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Trump fires back at Clinton: ‘Perhaps Trump just ran a great campaign?’
Hillary Clinton predicted that President Trump would tweet his reaction to her discussion of the 2016 campaign on Tuesday. During a live interview with CNN’s Christiane Amanpour at the Women for Women International luncheon in New York City, Clinton touted her popular vote victory over him and argued that she would be president had it not been for Russia’s meddling in the election and FBI Director James Comey’s 11th-hour letter to Congress about the investigation into her use of a private email server. “FBI Director Comey was the best thing that ever happened to Hillary Clinton in that he gave her a free pass for many bad deeds!” the president tweeted.
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The Latest: 14 Missouri River levees losing flood battle
At least 14 levees along the Missouri River in Missouri are losing the battle against floodwaters. The Missouri Levee & Drainage District Association said Thursday that seven levees have been overtopped by water and seven more have been breached, with water pouring through them. Portions of the Missouri and Mississippi rivers remain well above flood stage.
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3 Killed, Several Injured As Vehicle Plows Into Crowd at Car Auction
Watch TV shows, movies and more on Yahoo View, available now on iOS and Android.Three people were killed and several others sustained life-threatening injuries after a vehicle plowed into a crowd and crashed through a wall at an auto auction in Massachusetts
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Jordan Edwards: Texas police officer fired for shooting and killing black teenager
The police officer who shot and killed a 15-year-old African American teenager in a car as he was leaving a party has been fired. Officer Roy Oliver shot high school freshman Jordan Edwards with a rifle as he sat in a car with his two brothers and two other teenagers while it drove away from a party on Saturday night. Balch Springs police chief Jonathan Haber said Mr Oliver has been fired for violating department policies in the shooting, but said he could not reveal further details of the policies as the officer can appeal his dismissal.
WorldAFPPhilippine environment chief dumped as miners triumph
Philippine Environment Secretary Regina Lopez was sacked on Wednesday when lawmakers rejected her appointment, in a big victory for the mining industry which she had accused of corruption and abuse. Lopez sent shockwaves through the industry during her 10 months as environment chief, seeking to shut down roughly two-thirds of the nation's existing mines and banning any new open-pit operations. With the Philippines being the world's biggest supplier of nickel ore and a major source of copper, Lopez's campaign had impacted global prices.
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Marine Veteran and Girlfriend Who Went Missing In Belize Were Strangled, Autopsy Finds
A U.S. Marine veteran and his Canadian girlfriend, who vanished in Belize a week ago before turning up dead Monday, were strangled. DeVoursney had been dating Matus for a few months and was?expected to fly home to Georgia this week. DeVoursney's bicycle was found in Matus' driveway, but her vehicle was missing.
WorldReutersNigeria's Buhari misses cabinet meeting for third time to rest
By Felix Onuah ABUJA (Reuters) - Nigerian President Muhammadu Buhari missed his third straight weekly cabinet meeting on Wednesday because he needed to rest, officials said, fuelling concerns about the state of his health. A Reuters reporter witnessed the start of the session and Buhari's failure to arrive for the meeting, which was chaired by Vice President Yemi Osinbajo. The 74-year-old former military ruler has hardly appeared in public since returning home in March after nearly two months' medical leave in Britain, where he underwent treatment for an unspecified illness.
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Wildlife-rich lagoon heavily polluted, threatened by building boom
The Indian River Lagoon is repeatedly being choked with oxygen-robbing algae, its surface increasingly dotted with thousands of dead fish, manatees, birds and other creatures — and a study by the Associated Press discovered that the problem is getting worse. The culprits: farm runoff and an influx of people that have sent lawn fertilizer and other pollutants into the lagoon, which runs 156 miles along Florida’s Atlantic Coast. Environmentalists are distressed to see the lagoon’s rich variety of life threatened, similar to what has happened in places like the Chesapeake Bay, Lake Erie and the Gulf of Mexico.
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Sean Spicer clashes with press over definition of a wall
The spending bill agreed by Congress until the end of September would allocate an additional $497.4m for procurement, construction and improvements, of which $341.2m is to replace about 40 miles of “border fencing” along the southwest border. Spicer said: “We have a porous border right now with broken fences, things that can be cut through, places that can just literally be driven over.
PoliticsYahoo NewsComey says he is ‘mildly nauseous’ over possibility his October letter led to Clinton loss
FBI Director James Comey gave an impassioned defense to lawmakers on Wednesday of his decision, just days before the 2016 presidential election, to inform Congress that the bureau was reopening its investigation into Hillary Clinton’s use of a private email server as secretary of state. “I faced a choice,” Comey said in testimony before the Senate Judiciary Committee. Comey said that on Oct. 27, the investigative team informed him that the metadata analysis of emails on disgraced former Rep. Anthony Weiner’s laptop — seized by the FBI in an unrelated investigation — showed thousands of Clinton’s emails on that device, possibly including those from her first three months as secretary of state, which had been missing until then.
EntertainmentYahoo NewsJoe Scarborough and Mika Brzezinski are engaged, NBC confirms
Joe Scarborough and Mika Brzezinski are engaged, an MSNBC spokesperson confirmed to Yahoo News on Thursday. The engagement of the “Morning Joe” co-hosts was first reported by the New York Post’s Page Six. According to the report, Scarborough popped the question over the weekend during?a trip to the south of France and Monaco, where the couple was celebrating Brzezinski’s 50th birthday.
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Cassini Completes First Successful Dive Between Saturn and Its Rings
Watch TV shows, movies and more on Yahoo View, available now on iOS and Android.NASA’s Cassini spacecraft sent back fascinating images of Saturn’s atmosphere during its first dive between Saturn and its rings. It will complete its second dive this week
ScienceYahoo News VideoAstrophysicist Neil deGrasse Tyson on controversial NY Times op-ed on climate change
World-renowned astrophysicist and director of the Hayden Planetarium Neil deGrasse Tyson spoke with Yahoo News and Finance Anchor Bianna Golodryga about the controversial NY Times op-ed calling climate change into question. Tyson said if the Times wants to represent another political view, it should involve political solutions.
NewsAFPUS cop who killed unarmed black man guilty of rights charge
A South Carolina policeman who was filmed shooting an unarmed black man in the back after a traffic stop pleaded guilty Tuesday to unlawful killing while performing official duties, which could bring up to life in prison. The Justice Department said that former North Charleston, South Carolina, police officer Michael Slager, 35, agreed to the single federal charge five months after a jury failed to convict him of murder in the case. "The Department of Justice will hold accountable any law enforcement officer who violates the civil rights of our citizens by using excessive force," said Attorney General Jeff Sessions.
WorldAssociated PressIraqi painter quietly documented life under Islamic State
HAMAM AL-ALIL, Iraq (AP) — After the Islamic State group swept into his town nearly three years ago, Mustafa al-Taee resolved to bear witness to the militants' brutal rule by secretly painting what he had seen with his own eyes. The result was a gallery of horrors: car bombs, dead children, an IS defector beheaded in a public square, a former police officer strung up by his legs for hours before being shot dead. "They committed countless crimes and those crimes needed to be documented," said the 58-year-old grandfather, speaking in his home in the northern town of Hamam al-Alil, near the city of Mosul.
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2 Children Taken From Home of Couple Blasted for Controversial YouTube Prank Videos
The Maryland couple who gained?hundreds of thousands of YouTube followers by pranking their kids?on camera has lost custody of two of the five children in the home. Michael and Heather Martin made headlines last month after posting a video to the account DaddyOFive in which they can be heard shouting expletives while accusing the two boys of spilling ink on the floor, leaving the children in tears. The parents defended their videos as all in good fun, but 9-year-old Cody and 11-year-old Emma were, at least temporarily, taken from the home by?Frederick County?officials and put in the custody of their biological mother.
NewsReutersPuerto Rico files for biggest ever U.S. local government bankruptcy
Puerto Rico announced a historic restructuring of its public debt on Wednesday, touching off what may be the biggest bankruptcy ever in the $3.8 trillion U.S. municipal bond market. While it was not immediately clear just how much of Puerto Rico's $70 billion of debt would be included in the bankruptcy filing, the case is sure to dwarf Detroit's insolvency in 2013. The move comes a day after several major creditors sued Puerto Rico over defaults its bonds.
WorldAFPDust storm blows across north China, flights cancelled
A major dust storm engulfed northern China and Beijing on Thursday, prompting authorities to cancel dozens of flights and urge children and the elderly to stay indoors. At least 48 flights were cancelled, including six international routes in Asia and Russia, according to the Beijing Capital Airport's website. The storms regularly occur in spring, when winds from China's northwest blow loose, dry soil and sand into the city from the Gobi desert, coating urban areas with a layer of yellow grime.
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White House warns of government shutdown if Democrats 'don't behave better'
Speaking during the daily White House press briefing, Mr Mulvaney sought to clarify an earlier tweet series from President Donald Trump in which he said that the US needs a “good ‘shutdown’ to fix mess!” after Congress reached a budget deal that will keep the government open until September but didn’t include funding for some of the president’s top spending priorities. Mr Trump also suggested in the tweets that removing the the Senate filibuster might be a good strategy to pushing through his policies. “I think the president is frustrated with the fact that he negotiated in good faith with the Democrats and they went out to try to spike the football and make him look bad,” Mr Mulvaney said.
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Wall Street: Don't Listen to Donald Trump!
Watch TV shows, movies and more on Yahoo View, available now on iOS and Android.Early in Donald Trump's presidency, the stock markets would react to even a single tweet. Already, Wall Street is warning it doesn't take Trump literally anymore and is dismissing
WorldAssociated PressIndia summons Pakistan envoy over killing of 2 soldiers
A top Indian diplomat Wednesday summoned Pakistan's ambassador to demand that Islamabad take action against soldiers and officers responsible for the killing and mutilation of two Indian soldiers. The Indian army has said the soldiers were killed and mutilated Monday in an ambush by Pakistani soldiers along the highly militarized de-facto border that divides the disputed region of Kashmir between the nuclear-armed rivals. India said that Pakistani soldiers fired rockets and mortars at two Indian positions southwest of the Line of Control in the Krishna Ghati sector.
TechnologyBGR NewsThis sophisticated phishing scam has the entire internet terrified
A dangerous email phishing scam is doing the rounds today. Employees at multiple organizations that use Google for email, as well as thousands of personal Gmail customers, are all reporting the same scam. It starts with an email from a known contact, which says that the person has shared a Google Doc with you.
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Workmen mining sulfur from a live volcano
Jobs do not get too much more dangerous than pulling sulfur straight out of an active volcano — and all for $5?a day. Photographer Troyce Hoffman, 30, accidentally stumbled upon the sulfur mine on Kawah Ijen, on the Indonesian island of Java, when checking out the active volcano.
BusinessYahoo News VideoPresident Trump signs an executive order on religious freedom
On Thursday, May 4, 2017, President Trump signs an executive order on religious freedom.
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Hero Sports Bar Customer Fatally Shoots Gunman Who'd Just Killed Employee: Cops
A scene of both tragedy and heroism unfolded in Texas on Wednesday when cops say a man walked into a sports bar and fatally shot an employee. Cops did not clarify whether a third person who was also injured was a customer or employee of the bar. What cops?have said, however, is that the quick draw customer may have saved lives.
