'This is science': Teen climate activist Greta Thunberg testifies before Congress

Appearing on Capitol Hill for the second straight day Wednesday, Swedish teenage climate activist Greta Thunberg told U.S. lawmakers she did not want them to listen to her. “I want you to listen to the scientists,” Thunberg said in her testimony before the House Select Committee on the Climate Crisis, where she appeared with other youth leaders. Instead of prepared remarks, Thunberg submitted a 2018 report on global warming by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, which warned about the impacts of global warming of 1.5°C that researchers say is likely between 2030 and 2052 if it continues at the current rate.

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  Greta Thunberg to Congress: ‘You’re not trying hard enough. Sorry’

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  Greta Thunberg wins Amnesty's highest human rights award

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Women who attended Yale at the same time as Brett Kavanaugh in the 1980s remember an alcohol-soaked and sometimes predatory campus

Now, the painful and contentious allegations against Kavanaugh been re-surfaced by a new book, "The Education of Brett Kavanaugh" written by New York Times reporters Robin Pogrebin and Kate Kelly which examines Kavanaugh's young adulthood, personal development, and the accusations that he assaulted women. Pogrebin told WMAL"s "Morning on the Mall" that "the reason for this book was to go back to a process that left many people feeling unsatisfied and unfinished. There is so much bitter partisanship people bring to the story that makes people see what they want to see.

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  New York Times reporters respond to clarification and controversy on new Kavanaugh accusation

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  Lindsey Graham 'Promises' Kavanaugh Won't Be Impeached After New Misconduct Allegation

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GM stops paying for health insurance for striking union workers; talks continue

General Motors Co shifted health insurance costs for its striking workers to the United Auto Workers union as its members walked the picket line for the second day on Tuesday. The UAW on Monday launched the first company-wide strike at GM in 12 years, saying negotiations toward a new national agreement covering about 48,000 hourly workers had hit an impasse. This year's talks between the union and GM, Ford Motor Co and Fiat Chrysler Automobiles NV (FCA) were expected to be tough, with thorny issues such as healthcare costs, profit-sharing and the use of temporary workers on the table.

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  The Latest: Canadian GM workers laid off due to US strike

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  General Motors' stock value slides as 48,000 workers strike

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Artists refusing to make gay wedding invitations win US legal battle

Two Arizona artists who refused to create invitations to same-sex weddings due to their Christian beliefs were within their legal rights, the US state's top court ruled Monday. The state Supreme Court's decision invalidates previous judgments against the two women for violating a "human relations ordinance" introduced by the southwestern city of Phoenix to safeguard LGBTQ rights. According to their lawyers, the two artists could have faced up to six months in prison and a $2,500 fine each time they refused to make invitations to gay weddings.

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  Arizona Supreme Court rules artists don't have to make LGBTQ wedding invitations

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  Arizona artists win suit over same-sex wedding invitations

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2019 and 2020 Full-Size Pickup Truck Rankings

We sort every full-size pickup truck foreign and domestic so that you don't have to. From Car and Driver

The Royal Navy Is Going All In on 2 New Aircraft Carriers

With two new aircraft carriers slated to begin deploying in two years' time, the U.K. fleet must figure out how to deploy, as a cohesive force, large numbers of warships comprising a carrier strike group. Contrast this with the fleet's current deployment model, which for the most part sends out single warships on solo patrols, each at their own pace. If the reorganization succeeds, the Royal Navy will evolve from a thinly but widely spread force to one that deploys to fewer places at a time, but does so in greater concentration.

Cash-starved Air India putting crews on low-fat diet

NEW DELHI (AP) Cash-starved Air India is putting its crew on a diet, changing their inflight menu to special low-fat meals. Dhananjay Kumar, the state-run airline's spokesman, said Wednesday that the objective is to provide healthy and cost-effective meals to crews on domestic and international flights. Kumar declined comment on media reports that the cost per meal, mostly vegetarian, will fall to one-third of the current 500-800 rupees (up to $11) per meal.

Into the Unknown for Israel as Netanyahu’s Election Gamble Fails

Israel's election do-over looked set to produce a dramatic deadlock between legally embattled Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and his political opponents, with no clear sign who will form the country's next government. The lack of a decisive victory would be a setback for Israel's longest-serving leader, who gambled on a revote to strengthen his political hand -- and possibly keep himself out of jail -- after a disappointing result in April. It would also thrust Israel into further political turmoil and drag out policy paralysis at a time when diplomatic and regional security challenges are mounting.

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  The Israeli election doesn't have a clear winner. This is what that means for Netanyahu — and Donald Trump

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  Israeli election too close to call, Netanyahu weakened: exit polls

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Trump says he will 'substantially increase' Iran sanctions over attack on Saudi Arabia oil facilities

Pompeo: Secretary of State Mike Pompeo heads to Saudi Arabia to discuss Iran response Trump and aides have said they are considering a variety of aggressive actions toward Iran, ranging from more cyber attacks to a strike against Iranian oil facilities. The Pentagon is planning military responses to the Sept. attack on oil facilities in Saudi Arabia, Marine Gen. Joe Dunford, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, told reporters on Tuesday.

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  Oil ETFs in Focus as Oil Rallies on Saudi Attacks

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  Saudi oil drone attack 'a blow for the world'

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Belgian F-16s scrambled to intercept 2 Russian nuclear-capable supersonic bombers over the Baltic Sea

The Belgian Air Force is policing Baltic airspace as of September 3; on Tuesday, it intercepted two Russian Tu-160 Blackjack supersonic, nuclear-capable bombers. Belgium took over the Baltic policing mission from Hungary which, along with Spain and the UK, was policing Baltic airspace when Russian Su-30 Flanker fighters flew near Baltic airspace twice over two days in June. US and UK aircraft have been sending clear messages to Russia — US B-2 Spirit stealth bombers flew their first missions in the Arctic earlier in September, and the B-2s flew with non-US F-35s for the first time in August.

UPDATE 1-Russia detains two N.Korean vessels after one opens fire - reports

Russian border guards have detained two North Korean boats in Russian territorial waters in the Sea of Japan after one of them attacked a Russian patrol, local media cited the Federal Security Service (FSB) as saying on Tuesday. A Russian border patrol discovered two North Korean schooners and 11 motorboats fishing illegally off its far eastern coast and detained the first vessel, prompting the second one to open fire, the FSB was quoted as saying. Three Russian border guards were wounded in the incident.

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  Russian border guards injured in attack by North Korean poachers

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US sanctions Italy, Panama and Colombia firms over Venezuela ties

The United States on Tuesday imposed sanctions on 16 companies linked to Colombian businessman Alex Nain Saab Moran, an associate of Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro. The move is the latest US escalation of sanctions targeting the inner circle of Maduro, who is grappling with a political and economic crisis that the United Nations says has left a quarter of Venezuela's 30 million people in need of humanitarian aid. The sanctions announced on Tuesday by the US Treasury Department target Saab, his two brothers Amir and Luis, Saab's business partner Alvaro Pulido, and Pulido's son, David Enrique Rubio Gonzalez.

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  US, Venezuela opposition majority renew support for Guaidó

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  Venezuela releases opposition lawmaker after four months in custody

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Air Force 4-Star General Declares: We Need 225 Bombers

Senior Air Force leaders believe that current shortages in the U.S. bomber fleet are putting the service, and the nation, at tremendous risk of enemy attack. The U.S. Air Force needs as many as 225 bomber aircraft to meet current and future threats presented by rivals such as Russia and China, according to Gen. Timothy Ray, Commander of Global Strike Command and Strategic Command. Speaking at the 2019 Air Force Association Air, Space and Cyber Conference, Ray said the Air Force bomber inventory needs to jump from roughly 156 up to more than 220.

20 arrested, 18 charged in Minneapolis beatings

Minneapolis police chief, assault victim talk to Fox News about arrests in downtown beatings; Matt Finn reports.

2020 Vision Wednesday: Trump raised $15 million in California in one day. That should worry Democrats.

LOS ANGELES — When President Trump touched down in California Tuesday, local Democrats seemed to greet his arrival largely as a platform for protest, with at least a hundred demonstrators lining the road near his first event as enormous Baby Trump and Trump Chicken balloons hovered overhead. But the real reason Democrats should be paying attention to Trump's current California swing isn't because it's a prime opportunity to register their displeasure with policies on immigration, emissions and forest management. Instead, Democrats' cause for concern should be the mountains of money Trump is raising here — and, more importantly, the right-wing energy that money represents.

A 22-year-old from Minneapolis who is jailed in Syria says ISIS recruited him on Twitter

Abdelhamid Al-Madioum, a 22-year-old naturalized US citizen jailed in northern Syria, told CBS News that he was recruited to join ISIS on Twitter when he was just 18 years old. Al-Madioum disappeared while on a family vacation in Morocco in 2015, according to court documents detailed by the Minneapolis Star Tribune in 2017. Unbeknownst to his parents, he had secretly booked a flight to Istanbul.

The latest Iran-Saudi flare-up exposes Trump's bankrupt Middle East policy

The fact that the United States is up in arms over an attack with no reported casualties on an oil refinery in Saudi Arabia – while at the same time supporting Saudi Arabia's war in Yemen that has killed tens of thousands – tells us everything we need to know about how messed up US priorities in the Middle East are. If anything, the latest round of tensions between the US, Iran and Saudi Arabia – and the debate over whether or not to retaliate militarily against Iran – illustrates the many ways US policy in the region is bankrupt, and how Trump crafts US policy based on the interests of other countries, not America. The years-long struggle for regional influence between Iran and Saudi Arabia and their partners plays out in proxy wars that rip the region apart, such as the current humanitarian catastrophe in Yemen.

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  U.S. tells Saudi Arabia: nuclear push depends on snap inspections deal

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  How is it possible for the government to claim it sold military equipment to Saudi Arabia ‘accidentally’?

  The Independent

Bodies of 4 Missing Florida Children Discovered Hours After Mother Found Slain: Authorities

Authorities in central Florida say they believe they've found the remains of four young children just hours after their mother was found slain in Georgia.

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  Missing mother and four children all found dead

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How dangerous is vaping? The science remains hazy

Vaping consists of inhaling the vapour of a heated liquid inside e-cigarettes. There are "numerous potentially toxic substances," according to a report published last year by the US National Academies of Sciences. There are also additives considered safe in the agro-food industry but linked to pulmonary problems in their vaporised form or simply not studied at all with regard to vaping.

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  Man accused of making THC cartridges charged

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  Retailers scramble as NY moves to ban flavored e-cigarettes

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Houthis Have an Arsenal of Ballistic and Cruise Missiles (Some from North Korea)

But it's worth noting that the Houthis also possess a surprisingly sophisticated arsenal of homemade ballistic and cruise missiles possessing the range performance to strike targets deep inside Saudi Arabia. According to aviation expert Tom Cooper, the main weapon in the Houthi arsenal is the Burkan, a modified version of the Soviet R-17E Scud rocket that's around five feet longer than the baseline missile and some 4,400 pounds heavier and can travel farther than 500 miles. The Houthis inherited from the defunct Yemeni military a large number of Soviet-exported Scuds as well as North Korean-made Scuds called “Hwasong-6s.