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Trump Lashes Out At Omarosa After Tape Reveals Campaign Discussing Racist Remarks
WorldNews.com 14 Aug 2018
President Donald Trump referred to former White House staffer Omarosa Manigault Newman as a "lowlife" and a "dog" in tweets on Tuesday morning, according to CBS News. "When you give a crazed, crying lowlife a break, and give her a job at the White House, I guess it just didn't work out. Good work by General Kelly for quickly firing that dog!" Trump tweeted ... ... "I don't have that word in my vocabulary and never have ... ... Patton said ... ....
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Trump Campaign Files For Arbitration Against Former White House Aide Omarosa
WorldNews.com 14 Aug 2018
President Donald Trump's campaign filed an arbitration action against former White House staffer Omarosa Manigault-Newman on Tuesday for allegedly violating a confidentiality agreement she signed in 2016, according to The Washington Post. Trump's 2020 re-election campaign announced it filed an arbitration with the "American Arbitration Association in New York City, for breach of her 2016 confidentiality agreement." ....
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US orders $480mn-hypersonic missile prototype suitable for ‘great power competition’
Russia Today 14 Aug 2018
The US Air Force paid $480 million for a second top-spec hypersonic missile prototype to gain ground “in the era of great power competition,” following reports of Russia’s successes in developing unrivaled high-speed weapons ... ....
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Genoa bridge collapse: At least 22 killed in ‘enormous tragedy’
The Irish Times 14 Aug 2018
A motorway bridge that collapsed in Genoa, Italy, on Tuesday, killed at least 22 people and the death toll will rise, Italian deputy transport minister Edoardo Rixi has said in a television interview. “It’s not acceptable that such an important bridge ... was not built to avoid this kind of collapse,” Rixi said on SkyNews24, speaking from Genoa. “The central section came down.”. Eight people are reportedly injured ... Disastro a #Genova ... ....
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Nebraska Carries Out The Country’s First Execution in21 Years Using Fentanyl
WorldNews.com 14 Aug 2018
The execution of Carey Dean Moore, 60, was the state’s first death carried out in 21 years, the report said.Making the execution even more unusual was the state’s very recent history, which saw its legislature abolish the death penalty in 2015 before voters reversed that decision the following year, the Post reported. Moore had spent more than half his life on death row, the report said ... Lawmakers voted to override a veto from Gov....
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Trump's Ambassador Says Britain Faces 'Serious Consequences' If Iran Trade Continues
WorldNews.com 15 Aug 2018
in “turning up the pressure” on Iran in an article penned for The Telegraph.“We are asking global Britain to use its considerable diplomatic power and influence and join us as we lead a concerted global effort towards a genuinely comprehensive agreement.” – Robert “Woody” Johnson “Together, we can help bring about the peace and prosperity in Iran that the whole world wants to see,” Johnson added....
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Manafort's Defense Rests Without Calling Witnesses, Will Move To Closing Arguments
WorldNews.com 14 Aug 2018
The decision is a common but risky legal move as both sides will now prepare for closing arguments on Wednesday morning. Manafort informed Judge T.S ... "You have an absolute right to remain silent before this jury." ... Mueller was assigned to lead the investigation into allegations of Russian interference in the 2016 presidential campaign and any attempts at obstruction of justice within the Trump campaign and administration....
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Trump Shames Sessions; Says Russia Probe Wouldn't Exist If We Had 'Real Attorney General'
WorldNews.com 14 Aug 2018
... has complained repeatedly about Sessions' decision to recuse himself from the Justice Department investigation into Russian interference in the 2016 presidential election cycle.When Trump fired FBI Director James Comey, that prompted Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein to appoint special counsel Robert Mueller to lead the Russia investigation....
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Ecuador Suffers Second Deadly Bus Crash Within Days: At Least 24 Dead, 19 Injured
WorldNews.com 14 Aug 2018
Officials said at least 24 people were killed and another 19 injured after a bus slid into another vehicle while driving at high speed on a highway known as dead man's curve in Ecuador on Tuesday, according to The Associated Press. The bus was traveling to Quito when it struck a smaller vehicle at around 3 a.m. on a highway just outside the Ecuadorean capital. Col ... ... -WN.com, Maureen Foody....
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Royal family's handling of Thomas Markle saga 'inept' and 'feeble', say aides
TVNZ 14 Aug 2018
Top royal aides are reported to believe the royal family's handling of the Thomas Markle saga has been inept and feeble and fear it's becoming a crisis after the father of Prince Harry's wife Meghan gave a third explosive interview. Mr Markle claimed in the interview with the Mail on Sunday that while recovering in hospital from a heart attack he had been berated on the phone by Prince Harry and had hung up on the prince ... Source ... ....
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Hawaiian town rocked by up to 800 earthquakes daily as volcano erupts
The Guardian 14 Aug 2018
Volcano, a tiny tourist town nestled in a high elevation forest, is a scant five miles from the caldera of Kilauea volcano. Its location makes it especially vulnerable to earthquakes, which during July sometimes numbered as high as 800 a day, according to Kyle Anderson, a seismologist with US Geological Survey. 'The entire habitat is gone' ... Read more ... Twitter ... And we’re going to make it through because we don’t want to go anywhere else.”....
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Egyptian Road Workers Uncover Mysterious Sphinx
WorldNews.com 15 Aug 2018
A mysterious sphinx has been discovered during roadwork in the Egyptian city of Luxor, Fox News reports.Mohamed Abdel Aziz, director general of Luxor Antiquities, announced the find Sunday, according to Egypt Today ... Archaeologists recently opened a ‘cursed’ ancient black granite sarcophagus ... Late last year, archaeologists also revealed that they had uncovered the graves of four children at an ancient site in Egypt. WN.com, JIm Berrie ....
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New Study Warns The Next Four Years Will Be Unusually Warm
WorldNews.com 15 Aug 2018
Researchers said Earth is likely to see a continuation in extreme temperatures over the next four years until 2022 as natural warming coincides with the effects of climate change, according to The Guardian ... The study's lead author Florian Sévellec told Deutsche Welle they weren't "predicting another heat wave - a warmer year doesn't always mean that ... All we can do it give people information and let them make up their own mind.” ... Dr....
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Trump Warns New York Guv Cuomo, Says Anybody Who Runs Against Him 'Suffers'
News18 14 Aug 2018 Editphoto: AP / Mulugeta Ayene
Ethiopian special police force kills 41, official says
Wtop 14 Aug 2018
ADDIS ABABA, Ethiopia (AP) — An Ethiopian official says a notorious special police force in the country’s Somali region killed 41 people and wounded 20 others as ethnic violence poses a challenge to the reformist new prime minister ... More News ... ....
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