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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...
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Cyanide from steel plant trickled into Lake Michigan for days before public was notifiedAug 20, 2019 1:00 am - Paul Grenchick was surfing with friends along the Indiana shore of Lake Michigan on Thursday evening. Little did he know, just up the river, thousands of fish were dying...
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Three days, three caches of weapons, three potential crimes thwarted, authorities sayAug 19, 2019 1:00 am - Police in three states might have prevented mass shootings over the weekend by arresting a 22-year-old man from Connecticut, a 25-year-old Floridian and a 20-year-old Oh...
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New York Police Department fires officer in Eric Garner caseAug 19, 2019 1:00 am - The New York Police Department has fired the officer caught on video with his arm around the neck of 43-year-old Eric Garner just before he died in 2014, ending a five-y...
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Priest's staff blames 'racist' dog for denying work at a church to a black housekeeperAug 19, 2019 1:00 am - The home of a Catholic priest was the last place LaShundra Allen ever would have expected to be denied work because of her skin color, she said. Allen, who is black, arr...