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• Rudy Giuliani says he is '100% certain' Trump did not tell Cohen to lie to Congress

  20-01-2019 23:57 via news.yahoo.com
  The president's attorney also said the Trump may have discussed a Trump Tower Moscow project with Cohen up until the 2016 election.
  
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• Boat with migrants rescued off Libya looks for port to dock

  20-01-2019 23:48 via news.yahoo.com
  ROME (AP) — A private rescue boat carrying dozens of migrants said Sunday that for a second day several nations had not given permission for it to enter a safe port, while another vessel filled with panicky migrants and described as taking on water in the southern Mediterranean was helped by a cargo ship.
  
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• Trump and Pelosi again butt heads but others see possible paths

  20-01-2019 23:38 via news.yahoo.com
  US President Donald Trump bitterly attacked top Democrat Nancy Pelosi on Sunday and she again insisted that he end the government shutdown before border security talks can begin, but there were hints of possible movement.Trump lashed out on Twitter a day after Pelosi, speaker of the House of Representatives, dismissed as a "non-starter" his offer to extend temporary protection to about a million immigrants in return for $5.7 billion for the wall he wants on the Mexican border to fulfill a signat
  
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• Photos: Deadly winter storm blankets Midwest, Northeast, knocks out power, grounds flights

  20-01-2019 23:38 via news.yahoo.com
  A major winter storm moved across the Midwest and Northeast this weekend, blanketing areas of the region with snow and bringing some of the coldest temperatures of the season.
  
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• Photos: Deadly winter storm blankets Midwest, Northeast and knocks out power to thousands

  20-01-2019 23:38 via news.yahoo.com
  A dangerous winter storm moved across the Midwest and Northeast this past weekend, blanketing areas of the region with snow and bringing some of the lowest temperatures of the season.
  
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• Toddler mimics dad and puts hands up during shoplifting arrest in Florida

  20-01-2019 23:31 via news.yahoo.com
  Police are reviewing body cam info after a toddler walked towards armed officers with her hands up.
  
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• Toddler mimics dad and puts hands up during shoplifting arrest

  20-01-2019 23:10 via news.yahoo.com
  Police are reviewing body cam info after a toddler walked towards armed officers with her hands up.
  
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• Model who alleged Russian interference pledges in Moscow court not to publish recordings

  20-01-2019 23:05 via news.yahoo.com
  Anastasia Vashukevich, the model who recorded a former employer of Paul Manafort allegedly discussing US relations with a Russian deputy prime minister during the 2016 election, has promised in a Moscow court not to release any further recordings.  Ms Vashukevich previously claimed to have evidence of Russian interference in the US election from a fling with Oleg Deripaska, the metals magnate to whom Donald Trump's campaign manager Manafort reportedly promised private briefin
  
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• After the storm: Dangerous stretch of subzero AccuWeather RealFeel® Temperatures to grip northeastern US

  20-01-2019 22:54 via news.yahoo.com
  A polar plunge of brutal cold is following this weekend’s blockbuster winter storm, which can threaten lives and complicate travel and cleanup efforts.
  
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• Conservative Commentator Tomi Lahren Insulted Cardi B's Intelligence and Sparked an All-Out Twitter Feud

  20-01-2019 22:52 via news.yahoo.com
  "Why do people think they can mess with Bronx women without getting roasted?"
  
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• Erdogan: Turkey is ready to take over Syria's Manbij

  20-01-2019 22:32 via news.yahoo.com
  Turkey is ready to take over security in Syria's Manbij, President Tayyip Erdogan told U.S. President Donald Trump in a telephone call on Sunday, the Turkish presidency said in a statement.Erdogan said an attack that left four Americans dead last week in Manbij was an act of provocation aimed at affecting Trump's decision last month to withdraw U.S. troops from Syria.The attack occurred nearly a month after Trump confounded his own national security team with the surprise decision on Dec. 19 to
  
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• Tornados inflict damage in Alabama town, Florida Panhandle

  20-01-2019 21:31 via news.yahoo.com
  WETUMPKA, Ala. (AP) — Homes, businesses, government offices and churches were among the buildings badly damaged or demolished when tornadoes struck central Alabama over the weekend.
  
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• Two feet of snow, -40 degrees possible as storm roars East

  20-01-2019 21:29 via news.yahoo.com
  A blast of winter that dropped more than a foot of snow in parts of the Midwest grew more angry as it roared east on Sunday.
  
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• Explainer: Mexico's fuel woes rooted in chronic theft, troubled refineries

  20-01-2019 21:18 via news.yahoo.com
  On Friday, at least 79 people died from a powerful explosion at a gasoline pipeline in central Mexico that had been punctured by fuel thieves.Relatives of some of the victims said fuel shortages stemming from the government's crackdown led people to risk their lives filling plastic containers from the leak.President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador, who took office in December, said the tragedy has not weakened his faith in the plan.
  
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• The Latest: Amtrak plans to be back to full schedule Monday

  20-01-2019 21:14 via news.yahoo.com
  BOSTON (AP) — The Latest on the winter storm moving across the country (all times local):
  
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• Get Prepped for the Camping Days Ahead With REI's Clearance Sale

  20-01-2019 21:11 via news.yahoo.com
  Hiking gear, backpacks, and campsite upgrades are all part of REI's clearance sale.
  
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• Kentucky Teens Wearing 'MAGA' Hats Taunt Indigenous Peoples March Participants in Viral Video

  20-01-2019 21:02 via news.yahoo.com
  A video of Kentucky Catholic high school students wearing ‘MAGA’ hats and yelling over Native American marchers has gone viral after people called the teenagers’ behavior disrespectful.
  
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• Trump's Shutdown Showdown Is a Threat to National Security

  20-01-2019 21:01 via news.yahoo.com
  Border security is imperative, but so is ensuring that U.S. federal law enforcement, the intelligence community, and other security professionals are able to support their families and fulfill their mission.
  
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• Prince Philip 'could be sent on driving awareness course' as police investigate crash

  20-01-2019 21:00 via news.yahoo.com
  The Duke of Edinburgh could be sent on a drivers’ awareness course, it has emerged, as police continue to investigate a crash which left two women hospitalised. The Duke, 97, is understood to have no intention of giving up driving, having been photographed on public roads driving a new car less than 48 hours after the accident. He is understood to be complying with a Norfolk Police investigation, which will see him interviewed about what happened. Two women, aged 45 and 28, will also be as
  
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• Bitter cold cancels some U.S. lunar eclipse festivities

  20-01-2019 20:52 via news.yahoo.com
  NEW YORK/LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Many lunar eclipse festivities were canceled due to a flash freeze across the central and northeastern U.S. states on Sunday, with icy roadways rather than cloudy skies blamed by astronomers for spoiling the party.Star gazers from Los Angeles to New York had planned to gather at parks and observatories to keep their eyes on the sky for the total eclipse, known as a super blood wolf moon, expected to appear at 11:41 p.m. EST (0441 GMT).Days earlier, it seemed the
  
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• Arab states call for return of Syria refugees

  20-01-2019 20:46 via news.yahoo.com
  Arab states at an economic summit in Lebanon on Sunday urged world powers to step up efforts to enable refugees, particularly Syrians, to return home and to ease the burden on host countries.The fourth annual Arab Economic and Social Development Summit, held in the Lebanese capital Beirut, was marred by the glaring absence of most Arab heads of state.The refugee issue had been high on the summit's agenda at the request of Lebanon, which has been inundated with refugees since the start of the Syr
  
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• Kentucky Catholic School Considers Expelling Boys Who Taunted Native Americans

  20-01-2019 20:40 via news.yahoo.com
  A statement condemned the actions and apologized
  
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• Germany's Maas skeptical on UK-Ireland talks solving Brexit deadlock

  20-01-2019 20:37 via news.yahoo.com
  German Foreign Minister Heiko Maas said on Sunday it was unclear how any talks between Britain and Ireland on resolving the question of the Irish backstop could help the European Union's deal with London on Brexit.British Prime Minister Theresa May is to set out her plans for Brexit on Monday after UK lawmakers rejected her deal with the EU last week, throwing the process into disarray.Asked by ZDF television about media reports on possible plans by May to negotiate a bilateral deal with the Iri
  
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• Giuliani says Trump pursued Moscow tower throughout '16, raising questions

  20-01-2019 20:33 via news.yahoo.com
  U.S. President Donald Trump pursued a business deal to erect a tower bearing his name in Moscow throughout 2016, his attorney said on Sunday, raising new questions for congressional investigators looking into possible ties between the president and Russia.Trump lawyer Rudy Giuliani said he may have continued to pursue the project and had discussions about it with his former personal attorney, Michael Cohen, until as late as October or November 2016, when Trump was closing in on his election vict
  
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• Clashes in Athens as tens of thousands protest Macedonian name deal

  20-01-2019 20:20 via news.yahoo.com
  Clashes broke out between police and a group of masked protestersin Athens on Sunday as tens of thousands demonstrated against a name change deal with neighbouring Macedonia that the Greek parliament is due to ratify in days.The violence flared as Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras attempts to face down a political storm over his championing of a landmark agreement with Macedonia aimed at ending a 27-year dispute with Athens over the country's name.Police estimates put the number of demonstrato
  
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• FDA head: Agency may call back more food safety staff, currently out due to shutdown

  20-01-2019 20:16 via news.yahoo.com
  Food and Drug Administration head Scott Gottlieb says the agency may call back additional unpaid food safety workers during the government shutdown.
  
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• UN agency says not aware of plan to close east Jerusalem schools

  20-01-2019 20:10 via news.yahoo.com
  The UN agency for Palestinian refugees said Sunday it was not aware of a reported plan by Israel to close its schools in east Jerusalem.Israel's Hadashot television news reported on Saturday night that the country's national security council had taken a decision to close the schools starting next academic year.Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's office did not confirm the report to AFP.
  
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• Super Bowl berths on the line in conference title games

  20-01-2019 19:59 via news.yahoo.com
  The Los Angeles Rams are back inside the stadium where they lost for the first time this season, looking for retribution and a Super Bowl berth as they face the New Orleans Saints in the NFC championship game.
  
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• U.S. students mock Native American after rally

  20-01-2019 19:54 via news.yahoo.com
  A diocese in Kentucky apologized on Saturday after videos emerged showing students from a Catholic boys' high school mocking Native Americans outside the Lincoln Memorial after a rally in Washington, D.C.
  
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• How to get a free dozen from Krispy Kreme this week

  20-01-2019 19:51 via news.yahoo.com
  Until Jan. 27, Krispy Kreme is offering a free dozen of original glazed donuts with any dozen purchase.
  
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• Trump may have spoken to Michael Cohen about testimony to congress, says Rudy Giuliani: 'So what?'

  20-01-2019 19:44 via news.yahoo.com
  Last week, BuzzFeed reported that Mr Trump’s personal lawyer delivered the false information to politicians about the then candidate’s business interests in Moscow on the orders of the man who is now president.Democrats and opponents of Mr Trump leapt on the story, saying it showed the president had committed perjury.
  
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• Rudy Giuliani: Talks of Trump Tower Moscow continued throughout 2016 election

  20-01-2019 19:40 via news.yahoo.com
  Rudy Giuliani said President Trump recalls discussing the Trump Tower Moscow project with Michael Cohen until late 2016.
  
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• Focus sharpens on Mexico fuel theft plan after blast kills 79

  20-01-2019 19:40 via news.yahoo.com
  Fuel thieves punctured the Tula-Tuxpan pipeline a few miles from one of Mexico's main refineries on Friday.Half a dozen people interviewed by Reuters on Saturday said their relatives went to the leaking duct in Tlahuelilpan district in Hidalgo state because they struggled to find fuel elsewhere and were desperate to fill up cars to get to work or run their farms.Late last month, President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador launched a program to shut down an illegal fuel distribution network that siphon
  
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• The Latest: Winter storm causes major problems at airports

  20-01-2019 19:33 via news.yahoo.com
  The Latest on the winter storm moving across the country (all times local):
  
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• ProSieben sees pressure easing as Netflix raises prices

  20-01-2019 19:33 via news.yahoo.com
  ProSiebenSat.1 Media believes that price increases by U.S. streaming giant Netflix could ease competitive pressures on the German group's core TV business and is bullish on growth at its e-commerce arm, CEO Max Conze said.Conze took the helm at the Munich-based broadcaster last June but has had a rough welcome from investors who have sent its shares to seven-year lows on doubts that he can revive its ailing free-to-air TV business.The former CEO of UK appliances company Dyson told Reuters that p
  
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• A Top House Democrat Offers a Path to a Deal Ending Shutdown Fight

  20-01-2019 19:27 via news.yahoo.com
  “Let’s go back and forth on this and see where we can find common ground,” House Democratic Whip Jim Clyburn of South Carolina said on “Fox News Sunday.” He spoke a day after Trump made his offer, which was rejected even before he presented it by Speaker Nancy Pelosi and other Democrats.
  
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• Bomb blasts rock Syria's Damascus and Afrin

  20-01-2019 19:24 via news.yahoo.com
  A bomb blast hit Damascus on Sunday, in a rare attack in the Syrian capital that has been largely insulated from violence during nearly eight years of war.The explosion came as another bomb in the northern city of Afrin killed three people and wounded nine others, according to a war monitor, on the first anniversary of a Turkish offensive on the Kurdish-majority region.Also on Sunday Israel said it intercepted a rocket fired from Syria after Damascus accused the Jewish state of carrying out air
  
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• Covington Catholic could expel students who taunted Native American man in viral video

  20-01-2019 19:16 via news.yahoo.com
  Covington Catholic said it would take appropriate action against its students seen in a video taunting a Native American man.
  
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• Native American veteran: 'Mob mentality' in students seen in viral video was 'scary'

  20-01-2019 19:15 via news.yahoo.com
  In an interview with the Detroit Free Press, Native American leader Nathan Phillips of Ypsilanti describes incident with students caught on video.
  
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• Death toll from Mexico fuel explosion rises to 79: official

  20-01-2019 19:08 via news.yahoo.com
  The death toll from a fiery explosion at the site of an illegally tapped fuel line in central Mexico rose Sunday to 79, officials said.Hundreds of people had been drawn to the site in thestate of Hidalgo on Friday to gather fuel amid shortages and a government crackdown on pipeline fuel thefts.The cause of the explosion is under investigation, Attorney General Alejandro Gertz told a news conference.
  
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• 'We Are All Stakeholders of Our Global Future': Klaus Schwab, Founder of the World Economic Forum, Talks Change and Progress

  20-01-2019 18:57 via news.yahoo.com
  "Big issues in the world cannot be solved by governments alone"
  
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• 4 Arizona Women Convicted for Leaving Water for Migrants

  20-01-2019 18:46 via news.yahoo.com
  "If giving water to someone dying of thirst is illegal, what humanity is left in the law of this country?”
  
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• Government shutdown: US federal workers turn to pawn shops for cash as stalemate goes on

  20-01-2019 18:43 via news.yahoo.com
  US federal workers who are not getting paid during the longest government shutdown in the country's history are increasingly turning to pawnbrokers for short-term loans, according to shop owners.The turnout is small – a few people per day – pawnbrokers said, but many expect the numbers to increase amid the stalemate.About 800,000 federal workers have missed a paycheck during the nearly month-long shutdown.
  
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• 'SNL' pokes at Trump with shutdown-themed 'Deal or No Deal'

  20-01-2019 18:40 via news.yahoo.com
  This week's opening sketch on 'Saturday Night Live' gave President Trump 'Deal or No Deal' options to end the partial government shutdown.
  
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• Police fire tear gas as Greeks protest against Macedonia name deal

  20-01-2019 18:29 via news.yahoo.com
  Central Athens turned into a sea of people holding blue and white Greek flags as thousands came from all over the country to rally against the accord to name the ex-Yugoslav state North Macedonia.Many Greeks believe the name Macedonia implies a territorial claim over their country's own northern region of that name.The issue evokes strong emotions among Greeks who consider Macedonia, the ancient kingdom ruled by Alexander the Great, to be an integral part of their homeland and heritage.
  
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• Americans take stock of shutdown's everyday effects

  20-01-2019 18:19 via news.yahoo.com
  You and your loved ones aren't federal employees or contractors, and you don't live in a setting or have a job closely tied to government programs. So what does the government shutdown have to do with you?
  
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• Lebanon uses Arab summit to call for Syrian refugees' return

  20-01-2019 18:08 via news.yahoo.com
  BEIRUT (AP) — Lebanon used an Arab economic summit on Sunday to call for the return of Syrian refugees to safe areas of their war-torn country, where the nearly eight-year civil war is still underway despite a recent series of government victories.
  
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• Trump had conversations on Moscow tower up to the 2016 US elections: lawyer

  20-01-2019 18:07 via news.yahoo.com
  US President Donald Trump had conversations about a proposed project to build a Trump Tower in Moscow throughout the 2016 presidential campaign, far later than previously acknowledged, his lawyer said Sunday.Trump's conversations with his then personal lawyer and fixer, Michael Cohen, who was spearheading the negotiations in Moscow, continued throughout the year until October or November 2016, Rudy Giuliani said.
  
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• Graham says he'll ask Trump to meet Pakistan, Afghan leaders

  20-01-2019 18:03 via news.yahoo.com
  ISLAMABAD (AP) — U.S. Republican Senator Lindsey Graham said on Sunday that he will urge President Donald Trump to meet with the leaders of Pakistan and Afghanistan so that they can devise a plan to end Afghanistan's 17-year war, the U.S.'s longest military engagement.
  
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• 'Not a 2,000-mile concrete structure from sea to sea': Is Trump scaling back border wall plan?

  20-01-2019 18:03 via news.yahoo.com
  Those across the nation who tuned in to watch President Donald Trump's proposal on Saturday to end the 28-day shutdown took issue with one particular line of the 13-minute address.
  
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