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USA TODAY Train strikes car outside Atlanta, killing 3 women USA TODAY SOUTH FULTON, Ga. – Three women in a car struck by a train outside of Atlanta on Monday are dead and a fourth remains hospitalized. Lt. Derrick Rogers with the South Fulton Police Department said the accident with the CSX train happened around 4 p.m. ... and more » from Top Stories - Google News https://ift.tt/2OxCDwq

New York Times Brexit Plans Raise Fears of Food Shortages and Jammed Ports New York Times LONDON — Trucks parked along freeways or stuck in gridlocked ports. Food disappearing from supermarket shelves and stocks of medicines under strain. The military on standby, ready to step in to avert crisis. For a British public that has often tuned ... EU Hurtles Toward a Pyrrhic Brexit Victory Bloomberg British farmers worry: Who will pick the fruit after Brexit? Chicago Tribune all 403 news articles » from Top Stories - Google News https://ift.tt/2NVCUYU

A Vietnamese military court on Tuesday sentenced the first military official to go on trial in the communist-ruled country's ongoing crackdown against corruption to 12 years in jail. from Reuters: World News https://ift.tt/2Kc3ZEV

Iran does not trust the United States as a negotiating partner, the interior minister in Tehran said on Tuesday, a day after President Donald Trump offered to meet his Iranian counterpart for talks without preconditions. from Reuters: World News https://ift.tt/2v4DwEu

Deadline Bob Woodward To Chronicle The Trump White House In 'Fear' Deadline Celebrated investigative Watergate journalist Bob Woodward is set to put Donald Trump's presidency under a microscope in the upcoming book Fear: Trump in the White House, which will be available for your reading pleasure on Sept. 11 — just in time for ... and more » from Top Stories - Google News https://ift.tt/2NZCZdQ

OregonLive.com ICE union asks Portland mayor for police protection OregonLive.com The union that represents employees of Immigration and Customs Enforcement on Monday called on Portland Mayor Ted Wheeler to immediately provide law enforcement services to ICE employees. Attorney Sean Riddell, legal representative for the National ... ICE Officers Accuse Portland Mayor of Allowing Protestors to 'Create A Zone of Terror' National Review all 78 news articles » from Top Stories - Google News https://ift.tt/2NZj274

NBA.com LeBron James' love, loyalty for hometown shines through with new school NBA.com AKRON – Loyalty in the NBA was said to be in short supply earlier this month, when a few of the league's offseason transactions looked and felt particularly bloodless. And yet, there it was Monday, alive and well and pulsing through the streets of the ... LeBron James is moving on, but his new school ensures his legacy in Ohio Washington Post LeBron James says President Trump is using sports to 'divide' nation USA TODAY LeBron James just hinted that he could run for president in 2020 Business Insider Bleacher Report  - NBCSports.com all 748 news articles » from Top Stories - Google News https://ift.tt/2LEu0SB

Afghanistan will hold its next presidential election on April 20 next year, an official with knowledge of the matter said on Tuesday. from Reuters: World News https://ift.tt/2n0o3Rq

Across Maracaibo, the capital of Venezuela's largest state, residents unplug refrigerators to guard against power surges. Many only buy food they will consume the same day. Others regularly sleep outside. from Reuters: World News https://ift.tt/2AnBdBi

A Zimbabwean election observer group said on Tuesday there were concerns about the independence of the country's election commission in the run-up to the July 30 vote but noted the election was handled better than in previous years. from Reuters: World News https://ift.tt/2mZly1S

A bomb exploded in a van in the restive southern Philippines on Tuesday, killing 11 people at a military checkpoint in what militant group Islamic State called a suicide attack for which it claimed responsibility. from Reuters: World News https://ift.tt/2v4Mxxh

Greece's conservative opposition on Tuesday demanded the heads of the emergency services resign following a blaze that killed more than 90 people, decrying their "pathetic" leadership during one of the country's worst natural disasters. from Reuters: World News https://ift.tt/2M7oVPc

Thailand has asked Britain to extradite former prime minister Yingluck Shinawatra, overthrown in a coup in 2014 and sentenced in absentia to jail for negligence, Prime Minister Prayuth Chan-ocha said on Tuesday. from Reuters: World News https://ift.tt/2Axw2ie

The head of Iran's Strategic Council on Foreign Relations said on Tuesday that Tehran saw no value in U.S. President Donald Trump's offer to meet the Iranian president for talks without preconditions. from Reuters: World News https://ift.tt/2mZLLxb

Washington Post Trump administration considers tax cut for the wealthy Washington Post The Treasury Department is considering a tax cut for the wealthiest Americans through a change that would not need approval from Congress, officials said, a move that would follow a package of tax cuts last year that also benefited the super-rich. The ... Trump Administration Mulls a Unilateral Tax Cut for the Rich New York Times Trump weighs big tax cut for rich: report The Hill How to Gauge the Fed's Reaction to Trump's Tweet Bloomberg Forbes  - New York Magazine all 495 news articles » from Top Stories - Google News https://ift.tt/2LCR8kx

North and South Korea discussed reducing tension but didn't announce any detailed agreements after military talks on Tuesday, while the United States detected renewed activity at a North Korean missile factory, casting more suspicion over the North's intentions. from Reuters: World News https://ift.tt/2NXSEub