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• Florida shooting survivor says he will not return to school until a new gun control law passes

  26-02-2018 23:55 via yahoo.com
  A student survivor of the shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School has vowed to not return to school until a new gun control measure passes.“I’m not going back to school on Wednesday until one bill is passed,” David Hogg said at a rally in New Jersey, according to the New York Daily News.“Literally any legislation at this point would be a success,” Mr Hogg added.
  
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• Thousands pay their respects to the Rev. Billy Graham

  26-02-2018 23:49 via yahoo.com
  CHARLOTTE, N.C. (AP) — Thousands of people from all walks of life — including a former president — filed slowly past the casket of the Rev. Billy Graham on Monday to pay their final respects to a man who reached millions with his message of salvation through Jesus Christ.
  
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• Supreme Court takes case of death row inmate who forgot the crime

  26-02-2018 23:48 via yahoo.com
  A month after halting his execution, the U.S. Supreme Court on Monday agreed to take up the case of an Alabama convicted murderer whose attorneys argue should be spared the death penalty because strokes have wiped out his memory of committing the crime.The justices agreed to decide whether executing 67-year-old Vernon Madison, convicted of fatally shooting a police officer in 1985, would violate the U.S. Constitution's Eighth Amendment bar against cruel and unusual punishment.The Supreme Court h
  
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• Broadcom calls Qualcomm's offer for price talks 'engagement theater'

  26-02-2018 23:39 via yahoo.com
  Broadcom's statement came after Qualcomm said earlier on Monday that all of Broadcom's previous offers - which would represent the largest technology deal on record - materially undervalued it, but that it wanted to negotiate further.Broadcom accused Qualcomm of feigning engagement in the companies' two meetings earlier this month.It also said Qualcomm has refused to confirm that it will hold its previously scheduled stockholder vote on March 6.
  
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• 'Don't worry about the NRA,' Trump tells U.S. governors

  26-02-2018 23:38 via yahoo.com
  U.S. President Donald Trump plans to discuss gun legislation with lawmakers this week, the White House said Monday, and he told governors not to worry about the National Rifle Association as they mull responses to the massacre of 17 people at a Florida high school."If they're not with you, we have to fight them every once in a while.
  
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• Georgia Lt. Governor Threatens to Block Tax Cut for Delta Over NRA Split

  26-02-2018 23:33 via yahoo.com
  "Corporations cannot attack conservatives and expect us not to fight back," tweeted Casey Cagle.
  
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• In a first, openly transgender recruit signs up for U.S. military

  26-02-2018 23:26 via yahoo.com
  A transgender recruit has signed a contract to join the U.S. military for the first time since a federal court ruled late last year that the military would have to accept openly transgender people, the Pentagon said on Monday.Military officials do not know how many transgender people have begun to enlist since Jan. 1, when the Defense Department began accepting openly transgender recruits, but this is the first time one has officially signed a contract to join the military."(The Pentagon) confir
  
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• FedEx won't drop NRA from discount program

  26-02-2018 23:23 via yahoo.com
  (Reuters) - FedEx Corp said on Monday it would allow the National Rifle Association (NRA) to continue using a discount program but said it opposed sales of assault rifles.The package delivery company's statement comes as major corporations are under pressures to sever marketing and other ties with the NRA in the aftermath of the Feb. 14 shooting that killed 17 people at a Florida high school.FedEx said its positions on the issues of gun policy and safety differ from those of the NRA.
  
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• Prison guard dies of injuries in alleged attack over towel

  26-02-2018 23:22 via yahoo.com
  A Pennsylvania prison guard who confiscated a towel blocking a view of an inmate's bunk and was attacked died of his injuries Monday, the first state correctional officer to be killed by a prisoner in nearly 40 years, corrections officials said.
  
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• After Unsuspecting Mom Is Crushed in Central Park, How to Spot a Troublesome Tree

  26-02-2018 23:02 via yahoo.com
  Anne Monoky is still in a neck brace after the incident six months ago.
  
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• Bill Cosby's 'beloved and beautiful' daughter Ensa has died, aged 44

  26-02-2018 22:55 via yahoo.com
  Bill Cosby's daughter has died at the age of 44, just a month before he's due to face a retrial on rape charges.According to TMZ, Ensa Cosby passed away on Friday in Massachusetts where the family has a home.Cosby's spokesperson, Andrew Wyatt, said that Ensa's death was the result of kidney disease.
  
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• Why School Shooting Survivor David Hogg Wants Tourists to Boycott Florida for Spring Break

  26-02-2018 22:47 via yahoo.com
  Instead, Hogg said, tourists should look to Puerto Rico
  
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• Former Florida School Resource Officer Defends Response To Parkland Shooting

  26-02-2018 22:45 via yahoo.com
  The former school resource officer who resigned after failing to confront a gunman earlier this month at the Florida high school where he was assigned is defending his response to the deadly mass shooting.Scot Peterson said he was following training he had received as a Broward County sheriff’s deputy when he decided to remain outside, despite being armed, during the Feb. 14 massacre at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida, according to a statement released Monday by h
  
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• Melania Trump cuts ties with friend's company amid questions: NYT

  26-02-2018 22:41 via yahoo.com
  Ken Vogel, talks with Rachel Maddow about breaking news that the first lady's office has cut tie's with Melania Trump's friend's newly created company after it was revealed that she was paid $26 million for unspecified inauguration planning services.
  
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• The Latest: Obama not planning to attend Graham memorial

  26-02-2018 22:33 via yahoo.com
  CHARLOTTE, N.C. (AP) — The Latest on those paying respects to the Rev. Billy Graham in Charlotte (all times local):
  
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• Russia orders daily truce for evacuations from Syria's eastern Ghouta

  26-02-2018 22:30 via yahoo.com
  By Angus McDowalland Jack StubbsBEIRUT/MOSCOW (Reuters) - Russia said on Monday it would establish an evacuation corridor and implement a five-hour daily truce to allow people to leave Syria's eastern Ghouta, after a U.N. Security Council resolution demanding a 30-day ceasefire across the entire country.It appeared to make no mention, however, of allowing relief supplies to enter the territory, where 400,000 people are living under siege and bombardment.Over the past week, Syria's army and its a
  
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• The Latest: US calls for 'immediate end' to Syria offensive

  26-02-2018 22:28 via yahoo.com
  BEIRUT (AP) — The Latest on the war in Syria (all times local):
  
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• Oakland mayor warns residents of ICE immigration raids

  26-02-2018 22:20 via yahoo.com
  Escalating California’s resistance to federal immigration enforcement, Oakland’s mayor has warned residents that she believes an operation was imminent.“I am sharing this information publicly not to panic our residents but to protect them,” Oakland Mayor Libby Schaaf said in a press release, citing her “moral obligation” and directing people to immigration law resources.“I know that Oakland is a city of law-abiding immigrants and families who deserve to
  
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• White House says Xi's term limits 'up to China'

  26-02-2018 22:05 via yahoo.com
  The White House on Monday said a decision that could see Chinese leader Xi Jinping rule for life was an internal matter for the authorities in Beijing."I believe that's a decision for China to make," said spokeswoman Sarah Sanders, after the country's Communist Party called for the removal of presidential term limits.Trump has previously expressed the need for term limits for lawmakers.
  
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• Supreme Court rejects Donald Trump over 'Dreamers' immigrants 

  26-02-2018 22:04 via yahoo.com
  Donald Trump's effort to end a scheme protecting young illegal immigrants from deportation suffered a setback after the US Supreme Court declined to hear the case. The White House had moved to end the living and working rights of 800,000 people brought to the United States as children, but that measure had been blocked by the lower courts. The administration attempted to bypass further debate in the lower courts by  urging the Supreme Court to step in and end the deadlock over the status of
  
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• Martin Shkreli responsible for $10.5m in securities scheme losses, judge rules

  26-02-2018 22:03 via yahoo.com
  Shkreli is perhaps best known for boosting the price of a life-saving drug Daraprim by 5,000%.In a significant blow to the fortunes of disgraced “Pharma Bro” Martin Shkreli a judge ruled Monday that he was responsible for nearly $10.5m in losses in a securities fraud scheme.The decision could result in a harsher sentence for the eccentric former pharmaceutical company CEO who faces up to 20 years in prison.
  
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• Democratic Governor Confronts Trump: 'Less Tweeting ... More Listening'

  26-02-2018 21:48 via yahoo.com
  WASHINGTON ― Washington state Gov. Jay Inslee (D) on Monday urged President Donald Trump to lay off Twitter and instead listen to Americans and back away from one of his suggestions for dealing with mass shootings.Trump has suggested that arming 20 percent of the nation’s teachers could help prevent school shootings like the one that occurred earlier this month in Parkland, Florida, that claimed 17 lives. The president also has said that those teachers trained to use firearms co
  
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• President Trump Claims He'd Run Into the Scene of a Shooting in New Rebuke of Sheriff's Deputies

  26-02-2018 21:47 via yahoo.com
  The president said that even if he was unarmed, he would run into the building where a mass shooting was occurring.
  
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• Washington Governor confronted Trump over his idea to arm teachers

  26-02-2018 21:43 via yahoo.com
  During President Trump's meeting with governors from across the U.S., Washington Gov. Jay Inslee told Trump what he thought about his suggestion to arm teachers.
  
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• China’s Stability Myth Is Dead

  26-02-2018 21:27 via yahoo.com
  With Xi Jinping's great power comes great irresponsibility.
  
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• 'Wake up' and stop Rohingya abuses: Nobel laureates to Suu Kyi

  26-02-2018 21:24 via yahoo.com
  Three Nobel Peace Prize winners Monday urged fellow laureate Aung San Suu Kyi to speak out about violence against the Rohingya minority, warning she otherwise risks prosecution for "genocide".The trio -- Tawakkol Karman, Shirin Ebadi and Mairead Maguire -- implored the embattled Myanmar leader to "wake up" to the atrocities after visiting squalid camps in Bangladesh home to nearly one million Rohingya refugees."This is clearly, clearly, clearly genocide that is going on by the Burmese government
  
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• The Supreme Court Is Considering the Limits of Freedom of Speech in 3 Upcoming Cases

  26-02-2018 21:03 via yahoo.com
  The Supreme Court will decide on the limits of freedom of speech in three major upcoming cases.
  
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• Still no cease-fire in Syrian enclave; Russia orders a pause

  26-02-2018 20:58 via yahoo.com
  BEIRUT (AP) — As a U.N. cease-fire failed to take hold in Syria, Russia on Monday ordered a daily "humanitarian pause" to allow civilians to evacuate an embattled rebel-held enclave near Damascus, while airstrikes continued and Syrian ground forces fought to push into the besieged area from the west.
  
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• US should lower 'threshold for talks' with N. Korea: Seoul

  26-02-2018 20:56 via yahoo.com
  South Korean President Moon Jae-in urged the United States to "lower the threshold for talks" with North Korea on Monday as his aides held rare talks with a Pyongyang general on ways to defuse tensions.Moon has sought to use the Pyeongchang Winter Olympics that ended on Sunday to open dialogue between Washington and Pyongyang in the hopes of easing a nuclear standoff that has sparked global security fears.Pyongyang mounted a charm offensive during the Games, sending athletes, cheerleaders and pe
  
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• Parents talk about 'miracle' of daughter they thought had died in Florida shooting

  26-02-2018 20:54 via yahoo.com
  Doctors and first responders who treated a student initially thought to have died in the Marjory Stoneman Douglas high school massacre have spoken of their battle to save the teenager’s life, and her incredible recovery from multiple gunshot wounds.Madeleine Wilford, 17, and her parents also spoke at a Monday press conference at Broward North hospital to praise the ambulance crew, surgeons and medical staff who resuscitated and operated on her, and talked of the “miracle” that
  
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• Church officials: Holy Sepulchre to remain closed

  26-02-2018 20:50 via yahoo.com
  JERUSALEM (AP) — Leaders of the two largest Christian denominations in Jerusalem on Monday said the Church of the Holy Sepulchre will remain closed indefinitely to protest an Israeli attempt to tax their properties in the holy city, shuttering one of Jerusalem's most venerable and popular holy sites.
  
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• 'Coward' Cop Defends His Actions During Parkland School Shooting

  26-02-2018 20:34 via yahoo.com
  "Allegations that Mr. Peterson was a coward and that his performance, under the circumstances, failed to meet the standards of police officers are patently untrue"
  
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• Judge rules against 'Pharma Bro' on investor losses

  26-02-2018 20:31 via yahoo.com
  NEW YORK (AP) — "Pharma Bro" Martin Shkreli was responsible for nearly $10.5 million in losses in a securities fraud scheme, a judge ruled Monday, a blow to the defense that could result in a harsher sentence for the eccentric former pharmaceutical company CEO.
  
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• The Latest: Russia: 'Humanitarian corridor' set up in Syria

  26-02-2018 20:30 via yahoo.com
  BEIRUT (AP) — The Latest on the war in Syria (all times local):
  
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• BLM's Alicia Garza Launches Census Project To Mobilize Black Political Power

  26-02-2018 20:24 via yahoo.com
  Black Lives Matter co-founder Alicia Garza has created a new initiative aimed at helping black communities achieve greater political power.
  
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• My Kid Doesn't Need Permission To Walk Out

  26-02-2018 20:20 via yahoo.com
  My 15-year-old son texted me from the streets of Iowa City last week, as he joined other kids in a walkout to support survivors of the shooting that took place earlier this month at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida.
  
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• Melania Trump: Adults Should 'Take The Lead' In Encouraging Positive Social Media Habits

  26-02-2018 20:20 via yahoo.com
  First lady Melania Trump, whose husband routinely attacks and insults people online, said Monday that adults should “take the lead” in helping children develop positive social media habits.
  
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• A Lot of What We Think We Know about World War II Is Wrong

  26-02-2018 20:16 via yahoo.com
  The Second World War remains an enduringly fascinating subject, but despite the large number of films, documentaries, books and even comics on the subject, our understanding of this catastrophic conflict, even seven decades on, remains heavily dependent on conventional wisdom, propaganda and an interpretation skewed by the information available.In my new book The War in the West: Germany Ascendant 1939-1941, first in a three-volume history, I am challenging a number of long-held assumptions abou
  
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• Rome Gets Rare Snowfall, And It's An Ancient Winter Wonderland

  26-02-2018 20:15 via yahoo.com
  Rome was greeted on Monday morning by its first snowfall in six years.
  
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• Donald Trump says he would have 'run in' to Florida shooting without a weapon

  26-02-2018 20:10 via yahoo.com
  Donald Trump has said he would have rushed inside the Florida high school where 17 people were shot dead even if he wasn't armed. The US president said an armed police officer, who remained outside the building during the massacre on Feb 14, had "choked". Speaking to a group of 39 state governors at the White House, Mr Trump said: "I really believe, you don’t know until you’re tested, but I really believe I’d run in even if I didn’t have a weapon." Mr Trump also suggested
  
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• Goldman Sachs weighs options for new City HQ

  26-02-2018 20:03
  US bank considers selling the one million square foot building under construction at Plumtree Court and leasing it back
  
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• Shopkeeper describes miracle escape from 'massive explosion' in Leicester that killed five people

  26-02-2018 19:57 via yahoo.com
  The owner of a shop has described how he escaped from an explosion that killed five people. The explosion caused a convenience store and the flats above it to collapse.  Aram Kurd, 33, was in the shop at the time. He said had gone to the storeroom at the back of the shop to get some beers for him and an employee, Victoria when he heard a "loud bang". He shouted out for Victoria, who had only be working at the store for two days, but has not heard anything from her since. Speaking
  
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• Hitler Built a World War II Submarine That Was Revolutionary. It Ended Up a Total Failure.

  26-02-2018 19:53 via yahoo.com
  Hitler Built a World War II Submarine That Was Revolutionary.Some were used for target practice.The only surviving vessel of its class today is the Wilhelm Bauer, which the modern Germany navy converted into a research vessel.
  
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• Former White House photographer Pete Souza drags Trump over Florida high school shooting comment

  26-02-2018 19:52 via yahoo.com
  President Donald Trump said on Monday he would have personally run into Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School to help during the mass shooting earlier this month, even if he was unarmed.
  
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• Florida shooting: Rhode Island to become first state to implement ‘red flag’ policy after massacre

  26-02-2018 19:35 via yahoo.com
  Rhode Island is set to become the first state since the Florida school shooting to establish a “red flag” policy allowing judges to take firearms from people who show warning signs of violence.Governor Gina Raimondo will sign an executive order to establish the policy, making Rhode Island the sixth state in the country to do so.President Donald Trump is also considering a similar order, sources told Bloomberg News.
  
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• Students too scared to return to Nigeria school after attack

  26-02-2018 19:28 via yahoo.com
  LAGOS, Nigeria (AP) — Frightened students on Monday stayed away from the school in northern Nigeria where Boko Haram extremists seized 110 girls in a raid a week ago, while the military said it had handed over the town's security to police ahead of the attack because it was "relatively calm."
  
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• Bollywood star Sridevi Kapoor 'accidentally drowned in hotel bath' 

  26-02-2018 19:26 via yahoo.com
  Bollywood superstar Sridevi Kapoor died of accidental drowning in her hotel bathtub in Dubai on Saturday, her postmortem report said on Monday. The Dubai government's media office tweeted that the postmortem analysis of the 54-year old actress, who used only her first name, revealed that she had died due to ‘drowning in her hotel apartment's bathtub following loss of consciousness’. The case has been handed over to the Dubai Public Prosecutor for further investigation, to try and det
  
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• Trump on Florida shooting: 'I'd run in there' even without gun

  26-02-2018 19:22 via yahoo.com
  President Donald Trump said Monday he would have rushed inside the Florida high school where 17 people were shot dead earlier this month, whether or not he was armed at the time."I really believe I'd run in there even if I didn't have a weapon," Trump told a group of state governors gathered at the White House.Trump reiterated his calls for stronger background checks, more effective responses to early warning signs, greater mental health resources and a ban on so-called "bump stocks," devices de
  
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• U.S. Supreme Court justices skeptical of American Express merchant fees

  26-02-2018 19:17 via yahoo.com
  Liberal U.S. Supreme Court justices on Monday sharply questioned American Expressover restrictions the company places on merchants forbidding them from encouraging customers to use rival credit cards with lower fees, which several states and the Trump administration claim violate federal antitrust law.The high court heard about an hour of arguments in an appeal by the states, led by Ohio, of a 2016 ruling by lower court in New York that cleared American Express of stifling competition through it
  
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• Saudi envoy invites Lebanon's PM Hariri to kingdom

  26-02-2018 19:01 via yahoo.com
  Lebanon's Prime Minister Saad al-Hariri has been invited to Saudi Arabia, his office said on Monday, setting the stage for his first visit since he abruptly resigned there in November.Hariri received the invitation from Saudi envoy Nizar al-Aloula on Monday and would go as soon as possible, the press office said without elaborating.Lebanese officials accused Saudi Arabia of forcing Hariri, its long-time ally, to quit and putting him under effective house arrest until France intervened.
  
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