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

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/2Yz32O...

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Fox News Proves Pete Buttigieg Right That All Democrats Will Be Called Socialists

REUTERSDuring Tuesday night’s Democratic presidential primary debate, South Bend Mayor Pete Buttigieg declared that it is time for Democrats to “stop worrying about what the Republicans will say” because no matter what agenda they embrace, “they’re going to say we’re a bunch of crazy socialists.”Following the debate, a number of conservatives and Republicans on Fox airwaves have already gone out of their way to prove the mayor right.Discussing the debate Tuesday evening on The Ingraham Angle, Trump...

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Trump renews attack on black congressman Elijah Cummings and says he should ‘investigate himself’

Donald Trump has attacked a black US congressman about the city of Baltimore for the second time in less than a week.Elijah Cummings, whose congressional district covers approximately half of the Maryland city, should use his role as House Oversight Committee chairman to “investigate himself”, the US president claimed. Billions of dollars sent to tackle crime and boost Baltimore’s economy had been “stolen or wasted”, Mr Trump tweeted. He wrote that the city’s “numbers are the worst in the United...

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Shelter-in-place issued for areas west of Exxon plant fire in Baytown and south of 330 - 12newsnow.com KBMT-KJAC

Shelter-in-place issued for areas west of Exxon plant fire in Baytown and south of 330  12newsnow.com KBMT-KJAC 6 injured in explosion, fire at Houston-area ExxonMobil refinery, reports say  Fox News Fire contained at ExxonMobil plant in Baytown; 37 injured in blast  KPRC Click2Houston Worker describes moment when fire started at Baytown Exxon Mobil plant  Houston Chronicle 66 injured in ExxonMobil plant fire in Baytown | Shelter-in-place order lifted  KTRK-TV View full coverage on Google News from...

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Gilroy Shooting Raises Anxieties About Security At Outside Lands - SFist

Gilroy Shooting Raises Anxieties About Security At Outside Lands  SFist Clues to Gilroy shooting found in remote Nevada town: Ammo, gas mask, extremist writings  Los Angeles Times Garlic Festival Band Took Cover Under Stage in Shooting  Inside Edition How very American: a mass shooting at the Gilroy Garlic Fesitval  Los Angeles Times Security concerns for big Bay Area events grow amid Gilroy shooting  KRON4 View full coverage on Google News from Top stories - Google News https://ift.tt/2YrB...

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Baltimore murder rate worse than Honduras, El Salvador, Guatemala, driving asylum surge - Washington Examiner

Baltimore murder rate worse than Honduras, El Salvador, Guatemala, driving asylum surge  Washington Examiner The Baltimore murder rate is higher than the three Central American nations driving the border surge by migrants seeking to flee crime and murder back home. from Top stories - Google News https://ift.tt/2LT4Q...

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Woodstock 50 festival canceled - CNN

Woodstock 50 festival canceled  CNN Woodstock 50 Has Officially Been Canceled  TMZ Woodstock 50 Officially Canceled  CBS New York Woodstock 50 Officially Off  Variety Woodstock 50 Is Officially Canceled  Pitchfork View full coverage on Google News from Top stories - Google News https://ift.tt/2KdOX...

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U.S. will extend sanctions waivers for Iran nuclear programs: Bolton

The United States will renew sanctions waivers for Iranian nuclear programs that allow Russia, China and European countries to continue their civilian nuclear cooperation with Tehran, White House national security adviser John Bolton said on Wednesday. from Reuters: World News https://ift.tt/2OuzO...

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North Korean missile tests didn't violate Kim pledge to Trump: Bolton

U.S. national security adviser John Bolton said on Wednesday that Pyongyang's recent missile tests do not violate a pledge that North Korean leader Kim Jong Un made to President Donald Trump, but he questioned when working-level talks on denuclearization would begin. from Reuters: World News https://ift.tt/2YnZo...

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South Korea detains North Korean man crossing the DMZ

The South Korean military detained a North Korean man who crossed the heavily fortified demilitarized zone (DMZ) that separates the two countries, South Korea's Joint Chiefs of Staff (JSC) said on Thursday. from Reuters: World News https://ift.tt/2ZnWD...

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

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/2Yrcwu...

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

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/3347tU...

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Escape bids by rebel princesses throw spotlight on UAE rights

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...

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

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/2ZmoMO...

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Mom of slain Navajo girl urges tribes to use Amber Alerts

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...

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

Ryan called the "Medicare for All" proposals a "potential disaster" for the party. from Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines https://ift.tt/2Mu5kf...

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

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/32ZfdY...

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

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...

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

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

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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/2STBh...

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Virginia black caucus, state Democrats boycott commemorative events over Trump's attendance - CNN

Virginia black caucus, state Democrats boycott commemorative events over Trump's attendance  CNN President Trump Speaks At Ceremony Commemorating 400th Anniversary Of Jamestown Colony  RealClearPolitics Jamestown ceremony marks birth of democracy in America; black Va. legislators skip because of Trump  The Washington Post Celebrating American Democracy  The Wall Street Journal Virginia state lawmaker protests Trump's 'go back' attacks during speech  CNN View full coverage on Google News from...

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California woman gives birth to two infants behind local business, resulting in the death of one: police - Fox News

California woman gives birth to two infants behind local business, resulting in the death of one: police  Fox News A California woman is in custody after police say she abandoned two newborns behind a local business after appearing to give birth to them on the sidewalk, ... View full coverage on Google News from Top stories - Google News https://ift.tt/32YVY...

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Astros deal for Greinke in Deadline stunner - MLB.com

Astros deal for Greinke in Deadline stunner  MLB.com Cubs trade catcher Maldonado to Astros for Kemp  ESPN Astros Acquire Martin Maldonado For Tony Kemp  MLB Trade Rumors Game thread 110, July 31st, 2019, 6:10 CDT. Astros vs Indians  The Crawfish Boxes Astros acquire catcher Martín Maldonado from Cubs  Yahoo Sports View full coverage on Google News from Top stories - Google News https://ift.tt/2GFDB...

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

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...

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Inmates behind Brazil deadly prison riot transferred: official

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...

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How to Stop Iran’s Maritime Misadventures

(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....

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

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/2K7xF9...

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Motive for slayings at California festival still unclear two days later

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...

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Pelosi, Schumer Stand Firm in Opposing Impeachment

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...

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Water meant for Puerto Rican hurricane victims dumped on farmland

Tens of thousands of water bottles destined for desperate Puerto Ricans after devastating back-to-back hurricanes slammed into the US island territory remain unopened on farmland almost two years later, emergency aid officials confirmed Monday. Aerial images captured by AFP show a sea of water bottles, packaged into massive bundles, heaped on what appears to be a private estate in the Higuillar neighborhood in Dorado, 25 miles (40 kilometers) west of San Juan. A spokesman for the US Federal Emergency...

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

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/2GFsfj...

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

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,...

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North Korean projectiles were ballistic missiles, flew about 250 km: South Korea

The unidentified projectiles launched by North Korea early on Wednesday were ballistic missiles that flew about 250 km (155 miles), South Korea's Joint Chiefs of Staff said. from Reuters: World News https://ift.tt/2MlUj...

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California has strict gun laws. Here's how the Gilroy gunman evaded them

US lawmakers renew calls for federal gun reform after shooter purchased weapon legally in NevadaPolice officers escort people from Christmas Hill Park following the shooting. Photograph: Noah Berger/APCalifornia has some of the most stringent gun laws in the country, including a ban on the type of rifle that a shooter used to kill three and wound 15 at the garlic food festival in Gilroy on Sunday.But the gunman had legally purchased the “assault-type rifle”, in the style of an AK-47, from the neighboring...

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Death toll in Brazil prison massacre rises to 57 with over a dozen decapitated

SAO PAULO/RIO DE JANEIRO (Reuters) - A bloody clash between two prison gangs on Monday left at least 57 inmates dead with 16 of them decapitated, authorities in the state of Para said, the latest deadly clash as Brazil's government struggles to control the country's overcrowded jails. Prisoners belonging to the Comando Classe A gang set fire to a cell containing inmates from the rival Comando Vermelho, or Red Command, gang, Para's state government said in a statement. "It was a targeted act," state...

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Police investigate after man says he found baby in freezer

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"...

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Andrew Yang's campaign blasted the DNC for not allowing him to use 2 polls from same source for fall Democratic debates

The Yang campaign was unhappy the DNC only let them use either an NBC/Wall Street Journal poll or an NBC/SurveyMonkey poll but not both. from Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines https://ift.tt/2yB0O6...

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'Stay inside and lock your doors': Tiny Canadian village on lockdown as teenage murder spree suspects spotted scavenging for food

A massive police manhunt has been launched in a remote part of northern Canada for a pair of teenager double murder suspects.The Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP) has been chasing Kam McLeod, 19, and Bryer Schmegelsky, 18, for weeks since the pair were connected to two separate killings in British Columbia earlier this month.The teenagers have been tracked in a series of stolen cars as they have travelled thousands of miles across Canada, from its Pacific coast in the west all to the way east...

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Afghan soldier killed two US troops: official

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...

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Joint Chiefs nominee denies assault allegations, enlists key support

Sen. Martha McSally — a retired Air Force pilot who revealed this year that she was raped by a superior officer — came out with a staunch defense of Air Force Gen. John Hyten. from Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines https://ift.tt/2Yve2z...

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The president is right about Baltimore. Are Democrats really prepared to defend failure?

Baltimore is one of the least livable, most dangerous cities in America. It's not racist to point that out. from Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines https://ift.tt/2Ooyv5...

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3 dead, including 2 children, and at least 12 hurt: What we know about Gilroy Garlic Festival shooting

A gunman opened fire at the annual Gilroy Garlic Festival on Sunday killing three people and injuring at least 12 others. Here's what we know. from Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines https://ift.tt/32ZySX...

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Ben Carson says President Trump would be happy to work with Elijah Cummings to bring relief to Baltimore

HUD Secretary Ben Carson praises Trump administration efforts to rehabilitate America's distressed areas. from Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines https://ift.tt/315Ouq...

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A teacher dug up a 2.12-carat diamond — and learned how much gems are really worth - Houston Chronicle

A teacher dug up a 2.12-carat diamond — and learned how much gems are really worth  Houston Chronicle Nebraska teacher finds largest diamond of 2019 in Arkansas’ Crater of Diamonds State Park  New York Daily News Nebraska Teacher Finds 2.12-Carat Diamond in Arkansas State Park While on Family Vacation  PEOPLE.com Man finds 2.12-carat diamond on family vacation to Crater of Diamonds State Park  ABC News View full coverage on Google News from Top stories - Google News https://ift.tt/2K7kj...

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Jameela Jamil Slams Piers Morgan, Calls Him the 'Thirstiest Bitch Alive' - TooFab

Jameela Jamil Slams Piers Morgan, Calls Him the 'Thirstiest Bitch Alive'  TooFab "The Good Place" star fired back at the British journalist after he slammed her inclusion in the latest issue of British Vogue, which was guest-edited by Duchess ... from Top stories - Google News https://ift.tt/2ynqs...

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Jason Whitlock rips LeBron James, compares fame-chasing to cocaine - New York Post

Jason Whitlock rips LeBron James, compares fame-chasing to cocaine  New York Post Many defend LeBron's parenting after criticism of his courtside enthusiasm at son's tournament  Yahoo Sports Fox Sports' Jason Whitlock blasts LeBron James' parenting, compares fame thirst to cocaine  USA TODAY LeBron James dunking at Bronny's AAU game: Cool move, or doing too much? | Jalen & Jacoby  ESPN LeBron James dunks in layup line, loses shoe in court-storming celebration at AAU games (video)  ProBasketballTalk View...

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China to weigh in on deepening Hong Kong crisis

After weeks of increasingly violent protests, China's top policy body on Hong Kong affairs was set to hold an extremely rare press briefing Monday on the crisis engulfing the financial hub, where dozens of protesters were arrested in weekend clashes with police. What began as a mass display of opposition to an extradition bill two months ago has morphed into a wider pro-democracy movement that has thrown down the most significant challenge to Beijing's authority since the former British colony returned...

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Baltimore paper blasts Trump after his attacks on city: 'Better to have a few rats than to be one'

The Baltimore Sun editorial board lit up President Trump Saturday night for his Twitter tirade against its city and Rep. Elijah Cummings, the powerful Democrat who represents Maryland’s Seventh District. from Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines https://ift.tt/30VfyJ...

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Texas teenager accused of murder, rapes to be tried as adult

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