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• Chip and Joanna Gaines donate baby Crew's bassinet to pregnant fan

  02-03-2019 23:08 via news.yahoo.com
  Thanks to a donation from Chip and Joanna Gaines, one lucky fan doesn't have to worry about having a "Fixer Upper" bassinet for her baby.
  
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• Sanders attacks 'dangerous' Trump at campaign launch

  02-03-2019 22:58 via news.yahoo.com
  US Senator Bernie Sanders returned to the place of his birth Saturday to deliver the first rally speech of his presidential campaign, vowing to defeat "the most dangerous president in modern American history" in Donald Trump."I want to thank all of you for being part of a campaign which is not only going to win the Democratic nomination, which is not only going to defeat Donald Trump, who is the most dangerous president in modern American history," Sanders told the crowd of several thousand peop
  
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• Islamic State says it killed 10 Nigerian soldiers: Amaq

  02-03-2019 22:46 via news.yahoo.com
  Islamic State said on Saturday it killed 10 Nigerian soldiers in an attack on Thursday in the country's northeastern Borno state, but a Nigerian Army spokesman said "no such incident was recorded."In a statement issued through its news agency Amaq, Islamic State claimed responsibility for the attack on a village it referred to as Tdmari, near Maiduguri town.It said the attack happened two days ago.  The Nigerian Army spokesman insisted the "situation in the north east has been calm for some
  
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• Trump vows executive order requiring 'free speech' at colleges

  02-03-2019 22:21 via news.yahoo.com
  Trump made his remarks at the annual Conservative Political Action Conference after bringing to the stage Hayden Williams, a conservative activist who was punched at the University of California, Berkeley, last month while recruiting students for a conservative group."Today, I am proud to announce that I will be very soon signing an executive order requiring colleges and universities to support free speech if they want federal research funds," Trump said.If universities do not comply "it will be
  
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• The Latest: Booker says Dems shouldn't be victim to vitriol

  02-03-2019 22:17 via news.yahoo.com
  The Latest on the 2020 presidential candidates campaigning throughout the country this weekend: (all times EST):
  
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• President Trump: Some Serving in the U.S. Congress 'Hate Our Country'

  02-03-2019 22:15 via news.yahoo.com
  "We can name every one of them if they want," the President said
  
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• Trump, at CPAC, gives 2-hour speech in praise of himself

  02-03-2019 22:06 via news.yahoo.com
  The president spoke for a little more than two hours, sometimes extemporaneously. It was the longest speech he has given as president. “And I said, ‘Let’s go to Iraq.” The president also stocked fears of gun control, asserting that the Second Amendment was “under siege.” I promise.”
  
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• March roars in like a lion with rain, snow, bitter cold

  02-03-2019 22:02 via news.yahoo.com
  CHICAGO (AP) — A winter storm is making its way across much of the U.S., bringing rain, snow and bitter cold to some areas.
  
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• Rival Israel rallies after Netanyahu indictment decision

  02-03-2019 22:01 via news.yahoo.com
  Opponents and supporters of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu took to the streets Saturday evening after the country's attorney general said he intended to file graft charges against him.In central Tel Aviv, Netanyahu loyalists waved blue and white Israel flags and carried placards reading "Netanyahu, the people are with you" and "Netanyahu, my prime minister".Separated from them by a police cordon, opponents waved signs proclaiming "Crime Minister" and "Time for Netanyahu to Go", an AFP
  
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• Analysis: GOP senators struggle to escape no-win border vote

  02-03-2019 21:51 via news.yahoo.com
  WASHINGTON (AP) — One by one, the Republican senators floated their ideas. They were trying to find a way out of a seemingly impossible dilemma: how to support President Donald Trump's U.S.-Mexico border wall without approving the national emergency declaration he invoked to build it.
  
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• Eleven-year-old girl charged with child abuse over death of baby left in her care

  02-03-2019 21:34 via news.yahoo.com
  An 11-year-old girl has been charged with first-degree child abuse of a one-year-old boy who died after suffering serious injuries in her care.The girl, who is not related to the victim, was left babysitting Paxton Davis at her home in Maryland near Washington DC while her mother went out on an errand.Major Brian Reilly, commander of the criminal investigation division, told a press conference the motive remains under investigation.
  
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• Trump-Kim Summit: The Art of Walking Away

  02-03-2019 21:32 via news.yahoo.com
  Trump correctly followed the maxim that a bad deal is worse than no deal.
  
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• Anti-Muslim Poster Targeting Minnesota Rep. Ilhan Omar Rocks West Virginia Statehouse

  02-03-2019 21:18 via news.yahoo.com
  It led to a resignation, an injury and multiple condemnations
  
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• Headteacher reads students bedtime stories on Facebook Live

  02-03-2019 20:26 via news.yahoo.com
  A Texas headteacher who wants her students to continue learning after school ends has started reading bedtime stories to them on a Facebook livestream.Dr Belinda George, 42, films herself reading a children's book in her living room in her pyjamas every Tuesday evening, which anyone can watch on Homer Drive Elementary School's Facebook page.“I don't know if they are read to or not at home,” said Dr George.
  
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• Nigeria's Abubakar Gets Legal Team to Challenge Election Result

  02-03-2019 20:22 via news.yahoo.com
  Abubakar who alleges the ruling party skewed the outcome of the Feb. 23 ballot.Election authorities declared President Muhammadu Buhari the winner by a margin of 56 percent to 41 percent, giving him a second term leading the country that’s Africa is biggest oil producer.“I have just inaugurated my legal team and charged them with the responsibility of ensuring that our stolen mandate is retrieved,” Abubakar said in a statement on Saturday.
  
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• Major weekend winter storm packing heavy snow begins 2,500-mile cross-country sprint

  02-03-2019 20:22 via news.yahoo.com
  A major winter storm threatens heavy snow and rain from California to New England this weekend. Forecasters warn Midwest motorists could be stranded.
  
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• UC-Berkeley police make an arrest following the attack of a conservative student

  02-03-2019 19:29 via news.yahoo.com
  Police have made an arrest after a conservative student was attacked at the University of California, Berkeley.
  
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• Syria force battles into last jihadist pocket

  02-03-2019 19:03 via news.yahoo.com
  Kurdish-led forces battled jihadists defending their last village on Saturday as operations were relaunched to flush out the Islamic State group from eastern Syria after several days of humanitarian evacuations.The US-backed Syrian Democratic Forces pushed into Baghouz, a tiny hamlet near the Iraqi border where IS fighters have been making a desperate last stand.An official for the Kurdish People's Protection Units (YPG), which forms the backbone of the SDF, on Saturday said they had breached th
  
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• Wildlife officials find 700-pound gator in Southwest Georgia

  02-03-2019 18:50 via news.yahoo.com
  Wildlife officials in Southwest Georgia could not believe what they found.
  
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• India refuses to share proof of strikes in Pakistan amid doubts of militant deaths

  02-03-2019 18:50 via news.yahoo.com
  The flare up appeared to be easing on Saturday after Pakistan handed back a captured Indian fighter pilot on Friday night, amid efforts by global powers to prevent another war between the arch enemies.India accuses Pakistan of harboring the Jaish-e Mohammad Islamist group that claimed the bombing.Indian warplanes carried out air strikes on Tuesday inside northeast Pakistan's Balakot on what New Delhi called militant camps.
  
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• US-backed Syrian fighters advance on 2 fronts against IS

  02-03-2019 18:48 via news.yahoo.com
  OUTSIDE BAGHOUZ, Syria (AP) — The ground assault into the last area held by the Islamic State group intensified Saturday as U.S.-backed Syrian fighters made "remarkable progress" amid heavy clashes, including the capture of a hill overlooking a tent encampment for the extremists, officials with the Kurdish-led forces said.
  
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• How To Fix Anthem's Endgame

  02-03-2019 17:00 via gamespot.com
  
  Anthem has dropped a host of updates, patches, and bug fixes but these things could make the overall game better.
  
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• The Latest: Global Muslim body urges India, Pakistan to talk

  02-03-2019 16:52 via news.yahoo.com
  SRINAGAR, India (AP) — The Latest on tensions between India and Pakistan (all times local):
  
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• People think this video of Rami Malek promoting a hotel is weird as hell

  02-03-2019 16:04 via news.yahoo.com
  You might consider yourself a fan of actor Rami Malek, but did you know he's a fan of a whole bunch of stuff, too?He's a fan of Freddie Mercury and Queen, of course. But he's also fan of his mom, chamomile tea, handwritten letters, classic movies, and looking sharp "regardless of the occasion," to name a few.We know all of this because the Bohemian Rhapsody star recorded a slightly bizarre promotional video for Mandarin Oriental hotels, titled "Rami Malek: I'm a fan." In the one-minute video, th
  
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• SpaceX kicks off a 'new era in spaceflight' with the Crew Dragon launch

  02-03-2019 16:01 via news.yahoo.com
  It's been a momentous Saturday for SpaceX, and for the future of crewed voyages into space. At 2:49 a.m. ET, the American aerospace company founded by Elon Musk staged its first launch of Crew Dragon. It's big news because this is the first time a commercial interest has launched a spacecraft that was built to carry humans.LIFTOFF! The next big leap in a new chapter of U.S. human spaceflight systems has left the pad. @SpaceX’s #CrewDragon demo flight will be the 1st commercially-built &
  
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• How documentaries like ‘Leaving Neverland,’ ‘Lorena’ and ‘Surviving R. Kelly’ are changing minds

  02-03-2019 16:00 via news.yahoo.com
  How documentary series like 'Leaving Neverland,' 'Surviving R. Kelly' and 'Lorena' are changing narratives about Michael Jackson, R. Kelly and Lorena Bobbitt.
  
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• Facing Jail in Caracas, Guaido Travels Across South America

  02-03-2019 15:59 via news.yahoo.com
  Peru’s President Martin Viscarra has also invited Guaido to Lima, according to the deputy foreign minister.The opposition leader insists he’ll be home soon, but his lengthening regional tour raises questions about just how and when he intends to get back to Caracas.Guaido, head of the opposition-dominated National Assembly, risks not only being blocked from re-entering Venezuela, but being tossed into jail after violating a foreign-travel ban.
  
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• Trump to address core conservatives after rough week

  02-03-2019 15:58 via news.yahoo.com
  President Donald Trump prepared Saturday to address a conference of right-wing activists, capping a turbulent week that included a failed summit with North Korea and explosive testimony by his former lawyer branding him a criminal.The White House has not previewed the themes of the president's speech at the National Harbor near Washington, his third in front of the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) since he was elected.Commentators were expecting him to play to his base, however, o
  
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• EU ready to give UK more guarantees on Brexit: Barnier

  02-03-2019 15:57 via news.yahoo.com
  The European Union is prepared to give Britain further Brexit guarantees to help a divorce deal through the British parliament, the bloc's chief negotiator Michel Barnier said in an interview published Saturday."We can find guarantees to confirm, clarify, guarantee the goodwill and good faith of the Europeans with commitments which would have real legal force," Barnier said in comments published in several European newspapers including Die Welt in Germany and Les Echos in France.Barnier also sug
  
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• Wounded and alone, children emerge from last Islamic State enclave

  02-03-2019 15:34 via news.yahoo.com
  The Iraqi orphan's family had died two years earlier in air strikes across the border in al-Qaim region.Hareth was 11 years old when Islamic State (IS) carved out its "caliphate" in Iraq and Syria, killing thousands of civilians and attracting an array of enemies that have fought from the air and on the ground to uproot the jihadists.Now 16, he was among the children swept up this week in the civilian evacuation of Baghouz, the last shred of land under the jihadists' control where they are on th
  
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• Meng Wanzhou: Canada approves extradition process against Huawei executive

  02-03-2019 15:34 via news.yahoo.com
  Canada has said it will allow a US extradition request for an executive of Chinese tech giant Huawei to face charges over possible dealings with Iran to proceed.The Department of Justice said on Friday that officials made the decision after a diligent review of the case against Meng Wangzhou, chief financial officer of Huawei Technologies Ltd, the biggest global maker of network equipment for phone and internet companies.A department statement stressed that Canada was following its laws.
  
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• Islamic State faces final territorial defeat in eastern Syria battle

  02-03-2019 15:19 via news.yahoo.com
  U.S.-backed Syrian force battling the jihadists said on Saturday (March 2) it was closing in on the jihadists' last bastion near the Iraqi border, capping four years of efforts to roll back the group. Saskia O'Donoghue reports
  
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• Mnuchin Says Tax Refunds ‘Normalized’ After Latest Weekly Rise

  02-03-2019 15:05 via news.yahoo.com
  It’s the second time within days that Mnuchin sought to explain early data and anecdotal evidence proliferating social media that refunds in the first weeks of the tax filing season are lower.Responses to Mnuchin’s Twitter post included comments criticizing the U.S. deficit and his former role at Goldman Sachs Group Inc. as well as others who said their refund had increased this year.
  
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• Pakistanis sign petition seeking Nobel Peace Prize for Imran Khan

  02-03-2019 15:03 via news.yahoo.com
  More than 300,000 people have signed online petitions calling for Pakistan Prime Minister Imran Khan to receive a Nobel Peace Prize after he freed an Indian pilot in a bid to defuse tensions with his country's arch-rival neighbour.The capture of Wing Commander Abhinandan Varthaman had become the focus of renewed hostilities between the nuclear-armed rivals which have alarmed the international community.The hashtag #NobelPeaceForImranKhan began trending on Twitter on Thursday after Khan unexpecte
  
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• Michael Cohen: How Trump's former lawyer will survive prison life, according to his jail guide

  02-03-2019 14:57 via news.yahoo.com
  Michael Cohen will be stripped of most of his liberties when he enters the US prison system in May after pleading guilty to financial crimes, campaign violations and lying to congress.Cohen will likely serve his three-year sentence at the FCI Otisville after US district judge William Pauley said he would recommend the prison for him to the Bureau of Prisons – which determines where a prisoner will be held – in court last year.Considered one of “America’s 10 cushiest priso
  
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• Bribery Probe Could Cost Netanyahu Israel's Election, Polls Show

  02-03-2019 14:54 via news.yahoo.com
  Polls released Friday night showed the Blue & White bloc led by ex-military chief of staff Benny Gantz and former Finance Minister Yair Lapid positioned to form a center-left government after April’s vote with 61 seats in parliament, compared with 59 likely to back a right-wing government led by Netanyahu’s Likud party.Before Attorney General Avihai Mandelblit’s announcement Thursday evening, polls had projected Netanyahu would form the next government atop a 61-seat bloc.
  
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• AP FACT CHECK: Trump twists Cohen's words on collusion

  02-03-2019 14:08 via news.yahoo.com
  WASHINGTON (AP) — Assailed by his ex-lawyer at every turn, President Donald Trump nevertheless claimed a measure of vindication from Michael Cohen's statement that he possessed no direct evidence of collusion with Russia from his time serving the boss. But contrary to Trump's words, Cohen did not exonerate him on the matter in his testimony to lawmakers.
  
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• Trump asks China to drop all agricultural tariffs as trade talks continue

  02-03-2019 13:12 via news.yahoo.com
  Donald Trump said that he asked China to immediately remove all tariffs on agricultural products from the US, as trade talks between the nations progress."I have asked China to immediately remove all Tariffs on our agricultural products (including beef, pork, etc.) based on the fact that we are moving along nicely with Trade discussions," the US president claimed on Twitter.
  
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• Explainer: In Trump-Russia probe, when does collusion become a crime?

  02-03-2019 13:02 via news.yahoo.com
  U.S. intelligence agencies have concluded that Russia used a scheme of hacking and propaganda to cause discord in the United States and harm Trump's Democratic opponent Hillary Clinton.Mueller's probe, with several Trump campaign figures already pleading guilty or being convicted, has documented numerous contacts between Russians and people close to the president.Mueller, who has sought to determine whether Trump's campaign coordinated with Moscow, is preparing to submit a report on his investig
  
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• Jussie Smollett case: Brothers apologize for roles in alleged fake attack

  02-03-2019 12:47 via news.yahoo.com
  The two brothers who say they helped Jussie Smollett stage an alleged fake street assault in Chicago say they have "tremendous regret" for their role.
  
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• Explainer: Does Islamic State still pose a threat?

  02-03-2019 12:42 via news.yahoo.com
  Islamic State looks about to lose its last foothold - on the banks of the Euphrates near the Iraq border - but while its era of territorial rule may be over for now, there is near universal agreement that IS remains a threat.Islamic State's possession of land in Iraq and Syria set it apart from other like-minded groups such as al Qaeda and became central to its mission when it declared a caliphate in 2014, claiming sovereignty over all Muslim lands and peoples.
  
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• The Latest: Kim boards train at the end of Vietnam visit

  02-03-2019 12:11 via news.yahoo.com
  DONG DANG, Vietnam (AP) — The Latest on North Korean leader Kim Jong Un's departure from Vietnam (all times local):
  
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• SpaceX rocket with unmanned U.S. capsule blasts off for space station

  02-03-2019 12:07 via news.yahoo.com
  SpaceX's 16-foot-tall (4.9 meter) Crew Dragon capsule, atop a Falcon 9 rocket, lifted off from Florida's Kennedy Space Center at 2:49 a.m. (0749 GMT), carrying a test dummy nicknamed Ripley.The capsule successfully separated from the rocket about 11 minutes later, sparking cheers in the control room, and began its journey to the space station.The space station's three-member crew was expected to greet the capsule, carrying 400 pounds (181 kg) of supplies and test equipment, early Sunday morning,
  
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• Readers write: Making America _____, and beef or no beef

  02-03-2019 12:00 via news.yahoo.com
  In response to editor Scott Armstrong’s challenge in the Jan. 21 Weekly Print Edition to complete the sentence “Making America ...”: Don’t fill in the blank.It is just “Making America.” America is always being made.May we continue to “make America.” It stands for something in the world and does not need to be qualified.
  
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• Mountain lion choked to death by runner in Colorado was orphaned cub, officials say

  02-03-2019 11:49 via news.yahoo.com
  A mountain lion strangled by a Colorado man after it attacked him was a young cub, likely orphaned and weighing no more than 18 kg, officials said on Friday.Travis Kauffman made headlines last month after he said he had survived a rare mountain lion attack on 4 February and had suffocated the big cat by stepping on its throat.A necropsy, the animal equivalent of an autopsy, showed the animal was a cougar, most likely male and aged only four to five months old.
  
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• Iran condemns Britain for listing ally Hezbollah as 'terrorist' group

  02-03-2019 11:41 via news.yahoo.com
  Iran criticized Britain for its decision to list Hezbollah as a terrorist organization, saying on Saturday it ignored both the will of a large portion of the Lebanese people and the Tehran-backed group's role in fighting Islamic State.Britain said on Monday it planned to ban all wings of Hezbollah, which is deemed a terrorist organization by Washington, due to its destabilizing influence in the Middle East, having previously proscribed its external security unit and its military wing."This Briti
  
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• House panel demands Kushner clearance details from White House

  02-03-2019 11:13 via news.yahoo.com
  After weeks of White House stonewalling, House Oversight Committee Chairman Elijah Cummings, in a letter to the White House, said "I am now writing a final time to request your voluntary cooperation." Cummings panel has subpoena power.Cummings highlighted in his letter a New York Times story that said Trump ordered his former chief of staff John Kelly to provide Kushner with clearance over objections from Kelly and Donald McGahn, then White House counsel.The Times said Kelly and McGahn both wrot
  
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• Poster linking Democrat congresswoman Ilhan Omar to 9/11 leads to fight in West Virginia statehouse

  02-03-2019 11:01 via news.yahoo.com
  A poster that linked the US representative Ilhan Omar to 9/11 has resulted in a brawl among legislators in West Virginia, leading to an individual being taken to hospital.The poster, which was on display at a GOP event in the West Virginia statehouse, depicts the Twin Towers on fire on 11 September with the words “’Never forget’ – you said” written above the building.Under the image is a picture of Ms Omar with the words “I am the proof you have forgotten&rdqu
  
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• US slaps new sanctions on Venezuela regime as Russia ups support

  02-03-2019 09:43 via news.yahoo.com
  The United States and Russia clashed Friday over how to assist crisis-wracked Venezuela, with Moscow pledging new relief channeled through President Nicolas Maduro and Washington slapping sanctions over the blocking of US aid it tried to push through the border.A day after Russia and China vetoed a US and European resolution at the UN Security Council that called for unimpeded aid deliveries, Washington said it was targeting six Venezuelan military officers for stopping last weekend's US-led con
  
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• SpaceX's Successful Launch Paves the Way for a New Era of American Spaceflight

  02-03-2019 09:19 via news.yahoo.com
  If all goes well, we're months away from launching American astronauts from American soil
  
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