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• Rachel Campos-Duffy experiences the polar vortex from her home

  31-01-2019 23:53 via news.yahoo.com
  Historic deep freeze grips the Midwest; Fox News contributor Rachel Campos-Duffy shares her experience of the polar vortex from her home in Wisconsin.
  
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• Change of Venezuelan government favors creditors China, Russia: Guaido

  31-01-2019 23:39 via news.yahoo.com
  Guaido said he had sent communications to both allies of President Nicolas Maduro, who accuses Guaido of staging a coup against his socialist administration.The United States and a number of other countries now recognize Guaido as Venezuela's legitimate head of state."What most suits Russia and China is the country's stability and a change of government," he said.
  
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• Courts turn away hundreds of immigrants, blame shutdown

  31-01-2019 23:33 via news.yahoo.com
  MIAMI (AP) — The already backlogged immigration courts faced more hurdles Thursday when hundreds of immigrants arrived with government-issued notices to appear in court for hearings that were never scheduled.
  
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• Facebook and Twitter Take Down a Wave of Political Manipulation

  31-01-2019 23:28 via news.yahoo.com
  Facebook said it removed 783 pages, groups and accounts linked to Iran that were attempting to manipulate political discussions about current events, like the Israel-Palestine conflict and the wars in Syria and Yemen.The industry collaboration has been central to the success of these operations, Facebook said.In September, Twitter disclosed it had suspended 770 accounts potentially based in Iran for violating its policies.
  
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• After indictment, Roger Stone offers tips on how to dress for your day in court

  31-01-2019 23:23 via news.yahoo.com
  If you're in danger of being indicted, don't fear. Roger Stone is here with all the fashion advice one might need for a day in court.
  
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• Texas lawmaker: If you want to stop drugs, people coming across the border you need to focus on ports of entry

  31-01-2019 23:22 via news.yahoo.com
  Texas Rep. Henry Cueller weighs in on bipartisan negotiations for border wall funding.
  
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• Conservatives head to Texas to try to build their own wall

  31-01-2019 23:19 via news.yahoo.com
  HOUSTON (AP) — What started as an online fundraiser to provide President Donald Trump with donations for his southern border wall has morphed into a foundation whose members vow to build a wall themselves.
  
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• Howard Schultz Could Flip the 2020 Election. Just Not Necessarily to Trump's Favor

  31-01-2019 23:09 via news.yahoo.com
  Democrats are nervous, but his impact could go either way
  
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• China's U.S. Treasury Holdings Continue to Tumble Amid Trade War

  31-01-2019 23:08 via news.yahoo.com
  China’s pile of notes, bills and bonds dropped to $1.12 trillion in November, from $1.14 trillion in October, according to data from the Treasury Department released Thursday.China remains the U.S.’s biggest foreign creditor.The data come as U.S. and Chinese delegations wrap up two days of trade discussions in Washington, with just four weeks until a deadline for the U.S. to escalate tariffs on $200 billion of Chinese goods.
  
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• Kamala Harris, Running Scared

  31-01-2019 23:07 via news.yahoo.com
  Announcing a run for the presidency should have been enough for Kamala Harris.In a bid for a party that sees itself as the vanguard of a more racially diverse and progressive future, she comes from the vanguard state leading America there – California.It may seem silly in retrospect, but in 2007 and 2008, liberals and conservatives both questioned whether Barack Obama’s white mother and his upbringing in Hawaii so removed him from the experience of most African-American voters that t
  
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• Polar Vortex 2019: I live in Antarctica - Here's how to stay warm in the severe cold

  31-01-2019 23:03 via news.yahoo.com
  How do you stay warm in brutal cold? Jonathan Foster, a fuel operator at McMurdo Station in Antarctica, where wind chills can reach 40 degrees below zero, shared some of his top tips with USA TODAY for staying safe.
  
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• 5 of the Best Stocks to Buy for February

  31-01-2019 23:02 via news.yahoo.com
  Also one of U.S. News' 10 best stocks to buy for 2019, SFIX shares sold off in December, despite reporting a quarter of 24 percent revenue growth, 250 percent earnings per share growth, and active client growth of 22 percent.In hindsight, it looks like AAPL stock may have achieved its 2019 lows within the first week of the year.
  
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• Defense lawyer: Government case against El Chapo 'a fantasy'

  31-01-2019 22:57 via news.yahoo.com
  NEW YORK (AP) — A defense attorney for Joaquin "El Chapo" Guzman assailed the federal case against the Mexican drug lord as "a fantasy," telling a U.S. jury Thursday that the prosecution relied on a parade of cooperating witnesses who "lie, steal, cheat, deal drugs and kill people" for a living.
  
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• Trump to say when, where he'll hold 2nd North Korean summit

  31-01-2019 22:46 via news.yahoo.com
  WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump said Thursday he will announce next week the site and date for the second summit he plans with North Korean leader Kim Jong Un around the end of February. Trump later said he would likely make the announcement during his State of the Union address to Congress on Tuesday.
  
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• 'Tremendous' progress in US-China trade talks: Trump

  31-01-2019 22:39 via news.yahoo.com
  President Donald Trump hailed "tremendous progress" in US-China trade negotiations Thursday and Chinese leader Xi Jinping said that their relations were at a "critical" stage, with one month left to settle their tariff dispute."You will be going early February with your group to China," Trump said in the White House to negotiators after they spent a second day of talks with Chinese counterparts.The Chinese delegation led by Vice Premier Liu He was in Washington for the complex talks on resolving
  
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• "Empire" actor's family says Chicago attack was 'hate crime'

  31-01-2019 22:38 via news.yahoo.com
  CHICAGO (AP) — The family of "Empire" actor Jussie Smollett issued a statement through a spokesman Thursday in response to what Smollett told police was a racist and homophobic attack by two masked men in downtown Chicago earlier this week. Here is their statement:
  
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• Edwards Lifesciences beats on revenue but forecast lags estimates

  31-01-2019 22:37 via news.yahoo.com
  (Reuters) - U.S. medical device maker Edwards Lifesciences narrowly topped Wall Street estimates for quarterly revenue on Thursday as it sold more heart monitors, but its outlook for March quarter earnings fell below analysts' forecasts. The company's critical care business, which houses its HemoSphere heart monitoring systems, had sales of $178 million in the final quarter of 2018, up 8 percent from a year earlier. The U.S. ...
  
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• Girl's wild frozen hair shows the power of the polar vortex

  31-01-2019 22:32 via news.yahoo.com
  Alright, Mother Nature, you've done your thing -- and we're all very impressed -- but this is getting out of hand. In recent days, extremely cold temperatures have caused everything from 2,600 flight delays to the halting of U.S. postal service delivery (and they never stop for anything). But if there's anything we can learn from cold Midwesterners, it's that this polar vortex doesn't need to be a polar snorefest. Iowa native @taylor_scallon showed the power of negative temps when she
  
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• US banks shifting some London staff ahead of Brexit deadline

  31-01-2019 22:28 via news.yahoo.com
  With two months until Brexit takes effect, US banks have begun transferring some London staff to Continental Europe and drawing up contingency plans in case of a "hard" Brexit.Around 400 Bank of America employees are set to transfer to Paris and Frankfurt starting in February, according to a person familiar with the matter.About half of this group -- or 200 people -- will be in place before the March 29 Brexit deadline, with the remainder following soon after.
  
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• Brazilian anger unabated by Vale vows after dam disaster

  31-01-2019 22:26 via news.yahoo.com
  "Too Late" read newspaper Estado de Minas in the Brazilian state of Minas Gerais, after Vale, the world's largest iron ore miner, said it would take up to 10 percent of its production offline and spend 5 billion reais ($1.36 billion) to decommission 10 dams like the one that collapsed at its Corrego do Feijao mine last Friday.With 110 people confirmed dead and another 238 missing, according to firefighters' count on Thursday evening, the tailings dam collapse in the town of Brumadinho may be Bra
  
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• Polar vortex: 12 dead as US weather system brings record low temperatures approaching -50F

  31-01-2019 22:25 via news.yahoo.com
  The polar vortex in the US continued inflicting severe conditions across the country on Thursday, with temperatures reaching minus 40F - and a town in Michigan called Hell quite literally freezing over.Chicago was on track to break the city’s record of -32C (-26F), set more than 30 years ago as the cold snap intensifies.Some nearby isolated areas could see temperatures as low as -40C (-40F), that would break the Illinois record of minus 38C (-36.4F) set in 1999.
  
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• Guaido Says Venezuelan Police Came to His Home to Intimidate Him

  31-01-2019 22:25 via news.yahoo.com
  During a news conference on the opposition’s economic plans, Guaido, who is gathering international support in his bid to unseat President Nicolas Maduro, abruptly announced that the feared Special Action Force had come to his house.“They came into my home asking for Fabiana,” Guaido said, referring to his partner, who accompanied him on stage.
  
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• Twitter Removed Accounts From Iran, Russia Related to Midterms

  31-01-2019 22:23 via news.yahoo.com
  The company said it continues to see activity on the service related to the Russian Internet Research Agency, the troll farm that spread divisive information during the U.S. Presidential Election.It found 418 additional accounts that appeared to originate in Russia and posted 73,398 tweets related to the midterm elections with hashtags like #MAGA and #ReleasetheMemo.
  
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• Venezuela opposition leader says family threatened by Maduro agents

  31-01-2019 22:19 via news.yahoo.com
  Venezuela's opposition leader Juan Guaido said Thursday elite security forces had entered his home to threaten his family, blaming the government of Nicolas Maduro as international support grew for his bid to oust the embattled president.The move heightened fears for the security of the 35-year-old National Assembly leader, who declared himself acting president last week in a direct challenge to Maduro's authority.The police's special action force, FAES, had visited his home to interview his wif
  
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• Jussie Smollett attack: Family releases statement, pictures of possible persons of interest released

  31-01-2019 22:16 via news.yahoo.com
  "We want to be clear, this was a racial and homophobic hate crime."
  
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• Americans Eat More Than a Billion Chicken Wings on Super Bowl Weekend. There's a Surprising Past Behind That Number

  31-01-2019 22:15 via news.yahoo.com
  Flash back to any point in American history prior to the 1970s and you would have had to have paid many Americans to put this part of the chicken in their mouths
  
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• Disneyland: Man climbs off Space Mountain during ride, prompting closure of roller coaster

  31-01-2019 22:14 via news.yahoo.com
  Disneyland's popular Space Mountain attraction remained closed following an incident two days earlier in which a man climbed off the roller coaster while it was in motion, officials said.
  
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• The Polar Vortex Is Causing Striking Solar Phenomena Called 'Sundogs.' Here's What to Know

  31-01-2019 22:06 via news.yahoo.com
  Sundogs form when sunlight refracts off ice crystals in the atmosphere and result in colored spots of light near the sun.
  
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• Donald Trump jeopardizes national security by ignoring intelligence community: Today's talker

  31-01-2019 22:05 via news.yahoo.com
  President Donald Trump doesn't have the best record on telling the truth, but dismissing the intelligence community altogether might put us at risk.
  
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• 'Empire' star Jussie Smollett's family speaks out: 'This was a racial and homophobic hate crime'

  31-01-2019 21:57 via news.yahoo.com
  The family of "Empire" star Jussie Smollett, who was attacked in the early hours of Tuesday morning, is speaking out about the incident.
  
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• Tourists brave the frigid cold in NYC

  31-01-2019 21:56 via news.yahoo.com
  The severe cold that is enveloping much the Midwest has also brought frigid temperatures to New York City, but it hasn't stopped the tourists. (Jan. 31)
  
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• The Polar Vortex Might Be Causing 'Frost Quakes' in Chicago

  31-01-2019 21:56 via news.yahoo.com
  It might be cold enough in Chicago right now to make the ground shake.Local news station WGN reported today (Jan. 30) that its viewers had heard "frost quakes" in the city overnight. And though the reports in Chicago are still unconfirmed, frost quakes are indeed a real thing.Frost quakes, or "cryoseisms," occur when water trapped underground freezes suddenly as the temperature drops, causing it to expand. (Water expands as it freezes.) All that rapidly expanding water underground can split rock
  
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• US Midwest gripped by bitterly cold temperatures but relief ahead

  31-01-2019 21:55 via news.yahoo.com
  Brutally cold temperatures gripped the US Midwest on Thursday, freezing water mains, causing power outages, canceling flights and straining natural gas supplies.Ten deaths have been attributed to the sub-zero weather and a weekend snowstorm that deluged the same region.Natural gas supplies were under threat in Michigan and Minnesota.
  
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• Democratic proposal for border security doesn't include wall funding

  31-01-2019 21:49 via news.yahoo.com
  Nancy Pelosi stands firm on not providing funding for the border wall, President Trump says that that a proposal without a wall "doesn't work."
  
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• Ex-Nissan Chairman Carlos Ghosn Says He's Wrongly Accused of Financial Misconduct

  31-01-2019 21:39 via news.yahoo.com
  Ghosn proclaims to French reporters that he believes he has done nothing wrong as he remains in jail in Japan.
  
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• Pelosi, Trump clash over border talks

  31-01-2019 21:38 via news.yahoo.com
  U.S. House of Representatives Speaker Nancy Pelosi on Thursday said there would not be any money for President Donald Trump's proposed wall along the U.S.-Mexico border in the deal being worked out by a bipartisan negotiating team. Vanessa Johnston reports.
  
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• Missouri school bans substitute after report of racist, threatening comments to black students

  31-01-2019 21:30 via news.yahoo.com
  A Springfield school official called the alleged comment "disturbing, unacceptable" and "completely at odds with who we are as a district."
  
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• JetBlue flight makes emergency landing after being struck by lightning

  31-01-2019 21:24 via news.yahoo.com
  A JetBlue flight headed to New York needed to make an emergency landing Thursday morning after the flight crew reported a lightning strike.
  
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• Elizabeth Warren Says Sears Workers Suffered While Leadership Self-Dealed

  31-01-2019 21:20 via news.yahoo.com
  Senator Elizabeth Warren, a possible Democratic presidential candidate, slammed Lampert in a letter dated Wednesday, citing the “inherent conflicts of interest’’ in the hedge fund manager’s takeover of bankrupt Sears Holdings Corp.What’s unusual is that Lampert made saving thousands of jobs a centerpiece of his winning bid for parts of the 126-year-old retail icon.
  
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• Southwest Airlines is selling tickets for as low as $66 today

  31-01-2019 21:16 via news.yahoo.com
  After what felt like potentially the longest collective month of all of our
  
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• Minor Crash Turns 'Tragic' as Improperly Restrained 4-Year-Old Killed

  31-01-2019 21:13 via news.yahoo.com
  A young boy died Wednesday after an airbag deployed during a crash and struck the boy, who was not restrained in a child seat.
  
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• Vehicles Engulfed in Flames at Newark Airport Parking Garage

  31-01-2019 21:12 via news.yahoo.com
  Crews are working to put out a fire at a parking garage at Newark Liberty Airport Thursday morning.
  
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• 2 Suspects Plead Guilty in Murder of Woman Whose Body Was Dismembered, Scattered

  31-01-2019 21:12 via news.yahoo.com
  Two of the four people facing charges in the grisly murder of Megan Metzger in Virginia have pleaded guilty.
  
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• US weather: Hell freezes over as polar vortex triggers coldest freeze in a generation

  31-01-2019 21:05 via news.yahoo.com
  At least 12 people have died in record-low temperatures trigged by the polar vortex, which has stretched parts of the nation's infrastructure to breaking point.Thousands of flights have been cancelled, and the US postal service is partially suspended.In Chicago, which has been as cold as the Arctic at times, heavily dressed repair crews hustled to keep public utilities from failing, while officials lit train tracks on fire in order to prevent them from malfunctioning in the historic cold.
  
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• Democrats' opening offer in border security negotiations doesn't include money for wall

  31-01-2019 21:03 via news.yahoo.com
  The offer included $1 billion in border tech, $502 million in humanitarian aid, 1,000 new customs agents and $150 million for new boats, and planes.
  
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• Latest group of Central American migrants proceed with northern trek

  31-01-2019 20:51 via news.yahoo.com
  Around 2,400 migrants left a city shelter to begin the journey from the Mexican capital early Thursday morning, the latest caravan to embark upon the risky path to the U.S.-Mexican border despite U.S. President Donald Trump's determination to prevent them from entering.Since last October, thousands of mostly Central American migrants have sought to cross into the United States, many traveling in caravans in order to minimize the risks of kidnapping and attacks by members of criminal gangs while
  
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• Who pays if the cold weather from the polar vortex damages your home or car?

  31-01-2019 20:48 via news.yahoo.com
  Most cold weather damage to your home and car from the polar vortex is covered by insurance, as long as you have the right type.
  
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• US expected to announce treaty withdrawal as soon as Friday

  31-01-2019 20:37 via news.yahoo.com
  WASHINGTON (AP) — The Trump administration is poised to announce Friday that it is withdrawing from a treaty that has been a centerpiece of superpower arms control since the Cold War and whose demise some analysts worry could fuel a new arms race.
  
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• APNewsBreak: ICE force-feeding detainees on hunger strike

  31-01-2019 20:32 via news.yahoo.com
  Immigrants have gone on hunger strikes over the past month to protest conditions inside detention facilities, prompting officials to force-feed six of them through plastic nasal tubes at a Texas location, The Associated Press has learned.
  
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• US urges Europeans to recognize Venezuela's Guaido

  31-01-2019 20:31 via news.yahoo.com
  The United States on Thursday called on European countries to move quickly to recognize Venezuela's opposition leader Juan Guaido as interim president ahead of a deadline by major EU states.Kimberly Breier, the US assistant secretary of state in charge of Latin America, welcomed a vote Thursday to recognize Guaido by the European Parliament, although the move does not change EU policy."We certainly encourage all the governments in Europe to support the people of Venezuela and the transitional go
  
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