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• Separated migrant families demand millions from US agencies

  11-02-2019 23:57 via news.yahoo.com
  HOUSTON (AP) — Eight immigrant families who were separated under Trump administration policy filed claims Monday seeking millions of dollars in damages for what a lawyer called "inexplicable cruelty" that did lasting damage to parents and children.
  
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• Journalist Sues Twitter for Banning Her over ‘Women Aren’t Men’ Tweets

  11-02-2019 23:57 via news.yahoo.com
  After a number of temporary suspensions, Twitter in November permanently locked the verified account of Murphy, a Canadian writer and self-described feminist, informing her that she had violated the platform’s hateful-conduct rules.In late October, Twitter added “targeted misgendering or deadnaming of transgender individuals” to its list of prohibited behavior and applied the policy retroactively to Murphy’s earlier tweets.“Women aren’t men,” read a
  
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• Why It Matters If Amy Klobuchar Is An Abusive Boss

  11-02-2019 23:53 via news.yahoo.com
  Sunday’s announcement of the presidential candidacy of Minnesota senator Amy Klobuchar gives new urgency to a spate of stories in the past week about Senator Klobuchar’s long track record of angry, harsh, and frankly abusive behavior towards her staffers over her twelve years in the Senate.Some of Klobuchar’s defenders argue that discussion of Klobuchar’s mistreatment of her subordinates is sexist, irrelevant, or both.Senator Klobuchar’s treatment of her staff behin
  
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• U.S. lawmakers meet on border security, scrambling to avert shutdown

  11-02-2019 23:35 via news.yahoo.com
  The talks, which had broken down over the weekend, restarted in the U.S. Capitol just hours before a scheduled rally in the Texas border city of El Paso, where President Donald Trump will promote his promised wall along the U.S.-Mexico border, a proposal opposed by Democrats.In Washington, the lawmakers hope to reach an agreement on Monday to allow time for the legislation to pass the House of Representatives and Senate and get Trump's signature by Friday, when funding is due to expire for the D
  
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• Another government shutdown? Trump says that's 'up to the Democrats'

  11-02-2019 23:29 via news.yahoo.com
  The White House has continued to suggest another shutdown is possible if Congress does not deliver money for a border wall.
  
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• Top Border Negotiators to Meet Monday Evening as Shutdown Looms

  11-02-2019 23:22 via news.yahoo.com
  With government funding set to expire Friday night for some agencies, top Democrats and Republicans on the House-Senate negotiating panel met Monday afternoon and said they’d return at 6 p.m. Washington time for more talks.Meeting on Monday were Representative Nita Lowey and Senator Patrick Leahy, both Democrats, and Representative Kay Granger and Senator Richard Shelby, both Republicans.
  
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• US Steel cites Trump in resuming construction project

  11-02-2019 23:08 via news.yahoo.com
  BIRMINGHAM, Ala. (AP) — U.S. Steel Corp. will restart construction on an idled manufacturing facility in Alabama, and it gave some of the credit to President Donald Trump's trade policies in an announcement Monday.
  
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• Virginia Democrats hold fire on impeachment of lieutenant governor

  11-02-2019 23:00 via news.yahoo.com
  Fairfax is one of three top state Democrats engulfed by scandal this month.Governor Ralph Northam and Attorney General Mark Herring have also faced criticism after admitting they wore blackface in the 1980s.Patrick Hope, a Democratic member of Virginia's House of Delegates, said he believed Fairfax should have resigned already after two women accused him of sexual assault but added he would not move immediately on his weekend call for impeachment proceedings.
  
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• Venezuela opposition announces new aid hub, prepares protest

  11-02-2019 22:58 via news.yahoo.com
  Venezuela's opposition announced Monday a new collection center for desperately-needed supplies as it prepares to "send a message" to the military that's blocking humanitarian aid from entering the crisis-wracked country with a mass street protest.Opposition chief Juan Guaido, now recognized by 50 countries as Venezuela's interim president, will lead a rally on Tuesday as he steps up pressure on beleaguered President Nicolas Maduro and tries to force the military to back down and allow in the ai
  
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• Accused gunman in Pittsburgh shooting pleads not guilty to 19 new charges

  11-02-2019 22:38 via news.yahoo.com
  The accused gunman in the Tree of Life Synagogue shooting that left 11 dead in October pleaded not guilty to 19 additional criminal counts.
  
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• The Latest: Staff members resign after Fairfax allegations

  11-02-2019 22:37 via news.yahoo.com
  RICHMOND, Va. (AP) — The Latest on scandals involving Virginia's Democratic leaders (all times local):
  
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• Teenager secretly gets vaccinated and blasts 'conspiracy theory-believing' anti-vax parents: 'God knows how I'm still alive'

  11-02-2019 22:35 via news.yahoo.com
  A teenager has told how be secretly got vaccinated against the wishes of his parents, who he claimed believed debunked anti-vaccine “conspiracy theories”, they read on the internet.Ethan Lindenberger, 18, appealed for help on a Reddit forum, asking which vaccines he should obtain as he said had never received any, because “my parents are kind of stupid and don’t believe in vaccines”.After reading the advice, and consulting with a pastor, the teenager last December w
  
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• Nationwide manhunt for disbarred attorney accused of stabbing his mother to death, stealing her car

  11-02-2019 22:14 via news.yahoo.com
  -year-old Richard Merritt was supposed to surrender for a 15-year prison sentence for other crimes; Steve Harrigan reports from Atlanta.
  
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• Joy Behar tells Meghan McCain not to 'have a hissy fit' in heated exchange on 'The View'

  11-02-2019 22:13 via news.yahoo.com
  Joy Behar and Meghan McCain are back at it again, having another heated exchange on Monday's episode of "The View."
  
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• Venezuelan opposition envoy says Brazil will send aid to border

  11-02-2019 22:09 via news.yahoo.com
  Venezuelan opposition envoy Maria Teresa Belandria was received as her country's official ambassador in Brazil on Monday and said Brazil's government would provide all possible support to get humanitarian aid to the border.Belandria told reporters that several Brazilian government agencies would be involved in the aid operation, which would open up a second route for food and medicine to enter Venezuela after the main one in Colombia.The lawyer and international law expert was appointed Venezuel
  
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• Denver teachers go on strike in latest US educator walkout

  11-02-2019 22:07 via news.yahoo.com
  DENVER (AP) — Striking teachers on Monday picketed outside of schools and marched through Denver's streets as car horns blared in support of the latest U.S. walkout amid a swell of educator activism that has affected at least a half-dozen state over the last year.
  
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• U.S. Seeks Maduro Regime’s Venezuelan Bond Holdings, Sources Say

  11-02-2019 21:58 via news.yahoo.com
  Treasury Department officials told investors that its ban on Venezuelan debt trading is in part designed to prevent sales that could benefit the authoritarian government, according to the people, who asked not to be identified because they weren’t authorized to discuss the matter.The restrictions are so sweeping because at this point Treasury can’t be sure which transactions might be providing money to the regime or high-ranking officials, they said.A Treasury Department spokesperson
  
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• McDonald's brings Donuts Sticks to breakfast starting next week

  11-02-2019 21:47 via news.yahoo.com
  McDonald’s is launching McCafé Donuts Sticks nationally for a limited time on Feb. 20. They'll be sold daily until 10:30 a.m.
  
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• Man pleads guilty to 2 murder counts in 1998 triple-murder

  11-02-2019 21:43 via news.yahoo.com
  SOUTH BEND, Ind. (AP) — A northern Indiana man pleaded guilty to two counts of murder Monday, the same day jury selection was set to begin in his third trial in a 1998 triple-murder .
  
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• Massive crowds mark 40th anniversary of Iran revolution

  11-02-2019 21:36 via news.yahoo.com
  Iran's president on Monday insisted "enemy" plots against the country would fail as vast crowds marked 40 years since the Islamic revolution at a time of heightened tensions with the United States."The presence of people today on the streets all over Islamic Iran... means that the enemy will never reach its evil objectives," a defiant President Hassan Rouhani told those thronging Tehran's Azadi (Freedom) Square, decrying a "conspiracy" involving Washington.Chador-clad women, militia members in c
  
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• Ilhan Omar: Democrat congresswoman accused of antisemitism over Israel tweets

  11-02-2019 21:34 via news.yahoo.com
  Ilhan Omar, a newly elected US congresswoman, has been accused of antisemitism after she criticised a pro-Israel lobby group online.In two tweets posted late on Sunday night the Minnesota Democrat implied that funding from the American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC) was responsible for US politicans’ support for Benjamin Netanyahu‘s controversial Israeli government.Following calls from fellow Democrats for her to apologise, Ms Omar has since posted a message on her Twitter a
  
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• Ilhan Omar 'unequivocally apologises' after being accused of antisemitism over Israel tweets

  11-02-2019 21:34 via news.yahoo.com
  Ilhan Omar, a newly elected US congresswoman, has been accused of antisemitism after she criticised a pro-Israel lobby group online.In two tweets posted late on Sunday night the Minnesota Democrat implied that funding from the American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC) was responsible for US politicans’ support for Benjamin Netanyahu‘s controversial Israeli government.Following calls from fellow Democrats for her to apologise, Ms Omar has since posted a message on her Twitter a
  
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• Iran revolution brought repression, failure: Trump

  11-02-2019 21:30 via news.yahoo.com
  Iran's Islamic revolution four decades ago has been a complete failure for the country, President Donald Trump said Monday.In a tweet written on the anniversary of the upheaval that was also sent out in Farsi, Trump said: "40 years of corruption.The regime in Iran has produced only #40YearsofFailure.
  
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• Rep. Ilhan Omar apologizes for 'anti-Semitic' tweets

  11-02-2019 20:43 via news.yahoo.com
  The Minnesota freshman Democrat issued a statement on Monday apologizing for what critics viewed as anti-Semitic comments that she made over the weekend.
  
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• Democrats Con Their Base with Green New Deal

  11-02-2019 20:43 via news.yahoo.com
  In the days since Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and Senator Ed Markey unveiled their “Green New Deal,” we’ve seen the headlines lurch from new rape allegations against Virginia lieutenant governor Justin Fairfax, to confusion and lies about a background document issued by Ocasio-Cortez’s office that contained some, ahem, vivid interpretations of the Green New Deal (upgrading every building in ten years, sustaining people “unwilling” to work, phasing
  
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• Dem. Leaders Demand Omar Apologize for Endorsing ‘Anti-Semitic Tropes’

  11-02-2019 20:29 via news.yahoo.com
  Update 3:04p.m.: Omar apologized for her comments in a Monday afternoon tweet.House Democratic leaders issued a joint statement Monday calling on Representative Ilhan Omar (D., Minn.) to apologize for endorsing the “anti-Semitic trope” that Jewish donors leverage their wealth for nefarious political purposes.“Legitimate criticism of Israel’s policies is protected by the values of free speech and democratic debate that the United States and Israel share,” read the st
  
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• Chicago Weather: Snow, sleet, freezing rain coming Monday evening

  11-02-2019 20:27 via news.yahoo.com
  A Winter Weather Advisory was issued for Monday evening into Tuesday morning.
  
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• California governor to withdraw National Guard from border

  11-02-2019 20:27 via news.yahoo.com
  In a rebuke to President Donald Trump, the governor of California on Monday was set to sign an order to pull most of the National Guard troops deployed on the Mexico border.Governor Gavin Newsom's office said he was signing the order ahead of his State of the State speech on Tuesday.Newsom's office said most of the 360 troops deployed at the US-Mexico border will be redeployed to focus on "the actual threats" facing the western state, such as wildfires.
  
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• California to withdraw troops from border calling Trump’s immigration crisis ‘manufactured political theatre’

  11-02-2019 20:23 via news.yahoo.com
  A second US state is planning on pulling National Guard troops away from its border with Mexico, calling Donald Trump’s claims of a crisis at the border a “manufactured” problem and “political theater”.California Governor Gavin Newsom is expected to say as much on Tuesday during his state of the state address, his first since his election in November.“The border 'emergency' is a manufactured crisis, and California will not be part of this political theatre,&rd
  
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• Former DNC chair Ed Rendell shares advice for Democratic presidential candidates Warren and Klobuchar

  11-02-2019 19:51 via news.yahoo.com
  Democratic Senators Elizabeth Warren and Amy Klobuchar jump into 2020 White House race, despite growing controversies.
  
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• AOC suggests cocktail recipes to sip while sorting different political issues: 'Hard Brexit - a straight shot of bathtub gin'

  11-02-2019 19:50 via news.yahoo.com
  Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, the New York congresswoman and former bartender, has suggested a series of special cocktail recipes for those working for change.The recipes, which include one named Hard Brexit – “a straight shot of bathtub gin, with no imported botanicals” – followed an online suggestion by journalist Anand Giridharadas, who recently said the 29-year-old congresswoman had in a month “changed America’s discourse about billionaires and the common good
  
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• VIDEO: Woman struck in Wilmington hit-and-run while walking with driver's ex-boyfriend, police say

  11-02-2019 19:47 via news.yahoo.com
  Police have identified the at-large suspect in a dramatic hit-and-run that was caught on surveillance video last week in Wilmington.
  
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• 2019 Volvo S60 Is Sophisticated and Comfortable

  11-02-2019 19:33 via news.yahoo.com
  All-New 2019 Volvo S60 Is Sophisticated and ComfortableThe 2019 Volvo S60 is a stylish compact luxury sedan that’s new from the ground up. In fact, it’s an entirely different car than the outgo...
  
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• Italy's Salvini calls Guaido after meeting Venezuela delegation

  11-02-2019 19:22 via news.yahoo.com
  Italy's far-right Interior Minister Matteo Salvini spoke by phone with Venezuela's Juan Guaido on Monday after meeting with an opposition delegation he sent from the crisis-hit Latin American nation, his spokesman said.Salvini, who is also deputy prime minister, had a "friendly" conversation with Guaido in which he expressed his "total support" for free elections, later saying they should happen "as soon as possible".Guaido, who heads Venezuela's opposition-controlled National Assembly, last mon
  
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• US Muslim lawmaker's tweet sparks anti-Semitism charges

  11-02-2019 19:19 via news.yahoo.com
  Ilhan Omar, one of the first two Muslim women in the US Congress, drew stern rebukes from Republicans and fellow Democrats Monday after suggesting US support for Israel is fueled by money from the pro-Israel lobby AIPAC."It's all about the Benjamins baby," Omar replied, referring to American $100 bills featuring the likeness of Benjamin Franklin.
  
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• Fleeing IS holdout, French women say foreigners still inside

  11-02-2019 19:00 via news.yahoo.com
  Two French women who fled the Islamic State group's last pocket in Syria told AFP on Monday more foreigners were trapped inside, barred from leaving by Iraqi jihadists.The Muslim converts said they paid smugglers to take them out of the battered IS-held holdout of Baghouz to territory held by the US-backed Syrian Democratic Forces.
  
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• Your Money: The IRS Form 1040 looks different, in more ways than one

  11-02-2019 18:58
  While this year's taxapalooza is off to a slow start because of the earlier U.S. government shutdown, one thing already is clear: your refund might be a whole lot smaller than you were expecting.
  
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• Pressure mounts on Virginia Democrats over sex assault, racism scandals

  11-02-2019 18:55 via news.yahoo.com
  Fairfax is one of three top Democrats in the state engulfed by scandal this month.Governor Ralph Northam and Attorney General Mark Herring have also faced criticism after admitting to having worn blackface in the 1980s.Patrick Hope, a Democratic member of the state's House of Delegates, said he believed Fairfax should have resigned already after two women accused him of sexual assault but added he would not move immediately on his weekend call for impeachment proceedings.
  
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• U.S. will keep investigating journalist Khashoggi's murder: Pompeo

  11-02-2019 18:51 via news.yahoo.com
  "America is not covering up for a murder," Pompeo said during a visit to Hungary, adding that the United States would take more action to hold accountable all those responsible for the U.S.-based journalist's death inside the Saudi consulate in Istanbul in October.After initially denying his death, Saudi Arabia has confirmed that its agents killed Khashoggi, a Washington Post columnist and critic of the Saudi government.U.S. lawmakers, Democrats and some of Trump's fellow Republicans, have sough
  
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• Who Is Michael Sanchez? The Brother of Jeff Bezos' Girlfriend Faces Scrutiny

  11-02-2019 18:45 via news.yahoo.com
  The brother of a woman who had an affair with Amazon head Jeff Bezos denied being the source of texts published by the National Enquirer.
  
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• It snowed in... Maui, Hawaii?

  11-02-2019 18:38 via news.yahoo.com
  Yes, it snowed in Maui, Hawaii. This video is believed to have been shot at an elevation of 6,200 feet, inside a Hawaii State Park.Hawaii's Department of Land and Natural Resources says it may very well be the first time snow has fallen at a state park in the state.
  
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• Acting Pentagon chief Patrick Shanahan meets Afghan president in Kabul

  11-02-2019 18:37 via news.yahoo.com
  Acting Pentagon chief Patrick Shanahan made an unannounced visit to Afghanistan Monday, where he met with President Ashraf Ghani as the United States leads a push for peace talks with the Taliban.The visit comes after Washington held major talks with Taliban officials in Qatar last month that negotiators hope could herald a breakthrough in the grinding 17-year conflict.US President Donald Trump is pushing to end US involvement in Afghanistan, where 14,000 American troops are still deployed -- ra
  
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• U.S. lawmakers to hold border security talks in bid to avert shutdown

  11-02-2019 18:34 via news.yahoo.com
  The talks were scheduled to resume in Washington hours before Republican President Donald Trump plans a rally in the Texas border city of El Paso, where he is expected to promote his long-promised wall along the U.S.-Mexico border.An anti-wall protest will greet the Republican president, led by hometown Democrat Beto O'Rourke, the former congressman who is considering running for his party's 2020 presidential nomination after gaining national prominence last year by nearly upsetting Republican T
  
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• Pittsburgh synagogue shooting suspect Robert Bowers pleads not guilty to new charges

  11-02-2019 18:29 via news.yahoo.com
  The 46-year-old man accused of killing 11 people during an attack at a synagogue in Pittsburgh in October 2018 has pleaded not guilty to new charges.On Monday, Robert Bowers pleaded not guilty to 19 additional federal charges of hate crimes, as well as the obstruction of free exercise of religious beliefs and discharging a firearm.Mr Bowers now faces 63 charges.
  
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• Fierce battles near final IS foothold in eastern Syria

  11-02-2019 18:27 via news.yahoo.com
  BEIRUT (AP) — Islamic State group militants cornered in their last foothold in eastern Syria fought back with suicide car bombs, snipers and booby traps Monday, slowing Kurdish fighters advancing under the cover of U.S.-led coalition airstrikes, Kurdish news agencies and a Syrian war monitor said.
  
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• Vatican receives delegation from Venezuela's Guaido

  11-02-2019 18:23 via news.yahoo.com
  VATICAN CITY (AP) — A delegation representing Venezuelan opposition leader Juan Guaido met Monday with Vatican officials as the Holy See weighs a request from socialist President Nicholas Maduro to intervene in the country's political crisis.
  
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• Rick Steves: The pros and cons of cruising in Europe

  11-02-2019 18:21 via news.yahoo.com
  Cruising might not be for everyone, but it's an economic, efficient and popular of mode of travel in Europe and beyond.
  
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• Trump Is Rooting for Ocasio-Cortez’s Democratic Party

  11-02-2019 18:18 via news.yahoo.com
  For the moment, at least, the energy in the Democratic Party is all on the left – and I mean hard left.Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, the charismatic and camera-ready new congresswoman from New York, champions the Democrats’ current zeal for symmetry.The filmmaker Michael Moore, for one, calls her the leader of the party and wishes the Constitution could be changed so that she doesn’t need to wait until she’s 35 to be president (she's 29).
  
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• PM May to Make Statement to Parliament on Tuesday: Brexit Update

  11-02-2019 18:15 via news.yahoo.com
  Jack Dromey, the Labour politician whose cross-party amendment with Conservative Caroline Spelman to block a no-deal Brexit was passed by the House of Commons last month, said he is waiting until after Theresa May speaks on Tuesday before deciding whether to propose a repeat.“Has she got the message?” Dromey said in an interview.
  
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• Amy Klobuchar, latest presidential candidate, faces questions about temperament, treatment of staff

  11-02-2019 17:58 via news.yahoo.com
  On the day she announced her intention to run for the presidency, Sen. Amy Klobuchar, D-Minn., faced intense headwinds in the form of reports that she has been routinely demeaning to her employees.
  
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