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• It Looks Like the Land Rover Discovery SVX Is Dead

  15-02-2019 23:54 via news.yahoo.com
  This looks like another miss from Jaguar Land Rover Special Vehicle Operations.
  
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• Trump declares emergency for border wall, House panel launches probe

  15-02-2019 23:49 via news.yahoo.com
  The Republican president's move to circumvent Congress represented an escalation in his efforts to make good on a 2016 presidential campaign pledge to build a wall to halt the flow into the country of illegal immigrants, who Trump says bring crime and drugs.Hours after Trump's announcement, the Democratic-controlled House of Representatives' Judiciary Committee said it had launched an investigation into the emergency declaration.In a letter to Trump, committee Democrats asked him to make availab
  
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• Sarah Huckabee Sanders Interviewed by Special Counsel’s Team

  15-02-2019 23:33 via news.yahoo.com
  White House Press Secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders sat for an interview with Special Counsel Robert Mueller's investigators, she revealed Friday."The president urged me, like he has everyone in the administration, to fully cooperate with the special counsel. I was happy to voluntarily sit down with them," Sanders said.While the details of the interview are not public, one area investigators are interested in is how Trump crafted his public statements on the investigation, a matter Sanders would
  
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• Sanders Says Mueller’s Office Interviewed Her in Russia Investigation

  15-02-2019 23:26 via news.yahoo.com
  “The president urged me, like he has everyone in the administration, to fully cooperate with the special counsel,” Sanders said Friday in an email.CNN reported earlier Friday that Mueller’s team had interviewed Sanders, citing sources it didn’t identify, and said it happened about the same time the special counsel interviewed former White House Chief of Staff John Kelly.
  
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• Sports Illustrated model Kate Upton shares honest 'pregame' breast-pumping picture

  15-02-2019 23:09 via news.yahoo.com
  The model and actress posted a photo using a breast pump before her Valentine's Day dinner with husband Justin Verlander.
  
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• Judge says Roger Stone can keep talking about his criminal case, but not on the courthouse steps

  15-02-2019 22:59 via news.yahoo.com
  A federal judge ruled Friday lawyers and Roger Stone, the flamboyant political consultant, shouldn't comment to media on courthouse steps
  
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• A national emergency has been declared. Now what?

  15-02-2019 22:51 via news.yahoo.com
  On Friday morning, President Trump declared a national emergency in order to secure funding for a border wall, triggering what will likely be a long legal battle before anything is built.
  
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• Gunman opens fire at Illinois factory injuring 'multiple people' including four police officers

  15-02-2019 22:49 via news.yahoo.com
  Police have apprehended a gunman who reportedly used a laser-sighted pistol in a shooting at a manufacturing company in Illinois A local coroner confirmed at least one person was killed. Local reports suggested "multiple people" had been injured. A police spokesman said four officers had been injured and were all in a stable condition in hospital. Donald Trump was being kept informed about the incident, the White House said. John Probst, a worker who was in the plant in the city of Aurora,
  
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• U.S. judge issues gag order in trial of former Trump adviser Stone

  15-02-2019 22:41 via news.yahoo.com
  U.S. District Judge Amy Berman Jackson said she was issuing the modified gag order to "maintain the dignity and seriousness of the courthouse" in a case that has generated a carnival-like atmosphere since Stone's arrest in Florida on Jan. 25.The order prohibits lawyers involved in the case from speaking with news media outlets and prohibits other participants, like Stone himself, from making statements that may affect the case when they are near the courthouse.It does not stop Stone from talking
  
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• Wall Street rallies on trade optimism

  15-02-2019 22:29 via news.yahoo.com
  All three major U.S. indexes ended the session higher, and for the fourth straight session, the S&P 500 held above its 200-day moving average, a key technical level.Talks between the United States and China will resume in Washington next week, with both sides saying progress has been made toward resolving the two countries' contentious trade dispute.Tariff-vulnerable industrials provided the biggest lift to the blue-chip Dow, led by bellwethers Boeing Co, 3M Co, United Technologies Inc and C
  
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• US judge issues gag order in case of Trump advisor Roger Stone

  15-02-2019 22:26 via news.yahoo.com
  A US judge issued a gag order on Friday in the case against Roger Stone, the Trump advisor who has pleaded not guilty to charges stemming from the investigation into whether the president's election campaign colluded with Russia.Stone, 66, is charged with lying to Congress, witness tampering and obstruction stemming from his contacts with WikiLeaks, whose publication of Russian-hacked communications from Democrat Hillary Clinton's campaign gave a boost to Donald Trump.Stone was told not to speak
  
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• Trump Signs Border-Security-Funding Compromise

  15-02-2019 22:20 via news.yahoo.com
  The White House confirmed Friday that President Trump has signed a border-security-funding compromise bill passed by Congress earlier this week, just hours after he announced a national-emergency declaration designed to free up additional funds for his long-promised border wall.Congress's spending bill approved $1.375 billion for the construction of barriers at the southern border, far short of the $5.7 billion Trump requested. The national emergency, though it is likely to be tied up
  
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• Year in space put US astronaut's disease defenses on alert

  15-02-2019 22:18 via news.yahoo.com
  WASHINGTON (AP) — Nearly a year in space put astronaut Scott Kelly's immune system on high alert and changed the activity of some of his genes compared to his Earth-bound identical twin, researchers said Friday.
  
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• Officials: Suspect caught in Illinois shooting

  15-02-2019 22:07 via news.yahoo.com
  Police arrested a suspect in a shooting on Friday at a manufacturing plant in Aurora, Illinois, but the area remained under lockdown, officials said.
  
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• White House Press Secretary says she was interviewed by investigators working for Robert Mueller

  15-02-2019 22:03 via news.yahoo.com
  The White House press secretary is among a series of people linked to President Donald Trump who have been questioned by special counsel Robert Mueller.
  
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• Airlines to begin adding new gender option for 'non-binary' flyers

  15-02-2019 22:03 via news.yahoo.com
  Some U.S. airlines are on track to add a new gender option for “non-binary” passengers amid evolving best-practices suggestions for the industry.
  
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• Sarah Sanders says she was interviewed in Russia probe

  15-02-2019 21:59 via news.yahoo.com
  The White House press secretary said she had been interviewed by the special counsel investigating Russia's alleged interference in the 2016 election.
  
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• Maduro reveals secret Venezuela meetings with US

  15-02-2019 21:55 via news.yahoo.com
  Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro has admitted one of his top officials held two meetings with a prominent US diplomat.Foreign Minister Jorge Arreaza, a harsh critic of the United States, traveled recently to New York to meet with the US special envoy for Venezuela, Elliott Abrams.The first meeting lasted "two hours and the second three hours, a day later," Maduro told news agency Associated Press in a video released on Thursday.
  
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• Family of IS teen appeals to UK to help bring her home

  15-02-2019 21:48 via news.yahoo.com
  LONDON (AP) — The family of a pregnant British teenager who ran away to join Islamic State group is urging the government to help bring her home.
  
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• Washington state snow plow rage: 2 plow drivers threatened

  15-02-2019 21:47 via news.yahoo.com
  SPOKANE, Wash. (AP) — Unusually heavy snow in the Spokane area has caused snow plow rage: Two plow drivers clearing streets this week were threatened by people infuriated when their driveways ended up blocked with mounds of snow.
  
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• US military aircraft to deliver more aid to Venezuela border

  15-02-2019 21:46 via news.yahoo.com
  CARACAS, Venezuela (AP) — The Trump administration is sending another large shipment of humanitarian aid to the Venezuelan border in Colombia, for the first time using U.S. military aircraft as it increases pressure on Nicolas Maduro to give up power, according to a State Department email sent to Congress.
  
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• 'I use many stats.' Trump spars with reporter over why he declared a national emergency at the border

  15-02-2019 21:13 via news.yahoo.com
  Pressed to explain his decision to declare a national emergency, Trump said Friday he relies on "many stats" from "a lot of sources."
  
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• The Latest: Police: Men arrested in Smollett case are black

  15-02-2019 21:07 via news.yahoo.com
  CHICAGO (AP) — The Latest on the attack on "Empire" actor Jussie Smollett (all times local):
  
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• US police arrest two 'potential suspects' in TV actor attack probe

  15-02-2019 21:02 via news.yahoo.com
  Two "potential suspects" were under arrest and being interrogated in the probe of a black, openly gay US television actor's report that he was assaulted in a hate crime, police said Friday.Actor Jussie Smollett, of the television program "Empire," reported the late night incident to police on January 29.The 36-year-old said two men beat him while he was walking on the streets of downtown Chicago at around 2:00 am, and yelled racial and homophobic slurs.
  
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• Poland summons Israeli ambassador to clarify Netanyahu comments on Poles in Holocaust

  15-02-2019 20:55 via news.yahoo.com
  Poland summoned Israel's ambassador on Friday and threatened to scupper a summit in Jerusalem after reported comments in which Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu appeared to accuse the Polish nation of complicity in the Nazi Holocaust.Netanyahu's office said in a statement that the prime minister, who was in Warsaw for a U.S.-sponsored Middle East conference, had been misquoted by The Jerusalem Post, which issued a corrected story.
  
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• Supreme Court will rule on Trump administration's effort to add question on citizenship to 2020 Census

  15-02-2019 20:52 via news.yahoo.com
  The Trump administration's controversial effort to add a question on citizenship to the 2020 Census will be decided by the Supreme Court.
  
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• More rain, snow expected in storm-battered California, following days of mudslides and floods

  15-02-2019 20:47 via news.yahoo.com
  Californians were in clean-up mode Friday as the state slowly recovers from an onslaught of rain, wind and snow, which brought widespread flooding and mudslides.
  
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• After Auschwitz visit, Pence accuses Iran of Nazi-like anti-Semitism

  15-02-2019 20:46 via news.yahoo.com
  After visiting the Auschwitz concentration camp in Poland, Pence said the Nazi death camp had made him more determined to confront Tehran, saying it was "breathing out murderous threats, with the same vile anti-Semitic hatred that animated the Nazis in Europe."Iran's ancient Jewish community has slumped to an estimated 10,000 to 20,000 from 85,000 at the time of the 1979 Islamic Revolution, but is believed to be the biggest in the Middle East outside Israel.Pence, who said he was deeply moved by
  
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• Amazon invests in electric vehicle startup Rivian

  15-02-2019 20:45 via news.yahoo.com
  Electric vehicle startup Rivian on Friday announced a $700 million investment round led by Amazon, which recently pumped money into a young self-drivingcar technology firm.Details of Amazon's stake in US-based Rivian were not disclosed, but the company said it will remain independent.The potential Tesla rival late last year unveiled an electric pickup truck and an electric sport utility vehicle at an auto show in Los Angeles.
  
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• Trump's Phony National Emergency

  15-02-2019 20:40 via news.yahoo.com
  The real crisis is humanitarian and constitutional.
  
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• GOP Looks to Turn Ocasio-Cortez’s Green New Deal on Democrats

  15-02-2019 20:38 via news.yahoo.com
  Republicans are embracing Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez’s sweeping plan known as the Green New Deal to avert climate change, but not because they like it.Fueling the effort is a fact sheet that Ocasio-Cortez’s office circulated -- then retracted -- that included references that aren’t in the text of the actual resolution.
  
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• 2020 Democrats Pan Trump’s Emergency Declaration

  15-02-2019 20:37 via news.yahoo.com
  Numerous contenders for the 2020 Democratic presidential nomination came out swinging Friday against President Trump's controversial decision to declare a national emergency so he can move funds around for the construction of a wall on the southern border.Trump officially declared a national emergency Friday morning in response to Congress's refusal to approve the $5.7 billion he requested for construction of a wall on the southern border. Though it is likely to be tied up in lawsuits, the move
  
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• Paul Manafort: Trump's ex-campaign manager should serve at least 20 years, special counsel Robert Mueller recommends

  15-02-2019 20:33 via news.yahoo.com
  Donald Trump’s former campaign manager Paul Manafort should serve at least 20 years in prison, Robert Mueller has recommended.In requesting what will effectively be a life sentence for the 69-year-old, Mr Mueller also asked a judge that he push ahead with sentencing for the man who served as Mr Trump’s campaign manager for just a few months in the summer of 2016.“Manafort acted for more than a decade as if he were above the law, and deprived the federal government and various f
  
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• U.S. to deliver over 200 tons of aid to Venezuelan border

  15-02-2019 20:25 via news.yahoo.com
  U.S. military aircraft are expected to deliver more than 200 tons of humanitarian aid to the Venezuelan border in Colombia, with the shipment likely to take place on Saturday, a U.S. official said on Friday.The official, who spoke on condition of anonymity, said the U.S. State Department planned to make an announcement about the shipment on Friday but provided no further details.The State Department did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
  
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• Honda Ridgeline Recalled for Carwash Sensitivity

  15-02-2019 20:23 via news.yahoo.com
  The mid-size pickup truck's fuel pump could be damaged by carwash soap.
  
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• Trump news: President begrudgingly signs border bill and declares national emergency at US-Mexico border

  15-02-2019 20:20 via news.yahoo.com
  Donald Trump has declared a national emergency in a bid to fund his promised wall at the US-Mexico border without congressional approval, an action Democrats vowed to challenge as a violation of the US Constitution.The Republican president’s move to circumvent Congress represented a new approach to making good on a 2016 presidential campaign pledge to halt the flow of undocumented immigrants into the country, whom the president says bring crime and drugs.Mr Trump made no direct mention in
  
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• Democrats vow to fight Donald Trump's 'unlawful' national emergency as he reveals $8bn border wall plan

  15-02-2019 20:19 via news.yahoo.com
  Democrats and campaign groups have vowed to fight Donald Trump’s “unlawful” national emergency declaration as he revealed plans to raid existing government funds to build his Mexico border wall.  The US president hopes to gather $8 billion through various means to construct barriers along America’s southern border, declaring at a White House press conference that “walls work 100 per cent”.  Most controversial is the $3.6 billion Mr Trump wants to red
  
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• 'He Was Just Covered in Blood': Couple Speaks Out After Helping Man Who Killed Mountain Lion

  15-02-2019 20:16 via news.yahoo.com
  After a northern Colorado man killed a mountain lion following an attack, a couple helped him get to a hospital.
  
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• Rep. Ocasio-Cortez celebrates Amazon's decision to pull the plug on planned NYC headquarters

  15-02-2019 20:13 via news.yahoo.com
  Democratic Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez strongly advocated against Amazon's plans to drop anchor in Queens; Laura Ingle reports.
  
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• Trump denies he takes orders from Sean Hannity

  15-02-2019 20:12 via news.yahoo.com
  The president name-checks Sean Hannity, Rush Limbaugh, Laura Ingraham, Tucker Carlson and Ann Coulter at a press conference at which he declared a national emergency.
  
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• US military to ship Venezuela aid to Colombia

  15-02-2019 20:01 via news.yahoo.com
  The US military will transport some 200 tons of humanitarian aid to Colombia to help relieve the crisis in neighboring Venezuela, a US defense official said Friday.Speaking on condition of anonymity ahead of a formal announcement, the official said the aid would be sent in the coming days, most likely aboard a C-17 transport plane.Venezuela is plagued by hyperinflation and major shortages of basic goods, with opposition leader Juan Guaido and President Nicolas Maduro vying for control of the cou
  
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• NASA mulls buying new rides to space from Russia amid program delays

  15-02-2019 20:00 via news.yahoo.com
  The U.S. space agency has since had to rely on Russia's Roscosmos program to ferry astronauts to the orbital space station at a cost of roughly $80 million per seat, NASA has said.After 2019 there are no seats available on the spacecraft for U.S. crew, and a NASA advisory panel recommended on Friday that the U.S. space program develop a contingency plan to guarantee access to the station in case technical problems delay Boeing and SpaceX any further.A NASA spokesman on Friday characterized a sol
  
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• India vows 'heavy price' after deadly Kashmir attack

  15-02-2019 19:57 via news.yahoo.com
  India and Pakistan's troubled ties risked taking a dangerous new turn on Friday as New Delhi accused Islamabad of harbouring militants behind one of the deadliest attacks in three decades of bloodshed in Indian-administered Kashmir.At least 41 paramilitary troops were killed on Thursday as explosives packed in a van ripped through a convoy bringing 2,500 troopers back from leave not far from the main city Srinagar, police said.Local media reported that the Pakistan-based Jaish-e-Mohammed Islamis
  
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• Stacey Abrams calls voter suppression 'the crisis of our day'

  15-02-2019 19:33 via news.yahoo.com
  Georgia Democrat Stacey Abrams said Friday that “voter suppression … has to be considered the crisis of our day,” a clear rebuke to Trump's declaration of a national emergency on the U.S.-Mexico border.
  
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• Push on last IS enclave blunted by discovery of civilians

  15-02-2019 19:23 via news.yahoo.com
  AL-OMAR OIL FIELD BASE, Syria (AP) — The offensive on the last enclave held by the Islamic State group in eastern Syria has been blunted by the discovery of hundreds of civilians still living there, a commander with the Kurdish-led force fighting the extremists said Friday.
  
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• BofA Says a ‘Real’ Trade Deal Could Vault S&P 500 to Record High

  15-02-2019 19:23 via news.yahoo.com
  The firm’s model on corporate earnings and equity valuations suggests that the market has priced in “a partial deal,” one where only some of the issues get resolved in favor of corporate America, according to strategists led by Savita Subramanian.In a best-case scenario, the S&P 500 could climb 5 percent to 10 percent when a “real deal” is struck.Companies from 3M Co. to Stanley Black & Decker Inc. have slashed their guidance this year, citing either trade t
  
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• Follow the money: How President Trump's national emergency will pay for a border wall

  15-02-2019 19:19 via news.yahoo.com
  President Trump will use a national emergency and other measures to tap $8 billion from the budget for his controversial border wall.
  
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• Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez to introduce bill blocking Trump’s ‘fake national emergency’

  15-02-2019 19:18 via news.yahoo.com
  Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and Joaquin Castro have announced new legislation they intend to introduce as part of an effort to block Donald Trump’s national emergency declaration over the US-Mexico border.The Democratic politicians pointed to the National Emergencies Act that provides Congress the ability to “terminate the President’s emergency declaration”, according to Mr Castro.
  
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• During a school lockdown, 7-year-old writes note on her arm in case she dies

  15-02-2019 19:11 via news.yahoo.com
  A second-grader wrote a chilling note to her parents on her arm during school lockdown.
  
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