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• Activists worry that Jussie Smollett arrest will discourage hate-crime reporting by real victims

  21-02-2019 23:58 via news.yahoo.com
  The dramatic turn of events in the Jussie Smollett case was treated by Trump as a vindication, and disheartened gay rights and civil rights advocates who fear that it will discourage future victims of hate crimes from coming forward.
  
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• N. Carolina to hold new election in disputed US House race

  21-02-2019 23:48 via news.yahoo.com
  North Carolina officials on Thursday ordered a new congressional election after the contest -- the last undecided race in the US House of Representatives -- was tainted by fraud accusations.The southeastern state's board of elections voted to hold a new House race in the 9th District after Republican candidate Mark Harris, who is accused of hiring an operative involved in an absentee ballot tampering scheme, dramatically reversed course and called for a new vote.In earlier testimony, Harris had
  
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• 'Apology rings hollow': judge rebukes Roger Stone and slaps stricter gag order

  21-02-2019 23:41 via news.yahoo.com
  Roger Stone, the former campaign adviser for Donald Trump, leaves federal court Thursday.The longtime confidant of Donald Trump was spared prison for posting an Instagram picture lambasting Judge Amy Berman Jackson but he was slapped with an expanded gagging order that prevents him speaking publicly about his ongoing criminal case.
  
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• 'Hear the cry of the little ones': Pope Francis demands action from bishops as sex abuse summit opens

  21-02-2019 23:36 via news.yahoo.com
  Pope Francis urged high-ranking church officials gathered at the Vatican to "hear the cry of the little ones" who are victims of sexual abuse.
  
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• Jussie Smollett directed brothers to pour gas on him and yell slurs, prosecutor says

  21-02-2019 23:35 via news.yahoo.com
  “Empire actor “Jussie Smollett made his first court appearance Thursday afternoon at a bond hearing following his arrest on charges of filing a false police report and disorderly conduct.
  
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• Ford begins probe into whether gas mileage was overstated

  21-02-2019 23:27 via news.yahoo.com
  DETROIT (AP) — Ford Motor Co. has launched an investigation into whether it overstated gas mileage and understated emissions from a wide range of vehicles.
  
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• Senator Elizabeth Warren backs reparations for black Americans

  21-02-2019 23:26 via news.yahoo.com
  "We must confront the dark history of slavery and government-sanctioned discrimination in this country that has had many consequences including undermining the ability of Black families to build wealth in America for generations," Warren, who is white, said in a statement to Reuters."Black families have had a much steeper hill to climb - and we need systemic, structural changes to address that," she said in the statement.U.S. Senator Kamala Harris also recently said she would support some form o
  
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• Venezuelan Army Stops Guaido as He Heads to Site of Aid Effort

  21-02-2019 23:18 via news.yahoo.com
  Three buses carrying lawmakers sympathetic to Guaido left Caracas heading for the town on the Colombian border that’s the focus of the aid effort, but were stopped in Carabobo state.Guaido, traveling separately for security reasons, was held up by army trucks blocking a tunnel east of the capital, said Edward Rodriguez, a spokesman.Maduro, who has said the aid effort is a pretext for a U.S. intervention, also announced that Venezuela’s land crossings with Brazil would shut at 8 p.m.,
  
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• What do Millennials think about Bernie Sanders and the direction of the Democratic Party?

  21-02-2019 23:11 via news.yahoo.com
  Nathan Rubin, Malia Fisher, Joseph Pinion and Allison Lee Pillinger Choi weigh in on whether or not Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders has a chance to win the 2020 Democratic nomination.
  
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• Woman Dies After Being Handcuffed by Police in Indianapolis Church

  21-02-2019 23:08 via news.yahoo.com
  An Indianapolis woman died after being taken into custody by police inside a church. The 43-year-old stopped breathing after officers handcuffed her two weeks ago at a church.
  
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• Third Point claims 300 percent return on activism since 2011

  21-02-2019 23:04
  Pushing companies to perform better has earned Third Point a 300 percent return in the last eight years, the hedge fund told investors in a letter on Thursday, praising management at some of its...
  
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• AP FACT CHECK: Senator makes false national emergency claim

  21-02-2019 22:59 via news.yahoo.com
  Sen. Kevin Cramer, a North Dakota Republican, claimed this week that members of Congress are opposing President Donald Trump's national emergency declaration because they dislike the president.
  
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• North Carolina elections board orders new U.S. House election

  21-02-2019 22:58 via news.yahoo.com
  The bipartisan board's 5-0 decision came after Republican candidate Mark Harris requested a new vote, telling the panel that evidence of possible ballot fraud had undermined confidence in the election.In the televised hearing, board Chairman Bob Cordle said "the corruption" and "absolute mess" with the election's absentee ballots had cast doubt on the fairness of the contest.
  
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• Israel set to join elite lunar club with first mission to moon

  21-02-2019 22:58 via news.yahoo.com
  Hebrew for the biblical phrase "in the beginning" - was due for liftoff at 8:45 p.m. EST (0145 GMT Friday) atop a Falcon 9 rocket launched by California-based entrepreneur Elon Musk's SpaceX company.If all goes according to plan, Beresheet, about the size of a dishwasher, will arrive on the near-side of the moon in mid-April following a two-month journey through 4 million miles (6.5 million km) of space.Once launched, the spacecraft will enter a gradually widening Earth orbit that will eventuall
  
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• Southwest Airlines cancels nearly 400 flights as maintenance woes, winter storms linger

  21-02-2019 22:55 via news.yahoo.com
  The airline continues to have a higher-than-usual number of aircraft out of service due to maintenance and is dealing with snow in Las Vegas.
  
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• North Carolina board votes to hold new House election over absentee ballot fraud

  21-02-2019 22:37 via news.yahoo.com
  The North Carolina Board of Elections voted unanimously to hold a new election in the state’s 9th District after overwhelming evidence of vote tampering.
  
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• Putin to U.S.: I'm ready for another Cuban Missile-style crisis if you want one

  21-02-2019 22:33 via news.yahoo.com
  The Cuban Missile Crisis erupted in 1962 when Moscow responded to a U.S. missile deployment in Turkey by sending ballistic missiles to Cuba, sparking a standoff that brought the world to the brink of nuclear war.More than five decades on, tensions are rising again over Russian fears that the United States might deploy intermediate-range nuclear missiles in Europe, as a landmark Cold War-era arms-control treaty unravels.Putin's comments, made to Russian media late on Wednesday, follow his warning
  
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• North Carolina voter fraud: New election ordered after Republican operatives ‘illegally collected ballots’

  21-02-2019 22:33 via news.yahoo.com
  A new vote has been ordered in North Carolina's 9th Congressional District after the republican in the race admitted his lead over his democratic opponent was tainted by ballot-tampering conducted by operatives working for is campaign.The new vote was approved unanimously by the state's board of elections on Thursday after several days of evidentiary hearings in which witnesses said that operatives hired by the campaign of Mark Harris conducted illegal door-to-door ballot harvesting in violation
  
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• IRS Analyst Charged with Leaking Michael Cohen’s Bank Records to Avenatti

  21-02-2019 22:32 via news.yahoo.com
  An Internal Revenue Service analyst was charged Thursday with leaking confidential reports that revealed President Trump's former personal attorney Michael Cohen sought to profit from his White House access.The U.S. Attorney's Office for the Northern District of California charged analyst John Fry for leaking a suspicious activity report (SAR) to Michael Avenatti, the attorney who represented pornographer Stormy Daniels in her defamation case against President Trump.Avenatti published the SAR on
  
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• Will Maduro use military force to stop US aid from coming into Venezuela?

  21-02-2019 22:31 via news.yahoo.com
  Independent Women’s Forum fellow Claudia Rossett says the U.S. wants ousted Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro to be afraid to use military force.
  
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• Khloe Kardashian's sisters Kim and Kourtney speak out amid cheating scandal

  21-02-2019 22:27 via yahoo.com
  Khloe Kardashian's sisters, Kim and Kourtney, came to her defense in verydifferent ways on Thursday amid allegations that Tristan Thompson cheated onher with Kylie Jenner's best friend, Jordyn Woods
  
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• Pope Francis Lays Out Plan to Combat Sex Abuse in Church

  21-02-2019 22:25 via news.yahoo.com
  On Thursday, the opening day of a Vatican summit addressing the sexual abuse of minors by members of the clergy, Pope Francis laid out a 21-point plan to combat the crisis battering the Church in almost all corners of the world.“We hear the cry of the little ones asking for justice,” Francis said. "We sense the weight of the pastoral and ecclesial responsibility that obliges us to discuss together, in a synodal, frank, and in-depth manner, how to confront this evil afflicting the Chu
  
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• Jussie Smollett charged: 'Empire' actor's bond set at $100K, staged attack because he was 'dissatisfied with his salary': police

  21-02-2019 22:22 via news.yahoo.com
  "Empire" actor Jussie Smollett appeared in court Thursday after he surrendered to authorities Thursday morning on one felony count of disorderly conduct for filing a false police report.
  
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• Trump news: President's ally Roger Stone banned from speaking about case after Instagram post of judge

  21-02-2019 22:15 via news.yahoo.com
  FBI special counsel Robert Mueller could hand in his report into allegations members of the Trump campaign conspired with Russia to influence the 2016 US presidential election as early as next week, according to reports on Wednesday.As that report was hypothesised about, Donald Trump’s former confidant, the flamboyant political consultant Roger Stone, appeared in court after posting an image on Instagram appearing to threaten a US district judge overseeing his criminal trial, itself instig
  
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• Prosecutor details Smollett's 'staged' attack

  21-02-2019 22:15 via news.yahoo.com
  Assistant State’s Attorney Risa Lanier on Thursday provided a timeline of actor Jussie Smollett's whereabouts, text message and cell phone records, after Smollett, accused of staging a racially-charged, homophobic attack, appeared in a Chicago court on charges of lying to police. Rough Cut (no reporter narration).
  
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• Government shutdown cost $6 billion. That's more than Trump wanted for the border wall

  21-02-2019 22:13 via news.yahoo.com
  While President Donald Trump ended the partial government shutdown, its economic cost hit $6 billion as of Jan. 25, according to estimates by S&P Global Ratings. That's $300 million more than Trump's demand for $5.7 billion to build the southern border wall.
  
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• The Latest: Cardinal condemns how church handles sex abuse

  21-02-2019 22:10 via news.yahoo.com
  VATICAN CITY (AP) — The Latest on the Vatican's conference on dealing with sex abuse by priests (all times local):
  
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• See what the fight over the wall boils down to: 200 miles on a 2,000-mile border

  21-02-2019 22:09 via news.yahoo.com
  President Trump wants $5.7 billion to add about 100 miles, and upgrade 115 more, of fencing between the USA and Mexico. A graphical look at what that would mean for border security.
  
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• Operation to end last IS Syria pocket hits evacuation snag

  21-02-2019 21:55 via news.yahoo.com
  The U.S.-backed Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF), which has steadily driven the jihadists down the Euphrates, has surrounded them at Baghouz near the Iraqi border, but does not want to mount a final attack until all civilians are out.Iraqi sources said the SDF handed over more then 150 Iraqi and other foreign jihadists to Iraq on Thursday, under a deal involving a total of 502.The SDF had expected to pull the last civilians from Baghouz on Thursday, but trucks it sent in left empty.
  
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• In Russia probe, ex-Trump adviser Stone apologizes to U.S. judge for media posts

  21-02-2019 21:53 via news.yahoo.com
  "I abused the order," Stone told U.S. District Judge Amy Berman Jackson during a hearing to examine whether he violated his bond conditions or should face greater restrictions on discussing the case in public."I am kicking myself over my own stupidity," Stone said."Your honor, I can only beseech you to give me a second chance," Stone said.
  
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• Warren Backs Government Reparations for African Americans

  21-02-2019 21:49 via news.yahoo.com
  Senator Elizabeth Warren (D., Mass.) on Thursday followed fellow Democratic presidential contender Senator Kamala Harris (D., Calif.) in calling for the government to pay reparations to African Americans to atone for slavery and subsequent discrimination.Warren's campaign told the New York Times that she does support some form of government reparations for the descendants of slaves, but did not specify what policy she we would pursue if elected in 2020.Warren's support for reparations came
  
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• The Latest: Stone says posting judge pic was egregious error

  21-02-2019 21:48 via news.yahoo.com
  WASHINGTON (AP) — The Latest on Roger Stone (all times local):
  
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• Searing testimony heard at Vatican sex abuse summit

  21-02-2019 21:43 via news.yahoo.com
  VATICAN CITY (AP) — The day began with an African woman telling an extraordinary gathering of Catholic leaders that her priestly rapist forced her to have three abortions over a dozen years after he started violating her at age 15. It ended with a Colombian cardinal warning them they could all face prison if they let such crimes go unpunished.
  
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• Syria force hit by IS attack as tries to free last civilians

  21-02-2019 21:42 via news.yahoo.com
  A deadly car bombing claimed by the Islamic State group hit US-backed forces in east Syria Thursday as they tried to negotiate the release of civilians trapped in the jihadists' last sliver of territory.The Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) are working towards evacuating civilians remaining in the holdout, so they can polish off the dying IS "caliphate" whether through an assault or a surrender deal.The jihadists overran large parts of Syria and neighbouring Iraq in 2014, but several offensives hav
  
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• Key moments since Jussie Smollett reported Chicago attack

  21-02-2019 21:32 via news.yahoo.com
  CHICAGO (AP) — "Empire" actor and R&B; singer Jussie Smollett told Chicago police last month that two men physically attacked him and yelled racial and homophobic slurs. Some key moments in the story:
  
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• Rubio Predicts Maduro’s Troops Won’t Block Humanitarian Aid

  21-02-2019 21:30 via news.yahoo.com
  Senator Marco Rubio (R., Fla.) said Wednesday that Venezuelan troops have already begun to disobey orders and will likely refuse to block the thousands of volunteers who plan to escort a humanitarian-aid caravan across the country's border on Saturday.“Saturday’s a day when we’re going to find a lot about the Maduro regime,” Rubio told Bloomberg in a telephone interview. “I have reason to believe that rank-and-file military are not going to violently suppress a
  
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• US Venezuelan consular offices are closed

  21-02-2019 21:27 via news.yahoo.com
  The Venezuelan opposition's envoy to Washington DC and members of his consular team gave a news conference on Thursday to provide details around Venezuela's consular offices in the United States. (Feb. 21)
  
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• Mercedes-Benz Recall | Automated System Problem

  21-02-2019 21:26 via news.yahoo.com
  Mercedes-Benz Vehicles Recalled for Partially Automated Driving System ProblemMercedes-Benz is recalling 6,200 S-Class sedans, coupes, and convertibles from the 2018 and 2019 model years becaus...
  
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• Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez Invoked Pop Culture to Hit Back at a Critical Billboard

  21-02-2019 21:23 via news.yahoo.com
  The congresswoman has hit back at an attack billboard
  
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• Carbon dioxide in our atmosphere may soar to levels not seen in 56 million years

  21-02-2019 21:17 via news.yahoo.com
  Emissions of carbon dioxide – the greenhouse gas most responsible for global warming – could soar to levels not seen in 56 million years, scientists warned.
  
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• The Latest: Snow forces closure of Vegas to Phoenix route

  21-02-2019 21:05 via news.yahoo.com
  LAS VEGAS (AP) — The Latest on rare snowfall in the Las Vegas area (all times local):
  
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• The Latest: GOP candidate says new election should be called

  21-02-2019 21:03 via news.yahoo.com
  RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — The Latest on a hearing outlining a ballot fraud investigation in an undeclared North Carolina congressional race for which a winner hasn't been finalized (all times local):
  
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• Jim Boeheim's tragic car accident leaves questions for coach, Syracuse's season

  21-02-2019 20:56 via news.yahoo.com
  SportsPulse: Rochester Democrat and Chronicle's Steve Bradley details how Jim Boeheim killed a pedestrian in a car crash and the affect on the team.
  
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• How ISIS Returnees Are Stirring a Debate Over Citizenship, Security and Rule of Law

  21-02-2019 20:56 via news.yahoo.com
  Trump wants Europe to take back "over 800 ISIS fighters”
  
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• These are the 10 best cars, SUVs and pickups of 2019, according to Consumer Reports

  21-02-2019 20:45 via news.yahoo.com
  Consumer Reports reveals its Top 10 picks for the best vehicles of 2019. It's an influential annual list that serves as a guide for many car shoppers.
  
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• Hoda Muthana: Trump's decision to deny Alabama woman re-entry to US after joining Isis is 'mindset of authoritarian', critics say

  21-02-2019 20:40 via news.yahoo.com
  Donald Trump’s refusal to let an American-born woman return to the US after she ran away to join Isis amounts to a dangerous overreach by a president who wants to “operate by executive fait”, immigration lawyers and critics say.The criticism comes after the Trump administration announced this week that 24-year-old Hoda Muthana would not be allowed to return to the US saying she has no legal basis to be in the country, in spite of her lawyer’s and family’s claims tha
  
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• A global look at the Catholic Church's sex abuse problem

  21-02-2019 20:35 via news.yahoo.com
  VATICAN CITY (AP) — Pope Francis' high-stakes sex abuse prevention summit is meant to call attention to the crisis as a global problem that requires a global response.
  
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• Catalyst Pharmaceuticals defends $375,000 drug price after Bernie Sanders rebuke

  21-02-2019 20:33 via news.yahoo.com
  Sanders, a vocal critic of high drug prices, had written to Florida-based Catalyst earlier this month, asking it to justify its price for Firdapse, a medication for a rare neuromuscular disease that affects about one in 100,000 people in the United States.It was also one of the campaign promises made by President Donald Trump in the 2016 elections.Last month, the Trump administration proposed a rule to overhaul the industry's system of rebates, or discounts, while Sanders unveiled legislation ai
  
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• Israel aiming to land on moon with SpaceX launch

  21-02-2019 20:29 via news.yahoo.com
  CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — Israel is aiming to land on the moon after hitching a ride with SpaceX.
  
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• More than 150 IS militants handed over to Iraq from Syria

  21-02-2019 20:19 via news.yahoo.com
  OUTSIDE BAGHOUZ, Syria (AP) — U.S.-backed Syrian forces fighting the Islamic State group handed over more than 150 Iraqi members of the group to Iraq, an Iraqi security official said Thursday, marking the biggest repatriation from Syria of captured militants so far.
  
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