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• Missing Woman Found Dead in New Jersey Home; Son, 2 Others Charged: Police

  06-02-2019 23:50 via news.yahoo.com
  A missing woman has been found dead in her New Jersey home, and her son and two others have been arrested for allegedly concealing her body, police said Wednesday.
  
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• National Organization for Women Calls on Fairfax to Resign

  06-02-2019 23:49 via news.yahoo.com
  The National Organization for Women (NOW) called on Virginia lieutenant governor Justin Fairfax to resign Wednesday in response to the sexual assault allegation leveled against him earlier this week.“Dr. Vanessa Tyson has made the brave decision to come forward and reveal in her own words what happened between her and Virginia Lt. Gov. Justin Fairfax during the 2004 Democratic National Convention in Boston.
  
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• U.S. banks weigh whether to embrace or avoid progressive firebrand Ocasio-Cortez

  06-02-2019 23:48 via news.yahoo.com
  Barely a month into the new Congress, financial lobbyists in Washington are already strategizing how to handle the star power of rookie Democrat lawmaker Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez.The Democratic Socialist and Wall Street critic joined the 60-member House Financial Services Committee in mid-January and more than a dozen lobbyists interviewed by Reuters say the 29-year-old activist and former bartender is too high-profile to ignore.Richard Hunt, chief executive of the Consumer Bankers Association,
  
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• Work urgently with me on Brexit: Britain's May appeals to EU

  06-02-2019 23:40 via news.yahoo.com
  Just weeks after parliament resoundingly rejected her Brexit deal, May needs to persuade a reluctant EU to change the Withdrawal Agreement to help her get lawmakers' approval before Britain is due to leave the EU on March 29.If she cannot, Britain, and May, face an uncertain future, opening the door to several scenarios - leaving without a deal which some businesses say might cripple the economy, another referendum, an early election or never leaving the EU at all.
  
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• UK's May set to delay second parliament vote on Brexit deal: report

  06-02-2019 23:38 via news.yahoo.com
  British Prime Minister Theresa May is preparing to delay the second parliament vote on her Brexit deal until the end of February, the Telegraph newspaper reported late on Wednesday.Last month, British lawmakers rejected May's original deal that set out the terms by which Britain would exit the European Union.The vote on a new deal is now being planned for the week beginning Feb. 25, just over a month before Britain is due to leave the EU on March 29, according to the report.
  
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• Ilhan Omar responds to Trump's State of the Union with 'This is America' dance

  06-02-2019 23:35 via news.yahoo.com
  Congresswoman Ilhan Omar, the first woman to wear the hijab in Congress, delivered a quirky response to President Donald Trump’s State of the Union address with a nod to special counsel Robert Mueller’s investigation and immigrants in a video of her dancing.In the video, Ms Omar was decked out in colors of the American flag: red, white and blue.“Individual 1” is how the president is referred to in the filings from Mr Mueller’s investigation into possible Russian int
  
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• Pompeo to build US ties with Hungary's right-wing leaders

  06-02-2019 23:34 via news.yahoo.com
  Secretary of State Mike Pompeo will visit Hungary next week, the White House said Wednesday, as the United States seeks to build ties with nationalist Prime Minister Viktor Orban following rifts."A great preview of our 2019 goals and Secretary Pompeo's trip next week," Bolton tweeted.
  
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• El Chapo jury ends 3rd day of deliberations without verdict

  06-02-2019 23:24 via news.yahoo.com
  NEW YORK (AP) — Jurors at the trial of Mexican drug lord Joaquin "El Chapo" Guzman ended their third day of deliberations at his U.S. trial Wednesday without a verdict after asking whether killing someone over personal beef could be part of a drug-trafficking conspiracy.
  
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• The 2019 Audi TT RS Is a Five-Cylinder Fury with Some New Colors and Air Scoops

  06-02-2019 23:20 via news.yahoo.com
  Minor exterior and interior updates for the world's only five-cylinder sports car in production.
  
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• Ocasio-Cortez hits back at columnist for State of the Union criticism: 'I'm not here to comfort anyone'

  06-02-2019 23:13 via news.yahoo.com
  Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez clapped back at a Wall Street Journal columnist who tweeted that the New York Democrat looked “sullen, teenaged and at a loss”, during President Donald Trump’s State of the Union address.“AOC had a rare bad night, looking not spirited, warm and original as usual but sullen, teenaged and at a loss,” Peggy Noonan tweeted to her followers on Tuesday night after the president completed his speech.AOC had a rare bad night, looking n
  
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• With border blocked, desperate Venezuelans ask how U.S. aid will arrive

  06-02-2019 23:03 via news.yahoo.com
  Despite widespread hunger and shortages of staple goods in Venezuela, Maduro vowed to turn back U.S. aid after President Donald Trump's administration last month recognized opposition leader Juan Guaido as the rightful interim ruler of the South American nation.Venezuelan security forces blocked the three-lane border crossing from the Colombian town of Cucuta on Tuesday using two shipping containers and a fuel tanker.The Cucuta crossing was quiet on Wednesday but Colombian migration officials pu
  
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• 'El Chapo' jury deliberations to stretch into fourth day

  06-02-2019 22:55 via news.yahoo.com
  Guzman, 61, is accused of trafficking tons of cocaine, heroin, marijuana and methamphetamine into the United States as leader of Mexico's Sinaloa Cartel.The 11-week trial in federal court in Brooklyn, in which more than 50 witnesses testified, offered the public an unprecedented look into the inner workings of the cartel, named for the state in northwestern Mexico where Guzman was born in a poor mountain village.The defense has argued Guzman was set up as a "fall guy" by Ismael "El Mayo" Zambada
  
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• Venezuela opposition plans to get oil money from U.S. fund

  06-02-2019 22:46 via news.yahoo.com
  The fund would receive income accrued by state-run oil firm PDVSA's U.S. unit Citgo Petroleum Corp since last month, when U.S. President Donald Trump recognized Juan Guaido as Venezuela's legitimate head of state, opposition legislator Carlos Paparoni told Reuters.Guadio, head of Venezuela's National Assembly, last month declared himself to be the South American country's interim ruler.
  
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• U.N. warns against politicizing humanitarian aid in Venezuela

  06-02-2019 22:46 via news.yahoo.com
  U.S. officials said trucks carrying aid had arrived in Colombia for delivery to Venezuela at the request of Juan Guaido, who last month declared himself interim president."The Venezuelan people desperately need humanitarian aid.The U.S. & other countries are trying to help, but Venezuela's military under Maduro's orders is blocking aid with trucks and shipping tankers," U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo posted on Twitter on Wednesday, along with a photo of a blocked road.
  
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• Trump Calls for More Legal Immigration After Pushing to Cut It

  06-02-2019 22:44 via news.yahoo.com
  Trump said Tuesday that immigration enriches the country and “I want people to come into our country, in the largest numbers ever, but they have to come in legally," he said.“Yes, because we need people in our country because our unemployment numbers are so low,” he said in an interview with regional news organizations after he was asked whether he favors a change in policy to expand legal immigration, according to a reporter for The Advocate of Louisiana.
  
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• The Latest: 2 arrested at protest over black man's shooting

  06-02-2019 22:25 via news.yahoo.com
  MONTGOMERY, Ala. (AP) — The Latest on the police shooting of a black man in an Alabama shopping mall (all times local):
  
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• Southwest's Hawaii flight tests continue: Honolulu-Dallas is today

  06-02-2019 22:25 via news.yahoo.com
  Southwest Flight 8725 marks the return of the aircraft the carrier flew from California to Honolulu a day earlier, part of an 'ETOPS' certification effort.
  
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• US: SpaceX no-load test is delayed

  06-02-2019 22:15 via news.yahoo.com
  NASA announced Wednesday that SpaceX's no-load rocket test has been pushed back to March 2 in Cape Canaveral, Florida.NASA has made SpaceX and Boeing responsible for transporting astronauts starting this year.SpaceX uses its Falcon 9 rocket, at the top of which is fixed a Dragon capsule specially designed to accommodate astronauts.
  
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• The Latest: Venezuelan man urges military to let in US aid

  06-02-2019 22:12 via news.yahoo.com
  CUCUTA, Colombia (AP) — The Latest on Venezuela's political crisis (all times local):
  
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• Migrant caravan detained in old factory, across from Texas

  06-02-2019 22:12 via news.yahoo.com
  PIEDRAS NEGRAS, Mexico (AP) — A caravan of 1,600 Central American migrants was surrounded Wednesday by Mexican authorities in an old factory a short distance from Texas, where they hoped to seek asylum even as U.S. authorities sent extra law enforcement and soldiers to stop them.
  
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• Best Stick Vacuums of 2019

  06-02-2019 22:07 via news.yahoo.com
  “In the past few years, stick vacuum suction has gotten a lot stronger, especially in battery-powered stick vacuums,” says Frank Rizzi, a senior Consumer Reports test-lab engineer who tests vacuu...
  
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• Venezuela's Guaido asks Italy's leaders to meet his envoys

  06-02-2019 21:48 via news.yahoo.com
  The hard-right League has expressed strong support for Guaido, but coalition partner the 5-Star Movement has not, making Italy the only major European Union nation not to recognize him as Venezuela's temporary head of state.In a Feb. 5 letter distributed by League leader and deputy prime minister Matteo Salvini's office on Wednesday, Guaido asks if he can send a delegation "to illustrate the plan of action to renew democracy in Venezuela" through fair elections."The current humanitarian crisis i
  
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• Venezuela opposition plans U.S. fund to secure oil money

  06-02-2019 21:48 via news.yahoo.com
  The U.S. fund would receive income accrued by state-run oil firm PDVSA's U.S. unit Citgo Petroleum Corp since last month, when U.S. President Donald Trump recognized Juan Guaido as Venezuela's legitimate head of state, opposition legislator Carlos Paparoni told Reuters.Most Latin American and European countries also recognize Guaido, although Italy so far has not.
  
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• U.S. might lift sanctions on Venezuelan military who back Guaido: Bolton

  06-02-2019 21:48 via news.yahoo.com
  The United States would consider lifting sanctions on senior Venezuelan military officers if they recognize the government of self-declared interim president Juan Guaido, White House national security adviser John Bolton said on Wednesday."The U.S. will consider sanctions off-ramps for any Venezuelan senior military officer that stands for democracy and recognizes the constitutional government of President Juan Guaido.If not, the international financial circle will be closed off completely," Bol
  
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• Slovakia declines to back Venezuela's Guaido as Maduro faces rising pressure

  06-02-2019 21:48 via news.yahoo.com
  Slovakia declined to recognize opposition leader Juan Guaido as Venezuela's legitimate head of state on Wednesday, joining Italy in breaking the coordinated action of European Union nations and the United States.About 20 European Union nations including Britain, Germany, France and Spain have aligned with the United States in recognizing Guaido's leadership and pressuring socialist President Nicolas Maduro to call a new election.Slovakia's foreign ministry said last week the country sawGuaido, t
  
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• Milwaukee police officer killed while serving warrant

  06-02-2019 21:46 via news.yahoo.com
  A Milwaukee police officer was shot and killed while serving a warrant, according to medical examiner.
  
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• Virginia Democrats in crisis over new blackface scandal

  06-02-2019 21:37 via news.yahoo.com
  A political crisis deepened in Virginia on Wednesday after the attorney general of the eastern US state admitted he wore blackface to a 1980 college party to impersonate a rapper.Attorney general Mark Herring is second in line for the governorship of the state, where the Democratic governor and lieutenant governor are already embroiled in scandal.Virginia Governor Ralph Northam has been facing calls for his resignation since a 1984 yearbook surfaced last week that features a racist photo on a pa
  
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• The Nightmare in Venezuela Finally Has the World's Attention. Can the Opposition's Gamble Pay Off?

  06-02-2019 21:31 via news.yahoo.com
  The nightmare in Venezuela finally has the world's attention. But with two men claiming the presidency, the way out isn't clear.
  
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• Nancy Pelosi clap at SOTU has social media talking

  06-02-2019 21:30 via news.yahoo.com
  What was your take on the Speaker of the House's clap?
  
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• Mom blames tanning for losing ear to skin cancer

  06-02-2019 21:29 via news.yahoo.com
  43-year-old Anthea Smith wants to ban tanning beds, claiming the device caused her skin cancer.
  
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• Trump calls probes into his Russia links 'harassment'

  06-02-2019 21:22 via news.yahoo.com
  Just a day after preaching an end to division in his State of the Union speech, President Donald Trump lashed out Wednesday at "harassment" by Democrats probing his links to Russia.It's called presidential harassment.
  
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• Michelle Carter: High court upholds conviction of woman who encouraged boyfriend's suicide with text messages

  06-02-2019 21:20 via news.yahoo.com
  The Massachusetts Supreme Court has upheld the manslaughter conviction of a woman who persuaded her boyfriend through text messages to commit suicide.Michelle Carter, 22, will serve 15 months in prison for the July 2014 suicide of Conrad Roy III, 18, after she was found guilty in 2017.Prior to the court’s decision Wednesday, Carter’s sentence had been placed on hold as her appeal was reviewed.
  
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• Fairfax Accuser Describes Alleged Sexual Assault in Graphic Statement

  06-02-2019 21:09 via news.yahoo.com
  Vanessa Tyson released a statement Wednesday describing for the first time in graphic detail the sexual assault she alleges she suffered at the hands of Virginia lieutenant governor Justin Fairfax.Mr. Fairfax put his hand behind my neck and forcefully pushed my head towards his crotch.
  
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• Ex-New Mexico athletic head charged with fraud, laundering

  06-02-2019 21:09 via news.yahoo.com
  ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) — Former University of New Mexico athletic director Paul Krebs, who left in 2017 amid questions over spending, was charged Wednesday with fraud, money laundering and other felonies, state prosecutors said.
  
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• Democrat Schiff draws Trump ire with House intel probes

  06-02-2019 21:06 via news.yahoo.com
  A day after the Republican president warned Democrats against "ridiculous partisan investigations" in his annual State of the Union address, Schiff said they would not be intimidated.The committee voted to provide transcripts of testimony it took behind closed doors in its probe of Russian interference in the 2016 U.S. presidential election to the special counsel for use in any prosecutions, something Schiff promised to do last month after a second Trump associate was charged with lying to Congr
  
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• United courts the well-heeled with more premium seats

  06-02-2019 20:59 via news.yahoo.com
  United, Delta and American Airlines are engaged in an airlines arms race to grab the most affluent customers.
  
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• Trump Wants to End HIV Within 10 Years. Here's What That Would Take, According to Experts

  06-02-2019 20:59 via news.yahoo.com
  It's ambitious, but not impossible
  
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• Stacey Abrams: Trump tax reforms have 'rigged the system'

  06-02-2019 20:53 via news.yahoo.com
  On February 5, President Trump delivered his second State of the Union
  
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• Virginia Democrats Face Triple Scandal Combining Race and #MeToo

  06-02-2019 20:49 via news.yahoo.com
  Virginia’s Democratic governor and attorney general both were forced to admit they wore blackface in the 1980s, and the lieutenant governor is confronting an allegation that he sexually assaulted a woman more than a decade ago.The extraordinary triple scandal in Virginia’s state capital of Richmond is reigniting a national debate about racism and sexual assault, one with statewide and national political implications.It comes as Virginia tilts ideologically leftward in statewide and n
  
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• Trump's State of the Union address lays smart groundwork for 2020 re-election campaign

  06-02-2019 20:49 via news.yahoo.com
  Incumbent presidents can define their opponents before they define themselves. Trump now has already done that, no matter who the Democrats nominate.
  
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• The Latest: Pompeo demands Maduro not block Venezuela aid

  06-02-2019 20:46 via news.yahoo.com
  CUCUTA, Colombia (AP) — The Latest on Venezuela's political crisis (all times local):
  
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• Guaido rallies EU support as Venezuelan army blocks aid shipment

  06-02-2019 20:41 via news.yahoo.com
  Venezuela's opposition leader Juan Guaido stepped up efforts Wednesday to win recognition from EU holdout states and insisted the armed forces allow desperately needed humanitarian aid to enter the country.The National Assembly leader has been recognized by more than 40 countries since declaring himself interim president on January 23 in defiance of President Nicolas Maduro.US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, meanwhile, demanded Venezuela's military allow aid into the country.
  
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• Why Vietnam? 4 Reasons the Southeast Asian Nation Is Perfect for the Second Trump-Kim Summit

  06-02-2019 20:37 via news.yahoo.com
  Once a bitter U.S. enemy, Vietnam provides a model North Korea could emulate
  
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• Pentagon Sends Troops to Texas Border as Trump Again Raises Fears About Caravans

  06-02-2019 20:32 via news.yahoo.com
  The Defense Department said Wednesday it sent about 250 troops to the southern border in Texas ahead of the arrival of a migrant caravan.
  
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• Fox News presenter blames schools teaching ‘fairness’ as poll shows support for higher taxes on multi-millionaires

  06-02-2019 20:31 via news.yahoo.com
  A Fox News presenter blamed the fact schools have being teaching children “fairness” after the organisation’s own polling showed there was overwhelming support for higher taxes on multi-millionaires.Democratic senator Elizabeth Warren has proposed a “wealth tax” for those earning more than $50m and has won support from both Democrats and Republicans.A total of 70 per cent of people are in favour of raising taxes on those earning more than $10m and 65 per cent suppor
  
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• Fox Business Network presenter blames schools teaching ‘fairness’ as poll shows support for higher taxes on multi-millionaires

  06-02-2019 20:31 via news.yahoo.com
  A Fox Business Network presenter blamed the fact schools have being teaching children “fairness” after the organisation’s own polling showed there was overwhelming support for higher taxes on multi-millionaires.Democratic senator Elizabeth Warren has proposed a “wealth tax” for those earning more than $50m and has won support from both Democrats and Republicans.In response to the poll, Charles Payne, host of Fox Business Network's Making Money with Charles Payne, sa
  
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• Cuomo Hits Back after Trump Criticizes NY Abortion Bill in SOTU

  06-02-2019 20:31 via news.yahoo.com
  New York governor Andrew Cuomo hit back at President Trump on Wednesday, a day after Trump blasted the recent New York bill loosening restrictions on late-term abortions in his State of the Union address.“The president’s diatribe was part of the far-right’s escalation of its assault on a woman’s constitutional rights,” the governor wrote in an op-ed for the New York Times published Wednesday.During his address to the joint session of Congress, Trump c
  
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• Venezuelan opposition readies U.S. fund to receive oil revenue

  06-02-2019 20:30 via news.yahoo.com
  The fund would receive income accrued by state-run oil firm PDVSA's U.S. unit Citgo Petroleum Corp since last month, when U.S. President Donald Trump recognized opposition leader Juan Guaido as Venezuela's legitimate head of state, Carlos Paparoni said in an interview.Citgo, the eighth-largest U.S. refiner and Venezuela's top foreign asset, is in the middle of a tug of war as the Trump administration has made aggressive moves to remove it from Maduro's control.Following a U.S. decision to impose
  
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• The European Volkswagen Passat Is Still a Lot Cooler Than the American One

  06-02-2019 20:30 via news.yahoo.com
  A facelift for Europe's version of the Passat makes it better than ever-and better than ours.
  
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• Speaker Pelosi: President Trump threatened Democrats over administration oversight during State of the Union

  06-02-2019 20:29 via news.yahoo.com
  “That was a threat. President’s should not bring threats to the floor of the House," House Speaker Nancy Pelosi told a group of reporters at the Capitol Wednesday.
  
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