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  • WorldAssociated Press

    The Druze are a religious sect. Here's a look at their beliefs and history

    The Druze religious sect, enmeshed in an outbreak of tit-for-tat violence in Syria, began roughly 1,000 years ago as an offshoot of Ismailism, a branch of Shiite Islam. Most of the other Druze live in Lebanon and Israel, including in the Golan Heights, which Israel captured from Syria in the 1967 Mideast War and annexed in 1981. A core social doctrine for Druze is defending their brothers, meaning defending one another, said Makram Rabah, assistant professor of history at the American Universi

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  • USFortune

    Buried in Trump’s beautiful bill is a new $250 fee on travelers to the U.S. Estimates project it could cut the federal deficit by nearly $30 billion

    Tourists, business travelers, and international students will be required to fork over the new fee.

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    Hollie Strano, former WKYC meteorologist, to do forecast work for southern radio stations

    Holly Strano, the former Emmy-winning meteorologist for Channel 3, has found new employment forecasting for Southern radio stations, she announced.

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  • WorldReuters

    China plans crackdown on zero-mileage used car sales

    SHANGHAI (Reuters) -China's industry ministry is planning to ban the resale of cars within six months of their initial registration as part of efforts to combat sales of so-called zero-mileage used cars, an industry association publication reported on Saturday. Zero-mileage used cars have emerged in China as a result of the uniquely cutthroat competition for sales in the world's largest auto market, which is reeling from a brutal, years-long price war caused by chronic overcapacity. The practi

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  • USNBC News

    Man dies after being sucked into Long Island MRI machine

    A 61-year-old man in New York has died after he was sucked into a magnetic resonance imaging machine this week, Nassau County police said Friday

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  • WorldCNN

    For the first time in modern history a capital city is on the verge of running dry

    As the sun rises over Kabul’s parched mountains, a family’s daily struggle to find water – and to make it last – is about to begin.

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  • USAssociated Press

    Judge orders Tennessee to turn off inmate's heart-regulating implanted device at execution

    Tennessee officials must deactivate a death-row inmate 's implanted heart-regulating device to avert the risk that it might try to shock him during his lethal injection, a judge ruled Friday. The order by Nashville Chancellor Russell Perkins comes ahead of the Aug. 5 execution of Byron Black. Black's attorneys have said that the implantable cardioverter-defibrillator could shock him in an attempt to restore his heart's normal rhythm after the single dose of pentobarbital, with the potential fo

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