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• Scientists think they know where the early universe’s dark matter has been hiding

  02-01-2019 23:54 via news.yahoo.com
  Most of the mass in the universe is made up of a kind of matter that none of us have ever seen. It's called "dark matter" and, despite being incredibly abundant, it's also extremely difficult to study. Decades-old calculations suggested that there is more dark matter around younger galaxies than the ancient ones from the early days of the universe, but then where did the dark matter we see today come from? A new study offers the answer.Past research suggested that galaxies we see nearby have mor
  
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• Trump asks congressional leaders to return for shutdown talks Friday -lawmaker

  02-01-2019 23:48 via news.yahoo.com
  The president has asked congressional leaders to return to work on Friday to try and end a government shutdown over a dispute on border security funding.
  
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• Intelligence experts skeptical American arrested in Russia is a spy

  02-01-2019 23:45 via news.yahoo.com
  “I think it’s quite clear this is not an American intelligence operation” but rather further evidence of a Russian influence campaign directed against the West, said Steven Hall, a former senior CIA official who managed intelligence operations in Eurasia and Russia expert.
  
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• Kanye West Gifted Kim Kardashian With a $14 Million Miami Beach Condo

  02-01-2019 23:26 via news.yahoo.com
  The couple’s new home is located in an 18-story beachfront tower also known as the “billionaire beach bunker”
  
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• Trump gives no timetable for Syria exit; wants to protect Kurds

  02-01-2019 23:19 via news.yahoo.com
  Trump did not provide a timetable for the planned military exit from Syria, which he announced last month against the advice of top national security aides and without consulting lawmakers or U.S. allies participating in anti-Islamic State operations.The decision prompted Defense Secretary Jim Mattis to resign.Trump said on Wednesday he had essentially fired Mattis, whose letter of resignation was seen as a sharp rebuke to the Republican president.
  
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• New GOP rivalry? Romney barrels into DC blistering Trump

  02-01-2019 23:18 via news.yahoo.com
  WASHINGTON (AP) — Mitt Romney, the 2012 GOP presidential nominee and incoming Utah senator, has quickly set himself apart from other Republicans in the new Congress with a blistering attack on President Donald Trump's leadership and character. Romney's strong denunciation could mark the start of a new rivalry within the party.
  
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• Shanahan takes Pentagon helm as Trump blasts Mattis

  02-01-2019 23:11 via news.yahoo.com
  Acting US Defense Secretary Patrick Shanahan's first full day at the Pentagon's helm was overshadowed Wednesday when President Donald Trump attacked his predecessor Jim Mattis.Shanahan, who took the Pentagon's top spot January 1 after serving as deputy defense secretary, was thrust onto the world stage when Mattis quit last month amid long-running disagreements with President Donald Trump.During televised remarks ahead of his first cabinet meeting of 2019, Trump claimed he had "essentially fired
  
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• 'Space snowman' discovered outside our solar system

  02-01-2019 23:07 via news.yahoo.com
  With most of the U.S. seeing bare ground, who knew we'd have to go the end of the solar system to find a snowman?
  
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• Dow posts small gain in volatile start to 2019 as weak Chinese data spark fears

  02-01-2019 22:56 via news.yahoo.com
  The Dow Jones industrial average began 2019 with a small gain. That increase followed an early plunge amid signs of a Chinese manufacturing slowdown.
  
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• Not Just Tesla: GM Is Reportedly About to Lose Its EV Tax Credit, Too

  02-01-2019 22:46 via news.yahoo.com
  GM has reportedly sold its 200,000th EV, which means the credit is due to disappear.
  
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• Skeleton crew of rangers still patrols Joshua Tree National Park despite government shutdown

  02-01-2019 22:45 via news.yahoo.com
  Joshua Tree visitors may be able to enter the park for free, and services are limited, but that doesn't mean the park's rules are going unenforced.
  
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• Romney, laying down a marker against Trump, may have boxed himself in

  02-01-2019 22:43 via news.yahoo.com
  Mitt Romney’s op-ed criticizing Trump’s character and behavior in office fostered speculation it was the opening salvo for a 2020 campaign, but a lot would have to happen before he mounts a real challenge.
  
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• Trump Says He 'Would Have Been a Good General' While Feuding With Generals

  02-01-2019 22:39 via news.yahoo.com
  "I think I would have been a good general, but who knows?"
  
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• President Trump slams former Secretary of Defense James Mattis

  02-01-2019 22:37 via news.yahoo.com
  President Donald Trump blasted his former Defense secretary Jim Mattis on Wednesday, claiming he "essentially fired" the top military aide.
  
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• Trump says he's ready to meet again with North Korean leader

  02-01-2019 22:33 via news.yahoo.com
  WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump said Wednesday that he has received a letter from North Korean leader Kim Jong Un and will be setting up a meeting with Kim "in the not-too-distant future" to restart talks about the North's nuclear programs.
  
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• Cuomo: ‘Joe Biden Has the Best Case’ of 2020 Dem. Hopefuls

  02-01-2019 22:24 via news.yahoo.com
  New York governor Andrew Cuomo said Wednesday that Joe Biden has the most “credibility” of the many prospective candidates for the 2020 Democratic presidential nomination.“I think of all the names that are out there, I think Joe Biden has the best case,” Cuomo told radio station WAMC.“I think there’s going to be a big field,” Cuomo said in response to questions about the candidacy of Massachusetts senator Elizabeth Warren, who announced that she was
  
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• We Don’t Owe Syria’s Kurds

  02-01-2019 22:16 via news.yahoo.com
  America should not be in the business of creating another de facto Kurdish state.
  
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• Tesla shares stumble on price cut, disappointing Model 3 deliveries

  02-01-2019 22:15 via news.yahoo.com
  Prices of the Model 3, S and X were all slashed by $2,000.
  
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• First close-ups of Ultima Thule reveal it resembles snowman

  02-01-2019 22:13 via news.yahoo.com
  Nasa has revealed the first photo of the distant world of Ultima Thule, the most distant object that humanity has ever explored. The tiny, icy object resembles a snowman in the photo, which is just the first of a whole host of data that the space agency hopes to receive back. The picture came after flight controllers said they had had success in the high-risk, middle-of-the-night encounter at the mysterious body known as Ultima Thule on the frozen fringes of our solar system, an astounding 1 bil
  
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• 'I won': Trump rebuffs criticism from incoming Senator Romney

  02-01-2019 22:08 via news.yahoo.com
  Romney, who starts work on Thursday when members of the 2019-2020 Congress take office, suggested in a newspaper essay published on Tuesday that Trump had "caused dismay around the world" and said his presidency had "made a deep descent in December.""On balance, his conduct over the past two years ... is evidence that the president has not risen to the mantle of the office," said Romney in the Washington Post essay, reprising a strong critique of Trump that he voiced during the 2016 presidential
  
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• The Latest: Deaths from Russia apartment collapse grow to 33

  02-01-2019 22:05 via news.yahoo.com
  MOSCOW (AP) — The Latest on the building collapse in Russia (all times local):
  
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• Trump vs. Pelosi: The standoff that will define Washington begins today

  02-01-2019 22:01 via news.yahoo.com
  Trump vs. Pelosi: The standoff that will define Washington for the next two years starts today, over the wall.
  
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• Take a look inside Ivanka Trump's daily diet

  02-01-2019 22:01 via yahoo.com
  Whereas her father may be known for his affinity for Diet Coke and fast food-- a habit Melania Trump has reportedly been trying to get him to kick --Ivanka Trump's diet couldn't be more different
  
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• Oil Jumps as U.S. Equities Regain Ground, OPEC Output Declines

  02-01-2019 22:00 via news.yahoo.com
  West Texas Intermediate oil climbed as well, erasing earlier losses brought on by disappointing manufacturing data out of China.Total volume traded Wednesday was about 20 percent above the 100-day average.
  
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• New video shows deadly crash involving 14-year-old driver

  02-01-2019 21:59 via news.yahoo.com
  New video shows moments the 14-year-old driver crashed into a 45-year-old woman, killing her.
  
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• US envoy meets American accused by Russia of spying

  02-01-2019 21:40 via news.yahoo.com
  The US ambassador to Russia on Wednesday met an American ex-Marine accused of espionage whose detention has sparked the latest rift between the countries.Ambassador Jon Huntsman met Paul Whelan at the Lefortovo prison in Moscow and afterwards spoke to his family by telephone, the US State Department said."Ambassador Huntsman expressed his support for Mr Whelan and offered the embassy's assistance," a State Department spokesperson said.
  
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• A Doughnut Truck Caught on Fire and Cops Have Intense Feelings About It

  02-01-2019 21:35 via news.yahoo.com
  The NYPD offered to send in reinforcements
  
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• Trump rolls out the wheel to try to sell his wall

  02-01-2019 21:34 via news.yahoo.com
  The president repeatedly invokes a comparison while attempting to sell increased border security to the American public.
  
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• Warren plans Iowa trip in another step toward 2020 campaign

  02-01-2019 21:32 via news.yahoo.com
  BOSTON (AP) — Sen. Elizabeth Warren is preparing to bring a populist message to Iowa voters just days after taking her first major step toward launching a campaign for president.
  
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• Syria is 'sand and death,' Trump says

  02-01-2019 21:29 via news.yahoo.com
  US President Donald Trump on Wednesday offered a rather stark take on the situation in war-wracked Syria, summing it up in two words -- "sand and death" -- while remaining vague about the timing of the withdrawal of US troops."So Syria was lost long ago."I never said we are getting out overnight," Trump said.
  
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• New Horizons unveils a new world. Actually, it's 2 worlds smashed together.

  02-01-2019 21:29 via news.yahoo.com
  It's a new, weird world.  The deep space exploration craft New Horizons has sent back the first detailed images of an ancient world floating more than 4 billion miles from Earth, formally known as 2014 MU69. The clearest glimpse yet of MU69 shows that it's shaped like a snowman, with two roundish lobes that have been fused together.  It is by far the most distant world a spacecraft — and by extension humanity — has ever explored. "What this spacecraft and this team accompli
  
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• President Trump Says He Thinks He "Would Have Been a Good General

  02-01-2019 21:27 via news.yahoo.com
  Trump spoke during a White House meeting with his Cabinet as the partial government shutdown continues into its 12th day.
  
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• New Picture Reveals Ultima Thule Is Made of Two Asteroids That Got Stuck Together

  02-01-2019 21:26 via news.yahoo.com
  New Horizons' latest target has never been more clear.
  
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• Trump claims he 'essentially fired' Mattis

  02-01-2019 21:17 via news.yahoo.com
  US President Donald Trump claimed Wednesday that he had "essentially" fired Jim Mattis, even though the former Pentagon chief had pointedly quit his post over multiple disagreements.During a rambling monologue to White House journalists at the start of a cabinet meeting, Trump lashed out at his former defense secretary even as his replacement, Patrick Shanahan, sat at the president's side.How has he done in Afghanistan?" Trump said, lamenting the ongoing Afghan security crisis and the amount Ame
  
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• U.S. Envoy to Russia Visits American Detained on Spy Allegations

  02-01-2019 21:16 via news.yahoo.com
  Huntsman visited Paul Whelan, a former Marine who is the director of global security for Michigan-based auto-parts supplier BorgWarner Inc., on Wednesday, according to a State Department official.Whelan hadn’t been in touch with his family since his Dec. 28 arrest, his brother David said on Twitter.
  
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• Syria rebel-jihadist clashes intensify, 50 dead

  02-01-2019 21:16 via news.yahoo.com
  Clashes between jihadists and rebels in northwestern Syria have killed almost 50 people over two days, a war monitor said Wednesday.Clashes flared Tuesday between Al-Qaeda-linked coalition Hayat Tahrir al-Sham (HTS) and an alliance of rebel groups in western Aleppo province.On Wednesday the fighting spread to the neighbouring province of Idlib, the country's last opposition bastion, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said.
  
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• Harry Reid calls Trump worst president ever in NYT interview: 'Not even a close second'

  02-01-2019 21:13 via news.yahoo.com
  In an interview with the New York Times Magazine, former Senate leader Harry Reid called President Donald Trump "the worst president we’ve ever had."
  
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• Trump warns US government shutdown could last a 'long time'

  02-01-2019 21:12 via news.yahoo.com
  President Donald Trump warned that the partial shutdown of the US government, which entered its 12th day on Wednesday, could last a "long time" as he stood firm in his demand for billions of dollars in funding for a border wall with Mexico.One day before Democrats take over control of the House of Representatives, Trump showed no signs of backing away from his insistence on $5.6 billion for his "beautiful" southern wall."This is national security we're talking about," he said at a cabinet meetin
  
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• Victims with ties to Mummers killed in South Philly head-on crash; stabbed driver faces charges

  02-01-2019 21:08 via news.yahoo.com
  The Mummers community is mourning the loss of some of its members after a driver who apparently stabbed himself crashed head-on into another vehicle.
  
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• RNC Chair Ronna McDaniel Rebukes Uncle Mitt Romney for Criticizing President Trump

  02-01-2019 21:08 via news.yahoo.com
  McDaniel reportedly stopped using her middle name - Romney - after assuming office last year.
  
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• Now is time to cash in that $1.5B Mega Millions lottery ticket; mystery surrounds winner

  02-01-2019 21:02 via news.yahoo.com
  The winning ticket for the Mega Millions drawing Oct. 23 was sold in Simpsonville, South Carolina. The winner has until April 20 to claim the money.
  
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• Window 10 overtakes Windows 7, becoming the most popular desktop OS in the world

  02-01-2019 20:50 via news.yahoo.com
  Three and a half years after being released, Windows 10 has finally toppled Windows 7's to become the most popular desktop operating system on the planet. That's according to the December OS market share statistics from analytics firm Net Applications, which show that Windows 10 managed to grab 39.22% of the market, while Windows 7 lagged behind at 36.9%. It's the first month ever in which Windows 10 has been on top.This is notable for a variety of reasons, the first being that Windows 7 managed
  
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• Missouri Teen Returns from Cruise with Mystery Illness That`s Left Her Permanently Blind

  02-01-2019 20:43 via news.yahoo.com
  A Missouri teen is fighting a life-changing medical condition after returning from a cruise.
  
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• Man Accused of Killing Missing Fiancee Charged with 5 Felony Counts

  02-01-2019 20:42 via news.yahoo.com
  Patrick Frazee, the man accused of killing his fiancee Kelsey Berreth, was charged with five felony counts on Monday morning by Teller County prosecutors.
  
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• Female Jogger Sexually Assaulted at Seattle Trail; Third Attack in 3 Months

  02-01-2019 20:42 via news.yahoo.com
  Seattle Police say a male suspect sexually assaulted a woman jogging at Green Lake; this is the third attack at the location in about three months.
  
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• The Latest: Trump says he fired Mattis, who left over Syria

  02-01-2019 20:17 via news.yahoo.com
  WASHINGTON (AP) — The Latest on the change atop the Defense Department (all times local):
  
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• Trump says U.S. officials to make plea to lawmakers for border wall

  02-01-2019 20:05 via news.yahoo.com
  Trump invited Democratic and Republican leaders in Congress to the White House to discuss border security on the 12th day of a partial government shutdown.
  
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• Democrats in new Congress: Thorns in Trump's side

  02-01-2019 20:02 via news.yahoo.com
  US Democrats, who regain control of the House of Representatives on Thursday, have pledged to challenge Donald Trump on multiple fronts: from Congressional inquiries on Russian election meddling to battles over immigration and health care, as murmurs about impeachment proceedings persist.Congress will feature the largest number of progressive lawmakers in many years, and they appear to be in no mood to appease a president who is standing firm on his pursuit of funding for a wall on the southern
  
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• China's Chang-e'4 mission aims to land on Moon's far side

  02-01-2019 20:02 via news.yahoo.com
  A Chinese spacecraft is attempting to make the first ever landing on the far side of the Moon on Thursday, in a milestone for space exploration. The China National Space Administration (CNSA) is preparing to land the robotic spacecraft in the South Pole-Aitken basin, the largest, oldest and deepest crater on the moon's surface. The probe, the Chang'e-4, entered a planned orbit on Sunday "to prepare for the first-ever soft landing on the far side of the moon", Xinhua news agency said, citing
  
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• Trump Holds Firm on Wall Before Meeting Congressional Leaders

  02-01-2019 20:01 via news.yahoo.com
  Trump said the U.S. needs a wall “for the security of our country,” and that drones and electronic measures weren’t enough.“It could be a long time” before the shuttered parts of the government are reopened, Trump told reporters Wednesday at the start of a Cabinet meeting.Trump initially suggested he might accept less than the $5.6 billion he’s been demanding for border security.
  
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