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• Wall Street advances on trade hopes, tame inflation data

  13-02-2019 23:59 via news.yahoo.com
  All three major U.S. stock indexes gained ground, with the S&P 500 and the Nasdaq posting their fourth consecutive advances.For the second straight day, the S&P 500 closed above its 200-day moving average, a key technical level.Stocks briefly pared gains following a late-morning tweet by U.S. Senator Marco Rubio saying he would introduce a bill to "tax corporate buybacks the same way as dividends."In Beijing, U.S. Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin said "so far, so good," regarding ongoin
  
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• Guaido seeks to wrest control of Venezuela's oil company

  13-02-2019 23:40 via news.yahoo.com
  CARACAS, Venezuela (AP) — Venezuela's opposition-controlled National Assembly appointed a transitional board of directors for the state oil company Wednesday, in a bid by congress chief Juan Guaido to gain control of an industry that is the economic backbone of the country.
  
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• Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez is 'fine' with a sitting president who smokes weed

  13-02-2019 23:32 via news.yahoo.com
  Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez continues to be chill as hell.In an interview with TMZ on Wednesday, Ocasio-Cortez shared some of her thoughts on cannabis legalization, proving she's extremely open-minded on the topic.When asked if she'd be OK with a sitting president who smokes, the 29-year-old congresswoman said, "I don't care. Yeah. I don't care, it's fine with me. You're not hurting anybody, you know?""There are plenty of people who drink, they'll go out to happy hour ... how is that different from
  
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• The Latest: Arlington diocese says 16 priests on abuse list

  13-02-2019 23:29 via news.yahoo.com
  RICHMOND, Va. (AP) — The Latest on Catholic dioceses in Virginia releasing lists of priests with credible allegations of sexual abuse of a minor against them (all times local):
  
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• Farewell to a 'workhorse': Mars rover Opportunity officially dead after 15 years

  13-02-2019 23:10 via news.yahoo.com
  After more than eight months without contact, NASA tried one more time to revive the Mars rover Opportunity before bidding it farewell – and failed.
  
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• Thune: Green New Deal is bad for American workers, families who will get stuck paying the bill

  13-02-2019 22:47 via news.yahoo.com
  Sen. Markey accusing McConnell of trying to sabotage Green New Deal; reaction from Senate Majority Whip John Thune.
  
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• Wary of shutdown, Trump inches toward support for funding deal

  13-02-2019 22:33 via news.yahoo.com
  U.S. President Donald Trump on Wednesday edged toward backing a deal in Congress on government funding that would not meet his demand for $5.7 billion for a wall on the Mexican border but would avert a partial government shutdown.Trump, widely blamed for a five-week shutdown that ended in January, said he did not want to see federal agencies close again because of fighting over funds for the wall, one of his signature campaign promises in the 2016 election.Trump said he would hold off on a decis
  
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• Texas Mom Arrested After Kids Found Locked in Dog Cage and Covered in Feces

  13-02-2019 22:32 via news.yahoo.com
  The two eldest children were found in a 3 by 3 foot dog cage and the two other children were discovered nearby, covered in urine and feces.
  
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• Brock Long, who oversaw Trump administration's response to Hurricane Maria, resigns as FEMA chief

  13-02-2019 22:30 via news.yahoo.com
  Deputy Administrator Pete Gaynor will become acting administrator upon Brock Long’s departure.
  
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• America Wants to Talk About Iran, But Europe Doesn’t

  13-02-2019 22:30 via news.yahoo.com
  (Bloomberg Opinion) -- When Secretary of State Mike Pompeo first described this week’s big international conference in Warsaw, he left little doubt about its purpose. At the meeting, he said last month, America and its allies would discuss “how it is we together can get Iran to behave like a normal nation.”
  
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• Accuweather Forecast: Strong storm moves into Bay Area

  13-02-2019 22:23 via news.yahoo.com
  Today's storm ranks a 3-Strong on our Storm Impact Scale with heavy rain and gusty winds.Expect moderate to heavy rain during the morning commute.
  
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• Police recover rare monkey stolen from Florida zoo

  13-02-2019 22:05 via news.yahoo.com
  Kali, the 12-year-old rare Goeldi's monkey reported stolen from Palm Beach Zoo in Florida, has been found safe and sound. (Feb.13)
  
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• Ilhan Omar confronts Elliott Abrams over human rights

  13-02-2019 22:02 via news.yahoo.com
  Omar suggested Americans would have reason to doubt Abrams’ testimony about the United States role in Venezuela. “If I could respond to that,” said Abrams. “I’m not going to respond to that question, I’m sorry,” said Abrams. Omar continued.
  
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• Exclusive look at how migrant caravan has overwhelmed US agents

  13-02-2019 21:57 via news.yahoo.com
  Fox News got an inside look at the workings of one of the busiest crossings on the southern border.
  
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• Mother Still Searching for Answers Nine Years After Son`s Valentine`s Day Murder

  13-02-2019 21:43 via news.yahoo.com
  It`s been nine years since someone murdered Johnny Valdivia on Valentine`s Day, just feet away from the front door of his Kansas City home.
  
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• Sparks fly as Omar takes on U.S. Venezuela envoy

  13-02-2019 21:36 via news.yahoo.com
  Newly-elected Democratic Congresswoman Ilhan Omar, during a hearing on Venezuela on Wednesday, said she "failed to understand" why the American people should believe Special Envoy Elliott Abrams' statements on Venezuela, given his involvement in the Iran-Contra scandal of the 1980s. In the testy exchange, Abrams responded saying, "I am not going to respond to that kind of personal attack." Rough Cut (no reporter narration).
  
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• Ohio man pleads not guilty to deputy slaying charges

  13-02-2019 21:29 via news.yahoo.com
  CINCINNATI (AP) — A man who could face the death penalty if convicted pleaded not guilty Wednesday to charges he fatally shot an Ohio sheriff's deputy and tried to kill others during a standoff.
  
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• Democratic lawmakers say U.S. military action in Venezuela 'not an option'

  13-02-2019 21:27 via news.yahoo.com
  The Democratic chairman of the House of Representatives Foreign Affairs Committee, Eliot Engel, expressed concern about Trump's hints that military action was an option in Venezuela, where President Nicolas Maduro is under intense international pressure to step aside and the country's economy is in chaos."I do worry about the president's saber rattling, his hints that U.S. military intervention remains an option.The head of Venezuela's National Assembly, Juan Guaido, invoked a constitutional pro
  
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• Mars Opportunity rover officially dead after 15 years, NASA declares

  13-02-2019 21:24 via news.yahoo.com
  After more than eight months without contact, NASA tried one more time to revive the Mars rover Opportunity before bidding it a fond farewell -- and failed.
  
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• Eastern Canada digs out from major snow storm

  13-02-2019 21:19 via news.yahoo.com
  A huge snowstorm blanketed eastern Canada on Wednesday, closing schools, grounding hundreds of flights and forcing many workers to stay home as tens of thousands of plows toiled to clear roads.Wind gusts up to 70 kilometers (44 miles) per hour were also expected in the evening, blowing snow and severely reducing visibility from Toronto, Ottawa and Montreal to the Atlantic coast provinces.A winter storm warning was in place for much of the region and travel was not advised.
  
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• Tiger found in abandoned home now at sanctuary

  13-02-2019 21:09 via news.yahoo.com
  A tiger found in an abandoned Houston home has made it safely to an animal sanctuary in East Texas. (Feb. 13)
  
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• Israeli leader sees 'common interest' in confronting Iran

  13-02-2019 21:09 via news.yahoo.com
  WARSAW, Poland (AP) — Israel's prime minister on Wednesday sent out a belligerent rallying cry to his Arab partners at a U.S.-backed Mideast conference, saying he planned to focus on the "common interest" of confronting Iran.
  
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• AP FACT CHECK: Newsom wrong on illegal border crossings

  13-02-2019 21:08 via news.yahoo.com
  SAN DIEGO (AP) — California Gov. Gavin Newsom devoted part of his first State of the State address to attacking President Donald Trump's positions on illegal immigration, declaring, "This border emergency is nothing more than a manufactured crisis and California will not be part of this political theater."
  
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• Former US Air Force agent charged with defecting to Iran

  13-02-2019 21:06 via news.yahoo.com
  The US Justice Department charged a former Air Force intelligence official Wednesday with spying for Iran, saying she exposed a fellow US agent and helped the Revolutionary Guard target her former colleagues for cyber attacks.US officials said Monica Witt, 39, who worked a decade in Air Force counterintelligence, had an "ideological" turn against her country and defected in 2013, turning over information on US espionage operations against Tehran."It is a sad day for America when one of its citiz
  
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• US government shutdown: Trump expected to sign border wall deal to avoid closure

  13-02-2019 21:03 via news.yahoo.com
  Addressing the deal on Wednesday, Mr Trump said he would be taking “a very serious look” at the text when the White House receives it from Congress.Lawmakers on Capitol Hill were still haggling over final details, but they appeared on track to finish soon.White House officials cautioned on Wednesday that they have yet to receive full legislative language.
  
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• Apple ramps up self-driving program as Waymo says its tech improves

  13-02-2019 21:00 via news.yahoo.com
  Apple Inc has sharply increased its efforts to test self-driving cars on public roads but lags far behind market leader Waymo on a key safety metric, according to data released on Wednesday by the California Department of Motor Vehicles.Apple, which has kept details of its self-driving program under wraps, put in 79,745 miles (128,337 km) of testing in California in 2018, still far short of 10 million miles of testing on roads around the world by Alphabet Inc's Waymo.The data was part of Califor
  
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• U.S. charges former top Apple lawyer with insider trading

  13-02-2019 20:59 via news.yahoo.com
  Authorities said Gene Levoff exploited his positions as corporate secretary, head of corporate law and co-chairman of a committee that reviewed draft copies of Apple's financial results to trade illegally between 2011 and 2016.Prosecutors said Levoff, 45, of San Carlos, California,generated $604,000 in illegal gains, including realized profit and avoided losses, before Apple terminated his decade-long employment in September.
  
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• From Mass Weddings to Spilled Wine: How 6 Countries Around the World Celebrate Valentine's Day

  13-02-2019 20:58 via news.yahoo.com
  Here are some unusual Valentine's Day traditions around the world
  
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• White Supremacist Sentenced to Life in Prison for NYC Sword Killing

  13-02-2019 20:57 via news.yahoo.com
  A 30-year-old white supremacist who traveled from Baltimore to Manhattan to kill a black man with a sword was sentenced Wednesday.
  
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• Suicide bomber targeting Iran's Revolutionary Guard kills 27

  13-02-2019 20:50 via news.yahoo.com
  TEHRAN, Iran (AP) — A suicide car bomber claimed by an al-Qaida-linked group attacked a bus carrying members of Iran's elite Revolutionary Guard paramilitary force Wednesday, killing at least 27 people and wounding 13 others, state media reported.
  
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• Former US intelligence officer charged with spying for Iran after defection

  13-02-2019 20:49 via news.yahoo.com
  A former US Air Force intelligence officer has been charged with helping Iran target ex-colleagues with cyberattacks after defecting to the country in what was dubbed a “betrayal” of America.  Monica Witt, 39, was accused of switching sides after more than a decade of US military service and identifying American intelligence officers and their personal Facebook accounts for the Iranian regime.  Messages quoted in an indictment unsealed yesterday showed Witt saying that she
  
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• Suicide attack on bus kills 27 Iran Revolutionary Guards

  13-02-2019 20:47 via news.yahoo.com
  A suicide car bombing on a Revolutionary Guards bus in southeastern Iran killed 27 troops on Wednesday, in one of the deadliest attacks on the elite forces in years.The assault came as the troops were returning from a border patrol mission, the Guards said in a statement."In this terrorist attack 27 of Islam's brave warriors were killed and 13 were wounded," the statement read, accusing "world domination and Zionist intelligence agencies" of supporting the attackers.
  
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• Venezuela's Guaido Names PDVSA Board in Haste to Seize Assets

  13-02-2019 20:46 via news.yahoo.com
  (Bloomberg) -- Venezuela’s National Assembly, led by Juan Guaido, voted to select board members for state oil company Petroleos de Venezuela SA and U.S. refining arm Citgo, as it moves to protect the country’s assets abroad from embattled President Nicolas Maduro.
  
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• Fairfax accuser speaks out on abuse at Stanford #MeToo panel

  13-02-2019 20:45 via news.yahoo.com
  STANFORD, Calif. (AP) — A college professor avoided talking directly about her accusation that Virginia's lieutenant governor sexually assaulted her, but she talked in detail about her research and thoughts on the growing number of women reporting abuse.
  
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• Hackers can gain full control over Xiaomi electric scooter, security group finds

  13-02-2019 20:42 via news.yahoo.com
  The Xiaomi M365 electric scooter has a defect in which hackers can take complete control over the vehicle, according to Zimperium.
  
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• To the Parkland Parents: I Lost My Son at Sandy Hook. Here’s Some Advice for this Painful Anniversary

  13-02-2019 20:39 via news.yahoo.com
  "It’s not about moving forward; it’s about moving through"
  
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• White supremacist sentenced for killing black man with sword

  13-02-2019 20:38 via news.yahoo.com
  NEW YORK (AP) — A white supremacist who killed a black man with a sword wanted to ignite a worldwide race war, a prosecutor told a judge who sentenced the man Wednesday to life in prison without parole.
  
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• Vote on ending US shutdown likely Thursday, Trump on fence

  13-02-2019 20:38 via news.yahoo.com
  A plan to avert another US government shutdown will not receive a vote in Congress before Thursday evening, one day before the deadline, lawmakers said, as Donald Trump declined to say whether he would sign the measure.On Wednesday, Trump said he has not seen the legislation yet, but he did not refuse to sign it into law either, suggesting he could stomach the deal in order to avoid a shutdown, and find another way to boost funding for his long-promised wall."We'll take a very serious look at it
  
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• Texas children found in dog cage placed in foster care

  13-02-2019 20:37 via news.yahoo.com
  DALLAS (AP) — Four malnourished siblings, all aged 5 or younger, have been placed in foster care after authorities found them hungry and thirsty in a North Texas barn, two locked in a dog cage and the others smeared with excrement, authorities said Wednesday.
  
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• Suicide bomber targeting Iran's Revolutionary Guard kills 20

  13-02-2019 20:31 via news.yahoo.com
  TEHRAN, Iran (AP) — A suicide car bomber claimed by an al-Qaida-linked group attacked a bus carrying members of Iran's elite Revolutionary Guard paramilitary force Wednesday, killing at least 20 people and wounding 20 others, state media reported.
  
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• Meghan Markle hounded like Diana? Hardly, British papers say

  13-02-2019 20:30 via news.yahoo.com
  Could Meghan Markle really face the same fate as Princess Diana?Britain's newspapers on Wednesday angrily challenged US actor George Clooney's claim that their treatment of Prince Harry's wife resembled the hounding of his late mother.Clooney, who attended the couple's wedding last year, on Tuesday stirred up a hornet's nest of discontent by accusing the London tabloids of giving the new Duchess of Sussex "a raw deal".
  
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• CNN uses Ilhan Omar’s anti-Semitism controversy to attack Trump

  13-02-2019 20:26 via news.yahoo.com
  CNN is using Ilhan Omar’s anti-Semitic controversy to attack President Trump, according to the GOP.
  
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• Trump blasts Venezuela over blocked US aid shipments

  13-02-2019 20:23 via news.yahoo.com
  President Donald Trump warned Venezuela on Wednesday that "all options" are on the table and demanded that far left leader, Nicolas Maduro, unblock US aid shipments to the country.Again stressing that he had not ruled out military options, Trump said he was "sad" about the "turmoil" in the oil-rich Latin American nation."You'll see," he told reporters at a White House meeting with his Colombian counterpart Ivan Duque, when asked if thousands of US troops could deploy.
  
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• How long can Joe Biden, Bernie Sanders and Beto O'Rourke afford to wait to jump into 2020 race?

  13-02-2019 20:16 via news.yahoo.com
  As more presidential hopefuls crisscross the state, the three Democratic contenders most preferred by Iowans still aren't in the race.
  
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• Talks to end three-day Denver teachers strike resume after progress reported

  13-02-2019 20:09 via news.yahoo.com
  Negotiators for striking Denver teachers and the city school district returned to the bargaining table on Wednesday after a productive session the previous day, as the walkout affecting 92,000 students entered a third day.The two sides sounded an optimistic note on Tuesday after resuming talks that had broken off on Saturday, and went late into the night seeking to resolve differences over a variable pay system, known as ProComp, which has been at the center of the dispute."We exchanged proposal
  
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• Google investing billions in US operations

  13-02-2019 20:08 via news.yahoo.com
  Google said Wednesday it will invest $13 billion in US data centers and offices this year as the internet giant continues to expand across the country.The spending will build on more than $9 billion in US investments in the past year and should create the potential for tens of thousands of new jobs, according to chief executive Sundar Pichai."This growth will allow us to invest in the communities where we operate, while we improve the products and services that help billions of people and busine
  
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• Former U.S. Air Force officer faces spy charges after defecting to Iran

  13-02-2019 20:04 via news.yahoo.com
  The U.S. Justice Department said Witt, 39, assembled dossiers on eight U.S. military intelligence agents she had worked with for Iranian hackers, who then used Facebook and e-mail to try to install spyware on their computers."She decided to turn against the United States and shift her loyalty to Iran," said Jay Tabb, the FBI's executive assistant director for national security."Her primary motivation appears to be ideological."Washington also charged four Iranian nationals who it said were invol
  
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• Virginia State Senator Amanda Chase calls for 'due process' amid Fairfax's sexual assault allegations

  13-02-2019 19:57 via news.yahoo.com
  Republican Virginia State Sen. Amanda Chase is calling for an investigation into the sexual assault allegations made against Democratic Lt. Gov. Justin Fairfax.
  
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• Slower growth no reason to quit China: Epoch's Van Valen

  13-02-2019 19:54
  Slower overall growth is the new normal for China, but the globe’s second largest economy still holds much promise for choosy foreign investors, according to U.S. portfolio manager Kera Van Valen,...
  
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• Border security deal "win" for Americans: Pelosi

  13-02-2019 19:52 via news.yahoo.com
  Democratic House Speaker Nancy Pelosi said on Wednesday the bipartisan border security deal is a compromise and a win for the American people. Rough Cut (no reporter narration).
  
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