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Hurricane Dorian roared into "catastrophic" Category 5 status Sunday and blasted into the Bahamas as one of the fiercest storms on record. ...
As Hurricane Dorian moves toward Florida's Atlantic coast, it has the potential to become one of the strongest storms of all time.
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Trump says Americans should pray for islandersWhere will the storm hit and what damage will it bring?Hurricane Dorian grew into a “catastrophic” category 5 storm on Sunday as...
Exit polls put party second in German state elections in Saxony and BrandenburgThe anti-immigration Alternative für Deutschland party made strong gains in two crucial state elections...
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The "extremely dangerous" storm is expected to bring devastating winds and very heavy rainfall.
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New York Times: Shooting Spree Across 15 Miles in West Texas Terrorized Two Towns and Killed 7 — ODESSA, Tex. — The 36-year-old man who terrorized two West Texas towns with...
Acacia Coronado / The Texas Tribune: After West Texas shooting, Texas House Rep. says “NO” to gun restrictions — Rep. Matt Schaefer, R-Tyler, has received a wave of reactions...
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The Register
Plus a Cisco bug, dentists bitten by malware, and France takes down a worm Roundup This week ended with a bang, thanks to some Twitter hackers.…
Cryptocurrency crooks look to siphon cycles from enterprise kit Exclusive A coin-mining malware infection previously only seen on Arm-powered IoT devices has made the jump to Intel...
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Criminals used previously unknown vulnerabilities to implant monitoring software, research shows.
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A pet husky was allegedly abandoned and allowed to starve to death by his owner, a former major league baseball player. The suspect has been charged with aggravated animal cruelty...
Foie gras is produced by force-feeding birds, which causes their livers to swell to up to 10 times their normal size. No animals should suffer for people's food taste. Sign this petition...
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All Things Considered : NPR
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Democracy Now!
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With his third ever no-hitter, Verlander joined an elite group of just six other major league pitchers with three or more no-hitters under their belt.
Dorian is hitting the Bahamas as "the strongest hurricane in modern records" to hit the archipelago, according to the National Hurricane Center.
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