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Vaping and Smoking: Are You Doing Both?

While projections vary, it's estimated that somewhere around half of the more than 10 million adults who vape in the U.S. also smoke. Among them, some supplement smoking with vaping to skirt smoking laws and restrictions -- vaping where they can't smoke. from Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines https://ift.tt/2VGet6V via Latest News

Turkey Contradicts Trump on Custody of Jihadists Jailed in Syria

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(Bloomberg) -- Turkey will take custody of Islamic State prisoners only in areas of northern Syria where Turkish troops are trying to create a buffer, Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu said on Thursday, contradicting a key claim made by President Donald Trump.With Turkey’s incursion now in its second day, it will only assume responsibility for the militants held under arrest in the “safe zone” it plans to create, Cavusoglu told reporters in Ankara. If the camps or prisons housing the militants are outside the zone, Turkey is “not responsible,” he said.Those places “will be under the responsibility of Americans and others, or the regime,” the minister said. “I can’t take the responsibility for terrorists that are not in our area.”It wasn’t clear if there are any detainees in the planned buffer, and the biggest prisoner camp lies farther south of the zone.Turkey plans to establish a buffer 480 kilometers (298 miles) wide and about 30 kilometers deep in northern Syria, President Recep Tay

Ford SEMA Custom Builds Include Wild and Off-Road-Ready Rangers

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An advance look at a few of the nearly 50 Fords that will be at the SEMA show in Las Vegas soon. from Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines https://ift.tt/2pVQW5Q via Latest News

Would you buy a 700-hp 2020 Ford Mustang for $40,000? - Roadshow

Brown Lee Ford in Tennessee is thinking that the answer to that is yes. from CNET https://ift.tt/33jnEMV via Mobiles

3 smart gyms tested and rated: Peloton, ClassPass and Mirror - CNET

We tested out a bunch of exercise equipment to see what works -- and doesn't work -- in today's connected homes. from CNET https://ift.tt/3102Fxa via Mobiles

Erdogan Threatens To ‘Open the Doors’ to Europe for Refugees if Criticisms Continue

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Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan issued a warning to the European Union during a speech to his party on Thursday, threatening to flood the continent with millions of refugees in response to international criticism of Turkey’s recent military offensive in northern Syria.“Hey EU, wake up. I say it again: if you try to frame our operation there as an invasion, our task is simple: we will open the doors and send 3.6 million migrants to you,” Erdogan said in the speech. The public opinion over Erdogan’s actions has largely been negative.On Thursday, France’s foreign ministry requested the Turkish ambassador, Ismail Hakki Musa, speak in Paris about the recent attacks, according to sources. Italian Foreign Minister Luigi Di Maio also called for an immediate end to the fighting.“As a government we think that the Turkish offensive initiative is unacceptable. We condemn it … because military action in the past has always led to more terrorism,” he said. “We call for an immediate end to thi

Lights out? PG&E plans to shut off power for more than 800K customers in California to reduce wildfire risk

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Pacific Gas & Electric and Southern California Edison may shut off power for nearly a million customers in an effort to prevent wildfires. from Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines https://ift.tt/2Vq3qOX via Latest News

Rudy Giuliani’s Ukraine Henchman Arrested Over Trump Group Donation

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Alexandria Sheriff's OfficeTwo Soviet-born businessmen with ties to Rudy Giuliani were arrested Wednesday on federal charges of violating campaign-finance laws through a six-figure donation they facilitated to President Donald Trump’s official super PAC.Lev Parnas and Igor Fruman were taken into custody at Washington’s Dulles airport. U.S. Attorney Geoffrey Berman confirmed that the two were headed out of the country and that the timing of the arrest—before 6 pm on Wednesday—was prompted by fears of them escaping prosecution. Both men were about to board an international flight with one way tickets. Berman and local FBI Agent and charge William Sweeney made brief statements and left without taking questions. They said the case remained open and the investigation is ongoing.Parnas and Fruman are charged with making illegal straw donations, including a $325,000 contribution to the group America First Action. As The Daily Beast first reported, that donation actually came from an entir

Yes, America Probably Has Secret Stealth Drones Around Iran

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So much spying. from Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines https://ift.tt/2LYR6lw via Latest News

Politician charged in human trafficking adoption scheme

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An Arizona elected official ran a human smuggling scheme that promised pregnant women thousands of dollars to lure them from a Pacific Island nation to the U.S., where they were crammed into houses to wait to give birth, sometimes with little to no prenatal care, prosecutors allege. Paul Petersen, the Republican assessor of Arizona's most populous county, was charged in Utah, Arizona and Arkansas with counts including human smuggling, sale of a child, fraud, forgery and conspiracy to commit money laundering. Investigators also found eight pregnant women from the Marshall Islands in raids of his properties outside Phoenix, and several more are waiting to give birth in Utah, authorities said. from Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines https://ift.tt/30YhzE3 via Latest News

PS5 Vs. Xbox Scarlett: What's Different About The Next-Gen Consoles - GameSpot

PS5 Vs. Xbox Scarlett: What's Different About The Next-Gen Consoles    GameSpot View full coverage on Google News from Technology - Latest - Google News https://ift.tt/2OCRqIE via Technology

Fortnite Season 11: The End Event Start Times, New Map Rumors, And Everything We Know So Far - GameSpot

Fortnite Season 11: The End Event Start Times, New Map Rumors, And Everything We Know So Far    GameSpot Epic Games Is Teasing "The End" of Fortnite    Comicbook.com Fortnite Season 11: Best NEW Map Concepts!    RealSport Epic Games settles with 14-year-old over selling Fortnite cheats    CNET Lawsuit: Fortnite Designed to Be as Addictive as Cocaine    Newser View full coverage on Google News from Technology - Latest - Google News https://ift.tt/2VwRniN via Technology

Chevrolet reveals Corvette C8.R tech insights - Motorsport.com

Chevrolet reveals Corvette C8.R tech insights    Motorsport.com The Corvette C8.R's Flat-Plane Crank V8 Is Coming To A Street Car, Maybe The Next Z06    Jalopnik Chevy spills details on Corvette C8 R -- including its 5.5L V8 engine    CNET Corvette C8.R Gets a Flat-Crank 5.5-Liter V-8 With Dual Overhead Cams    RoadandTrack.com Chevy Corvette C8.R Racer Has a 5.5L Flat-Plane-Crank V-8    Car and Driver View full coverage on Google News from Technology - Latest - Google News https://ift.tt/2OBFbff via Technology

Amazon’s growth may be impossible to stop, argues this terrifying New Yorker profile - The Verge

Amazon’s growth may be impossible to stop, argues this terrifying New Yorker profile    The Verge View full coverage on Google News from Technology - Latest - Google News https://ift.tt/2VxNBFZ via Technology

Migrant protesters occupy U.S.-Mexico border bridge, close crossing

MATAMOROS-BROWNSVILLE BRIDGE, U.S.-Mexico border, Oct 10 (Reuters) - U .S. asylum seekers camped out in a dangerous Mexican border town occupied a bridge to Brownsville, Texas on Thursday, leading to the closure of the crossing, witnesses and authorities said. Hundreds of the migrants have been camped for weeks on the end of the bridge in Matamoros, Mexico, a city known for cartel control of people trafficking and gang violence. Many of those camped out are awaiting court dates for hearings in the United States weeks or months later under a U.S. policy called the Migrant Protection Protocols (MPP). from Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines https://ift.tt/2VxsJOV via Latest News

Warren Releases $1.5 Trillion Plan to Address ‘Environmental Racism’

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Senator Elizabeth Warren (D., Mass.) released on Wednesday a plan to combat climate change while addressing "environmental racism," the concept that climate change disproportionately affects minority communities.Warren's plan would invest $1.5 trillion in technologies and job training programs designed to address global warming. The funds will be disproportionately allocated to impoverished communities, which, Warren argues, will suffer immediate economic disruption due to climate change."Our crisis of environmental injustice is the result of decades of discrimination and environmental racism compounding in communities that have been overlooked for too long," the new plan states. "It is the result of multiple choices that put corporate profits before people, while our government looked the other way. It is unacceptable, and it must change."The plan builds off an earlier initiative in which the presidential hopeful pledged $3 trillion over ten years to

No 'big deal': Trump downplays reports that notes from phone call with Ukraine president were locked up to avoid leaks

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President Trump downplays reports that notes from phone call at center of impeachment inquiry were locked up in system for classified information. from Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines https://ift.tt/35kzYhU via Latest News

Evidence from ex-Dallas police officer's murder trial fuels mistrust

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Evidence from the trial of a former Dallas police officer convicted of killing her neighbor has fueled new questions about whether accused officers are treated differently than other suspects, including testimony that a camera in the cruiser where the officer sat after the shooting was flipped off and that her sexual text messages with her partner were deleted. from Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines https://ift.tt/35yffay via Latest News

Warren Calls for Imprisoning Trans Inmates with Biologically Female Inmates in New LGBTQ Rights Plan

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Senator Elizabeth Warren called for placing transgender prisoners in detention facilities designed for the opposite biological sex in a new LGBTQ rights plan released Thursday."I will direct the Bureau of Prisons to end the Trump Administration’s dangerous policy of imprisoning transgender people in facilities based on their sex assigned at birth," Warren wrote in the plan.Under the plan, transgender inmates would be placed in detention facilities that correspond to their gender identity rather than their biological sex, and would be entitled to tax-payer funded gender transition surgeries.Both Warren and fellow candidate Joe Biden have expressed support for tax-payer funded transition surgeries before. At a September 20 Iowa LGBTQ conference, Biden said that the surgery should be covered by Obamacare.In January of this year, Warren changed her stance on government-funded transition surgeries after it emerged that she had dismissed the notion that taxpayers should fund the co

Syria's Kurds: Turn to Damascus or concede to Turkey?

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Syria's most powerful Kurdish group is grappling for friends after its ally, the United States, abandoned it to an invasion by Turkey, whose warplanes, tanks and artillery are raining shells onto its stronghold in the north of the country. The Kurdish fighters have few options. The Turkish military operation, backed by warplanes and a formidable mobilization, has already targeted dozens of locations along a stretch of nearly 200 miles along the Syrian-Turkish border in its opening salvo. from Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines https://ift.tt/2M51Hf1 via Latest News

Alexa Troubleshooting: 8 common Amazon Echo problems and how to fix them - CNET

Alexa Troubleshooting: 8 common Amazon Echo problems and how to fix them    CNET View full coverage on Google News from Technology - Latest - Google News https://ift.tt/2VsREn1 via Technology

Give your desk some Mac Pro cheese grater chic with this lookalike PC case - The Verge

Give your desk some Mac Pro cheese grater chic with this lookalike PC case    The Verge The Full Nerd ep. 102: Intel price cuts, Radeon RX 5500, Dune Pro vs. Mac Pro    PCWorld View full coverage on Google News from Technology - Latest - Google News https://ift.tt/2peeoLa via Technology