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Trump Blasts NATO Allies For Spending Too Little On Their Own Defense: Report

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In the lead-up to the upcoming NATO summit in Brussels, President Donald Trump from Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines https://ift.tt/2lQ3lTz via Latest News

All 12 members of missing youth soccer team, coach found alive in Thailand cave

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All 12 members of a missing children's soccer team and their coach were found from Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines https://ift.tt/2tXyFU8 via Latest News

Supreme Court battles show the danger of gaming the rules

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Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., and I stood alone in a Senate office hallway a year ago, moments after Senate Republicans nuked the filibuster rule for Supreme Court nominees in order to confirm Neil Gorsuch to the Supreme Court. “The Senate has been damaged to a degree that it hasn’t been in its history,” McCain told me then. Now, with the retirement of Justice Anthony Kennedy from the court, a Republican president and GOP-controlled Senate have a clear path to confirming his replacement without any Democratic votes. from Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines https://ift.tt/2u4cuM7 via Latest News

89-Year-Old Resorts To Urinating In Public After Gas Station Won't Let Her Use Bathroom

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Employees at a gas station in Charlotte, North Carolina, denied 89-year-old from Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines https://ift.tt/2KClhiP via Latest News

Boys, coach in stable health after 10 days lost in Thai cave

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MAE SAI, Thailand (AP) — The 12 boys and soccer coach found in a partially flooded cave in northern Thailand after 10 days are mostly in stable medical condition and have received high-protein liquid food, officials said Tuesday, though it is not known when they will be able to go home. from Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines https://ift.tt/2Kq4TT6 via Latest News

Limbani the Chimp Goes Bananas as He Reunites With Couple Who Raised Him

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Limbani was rejected by his mother after coming down with pneumonia shortly after birth. from Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines https://ift.tt/2ua0adt via Latest News

'Dead' woman wakes up in a morgue. Why does this keep happening?

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A woman was taken to the morgue and pronounced dead after a car crash near Johannesburg in South Africa.  The only problem? She wasn't dead. SEE ALSO: Shane, somehow, is reportedly coming back to 'The Walking Dead' According to the BBC, the unnamed woman woke up in a mortuary fridge after a car pile-up on June 24 which reportedly left two others dead. The woman was discovered by a morgue worker, according to the news service, and she is now recovering in a hospital east of Johannesburg. The woman's family declined to comment on the incident to the BBC, but said, "We need answers." So, how did this happen? An investigation is reportedly underway. Ambulance company Distress Alert, who mispronounced the woman dead, told news publisher Times Live, “Equipment used to determine life showed no form of life on the woman." "This did not happen because our paramedics are not properly trained," the company's statement added. "There is no proof of

Trump brashly declares: 'If not for me, we would now be at War with North Korea!'

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President Trump on Tuesday brushed aside questions over whether his assertion that he “solved” the crisis with North Korea was premature amid reports leader Kim Jong Un is trying to conceal parts of his country's nuclear weapons program. from Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines https://ift.tt/2KIQq0G via Latest News

Members of a Youth Soccer Team Trapped in a Thai Cave Are in Stable Health Condition

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12 boys and their coach were trapped for over nine days with no outside contact from Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines https://ift.tt/2KKToSe via Latest News

Iran diplomat among six arrested over suspected plot against opposition meeting

By Robert-Jan Bartunek and John Irish BRUSSELS/PARIS (Reuters) - An Iranian diplomat has been arrested along with two people suspected of plotting a bomb attack on a meeting of an exiled Iranian opposition group in France attended by Donald Trump's lawyer Rudy Giuliani, Belgian authorities said on Monday. Three other arrests were made in France but two of them were later released. Several former European and Arab ministers also attended the meeting of the Paris-based National Council of Resistance of Iran (NCRI) - an umbrella bloc of opposition groups in exile that seek an end to Shi'ite Muslim clerical rule in Iran. from Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines https://ift.tt/2KDddOF via Latest News

Suspects in New York City 'Junior' Killing Moved Out of General Population at Rikers

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Several of the alleged Trinitarios members accused of killing a Bronx teen were moved out of the general population at Rikers Island because of threats made against them, a high-ranking jail source told PIX11 News on Monday. from Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines https://ift.tt/2MNKS5Q via Latest News

This viral artist brings her fears to life through makeup

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When Mimi Choi left her teaching job, she took a chance with art and found inspiration in her dreams. Now, her makeup looks are going viral. from Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines https://ift.tt/2Kyfv2x via Latest News

Warm in blankets, Thai boys smile, joke with rescuer in cave

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MAE SAI, Thailand (AP) — The Thai soccer teammates stranded more than a week in a partly flooded cave said they were healthy on a video released Wednesday, as heavy rains forecast for later this week could complicate plans to safely extract them. from Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines https://ift.tt/2u4t1zv via Latest News

Multiple wildfires burn out of control in Northern California

A massive wildfire in rural Northern California has exploded in size and forced evacuations in hot, dry weather that is sweeping through several western states where blazes are threatening thousands of homes. The fast-moving fire that started over the weekend northwest of Sacramento grew dramatically to about 94 square miles (243 square kilometers) by Monday night, largely burning out of control in rugged terrain with a few cattle and horse ranches and sending smoke and ash as far south as San Francisco. State fire officials said 700 homes and other buildings were threatened but none had burned. from Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines https://ift.tt/2tM1FyW via Latest News

'Happy as I Could Be in the World.' What It Was Like in Thailand When Rescuers Found the Soccer Team Trapped in a Cave

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“This just shows people do care about saving them — that’s humanity” from Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines https://ift.tt/2tYjnhW via Latest News

Philippine mayor on Duterte's 'narco-list' slain by 'sniper'

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A Philippine mayor on President Rodrigo Duterte's list of allegedly narcotics-linked officials was shot dead Monday by a "sniper" in a broad daylight attack at a town ceremony, police said. Antonio Halili was hit in the chest by a single shot fired from a distance, unleashing chaotic scenes during the weekly flag raising ceremony at the town hall in Tanauan, south of Manila. Town police chief Renato Mercado told AFP the shot was fired from about 150 metres (490 feet) away. from Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines https://ift.tt/2tO8sYO via Latest News

Austria ready to act at borders if Germany moves on migrants

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By Francois Murphy VIENNA (Reuters) - Austria is prepared to take measures to protect its southern borders if an immigration deal within Germany's coalition goes into effect, the government in Vienna said on Tuesday. It was responding to an agreement late on Monday between German Chancellor Angela Merkel's Christian Democrats and Bavaria's Christian Social Union settling a row over migrant policy that had threatened to topple her government. "Should this agreement become the German government's position, we see that as prompting us to take action to prevent negative consequences for Austria and its population," Austrian Chancellor Sebastian Kurz said in a joint statement with two far-right cabinet members, asking Berlin to clarify its stance. from Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines https://ift.tt/2MHkhqW via Latest News

Family of Oakland teen Jahi McMath speaks in San Francisco

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The mother of Jahi McMath, the Oakland girl at the center of the medical and religious debate over brain death, held a press conference in San Francisco. Nailah Winkfield said Thursday that the teen died after surgery. from Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines https://ift.tt/2u55Aq1 via Latest News

Cruise ship worker found alive in sea 22 hours after falling overboard in 'miraculous' rescue

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A cruise ship worker who fell overboard has been rescued by a second ship full of holidaymakers after spending 22 hours stranded in the Gulf of Mexico. from Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines https://ift.tt/2tK4PmT via Latest News

Things to know about abortion and the Supreme Court

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WASHINGTON (AP) — Abortion rights is emerging as a litmus test for the next Supreme Court nominee, with Democrats and at least one moderate Republican declaring they wouldn't support a nominee who opposes the landmark Roe v. Wade ruling that established a woman's right to abortion. from Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines https://ift.tt/2INSbYH via Latest News