“This could be my last opportunity to see her. I will respect any

Rep. Omar accuses Benjamin Netanyahu of imposing 'Muslim ban'

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Israeli officials bar Omar and Tlaib from entering the country; reaction from Fox News contributor Pastor Robert Jeffress and 2020 Nadler challenger Lindsey Boylan. from Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines https://ift.tt/2KFFHqn via Latest News

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Diageo's investment in alcohol-free spirit maker Seedlip shows how big firms want to reach non-drinkers. from BBC News - Business https://ift.tt/2ZjcWIc via Online Shopping

New Jersey's Teterboro Airport was travel hub of Jeffrey Epstein's sex traffic ring

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Jeffrey Epstein's planes recorded at least 730 flights to and from Teterboro Airport in New Jersey between 1995 and 2013, according to flight logs. from Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines https://ift.tt/2YTHNM1 via Latest News

Kazakhstan court frees anti-Beijing activist

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A rights activist in Kazakhstan who faced seven years imprisonment over his outspoken opposition to neighbouring China was unexpectedly freed Friday as public and international pressure over his case mounted. Serikjan Bilash, whose activism in defence of Muslim and Turkic minorities in Xinjiang earned him global media attention, told AFP he struck a plea bargain with the court that allowed him freedom but will end his activism. "I had to end my activism against China. from Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines https://ift.tt/30bWvuf via Latest News

Jeffrey Epstein investigators remain puzzled by his apparent suicide days later

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Jeffrey Epstein’s apparent suicide in a New York City jail cell has left federal investigators with more questions than answers about how the accused child sex trafficker managed to seemingly escape facing justice one final time. The federal Bureau of Prisons has attempted to understand in recent days how Epstein managed to take his own life at the Metropolitan Correctional Centre, despite guards being assigned to check his cell every 30 minutes. Officials are also working to learn why Epstein’s cellmate was moved out of their cell the day before the disgraced financier was found unresponsive on Saturday morning and later pronounced dead. Attorney General William Barr has described “serious irregularities” at the prison where Epstein was held and reports have suggested the guards watching over him fell asleep for about three hours at the time of his death. But the Justice Department has not released additional details about the missteps that led to his death before he was set to stand

Lawsuit challenges California's assault weapons ban

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A gun-rights group sued Thursday to block California from enforcing its assault weapons ban, contending it violates the Second Amendment right to bear arms. The lawsuit was the latest among gun advocacy and lobbying groups to challenge California's firearms laws, which are among the strictest in the country, and comes after a recent series of deadly mass shootings nationwide involving military-style rifles. The lawsuit was filed in the same San Diego federal court district where a judge in April tossed out a nearly two-decade-old California ban on sales and purchases of ammunition magazines holding more than 10 bullets. from Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines https://ift.tt/3064zMZ via Latest News

Epstein girlfriend Ghislaine Maxwell pictured at burger bar in first public sighting since financier’s death

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The “missing” former girlfriend of Jeffrey Epstein and the woman accused of recruiting young women for him – claims she has strongly denied – has been spotted eating at a fast food restaurant in Los Angeles.In the days since the death of the disgraced financier, accused of sex trafficking young girls, much attention has focused on the whereabouts of socialite Ghislaine Maxwell, daughter of the late press baron Robert Maxwell, and Epstein’s longtime confidante. Reports suggested she was living in France or elsewhere in Europe, or even in Massachusetts.The matter now seems to have been at least party cleared up after a tabloid newspaper published a picture of her taken in an unlikely location.“Well, I guess this is the last time I’ll be eating here,” the 57-year-old is said to have remarked after being snapped at an In-N-Out restaurant in Los Angeles, according to the New York Post.The newspaper claimed Ms Maxwell was enjoying a burger, fries and a shake, while she sat reading The Book o

Travis Strikes Again: No More Heroes Coming To PC and PS4 - GameSpot

Travis Strikes Again: No More Heroes Coming To PC and PS4    GameSpot Travis Strikes Again: No More Heroes gets a PS4 & PC release date    Polygon Travis Strikes Again: No More Heroes coming to PS4 and PC in October    Eurogamer.net Travis Strikes Again: No More Heroes hits PS4 and Steam this October    VG247 Travis Strikes Again: No More Heroes Lands on PS4 and PC in October    DualShockers View full coverage on Google News from Technology - Latest - Google News https://ift.tt/2Zb4OoI via Technology

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Will the big polluters clean up their acts if the people who actually own them say they must? from BBC News - Business https://ift.tt/2Z81tHe via Online Shopping

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Sister of officer who died by suicide Wednesday says NYPD is 'broken'

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The NYPD is well aware of this mental health emergency, as nine of its officers have died by suicide since January. But Eileen Echeverria, whose brother's was the most recent death, said something is "broken" inside the department. from Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines https://ift.tt/2P14ZTY via Latest News

Shocked Israel would ban Rashida Tlaib and Ilhan Omar? Don't be

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The extent to which the Israeli government has designated opposition to its policies as not just illegitimate but also illegal is now plain to see‘Throughout the hallways of US officialdom and among the mainstream pundits, many have reacted to the barring of Omar and Tlaib with outrage and shock.’ Photograph: Erin Scott/ReutersAnyone paying attention to the politics of Israel-Palestine could sense this was coming. It was was only a matter of time before a prominent American politician was blocked from entering Israel on political grounds, and now that moment has arrived. After being goaded by Donald Trump, the Israeli government announced on Thursday that they would deny the US representatives Ilhan Omar and Rashida Tlaib entry to the country.This move didn’t come out of nowhere. The Israeli government passed a law in 2017 barring supporters of the Boycott, Divest and Sanctions (BDS) movement from entering the country. After Omar and Tlaib, who have expressed support for the BDS moveme

Calls to boycott 'Mulan' are trending after the star of Disney's live-action remake backed the Hong Kong police in the city's chaotic protests

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Liu Yifei, who is Chinese-American, backed police in a post on Chinese microblogging site Weibo, leading people to speak out against her movie. from Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines https://ift.tt/2Z5BfsJ via Latest News

3-year-old girl found alone in boat, man’s body discovered nearby, Texas cops say

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Texas authorities found a man’s body after searching for a missing father whose little girl was found sleeping alone in a boat on Lake Granbury on Friday. from Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines https://ift.tt/2KQjhBp via Latest News

Rhode Island Prison Officer Resigns After ICE Protesters Allege He Drove a Truck Into Them

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'It was a shocking escalation of violence,' says a witness from Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines https://ift.tt/2P2FUIe via Latest News

Client says Arizona massage therapist's 'cuddling' session turned sexual

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A Phoenix woman's complaint says a "cuddling" session with a massage therapist turned sexual. from Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines https://ift.tt/2KGDFpX via Latest News

Iran tanker in limbo off Gibraltar as US issues warrant

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A last-minute US warrant to seize an Iranian oil tanker preparing to leave Gibraltar after weeks of detention cast doubt over its departure on Saturday, prolonging a diplomatic spat between Tehran, London and Washington. The US Justice Department alleged the ship was part of a scheme "to unlawfully access the US financial system to support illicit shipments to Syria from Iran by the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps," which Washington has designated a foreign terrorist organisation. There was no comment from Britain or Gibraltar, its overseas territory. from Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines https://ift.tt/2Nb2nQF via Latest News

Colorado OKs electric car requirement to fight air pollution

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Colorado tightened its air quality regulations on Friday, requiring that at least 5% of the vehicles sold in the state by 2023 emit zero pollution. The state Air Quality Control Commission, which passed the rule on an 8-1 vote, said the requirement applies to auto manufacturers, not buyers. It's intended to boost the number of electric vehicles in a state struggling to control ozone pollution in its most heavily populated area. from Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines https://ift.tt/2OZpnF7 via Latest News