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• Parkland school shooting: Students left stunned after gunman opens fire

  14-02-2018 23:56 via yahoo.com
  Joel Leffler, who has a son and a daughter at the school located about 45 miles north of Miami, said that both of his children were safe but in shock.“My daughter, who was there in the freshman hall where the shooting took place — she's in shock right now and she's being taken out by SWAT,” Mr Leffler said.
  
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• Students, alumni challenge legacy preference at top colleges

  14-02-2018 23:54 via yahoo.com
  BOSTON (AP) — Students and alumni at some of the nation's top universities are urging their schools to reconsider admissions policies that give an edge to relatives of alumni.
  
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• 'Numerous fatalities' at Florida high school after ex-student opens fire

  14-02-2018 23:53 via yahoo.com
  A former student at a Florida high school opened fire in the school on Wednesday, causing "numerous fatalities" and wounding at least 14 people before he was arrested by police, authorities said.Shortly before dismissal at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, about 45 miles (72 km) north of Miami, the attack sent hundreds of panicked students fleeing into the streets while dozens of police and emergency services personnel swarmed the area.The gunman, about 18 years old, surrendered
  
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• FBI: Instagram messages show teen planned school shooting

  14-02-2018 23:44 via yahoo.com
  ANDERSON, S.C. (AP) — A teen charged with killing a first grader in a South Carolina school shooting targeted his old elementary school because he knew a police officer wouldn't be there, an FBI agent who uncovered his social media messages said.
  
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• The Florida School Shooting Was the 18th School Shooting of the Year. And It's Only February

  14-02-2018 23:42 via yahoo.com
  At least 14 people were injured in the shooting, authorities say
  
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• The Florida School Shooting Was One of Several This Year. And It’s Only February

  14-02-2018 23:42 via yahoo.com
  At least 17 people were killed in the Florida school shooting
  
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• Illinois governor takes aim at pensions, healthcare costs in budget

  14-02-2018 23:32 via yahoo.com
  By Karen PierogCHICAGO (Reuters) - Illinois Governor Bruce Rauner proposed a $75 billion fiscal 2019 budget on Wednesday that would be balanced if lawmakers agree to push some big-ticket costs onto local school districts and universities.The budget for the fiscal year starting July 1, which includes $37.6 billion in general fund spending, would save money by phasing out state funding for certain pension costs.With health coverage and pensions accounting for 25 percent of state spending, the Repu
  
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• Long bonds a 'significant risk' as inflation revs: BlackRock's Rieder

  14-02-2018 23:15
  NEW YORK (Reuters) - Long-dated bonds "represent a significant risk" as investors focus on signs inflation is rising, a top portfolio manager with BlackRock Inc said on Wednesday.
  
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• Passengers Recall 'Flight From Hell' After 3-Year-Old Screamed for 8 Hours Straight

  14-02-2018 23:12 via yahoo.com
  The incident happened in August but has recently come to light.
  
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• Suspect in Chicago police death charged with murder

  14-02-2018 23:06 via yahoo.com
  CHICAGO (AP) — A man with a long criminal history that includes a conviction for armed robbery has been charged with first-degree murder in the fatal shooting of a Chicago police commander, a police spokesman said Wednesday.
  
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• Sorry, not sorry: Wall Street not quitting 'vol' products

  14-02-2018 22:55
  NEW YORK (Reuters) - One bank has expressed its regrets for the unraveling volatility trade.
  
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• U.S. bank stocks rally, analysts see more upside

  14-02-2018 22:42
  (Reuters) - Bank shares soared on Wednesday as investors bet rising inflation would push up interest rates and boost bank profits, and analysts forecast yet more gains from strong economic growth and...
  
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• EPA Head Says He Needs to Fly First Class Because People Are Mean to Him in Coach

  14-02-2018 22:38 via yahoo.com
  Pruitt said he had some "incidents" on flights shortly after his appointment
  
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• Beija Flor crowned Rio carnival winners with dig at corruption

  14-02-2018 22:31 via yahoo.com
  Traditional samba school Beija Flor was crowned winner of the Rio carnival Wednesday after a performance that portrayed politicians as rats with money-stuffed briefcases in sharply political parades.Superstar drag queen Pabllo Vittar appeared in the last parade with Beija Flor in the wee hours of Tuesday.Second-placed Paraiso do Tuiuti also had a sharply satirical theme, depicting conservative President Michel Temer perched on a sackful of money -- in keeping with a parade filled with unusually
  
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• Parkland shooting: Officials say there are 'numerous fatalities' at Florida high school

  14-02-2018 22:30 via yahoo.com
  Officials in Florida have said there were “numerous fatalities” following a school shooting and that at least 17 people had been shot.Police rushed to the Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, 45 miles north of Miami, following reports that there was an active shooting incidents.The report came as students were about to leave for the day.
  
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• Trump is silent on the flu. Ebola? That was Obama's fault.

  14-02-2018 22:28 via yahoo.com
  Donald Trump blamed the Ebola outbreak in 2014 on then-President Obama. But he has been silent on this year's flu, which has been far more deadly to Americans.
  
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• Remains found of French girl Maelys who vanished at wedding

  14-02-2018 22:28 via yahoo.com
  Pont-de-Beauvoisin (France) (AFP) - French police have found the remains of an eight-year-old French schoolgirl who vanished from a wedding in the Alps last August in a case that gripped the country, a prosecutor said Wednesday.Chief suspect Nordahl Lelandais, a 34-year-old former soldier, guided investigators to the site in the hills after a trace of her blood was found in his car.Having spent months denying the crime, Lelandais admitted to having killed her "by mistake" and having hidden the b
  
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• Stormy Daniels Says Trump Lawyer Breached Agreement, So She's Free To Talk

  14-02-2018 22:25 via yahoo.com
  Former adult film actress Stephanie Clifford says she is ready to tell her story after the president’s lawyer reportedly breached a nondisclosure agreement preventing her from speaking publicly about her alleged affair with President Donald Trump.
  
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• Charlie Munger urges regulators to ease off Wells Fargo, blasts bitcoin

  14-02-2018 22:21
  (Reuters) - Charlie Munger, the longtime business partner of fellow billionaire Warren Buffett, said on Wednesday it is time for regulators to "let up" on Wells Fargo & Co , which will end up "better...
  
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• Syria's War Has Never Been More International

  14-02-2018 22:20 via yahoo.com
  If the coming defeat of ISIS and rebel forces in Syria was supposed to bring an end to the seven-year conflict there, no one told Iran, Israel, Turkey, Russia, or the United States.
  
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• Syria 'repels' Israeli surveillance aircraft: state media

  14-02-2018 22:16 via yahoo.com
  Syria on Wednesday repelled Israeli surveillance planes that breached its southern border, state media reported, days after an Israeli fighter jet was downed during raids on the war-torn country."Syrian air defences have repelled Israeli surveillance planes over Quneitra, forcing them to leave Syrian airspace," the official SANA news agency said.On Saturday, the Syrian government said it fended off an Israeli raid on a military base in the centre of the country, hitting more than one warplane.
  
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• Florida shooting live updates: 17 dead in attack police believe involved AR-15 rifle - suspect named as Nikolas Cruz

  14-02-2018 22:12 via yahoo.com
  Seventeen people have been killed and more than a dozen injured after a gunman opened fire at a Florida high school.Aerial footage showed students streaming out of the school with their hands in the air before dropping their backpacks into a large pile next to police and sitting on nearby grass.Sheriff Scott Israel of Broward County said the 19-year-old suspect - identified in media reports as Nikolaus Cruz - is in custody and that investigators are beginning to "dissect" what happened in the at
  
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• Florida shooting: 17 dead in 'absolutely pure evil' high school massacre in Parkland - as it happened

  14-02-2018 22:12 via yahoo.com
  Seventeen people have been killed and more than a dozen injured after a gunman opened fire at a Florida high school.Aerial footage showed students streaming out of the school with their hands in the air before dropping their backpacks into a large pile next to police and sitting on nearby grass.Sheriff Scott Israel of Broward County said the 19-year-old suspect - identified in media reports as Nikolaus Cruz - is in custody and that investigators are beginning to "dissect" what happened in the at
  
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• Trump Administration Seems To Be Winging It On Food Stamp Replacement Boxes

  14-02-2018 22:08 via yahoo.com
  WASHINGTON ― As part of a symbolic budget that would slash domestic spending, President Donald Trump this week proposed replacing some monthly food stamp benefits with a cardboard box of nonperishable goods.
  
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• Florida shooting: Donald Trump offers 'prayers and condolences to the families of the victims'

  14-02-2018 21:58 via yahoo.com
  President Donald Trump has responded to the school shooting in Florida, saying “no child, teacher or anyone else should ever feel unsafe in an American school”.“My prayers and condolences to the families of the victims of the terrible Florida shooting,” he wrote on Twitter.“Just spoke to Governor Rick Scott.
  
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• Mom sentenced to jail time for baptizing her daughter amid custody battle

  14-02-2018 21:56 via yahoo.com
  A North Carolina mother was sentenced to seven days in prison after she had her daughter baptized, according to the Charlotte Observer.
  
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• Chicago mourns police commander fatally shot at Thompson Center

  14-02-2018 21:54 via yahoo.com
  The city of Chicago is in mourning after the shooting death of a well-loved and respected Chicago police commander.
  
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• Trump holds the line on immigration as bipartisan plan emerges

  14-02-2018 21:43 via yahoo.com
  By Richard CowanWASHINGTON (Reuters) - A group of U.S. Senate Republicans and Democrats promoted an immigration proposal on Wednesday to step up border security and protect young illegal immigrants, but its prospects appeared uncertain as President Donald Trump urged Congress to support a tougher measure.The developments underlined the difficult path any immigration plan faces as Washington remains starkly divided on one of Trump's signature issues.Congress has repeatedly tried and failed to ove
  
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• Attorney General lambasts U.S. Senate bill to reform sentencing

  14-02-2018 21:38 via yahoo.com
  By Sarah N. LynchWASHINGTON (Reuters) - Attorney General Jeff Sessions issued a stark warning on Wednesday to the U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee, urging it not to approve a draft criminal sentencing reform bill that Sessions claimed would reduce sentences for "a highly dangerous cohort of criminals."In a letter seen by Reuters, Sessions told Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman and fellow Republican Charles Grassley that he feared passage of the legislation would be "a grave error."Grassley's co
  
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• How the original 'Roseanne' sitcom was started

  14-02-2018 21:33 via yahoo.com
  John Goodman, who plays Dan Conner on the show, said he and Roseanne Barr hit it off from the very beginning.
  
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• Suspect Went to Walmart and McDonald's After Killing 17, Police Say: The Latest on the Florida School Shooting

  14-02-2018 21:30 via yahoo.com
  The suspected gunman, a former student, has been taken into custody
  
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• 'Roseanne' star Roseanne Barr says 'we're lucky' to have Trump as President

  14-02-2018 21:27 via yahoo.com
  "Trump offended half of America and [Hillary Clinton] offended the other half, so that's great for, for sitcoms. It's great for comedy," Barr said.
  
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• Another White House Official Just Resigned Because He Couldn’t Get a Security Clearance

  14-02-2018 21:19 via yahoo.com
  Due to his previous marijuana use
  
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• Teacher Charged With Child Abuse After Forcing Student to Stand for Pledge of Allegiance

  14-02-2018 21:12 via yahoo.com
  A Colorado teacher accused of forcefully making a student stand for the Pledge of Allegiance has been charged with child abuse and assault.
  
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• At Least 17 Dead After Troubled Former Student Allegedly Opens Fire On Florida High School

  14-02-2018 21:12 via yahoo.com
  At least 17 people were killed and 15 injured after a shooter opened fire in a South Florida high school on Wednesday afternoon.
  
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• Florida shooting: 17 killed as gunman opens fire at at Parkland high school

  14-02-2018 21:11 via yahoo.com
  At least 17 students at a Florida high school were killed when a former pupil opened fire on them with an automatic rifle, in what is thought to be the third worst school shooting in US history.Officials said another 14 were injured at the Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in the small city of Parkland, around 45 miles north of Miami.Police identified the gunman as Nikolas Cruz, a 19-year-old former student at who had been expelled for “disciplinary reasons”.
  
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• 17 dead in shooting at Florida high school

  14-02-2018 21:09 via yahoo.com
  A gunman opened fire at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High school in Parkland, Fla., on Wednesday, killing at 17 people and injuring more than a dozen others. The shooting suspect, a former student, was taken into custody in nearby Coral Springs.
  
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• Survivors of Parkland school shooting share harrowing stories

  14-02-2018 21:05 via yahoo.com
  Tammy Leitner, reporter for NBC News, talks with Rachel Maddow about the stories she has learned from survivors of the shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School, with students cowering in corners and texting family outside.
  
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• Morgan Tsvangirai, the enduring face of Zimbabwe's opposition dies

  14-02-2018 20:56 via yahoo.com
  Morgan Tsvangirai, who has died after a battle with cancer, was the face of Zimbabwe's downtrodden opposition for decades.Jail, beatings by pro-regime thugs and perennial disappointment at the ballot box never dented the 65-year-old's desire to move the country past the decades of autocratic rule by former president Robert Mugabe and his acolytes.Only outside mediation helped put the lid back on Zimbabwe's fractious politics and usher in a period of power sharing and relative calm.
  
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• Pence on Porter scandal: 'The White House could've handled this better'

  14-02-2018 20:55 via yahoo.com
  Vice President Mike Pence said on Wednesday that the White House mishandled the allegations involving former staff secretary Rob Porter.
  
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• Zimbabwe opposition leader Tsvangirai dies in South Africa

  14-02-2018 20:54 via yahoo.com
  Zimbabwe opposition leader Morgan Tsvangirai died on Wednesday after a long battle with cancer, casting his Movement for Democratic Change (MDC) party into the unknown less than three months after the army ousted long-time ruler Robert Mugabe.Tsvangirai, who died in South Africa, was 65.The family communicated this to me," MDC vice-president Elias Mudzuri told Reuters.
  
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• OBITUARY: Morgan Tsvangirai, the 'nearly man' of Zimbabwe

  14-02-2018 20:48 via yahoo.com
  By MacDonald DzirutweHARARE (Reuters) - A powerful orator from humble beginnings, Morgan Tsvangirai was arguably Zimbabwe's most popular politician and came within a whisker of unseating Robert Mugabe only to be outmanoeuvred and ultimately outlived by his long-time nemesis.At the peak of his career, the self-taught son of a brick-layer served as prime minister to Mugabe's president in a 2009-2013 unity government cobbled together after a disputed and violent election in which scores of his supp
  
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• Zimbabwe opposition leader Morgan Tsvangirai dies: party official

  14-02-2018 20:42 via yahoo.com
  Morgan Tsvangirai, the veteran Zimbabwean opposition leader who fought Robert Mugabe's regime for many years, died on Wednesday after battling against cancer, a party official said.Tsvangirai, who founded the Movement for Democratic Change (MDC) in 1999, was among the most prominent critics of Mugabe, the long-time authoritarian leader who was ousted from power in November."It is sad for me to announce that we have lost our icon and fighter for democracy," Elias Mudzuri, one of the vice-presiden
  
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• Families of Florida school shooting victims still being notified

  14-02-2018 20:41 via yahoo.com
  Mayor Christine Hunschofsky of Parkland, Florida, talks with Rachel Maddow about how the state of Florida has rallied resources to her community as officials engage the grim task of notifying the families of victims of the shooting.
  
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• School shooting drills prove beneficial in Parkland gun tragedy

  14-02-2018 20:39 via yahoo.com
  Melissa Falkowski, a teacher at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School, talks with Rachel Maddow about what she experienced as a gunman terrorized her school, and how previous drills prepared students and staff for the very real horror.
  
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• Donald Trump threatens to veto any immigration bill that does not match his orders

  14-02-2018 20:36 via yahoo.com
  President Donald Trump has threatened to veto any immigration legislation that does not mirror his own proposal to dramatically reshape the US’s immigration system and build a border wall.In the midst of a Senate immigration debate over a measure to protect young undocumented immigrants – so-called dreamers – Mr Trump threw his support behind a Republican bill that he says incorporates his four principles outlined in a White House framework for any immigration bill.
  
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• Trump refuses to yield on immigration, causing more division on Capitol Hill

  14-02-2018 20:23 via yahoo.com
  Donald Trump reaffirmed a hardline position on a prospective immigration deal on Wednesday, throwing a wrench into fraught negotiations over how to protect hundreds of thousands of young, undocumented immigrants known as Dreamers.As the US Senate scrambles to broker an agreement by the end of the week, Trump made clear in a statement that any immigration bill must include drastic changes to legal immigration in order to earn his signature.
  
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• How 1 Very Special Submarine Ravaged Japan During World War II

  14-02-2018 20:13 via yahoo.com
  At midnight on July 23, the Barb slipped up to within a kilometer of the shore, and a landing party commanded by Lt. William Walke, paddled quietly to the beach.While three men took up guard positions—they encountered a sleeping Japanese guard in a watchtower, whom they left unharmed—the other five buried the demolition charge and managed not blow themselves up jury-rigging the detonation circuit.In the closing months of World War II, heavy losses and depleted fuel sto
  
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• Sam's Club to offer free shipping for premium members

  14-02-2018 20:09 via yahoo.com
  NEW YORK (AP) — Sam's Club is offering free shipping for premium members and simplifying its membership tiers.
  
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• All-New 2018 Jeep Wrangler Improves Upon a Classic

  14-02-2018 20:08 via yahoo.com
  Redesigning the Jeep Wrangler is a delicate job. Designers have to  honor its history and respect its loyal owner base, while addressing significant shortcomings in a marketplace that has seen dr...
  
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