| Feeding caravan hysteria, Trump says border troop levels may reach 15,000 Posted: 31 Oct 2018 02:24 PM PDT  Before flying to campaign rallies in Florida, the president suggests the U.S. could send as many as 15,000 U.S. troops to the border with Mexico.
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| Driver who killed 3 children at Indiana bus stop says she didn't see bus until it was too late Posted: 01 Nov 2018 08:45 AM PDT  The Indiana driver who police say plowed into four children at a bus stop,
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| Defense Secretary Mattis On Doubling Troops At The Border: ‘We Don’t Do Stunts’ Posted: 31 Oct 2018 09:35 PM PDT  Defense Secretary Jim Mattis on Wednesday denied accusations that the Trump
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| U.S. charges Chinese intelligence officers for jet engine data hack Posted: 30 Oct 2018 09:18 PM PDT ![U.S. charges Chinese intelligence officers for jet engine data hack]( "U.S. charges Chinese intelligence officers for jet engine data hack") Chinese intelligence officers conspired with hackers and company insiders to break into private companies' computer systems and steal information on a turbo fan engine used in commercial jetliners, according to a U.S. indictment unsealed on Tuesday. The indictment said at the time of the hacks, a Chinese-state owned aerospace company was working to develop a comparable engine for use in aircraft manufactured in China and in other countries. The 10 people charged conspired to steal sensitive data "that could be used by Chinese entities to build the same or similar engine without incurring substantial research and development expenses," the indictment released by the U.S. Department of Justice said.
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| New deadly accident prompts increased bus stop safety concerns Posted: 01 Nov 2018 09:14 AM PDT  Investigators are asking the public for help with the case.
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| Daily Digit: The number of eligible Latinx voters is at an all-time high Posted: 01 Nov 2018 06:40 AM PDT  As of 2018, there are a record 29 million eligible Latinx voters in the United States — making up nearly 13% of all voters.
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| Prison Where Whitey Bulger Died Is Known As One Of The Most Dangerous In America Posted: 31 Oct 2018 08:33 PM PDT  Following the killing of Whitey Bulger in a federal prison in West Virginia,
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| Delta Air Lines crew 'doubted black doctor's credentials' as she attended to passenger Posted: 01 Nov 2018 07:03 AM PDT  A black doctor has claimed crew on a Delta Air Lines flight doubted her credentials as she attended to a fellow passenger who was unwell. Fatima Cody Stanford, a doctor at Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School, said she was on a flight from Indianapolis to Boston when a woman sitting next to her began hyperventilating. Dr Stanford told CNN she was helping the passenger when a flight attendant intervened and asked if she was a physician, to which she replied she was.
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| Trump cites Harry Reid to back his position on birthright. He’s 25 years out of date. Posted: 31 Oct 2018 11:38 AM PDT  Harry Reid on Wednesday responded to President Trump after the commander in chief used a speech the former Democratic senator from Nevada made 25 years ago to justify a push to end birthright citizenship.
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| Part of landing gear, one 'black box' recovered from Indonesia jet Posted: 01 Nov 2018 09:21 AM PDT  Divers have found a piece of landing gear from a crashed Lion Air jet, Indonesian authorities said Thursday, following the discovery of a critical black box that could explain why the brand-new plane plummeted into the sea, killing 189 people. Search teams have been scouring the seabed for the fuselage of the Boeing-737 MAX 8, which plunged into the waters off Indonesia's northern coast shortly after takeoff on Monday despite only being in service a few months. Referring to the landing gear, search and rescue agency head Muhammad Syaugi said late Thursday, "we have found part of it", as authorities piece together what caused the crash.
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| Megacap FAANGs Stage Rebound That Fails to Erase October's Slump Posted: 31 Oct 2018 11:27 AM PDT  The rally was the latest example of heavy day-to-day volatility for the FAANG stocks, a quintet that also includes Amazon.com Inc., Netflix Inc. and Google's parent Alphabet Inc. All gained at least 3 percent, while Netflix surged 6.3 percent. Facebook added 3.8 percent in the wake of its results. At its peak, Wednesday's rally had Netflix and Facebook tracking to close with their biggest one-day gain since April.
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| Appeals Court Orders Ohio To Count Purged Voters' Ballots Posted: 01 Nov 2018 05:50 AM PDT  A federal appeals court in Ohio issued an emergency ruling allowing
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| An Ohio 5-Year-Old Reportedly Tested Positive for Meth After Trick-or-Treating Posted: 31 Oct 2018 07:44 AM PDT  A pair of fake teeth may be to blame
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| Groundskeeper in Bayer in U.S. weed-killer case accepts reduced award Posted: 31 Oct 2018 05:30 PM PDT  The decision by Dewayne Johnson, who sued Monsanto in 2016, brings the total award to $78 million, down from the jury's verdict on Aug. 10 of $289 million - $39 million in compensatory and $250 million in punitive damages. Johnson's law firm said in a statement that he accepted the reduction "to hopefully achieve a final resolution within his lifetime." Judge Suzanne Bolanos of San Francisco's Superior Court of California, who oversaw the trial, earlier this month affirmed the liability portion of the verdict, but ordered punitive damages to be slashed to concur with California and federal law. Bayer denies allegations that glyphosate can cause cancer and said it will appeal the decision as the verdict was not supported by the evidence presented at trial.
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| Indonesia military chief 'strongly believes' crashed jet found Posted: 30 Oct 2018 08:06 PM PDT  Using sonar technology, Hadi Tjahjanto said authorities were confident they had pinpointed the location of the Boeing 737-MAX plane that plunged into the sea on Monday. "We strongly believe we've determined the coordinates of the JT 610 fuselage," he told reporters in Jakarta. Authorities have been searching for the downed jet's location in water some 30-40 meters (100-130 feet) deep in the hopes of also finding flight data recorders expected to be crucial to the crash investigation.
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| Yahoo News Explains: The haunted history of Halloween Posted: 31 Oct 2018 01:22 PM PDT  Halloween has been around for quite some time, but it hasn't always been the candy and costume-filled holiday it is today. The second night of the festival was known as All Hallows' Eve, which was later shortened to Halloween. While the name didn't stick, the idea of giving kids treats to discourage pranks did — but no one would get candy unless they asked politely.
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| Anti-Defamation League Urges Speaker Paul Ryan To Discipline GOP's Steve King Posted: 31 Oct 2018 09:50 AM PDT  Anti-Defamation League CEO Jonathan Greenblatt condemned Rep. Steve King
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| Worldwide Google walkout over sexual harassment, racism and pay inequality Posted: 01 Nov 2018 07:09 AM PDT ![Worldwide Google walkout over sexual harassment, racism and pay inequality]( "Worldwide Google walkout over sexual harassment, racism and pay inequality")
More than 1,000 Google employees and contractors in Asia and Europe staged brief midday walkouts on Thursday, with more expected to follow at offices worldwide, amid complaints of sexism, racism and unchecked executive power in their workplaces. In a statement late Wednesday, the organizers called on Google parent Alphabet Inc. to add an employee representative to its board of directors and to internally share pay equity data. They also asked for changes to Google's human resources practices intended to make bringing harassment claims a fairer process. Google Chief Executive Sundar Pichai said in a statement that "employees have raised constructive ideas" and that the company was "taking in all their feedback so we can turn these ideas into action." Hundreds of workers filed out of its European headquarters in Dublin shortly after 11 a.m. local time, while organizers shared photographs on social media of hundreds more leaving Google offices in London, Zurich, Berlin, Tokyo and Singapore. (Reuters) See more news-related photo galleries and follow us on Yahoo News Photo Twitter and Tumblr.
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| Officials Confirm Unknown Bacterial Infection Outbreak at Arkansas Cancer Center Posted: 31 Oct 2018 12:37 PM PDT  The Arkansas Department of Health confirms dozens of patients recently treated at Arkansas Cancer Institute have tested positive for a previously unknown bacterial infection.
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| Georgia Domestic Workers Mobilize For Stacey Abrams In The Birthplace Of Their Movement Posted: 31 Oct 2018 06:47 AM PDT  ATLANTA ― Gwinnett County, Georgia, is one of the most diverse counties in the
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| Bishop blasts whistleblower who copied sex misconduct files Posted: 31 Oct 2018 11:12 AM PDT ![Bishop blasts whistleblower who copied sex misconduct files]( "Bishop blasts whistleblower who copied sex misconduct files") BUFFALO, N.Y. (AP) — Reacting to a whistleblower's calls for Bishop Richard Malone to resign over his response to clergy sexual misconduct, the Roman Catholic Diocese of Buffalo called her statements "embarrassingly contradictory" and released glowing emails about Malone that she sent while she was an employee.
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| Trump Visits Pittsburgh As Local Officials Decline To Join Him Posted: 30 Oct 2018 06:52 PM PDT  President Donald Trump, accompanied by first lady Melania Trump, visited
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| Big turnout of 'Googlers' at headquarters in global protest Posted: 01 Nov 2018 01:14 PM PDT  The turnout in California was the final stage of a global walkout that began in Asia and spread to Google offices in Europe. "Not only will these women and men change the Tech Bro Culture in Silicon Valley, they're going to change the world!" Democratic California congresswoman Jackie Speier tweeted. The protest took shape after Google said last week that it had fired 48 employees in the past two years -- including 13 senior executives -- as a result of allegations of sexual misconduct, citing "an increasingly hard line" on inappropriate conduct.
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| Black box retrieved as search continues after deadly airline crash into sea near Jakarta, Indonesia Posted: 31 Oct 2018 08:09 AM PDT  All 189 people on board are believed to have lost their lives in the crash.
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| General Motors Offers Buyouts Just after Posting Massive Net Profit Posted: 31 Oct 2018 08:30 AM PDT  After slashing overseas divisions, GM cost-cutting has finally come home to North America.
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| Ford, Baidu to start self-driving road tests in China Posted: 31 Oct 2018 01:16 AM PDT  BEIJING/SHANGHAI (Reuters) - Ford Motor Co and Baidu Inc launched a two-year project on Wednesday to test self-driving vehicles on Chinese roads, amid a global race by carmakers and internet firms to develop autonomous vehicle technology. The project will start testing on designated roads in Beijing by the end of this year, and possibly other Chinese cities, the two companies said in a statement. The vehicles will be capable of operating autonomously in certain conditions by the time the project finishes the development and testing process, they said.
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| Russian Lawmakers Head to U.S. to Monitor Midterm Elections Posted: 01 Nov 2018 07:10 AM PDT  Artem Turov From the ruling United Russia party and Alexei Kornienko from the Communist party are part of the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe's observer mission to the U.S. from Nov. 2 to Nov. 8, Turov said Friday in an interview. "It's a regular monitoring mission," said Turov, who said he's making his first trip to the U.S. and worked previously as an election monitor in Turkey and Georgia.
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| Gangster's death brings abrupt end to old South Boston Posted: 30 Oct 2018 06:16 PM PDT  BOSTON (AP) — The death of gangster James "Whitey" Bulger brings an abrupt end to a notorious chapter in the history of South Boston, the neighborhood where Bulger once ran a ruthless gang responsible for loansharking, extortion and a string of murders.
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| Donald Trump Snaps At Paul Ryan: 'He Knows Nothing About' Birthright Citizenship Posted: 31 Oct 2018 10:44 AM PDT  President Trump on blasted House Speaker Paul Ryan (R-Wis.) after the lawmaker rejected the president's claim that he has the power to end birthright citizenship.
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| Japan anti-trust authorities to investigate tech giants Posted: 31 Oct 2018 09:13 PM PDT  Japan's anti-trust authorities will probe whether tech giants such as Google and Amazon are using their market-leader positions to exploit contractors or obstruct competition, the country's fair trade chief said Thursday. In an interview with the Mainichi Shimbun newspaper, the head of Japan's Fair Trade Commission (JFTC) said the investigation would take place next year.
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| 1981 Honda Civic for sale: retro Japanese icon for $9k Posted: 01 Nov 2018 07:18 AM PDT  You don't need to sell your children to acquire a slice of retro Japanese automotive history – this 1981 Honda Civic Mk2 is on the market for less than $10k
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| Mohammed bin Salman 'told White House' Khashoggi was a dangerous Islamist Posted: 01 Nov 2018 11:26 AM PDT  Mohammed bin Salman, the crown prince of Saudi Arabia, reportedly told the White House that Jamal Khashoggi was a dangerous Islamist in a phone call days after the journalist was murdered. Crown Prince Mohammed told Jared Kushner, Donald Trump's son-in-law, and John Bolton, the president's national security advisor, that Mr Khashoggi was a member of the Muslim Brotherhood, according to the Washington Post. The prince's private disparagement of the murdered journalist is at odds with his public comments, where he described Mr Khashoggi's killing as "repulsive" and said it was "very painful for all Saudis". His reported comments were made while Saudi Arabia was still claiming that Mr Khashoggi had walked safely out of the Saudi consulate in Istanbul, a story that has now changed several times. The remarks are likely to fuel suspicions among US senators that Crown Prince Mohammed ordered Mr Khashoggi's death but placed the blame on low-level operatives after the killing led to a diplomatic crisis. Saudi Arabia has arrested 18 men on suspicion of killing Mr Khashoggi but denied that Crown Prince Mohammed ordered his death or had any involvement in it. A demonstrator holds a poster of Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi during a gathering outside the Saudi Arabia consulate in Istanbul Credit: YASIN AKGUL/ AFP Neither the White House nor Saudi Arabia has commented on the report about the October 9 phone call between Mr Bolton, Mr Kushner and the crown prince. Mr Khashoggi's family have consistently denied that he was a member of the Muslim Brotherhood, an Islamist group that was once tolerated by Saudi Arabia but is now banned. The Muslim Brotherhood is not considered a terrorist group by Western countries, although it is banned by several authoritarian regimes in the Middle East, including Egypt and the UAE. In his writings, Mr Khashoggi expressed sympathy for parts of the group's agenda and praised Qatar, the only Gulf Arab state to embrace the Brotherhood. Benjamin Netanyahu, the Israeli prime minister, also reportedly called senior White House officials to defend the crown prince and emphasise that Israel sees him as an important partner in the Middle East. Mr Netanyahu and the White House both consider Crown Prince Mohammed an ally against Iran and hope that he will lead other Arab states in endorsing a US plan for peace between Israel and the Palestinians. Benjamin Netanyahu reportedly vouched for Mohammed bin Salman to US officials Credit: Ronen Zvulun/Pool via AP Israel's relationship with Saudi Arabia and other Gulf states has been warming in recent years and the once-secret relations are becoming ever more public. Mr Netanyahu visited Oman last week and two Israeli ministers made trips to the UAE, drawing protests from Palestinians who argued the Arab states were "normalising" relations with Israel while it continues to occupy the West Bank and blockade Gaza. Turkish investigators are continuing to search for Mr Khashoggi's body. One line of inquiry is that his Saudi killers dissolved it in acid, although experts said it seemed unlikely they could manage that quickly and within the consulate in Istanbul.
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| Fighting fire with fire: Jewish people train to stop repeat of Pittsburgh shooting Posted: 31 Oct 2018 08:27 AM PDT  David Ortner adjusted his yarmulke, cocked his pistol and took aim - something he wishes a civilian had done to defend Pittsburgh's Tree of Life synagogue three days ago when Robert Bowers walked in and shot 11 people dead. Ortner was one of nine Jewish men who attended a one-day course on Tuesday at the privately owned Cherev Gidon Israeli Tactical Defense Academy near Scranton, Pennsylvania, a class that was scheduled on Sunday in response to the Pittsburgh synagogue attack. "The fact is, we're at war," said Yonatan Stern, a veteran officer of the Israel Defense Forces and director of the academy, told his class.
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| The 2019 BMW 8-series Convertible Looks Just as Good as the Coupe Posted: 01 Nov 2018 02:58 PM PDT  Chopping off the roof does little to upset the 8er's attractive proportions.
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| Andrew Gillum Calls Out Donald Trump For Providing 'Cover' To Racists Posted: 01 Nov 2018 07:28 AM PDT  Andrew Gillum, Florida's Democratic nominee for governor, told CNN on Thursday
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| Markets Right Now: Stocks gain on last day of a brutal month Posted: 31 Oct 2018 01:05 PM PDT  NEW YORK (AP) — The latest on developments in financial markets (all times local):
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| Late Night Debunks Caravan Hysteria Posted: 01 Nov 2018 06:44 AM PDT  Watch the late-night hosts demolish President Trump's migrant caravan fear-mongering.
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| Petrobras sells African oil business for $1.4 bn Posted: 31 Oct 2018 11:48 PM PDT  Brazilian state oil company Petrobras on Wednesday announced the sale of its holdings in two Nigerian oil blocks for $1.4 billion, part of the ailing firm's bid to sell off assets and raise cash. Petrobras will sell its 50-percent stake in the joint venture Petrobras Oil & Gas B.V. to a consortium led by Dutch energy trader Vitol, the Brazilian firm said in a statement. "The sale... is part of Petrobras's partnerships and disinvestment program, and is aligned with our 2018-2022 business and management plan and our ongoing portfolio management, focused on investing in pre-salt fields in Brazil," the company said.
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| The Starbucks Holiday Cups Are Here, So Get Seasonal Immediately Posted: 01 Nov 2018 07:26 AM PDT  The new Starbucks holiday cup designs have been revealed. Here's how they decided on the designs.
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