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Texas trooper shot and killed during routine traffic stop - ABC News - 0 views

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  • The attack was carried out by 25-30 militants who arrived at the mosque in five all-terrain vehicles, Sadeq said.
  • "We carried whoever we found alive and took them in pickups and private cars until more ambulances could come and help."
  • "There was a woman waiting outside for her husband and young child to finish praying; she came inside and found them dead next to each other," Shetewy said.
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  • The Egyptian Armed Forces posted to Facebook on Saturday a video of its aircraft targeting "terrorist spots" in northern Sinai.
  • "The world cannot tolerate terrorism, we must defeat them militarily and discredit the extremist ideology that forms the basis of their existence!" he continued.
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Egypt mosque attackers carried ISIS flags, death toll rises to 305: chief prosecutor - ... - 0 views

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Egypt mosque attack

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  • But there is a growing group of people doing the unexpected. They’re called the Liberal Gun Club, just one of a number of left-leaning gun clubs now in operation,
  • The liberal view on most things is, I might not like it, but that doesn’t mean I’m going to ban it.”
  • When it comes to mass shootings, Lara Smith says she doesn’t think banning guns is the answer.
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  • U.S. President Donald Trump commented on the attack via Twitter Friday morning, writing that it was a "horrible and cowardly terrorist attack on innocent and defenseless worshipers."
  • The stores in the area immediately shuttered their doors and windows to protect people from the commotion.
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Mild temperatures ahead for central US, while flooding plagues parts of the west - ABC ... - 0 views

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US plague temperature

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  • This is the only region of the country where there is a possibility of some travel delays over the weekend.
  • On Monday, there will be numerous records challenged from the Southwest to the Central and Northern Plains, including Lincoln, Nebraska; Wichita, Kansas, and Denver.
  • They also torched seven cars belonging to the worshipers that were parked outside, he added.
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  • He said the building is "huge" and was lined with bodies and a large quantity of shell casings following the attack.
  • The resident added that urgent cases are being sent to another hospital in Ismailia, almost 75 miles away.
  • Trump announced Friday afternoon that he planned to call Egyptian President Abdel Fattah el-Sisi to discuss the attack.
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FBI investigating 'potential assault' on Border Patrol agents - ABC News - 0 views

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politics Africa

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  • The attack was carried out by 25-30 militants who arrived at the mosque in five all-terrain vehicles, Sadeq said.
  • as well as passing vehicles, after first shooting some who were "kneeling in prayer."
  • "There was a woman waiting outside for her husband and young child to finish praying; she came inside and found them dead next to each other," Shetewy said.
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Memorial services to be held for Border Patrol agent whose death remains a mystery - AB... - 0 views

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  • The attack was carried out by 25-30 militants who arrived at the mosque in five all-terrain vehicles, Sadeq said.
  • He said the building is "huge" and was lined with bodies and a large quantity of shell casings following the attack.
  • The resident added that urgent cases are being sent to another hospital in Ismailia, almost 75 miles away.
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  • "The law enforcement forces, in cooperation with the air force, continue to carry out their operations and have established an intensive perimeter to scour the area around the event in search of the remaining terrorist elements."
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Congress has a sexual harassment problem, lawmakers and staffers say - CNNPolitics - 0 views

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Sexualize harass National Congress

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  • an informal roster passed along by word-of-mouth, consisting of the male members most notorious for inappropriate behavior, ranging from making sexually suggestive comments or gestures to seeking physical relations with younger employees and interns.
  • "Amongst ourselves, we know," a former Senate staffer said of the lawmakers with the worst reputations. And sometimes, the sexual advances from members of Congress or senior aides are reciprocated in the hopes of advancing one's career -- what one political veteran bluntly referred to as a "sex trade on Capitol Hill."
  • Both House Speaker Paul Ryan and Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell support ramping up sexual harassment training.
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  • Both senators are men and still currently in office.
  • One woman said years after leaving her job in Congress, she still feels anxious about being alone in elevators with men.
  • Some members of Congress forgo a Washington-area apartment and sleep in their offices, a practice several sources highlighted as problematic.
  • The dozens of interviews that CNN conducted with both men and women also revealed that there is an unwritten list of male lawmakers
  • "There is a certain code amongst us, we acknowledge among each other what occurs."
  • Most offices are staffed by early-career professionals who are trying to make a name for themselves in Washington. They also report directly to members of Congress.
  • "You can't prove it" and "it'll be a nightmare" to move forward, Manzer said.
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US official: Russian flight practices are unsafe in Syria - CNNPolitics - 0 views

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  • The official said some of the incidents also involve the flying practices of Syrian regime aircraft.
  • American commanders and pilots are making certain to share everything they can with other crews in both safety and pre-flight briefings.
  • It was set up specifically to try to ensure there are no accidents or escalation in the use of forces.
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Lawyer: Conyers won't resign House seat, did not harass women - CNNPolitics - 0 views

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lawyer Conyers women US history

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  • "If everybody that was facing 'allegations' -- including the President, members of the House and Senate -- resigned, we'd have a lot of unemployed people walking around."
  • In the report, Sloan alleged that Conyers had harassed and verbally abused her and that her appeals for help from congressional leadership were ignored.
  • it is fundamentally incongruous with her statements," he said.
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  • Court documents also revealed this week that another former staffer alleged that Conyers had sexually harassed her in 2015 and 2016.
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Explicit Barton image raises possibility of 'revenge porn' - CNNPolitics - 0 views

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  • Dodd told CNN that Barton did not release the image himself and does not know who did.
  • The woman told the Post she took that phone call as a threat, and she never had any intention to use the materials to retaliate against Barton.
  • sexually explicit images are posted online without consent -- was outlawed in Texas in 2015.
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  • the Capitol Police reached out to me and offered to launch an investigation and I have accepted. Because of the pending investigation, we will have no further comment."
  • Dodd said that Barton is using her firm to handle this matter rather than his congressional office because "it's the holiday weekend" and there have been "a lot of calls" about the image and he needed the "extra help."
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The Push to Make French Gender-Neutral - The Atlantic - 0 views

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french gender-neutral culture

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  • Feminists who believe that these features of the French language put women at a disadvantage disagree about how best to remedy them.
  • It’s not that speaking French makes it impossible for you to conceive of something as gender-neutral, he suggested
  • those studies are limited in that they can’t control for outside factors like culture, which are extremely important in determining sexist attitudes.
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  • The statement also warned that inclusive writing would “destroy” the promises of the Francophonie (the linguistic zone encompassing all countries that use French at the administrative level, or whose first or majority language is French).
  • this subject is still on the margins of cognitive science and linguistics research, and critics of inclusive writing say that not enough work has been done to prove conclusively that changing a language will improve gender equality.
  • also the speakers of minority languages in France (like Catalan, Occitan, and Gascon), who have always used the median-period as a phonetic marker.
  • So the uproar was almost instantaneous when, this fall, the first-ever school textbook promoting a gender-neutral version of French was released.
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The Departing CFPB Director Issues a Challenge to Trump - The Atlantic - 0 views

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finance trump Crisis US economic

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  • The Trump administration had signaled its intent to replace Cordray with an acting director, using the Federal Vacancies Act
  • By formally naming a deputy director on Friday, he strengthened the CFPB’s hand in any ensuing legal battle for control of the agency.
  • Though Mulvaney wouldn’t have run day-to-day operations of the agency, his appointment as acting director would allow him to hire someone to oversee daily work and to set the agency’s broader agenda.
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  • The agency has also fined many financial industry companies, including Wells Fargo and Equifax, for actions that hurt customers and created new opportunities for consumers to air grievances with financial institutions and learn about consumer products.
  • “serve as acting Director in the absence or unavailability of the Director.”
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To Hell With the Witch-Hunt Debate - The Atlantic - 0 views

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Crisis US culture witch-hunt

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  • But to look at the shocking and ever-growing list of prominent men recently and credibly accused of acts ranging from sexual harassment to violent rape is to realize that abhorrent treatment of women is alive and well in many American workplaces.   
  • It seemed a pretty long way down the ladder from the violent rapes described by Weinstein’s accusers to jail time for a winker, but Allen introduced early-on an important theme: scale.
  • ran a second column in which she worried she was “participating in a sex panic.”
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  • She owns that car, and has every right to protect it.
  • the response was very different—the weary, way-of-the-world instruction: That’s how it is.
  • I am reminded of the ancient words that washed over me in the churches of my childhood and the college chapels of my late adolescence, in the cathedrals and outdoor masses of my early life on my own: This is my body, which is given up for you.
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