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• Colin Kaepernick settles collusion case with NFL

  16-02-2019 23:51 via news.yahoo.com
  Colin Kaepernick and his former teammate, Eric Reid, have reached a settlement in their suit against the NFL. The players sued the league in 2017, alleging it colluded to keep the players out of league in response to their protests -- against police brutality and racial injustice -- during the pre-game National Anthem, which drew the ire of President Donald Trump. SEE ALSO: Colin Kaepernick's Pet Tortoise Is the NFL's Internet MVPDetails of the settlement were not disclosed. In fact, i
  
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• Merck, Pfizer drug combo extends kidney cancer survival: study

  16-02-2019 23:19 via news.yahoo.com
  Nearly 90 percent of patients who received the combination therapy were still alive after 12 months compared with about 78 percent of patients who were alive after a year when treated with the older drug Sutent, data showed.Merck on Monday released interim data from the trial, saying the combination reduced the risk of death by 47 percent compared with Sutent.The findings add to an arsenal of positive clinical data forKeytruda, which is approved to treat several types of cancer, making it by far
  
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• Ann Coulter after Trump's order: ‘The only national emergency is that our president is an idiot’

  16-02-2019 23:19 via news.yahoo.com
  President Donald Trump's announcement Friday that he was declaring a national emergency wasn't received well by all Republicans, none more vocal than Ann Coulter.
  
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• U.S. President Trump to get update on China trade talks

  16-02-2019 23:15 via news.yahoo.com
  White House spokeswoman Sarah Sanders said Trump would meet members of his trade team at his Mar-a-Lago club in Palm Beach, Florida on Saturday afternoon.Joining Trump in person will be U.S. Trade Representative Robert Lighthizer, Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross, White House Chief of Staff Mick Mulvaney and trade expert Peter Navarro, said Sanders.
  
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• Medical emergency triggers stampede at San Francisco theater

  16-02-2019 23:11 via news.yahoo.com
  SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Chaos broke out during a performance of the musical "Hamilton" at San Francisco's Orpheum theater Friday night after audience members mistook a medical emergency for a shooting.
  
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• Let us raise our daughter's baby, say family of Bethnal Green Jihadi bride Shamima Begum

  16-02-2019 23:00 via news.yahoo.com
  The family of Bethnal Green teenager Shamima Begum have urged the British government to give them custody of her unborn child while she faces the prospect of imprisonment for supporting Islamic State. The pregnant 19-year-old has said she fears her baby, due to be born anytime now, will be taken from her if she manages to return to Britain after leaving the country in 2015 to join the terror group in Syria. Now her family have said that if she were to face a custodial sentence for her support of
  
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• The Latest: Diocese says McCarrick to stay at friary for now

  16-02-2019 22:56 via news.yahoo.com
  VATICAN CITY (AP) — The Latest on the defrocking of former U.S. cardinal Theodore McCarrick (all times local):
  
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• US military planes head for Venezuela with aid

  16-02-2019 22:50 via news.yahoo.com
  The U.S. Air Force has begun flying tons of aid to a Colombian town on the Venezuelan border as part of an effort meant to undermine socialist President Nicolas Maduro. (Feb. 16)
  
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• Mueller seeks tough sentence for Manafort

  16-02-2019 22:42 via news.yahoo.com
  Prosecutors for Special Counsel Robert Mueller urged a federal judge in Virginia on Friday to impose a strict prison sentence for President Donald Trump's former campaign manager Paul Manafort, after a jury last year convicted him on eight counts of bank and tax fraud. Nathan Frandino has more.
  
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• More U.S.-Sent Humanitarian Aid for Venezuela Lands in Colombia

  16-02-2019 22:38 via news.yahoo.com
  U.S. military airplanes loaded with food, medicine and hygiene kits took off from Homestead Air Reserve Base in Miami and landed at the Colombian border city of Cucuta on Saturday.The aid now sits alongside relief supplies that arrived on Feb. 8.
  
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• Man in prison confesses to 90 murders ranging from Los Angeles to Florida, even provides drawings of victims

  16-02-2019 22:34 via news.yahoo.com
  A 78-year-old man in a Texas prison for murder has confessed to 90 killings all over the country and even provided authorities with portraits of some of his victims, according to the FBI.
  
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• Illinois factory gunman killed five victims after being fired

  16-02-2019 22:27 via news.yahoo.com
  The gunman who killed five co-workers and wounded five police officers at an Illinois factory was a violent felon who had just been fired, and the plant manager and a young intern were among his victims, authorities said on Saturday.Gary Martin, 45, armed himself with a handgun, which he owned illegally, before reporting for a meeting on Friday at the Henry Pratt Company where his employment was terminated, Aurora Police Chief Kristen Ziman told reporters.Martin had bought the gun he used, a .40
  
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• Police: Aurora attacker shouldn't have owned gun

  16-02-2019 22:16 via news.yahoo.com
  Police say the fired worker who killed five people at a warehouse in Aurora, Illinois, was able to buy the gun he used because an initial background check didn't catch that he had a prior felony conviction in Mississippi. (Feb. 16)
  
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• The Latest: US cardinal hails pope's leadership on abuse

  16-02-2019 22:13 via news.yahoo.com
  VATICAN CITY (AP) — The Latest on the defrocking of former U.S. cardinal Theodore McCarrick (all times local):
  
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• Vatican defrocks former US cardinal McCarrick for sex abuse

  16-02-2019 22:12 via news.yahoo.com
  VATICAN CITY (AP) — Former Cardinal Theodore McCarrick has been found guilty by the Vatican of sex abuse and defrocked, as calls rose Saturday for Pope Francis to reveal what he knew about the once-powerful American prelate's apparently decades-long predatory sexual behavior.
  
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• Venezuela's Guaido says thousands of supporters ready to bring in US aid

  16-02-2019 22:01 via news.yahoo.com
  Venezuelan opposition leader Juan Guaido on Saturday said he was mobilizing thousands of volunteers to help bring American aid into the country next week as President Nicolas Maduro vowed to strengthen border security and block what he called a US invasion.Guaido and Maduro have been engaged in a war of words over the US aid that has been piling up in the Colombian border town of Cucuta.Meantime, Venezuelan foreign minister Jorge Arreaza confirmed having held two secret meetings with a special U
  
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• Aurora shooting: Man who shot five dead 'was about to lose job', say police as victims identified

  16-02-2019 21:50 via news.yahoo.com
  Gary Martin, 45, also injured five police officers and a sixth employee after he opened fire at Henry Pratt Company in Aurora, Illinois, on Friday.It later emerged that Martin was not legally allowed to own a gun because of a previous conviction for aggravated assault in Mississippi.Illinois State Police sent Martin a letter asking him to voluntarily surrender the weapon, but he did not, according to Aurora police chief Kristen Ziman.
  
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• Trump's Emergency Sparks Protests, Potential Congressional Moves

  16-02-2019 21:49 via news.yahoo.com
  House Democrats may pass a resolution disapproving the emergency declaration, which the White House says allows him to take $3.6 billion from military construction projects to instead build a wall on the U.S. border with Mexico.Senate Democratic Leader Chuck Schumer could force a vote on the resolution after it passes the House, and there are indications that several Republicans would support it.
  
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• Amazon pays zero federal taxes for second year in succession despite doubling profits, says new report

  16-02-2019 21:49 via news.yahoo.com
  Amazon has paid zero federal taxes for the second year in succession, despite a doubling of its profits, according to a new report.Although the tech giant founded by Jeff Bezos saw its profits grow from $5.6bn (£4.3bn) in 2017 to $11.2bn (£8.7bn) in 2018, it will actually receive a tax rebate of $129m (£100m).“The company’s newest corporate filing reveals that, far from paying the statutory 21 per cent income tax rate on its US income in 2018, Amazon reported a fede
  
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• Joe Biden says will decide soon whether to run for presidency

  16-02-2019 21:47 via news.yahoo.com
  Former U.S. Vice President Joe Biden, a Democrat, said on Saturday he had not yet decided whether to run for president in 2020 but would do so "in the near term".More than two dozen Democrats could ultimately opt to run for president, creating a crowded field hoping to challenge President Donald Trump.Biden, who served two terms as vice president after decades in the U.S. Senate, would have the advantage of name recognition should he enter the race.
  
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• New York City Mayor Bill De Blasio slams Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez's opposition to Amazon

  16-02-2019 21:46 via news.yahoo.com
  Democrats are fighting each other over whether or not Amazon should have built their new headquarters in New York.
  
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• Problem: The Stealth F-35 Lightning II Can't Handle Lightning

  16-02-2019 21:31 via news.yahoo.com
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• More U.S. aid for Venezuela arrives in Colombia

  16-02-2019 21:26 via news.yahoo.com
  A U.S. military transport plane carrying humanitarian aid meant for Venezuelans landed in the Colombian border city of Cucuta on Saturday, where food and medicine are being stored amid uncertainty over how and where aid will be distributed. Havovi Cooper reports.
  
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• Potential privacy lapse found in Americans' 2010 census data

  16-02-2019 21:15 via finance.yahoo.com
  An internal team at the Census Bureau found that basic personal information collected from more than 100 million Americans during the 2010 head count could be reconstructed from encrypted data, but with lots of mistakes, a top agency official disclosed Saturday.The Census Bureau is now scrapping its old data shielding technique for a state-of-the-art method that Abowd claimed is far better than Google's or Apple's.Some former agency chiefs fear the potential privacy problem will add to the worri
  
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• Gone in a New York minute: How the Amazon deal fell apart

  16-02-2019 20:59 via news.yahoo.com
  NEW YORK (AP) — In early November, word began to leak that Amazon was serious about choosing New York to build a giant new campus. The city was eager to lure the company and its thousands of high-paying tech jobs, offering billions in tax incentives and lighting the Empire State Building in Amazon orange.
  
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• Email Address Given to Ocasio-Cortez Beau Sparks Heated Exchange

  16-02-2019 20:51 via news.yahoo.com
  “While you were having a nice Valentine’s Day, @AOC decided to put her boyfriend on staff -- drawing a salary on the taxpayer’s dime.Nice to see her adapting to the swamp so quickly,” the conservative magazine’s Luke Thompson said on his Twitter feed.Other conservative voices piled on, with Katrina Pierson, an adviser to President Donald Trump’s re-election campaign, who suggested that “her jobs for everyone starts with her boyfriend.
  
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• US-backed Syria force says IS territorial defeat is near

  16-02-2019 20:37 via news.yahoo.com
  BAGHOUZ, Syria (AP) — The sound of mortar shelling and fighter jets whizzing by filled the air.
  
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• US ‘tells India it respects its right to self-defence’ after cross-border militant attack kills 44 paramilitary police

  16-02-2019 20:35 via news.yahoo.com
  The US has supported India’s right to “self defence” against cross-border terrorism after an attack claimed by Pakistan-based militants killed at least 44 police officers in the disputed territory of Kashmir.In comments that will please Indian hawks but also raise fears that tensions between India and Pakistan could escalate yet further, US national security advisor John Bolton reportedly told his counterpart in Delhi, that America “offered all assistance to India”
  
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• How much influence will Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez have in setting the agenda for the 2020 election cycle?

  16-02-2019 20:26 via news.yahoo.com
  Talk radio host John Kobylt says Democrat Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez has a noisy but narrow following.
  
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• Vatican defrocks ex-Cardinal Theodore McCarrick after finding him guilty of sexual crimes

  16-02-2019 20:20 via news.yahoo.com
  Former U.S. Cardinal Theodore McCarrick has been defrocked by Pope Francis after Vatican officials found him guilty of sexual crimes against minors and adults, the Vatican said Saturday.
  
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• Dying days of caliphate in Syria as IS fighters trapped

  16-02-2019 20:16 via news.yahoo.com
  Jihadist fighters defending the last dreg of the Islamic State group's "caliphate" Saturday were holed up in half a square kilometre of a village in eastern Syria.President Donald Trump had announced that the fall of the IS proto-state would be declared Saturday, but a Syrian commander said his US-backed forces slowed down their advance to protect civilians.The jihadists declared a "caliphate" in large parts of Syria and neighbouring Iraq in 2014, but have since lost all but a tiny patch of terr
  
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• China rebuffs Germany's call for U.S. missile deal with Russia

  16-02-2019 20:08 via news.yahoo.com
  Fearing a nuclear arms race between China, Russia and the United States after the collapse of the Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces (INF) treaty, which the United States is withdrawing from, Merkel made her call for a global treaty."Disarmament is something that concerns us all and we would of course be glad if such talks were held not just between the United States, Europe and Russia but also with China," Merkel told the Munich Security Conference.Russia and the United States are the signatorie
  
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• Bernie Sanders Records Campaign Announcement Video: Politico

  16-02-2019 19:59 via news.yahoo.com
  (Bloomberg) -- Bernie Sanders has recorded a campaign video in which he says he’s running for president in 2020, Politico reports, citing two people familiar. It’s unclear when, or whether, the video will be released, Politico says.
  
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• Illinois Gunman Had a History of Domestic Violence and Was 'Stressed' Before Shooting

  16-02-2019 19:40 via news.yahoo.com
  Gary Martin was convicted of stabbing a woman in Mississippi in 1994
  
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• Trump declared a national emergency over a border wall. What happens next?

  16-02-2019 19:32 via news.yahoo.com
  After weeks of threatening to declare a national emergency for his controversial border wall, President Trump finally did so. Here's what will come next.
  
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• Aurora shooting: Victims identified in shooting at Henry Pratt Company; gunman also dead

  16-02-2019 19:21 via news.yahoo.com
  Five people are dead, five City of Aurora police officers were shot, and at least six others were injured in a workplace mass shooting in west suburban Aurora Friday afternoon. The gunman is also dead, police said.
  
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• Icy Missouri highway leaves one dead in 47-car pile-up

  16-02-2019 19:19 via news.yahoo.com
  Raw video: Helicopter footage shows the aftermath of a 47-car pile-up on a Missouri highway.
  
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• Illinois factory gunman killed victims after being fired

  16-02-2019 19:03 via news.yahoo.com
  Gary Martin, 45, armed himself with a .40 caliber handgun, which he owned illegally, before reporting for a meeting where he was told he was fired, Aurora Police Chief Kristen Ziman told a news conference.Most of the workers killed in the shooting on Friday at the Henry Pratt Company plant, 40 miles (65 km) west of Chicago, were in the room where Martin was terminated, Ziman said.Five police officers were wounded by gunfire before Martin was killed in a shootout with police.
  
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• U.S. Appeal for NATO Personnel in Syria Brushed Off by Spain

  16-02-2019 18:57 via news.yahoo.com
  Vice President Mike Pence told reporters at the Munich Security Conference that the U.S. is asking NATO members and other partners to provide "the resources and the support and the personnel" required to prevent a resurgence of Islamic State once U.S. operations conclude."Requests between countries aren’t made in press releases or conference comments," Spain’s Josep Borrell said at a briefing in Munich on Saturday.
  
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• Lee Radziwill Dies at 85

  16-02-2019 18:36 via news.yahoo.com
  The erstwhile interior decorator and younger sister of Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis has passed away
  
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• U.S. backs India's right to defend itself after Kashmir attack

  16-02-2019 18:31 via news.yahoo.com
  Tensions between nuclear-armed India and Pakistan have risen again after India, incensed by the killing of 44 paramilitary police in the deadliest attack in Kashmir in decades, demanded that Pakistan act against the Jaish-e-Mohammad (JeM) militant group behind the bombing.On Saturday, Finance Minister Arun Jaitley said customs duties on all imports from Pakistan would be raised to 200 percent.U.S. National Security Adviser John Bolton spoke to his Indian counterpart Ajit Doval on Friday night, p
  
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• The Latest: US Catholic group wants others held accountable

  16-02-2019 18:23 via news.yahoo.com
  VATICAN CITY (AP) — The Latest on the defrocking of former U.S. cardinal Theodore McCarrick (all times local):
  
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• Islamic State's 'caliphate' on brink of defeat in Syria

  16-02-2019 18:19 via news.yahoo.com
  Jiya Furat said the Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) had cornered the remaining militants in a neighborhood of Baghouz village near the Iraqi border, under fire from all sides."In the coming few days, in a very short time, we will spread the good tidings to the world of the military end of Daesh," he said, using the Arabic acronym for Islamic State.Trump has sworn to pull U.S. forces from Syria after Islamic State's territorial defeat, raising questions over the fate of Washington's Kurdish allies
  
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• The Latest: Extremist attack in Nigeria kills 4 civilians

  16-02-2019 18:11 via news.yahoo.com
  YOLA, Nigeria (AP) — The Latest on Nigeria's postponed presidential election (all times local):
  
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• Sen. John Kennedy on whether President Trump has the legal right to declare a national emergency over the border

  16-02-2019 17:54 via news.yahoo.com
  Legal battles brewing over President Trump bid to secure border funding.
  
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• Protests planned against Trump's national emergency over the border wall

  16-02-2019 17:41 via news.yahoo.com
  Protests across the nation are planned on Monday in response President Donald Trump's national emergency declaration.
  
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• California to sue the Trump administration for declaring national emergency over border wall

  16-02-2019 17:33 via news.yahoo.com
  Rep. McClintock on his state's bid to stop President Trump's efforts to secure more border funding.
  
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• Perfect Storm: The 500 and fight that changed NASCAR forever

  16-02-2019 17:28 via news.yahoo.com
  DAYTONA BEACH, Fla. (AP) — The first break came with the massive blizzard that wreaked havoc on the East Coast, essentially locking television viewers in their homes. The Daytona 500, meanwhile, was to be broadcast live in its entirety for the first time, reaching markets that knew little, if anything, about stock car racing. The 3 1/2-hour event finished in stunning fashion, another fortunate turn that featured a muddy, bloody brawl a few hundred yards from the finish line.
  
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