Yang and O'Rourke propose decriminalizing opioids, including heroin

At Tuesday's Democratic presidential debate, candidates Andrew Yang and Beto O'Rourke endorsed decriminalizing opioids, including heroin, as a way to control the drug epidemic that has ravaged American communities. "The least we can do is put the resources to work in our communities so our people have a fighting chance to get well,” Yang said, adding, “Part of helping people get the treatment they need is letting them know that they are not going to be referred to a prison cell.

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  Beto O'Rourke's campaign manager talks Trump impeachment and candidate's debate prep

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  Beto O'Rourke Explains How He Plans On Banning Assault Weapons

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Buttigieg, O'Rourke clash over assault-rifle buyback plan

At Tuesday night's Democratic primary debate, presidential candidates Beto O'Rourke and Pete Buttigieg escalated their disagreement over O'Rourke's proposal for mandatory buybacks of assault weapons. “Every single one of them is an instrument of terror,” said former Texas Rep. O'Rourke when asked how he planned to take away assault weapons from American gun owners, registered or unregistered. O'Rourke in a previous debate said, “Hell, yes,” he would as president establish a mandatory government buyback program for AK-47 and AR-15 rifles but without going into details of how it would be enforced.

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  Beto O'Rourke's campaign manager talks Trump impeachment and candidate's debate prep

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  Pete Buttigieg, Beto O’Rourke Trade Jabs Over Gun Reform Plans At Democratic Debate

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Warren Deletes Infamous DNA Test Tweet One Year After Reveal

Senator Elizabeth Warren (D., Mass.) deleted from her Twitter and YouTube accounts a now-infamous video announcing the results of her DNA test on Wednesday, one year after its initial unveiling was met with heavy bipartisan criticism. A story titled “Happy Anniversary to Elizabeth Warren's DNA Test!” by Jim Treacher, a columnist at PJ Media, revisited the reveal by Warren on Tuesday, a year to the day after the initial video was posted. Treacher then later went to look for the tweet, but found it deleted.

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  Elizabeth Warren Gets the Biden Treatment and 3 Other Takeaways From CNN/NYT Democratic Debate

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  Elizabeth Warren wants to break up big tech. Other candidates aren't so sure

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Fort Worth chief: 'absolutely no excuse' for woman's killing

The furor Tuesday over the killing of a black woman by a white Fort Worth officer became increasingly about a gun pointed at a bedroom window. Officer Aaron Dean was arrested on a murder charge Monday in the slaying of Atatiana Jefferson. Police released an arrest warrant Tuesday quoting the victim's 8-year-old nephew as saying Jefferson had pulled out a gun after hearing suspicious noises behind her house.

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  Police discuss murder charges against ex-Fort Worth police officer in fatal shooting of woman in her own home

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  Outrage at packed Fort Worth council meeting over police shooting

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Turkey slams 'dirty deal' between Syria's Assad and Kurdish forces

Turkey dismissed global opposition to its military operation in Syria on Tuesday and slammed a "dirty deal" between President Bashar al-Assad's regime and Kurdish forces as US troops began their withdrawal from the battle zone. Turkey's operation against Kurdish militants in Syria, launched a week ago, has been widely criticised by the international community, with the US, a NATO ally, slapping sanctions on Ankara. "We will continue to combat all terrorist groups, including Daesh (the Islamic State group), whether or not the world agrees to support our efforts," Fahrettin Altun, communications director at the Turkish presidency, told AFP.

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  Trump: US troops 'largely out' of Syria region

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  Erdogan tells Trump that Turkey will 'never declare ceasefire' in northern Syria despite sanctions

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Everything Google Revealed at Its NYC Pixel Event

Smartphones, smart speakers, and other smart stuff. From Popular Mechanics

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  Google unveils Pixel 4 and Pixel 4 XL smartphones

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  Google in smartphone push with motion-sensing Pixel 4

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Boston pension votes to fire money manager Fisher, withdrawals surge toward $1 billion

The City of Boston's retirement board on Wednesday voted unanimously to end its relationship with money manager Kenneth Fisher, whose firm has lost almost $1 billion in assets after allegations he made disparaging remarks about women last week. In addition, on Wednesday evening an official of the Los Angeles pension system for police and firefighters said it will review the roughly $500 million it has invested with Fisher's firm. "As with other pension funds, we are very concerned with the inappropriate comments made by Mr. Fisher," said the Los Angeles system's general manager, Ray Ciranna, via e-mail.

'They were sent to the slaughter': Mexico mourns 13 police killed in cartel ambush

With an AR-15 assault rifle in his hand and six spare magazines across his chest, the burly policemen looked nothing if not intimidating as he prepared to attend a memorial service for 13 fellow officers who were killed in an ambush in western Mexico on Monday. At least 30 gunmen opened fire on the convoy of state police officers as they drove along a rural road in the municipality of Aguililla in the state of Michoacán early on Monday morning. The ambush was the latest in a string of brazen attacks by the Jalisco New Generation cartel (known by its Spanish initials CJNG), and represents a direct challenge to Andrés Manuel López Obrador's promise to end Mexico's security crisis while avoiding direct conflict with organized crime groups.

Buttigieg Claims Warren and Sanders’s Medicare for All Is ‘Infringing on Freedom’ in New Ad

The South Bend, Ind., mayor's minute-long video, titled “Makes More Sense,” features several political reporters and analysts praising his plan and juxtaposing it with Senators Elizabeth Warren and Bernie Sanders' Medicare for All, which would require that roughly 160 million Americans' surrender their private insurance. “Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren believe that we have to force ourselves into Medicare for All, where private insurance is abolished, there are 160 million Americans to get their insurance from their employer,” CNN analyst Joe Lockhart says in a clip included in the ad.

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  Warren takes fresh heat in scattered Democratic debate: Analysis

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  Pete Buttigieg won the Democratic debate by bringing a youthful bite back to moderate politics

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Wisconsin jury awards $450,000 in Sandy Hook defamation case

MADISON, Wis. (AP) A jury in Wisconsin has awarded $450,000 to the father of a boy killed in the 2012 Sandy Hook school shooting after he filed a defamation lawsuit against conspiracy theorist writers who claimed the massacre never happened. A Dane County jury on Tuesday decided the amount James Fetzer must pay Leonard Pozner, whose 6-year-old son Noah was among the 26 victims at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Connecticut, on Dec. 14, 2012. Fetzer, a retired University of Minnesota Duluth professor now living in Wisconsin, and Mike Palacek co-wrote a book, "Nobody Died at Sandy Hook," in which they claimed the Sandy Hook shooting never took place but was instead an event staged by the federal government as part of an Obama administration effort to enact tighter gun restrictions. A judge earlier ruled Pozner was defamed by statements in the book that claimed he fabricated copies of his son's death certificate.

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  Wisconsin man ordered to pay $450K to Sandy Hook father for saying son's death was a hoax

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  "Nobody Died at Sandy Hook" Conspiracy Theorist Will Pay $450K

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Woman will spend 60 years in prison for first-degree murder of boyfriend

A woman who poured gasoline on the couch where her sleeping boyfriend lay and then shut the door after seeing him jump up and yell "hot, hot" will spend 60 years in prison for first-degree murder.

New Jersey police are looking for a possible witness to the kidnapping of a 3-year-old girl 30 days ago

On Tuesday, New Jersey officials released a sketch of a possible witness to the abduction of 5-year-old Dulce Maria Alavez. Dulce disappeared on September 16, after her mother took her to Bridgeton City Park with her siblings. The case of a 5-year-old girl who has been missing for a month took a turn on Tuesday when New Jersey officials released a sketch of a man they believe may witnessed Dulce Maria Alavez's abduction.

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  Possible witness sketch released in case of Dulce Maria Alavez

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  'We have not given up': Still no suspects in case of missing Dulce Maria Alavez on 1-month anniversary of disappearance

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What is a bomb cyclone and when will it hit the US?

Fall has only just arrived, but wintry weather is already here, as a “bomb cyclone” is currently hitting parts of the US. The winter storm is expected to bring high winds, blizzard-like conditions, and heavy flooding where it hits the Northeast of US, including New York City, Boston, and parts of Maine over Wednesday and Thursday. What is a bomb cyclone?

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  Flag Flaps in Basking Ridge, New Jersey, as Nor'easter Nears

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  Residents brace as nor'easter bears down on New York area

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One dead in strong 6.4-magnitude Philippines quake: mayor

A child was killed in a strong 6.4-magnitude quake that hit the southern Philippines on Wednesday, a local mayor said, as houses collapsed, power was knocked out and a shopping mall burst into flames. Residents evacuated homes and buildings across the Mindanao region including a mall that caught fire in the city of General Santos shortly after the quake struck in the evening, officials said. The child died in a house collapse in the town of Datu Paglas, while four residents of nearby Tulunan town were injured when at least two other houses fell down, Tulunan Mayor Reuel Limbungan told AFP.

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  4.5 Magnitude Quake Rattles Bay Area

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  Landslide, building damage from Philippine quake kills 4

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Meet USS Barb: The Navy's Special World War II Submarine That Terrified Japan

However, a week before the battleships began lobbing their massive shells, a legendary U.S. submarine toting a rocket launcher began its own campaign of coastal terror that foretold the future of naval warfare—and also engaged in the only Allied ground-combat operation on Japanese home-island soil. Submarines still made use of deck guns during World War II, most of them ranging between three and five inches in caliber. These were used to finish off unarmed merchant ships or sink smaller vessels that could evade torpedoes—but also were occasionally directed to bombard coastal targets, such as in early-war Japanese raids on the coasts of California and Australia.

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  Battleship USS Massachusetts: The U.S. Navy's World War II Battleship Killer

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  Imperial Japan's Monster Battleships Were The Biggest (And Baddest) Ever Built

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Senate Republicans are preparing for a speedy impeachment trial

Senate Republicans are preparing for a speedy impeachment trial that concludes before the end of the year. Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell surmised that the Senate could deal with the trial by Christmas, concluding the impeachment proceedings before the Democratic presidential primaries begin.

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  Nancy Pelosi says impeachment inquiry is deadly serious effort to find the truth

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  Ex-Pompeo adviser tells Congress he resigned over Trump's attacks on Yovanovitch

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View 2021 Genesis GV70 Spy Photos

This is our first look at the upcoming GV80 crossover's smaller sibling. From Car and Driver

School suspends girls, says rape-awareness note was bullying

A 15-year-old girl was suspended for bullying after trying to draw attention to what she believed was an unaddressed problem of sexual assaults involving students at her high school. Aela Mansmann, a 15-year-old sophomore at Cape Elizabeth High School outside Portland, has been at odds with Cape Elizabeth Schools for a month after posting a note in a bathroom that said: "There's a rapist in our school and you know who it is." She and two other students who left similar notes were ordered suspended. The American Civil Liberties Union of Maine is taking on Mansmann's case and calling on federal court to stop her suspension.

The Kurds Gave Syria Hope: Measuring the Cost of the U.S. Withdrawal

In early August, the United States and Turkey announced they had agreed to jointly patrol a strip on the Syrian side of the Syrian–Turkish border, after repeated Turkish threats to invade the area where American, British, and French troops operate. Turkey had consistently said that Kurdish-led forces in the area, the YPG (People's Defense Units), were terrorists, given their historical relationship with the PKK (Kurdistan Workers' Party), a guerrilla group that has fought against the Turkish government since the late 1970s. The YPG, however, were not focused on targeting the Turkish government.

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  Turkey’s Syria invasion rapidly backfiring for Ankara amid unexpected international condemnation

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  UPDATE 2-Trump's light sanctions are a relief for bruised Turkish lira

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Trump leaves Turkey, Syria 'to argue it out' and clashes with U.S. House Speaker

U.S. President Donald Trump said on Wednesday he did not mind Russia helping Syria in a conflict with NATO ally Turkey and rejected criticism of his withdrawal of U.S. troops from Syria that exposed Kurdish allies, calling it "strategically brilliant." In a day of fast-moving events, Trump endured harsh criticism for the withdrawal and lashed out at U.S. House of Representatives Speaker Nancy Pelosi, calling her a "third-rate" politician during a tense White House meeting after which she accused him of having a "meltdown."

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  US troops face another close-call as Turkey pounds northern Syria

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  Fighting continues near Turkey-Syria border

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