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• Government shutdown: FBI agents warn of impact on efforts to stop terrorism, sex and drug trafficking

  22-01-2019 23:57 via news.yahoo.com
  FBI agents urged an end to the government shutdown, saying some investigations involving terrorism, street gangs and trafficking have been stalled.
  
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• Venezuela's Guaido Says Opposition Seeks Financing, Debt Relief

  22-01-2019 23:49 via news.yahoo.com
  Since becoming head of the legislature this month, Guaido has been aggressively pushing the Venezuelan military and foreign governments to recognize him rather than the authoritarian leader Nicolas Maduro as the legitimate head of state.In a Jan. 11 statement, a group of Venezuelan bond investors said they’d recognize the National Assembly as "the only legitimately elected body" and wouldn’t negotiate with Maduro over unpaid debt.
  
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• Nearly 70,000 pounds of chicken nuggets recalled because there’s wood in them

  22-01-2019 23:33 via news.yahoo.com
  Food recalls are nothing new, and there's plenty of reasons that a company might need to issue a recall of a consumable product. Sometimes food is contaminated during manufacturing or contains traces of another food product that could trigger allergies in unsuspecting consumers, but a recent recall of chicken nuggets comes with a bizarre twist.According to the USDA, Perdue Foods LLC is issuing a prompt recall of nearly 70,000 pounds of ready-to-eat chicken nuggets because the company fears there
  
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• Striking teachers in LA reach tentative settlement with district

  22-01-2019 23:32 via news.yahoo.com
  Los Angeles public school teachers reached a tentative settlement with school officials Tuesday in order to end a weeklong strike that has affected some 500,000 students.The settlement -- reached after 21 hours of marathon talks that ended early Tuesday -- was set to be voted on by the roughly 30,000 members of the teachers union later in the day and classes are due to resume on Wednesday."The strike nobody wanted is now behind us," Los Angeles United School District superintendent Austin Beutne
  
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• Blue Origin to make 10th flight test of space tourist rocket

  22-01-2019 23:28 via news.yahoo.com
  Blue Origin, the rocket company headed by Amazon founder Jeff Bezos, is poised to launch the 10th test flight of its unmanned New Shepard rocket on Wednesday as it competes with Virgin Galactic to become the first to carry tourists on brief visits to space.Virgin Galactic, headed by British billionaire Richard Branson, is also working on a vessel of its own to carry tourists to space.On December 13, 2018, Virgin Galactic's SpaceShipTwo, VSS Unity, flew higher than it ever had before, surpassing
  
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• The Senate Will Vote on the Shutdown. But There's Still No End in Sight

  22-01-2019 23:18 via news.yahoo.com
  After a long month of inaction, the Senate will now vote on two bills that could end the government down, but both are expected to fail.
  
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• BlackRock plans environmentally conscious money market fund

  22-01-2019 23:17
  BlackRock Inc is planning a new fund for investors looking to park their cash safely while helping the environment, expanding options for "socially responsible" investments, a filing with U.S. market...
  
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• Ashland settles proxy fight with hedge fund Cruiser Capital

  22-01-2019 23:17
  Ashland Global Holdings and Cruiser Capital settled their proxy contest on Tuesday with a deal allowing the hedge fund to help select two new board members at the specialty chemicals company while...
  
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• U.S. Banks Boost Aid to Customers as Federal Shutdown Drags On

  22-01-2019 22:53 via news.yahoo.com
  Navy Federal Credit Union, a Vienna, Virginia-based lender with more 8.1 million members, is offering no-interest, no-fee loans up to $6,000 for its 100,000 affected customers.“One can only imagine, as far as missing a paycheck, of course there’s great concern and financial uncertainty,” Tynika Wilson, senior vice president of debit card and fund services at Navy Federal, said Tuesday in an interview.
  
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• Shutdown hits national security employees across government

  22-01-2019 22:50 via news.yahoo.com
  Officials serving in intelligence and national security roles in the FBI; the departments of Homeland Security, State and Justice; and other agencies have large numbers of employees either furloughed or working but not being paid.
  
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• Romania president: plan to invalidate graft cases not legal

  22-01-2019 22:47 via news.yahoo.com
  BUCHAREST, Romania (AP) — Romania's president said on Tuesday that a government decree that could invalidate hundreds of corruption cases involving senior officials is "crassly unconstitutional," a development that also prompted concern from the European Union.
  
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• Kerry, at Davos, sends Trump a one-word message: Resign

  22-01-2019 22:46 via news.yahoo.com
  The former secretary of state goes after the president in a panel discussion at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland.
  
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• Senate Leaders Agree on Possible Path to Reopening Government

  22-01-2019 22:42 via news.yahoo.com
  Senate majority leader Mitch McConnell and minority leader Chuck Schumer have agreed to a deal that could end the partial government shutdown, which entered its 32nd day Tuesday.Under the deal, the Senate will vote Thursday on two bills intended to end the shutdown.One bill includes President Trump’s request for $5.7 billion to construct a wall at the southern border, and one would fund the government entities affected by the shutdown through February 8, kicking the fight down the roa
  
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• New York's Gun-Transportation Rules Draw Supreme Court Scrutiny

  22-01-2019 22:39 via news.yahoo.com
  The court said it will hear an appeal from three city handgun owners and an advocacy group who say New York has the most extreme firearm-transportation restrictions in the country.The case may demonstrate the impact of the newest justice, Brett Kavanaugh, whose appeals court record suggests he’ll be a more aggressive enforcer of gun rights than the justice he replaced, Anthony Kennedy.
  
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• WaPo Issues Correction after Falsely Labeling Nathan Phillips a Vietnam Vet

  22-01-2019 22:31 via news.yahoo.com
  The Washington Post issued a correction Tuesday after falsely describing the elderly Native American man whose confrontation with a group of high-school students went viral over the weekend as a veteran of the Vietnam War.“Earlier versions of this story incorrectly said that Native American activist Nathan Phillips fought in the Vietnam War.
  
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• Trump seeks to go ahead with State of the Union in spite of Pelosi letter

  22-01-2019 22:25 via news.yahoo.com
  Donald Trump is planning on pushing forward and delivering his second State of the Union to a joint session of Congress, even though Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi asked him to delay the annual event.The White House reached out to the House Sergeant-at-Arms in an email, asking for a schedule for a walk-through for the speech.The State of the Union is scheduled for the 29 January, but Ms Pelosi had cited security concerns raised by the ongoing government shutdown as reason to delay the event.
  
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• J&J, U.S. states settle hip implant claims for $120 mln

  22-01-2019 22:07 via news.yahoo.com
  Johnson & Johnson and its DePuy Orthopaedics unit have agreed to pay $120 million to resolve deceptive marketing claims by several U.S. states.
  
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• Ex-U.S. marine jailed in Russia for spying was misled: lawyer

  22-01-2019 21:59 via news.yahoo.com
  Russia's Federal Security Service detained Paul Whelan, who holds U.S., British, Canadian and Irish passports, in a Moscow hotel room on Dec. 28.Whelan appeared in a Moscow court on Tuesday, where a judge rejected releasing him on bail.Whelan, who denies the charges, was detained after receiving a thumb drive containing a list of all the employees of a secret Russian state agency, the Russian online news portal Rosbalt.ru reported this month.
  
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• Analysis: Breaking down the full video with Covington Catholic students

  22-01-2019 21:56 via news.yahoo.com
  The Enquirer has reviewed video, shot from different angles, and paired it with interviews to help bring clarity to what transpired.
  
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• 'Frozen' Niagara Falls photos spread across social media

  22-01-2019 21:56 via news.yahoo.com
  Niagara Falls tourists flocked to social media to document the freezing phenomenon.
  
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• Senate sets votes on bills to reopen government agencies

  22-01-2019 21:53 via news.yahoo.com
  The U.S. Senate has scheduled votes on Thursday on competing proposals by Republicans and Democrats that would reopen an array of federal agencies that have been partially shuttered since Dec. 22.One vote would be on a plan by President Donald Trump to reopen the agencies and provide $5.7 billion for this year to help build a southwest border wall, which is opposed by Democrats who are needed for passage.The second measure, by Democrats, would fund the various agencies until Feb. 8 but with none
  
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• Despite Pelosi request to delay, Trump moves ahead with SOTU

  22-01-2019 21:52 via news.yahoo.com
  WASHINGTON (AP) — The White House is moving forward with plans for President Donald Trump to deliver his State of the Union speech next week in front of a joint session of Congress — despite a letter from House Speaker Nancy Pelosi requesting he delay it.
  
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• Trump transgender troop limits can take effect, top court decides

  22-01-2019 21:40 via news.yahoo.com
  The decision, with the court's five conservative justices prevailing over its four liberals, granted the Trump administration's request to put on hold injunctions issued by federal judges against enforcement of the policy while a challenge to its legality continues in lower courts.The court did not resolve the underlying question of the legality of the Republican president's plan, which reversed the landmark 2016 policy of his Democratic predecessor Barack Obama to let transgender people for the
  
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• Kentucky mother of newborn twins missing since leaving bar with men 3 weeks ago

  22-01-2019 21:38 via news.yahoo.com
  'If you know anything, we beg you, come forward': A Kentucky family is making an emotional plea to help find a mother of four who vanished.
  
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• Three dead from separate avalanches in Colorado and New Mexico

  22-01-2019 21:22 via news.yahoo.com
  Two deaths have been confirmed in the US after two separate avalanches in Colorado and New Mexico trapped skiers in crushing snow this week and last.Authorities in Aspen, Colorado confirmed the most recent death on Monday, which happened to be the same day that relatives of a New Mexico avalanche victim announced their loss.A second victim of the New Mexico avalanche had already been reported.
  
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• Asylum Limits Added to Bill to End Shutdown Anger Democrats

  22-01-2019 21:20 via news.yahoo.com
  A Senate bill introduced Monday and modeled on Trump’s Saturday proposal for ending the partial shutdown is under attack from immigration activists and Democrats, who say they expect to be able to block it from advancing.In addition to the new asylum limits, the measure also includes an extension of deportation protections for young undocumented “Dreamer” immigrants that Democrats argue cuts out many people who should qualify.“The president and his team have tried to spin
  
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• NBC raises eyebrows over $400 million relationship with BuzzFeed

  22-01-2019 21:19 via news.yahoo.com
  NBCUniversal invested $400 million in BuzzFeed, raising eyebrows about why the Peacock Network isn't more transparent when covering the controversial website. A search of transcripts from both MSNBC and NBC News didn't turn up any mention of the investment when the news organization covered BuzzFeed's now-debunked report claiming President Trump directed his former attorney Michael Cohen to lie to Congress.
  
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• Miami prosecutor probing MLK traffic incident as hate crime

  22-01-2019 21:17 via news.yahoo.com
  MIAMI (AP) — A traffic incident in Miami involving a gun-wielding white man and a group of black bicyclists protesting housing inequality on Martin Luther King Day is being investigated as a possible hate crime, prosecutors said Tuesday.
  
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• John Kerry to Trump: ‘Resign’

  22-01-2019 21:17 via news.yahoo.com
  “He doesn’t take any of this seriously,” Kerry said at first when asked what his message would be if the president were siting in front of him.“Last time I went to Davos, the Fake News said I should not go there,” the president wrote Tuesday on Twitter.“This year, because of the Shutdown, I decided not to go, and the Fake News said I should be there.
  
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• What Would a "Green New Deal" Look Like for Architecture?

  22-01-2019 21:15 via news.yahoo.com
  The implications of such a plan—championed by new Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez—extend well beyond the ecological
  
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• Shutting Down the Shutdown

  22-01-2019 21:10 via news.yahoo.com
  The fact that he has taken an important step toward the first of these has been enough to shake up the ghastly Democratic morality play, with its promise that if the president just brings everyone back to work in the federal government, they will sit down with him in a spirit of compromise but will not give more than one dollar for any sort of wall or barrier.The Democrats seem to have gained about three points in the polls so far, but that is a very modest return from the president’s tele
  
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• Pence compares Trump wall effort to MLK; Dem calls Trump 'Grand Wizard' of Pennsylvania Ave.

  22-01-2019 21:00 via news.yahoo.com
  U.S. Rep. Hakeem Jeffries, D-N.Y., also refers to the president as 'Birth-in-Chief." Meanwhile, Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., calls Trump a racist.
  
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• Top court allows Trump transgender troop ban

  22-01-2019 20:49 via news.yahoo.com
  The US Supreme Court on Tuesday allowed President Donald Trump's ban on transgender military service to take effect pending the outcome of litigation on the sensitive issue.The White House had asked the Supreme Court to intervene after lower courts prohibited Trump's administration from implementing the controversial restrictions.The Trump administration has said there is "too great a risk to military effectiveness and lethality" to allow transgender people to serve openly -- a policy enacted un
  
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• Covington Catholic Is the Terrible Sequel to the Kavanaugh Case

  22-01-2019 20:44 via news.yahoo.com
  Over the last 72 hours, I’ve been asking myself a simple question: What would happen if a group of Black Israelites had spent an hour taunting my son’s high-school football team?How would they have reacted if a Native American elder had walked into their midst – apparently not saying anything intelligible to them, but rather banging a drum and chanting inches from one kid’s face.The boys wouldn’t have reacted all that differently from the kids at Covington Catholic.
  
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• Waymo will build self-driving cars in Michigan

  22-01-2019 20:42 via news.yahoo.com
  The company says the state has "excellent snowy conditions" for testing.
  
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• Alleged US spy received Russian 'state secret' without knowing: lawyer

  22-01-2019 20:36 via news.yahoo.com
  A former US Marine charged with espionage in Russia was handed a USB drive containing state secrets without knowing what was on the device, his lawyer said Tuesday after a hearing extending his client's custody.Paul Whelan, 48, was taken into custody on December 28 by the Russian FSB security service, which said he was caught "while carrying out an act of espionage".
  
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• Norwegian Cruise Line denies claim crew member used passenger's cabin for sex

  22-01-2019 20:24 via news.yahoo.com
  Norwegian Cruise Line on Tuesday denied that a crew member used a British couple's cabin for sex during a recent voyage.
  
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• FBI agents say shutdown hinders fight against gangs and terrorism

  22-01-2019 20:18 via news.yahoo.com
  The FBI Agents Association (FBIAA) repeated its call for the partial government shutdown to end, arguing that it is undermining the bureau’s ability to protect the nation.
  
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• REPORT: Trump to Meet with Covington High School Students

  22-01-2019 20:13 via news.yahoo.com
  President Trump is expected to meet as soon as Wednesday with the Covington Catholic High School students who were involved in a viral confrontation near the Lincoln Memorial during Saturday’s March for Life, Fox News’s Laura Ingraham reported Tuesday.EXCLUSIVE on the new #LauraIngrahamPodcast — the Covington Catholic students threatened by the leftist internet mob will be meeting with @realDonaldTrump at the White House as early as tomorrow.The students were subjected to an ou
  
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• Waymo revs up self-driving car making near Motor City

  22-01-2019 20:04 via news.yahoo.com
  Waymo on Tuesday announced it will rev up its self-driving car production by establishing a factory devoted exclusively to mass production of autonomous vehicles in Michigan.The company owned by Google-parent Alphabet collaborated with Michigan's economic development corporation on a plan to use a manufacturing facility in that state for integrating self-driving technology into vehicles it adds to its fleet.Waymo already has about 20 workers based in the southeast Michigan city of Novi.
  
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• Supreme Court to hear biggest gun rights case since 2010

  22-01-2019 19:47 via news.yahoo.com
  The nine justices will review a 2018 lower court ruling upholding the city's restrictions after three gun owners and the NRA's New York state affiliate sued claiming the regulations imposed in the largest American city violated the U.S. Constitution's Second Amendment right to "keep and bear arms."The decision indicates a new interest regarding gun rights on the court, where conservatives hold a 5-4 majority.The Supreme Court had not taken up a major firearms case since issuing important rulings
  
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• How the Prolonged Government Shutdown Is Rippling Down to States

  22-01-2019 19:45 via news.yahoo.com
  As some 800,000 employees began missing paychecks, the impact is casting clouds over the economies of states with a big share of federal workers, including Virginia, Maryland, Hawaii and Alaska, where about 5 percent of workers are employed by the federal government, according to Fitch Ratings.In Maryland and Virginia, more than 236,000 affected workers have lost more than $1 billion of wages so far, cutting about $79 million from income-tax collections, according to state officials.Analysts for
  
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• A surprising number of Netflix subscribers would happily endure ads for a cheaper subscription

  22-01-2019 19:43 via news.yahoo.com
  Netflix last week announced its biggest price increase in history, with all three of the company's streaming tiers -- from the basic plan to the premium plan -- going up by $2. While not an outrageous price increase, it does speak to Netflix's ongoing effort to boost revenue, an increasingly challenging endeavor given how much the company continues to pour into developing original content. What's more, Netflix will eventually reach a point where subscriber growth begins to plateau.In light of Ne
  
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• Supreme Court allows Trump's partial ban on transgender troops in military to take effect

  22-01-2019 19:34 via news.yahoo.com
  The Supreme Court will allow Trump's partial ban on transgender people serving in the military to take effect while court challenges continue.
  
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• Stunning video captures icy Niagara Falls

  22-01-2019 19:30 via news.yahoo.com
  Sub-freezing temperatures Monday caused Niagara Falls to freeze over at its edges, creating a wintertime visual treat for viewers on the Canadian side. Rough Cut (no reporter narration).
  
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• Waymo says it will build self-driving cars in Michigan

  22-01-2019 19:18 via news.yahoo.com
  Waymo has proposed private investments of $13.6 million to build a facility in southeast Michigan and create more than 100 jobs, potentially up to 400 jobs, the Michigan Economic Development Corp said separately on Tuesday.Waymo said the new facility would be dedicated to mass production of L4 or level 4 autonomous vehicles which can pilot themselves without a human driver under certain conditions.
  
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• Supreme Court's inaction leaves DACA program for young migrants intact for now

  22-01-2019 19:15 via news.yahoo.com
  The justices have yet to give the Trump administration a new chance to end the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program, known as DACA.
  
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• Israel kills Hamas militant, delays Qatari cash after Gaza flare-up

  22-01-2019 19:08 via news.yahoo.com
  An Israeli official said Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu also canceled a Qatari donation of $15 million for the impoverished enclave that had been due on Wednesday as part of international efforts to head off escalation.The Gaza border has simmered since Palestinians launched weekly demonstrations last March to press for the lifting of an Israeli-led blockade on the impoverished territory and rights to family lands lost to Israel in the 1948 war of its foundation.Palestinian medics in Gaza sai
  
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• British 'spy' accused of receiving USB stick with 'state secrets,' lawyer says

  22-01-2019 19:07 via news.yahoo.com
  Investigators have accused a British citizen held on espionage charges in Russia of receiving a USB stick that contained state secrets, his lawyer has said.  Paul Whelan, 48, believed the USB stick had photographs and other information about a church he had visited, lawyer Vladimir Zherebenkov said. FSB security agents swooped in and seized him before he could see what was on the flash drive, he added. Russian media previously claimed he was grabbed at the Metropole Hotel near the Krem
  
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• The Moon was hit by a meteorite while you were staring at the ‘Super Blood Wolf Moon’ eclipse

  22-01-2019 19:01 via news.yahoo.com
  Skywatchers had plenty to be excited about this past weekend thanks to a lunar eclipse that was visible from the Americas as well as parts of Europe, Africa, and Asia. It got the nickname "Super Blood Wolf Moon" thanks to a combination of labels that may or may not have much meaning, but it was an undeniably cool sight nonetheless.As it turns out, the eclipse was even more special than most observers had noticed, as the Moon was actually struck by a meteorite while everyone was gazing in wonder
  
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