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Sep 30, 2018

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Trump speaks at rally in West Virginia

09/29/18 7:22 PM

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Elon Musk to step down as chairman of Tesla, pay $20M in penalties in SEC settlement

09/29/18 6:03 PM

'We Fell in Love': Donald Trump Describes Relationship With North Korea Dictator Kim Jong Un - Newsweek

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'We Fell in Love': Donald Trump Describes Relationship With North Korea Dictator Kim Jong Un
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President Donald Trump again described his warm relationship with North Korean dictator Kim Jong Un at a rally in Wheeling, West Virginia, Saturday, saying: “We fell in love.” Trump began by talking of the massive threat that North Korea posed before ...
North Korea says there's “no way” it will denuclearize if it can't “trust” USMic
'No Way' North Korea Will Denuclearize Without US ConcessionsNew York Times
Trump: Kim Jong Un And I 'Fell in Love' After 'He Wrote Me Beautiful Letters'Mediaite
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Thousands in Central Park panic after barrier collapse - San Francisco Chronicle

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Thousands in Central Park panic after barrier collapse
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1of 8Festival goers watch a performance during the 2018 Global Citizen Festival Saturday, Sept. 29, 2018, in New York.Photo: Craig Ruttle, AP. 2of 8Festival goers watch a performance during the 2018 Global Citizen Festival Saturday, Sept. 29, 2018, in ...

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Boy, 13, attacked by shark off Southern California coast - NBCNews.com

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Boy, 13, attacked by shark off Southern California coast
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A 13-year-old boy was critically injured and flown to a hospital by helicopter after being attacked Saturday by a shark off the coast of Encinitas, California, officials said. The boy, who was not identified, "sustained traumatic injuries to the upper ...
Shark attack injures boy, 13, at Southern California beachUSA TODAY
Encinitas Shark Attack: 13-Year-Old Boy Attacked At Beacon's Beach in San Diego County, CaliforniaNewsweek
13-year-old attacked by shark, airlifted to hospital in CaliforniaKOAA.com Colorado Springs and Pueblo News
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Report: Canada, US Make Progress on NAFTA; No Deal Yet - Voice of America

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Report: Canada, US Make Progress on NAFTA; No Deal Yet
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Canada and the United States on Saturday narrowed their differences in last-ditch talks to save NAFTA but there is no guarantee an agreement will be forged, two Ottawa sources said, a notion echoed by a top adviser to U.S. President Donald Trump. The ...
US and Canada Reportedly Close to Reaching NAFTA DealTIME
New NAFTA Talks After US Threatens Canada With Car TariffsForbes
The NAFTA deadline is Sunday. What happens if there's no deal?Vox
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Theodore McCarrick, Washington's disgraced ex-cardinal, moves to church housing in Kansas - Washington Post

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Theodore McCarrick, Washington's disgraced ex-cardinal, moves to church housing in Kansas
Washington Post
Theodore McCarrick, the first cardinal in U.S. history to resign because of sexual abuse allegations, will remain in church housing. But he'll be a long way from Washington, where he served as archbishop and as a frequent friend of those in power from ...

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Beto O'Rourke promises to serve full 6-year term and no more than 2 terms - Austin American-Statesman

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Beto O'Rourke promises to serve full 6-year term and no more than 2 terms
Austin American-Statesman
Beto O'Rourke promised to serve a full six-year term and no more than two terms if he is elected to the U.S. Senate, in the closing keynote of the Texas Tribune Festival at the Long Center Saturday. In an interview before an adoring capacity crowd, O ...
The Texas Senate race should frighten the Republican PartyThe Hill
Media scrutinizes Kavanaugh but gives Ted Cruz challenger a passFox News
Willie Nelson Writes New 'Vote 'Em Out' Song for Beto O'Rourke Rally: WatchBillboard
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Sex Abuse Scandal: Pope Seeks Prayers to Fight ‘Devil’

Pope Francis asked Saturday for daily prayers to protect the Catholic Church from what he says are “attacks by the devil,” in his latest response to the clerical sex abuse and cover-up scandal roiling his papacy.

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What Comes Next in Facebook’s Major Data Breach

For users, Facebook’s revelation of a data breach that gave attackers access to 50 million accounts raises an important question: What happens next?

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Chinese Government Destroys Christian Church, Bills Pastor for Demolition

Chinese authorities have passed on a bill to pastor Jin Mingri after the government demolished his Zion Church in Beijing, one of the largest unofficial congregations in the communist country.

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Sep 29, 2018

China, Russia take up globalism mantle as US sheds it at UN

UNITED NATIONS (AP) — Days after U.S. President Donald Trump denounced globalism before world leaders at the United Nations, China and Russia positioned themselves Friday as defenders of internationalism that are keeping promises when Washington is backing away from them.

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Hundreds killed in Indonesia quake-tsunami

Nearly 400 people were killed when a powerful quake sent a tsunami barrelling into the Indonesian island of Sulawesi, officials said Saturday, as hospitals struggled to cope with hundreds of injured and rescuers scrambled to reach the stricken region. The national disaster agency put the official death toll so far at 384, all of them in the tsunami-struck city of Palu, but warned the toll was likely to rise. There were also concerns over the whereabouts of hundreds of people preparing for a beach festival due to start Friday evening, the disaster agency said.

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Yale Law School Dean Calls For Kavanaugh Investigation Before Confirmation Vote

The dean of the Yale Law School on Friday joined the American Bar Association

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Raptor Reborn: Is a Super F-22 Fighter Heading to Japan?

Lockheed Marting is pitching the idea to Tokyo.

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Everybody on plane survives crash landing in Pacific lagoon

A passenger on a plane that crashed into a Pacific lagoon on Friday said the flight attendants were panicking and he saw water pouring through a hole in the side of the plane before he was able to escape.

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US midterm elections 2018 poll tracker: Who will win the Congress?

On November 6, America will go to the polls to elect members for each of the 435 House seats and 35 of the 100 Senate seats in Congress. Donald Trump and the Republicans will hope to maintain their majority in both houses during the midterm elections, but with the Democrats having a healthy lead in the polls, it is believed that they have a decent chance of taking the House of Representatives. A Democrat victory in either chamber would grant powers to open investigations into President Trump, so the stakes are high. The latest polling and forecasts indicate that Donald Trump and the Republicans could hold onto both houses, although the House of Representatives looks the more likely to fall to the Democrats. But the Republican president, who has faced tough weeks after his former campaign chairman Paul Manafort was found guilty of eight charges in his fraud trial, is reportedly planning 40 days of campaigning for the elections, and so the polls are likely to move further before election day. US mid term elections header General ballot between Republicans and Democrats The latest polls show that the Democrats are around eight percentage points ahead of the Republicans, standing at an average of 48.2 per cent compared to the Republicans’ 40.6 per cent. This is an average of the last eight polls, and has indicated a consistent lead for the Democrats on a national level. While the Democrats are ahead in the general ballot, both the House of Representatives and the Senate are decided by a series of local elections, which means that the Republicans may still hold both houses. The Democrats need 24 seats to flip the House of Representatives, and two to flip the Senate. But to make matters harder, the Democrats are defending 26 of the 35 seats up for election in the Senate this time. US mid term elections poll tracker House of Representatives forecast: Democrats knocking on the door Of the 435 seats up for re-election in the House of Representatives, the Democrats need to flip 24 seats - something that should be within reach for the party. The latest forecast, from the Cook Report, has the Democrats on a likely 204 seats and the Republicans on 201. This means that the remaining 30 "toss-up" seats, which are too close to call, will be incredibly important for the outcome of the election. House of Representatives forecast Senate forecast: A tough Republican nut to crack Only needing two seats to take the Senate, it would at first seem that the Democrats should be able to take control. But there is an issue with this: Of the 35 seats up for election, 26 are currently defended by the Democrats. That means that the Democrats need to claim two seats from the remaining eight Republican-defended seats. According to the Cook Report forecast, this seems unlikely, as there are only 44 seats that are marked as "leaning" Democrat or stronger. To claim a majority, the party would have to pick up a further seven seats that are either toss-ups or leaning towards the Republicans Senate forecast Key seats to watch In the 2016 presidential election, Trump won big in rural and working class communities. This helped him flip - albeit with small margins - traditionally Democrat states in the rust belt, including Wisconsin and Michigan. If the Democrats are to have hope of taking the House of Representatives from the Republicans, they need to ensure that they retain seats in these areas, before moving onto Republican territory in others. US cartogram map - House seat forecasts A series of both Republican and Democrat seats are currently classed as a "toss-up" by the Cook Report, indicating that there could be turnovers for both parts in the mid terms. The Republicans will hope to hold onto their under siege seats in places like Tennessee and West Virginia, while making inroads in Democrat areas that Trump claimed with huge majorites in the 2016 presidential election. Seats in Indiana and North Dakota are among those places where the Republicans will hope that Trump's base will help them flip seats. Key seats to watch in the Senate Does President Trump's approval rating matter? Donald Trump's approval ratings are at relatively healthy and stable levels as the mid-terms according to The Telegraph's poll tracker. The tracker, which takes an average of the last eight polls, puts Trump's approval rating on 41 per cent in mid-September. While this level is quite high for Trump, it is relatively low for sitting presidents - and this is important, as presidential approval ratings are a good indicator of net losses at mid term elections. Only two presidents - Truman (1946 and 1950), and Bush (2006) - had a lower approval rating than Trump when going into their respective mid term elections. All three of these ended up losing over 28 seats in the House of Representatives and over five in the Senate. Presidential approval matters, and Trump’s is lower than most The Telegraph's poll tracker takes an average of the last eight polls in order to take a full picture of the broad movements in the polling environment and not put too much weight on individual polls. Polls used are nationally representative with adequate sample sizes.

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Netanyahu, in U.N. speech, claims secret Iranian nuclear site

Addressing the United Nations General Assembly, Netanyahu showed an aerial photograph of the Iranian capital marked with a red arrow and pointed to what he said was a previously secret warehouse holding nuclear-related material. Netanyahu spoke 4-1/2 months after U.S. President Donald Trump withdrew from the accord, arguing it did too little to rein in Tehran's nuclear ambitions and triggering the resumption of U.S. economic sanctions on Iran. Netanyahu said the site contained some 15 kilograms (33 pounds) of radioactive material that has since been moved and called on the U.N. atomic agency to inspect the location immediately with Geiger counters.