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Trump says he may revoke another security clearance 'very quickly'
President Trump on Friday said he is close to revoking the security clearance of a current Justice Department employee who had been in contact with the author of the controversial dossier alleging ties between Trump and Russia. “I think Bruce Ohr is a disgrace with his wife Nellie,” Trump told reporters on the South Lawn. Bruce Ohr, the former deputy attorney general and ex-head of Organized Crime Drug Enforcement Task Force, has come under fire in recent weeks for his contacts with Christopher Steele, the author of a controversial dossier containing allegations of compromising misconduct by Trump.
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Bodies of missing Colorado girls allegedly killed by dad found in oil and gas tanks: report
The bodies of two missing Colorado girls who disappeared along with their mother were allegedly discovered inside oil and gas tanks not far from where their mom's body was found, according to KMGH. High-ranking sources with knowledge on the case told the outlet on Thursday evening that the bodies of 4-year-old Bella Watts and 3-year-old Celeste Watts were found inside of "mostly full" oil and gas tanks owned by Anadarko Petroleum. Watts was arrested on Wednesday night but has not been formally charged with any crimes in relation to the case.
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Alex Jones Destroyed Evidence In Sandy Hook Defamation Cases, Motion Says
Alex Jones, the conspiracy theory-peddling host of Infowars, deleted evidence that links him to multiple defamation lawsuits brought against him by the families of victims of the Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting, according to a new motion. Jones has repeatedly called the parents “crisis actors” and has said interviews with outlets including CNN were faked with green screens.
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Ryan Zinke Would 'Sell His Grandkids For Big Oil,' Says Washington Governor
Washington Gov. Jay Inslee slammed Ryan Zinke’s record on the environment Thursday, saying the interior secretary would “sell his grandchildren for big oil,” the Seattle Post-Intelligencer reported. The Democratic governor’s office told HuffPost that he hasn’t yet received any response to his comments from Zinke — or from the White House. A frustrated Inslee criticized Zinke during a visit to a Seattle elementary school, where he talked about protecting Washington’s environment, climate change, and the air pollution being triggered by ongoing wildfires, the Seattle newspaper reported.
WorldAFPYazidi 'ex-sex slave' trapped both in Iraq and in German exile
A young Yazidi woman who fled to Germany but returned home to northern Iraq says she cannot escape her Islamic State group captor who held her as a sex slave for three months. Ashwaq Haji, 19, says she ran into the man in a German supermarket in February. Traumatised by the encounter, she returned to Iraq the following month.
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Kansas Postal Worker Finds Giant Boa Constrictor Wrapped Around Mailbox
A postal worker in Kansas found an unusual obstruction when trying to deliver mail to a home on Friday: a massive snake. A red-tailed boa constrictor, to be precise. A Ball Python was found my a mailman and called Animal Control.
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Immigrant Dads Say ICE Separated Them From Their Kids Again With No Explanation
Sixteen migrant fathers who had previously been separated from and then reunited with their children were forcibly separated from them again and taken to another detention center without explanation on Wednesday, they told the legal aid group RAICES. The fathers were returned to the Karnes County Residential Center in south-central Texas on Thursday, following a night of fear and worry. Immigration and Customs Enforcement released a statement saying there had been a “disturbance” on Wednesday involving about 40 detained men, but declined to offer further details.
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Barack Obama, Justin Trudeau and Other World Leaders Celebrate the Life of Kofi Annan
World leaders past and present are honoring the memory of former United Nations Secretary-General Kofi Annan, who died Saturday at age 80. Annan was the U.N.’s first black Secretary-General, and its seventh overall. During his 10 years in that post, Annan collected the Nobel Peace Prize and built a reputation as one of the world’s most beloved diplomats, despite presiding over the U.N. during a volatile decade marked by wars and terrorism.
WorldReutersCossacks and flowers as Putin dances at Austrian minister's wedding
Russian President Vladimir Putin danced arm-in-arm with Austria's Foreign Minister Karin Kneissl at her wedding on Saturday, after receiving an invitation that opposition critics said undermined the West's stance against Moscow. Putin arrived in a car carrying a bouquet of flowers and accompanied, local media said, by a troupe of Cossack singers booked to serenade the newlyweds. Photographs showed Kneissl, 53, smiling in a long white and cream "dirndl" dress and talking to Putin as they danced in a vineyard in southern Styria province, the venue of her wedding to entrepreneur Wolfgang Meilinger.
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Venezuelans flee economic crisis at home
The Pentagon is preparing to dispatch a hospital ship to Colombia and possibly other parts of South America to help relieve strain on health care systems overloaded by an influx of hundreds of thousands of Venezuelans who have fled that crisis-racked nation, Defense Secretary Jim Mattis said Friday. “It is absolutely a humanitarian mission,” he told reporters returning with him to Washington after a six-day tour of South America. Mattis would not say when the USNS Comfort would arrive off the coast of Colombia, but it apparently will not be in the next few weeks.
PoliticsYahoo NewsOmarosa Manigault Newman has President Trump unhinged
Few books have made a bigger impression on Donald Trump than the one written by fired White House staffer Omarosa Manigault Newman, not that he has plans to read it anytime soon. While it was bad enough that an ousted member of the administration had turned on Trump and pulled back the curtain on his alleged mental decline, Manigault Newman had also been in charge of the president’s African-American outreach and her book made the case for what half of Americans had already concluded: that the commander in chief was a racist. Donald Trump and his decisions and his behavior, was harming the country.
WorldAFPNetanyahu questioned again over alleged graft
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu went through a new round of questioning on Friday, police said, amid graft allegations that have threatened to topple him. The premier was questioned at his official residence in the context of investigations by the national economic crimes unit, a police statement in Hebrew said. Investigators arrived at the premier's Jerusalem residence in the morning to interview him over allegations of corruption involving local telecoms giant Bezeq and its largest shareholder, Shaul Elovitch, according to Israeli media reports.
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Lockheed Martin's #WorldPhotoDay Tweet Backfires
Lockheed Martin wanted to turn World Photo Day into a publicity stunt, but their efforts backfired spectacularly. The American defense contractor, which also doubles as the world’s largest weapons manufacturer, asked its followers to share “an amazing
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Elon Musk Unloads On 'Excruciating' Year As Tesla Stock Drops
The billionaire electric car maker, rocket launcher, tunnel digger and insulter of rescue divers sat down for an emotional interview with The New York Times, laying out recent trials and tribulations that led to a 6 percent stock-price drop on Friday for the car company Tesla, which he co-founded. “This past year has been the most difficult and painful year of my career,” Musk told the Times. Although Musk and Tesla have been dogged by production issues for months, often requiring him to sleep at his production facility, his problems ratcheted up last week when an ill-advised tweet triggered a federal investigation.
NewsMashableDeadly, 40,000-foot fire tornado revealed in new videos
Harrowing new footage released by California's firefighting agency Cal Fire reveals the massive fire tornado that led to the death of a firefighter on July 26. The fire tornado was part of the Carr Fire that's engulfed 223,610 acres of land in Northern California so far. SEE ALSO: A fire tornado hit California.
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Girl who pushed friend off bridge charged
18-year-old Taylor Smith was charged with reckless endangerment for pushing her friend off a 60-foot-bridge.
WorldAssociated PressGhana mourns Annan, grandson of tribal chiefs to UN chief
Streets were hushed as the West African nation of Ghana on Saturday mourned Kofi Annan, the grandson of tribal chiefs who became the first black African to assume the world's top diplomatic post. President Nana Akufo-Addo ordered flags to fly at half-staff for a week while trying to reassure the country's 28 million people that the former U.N. secretary-general and Nobel Peace Prize winner left the world without pain. "I am comforted ... that he died peacefully in his sleep," the president said on Twitter after speaking with Annan's wife.
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Frightened Students Recount Shooting That Left 2 Injured at South Florida High School Football Game
Shots rang out during a high school football game in Florida on Friday, and the teens who were in attendance have described the terrifying experience. "The cheerleaders started running first," a teen named Reginald told WPEC. One of the cheerleaders who Reginald said scattered in the aftermath was a teen girl named Dwyer.
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How a US coffee shop sparked a diplomatic standoff between China and Taiwan
A bakery in California has found itself at the centre of an international storm after it welcomed the president of Taiwan with a cup of coffee and a goody bag. The result was a major diplomatic incident as Chinese customers launched a boycott of the
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The secret Soviet organization that explains what Russia is doing today
In November 1921, Felix Dzerzhinsky, the head of the Soviet Union’s secret police known as the Cheka, had a plan. Western European intelligence agencies, fearful of communism, sought to infiltrate the Soviet Union, while the powerful White Russians had fled to European capitals like Paris and Berlin, from where they hoped to plot the czar’s return.
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Mueller says former Trump aide should spend six months in jail for lying to FBI in Russia probe
Special prosecutor Robert Mueller has recommended a former foreign policy aide to Donald Trump's 2016 campaign be jailed for up to six months for lying to the FBI. George Papadopoulos had pleaded guilty to the charge in 2017 as part of a plea deal in one of the first indictments handed down by the FBI and Mr Mueller's team as part of the investigation into alleged collusion between the campaign team and Russian officials. Prosecutors said in court filings the former aide severely hindered the early days of the investigation because he lied "at least a dozen" times in a January 2017 interview with the FBI about his contacts with a professor called Joseph Mifsud.
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Socialists Need To Fight For Economic Change -- Not Just Another Version Of Capitalism
Most high-profile of these is Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, who was propelled into the public eye ― along with her progressive policies like job guarantees and universal, single-payer health care ― following her unexpected victory against veteran incumbent Rep. Joe Crowley in a New York Democratic primary. In contrast, capitalism, once defended as a seemingly unassailable ideology, is showing deep fractures. Broadly felt problems with capitalism ― rising inequality, stagnating wages and severe instability ― have led to major global political and cultural shifts.
WorldReutersAtlantia to hold board meetings after Genoa bridge disaster: source
Italian toll-road group Atlantia has called special board meetings next week to discuss the deadly collapse of a bridge it operates in Genoa, a source said on Friday. Autostrade per l'Italia, the Atlantia unit that manages the stretch of motorway in northern Italy where the bridge is located, is expected to hold a board meeting on Tuesday while the Benetton-backed parent company will hold its own meeting on Wednesday, the source said. A series of technical and legal issues will be presented to Atlantia and Autostrade board members next week, according to the source .
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Officials Defend Plan To Close Almost All Polling Places In Majority Black Georgia County
Election officials in a rural southwest Georgia county are defending a plan to suddenly close seven of the county’s nine polling places against allegations of racial discrimination, saying the ones it wants to close are not sufficiently accessible to people with disabilities. Randolph County, the site of the proposed changes, is more than 60 percent black, with a little over 30 percent of residents in poverty ― more than double the national level. The Georgia chapter of the American Civil Liberties Union sent a letter to the election board earlier this week warning of a lawsuit because the proposed closures discriminated against black voters.
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Over a Dozen Specially Trained Dogs Join Search for Hiker Missing for Nearly Three Weeks
28-year-old Samantha Sayers was last seen August 1 when she went missing during a day hike at Vesper Peak in Snohomish County.
