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Climate activists in England accidentally flood street with fake blood
New York Post - 4 Oct 2019 02:04
There was fake blood running in the streets of London Thursday — thanks to an elaborate, and ultimately spectacularly botched stunt by climate change activists. Activists with Extinction Rebellion had purchased a decom...
Hong Kong leader bans protesters from wearing face masks
ABC News - 4 Oct 2019 16:55
Hong Kong's leader has used a colonial-era emergency law to ban protesters from wearing face masks after four months of anti-government demonstrations.
The Lost Daughter
CBSNews - 4 Oct 2019 08:13
A college student missing for 25 years - has a Florida sheriff's office solved one of the state's biggest mysteries? Tracy Smith reports. | Read story
California man gets jail for fatally shooting protected mountain lion
New York Post - 4 Oct 2019 04:04
VENTURA, Calif. -- A man who acknowledged shooting and killing a protected mountain lion that roamed the mountains near Los Angeles has been sentenced to 30 days in jail. The Ventura County district attorney's office sai...
Army Corps of Engineers: Replace Cape Cod Canal bridges
Boston - 4 Oct 2019 16:48
Construction of new bridges, in roughly the same location as the current bridges, could start as early as 2025.
U.S. top court to hear Trump bid to revive law against encouraging illegal immigration
Reuters - 4 Oct 2019 16:31
The U.S. Supreme Court on Friday agreed to hear a bid by President Donald Trump's administration to resurrect a federal law that makes it a felony to encourage illegal immigrants to come or stay in the United States afte...
Stocks climb as job report gives some solace after wild week
ABC News - 4 Oct 2019 16:53
Stocks climbed Friday after a report showed the U.S. jobs market is still growing enough for the unemployment rate to drop to a five-decade low, though not as fast as economists expected
Boris Johnson will seek Brexit delay if no deal is reached, court documents say
CNN - 4 Oct 2019 16:22
UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson will request a Brexit extension if no deal is reached with the European Union by October 19, according to documents read out in Scotland's highest court on Friday, PA news agency reports.
U.N. Records 14,000 'Grave Violations' Against Afghan Kids Over the Past Four Years
Time - 4 Oct 2019 04:55
Children verified to have been killed or injured in 2015-2018 represent almost a third of all civilian casualties
ISIS militants behind deadly Niger ambush of US troops have $5M bounties on their heads: State Department
Fox News - 4 Oct 2019 19:30
The ISIS affiliate leader who masterminded a deadly 2017 ambush of U.S. troops in Niger has five million reasons to look over his shoulder Friday night.
Easing concerns about U.S. economy lift equity markets
Reuters - 4 Oct 2019 17:46
Modest job growth in the United States buoyed world stock markets broadly on Friday, helping calm markets after one of the worst weeks for equities in months.
Elizabeth Warren Nets $24.6 Million in Third-Quarter Fund-Raising, Narrowly Trailing Bernie Sanders
The New York Times - 4 Oct 2019 17:03
Ms. Warren's total for the past three months is another sign of her strength, but she fell just shy of Mr. Sanders for the biggest haul during that period.
Iran arrests Russian journalist, Moscow summons Iranian envoy
Al Jazeera English - 4 Oct 2019 16:37
Court to rule on Saturday whether to let go or press charges against Yulia Yuzik, who is accused of spying for Israel.
North Korea Says Underwater-Launched Missile Test Succeeded
Time - 4 Oct 2019 04:42
The test comes as an apparent bid to dial up pressure on the U.S. ahead of resumed nuclear diplomacy
Iranian hackers targeted U.S. presidential campaign, Microsoft says
CBSNews - 4 Oct 2019 22:17
Microsoft announced Friday that Iranian government-linked hackers targeted a U.S. presidential campaign
Clashes in Hong Kong as face masks banned under rare emergency powers
Eyewitness News - 4 Oct 2019 19:42
In the northern district of Yuen Long, a police officer opened fire when he was surrounded in his car and attacked by protesters, a petrol bomb exploding at his feet.
Texts show U.S. officials tied Ukraine meeting to political probes
Reuters - 4 Oct 2019 17:49
U.S. officials pressured their Ukrainian counterparts to launch investigations that could benefit President Donald Trump's personal political agenda in exchange for a meeting between the two countries' leaders, a cache o...
Canada opposition chief promises gun crackdown, slams Trudeau as weak
Reuters - 4 Oct 2019 17:31
Andrew Scheer, the head of Canada's main opposition Conservative Party, vowed on Friday to crack down on gun violence if he won a Oct. 21 election, and he also accused Prime Minister Justin Trudeau of being weak on crime...
Ohio University suspends all fraternity chapters amid new reports of hazing
ABC News - 4 Oct 2019 16:48
Almost a year after the death of a student in an alleged hazing incident, Ohio University has suspended all 15 of its IFC fraternity chapters amid new reports of hazing.
Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg in Mass.: Current period of U.S. history will be viewed as 'an aberration'
Boston - 4 Oct 2019 16:36
The 86-year-year old justice discussed her career and the state of the nation at Amherst College on Thursday.
UK campaigner alleges party 'abuse' in pre-written tweets posted after her suicide
New York Post - 4 Oct 2019 16:36
A suicidal campaigner for the UK's Conservative Party tweeted a string of sexual assault allegations against fellow members, and timed them to be released after her death — just as Prime Minister Boris Johnson addresse...
Supreme Court to Hear Louisiana Abortion Regulation Case
Time - 4 Oct 2019 16:34
The Louisiana law to be heard could leave the state with one abortion clinic