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Thousands of Central American migrants stranded on Mexican border

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Thousands of US-bound Honduran migrants remained stranded Saturday after spending the night on a border bridge between Guatemala and Mexico where riot police barred their progress. Honduran President Juan Orlando Hernandez said he would meet Saturday with his Guatemalan counterpart Jimmy Morales to discuss the next steps in the crisis, which has triggered escalating anti-immigrant rhetoric from US President Donald Trump. from Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines https://ift.tt/2R24MvE via Latest News

At least 59 killed as train hits crowd in northern India

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Video footage from the scene showed hundreds had gathered to watch the burning of an effigy as part of the Dussehra festival celebrations, when a commuter train ran through the crowd. The toll can rise," State police chief Suresh Arora told Reuters, adding emergency officials were still trying to ascertain the extent of the disaster on the outskirts of Amritsar in Punjab state. A Reuters witness at the scene saw bodies of victims strewn around rail tracks, friends and relatives stood around in shock, many were sobbing and appeared distraught. from Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines https://ift.tt/2OBcNLq via Latest News

US charges Russian woman Elena Khusyaynova with interfering in US elections

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The US government on Friday charged a Russian woman with being part of a Kremlin-backed plot to interfere with next month's midterm elections. Elena Alekseevna Khusyaynova, 44, became the first foreigner to be charged in connection with the upcoming elections, rather than the 2016 presidential race. She was accused of having being, since 2014, the chief accountant for "Project Lakhta", a $35 million operation linked to the St Petersburg-based Internet Research Agency, which led Russian social media disruption in 2016. She is accused of conducting "information warfare" against the United States. Khusyaynova continued to file detailed multi-million dollar budgets through 2017, and into 2018, including expenses for placing disruptive adverts on Facebook, promoting social media posts, registering domain names, and paying activists. The operation was said to have been funded by Russian oligarch Yevgeny Viktorovich Prigozhin, who is a friend of Vladimir Putin, and two...

US craze for DNA 'heritage' tests may bolster racism, critics warn

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Millions of Americans are using DNA test kits sold online to research their ancestry, either out of simple curiosity or to find answers about their identity. In a country whose population, for the most part, arrived in various waves of migration -- and where genealogy has caught the public imagination -- the DNA tests have proven wildly successful. The main companies offering the service, Ancestry and 23andMe, say they have tested between 15 million people between them. from Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines https://ift.tt/2CvZQeL via Latest News

Warren ancestry highlights how tribes decide membership

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FLAGSTAFF, Ariz. (AP) — Jon Rios traces his ancestry to the Pima people of Arizona, but he has no tribal enrollment card and lives hundreds of miles away in Colorado. from Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines https://ift.tt/2Cvlj7C via Latest News

Google adds floating keyboard mode to Gboard for Android

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Google adds floating keyboard mode to Gboard for Android    BetaNews Gboard brings floating, transparent keyboard to beta    Android Central Gboard on Android gets a floating keyboard mode    XDA Developers (blog) Full coverage from Technology - Google News https://ift.tt/2yRspjb via Technology

Trump and Republican lawmakers stoke migrant caravan conspiracy theories

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Iowa Rep. Steve King and other Republicans have put a caravan of Central American migrants in the spotlight ahead of the midterm elections, and some are fueling conspiracy theories about who is backing the migrants. from Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines https://ift.tt/2q04MRo via Latest News

Big numbers of Central Americans arriving at Arizona border

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PHOENIX (AP) — Large groups of Central American migrants continue to surrender to Border Patrol agents in Arizona with the arrival of one recent group numbering 108 captured in dramatic video images, authorities said Friday. from Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines https://ift.tt/2CWUf29 via Latest News

Trump says US will pull out of nuclear deal with Russia

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President Donald Trump confirmed Saturday that the United States plans to leave a landmark nuclear weapons treaty with Russia over claims Moscow has violated the deal. The three-decade-old Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces Treaty, known as the INF, was signed in 1987 by president Ronald Reagan. "We're the ones who have stayed in the agreement and we've honored the agreement, but Russia has not unfortunately honored the agreement, so we're going to terminate the agreement and we're going to pull out," Trump told reporters in Elko, Nevada. from Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines https://ift.tt/2Pa5k5t via Latest News

Mega Millions Jackpot Hits Record $1 Billion

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The Mega Millions jackpot has surged to a record $1 billion ahead of Friday from Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines https://ift.tt/2CTB4pS via Latest News

U.S. Warns About Chinese, Russian Election Interference Efforts

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The statement said there isn’t any evidence that foreign meddling has allowed adversaries to “prevent voting, change vote counts or disrupt our ability to tally votes,” but the warning comes less than three weeks before the midterm elections in which Republican control of Congress is at stake. from Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines https://ift.tt/2P97YZb via Latest News

We Asked Men To Own Up To Misogyny And Sexual Misconduct. Here's What They Said.

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When Christine Blasey Ford came forward last month to accuse Judge Brett from Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines https://ift.tt/2PIOsjo via Latest News

Ex-India state official: Most train victims migrant workers

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NEW DELHI (AP) — Most of the casualties in a train disaster that killed dozens of people in northern India were migrant workers, a former state government official said Saturday. from Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines https://ift.tt/2NPyH8F via Latest News

Mega Millions Jackpot Hits $1 Billion: What to Do if You Win

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The first rule of winning the lotto is don’t tell anyone you've won the lotto. from Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines https://ift.tt/2NPyX7F via Latest News

In California, Republican bastions under threat from 'blue wave'

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As the door slammed in his face, Josef Siroky understood that campaigning for a Democrat in the conservative California city of Huntington Beach was not going to be easy. Siroky is one of hundreds of volunteers canvassing the Golden State's conservative bastions like Huntington Beach, which Democrats are hoping to conquer in the November 6 midterm elections en route to winning control of the House of Representatives -- and possibly, Congress. On a sunny Sunday in October, Siroky and the other volunteers are going door-to-door for Harley Rouda, a former Republican who is now running for office as a moderate Democrat in a tight race with a veteran Republican. from Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines https://ift.tt/2Cv8Lgq via Latest News

PAC won't end ad saying black men will face rape accusations

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LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (AP) — A political action committee said Friday that it won't pull radio ads in hotly contested races in Arkansas and Missouri that suggest African American men will face rape accusations if Democrats win midterm elections. from Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines https://ift.tt/2OCF7xf via Latest News

Google is using software to make the Pixel 3's screen corners even rounder

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Google is using software to make the Pixel 3's screen corners even rounder    The Verge How to sell your old Google Pixel or Pixel 2 for the most money    Digital Trends Verizon Google Pixel 3 is SIM-locked, will need to be unlocked to use on other carriers [Update]    9to5Google Full coverage from Technology - Google News https://ift.tt/2AjmqWj via Technology

Will Huawei's foldable 5G phone be based on the massive gaming phone it just announced?

Will Huawei's foldable 5G phone be based on the massive gaming phone it just announced?    BGR Huawei Mate 20 X hands-on review    Digital Trends Huawei's Foldable 5G Phone May Resemble Mate 20 X    Android Headlines Huawei Throws Down The Gauntlet With New Mate 20 Devices    Forbes Full coverage from Technology - Google News https://ift.tt/2CSRcaZ via Technology

'Fortnite' Reveals Halloween 'Fortnitemares' Event, Teases Return Of Ghoul Trooper Skin

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'Fortnite' Reveals Halloween 'Fortnitemares' Event, Teases Return Of Ghoul Trooper Skin    Forbes Fortnite Teases Nightmares Halloween Event    Game Rant Epic Games Hints at Halloween Content for Fortnite    Fortune Full coverage from Technology - Google News https://ift.tt/2CYAgQo via Technology

Cheaters and what they do to the game

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Cheaters and what they do to the game    Gamers Classified A Member of OpTic India's CS:GO Team Has Been Caught Cheating    DualShockers Nikhil 'Forsaken' Kumawat Caught Cheating at CS:GO Competitive LAN Event in India    TheNerdMag (blog) Full coverage from Technology - Google News https://ift.tt/2S6O0wN via Technology