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Health care and CNN's rules are among the winners and losers of Tuesday's Democratic debate

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The bold progressives -- Sens. Sanders and Warren -- held their own. There was lots of talk about health care. CNN's ground rules seemed to get in the way. And what about Marianne Williamson? from Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines https://ift.tt/2Yg28e0 via IFTTT

Italy: Teen's father says son didn't know friend had knife

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Fabrizio Natale issued a statement through a lawyer after visiting his son, Gabriel Christian Natale-Hjorth at a Rome prison, a meeting Natale described as "very tough for both" of them. Prosecutors say Elder has confessed to knifing Cerciello Rega, 35, who was stabbed 11 times and died at a hospital. from Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines https://ift.tt/2Yz32O2 via IFTTT

'You're wrong': Sanders, Warren open debate defending health care plan

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The two progressives joined forces Tuesday night against more moderate candidates — and the moderators. from Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines https://ift.tt/2YfKAhX via IFTTT

Dubai ruler's wife seeks UK forced marriage protection order for children

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The estranged wife of the ruler of Dubai has applied for a UK forced marriage protection order relating to their children, a London court heard Tuesday. Princess Haya, 45, a wife of 70-year-old United Arab Emirates Prime Minister Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al-Maktoum, has applied for the order, as well as for wardship of their children, and a non-molestation order relating to herself, the High Court heard. from Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines https://ift.tt/2ypFW1D via IFTTT

Here are all the 2020 Democratic presidential candidates who have qualified for the September primary debates

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The next round of debates have much more strict criteria for candidates looking to secure a spot on stage. As a result, the field could thin out fast. from Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines https://ift.tt/2MvyJ8H via IFTTT

Muslim Virginia lawmaker heckles Trump at Jamestown speech

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A heckler who interrupted a speech by President Donald Trump during Tuesday's commemoration of 400 years of American democracy is a new Muslim lawmaker from Virginia angered by the president's race-related rhetoric. After Samirah stood and held up his signs, he was led out of a tent where Trump was speaking at a museum near the site of the original Jamestown colony. from Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines https://ift.tt/2Zo9p7V via IFTTT

What you need to know about Capital One data breach affecting more than 100 million customers

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Consumers find themselves confronted with another data breach, this time involving Capital One. Here's what you need to know to protect yourself. from Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines https://ift.tt/330330K via IFTTT

Relatives gather to identify 57 victims killed Brazil prison riot

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Dozens of family members of inmates killed by other detainees during a prison riot in the north of Brazil have gathered outside the local forensic institute, waiting to identify their loved ones from Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines https://ift.tt/2YAHSDd via IFTTT

Sanctions-hit Iran to cut zeros and rename plunging currency

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The government in sanctions-hit Iran on Wednesday approved a plan to remove zeros from the rial and rename the currency -- something its people have long been doing to simplify transactions. "The cabinet today agreed on a bill to eliminate four zeros from the currency and that 'toman' will be our national currency," government spokesman Ali Rabiei told reporters in Tehran. The value of the Iranian rial has hit low after record low since last year. from Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines https://ift.tt/2GDoSd7 via IFTTT

5 key takeaways from the Democratic debate in Detroit

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An alliance from Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren, Marianne Williamson shining and Steve Bullock stumbling late highlighted the first of two Democratic debates in Michigan. from Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines https://ift.tt/2KeFiK2 via IFTTT

Chicago shooting deaths: Outcry as anti-gun violence mothers shot dead while campaigning

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Two women who campaigned against Chicago’s infamous gun violence, have themselves been shot and killed on a street corner where activists frequently stood to keep watch.The anti-gun violence group Mothers Against Senseless Killings (MASK), confirmed Chantell Grant and Andrea Stoudemire were killed after a blue SUV pulled up to the corner, and someone in the vehicle opened fired into the crowd.“People are tired of being afraid. We’re sick of being afraid. We live in these communities and then we somehow are penalised and punished for living here. If you’re poor, you’re poor,” said MASK founder Tamar Manasseh.“But when women are killed, it’s not their fault. It’s not because they made bad decisions. It’s not they’re in the wrong place at the wrong time.”Police said the two women were killed on Friday night in South Side neighbourhood of Englewood, where members of the group often stood watch.Mr Grant, 26, was mother to three young children. Ms Stoudemire, 35, had two children. They were

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'We're in pain': Family remembers Keyla Salazar, teen killed in Gilroy Garlic Festival shooting

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Family and friends held a vigil for Keyla Salazar Tuesday evening, lamenting how a mass shooting at the Gilroy Garlic Festival ended her life at 13. from Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines https://ift.tt/2YrcwuM via IFTTT

The 2 Canadian teen fugitives were searched at an alcohol checkpoint the day they were charged with murder, but authorities let them go

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Tataskweyak Cree Nation checkpoint guards stopped the pair as they entered an alcohol free county, but let them pass after no contraband was found. from Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines https://ift.tt/3347tUA via IFTTT

Escape bids by rebel princesses throw spotlight on UAE rights

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Princess Haya, who is battling her husband Dubai's ruler Sheikh Mohammad bin Rashid Al-Maktoum in a UK court, is the third princess who has sought to escape the Gulf emirate in recent years. Activists say the attempts by Haya and two of Sheikh Mohammed's daughters to escape the United Arab Emirates (UAE) throw a harsh spotlight on the country's rights record, even as it tries to present a glitzy and modern image to the West. In 2000, Sheikha Shamsa bint Mohammed bin Rashid Al-Maktoum tried to escape the family's entourage during a holiday in England, but was reportedly picked up two months later and forcibly returned to Dubai. from Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines https://ift.tt/2K9omWp via IFTTT

Marianne Williamson explains the need for slavery reparations: 'A debt that is owed'

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The self-help author helped herself Tuesday with a stirring answer on the question of slavery reparations. from Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines https://ift.tt/2ZmoMOm via IFTTT

Mom of slain Navajo girl urges tribes to use Amber Alerts

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The mother of a Navajo girl who was kidnapped and killed in 2016 urged tribal officials and children's advocates Tuesday to take advantage of tools and funding under a law that expands access to the nation's Amber Alert system. Pamela Foster spoke during a training at Isleta Pueblo, south of Albuquerque, for tribes seeking to implement the alert system. Despite a 2007 pilot project, it was not in place on the Navajo Nation when her daughter Ashlynne Mike was abducted near Shiprock, a town in northeast New Mexico. from Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines https://ift.tt/2YwH4ek via IFTTT

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Tim Ryan: Democrats will 'lose 48 states' on a 'Medicare for All' platform

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Ryan called the "Medicare for All" proposals a "potential disaster" for the party. from Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines https://ift.tt/2Mu5kf6 via IFTTT

3-year-old Chinese boy falls from six stories, gets saved by blanket-wielding crowd below

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A three-year-old boy who fell from the sixth floor of a building on Monday wassaved after a crowd of bystanders used a blanket to catch him, China's CCTVreported from Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines https://ift.tt/32ZfdY1 via IFTTT

‘Disgruntled’ Employee Kills Two Co-Workers Inside Mississippi Walmart: Police

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Joe Raedle/Getty ImagesA “disgruntled employee” at a Mississippi Walmart killed two co-workers and wounded a police officer in a deadly Tuesday shootout inside the superstore, authorities said.Martez Abram, 39, a recently-terminated employee of the Southaven store, was charged with two counts of murder Tuesday afternoon, DeSoto County District Attorney John Champion said. The deadly incident began around 6:30 a.m., when Southaven police responded to reports of an active shooter at a Walmart near the Tennessee border. Abram “senselessly murdered” two store employees and wounded an officer before he was injured and apprehended, authorities said. The victims have been identified as Anthony Brown, 40, and Brandon Gales, 38, the DeSoto County Coroner’s Office confirmed to The Daily Beast. “These people were doing the same thing you and I do everyday, showing up to work in an attempt to provide for their families, then became victims of a senseless violent act,” Moore told reporters at a Tue

Ancestry will let you search online for relatives who were displaced by the Holocaust

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Ancestry is digitizing millions of Holocaust persecution records and making them searchable online for free. from Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines https://ift.tt/2KeZECH via IFTTT

Taking Nasa's space buggies for a spin

BBC Click's Spencer Kelly takes a ride in some in some of Nasa's latest vehicles. from BBC News - Technology https://ift.tt/2STBh1q

Iran says US rejected offer as 'not seeking dialogue'

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Iran said on Monday the US had rejected an offer from Tehran for more robust nuclear inspections in exchange for lifting sanctions because Washington is "not seeking dialogue". Under the 2015 nuclear deal agreed to by Tehran, Iran must ratify a document, known as the additional protocol, prescribing more intrusive inspections of its nuclear programme eight years after the deal was adopted. "If the US is really seeking an agreement... Iran can make the additional protocol into law (in 2019) and (the US) at the same time bring a plan to the Congress and lift all illegal sanctions," said foreign ministry spokesman Abbas Mousavi. from Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines https://ift.tt/2GuMZuv via IFTTT

Russia says U.S. may be aiming to quit nuclear test ban treaty

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The United States may be planning to blame Russian non-compliance as a pretext to pull out of the Comprehensive nuclear Test Ban Treaty (CTBT), a Russian diplomat told the Conference on Disarmament, the world's main arms talks forum, on Tuesday. "It would appear that through propaganda around false claims about Russia’s compliance there are attempts to prepare international opinion for a U.S. exit from the CTBT and then to blame Russia again for everything," the Russian diplomat said. from Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines https://ift.tt/2SOUTDT via IFTTT

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The Latest: Relative identifies 3 of 5 killed in Wisconsin

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The father of two of five people found dead in two houses in northwestern Wisconsin has identified two sons and a grandson as among the dead. Authorities say a man shot and killed four people and wounded two others wounded at a home in Lake Hallie on Sunday night and a home in the town of Lafayette on Monday. Ritchie German Sr. of North Prairie, Wisconsin, tells the Star-Tribune of Minneapolis-St. Paul that adult sons Ritchie German Jr. and Douglas German were among the dead, along with Douglas' 8-year-old son, Calvin German. from Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines https://ift.tt/2Y9BweB via IFTTT

Photos of the 2020 Porsche 911 Carrera and 911 Carrera Cabriolet

The cheapest version of the 992-gen 911 costs $98,750 and has 379 horsepower. From Car and Driver from Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines https://ift.tt/2K5uXje via IFTTT

Democratic Debate Warning: Former Obama Chief of Staff Says to Avoid 1 Thing

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Former Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel warned Democratic presidential contenders Monday not to “win the nomination in a way that forecloses a path to victory in the general election.”Emanuel, former President Barack Obama’s ex-chief of staff, criticized the candidates’ performances in the first round of Democratic debates in Miami in June.“There’s a reason [President Donald] Trump gleefully tweeted ‘That’s the end of that race!'” Emanuel wrote in a Medium post Monday.“Too often, you succumbed to chasing plaudits on Twitter, which closed the door on swing voters in Wisconsin, Michigan, Pennsylvania, and Ohio. If you win the nomination in a way that forecloses a path to victory in the general election, we will lose, and your name will go down in infamy,” he continued.Emanuel’s criticism comes as former Vice President Joe Biden fends off attacks from people even farther to the left accusing him of being weak on civil rights and too tough on crime in the past. But the former mayor warned th

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Slain gangster John Dillinger's body to be exhumed from Crown Hill Cemetery in Indiana

No reason was given for the exhumation. But there have been theories that it was not Dillinger who was killed outside a theater, but rather a double. from Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines https://ift.tt/2ymZJ1I via IFTTT

Trump 'rodent' tweets ring true at Kushner-owned apartments

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Davon Jones doesn't have to look far to see the irony in President Donald Trump's tweets that Baltimore is a "rat and rodent infested mess." His apartment owned by the president's son-in-law has been invaded by mice since he moved in a year ago. Jared Kushner's family real estate firm owns thousands of apartments and townhomes in the Baltimore area, and some have been criticized for the same kind of disrepair and neglect that the president has accused local leaders of failing to address. James says he sees a massive contradiction in Trump's much-publicized tweets laying the blame for Baltimore's poverty, crime and rodent problems on frequent antagonist Maryland Rep. Elijah Cummings. from Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines https://ift.tt/313QEXY via IFTTT

Inmates behind Brazil deadly prison riot transferred: official

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Forty-six inmates involved in one of Brazil's deadliest prison riots were being transferred to other jails Tuesday, an official said. At least 57 people were killed on Monday when fighting broke out between rival drug gang factions in the Altamira Regional Recovery Centre in the northern state of Para. Sixteen were decapitated in the hours-long battle, but most died in a fire that engulfed part of the overcrowded facility that used converted shipping containers to house some of the inmates. from Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines https://ift.tt/32TmYhU via IFTTT

How to Stop Iran’s Maritime Misadventures

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(Bloomberg Opinion) -- European nations, alarmed by Iran’s capture of a British oil tanker, are mounting a response to protect their commercial shipping in the Strait of Hormuz and Persian Gulf. The Royal Navy has started to escort British ships, and a plan for a European naval mission has been endorsed by Denmark, France and Italy.It’s a promising start. But effectively curbing Iran’s misbehavior and safeguarding ships in the region will require a more ambitious —and truly international — effort. Most important, it needs to involve the U.S. Navy.The Europeans are wary of combining their fleets with a nearby American operation for fear of being identified with President Donald Trump’s “maximum pressure” campaign against Iran. France’s foreign minister says a separate effort is needed to reduce tensions and “create the conditions for inclusive regional talks on maritime security.”This is both naïve and shortsighted. A disjointed naval effort increases the likelihood of accidents and mis

'Passive aggression. It's a lifestyle': Ocasio-Cortez responds to a GOP congressional critic

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Rep. Jody Hice, R-Ga., accused Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez of having "deliberately misled the American people" about the treatment of migrants in detention. from Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines https://ift.tt/2K7xF9r via IFTTT

The Latest: Wisconsin sheriff draws parallel with Closs case

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Authorities in Wisconsin say a man suspected of killing four people may have been imitating the abduction last year of teenager Jayme Closs. Sheriff Jim Kowalczyk said Tuesday that investigators may never know exactly what led to the Sunday attacks. Kowalczyk says German used a shotgun to blast his way into the woman's home, and then shot and wounded her parents. from Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines https://ift.tt/2KdOhv0 via IFTTT

Afghan soldier killed two US troops: official

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An Afghan soldier was responsible for the killing of two American troops a day earlier, an official told AFP Tuesday, in what appears to be the latest example of an insider attack. The US military on Monday said two of its troops had been killed in action in Afghanistan, but did not provide any additional details, pending notification of next of kin. Mohammad Qasam, a deputy police chief in Kandahar province in southern Afghanistan, said the attack took place at an Afghan army base during a visit by US forces. from Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines https://ift.tt/2Ors6GO via IFTTT

Chicago shooting deaths: Outcry as anti-gun violence mothers shot dead while campaigning

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Two women who campaigned against Chicago’s infamous gun violence, have themselves been shot and killed on a street corner where activists frequently stood to keep watch.The anti-gun violence group Mothers Against Senseless Killings (MASK), confirmed Chantell Grant and Andrea Stoudemire were killed after a blue SUV pulled up to the corner, and someone in the vehicle opened fired into the crowd.“People are tired of being afraid. We’re sick of being afraid. We live in these communities and then we somehow are penalised and punished for living here. If you’re poor, you’re poor,” said MASK founder Tamar Manasseh.“But when women are killed, it’s not their fault. It’s not because they made bad decisions. It’s not they’re in the wrong place at the wrong time.”Police said the two women were killed on Friday night in South Side neighbourhood of Englewood, where members of the group often stood watch.Mr Grant, 26, was mother to three young children. Ms Stoudemire, 35, had two children. They were

Motive for slayings at California festival still unclear two days later

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California police on Tuesday were still trying to determine why a teenager went on a shooting rampage over the weekend at a popular food festival south of San Jose, killing a 6-year-old boy, a 13-year-old girl and a man in his 20s. The police have since obtained search warrants for a home in Gilroy associated with the suspect and the car they believe he drove to the festival, a decades-old annual event celebrating the produce farmed in the countryside of California's Santa Clara Valley. from Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines https://ift.tt/2YeJV0x via IFTTT

Princess Haya, Dubai ruler’s wife, urges UK court to grant a forced marriage protection order

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Princess Haya Bint Al Hussein, the youngest wife of the multi-billionaire ruler of Dubai, has urged a British court to protect one of her ­children by granting a forced marriage ­protection order. The Jordanian princess, who fled to Britain in May with her two children “in fear for her life”, is fighting an ­application from her husband, Sheikh Mohammed, for the “summary return” of the youngsters to the United Arab Emirates (UAE). The Jordanian princess is also seeking a non-molestation order, a process normally used to protect someone who claims they have been subjected to ­domestic violence. However, the ­details surrounding the order, ­including to whom it applies, cannot be reported. The children are living with their mother in her £85 million home in Kensington, west London. The princess has applied successfully for them to be wards of court, and any decisions about their ­future cannot be made without the approval of the presiding judge, Sir Andrew McFarlane, the president of the

Pelosi, Schumer Stand Firm in Opposing Impeachment

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Senator Chuck Schumer said Tuesday that he stands with House speaker Nancy Pelosi in opposition to impeachment proceedings despite pressure from the caucus to move forward.“I believe that . . . Speaker Pelosi is handling this appropriately,” Schumer said in reference to Pelosi's strategy of encouraging Democratic House committee chairmen to continue their probes into President Trump and his campaign but hold off on impeachment.After former special counsel Robert Mueller's testimony to Congress last week, Pelosi stated that the House does not yet have the evidence necessary to open an impeachment inquiry. “We will proceed when we have what we need to proceed,” she said. “Not one day sooner.”Meanwhile, two members of Senate Democratic leadership have come out in favor of proceeding with impeachment. Assistant Democratic Leader Patty Murray of Washington called for an impeachment inquiry “to determine whether the president’s actions necessitate impeachment,” and Senator Debbie Sta

Police investigate after man says he found baby in freezer

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A St. Louis man says a box that had been in his mother's freezer for decades contained the mummified remains of a newborn baby, which he discovered while cleaning out her home after she died. Adam Smith told St. Louis media outlets that he opened the cardboard box Sunday expecting to find something like the top of his mother's first wedding cake or money because she never had a bank account. St. Louis police confirmed that they are investigating a "suspicious death" involving an "unknown infant" found inside the home and that autopsy results were pending. from Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines https://ift.tt/2Khg65l via IFTTT

Hong Kong Train Disruptions Show Protests Becoming Daily Affair

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(Bloomberg) -- Fresh train disruptions by Hong Kong protesters Tuesday show how unrest once confined to weekend marches through downtown streets is spreading across the Asian financial hub and affecting daily life.Train services were slowed on the centrally located Island Line and the Kwun Tong Line across Victoria Harbor after black-clad protesters blocked doors and requested emergency assistance during the morning rush. There was yelling and confusion as commuters found themselves stuck in large crowds on subway platforms for the second time in less than a week.Although rail operator MTR Corp. said trains were resuming their normal schedules as of 11:30 a.m., such problems are expected to spread as protesters try to keep their grievances in the headlines and force a response by the city’s China-appointed government. The incident follows a weekend of rallies that saw a peaceful sit-in at Asia’s busiest international airport and sometimes rowdy mass protests that prompted police to fir

A 33-year-old woman who used to work for Amazon is the suspect in the massive Capital One hack — meet Paige Thompson

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Thompson is accused of stealing data from millions of Capital One customers, including Social Security numbers and linked bank accounts. from Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines https://ift.tt/2GFsfjQ via IFTTT

Whither Evangelical Purity Culture? Thoughts on the Legacy of a Lost Pastor

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If you don’t live in Evangelical-world, you probably missed this news. An influential Evangelical author and pastor named Joshua Harris announced on Saturday that he was in the process of “deconstruction.” His statement was clear. “By all the measurements I have for defining a Christian,” he said, “I am not a Christian.” He apologized to the LGBT community for not affirming gay marriage and for the ways that his writing and speaking “contributed to a culture of exclusion and bigotry.”For Christians, it’s a sad statement, but it’s also full of real integrity. Rather than try to jam Christianity into his evolving worldview, he respects orthodoxy by opting out.Harris burst into prominence as a young Christian with every author’s dream: a giant, influential first-book bestseller. It was called I Kissed Dating Goodbye, and it sold almost a million copies. If anything, however, the sales numbers understated its influence. It was part of the foundation of Evangelical “purity culture,” and it

UPDATE 1-Canadian air force joins search for fugitive murder suspects in remote area

Canada's air force has been called in to a tiny community in northern Manitoba, where two teens suspected of three murders were thought to have been last seen, police said on Monday, as the chase entered a second week. Kam McLeod, 19, and Bryer Schmegelsky, 18, were believed to have been seen on Sunday outside York Landing, a First Nations community of less than 500 people, 90 km (56 miles) south of Gillam, Manitoba, where search efforts were previously concentrated. The Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP) in Manitoba posted on Twitter that they have not been able to substantiate the tip "after a thorough & exhaustive search," but that resources will remain in the York Landing and Gillum areas. from Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines https://ift.tt/2yy6y0J via IFTTT

Police: 1998 Arkansas school shooter killed in crash

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A man who was 11 years old in 1998 when he and a friend fatally shot four students and a teacher at their Arkansas middle school has died in a crash on a northeastern Arkansas highway, the State Police said. Drew Grant, 33, who had legally changed his name from Andrew Golden and had been living in Jackson, Missouri, died at around 9 p.m. Saturday, television station KAIT reported. The vehicle he was driving crashed head-on into another vehicle on Highway 167 near Cave City, which is about 100 miles (160 kilometers) north of Little Rock. from Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines https://ift.tt/2OmXRRv via IFTTT

Two-year-old boy missing after both parents found dead in apparent 'murder-suicide'

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Authorities are looking for an Oregon toddler who remains missing after his parents died in what is believed to be a murder suicide. The Medford Police Department and the FBI are searching for Aiden Salcido, aged two, whose parents Daniel Salcido and Hannah Janiak died after fleeing from police. The couple, who had felony burglary warrants for their arrest, were found dead on Wednesday in Kalispell, Montana. Shortly before, officers had stopped a car and identified Salcido and Janiak inside. However, the couple fled the scene. The police officers gave chase and spiked the car’s tyres, forcing it to come to a stop. When officers approached the vehicle they found the couple dead inside. In a statement, the FBI said Janiak was found with a gunshot wound to her head and Salcido appeared to have a self-inflicted gunshot wound. Their son, Aiden, was not in the vehicle, which officers described as a 1996 GMC Jimmy with Oregon license plates.Earlier in the month, warrants had been issued for t

Tennessee woman finds snake in hotel bed

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A Tennessee woman got the kind of wake-up call no one ever wants during a recent hotel stay. from Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines https://ift.tt/2K0Tbwu via IFTTT

Trump’s Racist Tweets Don't Break Any Rules, Twitter Says

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Photo Illustration by Kelly Caminero/The Daily BeastPresident Donald Trump’s spree of tweets attacking black political figures over the weekend do not violate Twitter’s rules prohibiting dehumanizing language, the company said. Trump wrote that Rep. Elijah Cummings’ (D-MD) congressional district, a majority-black area that includes part of Baltimore, was a “disgusting, rat and rodent infested mess” and that “no human being” would want to live there. He further retweeted a British conservative commentator who called Baltimore “a proper shithole.” A day later, the president said there was “nothing racist” about his tweets, turning his criticism toward longtime Democratic political operative Rev. Al Sharpton, who he called a conman.In early July, Twitter announced new rules disallowing tweets that deny the humanity of religious groups after nearly a year of deliberation and public comment. The company considered banning all dehumanizing speech, including attacks on geographic origin, repo

Italy judge: teen claims he knifed officer in self-defense

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An Italian judge says one of the two American teenagers jailed in Rome for the slaying of a police officer has stated he stabbed the plainclothes officer because he feared he was being strangled, according to an order obtained by The Associated Press. from Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines https://ift.tt/2Yucx0I via IFTTT

'Pink Lady Bandit,' wanted by FBI after string of bank robberies along the East Coast

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The FBI is offering a $10,000 reward for information on the suspect who robbed four banks along the East Coast. from Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines https://ift.tt/2Gyq9Cd via IFTTT

Rivals unload on Kamala Harris’ health plan from left and right

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Bernie Sanders' and Joe Biden's campaigns immediately criticized the version of Medicare for All Harris released Monday. from Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines https://ift.tt/2K0b7am via IFTTT

Trump doubles down on Cummings attacks, shares vulgar comment about Baltimore on Twitter

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President Trump doubled down on his attacks against House Oversight Committee Chairman Elijah Cummings, whose district he called a “disgusting, rat and rodent infested mess,” by retweeting a comment from a British columnist who referred to Baltimore as a “proper sh*thole.” from Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines https://ift.tt/2K8O109 via IFTTT

New York reduces penalties for marijuana possession

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New York's governor signed a bill Monday that softens penalties for possessing small amounts of marijuana and allows for the expungement of some past offenses. The law changes an unlawful possession of marijuana statute into a violation that's similar to a traffic ticket, instead of a criminal charge. The law also requires that records tied to low-level marijuana cases be automatically sealed and creates a process for expungement. from Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines https://ift.tt/2KgXClQ via IFTTT