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Fox's Ingraham to take week off as advertisers flee amid controversy

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(Reuters) - Fox News show host Laura Ingraham announced on her show late Friday that she is taking next week off, after almost a dozen advertisers dropped her show after the conservative pundit mocked a teenage survivor of the Florida school massacre on Twitter. from Reuters: U.S. https://ift.tt/2Gof1pb

New York moves to offset federal tax changes in $168 billion budget deal

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ALBANY, N.Y. (Reuters) - New York Governor Andrew Cuomo and the state legislature agreed late on Friday on a $168 billion budget for fiscal 2019, including measures aimed at offsetting damage to taxpayers from new federal tax changes. from Reuters: U.S. https://ift.tt/2GY1hTp

Widow of Florida nightclub gunman cleared of all charges

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ORLANDO, Fla. (Reuters) - The widow of the Pulse nightclub gunman walked free on Friday after a jury cleared her of charges related to the 2016 massacre that killed 49 people in Orlando, stunning survivors who had longed to hold someone accountable. from Reuters: U.S. https://ift.tt/2GGJgv2

Tesla says crashed vehicle had been on autopilot prior to accident

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LOS GATOS, California (Reuters) - Tesla Inc said on Friday that a Tesla Model X involved a fatal crash in California last week had activated its Autopilot system, raising new questions about the semi-autonomous system that handles some driving tasks. from Reuters: U.S. https://ift.tt/2GXONev

Autopsy refutes police account of California shooting of black man -lawyer

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SACRAMENTO, Calif. (Reuters) - An autopsy on an unarmed black man killed by police officers in California's capital last week shows that none of the eight bullets hit him in the front, contradicting the official version of events, a lawyer for the deceased's family said on Friday. from Reuters: U.S. https://ift.tt/2pTHyw9

In gun-friendly Vermont, lawmakers pass firearms control bill

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(Reuters) - Vermont lawmakers gave final legislative approval on Friday to a bill that raises the legal age for buying firearms and expands background checks, becoming the latest state poised to tighten gun restrictions after last month's Florida school massacre. from Reuters: U.S. https://ift.tt/2uz2TAl

U.S. visa applicants to be asked for social media history: State Department

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(Reuters) - In a broad expansion of the information gathered from applicants for U.S. visas, the federal government is proposing to collect social media identities from nearly everyone who seeks entry into the United States, according to a State Department filing on Friday. from Reuters: U.S. https://ift.tt/2E6WRqi

More family members of woman killed in Uber self-driving car crash hire lawyer

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PHOENIX (Reuters) - More family members of a woman killed by an Uber Technologies Inc [UBER.UL] self-driving vehicle have hired legal counsel, indicating the ride services firm's legal problems may not be over in the first fatality caused by an autonomous car. from Reuters: U.S. https://ift.tt/2pRVeIB

Judge says undocumented teens in U.S. custody must have abortion access

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(Reuters) - A federal judge in Washington issued an injunction on Friday preventing the Trump administration from interfering with the ability of undocumented teenagers in U.S. custody to have abortions or obtain abortion-related services. from Reuters: U.S. https://ift.tt/2uyO94z

Irked Trump Reportedly Warned Putin: We'd Win The Arms Race

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President Donald Trump told Russia's Vladimir Putin that if the two countries from Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines https://ift.tt/2Gm1e2w

Parents who drove family off California cliff had been reported for child abuse by neighbors

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The two Washington mothers who drove off a Northern California cliff with at from Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines https://ift.tt/2GiqzOQ

Howard University Officials Allegedly Stole $1 Million, But At Least The Meme Is Sharp

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WASHINGTON ― No authority has publicly implicated him in the embezzlement from Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines https://ift.tt/2IhTxLz

NRA Is Pulling In Big Bucks After The Parkland Mass Shooting

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The National Rifle Association has launched a heated offensive in the weeks from Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines https://ift.tt/2J37RZp

Syrians quit Ghouta as talks for last pocket stutter

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Hundreds more Syrian rebels and civilians prepared Friday to leave Eastern Ghouta under a negotiated withdrawal, as Russia unilaterally announced a similar deal to empty the final pocket of the battered enclave. The former rebel bastion on the outskirts of Damascus has been drained by a nearly six-week Syrian government assault and two evacuation deals brokered by regime ally Moscow. Under such agreements, rebels agree to hand over territory in exchange for safe passage for them and civilians to opposition-held northwest Syria. from Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines https://ift.tt/2GXkbK5

Man shoots neighbour in the head five times for disciplining his dog

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A Colorado man has been arrested after allegedly shooting his neighbour five times in the head because he thought he was beating his dog. Michael Kourosh Sadeghi, 32, was arrested for allegedly killing his 42-year-old Denver neighbour, Dustin Schmidt, after an incident in which he is said to have walked into his back yard and unloaded five shots into the back of the neighbour's head. Vicki Branaghan,— the victim's fiancee — who said she was in the backyard at the time, told the Denver Post that the gun shots followed after Mr Schmidt swatted his dog for trying to jump over their fence. from Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines https://ift.tt/2GkgrFs

The Latest: Group calls for end to Mormon youth interviews

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SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — The Latest on a campaign to end closed-door, one-on-one meetings between Mormon lay leaders and youth (all times local): from Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines https://ift.tt/2IimpDo

Taiwan president to visit old African ally amid China pressure

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Taiwan President Tsai Ing-wen will visit one of the island's oldest and most reliable diplomatic allies next month, amid growing pressure from China to whittle away the number of countries with which Taiwan has formal ties. China considers self-ruled Taiwan to be a wayward province, ineligible for state-to-state relations, and has slowly managed to cut the dwindling number of countries which maintain ties with Taipei. Last year, China established relations with Panama, which had for decades been a steadfast Taiwan ally, in a major diplomatic coup for Beijing. from Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines https://ift.tt/2E85QaK

Kansas to audit water park where boy decapitated

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TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — A Kansas agency plans to conduct a full audit of a water park's inspection records before it reopens this spring, a state official said Wednesday, after criminal charges were filed over the decapitation of a 10-year-old boy on the world's tallest waterslide there in 2016. from Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines https://ift.tt/2DYxPJH

Ken Starr: Justice Department should evaluate claims by Stormy Daniels

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Former Whitewater independent counsel Kenneth Starr said the hush money payment to Stormy Daniels on the eve of the 2016 election raises “difficult and serious” issues that need to be evaluated by the Justice Department. from Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines https://ift.tt/2GD5Jcn

Starbucks May Have To Display Cancer Warning On Coffee Sold In California

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Starbucks and other coffee roasting companies in California may be required to from Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines https://ift.tt/2GmUXYv

After bodies found in mine, man arrested in teen deaths

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A Utah man tied up two teenagers, stabbed them to death, and dumped their bodies in an abandoned mine shaft before they were reported missing nearly three months ago, police said Thursday. from Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines https://ift.tt/2IkAj86

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Scott Walker Gives Up Fight To Not Call Wisconsin Special Elections

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Wisconsin Republicans have ended their legal fight to wait until November to from Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines https://ift.tt/2GozJFC