| Un-Borkable: Kavanaugh heads into confirmation hearings on cruise control Posted: 03 Sep 2018 09:01 PM PDT  Brett Kavanaugh looks set to sail through his Supreme Court confirmation hearings this week.
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| Tucker Carlson Calls Colin Kaepernick's Nike Ad An 'Attack' On America Posted: 04 Sep 2018 12:13 PM PDT  Fox News host Tucker Carlson slammed Colin Kaepernick and Nike executives on
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| Trump Blasts Jeff Sessions Over Indictments Of 2 GOP Congressmen Posted: 03 Sep 2018 02:20 PM PDT  President Donald Trump took to Twitter on Labor Day to once again air his
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| 8 wounded in gunfire at California apartment complex Posted: 03 Sep 2018 05:17 PM PDT  SAN BERNARDINO, Calif. (AP) — Eight people were wounded, two critically, during a shooting at a California apartment complex during a dice game, police said Monday.
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| Brazilians Blame Neglect and Corruption for the Loss of Their National Museum Posted: 03 Sep 2018 07:23 PM PDT  The 200-year-old museum became a metaphor for the gutting of Brazilian culture by corruption
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| Colin Kaepernick named face of Nike's new 30th anniversary campaign Posted: 04 Sep 2018 03:58 AM PDT  Kaepernick tweeted Monday afternoon he was picked to helm the esteemed shoe brand's 30th anniversary "Just Do It" campaign -- a return to the slogan that made the company famous.
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| Exxon evacuates Mobile Bay facilities in Gulf ahead of Storm Gordon Posted: 04 Sep 2018 12:19 PM PDT ![Exxon evacuates Mobile Bay facilities in Gulf ahead of Storm Gordon]( "Exxon evacuates Mobile Bay facilities in Gulf ahead of Storm Gordon") (Reuters) - Exxon Mobil Corp said on Tuesday it evacuated offshore personnel and is performing a controlled shut-down of its Mobile Bay facilities in the U.S. Gulf of Mexico ahead of Tropical Storm Gordon. Exxon also said it has evacuated the Lena platform. Gordon is expected to make landfall as a tropical storm late Tuesday or early Wednesday near the Gulf Coast borders of Louisiana, Mississippi and Alabama. The Lena platform is about 110 miles (177 km)southeast of New Orleans. (Reporting by Scott DiSavino; Editing by James Dalgleish)
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| Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey Overruled Staff On Alex Jones Ban: Report Posted: 03 Sep 2018 08:17 PM PDT  Twitter's CEO Jack Dorsey overrode staff recommendations last month and
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| Cory Booker is on the campaign trail, but not in the way you might think Posted: 03 Sep 2018 07:34 AM PDT  The current midterm election cycle has been a long strange trip for New Jersey Sen. Cory Booker.
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| Haunting Aerial Photos Show Devastation Caused By Brazil National Museum Fire Posted: 04 Sep 2018 07:35 AM PDT  These aerial photographs lay bare the utter devastation caused by a fire that
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| Russian airstrikes on Syria's Idlib resume, UN warns of 'bloodbath' Posted: 04 Sep 2018 11:07 AM PDT  The UN urged Russia and Turkey Tuesday to help avert a "bloodbath" in Idlib, as renewed Russian airstrikes on the Syria's last major rebel stronghold killed least nine civilians, according to a monitor. Rebel-backer Turkey has held several rounds of talks with regime ally Russia aimed at averting an major assault on Idlib, but Moscow on Tuesday dubbed the province a "pocket of terrorism" as Syrian troops massed near the region. The UN's Syria peace envoy Staffan de Mistura on Tuesday called on Russian President Vladimir Putin and his Turkish counterpart Recep Tayyip Erdogan to urgently speak on the phone even before they are set to meet with their Iranian counterpart in Tehran on Friday.
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| Rudy Giuliani On White House Blocking Release Of Full Mueller Report: ‘I’m Sure We Will’ Posted: 03 Sep 2018 08:03 AM PDT  Rudy Giuliani says the White House would likely attempt to block a full public
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| Texas Doctor Apologizes After Saying Female Physicians 'Do Not Work As Hard' Posted: 03 Sep 2018 10:59 AM PDT  After a study found women in medicine are paid a fraction of what their male counterparts earn
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| Pope's remedy to those seeking scandal: prayer and silence Posted: 03 Sep 2018 06:47 AM PDT  Pope Francis recommended silence and prayer to counter those who 'seek scandal,' division and destruction in an indirect response to allegations that he had covered up for a U.S. cardinal embroiled in sex abuse scandals.
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| JD.com shares fall after CEO's arrest and release Posted: 04 Sep 2018 08:21 AM PDT ![JD.com shares fall after CEO's arrest and release]( "JD.com shares fall after CEO's arrest and release") SHANGHAI/BENGALURU (Reuters) - Chinese retailer JD.com Inc's stock fell as much as 7 percent on Tuesday, hitting an 18-month low after the company's chief executive officer was arrested in the United States on suspicion of criminal sexual conduct and later released. Richard Liu, who founded the firm in 1998, was arrested by police in the U.S. city of Minneapolis on Friday and released the next day before returning to China. Minneapolis police said on Sunday that "an active investigation" was under way.
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| Kerry Perry steps down as USA Gymnastics president as Nassar scandal continues to plague organisation Posted: 04 Sep 2018 08:41 AM PDT  USA Gymnastics President and CEO Kerry Perry has resigned after just nine months at the helm of an organisation struggling to recover from one of the largest sexual abuse scandals in US sports history. Ms Perry took the reigns at USA Gymnastics in December, just weeks after former team doctor Larry Nassar admitted in court to sexually abusing underage women in his care. Ms Perry, a former vice president of a sports marketing company, was charged with overhauling USA Gymnastics and implementing 70 recommendations from former federal prosecutor Deborah Daniels for protecting young athletes.
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| Microsoft Co-Founder Paul Allen Gave $100,000 To Help GOP Keep The House, Filings Show Posted: 02 Sep 2018 08:05 PM PDT  Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen donated $100,000 to a political fundraising
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| Israel does not rule out striking Iranian targets in Iraq Posted: 03 Sep 2018 08:43 AM PDT  Israeli Defence Minister Avigdor Lieberman on Monday signalled his country could strike Iranian targets in Iraq if they threatened Israel, saying it would hit wherever necessary. "We will face any Iranian threat, no matter where it comes from," Lieberman said in response to a question about reports that Iran had provided ballistic missiles to allied Shiite militias in Iraq in recent months. Israel has pledged to stop Iran, its main enemy, from entrenching itself militarily in neighbouring Syria, where Tehran is backing President Bashar al-Assad's regime in his country's civil war.
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| Russia says space station leak may be sabotage Posted: 04 Sep 2018 08:38 AM PDT  Russia launched checks Tuesday after its space chief said an air leak on the International Space Station last week could have been deliberate sabotage. Space agency chief Dmitry Rogozin said the hole detected Thursday in a Russian space craft docked at the orbiting station was caused by a drill and could have been done deliberately, either back on Earth or by astronauts in space. "There were several attempts at drilling," Rogozin said late Monday in televised comments, adding that the drill appeared to have been held by a "wavering hand".
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| Zaha Hadid's South Beach Home in Miami Has Just Sold Posted: 04 Sep 2018 02:16 PM PDT |
| Russian state television introduces weekly show in praise of Vladimir Putin Posted: 03 Sep 2018 08:32 AM PDT  A weekly show glorifying Vladimir Putin's political acumen, physical fitness and love of children has made its debut on Russian state television, raising concerns of a Stalinesque "personality cult". The hour-long show, titled "Moscow. Kremlin. Putin.," comes after the president's popularity took a hit over an widely loathed plan to raise the pension age. Hosted by Vladimir Soloviev, a TV and radio personality who previously authored documentary films and books about Mr Putin, the first broadcast began with footage of the leader hiking on a holiday in Siberia, meeting with schoolchildren and paying respects to a well-known singer who died last week. "Putin doesn't just love children, he loves people. He's a very humane human," the Kremlin spokesman told Mr Soloviev, echoing a famous quote calling Vladimir Lenin the "most humane human". The programme also showed Mr Putin meeting with talented schoolchildren, but did not mention that one of them was wearing a t-shirt with the name of his main critic Credit: YouTube The show claimed that Mr Putin had travelled more than 5,000 miles across Russia for work in the past week, wondering how he "keeps up with such a marathon". It later answered its own question with a segment on the president's five-mile hike in mountainous Siberia and details of his daily swimming and weight-lifting routines. The programme also recycled old PR stunts such as footage of him descending into a nickel mine in Norilsk in 2002. But the "main topic" of the week, it said, was a televised address in which Mr Putin softened pension reform that has sparked protests. Nearly nine in 10 Russians oppose the plan. His approval rating tumbled from 79 to 67 per cent after the planned reform was announced, and the communist party rallied some 9,000 demonstrators against the measure in Moscow this weekend. A sign with the words 'pension reform' at a protest in Moscow on Sunday Credit: Dmitri Lovetsky/AP Opposition leader Alexei Navalny, who was suddenly jailed last week for previous demonstrations, has been calling for a pension protest across Russia this coming Sunday. In the address, Mr Putin said the retirement age for women would be only be raised five years to 60 rather than to 63. The age for men will still be hiked to 65, however, a year less than their average life expectancy. Russian state television features fawning coverage of the president nearly every day, and Mr Putin is well-known for shirtless photographs and macho exploits like tranquilising tigers, flying in fighter jets and scoring seven goals in a birthday hockey game. But "Moscow. Kremlin. Putin." has taken the adulation to new heights. Mr Putin is known for his macho stunts and shirtless photographs, such as this picture of him fishing in Siberia in 2017 Credit: Alexey Nikolsky/AFP An article on the independent news site Znak compared it to the Soviet propaganda that trumpeted the achievements of leaders like Mr Lenin, Joseph Stalin and Leonid Brezhnev. "This wasn't surprising, of course, but it should be somehow documented that in September 2018 we've returned to the personality cult," journalist Ilya Barabanov tweeted about the show, which he described as a "stomach balloon" after the inflatable weight-loss device. Stalin's infamous personality cult was denounced by his successor Nikita Khrushchev, and later leaders have been wary of emulating it. The figure of Mr Putin was removed from a statue ensemble just before it was unveiled in the Kurgan region in May, reportedly on orders from the Kremlin. Mr Putin goes boating with defence minister Sergei Shoigu in footage shown on the new programme Credit: YouTube More laughs at the new show's expense came when it emerged that one of the kids had worn a Navalny shirt during Mr Putin's visit with talented schoolchildren, which was not reflected on television but slipped into a photograph published on the Kremlin website. Although the younger generation tends to get its news from the Internet, television remains the main source of information for a majority of the population.
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| Bavarian premier backs ally Weber as center-right EU leader Posted: 03 Sep 2018 04:08 AM PDT ![Bavarian premier backs ally Weber as center-right EU leader]( "Bavarian premier backs ally Weber as center-right EU leader") Bavarian premier Markus Soeder on Monday backed Manfred Weber to front the center-right in European elections next year, boosting the 46-year-old's bid to become European Commission head. If other member parties were to back Weber, who leads the center-right European People's Party caucus in the European Union Parliament, the Bavarian conservative would be frontrunner to succeed Jean-Claude Juncker as the EU's day-to-day leader. "I really hope the (German conservatives) make our Manfred Weber the lead candidate for the European election," Soeder said in a beer tent speech in Abensberg, near Regensberg in Bavaria.
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| Chemical weapons watchdog confirms UK nerve agent findings Posted: 04 Sep 2018 11:22 AM PDT ![Chemical weapons watchdog confirms UK nerve agent findings]( "Chemical weapons watchdog confirms UK nerve agent findings") THE HAGUE, Netherlands (AP) — The global chemical weapons watchdog on Tuesday confirmed findings by British authorities that the Novichok nerve agent killed one person and sickened another in the English town of Amesbury in June.
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| Michael Avenatti Plans To Troll Trump In Real Time With A Dueling Rally Posted: 04 Sep 2018 01:23 AM PDT  Even the feuds are bigger in Texas.
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| 6-Ingredient Pasta Recipes From 6 Renowned Chefs Posted: 04 Sep 2018 02:45 AM PDT  Quick and easy dinner recipes are always in demand, and pasta is a natural fit
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| Chicago mayor will not seek re-election Posted: 04 Sep 2018 09:44 AM PDT  Rahm Emanuel made the announcement at a City Hall press conference on Tuesday morning.
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| Clashes rage in Libya's Tripoli as UN calls for talks Posted: 03 Sep 2018 08:46 AM PDT  Clashes raged Monday on the outskirts of Libya's capital Tripoli trapping residents indoors and hampering rescue efforts, as the UN called for talks after more than a week of deadly violence. Fighting since August 27 between rival militias in the southern suburbs has killed at least 47 people and wounded 129 others, most of them civilians, according to an updated toll put out by the health ministry Sunday night. Following a failed ceasefire on Friday, the United Nations mission to Libya (UNSMIL) invited the "various Libyan parties" to Tuesday talks for an "urgent dialogue on the current security situation in Tripoli".
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| Government cuts blamed for Brazil National Museum inferno Posted: 03 Sep 2018 01:55 PM PDT  Brazilian officials on Monday blamed years of government cutbacks for an inferno that gutted the treasured National Museum, described by President Michel Temer as a "tragic" loss of knowledge and heritage.
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| This Is How America Will Revise Its Approach to Iran Posted: 03 Sep 2018 04:39 PM PDT  Washington has ways to pressure the Iranian regime by being more active in support for dissident groups in Iran.
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| Mother of murdered schoolgirl Lucy McHugh urges Facebook to release murder suspects password Posted: 03 Sep 2018 05:53 PM PDT  The mother of schoolgirl Lucy McHugh has urged Facebook to give police access to an account belonging to the man suspected of murdering the 13-year-old. Stacey White said detectives could uncover information vital to their investigation if they are allowed to read messages sent and received by Stephen Nicholson before the teenager's death. The care worker, 24, was jailed for 14 months on Friday over his refusal to hand over the password to his account. Investigators face having to take lengthy legal action in the US in order to obtain access, with the delay branded "deeply disturbing" by the head of the Commons Home Affairs Committee. Ms White has said unlocking the account would "certainly give police an idea of what was being said between Lucy and Stephen". A horse-drawn hearse carrying the coffin of 13-year-old Lucy McHugh August 27, 2018 Credit: Andrew Matthews/PA "In situations like this, Facebook really should just release the information that is needed and I think that is the opinion that everybody has," she told the Daily Mail. "They should give over the account details. Lucy needs justice. It's so easy for them to do." Nicholson, a father-of-one, was staying at Lucy's family home in Southampton until several days before she was found stabbed to death in woodland on July 26. According to prosecutors he had contact with the teenager as recently as the morning of her disappearance. While being questioned on suspicion of murder and sexual activity with a child, he twice refused to give detectives his Facebook password. Nicholson pleaded guilty to a charge under the Regulation of Investigatory Powers Act (Ripa) before his sentencing at Southampton Crown Court. Facebook logo Credit: LIONEL BONAVENTURE/AFP The court heard his excuse for refusing access was to protect himself and his family as there was information relating to cannabis on the account. Prosecutors said police were facing a "lengthy procedure" in order to obtain access and the investigation into Lucy's death had been "considerably obstructed" as a result. Yvette Cooper, chairman of the Home Affairs Select Committee, called on the Government and Facebook to create a fast legal procedure for such cases. "This was an appalling murder, and Lucy McHugh's family need justice," she told the Mail. "For there to be such long delays and cumbersome international processes for getting crucial information in such a serious case is deeply disturbing." Facebook told the paper it was "co-operating with Hampshire Police". Nicholson remains on bail for his arrest on suspicion of murder and sexual activity with a child. A charging decision is anticipated on October 27.
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| Storm Gordon halts some energy production in U.S. Gulf Posted: 04 Sep 2018 03:41 PM PDT ![Storm Gordon halts some energy production in U.S. Gulf]( "Storm Gordon halts some energy production in U.S. Gulf") Three more oil producers pulled employees out of Tropical Storm Gordon's path, and companies cut 9 percent of U.S. Gulf of Mexico oil and gas production on Tuesday as the storm churned toward an expected nighttime landfall. The storm, which is expected to strengthen into a Category 1 hurricane with winds of at least 74 miles per hour (119 kph), shifted eastward, reducing its threat to producers on the western side of the Gulf and most Gulf Coast refineries. Companies evacuated 54 offshore platforms and halted 156,907 barrels per day of oil production and 232 million cubic feet per day of natural gas output, according to estimates by the U.S. Bureau of Safety and Environmental Enforcement.
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| Ted Cruz Chastises Beto O'Rourke For F-Bombs, But Only Makes Him Seem Cooler Posted: 03 Sep 2018 05:02 PM PDT  Sen. Ted Cruz apparently thinks pointing out Rep. Beto O'Rourke's penchant for
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| 4 missing after boats collide, sink on Colorado River Posted: 02 Sep 2018 10:22 PM PDT  The search continues for four people who went missing after two boats crashed and sunk on the Colorado River, authorities said.
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| Philippines President Rodrigo Duterte Has Ordered the Arrest of a Chief Political Opponent Posted: 04 Sep 2018 02:23 AM PDT  If detained, Antonio Trillanes would be the second opposition Senator jailed under Duterte
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| Under-attack Pope calls for 'silence and prayer' Posted: 03 Sep 2018 07:04 AM PDT  Pope Francis on Monday said "silence and prayer" were the answer to those seeking "scandal and division", amid a barrage of attacks from ultra-conservative Catholics. "With people who lack goodwill, with people who seek only scandal, who seek only division, who seek only destruction, even within the family: (there is nothing but) silence. Among some ultra-conservative Catholics, the pope is regarded as a dangerous progressive who is more interested in social issues than traditional Church matters.
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| 50,000 attend concert against German far-Right amid calls for surveillance of AfD Posted: 03 Sep 2018 11:49 AM PDT  More than 50,000 people attended a special open-air protest concert against the far-Right yesterday (MON) in Chemnitz, the German city that has been the scene of neo-Nazi rallies in recent days. Huge crowds streamed into the small eastern city from across Germany to make a stand against the far-Right protests which saw foreigners hunted through the streets and neo-Nazis openly giving the Hitler salute last week. Several of the country's best known rock groups came together for a one-off concert against the extremists under the banner "We are more" — a direct reference to the far-Right chant of "We are the people." The numbers dwarfed the 11,000 who took part in rival far-Right and far-Left protests at the weekend and brought the city to a standstill. Mobile networks collapsed under the demand and there were concerns there would not be enough trains for people to get home. Police refused permission for far-Right groups to stage rival protests on the grounds there was no space left in the city. Rallies in support of the concert also took place in Hannover and Kiel. The concert was part of an effort to encourage young Germans to stand up against far-right extremism Credit: Reuters "We are not naive. We are not under the illusion that we can just hold a concert and the world is saved," said Felix Brummer, the lead singer of Kraftklub, one of the bands involved. "But sometimes it's important to show people they're not alone." Chemnitz has been gripped by days of violent protest since the death of Daniel Hillig, a local German-Cuban man, in a suspected stabbing by two migrants from Iraq and Syria just over a week ago. Local people have staged their own protests, claiming the streets are unsafe at night. But they have also accused far-Right groups of hijacking the killing for their own political ends. Hillig's widow, Bianca, on Monday came forward to condemn the violent protests. "Daniel would never have wanted that! Never!" she told Bild newspaper. "I watched what happened in the city. It wasn't about Daniel any more. Daniel was neither left nor right. What's going on would never have occurred to him. We only want to mourn in peace." Several nationalist groups called for marches in the wake of the killing of a German man last week, allegedly by migrants from Syria and Iraq Credit: Ralf Hirschberger The huge numbers attending Monday's concert come after Heiko Maas, the German foreign minister, called for the country's "silent majority" to "get up off the couch and make a stand against the far-Right". Meanwhile German politicians are locked in debate over whether the nationalist Alternative for Germany party (AfD) should be treated as a threat to national security after it openly sided with far-Right groups protesting in the city. Prominent MPs from the centre-Left Social Democrats (SPD) have led calls for the AfD to be put under surveillance by the intelligence services after it staged a joint march with the Pegida anti-Muslim movement in Chemnitz. "The refugee question divides society, and the AfD is riding ever more radically on this wave," Thomas Oppermann, deputy speaker of the German parliament, said. "The security services must keep a close eye on the division of labor of between the AfD and neo-Nazis." Two of Germany's regional state government's on Monday announced that they were putting the party's local youth movements under surveillance. But senior members of Angela Merkel's Christian Democrats (CDU) oppose calls to widen the surveillance nationally and say the place to fight the AfD is at the ballot box. "Putting the AfD under surveillance could allow the party to play the role of martyr," Daniel Günther, the regional prime minister of Schleswig-Holstein warned.
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| Fall foliage map will help you plan out your leaf-peeping weekends in the US Posted: 03 Sep 2018 05:50 AM PDT  The kids are back in school. The other day you spotted a lone, sad leaf browning at the edges at your feet. And Starbucks has released its Pumpkin Spice Latte. It's official: leaf-peeping season is once again upon us.
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| Mindy Kaling Ugly Cried During 'Crazy Rich Asians' For A Deeply Personal Reason Posted: 03 Sep 2018 03:17 PM PDT  A "Medium Rich South Asian" was deeply moved by a beautiful and underappreciated bond that was highlighted in the film "Crazy Rich Asians."
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| Joe Biden says 'everything' is at stake in upcoming midterm elections Posted: 03 Sep 2018 01:36 PM PDT  Joe Biden said that "everything" is at stake in the upcoming midterm elections, where Democrats will be looking to take back control of Congress from the Republicans. "We're in a fight for the soul of America," said the former US vice president. As for a more personal battle with Mr Trump, Mr Biden has said that he would decide whether he will run for president in 2020 by January.
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| Netflix's 'To All The Boys I've Loved Before' Has People Craving Yogurt Drink Posted: 04 Sep 2018 11:02 AM PDT  The hit Netflix romantic comedy "To All the Boys I've Loved Before" may have
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