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On campus, anger, and shrugs, over Kavanaugh

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At Kent State in Ohio, some students watched Christine Blasey Ford in the Kavanaugh hearing with anguish or disgust, while others tried not to think about it. from Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines https://ift.tt/2OkYOse

Sexual Assault Hotline Calls Spiked During Kavanaugh Hearing

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A major national sexual abuse hotline experienced a massive surge in callers from Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines https://ift.tt/2QepOak

Pope defrocks Chilean priest at center of abuse scandal

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VATICAN CITY (AP) — Pope Francis has defrocked a Chilean priest who was a central character in the global sex abuse scandal rocking his papacy, invoking his "supreme" authority to stiffen an earlier sentence because of the "exceptional amount of damage" the priest's crimes had caused. from Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines https://ift.tt/2y0jF9V

ACLU Opposes Kavanaugh Nomination In Rare Break From Own Policy

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The American Civil Liberties Union, which typically does not endorse from Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines https://ift.tt/2xHCQpV

Prince suddenly dies at Paisley Park from fentanyl overdose: Part 2

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Like many other unsuspecting Americans, Prince fell prey to black market counterfeit pills containing fentanyl instead of the actual ingredient. from Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines https://ift.tt/2RbwAP9

Erdogan demands Germany seize 'terrorists' as state visit gets off to icy start amid street protests

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Recep Tayyip Erdogan, the Turkish president, was greeted with protests and controversy in Germany on Friday as a state visit that was supposed to repair relations between the two Nato allies appeared only to highlight their stark divisions. Thousands of demonstrators marched through the streets of Berlin under a banner of “Erdogan not welcome”, while a Kurdish activist burnt himself to death in an apparent suicide protest. Angela Merkel appeared to throw Mr Erdogan a lifeline by offering him a full state visit at a time when Turkey is struggling under the weight of US economic sanctions. But there was little sign of common ground after the two held face-to-face talks. “It is important to continue the dialogue with Turkey, because we can only work out our differences by talking,” Mrs Merkel told a joint press conference. "There is much that unites us: Nato membership, the migrant issue, and the fight against terror." But she added: “There are still profound differences between

Judiciary Committee Members Doxxed During Kavanaugh Testimony

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Cellphone numbers and home addresses of Republican members of the Senate from Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines https://ift.tt/2Isjx8l

Envoys From North Korea and Syria to Appear Before the U.N. General Assembly

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Both are places of international concern that spill trouble beyond their borders from Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines https://ift.tt/2zEW9RW

Brett Kavanaugh Nomination Moves Ahead Despite Sexual Assault Allegations

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The Senate Judiciary Committee on Friday voted to advance the Supreme Court from Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines https://ift.tt/2OXTEiV

The Briefing Room: Judiciary Committee votes to advance Kavanaugh nomination

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Senator Flake votes yes on Kavanaugh, but calls for FBI investigation. from Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines https://ift.tt/2OZwlFk

Sex abuse scandal: Pope seeks prayers to fight 'devil'

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VATICAN CITY (AP) — Pope Francis asked Saturday for daily prayers to protect the Catholic Church from what he says are "attacks by the devil," in his latest response to the clerical sex abuse and cover-up scandal roiling his papacy. from Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines https://ift.tt/2Iv9MGt

Palestinians say seven killed as Israeli troops fire on Gaza protest

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Israeli soldiers shot dead seven Palestinians, including two boys, who were among people who thronged to the fortified Gaza Strip border. from Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines https://ift.tt/2zG5c5c

Elon Musk to resign as chair of Tesla board, fined $20 mn: SEC

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Elon Musk has reached a deal over fraud charges that will see him step down as electric automaker Tesla's chairman of the board and pay a $20 million fine, US securities regulators said Saturday. Musk -- who will remain CEO of Tesla -- will be ineligible to serve as chairman of the board for a period of three years and will be replaced by an "independent chairman," while two "independent directors" will also be appointed by Tesla, the SEC said. from Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines https://ift.tt/2RaTKp0

California governor signs gun control bills into law

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(Reuters) - California Governor Jerry Brown signed several gun control bills into law on Friday, including one measure that raises the minimum age for buying rifles and shotguns from 18 to 21. The new laws come seven months after a gunman opened fire with a semiautomatic assault-style rifle at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida, killing 14 students and three adults, the second-deadliest mass shooting at a public school in U.S. history. The rampage, which authorities say was carried out by a former student who was 19, has spurred unprecedented activism by victims and their families to prevent future gun violence and demanding stricter gun control across the United States. from Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines https://ift.tt/2zFvaWA

Yankees Pitcher CC Sabathia Gets Ejected, Loses $500,000 Bonus

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New York Yankees pitcher CC Sabathia was just two innings away from earning a from Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines https://ift.tt/2NNbs3Y

Christine Blasey Ford Would Have Been Called ‘Hysterical’ If She Acted Like Kavanaugh: Pelosi

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House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) said that if Christine Blasey from Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines https://ift.tt/2y3l5jY

Airline Searching for Missing Man After Saying All 47 Passengers Survived Plane Crash

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The airline said one man remains unaccounted for. from Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines https://ift.tt/2IpE6C9

Mark Judge Went To His Lawyer’s Office Right When Senate Was Voting On Brett Kavanaugh

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WASHINGTON ― Mark Judge, the man who was said to be present when Brett from Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines https://ift.tt/2zDLwPp

NKorea: US needs to build our trust, and sanctions lower it

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North Korea needs more trust in the U.S. and their developing relationship before it will get rid of its nuclear weapons. from Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines https://ift.tt/2N9H6mU

Plane ditches into Pacific lagoon

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The Air Niugini Boeing 737-800 was attempting to land at Weno airport in Micronesia but ended up half submerged in Chuuk lagoon after the accident on Friday morning. The airline said the plane, which was involved in a collision with another aircraft earlier this year, had "landed short of the runway". Remarkably, it reported no serious injuries among those on the plane, which was making a scheduled stop on its way from the Micronesian capital Pohnpei to Port Moresby. from Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines https://ift.tt/2xVbJqt

Kavanaugh's fellow Yalies transfixed by Senate hearing

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With the multiple sexual misconduct allegations that have emerged against Kavanaugh this month, his nomination has become enmeshed in a national debate over sexual misconduct. The conservative federal appeals court judge in his testimony on Thursday angrily and tearfully denied he had sexually assaulted his accuser, Christine Blasey Ford. "Her clinical language - I think she uses the word hippocampus about six times, that actually made her more, not less credible to me," said Jacob Bennett, a third-year law student, referring to Ford's physiological descriptions of how the brain forms memories. from Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines https://ift.tt/2OpySvP

Kavanaugh Friend Mark Judge Says He'll Cooperate With FBI If Investigation Opens

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Mark Judge, a high school friend of Brett Kavanaugh, said he will cooperate with the FBI if an investigation is opened. from Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines https://ift.tt/2NNx3ct

Iraq 'regrets' US closure of Basra consulate

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Iraq's foreign ministry voiced "regret" on Saturday over a US decision to shut its consulate in the southern city of Basra which has been rocked by weeks of deadly protests. "The ministry regrets the American decision to pull its staff out of Basra," a statement said. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo ordered all but emergency staff to leave Basra, with consular duties to be taken over by the embassy in Baghdad. from Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines https://ift.tt/2OiJmgp

Parkland Dad Fred Guttenberg Reminds Kavanaugh His Life Is 'Not Ruined'

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The father of a child killed in the Parkland, Florida, high school massacre from Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines https://ift.tt/2QgxrNe

ACLU Opposes Kavanaugh Nomination In Rare Break From Own Policy

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The American Civil Liberties Union, which typically does not endorse from Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines https://ift.tt/2xHCQpV

Memphis civic leader, former Pinnacle Airlines CEO shot dead

MEMPHIS, Tenn. (AP) — A civic leader and former airline executive was alone when he was fatally shot in downtown Memphis, Tennessee, and authorities are investigating whether he was killed in a robbery or as part of a "personal vendetta," police said Friday. from Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines https://ift.tt/2xQbqOB

Palestinians say seven killed as Israeli troops fire on Gaza protest

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Israeli soldiers shot dead seven Palestinians, including two boys, who were among people who thronged to the fortified Gaza Strip border. from Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines https://ift.tt/2zG5c5c

Sexual assault survivors confront Flake in elevator over his support for Kavanaugh

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Moments before, the Republicans issued a statement saying he would vote to confirm Kavanaugh for the Supreme Court. from Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines https://ift.tt/2DGd5f4

Man pleads guilty in killing, will avoid death penalty

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RUTLAND, Vt. (AP) — Nearly two decades after he was charged in the abduction and killing of a Vermont supermarket worker, a man pleaded guilty Friday in exchange for avoiding the death penalty. from Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines https://ift.tt/2OXHjLF

Brexit challenger Gina Miller: UK's battle over EU membership must end

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More than two years since the 2016 EU referendum, the United Kingdom, its politicians and its business leaders remain deeply divided over Brexit while Prime Minister Theresa May has yet to clinch a divorce deal with the EU. Opponents of Brexit are exploring ways to stop what they say is Britain's biggest mistake since World War Two. Miller is leading a campaign to have another referendum, but she said if the government manages to successfully navigate an exit deal then politicians must be allowed to focus on domestic issues without the distractions of a debate about Britain's relationship with Europe. from Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines https://ift.tt/2NRupm4

Russia vows no safe passage for Syria jihadists in Idlib

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Russia on Friday warned it will not allow jihadists in Syria to be sent to Afghanistan or elsewhere under a deal reached with Turkey that averted a large-scale military assault on rebel-held Idlib province. Under the deal, Turkey agreed to separate opposition fighters from hardline jihadists who belong to groups branded as terrorists by the United Nations, but the fate of those extremists remains uncertain. from Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines https://ift.tt/2Qiyj42

Sexual Assault Hotline Calls Spiked During Kavanaugh Hearing

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A major national sexual abuse hotline experienced a massive surge in callers from Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines https://ift.tt/2QepOak

Judiciary Committee Members Doxxed During Kavanaugh Testimony

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Cellphone numbers and home addresses of Republican members of the Senate from Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines https://ift.tt/2Isjx8l

Airline now says 1 missing after Pacific lagoon plane crash

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WELLINGTON, New Zealand (AP) — The airline operating a flight that crashed into a Pacific lagoon in Micronesia on Friday now says one man is missing, after earlier saying all 47 passengers and crew had safely evacuated the sinking plane. from Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines https://ift.tt/2RbiHRe

Brett Kavanaugh Said Blasey’s Friend 'Refuted' Her Testimony. She Didn't.

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Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh is backing up his denial of Dr. from Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines https://ift.tt/2DCAJJt

Iraq 'regrets' US closure of Basra consulate

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Iraq's foreign ministry voiced "regret" on Saturday over a US decision to shut its consulate in the southern city of Basra which has been rocked by weeks of deadly protests. "The ministry regrets the American decision to pull its staff out of Basra," a statement said. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo ordered all but emergency staff to leave Basra, with consular duties to be taken over by the embassy in Baghdad. from Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines https://ift.tt/2OiJmgp

White House Puts Limits On FBI's Kavanaugh Investigation: Reports

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The FBI has contacted a second woman who alleges sexual misconduct on the part from Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines https://ift.tt/2NbQRRo

Seven Palestinians killed in new border clashes: Gaza ministry

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Seven Palestinians, including two boys aged 12 and 14, were killed in clashes with Israeli forces along the Gaza border Friday, the health ministry in the Hamas-controlled strip said. It was the bloodiest day of border protests since May 14, when more than 60 Palestinians died in violence accompanying the inauguration of the US embassy in Jerusalem, a move that enraged Palestinians. from Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines https://ift.tt/2IqcoVW

'Boofing' and 'ralphing' and other doubts about Kavanaugh's testimony

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Kavanaugh veered from the truth, offering explanations that conflicted with evidence or definitions that were unverifiable. from Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines https://ift.tt/2DCdYFt

Kavanaugh's fellow Yalies transfixed by Senate hearing

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With the multiple sexual misconduct allegations that have emerged against Kavanaugh this month, his nomination has become enmeshed in a national debate over sexual misconduct. The conservative federal appeals court judge in his testimony on Thursday angrily and tearfully denied he had sexually assaulted his accuser, Christine Blasey Ford. "Her clinical language - I think she uses the word hippocampus about six times, that actually made her more, not less credible to me," said Jacob Bennett, a third-year law student, referring to Ford's physiological descriptions of how the brain forms memories. from Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines https://ift.tt/2OpySvP

In extraordinary maneuver, Jeff Flake halts Brett Kavanaugh's march to Supreme Court

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Sen. Flake said he wouldn't vote to confirm Kavanaugh unless the FBI investigated the sexual assault allegations against him. from Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines https://ift.tt/2NNATSI

Accuser blasts pope silence, 'slander' over cover-up claims

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VATICAN CITY (AP) — The former Vatican ambassador who accused three popes and their advisers of covering up for a disgraced American ex-cardinal has challenged the Vatican to say what it knows about the scandal and accused Pope Francis of mounting a campaign of "subtle slander" against him. from Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines https://ift.tt/2IoZE1J

Lavrov notes Trump blamed China, not Russia, for U.S. election meddling

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Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov took pleasure in pointing out on Friday that U.S. President Donald Trump this week accused China, not Russia, of interfering in U.S. elections. Trump on Wednesday accused the Chinese government of seeking to influence the Nov. 6 U.S. congressional elections against his Republican Party. China has denied the allegation. from Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines https://ift.tt/2IoQm5M

ACLU Opposes Kavanaugh Nomination In Rare Break From Own Policy

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The American Civil Liberties Union, which typically does not endorse from Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines https://ift.tt/2xHCQpV

Indonesian city hit by tsunami after powerful quake

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A powerful earthquake hit central Indonesia on Friday, causing a tsunami that slammed into a city on Sulawesi island with officials saying the tremor had levelled "many" buildings. The shallow 7.5 magnitude quake sparked terror among locals who fled into the streets and raced to higher ground fearing tsunami waves. The disaster agency briefly issued a tsunami warning before lifting it. from Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines https://ift.tt/2NNyo2R

Pope defrocks priest at center of Chilean sexual abuse scandal

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Father Fernando Karadima was defrocked by the pope on Thursday, a move the Vatican called "exceptional" and done "for the good of the Church." from Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines https://ift.tt/2R6J0If

North Korea says 'no way' it will disarm without trust in US

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North Korea's foreign minister on Saturday told the United Nations there was "no way" that his country would disarm first as long as the United States continued to push for tough enforcement of sanctions against Pyongyang. Addressing the United Nations General Assembly, Ri Yong Ho accused Washington of creating a deadlock in talks on denuclearization of the Korean peninsula. from Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines https://ift.tt/2OlJZFH

The F-22 Is Nearly Unstoppable (But the Air Force Has Too Few of Them)

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And the problem can't be fixed.  from Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines https://ift.tt/2DE6LEY

Man pleads guilty in killing, will avoid death penalty

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RUTLAND, Vt. (AP) — Nearly two decades after he was charged in the abduction and killing of a Vermont supermarket worker, a man pleaded guilty Friday in exchange for avoiding the death penalty. from Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines https://ift.tt/2OXHjLF

Brexit challenger Gina Miller: UK's battle over EU membership must end

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More than two years since the 2016 EU referendum, the United Kingdom, its politicians and its business leaders remain deeply divided over Brexit while Prime Minister Theresa May has yet to clinch a divorce deal with the EU. Opponents of Brexit are exploring ways to stop what they say is Britain's biggest mistake since World War Two. Miller is leading a campaign to have another referendum, but she said if the government manages to successfully navigate an exit deal then politicians must be allowed to focus on domestic issues without the distractions of a debate about Britain's relationship with Europe. from Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines https://ift.tt/2NRupm4