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Hillary Clinton: Trump 'left unchecked' in midterms could do lasting damage
CNN 19 Sep 2018
Washington (CNN)Former Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton said Tuesday that if there isn't a "very big rejection" of President Donald Trump's "authoritarian tendencies" in the midterm elections, she's worried about what an unchecked Trump could do to the government ... And for Clinton, the possibility of Trump with no true congressional check only heightens the importance of the elections in November....
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Canadian Marijuana Company Allowed To Legally Ship Medicinal Cannabis To U.S.
WorldNews.com 19 Sep 2018
“This is the first time a Canadian (licensed producer) has demonstrated to the FDA that a study drug produced in Canada from the cannabis plant can meet its standards.” – Catherine JacobsonTilray’s shares rose as much as 28 percent with reports of the news, Bloomberg News reported ... Clinical trials should commence in 2019, involving 16 adult participants.Recreational marijuana has been legalized in nine U.S....
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Tribal Authoritarianism In The Age Of Trump And What It Means To Democracy
WorldNews.com 19 Sep 2018
Given the world population was estimated to have been between five and 20 million people, to leave such a stark genetic imprint behind meant up to as many as 9.5 men must have been killed.Cleansing The Democratic PartyIs our stone-age past in the midst of another revival, at least among some dominant male-transmitted genes? As Donald Trump attracts millions of followers it would seem so....
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Mexican Officials Uncover Trailer Filled With More Than 150 Homicide Victims
WorldNews.com 19 Sep 2018
One woman in the town of Tlajomulco de Zuniga, Mexico, described the smell as "horrible" after officials found a semi-trailer carrying more than 150 bodies in the western state of Jalisco, according to The Los Angeles Times ... "We have a lot of children in this neighborhood... Authorities in Guadalajara said they were looking for a longer-term solution to store the bodies after an increase in violence filled the mortuaries....
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'Planet Vulcan' from Star Trek Discovered in Solar System 'Ideal' for Advanced Civilization
Newsweek 19 Sep 2018
Furthermore, it lies in the optimal habitable zone—the region around a star within which a planet can support liquid water on its surface given sufficient atmospheric pressure....
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Europe’s solutions to migration create humanitarian crises
The Telegraph Macon 19 Sep 2018
In another heavily criticized solution to immigration, imprisoned men and women have been shuttled away from one gunbattle only to end up incarcerated on the front line of another, vulnerable to both trafficking and new abuse ... Deeply divided over how and where to control Europe's borders, leaders are meeting Wednesday in a summit in Austria ... No one covers what is happening in our community better than we do....
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India steps closer to making instant Muslim divorce a punishable offence
The Star 19 Sep 2018
NEW DELHI (Reuters) - India's cabinet has approved an executive order to make instant divorce among Muslims, a procedure called "triple talaq", a punishable offence, a government minister said on Wednesday, as Prime Minister Narendra Modi looks to woo Muslim women voters ... ....
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Kim Jong Un agrees to dismantle main nuclear site if US takes steps too
Asian Age 19 Sep 2018
Trump has maintained that he and Kim Jong Un have solid relationship, and both leaders have expressed interest in a follow-up summit ... ....
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Trump Throws Hand Grenade into Russian Investigation
Armstrong Economics 19 Sep 2018
Trump has now directed the Office of the Director of National Intelligence and the Department of Justice to declassify a number of documents related to the Russia investigation which will be for our reading pleasure and bull the curtain back a little further on just how seriously bad things have gotten in the Washington Swamp ... The Democrats are using this to fight in November....
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Climate change is making storms like Hurricane Florence worse
CNN 19 Sep 2018
Unfortunately, Hurricane Florence, just as with Hurricane Harvey last year, is an example of what climate change is doing to storms right now ... Ocean heat content, a measure of the amount of heat stored in the upper levels of the ocean, is a key indicator of global warming ... They should be viewed as unfortunate examples of what global warming, caused by ever-increasing greenhouse gas emissions, is doing to storms in the present day....
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Christine Blasey Ford In Hiding After Receiving Death Threats Over Kavanaugh Assault Claim
WorldNews.com 19 Sep 2018
Blasey first made the allegations months ago in a confidential letter sent to the top Democrat on the Judiciary Committee, Sen ... Do they want to come to the public hearing or not?” ... The possible witness to the assault, Mark Judge, is a friend of Kavanaugh's, but told the Judiciary Committee he had no recollection of the episode and had nothing more to say, essentially skirting requests for him to appear as a witness in the hearing....
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U.K.'s May reported to reject Irish border proposal, British pound slumps
Market Watch 19 Sep 2018
May's expected rejection of the EU proposal reignited investor worries about a "no-deal" Brexit, in which the U.K. would leave the EU in March 2019 without an agreement governing its future relationship with the continent ... It last bought $1.3140 ... ....
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World Bank reports slower progress on extreme poverty
The Guardian 19 Sep 2018
A population surge in sub-Saharan Africa and the war in Syria has undermined efforts to bring down the number of people living in extreme poverty across the world, according to a report by the World Bank. In its annual report, the Washington-based development agency said the proportion of people living in extreme poverty had fallen to a new low of 10% in 2015 — the latest number available — down from 11% in 2013....
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French president's ex-security aid says being victim of political manipulation
Xinhua 19 Sep 2018
Benalla was under investigation on charges of violence in meetings and interference in police officer's work after a video showed wearing a police badge and beating a protester in Paris on May 1 ... Appearing before lawmakers in Senate hearing, the 27-year-old man had claimed he had never been Macron's bodygurad ... Sparked in July after a local newspaper ......
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Russians could face a year in jail for not deleting 'fake news'
DNA India 19 Sep 2018
Russians who refuse to take down online information that has been judged "false" by a court could be sentenced to up to a year in prison under a bill approved by MPs Tuesday in a key second reading ... Senators and President Vladimir Putin still have to sign off on the bill following a formal third reading in parliament....
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