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U.S. Senator Kamala Harris on Thursday pledged the nation's backlog of rape kits needing review would be processed by the end of her first four-year term if elected president. Harris estimated she would invest $1 billion to eliminate the backlog, which she said would cover an estimated 225,000 kits that remain untested. Rape kits are collected when a victim reports an assault and DNA or other physical evidence is collected. from Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines https://ift.tt/2XH4Bcf via Latest News

Sudan's ruling military council has foiled a coup attempt, a top general announced on state television Thursday, saying that 12 officers and four soldiers had been arrested. The announcement came as the ruling military and civilian protesters agreed last week to end a political impasse after the army in April ousted longtime ruler Omar al-Bashir on the back of a popular uprising. "Officers and soldiers from the army and National Intelligence and Security Service, some of them retired, were trying to carry out a coup," General Jamal Omar of the ruling military council said in a statement broadcast live on state television. from Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines https://ift.tt/2XDmybG via Latest News

The House speaker reportedly tells Democrat lawmakers to come to her with complaints instead of tweeting about them. from Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines https://ift.tt/2Sc1MyF via Latest News

Ford and VW formalize an alliance to build pickups and vans and will reportedly share VW's MEB platform. from Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines https://ift.tt/2JCrCIf via Latest News

Salé (Morocco) (AFP) - The mother of a Danish student beheaded along with another Scandinavian woman while hiking in Morocco's High Atlas mountains called Thursday for the suspected jihadist killers to face the death penalty as their trial neared its end. "The most just thing would be to give these beasts the death penalty they deserve, I ask that of you," said Helle Petersen in a letter read by her lawyer in an anti-terrorist court in Sale, near the capital Rabat. "My life was destroyed the moment that two policemen came to my door on December 17 to announce my daughter's death," the mother of 24-year-old Louisa Vesterager Jespersen wrote in the letter, read out in total silence and with the defendants' faces impassive. from Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines https://ift.tt/2JQ2YEr via Latest News

Child migrants and asylum seekers in the US have accused border agents of sexual assault and retaliating against those who complain about the conditions in which they are detained, according to a new report.A 15-year-old Honduran girl told government investigators that one officer put his hands under her bra, pulled down her underwear and groped her during a security check, according to NBC News.The man was “speaking in English to other officers and laughing” during the attack, she reportedly said.It was one of a string of allegations against agents in Yuma, Arizona, that the US broadcaster said had been detailed in reports given by children to government case managers. The claims are just the latest in a series of investigations and testimonies bringing to light the inhumane treatment of some migrants under Donald Trump’s border regime.One child wore soiled underwear for 10 days at the border station because he was scared to ask for a clean pair, NBC reported, while another boy said h...

"After everything America has done for Omar, and her family, she hates this country more than ever," Tucker Carlson said on his show Tuesday night. from Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines https://ift.tt/30vPJzs via Latest News

Thousands of Louisianans broke out sandbags or fled to higher ground Thursday as Tropical Storm Barry threatened to turn into the first hurricane of the season and blow ashore with torrential rains that could pose a severe test of New Orleans' improved post-Katrina flood defenses . National Guard troops and rescue crews in high-water vehicles took up positions around the state as Louisiana braced for the arrival of the storm Friday night or early Saturday. Louisiana Gov. John Bel Edwards, who declared an emergency earlier in the week as the storm brewed in the Gulf of Mexico, warned that the storm's blow could form a dangerous combination with the already-high Mississippi River, which has been swelled by heavy rain and snowmelt upriver this spring. from Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines https://ift.tt/32j2AGP via Latest News

The U.S. government posted an $8 billion budget deficit in June, according to data released on Thursday by the Treasury Department. The Treasury said federal spending in June was $342 billion, down 12% from the same month in 2018, while receipts were $334 billion, up 6% compared with June 2018. The deficit for the fiscal year to date was $747 billion, compared with $607 billion in the comparable period the year earlier. from Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines https://ift.tt/2Jvz9dh via Latest News

"Vulnerable children and girls are all he targets. The more vulnerable ... the better," claims private investigator Mike Fisten of Jeffrey Epstein. from Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines https://ift.tt/2XDb50I via Latest News

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Twitter Is Down, Which Must Be Why No One's Liking My Sick Tweet    Gizmodo Continuing the summer of site outages... Twitter is now down. Both the mobile and web-based versions of Twitter are failing to load tweets, or even show like and ... View full coverage on Google News from Technology - Latest - Google News https://ift.tt/2JFhDSt via Technology

Nobody in Washington seems to like the Affordable Care Act. Republicans want to repeal it, claiming it gives too much power to the federal government. Democrats argue that it doesn’t go far enough: Sen. Bernie Sanders wants to replace the ACA with Medicare for All, which would get rid of private insurance entirely. from Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines https://ift.tt/2G5PIKD via Latest News

Louisiana Gov. John Bel Edwards has asked the Trump administration for a federal declaration of emergency ahead of Tropical Storm Barry's expected landfall late Friday or early Saturday along the state's coast. In a letter Thursday to President Donald Trump, Edwards asks that the state receive supplementary federal resources as soon as possible should they be needed. Edwards says it is necessary that critical pre-positioning be provided through federal assistance. from Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines https://ift.tt/2SdCOPx via Latest News

"I was terrified and I was telling him to stop, 'please stop.'" from Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines https://ift.tt/32kQZ9Z via Latest News

Democrats worry about long-term implications of the feud between the speaker and the freshman firebrand. from Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines https://ift.tt/2YQXqjg via Latest News

Aftershocks of last week's big earthquakes are still rumbling beneath the California desert, but seismologists say the probability of large quakes continues to decline. The U.S. Geological Survey said the chance of a quake larger than Friday's 7.1 temblor is less than 1% and the chance of a magnitude 6 or higher is down to 6%. Both were centered near the Mojave Desert towns of Ridgecrest and Trona, which suffered cracked buildings, blocked roads and several house fires. from Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines https://ift.tt/2Lfb906 via Latest News

Rouhani called on the Iranian military to strengthen their readiness in the face of enemy threats in a speech during Tuesday’s defense show. Iran says its new Kowsar fighter jet has flown. President Hassan Rouhani was on scene to see the jet – which is a carbon copy of the American F-5F – undergoing flight trials.Test flights of the Kowsar, took place on Aug. 21, 2018 on the eve of the National Day of the Defense Industry, according to semi-official Mehr News Agency. It was unclear whether the jet’s first public display flight has yet taken place.The Kowsar can be used for “short aerial support missions” and is equipped with systems that “promote precision targeting,” according to state media.Rouhani called on the Iranian military to strengthen their readiness in the face of enemy threats in a speech during Tuesday’s defense show.“When we say we are ready for defense, it means that we seek the establishment of sustainable peace,” Rouhani said. from Yahoo News - Latest News & He...