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In 1983, my father moved to Pittsburgh from his hometown in Syria, and he began working in a salon in Squirrel Hill. Squirrel Hill is Pittsburgh’s Jewish enclave, and he quickly accumulated a predominantly Jewish clientele — he cut and styled the hair of men and women of all ages, including children. Soon enough, after being encouraged by his customers to open a shop of his own in Squirrel Hill, he did. from Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines https://ift.tt/2PoC5MD

Shackled and wearing a beige jumpsuit, the man accused of sending at least 14 pipe bombs to prominent Democrats and critics of the president has been formally charged with five federal crimes in a Miami courtroom. The first court appearance of Cesar Sayoc, 56, came just hours after a 15th suspicious package was intercepted in Atlanta on its way to the CNN headquarters - what may have been the last in a series the suspect was able to mail from a list of, reportedly, hundreds of potential targets. In response to that package, CNN president Jeff Zucker said all domestic mail had been screened at off-site locations since last week, when it received two other packages addressed to the network's contributors, and bomb squads were called in to the Atlanta post office where the package was detected. from Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines https://ift.tt/2PYBcqW

Unbridled consumption has decimated global wildlife, triggered a mass extinction and exhausted Earth's capacity to accommodate humanity's expanding appetites, the conservation group WWF warned Tuesday. From 1970 to 2014, 60 percent of all animals with a backbone -- fish, birds, amphibians, reptiles and mammals -- were wiped out by human activity, according to WWF's "Living Planet" report, based on an ongoing survey of more than 4,000 species spread over 16,700 populations scattered across the globe. "The situation is really bad, and it keeps getting worse," WWF International director general Marco Lambertini told AFP. from Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines https://ift.tt/2AAVhOE

Suspect Robert Bowers, 46, faces dozens of charges for opening fire at the synagogue with an AR-15-style rifle, killing 11 people.  from Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines https://ift.tt/2Ps1yob

CHARLOTTE, N.C. (AP) — The teenager accused of fatally shooting a fellow student at a North Carolina high school appeared before a judge Tuesday as his public defender requested a low bond and permission for the boy to stay home with his mother while awaiting trial. from Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines https://ift.tt/2DdShuu

An Indonesian airliner crashed into the sea on Monday, with the likely loss of all 189 people on board, as it tried to return to Jakarta minutes after take-off. Lion Air flight JT610, an almost new Boeing 737 MAX 8, was en route from the capital to Pangkal Pinang, centre of the Bangka-Belitung tin mining region. Indonesia is one of the world's fastest-growing aviation markets, but its safety record is patchy. from Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines https://ift.tt/2OYnCHw

Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) on Tuesday backed President Donald Trump's vow to from Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines https://ift.tt/2PzFfwQ

The plane was brand new and the pilot didn't signal an emergency from Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines https://ift.tt/2AyFtMr

President Trump said he’s preparing an executive order to end birthright citizenship in the U.S. from Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines https://ift.tt/2zbOWr2

A Connecticut Republican running for a seat in the state Senate faced charges from Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines https://ift.tt/2JrJHbx

A Kentucky father who donned a Nazi uniform and dressed his son as Adolf from Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines https://ift.tt/2JlSGuL

Hundreds of mourners paid their respects to the intellectually disabled men from Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines https://ift.tt/2PyKNaQ

Sen. Cory Booker implored fellow officials to be "mindful of what we're from Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines https://ift.tt/2ESX2ep

Saudi Arabia's chief prosecutor on Tuesday visited the consulate in Istanbul where journalist Jamal Khashoggi was murdered, according to an AFP journalist at the scene. The head of the Saudi investigation, Attorney General Sheikh Saud al-Mojeb, who last week acknowledged that the killing was "premeditated", did not make a statement as he arrived at the diplomatic compound. Earlier in the day he met Istanbul chief prosecutor Irfan Fidan for the second time. from Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines https://ift.tt/2qiJZJ2

Donald Trump has said asylum seekers who illegally cross into the US from Mexico will be kept in “very nice” tents in a bid to put others off doing the same. Railing against a migrant caravan heading for America’s southern border, the US president told Fox News his administration is going to build tent cities in preparation for what he described as an “invasion” of the country. Mr Trump’s comments on Monday evening came the same day it emerged he is preparing to send more than 5,000 troops to the Mexico border, a move critics say is an attempt to further politicise the issue. from Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines https://ift.tt/2qhFQVV

The oldest victim of the Tree of Life synagogue shooting had seen anti-Semitism rise and fall over the years, but was shielded from the worst of it. Until Saturday. from Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines https://ift.tt/2StuI55

The president called for capital punishment for Pittsburgh shooting suspect. from Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines https://ift.tt/2JokL4I

The world's tallest statue was unveiled Wednesday in India. from Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines https://ift.tt/2OgBgR9

The UN rights chief called Tuesday for "international experts" to help investigate the murder of Jamal Khashoggi at the Saudi consulate in Istanbul, and called on Riyadh to reveal the whereabouts of his body. "For an investigation to be carried out free of any appearance of political considerations, the involvement of international experts, with full access to evidence and witnesses, would be highly desirable," Michelle Bachelet said in a statement. Khashoggi, a 59-year-old Saudi journalist and Washington Post contributor, was killed after entering the Saudi consulate in Istanbul on October 2 to obtain paperwork ahead of his upcoming wedding. from Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines https://ift.tt/2DchBRk

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President Trump referred to Florida Democratic gubernatorial candidate Andrew Gillum as a “thief” in a tweet supporting Republican Ron DeSantis. from Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines https://ift.tt/2zdR8P7

Here's the latest news on the midterm elections on Nov. 6, 2018. from Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines https://ift.tt/2P3mZgd

Lion Air flight JT610, an almost new Boeing 737 MAX 8, was en route from the capital to Pangkal Pinang, center of the Bangka-Belitung tin mining region. Indonesia is one of the world's fastest-growing aviation markets, but its safety record is patchy. "An RTB was requested and had been approved but we're still trying to figure out the reason," Soerjanto Tjahjono, head of Indonesia's transport safety committee, told reporters, referring to the pilot's request. from Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines https://ift.tt/2D9UpDs

President Trump lashed out at the press Monday for criticism of his response to the massacre at a Pittsburgh synagogue and the mail bomb plot targeting Democrats. from Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines https://ift.tt/2JtquGI

PITTSBURGH -- Susan Friedberg Kalson stood near the synagogue where a day from Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines https://ift.tt/2qiqYXp

BANGKOK (AP) — Lion Air, the airline whose plane crashed early Monday while traveling from Jakarta to an island off Indonesia's Sumatra with 189 people on board, is a fast-growing low-cost airline with a mixed safety record. from Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines https://ift.tt/2CLKAum

The new airport, located some 20 miles outside Istanbul on the coast of the Black Sea, will cover 76.5 million square meters (29.5 miles) upon completion -- a footprint larger than Manhattan. Erdogan ended years of speculation about the name of the new airport, saying that it’ll be named “Istanbul Airport." The current main international airport, Ataturk, will continue limited operations under that name, he said. Istanbul has another airport on its Asian coast, called Sabiha Gokcen, one of 40 new airports built during Erdogan’s time in office. from Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines https://ift.tt/2qj5WYv

George Conway, the husband of White House counselor Kellyanne Conway, co- from Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines https://ift.tt/2F1mmPE

Dr Jerry Rabinowitz, one of the victims in a mass shooting at a Pittsburgh synagogue over the weekend, has been hailed for helping the wounded in his final moments. The 66-year-old doctor is one of 11 people killed in an apparent antisemitic attack targeting the Tree of Life, a synagogue located in the city’s Squirrel Hill neighbourhood. As a shooter opened fire on the community’s weekly Saturday service, he reportedly rushed to help those injured, according to his nephew, Avisahi Ostrin, who wrote about the tragedy in a public Facebook post. from Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines https://ift.tt/2Pv6CIv

Punishing new U.S. sanctions against Iran take effect this weekend. The measures are aimed at quashing the Islamic republic's nuclear ambitions, as well as its missile programs and influence in Syria. Elizabeth Palmer reports from Tehran. from Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines https://ift.tt/2AAycfa

PITTSBURGH (AP) — In a story Oct. 29 about developments in the aftermath of the synagogue shooting in Pittsburgh, The Associated Press erroneously reported the professional position of Cecil and David Rosenthal's sister. She is state Rep. Dan Frankel's former chief of staff, not his current chief of staff. from Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines https://ift.tt/2SqkN0c

It's hoaxes all the way down in what appears to be an effort to discredit from Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines https://ift.tt/2yFNQVm

A man who was supposed to be on the Lion Air jet that crashed on Monday from Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines https://ift.tt/2RrEFii

A travel blogger who fell to her death alongside her husband while apparently taking selfies on a cliff edge had previously warned tourists against attempting to capture dangerous photographs. Rangers at Yosemite National Park in California found the bodies of Vishnu Viswanath and Meenakshi Moorthy around 800 feet below Taft Point, where visitors can gaze over an unguarded cliff face. Viswanath’s brother, Jishnu Viswanath, told reporters on Tuesday the pair had set up a tripod close to the sheer ledge shortly before they apparently fell. from Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines https://ift.tt/2Q7GwZl

Divers searched on Tuesday for victims of the Lion Air plane crash in Indonesia that killed 189 people and high-tech equipment was deployed to find its data recorders as reports emerged of problems on the jet's previous flight that had terrified passengers. Search and rescue personnel worked through the night, sending 24 body bags to identification experts while the airline flew dozens of grieving relatives to the country's capital, Jakarta. The two-month-old Boeing jet crashed into the Java Sea early on Monday, just 13 minutes after taking off from Jakarta for an island off Sumatra. Its pilot had requested clearance to return to the airport just 2-3 minutes after takeoff, which aviation experts said indicated a problem, though its cause is still baffling. The National Search and Rescue Agency said 10 intact bodies as well as body parts have been recovered. Aircraft debris and personal belongings from ID cards to clothing and bags found scattered in seas northeast of Jakarta ar

Shay Khatiri first heard about the mass shooting at Tree of Life Synagogue from a friend. Mr Khatiri, who had been crashing on his Jewish friend’s couch for several months, woke up to see his friend visibly shaken from the tragic news and wanted to do something. “I thought about [making] a small donation, and then I thought it’d be better if I start this campaign,” Mr Khatiri told The Independent. from Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines https://ift.tt/2qj5VnA

Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) on Tuesday backed President Donald Trump's vow to from Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines https://ift.tt/2PzFfwQ

FedEx confirmed to Reuters' Breakingviews on Tuesday that it is ending a from Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines https://ift.tt/2ENPF7Y

(This story corrects paragraph four to show non-profit group helps all refugees, not only Jewish refugees) By Trevor Hunnicutt and Paresh Dave (Reuters) - Gab.com, the website where the suspected Pittsburgh synagogue gunman posted anti-Semitic views, said on Sunday it was offline for a period of time after being asked by its domain provider to move to another registrar. The move comes after GoDaddy Inc asked Gab to change the domain, while PayPal Holdings Inc , Stripe Inc and Joynet Inc blocked the website. "We have informed Gab.com that they have 24 hours to move the domain to another registrar," a spokesman for GoDaddy said, adding the site violated its terms of service and hosted content that "promotes and encourages violence against people." The 46-year-old suspect Robert Bowers in the shooting incident has been charged with murdering 11 people on Saturday in the deadliest attack ever on the Jewish community in the United States. from Yahoo News - Latest New

A North Carolina high school student shot and killed a fellow student during a fight in a crowded school hallway Monday, officials said, calling the incident a case of bullying that "escalated out of control" which had students scurrying to escape and parents rushing to campus to check on their children. from Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines https://ift.tt/2Q2POpd

Conservationists have issued a demand for urgent international action after a major report uncovered an unprecedented crisis in nature that threatens to devastate the world economy and imperil humanity itself. Only a global pact on the scale of the Paris Agreement on climate change will save the natural world from irreversible collapse, the World Wide Fund for Nature said after publishing a report showing a cataclysmic decline in global wildlife populations. Global vertebrate populations have fallen by 60 per cent since 1970 as human activity destroys their natural habitats in grasslands, forests, waterways and oceans, the organisation said. Until the turn of the 20th century, humanity’s consumption of the world’s natural resources was smaller than Earth’s ability to replenish itself. But over the past 50 years expanding agricultural activity and the over-exploitation of natural resources to feed a growing world population, particularly its booming middle class, has pushed many ecosyst

Thousands of police guarded the world's biggest statue ahead of its inauguration by Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Wednesday with local people threatening protests over the enormous figure. Activists said about a dozen of their leaders had been detained ahead of the spectacular opening of the 182-metre (600-foot) tall tribute to Indian independence hero Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel, with air force jets and helicopters to shower flowers on the statue during a flypast. Anand Mazgaonkar, a community group leader in Narmada district of Gujarat state where the statue has been built over the past four years, said plain clothes police took away 12 people late Tuesday to the local police headquarters. from Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines https://ift.tt/2OWxlhL

The president called for capital punishment for Pittsburgh shooting suspect. from Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines https://ift.tt/2JokL4I

Lion Air flight JT610, an almost new Boeing 737 MAX 8, was en route from the capital to Pangkal Pinang, center of the Bangka-Belitung tin mining region. Indonesia is one of the world's fastest-growing aviation markets, but its safety record is patchy. "An RTB was requested and had been approved but we're still trying to figure out the reason," Soerjanto Tjahjono, head of Indonesia's transport safety committee, told reporters, referring to the pilot's request. from Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines https://ift.tt/2D9UpDs

Across the country, prayer vigils and ecumenical services were held in tribute to the 11 victims of the bloody assault on a Pittsburgh synagogue as words of solace and commiseration poured in from the U.S. Jewish community -- the largest outside Israel -- but also from the pope and European leaders. from Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines https://ift.tt/2D8vX5i

Should they reclaim a majority in the House come November, Democrats will prioritize legislation that would extend federal anti-discrimination protections to the LGBT community, minority leader Nancy Pelosi said recently. The legislation, which Pelosi unveiled during a speech at the John F. Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University, would expand upon the Civil Rights Act of 1964 — which currently covers race, religion, gender, and national origin — to prohibit discrimination based on sexual orientation. If passed, the bill would outlaw discrimination against LGBT Americans seeking loans, applying for jobs, ordering in a restaurant, or seeking to serve on a jury. from Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines https://ift.tt/2yGXln5

"Fox & Friends" host Brian Kilmeade warned viewers on Monday about the migrant from Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines https://ift.tt/2Q43JLV

WASHINGTON (AP) — A rabbi invited to pray at a Michigan campaign stop with Vice President Mike Pence for the victims of the Pittsburgh synagogue massacre referenced "Jesus the Messiah" at the event. from Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines https://ift.tt/2zecQT4

For the Boston Red Sox, victory may be sweet, but revenge tastes awfully good from Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines https://ift.tt/2OXJUcz

Golden State Warriors coach Steve Kerr has been one of the sports world's go- from Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines https://ift.tt/2OY5PAr