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• These 5 politicians also recently faced their own blackface scandals

  02-02-2019 23:42 via news.yahoo.com
  Virginia Gov. Ralph Northam is currently embroiled in controversy after a racist photo from his 1984 medical school yearbook surfaced. These U.S. politicians also recently faced similar blackface-related controversies.
  
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• Powerful storm hits Southern California, flooding highways

  02-02-2019 23:39 via finance.yahoo.com
  The second in a string of powerful storms battered California on Saturday, shutting key highways after water and mud rushed into lanes from bare hillsides in wildfire burn areas where thousands of residents were under evacuation orders.Flash flood warnings were issued for huge swaths of Southern California and forecasters said the system brought more than 4 inches (10 centimeters) of rain at lower elevations and several feet of snow in the mountains, where whiteout conditions closed roads.A wind
  
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• Venezuela's Guaido urges military defections amid protests

  02-02-2019 23:10 via news.yahoo.com
  CARACAS, Venezuela (AP) — Venezuela's opposition leader called on more members of the military to abandon the country's socialist government following Saturday's defection of a top general, as President Nicolas Maduro proposed holding early National Assembly elections that could potentially oust his challenger.
  
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• The Latest: Thousands rally in Spain to support Guaido

  02-02-2019 23:07 via news.yahoo.com
  CARACAS, Venezuela (AP) — The latest on the political crisis in Venezuela (all times local):
  
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• The Latest: More evacuations as storm drenches California

  02-02-2019 22:59 via news.yahoo.com
  LOS ANGELES (AP) — The Latest on California storms (all times local):
  
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• Virginia governor now denies appearance in racist photo, refuses to resign

  02-02-2019 22:47 via news.yahoo.com
  Ralph Northam, the Democratic governor of the US state of Virginia, changed his story Saturday about appearing in a racist 1984 yearbook photo and insisted he will not resign from office.Northam held a press conference to say that he in fact was not one of the men in a photo from his university yearbook depicting two people -- one in blackface, the other dressed in a Ku Klux Klan robe and hood.Northam added that while he had not appeared in the photo, "many actions that we rightfully recognize a
  
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• Venezuela crisis: Nicolas Maduro on brink as military top brass turn against him

  02-02-2019 22:45 via news.yahoo.com
  Thousands of protesters have taken to the streets of Caracas to back opposition leader Juan Guaido's calls for early elections as international pressure increased on President Nicolas Maduro to step down. Mr Maduro addressed a rally in Caracas on Saturday and proposed bringing forward parliamentary elections, scheduled for 2020, to this year, as he sought to damp down demands for presidential elections. "You want elections? You want early elections? We are going to have parliamentary elections,"
  
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• Does Russia Have a Plan to Solve the North Korea Nuclear Crisis?

  02-02-2019 22:42 via news.yahoo.com
  Some think so.
  
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• America's Other Big Plan for Nuclear Weapons (And It Has Nothing to Do with War or Russia)

  02-02-2019 22:42 via news.yahoo.com
  Washington had all sorts of plans to use nuclear weapons for lots of things. But they never happened—for very obvious reasons.
  
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• Southern California rain: Storm strengthens, drenches SoCal with torrential rain

  02-02-2019 22:36 via news.yahoo.com
  A large and steady storm is dousing the Southland and is getting stronger as the day progresses on Saturday.
  
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• Venezuela's Guaido calls for more protests to force out Maduro

  02-02-2019 22:21 via news.yahoo.com
  Opposition leader Juan Guaido called for more street protests as tens of thousands of his supporters rallied in Venezuela on Saturday while socialist leader Nicolas Maduro resisted pressure to call a new presidential election.Self-declared acting president Guaido, 35, had called Saturday's protest to ramp up the pressure on Maduro to step down.The US recognized Guaido as Venezuela's interim president 10 days ago while four major European nations -- Britain, France, Germany and Spain -- have said
  
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• Maduro proposes new parliament vote as Venezuelans protest

  02-02-2019 22:12 via news.yahoo.com
  As domestic and international pressure on Maduro to step down mounts, a senior air force general disavowed him in a video that circulated earlier on Saturday, expressing his allegiance to parliament head and self-proclaimed interim president Juan Guaido.The military's support is crucial for Maduro, who is deeply unpopular, largely due to an unprecedented economic crisis that has prompted an exodus of millions.Maduro claims he is victim of a coup directed by the United States.
  
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• Virginia's governor held a press conference to prove he's not a racist. It didn't go well.

  02-02-2019 22:09 via news.yahoo.com
  It hasn't been a good Saturday for Virginia Governor Ralph Northam.Northam made headlines on Friday after his personal page from a 1984 yearbook surfaced featuring a photo of two men: one wearing Ku Klux Klan robes and a hood, and the other in blackface. Hours after the offensive image surfaced, the Virginia governor released a statement.> NEW: Governor Northam Statement on Offensive Photo. "I am deeply sorry for the decision I made to appear as I did in this photo and for the hurt that decis
  
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• Rose Leslie knows Jon Snow’s fate on ‘Game of Thrones,’ and seemingly doesn’t like it

  02-02-2019 22:09 via news.yahoo.com
  We know you're probably getting sick of these teases by now that hint at an epic final season of Game of Thrones without revealing really anything in the way of details. Only how gobsmacked the participating actors confess to feeling once the cameras stopped rolling. Still, this revelation from Kit Harington during a recent British radio interview is surely going to raise your eyebrows and cause you to wonder what it means.Obviously, we're not about to spoil what ultimately happens to Kit's char
  
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• Northam Denies Appearing in Racist Yearbook Photo, Refuses to Resign

  02-02-2019 22:01 via news.yahoo.com
  Northam, who was elected in 2017, faced excoriating criticism this week and calls from Republicans and Democrats to step down after the shocking photo on his Eastern Virginia Medical School yearbook page from 1984 surfaced.The Virginia Legislative Black Caucus, the Virginia House and Senate Democrats, the Democratic Party of Virginia and former Virginia governor Terry McAuliffe have all called on Northam to resign.
  
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• Virginia Governor Ralph Northam Denies Being in Racist Yearbook Photo

  02-02-2019 21:57 via news.yahoo.com
  Virginia Gov. Ralph Northam told reporters on Saturday that he does not believe he is one of the two people in a racist photo featured in his school yearbook.
  
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• SoCal storms: Evacuations issued for wildfire burn areas due to threat of mud, debris flow

  02-02-2019 21:38 via news.yahoo.com
  Evacuation orders are in place in Ventura County and Burbank as a strong and damaging rainstorm doused the Southland on Saturday.
  
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• The Latest: Guaido tells Italy daily he hopes pope weighs in

  02-02-2019 21:33 via news.yahoo.com
  CARACAS, Venezuela (AP) — The latest on the political crisis in Venezuela (all times local):
  
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• Virginia's governor won't resign over blackface, KKK photo. What's next?

  02-02-2019 21:32 via news.yahoo.com
  Despite facing fierce demands from across the country, Virginia Gov. Ralph Northam refused to resign in the aftermath of his medical school yearbook page surfacing.
  
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• Virginia Democrat Gov. Ralph Northam says he will not resign amid racist photo scandal

  02-02-2019 21:23 via news.yahoo.com
  Gov. Ralph Northam says he is not in the controversial photo that appeared on his yearbook page and is ready to earn the forgiveness of Virginians.
  
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• Deutsche Bank Denied Trump Loan During 2016 Campaign, NYT Says

  02-02-2019 21:22 via news.yahoo.com
  Trump’s request was rejected by the bank’s top management committee, which at the time included future Chief Executive Officer Christian Sewing, according to three unidentified people cited by the Times.Among its concerns was that if Trump won the election and eventually defaulted, the bank would have to choose between not collecting the debt and seizing assets of the U.S. president, the newspaper said.The Trump Organization sought a loan against its Miami resort to pay for work on a
  
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• The Latest: Flooding closes coastal California highway

  02-02-2019 21:18 via news.yahoo.com
  LOS ANGELES (AP) — The Latest on California storms (all times local):
  
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• Ralph Northam: Virginia governor 'said racist yearbook photo wasn't him' after refusing to resign

  02-02-2019 21:11 via news.yahoo.com
  Virginia governor Ralph Northam is refusing to resign despite overwhelming pressure from within his Democratic party and has told at least one lawmaker that he now does not think that a racist photo in his 1984 yearbook includes him, Democratic party officials said.Mr Northam publicly apologised on Friday for the medical school yearbook photo and acknowledged that he appeared in the image, which is of one man in blackface and another in a Ku Klux Klan robe.
  
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• Virginia's governor resists pressure to resign over KKK and blackface yearbook photos

  02-02-2019 20:58 via news.yahoo.com
  Virginia's governor is facing mounting calls for him to resign after pictures emerged from his yearbook of two men dressed in a Ku Klux Klan hood and with blackface. Ralph Northam, a Democrat and former paediatrician, was elected in 2017. But his future now hangs in the balance after conservative website Big League Politics dug out his 1984 medical school yearbook, and found the photo. Mr Northam, 59, insisted at a press conference on Saturday that the picture was not him - despite having apolog
  
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• Venezuela's Maduro calls for early legislative elections

  02-02-2019 20:43 via news.yahoo.com
  Venezuela President Nicolas Maduro threatened on Saturday to bring forward parliamentary elections in a bid to sideline opposition leader Juan Guaido's challenge to his authority.The National Assembly head led a mass opposition street protest in Caracas on Saturday demanding Maduro resign and hold new presidential elections.
  
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• VIDEO: Time out the Bay Area rain storm

  02-02-2019 20:36 via news.yahoo.com
  An overnight storm pummeled the Bay Area, and another round of rain is on the way. Weather Anchor Lisa Argen times it out.
  
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• Guaido calls for Venezuela defections as Maduro stands firm

  02-02-2019 20:32 via news.yahoo.com
  CARACAS, Venezuela (AP) — Venezuelan opposition leader Juan Guaido reiterated a call for the military to defect from the country's socialist government on Saturday, as President Nicolas Maduro appeared to intensify a deepening political standoff by proposing to hold early National Assembly elections that could potentially oust his challenger.
  
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• Maduro makes first public appearance since drone 'attack

  02-02-2019 20:31 via news.yahoo.com
  Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro appeared in public on Saturday for the first time since a military parade in August when he claimed to have been targeted in an attempted assassination.Dressed in a red shirt, the socialist leader took part in celebrations in central Caracas marking the 20th anniversary of his predecessor Hugo Chavez's ascent to power.Standing alongside his wife Cilia Flores, Maduro sung and rallied thousands of supporters that had come out to mark the anniversary of Chavez's
  
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• Group defends article on Henry Ford's anti-Semitic views

  02-02-2019 20:18 via news.yahoo.com
  DETROIT (AP) — A Detroit-area historical group is protesting a mayor's decision to stop it from sending out the latest issue of its publication, which delves into Ford Motor Co. founder Henry Ford's anti-Semitism.
  
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• Nicolas Maduro floats early elections for opposition-controlled national assembly in desperate bid to calm protests

  02-02-2019 20:16 via news.yahoo.com
  Thousands of protesters have taken to the streets of Caracas to back opposition leader Juan Guaido's calls for early elections as international pressure increased on President Nicolas Maduro to step down. Mr Maduro addressed a rally in Caracas on Saturday and proposed bringing forward parliamentary elections, scheduled for 2020, to this year, as he sought to damp down demands for presidential elections. He said the constituent assembly, which he controls, would debate ordering elections in the r
  
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• Powerful storm hits Southern California, flooding highway

  02-02-2019 20:15 via news.yahoo.com
  LOS ANGELES (AP) — The second in a string of powerful storms battered California on Saturday, shutting a key highway after water and mud rushed into lanes from bare hillsides in wildfire burn areas that are under mandatory evacuation orders.
  
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• Should Trump declare a national emergency to build the border wall?

  02-02-2019 20:08 via news.yahoo.com
  Talk radio host Tony Katz says that the president could face problems down the road if he decides to declare a national emergency to build the border wall.
  
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• Biden, NAACP, more: Calls for Gov. Ralph Northam to resign persist for second day

  02-02-2019 20:05 via news.yahoo.com
  Apologies did not stop organizations and politicians from demanding that Ralph Northam resign as Virginia governor.
  
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• The Latest: US formally suspends INF arms treaty with Russia

  02-02-2019 19:57 via news.yahoo.com
  MOSCOW (AP) — The Latest on the Russia-U.S. dispute over a nuclear arms treaty (all times local):
  
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• Virginia Democrat says Northam won't resign

  02-02-2019 19:44 via news.yahoo.com
  RICHMOND, Va. (AP) — A Virginia Democrat who has spoken with Gov. Ralph Northam has told The Associated Press that the governor now does not believe he was in a racist picture in his 1984 medical yearbook and has no immediate plans to resign.
  
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• On-Duty TSA Agent Dies in 'Apparent Suicide' at Orlando International Airport

  02-02-2019 19:44 via news.yahoo.com
  "Preliminary information suggests an apparent suicide"
  
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• Accuweather Forecast: Rainy and windy with a chance of thunderstorms

  02-02-2019 19:40 via news.yahoo.com
  A strong storm ranking 2 on the Storm Impact Scale is hitting the Bay Area with rain and wind. Thunderstorms are possible in the afternoon. A High Wind Warning is in effect with sustained southeast winds of 25-35 mph with gusts up to 65 mph possible. A Flash Flood Watch and Coastal Flood Advisory are in effect until the afternoon. High temperatures will range from 56-60.
  
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• Powerful storm batters California, prompting evacuations

  02-02-2019 19:23 via news.yahoo.com
  LOS ANGELES (AP) — The second in a string of powerful storms battered California on Saturday, bringing down trees, flooding roadways and prompting evacuations in wildfire burn areas where intense downpours could loosen bare hillsides and cause mudslides.
  
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• The case against El Chapo is headed to the jury. Here's what to know

  02-02-2019 19:05 via news.yahoo.com
  A jury will soon decide the fate of Joaquín "El Chapo" Guzmán, accused of smuggling tons of cocaine and other narcotics into the United States.
  
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• China opposes US withdrawal from INF

  02-02-2019 19:04 via news.yahoo.com
  China on Saturday said it opposes the US decision to withdraw from a landmark Cold War nuclear missile treaty and urged Washington and Russia to hold "constructive" discussions.Moscow and Washington have long accused the other of violating the key Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces agreement, which was signed in 1987 and resolved a crisis over Soviet missiles.The US has said a new Russian medium-range missile system breaches the INF Treaty and on Saturday President Donald Trump said the country w
  
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• Venezuelan general backs Guaido and urges mass protests as Maduro calls for early elections

  02-02-2019 18:36 via news.yahoo.com
  A Venezuelan air force general has defected from the government of president Nicolas Maduro and urged people to join mass street protests across the country, as the president called for early parliamentary elections.Francisco Yanez, who is believed to be the highest ranking officer to desert the president, claimed in a video posted on social media that 90 per cent of the armed forces “are not with the dictator”.“The transition to democracy is imminent,” he added, referrin
  
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• Venezuelan air force general deserts Maduro and backs interim president as opposition supporters hold nationwide rallies

  02-02-2019 18:36 via news.yahoo.com
  A Venezuelan air force general has defected from the government of president Nicolas Maduro and urged people to join mass street protests across the country.Francisco Yanez, who is believed to be the highest ranking officer to desert the president, claimed in a video posted on social media that 90 per cent of the armed forces “are not with the dictator”.“The transition to democracy is imminent,” he added, referring to opposition leader Juan Guaido as his president.
  
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• Protesters mass in Venezuela, for and against Maduro

  02-02-2019 18:30 via news.yahoo.com
  Protesters flowed into the streets of Caracas Saturday, with flags and placards, many to support opposition leader Juan Guaido's calls for democratic elections and others to back embattled President Nicolas Maduro.Carrying Venezuelan flags and blowing horns and whistles, Guaido's supporters planned to converge on the European Union headquarters in eastern Caracas from five staging areas around the city.The EU and major European powers have given Maduro until Sunday to call "free elections" or th
  
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• Rival rallies begin in tense Venezuela as air force general defects

  02-02-2019 18:29 via news.yahoo.com
  Tens of thousands of protesters poured into the streets of Caracas Saturday in rival displays for and against embattled Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro, as an air force general became the highest-ranking officer to recognize opposition leader Juan Guaido as the crisis-torn country's acting president.The rival rallies, convened in different parts of the city, come on the eve of a deadline set by the EU and other European powers for Maduro to call "free elections" or have them recognize Guaido
  
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• 'Willful Ignorance.' Inside President Trump's Troubled Intelligence Briefings

  02-02-2019 18:22 via news.yahoo.com
  Briefers say President Donald Trump displays "willful ignorance" when presented with analyses generated by intelligence services.
  
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• Virginia Governor Apologizes for 'Racist and Offensive' Costume in 1984 Yearbook

  02-02-2019 18:19 via news.yahoo.com
  Virginia Gov. Ralph Northam’s page in his 1984 medical school yearbook contains a photo of a person in blackface and another wearing a Ku Klux Klan hood next to different pictures of the governor.
  
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• Who's the real winner of Super Bowl LIII? Hint: It's not the Patriots or the Rams

  02-02-2019 18:00 via news.yahoo.com
  Americans are expected to eat 1.38 billion chicken wings during the Super Bowl LIII weekend, according to the National Chicken Council.
  
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• Meghan Markle wrote uplifting notes on bananas bound for sex workers in need

  02-02-2019 17:58 via news.yahoo.com
  Meghan, Duchess of Sussex, is giving back to the community and adding her own personal touch along the way.On Friday, she and Prince Harry, Duke of Sussex, visited the One25 organization in Bristol, which works to "reach out to women trapped in or vulnerable to street sex-work, supporting them to break free and build new lives away from violence, poverty and addiction."During the unplanned visit, the Duchess helped volunteers pack bags of food for women in need. As they went about the work,
  
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• EU Nations May Recognize Guaido as Venezuela Leader Amid Split

  02-02-2019 17:40 via news.yahoo.com
  Foreign ministers from the EU’s 28 countries discussed the statement at an informal meeting in Bucharest on Thursday and Friday, and only Italy objected to the wording, according to a diplomat familiar with the matter.In recognizing Guaido, the EU nations would be following the U.S. and more than a dozen other nations, adding to pressure on Maduro to step down.The political crisis in oil-rich Venezuela has set down worldwide battle lines, with a U.S.-led group of nations that recognize Gua
  
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• The Latest: Maduro supporters gather in Caracas

  02-02-2019 17:18 via news.yahoo.com
  CARACAS, Venezuela (AP) — The latest on the political crisis in Venezuela (all times local):
  
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