| 5 days until the midterm elections: Where things stand Posted: 31 Oct 2018 09:01 PM PDT  Former Clinton administration Secretary Donna Shalala clings to a small lead in Florida, while Iowa Republican Steve King gets some bad news.
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| Twitter Chokes As President 'Grabby Hands' Vows To Protect Women From Migrant Caravan Posted: 01 Nov 2018 11:03 PM PDT  What do women want? President Donald Trump thinks he knows.
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| Conspiracy theorists try, fail, to smear Robert Mueller with sexual misconduct claim Posted: 01 Nov 2018 01:37 PM PDT  Two conservative activists revealed at an inauspicious press conference in Northern Virginia what they (but few others) deemed to be credible allegations of rape against special counsel Robert Mueller.
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| Jamal Khashoggi's Body Dissolved After Dismemberment, Turkish Official Says Posted: 02 Nov 2018 09:36 AM PDT  The body of journalist Jamal Khashoggi may have been dissolved in acid after
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| Daily Digit: The number of eligible Latinx voters is at an all-time high Posted: 01 Nov 2018 06:40 AM PDT  As of 2018, there are a record 29 million eligible Latinx voters in the United States — making up nearly 13% of all voters.
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| Police: No Foul Play Suspected After Saudi Sisters Found Dead In Hudson River Posted: 02 Nov 2018 02:44 PM PDT  The two Saudi Arabian sisters who were found dead on the shores of the Hudson
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| Slashed award accepted in Monsanto cancer trial Posted: 31 Oct 2018 06:08 PM PDT  A cancer-stricken groundskeeper has accepted a slashed award in a landmark trial focused on weed-killer Roundup, setting the stage for an appeal by maker Monsanto. Judge Suzanne Bolanos last week denied Monsanto's request for a new trial but cut the $289 million damages award to $78 million to comply with the law regarding how punitive damages awards must be calculated. In her ruling, Bolanos gave Johnson the choice of accepting the lessened damages award or triggering a new trial focused on what Monsanto should pay in the case.
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| Trump ad with Mexican cop-killer is 'blatant racist fear mongering,' experts say Posted: 01 Nov 2018 01:07 PM PDT  President Donald Trump's latest campaign ad featuring an immigrant who was convicted of killing police officers is being criticized as racist.
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| Worldwide Google walkout over sexual harassment, racism and pay inequality Posted: 01 Nov 2018 07:09 AM PDT ![Worldwide Google walkout over sexual harassment, racism and pay inequality]( "Worldwide Google walkout over sexual harassment, racism and pay inequality")
More than 1,000 Google employees and contractors in Asia and Europe staged brief midday walkouts on Thursday, with more expected to follow at offices worldwide, amid complaints of sexism, racism and unchecked executive power in their workplaces. In a statement late Wednesday, the organizers called on Google parent Alphabet Inc. to add an employee representative to its board of directors and to internally share pay equity data. They also asked for changes to Google's human resources practices intended to make bringing harassment claims a fairer process. Google Chief Executive Sundar Pichai said in a statement that "employees have raised constructive ideas" and that the company was "taking in all their feedback so we can turn these ideas into action." Hundreds of workers filed out of its European headquarters in Dublin shortly after 11 a.m. local time, while organizers shared photographs on social media of hundreds more leaving Google offices in London, Zurich, Berlin, Tokyo and Singapore. (Reuters) See more news-related photo galleries and follow us on Yahoo News Photo Twitter and Tumblr.
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| Driver strikes 5 children and 2 adults at Florida bus stop, latest in string of school bus incidents Posted: 02 Nov 2018 09:35 AM PDT  Seven people were rushed to the hospital on Thursday morning after a driver
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| Doctor Says She Was Racially Profiled By Flight Staff Who Doubted Her Credentials Posted: 01 Nov 2018 03:19 PM PDT  A black Harvard-educated doctor says she was racially profiled by employees on
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| Yahoo News Explains: Midterms 2018 Explained Posted: 02 Nov 2018 11:29 AM PDT  The midterm elections look like they're going to be hotly contested. Republicans now control both houses of Congress. All 435 seats in the House of Representatives and 35 seats in the Senate are up for grabs, so both parties are putting up the fight of a lifetime.
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| Man Says Republican Senate Candidate Literally Took His Health Care Away Posted: 01 Nov 2018 03:23 PM PDT  Democrats have hammered Republican candidates in this political cycle for
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| What It's Worth: What You Can Get With $1M Posted: 01 Nov 2018 01:41 PM PDT  Whether you're in the biggest city or smallest suburban town, every map dot in
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| Democrats and Republicans rush to avert third-party spoilers Posted: 02 Nov 2018 06:38 AM PDT  PHOENIX (AP) — Two congresswomen running for U.S Senate in Arizona are crisscrossing the state, raising millions of dollars and trying to exploit every possible advantage to eke out a win in what both sides expect to be a photo-finish race.
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| Indonesia struggles with damaged black box from crashed jet, hunts for second Posted: 02 Nov 2018 04:43 AM PDT  The Lion Air Boeing Co 737 MAX, which only went into service in August, crashed on Monday into the Java Sea. Air traffic control lost contact with it 13 minutes after it took off from the capital, Jakarta, heading north to the tin-mining town of Pangkal Pinang. Searchers have found one black box and just one passenger has been identified from partial human remains recovered from the shallow waters.
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| Texas, beware! The caravan of criminals is coming — in ad backing Ted Cruz Posted: 01 Nov 2018 09:14 AM PDT  A super-PAC funded by Sen. Ted Cruz's supporters has released a new attack ad against his opponent, Beto O'Rourke, charging that he is "cheering on" the caravan of Central American migrants heading toward the U.S.
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| New York police investigate antisemitic graffiti inside Brooklyn synagogue Posted: 02 Nov 2018 11:21 AM PDT  An inter-faith vigil In New York on Monday in memory of the victims of the Pittsburgh shooting. Police said Friday they are investigating antisemitic vandalism inside a New York synagogue, less than a week after the deadliest attack on American Jews and amid a rash of other antisemitic incidents. The discovery of antisemitic graffiti inside Union Temple, in the Prospect Heights neighborhood of Brooklyn, prompted the cancelation of a political event hosted by Broad City's Ilana Glazer, according to CBS.
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| Brooklyn Synagogue Cancels Event After 'Kill All Jews' Graffiti Found Inside Posted: 02 Nov 2018 08:42 AM PDT  A Brooklyn synagogue canceled a speaking event Thursday night after "Kill all
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| Another exec out amid sex harassment tension at Google Posted: 31 Oct 2018 09:16 PM PDT  Google parent Alphabet on Wednesday confirmed that an executive accused of sexual harassment left the company without an exit package as tension over its handling of such matters heightened. Word that Rich DeVaul, a director at X lab devoted to "moonshots" such as internet service from balloons, was out came with reports that women employees were organizing a walk-out on Thursday to protest lenient handling of sexual misconduct in the workplace. Alphabet declined to give details about DeVaul's departure from the company on Tuesday.
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| Victims of Pittsburgh synagogue attack are laid to rest Posted: 01 Nov 2018 01:11 PM PDT ![Victims of Pittsburgh synagogue attack are laid to rest]( "Victims of Pittsburgh synagogue attack are laid to rest") Funerals were planned Thursday for Bernice and Sylvan Simon, husband and wife, and Dr. Richard Gottfried, a dentist who worked part-time at a clinic treating refugees and immigrants. The oldest victim, 97-year-old Rose Mallinger, will be honored at a service Friday. Her daughter was injured in the attack.
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| 15 Noncommittal Gifts To Give The Person You Just Started Dating Posted: 02 Nov 2018 10:51 AM PDT  Just started talking? Still haven't defined the relationship? Aren't sure if
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| Here's How to Deal with the Khashoggi Incident Posted: 01 Nov 2018 12:18 PM PDT  Here's a hint: It's not sanctions.
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| 16 Warm Gifts For People Who Are Always Cold Posted: 01 Nov 2018 05:00 AM PDT  There's no denying it: Temperatures are dropping and winter is coming, which
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| Divers recover Lion Air jet's flight recorder on Indonesia seafloor Posted: 31 Oct 2018 11:19 PM PDT  Divers on Thursday recovered a flight recorder from the crashed Lion Air jet on the seafloor, a crucial development in the investigation into what caused the two-month-old plane to plunge into Indonesian seas earlier this week, killing all 189 people on board. One TV station showed footage of two divers after they surfaced, swimming to an inflatable vessel and placing the bright orange device into a large container that was transferred to a search-and-rescue ship. "I was desperate because the current below was strong but I am confident of the tools given to me," said navy 1st Sgt. Hendra, who uses a single name, in a television interview. After narrowing the possible location, "I started digging and cleaning the debris until I finally found an orange object," he said, standing on the deck of a ship next to his diving mate. The Boeing 737 MAX 8 plane crashed early on Monday just minutes after takeoff from the Indonesian capital Jakarta. Jakarta plane crash: Flight Lion Air JT610 It was the worst airline disaster in Indonesia in more than two decades and renewed concerns about safety in its fast-growing aviation industry, which was recently removed from European Union and U.S. blacklists. Navy Col. Monang Sitompul told local TV that was is believed to be the aircraft's fuselage was also seen on the seafloor. Officials said the location is about 400 meters (yards) northwest of the coordinates where the plane lost contact. An Indonesian Navy diver prepares to dive at an assigned point to search for the ill-fated Lion Air flight JT 610 at sea, north of Karawang Credit: AFP Data from flight-tracking sites show the plane had erratic speed and altitude in the early minutes of a flight on Sunday and on its fatal flight on Monday. Safety experts caution, however, that the data must be checked for accuracy against the flight data recorder. Several passengers on the Sunday flight from Bali to Jakarta have recounted problems that included a long-delayed takeoff for an engine check and terrifying descents in the first 10 minutes in the air. Lion Air has ordered 50 of the MAX 8 planes and one of its subsidiary airlines was last year the first to operate the new generation jet. Investigators say a preliminary report into the accident could be released within a month but complete findings will take several months more. The Lion Air crash is the worst airline disaster in Indonesia since 1997, when 234 people died on a Garuda flight near Medan. In December 2014, an AirAsia flight from Surabaya to Singapore plunged into the sea, killing all 162 on board. Indonesian airlines were barred in 2007 from flying to Europe because of safety concerns, though several were allowed to resume services in the following decade. The ban was completely lifted in June. The U.S. lifted a decadelong ban in 2016. Lion Air, a discount carrier, is one of Indonesia's youngest and biggest airlines, flying to dozens of domestic and international destinations. It has been expanding aggressively in Southeast Asia, a fast-growing region of more than 600 million people.
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| Trump blames Obama for family separations at border Posted: 02 Nov 2018 08:18 AM PDT  President Donald Trump made his remarks in the Roosevelt Room at the White House on Thursday.
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| In Texas, Beto and Cruz take the fight to the border Posted: 02 Nov 2018 09:26 AM PDT  Beto O'Rourke, campaigning along the Texas border as President Trump warned of a migrant invasion, said: "This desire to stir paranoia and fear … is a political ploy five days away from the deciding election of our lifetimes."
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| Top US companies stand up to oppose Trump effort to roll back trans rights Posted: 02 Nov 2018 07:28 AM PDT  Some of America's largest companies including Apple, Amazon, Bank of America and JP Morgan have published a letter supporting legal protection for transgender people following reports the Trump administration is considering limiting its definition of gender. Fifty companies, which employ 4.8 million people between them, signed the statement after the White House was revealed to be considering narrowing gender definitions to "immutable biological traits identifiable by or before birth", according to a department of health memo obtained by the New York Times.
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| Congregations attacked at synagogue to hold joint service Posted: 02 Nov 2018 02:49 PM PDT  PITTSBURGH (AP) — The three congregations attacked at a Pittsburgh synagogue will gather for a joint service Saturday, while a prayer vigil is planned outside their desecrated worship space to mark the time the massacre began one week earlier.
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| Judge Orders Georgia's Brian Kemp To Give Thousands More People A Shot At Voting Posted: 02 Nov 2018 12:04 PM PDT  A federal judge in Georgia on Friday ordered state Secretary of State Brian
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| US economy market adds 250,000 new jobs in October Posted: 02 Nov 2018 05:59 AM PDT  The unemployment rate was unchanged at 3.7 per cent, the lowest rate since 1969. "The US released the strongest employment report in over a decade today," said Eric Norland of CME Group. The BLS said the major October jobs gains were in healthcare (36,000), manufacturing (32,000), construction (30,000) and transportation (25,000).
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| Pakistan hardliners vow no let up in paralysing blasphemy protests Posted: 01 Nov 2018 06:04 AM PDT  Islamist hardliners incensed by the acquittal of a Christian woman for blasphemy vowed no let up Thursday to protests paralysing major Pakistani cities a day after Prime Minister Imran Khan vowed to confront them. Demonstrations broke out after the Supreme Court on Wednesday overturned a blasphemy conviction for Christian mother Asia Bibi, ending her eight year ordeal on death row but infuriating Muslim conservatives. One key protest leader has called for the assassination of the country's top judges and for mutiny against the army's top brass since the court's decision reignited the touchpaper issue.
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| Woman rescued 6 days after desert highway crash Posted: 01 Nov 2018 02:25 PM PDT  A woman spent six days in the Arizona desert after her car veered off a highway, surviving injuries from the crash and getting rescued after roadway workers noticed a broken fence. (Nov. 1)
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| Ariana Grande Endorses 'Voldemort' Stripping To 'Dangerous Woman' And So Do We Posted: 02 Nov 2018 10:17 AM PDT  Ariana Grande tweeted her support for a stripping drag queen dressed as
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| Trump's target audience for migrant caravan scare tactics: Women Posted: 02 Nov 2018 04:59 PM PDT  The president makes the case that the Central American migrant caravan is an issue that will lure female voters to the polls.
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| SEMA may sue US highways agency over replica car laws Posted: 02 Nov 2018 10:20 AM PDT  After three years of delays implementing laws that would allow low-volume US car companies to build turnkey classic car replicas, SEMA is considering legal action
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| Subaru and Toyota to Recall 165,000 Vehicles for Engine Issues Posted: 02 Nov 2018 11:33 AM PDT  Subaru and Toyota say they will recall 400,000 vehicles worldwide for potential engine issues that could lead to a car stalling or losing power. The problem is with four-cylinder engines found in...
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| Man smiles, says 'Let's rock' before dying in electric chair Posted: 01 Nov 2018 07:56 PM PDT  NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — A Tennessee inmate grimaced and waved goodbye before saying "let's rock," moments before he became the first man executed in the electric chair in that state since 2007, put to death Thursday for shooting two men and slitting their throats during a drug deal decades ago.
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| Netanyahu condemns killing of Saudi journalist but keeps focus on Iran Posted: 02 Nov 2018 05:42 AM PDT  In his first public reaction, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said Khashoggi's death, which has caused global outrage, was "horrendous" and must be dealt with. "Yet at the same time I say that it's very important for the stability of the world, for the region and of the world, that Saudi Arabia remain stable," Netanyahu said. Because I think that the larger problem is Iran." He spoke to reporters after a meeting in the Bulgarian city of Varna with the leaders of Bulgaria, Greece, Romania and Serbia.
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| Strong currents continue to hinder underwater searches after deadly airliner crash near Indonesia Posted: 02 Nov 2018 05:02 AM PDT  All 189 people on board are believed to have lost their lives in the crash.
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| Normal, polite President Obama asks hecklers not curse in front of kids Posted: 02 Nov 2018 01:44 PM PDT  It's hard to not get drunk on Obama nostalgia, even for us cynics. On Friday, President Obama spoke to a crowd in Miami, Florida to help get out the vote for Democratic Senator Bill Nelson and gubernatorial candidate Andrew Gillum. After being heckled, President Obama gently chided the crowd in classic Dad manner for cursing in front of the "kids." SEE ALSO: Adorable girl who marveled at Michelle Obama's portrait dressed as it for Halloween "Don't curse in front of kids, come on," President Obama told the hecklers. "This is what I look forward to, is having a few hecklers to get me back in the mood." "Don't curse in front of kids, come on," former Pres. Barack Obama tells a heckler in Miami, Florida."This is what I look forward to, is having a few hecklers to get me back in the mood," he jokes. https://t.co/oE0zczjPDR pic.twitter.com/gNCLWSRCkd — ABC News (@ABC) November 2, 2018 It was a kind, delightfully normal response, especially compared to Trump, who prefers inciting violence to dad jokes. Trump, remember, once suggested he'd like to punch a protestor in the face. That's a wee bit different from suggesting that the protestor "not curse in front of kids." Obama then added: "Here's the deal: If you support the other candidates, then you should go support the other candidates. Don't be here. One of the things I never understood was why, if you're supporting the other guy, you come to my rally." Obama responds to hecklers: "Here's the deal: If you support the other candidates, then you should go support the other candidates. Don't be here. One of the things I never understood was why, if you're supporting the other guy, you come to my rally." (via Politico) pic.twitter.com/YvGF0heOGx — Kyle Griffin (@kylegriffin1) November 2, 2018 Kinda makes our broken little hearts sing. WATCH: Meet the man biking on water to save the planet — Mashable Originals
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| Claire McCaskill And Joe Donnelly Are Giving Trump Cover On Immigration Posted: 01 Nov 2018 04:02 PM PDT  A decade ago, Missouri Sen. Claire McCaskill addressed the Democratic National
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| 'War and peace in Liberia' —Tim Hetherington and Chris Hondros on the frontline Posted: 02 Nov 2018 11:35 AM PDT !['War and peace in Liberia' —Tim Hetherington and Chris Hondros on the frontline]( "'War and peace in Liberia' —Tim Hetherington and Chris Hondros on the frontline") Tim Hetherington and Chris Hondros's powerful photographs played an important role in moving the world to action and ultimately bringing the Second Liberian Civil War (1999-2003) to an end. Slideshow and discussion with Michael Kamber, Nov. 10, 2018, at the Bronx Documentary Center. Exhibition on view through Dec. 16, 2018.
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| The Civil Rights Movement Is On The Ballot This November Posted: 02 Nov 2018 02:45 AM PDT  In the lead-up to this year's midterm elections, HuffPost Opinion asked
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