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• Avengers: Endgame: The Endings Explained

  26-04-2019 23:56 via gamespot.com
  
  The time has finally come. Avengers: Endgame is now in theaters and brought with it the end of not only this era of the MCU, but grand finales for a bunch of our favorite superheroes and superhero teams--which means we have a lot of ground to cover here.Watch yourself: From here on out, we are in spoiler country.The End (Of Phase 3)Shockingly, Marvel broke their decades-long tradition of having multiple post-credits sequences for this one--the end of this movie actually is the end, with no stin
  
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• 4 killed by runaway truck on Denver interstate; driver faces homicide charges

  26-04-2019 23:48 via news.yahoo.com
  A stretch of I-70 west of Denver remained closed hours after a semi-tractor trailer carrying wood slammed into stopped cars causing multiple deaths.
  
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• Migrants protest after hundreds escape from Mexican detention center

  26-04-2019 23:44 via news.yahoo.com
  Tuxtla Gutiérrez (Mexico) (AFP) - Central American migrants at a detention center in southern Mexico protested against their captivity on Friday, a day after an escape involving around 1,300 mostly Cuban inmates.Dozens of migrants shouted on Friday morning: "We want to go," and "we're hungry" at the facility in Tapachula, in the southern state of Chiapas.At dinner time on Thursday, some 1,300 migrants escaped after threatening to set fire to the detention center to protest against overcro
  
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• The Latest: Defense rests in trial of Minneapolis officer

  26-04-2019 23:36 via news.yahoo.com
  MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — The Latest on the trial of a former Minneapolis police officer who fatally shot a woman who had called 911 to report a possible crime (all times local):
  
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• Google bans one of the biggest Android app developers from the Play Store

  26-04-2019 23:33 via news.yahoo.com
  On the heels of the revelation last week, via a BuzzFeed analysis, that several of the most-downloaded apps from the Google Play Store may have been caught sharing data they collect with the Chinese government, we've just learned that Google is banning the app developer in question. In addition, Google is removing all apps from the developer, DO Global, that have collectively garnered more than half a billion downloads.Google had already discovered the developer was engaged in ad fraud and had b
  
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• Pokémon Go Adds More Legendary Pokémon This May - GS News Update

  26-04-2019 23:30 via gamespot.com
  
  Pokémon Go Adds More Legendary Pokémon With May And June's Field Research Tasks
  
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• Russian Agent Maria Butina Sentenced to 18 Months in Prison

  26-04-2019 23:26 via news.yahoo.com
  Russian agent Maria Butina was sentenced Friday to 18 months in federal prison after pleading guilty to charges of conspiracy against the U.S.Butina, 30, was charged last summer with acting on behalf of the Russian government before and after the 2016 presidential election and failing to register as a foreign agent. She was arrested on July 16 and has spent the better part of the last year in jail in Alexandria, Va.As a grad student at American University in Washington, D.C. Butina est
  
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• American Airlines cuts profit forecast as 737 MAX woes bite

  26-04-2019 23:17 via news.yahoo.com
  American Airlines slashed its profit forecast Friday largely due to the crisis around the Boeing 737 MAX, a somewhat more profound hit to operations and customer bookings than at other carriers affected by the jet's grounding."That's not just our passengers," said American Airlines President Robert Isom.American's hit from the MAX crisis came as the aviation industry watches for Boeing to clear several key hurdles with the US Federal Aviation Administration and other global regulators to allow t
  
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• South Carolina state House passes 'heartbeat' bill to ban abortions after six weeks

  26-04-2019 22:58 via news.yahoo.com
  The South Carolina state House passed a bill which prohibits abortion when a heartbeat is detectable. Current law in South Carolina permits abortion up to 20 weeks. This bill, called the “South Carolina Fetal Heartbeat Protection from Abortion Act” reduces that to a mere six weeks, before many women know that they are pregnant, with exceptions for rape, incest, and if the pregnancy endangers the life or health of the woman.This bill is not the first of its kind, heartbeat abortion bi
  
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• Biden spars with Trump on age, faces questions on women

  26-04-2019 22:45 via news.yahoo.com
  Newly announced 2020 Democratic candidate Joe Biden faced scrutiny on multiple fronts Friday, as President Donald Trump knocked him for his age and an all-female panel questioned his past treatment of women.It was unlikely the rollout that the former vice president had expected on the first full day of his White House campaign, but the attention from Trump himself served to signal Biden's status as the leading challenger in a crowded field seeking to oust the current president.Biden's day in the
  
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• 20 Geeky Mother's Day Gift Ideas - Best Gifts For Gamer Moms

  26-04-2019 22:44 via gamespot.com
  
  We're now just a few weeks out from Mother's Day, and we can assume that since you're here, you probably have no idea what to get her this year. Flowers and spa gift cards start to feel generic after a while, and honestly, they require very little forethought--so why not surprise your mom (or wife) with something unique that shows you really thought about what she'd enjoy?If she's into gaming or some other nerdy aspect of pop culture, feed her obsession with an unconventional gift she'll actuall
  
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• College admissions scam: USC announces changes to student-athlete admissions process

  26-04-2019 22:33 via news.yahoo.com
  The University of Southern California announced a revamped admissions process for prospective student-athletes in the wake of the national college admissions scam.
  
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• Biden Raises $6.3 Million on First Day of Campaign, Topping Democratic Field

  26-04-2019 22:32 via news.yahoo.com
  Former vice president Joe Biden's campaign brought in $6.3 million in the first 24 hours after its Thursday launch, trouncing the Day One numbers of all his rivals in the crowded race for the Democratic presidential nomination.Biden's campaign reported that a total of 96,926 donors gave it money in its first. The average online donation was $41 and 97 percent of online contributions were under $200.Biden's haul broke the marks set by former Texas representative Beto O’Rourke, who
  
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• India Amory Releases New Table Linens, and Partners with Mottahedeh to Show Them Off

  26-04-2019 22:31 via news.yahoo.com
  Julia Amory, purveyor of colorful block-printed linens, is out with her spring collection of tablecloths and napkins
  
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• US adds Venezuela foreign minister to sanctions target list

  26-04-2019 22:29 via news.yahoo.com
  CARACAS, Venezuela (AP) — The United States on Friday added Venezuela's foreign minister and a judge who has ruled against Venezuelan opposition figures to a sanctions list aimed at forcing a change of government in the South American country.
  
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• Trump fired his way to fame on TV, but shrinks from it in real life

  26-04-2019 22:29 via news.yahoo.com
  The president says he didn't tell White House counsel Don McGahn to fire Robert Mueller.
  
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• Public's response to Mueller report

  26-04-2019 22:25 via news.yahoo.com
  ABC News and the Washington Post released a new poll on the special counsel report, and Biden's announcement for his presidential run renews controversy over Trump's 2017 Charlottesville comments.
  
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• Avengers Endgame: Why Having No End Credits Scene Was The Right Call

  26-04-2019 22:23 via gamespot.com
  
  In 2008, Marvel set a precedent with its release of Iron Man. After the credits finished rolling, there was an additional scene featuring Nick Fury telling Tony Stark that there are more superheroes in the world, and the audience is introduced to the Avengers Initiative.In the 20 movies taking place in the Marvel Cinematic Universe thereafter, there has been a mid or post-credits sequence--and sometimes both--revealing an inkling of information as to where the next big movie is headed (although
  
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• Would-be carjacker fatally shot by concealed-carry holder in South Loop

  26-04-2019 22:19 via news.yahoo.com
  A would-be carjacker was fatally shot by a licensed concealed-carry holder after an altercation in the South Loop Friday morning, Chicago police said.
  
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• Markets Right Now: Stocks are closing at fresh record highs

  26-04-2019 22:12 via news.yahoo.com
  NEW YORK (AP) — The latest on developments in financial markets (all times local):
  
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• Now Is Not the Time to Get Rid of the A-10 Warthog (And Replace It with the F-35)

  26-04-2019 22:07 via news.yahoo.com
  I admit it, as a former infantryman, I’m a partial to the A-10 Thunderbolt II. I don’t mind that it’s ugly. I don’t mind that it entered service all the way back in the mid 1970s, making it older than me. I don’t mind that it’s slow, basically a flying 30 mm cannon sheathed in a 1,200-pound titanium “bathtub.” In fact, these are exactly the things that endear the A-10 to grunts like me. It’s our plane. It was made for us and us alone.The Wart
  
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• Joe Biden raises $6.3m in 24 hours to set new record for first day fundraising

  26-04-2019 22:00 via news.yahoo.com
  Joe Biden has set a new fundraising record for the 2020 Democratic primaries after raising a staggering $6.3m (£4.8m) in just 24 hours.The former vice president raised funds from more more than 96,000 contributors, according to his campaign. He beat out previous records set first by Texas Democrat Beto O’Rourke and then bested by Bernie Sanders, whose campaign has raised the most funds so far ahead of the primaries. Mr Biden enters the massive primary field as one of the clear frontr
  
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• Trump says U.S. paid no money to North Korea over Warmbier

  26-04-2019 21:58 via news.yahoo.com
  U.S. President Donald Trump on Friday said the United States did not pay any money to North Korea as it sought the release of Otto Warmbier, a day after a report said Trump had approved a $2 million bill from Pyongyang for the American student's care."No money was paid to North Korea for Otto Warmbier, not two Million Dollars, not anything else," Trump wrote in a tweet.The Washington Post reported on Thursday that Trump had approved payment of a $2 million bill from Pyongyang to cover its care o
  
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• Judge slams Chicago prosecutor Kim Foxx for double standard: 'Your office created this mess'

  26-04-2019 21:41 via news.yahoo.com
  A Cook County judge recently castigated State’s Attorney Kim Foxx for having a double standard by prosecuting an anonymous woman for filing a false police report after dropping all charges against "Empire" actor Jussie Smollett, who was indicted for the same offense.
  
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• 2020 Vision: Trump makes race about 'freedom' — and keeping prisoners from voting

  26-04-2019 21:32 via news.yahoo.com
  Both Trump and Vice President Mike Pence on Friday delivered speeches at the National Rifle Association’s annual conference in Indianapolis, where they blasted Bernie Sanders' plan to give felons the right to vote.
  
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• Biden quickly raises $6.3 million, marking the largest 24-hour haul from 2020 candidates

  26-04-2019 21:31 via news.yahoo.com
  Biden has brought in the largest haul for Day One fundraising — surpassing Beto O'Rourke who previously held that honor.
  
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• Fallout 76 Update To Let You Carry More, Join The Pioneer Scouts

  26-04-2019 21:25 via gamespot.com
  
  Bethesda continues to announce and release patches for Fallout 76, and today is no different. The Maryland-based company has announced that the online, open-world shooter will get yet another update next month. Patch 9, scheduled to drop on May 7, will introduce a new faction and increase item carry weight.The patch is titled Ever Upwards, a mantra of Appalachia's Pioneer Scouts. The Pioneer Scouts have seen their numbers--both in terms of new recruits and veteran members--dwindle due to the Gre
  
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• UPDATE 2-Intel puts modem business up for sale, held talks with Apple - WSJ

  26-04-2019 21:24 via news.yahoo.com
  Intel Corp is exploring strategic options for its modem chip business, including a possible sale to Apple or another acquirer, the Wall Street Journal reported on Friday, citing people familiar with the matter.Intel decided to exit the 5G modem chip business last week, hours after Apple settled a longstanding legal dispute with Qualcomm Inc, a key supplier of iPhone modem chips.Apple had held talks with Intel around last summer and continued to do so for months until halting recently around the
  
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• Joe Biden on Anita Hill: 'I don't think I treated her badly'

  26-04-2019 21:23 via news.yahoo.com
  Former Vice President Joe Biden said he waited 28 years to call Anita Hill about her treatment from an all-male Senate panel he led in 1991.
  
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• Trump news: President says US is ‘taking our signature back' from UN Arms Trade Treaty, claiming guns 'make our communities safer'

  26-04-2019 21:11 via news.yahoo.com
  Donald Trump railed against "radical left-wing" 2020 hopefuls and praised members of the National Rifle Association during a speech hosted by the guns right's group Friday."Far-left radicals in Congress want to take away your voice, your jobs, your rights," the president said. "And they especially want to take away your guns." He went on to slam the press as "fake news" and vowed to protect the Second Amendment in the US.Mr Trump also called in to Sean Hannity’s Fox News show on Thursday e
  
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• Trump's visits Buttigieg country for speech at NRA convention but singles out only Bernie Sanders

  26-04-2019 21:05 via news.yahoo.com
  President Donald Trump visited Pete Buttigieg territory for the NRA convention and mentioned Bernie Sanders but not the South Bend mayor.
  
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• 8 Ways to Invest in the U.K. Now

  26-04-2019 21:00 via news.yahoo.com
  A new report by consulting and accounting firm EY found that Britain is the top corporate investment destination in the world.For the first time in the 10-year history of the EY annual survey, the U.K. is the top destination for foreign corporate investment in mergers and acquisitions.The U.K. Brexit vote to leave the European Union has created political chaos in Britain, but it has also tanked the pound and made assets cheaper for outside investors.
  
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• Nearing end of his tenure, Rosenstein hits back at critics

  26-04-2019 20:52 via news.yahoo.com
  WASHINGTON (AP) — Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein is taking swipes at his critics as he prepares to leave the Justice Department, using one of his final speeches to defend his handling of the special counsel's Russia investigation and condemn decisions made before he took the job.
  
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• Hundreds of migrants in southern Mexico board 'The Beast' heading north

  26-04-2019 20:50 via news.yahoo.com
  The risky move to board the train, known as "La Bestia" (The Beast), followed a mass breakout of migrants from a holding center in the southern border city of Tapachula on Thursday night.Men, women and children from various countries boarded the slow train as it pulled out of the town of Arriaga in the southern state of Chiapas, Mexican media reported.The large group descended from the train on Friday after it reached the town of Ixtepec to the northwest of Arriaga.
  
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• Under fire, former U.S. V.P. Biden says he did not treat Anita Hill badly

  26-04-2019 20:41 via news.yahoo.com
  Biden had joined the burgeoning 2020 Democratic field a day earlier.At times, Biden seemed to oscillate between defending his behavior and saying he did nothing wrong and apologizing and trying to make amends.Biden’s conduct during the hearings in 1991, when he was chairman of the U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee, became a renewed subject of controversy after the New York Times reported that Biden had called Hill earlier this month in the run-up to his presidential bid and that Hill was dis
  
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• How Does the GMC Sierra's CarbonPro Bed Compare vs. the Ford F-150's Aluminum Bed?

  26-04-2019 20:41 via news.yahoo.com
  Which material is best for a pickup bed?
  
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• Joe Biden comforts grieving Meghan McCain by telling her that death gets easier

  26-04-2019 20:30 via news.yahoo.com
  A day after announcing his 2020 presidential bid, former Vice President Joe Biden appeared on ABC’s “The View.” He was asked by co-host Meghan McCain, whose father, Sen. John McCain, died in August, if death ever gets easier.
  
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• Exclusive: Sri Lankan ex-defense chief Gotabaya says he will run for president, tackle radical Islam

  26-04-2019 20:20 via news.yahoo.com
  Gotabaya, as he is popularly known, is the younger brother of former President Mahinda Rajapaksa and the two led the country to a crushing defeat of separatist Tamil rebels a decade ago after a 26-year civil war.More than 250 people were killed in bomb attacks on hotels and churches on Easter Sunday that the government has blamed on Islamist militants and that Islamic State has claimed responsibility for.Gotabaya said the attacks could have been prevented if the island's current government had n
  
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• Free Nintendo Switch Online Trial Comes Included In New Mario Tennis Aces Demo

  26-04-2019 20:18 via gamespot.com
  
  Nintendo has announced a special online demo for Mario Tennis Aces, which goes live on April 26 at 12PM PT / 3PM ET and continues until May 3. Downloading the demo gives you a free seven-day trial to Nintendo Switch Online as well."Taking part in the special demo will also allow players to reap some special rewards that even carry over into the full Mario Tennis Aces game," Nintendo said in a press release. "Playing just one match in this week-long tournament unlocks an outfit for Mario that dec
  
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• Economy Grows 3.2 Percent During First Quarter, Outpacing Expectations

  26-04-2019 20:11 via news.yahoo.com
  The economy grew 3.2 percent during the first quarter of this year, beating analysts' and investors' expectations, according to data released Friday by the Bureau of Economic Analysis (BEA).Economists had expected a first-quarter showing of 2.5 percent GDP growth, only slightly higher than the 2.2 percent growth in the last quarter of 2018. Instead, GDP grew 3.2 percent, marking the economy's best first-quarter performance since 2015.The BEA attributed the favorable growth rate to
  
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• UPDATE 1-U.S. oil drillers make biggest rig cuts in over 3 months- Baker Hughes

  26-04-2019 20:04 via news.yahoo.com
  U.S. oil drillers this week cut the most rigs in over three months and reduced the number of oil rigs operating for a second week in a row and for the fifth straight month, as independent producers follow through on plans to cut spending on new drilling and completions.Drillers cut 20 oil rigs in the week to April 26, the steepest decline since the week to Jan. 18, General Electric Co's Baker Hughes energy services firm said in its closely followed report on Friday.The U.S. rig count, an early i
  
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• The Latest: Expert: Reasonable force in Damond shooting

  26-04-2019 19:53 via news.yahoo.com
  MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — The Latest on the trial of a former Minneapolis police officer who fatally shot a woman who had called 911 to report a possible crime (all times local):
  
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• Trucker arrested in fiery Colorado pileup that killed four

  26-04-2019 19:48 via news.yahoo.com
  The crash turned a stretch of Interstate 70, a major east-west highway, into a raging inferno on Thursday that involved at least 28 vehicles and may have damaged the road surface and an overpass, authorities said.Lakewood, Colorado police said they arrested Rogel Lazaro Aguilera-Mederos, 23, after he lost control of his tractor-trailer truck and started a chain-reaction during the late afternoon rush hour."At that time of day we all know that I-70 can be very jammed," police spokesman Ty Country
  
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• The Eufy Genie is an Echo Dot, but it costs $19.99 instead of $50

  26-04-2019 19:47 via news.yahoo.com
  The Echo Dot is Amazon's most affordable Alexa speaker, so it makes perfect sense that it's also Amazon's best-selling Alexa speaker. But if it's Amazon's best-selling Alexa speaker at $50, can you imagine how well it would sell if it only cost $19.99? Anker's Eufy brand doesn't have the same marketing muscle as Amazon, and that's why the Eufy Genie Smart Speaker with Hands-Free Amazon Alexa will never sell as well as the Echo Dot. But those in the know are aware that it's just as good as a Dot,
  
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• Pentagon expected to send about 300 more troops to border

  26-04-2019 19:43 via news.yahoo.com
  WASHINGTON (AP) — The Pentagon may send about 300 more troops to the U.S.-Mexico border in roles that could put them in contact with migrants and thus mark a break from current practice, officials said.
  
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• 'I am deeply embarrassed.' Russian agent Maria Butina sentenced to 18 months in federal prison

  26-04-2019 19:32 via news.yahoo.com
  The gun-toting, red-haired graduate student pleaded guilty to conspiring to act as an unregistered agent for the Russian government.
  
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• Maria Butina is not a Russian spy, but a 'spotter': DOJ revives intrigue over gun rights activist

  26-04-2019 19:29 via news.yahoo.com
  Russian agent Maria Butina, who pleaded guilty to acting as a foreign agent for Russia, is scheduled to be sentenced Friday in federal court.
  
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• UPDATE 1-Morgan Stanley sees US Q2 GDP growth at 1.1%, Goldman view 2.2%

  26-04-2019 19:12 via news.yahoo.com
  Morgan Stanley's economists said on Friday they expect that U.S. economic growth is running at a 1.1% annual pace in the second quarter due to a reversal of the surge in exports and inventories recorded in the first quarter.Goldman Sachs analysts marked down their estimate on U.S. gross domestic product in the current quarter, but the pace was still twice as fast as Morgan Stanley's projection."Our preliminary expectations for growth in the second quarter sees large drags from net exports and in
  
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• US imposes sanctions on Venezuelan foreign minister

  26-04-2019 19:09 via news.yahoo.com
  The United States on Friday imposed sanctions on Venezuelan Foreign Minister Jorge Arreaza as it tries to ramp up pressure to remove President Nicolas Maduro."The United States will not stand by and watch as the illegitimate Maduro regime starves the Venezuelan people of their wealth, humanity and right to democracy," Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin said in a statement announcing that any US assets of Arreaza would be blocked.The sanctions are the latest slapped by the United States against se
  
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• Joe Biden tells a grieving Meghan McCain that loss gets easier

  26-04-2019 19:09 via news.yahoo.com
  “There’s going to come a time when you think of your dad ... that you’re going to get a smile before you get a tear.”
  
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