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Scientists Finally Find Proof That Earth's Core Is Solid
WorldNews.com 19 Oct 2018
Researchers from the Australian National University are confident they have found direct proof for the first time, that the Earth’s inner core is solid — albeit a little bit squishy, Newsweek reports.In a paper published in the journal Science, Hrvoje Tkalčić, an associate professor, and Than-Son Phạm, a scholar, both at ANU, describe how they detected so-called "shear waves" or “J waves” in the inner core....
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Saudi Arabia Confirms Khashoggi Was Killed in Instabul Consulate
Yahoo Daily News 19 Oct 2018
In a major development in the disappearance of journalist Jamal Khashoggi, Saudi Arabia on Friday, 19 October, confirmed that Khashoggi was killed inside the Saudi consulate in Istanbul earlier this month ... (This is a developing story, more details soon.). ... ....
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FBI Expands Search For Missing Wisconsin Teenager To Entire United States
WorldNews.com 19 Oct 2018
After more than 1,000 tips and 100 people participated in a local search party in Barron County, Wisconsin, the FBI said they were expanding the search nationwide for 13-year-old Jayme Closs after she went missing on Monday after her parents were found shot to death in their home, according to ABC News ... But officials said their daughter Jayme was nowhere to be found ... "That's why those leads are so important." ... -WN.com, Maureen Foody....
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Fentanyl Smuggled From China Blamed In Deaths Of Thousands Of Americans
WorldNews.com 19 Oct 2018
The U.S. government blames China’s Zheng drug trafficking organization for the deaths of thousands of Americans from overdoses of synthetic opioids, the Los Angeles Times reports.The operation was hardly clandestine ... The group was so adept at smuggling, and so brazen in its marketing, that it offered a money-back guarantee to buyers if its goods were seized by U.S ... states. U.S ... 1 cause of opioid-related overdose deaths ... Gen....
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National Security Adviser Urges Trump To Withdraw From Russian Nuclear Arms Treaty
WorldNews.com 19 Oct 2018
John Bolton is pushing for the United States to withdraw from a cold war-era arms control treaty with Russia, in the face of resistance from others in the Trump administration and U.S. allies, according to sources briefed on the initiative, The Guardian reports.Bolton, Donald Trump’s third national security adviser, has issued a recommendation for withdrawal from the 1987 intermediate-range nuclear forces treaty (INF), which the U.S....
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Migrant Caravan Approaches Guatemalan Border With Mexico
WorldNews.com 19 Oct 2018
Mexico deployed hundreds of riot police along its border with Guatemala before Friday in anticipation of the massive caravan of Central American migrants making their way to the United States, according to The AFP ... border. Trump had also threatened to deploy the military to the U.S.-Mexico border and even close the border if the migrants continued through Mexico ... ... -WN.com, Maureen Foody....
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At Least 50 Feared Dead After Train Hits Crowd In India
WorldNews.com 19 Oct 2018
A train that was traveling from Jalandhar to Amritsar killed at least 50 people who were gathered on the tracks while watching a fireworks display celebrating a Hindi festival in northern India on Friday, according to The India Times. At least 300 people were watching 'Ravana Dahan' at a ground near the tracks in Punjab state when the train barreled through the crowd at the usual speed. "There are more than 50 dead ... S ... ... ....
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With All Eyes On Kavanaugh; Trumpian Democracy Packs Courts To Win Culture War
WorldNews.com 19 Oct 2018
Article by WN .Com Correspondent Dallas DarlingIt was with great irony President Andrew Jackson said ... Blacks, women and Native Americans were excluded.The same kind of political malfeasance is now taking place. In fact, as all eyes were on the appointment of Brett Kavanaugh to the U.S ... While three of the judges are for the powerful circuit courts of appeals, the other 12 were for district court positions....
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Japan's Famous Cherry Blossoms Come Months Early After Bouts Of Severe Weather
WorldNews.com 19 Oct 2018
With more than 350 reports of premature blossoms being reported across the island nation of Japan, the famous "Sakura" season seems to have arrived several months early as fall morphs into spring stretching from the southwestern island of Kyushu all the way across the archipelago as far north as Hokkaido, according to CNN ... “This time we are hearing about it from all over the country.” ... -WN.com, Maureen Foody....
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Bolsonaro's Son Banned From WhatsApp Amid Row Over Illegal Social Media Campaign
WorldNews.com 19 Oct 2018
The politician son of the right-wing presidential candidate Jair Bolsonaro was evicted from the popular messaging app WhatsApp after allegations his father used an illegal fake news campaign on the Facebook-owned app to spread misinformation before the upcoming runoff election, according to The Guardian ... Flávio Bolsonaro, the candidate's son, tweeted that he was banned from the app along with a screenshot from his phone that read....
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Conservative Americans are smearing Jamal Khashoggi in defence of Trump
Independent online (SA) 19 Oct 2018
Washington - Hard-line Republicans and conservative commentators are mounting a dark whisper campaign against Jamal Khashoggi that is designed to protect President Donald Trump from criticism of his handling of the dissident journalist's alleged murder by Saudi Arabia operatives - and support Trump's continued aversion to a forceful response to the oil-rich desert kingdom ... At a Thursday rally in Montana, Trump openly praised Rep ... . ... ....
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States That Have Legalized Recreational Marijuana Report Increase In Car Crashes
WorldNews.com 19 Oct 2018
The National Transportation Safety Board said Tuesday that the probable cause of a crash that killed 12 people on a church bus near Concan, Texas, in March 2017 was that the 20-year-old man whose truck hit the bus was under the influence of marijuana and a sedative, CNN reports ... The findings were similar ... Driving while impaired by any substance, including marijuana, is illegal in all states.WN.com, Jim Berrie....
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Spain Angers Franco Supporters After Announcing Officials Will Exhume His Remains
WorldNews.com 19 Oct 2018
The Spanish government passed legislation which will allow officials to move the remains of the dictator Francisco Franco from his self-made memorial but many supporters are angry over the decision, according to National Public Radio. Franco is interred behind the main altar of the basilica in the Valle de los Caídos, but the site has become a pilgrimage location for those who maintain support for the 20th-Century General....
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Judge Dismisses Some Charges Against Trump Campaign Aide Paul Manafort
WorldNews.com 19 Oct 2018
U.S. prosecutors on Friday agreed to drop criminal charges against Paul Manafort on which a jury deadlocked in August, as a federal judge set a Feb ... District Judge T.S ... “I’m not willing to go on endlessly” before sentencing Manafort, Ellis added.Uzo Asonye, a lawyer for the government, told Ellis it was not clear when Manafort’s cooperation would be completed ... He set the Feb....
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NASA calls for science payloads for delivery to Moon
The Siasat Daily 19 Oct 2018
Washington. In line with its plan to conduct more research on the Moon’s surface ahead of a human return, NASA has issued a call for science instruments and technology payloads that will fly on commercial lunar landers as early as next year or 2020 ... The initial proposal deadline is November 19, 2018, the US space agency added ... Source. IANS. ....
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