| Two escape from Florida farm where a couple was preparing for Armageddon, police say Posted: 13 Jul 2019 01:04 PM PDT  The females reported they were physically and sexually abused by the couple, who stockpiled "food rations and weapons" in case of disaster.
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| US VP Pence visits overcrowded migrant camp, deplores 'crisis' Posted: 12 Jul 2019 11:54 PM PDT  The vice president visited the McAllen Border Station, where he was taken to a sweltering outdoor portal where 384 men were held in a caged area. The stench was horrendous, according to media reports from journalists traveling with Pence who were allowed into the area for 90 seconds. "To be honest with you, I was not surprised by what I saw," Pence said afterward.
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| New Zealand gun owners turn over their weapons for money Posted: 12 Jul 2019 10:36 PM PDT  Dozens of Christchurch gun owners on Saturday handed over their weapons in exchange for money, in the first of more than 250 planned buyback events around New Zealand after the government outlawed many types of semi-automatics. Police said they paid more than 430,000 New Zealand dollars ($288,000) to 169 gun owners during the event. The money was paid directly into the bank accounts of gun owners.
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| A magazine retracted an essay with 'inappropriate and invasive content' about Pete Buttigieg after sparking backlash Posted: 13 Jul 2019 01:23 PM PDT  After an opinion essay for The New Republic titled 'My Mayor Pete Problem' received backlash after its publication, the magazine soon retracted it.
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| VIDEO: Burger King manager told 'go back to Mexico' by customer in Florida Posted: 12 Jul 2019 11:13 AM PDT  Video shows a manager of a Florida Burger King being told by a customer to "go back to Mexico."
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| Tennessee governor signs 'Forrest Day' proclamation, honoring the Confederate general Posted: 12 Jul 2019 04:06 PM PDT  Tennessee law instructs the governor to do so, though Lee said he is not currently considering changing the law.
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| Planned ICE raids show Trump runs the U.S. like his business — with no idea what he's doing Posted: 12 Jul 2019 03:02 PM PDT  U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents conduct a raid in Southern California. How will the Trump administration contain potential violence? Trump almost certainly doesn't know, just as he has no clue how to reconcile his party's need for suburban female voters with the inevitable images of frightened families being hauled off to detention facilities.
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| 'It's powerful': Tropical storm starts lashing Louisiana Posted: 12 Jul 2019 08:27 PM PDT  Homeowners sandbagged their doors and tourists trying to get out of town jammed the airport Friday as Tropical Storm Barry began rolling in, threatening an epic drenching that could test how well New Orleans has strengthened its flood protections in the 14 years since Hurricane Katrina. With the storm expected to blow ashore early Saturday near Morgan City as the first hurricane of the season, authorities rushed to close floodgates and raise the barriers around the New Orleans metropolitan area of 1.3 million people for fear of disastrous flooding. The storm was expected to inflict the most damage on Louisiana and parts of Mississippi, with wind and rain affecting more than 3 million people.
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| Kamala Harris Shuts Down Meghan McCain for Siding With Joe Biden Posted: 12 Jul 2019 09:19 AM PDT  The ViewTwo weeks after her star-making performance at the first Democratic presidential primary debate, Sen. Kamala Harris (D-CA) returned to The View on Friday to face some of Joe Biden's biggest media boosters. Before getting to Biden, co-host Ana Navarro asked the former prosecutor to weigh in on the morning's hottest topic: the resignation of Trump's labor secretary, Alexander Acosta, over his involvement in the Jeffrey Epstein case. Harris "absolutely" disputed the notion that Acosta cut the toughest deal he could with Epstein, calling child sexual-assault cases "some of the most difficult cases to prosecute" because "you're asking a jury to believe a young person over an adult." Any prosecutor "worth their salt," she said, should have put Epstein's case before a jury and made sure he went to prison "for a long period of time." Meghan McCain: I Don't Think Alan Dershowitz Should Be on TV After Epstein Arrest"It is difficult, but it's done every day in courtrooms in America," she added. "Every day in courtrooms in America, prosecutors are prosecuting these cases and getting convictions. I got them. I personally got them. So that's what I find so troubling about the narrative." It was left to Meghan McCain to change the subject. "I think we're all in agreement of how abhorrent all of it is, and it's very difficult to talk about, but I'm glad we are," she said. "I need to pivot though if you don't mind. So let's talk about Joe Biden." In an attempt at a "gotcha" moment, McCain brought up a pre-debate quote from Harris in which the senator said, "You are not going to hear me criticize Joe Biden. I think he's a great guy." McCain said she thinks "a lot of people are curious what happened to that promise." "I have no intention of attacking Joe Biden, but I am going to point out our differences of opinion on a very critical moment in the history of the United States," Harris said calmly. She went on to explain that it was Biden's comments about segregationist senators that prompted her to bring up the issue of busing in the debate. Chris Matthews Asks Kamala Harris: How Do You Not Hate White People?"So listen, this is a presidential race," Harris said. "And I absolutely agree and believe and maintain that we should not have personal attacks against each other, we should not be attacking each other, but we're on a debate stage." As McCain interrupted the senator to say that a Biden adviser called her "slick and slippery," Harris held up a finger and said, "Hold on!" "Well, you know what?" Harris continued. "We're on a debate stage, and if you have not prepared and you're not ready for somebody to point out a difference of opinion about the history of segregation in our country and what was necessary to deal with that, which at that time was busing, then you're probably not ready." Read more at The Daily Beast.Got a tip? Send it to The Daily Beast hereGet our top stories in your inbox every day. Sign up now!Daily Beast Membership: Beast Inside goes deeper on the stories that matter to you. Learn more.
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| Trump again claims that his immigration deal with Mexico included secret concessions Posted: 12 Jul 2019 07:32 AM PDT  Trump has sought to emphasize that claim since reports said that many aspects of the arrangement had been reached before the US threatened tariffs.
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| Officials in Multiple Cities Speak Out Against Planned ICE Raids and in Support of Their Immigrant Communities Posted: 13 Jul 2019 12:59 PM PDT  "If anything, this hampers our ability to address crime in our communities"
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| Obama sends letter to prisoner he freed, who made the dean's list: 'I am so proud of you' Posted: 12 Jul 2019 07:50 AM PDT  President Obama granted clemency to Danielle Metz in 2016. After she made the dean's list in college, she wished she could thank him. Now, she has.
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| UK PM contenders say EU will drop Irish backstop for Brexit deal Posted: 12 Jul 2019 11:52 AM PDT  The two candidates vying to become Britain's next prime minister both said Friday they believe the EU will agree a Brexit deal this year without the controversial "backstop" provision for the Irish border. Ex-London mayor Boris Johnson, the favourite over foreign secretary Jeremy Hunt to replace outgoing premier Theresa May, predicted the European Union would instead negotiate the issue during post-Brexit free trade talks. "We will get a deal by October 31st," Johnson told the BBC during highly-anticipated separate interviews with the leadership rivals, referring to the latest delayed deadline for Britain's departure from the bloc.
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| Why Was an American Scientist Murdered in a Nazi Bunker? Posted: 12 Jul 2019 09:25 AM PDT  Courtesy of Suzanne Eaton FamilySuzanne Eaton was, by every standard, an accomplished woman. The 59-year-old molecular biologist from Oakland, California, held a black belt in Taekwondo and was a globetrotting speaker on the international science circuit. She was married to a British scientist with whom she had two children, and she was an avid runner, racking up several miles on her daily 30-minute run.Eaton, who worked as a research leader at the Max Planck Institute of Molecular Cell Biology and Genetics in Dresden, Germany, was last seen playing piano at the Orthodox Academy of Crete, in Kolymbari, on July 2, where she was attending a conference. Her family and friends assumed that she had gone for a run and perhaps passed out in the stifling heat wave or fallen on rough terrain during her workout. Her passport, money, phone, cycling shoes, and laptop were all found in her hotel room, they say. All that was missing were her running shoes. Her relatives and friends raised nearly $50,000 to aid the search through an online campaign. Then, on July 9, her body was found by two local residents exploring a World War II-era Nazi bunker about seven miles from where Eaton had been staying. Her body, which was wrapped in burlap, showed signs of torture, including stab wounds, but her official cause of death, according to the coroner, was asphyxiation. The coroner said she likely suffered a "slow and painful death."There was no immediate sign of sexual violence, according to investigators, who said she was still dressed when she was found. A full autopsy is under way. Her body was in such an advanced state of decomposition after a week in the extreme heat that dental records had to be used for a positive identification. On Friday, Crete's police spokesperson Eleni Papathanasiou confirmed to The Daily Beast that they were questioning several suspects, including some with neo-Nazi ties, who may know something about what happened to Eaton. Papathanasiou also said they were looking into whether the location of her body inside a labyrinth of tunnels dug out by Nazis occupying Crete during World War II was connected to the murder. "It is of course part of the investigation," Papathanasiou told The Daily Beast. "It is a curious place to leave a body, especially when the victim was living and working in Germany."Police are also taking into consideration how a woman as fit as Eaton who held a black belt in Taekwondo could be overcome. "The perpetrator or perpetrators may have suffered defensive wounds, and we are looking at that as well."Crete has long been a magnet for neo-Nazi sympathizers who regularly treasure hunt in bunkers like the one where Eaton was found, searching for World War II relics. Several collectors have unofficial museums in small villages where their Nazi regalia is on display. Crete was also a recent base for several leaders of the neo-Nazi Golden Dawn party who had chosen the Greek island for its historical ties to Nazi occupation. In 2018, an anti-Fascist group was able to raid the Golden Dawn headquarters in the capital Heraklion, which sent the group underground. Konstantinos Beblidakis, the vice mayor of the local Platanias municipality, said the area where Eaton was found was accessible by various back roads but there were no surveillance cameras despite the fact that the area above the bunkers was a popular hiking area for tourists. He said that most people, except those who are well versed in the island's Nazi past, would not have known about the bunker, which was not open to the public or marked in any way. It is as yet unclear how the two local residents found her or just why they were inside the secret bunker. Eaton's university-age son, Max, praised his mother in a statement. "She managed to live a life with few regrets, balancing out her personal life with her career," he said. "I think the fact that I did not realize how well she had managed to do so was evident [by the fact] that other mothers around me had taken to caring for their children full time, yet mine was never outdone by any of them."Read more at The Daily Beast.Get our top stories in your inbox every day. Sign up now!Daily Beast Membership: Beast Inside goes deeper on the stories that matter to you. Learn more.
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| Woman suing landlord for evicting her after ‘having African American guest over’ Posted: 13 Jul 2019 08:10 AM PDT  A white mother says she was evicted because she invited African American guests to a playdate.Victoria Sutton had her black co-worker visit with their five-year-old son, so that the youngster could play with her two daughters.After one of the playdates, a new lawsuit says, landlord Allen McCoy knocked on the door of her Georgia home and called her a "n***** lover."She also claims he threatened to call Child Protective Services over her having a "n***** on their property."The lawsuit - filed by lawyers from the ACLU \- says she was told she had two weeks to move out and that he had previously evicted a woman who wanted an African American to move in with her.As a result, she says she moved out of the home in December over concerns for her and her daughter's safety.When confronted by a news reporter, Mr McCoy denied the allegations, saying: "Some of the best friends I got is coloured."His wife Patricia instead claimed Sutton had been asked to move out because of damage to bathrooms, walls and doors.But legal papers filed by Ms Sutton say photographs show no such damage.Lawyers are asking for damages related to emotional distress and the "diversion of resources" in having to move.Sean J Young, legal director for the ACLU of Georgia, told CNN: "Discriminatory motives are rarely spoken aloud and even more rarely caught on tape. People who discriminate are almost always able to come up with a neutral-sounding pretext for their discrimination."He said a ruling in Ms Sutton's favour would be "a stark reminder of the injustice that continues to thrive in Georgia today".
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| Delta nearly joined its rivals in buying the troubled Boeing 737 Max Posted: 13 Jul 2019 04:39 AM PDT  The airline's CEO said it was a "close call" to pass on the plane, which has been grounded after two lethal crashes in five months.
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| 10 deals you don’t want to miss on Saturday: $9 color LED smart bulbs, $14 Wi-Fi extender, $189 Nest, AirPods 2, more Posted: 13 Jul 2019 04:32 AM PDT  The official start of Prime Day 2019 might still be two days away, but tons of Prime Day deals have already gone live! Highlights from today's roundup include multicolor LED smart light bulbs just like $50 Philips Hue bulbs for just $9 a piece when you used the coupon code TPTAYA22 at checkout on a 4-pack, the best-selling Wi-Fi range extender on all of Amazon for just $13.99 (a new all-time low!), the $50 Echo Dot for cars for just $26.99 with coupon code ROAVF44C, a $250 Ring Video Doorbell Pro bundled with a $50 Echo Dot for just $169 combined, the lowest price ever for a Nest Learning Thermostat, $15 off AirPods 2, $40 off the best-selling Instant Pot of all time, SanDisk 200GB microSD cards for under $30, a $400 renewed Dyson Ball Animal 2 vacuum for just $239.99 for Prime members, and more. See all of Saturday's best deals below.
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| AOC 'should treat Nancy Pelosi with respect,' says Trump — but Paul Ryan was 'a terrible speaker' Posted: 12 Jul 2019 08:49 AM PDT  President Trump on Friday weighed in on the rift between House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and four outspoken freshman congresswomen in her Democratic caucus. He also lashed out at former House Speaker Paul Ryan.
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| Vatican mystery over missing girl deepens as bones are found Posted: 13 Jul 2019 10:17 AM PDT  The mystery of the 1983 disappearance of the 15-year-old daughter of a Vatican employee took yet another twist Saturday following excavations this week at a Vatican City cemetery. The Vatican said it had discovered two sets of bones under a stone slab that will be formally opened next week. The new discovery came after Vatican on Thursday pried open the tombs of two 19th-century German princesses in the cemetery of the Pontifical Teutonic College in hopes of finding the remains of Emanuela Orlandi.
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| A dramatic satellite photo shows Hurricane Barry enveloping the Gulf of Mexico just before making landfall in Louisiana Posted: 13 Jul 2019 09:58 AM PDT  Since the photo was taken around 10 AM Friday, the storm has since strengthened to a Category 1 hurricane.
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| Radioactive uranium, whiskey and rattlesnake found in stolen car pulled over by police Posted: 12 Jul 2019 05:52 AM PDT  A pair of alleged car thieves were found with radioactive uranium, whiskey and a rattlesnake in their vehicle when they were pulled over in a routine traffic stop, police said.Driver Stephen Jennings and passenger Rachael Rivera were arrested after the unusual items were found in their car on Wednesday morning in Guthrie, Oklahoma.They were initially stopped after police noticed their vehicle's licence plate had expired, but officers soon noticed the timber rattlesnake in a box on the backseat.Mr Jennings, 40, then told police he had a gun in the vehicle and police discovered that the car was stolen."So now he's got a rattlesnake, a stolen vehicle, firearm, and somebody under arrest," Guthrie Police Sergeant Anthony Gibbs told local broadcaster KFOR-TV.After a further search of the car, police found an open bottle of Kentucky Deluxe whiskey and a container of "yellowish powder" that was labelled "Uranium."Mr Jennings told officers he was trying to create a "super snake" after the uranium was discovered, ABC reported."When that happens, of course, we call in a company that deals with that specifically, and it's taken safely into possession," Mr Gibbs said. "The uranium is the wild card in that situation."Bodycam footage from the arrest shows one officer spotting the snake in the backseat, before saying: "That sucker is huge."Timber rattlesnakes are highly venomous and their fangs are long enough to penetrate clothing and boots, according to the Ohio Public Library Information Network.> Uranium, a rattlesnake, and an open bottle of Kentucky Deluxe found after police pulled over a couple in a stolen vehicle in Guthrie. @kfor pic.twitter.com/6bh4MUuHcO> > — Cassandra Sweetman (@CassandraOnTV) > > July 11, 2019Mr Jennings was charged with possession of a stolen vehicle, transporting an open container of liquor, operating a vehicle with a suspended license, and failure to carry a security verification form, ABC reported.Ms Rivera, 30, was charged with possession of a firearm after a former felony conviction.Mr Jennings had a valid lifetime hunting and fishing license so possession of the rattlesnake was legal.The pair were not charged in connection with the uranium as officers are still looking into a potential motive.
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| Hezbollah warns Iran able to bombard Israel if war started Posted: 13 Jul 2019 09:38 AM PDT  The head of Lebanon's Tehran-backed Hezbollah said Friday that US ally Israel would not be "spared" if a war broke out between the United States and Iran. "Who says that Israel would be spared if a war takes place against Iran?" said Hassan Nasrallah, in an interview broadcast on Hezbollah's Al-Manar television. "The first to bomb Israel would be Iran", the head of the Lebanese Shiite movement said.
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| See How the Army's Would-Be Stealth Helicopter Borrowed from the F-35 Posted: 12 Jul 2019 10:00 PM PDT  The Comanche, in theory, might have been an awesome-looking helicopter—but that did not make it any less of a poorly managed defense program.Pop quiz: what prominent U.S. military aircraft has a stealthy radar cross section and advanced networked sensors but has gone billions over budget and has fallen years behind schedule?While the F-35 stealth fighter might come to mind today, in 2004 the most timely answer might have been the RAH-66 Comanche. The slick-looking stealth helicopter spent twenty-two years in development, consuming over $7 billion dollars before being abruptly canceled with only two flying prototypes to show for it.The Comanche sprang of by the Army's Light Helicopter Experimental program conceived during the defending spending glut of the 1980s. Among other objectives, this program sought a replacement for the Army's OH-58 Kiowa and OH-6 Cayuse scout helicopters, which were derived from the civilian Bell 206 JetRanger and Hughes 500 choppers.(This first appeared in June 2019.)Scout helicopters were primarily tasked with spying out enemy positions and designating them for attack by friendly forces. However, they also were suitable for attacking lightly defended targets with rocket pods, miniguns, and even tank-busting TOW or Hellfire missiles, while armored Apache gunships tackled heavier foes.
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| An increasingly public, racially-charged rift in the Democratic party is widening after attacks are lobbed between Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez's camp and the Democratic establishment Posted: 13 Jul 2019 02:27 PM PDT  The tension escalated after House leadership attacked Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez's chief of staff on Twitter in the latest clash of progressives.
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| E Jean Carroll says she received death threats after accusing Trump of rape Posted: 12 Jul 2019 10:07 AM PDT  Exclusive: advice columnist says for the first time in her life she has bullets loaded into the handgun in her bedroom * 'I accused Donald Trump of sexual assault. Now I sleep with a loaded gun'E Jean Carroll's rape allegations are contained in her new book What Do We Need Men For? Photograph: Craig Ruttle/APE Jean Carroll, the esteemed New York journalist who has alleged Donald Trump raped her in the Bergdorf Goodman department store in Manhattan in the 1990s, now sleeps with a loaded gun by her bed having received online death threats.In the course of a two-hour interview with the Guardian in her upstate New York cabin, the advice columnist described the fallout of her decision to go public last month with the most serious allegations of sexual assault yet leveled at the US president. She said she had received so many threats that she had been forced to stop looking at her social media feeds, and for the first time in her life had bullets loaded into the handgun in her bedroom."I'm not stupid," Carroll said in reference to the threats and the loaded gun. But she added she has also been buoyed by the number of women who had commented or written to her in vast numbers."The mail bag is huge, I can't begin to get through it. Women are telling me their stories – and that's the biggest thank you you can get."Carroll's rape allegations are contained in her new book What Do We Need Men For? In it she gives an account of how she bumped into Trump at Bergdorf's one evening in late 1995 or early 1996.They chatted, and when Trump tried to get her to put on an item of lingerie she told him to put it on. Together, they entered a small dressing room where he allegedly attacked her.Carroll has avoided using the word "rape" to describe the incident, but she agrees that what she says occurred fits the legal definition of rape.The journalist did not report the incident to police but she did tell two close friends about what allegedly occurred. The friends, both prominent media figures, have confirmed her account about their conversations.Trump has denied the allegations, saying he has never known Carroll even though a photograph surfaced of the two with their then respective spouses at a 1987 party. He has also said "she's not my type".The Guardian asked Carroll whether she had any doubts about the identity of her alleged rapist. She replied: "Zero. Zero. Recognizing him was a big deal for me."In an excerpt of her book carried by New York magazine three weeks ago, she said she had kept the black Donna Karan coat-dress she had worn that evening "unworn and unlaundered" behind her closet door. Carroll is only the second woman to come forward with rape allegations against Trump. The first was his then wife Ivana Trump, who alleged in divorce papers he had raped her during the marriage, though she later moderated the account to say she had not used the word "rape" in a "literal or criminal sense".Even with such serious allegations, Carroll's book received an initially restrained response from the US media. The New York Times placed a report on her account of Trump attacking her in its books pages, while Barnes & Noble initially located the book in its flagship New York store in the fourth-floor women's studies section."You want to know how to bury a book? That's how you do it," Carroll said.Carroll told the Guardian she hesitated for years coming forward with her allegations, describing herself as a "coward". She also suspected that branding Trump a sex attacker might paradoxically help him politically."It's the image of a male leader – think Alexander the Great, think Genghis Khan. Think John F Kennedy. Great leaders take what they want without asking."Despite having raised rape allegations against the sitting US president, Carroll is convinced Trump will win re-election in next year's presidential election. "No matter what anyone does, Trump will win. I think he's got it sewn up."In her view, the chances of a strong female Democrat such as US senators Kamala Harris or Elizabeth Warren competing with Trump and winning were nil. "America can't take a woman as leader. We have a woman problem."Asked for her advice to Harris were she to win the Democratic nomination and face Trump in a presidential debate, she replied: "If I was Kamala, I would go over and just slap his face. Take that! First with the left and then the right. That would be so good."• Read the full Guardian interview with E Jean Carroll in Saturday's Weekend magazine, or return to this article on Saturday morning to find a link to the interview
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| Pregnant woman, 9-year-old son killed by floodwaters in Pennsylvania Posted: 12 Jul 2019 11:29 AM PDT  Police in Pennsylvania say rising floodwaters killed a pregnant mother and her son Thursday.
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| The Latest: Mueller testimony delayed until July 24 Posted: 13 Jul 2019 03:11 AM PDT  Special counsel Robert Mueller's testimony to Congress has been delayed until July 24 under an agreement that gives lawmakers more time to question him. Under the new arrangement, Mueller will testify for an extended period of time with the House Judiciary and intelligence committees.
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| California boy, 4, who died begged his great-grandmother not to be reunited with birth parents Posted: 13 Jul 2019 09:44 AM PDT  A 4-year-old California boy who mysteriously died under his birth parents'care had begged his great-grandmother not to be reunited with them, KTLAreports
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| Sprawling storm Barry intensifies into a hurricane Posted: 13 Jul 2019 10:31 AM PDT  UPDATE: July 13, 2019, 3:17 p.m. EDT: The National Hurricane Center advised that after making landfall in Louisiana, Barry weakened to a tropical storm. This doesn't change projections for pummeling rain and the likelihood of extreme flooding. * * *The lopsided storm Barry is now a hurricane. The National Weather Service expects Hurricane Barry, packing 75 mph winds, to pummel portions of Louisiana, Mississippi, other nearby regions with extreme rain and flooding on Saturday and Sunday. Barry might not be a major hurricane, but it has capitalized on exceptionally warm ocean waters to load itself with moisture -- which will soon douse the region."It's going to rain hard," Jeff Weber, a meteorologist with the University Corporation for Atmospheric Research (UCAR), told Mashable as Barry picked up steam over the Gulf of Mexico."Rainfall is one of the most impactful effects of a tropical storm," National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR) hurricane scientist Rosimar Rios-Berrios emphasized Friday evening, as Barry crept toward Louisiana."The rainfall does not depend on how strong the storm is," she added. Indeed, Hurricane Harvey -- the largest rain event in U.S. history -- did its most destruction when it was no longer a hurricane. "...the upgrade to a hurricane means little in terms of the overall impacts from Barry," the National Hurricane Center noted Saturday morning. > Barry is now a hurricane \- the first of the 2019 Atlantic hurricane season. On average, the first Atlantic hurricane forms on August 10. pic.twitter.com/rQ8gxIle74> > -- Philip Klotzbach (@philklotzbach) July 13, 2019Portions of Louisiana and Mississippi are forecast to receive between 10 and 20 inches of rain. Some models show 18.5 inches in flood-prone Baton Rouge, Louisiana. "A foot of rain in that area can create quite a problem," noted UCAR's Weber.Though rainfall would be imminent regardless, as of Friday afternoon it was still unclear if Barry would develop into a storm with hurricane force winds. The lopsided, unorganized storm system was getting hit by winds, known as wind shear, that made organizing into a more potent storm difficult, noted Rios-Berrios.But Barry overcame those challenges, and as a hurricane will bring surges of ocean water into coastal areas, threaten to overtop levees in the region, and almost certainly bring damaging or catastrophic flooding to certain areas over the next two days. > GOESEast watches as HurricaneBarry, now a Cat. 1 storm, creeps toward southern Louisiana. Dangerous storm surge, heavy rains and high winds are already impacting the north-central Gulf Coast. Latest updates: https://t.co/1L8q1zg4eW pic.twitter.com/wqI2lr8c83> > -- NOAA Satellites (@NOAASatellites) July 13, 2019> VIDEO: Per Plaquemines Parish officials, water has overtopped the back levee at Myrtle Grove and Pointe Celeste. > > One homeowner nearby shared this 10AM view of the rising waters ahead of TropicalStormBarry. NBCNews pic.twitter.com/jNkzMXJrEV> > -- Morgan Chesky (@BreakingChesky) July 13, 2019In much improved news for New Orleans, however, the National Weather Service projects that -- even with Barry's wind-powered storm surge -- the already-swollen Mississippi will reach 17 feet above sea level -- as opposed to 20 feet expected a few days ago. Many of the city's levees protect the vibrant, historic city from up to 20 feet of flooding along the mighty river -- so New Orleans may avoid a worst-case scenario this weekend. Still, coastal flooding and the overtopping of other levees has already begun, and the brunt of rain has yet to come. WATCH: Ever wonder how the universe might end?
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| Indian authorities arrest top executive at retailer Future Group over unpaid duties Posted: 13 Jul 2019 06:00 AM PDT ![Indian authorities arrest top executive at retailer Future Group over unpaid duties]( "Indian authorities arrest top executive at retailer Future Group over unpaid duties") Indian federal authorities arrested a top executive at the retail conglomerate Future Group, one of the largest retailers in the country, on customs fraud charges involving more than $2 million of unpaid customs duties on garment imports, a government statement said on Saturday. The Directorate of Revenue Intelligence, part of India's finance ministry, arrested Dinesh Maheshwari, executive director and chief financial officer of Future Enterprises Ltd, for flouting import rules that allow duty-free shipments of certain items under a free trade pact with Bangladesh.
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| China to impose sanctions on US firms in Taiwan arms sale Posted: 12 Jul 2019 10:01 PM PDT  China on Friday said it would impose sanctions on US companies involved in a potential arms sale worth $2.2 billion to self-ruled Taiwan -- a move that has infuriated Beijing. "The US arms sale to Taiwan has severely violated the basic norms of international law and international relations," Chinese foreign ministry spokesman Geng Shuang said in an online statement. "In order to safeguard national interests, China will impose sanctions on US enterprises participating in this sale of weapons to Taiwan," he said.
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| Why Canada Must Protect its 5G Networks from Huawei Posted: 13 Jul 2019 02:02 PM PDT  The introduction of 5G technology, along with its promise and challenges, has led to a transformational debate in Canada—as it has amongst many of Ottawa's partners and allies around the world. Front and centre for Canada is the potential role of Chinese telecommunications giant Huawei in such a next generation network. In order to address this question, the government of Canada has been conducting an intensive security review—which remains ongoing—on the implications of potentially including Huawei in its 5G networks.Magnifying the stakes of the looming verdict on Huawei, is an increasingly troubled relationship between China and Canada. Two Canadian citizens—Michael Kovrig and Michael Spavor—remain arbitrarily detained in China since last December. Beijing accuses the two of stealing state secrets and guilty of espionage, but fails to produce any evidence to support such a claim. Kovrig and Spavor were arrested nine days after Canada's arrest, on extradition request from the United States, of Huawei chief financial officer Meng Wanzhou. Despite China's attempts to downplay any linkage, it is clear that this was no coincidence and unfortunately the fates of Kovrig and Spavor have been unfairly tied to the extradition case of Meng. They have also rebuffed high-level Canadian efforts to have a dialogue on the matter.
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| How Iowa can teach the nation to cure one form of political cancer: gerrymandering Posted: 13 Jul 2019 02:00 AM PDT  The Supreme Court may have declined to address an obvious source of dysfunction in our democracy, but Iowa's redistricting process can help.
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| Ex-Arizona teacher sentenced to 20 years for molesting teenage student Posted: 13 Jul 2019 10:43 AM PDT  Former Arizona teacher Brittany Zamora has been sentenced to 20 years in prison after pleading guilty for molesting a 13-year-old student.
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| Family of Indiana toddler killed in cruise ship fall returns home Posted: 12 Jul 2019 06:49 AM PDT  The family of an 18-month-old girl who fell to her death from a cruise ship in Puerto Rico said the family flew to Chicago with the toddler's body.
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| Washington AG opens inquiry into NRA's financial affairs Posted: 12 Jul 2019 01:49 PM PDT  The attorney general for Washington D.C. has issued subpoenas to the National Rifle Association and its related charitable foundation as part of an investigation into allegations of financial misconduct inside the powerful gun lobbying organization. The subpoenas add to a host of difficulties for the NRA, which is facing internal turmoil and multiple external inquiries as it gears up for a 2020 election push in support of President Donald Trump. Attorney General Karl Racine said in a statement that his office is examining both the NRA and the NRA Foundation.
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| Hurricane Barry is hitting Louisiana as the first hurricane of 2019. Here's why storms are getting stronger, slower, and wetter. Posted: 13 Jul 2019 08:40 AM PDT  Hurricane Barry is moving over the Louisiana coast. Here's how climate change is making storms stronger, wetter, and more frequent.
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