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• The Latest: Venezuela suspends deadline for US diplomats

  26-01-2019 23:51 via news.yahoo.com
  UNITED NATIONS (AP) — The Latest on the political crisis in Venezuela (all times local):
  
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• After indictment, Roger Stone mocks Mueller with doctored photo on Instagram

  26-01-2019 23:45 via news.yahoo.com
  A day after being indicted, Roger Stone used his Instagram account to mock special counsel Robert Mueller and dub the charges against him a big nothing burger.
  
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• ‘I Feel Like a Second-Class Citizen.’ Shutdown Pain Continues for Furloughed Government Contractors Who Don’t Get Back Pay

  26-01-2019 23:22 via news.yahoo.com
  “I feel like a second class citizen now more than ever"
  
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• Prosecutor: Detroit Lions' Trevor Bates punched officer

  26-01-2019 23:20 via news.yahoo.com
  NEW YORK (AP) — Trevor Bates, a linebacker for the Detroit Lions, was arrested Saturday in New York on charges that he failed to pay a taxi fare and then punched a police officer, who suffered a concussion.
  
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• The shutdown today: Workers to get paid 'in the coming days'

  26-01-2019 23:11 via news.yahoo.com
  What's up now that the partial government shutdown ended after 35 days:
  
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• Hezbollah could 'for years' enter Israel, group's leader says after tunnels found

  26-01-2019 22:52 via news.yahoo.com
  Israel's unveiling of what it called Hezbollah "attack tunnels" last month, and Lebanon's accusation that an Israeli border barrier crosses into its territory, have increased tensions.Speaking in an interview with al-Mayadeen TV, Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah said Hezbollah did not want to draw Lebanon into a war with Israel.Both Israel and Hezbollah have already indicated that any new war between them would be greater in scope than the last one, fought in 2006 in Lebanese territory.
  
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• Trump to build Mexico border wall ‘with or without Democrats’, says Sarah Sanders

  26-01-2019 22:38 via news.yahoo.com
  The White House has threatened to “move forward” with its plan to build a border along the US/Mexico border “with or without Democrats”.The statement comes after Donald Trump announced he would reopen the government without his demand for $5.7bn (£4.3bn) in border wall funding, and after democrats repeatedly rebuffed his efforts to force their hand on the issue.“In 21 days President [Trump] is moving forward building the wall with or without the Democrats,&rdq
  
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• Trump administration to build Mexico border wall ‘with or without Democrats’, says Sarah Sanders

  26-01-2019 22:38 via news.yahoo.com
  The White House has threatened to “move forward” with its plan to build a border along the US/Mexico border “with or without Democrats”.The statement comes after Donald Trump announced he would reopen the government without his demand for $5.7bn (£4.3bn) in border wall funding, and after democrats repeatedly rebuffed his efforts to force their hand on the issue.“In 21 days President [Trump] is moving forward building the wall with or without the Democrats,&rdq
  
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• Louisiana shootings: Gunman on the run after five killed

  26-01-2019 22:29 via news.yahoo.com
  Five people have been killed in shootings in two areas of Louisiana.Police said they have identified a suspect who is still at large and said to be “armed and dangerous”.Dakota Theriot, 21, is accused of killing his parents and three other people on Saturday in Ascension and Livingston parishes, about 70 miles west of New Orleans.
  
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• Trudeau sacks Canadian envoy to China after Huawei controversy

  26-01-2019 21:42 via news.yahoo.com
  Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau on Saturday said he had sought and accepted the resignation of Ottawa's ambassador to China, days after the diplomat sparked controversy with criticism of the US extradition request for a top Huawei executive."Last night I asked for and accepted John McCallum's resignation as Canada's Ambassador to China," Trudeau said in a statement that did not explain why the decision had been taken.McCallum has been making headlines in recent days over comments regardin
  
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• Worries remain for U.S. government contractors as shutdown ends

  26-01-2019 21:31 via news.yahoo.com
  Hicks, 40, a security guard at the Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum, is one of thousands of federal government contractors who do not expect to be paid for the month of work they missed during the 35-day partial shutdown - and who remain at risk if Trump and lawmakers fail to reach a more lasting agreement beyond the current three-week deal to reopen the government.Trump, who had demanded Democrats agree to fund construction of a wall on the U.S.-Mexico border before he would agree to r
  
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• Death toll climbs to 34 in Brazil mining dam burst

  26-01-2019 21:10 via news.yahoo.com
  The Minas Gerais state fire department also said 23 people have been hospitalized after the dam released a torrent of mud on Friday, leaving a roughly 150-meter-wide (500-foot-wide) wake of destruction.Firefighters focused their hopes for finding survivors on a bus, a train, mining offices and nearby homes that were buried on Friday in mud after the dam break at Vale's Corrego do Feijao facility in Minas Gerais state.
  
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• EU nations put Venezuela's Maduro on notice

  26-01-2019 21:09 via news.yahoo.com
  The European Union and several of its member governments gave embattled Venezuelan leader Nicolas Maduro an ultimatum on Saturday, saying they would recognise opposition leader Juan Guaido as president unless he calls elections within eight days.The coordinated announcements are the most explicit yet from EU countries as the 28-member bloc struggles to draft a joint statement with regards to its position on the crisis in Venezuela.Here is a roundup of European statements after the United States,
  
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• Foreign troops 'to quit Afghanistan in 18 months under draft deal,' Taliban officials say

  26-01-2019 21:04 via news.yahoo.com
  Taliban officials said U.S. negotiators on Saturday agreed a draft peace deal stipulating the withdrawal of foreign forces from Afghanistan within 18 months of the agreement being signed. The details were given to Reuters by Taliban sources at the end of six days of talks with U.S. special peace envoy Zalmay Khalilzad in Qatar aimed at ending the United States' longest war. While neither side released an official statement, Khalilzad tweeted later that the talks had made "significant progre
  
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• Sundance, where Weinstein was king, airs film chronicling his fall

  26-01-2019 20:55 via news.yahoo.com
  For more than 20 years, Harvey Weinstein reigned supreme as rainmaker at the Sundance Film Festival, spending millions of dollars to buy up the best in independent cinema."Untouchable," directed by Ursula Macfarlane, makes no claim to offer shocking new revelations.Rather, it attempts to retrace, as rigorously and scrupulously as possible, both the talent and the decadence of one of the most powerful men in Hollywood -- a man who now awaits trial on charges of rape and sexual aggression.
  
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• Brazil dam collapse: Death toll rises to 34 as hundreds remain missing after Brumadinho disaster

  26-01-2019 20:54 via news.yahoo.com
  Police have said at least 34 people have died in the Brazil dam collapse and hundreds more are still missing.The collapse occured in the eastern Brazilian state of Minas Gerais on Saturday, triggering mudslides that buried the surrounding areas in waste from an iron ore mine.Avimar de Melo Barcelas, the mayor of the town of Brumadinho where the collapse occurred, said earlier in the day on Saturday he expected the death toll to rise as search and rescue operations continue.
  
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• Protesters storm Turkish base in north Iraq, teenager killed

  26-01-2019 20:36 via news.yahoo.com
  IRBIL, Iraq (AP) — Angry protesters stormed a Turkish military base in northern Iraq on Saturday, burning Turkish military vehicles and leading to a confrontation that left one teenager killed and 10 injured, according to officials in Iraq's semi-autonomous Kurdish region.
  
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• US calls to 'stand with freedom' in Venezuela as EU gives ultimatum

  26-01-2019 20:29 via news.yahoo.com
  The United States pressed all nations Saturday to "stand with the forces of freedom" in Venezuela, encouraged by a tougher European line as Russia stood in the minority in backing embattled leader Nicolas Maduro.US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo made a forceful case at a special session of the United Nations Security Council, where he described Maduro as part of an "illegitimate mafia state" responsible for Venezuela's economic collapse.
  
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• At U.N., Pompeo asks countries to 'pick a side' on Venezuela

  26-01-2019 20:25 via news.yahoo.com
  Pompeo was addressing the 15-member U.N. Security Council, which met at his request after Washington and a string of countries in the region recognized Guaido as head of state and urged Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro to step down."Now it is time for every other nation to pick a side ... Either you stand with the forces of freedom, or you're in league with Maduro and his mayhem," Pompeo told the council."We call on all members of the Security Council to support Venezuela's democratic transit
  
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• Driver accused of injuring deputies in hit and run was tracked down because of DPS citation with address on it, investigators say

  26-01-2019 20:23 via news.yahoo.com
  A man accused of slamming his black sedan into two off duty sheriff's deputies on motorcycles has been arrested.
  
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• Mud swallows houses after dam break at Brazil mine

  26-01-2019 20:12 via news.yahoo.com
  Brumadinho (Brazil) (AFP) - "Adelia's home was there. And there was Nilza's, who sold sugarcane, also swallowed up," Rosilene Aganetti said Saturday, pointing out an expanse of mud engulfing a road and the surrounding land.
  
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• US envoy claims 'significant progress' in talks with Taliban

  26-01-2019 19:58 via news.yahoo.com
  KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) — The U.S. peace envoy to Afghanistan said Saturday that "significant progress" was made during lengthy talks with the Taliban in Qatar and that he was traveling to Afghanistan for more discussions aimed at ending the country's destructive 17-year war.
  
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• Brooklyn truck driver quits job, comes forward as $298-million Powerball winner

  26-01-2019 19:46 via news.yahoo.com
  A truck driver from Brooklyn has come forward as the winner of the second-largest Powerball jackpot in New York Lottery history.
  
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• Israeli settlers kill Palestinian in the West Bank

  26-01-2019 19:20 via news.yahoo.com
  Israeli settlers shot and killed a Palestinian man in the occupied West Bank on Saturday, Palestinian officials and the Israeli military said.The incident followed a confrontation between settlers and Palestinians near the city of Ramallah in which a settler was lightly injured, the military said."Initial details suggest that shortly thereafter, a conflict erupted between Israeli civilians and Palestinians in the area, in which live rounds were fired by the civilians.
  
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• Fatal Game of 'Russian Roulette' Leaves 1 St. Louis Officer Dead, Another Charged With Involuntary Manslaughter

  26-01-2019 19:03 via news.yahoo.com
  The officer died from a gunshot wound to her chest
  
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• Pompeo Tells UN: Venezuela's Choice Is Freedom or Mayhem

  26-01-2019 19:00 via news.yahoo.com
  (Bloomberg) -- Secretary of State Michael Pompeo took the U.S. effort to recognize Juan Guaido as Venezuela’s rightful leader to the United Nations, part of a broader campaign to replace President Nicolas Maduro, and said the choice is between freedom and mayhem.
  
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• Anthem's Future Is Up In The Air

  26-01-2019 19:00 via gamespot.com
  
  After getting hands-on with EA's next big game, Anthem, we chat about our initial thoughts about this upcoming action RPG.
  
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• Venezuela's Maduro Faces Western Front as EU Toughens Line

  26-01-2019 18:56 via news.yahoo.com
  The EU on Saturday called for a move “over the next days” toward elections in the oil-rich South American nation, where Maduro and National Assembly chief Juan Guaido both claim to be president.The 28-nation bloc also dangled the prospect of recognizing Guaido as Venezuela’s leader in the absence of any announcement on a new ballot.
  
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• Mother’s lifesaving surgery stopped at last minute because her bank blocked payment for operation

  26-01-2019 18:49 via news.yahoo.com
  A British mother’s lifesaving neuro-surgery in America had to be cancelled while she was being prepped for the operation – because her bank blocked payment after an automatic fraud alert was generated.Samantha Smith, from Rochdale, flew to Arizona for the £250,000 procedure to rebuild her neck, which has been weakened by Ehlers-Danlos Syndrome.The 32-year-old, whose condition means her neck has become too weak to support her skull, was lying in her hospital bed at the Mayo Clin
  
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• Monster Hunter World Anniversary Event Now Live On PS4, Xbox One, And PC

  26-01-2019 18:10 via gamespot.com
  
  Monster Hunter World launched one year ago this month, and Capcom is celebrating the occasion with a special in-game anniversary event. The Appreciation Fest is now underway on PS4, Xbox One, and PC, bringing a new assortment of gear to craft, Event Quests to undertake, and more.The Appreciation Fest runs until February 21. Throughout the event, the Gathering Hub will be decorated with balloons, confetti, and other party favors. All facilities will also offer discounts on in-game items and servi
  
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• Fernandez retires with 7th European figure skating title

  26-01-2019 18:03 via news.yahoo.com
  MINSK, Belarus (AP) — Javier Fernandez ended an illustrious figure skating career with his seventh consecutive European title after Russian rival Mikhail Kolyada floundered in the free skate on Saturday.
  
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• The History Of Kingdom Hearts

  26-01-2019 18:00 via gamespot.com
  
  With Kingdom Hearts 3 upon us, now's the perfect time to look back at how a unlikely union between the House of Mouse and the creators of Final Fantasy lead to a series all it's own.
  
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• US envoy hails 'significant progress' in Taliban talks

  26-01-2019 17:59 via news.yahoo.com
  The US envoy negotiating with the Taliban hailed "significant progress" Saturday in finding a solution to end Afghanistan's long-running war.Khalilzad met for an unexpectedly long six days with the Taliban in Qatar.While he did not give further details, floated proposals include a withdrawal by the United States of its troops in return for Taliban guarantees not to shelter foreign extremists -- the initial reason for the US intervention.
  
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• Brazil halts work at Vale mine with hundreds missing after dam burst

  26-01-2019 17:57 via news.yahoo.com
  Firefighters focused their hopes on a bus, a train, mining offices and nearby homes that were buried on Friday when a torrent of mud was unleashed by the dam break at Vale's Corrego do Feijao facility in Minas Gerais state.During a press conference, Zema said the mining complex had all its permits in order and it was unclear what caused the collapse of the dam, which had been inactive for years.The National Mining Agency ordered Vale, the largest producer of iron ore in the world, to halt operat
  
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• Teachers succeed by framing strikes as for common good

  26-01-2019 17:55 via news.yahoo.com
  Los Angeles teachers who declared a victory after a six-day strike have added momentum to a successful wave of activism by educators framing their cause as a push to improve public education, not just get pay raises.
  
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• Nick Clegg swaps Putney townhouse for £7million California mansion ahead of new Facebook role

  26-01-2019 17:33 via news.yahoo.com
  Former deputy Prime Minister Sir Nick Clegg has relocated to a £7million home in California as he prepares to start his new executive role at Facebook, it has been revealed. The former Lib Dem leader, 52, and his wife, lawyer Miriam Gonzalez Durantez, 50, bought the "luxurious" new home in December. The five-bedroom property, worth a reported fee of $9million (£7million) stands in almost an acre of land, and was described by its estate agent as "a timeless classic". The house boasts
  
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• Merkel's Coal Commission Wants Germany to Quit Fuel by 2038

  26-01-2019 17:25 via news.yahoo.com
  The commission, appointed by Merkel to set a roadmap for Germany’s exit from coal, recommends the nation should quit coal by 2038 at the latest, with an earlier exit dependent on construction of renewable-energy infrastructure, according to a statement.Regions impacted by the closures should receive 40 billion euros ($45.6 billion) to help with the transition, the commission said.The recommendations, subject to amendment by government and parliament, are intended to help Germany make up lo
  
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• Germany Proposes Ditching All Coal Within 20 Years

  26-01-2019 17:25 via news.yahoo.com
  The commission, appointed by Merkel to set a roadmap for Germany’s exit from coal, recommends the nation should quit coal by 2038 at the latest, with an earlier exit dependent on construction of renewable-energy infrastructure, according to a statement.Regions impacted by the closures should receive 40 billion euros ($45.6 billion) to help with the transition, the commission said.The recommendations, subject to amendment by government and parliament, are intended to help Germany make up lo
  
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• European powers poised to recognize Venezuela's Guaido

  26-01-2019 17:18 via news.yahoo.com
  Britain, Germany, France and Spain all said they would recognize Guaido unless fresh elections were announced.Venezuela has sunk into turmoil under Maduro with food shortages and daily protests amid an economic and political crisis that has sparked mass emigration and inflation that is seen rising to 10 million percent this year.Maduro cruised to re-election in May last year amid low turnout and allegations of vote-buying by the government.
  
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• EU to 'take further actions' if new elections not called in Venezuela: Mogherini

  26-01-2019 17:16 via news.yahoo.com
  The European Union "will take further actions" if new elections are not called in Venezuela in the coming days, EU diplomatic chief Federica Mogherini said on Saturday, as international pressure grows on embattled Venezuelan leader Nicolas Maduro."In the absence of an announcement on the organisation of fresh elections with the necessary guarantees over the next days, the EU will take further actions, including on the issue of recognition of the country's leadership," Mogherini said.
  
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• Damascus condemns Turkey presence in north Syria as violation of deal

  26-01-2019 16:20 via news.yahoo.com
  The Syrian government on Saturday condemned Turkey's military presence in northern Syria as a violation of a 1998 protocol between the two countries.Turkey's President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has insisted the Adana Protocol gives his country the right to intervene militarily in the neighbouring country.Turkey and its Syrian rebel proxies control part of northern Syria, and Ankara has repeatedly threatened another military operation against Kurdish fighters on its southern border.
  
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• Foreign troops to quit Afghanistan in 18 months under draft deal: Taliban officials

  26-01-2019 16:17 via news.yahoo.com
  The details were provided to Reuters by Taliban sources at the end of six days of talks with U.S. special peace envoy Zalmay Khalilzad in Qatar aimed at ending the United States' longest war.Officials at the U.S. embassy in Kabul were not immediately available for comment.Khalilzad is heading to the Afghan capital Kabul to brief President Ashraf Ghani after the longer-than expected talks, the sources and a diplomat said.
  
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• As El Chapo trial nears end, will the alleged Mexican drug lord testify in his own defense?

  26-01-2019 15:53 via news.yahoo.com
  Will accused Mexican drug lord Joaquín El Chapo Guzmán speak in his own defense, to rebut the avalanche of testimony provided by his former associates?
  
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• Macedonia PM salutes courage of Greek deputies

  26-01-2019 15:35 via news.yahoo.com
  Macedonian Prime Minister Zoran Zaev on Saturday paid tribute to the courage of Greek lawmakers after their vote to approve the renaming of his country to settle a decades-old dispute."We all know very well that it wasn't easy," he told a conference in the city of Veles, a day after the 300-seat Greek parliament narrowly approved the measure.Since 1991, Athens had objected to its neighbour being called Macedonia because Greece has a northern province of the same name.
  
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• British paper apologizes to Melania Trump, pays 'substantial damages' over article

  26-01-2019 15:23 via news.yahoo.com
  The Telegraph said it published false claims about first Lady Melania Trump's family and modeling career in its Saturday Magazine.
  
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• I've Come to See the Conventional Sedan as an Anachronism

  26-01-2019 15:15 via news.yahoo.com
  Sedans will have to offer something special to survive in a world determined to marginalize them.
  
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• Venezuela crisis: UK, France, Germany and Spain demand president Maduro calls election within eight days

  26-01-2019 15:10 via news.yahoo.com
  The UK has joined together with France, Germany and Spain in a bid to force new elections in Venezuala, where president Nicolas Maduro is clinging on to power.Britain backed the European demand with foreign secretary Jeremy Hunt saying it is now clear that Maduro is “not the legitimate leader” of the South American country.The UK has already thrown its wieght behind opposition leader Juan Guaido, who Downing Street recognised earlier this week as the leader of the country’s &ld
  
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• UK will recognize Guaido as Venezuela's president if no new election announced

  26-01-2019 14:59 via news.yahoo.com
  LONDON (Reuters) - Britain will recognize Juan Guaido as the interim president of Venezuela if fresh elections are not announced within the next eight days, foreign minister Jeremy Hunt said. Fellow EU nations Germany, France and Spain made similar comments on Saturday. "@jguaido is the right person to take Venezuela forward," Hunt tweeted. "If there are not fresh & fair elections announced within 8 days UK will recognize him as interim President to take forward the political process toward
  
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• Patton Oswalt: Twitter troll who attacked comedian overwhelmed when literally repaid with kindness

  26-01-2019 14:40 via news.yahoo.com
  Discovering his assailant was battling grave health problems, he donated $2,000 towards his unpaid medical bills – then urged his 4.5 million followers to follow suit.The heartwarming exchange between Oswalt, an Emmy Award winner, and Michael Beatty - a 64-year-old Vietnam veteran from Huntsville, Alabama - was sparked on Thursday after the celebrity posted an unflattering poem about Donald Trump.“I expected a scathing retort or just to be ignored,” Mr Beatty told the Washingto
  
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• NY bishop slams Gov. Cuomo for citing Catholic faith but supporting abortion legislation

  26-01-2019 14:39 via news.yahoo.com
  Bishop Edward Scharfenberger calls out Cuomo for his support for New York's new abortion law.
  
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