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Lockheed Marting is pitching the idea to Tokyo.  from https://www.yahoo.com/news/raptor-reborn-super-f-22-143700804.html

A passenger on a plane that crashed into a Pacific lagoon on Friday said the flight attendants were panicking and he saw water pouring through a hole in the side of the plane before he was able to escape. from https://www.yahoo.com/news/everybody-survives-planes-crash-landing-pacific-lagoon-034115914.html

Kavanaugh veered from the truth, offering explanations that conflicted with evidence or definitions that were unverifiable. from https://www.yahoo.com/news/boofing-ralphing-doubts-kavanaughs-testimony-155802115.html

Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed Bin Salman will visit Kuwait on Saturday, the state-run Kuwait News Agency said on Friday, amid expectations that he will discuss a Kuwaiti mediation to resolve the kingdom's conflict with Qatar. A Gulf Arab official told Reuters the conflict with Qatar would be on the agenda in the talks. The Saudi crown prince will hold talks with Kuwaiti Emir Sheikh Sabah al-Ahmad al-Jaber al-Sabah, the Kuwaiti News Agency said in a tweet, giving no further details. from https://www.yahoo.com/news/saudi-crown-prince-visit-kuwait-talks-qatar-news-095455664.html

And settled an old grudge in Afghanistan. from https://www.yahoo.com/news/f-35b-just-went-war-090000118.html

UNITED NATIONS (AP) — Calling for more trust, North Korea's foreign minister urged the United States on Saturday to keep moving past what he called seven decades of entrenched hostility if Washington wants to restart stalled negotiations meant to rid Pyongyang of its nuclear bombs. from https://www.yahoo.com/news/n-korea-fm-peace-possible-only-us-ends-181033771.html

Moments before, the Republicans issued a statement saying he would vote to confirm Kavanaugh for the Supreme Court. from https://www.yahoo.com/news/sexual-assault-survivors-confront-flake-elevator-support-kavanaugh-144720980.html

GAZA CITY, Gaza Strip (AP) — Israeli troops killed seven Palestinians, two of them children, and wounded dozens more, Palestinian health officials said, in the deadliest day in recent weeks as Gaza's Hamas rulers stepped up protests along the border fence. from https://www.yahoo.com/news/7-gazans-including-2-boys-killed-israeli-fire-053042829.html

Fentanyl was first developed in 1959 and introduced in the 1960s as an intravenous anesthetic. from https://www.yahoo.com/news/know-deadly-drug-fentanyl-213936147.html

The data does not include Russian servicemen or explain what the civilians are doing in Syria. The number of Russian civilian trips to Syria grew after President Vladimir Putin announced a partial withdrawal of troops last December, an increase apparently indicating an expansion of Moscow's activities in the country. from https://www.yahoo.com/news/russian-trips-syria-hit-peak-putin-ordered-partial-144241134.html

WASHINGTON (AP) — The State Department said Friday that it would temporarily close the U.S. consulate in the southern Iraqi city of Basra following a rocket attack earlier this month blamed on Iranian-backed militias. from https://www.yahoo.com/news/state-department-says-consulate-iraqi-city-basra-evacuated-203613809.html

US Navy Sailors assisted in the rescue of several passengers and crew members after a plane crashed into a lagoon near Chuuk, Federated States of Micronesia, according to a statement from the US 7th fleet. from https://www.cnn.com/videos/world/2018/09/30/us-navy-plane-water-rescue-video-micronesia-nr-bpr-vpx.cnn

WELLINGTON, New Zealand (AP) — The airline operating a flight that crashed into a Pacific lagoon in Micronesia on Friday now says one man is missing, after earlier saying all 47 passengers and crew had safely evacuated the sinking plane. from https://www.yahoo.com/news/airline-now-says-1-missing-pacific-lagoon-plane-044023459.html

Mark Judge, a high school friend of Brett Kavanaugh, said he will cooperate with the FBI if an investigation is opened. from https://www.yahoo.com/news/kavanaugh-friend-mark-judge-says-203838882.html

WASHINGTON ― In standing by President Donald Trump's pick for the Supreme from https://www.yahoo.com/news/standing-kavanaugh-republicans-subscribe-doppelganger-214059596.html

A formerly US-backed Syrian rebel group on Saturday rejected a deal between Russia and Turkey to avert a large-scale military assault on rebel-held Idlib province. The deal makes way for a demilitarised zone between rebel and regime-held areas in and around the northwestern governorate, Syria's last insurgent bastion. from https://www.yahoo.com/news/syria-rebel-faction-rejects-idlib-deal-170221008.html

At Kent State in Ohio, some students watched Christine Blasey Ford in the Kavanaugh hearing with anguish or disgust, while others tried not to think about it. from https://www.yahoo.com/news/campus-anger-shrugs-kavanaugh-154442267.html

The father of a child killed in the Parkland, Florida, high school massacre from https://www.yahoo.com/news/parkland-dad-fred-guttenberg-reminds-170542955.html

Canadian legislators have voted unanimously to strip Myanmar civilian leader Aung San Suu Kyi of her honorary citizenship – granted over a decade ago – in response to alleged atrocities committed against the Rohingya minority in her country. “In 2007, the House of Commons granted Aung San Suu Kyi the status of honorary Canadian citizen,” said Foreign Ministry spokesman Adam Austen. Prime Minister Justin Trudeau told reporters on Wednesday that he was open to stripping Ms Suu Kyi of the honour, while noting that doing so would not end the crisis in Myanmar. from https://www.yahoo.com/news/canada-mps-vote-strip-myanmar-161159017.html

Defence Minister Sergei Shoigu had said on Monday the system would be delivered to Syrian President Bashar al-Assad's forces in two weeks despite strong Israeli and United States objections. A week previously, Moscow had accused Israel of indirectly causing the downing of a Russian military jet in Syria. "The delivery started already and as President (Vladimir)Putin said, after that incident ... the measures that we will take will be devoted to ensuring 100 percent safety and security of our men," Lavrov told a news conference at the United Nations. from https://www.yahoo.com/news/delivery-russian-300-system-syria-begun-lavrov-202702647.html

NEW YORK (AP) — CBS said Friday that a New York City prosecutor has subpoenaed the company for information related to sexual misconduct allegations that led to the ouster of longtime chief Les Moonves. from https://www.yahoo.com/news/cbs-subpoenaed-manhattan-district-attorney-moonves-221930651.html

Fending off the accusation that he drunkenly assaulted a 15-year-old when he from https://www.yahoo.com/news/kavanaugh-testified-apos-drinking-age-013115331.html

A powerful earthquake hit central Indonesia on Friday, causing a tsunami that slammed into a city on Sulawesi island with officials saying the tremor had levelled "many" buildings. The shallow 7.5 magnitude quake sparked terror among locals who fled into the streets and raced to higher ground fearing tsunami waves. The disaster agency briefly issued a tsunami warning before lifting it. from https://www.yahoo.com/news/indonesia-rocked-powerful-quake-tsunami-warning-called-off-105519096.html

VATICAN CITY (AP) — Pope Francis asked Saturday for daily prayers to protect the Catholic Church from what he says are "attacks by the devil," in his latest response to the clerical sex abuse and cover-up scandal roiling his papacy. from https://www.yahoo.com/news/sex-abuse-scandal-pope-seeks-prayers-fight-devil-104624086.html

  Elon Musk has reached a deal over fraud charges that will see him step down as electric automaker Tesla's chairman of the board and pay a $20 million fine, US securities regulators said Saturday. "The settlements, which are subject to court approval, will result in comprehensive corporate governance and other reforms at Tesla - including Musk's removal as Chairman of the Tesla board - and the payment by Musk and Tesla of financial penalties" of $20 million each, the Securities and Exchange Commission said in a statement Musk - who will remain CEO of Tesla - will be ineligible to serve as chairman of the board for a period of three years and will be replaced by an "independent chairman," while two "independent directors" will also be appointed by Tesla, the SEC said. The SEC had charged Musk with securities fraud, alleging that he misled investors when he tweeted on August 7 that he had "funding secured" to privatize the electric automak

Kavanaugh veered from the truth, offering explanations that conflicted with evidence or definitions that were unverifiable. from https://www.yahoo.com/news/boofing-ralphing-doubts-kavanaughs-testimony-155802115.html

WASHINGTON ― Mark Judge, the man who was said to be present when Brett from https://www.yahoo.com/news/mark-judge-went-lawyer-office-200551194.html

The airline said one man remains unaccounted for. from https://www.yahoo.com/news/airline-searching-missing-man-saying-120509636.html

A major national sexual abuse hotline experienced a massive surge in callers from https://www.yahoo.com/news/sexual-assault-hotline-calls-spiked-104913102.html

(Reuters) - California Governor Jerry Brown signed several gun control bills into law on Friday, including one measure that raises the minimum age for buying rifles and shotguns from 18 to 21. The new laws come seven months after a gunman opened fire with a semiautomatic assault-style rifle at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida, killing 14 students and three adults, the second-deadliest mass shooting at a public school in U.S. history. The rampage, which authorities say was carried out by a former student who was 19, has spurred unprecedented activism by victims and their families to prevent future gun violence and demanding stricter gun control across the United States. from https://www.yahoo.com/news/california-governor-signs-gun-control-bills-law-090900193.html

VATICAN CITY (AP) — Pope Francis has defrocked a Chilean priest who was a central character in the global sex abuse scandal rocking his papacy, invoking his "supreme" authority to stiffen an earlier sentence because of the "exceptional amount of damage" the priest's crimes had caused. from https://www.yahoo.com/news/pope-defrocks-chile-priest-center-global-abuse-scandal-133620156.html

The American Civil Liberties Union, which typically does not endorse from https://www.yahoo.com/news/aclu-opposes-kavanaugh-nomination-rare-190051192.html

Beijing and Washington are locked in a spiraling trade war that has seen them level increasingly severe rounds of tariffs on each other's imports. Friction between the world's top two economies is now moving beyond trade, with U.S. President Donald Trump accusing Beijing this week of seeking to interfere in congressional elections, marking what U.S. officials told Reuters was a new phase in an escalating campaign by Washington to put pressure on China. On the military front, China has been infuriated by the United States putting sanctions on the People's Liberation Army (PLA) for buying weapons from Russia, and by what Beijing sees as stepped up U.S. support for self-ruled Taiwan, claimed by China as its sacred territory. from https://www.yahoo.com/news/turbulence-ties-threatens-u-china-security-meeting-083752794.html

MEMPHIS, Tenn. (AP) — A civic leader and former airline executive was alone when he was fatally shot in downtown Memphis, Tennessee, and authorities are investigating whether he was killed in a robbery or as part of a "personal vendetta," police said Friday. from https://www.yahoo.com/news/former-pinnacle-airlines-ceo-shot-042453217.html

Both are places of international concern that spill trouble beyond their borders from https://www.yahoo.com/news/envoys-north-korea-syria-appear-144010228.html

Cellphone numbers and home addresses of Republican members of the Senate from https://www.yahoo.com/news/judiciary-committee-members-doxxed-during-113850216.html

WELLINGTON, New Zealand (AP) — The airline operating a flight that crashed into a Pacific lagoon in Micronesia on Friday now says one man is missing, after earlier saying all 47 passengers and crew had safely evacuated the sinking plane. from https://www.yahoo.com/news/airline-now-says-1-missing-pacific-lagoon-plane-044023459.html

Iraq's foreign ministry voiced "regret" on Saturday over a US decision to shut its consulate in the southern city of Basra which has been rocked by weeks of deadly protests. "The ministry regrets the American decision to pull its staff out of Basra," a statement said. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo ordered all but emergency staff to leave Basra, with consular duties to be taken over by the embassy in Baghdad. from https://www.yahoo.com/news/iraq-regrets-us-closure-basra-consulate-100609142.html

The FBI has contacted a second woman who alleges sexual misconduct on the part from https://www.yahoo.com/news/white-house-puts-limits-fbi-231930862.html

Seven Palestinians, including two boys aged 12 and 14, were killed in clashes with Israeli forces along the Gaza border Friday, the health ministry in the Hamas-controlled strip said. It was the bloodiest day of border protests since May 14, when more than 60 Palestinians died in violence accompanying the inauguration of the US embassy in Jerusalem, a move that enraged Palestinians. from https://www.yahoo.com/news/seven-palestinians-killed-border-clashes-gaza-ministry-195703106.html

Kavanaugh veered from the truth, offering explanations that conflicted with evidence or definitions that were unverifiable. from https://www.yahoo.com/news/boofing-ralphing-doubts-kavanaughs-testimony-155802115.html

With the multiple sexual misconduct allegations that have emerged against Kavanaugh this month, his nomination has become enmeshed in a national debate over sexual misconduct. The conservative federal appeals court judge in his testimony on Thursday angrily and tearfully denied he had sexually assaulted his accuser, Christine Blasey Ford. "Her clinical language - I think she uses the word hippocampus about six times, that actually made her more, not less credible to me," said Jacob Bennett, a third-year law student, referring to Ford's physiological descriptions of how the brain forms memories. from https://www.yahoo.com/news/kavanaughs-fellow-yalies-transfixed-senate-hearing-005703570.html

Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov took pleasure in pointing out on Friday that U.S. President Donald Trump this week accused China, not Russia, of interfering in U.S. elections. Trump on Wednesday accused the Chinese government of seeking to influence the Nov. 6 U.S. congressional elections against his Republican Party. China has denied the allegation. from https://www.yahoo.com/news/lavrov-notes-trump-blamed-china-not-russia-u-222212236.html

The American Civil Liberties Union, which typically does not endorse from https://www.yahoo.com/news/aclu-opposes-kavanaugh-nomination-rare-190051192.html

Recep Tayyip Erdogan, the Turkish president, was greeted with protests and controversy in Germany on Friday as a state visit that was supposed to repair relations between the two Nato allies appeared only to highlight their stark divisions. Thousands of demonstrators marched through the streets of Berlin under a banner of “Erdogan not welcome”, while a Kurdish activist burnt himself to death in an apparent suicide protest. Angela Merkel appeared to throw Mr Erdogan a lifeline by offering him a full state visit at a time when Turkey is struggling under the weight of US economic sanctions. But there was little sign of common ground after the two held face-to-face talks. “It is important to continue the dialogue with Turkey, because we can only work out our differences by talking,” Mrs Merkel told a joint press conference. "There is much that unites us: Nato membership, the migrant issue, and the fight against terror." But she added: “There are still profound differences between

North Korea's foreign minister on Saturday told the United Nations there was "no way" that his country would disarm first as long as the United States continued to push for tough enforcement of sanctions against Pyongyang. Addressing the United Nations General Assembly, Ri Yong Ho accused Washington of creating a deadlock in talks on denuclearization of the Korean peninsula. from https://www.yahoo.com/news/north-korea-says-no-way-disarm-without-trust-164418930.html

A US military fighter jet sent smoke billowing into the sky after it suffered the first crash in the aircraft’s operational history. The pilot, who was the only person on board the Lockheed Martin F-35B, was being examined for injuries on Friday after safely ejecting. The reason for the crash near the Marine Corps Air Station in Beaufort, South Carolina, is said to be under investigation. from https://www.yahoo.com/news/first-f-35-fighter-jet-094306788.html

More than two years since the 2016 EU referendum, the United Kingdom, its politicians and its business leaders remain deeply divided over Brexit while Prime Minister Theresa May has yet to clinch a divorce deal with the EU. Opponents of Brexit are exploring ways to stop what they say is Britain's biggest mistake since World War Two. Miller is leading a campaign to have another referendum, but she said if the government manages to successfully navigate an exit deal then politicians must be allowed to focus on domestic issues without the distractions of a debate about Britain's relationship with Europe. from https://www.yahoo.com/news/brexit-challenger-gina-miller-uks-battle-over-eu-100721765--sector.html

Russia on Friday warned it will not allow jihadists in Syria to be sent to Afghanistan or elsewhere under a deal reached with Turkey that averted a large-scale military assault on rebel-held Idlib province. Under the deal, Turkey agreed to separate opposition fighters from hardline jihadists who belong to groups branded as terrorists by the United Nations, but the fate of those extremists remains uncertain. from https://www.yahoo.com/news/russia-vows-no-safe-passage-syria-jihadists-idlib-233810412.html

A major national sexual abuse hotline experienced a massive surge in callers from https://www.yahoo.com/news/sexual-assault-hotline-calls-spiked-104913102.html