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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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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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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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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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Manafort's Defense Rests Without Calling Witnesses, Will Move To Closing Arguments
WorldNews.com 14 Aug 2018
The defense for Donald Trump's former campaign chairman Paul Manafort rested its case on Tuesday morning without calling any witnesses in the ongoing bank and financial fraud trial against the former political lobbyist, according to CNN. 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 ... Ellis said closing arguments will begin at 9.30 a.m....
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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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Nebraska Carries Out The Country’s First Execution in21 Years Using Fentanyl
WorldNews.com 14 Aug 2018
In an series of unprecedented moves Tuesday, the US state of Nebraska not only carried out its first execution in nearly a generation, but authorities used the powerful opioid fentanyl to carry out the death sentence, the Washington Post reported ... Moore had spent more than half his life on death row, the report said. He was sentenced to death for killing two Omaha cabdrivers in 1979 ... Lawmakers voted to override a veto from Gov....
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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
It’s been a strange three months for the Hawaii island village of Volcano, where thousands of earthquakes have rattled the residents of this small mountainside town since Kilauea began erupting in May. Now, after a week of waning quakes, residents are holding their breath, waiting to see if this, finally, could signal the end of the eruption that has crippled the easternmost part of the island ... 'The entire habitat is gone' ... Read more....
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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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Erdogan says Turkey will boycott US electronic devices
This is Money 14 Aug 2018
Turkish president Recep Tayyip Erdogan has said his country will boycott US-made electronic goods amid a diplomatic spat that has helped trigger a Turkish currency crisis ... He said ... We have Vestel.” ... Advertisement. ....
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Swedish PM voices anger after burning of dozens of cars
Wtop 14 Aug 2018
COPENHAGEN, Denmark (AP) — Swedish Prime Minister Stefan Lofven is lashing out at those who set fire to dozens of cars in southwest Sweden, asking them “what the heck are you doing?” ... No injuries have been reported ... The reason for the fires was unknown ... ....
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Obama’s CIA chief behind Russia probe: Trump’s attorney
Press TV 14 Aug 2018
US President Donald Trump’s personal attorney, Rudy Giuliani, says former CIA chief John Brennan needs to stand trial for orchestrating the ongoing probe into investigation into the Trump campaign’s alleged “collusion” with Russia....
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Trump Shames Sessions; Says Russia Probe Wouldn't Exist If We Had 'Real Attorney General'
WorldNews.com 14 Aug 2018
Trump has said if he knew Sessions would recuse himself, he would have “put a different attorney general in.”Sessions decided to extricate himself from the Justice Department's investigation in March 2017 after consulting with department officials ... "Jeff is greatly admired by legal scholars and virtually everyone who knows him," the president said in a statement regarding Sessions' nomination.WN.com, Jim Berrie....
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