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• Spring break warning: US State Department issues security alert for travel in Mexico

  08-03-2019 23:53 via news.yahoo.com
  As thousands of spring breakers head south to Mexico, the U.S. State Department has issued a security alert.
  
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• After Ryan Adams expose, Mandy Moore chops her hair: I'm 'shedding dead weight'

  08-03-2019 23:49 via news.yahoo.com
  After a difficult and emotional few weeks, Mandy Moore is ready to power forward.
  
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• Chelsea Manning jailed for refusal to testify in WikiLeaks case

  08-03-2019 23:48 via news.yahoo.com
  Chelsea Manning, who spent more than three years in prison for leaking US military secrets to WikiLeaks, was jailed again Friday for refusing to testify in a grand jury investigation targeting the anti-secrecy group.US District Judge Claude Hilton ruled Manning in contempt of court and ordered her held not as punishment but to force her testimony in the secret case, according to a spokesman for the US attorney in the Alexandria, Virginia federal court."Chelsea Manning has been remanded into fede
  
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• AP Debrief: Manafort sentence 'wasn't surprising'

  08-03-2019 23:29 via news.yahoo.com
  Paul Manafort has been sentenced to nearly four years in prison for tax and bank fraud. Much less than what was called for under sentencing guidelines. AP reporter Eric Tucker said Manafort's sentence 'wasn't surprising.' (March 8)
  
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• Trump says Michael Cohen lied about not requesting a pardon

  08-03-2019 23:25 via news.yahoo.com
  WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump declared Friday that he rejected a personal appeal from his former lawyer Michael Cohen for a pardon, the strongest assertion yet that Cohen may have lied under oath.
  
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• February Jobs Report Weakest in 30 Months

  08-03-2019 23:15 via news.yahoo.com
  The economy produced only 20,000 new jobs in February for its weakest showing since September 2017, according to the Labor Department’s monthly report.While unemployment declined from 4 percent to 3.8 percent and employment in wholesale trade, professional and business services, and health care trended upward in February, construction jobs declined by 31,000, a possibly worrisome sign.Economic analysts offered a range of reactions to news of the weak job-creation numbers. Some, citing proj
  
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• Dow ends slightly lower after disappointing February jobs report

  08-03-2019 23:11 via news.yahoo.com
  Stocks closed slightly lower after a disappointing February jobs report, capping a week of losses.
  
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• Venezuela power flickers after worst blackout in decades

  08-03-2019 23:05 via news.yahoo.com
  Power went out across the recession-stricken country on Thursday afternoon due to a problem at Venezuela's main hydroelectric plant, the government said, calling the event an act of "sabotage" by ideological adversaries.Neither Socialist Party officials nor state power company Corpoelec have provided further updates on the situation.Opposition leader Juan Guaido, who most Western nations recognize as Venezuela's legitimate head of state, criticized the government for bungling the country's energ
  
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• Richmond's new FBI chief was lead agent in Mueller's office

  08-03-2019 23:03 via news.yahoo.com
  RICHMOND, Va. (AP) — The new special agent in charge of the FBI's Richmond, Virginia, field office was the lead FBI agent in Special Counsel Robert Mueller's office.
  
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• US indicts Venezuela ex-vice president Tareck El Aissami

  08-03-2019 22:56 via news.yahoo.com
  The United States indictedVenezuelan industry minister and former vice president Tareck El Aissami on sanctions violations Friday, two years after naming him a narcotics "kingpin" for allegedly giving cover to drug traffickers.Aissami, a close ally of President Nicolas Maduro, and businessman Samark Lopez Bello were indicted together in New York and charged with violating US sanctions by using private jets to fly to meetings around the world.The indictment came as the US steps up pressure on the
  
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• Police: Stormy Daniels' strip club arrest wasn't political

  08-03-2019 22:56 via news.yahoo.com
  COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — The 2018 arrest of Stormy Daniels at a Columbus strip club was improper but not planned ahead of time or politically motivated, according to an internal police department review released Friday.
  
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• President Trump greeted with open arms by residents devastated by tornadoes

  08-03-2019 22:28 via news.yahoo.com
  The president and first lady visited the town of Beauregard, Alabama, to survey the damage left by massive tornadoes.
  
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• Trump investigation designed to 'impeach or embarrass' president, furious leading Republican claims amid fury at Manafort sentence

  08-03-2019 22:26 via news.yahoo.com
  President Donald Trump has again attacked the “witch hunt hoax” embroiling his administration following the sentencing of ex-campaign manager Paul Manafort, declaring the outcome proved “no collusion” with Russia as Democrats decried the lenience of Manafort’s 47-month sentence as a “miscarriage of justice”.Departing for Alabama to tour the state’s devastation by a recent tornado, the president found time to denounce his opposition as an “ant
  
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• Why expectant parents may want to hire a doula or designate a patient advocate

  08-03-2019 22:23 via news.yahoo.com
  Duchess Meghan is reportedly working with a doula during her pregnancy. So what is a doula? And why would a royal, or anyone, want one?
  
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• Markets Right Now: Stocks mark 1st weekly loss since January

  08-03-2019 22:12 via news.yahoo.com
  NEW YORK (AP) — The latest on developments in financial markets (all times local):
  
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• Don't expect details from Mueller probe: senior U.S. Republican

  08-03-2019 22:10 via news.yahoo.com
  If Representative Doug Collins is right, Democratic-led congressional committees that have launched their own probes of Trump may be stuck with a Mueller investigation report that serves more as a general guidebook than a detailed roadmap of Russian interference and any Trump campaign collusion.Democrats, who control the House of Representatives, want congressional investigators to have access to Mueller's grand jury evidence and other information from the probe, fearing that Attorney General Wi
  
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• Dutch PM Rutte says path to Brexit breakthrough unclear

  08-03-2019 22:04 via news.yahoo.com
  Dutch Prime Minister Mark Rutte said the path to a breakthrough on Brexit remained elusive, and he did not know what his British counterpart Theresa May meant when she said on Friday that only "one more push" was needed to reach a deal.With just three weeks left before Britain is due to leave the European Union, May used the expression in a last-ditch appeal to the European Union and a deeply divided domestic parliament."The Brexit date is getting ever closer.
  
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• 'Megbot' army linked to Russian conspiracy theories tweeting 'obsessive' support for Duchess, says report

  08-03-2019 22:00 via news.yahoo.com
  Suspicious “bot-like” Twitter accounts and handles linked to Russian conspiracy theories have been “obsessively” tweeting about the Duchess of Sussex, an investigation has found. Analysis of accounts interconnected into a “Meghan Markle” Twitter community found around 1,000 “highly-connected” accounts which have tweeted more than two and half million times since September. One account with the second highest number of pro-Meghan followers, which al
  
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• Chris Wallace: Question of a pardon for Michael Cohen is a 'double-edged sword'

  08-03-2019 21:54 via news.yahoo.com
  President Trump says his former attorney Michael Cohen lied under oath about requesting a presidential pardon; analysis from Chris Wallace, anchor of 'Fox News Sunday.'
  
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• Enough is enough for Venezuelan after blackout store robbery

  08-03-2019 21:52 via news.yahoo.com
  After thieves took advantage of a power cut to loot her store, Margarita Jardin has decided enough is enough: she wants to leave Venezuela.Venezuela was plunged into darkness on Thursday after a massive electricity blackout paralyzed almost the entire country.With security cameras out of order, no surveillance in the neighborhood and pitch darkness, thieves broke into Jardin's store and made off with a computer, three printers, the cash register, the electronic payment terminal -- vital in a cou
  
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• Women's Day unites activists, Turkish police break up crowd with tear gas

  08-03-2019 21:46 via news.yahoo.com
  In Spain, hundreds of thousands of women, wearing purple and raising their fists, took to the streets of cities around the country calling for greater gender equality.The issue has become deeply divisive in Spain ahead of a national election on April 28.A new far-right party, Vox, has called for a 2004 law on domestic violence against women to be scrapped, and stands to win dozens of seats, opinion polls show.
  
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• Is a High-Performance Hyundai Sonata N in the Works?

  08-03-2019 21:43 via news.yahoo.com
  This rendering shows what the sporty sedan could look like.
  
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• Payless, Gymboree and Victoria's Secret are just some of the brands closing stores in 2019

  08-03-2019 21:42 via news.yahoo.com
  While 2019 is on track to be a record year for store closings, it's not expected to bring the same amount of empty retail space as last year.
  
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• A Full Timeline of Sexual Abuse Allegations Against R. Kelly

  08-03-2019 21:42 via news.yahoo.com
  A history of controversies and allegations surrounding the singer
  
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• Baby of Islamic State teenager in UK furor dies: group

  08-03-2019 21:34 via news.yahoo.com
  DEIR AL-ZOR, Syria (Reuters) - The baby of Shamima Begum, a teenager who left London to join the Islamic State group in Syria, has died, a spokesman for the U.S.-backed Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) said on Friday.Begum, whose two older children had also previously died, was stripped of her British citizenship last month on security grounds after she was discovered in a detention camp in Syria.The 19-year-old left London to join IS when she was 15.
  
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• US man imprisoned for life in killing of Chinese student

  08-03-2019 21:33 via news.yahoo.com
  A man charged with the beating death of a Chinese student at the University of Southern California was sentenced to life in prison on Friday without the possibility of parole.Alberto Ochoa, 22, was the last of four suspects to be tried for the 2014 murder of 24-year-old engineering student Xinran Ji.Ji managed to flee and staggered back to his campus apartment, where he was found dead hours later by a roommate.
  
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• As Trump visits tornado victims in Alabama, is he playing politics with disaster relief?

  08-03-2019 21:33 via news.yahoo.com
  Because Trump has directed pointed criticism of disaster recovery at California and Puerto Rico, critics question if he's playing favorites.
  
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• Trump claims Manafort case shows 'no collusion' with Russia

  08-03-2019 21:29 via news.yahoo.com
  US President Donald Trump declared a victory on Friday in the Russia collusion investigation after his former campaign chief received an unexpectedly light sentence in a high-profile case brought by Special Counsel Robert Mueller."Both the Judge and the lawyer in the Paul Manafort case stated loudly and for the world to hear that there was NO COLLUSION with Russia," Trump tweeted.Judge T.S. Ellis did not actually say that and neither did the lawyer for Manafort, a veteran Republican political co
  
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• Hezbollah calls on supporters to donate as sanctions pressure bites

  08-03-2019 21:17 via news.yahoo.com
  Lebanon's Hezbollah on Friday called on its supporters to donate money as it comes under increasing pressure from Western sanctions intended to isolate it financially.The United States deems all parts of Hezbollah a terrorist organization and has been steadily increasing financial sanctions against the Iran-backed movement."I announce today that the resistance is in need of its (popular base)," Hezbollah Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah said, adding that donations were needed to support the group's activ
  
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• USC grad student killing: 4th person sentenced in 2014 beating death of Xinran Ji

  08-03-2019 21:13 via news.yahoo.com
  A 22-year-old man was sentenced on Friday to life in prison without the possibility of parole for his role in the 2014 beating death of a USC graduate student from China.
  
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• Chelsea Manning jailed for contempt after refusing to testify in WikiLeaks grand jury investigation

  08-03-2019 20:37 via news.yahoo.com
  Judge jails Chelsea Manning for contempt after she refused to testify before a grand jury investigating WikiLeaks.
  
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• President Donald Trump and Michael Cohen call each other liars over pardon request

  08-03-2019 20:35 via news.yahoo.com
  President Donald Trump says Michael Cohen asked him for a pardon in a Friday tweet, saying "He lied!" Cohen says it didn't happen that way.
  
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• Flu may have peaked, but experts eye jump in nastier strain

  08-03-2019 20:29 via news.yahoo.com
  NEW YORK (AP) — There's a strong chance this flu season has peaked, but health officials are watching a recent wave of illnesses from a nastier flu strain.
  
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• Founder of Florida day spa tied to Robert Kraft's prostitution case attended Trump's Super Bowl party, report says

  08-03-2019 20:10 via news.yahoo.com
  The founder of a Florida day spa where New England Patriots owner Robert Kraft was busted for allegedly soliciting prostitution watched this year's Super Bowl at a party hosted by President Donald Trump.
  
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• Wild weather weekend to bring blizzard for Midwest, possible tornadoes in Southeast

  08-03-2019 20:06 via news.yahoo.com
  A massive storm will bring wild weather to the U.S. this weekend: blizzard conditions in the Midwest and the chance for tornadoes in the South.
  
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• Trump brands Democrats as 'anti-Jewish' party

  08-03-2019 19:57 via news.yahoo.com
  US President Donald Trump blasted Democrats as "anti-Israel" and "anti-Jewish" Friday after they passed a congressional measure opposing hate speech in general instead of specifically condemning alleged anti-Semitic comments by a Muslim congresswoman."I thought yesterday's vote by the House was disgraceful," Trump told reporters at the White House.The resolution was originally intended to deliver a direct rebuke of anti-Semitism following controversial comments by a Muslim Democratic congresswom
  
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• Israeli troops kill Palestinian during Gaza protests: health ministry

  08-03-2019 19:30 via news.yahoo.com
  The Israeli military said over 8,000 Palestinians took part in the demonstration, throwing rocks and explosives toward soldiers, and that some tried to breach the fence into Israel.A spokesman for the military said troops "responded with riot dispersal means and fired in accordance with standard operating procedures".Israel's military said on Thursday it had carried out air strikes on a compound belonging to Hamas, the Islamist group that controls Gaza, after explosives attached to balloons were
  
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• Wisconsin man jailed for kidnap-murder confesses in letter -report

  08-03-2019 19:24 via news.yahoo.com
  Jake Patterson, 21, wrote to a reporter at KARE 11 News that he had acted "mostly on impulse" but does not "think like a serial killer," according to a copy of the Feb. 28 letter published by the Minneapolis-based television station.Patterson was charged in February with murder for the Oct. 15 shooting deaths of Closs' parents in Barron, Wisconsin, and for kidnapping the girl he is alleged to have targeted seemingly at random after spotting her boarding a school bus.KARE 11 News said the letter
  
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• Video released of suspect in Silver Lake shooting

  08-03-2019 19:21 via news.yahoo.com
  Police on Thursday released surveillance video of a shooting in Silver Lake, as the search continues for the gunman.
  
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• Elizabeth Warren vows to break up Amazon, Facebook and Google if elected president

  08-03-2019 19:19 via news.yahoo.com
  Democratic candidate would rein in influence of tech giants and impose sweeping regulation on Silicon Valley Elizabeth Warren in Washington DC on 13 February.Photograph: Erin Scott/ReutersSenator Elizabeth Warren has pledged that, if elected president next year, she will aim to break up the big tech companies Amazon, Facebook and Google because they have too much control over Americans’ lives. In her plan to rein in the influence of tech giants, Warren proposes legislation targeting compan
  
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• EU makes counter-offer as Brexit pressure rises

  08-03-2019 19:11 via news.yahoo.com
  The EU's chief Brexit negotiator Michel Barnier on Friday proposed that Britain could leave the bloc's customs union after the divorce though the offer would not include Northern Ireland which will anger London.The last minute-bid by Barnier comes just days before British Parliament is due to vote on a withdrawal deal agreed between the two sides, in which the fate of the Irish border is seen as a key issue.Both the EU and Great Britain want to prevent a "hard border" that would bring controls b
  
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• Saudi app criticized for feature to control women's travel

  08-03-2019 19:09 via news.yahoo.com
  The Saudi government app Absher is mostly a way for people to pay traffic fines and complete other administrative tasks electronically. But one feature isn't sitting well with civil-rights advocates: the ability for men to grant or deny a woman permission to travel.
  
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• Elon Musk's SpaceX capsule splashes down off Florida coast

  08-03-2019 19:05 via news.yahoo.com
  After a six-day mission to the International Space Station, Crew Dragon detached at about 2:30 a.m EST (0730 GMT) and sped back to earth, reaching hypersonic speeds before an 8:45 a.m. EST (1345 GMT) splash-down about 200 miles (320 km) off the Florida coast.A SpaceX rocket launched the 16-foot-tall (4.9-meter) capsule from the Kennedy Space Center in Florida last Saturday."Everything happened just perfectly, right on time the way that we expected it to," Benjamin Reed, SpaceX's director of crew
  
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• Over 5 million people could flee Venezuela by year's end: study

  08-03-2019 19:04 via news.yahoo.com
  The crisis in Venezuela could have displaced more than five million people by the end of this year if there is no letup in the country's crisis, a report said Friday, comparing the flow with that of Afghanistan and Syria.The number cited in the report for the Organization of American States would be roughly double the 2.7 million the United Nations says have left Venezuela since 2015, a mass migration burdening Colombia and other neighboring countries."Without any significant change that could r
  
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• Omar throws shade at Obama: 'We don't want anybody to get away with murder because they are polished'

  08-03-2019 18:58 via news.yahoo.com
  Rep. Ilhan Omar, D-Minn., is an outspoken critic of President Trump. But she’s also critical of his predecessor.
  
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• Jayme Closs kidnapping: Jake Patterson writes letter explaining ‘complicated’ reasons for abducting 13-year-old

  08-03-2019 18:58 via news.yahoo.com
  Jake Patterson, the 21-year-old man accused of kidnapping Wisconsin teenager Jayme Closs and holding her captive for three months, has apologised to his former prisoner and claimed he had “complicated reasons” for the abduction.Mr Patterson said in the letter to a local NBC News affiliate that he would plead guilty to the charges he faces after the abduction, and the alleged earlier killing of the teen’s parents.“I knew when I was caught (which I thought would happen a lo
  
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• Sen. Martha McSally on Air Force handling of rape: 'They failed on the job. Big time'

  08-03-2019 18:57 via news.yahoo.com
  In a nationally televised interview, Sen. Martha McSally said she didn't even consider reporting her rape at the time because of the environment.
  
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• 7 Energy Stocks That Don't Need Higher Oil Prices

  08-03-2019 18:52 via news.yahoo.com
  The best oil stock ideas from Bank of America.
  
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• Flight from Philadelphia to Orlando diverted to Raleigh due to medical emergency

  08-03-2019 18:51 via news.yahoo.com
  An American Airlines flight from Philadelphia to Orlando has been diverted due to a medical emergency onboard the plane.
  
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