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• The Latest: Police chief calls 14-year-old's death 'tragic'

  18-01-2019 23:59 via news.yahoo.com
  TEMPE, Ariz. (AP) — The Latest on the police shooting of a 14-year-old burglary suspect in Arizona (all times local):
  
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• Pursuing R. Kelly: Could he end up convicted of sex crimes like Bill Cosby?

  18-01-2019 23:53 via news.yahoo.com
  The R&B star is fighting multiple accusations of sexual misconduct, but could he be charged with a crime and convicted?
  
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• AbbVie's Imbruvica fails to meet main goal in pancreatic cancer study

  18-01-2019 23:49 via news.yahoo.com
  AbbVie Inc said on Friday its blockbuster cancer treatment in combination with chemotherapy agents failed to meet the main goal in a late-stage study of patients with a form of pancreatic cancer.The treatment, Imbruvica, failed to show statistically significant improvement in progression-free survival (PFS) or overall survival in metastatic pancreatic cancer patients, compared with the combination of placebo and two chemotherapy agents.The American Cancer society estimates that pancreatic cancer
  
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• George W. Bush delivers pizza to Secret Service agents working during government shutdown

  18-01-2019 23:48 via news.yahoo.com
  "It's time for leaders on both sides to put politics aside, come together, and end this shutdown," Bush wrote of the shutdown, the longest in American history.
  
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• Impeachment talk revived after report says Donald Trump directed Michael Cohen to lie to Congress

  18-01-2019 23:41 via news.yahoo.com
  Dems revive impeachment discussions following report that President Donald Trump directed Michael Cohen to lie to Congress.
  
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• Please enjoy these Pope-like dogs wearing Crocs on their impossibly small heads

  18-01-2019 23:31 via news.yahoo.com
  Look, we're only 18 days into 2019 and it's already looking better than the shitshow that was last year. Starting with this thread. SEE ALSO: Do Dogs Like Wearing Clothes?Twitter user @macnchief came across the most blessed image on Reddit and shared it to Twitter: an impossibly small pup wearing a Croc on its head. > i saw this on reddit and i think twitter should see it too pic.twitter.com/VfEdu2USWj
  >> -- ariana grande did 9/11 (@macnchief) January 17, 2019Hmmmmmm.Dare I as
  
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• President George W. Bush delivers pizza to Secret Service detail amid government shutdown

  18-01-2019 23:28 via news.yahoo.com
  Former President George W. Bush delivered pizza to his Secret Service detail, who are working without pay due to the partial government shutdown.
  
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• Winter storm disturbs travel as it rolls toward U.S. Midwest, Northeast

  18-01-2019 23:21 via news.yahoo.com
  A major winter storm was expected to clobber a large swath of the northern United States with heavy snow, gusty winds and frigid temperatures making travel difficult and dangerous starting on Friday and through the weekend, forecasters said.The storm system will dump 6 to 10 inches (15 to 25 cm) of snow in the Plains and Midwest on Friday night and Saturday and as it moves east at least a foot of snow in parts of the Northeast on Saturday and Sunday, the National Weather Service (NWS) said in se
  
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• The Winter Show Modernizes the Antique Fair with Creative, Colorful Booths—and an App

  18-01-2019 23:21 via news.yahoo.com
  Last night's colorful, lively opening party was proof of antiques' staying power
  
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• Tesla to cut 7% of workforce amid tough profit outlook

  18-01-2019 23:21 via news.yahoo.com
  Elon Musk's electric car manufacturer Tesla Motors announced Friday it was cutting its workforce by about seven percent in a push to keep the Model 3 affordable for middle-income consumers.Shares plunged following the announcement, which also signaled a tough profit road ahead for Tesla.The round of job cuts -- which follow an earlier downsizing announced in June -- comes as the envelope-pushing company faces pressure in its home market on prices from the phasing-out of a tax credit for electric
  
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• Michael Cohen seen clutching pillow with arm in sling as reports say Trump ordered him to lie to Congress

  18-01-2019 23:17 via news.yahoo.com
  Michael Cohen has said he is prepared to reveal the truth about Donald Trump during a televised hearing next month — but first, the president’s former personal lawyer required surgery.Cohen was spotted returning home from a pre-scheduled hospital visit on Friday afternoon after receiving surgery on his shoulder, his adviser Lanny Davis confirmed.The surgery arrived the same day an explosive report in BuzzFeed News suggested Mr Trump told Cohen to lie to Congress — an illegal an
  
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• The Latest: Officer to plead not guilty after man's death

  18-01-2019 23:09 via news.yahoo.com
  NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — The Latest on the criminal case against a white Nashville police officer who shot and killed an armed black man who was fleeing (all times local):
  
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• Kenyan authorities investigate local role in Nairobi attack

  18-01-2019 23:08 via news.yahoo.com
  Officials have released few details about the five-man assault team that carried out Tuesday's siege at the dusitD2 hotel complex, an attack that killed 21 people and was claimed by al Shabaab, a Somalia-based al Qaeda affiliate.How did he get to where he is?" said a private security official in Kenya, who asked not to be identified for operational reasons."If al Shabaab can replicate this model, then there is a fundamental problem."All five assailants were killed in Tuesday's attack, the countr
  
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• Only Two People Can End This Shutdown. And Neither Is Budging

  18-01-2019 23:05 via news.yahoo.com
  It's become clear that only two people can end it: President Donald Trump and House Speaker Nancy Pelosi. And neither one is budging.
  
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• PayPal is putting shutdown border wall politics aside to help government workers

  18-01-2019 23:04 via news.yahoo.com
  PayPal is offering an interest-free cash advance up to $500, for customers who are federal employees, and are struggling to make ends meet.
  
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• Students appear to perform Nazi salute in 'sickening' photo, superintendent says

  18-01-2019 22:53 via news.yahoo.com
  High school officials in Indiana are investigating after a picture posted on social media appeared to show students using a Nazi salute.
  
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• Chris Pratt and Katherine Schwarzenegger Moved In Together in West L.A.

  18-01-2019 22:50 via news.yahoo.com
  The couple got engaged earlier this month after seven months of dating
  
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• Divers spot Great White shark in Hawaii

  18-01-2019 22:47 via news.yahoo.com
  Divers in Hawaii spotted a Great White shark, believed to be one of the largest in the world. Her name is "Deep Blue," and she's over 50 years old.
  
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• Global stocks surge on China-US trade breakthrough hopes

  18-01-2019 22:41 via news.yahoo.com
  Stock markets across the globe powered higher Friday, buoyed by hopes of a breakthrough in efforts to defuse a US-China trade war.
  
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• Canada dismisses China's warning of repercussions over Huawei ban

  18-01-2019 22:38 via news.yahoo.com
  Canada's government on Friday dismissed China's warning of repercussions if Ottawa banned Huawei Technologies Co Ltd [HWT.UL] from supplying equipment to 5G networks, saying it would not compromise on security.China's ambassador to Canada issued the threat on Thursday as relations between the two nations continued to deteriorate after a senior Huawei executive was arrested in Vancouver last month on a U.S. extradition warrant.China has also detained two Canadians.
  
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• Saturn's Rings Are Much Younger Than You Might Think

  18-01-2019 22:37 via news.yahoo.com
  A new study finds that Saturn has only had its iconic rings for a fraction of its lifetime.
  
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• 2020 Vision: Gillibrand's Franken problem, Beto's 'funk' and why Biden's history with Warren may come back to haunt him

  18-01-2019 22:36 via news.yahoo.com
  Reminder: There are 383 days until the Iowa caucuses and 656 days until the 2020 presidential election.
  
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• Wall Street extends rally on U.S.-China trade optimism

  18-01-2019 22:34 via news.yahoo.com
  The market was boosted after a Bloomberg report said China sought to raise its annual goods imports from the United States by a combined value of more than $1 trillion in order to reduce its trade surplus to zero by 2024.The news followed a report on Thursday that U.S. Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin was considering lifting some or all tariffs imposed on Chinese imports.A Treasury spokesman denied Mnuchin had made any such recommendation.
  
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• Samsung Bioepis biosimilar to Roche's Herceptin wins FDA nod

  18-01-2019 22:32 via news.yahoo.com
  The U.S. Food and Drug Administration said on Friday it had approved a biosimilar to Roche Holding AG's blockbuster breast cancer treatment, Herceptin.The biosimilar, Ontruzant, is sold by Merck Sharp & Dohme Corp, a unit of Merck & Co Inc, and is developed by Samsung Bioepis Co Ltd, which is a joint venture between Samsung BioLogics and Biogen Inc.The approval https://twitter.com/FDA_Drug_Info/status/1086327386059157504 comes just a few weeks after the health regulator gave Celltrion In
  
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• Germany urges Russia, Ukraine to de-escalate conflict

  18-01-2019 22:13 via news.yahoo.com
  Speaking in Kiev after a meeting with his Ukrainian counterpart Pavlo Klimkin, Maas again called for Moscow to release of the crews of three Ukrainian navy vessels it seized in November off Crimea."All sides must contribute to the de-escalation of the conflicts," said Maas in Kiev after meeting with Lavrov earlier in the day in Moscow.Klimkin welcomed the offer to monitor shipping traffic through the Kerch Strait.
  
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• Markets Right Now: Stocks gain as US-China trade hopes rise

  18-01-2019 22:11 via news.yahoo.com
  NEW YORK (AP) — The latest on developments in financial markets (all times local):
  
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• U.S. regulators discuss fining Facebook for privacy violations - report

  18-01-2019 21:59 via news.yahoo.com
  Facebook has talked with FTC staff about the investigation, one of the people familiar with the matter told the Post.Facebook declined to comment.The FTC, which is affected by the U.S. government shutdown, did not immediately respond to a request to comment.
  
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• US prosecutors say criminals going free due to shutdown

  18-01-2019 21:58 via news.yahoo.com
  Federal prosecutors in the United States said Friday that investigations are being disrupted and criminals going free due to the four-week-old partial shutdown of the government."The government's capacity to secure justice is becoming compromised by the government shutdown," said the National Association of Assistant United States Attorneys in a statement.
  
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• Donald Trump's week of living dangerously

  18-01-2019 21:57 via news.yahoo.com
  From bad economic news to the ongoing government shutdown to bombshell reports that he directed his lawyer to lie to Congress, it has been a week to forget for the president.
  
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• A month into US govt shutdown, the economy blinks first

  18-01-2019 21:57 via news.yahoo.com
  After four weeks, the partial shutdown of the US government has begun to rattle the world's largest economy, particularly hitting consumer sentiment, a mainstay of growth.A closely-watched monthly consumer survey on Friday touched its lowest level since President Donald Trump's election in 2016, suffering its biggest one-month drop in more than six years, according to University of Michigan economists.Americans have less confidence in the economy's strength in 2019, while 800,000 government work
  
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• Donald Trump’s gushing praise of Vladimir Putin under fresh scrutiny after Michael Cohen allegations

  18-01-2019 21:43 via news.yahoo.com
  Donald Trump's ties to Russia are again under the spotlight after reports emerged alleging he directed his estranged ex-lawyer Michael Cohen to lie to Congress about his company’s plans to build a new Trump Tower in Moscow.Since May 2017, special counsel Robert Mueller and his team have doggedly investigated ties between the Trump camp and the Kremlin to determine whether America’s former Cold War foe attempted to influence the outcome of the 2016 presidential election to win the Whi
  
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• Canada pours cold water on free trade with China

  18-01-2019 21:34 via news.yahoo.com
  Canada's envoy to Beijing on Thursday threw cold water on long-sought free trade between the two nations as an ugly diplomat spat over Canada's detention of a top Chinese tech executive drags into a second month.Ambassador John McCallum, who returned to Canada to brief lawmakers on the row, told reporters that Canadian businesses want to press on with growing the trade relationship."We are certainly not negotiating free trade with China either before or after this.
  
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• Deep Blue, one of world's largest great white sharks, possibly spotted off Hawaiian coast

  18-01-2019 21:29 via news.yahoo.com
  Divers swam with a "big, beautiful gentle giant" whose size and markings were said to resemble those of 20-foot great white shark Deep Blue.
  
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• Reports: R. Kelly no longer part of RCA Records after resurfaced sexual abuse allegations

  18-01-2019 21:26 via news.yahoo.com
  RCA Records, part of Sony Music, has removed embattled R. Kelly from the list of artists on its website amid sexual-abuse allegations.
  
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• Rudy Giuliani says any suggestion that the president counseled Michael Cohen to lie is false

  18-01-2019 21:17 via news.yahoo.com
  President Trump’s attorney makes official statement in reaction to a BuzzFeed article suggesting Michael Cohen was directed by Trump to lie to Congress; John Roberts reports.
  
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• Michael Cohen: What is the latest scandal and how does it impact Donald Trump?

  18-01-2019 21:08 via news.yahoo.com
  Michael Cohen, a once loyal confidante of the president turned man who has done a plea deal over hush money payments made to two women on the eve of the election, is back in the news.BuzzFeed News set off a series of reverberations, when it reported that according to two federal law enforcement officials involved in an investigation, Trump directed Cohen to lie to Congress about the negotiations.
  
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• White House pushes back after explosive report alleges Trump told lawyer to lie

  18-01-2019 21:06 via news.yahoo.com
  President Donald Trump's lieutenants pushed back strongly Friday at an explosive report alleging that Trump ordered his former lawyer Michael Cohen to lie to Congress about a Russian skyscraper project they pursued during the 2016 election."These allegations may prove unfounded, but, if true, they would constitute both the subornation of perjury as well as obstruction of justice," said Adam Schiff, the chairman of the House Intelligence Committee.
  
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• Kenya court orders 6 suspects held over Nairobi hotel attack

  18-01-2019 21:06 via news.yahoo.com
  NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) — A Canadian national and five other people suspected of helping extremist gunmen stage a deadly attack in the Kenyan capital this week appeared in court on Friday as prosecutors investigated them for suspected terror offenses.
  
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• Robert Mueller disputes report claiming Trump told Michael Cohen to lie to congress

  18-01-2019 20:55 via news.yahoo.com
  Robert Mueller has issued a rare statement dismissing a news report that claimed Michael Cohen had informed prosecutors Donald Trump had told him to lie to Congress.After Democrats seized on the report by BuzzFeed News and said they would open hearings into whether the president had indeed ordered his former personal lawyer to lie about a Trump Tower project in Moscow, the special prosecutor appeared to pour cold water on the story.“BuzzFeed’s description of specific statements to th
  
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• Collusion Isn't a Specific Crime. But These Four Things Are Against the Law

  18-01-2019 20:54 via news.yahoo.com
  President Donald Trump once succinctly summed up his two-part defense: "There is no collusion, and even if there was, it's not a crime."
  
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• Donald Trump to meet again with Kim Jong Un in late February

  18-01-2019 20:52 via news.yahoo.com
  Kim Yong Chol, a high-level official in North Korea’s Communist government, met earlier with Secretary of State Mike Pompeo in Washington.
  
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• Researchers come face to face with huge great white shark

  18-01-2019 20:46 via news.yahoo.com
  HALEIWA, Hawaii (AP) — Two shark researchers who came face to face with what could be one of the largest great whites ever recorded are using their encounter as an opportunity to push for legislation that would protect sharks in Hawaii.
  
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• Government Shutdown Blocks Emergency Response for Struggling Orcas

  18-01-2019 20:44 via news.yahoo.com
  The government shutdown could be keeping critically endangered southern resident orcas from getting the help they need.
  
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• Sears bid challenged by creditors who say chairman stripped company to enrich himself

  18-01-2019 20:40 via news.yahoo.com
  Saying Sears Holdings chairman Eddie Lampert engaged in a years long "scheme'' to strip the company bare, creditors are challenging his bid to buy it
  
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• Netflix tidying guru sparks charity shop boom

  18-01-2019 20:38 via news.yahoo.com
  A Netflix tidying guru has sparked a charity shop boom, as branches of Salvation Army, Scope and the British Heart Foundation have said she has led to increase in donations. It comes as decluttering expert Marie Kondo has rapidly risen to fame with her "KonMari" household organisation method, which promises to provide not only a de-cluttered house, but also a clean mind.  Through her hit Netflix show she is teaching those with messy tendencies to get their homes in order by throwing ou
  
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• Democrats say Donald Trump must be impeached if he ordered his lawyer to lie to Congress

  18-01-2019 20:36 via news.yahoo.com
  Leading Democrats have said Donald Trump should be impeached if claims that he ordered his lawyer to lie to Congress are proved to be true. It was alleged on Thursday that Michael Cohen, the president's former longtime lawyer, was instructed to falsify his testimony to Congress on Mr Trump's orders. Joaquin Castro, a Democratic congressman from Texas said "President Trump must resign or be impeached" if the report was true.  Adam Schiff, the Democratic chair of the powerful House Intelligen
  
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• 'We'll Have No Other Option Than Declaring Bankruptcy.' How the Shutdown Could Impact Government Workers for Months

  18-01-2019 20:32 via news.yahoo.com
  'It just feels like such a betrayal,' says one impacted government contractor
  
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• The New 2020 GMC Sierra HD Will Be a Reskinned Silverado HD

  18-01-2019 20:30 via news.yahoo.com
  As usual, the GMC will come with extra chrome and an in-your-face grille.
  
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• Russia agrees for Germany, France to monitor Kerch Strait: Lavrov

  18-01-2019 20:17 via news.yahoo.com
  Russia on Friday said it had agreed for France and Germany to monitor shipping traffic in the Kerch Strait following a naval confrontation between Moscow and Kiev last year.Russian ships fired on and seized three Ukrainian navy vessels in the narrow strait -- shared between Russia and Ukraine -- as the boats tried to pass from the Black Sea to the Azov Sea on November 25.President Vladimir Putin had "immediately agreed" to Berlin's request to send observers to the area, Russian Foreign Minister
  
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• Trump-Cohen allegations - LIVE: White House refuses to deny president ordered lawyer to lie about Russia links as Congress launches investigations

  18-01-2019 20:16 via news.yahoo.com
  Donald Trump ordered former lawyer Michael Cohen to lie to Congress about his plans to build a Trump Tower in Moscow, according to explosive new claims.With the US president still mired in deadlock over the government shutdown, the new allegations relating to Mr Cohen – sentenced to three years in prison in December – have prompted calls from top Democrats for his resignation or impeachment.House Intelligence Committee chair Adam Schiff and House Judiciary Committee chair Jerrold Nad
  
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