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Nearly 130,000 sign petition urging Walmart CEO to end gun salesAug 21, 2019 1:00 am - Weeks after two Walmart stores became the scenes of deadly shootings, employees and customers continued to urge the retailer to overhaul its gun policies. On Tuesday, Wa...
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He applied for a job - and ended up on trial for a murder that took place 2 decades earlierAug 21, 2019 1:00 am - When Todd Barket applied for a job at a Florida nursing home, he likely didn't expect to end up on trial for first-degree murder. The 51-year-old was living in Tampa's s...
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Trump administration moves to hold migrant children and parents longerAug 21, 2019 1:00 am - The Trump administration is moving to formally terminate a federal court settlement restricting how long U.S. officials can detain migrant children with their parents an...
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Nine new lawsuits claim sexual abuse by Boy Scouts leadersAug 21, 2019 1:00 am - "That's when I left Scouting," David, now 61, said Tuesday during a news conference in New York. He declined to give his last name, and wore sunglasses and a hat to prot...
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Facebook unveils long-promised tool to limit what data it receives from third-party apps and websitesAug 20, 2019 1:00 am - Facebook on Tuesday unveiled its long-awaited feature allowing users to limit businesses, apps and other groups that collect data about them on the web and pass that inf...
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A young Indian couple married for love. Then the bride's father hired assassins.Aug 20, 2019 1:00 am - MIRYALAGUDA, India - They were young, glamorous and dreamily in love. Pranay Perumalla strode into the wedding hall in a midnight blue suit, his face lit by a grin as he...
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How dogs are becoming one of the world's most harmful predatorsAug 20, 2019 1:00 am - RIO DE JANEIRO - High above this Brazilian city, in a jungle blanketing a mountain, the turtles were out and the scene was hopeful. Scientists were reintroducing 15 mud-...
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Trade war comes for consumers: Tariffs could cost families up to $1,000 a year, JP Morgan forecastsAug 20, 2019 1:00 am - More than a year into the U.S.-China trade war, American consumers are about to find themselves squarely in the crosshairs for the first time, with the average household...
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Woman who says priest forced her to give up her child files federal suitAug 20, 2019 1:00 am - When she saw him through the window of an Omaha, Nebraska, hotel lobby, her eyes welled up with tears. There he was, a man with a silhouette just like her boyfriend's de...
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White House officials eye payroll tax cut in effort to reverse weakening economyAug 20, 2019 1:00 am - WASHINGTON - Several senior White House officials have begun discussing whether to push for a temporary payroll tax cut as a way to arrest an economic slowdown, three pe...