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N.Y. Times publisher implores Trump to stop calling journalists 'enemy of the people'

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A.G. Sulzberger, the publisher of the New York Times, warned President Trump during a meeting at the White House that his anti-press rhetoric is “contributing to a rise in threats against journalists and will lead to violence.” from Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines https://ift.tt/2NUtOeZ via Latest News

Former FEMA Executive Investigated For Sexual Misconduct

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A former personnel chief of the Federal Emergency Management Agency is being from Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines https://ift.tt/2LGEzVu via Latest News

Northern California wildfire forces thousands to evacuate

California firefighters on Monday were gaining ground on a massive blaze that has killed six people and destroyed hundreds of homes and businesses, while rescuers searched for seven people unaccounted for in the wildfire. The Carr Fire, outside Redding, California, ignited a week ago and doubled in size over the weekend, charring an area the size of Detroit, forcing 38,000 people to flee their homes and claiming lives of two firefighters and another person, as well as a woman and her two young great-grandchildren. Centered 150 miles (240 km) north of Sacramento, it is the deadliest of the 90 wildfires burning across the United States. from Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines https://ift.tt/2OjeitQ via Latest News

Anger as MH370 report offers no new clues to aviation's greatest mystery

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Investigators said Monday they still do not know why Malaysia's Flight MH370 vanished four years ago in aviation's greatest mystery, sparking anger and disappointment among relatives of those on board. In a long-awaited report the official investigation team pointed to failings by air traffic controllers, said the course of the Malaysia Airlines plane was changed manually, and refused to rule out that someone other than the pilots had diverted the jet. "The team is unable to determine the real cause for the disappearance of MH370," concluded the largely technical 400-page report, noting that investigators were hindered in their probe as neither the plane's wreckage nor its black boxes had been found. from Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines https://ift.tt/2LKU0uY via Latest News

After prison release, Palestinian teen considers law study

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NABI SALEH, West Bank (AP) — Palestinian teen Ahed Tamimi, who became an international symbol of resistance to Israeli occupation after slapping two soldiers, walked out of an Israeli prison Sunday and told throngs of journalists and well-wishers that she now wants to study law to defend her people. from Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines https://ift.tt/2Lv2tmG via Latest News

36 women, children kidnapped by IS last week in Syria's Sweida: monitor

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The Islamic State group kidnapped dozens of Druze women and children when it attacked their villages last week in Syria's southern province of Sweida, a monitor said Monday. More than 250 people were killed on Wednesday when IS carried out a string of suicide attacks and shootings in the provincial capital Sweida and villages to the north and east. "At least 36 Druze women and children were abducted after the attacks," said the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, a Britain-based monitor with a network of sources inside Syria. from Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines https://ift.tt/2M4J9ZV via Latest News

Shocking Paris Video: Harasser Slaps Woman After She Tells Him To Shut Up

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An explosive video shared by a French architecture student shows a man walking from Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines https://ift.tt/2M4DjaR via Latest News

Minneapolis Police Were Justified in Killing Black Man, Prosecutor Says

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The county attorney said 'the decision to use deadly force' was authorized from Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines https://ift.tt/2Kb9zqN via Latest News

Trump says ‘many’ border crossers use children for ‘their own sinister purposes’

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President Trump said many parents crossing the U.S.-Mexico border illegally are using their children for “their own sinister purposes” and threatened to shut down the government if Congress doesn’t support his wall on the U.S. border with Mexico. from Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines https://ift.tt/2KdfFY4 via Latest News

Family Of Duck Boat Drowning Victims Files $100 Million Lawsuit

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Relatives of two drowning victims are seeking $100 million in damages after 17 from Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines https://ift.tt/2NTb7rQ via Latest News

Twitter's Lock On Users With Elon Musk's Name Means A Nazi Ban Is Possible

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If you're on Twitter and you change your unverified account's display name to from Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines https://ift.tt/2LZOq4N via Latest News

Space photos show fires tormenting bone-dry California

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Triple-digit temperatures and parched land have left much of California's expansive forests vulnerable to any spark or flame. The Carr Fire, which started on July 23 after a vehicle caught fire, has spread to nearly 100,000 acres as of July 30. From hundreds of miles above, satellite images show a state besieged by an imposing plume of smoke, with a vast part of the region blanketed in a thick, brown haze.  SEE ALSO: Redding newspaper lost power amid extreme fire, but still found a way to print the news Vegetation in the drought-ridden terrain around the City of Redding, where the Carr Fire has prompted thousands to flee and has taken at least six lives, is now exceptionally dry.  NASA's Aqua satellite captured this image of the California fire's smoke spreading to Utah.Image: NASAIn fact, it's likely approaching either near-record or record dryness levels in Northern California, said Brenda Belongie, lead meteorologist of the U.S. Forest Service's Predictive Servic

MH370: The story so far as Malaysia releases final report into mystery of flight's disappearance

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It is arguably the biggest mystery in aviation history: What happened to  Flight MH370? Malaysia is releasing a long-awaited report into the disappearance of the Malaysia Airlines plane, which vanished with 239 aboard en route to Beijing from Kuala Lumpur on March 8, 2014. Relatives of people aboard the flight, who were given the official investigation team's report on Monday morning at the Malaysian transport ministry, said they hoped it might give them answers. However, the report, which was due to be released publicly in the afternoon, was unlikely to reveal definitive conclusions about that fateful day four years ago. Here is everything we know - and don't know - about the unexplained tragedy. How did it vanish? Flight MH370 departed Kuala Lumpur at  00:41 local time on Sunday March 8, 2014.    Piloted by Captain Zaharie Ahmad Shah, the plane was expected to fly across the Gulf of Thailand, then over Cambodia, Laos, Vietnam and mainland China, before landing in Beijing just

Palestinian teen says no regrets after release from Israeli prison

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Palestinian teenager Ahed Tamimi said Monday she was deeply changed by her eight-month sentence in an Israeli jail for slapping two soldiers, but does not regret any of her actions. Tamimi, who was 16 when she was arrested in December for hitting and kicking soldiers in front of her house in the occupied West Bank, was released Sunday and swarmed by media from across the globe. In one day you age 100 years," she said in the backyard of her home in the West Bank village of Nabi Saleh. from Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines https://ift.tt/2mTg6gE via Latest News

The Latest: CBS keeps CEO in place during misconduct probe

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NEW YORK (AP) — The Latest on CBS CEO Les Moonves facing sexual harassment allegations (all times local): from Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines https://ift.tt/2AwV69s via Latest News

How one airline is helping to shave seconds to help stay on time

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Delta Airlines is creating a quick and effective way to keep flights on time, such as laser parking, 45-degree taxi parking and quick bag transfer for connecting flights called "hot bags". from Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines https://ift.tt/2M0UBWh via Latest News

Minneapolis Police Release Bodycam Video From the Fatal Blevins Shooting

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Footage shows the man shot from behind after a frenetic foot chase from Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines https://ift.tt/2M0Sstw via Latest News

Rand Paul Says He'll Support Brett Kavanaugh's Nomination To Supreme Court

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Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.) announced on Monday he will support the nomination of from Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines https://ift.tt/2NX1atC via Latest News

Sacha Baron Cohen Punks Roy Moore With 'Pedophile Detector'

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When former GOP Senate nominee Roy Moore sat down for an interview with a man from Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines https://ift.tt/2M021sW via Latest News

After Indonesian earthquake terror, hundreds trek down from volcano

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By Agustinus Beo Da Costa and Fergus Jensen JAKARTA (Reuters) - Nearly 700 trekkers headed down Mount Rinjani on Indonesia's tourist island of Lombok on Monday, a day after a powerful earthquake of magnitude 6.4 terrified the climbers as boulders tumbled down the slopes of the volcano. Officials said the death toll from Sunday's earthquake, which was centered on the northern part of Lombok, but was also felt on the resort island of Bali to the west, stood at 16. "I thought I was going to die," said John Robyn Buenavista, a 23-year-old American, who was at the summit when the quake hit. from Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines https://ift.tt/2Or5rXa via Latest News