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• Italy's 5-Star rallies voters as rivals fret

  02-03-2018 23:58 via yahoo.com
  By Isla BinnieROME (Reuters) - Italy's 5-Star Movement told roaring supporters it was close to winning a looming election at the end of campaigning on Friday as its main rivals worried about the anti-establishment party's popularity.Pollsters predict Sunday's parliamentary election will result in a hung parliament in which former prime minister Silvio Berlusconi's alliance of center-right groups will be the largest bloc and 5-Star the biggest single party.The ruling center-left Democratic Party
  
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• Equifax breach could be most costly in corporate history

  02-03-2018 23:57 via yahoo.com
  NEW YORK/TORONTO (Reuters) - Equifax Incsaid it expects costs related to its massive 2017 data breach to surge by $275 million this year, suggesting the incident at the credit reporting bureau could turn out to be the most costly hack in corporate history."It looks like this will be the most expensive data breach in history," said Larry Ponemon, chairman of Ponemon Institute, a research group that tracks costs of cyber attacks.Equifax on Thursday reported fourth-quarter profit that topped Wall S
  
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• Boy Sleeping on Top Bunk Killed When Tree Falls During Powerful Nor`easter

  02-03-2018 23:50 via yahoo.com
  A six-year-old Virginia boy died Friday morning in the hospital after a tree had fallen on him while he was sleeping.
  
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• 6 Smart-Home Upgrades to Help Sell Your House

  02-03-2018 23:50 via yahoo.com
  The stock advice for homeowners putting a house on the market used to go like this: Give the exterior, or the front door, a fresh coat of paint; tame unruly shrubs; and swap out a few light fixtu...
  
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• Sheriff: Indiana deputy shot during pursuit won't survive

  02-03-2018 23:46 via yahoo.com
  LEBANON, Ind. (AP) — A central Indiana sheriff's deputy who was shot in the head while chasing three suspects won't survive and was on life support for donation of his organs, authorities said Friday.
  
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• Apparent explosive device found on Mexican ferry off Cozumel

  02-03-2018 23:46 via yahoo.com
  PLAYA DEL CARMEN, Mexico (AP) — What appeared to be undetonated explosives were found on a ferry that runs between the Caribbean resorts of Playa del Carmen and the island of Cozumel, authorities said Friday, less than two weeks after a blast shook another ferry plying the same route.
  
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• The Atlantic Politics & Policy Daily: Tarrift

  02-03-2018 23:45 via yahoo.com
  Today in 5 Lines Georgia Governor Nathan Deal killed a proposed tax break that would have benefited Delta Airlines after the airline cut ties with the National Rifle Association. White House Chief of Staff John Kelly defended his handling of the domestic-abuse allegations against former Trump staffer Rob Porter and offered his own timeline of the episode. In a series of morning tweets, President Trump exchanged insults with comedian Alec Baldwin and defended his position on trade. Trump and Vice
  
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• Turkey’s New Foreign Policy Is Hostage-Taking

  02-03-2018 23:41 via yahoo.com
  The West knows what Ankara is up to, but won’t call it by its name.
  
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• Dangerous driving conditions amid winter storm warning in Lake Tahoe

  02-03-2018 23:34 via yahoo.com
  Skiers are delighted by all the snow Lake Tahoe is getting, but this latest snowstorm is causing dangerous driving conditions for anyone heading up this weekend.
  
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• US mother breaks down at New York killer nanny trial

  02-03-2018 23:33 via yahoo.com
  The devastated mother of two young children killed by their New York nanny broke down on the stand Friday, yelling that the former caregiver was "evil" and a "liar" before twice fleeing the court room.Yoselyn Ortega is on trial for murdering Lucia, six, and Leo, two, with a kitchen knife in the bathroom of their Upper West Side apartment on October 25, 2012.Marina Krim, 41, tearfully fled the stand twice while testifying for a second day -- once under cross-examination by the defense after becom
  
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• Amandla Stenberg Passed On ‘Black Panther’ To Make Way For Darker-Skinned Actors

  02-03-2018 23:33 via yahoo.com
  Amandla Stenberg put a lot of thought into not entering the Marvel cinematic universe.Last week, “The Hunger Games” actress explained to CBC Arts that she was in the running for a lead part in “Black Panther” but decided to back out because she didn’t want to take the role from a darker-skinned actor.The biracial actress said she put a lot of thought into rejecting a role in which she’d play a purely African woman.
  
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• Ben Carson Cancels $31,000 Furniture Order

  02-03-2018 23:17 via yahoo.com
  The HUD won't be decorated with designs by Alexa Hampton, David Phoenix, and more
  
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• Indicted Missouri governor goes after top prosecutor

  02-03-2018 23:05 via yahoo.com
  JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (AP) — Since he was indicted on allegations related to an extramarital affair, Missouri Gov. Eric Greitens has shifted into attack mode, zeroing in on the St. Louis prosecutor who launched the investigation with comments decried by some critics as politically or racially charged.
  
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• Delta fighting to stay out of gun debate and is 'not taking sides' by scrapping NRA discounts, says chief executive

  02-03-2018 22:59 via yahoo.com
  Delta Air Lines' chief executive has said the company is not “taking sides” in the gun control debate, even though its decision to no longer offer discounts for National Rifle Association (NRA) members put it in the centre of it.“Our objective in removing any implied affiliation with the NRA was to remove Delta from this debate,” CEO Ed Bastian told employees in a memo, which was titled “Delta and the school safety debate”.Georgia state lawmakers had not taken
  
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• Trump broken charity promises a journalist's jackpot

  02-03-2018 22:56 via yahoo.com
  Rachel Maddow reviews the reporting on Donald Trump's broken promises to charities that earned David Fahrenthold a Pulitzer Prize.
  
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• Democratic memo reveals another Carter Page meeting with FBI

  02-03-2018 22:56 via yahoo.com
  Rachel Maddow talks about some of the new things learned about the Trump Russia investigation from the Democratic memo, including a March 2016 meeting with the FBI about his contacts with Russian intelligence.
  
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• ‘The Most Hated Person on Campus’: Why Some College Republicans Are Channeling Donald Trump

  02-03-2018 22:55 via yahoo.com
  Trump has a loyal base of millennial supporters who are digging in, speaking out and even emulating his controversial brand of politics.
  
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• Democratic memo shows Carter Page investigation pre-dates dossier

  02-03-2018 22:55 via yahoo.com
  Benjamin Wittes, editor in chief of Lawfare, talks with Rachel Maddow about why Paul Manafort shouldn't count on a presidential pardon, and why the Democratic rebuttal memo to Devin Nunes is a significant document.
  
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• Chinese Police Are Demanding Personal Information From Uighurs in France

  02-03-2018 22:53 via yahoo.com
  Officials have threatened to detain relatives of those who don’t comply.
  
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• Drastic staff cuts at U.S. Embassy in Cuba now permanent

  02-03-2018 22:48 via yahoo.com
  By Sarah Marsh and Marc FrankHAVANA (Reuters) - The United States said on Friday it was making permanent its decision last year to slash staffing at its Havana embassy by around two-thirds because a spate of alleged health incidents among its diplomats remained unsolved.The decision casts a pall on U.S.-Cuban relations and limits the United States' ability to play a role in the civil society of the Communist-run island as it prepares for its first non-Castro president in nearly 60 years.It will
  
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• U.S. gun-control group pledges $2.5 million for marches to end school shootings

  02-03-2018 22:47 via yahoo.com
  Gun-control advocacy group Everytown for Gun Safety said on Friday it will donate up to $2.5 million to support marches around the United States on March 24, the date of a planned March For Our Lives in Washington to demand an end to school shootings.The deadly shooting last month at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida, in which 17 people were killed, gave rise to a student-led movement organizing the planned march in the nation's capital.Organizers said more than 300 other
  
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• Teens find host families for peers joining gun control rally

  02-03-2018 22:43 via yahoo.com
  BALTIMORE (AP) — Inspired by the impassioned activism of Florida students who survived last month's mass shooting, teenagers at one Maryland high school are organizing an effort to provide host families for out-of-town peers attending a late March rally for gun control legislation in the U.S. capital.
  
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• Monster nor'easter pounds East Coast, kills at least 7

  02-03-2018 22:43 via yahoo.com
  A fierce nor’easter knocked out power lines, leaving more than a million residents without power, stranded thousands of travelers, inundated coastal roads and homes and killed at least seven people Friday. More than 3,000 flights were canceled and more than 3,500 others delayed across the country on Friday, according to FlightAware
  
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• US makes Cuba embassy cuts permanent after 'health attacks'

  02-03-2018 22:33 via yahoo.com
  WASHINGTON (AP) — Citing mysterious "health attacks" in Havana, the United States said Friday it is making permanent its withdrawal of 60 percent of its diplomats from Cuba, extending an action that has hurt the island nation's economy and cramped Cubans' ability to visit the U.S.
  
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• NATO says Russian warnings against allies 'unacceptable'

  02-03-2018 22:30 via yahoo.com
  By Robin EmmottBRUSSELS (Reuters) - President Vladimir Putin's warnings to NATO allies are "unacceptable" and do not help efforts to calm tensions, the alliance said on Friday, a day after the Russian leader announced an array of new nuclear weapons.Already angry at NATO's expansion eastwards into its old Soviet sphere of influence, Putin said in a speech on Thursday that any attack on Moscow's allies would be regarded as an attack on Russia itself and draw an immediate response.While it was unc
  
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• Kremlin rejects U.S. charge Russia in breach of arms control treaties

  02-03-2018 22:30 via yahoo.com
  The Kremlin on Friday rejected a U.S. allegation that Russia had been developing destabilizing weapons systems for over a decade in direct violations of its treaty obligations.White House spokeswoman Sarah Sanders made the allegation on Thursday after President Vladimir Putin announced an array of new nuclear weapons, saying they could hit almost any point in the world and evade a U.S.-built missile shield.Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov told reporters on a conference call on Friday that Russia
  
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• Three children found living in wooden box in California desert

  02-03-2018 22:19 via yahoo.com
  Sheriffs have found three children living in a wooden box in a southern California desert.It appeared the children - aged 11, 13 and 14 - had been living in the plywood structure for about four years, the San Bernardino Sheriff’s Department said, and were not being sufficiently fed.Officials located the parents, Mona Kirk and Daniel Panico, on the property and arrested them, before booking them into the local jail for alleged "willful cruelty" to children.
  
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• Start of trial on AT&T, Time Warner merger may be delayed by one day

  02-03-2018 22:18 via yahoo.com
  The start date for the trial over whether wireless and pay TV provider AT&T Inccan buy Time Warner Incmay be delayed by a day to March 20, Judge Richard Leon said on Friday.Leon, who is on the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia, said March 19 may be needed to hear final pre-trial motions so the trial start may be pushed back.The Justice Department's Craig Conrath said he opposed any delay because witnesses travelling to Washington for the trial could be inconvenienced.
  
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• Russia Unveiled a New Arsenal of Nuclear Weapons. Should You Be Scared?

  02-03-2018 22:10 via yahoo.com
  The answer from the U.S. government appears to be: No
  
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• Deadly attacks by extremists strike Burkina Faso capital

  02-03-2018 22:09 via yahoo.com
  OUAGADOUGOU, Burkina Faso (AP) — Islamic extremists struck the French Embassy and army headquarters in simultaneous attacks of gunfire and explosives Friday in Burkina Faso's capital, killing eight people and wounding more than 80 others. All eight militants were slain by security forces.
  
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• John Kelly says he has done 'absolutely nothing' to make him consider resigning from White House

  02-03-2018 22:03 via yahoo.com
  “I have absolutely nothing to even consider resigning over,” Mr Kelly told reporters.The top aide has been under scrutiny since former White House staff secretary Mr Porter stepped aside over allegations of abusing his ex-wives - allegations Mr Porter denies - prompting questions about when Mr Kelly became aware of Mr Porter’s alleged conduct.
  
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• Sheriff: Guns taken from Georgia teacher after car set afire

  02-03-2018 21:57 via yahoo.com
  ATLANTA (AP) — A Georgia teacher accused of firing a handgun in his classroom had three rifles taken away after setting the family car ablaze at his home two years ago, according to a sheriff's report obtained Friday by The Associated Press.
  
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• This Year’s Deadly Flu Season Has Finally Peaked, CDC Says

  02-03-2018 21:56 via yahoo.com
  But a secondary strain is circulating.
  
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• Turkey arrests two Greek soldiers 'on espionage charges'

  02-03-2018 21:52 via yahoo.com
  A Turkish court on Friday placed two Greek soldiers under arrest on espionage charges after they illegally crossed into Turkey, state media reported, in a move that risks a new flaring of tensions between Ankara and Athens.The court in the western province of Edirne ordered the pair be charged with "attempted military espionage" and "entering forbidden military territory", state news agency Anadolu said.The Greek army said the two soldiers lost their way in poor weather while patrolling the area
  
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• Florida sheriff on the defensive after school shooting

  02-03-2018 21:41 via yahoo.com
  FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. (AP) — The outspoken Florida sheriff whose deputies responded to the Parkland school shooting usually deals with critics head on. But in recent days, Broward County Sheriff Scott Israel has been mostly silent.
  
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• The Latest: France vows to keep fighting extremist violence

  02-03-2018 21:38 via yahoo.com
  OUAGADOUGOU, Burkina Faso (AP) — The Latest on the attack in Burkina Faso's capital (all times local):
  
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• Membership in Gun Groups Is Spiking After the Florida Shooting

  02-03-2018 21:35 via yahoo.com
  "The NRA better be 15 million strong soon, or this is only going to get worse"
  
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• Trump's chief of staff admits errors in ex-aide's scandal

  02-03-2018 21:34 via yahoo.com
  By James OliphantWASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. President Donald Trump's Chief of Staff John Kelly on Friday conceded the White House could have better handled a scandal involving senior aide Rob Porter, who resigned last month after allegations by two ex-wives that he abused them."We didn't cover ourselves in glory in terms of how we handled that," Kelly told reporters, although he denied earlier reports that he had offered Trump his resignation.Kelly was criticized for appearing to side with Port
  
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• Authorities: California family lived in filthy desert hovel

  02-03-2018 21:26 via yahoo.com
  JOSHUA TREE, Calif. (AP) — The mounds of trash, old toys and furniture caught the attention of a Southern California sheriff's deputy passing through the desert earlier this week. As he approached, he spotted a hovel cobbled together with plywood and plastic sheeting.
  
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• Pennsylvania Redistricting Leads To Bad Blood Among Some Democrats Forced To Shuffle Electoral Plans

  02-03-2018 21:10 via yahoo.com
  Democrats rejoiced last month when the Pennsylvania Supreme Court redrew the state’s congressional districts, ruling that the GOP had gerrymandered the map unconstitutionally.The court’s move made Democrats competitive in several more districts than they would have been under the Republican plan.Democrat Christina Hartman, an establishment favorite running there, announced Wednesday that she would be withdrawing from that race and running in the adjacent 10th District instead.
  
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• Mom still searching for answers after young son's deadly fall

  02-03-2018 21:09 via yahoo.com
  Dina Shacknai's 6-year-old son Max Shacknai died in 2011, after falling from a second-story landing at his father Jonah Shacknai's mansion. Police later determined Max's death was an accident.
  
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• Trump "unglued" amid White House chaos

  02-03-2018 21:08 via yahoo.com
  Trump decided to start a trade war while angry and "unglued," NBC News reports. Ex-Obama economic adviser Austan Goolsbee says Trump "fired a shot" at our allies. USA Today's Susan Page and Neera Tanden join Ari Melber to react to the latest White House.
  
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• Delta To Georgia Lawmakers: 'Our Values Are Not For Sale'

  02-03-2018 21:08 via yahoo.com
  The CEO of Delta Air Lines on Friday declared his company’s “values are not for sale” after Georgia lawmakers retaliated against the airline for cutting ties with the National Rifle Association in the wake of last month’s Florida school shooting.Bastian explained the decision to employees a day after Georgia lawmakers passed a tax bill that effectively punishes the airline for rescinding the discount for NRA members to travel to the group’s annual meeting.
  
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• Are Kushner's businesses tied to Trump policies?

  02-03-2018 21:07 via yahoo.com
  NBC News reports that Mueller is looking at whether Kushner's foreign business ties affected White House policy. Ari Melber discusses with Maya Wiley and Natasha Bertrand how any unusual influence could result in criminal charges.
  
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• Italian town that models migrant integration feels national election's bite

  02-03-2018 21:04 via yahoo.com
  Today, he has a job in this sewing workshop, Atelier Nuele, and a comfortable life.Schio reminds me of my town, which was also surrounded by mountains.There are so many foreigners, and we never had problems.
  
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• Attack on French embassy, army in Burkina Faso kills eight

  02-03-2018 20:57 via yahoo.com
  By Nadoun CoulibalyOUAGADOUGOU (Reuters) - Attackers in Burkina Faso's capital killed eight people and wounded dozens more in a coordinated assault on the army headquarters and French embassy that France's foreign minister said was likely carried out by "terrorist groups".West Africa's arid Sahel region is suffering a spike in violence by militant groups, some with links to al Qaeda and Islamic State, that is drawing an increasingly aggressive response from countries including France and the Uni
  
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• 'It Is My Greatest Fear.' Superintendents Are Shutting Down School Districts Nationwide Over Shooting Threats

  02-03-2018 20:53 via yahoo.com
  School administrators are trying to strike a difficult balance between protection and education
  
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• Gun debate roils U.S.

  02-03-2018 20:52 via yahoo.com
  Nowhere in the world do citizens have access to guns as they do in America. Although the U.S. makes up 4.4 percent of the world’s population, it owns nearly half the world’s guns.
  
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• Bodycam Video Shows North Carolina Officer Beating Black Man Accused Of Jaywalking

  02-03-2018 20:50 via yahoo.com
  An Asheville, North Carolina, news outlet published disturbing bodycam footage this week showing a white police officer beating a black resident, prompting public apologies from city officials who are continuing to investigate the incident.The graphic video shows officers chasing Johnnie Rush, 33, throwing him to the ground, shocking him with a stun gun and beating him as he cries out in pain and shouts for help.Photos that Rush provided to the Asheville Citizen-Times show his bandaged and
  
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• Reverend Billy Graham laid to rest at North Carolina home

  02-03-2018 20:46 via yahoo.com
  The late Reverend Billy Graham, spearhead of an evangelical Christian movement that touched millions worldwide and who provided spiritual counsel to several US presidents, returned for good to his North Carolina home Friday.The ceremony took place at the Billy Graham Library on the family's property in Charlotte, under a broad white tent that harkens back to the "canvas cathedral" in 1949 that helped propel Graham to prominence.
  
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