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Justice Department ends inquiry of hush-money payments in final months of Donald Trump's campaign, judge says

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A federal judge said prosecutors concluded their investigations of possible campaign finance violations involving Michael Cohen. from Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines https://ift.tt/2O9vzto via Latest News

The California hiker who was found after spending 4 days alone in the wilderness says she got lost after fleeing a man with a knife

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Sheryl Powell, 60, disappeared on Friday while on a camping trip with her husband. Search teams found her alive and well on Monday. from Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines https://ift.tt/2k3uxBg via Latest News

Hannity: No matter what Pelosi says, the radical Democrats are in charge

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Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez's Green New Deal isn't about climate change, it was about control. from Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines https://ift.tt/2lfJMHc via Latest News

If Republicans can't condemn Trump's racist tweets, they are as racist as he is

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As an immigrant, I've heard the 'go back' drumbeat for years. How can conservatives stand idly by when Trump tweets as much? Are they just as racist? from Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines https://ift.tt/32tfx0U via Latest News

In rare rebuke, dozens of Republicans hit Trump over 'racist' tweets

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After initial hesitation, a growing number of Republicans in the U.S. Congress - including almost half the Ohio delegation in the House - have openly criticized President Donald Trump over his racially charged attacks on four Democratic lawmakers. Three Republicans from Texas, a solidly pro-Trump state, also voiced some level of concern about his comments targeting the four minority women, joining the critics from Ohio, a key battleground state for Trump as he seeks re-election in 2020. Fear of retribution from the president, who readily inveighs on Twitter against almost anyone he perceives as an opponent, has kept most Republicans quiet in the House of Representatives and the Senate almost since Trump took power in January 2017. from Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines https://ift.tt/2khYLAs via Latest News

Trial of 'El Chapo': rare glimpse inside the drug world

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The trial of Mexican drug lord Joaquin "El Chapo" Guzman provided a rare and terrifying look into the workings of one of the world's largest cartels. Over the space of nearly three months, a New York jury heard 56 government witnesses deliver dramatic evidence against Guzman. According to the witnesses, the Sinaloa cartel, of which Guzman was a co-leader, flooded the United States with cocaine with the blessing of countless police, military officers and Mexican officials -- going all the way up to the president -- who turned their heads in exchange for bribes worth millions. from Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines https://ift.tt/2YTaxQO via Latest News

Planned Parenthood president forced out after only 8 months

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The president of Planned Parenthood, Dr. Leana Wen, was ousted Tuesday after just eight months on the job as the organization faced unprecedented challenges related to its role as the leading abortion provider in the U.S. Wen, in a Twitter post, said she learned that Planned Parenthood's board "ended my employment at a secret meeting." She indicated the board wanted more emphasis on political advocacy, while she sought to prioritize Planned Parenthood's role as a provider of health care services ranging from birth control to cancer screenings. "We were engaged in good faith negotiations about my departure based on philosophical differences over the direction and future of Planned Parenthood," Wen said. from Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines https://ift.tt/2lNUEfY via Latest News

Fox News’ Brian Kilmeade Complains That Calling Trump a Racist ‘Is Personally Offensive’

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The morning after the House of Representatives voted to condemn President Donald Trump’s racist comments against a group of Democratic congresswomen of color, Fox & Friends’ Brian Kilmeade complained that it is “personally offensive” to call the president a racist.Discussing Tuesday’s chaos on the House floor when Republicans logged parliamentary objections against House Speaker Nancy Pelosi for reading the title of the resolution—which labels the president a racist—Kilmeade sided clearly with the GOP.Noting that Rep. Emanuel Cleaver (D-MO) at one point abandoned the chair as speaker pro tempore during Tuesday’s debate, over the lack of civility, Kilmeade then brought up Rep. Doug Collins (R-GA) filing a complaint against Pelosi.“Congressman Collins is going by the manual of parliamentary practice that Thomas Jefferson put into play, which is a person is not supposed to use language personally offensive to the president,” the Fox & Friends co-host declared.He then offered his o...

Couple kiss in photo with lion moments after shooting it dead

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A couple photographed kissing next to a lion they have just killed while on safari has caused outrage.Darren and Carolyn Carter, from Edmonton in Canada, posed for the camera minutes after shooting dead the animal while trophy hunting in South Africa.“Hard work in the hot Kalahari sun,” they wrote underneath the picture posted online. “A monster lion.”Another image shows the couple in front of a second dead big cat. “There is nothing like hunting the king of the jungle,” the photo is captioned.But the pictures were widely condemned after being placed on the website of Legelela Safaris – a tour company which specialises in organising big game hunts.> Darren and Carolyn Carter. I hope this kiss makes you famous. pic.twitter.com/V2QUkZq5NB> > — Danny Clayton (@DannyjClayton) > > July 15, 2019Eduardo Goncalves, the founder of the Campaign to Ban Trophy Hunting, said: “It looks as though this lion was a tame animal killed in an enclosure, bred for the sole purpose of being th...

'Dangerous' heat wave to scorch central, eastern US this week

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The hottest weather of the summer is poised to spread across much of the central and then eastern US over the next several days. from Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines https://ift.tt/2kfcxDO via Latest News

The Latest: Japan urges South Korea to agree to arbitration

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Japan is making a final call for South Korea to agree to Japanese-requested arbitration over the Korean wartime labor dispute, while hinting at possible retaliation. Deputy Chief Cabinet Secretary Yasutoshi Nishimura on Wednesday urged Seoul to nullify court orders for Japanese companies to compensate former Korean wartime labors and settle by arbitration. Colonial-era Korean laborers are seeking a court approval for the sales of local assets held by their wartime employer Mitsubishi Heavy Industry, which has ignored a court's compensation order. from Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines https://ift.tt/2JEYCBb via Latest News

House votes to block Trump administration's weapons deal with Saudi Arabia amid veto threat

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The vote highlights backlash against a weapons deal for $8.1 billion in bombs, precision-guided missiles and other weapons to the Saudis and its allies. from Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines https://ift.tt/2Z6iG4J via Latest News

An anonymous Democratic group leaked a poll that shows swing voters deeply dislike Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and the left wing, widening the party's rift

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The poll found that Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez had a 22% approval rating among 1,003 white non-college-educated voters who knew of her. from Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines https://ift.tt/2JHMI89 via Latest News

'Dangerous': Air Force responds to plans to 'storm Area 51' and 'see them aliens'

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As more than a million people on Facebook say they're "going" to a joke event to "storm Area 51," the U.S. military has responded to the plans. from Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines https://ift.tt/2ltcaps via Latest News

Anti-Defamation League blasts Trump for 'invoking support for Israel to defend this racism'

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The president's attack on Democratic lawmakers is panned by the Jewish civil rights group. from Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines https://ift.tt/2lzMY0y via Latest News

Jeffrey Epstein Reveals His Fortune Includes $56 Million in Cash

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Jane Rosenberg/ReutersA summary of Jeffrey Epstein’s assets made public on Monday shows he has $56 million in cash, with another $500 million divided between property and investments.The bare-bones accounting estimates his homes in the U.S. Virgin Islands, one of them on his private island, are worth $85 million.The financier also listed an $8.6 million Paris apartment, a $12 million Palm Beach estate, a $17 million New Mexico ranch, and his Manhattan mansion—which he says is worth $55 million but prosecutors say is worth $77 million.Epstein put $194 million under the heading of “hedge funds and private equity” and another $112 million under “equities.” The only other category was unidentified “fixed income” at $14 million.Jeffrey Epstein’s Zorro ranch in New Mexico.ReutersIt’s not clear if the total of $559 million includes the “piles of cash” or diamonds that prosecutors say they found in a locked safe after they raided the Manhattan mansion—where Epstein allegedly abused underage gi...

New York businesswoman and Jamaican immigrant Scherie Murray launches campaign to unseat Ocasio-Cortez

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"There’s a crisis in Queens and it’s called AOC," said Scherie Murray, a Republican businesswoman who is challenging Ocasio-Cortez in 2020. from Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines https://ift.tt/2LpBusb via Latest News

Conjoined Twin Girls Successfully Separated After 50 Hours of Operations

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Surgeons announced on Monday that they have separated conjoined twin sisters after multiple surgeries that took more than 50 hours to complete. from Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines https://ift.tt/2JELJHj via Latest News

Top diplomat: Iran must build missiles for defense

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Iran's foreign minister said Wednesday that his country has no choice but to manufacture missiles for defense purposes — comments that come after a remark by the top diplomat that seemed to suggest the missiles could be up for negotiations. Iran has long rejected negotiations over its ballistic missile program, which remains under the control of the Iranian paramilitary Revolutionary Guard that answers only to Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei. The foreign minister's remarks seemed to suggest a possible opening for talks as tensions remain high between Tehran and Washington. from Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines https://ift.tt/2XS60gb via Latest News

McConnell says Trump is 'not a racist' and calls for Washington to 'tone down' rhetoric

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Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell said Tuesday that he doesn’t believe Donald Trump is a racist despite the president’s calls for four Democratic lawmakers to “go back” to the “crime infested places from which they came.” from Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines https://ift.tt/2kfrbLp via Latest News