An American service member was killed in Afghanistan, the US-led NATO mission said Friday, the latest US fatality as talks between the US and the Taliban continue. "A US service member died during combat operations in Afghanistan, August 29, 2019," NATO's Resolute Support mission said in a statement. The death brings to at least 15 the number of members of the US military to be killed in action in Afghanistan this year, just as Washington is seeking a way out of its longest war.

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Brazil's foreign minister and President Jair Bolsonaro's son met with U.S. President Donald Trump on Friday to discuss the fires ravaging the Amazon rainforest, although no concrete measures to deal with the blazes were announced.

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Law enforcement seize enough fentanyl to kill 14 million people  CNN

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1. After 10 suspicious deaths at VA hospital, veterans demand answers. 'It's scary – really scary'  USA TODAY
2. U.S. attorney: Investigation into Veterans Affairs deaths a 'top priority'  AOL
3. DOJ confirms criminal investigation after deaths at West Virginia VA hospital  CNN
4. 'Sickening and troubling': Senators press VA for top-to-bottom probe in suspicious death scandal  USA TODAY
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1. Homeworld 3 announced by Blackbird Interactive at PAX West  Destructoid
2. Homeworld 3 Is Coming, Hell Yes  Kotaku
3. Homeworld 3 - Announce Trailer  Gearbox Official
4. Gearbox announces Homeworld 3 at PAX West  PC Gamer
5. Gearbox announces Homeworld 3 at PAX West panel  Polygon
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1. R. Kelly asks judge to be released from solitary in federal lockup in Chicago  CBS News
2. Alleged Child Sex Abuser R. Kelly Cries Over Solitary Confinement  Yahoo Entertainment
3. R. Kelly Reportedly Pleading To Be Released From Solitary Confinement  BET
4. R. Kelly ‘is not in solitary confinement,’ feds say  Chicago Sun-Times
5. R. Kelly Asks Judge to Let Him Out of Solitary Confinement  Yahoo Entertainment
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Alfred Jackson, half-brother of late rock star Prince, dies  ABC News

A half-brother of the late rock superstar Prince has died, leaving five Prince siblings to share in the musician's fortune. An attorney for Alfred Jackson, Asa ...

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1. Federer powers into US Open last 16  Sport24
2. Serena into round of 16 for 18th straight time  ESPN
3. Serena Williams vs Karolina Muchova | US Open 2019 R3 Highlights  US Open Tennis Championships
4. U.S. Open 2019: Live Updates From Friday’s Matches  The New York Times
5. Gigi Hadid Is the World’s Biggest Serena Williams Fan at the U.S. Open: See the Funny Pics!  Yahoo Entertainment
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A spokesman for the federal agency said in a statement Friday that "we must stand as one community to focus on aiding the victims."

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A lawsuit over a faulty background check that allowed a South Carolina man to buy the gun he used to kill nine people in a racist attack at a Charleston church was reinstated Friday by a federal appeals court. A three-judge panel of the 4th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals reversed a ruling from a lower court judge who threw out the claims brought by relatives of people killed by Dylann Roof in the 2015 massacre, and by survivors. The FBI has acknowledged that Roof's drug possession arrest in Columbia, South Carolina, weeks before the shooting at AME Emanuel Church should have prevented him from buying a gun.

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Insider has been tracking how many candidates' fans like other candidates. Gillibrand's exit could help Sen. Elizabeth Warren consolidate support.

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As Hurricane Dorian hurtles into the Caribbean, airlines are issues waivers, and cruise lines are modifying routes. Here's what you need to know.

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An Iranian oil tanker pursued by the U.S. on Friday again listed its destination as Turkey but the Turkish foreign minister added to the confusion by saying the vessel is headed to Lebanon — statements that were promptly denied in Beirut. The flurry of contradictory statements further muddies the waters for the Adrian Darya 1, formerly known as the Grace 1, and obscures where its 2.1 million barrels of oil will ultimately go. The tanker has taken center stage recently amid a crisis roiling the Persian Gulf and escalating tensions between Washington and Tehran after President Donald Trump unilaterally withdrew America from Iran's 2015 nuclear deal with world powers over a year ago.

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Nearly 5,000 bodies have been found in more than 3,000 unmarked graves since Mexico deployed the army to fight drug trafficking in 2006, the government said Friday in its first comprehensive report on the carnage. Mexico has been hit by a wave of violence since launching the so-called "drug war," and activists and family members of the country's 40,000 missing persons have been denouncing mass graves for years. It found 3,024 unmarked graves nationwide, with at least 4,974 bodies, Karla Quintana, head of the national search commission for missing persons, told a news conference alongside President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador on International Day of the Disappeared.

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The leader of the Conservative Party in Scotland has quit her post one day after Prime Minister Boris Johnson moved to suspend Parliament ahead of Brexit.

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"I hate that we live in a world where you have to be protected from fellow humans," said Omar, a Democrat from Minnesota.

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The Boy Scouts of America is facing a threat from a growing wave of lawsuits over decades-old allegations of sexual abuse. The Scouts have been sued in multiple states in recent months by purported abuse victims, including plaintiffs taking advantage of new state laws or court decisions that are now allowing suits previously barred because of the age of the allegations. A lawyer representing 150 people who say they were abused as Boy Scouts is planning a suit in New Jersey when the state's new civil statute of limitations law takes effect Dec. 1.

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A group of 155 migrants forced their way into Spain's North African enclave of Ceuta from Morocco on Friday, Spanish authorities said. "They are all from sub-Saharan Africa, the majority from Guinea," a spokesman for the central government's office in Ceuta told AFP.

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Former Canadian Prime Minister Kim Campbell tweeted that she is "rooting" for Hurricane Dorian to make a "a direct hit" on President Donald Trump's Mar-a-Lago resort.

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James Reardon, 20, whose case is one of many thwarted potential mass shootings reported by U.S. law enforcement in recent weeks, faces one count of transmitting threatening communications via interstate commerce, federal prosecutors said as his indictment was unsealed on Thursday. Federal authorities said their investigation is ongoing.

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In a 1960s radio interview, Alabama Gov. Kay Ivey's then-fiancee said Ivey wore blackface in a college sketch. Ivey apologized in a statement Thursday.

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The new policy applies to Green Card holders who serve in uniform. "Why are we targeting people who want to serve?" a leading veterans advocate said.

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1. Many Genes Influence Same-Sex Sexuality, Not a Single ‘Gay Gene’  The New York Times
2. There’s no one ‘gay gene,’ but genetics are linked to same-sex behavior, new study says  The Washington Post
3. Scientists Debunk the Idea There Is a 'Gay Gene' That Determines Same-sex Attraction  Newsweek
4. What Genetics Is Teaching Us About Sexuality  The New York Times
5. Research Finds Genetic Links to Same-Sex Behavior  The Wall Street Journal
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General Electric wins partial dismissal of shareholder lawsuit  Reuters

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1. Skype brings a handful of new features to its messaging app  PhoneArena
2. Skype messaging is getting some much-needed upgrades  Engadget
3. Skype for Mac and iOS adds new messaging and media features, split window, more  9to5Mac
4. Skype gets a bunch of new features to make chat experiences more productive  Neowin
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Russian police take down malware gang who infected 800,000+ Android smartphones  ZDNet

TipTop malware gang was making between $1500 and $10500 in daily profits.

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1. Richard Linklater follows 12 years on Boyhood with 20 years on Merrily We Roll Along  Polygon
2. Exclusive: Richard Linklater, Ben Platt, Beanie Feldstein Team for Sondheim Musical  Collider.com
3. RIchard Linklater's Next Film Will Take Twenty Years To Complete  Birth.Movies.Death.
4. Richard Linklater to adapt Merrily We Roll Along with Beanie Feldstein, Ben Platt.  Slate
5. Ben Platt, Beanie Feldstein to Star in Film Adaptation of MERRILY WE ROLL ALONG  Broadway World
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1. All 53 NBA players on 2019 FIBA World Cup rosters, ranked  SB Nation
2. 2019 FIBA World Cup Preview: The US, the competition and the stakes  NBA.com
3. World Cup preview: Canada will have to fight for survival in 'group of death'  The Athletic
4. FIBA World Cup Preview -- Breaking down all 32 teams  ESPN Philippines
5. Team USA basketball roster: From Harrison Barnes to Derrick White, meet your 2019 U.S. FIBA World Cup team  CBS Sports
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In 2017, Ayers considered entering the Georgia gubernatorial contest but ultimately chose not to run

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Royal Caribbean has closed its Perfect Day at CocoCay island and Disney Cruise Line is re-routing its Disney Fantasy ship to avoid Hurricane Dorian.

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Bret Stephens, who was called a bedbug Monday evening on Twitter, has since deactivated his Twitter account.

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North Korea accused the United Kingdom, France and Germany on Thursday of meddling in its "self-defensive measures for arms modernization," saying the West will make "no greater mistake" than thinking Pyongyang will give up its right to have weapons that it says are needed to ensure peace. The North's official Korean Central News Agency circulated a statement from Kim Son Gyong, an adviser at the Korea-Europe Association, in response to a joint statement Tuesday from the three important U.S. allies condemning Pyongyang's "repeated provocative launches" of ballistic missiles.

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(Bloomberg) -- Hong Kong police said they banned a Saturday protest by the organizer of previous historic mass marches, citing public safety concerns, a move that could anger demonstrators ahead of a planned 13th straight weekend of pro-democracy rallies.Police said approving the Civil Human Rights Front’s march was too risky as some people might use it to “carry out large scale destruction and disrupt public order,” Kwok Pak-chung, the force’s regional commander for Hong Kong Island, said at a Thursday briefing. The South China Morning Post first reported the ban.“Based on our intelligence, we believe certain protesters will commit acts of violence during the gathering,” Kwok said. “There’s a high chance that certain violent protesters will hijack this event.” He added that officials “have made a decision that we didn’t like to make.”Bonnie Leung, CHRF’s vice-convener, told Bloomberg News earlier in the day that the group was planning to appeal. Some previous rallies have been approved at the last minute after negotiations with police.The ban could trigger further outcry as the rally was planned for the fifth anniversary of China’s introduction of an electoral reform package that would have restricted democratic freedoms and was later rejected by Hong Kong. It could also fuel turnout at a two-day general strike called to begin Monday if the government doesn’t concede to protesters’ major demands by Saturday, the SCMP said.Timeline: How Months of Protests Have Unfolded in Hong KongThe march had been planned to start at centrally located Chater Garden and continue on to China’s liaison office in the city, where Hong Kong’s police and Beijing have drawn their sharpest line after a previous demonstration saw protesters deface the national emblem. Hong Kong’s former leader Leung Chun-ying is promoting a website offering crowd-funded cash bounties to identify protesters who have perpetrated vandalism, including HK$1 million ($127,000) for the person who splashed black paint on the emblem.The CHRF has organized three record-breaking peaceful marches over weeks of protests, including the June 9 rally against legislation easing extraditions to China that sparked what’s morphed into a broader movement against Beijing’s tightening grip over the city. The group said each march brought more than 1 million people onto the streets, while police estimates are lower, in the hundreds of thousands.Its latest march would come after a weekend that began with the formation of a peaceful human chain across the city and culminated two days later with police firing a weapon and using water cannons for the first time. Police said 86 people were arrested over the weekend for alleged offenses including unlawful assembly, possession of weapons and assaulting officers.CHRF convener Jimmy Sham said separately Thursday that he had been attacked by two armed masked men inside a restaurant in the city’s Kowloon, but that he hadn’t been hurt because his friend shielded him. Sham said he would head to the police station in Tsim Sha Tsui to give a statement.(Updates throughout with police confirmation.)To contact the reporters on this story: Sheryl Tian Tong Lee in Hong Kong at slee1905@bloomberg.net;Fion Li in Hong Kong at fli59@bloomberg.netTo contact the editors responsible for this story: Brendan Scott at bscott66@bloomberg.net, Karen Leigh, Jon HerskovitzFor more articles like this, please visit us at bloomberg.com©2019 Bloomberg L.P.

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A married couple wanted for murder have escaped from custody after overpowering guards who were transporting them through Utah in the United States.Blane Barksdale, 56, and Susan Barksdale, 59, broke free from two guards on Monday evening.

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An abandoned oil tanker anchored off war-torn Yemen that is degrading along with its cargo could explode and cause an environmental disaster, experts said Wednesday as UN inspectors prepared to visit. The ship "Safer", used as a floating storage platform, is laden with some 1.1 million barrels of crude oil and has been stranded with no maintenance since early 2015, leaving it to deteriorate and potentially allowing explosive gases to build up. United Nations spokesman Stephane Dujarric said Tuesday that a technical assessment team was waiting in nearby Djibouti preparing to board the Safer for a first-hand evaluation.

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Power outages and flooding were reported in the Virgin Islands and the Puerto Rican islands, but no damagesHurricane Dorian caused only limited damage in Puerto Rico late Wednesday. Photograph: Ramón Espinosa/APHurricane Dorian caused limited damage in the northern Caribbean as it left the region and gathered strength late Wednesday, setting its sights on the US mainland as it threatened to grow into a Category 3 storm.Puerto Rico, which had braced for the worst, seemed to be spared any heavy wind and rain, a huge relief to many on an island where blue tarps still cover some 30,000 homes nearly two years after Hurricane Maria. The island’s 3.2 million inhabitants also depend on an unstable power grid that remains prone to outages since it was destroyed by Maria.Power outages and flooding were reported across the US Virgin Islands, the British Virgin Islands and the Puerto Rican islands of Vieques and Culebra after Dorian hit St Thomas as a Category 1 storm.“We’re happy because there are no damages to report,” Culebra’s mayor, William Solis, told the Associated Press, noting that only one community lost power.Donald Trump began the day by insulting and taunting Puerto Rico and its residents, who are US citizens, on Twitter. “Puerto Rico is one of the most corrupt places on earth,” the president wrote in part. “Their political system is broken and their politicians are either Incompetent or Corrupt. And by the way, I’m the best thing that’s ever happened to Puerto Rico!”Florida officials said Wednesday that they are preparing for the hurricane to make landfall somewhere along the state’s eastern shore. Florida’s governor, Ron DeSantis, declared a state of emergency and urged residents to take precautions in anticipation of a possible Labor Day strike.Dennis Feltgen, a Hurricane Center meteorologist in Miami, said Dorian may grow in size and could land anywhere from south Florida to South Carolina on Sunday or Monday. “This will be a large storm approaching the south-east,” he said.County governments along Florida’s east-central coast are distributing sandbags and many residents are rushing to warehouse retailers to load up on water, canned food and emergency supplies.Trump declared an emergency on Tuesday night and ordered federal assistance for local authorities in Puerto Rico. But in a tweet Wednesday morning, Trump, a climate crisis denier, seemed to complain about Puerto Rico’s exposure to storms, and escalated a long-running feud with Carmen Yulín Cruz, the mayor of San Juan, Puerto Rico’s capital.The two established a combative relationship after the island was devastated by Hurricane Maria almost two years ago, when US aid was slow to arrive and Trump offended many during a visit. > We are tracking closely tropical storm Dorian as it heads, as usual, to Puerto Rico. FEMA and all others are ready, and will do a great job. When they do, let them know it, and give them a big Thank You - Not like last time. That includes from the incompetent Mayor of San Juan!> > — Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) August 28, 2019On Tuesday night, Cruz said that Trump should “get out of the way”.“Three thousand Puerto Ricans did not open their eyes this morning because this racist man did not have it within him to do his job,” Cruz said on CNN. “So get out of the way, President Trump.”Cruz was referring to the death toll from Hurricane Maria, which hit Puerto Rico in September 2017. An official report criticized the Trump administration’s slow response to the devastation from the storm, which destroyed the island’s power grid and decimated its agriculture and tourism industries.On Tuesday morning, Trump had tweeted about Dorian, and seemed to complain about the cost of hurricane recovery efforts in Puerto Rico, which have fallen far short of restoring the island.“Wow! Yet another big storm heading to Puerto Rico,” Trump wrote. “Will it ever end? Congress approved 92 Billion Dollars for Puerto Rico last year, an all time record of its kind for ‘anywhere’.”Trump’s tweet contained multiple falsehoods. While Congress has allocated $42.5bn for disaster relief for Puerto Rico, the island had received less than $14bn through May, according to federal data. And in any case Trump’s headline amount of $92bn would not qualify the Maria relief package as “an all-time record” for the costliest tropical cyclones, according to the federal government’s own figures. Spending on recovery for Hurricane Harvey, which hit Texas and Louisiana in the same storm season as Maria, has so far cost $125bn.Since Maria, Puerto Rico has struggled with political turbulence leading to the recent departure of the governor, Ricardo Rosselló. Earlier this month, the territory’s supreme court overturned the swearing-in of Rosselló’s successor, Pedro Pierluisi, and the former justice secretary, Wanda Vázquez, became governor.

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Republican Gov. Greg Abbott said Thursday "mistakes were made" when he sent a fundraising mailer that called on supporters to "defend Texas" from illegal immigration, which was dated a day before a gunman targeting Mexicans killed 22 people in El Paso. The letter was condemned as racist and anti-Latino by the Texas Democratic Party after it surfaced last week. Taken together, the mailer and tweet have put a spotlight on Abbott's hardline rhetoric at a time when he has urged unity in the aftermath of another mass shooting in Texas.

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A district attorney in Tennessee could face suspension after saying he does not prosecute domestic violence cases between same-sex partners.Coffee County district attorney Craig Northcott came under fire in June after a video emerged of him saying he would not prosecute anyone with domestic violence charges if they are in a gay marriage because he does not accept their legal status.

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BARRICADED SUSPECT: The Secret Service along with police are in the middle of a standoff in Fairfield.

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MIKE THEILERNearly a month after an accused shooter reportedly said he deliberately targeted “Mexicans” while killing more than 20 people in El Paso, Fox News personalities are still echoing the same talking points from the gunman’s racist manifesto, in which he complained about a “Hispanic invasion” of America.Appearing on Fox Nation’s The Todd Starnes Show on Thursday, Fox News host Jeanine Pirro was asked by Starnes—who recently likened migrants to a “rampaging horde” of Nazis—if Democrats and liberals hate President Donald Trump and his supporters.Pirro, who is currently promoting a book that Trump has already endorsed, took the opportunity to push a version of the “Great Replacement theory”—the same racist lie that was cited by the El Paso gunman and other recent domestic terrorist attackers.“They hate Donald Trump—he’s the one they want to get rid of,” she said, in a segment first spotted by Media Matters. “Their plot to remake America is to bring in the illegals, change the way the voting occurs in this country, give them licenses. They get to vote—maybe once, maybe twice, maybe three times.”After decrying same-day voter registration and grousing about voter rolls not being purged, Pirro—who was suspended by Fox earlier this year for questioning Ilhan Omar’s loyalty to America—went right back to the far-right well.“Think about it,” Pirro exclaimed. “It is a plot to remake America—to replace American citizens with illegals who will vote for the Democrats.”Pirro’s comments come just days after the National Association of Hispanic Journalists cut ties with Fox News over the network’s use of “invasion” rhetoric to describe immigration, with the NAHJ saying Starnes’ remark about immigrants was the final straw.In the wake of the El Paso slayings, Fox News has been the focus of widespread criticism for the extreme anti-immigrant rhetoric of many of its opinion hosts. Tucker Carlson, for instance, has seen a further erosion of his advertiser base after he called white supremacy a “hoax” just days after the shooting.Read more at The Daily Beast.Got a tip? Send it to The Daily Beast hereGet our top stories in your inbox every day. Sign up now!Daily Beast Membership: Beast Inside goes deeper on the stories that matter to you. Learn more.

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1. Apple Watch Series 4 Labor Day sale brings back Prime Day’s low prices  BGR
2. Best smartphone deals for Labor Day: Apple iPhone, Google Pixel, and Samsung  Digital Trends
3. Apple Watch Series 5: Everything you need to know about Apple’s next smartwatch  Digital Trends
4. The Best Labor Day smartwatch deals: Fitbit, Samsung, and Apple Watch discounts  Digital Trends
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1. Apple just sent out invites for its big iPhone announcement next month  Business Insider
2. Apple expected to unveil new iPhones at September 10 event  CNN
3. New renders give us the first look at the upcoming iPad Pro 2019  MSPoweruser
4. Apple’s next iPhone event will take place on September 10th  The Verge
5. Apple will launch iPhone 11 on Sept. 10 in Cupertino  CNET
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1. Brad Pitt Shows You How To Pair A Motorcycle Watch To A 55-Year-Old Dad Bod  D'Marge
2. Ad Astra Venice Film Festival Trailer: Brad Pitt Fights a Monkey  Screen Rant
3. Brad Pitt Addresses ‘Toxic Masculinity’  The Daily Wire
4. Brad Pitt Says ‘Ad Astra’ Is a Personal Film About Masculinity  Variety
5. Brad Pitt Dodges Oscar Talk as 'Ad Astra' Takes Off at Venice 2019  Hollywood Reporter
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1. How Rob Gronkowski, Andrew Luck have impacted the NFL  WEEI
2. Indianapolis Colts give Andrew Luck poster on Lucas Oil Stadium a classy touch  Indianapolis Star
3. The Colts Have Entered The Quarterback Pit  Deadspin
4. Andrew Luck 'Thank You' banner unveiled at Lucas Oil Stadium  WTHR
5. Should ESPN have held back the Andrew Luck retirement news?  Yahoo Sports
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An abandoned oil tanker anchored off war-torn Yemen that is degrading along with its cargo could explode and cause an environmental disaster, experts said Wednesday as UN inspectors prepared to visit. The ship "Safer", used as a floating storage platform, is laden with some 1.1 million barrels of crude oil and has been stranded with no maintenance since early 2015, leaving it to deteriorate and potentially allowing explosive gases to build up. United Nations spokesman Stephane Dujarric said Tuesday that a technical assessment team was waiting in nearby Djibouti preparing to board the Safer for a first-hand evaluation.

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ROME/BERLIN (Reuters) - Italy's Interior Minister Matteo Salvini has signed a decree to ban a migrant rescue ship operated by the German charity Mission Lifeline from accessing Italian waters, sources at the ministry said on Tuesday. A succession of charity vessels has struggled over the past year to bring migrants rescued at sea to Italian shores as Salvini, leader of the far-right League, takes a tough line. The ship dubbed Eleonore is currently carrying 101 refugees rescued in the Mediterranean Sea, said Axel Steier, head of Mission Lifeline, adding that both Italian and Maltese authorities had declined to let the migrants land.

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On Thursday, August 22, members of Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps Quds Force took a drone to an area near the Golan Heights, seeking to attack Israel. The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) monitored the men, took video of them walking through a field, and struck back two nights later. The air strikes targeted a villa in southern Syria that Jerusalem says was being used by the IRGC and Shiite militias. This includes Hezbollah, a Lebanese ally of Iran that has played a major role in Syria in recent years.The air strike is part of an increasingly firm stand Israel is taking against Iran’s regional ambitions in the Middle East. This includes several recent air strikes in Iraq that Iranian-linked paramilitaries have blamed on Israel. It also includes near-daily reports in media from Lebanon to Kuwait asserting that Israel is targeting Iran’s network of proxies and their bases in Lebanon, Iraq, and Syria. Jerusalem is no longer secretive about this widespread campaign. In January former IDF chief of staff Gadi Eizenkot said Israel had carried out thousands of air strikes on Iranian targets.Now IRGC Quds Force commander Qasem Soleimani has warned Israel that these strikes will be Israel’s last. Hezbollah’s Hassan Nasrallah has threatened retaliation. This is part of a rising Iranian-backed chorus against Jerusalem, which includes real threats such as continuing rocket fire from Hamas in Gaza. It also includes threats by Iranian proxies such as Iraqi-based Kata’ib Hezbollah against U.S. forces in Iraq.What is Israel’s strategy in all this? The goal is to draw Iran and its allies out of the shadows. Over the past decade, inflamed by the 2015 Iran deal, Tehran has increased its weapons transfers to Hezbollah, sent thousands of advisers to support the Syrian regime, and helped mobilize a network of militias in Iraq. Some of this was used to fight ISIS, or enemies of Bashar al-Assad. But with the ISIS war and Syrian conflict winding down, these groups are turning their threats toward Iran’s adversaries. Tehran is obsessed with destroying Israel, as can be seen in its frequent statements and militaristic parades. It has launched drones from Syria into Israel in February 2018, rockets in May 2018, and a rocket in January 2019. Hezbollah threatens that its 150,000 rockets can strike all of Israel.Air strikes on Iran’s network of proxies force the network out of the shadows. It can’t hide in villas in southern Syria, or launch drones at night, or stockpile ballistic missiles in Iraq if it is looking over its shoulder and increasingly making mistakes through its aggressive and open threats. Iran is used to playing a double game of moderates and hard-liners, sending its smiling foreign minister to the recent G7 while boasting of its allies’ drone technology striking Saudi Arabia.The Israeli air strikes couple well with the Washington-led campaign of “maximum pressure.” Iran now faces two fronts, the sanctions and strikes, that together are designed to blow the lid on its regional strategy. Tehran will be tempted to make a misstep in its otherwise calculated reactions. Iran has a playbook: If a Western power seizes its tanker, as the U.K. did in July, Iran seizes a tanker. It downed a sophisticated U.S. drone in June but hasn’t harmed anyone in six sabotage operations on oil tankers in the Persian Gulf. More than anything, Iran wants to preserve its regional power, based in proxies and allies that are often Shiite coreligionists. Its long-term goal is to get Hezbollah and its Shiite paramilitary allies in Iraq into more government positions and build up their parallel-state structures of armed fighters and bases. A war with the U.S. or Israel, or a direct confrontation with Saudi Arabia, as opposed to using proxies such as the Houthis, Hezbollah, and Islamic Jihad in Gaza, is not in Tehran’s interest. This is the strategic calculation that underpins Israel’s actions, but it can go only so far. A game of whack-a-mole against Iran’s drones and missiles is just a setback for Tehran. If Tehran doesn’t gamble on a major conflict with Israel, it will continue its creeping annexation of neighboring states.

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A prostitute has been arrested on drug charges in connection to the deaths of three men, officials say.

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1. FBI studies two broken cameras outside cell where Epstein died: source  Reuters
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1. Veteran carries Marine amputee up mountain  CNN
2. Veteran carries fellow Marine with no legs more than 14 miles up Utah mountain  CBS News
3. Veteran carries fellow Marine with no legs up a Utah mountain  CBS Evening News
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The First Wizards Unite Global Challenge and Dragon Day Details Revealed!  Wizards Unite Hub

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1. Gary Oldman and Antonio Banderas Steal a Lot of Money and Have a Lot of Fun in 'The Laundromat' Trailer (Video)  TheWrap
2. ‘The Laundromat’ Trailer: Soderbergh Directs Meryl Streep in Netflix’s Wild Look at Panama Papers  IndieWire
3. The Laundromat | Official Trailer | Netflix  Netflix
4. The first trailer for Steven Soderbergh’s The Laundromat is goofy, topical fun  The Verge
5. Gary Oldman & Antonio Banderas Help the Rich Get Richer in ‘The Laundromat’  Highsnobiety
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1. Roger Federer Finishes Strong Against Damir Dzumhur At US Open  ATP Tour
2. One hundred matches and counting for Federer at the US Open -- but is there cause for concern for the Swiss?  CNN
3. Federer, Nishikori drop sets before advancing  ESPN
4. Roger Federer vs. Damir Dzumhur | US Open 2019 R2 Highlights  US Open Tennis Championships
5. Why is Roger Federer starting so slowly at the US Open?  Tennis Magazine
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1. 2020 prospect Javier Morton decommits from Alabama  TideSports.com
2. Nick Saban discusses LBs as Duke opener nears  AL.com
3. Sources -- Tide LB Moses (knee) likely out for '19  ESPN
4. Don't expect an Alabama falloff even with the loss of its most important player Dylan Moses  USA TODAY
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A private security guard who officials say accidentally wounded a student during a Colorado school shooting that left one teen dead wasn't supposed to be armed, an online news outlet reported. Emails obtained by The Colorado Sun show the suburban Denver charter school had requested an unarmed guard from BOSS High Level Protection about a year ago. In a statement, STEM School Highlands Ranch said it didn't know the guard was armed until the shooting occurred May 7 on the campus that includes students from kindergarten through high school.

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Loren Elliott/ReutersFour days ago, U.S. Customs and Border Protection released a stunning announcement notifying the public of the “potential death in custody” of a 6-month-old baby girl.Since then, the agency tasked with enforcing immigration laws on the U.S. border hasn’t released a single word about the infant’s condition, location, or custodial status—a silence that immigration advocates and lawmakers consider deafening.“Six-month-old children are innocent babies, and our government needs to treat them as such,” Sen. Jeff Merkley (D-OR) told The Daily Beast. “While we have few details about this particular case, we should do everything possible to provide extensive medical assistance when needed so that no child dies at the border or in our custody.”Others warned that the agency’s initial statement was indicative of broader mismanagement of the crisis at the nation’s southern border—or, even worse, amounted to a maladroit attempt to get out in front of yet another in-custody death of a migrant child.“It's really a symptom of the main issue, which is just persistent mismanagement of the border, resulting in more and more deaths,” said Ursela Ojeda, a policy adviser with the Women’s Refugee Commission’s migrant rights and justice program. “I’m quite worried that the agency that’s making this sort of press release is also in charge of the health and safety of migrant children and families.”According to the agency’s first release, published on Saturday morning, the unnamed infant was detained by CBP shortly after she and her father crossed the Rio Grande into Texas alongside a group of 21 migrants in the early morning hours on Thursday. Eight hours later, medical staff at the agency’s central processing center assessed that she needed medical care, and the girl was transported to Edinburg Regional Children’s Hospital in Edinburg, Texas.There, doctors determined that the girl needed to be medevaced to Driscoll Children’s Hospital in Corpus Christi. With no more room in the medical helicopter, her father was transported to Driscoll by vehicle, a two-and-a-half-hour drive.“Our thoughts and prayers are with the young girl and her father during this difficult time,” CBP stated.Since that announcement—hastily re-titled “CBP Statement on Hospitalization of Child in CBP Custody” after confusion over whether the infant had already died—the law enforcement agency tasked with patrolling the nation’s border has remained almost entirely silent on the girl’s condition.Federal Inspectors Release Photos to Blast DHS for ‘Dangerous’ Overcrowding at Border FacilitiesWhen contacted for an update on Tuesday morning, an officer with CBP’s Rio Grande Valley Sector public affairs office said that he was “not allowed to speak on that right now.” Another CBP public affairs officer promised that an update would come “soon,” but could provide no timeline or details. Jason Marton, communications manager for Driscoll Children’s Hospital, told The Daily Beast on Tuesday that he could not comment on the child’s case without her full name and birthdate, which CBP, citing confidentiality rules, did not release.“Isn’t it horrible?” Ojeda asked, referring to CBP’s initial decision to describe the girl’s illness as a “potential death.” Immigration agencies are required by law to inform Congress and the public of in-custody deaths as a condition of their federal funding, but in the eyes of immigrant-rights advocates, CBP’s release came across as trying to get ahead of a story.“It just feels so crass,” Ojeda said.The only other public statement regarding the girl’s condition came from Mark Morgan, acting CBP commissioner, who told Fox & Friends host Griff Jenkins that while the case “truly is tragic,” it served as proof that the Trump administration’s plans to indefinitely detain migrant families are critical to dissuading people from attempting to enter the United States to begin with.“This new Flores regulation that was just published on Friday, that we hope takes effect in 60 days, is so critical to stop this flow, to stop people from risking their lives,” Morgan said on Saturday, referring to President Donald Trump’s proposed termination of the Flores Settlement Agreement, which guarantees standards of care for undocumented minors in government custody. Under the proposed regulation—which already faces a legal challenge filed by 19 states and the District of Columbia—the government would be allowed to hold undocumented families in detention indefinitely.“We want to stem the flow—we want to stop people from risking their lives,” Morgan said, emphasizing that the long-term detention camps will feature “a high degree of care for the families, specifically kids.”But advocates, legal experts and lawmakers told The Daily Beast that the infant girl’s “potential death,” in CBP’s terms, is just further evidence that no length of detention is safe for children, particularly a baby.“It’s incredibly sad,” said Megan McKenna, senior director of communications and community engagement at Kids In Need of Defense, a legal non-profit that advocates for unaccompanied children in the immigration system. While noting the absence of details regarding the girl’s condition, McKenna pointed to the Trump administration’s decisions to meter legal access to the U.S. border and force asylum seekers to “Remain In Mexico” while their cases are adjudicated as contributing to the poor health of people seeking to enter the country.Trump’s Solution for Migrant Kid Horrors: Blame Obama“Forcing people to wait in unsafe and unsanitary conditions in Mexico [contributes] to the ill-health of some when they finally are able to enter the United States,” McKenna said. “Of course, young children are among the most vulnerable to becoming dangerously sick.”The proposal to hold kids indefinitely, McKenna added, only compounds those health risks, “placing children’s lives in danger.”“It’s my hope that she is with her father and that she’s receiving adequate care,” Ojeda said, although she noted cases where the agency has released people from custody while they remained ill—in her mind, to avoid taking the blame when the person died. “They need to take a long hard look at their policies before they hit ‘send.’”Merkley echoed McKenna and Ojeda’s concerns about metering and the “Remain In Mexico,” and told The Daily Beast that concerns about the safety of children in immigration enforcement custody are more than academic.Six migrant children have died in government custody in the past year, the majority of them in CBP custody.Darlyn Cristabel Cordova-Valle, 10 years old, died of a heart defect in September 2018. Jakelin Caal Maquin, 7 years old, died of a streptococcal sepsis infection in December 2018 after she was given a clean bill of health by CBP at the border. She spent 90 minutes vomiting on a bus ride before she was attended to by a physician. Felipe Gómez Alonzo, 8, died on Christmas morning of the flu complicated by a staph bacteria infection that led to sepsis after he was diagnosed with a common cold and not tested for influenza. Juan DeLeon Gutierrez, 16, fell ill at an Office of Refugee Resettlement shelter in May. No autopsy was performed. Wilmer Ramírez Vásquez, 2, had multiple intestinal and respiratory infectious diseases, including influenza, intestinal parasites, and E. coli when he died in May. Six days later, Carlos Hernández Vásquez, 16, also died of the flu, complicated by pneumonia and sepsis, after he was left alone for four hours in a Border Patrol detention cell with a 103-degree fever.“The news that another child has been hospitalized should give everyone great concern,” Merkley said. “Until the Trump administration stops using migrant children as pawns in their deterrence strategy, I fear we will continue to see tragedy unfold at our borders.”Read more at The Daily Beast.Got a tip? Send it to The Daily Beast hereGet our top stories in your inbox every day. Sign up now!Daily Beast Membership: Beast Inside goes deeper on the stories that matter to you. Learn more.

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(Bloomberg) -- The next debates for the Democratic presidential nomination may be limited to 10 candidates, with half the pack apparently failing to achieve the qualifying milestones, according to the latest sanctioned polls released Wednesday.A Quinnipiac University survey found that former Vice President Joe Biden leads the pack with 32% support among Democratic and Democratic-leaning voters. Biden is followed by Senators Elizabeth Warren at 19%, Bernie Sanders at 15%, and Kamala Harris at 7%. South Bend, Indiana, Mayor Pete Buttigieg got 5% and entrepreneur Andrew Yang received 3%, but no other candidate exceeded 1%.A USA Today/Suffolk University Poll released Wednesday found similar results, with Biden retaining a wide lead at 32%, Warren at 14% and Sanders with 12%. Only three other candidates scored above 2% in this poll: Buttigieg, Harris and Yang. Former Texas Congressman Beto O’Rourke and New Jersey Senator Cory Booker were both at 2%.The polls, which on the list sanctioned by the Democratic National Committee, appear unlikely to help any other candidates qualify for the next round of debates in Houston in September.It represented one of the final chances for candidates to make the cut by Wednesday’s deadline: qualifying candidates at least need 130,000 donors and to register at least 2% support in four qualifying polls.About half of the current field has yet to qualify, even accounting for the three recent dropouts: John Hickenlooper, Jay Inslee and Seth Moulton. If one more candidate hits the threshold, the event will be broadened.Billionaire investor Tom Steyer looks to have the best chance to get in but failed to top 1% in this Quinnipiac poll.The Quinnipiac University poll, conducted from Aug. 21-26, surveyed 1,422 self-identified registered voters nationwide with a margin of error of 3.1 percentage points. The survey of 648 Democratic voters and independent voters who lean Democratic has a margin of error of 4.6 percentage points.The USA Today/Suffolk poll of 424 registered voters who plan to vote in Democratic caucus or primary was taken Aug. 20-25 and has a margin of error of 4.76 percentage points.(Updates with USA Today/Suffolk poll in third paragraph.)To contact the reporter on this story: Elizabeth Wasserman in Washington at ewasserman2@bloomberg.netTo contact the editors responsible for this story: Wendy Benjaminson at wbenjaminson@bloomberg.net, Justin BlumFor more articles like this, please visit us at bloomberg.com©2019 Bloomberg L.P.

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US president responded to accusations of seeking to profit off the presidency by planning to host the 2020 summit at his resortDefending himself against accusations of seeking to profit off the presidency by planning to host a G7 summit next year at one of his resorts, Donald Trump on Monday estimated that being president had cost him $3bn to $5bn and said: “I don’t want to make money. I don’t care about making money.”Trump took questions from reporters in a joint appearance with the French president, Emmanuel Macron, at the conclusion of the G7 summit in Biarritz. The US is slated to host the summit next year.The US president confirmed for the first time that his struggling Trump National Doral Miami resort in Florida is high in the running to host the event.The front entrance to the Trump National Doral. Photograph: Joe Raedle/Getty ImagesHosting the G7 will cost American taxpayers hundreds of millions of dollars. Hosting the event at Doral, an 800-acre golf resort close to the Miami airport, would divert a torrent of taxpayer cash into Trump’s own coffers.But Trump said he had been losing money as president.“I’ve spent, and I think I will, in a combination of loss and opportunity, probably it will cost me anywhere from $3bn to $5bn to be president,” Trump said. “And the only thing I care about is this country.> I used to make a lot of money to give speeches. Now I give speeches all the time, and what do I get? Zippo“People have asked me, ‘What do you think it costs’” to be president, he said.“I used to make a lot of money to give speeches. Now I give speeches all the time, and what do I get? Zippo.”As a number apparently without basis in any vet-able balance sheet, the “$3bn to $5bn” figure was beyond factchecking. But it appeared to be based on a separate false estimation by Trump that exaggerated the size of his eponymous company by about 15 times.Trump proceeded to dump on the assembled press a real estate brochure’s worth of stats and facts about his Doral property.“Doral happens to be ... only five minutes from the airport, the airport’s right next door,” he said. “And by the way, my people looked at 12 sites, all good, but some were two hours from the airport, some four hours.“We have a series of magnificent buildings, we call them bungalows, they each hold from 50 to 70 rooms, they have magnificent views. And what we have also is Miami.”The president went on to extol the abundance of parking at his resort, where net operating income has fallen by 69% in the last two years, the Washington Post reported.“The ballrooms are among the biggest in Florida, and the best,” Trump said. “Each country can have their own villa, or their own bungalow, and the bungalows like I say have a lot of units in them.”He concluded: “I don’t want to make money. I don’t care about making money … It’s not about me, it’s about getting the right location.”Later, when asked about the new British prime minister, Boris Johnson, Trump said “I love the UK” and listed his golf properties there, naming Turnberry and Aberdeen. But he also mentioned Doonbeg, which is in the Republic of Ireland.Trump’s business ties, which he has not fully disclosed to voters, have raised concerns that he could have violated a constitutional ban on government officials taking emoluments – profits derived from the holding of public office – from foreign governments or actors.His continued ownership of the Trump Organization means, for example, that an untold share of the hundreds of thousands of dollars spent by foreign governments and tens of millions of dollars spent by domestic interest groups at the Trump International hotel in Washington could have found their way to Trump himself.The Trump Organization claims to reimburse the US treasury where appropriate.Trump-branded properties have had mixed success since Trump moved into the White House. A flood of foreign leaders, security spending and staff could stop that skid.The US last hosted the G7 summit (then the G8 with the inclusion of Russia, which was expelled in 2014 and which Trump now wants to readmit) in 2012 at Camp David, Maryland, a government site. In 2004, the US hosted at Sea Island, Georgia.

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