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• Oliver North steps down as NRA president amid dispute over 'damaging' information

  27-04-2019 23:49 via news.yahoo.com
  In a letter read to the organization's annual meeting in Indianapolis by an NRA board member, North, a conservative commentator best known for his central role in the 1980s Iran-Contra affair, said he had hoped to run for re-election when his term ends on Monday.NRA officials did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
  
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• Weather: Old Man Winter holds on for another snow storm for 16 million in Chicago, Midwest

  27-04-2019 23:16 via news.yahoo.com
  A late-April snowstorm is forecast to dump up to 10 inches of snow across a 1,200-mile swath of the Midwest and Great Lakes states, including Chicago.
  
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• Venezuelan government denounces regional OAS forum

  27-04-2019 23:04 via news.yahoo.com
  CARACAS, Venezuela (AP) — The government of Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro on Saturday staged a rally to celebrate its split with a key regional forum, the Organization of American States.
  
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• Trump Looks for End to Japan Farm Tariffs Ahead of Two Visits

  27-04-2019 22:59 via news.yahoo.com
  Abe raised the issue of existing U.S. tariffs on its cars and highlighted the growing number of jobs created in the U.S. by Japan’s investment.“We’ll be discussing very strongly agriculture because as the prime minister knows Japan puts very massive tariffs on agriculture, our agriculture, for many years, going into Japan, and we want to get rid of those tariffs,” Trump said during an Oval Office meeting with Abe on Friday.
  
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• Australia's plan to kill 2 million feral cats to combat 'extinction crisis' once again in the spotlight

  27-04-2019 22:58 via news.yahoo.com
  The plan to control Australia's feral cat population was first announced in 2015 as part of a conservation strategy to protect threatened species.
  
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• Snow in Chicago this close to May is unusual, but we're getting numb to abnormal weather

  27-04-2019 22:46 via news.yahoo.com
  Yes, it is snowing in Chicago and other parts of the Midwest. Yes, it is April 27 — a mere four days until May. Yes, people are heading to Twitter and social media to freak out.  And finally, yes, we'll forget our shock as soon as the next extreme weather event happens.  That's what a study from earlier in 2019 conducted by the UC Davis environmental science and policy researcher Frances Moore found after examining 2 billion tweets over a two-and-half year period. It found that w
  
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• San Diego synagogue shooting: Woman killed after 'teenager opens fire' on worshippers celebrating Passover

  27-04-2019 22:19 via news.yahoo.com
  A man opened fire a synagogue in the city of Poway, just outside San Diego, leaving one woman dead and three other people injured, authorities in southern California have said. The shooting began at the Chabad of Poway synagogue just before 11.30am on Saturday. County sheriff William Gore said a white man had opened fire on worshippers with an AR-type assault weapon.San Diego Police chief David Nisleit said the 19-year-old suspect called police to report the shooting, and was subsequently arrest
  
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• San Diego Area Synagogue Shooting Leaves One Dead, Suspect in Custody

  27-04-2019 21:43 via news.yahoo.com
  Denis PoroyA 19-year-old man armed with an assault rifle walked into a suburban San Diego synagogue Saturday morning and opened fire, killing one person and injuring three others, including a child, in a mass shooting that the mayor cast as a “hate crime.” The San Diego Sheriff's Office said that John Earnest of San Diego had been arrested in connection with the shooting at the Chabad of Poway but they didn't believe there were any other suspects. Police said he has had no prior cont
  
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• NRA power struggle: President Oliver North tells Indy convention he won't serve 2nd term

  27-04-2019 21:23 via news.yahoo.com
  Oliver North's tenure ends after a bitter power struggle with Wayne LaPierre, the chief executive and longtime public face of the gun rights group.
  
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• NRA President Oliver North ousted; says NRA is in a 'clear crisis'

  27-04-2019 21:19 via news.yahoo.com
  In a surprising move, Oliver North announced that he has been ousted as president of the National Rifle Association, going on the offensive to warn that the powerful gun rights group is in “clear crisis.”
  
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• US envoy, Ghani push 'intra-Afghan' talks: palace

  27-04-2019 21:03 via news.yahoo.com
  The United States and Afghanistan stressed the need for "intra-Afghan dialogue" when US envoy Zalmay Khalilzad and Afghan President Ashraf Ghani held talks on Saturday, a palace statement said."Dr. Khalilzad briefed the president and other government officials about his trips and future plans for peace," a palace statement said.
  
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• Air Force: Trading New F-15s for Stealth F-35s Is a "Bad Choice"

  27-04-2019 21:00 via news.yahoo.com
  "Ma’am, if we ever get to a point where we are trading F-15s for F-35s, that is a bad choice," Goldfein said. "The F-15 is not an F-35, it will never be an F-35."The U.S. Senate Armed Services Committee on March 4, 2019 questioned the U.S. Air Force's proposal to buy new F-15Xs from Boeing starting in 2020.(This first appeared in 2019.)Sen. Jim Inhofe, an Oklahoma Republican, and ranking member Sen. Jack Reed, a Rhode Island Democrat, asked how the Air Force could justify buying non-stealt
  
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• Indian police uncovered a plot, but Sri Lanka didn't act

  27-04-2019 20:09 via news.yahoo.com
  COLOMBO, Sri Lanka (AP) — While monitoring the usual channels, Indian police stumbled upon something extraordinary: a detailed plot for what would become the bloodiest attack linked to the Islamic State group in South Asia.
  
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• Oliver North forced out as NRA president amid bitter power struggle

  27-04-2019 19:49 via news.yahoo.com
  North, in conflict with chief executive Wayne LaPierre, says he was ‘informed’ he would not be renominated when term endsNRA chief Wayne LaPierre, left, and president Oliver North, right, have been involved in a power struggle. Photograph: Bryan Woolston/ReutersOliver North appeared to be heading out of the National Rifle Association amid a dramatic and fast-developing power struggle at the top of the influential gun rights organization.North announced during the annual NRA meeting i
  
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• Russia's Vladimir Putin blasts U.S. sentencing of Marina Butina as a 'travesty of justice'

  27-04-2019 19:47 via news.yahoo.com
  Gun-rights activist Marina Butina was sentenced to 18 months in prison on Friday for her role in a Russian effort to infiltrate U.S. politics.
  
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• Israel to free two prisoners after recovering soldier's remains from Syria

  27-04-2019 19:40 via news.yahoo.com
  Israel will release two prisoners after the remains of an Israeli soldier missing since 1982 were recovered by Russian special forces in Syria, Israeli and Syrian officials said.Russia, a key Damascus ally, this month handed over the remains and personal effects of Zachary Baumel who was 21 when he was declared missing in action along with two other soldiers in the Battle of Sultan Yacoub during Israel's invasion of Lebanon.
  
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• AP FACT CHECK: Trump's torrent of twisted claims on Russia

  27-04-2019 19:25 via news.yahoo.com
  WASHINGTON (AP) — Russia keeps reverberating even with special counsel Robert Mueller's report now part of history.
  
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• Oliver North: NRA president forced out amid bitter power struggle at top of gun rights group

  27-04-2019 19:18 via news.yahoo.com
  Oliver North has announced he is quitting as president of the National Rifle Association (NRA) after suggesting he was forced out of the role at the gun rights organisation. The leading conservative figure claimed he was ousted after alleging financial improprieties by some of his fellow board members. It follows a bitter fight with the organisations' chief executive, Wayne LaPierre, who alleged earlier this week that Mr North was trying to drive him out and extort him.In a statement to the gun
  
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• This is how NASA would respond to an asteroid impacting Earth

  27-04-2019 19:09 via news.yahoo.com
  If an asteroid were ever to be come hurtling towards Earth, what would be the plan to stop it from impacting the planet? That's the question NASA and its partners, including the European Space Agency and the U.S.'s Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA), are gathering at the 2019 Planetary Defense Conference in early May to investigate.SEE ALSO: Behold, the very bizarre Facebook auto-captions from NASA launchDuring the five day conference, NASA and its partners plan to engage in a "tabletop
  
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• Sri Lanka bans groups suspected to be behind attacks; ringleader's relatives wounded

  27-04-2019 18:23 via news.yahoo.com
  The National Thawheedh Jamaath (NTJ) and Jamathei Millathu Ibrahim were banned under his emergency powers, President Maithripala Sirisena said in a statement, nearly a week after the Easter Sunday attacks that killed more than 250 people.Police believe the suspected mastermind of the bombings, Mohamed Hashim Mohamed Zahran, led either the NTJ or a splinter group.Less is known about Jamathei Millathu Ibrahim, whose members are also believed to have played a role in the bombings.
  
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• Children killed during Sri Lanka gunbattle between troops and Islamist militants

  27-04-2019 18:23 via news.yahoo.com
  On Friday evening, as the troops approached the house - a one-storey building on a narrow lane opposite an open drain - three explosions went off and they opened fire on the suspects holed up inside, according to the military.The wife and a daughter of the suspected mastermind of the suicide attacks, Mohamed Hashim Mohamed Zahran, were wounded in the ensuing gunbattle, police and his sister said on Saturday.Security forces have detained 100 people, including foreigners from Syria and Egypt.
  
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• Hours after mass escape, migrants demand food, freedom

  27-04-2019 18:11 via news.yahoo.com
  About 600 mostly Cuban migrants who were part of a mass escape from a southern Mexico immigration detention center a day earlier remained at large Friday evening, immigration authorities said. Hours after the mass escape, throngs of detained migrants raised their fists in the air and chanted "We want food! We want out!"
  
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• Putin breaks silence on Russian spy Maria Butina after jailing in US

  27-04-2019 18:09 via news.yahoo.com
  Vladimir Putin has called the 18-month prison sentence handed to Russian foreign agent Maria Butina by US authorities "an outrage". Describing her treatment a travesty of justice the Russian president said the sentence looked like an attempt by US law enforcement and judicial officials to save face.An admitted agent, Butina was sentenced by a US District Court judge in Washington DC where she expressed remorse for conspiring with a Russian official to infiltrate a gun rights group and influence
  
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• The Twilight Zone - Episode 5 "Wunderkind" | Easter Eggs & Breakdown

  27-04-2019 18:00 via gamespot.com
  
  "Wunderkind" is the fifth episode of Jordan Peele's revival of Rod Serling's classic series The Twilight Zone. John Cho plays Raff Hanks, a presidential campaign manager, who is determined to get a Oliver Foley elected as the President of the United States. Greg & Ryan are here to share their thoughts and point out all of the easter eggs they found while watching the episode. Disclosure: CBS is GameSpot's parent company.
  
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• Charge your iPhone and wirelessly charging your Apple Watch with one portable power bank

  27-04-2019 17:33 via news.yahoo.com
  If you have an Apple Watch, you obviously also have an iPhone -- so why not charge them both on the go with this same device? The UGREEN Portable Charger for Apple Watch and iPhone has an MFi certified wireless charging disc for your Apple Watch as well as a USB port so you can connect your Lightning cable and charge your iPhone. It packs 2,200 mAh of juice, and it's discounted right now on Amazon.Here's more info from the product page:* Built-in Magnetic Charging Module Compatible for All Apple
  
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• This is what your next iPhone design could look like

  27-04-2019 16:54 via news.yahoo.com
  A website out of India has published renders of what it says the iPhone 11 (or X1) might look like and include
  
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• The 7 best sales and deals you can get this weekend

  27-04-2019 16:49 via news.yahoo.com
  Shop and save on the best products this weekend.
  
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• 15 dead as tips lead Sri Lanka forces to Islamist hideout

  27-04-2019 16:36 via news.yahoo.com
  Fifteen people including six children died in a battle between Sri Lankan security forces and suicide bombers who blew themselves up in the latest fallout from the Easter attacks, police said Saturday.Three men set off explosives that killed themselves, three women and six children inside what was believed to be a jihadist hideout near the eastern town of Kalmunai."Three other men, also believed to be suicide bombers, were found dead outside the house," police said in a statement.
  
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• US oil embargo will see Venezuela turn to China, Russia for salvation

  27-04-2019 16:23 via news.yahoo.com
  The US oil embargo on Venezuela that comes into effect on Sunday will deepen the South American country's economic crisis without necessarily forcing President Nicolas Maduro from power and force Caracas to turn to China and Russia for salvation.Until now, US sanctions directly targeted the upper echelons of Maduro's regime in the hope of weakening his grip on power in favor of a transition to opposition leader Juan Guaido, who in January declared himself acting president.
  
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• At Least 15 Killed in Sri Lanka Police Raid Of Militants Linked to Easter Massacre

  27-04-2019 16:17 via news.yahoo.com
  REUTERSAt least 15 people, including six children, were killed Friday night when suspected militants set off a series of explosions and engaged cops in gunfire during a raid by Sri Lankan police in connection to the deadly Easter Sunday suicide bombings, authorities said. Authorities told the AP they received a tip that members of the group associated with the coordinated terrorist bombings that killed more than 250 people last week were in a safe house  near the town of Sammanthurai. When
  
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• Relatives of Sri Lanka suicide bombings mastermind wounded in gunbattle

  27-04-2019 15:56 via news.yahoo.com
  The wife and a daughter of the suspected mastermind of suicide attacks on churches and four hotels in Sri Lanka were wounded in a gunbattle that erupted following a raid in the east of the country, police and his sister said on Saturday.The shootout at a safe house erupted on Friday in Sainthamaruthu in Ampara district on the east coast as police hunted for people linked to Mohamed Hashim Mohamed Zahran, who has been named as the ringleader of the Easter Sunday bombings.
  
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• The Latest: Girl, woman survive bloody Sri Lanka raid

  27-04-2019 15:52 via news.yahoo.com
  COLOMBO, Sri Lanka (AP) — The Latest on Easter Sunday bombings in Sri Lanka (all times local):
  
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• Border Patrol is now releasing migrant families directly in Tucson

  27-04-2019 15:42 via news.yahoo.com
  The Border Patrol's Tucson sector has followed in the footsteps of its counterparts in Yuma and is releasing families into the community in Tucson.
  
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• Would You Pay This Much For A Corvette Body?

  27-04-2019 14:22 via news.yahoo.com
  Quite a few people love the look of a classic Chevy Corvette Stingray, and why not?While that’s certainly true, you might be wondering why this 1966 Chevrolet Corvette convertible body is so pricey.All you get is the body, doors, hinges, rear exhaust valance, convertible decklid, bird cage, and windshield frame, plus the glass.
  
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• "Jilted bride": As South Korea marks peace summit, North stays aloof

  27-04-2019 14:19 via news.yahoo.com
  The hikers were chosen by lottery to explore a "peace trail" near the heavily fortified frontier, launched to mark the first anniversary of a landmark summit between South Korean President Moon Jae-in and North Korean leader Kim Jong Un.Hours later at the Joint Security Area (JSA) in the border village of Panmunjom, where Moon and Kim met, a series of music performances and other events were held to highlight cross-border rapprochement fostered since the summit.North Korea has effectively pulled
  
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• Royal baby name odds: latest predictions on what Meghan and Harry will call their first child

  27-04-2019 13:53 via news.yahoo.com
  Last year was one of the most eventful for the Royal family, with the wedding of Prince Harry to Meghan Markle, Princess Eugenie to Jack Brooksbank, and the birth of Prince Louis. And while 2019 hasn't been as jam-packed for the Windsors so far, there's a whole new reason to celebrate on the horizon - the birth of the Duke and Duchess of Sussex's first child is expected any day now. As royal watchers in the UK and abroad wait for the latest arrival, speculation is mounting as to what he or
  
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• Best Gas Grills of 2019

  27-04-2019 13:51 via news.yahoo.com
  Gas grills remain the tool of choice for cooking burgers and brats in the backyard—they account for more than 60 percent of all grills sold nationally. That's why Consumer Reports tests dozens of...
  
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• Turkey's Erdogan vows to confront opponents inside party after vote loss

  27-04-2019 13:32 via news.yahoo.com
  Turkey's President Tayyip Erdogan vowed on Saturday to confront opponents inside his own party weeks after he suffered shock election defeats in the capital Ankara and commercial hub Istanbul.Erdogan and his supporters have up to now blamed the losses on electoral fraud by unspecified groups and launched a string of legal challenges against the results."While we're fighting outside, I have to say, we had people doing us wrong from the inside too," Erdogan said during a speech at an AK Party retr
  
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• Trump administration’s former security chief to give evidence to congressional panel, White House reveals

  27-04-2019 13:08 via news.yahoo.com
  A former White House official has agreed to answer questions over allegations that the Trump administration improperly granted security clearances to some of the president’s advisers.Carl Kline, the former White House Personnel Security Director, has offered to appear before the House oversight committee for an on-the-record interview, accompanied by his lawyers.“We understand the scope of the interview will be limited to White House personnel security policies and practices, consist
  
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• Biden entry sparks a sharper edge to Democratic race

  27-04-2019 12:29 via news.yahoo.com
  NEW YORK (AP) — As she campaigned through Iowa this week, Sen. Elizabeth Warren of Massachusetts didn't hesitate to jab the newest contender in the 2020 Democratic presidential primary: Joe Biden.
  
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• Russia won't immediately raise oil output after Iran waivers end

  27-04-2019 11:57 via news.yahoo.com
  Russia will not immediately raise oil output after the United States ends sanctions waivers for buyers of Iranian crude in May, President Vladimir Putin said Saturday.The United States announced this week that, in a bid to reduce Iran's oil exports to zero, it would from May 2 end US waivers that countries such as India, China, South Korea and Turkey currently have on buying Iranian crude.
  
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• My Least Favorite Disney Princess

  27-04-2019 11:30 via news.yahoo.com
  If it were not for her last name, Abigail Disney would be just another alumna of Yale (B.A.), Stanford (M.A.), and Columbia (PhD) living in Manhattan. No one would pay much attention to her opinions, none of them especially unique or different from others shared by her class. But she is a Disney, dammit, and in America in the 21st century we must heed the rich and privileged, especially if they parrot the left wing of the Democratic party. Abigail Disney's father was Roy E. Disney, who instigate
  
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• Sri Lankan man who confronted bomber at church door remembered

  27-04-2019 11:24 via news.yahoo.com
  Ramesh Raju has become a hero to the shell-shocked congregation of the Zion evangelical church in Batticaloa after he died stopping a suicide bomber who was bent on killing hundreds of people.Nearly a week after the bombing, the road leading to Raju's house in the eastern city is flanked by posters and photographs of the 40-year-old father of two who blocked the attacker at the church door.Raju was one of 29 people, including 14 children, that media reports say died in the blast at Zion, one of
  
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• Global software 'glitch' leaves Air India passengers stranded

  27-04-2019 11:06 via news.yahoo.com
  Thousands of Air India passengers were stranded at airports across the world Saturday, after a software "glitch" left those travelling with the state-run airline unable to check in, officials said."Our check-in software experienced a glitch following a routine software upgrade.It was resolved after six hours," Air India spokesman Praveen Bhatnagar told AFP.
  
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• 6 children among 15 dead after gun battle between Sri Lankan military and Easter bombing suspects

  27-04-2019 11:05 via news.yahoo.com
  The bodies of 15 people, including six children, were discovered at the site of a fierce overnight gun battle on the east coast of Sri Lanka, a military spokesman said on Saturday, six days after suicide bombers killed more than 250 people. The shootout between troops and suspected Islamist militants erupted on Friday evening in Sainthamaruthu in Ampara, to the south of the town of Batticaloa, site of one of the Easter Sunday blasts at three churches and four luxury hotels. A police sp
  
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• How North Korea's Air Force Would Die a Fiery Death

  27-04-2019 09:30 via news.yahoo.com
  South Korea’s K30 Biho Self-Propelled Anti-Aircraft Gun (SPAAG) rose to international prominence when it beat out Russia’s Pantsir system for a massive Indian contract. While this contract is being disputed with the Indian government, it is worth looking at the Biho as it was considered to be one of the best anti-air systems in the world prior to the Indian contract.The system has seen significant evolution in recent years, with most Korean K30s being upgraded to the new “Hybri
  
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• How Russia Got Its Hands on a 'Mini SR-71' Mach 3 Spy Drone (And Stole Its Secrets)

  27-04-2019 08:00 via news.yahoo.com
  In November 1969, the U.S. Air Force sent Russia an early Christmas gift.It was a sleek flying machine that bore an uncanny resemblance to the SR-71 Blackbird spy plane.The American generosity was purely unintentional. The aircraft was actually a cutting-edge drone dispatched on a mission to photograph Communist Chinese nuclear sites. And the drone did what it was supposed to until it failed to turn around, and kept on going north into Siberia before crashing.If imitation is the sincerest form o
  
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• Report: Politicians hampered fight against California fire

  27-04-2019 07:10 via news.yahoo.com
  LOS ANGELES (AP) — The battle against a devastating November wildfire in Los Angeles County was hampered by politicians asking firefighters to check on certain homes.
  
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• Joe Biden's non-apology to Anita Hill casts long shadow over 2020 run

  27-04-2019 07:00 via news.yahoo.com
  Biden’s bid for president has invited renewed questions over his handling of Hill’s 1991 testimony – and his failure to say sorry Biden, the committe chair, points angrily at Clarence Thomas during the 1991 hearing. Biden on Friday did say he was sorry – but not for anything he had done. Photograph: Greg Gibson/APAfter Joe Biden failed once more on Friday to apologize to Anita Hill for his handling of a 1991 Senate hearing at which she testified about being sexually haras
  
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• Trump upbeat on potential for US-Japan trade deal

  27-04-2019 06:34 via news.yahoo.com
  WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump expressed confidence Friday that a bilateral trade deal between the U.S. and Japan can be reached quickly despite ongoing differences over tariffs as he opened talks with Prime Minister Shinzo Abe at the White House.
  
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