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• U.S. House backs sanctions on Russia's Rusal in symbolic vote

  17-01-2019 23:53 via news.yahoo.com
  Later in the day, Senate Democratic leader Chuck Schumer tried to have the Senate vote but Republican Majority Leader Mitch McConnell blocked it.Amid questions about Trump's relationship with Russian President Vladimir Putin, many members of the U.S. Congress - both Democrats and some of Trump's fellow Republicans - have been questioning the administration's plan to water down the toughest penalties imposed on Russian entities since the 2014 annexation of Crimea from Ukraine.
  
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• Law firm linked to Paul Manafort's Ukranian lobbying campaign agrees to pay $4.6 million

  17-01-2019 23:36 via news.yahoo.com
  Law firm linked to Paul Manafort's Ukranian lobbying campaign strikes deal with Justice; agrees to pay $4.6 million.
  
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• This manicure just gave birth, and you have to see the baby

  17-01-2019 23:31 via news.yahoo.com
  Umbilical cords are not usually part of the traditional manicure experience. Thankfully, there are exceptions to the rule. Russian nail artist Nail Sunny recently shared intricate nail art featuring a detailed chair (with stirrups) and a little woman in a pink hospital gown. The nail appears to be giving birth.> View this post on Instagram
  >> Baby birth-❤️ or? Video by @edo_movs #nailsunnytutorial
  >> A post shared byNail Sunny (@nail_sunny) on Jan 17, 2019
  
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• China's envoy to Canada says Huawei 5G ban would have repercussions

  17-01-2019 23:28 via news.yahoo.com
  China's envoy to Canada on Thursday warned Ottawa there would be repercussions if it banned technology firm Huawei Technologies Co Ltd [HWT.UL] from supplying equipment to Canadian 5G networks, the latest blast in a deepening bilateral dispute.Ambassador Lu Shaye, speaking at a news conference, did not give details.Canada is currently studying the security implications of 5G networks, but unlike some allies has not announced Huawei equipment will be excluded.
  
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• Divers in Hawaii may have been swimming with biggest great white shark on record

  17-01-2019 23:20 via news.yahoo.com
  Divers in Hawaii spotted several giant great white sharks off the coast of Oahu, including possibly one of the largest on record named Deep Blue.
  
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• Can Nancy Pelosi delay Trump’s State of the Union address amid government shutdown?

  17-01-2019 23:19 via news.yahoo.com
  Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi has asked President Donald Trump to postpone his State of the Union address, initially scheduled for 29 January, for as long as the partial government shutdown continues.In a letter she sent to the president on Wednesday, Ms Pelosi suggested that Mr Trump reschedules his address, deliver it from the Oval Office, or perhaps send it over in written form to Capitol Hill, citing that the government shutdown compromises security arrangements for the event.The governm
  
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• Even after Trump’s refrain of ‘no collusion,’ Giuliani offers possibility of Trump campaign collusion with Russia

  17-01-2019 23:13 via news.yahoo.com
  Last night on CNN, President Trump’s attorney Rudy Giuliani opened up the possibility that there was collusion between Trump, or his presidential campaign, and Russia to influence the 2016 election. That’s after President Trump’s continued assertions that there was “no collusion” with Russia.
  
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• The Latest: California storm cancels Santa Anita horse races

  17-01-2019 23:10 via news.yahoo.com
  SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — The Latest on California storms (all times local):
  
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• Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez's first House speech breaks online viewing records

  17-01-2019 23:10 via news.yahoo.com
  Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez’s first speech on the floor of Congress broke digital viewing records for C-SPAN, Capitol Hill’s public affairs network, garnering over a million views on Twitter in roughly 12 hours.The progressive freshman Gouse member took to the floor on Wednesday to decry Donald Trump’s demands for border wall funding to be included in the next federal spending bill — a battle that has spurred the longest government shutdown in American history.“The tru
  
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• Trump says US will develop space-based missile defense

  17-01-2019 23:08 via news.yahoo.com
  WASHINGTON (AP) — Moving to protect the U.S. from advanced missile threats from China and Russia, President Donald Trump on Thursday laid out plans for a new array of space-based sensors and other high-tech systems designed to more quickly detect and defeat attacks.
  
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• Trump Denies Pelosi Plane to Visit U.S. Troops in Shutdown Spat

  17-01-2019 22:53 via news.yahoo.com
  “In light of the 800,000 great American workers not receiving pay, I am sure you would agree that postponing this public relations event is totally appropriate,” Trump said in a letter to Pelosi, a day after she suggested he postpone his State of the Union speech scheduled for Jan. 29.
  
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• Saturn's rings are younger than the planet itself

  17-01-2019 22:51 via news.yahoo.com
  Saturn's rings are younger than scientists thought and appeared within the last 10 to 100 million years, according to research published Thursday based on findings from NASA's Cassini spacecraft.The sixth planet from the Sun formed about 4.5 billion years ago, along with the rest of the planets in our solar system, and spent the bulk of its existence without the characteristic rings it is known for today.Astronomers have long believed the rings could be young, and perhaps formed by collisions be
  
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• Foods you may want to avoid during a government shutdown

  17-01-2019 22:48 via news.yahoo.com
  Inspections of these foods may get sketchy as the government shutdown continues.
  
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• President Trump's Plans to Boost Missile Defense Could Spark an Arms Race

  17-01-2019 22:43 via news.yahoo.com
  President Donald Trump directed the Pentagon to look into developing a constellation of space-based sensors and interceptor.
  
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• Why did Democrats vote for a barrier along the southern border in 2013, but won’t now?

  17-01-2019 22:42 via news.yahoo.com
  Former U.S. Border Patrol Chief under former President Barack Obama Mark Morgan says that the border wall needs to be built.
  
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• Trump grounds Democratic speaker's foreign travel

  17-01-2019 22:41 via news.yahoo.com
  Deadlock in Washington reached a new low Thursday as Donald Trump hit his chief Democratic opponent Nancy Pelosi with a last-minute cancellation of her plan to take an air force plane to Afghanistan -- citing the four-week-old government shutdown as a motive.The mess in Washington, where swaths of government workers are not being paid while Congress feuds with the White House, already verged on the surreal.In a letter laced with sarcasm and accompanied by his dramatic signature, Trump told House
  
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• 'I'm cancelling your trip': Donald Trump writes letter to Nancy Pelosi as shutdown continues

  17-01-2019 22:41 via news.yahoo.com
  Donald Trump has denied a military aircraft for the most senior Democrat in the House of Representatives shortly before she was due to embark on a series of overseas trips. The US president hit back at Nancy Pelosi, the House speaker, a day after she told him to delay his State of the Union address until after the government shutdown was over.  Mrs Pelosi sent a letter to the president on Wednesday demanding that he either push back the January 29 speech or simply submit
  
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• US presses ahead with border wall in court despite shutdown

  17-01-2019 22:39 via news.yahoo.com
  HOUSTON (AP) — A federal attorney in South Texas said in court this week that during the ongoing partial government shutdown, he only has been allowed to work on cases related to President Donald Trump's proposed border wall.
  
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• Prince Philip unharmed after traffic accident, two injured

  17-01-2019 22:32 via news.yahoo.com
  Queen Elizabeth II's 97-year-old husband Prince Philip emerged unscathed after a vehicle he was driving was involved in a traffic accident that injured two people on Thursday, according to Buckingham Palace and police.A palace spokeswoman told AFP that the duke was driving near the monarch's Sandringham Estate when the crash occurred but declined to confirm that it overturned in the incident."The Duke of Edinburgh was involved in a road traffic accident with another vehicle this afternoon," the
  
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• Violent Sex Offender Arrested Again After Woman Says He Forced Her into Prostitution

  17-01-2019 22:17 via news.yahoo.com
  A violent sex offender in Memphis was taken into custody again after a woman claimed she was the victim of sex trafficking.
  
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• Howard Kurtz: Journalists have been yearning for someone to pummel the president

  17-01-2019 22:17 via news.yahoo.com
  'MediaBuzz' host Howard Kurtz weighs in on the media reaction to Nancy Pelosi asking President Trump to delay the State of the Union address until after the government shutdown ends.
  
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• The Latest: Storms improve California drought situation

  17-01-2019 22:08 via news.yahoo.com
  SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — The Latest on California storms (all times local):
  
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• The Latest: Trump calls for expanded missile defense program

  17-01-2019 22:07 via news.yahoo.com
  WASHINGTON (AP) — The Latest on the Trump administration's missile defense strategy (all times local):
  
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• 6 Ways to Beat the Lines at Airport Security During the Government Shutdown

  17-01-2019 22:06 via news.yahoo.com
  Worried about long security lines at the airport due to the federal government shutdown? There’s a lot you can do to navigate around them if you know what special programs are worth paying up for...
  
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• Detroit auto show models -- the human ones -- embrace new role

  17-01-2019 22:03 via news.yahoo.com
  Every year at the Detroit auto show, good-looking women -- and men -- are deployed by the carmakers to present their new vehicles.The "product specialists" still have picture-perfect smiles, but they also can tick off the features of each car and prices with such assurance that the iPads they carry for reference can seem merely decorative.Perched on stilettos, Priscilla Tejeda is working for Toyota.
  
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• IRS Workers Say Trump Is Just Trying to Save Face With Employee Recall

  17-01-2019 22:00 via news.yahoo.com
  "IRS employees who process federal tax returns and refunds do not protect human life or property from imminent threat," the legal standard for ordering federal employees to work without pay during a government shutdown, the National Treasury Employees Union said on Thursday, the 27th day of the shutdown.It had sued Office of Management and Budget Director Mick Mulvaney in an unsuccessful bid to win a temporary court order forcing the U.S. to pay its employees or let them take other jobs.
  
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• Can you trust weather forecasts during the government shutdown? Absolutely!

  17-01-2019 21:58 via news.yahoo.com
  "We feel badly for our weather colleagues in government who are not getting paid during the shutdown," said Marshall Moss, AccuWeather vice president, Forecasting and Graphic Operations. "Like us, they're doing critical life-saving work and issuing public warnings and we hope they are paid soon.”
  
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• Can you trust weather forecasts during the government shutdown?

  17-01-2019 21:58 via news.yahoo.com
  Reports of worse forecasts by the National Weather Service wrongly assume the government is the sole source for forecasting data.
  
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• Michael Cohen 'paid to rig Trump polls and for sycophantic Twitter feed'

  17-01-2019 21:52 via news.yahoo.com
  Michael Cohen, Donald Trump’s former personal lawyer, reportedly paid a tech expert to rig opinion polls in favour of his boss and create a Twitter account which praised Mr Cohen as a “sex symbol”.  Mr Cohen got the expert to boost Mr Trump’s standing in two online polls, one on America's top business leaders and another on potential 2016 presidential candidates, The Wall Street Journal reported.  He also, bizarrely, asked for a Twitter account called “Wom
  
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• House Republicans join rebuke of Trump for easing Russia sanctions

  17-01-2019 21:52 via news.yahoo.com
  More than 130 US House Republicans joined Democrats Thursday in opposing the easing of sanctions against an ally of Russia's Vladimir Putin, dealing a rebuke to President Donald Trump's administration.The Democratic-controlled chamber overwhelmingly voted 362 to 53 approving the bill that would block the Treasury Department's December move to lift sanctions on companies connected to Oleg Deripaska.The oligarch was targeted last year as part of US congressional efforts to punish Russia for interf
  
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• On day Jayme escaped, suspect sought job _ with dodgy resume

  17-01-2019 21:51 via news.yahoo.com
  BARRON, Wis. (AP) — The Wisconsin man suspected of kidnapping 13-year-old Jayme Closs and killing her parents apparently applied for a job online the day that Jayme escaped, calling himself an "honest guy" even though his resume contains inaccuracies about his work experience.
  
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• Pres. Trump denies Nancy Pelosi aircraft for planned trip abroad, citing government shutdown

  17-01-2019 21:44 via news.yahoo.com
  In a letter to Pelosi on Thursday, Trump said that a trip to Egypt, Brussels and Afghanistan should be delayed due to the shutdown.
  
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• Trump denies government aircraft for Speaker Nancy Pelosi's overseas trip

  17-01-2019 21:38 via news.yahoo.com
  Former America Rising executive director Colin Reed and America Votes president Greg Speed weigh in on the president canceling Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi's ability to fly on a government aircraft for an overseas trip.
  
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• The U.S. Navy’s New Missile Defense Is a Bad Idea

  17-01-2019 21:32 via news.yahoo.com
  "As a defense against ICBMs, the SM-3 might not work. And even if it does, it might only make America less safe."
  
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• The Best Winter Sales over MLK Day Weekend

  17-01-2019 21:30 via news.yahoo.com
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• F-35s, Lasers, Drones and More: The U.S. Military’s Missile-Defense Plan Won’t Work

  17-01-2019 21:26 via news.yahoo.com
  The Trump administration wants the U.S. military to develop new lasers, drones and missiles in order to destroy enemy missiles in the first few minutes after the missiles launch toward their target. That might not be so easy.
  
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• US State Department to bring back full staff despite shutdown

  17-01-2019 21:21 via news.yahoo.com
  The US State Department said Thursday it had found money to bring back full staff to ensure the smooth running of US foreign policy despite a month-long political impasse that has shut down Washington.The department sent out orders for all staff to return as of Sunday, the start of the next pay period.With the Martin Luther King Jr. federal holiday on Monday, staff will effectively be back at work on Tuesday.
  
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• Trump vows to boost America's missile defense

  17-01-2019 21:20 via news.yahoo.com
  President Donald Trump vowed Thursday to boost America's missile defense systems, including by investing in technology to protect against the growing threat of hypersonic weapons and cruise missiles.Speaking at the Pentagon, Trump unveiled the Missile Defense Review, a long-awaited analysis of the defensive network of US interceptors that are designed to shoot down an incoming ballistic missile.Top among the concerns highlighted in the review is the speed at which rivals, particularly China and
  
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• In third year, U.S. women's marches turn to 2020 elections

  17-01-2019 21:11 via news.yahoo.com
  Millions of people took part in the women's marches in Washington and other cities in the United States and abroad on Jan. 21, 2017, the day after the Republican president was sworn in.Vanessa Wruble, a co-founder of the original Women's March on Washington who left to start March On, a separate grassroots coalition, said the movement has evolved from being a reaction to Trump's presidency.Women's March, a national nonprofit organization that evolved from the initial Washington march, is using i
  
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• Trump Postpones Pelosi’s Overseas Trip after She Calls on Him to Delay SOTU

  17-01-2019 21:02 via news.yahoo.com
  President Trump on Thursday postponed Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s upcoming international trip due to the ongoing government shutdown — the same justification Pelosi provided when asking that the president delay his State of the Union address.In a letter sent to Pelosi’s office on Thursday, Trump suggested that her upcoming trip to Brussels, Egypt, and Afghanistan, which he characterized as a “public relations event,” should be cancelled so that the speaker coul
  
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• Tulsi Gabbard apologizes, again, for past antigay views

  17-01-2019 20:53 via news.yahoo.com
  A week after announcing her presidential candidacy, the representative from Hawaii releases a video apology.
  
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• SAS hero of Nairobi terror attack in line to receive George Cross

  17-01-2019 20:53 via news.yahoo.com
  The SAS soldier who saved “dozens of lives” in the Nairobi hotel massacre is in line to receive the George Cross for his “remarkable bravery”. The trooper was off-duty when he dashed to the scene of intense fighting after Islamist terrorists laid siege to the DusitD2 five-star hotel. At least 21 people were killed in a drawn-out assault that saw hundreds of civilians trapped in the hotel complex.  A well-placed source said the SAS man - understood to be a Senior Non-
  
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• Belarusian model who claimed Trump info arrested in Moscow

  17-01-2019 20:51 via news.yahoo.com
  MOSCOW (AP) — A Belarusian model who claimed last year that she had evidence of Russian interference in the election of Donald Trump as U.S. president was arrested immediately upon her arrival in Moscow on Thursday following deportation from Thailand.
  
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• Scientists: Saturn spent billions of years without its rings

  17-01-2019 20:48 via news.yahoo.com
  CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — Saturn may have flown solo for billions of years — almost its entire existence — before getting its stunning set of rings, a new study suggests.
  
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• President Trump Canceled Nancy Pelosi's Trip to Afghanistan Over the Shutdown Fight

  17-01-2019 20:44 via news.yahoo.com
  One day after she essentially disinvited him from delivering his State of the Union
  
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• If you're mad at Gillette's toxic masculinity commercial, maybe you're the problem

  17-01-2019 20:23 via news.yahoo.com
  Commercial controversy exposes guilt and fear masquerading as anger out there.
  
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• More asteroids strike Earth since age of dinosaurs: study

  17-01-2019 20:22 via news.yahoo.com
  Between two and three times as many asteroids have struck the Earth and the Moon since the age of the dinosaurs, when one massive space rock collision wiped them out forever, researchers said Thursday.The mounting pace began around 290 million years ago, and likely coincides with some kind of large cosmic smashup in the main asteroid belt between the orbits of Mars and Jupiter, researchers reported in the US journal Science.The result was space debris, some of which made its way to the Earth and
  
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• Illinois parents get 25 years in death of boy, 6, who weighed 17 pounds when he died

  17-01-2019 20:17 via news.yahoo.com
  An Illinois father and stepmother will spend decades in prison in the starvation death of their 6-year-old son, who authorities say weighed just 17 pounds when he died.
  
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• Your Money: The words and wisdom of Jack Bogle

  17-01-2019 20:11
  America just lost a true giant in investing legend and Vanguard Group founder Jack Bogle.
  
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• Russia detains model claiming Trump secrets

  17-01-2019 20:10 via news.yahoo.com
  Russia on Thursday detained a Belarusian model who claimed she had evidence of Russian efforts to help Donald Trump win office, witnesses told AFP.Anastasia Vashukevich, known by her pen-name Nastya Rybka, was held for questioning at a Moscow airport on Thursday evening after she was deported from Thailand as part of a group convicted of participating in a "sex training course," other passengers on the flight told AFP.Russian authorities detained her and several others including Alex Kirillov, a
  
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