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• Trump apparently not familiar with his administration's push for global decriminalization of homosexuality

  20-02-2019 23:54 via news.yahoo.com
  The president expresses confusion when asked about one of his administration's own policies.
  
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• Jussie Smollett Now Considered a Suspect for Allegedly Filing a False Hate-Crime Report

  20-02-2019 23:52 via news.yahoo.com
  Embattled Empire actor Jussie Smollett is now considered a “suspect” for filing a false police report, evidence of which has been presented before a grand jury, a Chicago Police Department spokesman announced on Wednesday.> Case Update: Jussie Smollett is now officially classified as a suspect in a criminal investigation by ChicagoPolice for filing a false police report (Class 4 felony). Detectives are currently presenting evidence before a Cook County Grand Jury. pic.twitter
  
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• US says Alabama woman who joined Islamic State isn't citizen

  20-02-2019 23:27 via news.yahoo.com
  WASHINGTON (AP) — An Alabama woman who joined the Islamic State group in Syria won't be allowed to return to the United States with her toddler son because she is not an American citizen, the U.S. said on Wednesday. Her lawyer is challenging that claim.
  
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• North Carolina Republican's son says warned father about operative's past

  20-02-2019 23:20 via news.yahoo.com
  A state probe into the election for the 9th Congressional District has uncovered the fraudulent scheme by a consultant working for the campaign of candidate Mark Harris.The probe could lead to a new election to fill the seat, which has remained vacant since state officials refused to certify Harris' apparent victory over Democratic rival Dan McCready by 905 votes out of 282,717 ballots cast.The five-member State Board of Elections heard evidence this week that the political consultant, Leslie Mc
  
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• Surveillance video shows brothers purchasing supplies allegedly used in Smollett incident

  20-02-2019 23:15 via news.yahoo.com
  Chicago police confirmed to ABC News the authenticity of the video.
  
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• President Trump: ISIS wife Hoda Muthana won't be allowed to return to the United States

  20-02-2019 23:12 via news.yahoo.com
  Hoda Muthana was born in New Jersey. She wants to come home and face the U.S. justice system, her family's lawyer tells USA TODAY.
  
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• Southwest Air Drops on $60 Million Hit From U.S. Shutdown

  20-02-2019 23:04 via news.yahoo.com
  The political stalemate that ended last month will reduce first-quarter revenue by $60 million as the aftereffects lingered on, Southwest said in a regulatory filing Wednesday.“With more of first quarter under our belt now, and a higher percentage of March bookings in place, we feel like we are at the point where we can reasonably quantify the total impact from the shutdown,” Southwest said by email.
  
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• Neptune's new moon Hippocamp is so tiny that it wasn't detected in 1989 during flyby, scientists report

  20-02-2019 22:52 via news.yahoo.com
  A new moon was found near Neptune, joining the other 13 we knew about. It's so small that it wasn't detected during the Voyager 2 flyby in 1989.
  
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• Conservative group buys Times Square billboard bashing Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez over Amazon NYC pullout

  20-02-2019 22:51 via news.yahoo.com
  Job Creators Network CEO Alfredo Ortiz says his group wants to highlight that socialism 'takes' and capitalism 'creates.'
  
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• Tesla prepares Model 3 leasing option to boost demand

  20-02-2019 22:45 via news.yahoo.com
  The timing for lease deals are still up in the air.
  
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• Supreme Court limits states' abilities to seize property in criminal cases

  20-02-2019 22:29 via news.yahoo.com
  The court ruled unanimously in the case of Tyson Timbs, a recovering opioid addict whose Land Rover was seized after a felony drug conviction.
  
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• Constitution's 'excessive fines' ban bolstered by U.S. high court

  20-02-2019 22:27 via news.yahoo.com
  The nine justices ruled unanimously in favor of an Indiana man named Tyson Timbs who argued that police violated his rights by seizing his $42,000 Land Rover vehicle after he was convicted as a heroin dealer.Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, back on the bench for a second straight day after undergoing lung cancer surgery in December, wrote the court's opinion, which clarified the applicability of the "excessive fines" prohibition contained in the Constitution's Eighth Amendment."For good reason, the
  
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• In U.S., pope's summit on sex abuse seen as too little, too late

  20-02-2019 22:04 via news.yahoo.com
  The 1985 report was one of the first exposes in a sexual abuse scandal that has plagued the Catholic Church.Pope Francis has called senior bishops to meet for four days starting on Thursday to discuss how to tackle the worsening crisis.
  
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• Former FBI Chief McCabe Urges Mueller Report Be Widely Released

  20-02-2019 21:53 via news.yahoo.com
  “I think that report should be shared immediately with Congress, and I think it should be shared as broadly as possible with the American public,” McCabe said in an interview on MSNBC’s “Morning Joe” program Wednesday.Mueller is due to submit conclusions explaining his decisions to prosecute or decline filing charges to new Attorney General William Barr, who was sworn in last week.Barr will decide what to do with that information.
  
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• Moscow ready to cut time for nuclear strike on U.S. if necessary: Putin

  20-02-2019 21:51 via news.yahoo.com
  In Washington, the U.S. State Department dismissed Putin's comments as "propaganda designed to divert attention from what Washington alleges are Moscow's violations of the Intermediate-range Nuclear Forces (INF) Treaty.Putin said Russia was not seeking confrontation and would not take the first step to deploy missiles in response to Washington's decision this month to quit a landmark Cold War-era arms control treaty.
  
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• Many Americans Are Shocked By Their Tax Returns in 2019. Here’s What You Should Know

  20-02-2019 21:35 via news.yahoo.com
  People may receive less money in their tax refunds this year. The average federal tax return rate is down 8.7%.
  
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• Convoy plucks women, children from last IS holdout in Syria

  20-02-2019 21:35 via news.yahoo.com
  Hundreds of people including women and children were trucked out of the Islamic State group's last Syria redoubt Wednesday, bringing US-backed forces closer to retaking the last sliver of the "caliphate".The Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) said however it was just a first wave of evacuations, and that a large number of civilians and IS fighters still remained inside.The implosion of the jihadists' proto-state, which once spanned swathes of Syria and neighbouring Iraq, has left Western nations gra
  
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• Venezuela's opposition ambassador takes control of embassy in Costa Rica

  20-02-2019 21:23 via news.yahoo.com
  Venezuelan opposition leader Juan Guiado's designated ambassador to Costa Rica took control of Venezuela's embassy in the Central American country on Wednesday, triggering criticism from the Costa Rican government for not waiting.On Feb. 15, the Costa Rican government gave Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro's representatives 60 days to leave the country.Costa Rican President Carlos Alvarado has joined the United States and a long list of governments in Latin America and Europe in recognizing Gu
  
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• Driver hurt by air bag shrapnel as investigation drags on

  20-02-2019 21:23 via news.yahoo.com
  DETROIT (AP) — Nearly four years ago, the U.S. government's highway safety agency began investigating air bag inflators made by ARC Automotive of Tennessee when two people were hit by flying shrapnel after crashes.
  
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• Days before summit, Trump raises prospect of easing North Korea sanctions

  20-02-2019 21:18 via news.yahoo.com
  Speaking to reporters at the White House on Wednesday, Trump also said he expects to meet with Kim again after their Feb. 27-28 summit in Hanoi, the Vietnamese capital.Trump said he did not think North Korea was reluctant to denuclearize, in spite of a lack of concrete progress since he and Kim met for a first summit in Singapore in June.
  
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• Supreme Court Unanimously Rules Constitution's Ban on Excessive Fines Applies to States

  20-02-2019 21:13 via news.yahoo.com
  In a unanimous ruling, the supreme court has decided the constitution's ban on excessive fines does apply to states.
  
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• Pompeo Denies ‘ISIS Bride’ Request to Return to U.S.

  20-02-2019 21:13 via news.yahoo.com
  Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said Wednesday that an Alabama woman who fled to Syria to join ISIS in 2014 is not a U.S. citizen and, as a result, is not entitled to return to the U.S. with her 18-month-old son, as she had hoped to do.“Ms. Hoda Muthana is not a U.S. citizen and will not be admitted into the United States,” Pompeo said in a statement. “She does not have any legal basis, no valid U.S. passport, no right to a passport, nor any visa to travel to the United States.
  
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• Law center: Hate groups in US at highest level in 2 decades

  20-02-2019 21:13 via news.yahoo.com
  The U.S. had more hate groups last year than at any point in at least the past two decades, according to an organization that tracks white supremacists and other far-right extremists.
  
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• Snow, sleet threaten U.S. East Coast, hinder hundreds of flights

  20-02-2019 21:12 via news.yahoo.com
  A winter storm bore down on the U.S. East Coast on Wednesday, threatening to snarl New York City's evening commute after hindering air travel along the East Coast and prompting the shutdown of federal offices in Washington.Snow turning to sleet slickened roadways in the New York metropolitan area by the early afternoon and was blamed for a rash of fender benders and traffic jams.The widespread weather system piled as much as 6 inches (15 cm) of snow across the Washington area before turning to s
  
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• Andrew McCabe exacts tell-all revenge on Donald Trump

  20-02-2019 21:10 via news.yahoo.com
  The former deputy director of the FBI pulls few punches in “The Threat: How the FBI Protects America in the Age of Terror and Trump.”
  
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• US judge grants ex-Trump lawyer prison delay

  20-02-2019 21:09 via news.yahoo.com
  A US judge on Wednesday granted a request by Michael Cohen, US President Donald Trump's former personal attorney, to delay the start of his prison term by two months.Cohen, 52, had been scheduled to report to prison on March 6 to begin a three-year sentence for fraud, tax evasion, illegal campaign contributions and lying to Congress.In a letter to Judge William Pauley, one of Cohen's lawyers asked that the date be pushed back to May 6 so Cohen can recover from shoulder surgery and prepare for up
  
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• Civilians, including many children, leave IS-held enclave

  20-02-2019 20:58 via news.yahoo.com
  BAGHOUZ, Syria (AP) — Young girls and boys stared out of the back of trucks, their faces dirty, their eyes filled with terror, exhaustion and uncertainty, as hundreds of men, women and children were evacuated from the Islamic State group's last enclave in eastern Syria on Wednesday. The evacuation may signal an imminent end to the territorial rule of the militants self-declared "caliphate" that once stretched across much of Syria and Iraq.
  
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• Netanyahu makes deal with far-right party ahead of Israeli election

  20-02-2019 20:54 via news.yahoo.com
  The deal, announced by Netanyahu's Likud and the ultranationalist Jewish Home party, was aimed at solidifying a potential right-wing coalition after the April 9 parliamentary election.Opinion polls predict Netanyahu's Likud will win the most parliamentary seats and will be in a position to form a governing coalition of rightist and religious parties similar to the one he now heads.Gantz and Lapid met on Wednesday, with speculation high they could strike a deal.
  
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• Venezuela Tells Firms to Open Accounts in Russia and Turkey

  20-02-2019 20:36 via news.yahoo.com
  The Finance Ministry will host workshops so that executives learn how to open the foreign accounts, one person said.In the meeting called by Vice President of Economy Tareck El Aissami and Interior Commerce Minister William Contreras at the presidential palace in Caracas on Monday, the executives were told not to raise prices since inflation has allegedly begun to decelerate, the two people said, asking not to be named speaking about a private meeting.
  
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• Guaido says he's trying to freeze Venezuelan accounts in Switzerland

  20-02-2019 20:33 via news.yahoo.com
  Venezuelan opposition leader Juan Guaido said he spoke to Switzerland's president on Wednesday to try to freeze banks accounts belonging to the tumultuous South American nation after "irregular movements" were discovered.Guaido invoked a constitutional provision to claim the presidency three weeks ago, arguing that Nicolas Maduro's reelection last year was a sham.Guaido said the Venezuelan government held bank accounts in Switzerland and that irregular efforts to migrate part of those accounts t
  
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• Green New Deal: Why the GOP secretly likes Democrats' climate change plan

  20-02-2019 20:31 via news.yahoo.com
  It's not because the GOP supports the transformation of the electric grid away from fossil fuels to renewable energy.
  
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• Gory details emerge about missing woman's suspected demise

  20-02-2019 20:29 via news.yahoo.com
  DENVER (AP) — After months of mostly silence from authorities investigating the disappearance of a Colorado mother on Thanksgiving Day, grim details about her suspected demise emerged this week, including accusations that the woman's fiance beat her to death with a baseball bat while their baby was in the next room.
  
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• 'Ice can be unforgiving': Huge winter storm moves east as snow, sleet, heavy rain target 39 states

  20-02-2019 20:27 via news.yahoo.com
  Every state east of the Mississippi is likely to get winter storm effects Wednesday, including Detroit, Chicago, Philadelphia, New York, Washington.
  
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• Russia Threatens to Target U.S. if Trump Admin. Deploys Missiles in Europe

  20-02-2019 20:25 via news.yahoo.com
  Russian president Vladimir Putin warned Wednesday that Russia would target the U.S. if America deploys missiles in Europe."Russia will be forced to create and deploy types of weapons which can be used not only in respect of those territories from which the direct threat to us originates, but also in respect of those territories where the centers of decision-making are located," Putin said in his annual state-of-the-nation address."It's their right to think how they want. But can they count?
  
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• Trump 'fear-mongering' fuels rise of U.S. hate groups to record: watchdog

  20-02-2019 20:24 via news.yahoo.com
  The SPLC, which has tracked hate groups since 1971, found there were 1,020 operating in the United States in 2018, breaking the 1,018 record set in 2011.The group blamed Trump, whose administration has focused on reducing illegal and legal immigration into the United States."The words and imagery coming out of the Trump administration and from Trump himself are heightening these fears," Heidi Beirich, director of the SPLC's Intelligence Project, told reporters on a conference call.
  
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• US refuses entry to Alabama jihadist

  20-02-2019 20:21 via news.yahoo.com
  The United States said Wednesday it would refuse to take back a US-born Islamic State propagandist who wants to return from Syria, saying that she is no longer a citizen.The refusal to admit 24-year-old Hoda Muthana could set precedent and face legal challenges as it is generally extremely difficult to lose US citizenship."Ms. Hoda Muthana is not a US citizen and will not be admitted into the United States," Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said in a terse statement.
  
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• Buzz Aldrin's son tries to stop dad from moving assets

  20-02-2019 20:08 via news.yahoo.com
  ORLANDO, Fla. (AP) — Buzz Aldrin's son is trying to stop his father from transferring assets from a trust in the latest dispute between the Apollo 11 moonwalker and two of his children over whether he is capable of managing his affairs.
  
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• Netanyahu strikes election deal with far-right parties

  20-02-2019 20:07 via news.yahoo.com
  JERUSALEM (AP) — Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Wednesday reached a preliminary election deal with two fringe religious-nationalist parties in a bid to unify his hard-line bloc ahead of April elections.
  
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• UBS CEO says French appeals process to take 'several years'

  20-02-2019 20:06
  UBS Group expects its appeal of a French court verdict ordering the Swiss bank to pay 4.5 billion euros ($5.10 billion) for aiding tax evasion to last years, Chief Executive Sergio Ermotti told staff...
  
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• Neptune's newest, tiniest moon likely piece of bigger one

  20-02-2019 20:04 via news.yahoo.com
  CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — Neptune's newest and tiniest moon is probably an ancient piece of a much larger moon orbiting unusually close.
  
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• U.N. permits North Koreans to travel to Vietnam for Trump summit

  20-02-2019 19:58 via news.yahoo.com
  The 15-member Security Council has unanimously boosted sanctions on North Korea since 2006 in a bid to choke funding for Pyongyang's nuclear and ballistic missile programs, banning exports including coal, iron, lead, textiles and seafood, and capping imports of crude oil and refined petroleum products.Under the sanctions, 12 North Koreans are subject to a global travel ban and asset freeze.While it was not known if any of them will travel to Vietnam, the council's North Korea sanctions committee
  
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• Judge Napolitano: Trump's brazen unconstitutional overreach

  20-02-2019 19:43 via news.yahoo.com
  Judge Napolitano's Chambers: Judge Andrew Napolitano explains how President Trump's declaration of a national emergency to bypass Congress to get money for the border wall is unconstitutional.
  
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• Buffett's Suncor bet to revive investor interest in Canadian energy

  20-02-2019 19:42
  Berkshire Hathaway Inc's re-investment in Suncor Energy Inc highlights the benefits of being an integrated oil company and could revive investor interest in the languishing Canadian energy sector,...
  
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• Suspect is arrested for murder of 11-yearold girl who was abducted and left

  20-02-2019 19:37 via news.yahoo.com
  A suspect has been arrested for the murder of an 11-year-old girl who was abducted and left inside of a ditch 45 years ago.
  
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• Alabama Woman Who Joined ISIS Begs to Come Home

  20-02-2019 19:34 via news.yahoo.com
  An Alabama woman who fled the United States at 19 to join ISIS is now begging to come home five years later.
  
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• Saudi to free 850 Indian prisoners from its jails: India government

  20-02-2019 19:31 via news.yahoo.com
  Saudi Arabia will release 850 Indians from its prisons after a request from Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi during its Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman's visit to New Delhi, India's Foreign Ministry said on Wednesday.Saudi jails hold the greatest number of Indians incarcerated in any country abroad.As of January 2019, 2,224 Indians were jailed in the kingdom for crimes including murder, kidnapping, bribery, cheating, and offences related to drugs and alcohol, according Indian Foreign Ministr
  
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• Ex-Trump lawyer Cohen gets 2-month delay to report to prison

  20-02-2019 19:25 via news.yahoo.com
  Michael Cohen will now report to federal prison on May 6 after a judge granted him a two-month delay to allow him to recover from a surgical procedure.
  
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• Obama talks self-confidence with Steph Curry: ‘If you’re confident with your sexuality, you don’t need 8 women twerking around you’

  20-02-2019 19:22 via news.yahoo.com
  In a wide-ranging interview about what it means to be a man, Barack Obama said that you don't need women "twerking around you" if you are "very confident about your sexuality".During a town hall in Oakland, California as part of the former president’s My Brother’s Keeper programme, Mr Obama engaged in a candid conversation with Golden State Warriors basketball star Steph Curry.When it came to self-confidence, Mr Obama suggested that those who know who they are do not always flaunt it
  
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• NYT publisher: Trump 'retreating from a distinctly American principle'

  20-02-2019 19:16 via news.yahoo.com
  The publisher of the paper admonished the president over his use of a familiar phrase.
  
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• Man sucker punches defense attorney in face after getting sentenced to 45 years in prison for arson

  20-02-2019 19:16 via news.yahoo.com
  42-year-old David Chislton shocked the courtroom when he punched lawyer Aaron Brockler in the face after the judge sentenced him to 45 years in prison for the a 2017 incident where he was accused of pistol-whipping his girlfriend and setting his apartment complex on fire in Warrensville Heights, Ohio.
  
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