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• Shopko liquidation: Bankruptcy plan now calls for all stores to close by summer

  18-03-2019 23:52 via news.yahoo.com
  Shopko made the decision to liquidate its brick and mortar retail business. A new list of store closings was released Monday.
  
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• The Latest: Spy agency says no threats ahead of massacre

  18-03-2019 23:47 via news.yahoo.com
  CHRISTCHURCH, New Zealand (AP) — The Latest on the mosque shootings in New Zealand (all times local):
  
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• Parts of US Midwest deluged in historic deadly floods

  18-03-2019 23:35 via news.yahoo.com
  The US Midwest struggled Monday with historic flooding that claimed at least three lives, displaced residents and damaged hundreds of homes and businesses.Swollen waters hit much of Nebraska, as well as parts of Iowa, Wisconsin, and South Dakota, after a major storm last week dumped snow and rain, even as melting snow was already raising the levels of area waterways.Neighboring states could also be affected as floodwaters drain, officials said.
  
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• Last prosecutor on Michael Flynn case departs Mueller's office

  18-03-2019 23:25 via news.yahoo.com
  Her departure comes on the heels of reports that another Mueller prosecutor would leave the office in coming days and is sure to be seen as a new indication that the special counsel’s investigation is winding down.
  
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• Mike Pompeo jokes he will be secretary of state until 'Trump tweets me out of office’

  18-03-2019 22:55 via news.yahoo.com
  Secretary of state Mike Pompeo says he knows his tenure as America’s chief diplomat is only as fleeting as a tweet.Mr Pompeo, during an event in Kansas, that was part of global entrepreneurship summit, responded with a joke and praise for Donald Trump when asked how long he might stay in the president’s cabinet.“I’m going to be in there until he tweets me out of office,” Mr Pompeo said, to laughs.
  
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• Grieving New Zealand looks for lessons from Christchurch attack

  18-03-2019 22:41 via news.yahoo.com
  After days of intense grieving for New Zealand's worst-ever mass shooting, attention began to turn to how the country's gun laws need to change and what warning signs might have been missed ahead of a gunman's attack on two mosques that killed 50 people.Bodies of the victims of Friday's attacks in Christchurch were being washed and prepared for burial in a Muslim ritual process, with teams of volunteers flown in from overseas to assist with the heavy workload.Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern said h
  
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• 'We need a million -- and quick!' Dem candidates' playbook

  18-03-2019 22:32 via news.yahoo.com
  WASHINGTON (AP) — Washington Gov. Jay Inslee, little known outside his home state, boasts he raised over $1 million in the days after launching his White House bid. Former Colorado Gov. John Hickenlooper and others say they did, too.
  
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• Suspect in mob boss hit flashes pro-Trump slogans on hand

  18-03-2019 22:26 via news.yahoo.com
  TOMS RIVER, N.J. (AP) — The man charged with killing the reputed boss of the Gambino crime family wrote pro-Donald Trump slogans on his hand and flashed them to journalists before a court hearing Monday.
  
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• Dutch police arrest suspect after three shot dead on tram

  18-03-2019 22:17 via news.yahoo.com
  Dutch police on Monday arrested a Turkish-born suspect over a shooting on a tram in Utrecht that left three people dead in what officials said was a possible terror attack.Police had earlier launched a huge manhunt for Gokmen Tanis, 37, issuing a picture of the suspected gunman and warning the public not to approach him following the attack, in which five other people were wounded.Mosques and schools were closed across the Netherlands' fourth-largest city following the bloodshed, before heavily
  
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• Stories of the victims of the New Zealand mosque attack

  18-03-2019 22:06 via news.yahoo.com
  Fifty people were killed in a terror attack at two mosques in Christchurch, New Zealand, on Friday. Some information about the victims:
  
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• Here are the results from Apple’s largest-ever irregular heartbeat study

  18-03-2019 22:02 via news.yahoo.com
  Imperfect but still promising.That's been the takeaway so far from observers noting the results of Apple's massive irregular heartbeat study, an analysis in which more than 419,000 Apple Watch users participated -- and which detected signs of an irregular heartbeat, the kind of thing that could eventually lead to a stroke, in around 2,100 of those participants.Apple had teamed up with Stanford University researchers for this screening, which the iPhone maker praised as the largest study of its k
  
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• iPhone XS Max vs. Galaxy S10+ speed test: The results might surprise you

  18-03-2019 21:43 via news.yahoo.com
  Year in and year out, Apple manages to crank out new iPhone models with increasingly impressive and arguably unrivaled hardware. Though Android has caught up to the iPhone in many ways when it comes to specific features and overall usability, new iPhone models routinely trounce all comers when it comes down to raw performance. Just a few months back, for example, you may recall that Apple's iPhone XS -- armed with the A12 Bionic -- managed to beat a McLaren Edition of the OnePlus 6T boasting 10G
  
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• New Zealand's darkest day: 36 minutes of terror

  18-03-2019 21:41 via news.yahoo.com
  CHRISTCHURCH, New Zealand (AP) — On March 15, New Zealand changed. Some are calling it a loss of innocence, a reminder that distance doesn't bring protection against violence. Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern has vowed to change gun laws and investigate what went wrong. This is how 36 minutes of terror unfolded, according to witness accounts and livestream video.
  
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• Kansas hopes to resurrect proof-of-citizenship voting law

  18-03-2019 21:14 via news.yahoo.com
  SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — Kansas' solicitor general on Monday called on a federal appeals court to reinstate the state's law requiring people to provide proof of citizenship before they can register to vote, saying problems with how it was enforced during the three years it was in place are fixable.
  
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• Trump news: President rails at Joe Biden as 2020 announcement looms, after New Zealand terror complaint and angry attack on John McCain

  18-03-2019 21:09 via news.yahoo.com
  Donald Trump has targeted Joe Biden after the former vice president made a verbal slip about a potential 2020 presidential bid.At a dinner over the weekend, Mr Biden said he had “the most progressive record of anybody running.” But Mr Biden hasn’t announced whether he will launch a third run for the White House.
  
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• Super bloom ban lifted: Lake Elsinore reopens poppy display in Walker Canyon

  18-03-2019 21:05 via news.yahoo.com
  Walker Canyon was reopened to visitors on Monday, one day after access to the poppy display was shut down.
  
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• Poppy apocalypse: Crowds descend on California city to see 'superbloom'

  18-03-2019 21:05 via news.yahoo.com
  The rare profusion of orange poppies in Walker Canyon, set in the Temescal Mountains and accessible on foot via a trail, owes thanks to above-average rainfall in the arid region.The profusion of tourists in Lake Elsinore, located about 70 miles southeast of downtown Los Angeles, apparently owes thanks to the popularity of Instagram.The city of 63,300 has seen 50,000 tourists from around the country and as far away as Europe come to the 3.5-mile (5.6 km) trail in Walker Canyon over the last two w
  
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• Never-Trumpers assess his mental health: 'His condition is getting worse'

  18-03-2019 21:04 via news.yahoo.com
  The president's 29-tweet Sunday raises eyebrows.
  
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• Fox News hires Donna Brazile as political contributor

  18-03-2019 21:01 via news.yahoo.com
  NEW YORK (AP) — Former Democratic National Committee chief Donna Brazile, who was fired by CNN for tipping off the Hillary Clinton campaign about debate topics in 2016, has joined Fox News Channel as a political commentator.
  
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• Leak teases OnePlus 7 with a new all-screen design that ditches the notch

  18-03-2019 20:57 via news.yahoo.com
  If it sticks to tradition, OnePlus will likely launch two standard smartphones this year: The OnePlus 7 and OnePlus 7T. But the Chinese smartphone maker will also sell a standalone 5G phone in some markets as soon as next quarter. That device was on display in heavy camouflage at MWC 2018 a few weeks ago, but it’s unclear whether it’ll be a part of the OnePlus 7 series. Meanwhile, several leaks have claimed that OnePlus will deliver a brand new design with the OnePlus 7, and we have
  
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• Brotherly love at Reliance? India's Mukesh Ambani provides 'support' to brother Anil as debt paid off

  18-03-2019 20:53 via news.yahoo.com
  India's richest man Mukesh Ambani, who controls oil-to-telecoms powerhouse Reliance Industries that is now worth many times the troubled business group run by his younger brother Anil, appears to have offered some kind of support to ensure Anil paid off a 5.5 billion rupees ($80 million) debt.If Anil didn't pay the debt, then he had been threatened by India's Supreme Court with a prison term.The nature of the backing and how it was delivered is unclear, but in a statement Anil Ambani thanked his
  
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• Ford CEO Jim Hackett pay raise means he earns 276 times more than median employee

  18-03-2019 20:50 via news.yahoo.com
  Ford revealed executive compensation packages with pay raises for everybody, and then announced 5,000 job cuts in Germany and the UK.
  
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• California poppies: City declares public safety crisis after 'super bloom apocalypse'

  18-03-2019 20:50 via news.yahoo.com
  Officials in the California city of Lake Elisnore are used to large crowds coming to see the wildflowers that burst into a vibrant blaze of gorgeous colour as spring gets underway.“The city has expended all available resources to address the #SuperBloom," they wrote on the the city’s Instagram page.Residents have complained about traffic jams, as visitors have arrived as early as 5.30am to visit the wildflowers, whose burst of growth was triggered by recent record-breaking rainfall.
  
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• Trump's likely pick for Pentagon job makes 'trains run on time.' Can he do much more?

  18-03-2019 20:49 via news.yahoo.com
  Some observers credit Shanahan’s business experience as an asset in the Pentagon.
  
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• Speaker deals blow to British PM's bid to revive Brexit deal

  18-03-2019 20:41 via news.yahoo.com
  British Prime Minister Theresa May's bid to get her EU divorce deal through parliament was hit Monday with a bombshell announcement by the speaker, ruling MPs could not vote again on the same proposal they had already rejected."What the government cannot legitimately do is resubmit to the house the same proposition, or substantially the same proposition," he said, citing precedent dating back to 1604.Responding to MPs' questions about his ruling, Bercow said that "in all likelihood" it meant the
  
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• Supreme Court weighs Virginia racial dispute over electoral maps

  18-03-2019 20:36 via news.yahoo.com
  The high court heard arguments in an appeal by the Republican-led state House of Delegates in defense of 11 state House districts that a lower court ruled last year violated the rights of black voters to equal protection under the law under the U.S. Constitution's 14th Amendment.While the Supreme Court for decades has invalidated electoral maps due to racial gerrymandering, the justices have not yet made a definitive ruling on whether drawing legislative districts for purely partisan advantage v
  
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• Democrat O'Rourke presidential bid draws $6.1 million in first 24 hours

  18-03-2019 20:35 via news.yahoo.com
  Beto O'Rourke raised more than $6.1 million within 24 hours of announcing his candidacy for the 2020 Democratic presidential nomination, his campaign said on Monday, highlighting his fundraising prowess in a crowded field.The former three-term Texas congressman's haul put him at the top of a Democratic pack of more than a dozen candidates so far including Bernie Sanders, the independent U.S. senator who sought the party's nomination in 2016.Sanders raised $5.9 million in the first 24 hours of hi
  
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• New Zealand shooter to represent himself in court as former lawyer says he appears 'lucid'

  18-03-2019 20:30 via news.yahoo.com
  The Australian terrorist who filmed himself slaughtering 50 worshipers at two mosques in New Zealand has asked to represent himself in court, prompting concerns the trial could become a platform to promote his far-Right ideology. Brenton Tarrant, a white supremacist who gunned down his victims with a semi-automatic rifle at the Al Noor and Linwood mosques in Christchurch, sacked his court-appointed lawyer so he could defend himself.  His former lawyer, Richard Peters, told re
  
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• Congress to probe Trump administration’s response to rising threat of white nationalism

  18-03-2019 20:18 via news.yahoo.com
  The Democratic-controlled House Judiciary Committee has revealed plans to hold hearings on the rising threat of white nationalism.Mr Trump then said during a televised appearance in the Oval Office that he did not believe white nationalism was an increasing threat in the US.The hearings — which will reportedly arrive in early April — will focus in part on how Mr Trump’s administration has responded to the growing threat of white nationalism documented in rising figures on hate
  
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• Dutch police arrest Turkish man suspected of killing three in tram shooting

  18-03-2019 20:11 via news.yahoo.com
  Police said the suspect, 37-year-old Gokmen Tanis, had been taken into custody after an hours-long manhunt and had earlier run-ins with authorities in the Netherlands.The city was put into lockdown after the shooting, shortly after the morning rush hour, which authorities initially said was an apparent terrorist attack.The Turkish intelligence agency said it is investigating whether the attack was personally motivated or an act of terrorism, President Tayyip Erdogan said.
  
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• Beto O'Rourke boasts about $6.1M in campaign's 1st 24 hours

  18-03-2019 20:11 via news.yahoo.com
  CENTER LINE, Mich. (AP) — Democratic presidential candidate Beto O'Rourke boasted Monday that the more than $6 million he raised online within a day of announcing his White House bid, the most reported by any 2020 candidate, was helping to create "the largest grassroots campaign this country has ever seen."
  
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• New Zealand attack plays into jihadist hands: experts

  18-03-2019 19:47 via news.yahoo.com
  White supremacist Brenton Tarrant, who is accused of killing 50 people in the New Zealand mosque massacre in what he claimed was a blow against Muslim "invaders", played into jihadist hands by following their strategy, experts say.From the Islamic State (IS) group to Al-Qaeda, jihadist groups aim to deepen divisions between Muslims and the rest of the world in an apparent aim to trigger all-out war between "believers" and "unbelievers"."The Christchurch attack was a blessing for Daesh," said Ala
  
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• NY self-help guru pleads not guilty to child porn charges

  18-03-2019 19:36 via news.yahoo.com
  NEW YORK (AP) — The spiritual leader of an upstate New York self-help group pleaded not guilty on Monday to newly filed child pornography charges at a hearing where it became clear that his co-defendants are trying to avoid going to trial with him next month.
  
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• Former white supremacist explains what leads people to the extreme right

  18-03-2019 19:30 via news.yahoo.com
  A former neo-Nazi skinhead has attempted to pinpoint exactly how white supremacists are radicalised to commit violent attacks against minorities similar to the mosque shootings in Christchurch, New Zealand that killed at least 51 people last week.The co-founder of Life After Hate, a nonprofit organisation aimed at helping people leave white supremacist groups, was asked on CNN if stationing armed guards at houses of worships could effectively prevent white supremacists from committing a heinous
  
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• Dutch police arrest tram attack suspect after huge manhunt

  18-03-2019 19:28 via news.yahoo.com
  Dutch police on Monday arrested a Turkish-born suspect over a possible terror attack on a tram in the city of Utrecht that left three people dead and five wounded.Heavily armed officers later surrounded a building following the bloodshed in the Netherlands' fourth largest city and his arrest was dramatically announced at the end of a news conference.Dutch authorities said they were still investigating a likely terrorist motive for the attack but said they "cannot exclude" other motives, includin
  
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• Turn any speaker into an Alexa speaker for $19.99 thanks to this sale

  18-03-2019 19:25 via news.yahoo.com
  There may come a day when every speaker out there is an Alexa speaker. After all, who wouldn't want access to Amazon's awesome virtual personal assistant on all of their speakers? Today isn't that day, though, which is why the Amazon Echo Input exists. The company's Echo speaker lineup is great, but you'll never get the same quality of sound on an Echo Speaker as you would on a premium speaker. But if you connect the Echo Input to any auxiliary input, you'll get instant hands-free access to Alex
  
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• Utrecht shooting: Turkish-born suspect, 37, arrested after three killed in 'possible terror attack'

  18-03-2019 19:23 via news.yahoo.com
  Dutch police have arrested a 37-year-old man suspected of shooting three people dead and wounding five others in a possible terror attack on a tram. The Turkish-born suspect, Gökmen Tanis, was on the run since Monday morning, forcing vast parts of Utrecht city – including mosques, schools and businesses – into lockdown. Although the local terror threat level was set to a maximum of five, as the day progressed increasing evidence on social and international media suggested the at
  
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• The Mercedes-Maybach GLS Will Be the Most Expensive Car Built in America

  18-03-2019 19:20 via news.yahoo.com
  Mercedes has confirmed plans for an ultra-luxurious Maybach version of the upcoming third-gen GLS.
  
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• Poll: 50 Percent Say Mueller Investigation Is ‘Witch Hunt’

  18-03-2019 19:13 via news.yahoo.com
  50 percent of adults surveyed in an astonishing new USA Today/Suffolk University poll say that Special Counsel Robert Mueller's Russia investigation is a "witch hunt" and believe that President Trump has been the target of more investigative scrutiny than other presidents because of his politics.The poll shows that trust in the president has increased as well. A majority of 52 percent still say they have little or no trust in Trump's insistence that his campaign did not collude with Ru
  
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• Poppy fields in Lake Elsinore, California, shut down to public amid Super Bloom apocalypse

  18-03-2019 19:12 via news.yahoo.com
  A California city called it a public safety emergency using hashtags like #PoppyShutdown, #PoppyNightmare, #IsItOverYet, and #HanginthereLE
  
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• Putin flies into Crimea for annexation party, launches power stations

  18-03-2019 18:54 via news.yahoo.com
  Putin, who has poured billions of Russian taxpayer dollars into Crimea since Moscow seized control of it in 2014, attended the launch of a power station in the city of Sevastopol and oversaw the launch of another in Simferopol by video conference.The facilities -- able to cover 90 percent of Crimea's power needs -- were partially launched last year, but Monday's inauguration marked the moment they began working at full capacity.The same power stations were at the centre of an international scand
  
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• Paris police chief fired over Champs-Elysées riots as French government to ban protests in trouble spots

  18-03-2019 18:38 via news.yahoo.com
  The Paris police chief has been fired for failing to contain violent riots that saw a string of flagship restaurants and shops torched along the French capital’s famed Champs-Elysées. The government announcement came after top security officials acknowledged that attempts by 5,000 police to stop several hundred black-clad rioters running amok along “the world’s most beautiful avenue” for seven hours on Saturday had been an abject “failure&
  
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• Paris police chief sacked after Champs-Elysees rioting

  18-03-2019 18:36 via news.yahoo.com
  The French government sacked the top police official in Paris on Monday following another weekend of rioting in the capital during "yellow vest" protests which have put President Emmanuel Macron on the defensive.The police's failure to keep the Paris protests from spiralling out of control over the weekend again cast a harsh spotlight on their tactics.About 5,000 police were deployed in the capital on Saturday, far outnumbering the several hundred black-clad rioters who caused havoc in front of
  
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• Massive fire at Houston petrochemical storage terminal may last two more days

  18-03-2019 18:27 via news.yahoo.com
  A massive fire at a fuels storage company along the Houston Ship Channel may burn for two more days, an official said on Monday as the blaze spread a plume of black smoke across the city, shutting schools in two nearby communities.The fire began Sunday morning in a giant storage tank containing naphtha, a volatile substance used to create octane-boosting components of gasoline.No injuries were reported from the fire but nearby residents were encouraged to remain indoors.
  
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• US weather: Thousands flee midwest as three die amid flooding triggered by 'bomb cyclone'

  18-03-2019 18:23 via news.yahoo.com
  Thousands of people are being forced to leave their homes after a so-called bomb cyclone brought flooding to huge swathes of the American midwest.From Nebraska to Kansas, and Missouri to Illinois, residents have been evacuated amid flooding that has killed at least three people.The governors of Nebraska, Iowa and Wisconsin have declared states of emergency.
  
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• #Unfiltered week of 3/18: Paris Hilton throws star-studded birthday

  18-03-2019 18:22 via news.yahoo.com
  Stars were far from shy this week on Instagram
  
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• Ambientalista construye una casa ecológica por solo 1,500 dólares

  18-03-2019 18:22 via es-us.noticias.yahoo.com
  La iniciativa es tan amigable para el planeta como para el bolsillo. Reutilizando materiales e invirtiendo solamente 1,500 dólares, Rob Greenfield fabricó su nuevo hogar en Orlando, Florida. Su intención es demostrar que es posible vivir bien, sin contaminar el medio ambiente ni consumir grandes cantidades de recursos.Simple y sustentable, el leitmotiv
  
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• Fox News pulls 'Judge Jeanine' show one week after remarks on Rep. Ilhan Omar's hijab

  18-03-2019 18:21 via news.yahoo.com
  A week after questioning U.S. Rep. Ilhan Omar's hijab and patriotism on the air, Fox News pulls host 'Judge Jeanine' Pirro's show.
  
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• Frank Cali murder: Suspect in killing of reputed Gambino crime family boss appears in court

  18-03-2019 18:20 via news.yahoo.com
  A man has been arrested in connection with the murder of reputed Gambino family mob boss Francesco “Frank” Cali, police in New York said.Cali was allegedly the head of the Gambino family, one of the five Italian-American Mafia families that have historically dominated organised crime in New York and New Jersey.Anthony Comello, 24, was detained in New Jersey and appeared at the Ocean County Courthouse in Toms River, New Jersey, at 2.30 pm.
  
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• Manhunt after three dead in Dutch tram attack

  18-03-2019 18:05 via news.yahoo.com
  Dutch police launched a huge manhunt for a gunman who killed three people in a tram in the city of Utrecht on Monday in what officials said was likely a terror attack.Police issued a picture of Turkish-born suspect Gokmen Tanis, 37, and warned the public not to approach him, as armed counter-terrorism officers surrounded a nearby building.Dutch Prime Minister Mark Rutte said a terror attack "could not be excluded", vowing that the Netherlands would "never give way to intolerance".
  
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