| 5 Stories You Missed This Week While Michael Cohen Dominated The News Posted: 28 Jul 2018 05:02 AM PDT  If something newsworthy happens, but it doesn't involve Michael Cohen,
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| Photos of the week: 7/20 - 7/27 Posted: 27 Jul 2018 09:58 PM PDT  A fast-growing wildfire in northern California killed at least two people and
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| Polar Bear Killed After Attacking Cruise Ship Worker In Arctic Posted: 29 Jul 2018 12:40 AM PDT  A polar bear was killed on Saturday after it attacked a bear guard leading
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| California wildfire: Two children among five dead and 17 missing as disaster intensifies Posted: 28 Jul 2018 06:30 AM PDT  Two children, their great-grandmother and two firefighters have died in a wildfire in northern California, say officials. Reports said Emily Roberts, five, James Roberts, four and Melody Bledsoe, 70, died in the fire along with two officials trying to tackle the blaze. Residents of Redding, a city of 92,000 about 100 miles south of the Oregon border, described a chaotic and congested getaway as the fire spread.
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| Pope accepts US cardinal's resignation after sexual abuse claim Posted: 28 Jul 2018 08:14 AM PDT  One of America's most prominent Catholic cardinals has resigned after an allegation was made that he sexually abused a teenage boy almost 50 years ago. Theodore McCarrick, the former archbishop of Washington, wrote to the Vatican offering his resignation on Friday, which was accepted by Pope Francis. A statement from the Vatican issued on Saturday read: "Yesterday evening the Holy Father received the letter in which Cardinal Theodore McCarrick, Archbishop Emeritus of Washington (USA), presented his resignation as a member of the College of Cardinals. "Pope Francis accepted his resignation from the cardinalate and has ordered his suspension from the exercise of any public ministry, together with the obligation to remain in a house yet to be indicated to him, for a life of prayer and penance until the accusations made against him are examined in a regular canonical trial." Mr McCarrick, 88, was ordained in 1958 and rose through the ranks in the Archdiocese of New York before being installed as archbishop of Washington in 2001, a post he held until 2006. Pope Francis recently criticised the "culture of abuse and cover-up" in the Catholic Church Credit: VINCENZO PINTO/AFP/Getty Images He is officially retired but continues to travel abroad regularly, speaking on issues such as human rights. The allegation related to Mr McCarrick's time in New York. He was accused of sexually assaulting a 16-year-old who was being measured for a new cassock, according to The New York Times. The claim was investigated for the New York archdiocese by a group of jurists, law enforcement experts, parents, psychologists, and religious figures. The group judged that the allegations were "credible and substantiated". Mr McCarrick was removed from public ministry on June 20. Mr McCarrick said in a statement at the time that he was "shocked" by the report and maintained his innocence. He also said he had co-operated with the investigation. "My sadness was deepened when I was informed that the allegations had been determined credible and substantiated," he said in the statement. Mr McCarrick added: "While I have absolutely no recollection of this reported abuse, and believe in my innocence, I am sorry for the pain the person who brought the charges has gone through, as well as for the scandal such charges cause our people." At the time senior US church officials said they had received three allegations of McCarrick's sexual misconduct with adults decades ago, two of which resulted in settlements. A Catholic University canon law expert, Kurt Martens, noted that this was the first time an order of penance and prayer had been issued before a church trial could take place. Earlier this year Pope Francis publicly criticsed the "culture of abuse and cover-up" in the Catholic Church, saying it must "never again" be allowed to happen.
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| Fraud risk looms over Zimbabwe's post-Mugabe election Posted: 28 Jul 2018 07:57 AM PDT  Zimbabwe goes to the polls Monday in its first election since authoritarian leader Robert Mugabe was ousted last year, with allegations mounting of voter fraud and predictions of a disputed result. Zimbabwe's military generals shocked the world in November when they seized control and ushered Mnangagwa to power, ending Mugabe's 37-year reign in a few short days.
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| CBS Says It Will Investigate Misconduct Allegations Amid CEO Leslie Moonves Report Posted: 27 Jul 2018 11:41 AM PDT  'All allegations of personal misconduct are to be taken seriously'
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| NTSB: Recordings show change in weather before boat sank Posted: 27 Jul 2018 07:55 PM PDT ![NTSB: Recordings show change in weather before boat sank]( "NTSB: Recordings show change in weather before boat sank") ST. LOUIS (AP) — Video and audio recordings from a fatal tourist boat accident in Missouri show that the lake went from calm to deadly dangerous in a matter of minutes, the National Transportation Safety Board said Friday.
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| Eye-opening 360-degree landscapes by Brendon Gee Posted: 28 Jul 2018 03:20 PM PDT ![Eye-opening 360-degree landscapes by Brendon Gee]( "Eye-opening 360-degree landscapes by Brendon Gee") Gold Coast, Australia, photographer Brendon Gee has been picking up legions of online followers with his 360-degree depictions of popular settings as you've never seen them before.
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| Fire, Fire Everywhere: The 2018 Global Wildfire Season Is Already Disastrous Posted: 28 Jul 2018 05:02 AM PDT  Drought turned the surrounding woodland into fuel, strong winds fanned the
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| MoviePass Ran Out Of Money, Couldn't Afford To Buy Tickets For Its Users Posted: 28 Jul 2018 12:28 PM PDT  The movie theater ticket app MoviePass suffered an outage Thursday when its
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| Judge urges U.S. to focus on reuniting deported parents with children Posted: 27 Jul 2018 08:49 PM PDT ![Judge urges U.S. to focus on reuniting deported parents with children]( "Judge urges U.S. to focus on reuniting deported parents with children") By Marty Graham SAN DIEGO (Reuters) - A judge on Friday urged the U.S. government to focus on finding deported immigrant parents so it could reunite them with their children who remain in the United States following separation by officials at the U.S.-Mexico border in recent months. The government had declared it had met a court-ordered deadline to reunite families separated during the Trump administration's "zero tolerance policy" aimed at discouraging illegal immigration. U.S. Judge Dana Sabraw said at a court hearing in San Diego the government deserved credit for the 1,820 children released from custody to a parent or sponsor.
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| After decades of silence, nuns talk about abuse by priests Posted: 27 Jul 2018 03:51 PM PDT  VATICAN CITY (AP) — Revelations that a prominent U.S. cardinal sexually abused and harassed his adult seminarians have exposed an egregious abuse of power that has shocked Catholics on both sides of the Atlantic. But the Vatican has long been aware of its heterosexual equivalent — the sexual abuse of nuns by priests and bishops — and done little to stop it, an Associated Press analysis has found.
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| Iran's rial hits record-low 100,000 to the dollar Posted: 29 Jul 2018 01:48 AM PDT  Iran's currency hit a record low on Sunday of 100,000 rials to the dollar amid a deepening economic crisis and the imminent return of full US sanctions. The rial has lost half its value against the dollar in just four months, having broken through the 50,000-mark for the first time in March.
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| CBS Chairman Leslie Moonves Accused Of Sexual Harassment Posted: 27 Jul 2018 02:44 PM PDT  Leslie Moonves, chairman and CEO of the CBS Corporation, has been accused of
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| Palestinian teenager released from prison after slapping Israeli soldiers Posted: 29 Jul 2018 06:56 AM PDT  Palestinian teenager Ahed Tamimi was released from prison Sunday after serving eight months for slapping two Israeli soldiers, an episode captured on video that made her a symbol of resistance for Palestinians. Tamimi, 17, and her mother Nariman arrived in their village of Nabi Saleh in the occupied West Bank, where they were met by crowds of supporters and journalists "The resistance continues until the fall of the occupation, and of course the (female) prisoners in jail are all strong," Ahed Tamimi said, her voice barely audible above the crowd. "I thank everyone who supported me in this sentence and supports all the prisoners." Her father Bassem put his arms around Ahed and her mother as they walked together along the road, the crowd chanting "we want to live in freedom". Tamimi later visited the tomb of Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat in Ramallah and laid flowers there, before meeting Palestinian president Mahmud Abbas. Ahed Tamimi, 17 Abbas "praised Ahed and described her as a model of the Palestinian struggle for freedom, independence and statehood," according to a statement on official news agency WAFA. "He stressed that non-violent resistance which Ahed embodies has proven to be an ideal and vital weapon in facing the repression of the Israeli occupation." Israeli authorities appeared keen to avoid media coverage of the release as much as possible, and conflicting information had meant supporters and journalists scrambled to arrive on time at the correct location. Tamimi and her mother had been driven early on Sunday from Israel's Sharon prison into the occupied West Bank, authorities said. But the location of the checkpoint where they were to cross into the territory was changed three times before it was finally announced they were being taken to a crossing at Rantis, about an hour's drive from the initial location. Both Tamimi and her mother were sentenced to eight months in an Israeli military court following a plea deal over the December incident, which the family said took place in their garden in Nabi Saleh. They were released some three weeks early, a common practice by Israeli authorities due to overcrowded prisons, Tamimi's lawyer Gaby Lasky said. Tamimi visits the Mausoleum of former Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat, following their release from Israeli Prison in Ramallah Credit: Anadolu Video of the December incident went viral, leading Palestinians to view her as a hero standing up to Israel's occupation. Tamimi was arrested in the early hours of December 19, four days after the incident in the video. She was 16 at the time. Her mother Nariman was also arrested, as was her cousin Nour, who was freed in March. Israel's military said the soldiers had been in the area on the day of the incident to prevent Palestinians from throwing stones at Israeli motorists. The video shows the cousins approaching two soldiers and telling them to leave, before shoving, kicking and slapping them. Ahed Tamimi is the most aggressive of the two in the video. The heavily armed soldiers do not respond in the face of what appears to be an attempt to provoke rather than seriously harm them. Many Israelis also praised the restraint of the soldiers, who remained calm throughout, though others said her actions merited a tougher response. The soldiers then move backwards after Nariman Tamimi becomes involved. The scuffle took place amid clashes and protests against US President Donald Trump's controversial recognition of Jerusalem as Israel's capital. Relatives say that a member of the Tamimi family was wounded in the head by a rubber bullet fired during those protests.
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| Biggest Mafia in Colombia Puts $70,000 Hit on Drug-Sniffing Dog Posted: 27 Jul 2018 11:10 AM PDT  The Urabenos drug cartel is offering $70,000 to anyone who kills or captures drug-sniffing dog named Sombra.
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| Putin Portrait Placed In Colorado Capitol Where Donald Trump's Should Be Posted: 27 Jul 2018 02:25 PM PDT  The group Colorado Citizens for Culture is responsible for collecting
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| 'Ant-Man and the Wasp' Concept Art Could Explain 'Avengers 4' Time Travel Posted: 27 Jul 2018 11:54 AM PDT  It's all about memory.
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| Zimbabwe's Mugabe backs opposition on eve of election Posted: 29 Jul 2018 06:30 AM PDT  By MacDonald Dzirutwe HARARE (Reuters) - Former President Robert Mugabe said he would vote for Zimbabwe's opposition in Monday's election, turning on one-time allies in the government ahead of the first vote since they ousted him in a de facto coup. The election will see 75-year-old President Emmerson Mnangagwa, a long-time Mugabe ally, face 40-year-old Nelson Chamisa, a lawyer and pastor who is vying to become Zimbabwe's youngest head of state. Polls, which are unreliable, give former intelligence chief Mnangagwa only a slim lead over Chamisa, making a runoff on September 8 a possibility.
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| Vatican meets #MeToo: Nuns denounce their abuse by priests Posted: 28 Jul 2018 09:40 AM PDT VATICAN CITY (AP) — Revelations that a prominent U.S. cardinal sexually abused and harassed his adult seminarians have exposed an egregious abuse of power that has shocked Catholics on both sides of the Atlantic. But the Vatican has long been aware of its heterosexual equivalent — the sexual abuse of nuns by priests and bishops — and done little to stop it, an Associated Press analysis has found.
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| Congress For $400: This House Minority Leader Played Guest Host On 'Jeopardy' Posted: 27 Jul 2018 09:45 PM PDT  House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) will never be a threat to Alex
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| 2018 Porsche Panamera Sport Turismo Posted: 27 Jul 2018 12:00 PM PDT  Speed, style, and added versatility in a wagon that's stellar by any standards except Porsche's own.
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| Israel to build new settler homes after deadly knife attack Posted: 27 Jul 2018 07:55 PM PDT  Israel is to build hundreds of new homes in a settlement in the occupied West Bank where a Palestinian stabbed three Israelis, one fatally, Defence Minister Avigdor Lieberman said Friday. The announcement came as two Palestinians including a child were shot in the head by Israeli soldiers in separate incidents in the southern Gaza Strip, the Hamas-run territory's health ministry said, the latest deaths in the long-running conflict.
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| California fire 'tornado' kills two firefighters, thousands flee Posted: 27 Jul 2018 08:35 PM PDT  By Alexandria Sage REDDING, Calif. (Reuters) - A fast-growing northern California wildfire killed a second firefighter on Friday after high winds drove it into the city of Redding, prompting mass evacuations, destroying 500 structures and threatening thousands of other dwellings and businesses, officials said. Flames raging in California's scenic Shasta-Trinity area erupted into a firestorm that jumped across the Sacramento River and swept into the western side of Redding, home to about 90,000 people, forcing residents to flee. Firefighters and police "went into life-safety mode," hustling door to door to usher civilians out of harm's way, said Scott McLean, a spokesman for the California Department of Forestry and Fire Protection (CalFire).
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| Trump Again Threatens To Shut Down His Own Government Over Wall Funding Posted: 29 Jul 2018 07:19 AM PDT  President Donald Trump on Sunday embraced shutting down the federal government
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| Hundreds of children not reunited by Trump administration as deadline passes Posted: 27 Jul 2018 01:05 PM PDT  Advocates and attorneys said this week that they have spoken to parents who they believe were coerced into being deported without their children. Hundreds of migrant children the Trump administration separated from their parents at the US-Mexico border were not reunited with their families by the court-ordered Thursday midnight deadline. The Trump administration claimed Thursday that more than 1,800 children five years and older had been reunited with parents or sponsors hours before the deadline set in a lawsuit brought by the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) in California's southern district court.
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| The Latest: Ex-NY Assembly Speaker gets 7 years in prison Posted: 27 Jul 2018 12:12 PM PDT  NEW YORK (AP) — The Latest on the sentencing hearing for former New York Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver (all times local):
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| 36-Year-Old Man With Cerebral Palsy Visits the Beach for First Time Posted: 27 Jul 2018 10:39 AM PDT  His best friend made it possible.
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| Two Rare Bugatti Veyrons Come Up For Sale Posted: 28 Jul 2018 12:04 AM PDT  Extra-special versions of an already incredible car.
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| Imran Khan's party begins coalition talks as rivals plan protests Posted: 28 Jul 2018 04:30 AM PDT  Imran Khan's party said it has begun talks with independents and small parties to form a coalition government after a resounding triumph in Pakistan's general election, as rival parties planned protests over alleged vote rigging. Khan's Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf party (PTI) won 116 seats in Wednesday's ballot, short of the 137 needed for a simple majority but a surprisingly strong showing that helped fuel suspicion of rigging. The latest tally, which was updated Saturday afternoon following long delays, showed the outgoing Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) party in distant second place with 64 seats.
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| Strong quake kills 14, injures scores, on Indonesia holiday island Posted: 29 Jul 2018 03:08 AM PDT  A powerful earthquake which struck the Indonesian tourist island of Lombok on Sunday killed at least 14 people, injured scores and damaged thousands of homes, officials said. Five children were among those killed by the shallow 6.4-magnitude early-morning quake, which sent people running outside in panic and triggered landslides on popular mountain hiking routes. Scores of aftershocks sparked fear among survivors.
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| Amid bodyguard crisis, mixed bag for Macron in poll ratings Posted: 28 Jul 2018 03:07 PM PDT  Macron, who came to power just over a year ago on an economic reform platform, has been mired in a furor involving his former senior bodyguard, who was caught on camera assaulting a May Day protestor while off duty and wearing police gear. Alexandre Benalla, the former head of Macron's security detail, was fired last week but opposition leaders criticized the government's reaction as too slow and took aim at Macron's refusal to comment on the incident for several days. An Ifop survey of nearly 2,000 people, published in the French weekly newspaper Journal du Dimanche on Sunday, found Macron's popularity had slipped one percentage point from a month earlier to a new low of 39 percent in July.
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| Rudy Giuliani: Michael Cohen Has Been Warned To Keep His Mouth Shut Posted: 28 Jul 2018 08:02 PM PDT  President Donald Trump's legal team has warned his former fixer, Michael
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| What To Watch On Amazon Prime That’s New This Week Posted: 28 Jul 2018 06:03 AM PDT  Streamline recommends "The Americans" as the thing you should watch on Amazon
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| How Green Are Electric Lawn Mowers? Posted: 28 Jul 2018 03:11 AM PDT  The performance of electric mowers has improved dramatically over the course of the decade that Consumer Reports has been testing them. And this year is no different. From the $500 Ego LM2101 pus...
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| Kurdish-led group prepared to work with Syrian government Posted: 28 Jul 2018 05:33 AM PDT ![Kurdish-led group prepared to work with Syrian government]( "Kurdish-led group prepared to work with Syrian government") BEIRUT (AP) — The Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Council said Saturday it has agreed to work with the Syrian government on ending seven years of violence in the country and setting up a roadmap for Syria's future.
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| Five dead, including gunman, in Texas nursing home shooting: official Posted: 28 Jul 2018 08:51 PM PDT ![Five dead, including gunman, in Texas nursing home shooting: official]( "Five dead, including gunman, in Texas nursing home shooting: official") (Reuters) - Five people were shot dead, including the suspected gunman, in a Friday night attack at a Texas nursing home and the home of one of the people slain, city officials said. Police in Robstown, Texas, outside Corpus Christi, responded to reports of an active shooter at a nursing home about 7 p.m. local time (midnight GMT), where they found two men and a woman dead, said Herman Rodriguez, city secretary, in a video interview with the Caller Times of Corpus Christi.
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| Is Ford Looking to Bring a Car-Based Pickup Truck to the U.S.? Posted: 27 Jul 2018 01:27 PM PDT  Ford is rumored to be working on a small subcompact pickup truck that may also make its way to the North American market. The new truck is expected to serve as the informal replacement to the Ford Courier-a small pickup that was sold in countries such as Brazil and Mexico. Whereas the previous Courier was based on old Ford Fiesta components, Automobile Magazine reported the new model will share its underpinnings with the latest global Ford Focus compact car.
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| Burger chain apologises for using image of photojournalist beheaded by Isis in latest advert Posted: 28 Jul 2018 11:53 AM PDT  Z-Burger had put an image of slain reporter James Foley, who was captured by Isis in 2012 while covering the conflict in Syria. Chain owner Peter Tabibian took the tweet down and said in a statement: "An apology has been sent to some of you from a contracted marketing company over an unfortunate incident, a post in very poor taste that was not approved by me before being uploaded to our Twitter account". On 21 July the company's Twitter account posted an advertisement with an image of Mr Foley wearing an orange jumpsuit and kneeling facing the camera with a member of Isis wearing a full mask over their face.
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| Thousands of Russians protest against pension age hike Posted: 28 Jul 2018 04:26 AM PDT  Tens of thousands of Russians took part Saturday in rallies across the country organised by Communists to protest against highly controversial plans to hike the pension age. In Moscow, organisers said up to 100,000 people gathered for a permitted rally against the government-backed reform, which is currently going through parliament. Protests took place in dozens of cities and towns in far eastern Russia, Siberia and western Russia.
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| Coming Soon: North Korea's Nukes Could Go Underwater Posted: 29 Jul 2018 04:00 AM PDT  As in ballistic missile submarines.
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| Lawyer says 3 women were paid hush money over alleged Trump affairs Posted: 27 Jul 2018 12:42 PM PDT  The lawyer for adult film actress Stormy Daniels claimed Friday that he was representing three more women paid hush money to conceal affairs with Donald Trump. "Time for Michael Cohen and Donald Trump to come 100 percent clean with the American people," Michael Avenatti tweeted in a reference to Trump's former personal attorney. NOW," Avenatti added.
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| Your Guide to Seeing Spectacular Views of Mars This Weekend Posted: 27 Jul 2018 11:30 AM PDT  Mars is the closest it has been to Earth in 15 years
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| Best Dishwashers for $1,000 and Up Posted: 29 Jul 2018 03:11 AM PDT  You don't have to spend $1,000 to get a really good dishwasher. But if you want a top-performer that's very quiet and stylish, you'll find the most number of options above this threshold. Dishwas...
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| Teenager creates site giving children answers on deportation Posted: 28 Jul 2018 07:02 AM PDT ![Teenager creates site giving children answers on deportation]( "Teenager creates site giving children answers on deportation") HARTFORD, Conn. (AP) — A high school student has designed an online resource to help immigrant children and teenagers learn how to prepare for the possible deportations of parents or guardians.
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