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• A tax service turned away a gay couple. Both sides claim discrimination

  18-02-2019 23:46 via news.yahoo.com
  This is latest in debate over Indiana's Religious Freedom Restoration Act on whether businesses can refuse service based on religious beliefs.
  
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• Trump warns Venezuela military they are risking their lives and future

  18-02-2019 23:24 via news.yahoo.com
  MIAMI (Reuters) - U.S. President Donald Trump on Monday warned members of Venezuela's military who are helping President Nicolas Maduro to stay in power that they are risking their future and their lives and urged them to allow humanitarian aid into the country. Speaking to a cheering crowd mostly of Venezuelan and Cuban immigrants, Trump said if the Venezuelan military continues supporting Maduro, "you will find no safe harbor, no easy exit and no way out. You’ll lose everything.” H
  
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• Pence and Biden in Munich: Stark contrast shows how Trump is ruining relations with Europe

  18-02-2019 23:04 via news.yahoo.com
  Former ambassador: We're safer in NATO than outside it, but Donald Trump doesn't seem to realize that and is separating us from our closest allies.
  
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• Farrakhan Praises Omar’s Anti-Semitic Remarks: ‘Shake Up That Corrupt House’

  18-02-2019 22:57 via news.yahoo.com
  Nation of Islam leader Louis Farrakhan on Sunday praised Representative Ilhan Omar's (D., Minn.) recent endorsement of an anti-Semitic trope and urged the freshman lawmaker not to bow to pressure from critics.“Ms. Omar from Somalia – she started talking about ‘the Benjamins' and they are trying to make her apologize. Sweetheart, don't do that. Pardon me for calling you sweetheart, but you do have a sweet heart. You sure are using it to shake the government up, but you have noth
  
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• Southwest Airlines under FAA investigation for aircraft weight, balance calculations

  18-02-2019 22:51 via news.yahoo.com
  The investigation began in February 2018, and there have been no fines nor enforcement action from the investigation to date.
  
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• Aurora shooting victim sent one last heartbreaking text to wife before dying: 'I love you'

  18-02-2019 22:28 via news.yahoo.com
  A victim of the shooting in Aurora, Illinois, shooting managed to send one last heartbreaking text message to his wife before becoming one of the latest victims to gun violence in the US.Just a day after Valentine’s Day, Terra Pinkard says she received what would be the last text she ever received from her husband, Josh.“I love you, I’ve been shot at work,” the text read.
  
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• REI CEO steps down following revelation of outside personal relationship

  18-02-2019 22:26 via news.yahoo.com
  The CEO of outdoor gear retailer REI is stepping down in the wake of an inquiry into a relationship that appeared to be a conflict of interest.
  
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• Trial over Delaware prison riot ends with no convictions

  18-02-2019 22:04 via news.yahoo.com
  WILMINGTON, Del. (AP) — The trial for four inmates charged with murder in a 2017 Delaware prison riot ended Monday with no convictions.
  
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• The New Ford Focus ST Looks Awesome and Makes 276 Horsepower

  18-02-2019 22:00 via news.yahoo.com
  It's not too late for Ford to change its mind about bringing this hot hatch to America, is it?
  
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• Isil bride Shamima Begum suggests she is prepared to go to prison if Britain allows her back

  18-02-2019 21:57 via news.yahoo.com
  The schoolgirl who ran away to join Isil has indicated that she is prepared to go to prison if she gets her wish to return to Britain. Shamima Begum said that she was still determined to come back from Syria despite knowing that UK authorities have the “option” to send her to jail. In an interview with the BBC yesterday, while cradling a newborn baby, the teenager was asked what she thought would happen on her return. “My first priority is my son, obviously,” she replied.
  
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• Aurora shooting victim Josh Pinkard texted love to his wife as he lay dying

  18-02-2019 21:54 via news.yahoo.com
  One of the victims of a gunman's rampage in Illinois texted love to his wife as he lay dying: "I received a text at 1:24 from my precious husband."
  
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• PHOTOS: Presidents Day protests decry Trump's emergency declaration

  18-02-2019 21:47 via news.yahoo.com
  Activists in Washington, Chicago and dozens of other U.S. cities protested on Monday's Presidents Day holiday against President Donald Trump's declaration of a national emergency to secure funding for a U.S.-Mexico border wall.
  
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• Interval training burns off more pounds than jogging or cycling

  18-02-2019 21:41 via news.yahoo.com
  For the current analysis, researchers examined data from 41 smaller studies that compared weight loss results after at least four weeks of either interval training or moderate intensity continuous training programs, such as jogging, cycling or walking at a steady pace."Losing weight is not only about how many calories you burn during exercise, but also how your body reacts during the hours and days after exercise," said senior study author Paulo Gentil of the Federal University of Goias in Brazi
  
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• Illinois man known for white crosses makes 5 for hometown

  18-02-2019 21:31 via news.yahoo.com
  AURORA, Ill. (AP) — An Illinois man who has delivered more than 26,000 white crosses to sites around the U.S., largely to remember victims of gun violence, now finds himself doing the same in his hometown.
  
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• Airlines begin waiving change fees for new winter storm

  18-02-2019 21:29 via news.yahoo.com
  Southwest Airlines had already started waiving rebooking fees ahead of the new storm. It’s likely that others would do the same as forecasts solidified.
  
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• Trump administration dares Maduro regime to prevent US aid from entering Venezuela

  18-02-2019 21:11 via news.yahoo.com
  U.S. humanitarian aid sits in Colombia at the border with Venezuela; reaction and analysis from Brett Bruen, former director of global engagement in the Obama White House.
  
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• Florida inmates use criminal skills to rescue baby from car

  18-02-2019 21:09 via news.yahoo.com
  A group of prisoners in Florida put their criminal skills to good use on Valentine’s Day – breaking into a car, to free a baby locked inside. The prisoners, on work-release, were repairing parking meters in Pasco County, north of Tampa, when they spotted the family in distress. The one-year-old child was trapped inside the car, with the keys inside. The family was unable to afford a locksmith and so, in the 56 degree Fahrenheit heat, the father was preparing to break the window. That
  
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• Presidents Day protests decry Trump's emergency declaration

  18-02-2019 21:08 via news.yahoo.com
  Calling Trump's declaration an abuse of power and usurpation of Congress, organizers with the nonprofit advocacy group MoveOn.org and other participants said it was important to let the outrage over the move be heard.“We disagree with the state of emergency declared by the president and stand with our immigrant colleagues and friends,” said Darcy Regan, executive director of Indivisible Chicago, which co-hosted the protest there.Trump invoked the emergency powers on Friday after Cong
  
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• Israeli leaders' Nazi comments derail European summit

  18-02-2019 20:49 via news.yahoo.com
  JERUSALEM (AP) — Poland on Monday withdrew from a European summit in Jerusalem, derailing the meeting and embarrassing its Israeli hosts, to protest claims by Israel's acting foreign minister that Poles collaborated with the Nazis and "suckled anti-Semitism with their mothers' milk."
  
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• Amazon announces plans to make half of shipments carbon neutral by 2030

  18-02-2019 20:47 via news.yahoo.com
  Online retail giant Amazon has announced plans to make alf if its shipments carbon neutral by the year 2030.The company, which ships millions of packages a year to shoppers, said that it will achieve that goal by switching to renewable energy sources and by asking suppliers to reimagine their packaging.“It won’t be easy to achieve this goal, but it’s worth being focused and stubborn on this vision and we’re committed to seeing it through,” Dave Clark, Amazon senior
  
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• What Happened to Jussie Smollett? Here Are All of His Case's Developments

  18-02-2019 20:39 via news.yahoo.com
  Police now want to re-interview the 'Empire' actor
  
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• Trump's national emergency may halt a Kentucky military middle school

  18-02-2019 20:14 via news.yahoo.com
  The $62 million project to construct Fort Campbell Middle School near the Tennessee/Kentucky border could be in limbo because of Trump's border wall.
  
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• Florida student faces misdemeanor charges after refusing to stand for Pledge of Allegiance

  18-02-2019 20:14 via news.yahoo.com
  An 11-year-old student in Florida refused to stand for the Pledge of Allegiance and was arrested for a resulting confrontation with a teacher and police officer.
  
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• Las Vegas snow: Up to 2 inches of snow falls on strip for 1st time in decade

  18-02-2019 19:55 via news.yahoo.com
  Wild weather in Nevada! Parts of Las Vegas, including the strip, are waking up to as much as 2 inches of snow.
  
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• Black Ops 4’s Operation Grand Heist Adds Car Chases And A Gorilla, Coming This Week

  18-02-2019 19:55 via gamespot.com
  
  Call of Duty: Black Ops 4 is getting a big update, and it's coming to PS4 first this week. Operation Grand Heist adds new characters, outfits, maps, and a lot more. A lengthy trailer (above) sped through all the new content, but it's so jam-packed you could blink and miss something.Grand Heist will bring back the Outrider Specialist, and introduce a new Blackout mode map called Ghost Town. Those who own the Black Ops Pass will also get two new multiplayer maps, Casino and Lockup, along with an e
  
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• U.S.-backed Syrian forces call for 1,500 coalition troops to stay

  18-02-2019 19:40 via news.yahoo.com
  The remarks by Mazloum Kobani, the commander-in-chief of the Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces, followed talks with senior U.S. generals in Syria and offered perhaps the most comprehensive view to date of his requests for an enduring military assistance from the U.S.-led coalition.It also shows that Kobani is still holding out hope that U.S. President Donald Trump may soften his withdrawal order, which has been criticized by allies at home and abroad and which triggered the resignation of Tru
  
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• Tom Ricketts apologizes for distraction of father's emails

  18-02-2019 19:38 via news.yahoo.com
  MESA, Ariz. (AP) — Chicago Cubs Chairman Tom Ricketts apologized to the team's players and coaching staff at spring training on Monday for any distraction caused by offensive racist emails written by his father.
  
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• US-backed Syria force demands IS jihadists surrender

  18-02-2019 19:24 via news.yahoo.com
  Islamic State group jihadists defending their last scrap of territory in Syria have no choice but to surrender, a Kurdish-led force said on Monday, ahead of a victory declaration expected within days.The warning by the US-backed Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) came as European nations reacted coolly to a US call to repatriate their nationals from Syria, which Germany said would be "extremely difficult".From an SDF position hundreds of metres (yards) away, an AFP reporter spotted people moving bet
  
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• New Xbox Games With Gold For February 2019 Available Now

  18-02-2019 19:22 via gamespot.com
  
  The month's mid-point has come, which means that the Xbox Games With Gold have cycled over into the next set. February's previous games are still available through the end of the month, while this new batch will be available to download through mid-March. On Xbox One, Super Bomberman R joins the line-up next to Bloodstained: Curse of the Moon, which went up earlier this month. Super Bomberman is an action game that pays homage to the classic series, having you set bombs and traps against friends
  
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• Mysterious 'witches marks' discovered in ancient cave in Creswell Crags, England

  18-02-2019 19:11 via news.yahoo.com
  Mysterious 'witches marks' discovered in an ancient cave in Creswell Crags, England and the discovery highlights the importance of the Crags for researchers in England.
  
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• Twin bombing kills 24 in Syria's Idlib: monitor

  18-02-2019 18:40 via news.yahoo.com
  A double bomb attack in Syria's jihadist-held city of Idlib on Monday killed 24 people, including four children, a war monitor said.Idlib, the last major part of Syria still outside the control of President Bashar al-Assad's regime, is held by an alliance led by Syria's former Al-Qaeda affiliate, Hayat Tahrir al-Sham.HTS took administrative control of the whole of the region last month, after overpowering smaller Turkey-backed factions.
  
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• Netflix's Punisher And Jessica Jones Canceled, But Marvel Gives Fans Hope For Return

  18-02-2019 18:21 via gamespot.com
  
  Netflix's The Punisher and Jessica Jones series' have been canceled. Deadline reports that the third season of Jessica Jones will still air on the streaming service, but it will mark the end of her run. The Punisher, meanwhile, will not return, having had a second season launch on Netflix in January, 2019.This seemingly brings Marvel and Netflix's relationship as it pertains to creating new shows to an end. The streaming service has already called time on its Daredevil, Luke Cage, and Iron Fist
  
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• 'So many lies': Trump attacks McCabe over explosive CBS interview

  18-02-2019 18:20 via news.yahoo.com
  Andrew McCabe appears before a Senate committee on Capitol Hill.Donald Trump returned to the attack against Andrew McCabe on Monday, in response to an interview in which the former deputy FBI director discussed his new book and made claims damaging to the president.How the deputy attorney general Rod Rosenstein was told by Trump to write a memo justifying the firing of FBI director James Comey in May 2017.
  
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• The Latest: NC official says US House race saw ballot scheme

  18-02-2019 18:16 via news.yahoo.com
  RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — The Latest on an evidentiary hearing outlining a ballot fraud investigation in an undeclared North Carolina congressional race for which a winner hasn't been finalized (all times local):
  
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• Trump says Venezuela's military will 'lose everything they have' if they continue to support Maduro

  18-02-2019 18:14 via news.yahoo.com
  Donald Trump has issued his most blunt threat yet to Venezuela’s military – stop supporting President Nicolas Maduro or risk “losing everything”.In a speech in which he claimed “the evils” of socialism were also being turned back in Cuba and Nicaragua and that the US would never be a socialist country – comments that were almost certainly made with the 2020 presidential election in mind – the president spoke directly to military officials who have
  
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• Europeans reject Trump's call to repatriate Syria jihadists

  18-02-2019 18:12 via news.yahoo.com
  European officials on Monday gave a cold shoulder to a call by US President Donald Trump to take back citizens captured in the fight against Islamic State jihadists in Syria for prosecution back home.Concerns rose about the fate of European nationals now being held by Kurdish forces after Trump shocked his coalition allies in December by announcing the withdrawal of American troops from Syria.Officials worry the Kurds will no longer be able to ensure the captives' detention, especially if their
  
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• Pope's credibility 'on the line' as Vatican convenes global meeting on combating child abuse by clergy

  18-02-2019 17:58 via news.yahoo.com
  Victims of clerical sex abuse have warned Pope Francis that his credibility is on the line as he confronts the biggest challenge of his papacy with a landmark conference on protecting children from rape and molestation. Nearly 200 bishops, archbishops, patriarchs and other senior Catholic figures from around the world will convene in Rome on Thursday for an unprecedented four-day conference that is supposed to tackle the scourge of child abuse by clergy. It is the biggest effort so far to addres
  
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• Israel's first lunar mission to launch this week

  18-02-2019 17:33 via news.yahoo.com
  Israel is to launch its first moon mission this week, sending an unmanned spacecraft to collect data to be shared with NASA, organisers said Monday.The 585-kilogram (1,290-pound) Beresheet (Genesis) spacecraft is to lift off atop a Falcon 9 rocket from Cape Canaveral, Florida at around 0145 GMT on Friday.Israel Aerospace Industries (IAI) and technology NGO SpaceIL announced the date at a press conference.
  
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• No need for Shinzo Abe: Trump already nominated for Nobel Peace Prize

  18-02-2019 17:31 via news.yahoo.com
  During a White House news conference on Friday, Trump said the Japanese premier had given him "the most beautiful copy" of a five-page nomination letter to the Norwegian Nobel Committee.Regardless, Trump has already been nominated by two Norwegian lawmakers."We have nominated him of course for the positive developments on the Korean Peninsula," Per-Willy Amundsen, who was Justice Minister in Prime Minister Erna Solberg's cabinet in 2016-2018, told Reuters.
  
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• Facebook 'digital gangsters' who spread fake news: British MPs

  18-02-2019 17:29 via news.yahoo.com
  A scathing British parliamentary report on Monday branded Facebook "digital gangsters" who failed to fight the spread of fake news and violated data privacy.Lawmakers' 18-month investigation into technology companies and disinformation also accused the world's largest social media platform of trying to hide the extent of Russian interference in foreign elections.Facebook is coming under attack over its response to Russia's suspected use of misleading stories and targeted ads to sway the 2016 US
  
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• U.S. FAA investigates Southwest over baggage weight discrepancies: WSJ

  18-02-2019 17:22 via news.yahoo.com
  A Southwest spokesman told the Journal the company's dealings with the agency were part of a "routine dialogue" and "do not constitute findings of noncompliance," adding the agency had not imposed fines or taken any other formal enforcement action.The FAA and Southwest Airlines could not be immediately reached for comment.
  
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• Seven MPs quit Labour Party as Brexit tensions mount

  18-02-2019 17:16 via news.yahoo.com
  Seven MPs quit Britain's main opposition Labour Party onMonday, citing the leadership's support for Brexit and a growing culture of racism, intimidation and abuse.The departure of the seven moderates was the biggest split in UK politics in nearly four decades, illustrating the divisions that Brexit has stretched to breaking point.The group include Chuka Umunna, who has led a campaign for a second Brexit referendum as a path to stop Britain's departure from the European Union.
  
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• Trump Courts 2020 Latino Vote in Miami With Venezuela Remarks

  18-02-2019 17:03 via news.yahoo.com
  The remarks at Florida International University on Monday afternoon, in the heart of this immigrant community, come weeks after National Assembly leader Juan Guaido declared himself interim president and just days after the U.S. imposed new sanctions on five additional Maduro associates.The U.S. has recognized Guaido and is pushing Venezuela’s military to get behind him as part of an international effort to force out Maduro.
  
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• Man awarded £120m in compensation from Ford after being paralysed in car accident

  18-02-2019 17:02 via news.yahoo.com
  An Alabama jury has awarded $151.8m (£117.4m) to a young man paralyzed in a 2015 rollover accident involving a Ford Explorer sport utility vehicle, Ford and lawyers in the case said on Sunday.The jury awarded $100m in punitive damages and the rest in compensatory damages after finding that the 1998 Ford Explorer did not meet the company’s own safety guidelines, according to a court document seen by Reuters and lawyers for plaintiff Travaris “Tre” Smith.The document, relea
  
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• GMC Acadia souped up with new engine, trim, and tech

  18-02-2019 16:53 via news.yahoo.com
  GMC has unveiled the refreshed Acadia for the 2020 model year complete with a new trim, a fresh look, and the latest GMC infotainment system.GMC announced on Monday that the Acadia has gotten its midcycle refresh, and now, the lineup looks more like a group of Sierra pickups from the front than mid-size SUVs.In addition to its new exterior styling, the Acadia has a new powertrain option and an assortment of new technologies including an enhanced infotainment system and heads-up display
  
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• McCabe and 60 Minutes Avoid Discussing Why Russia Factored in Comey’s Firing

  18-02-2019 16:51 via news.yahoo.com
  Andrew McCabe is a good witness and he made a favorable impression, at least on me, in his 60 Minutes interview with Scott Pelley. Pelley and his editors did a great job highlighting McCabe’s down-to-earth likability. Unlike Jim Comey, a career prosecutor and corporate lawyer before he became FBI director, former deputy director McCabe is a career agent; his relation of events smacks of the Bureau’s “just the facts, ma’am” ethos. And McCabe’s account of Trump
  
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• Seven MPs Resign from Labour Party

  18-02-2019 16:42 via news.yahoo.com
  Seven members of British Parliament -- Chuka Umunna, Luciana Berger, Gavin Shuker, Angela Smith, Chris Leslie, Mike Gapes, and Ann Coffey -- resigned from the Labour party Monday over concerns about Jeremy Corbyn's leadership, forming their own contingent, the Independent Group.Berger, Labour's most high-profile Jewish member, called the party “institutionally anti-Semitic” and accused it of “a culture of bullying, bigotry and, intimidation," sayin
  
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• Venezuela state internet provider blocks volunteer aid page

  18-02-2019 16:39 via news.yahoo.com
  Venezuela's state internet provider CANTV has blocked a webpage where volunteers sign up to answer National Assembly president Juan Guaido's call to help bring in desperately needed humanitarian aid, the opposition said on Monday.Guaido says he wants one million volunteers by Saturday, the deadline day he has set to bring in the aid piling up at the border with Colombia and aiming to alleviate food and medicine shortages.Last week the opposition hit out at CANTV for redirecting the volunteers we
  
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• Trade War Heats Up as EU Vows to Retaliate on U.S. Auto Tariffs

  18-02-2019 16:35 via news.yahoo.com
  If European exports are hit by U.S. actions, the EU will “react in a swift and adequate manner,” Margaritis Schinas, a spokesman for the European Commission, told reporters in Brussels on Monday -- a day after President Donald Trump received a report on the national-security implications posed by auto imports.The EU has prepared tariffs on a total of 20 billion euros ($23 billion) in U.S. goods should Trump follow through on his threat, which would chiefly hit Germany.
  
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• Trump accuses own deputy attorney general of 'planning illegal act' in early morning Twitter rant

  18-02-2019 16:30 via news.yahoo.com
  Donald Trump has accused his own deputy attorney general of breaking the law in a series of early morning tweets railing against current and former law enforcement officials.Mr Trump lashed out on Twitter at former FBI director Andrew McCabe, whose new book details his concerns about potential foreign influence over the president, and current deputy attorney general Rod Rosenstein, who initiated special counsel Robert Mueller’s investigation.“Wow, so many lies by now disgraced acting
  
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