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Woman accused of shooting, dismembering boyfriend with machete
They also told police Sutton's 10-year-old daughter was home at the time. Sutton fled to Louisiana, police say, but was later taken into custody on September 14. "She played the role of an innocent person". Cierra Alexis Sutton, a Texas woman, has been arrested after fleeing from police. That's not a mind of God.
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German Right Takes Aim at Islam
The first vote is for the representative, the second is for a political party. Everyone gets two votes on their ballot paper. But here's where it gets a bit complicated. For many months, Angela Merkel's party has polled about 37%, which puts her well into the lead, although not enough to govern alone. Now polling 23%, having seen its popularity crumble after peaking at 33% in March 2016, the party is unlikely to be able to lead a government.
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'Potentially Catastrophic' Hurricane Maria Devastates Dominica, Heads For Puerto Rico
A Hurricane Watch is in effect for Puerto Rico , Vieques and Culebra, the U.S. Virgin Islands, British Virgin Islands, Saba and St. Eustatius, St. Maarten, St. "This much water in Dominica is risky". The storm will continue moving toward Puerto Rico and the Virgin Islands as a strong Category 4 or a Category 5 and is not expected to diminish in strength.
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Spicer: 'Of course' I regret inauguration crowd lecture
As Spicer prepared to return to Washington, he was asked if he was anxious about Trump taking offence over the skit - which many viewers saw as lampooning the president's preoccupation with the size of his inauguration crowd. These Hollywood phonies kissing up to Sean Spicer are disgusting. "Now, understandably, some people have been disappointed by this photo", he said.
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Mattis hints at U.S. military options for North Korea
And with every known military option - from launching Tomahawk cruise missiles to air strikes - its likely that North Korea would interpret any strike, however limited, "as a prelude to invading or overthrowing the government, even if the United States insists otherwise", Daryl Press, a scholar of nuclear deterrence at Dartmouth College, told The Atlantic.
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72nd United Nations General Assembly session kicks off
The theme for this year's debate is " Focusing on People: Striving for Peace and a Decent Life for All on a Sustainable Planet ". The General Debate will launch by remarks of UN Secretary-General António Guterres and President of the 72nd session of the General Assembly Miroslav Lajčák.
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WWI Soldiers May Have Been Found in North Sea
Carl Decaluew said. The sub is believed to have been sunk by a mine. He said the U-boat was found by researchers but declined to provide information on the wreck's location to prevent people from going near. Germany's Belgian embassy has been informed of the UB II submarine because, Carl Decaluwé, the governor of West Flanders , said "there are remains of people on board".
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North Korea warned United States 'considering SHOOTING DOWN next missile test'
Trump is expected to make his first presidential visit to China later this year. Also on Thursday, Trump will be holding talks with Japanese and South Korean leaders who have backed the USA drive to ratchet up sanctions on North Korea .
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There's now a real congressional push to block the transgender military ban
Now McCain is putting action behind his words. "I am so grateful to Chairman McCain, Senator Collins, and Ranking Member Reed for joining me to introduce this bipartisan bill to block the Defense Department from kicking transgender troops out of our military".
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Trump says democracy must be restored in Venezuela soon
Trump also confirmed his priority was to help Venezuelan people "regain their freedom". "We are prepared to take further action if the government of Venezuela persists on the path to imposing authoritarian rule on the Venezuelan people", Trump said at a working dinner he hosted Monday with Latin American leaders.
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Japan's Abe calls for enforcement of sanctions against North Korea
Air Forces displayed the deterrence power of the South Korea - U.S. alliance against North Korea's nuclear and missile threat, while also mastering their ability to deploy rapid reaction forces by honing their joint military interoperability as well as wartime and peacetime operation capabilities".
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CBI takes Pravat Biswal on five-day remand
As per Indiatoday, the Choudwar-Cuttack MLA was picked up by the CBI late on Monday night. Biswal is an MLA from Cuttack-Chowdwar. Biswal and his wife Laxmi Bilasini Biswal were under CBI scanner for over four years over a land deal with the dubious firm.
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Macron convinced Trump will see U.S. interests lie inside Paris climate deal
Gary Cohn, the top White House economic adviser, told ministers from several major allies Monday that President Donald Trump's administration was "unambiguous" about its plans to withdraw from the Paris agreement on climate change unless new terms were met.
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Trump says he won't impose US values abroad
US President Donald Trump has said that the United Nations is not living up to its potential because of bureaucracy and mismanagement. Trump pushed the United Nations to focus "more on people and less on bureaucracy" and to change "business as usual and not be beholden to ways of the past which were not working".
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Military drills bracket North Korea
I spoke with President Moon of South Korea last night. "And that if General Kelly wants to, like, work on saving this country from the frailties of this president's ability to process information and handle it like an adult, and not lead us either marching into war or cause some sort of unrest, he needs to take his phone away from him".
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Yogi Adityanath, two deputy CMs take oath as MLCs in UP
Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanth, who has recently completed his six months in power, outlined the achievements of his government and said that there has been no incident of riot in past six months in the state. It's only now in 15 years that a government has worked beyond caste and family politics. He said that the fiscal deficit, which should be under 3 per cent, was brought under designated mark by curtailing development schemes.
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De Blasio Declares 'Morning Joe Day' in NY
Asked Monday whether he was endorsing the mayor only out of party loyalty, Cuomo said no. "The mayor won the Democratic primary". In remarks to the mayors summit at the Grand Hyatt hotel in midtown, de Blasio said local leaders needed to push back on claims that immigrants and refugees drive up crime and lead to job loss.
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Trump attorney Michael Cohen expected to speak with Senate Intelligence Committee Tuesday
Russian Federation has denied interfering in the election, but US intelligence agencies' conclusion that it did so to boost Trump's chances of being elected have shadowed the first months of the Republican's presidency. Cohen did not answer shouted questions about what he was doing in the committee space, if not interviewing in the panel's probe into Russian interference as scheduled.
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Dylann Roof asks Richmond court to replace attorneys, 'political and biological enemies'
Roof further wrote that his attorneys' backgrounds are "a barrier to effective communication". In the petition filed to the U.S. 4th Circuit Court of Appeals on September 18, Roof also expressed his concerns over his federal trial lawyer, David Isaac Bruck, a man of Jewish origin.
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Shankersinh Vaghela launches new political party ahead of assembly elections in Gujarat
Gujarat's political narrative has so far been defined by its bipolar contests between the Bharatiya Janata Party ( BJP ) and the Congress and previous attempts to form a third front have not been very successful. Through Jan Vikalp we will provide a platform to anyone willing to serve people. "Why should the BJP or the Congress be the only options?" Vaghela used to be in the BJP and played a crucial role in the party's victory in Gujarat in 1995.
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Pakistan rejects remarks attributed to PM Abbasi regarding Kabul attack
We are committed to expand our business in Pakistan, the Vice President said. He will address the United Nations General Assembly on Thursday. In addition to meeting United Nations secretary-general Antonio Guterres, he is also scheduled to address the Council on Foreign Relations.
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Video shows moment before United States college campus police kill student
Georgia Tech students held a peaceful vigil at the school's Atlanta campus to protest the shooting death of 21-year-old engineering student Scout Schultz on the night of September 16. Police block off streets in front of a police station at Georgia Tech where protests happened earlier and at least one police vehicle was burned on Monday, Sept.
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Warm week ahead, while we watch Jose and Maria
As Maria gathers strength in the Atlantic, Hurricane Jose continues its odd path northward off the U.S. Atlantic Seaboard, possibly bringing unsafe surf and rip currents to the East Coast by midweek. This is the first Category 5 hurricane to hit Dominica in records stretching back to 1851. Hurricane Maria has pounded Dominica with "widespread devastation" as it barrels toward St.
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Hurricane Maria headed towards the Caribbean
Rainfall amounts of 4-8 inches, locally over 12 inches, will cause life-threatening flooding. Vázquez said forecasters measured wind gusts of up to 114 miles per hour in the small island of Culebra during Hurricane Irma , which didn't directly hit Puerto Rico .
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Russian war games helicopter fires on civilian cars
Reports claim two journalists were injured after the rockets exploded in the enclosure for spectators at Luzhsky military field near St Petersburg yesterday. "The victims were most likely journalists". Interfax did not say when the incident happened, or where, or if the exercise was part of the Zapad-2017 war games.
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Runner dubbed the "Mad Pooper" makes habit of publicly defecating
The search is on in Colorado Springs for a mystery woman dubbed "The Mad Pooper". 'They are like, 'There's a lady taking a poop!' So I come outside, and I'm like. "For someone to repeatedly do such a thing ... it's uncharted territory for me". In May, surveillance footage and social media led Colorado Springs police to a man who defecated on the porch of his dead ex-girlfriend out of revenge, according to KKTV .
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Beijing, Shanghai shut down bitcoin exchanges
All Bitcoin exchanges in Beijing and Shanghai have been ordered to submit plans for winding down their operations by 20 September. The price of bitcoin surged past $4,000 in trading Monday following a market slump driven by a decision by China to ban bitcoin exchanges, as well as negative comments about the cryptocurrency from JPMorgan Chase & Co.
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PIL in Odisha HC seeks petrol, diesel under GST
The repeated hike in the fuel price should be controlled. The price of diesel has been kept lower as it also used in the politically sensitive farm sector. The variation in prices of petrol and diesel between states is due to the different rates of state levies. After Oil Minister Dharmendra Pradhan recently said that GST Council should consider bringing the petroleum products in the ambit of GST, questions are being asked as to whether the government will accept the idea or not.
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Mattis: US Will Be Sending More Than 3000 Additional Troops to Afghanistan
Defence secretary Jim Mattis said on Monday that most of the troops were either on their way or had been notified of their deployment. Mr Trump did not then give any specifics as to the number of USA troops he would be adding to the 8,400 already deployed in Afghanistan, but on Monday Mr Mattis confirmed it would be over 3,000.
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Magnitude-3.6 Earthquake Shakes Parts of Los Angeles
Researchers believe that such catastrophic temblors occur roughly every 100 years, but the last truly "big one" was the 1857 quake - an natural disaster that was so strong that soil liquefied, the Los Angeles Times reported . The magnitude 3.6 natural disaster struck off at around 11.20pm on the Westside and the San Fernando Valley. According to scientific agency USGS , intensity 4 shaking, is defined as having a strength that can awaken some people and disturb dishes, windows and doors.
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Same-sex marriage No campaign launches; 'Vote No' sprawled in Sydney skies
Greenwich said that "all polling", including the campaign's internal polling, shows that support for marriage equality is about 60%, although it can go as high as 70% or sometimes fall "a bit lower". Mr Turnbull said there were two bills outlining religious protections in the event of a "yes" vote. Ryan Davis, another co-founder, said, "The concept is to allow easy sharing and to syndicate this material over popular social networks, including Facebook, Twitter, Google Plus, Instagram , ...
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Boris Johnson Deserves To Sacked As Foreign Secretary, Says Ken Clarke
On a flight to Canada, May dismissed Johnson's actions by saying "Boris is Boris". Mrs May's Cabinet will meet on Thursday to be briefed on her plans for Brexit ahead of a major speech on the subject in Italy on Friday. Under the "Swiss-style" option, the United Kingdom would pay for permanent access to the single market after Brexit. Mr Johnson's intervention was condemned this morning by the former chancellor Ken Clarke who said he must stop "exploiting" Mrs May's weakened position.
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Trump to Target 'Menace' North Korea in First UN Speech
The UN was founded with "truly noble goals" but must regain the trust of people around the world, Trump said . "But I also think we have to remember the United States is a country of laws, and we have to always follow those laws". USA national security adviser H.R. McMaster said "Iran's destabilizing behavior" would be a major focus of those discussions. Trump's rhetoric against Iran, coming as he appears to be leaning against recertifying the nuclear deal by a mid-October deadline, ...
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Hillary Clinton isn't ruling out challenging the 2016 election result
There's no doubt they influenced the election: "We now know more about how they did that". She said, "I don't believe there are [means to challenge the election.] There are scholars, academics, who have arguments that it would be, but I don't think they're on strong ground".
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Spain moves to expel N. Korean ambassador
He watched the launch of the Hwasong-12 ballistic missile over Japan. While the show of force was triggered by last week's launch, it also comes on the back of a hydrogen bomb test by North Korea this month, as well as another missile launch over Japan last month.