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• Trump Dismisses Democratic Push to Pack Supreme Court

  19-03-2019 23:54 via news.yahoo.com
  President Trump on Tuesday rejected the idea that has gained traction among Democrats of adding seats to the Supreme Court, saying it will "never happen.""I wouldn’t entertain that," the president said Tuesday at a press conference at the White House. "If they can’t catch up through the ballot box winning an election, they want to try a different way.""We would have no interest in that whatsoever. It will never happen." he added."“It won’t happen, I guarant
  
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• Guaido official defends Venezuelan consulate takeover

  19-03-2019 23:46 via news.yahoo.com
  As US President Donald Trump told a press conference with his Brazilian counterpart Jair Bolsonaro that his administration could impose "a lot tougher" sanctions on Venezuela, Marcano showed journalists around the consulate.Some rooms were empty, but the building was dotted with art and pictures of former President Hugo Chavez -- Maduro's predecessor -- maps of Venezuela, piles of passport applications and a cabinet where shirts remained on hangers.
  
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• New figures reflect lack of diversity at elite New York City high schools

  19-03-2019 23:40 via news.yahoo.com
  Only seven black students were offered admission to Stuyvesant High School's freshman class of 895 students.
  
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• NASA captures devastating Nebraska floods from high above

  19-03-2019 23:35 via news.yahoo.com
  Many of NASA's satellites spend their entire lives pointed deep into the cosmos, but the space agency also had plenty of lenses pointed back down towards Earth. NASA tracks all kinds of things that happen here on our planet, including weather systems and natural disasters like the record-setting floods currently taking place in Nebraska.In a new series of images, NASA's Landsat 8 satellite shows how dramatically much of Nebraska has changed as flood waters turned otherwise calm waterways into la
  
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• Stephen Colbert postpones surprise trip to New Zealand after mosque attacks

  19-03-2019 23:20 via news.yahoo.com
  Stephen Colbert was supposed to travel to New Zealand on Wednesday for a week of shows. After the mosque attacks, the trip has been postponed.
  
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• New Zealand attacks unite government on gun control. America stands divided.

  19-03-2019 23:14 via news.yahoo.com
  The Second Amendment, as Justice Antonin Scalia wrote, is 'not a right to keep and carry any weapon whatsoever in any manner whatsoever': Our view
  
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• Towns in need of fresh water after Nebraska flooding

  19-03-2019 22:57 via news.yahoo.com
  Historic flooding in Nebraska has caused multiple water treatment plants to shut down.Peru, Nebraska has trucks full of water bottles, but with college students returning soon, they will need more.
  
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• W.Va. suit accuses diocese of knowingly employing pedophiles

  19-03-2019 22:54 via news.yahoo.com
  CHARLESTON, W.Va. (AP) — A Catholic diocese and its former bishop in West Virginia knowingly employed pedophiles and failed to conduct adequate background checks on camp and school workers, according to a lawsuit filed Tuesday by the state attorney general.
  
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• 3 dead as hundreds of homes flooded across Midwest; VP Mike Pence visits Nebraska

  19-03-2019 22:29 via news.yahoo.com
  Vice President Mike Pence visited the Midwest on Tuesday to view flooding caused by heavy rains and snowmelt that damaged hundreds of homes and inundated tens of thousands of acres with water.
  
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• Bernie Sanders hires Beto O'Rourke critic as top aide in 2020 race

  19-03-2019 22:25 via news.yahoo.com
  Sanders’ campaign said it is bringing in David Sirota, whose work has appeared in The Guardian and Newsweek, among other outlets, as a senior adviser and speechwriter.The move could stoke tensions within the Democratic field since Sirota has previously targeted O'Rourke, the former U.S. congressman from Texas who entered the presidential race last week, and other rivals.Sirota on Twitter and in published articles has accused O’Rourke of siding with President Donald Trump and Republic
  
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• Colleges weigh fate of students with tainted applications

  19-03-2019 22:23 via news.yahoo.com
  BOSTON (AP) — In the wake of a massive college bribery scheme, the schools caught in the middle have been left facing a thorny question: What to do about the students who may have been admitted through fraud?
  
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• New Zealand's leader Jacinda Ardern wins plaudits for handling of attacks

  19-03-2019 22:22 via news.yahoo.com
  Jacinda Ardern told New Zealand's Parliament she would deny fame for the killer by never speaking his name. She suggested others do the same.
  
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• Trump gets a U.S. Supreme Court victory on immigration detention

  19-03-2019 22:08 via news.yahoo.com
  The Supreme Court on Tuesday endorsed the U.S. government's authority to detain immigrants awaiting deportation anytime - potentially even years - after they have completed prison terms for criminal convictions, handing President Donald Trump a victory as he pursues hardline immigration policies.The court ruled 5-4 along ideological lines, with its conservative justices in the majority and its liberal justices dissenting, that federal authorities could place such immigrants into indefinite deten
  
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• China Considers Excluding Boeing 737 Max From Trade Deal

  19-03-2019 22:00 via news.yahoo.com
  Boeing jets were featured on a draft list of American products China would buy to reduce its trade surplus with the U.S., the people said, asking not to be identified discussing private deliberations.Now, safety concerns are pushing China to examine whether to cut the 737 Max from the list altogether or replace it with other Boeing models after the crash of a plane operated by Ethiopian Airlines led to the aircraft being grounded worldwide, they said.
  
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• Artist creates 2-acre image of Beto O'Rourke

  19-03-2019 21:48 via news.yahoo.com
  An artist and Beto O'Rourke fan took his support for the Texas Democratic presidential candidate to a new level in creating a piece of artwork of O'Rourke's face in an Austin, Texas field. (March 19)
  
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• Trump administration plays favorites with faith-based media

  19-03-2019 21:47 via news.yahoo.com
  According to one account, Secretary of State Mike Pompeo promised that “people of all faiths will have ‘something to say’ about the Israeli-Palestinian peace plan the White House is expected to announce after Israel’s elections in two weeks.”
  
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• Tyler Perry steps in to help 4 children of single mom allegedly killed by boyfriend

  19-03-2019 21:43 via news.yahoo.com
  Tyler Perry reportedly offered to take care of the family's rent to stave off eviction, arrange for 45-year-old Tynesha Evans' body to be flown to Wisconsin for burial and cover her 18-year-old daughter's tuition at Spelman College so she doesn't have to drop out.
  
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• Exclusive: Nancy Pelosi pushes back on Democratic critics of her impeachment stance

  19-03-2019 21:42 via news.yahoo.com
  Some progressives have "wanted to impeach the president since the day he got elected," House Speaker Nancy Pelosi told USA TODAY.
  
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• NASA's plan to scoop up dirt from asteroid hits a snag

  19-03-2019 21:41 via news.yahoo.com
  NEW YORK (AP) — NASA's plan to scoop up dirt and gravel from an asteroid has hit a snag, but scientists say they can overcome it.
  
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• Netanyahu's main election rival sidesteps Palestinian statehood

  19-03-2019 21:38 via news.yahoo.com
  Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's strongest election rival, former army general Benny Gantz, said on Tuesday he would seek peace with the Palestinians but stopped short of endorsing their goal for statehood.Gantz, a centrist candidate, said in an interview with Hadashot TV news that Israel has a moral obligation to "strive for peace.""I will talk to anyone I can in order to advance a diplomatic solution," Gantz said.When asked whether the ultimate goal would be that of a Palestinian st
  
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• The BMW 3-series Gran Turismo Will Soon Be Gone for Good

  19-03-2019 21:29 via news.yahoo.com
  There will be no weird hatchback derivative of the new G20-generation 3-series.
  
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• Beto O'Rourke campaign: Bernie Sanders' supporters fuel misinformation about Texas Democrat's record-breaking fundraising haul

  19-03-2019 21:28 via news.yahoo.com
  Beto O’Rourke's record-breaking fundraising haul has appeared to upset supporters of Bernie Sanders, who began spreading misinformation about how the Texas Democrat’s campaign managed to top that of the Vermont senator’s in its first 24 hours.A tweet claiming the former congressman’s 2020 campaign was part of a supposed financial kickback with the Texas Democratic Party went viral after Mr O'Rourke released his fundraising figures from his first day on the campaign trail
  
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• Trump rejects idea of expanding U.S. Supreme Court

  19-03-2019 21:26 via news.yahoo.com
  Trump said he "wouldn't entertain that," when asked about expanding the size of the court at a news conference."The only reason they're doing that is they want to try to catch up, so if they can't catch up through the ballot box by winning an election they want to try doing it in a different way," the Republican president added, referring to Democrats.Trump has appointed conservative Justices Brett Kavanaugh and Neil Gorsuch to the court since taking office in 2017, cementing its 5-4 conservativ
  
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• Beto O'Rourke makes early impression in Pennsylvania visit

  19-03-2019 21:24 via news.yahoo.com
  STATE COLLEGE, Pa. (AP) — Former U.S. Rep. Beto O'Rourke is making an early impression in Pennsylvania, a late-voting state that may yet play a role in the crowded 2020 Democratic presidential primary contest.
  
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• Apple’s new iPad Air and iPad mini just released, but you can already find great deals

  19-03-2019 21:20 via news.yahoo.com
  Apple on Monday announced a couple of new iPad models -- the 2019 iPad Air and iPad mini -- with prices starting at $499 and $399, respectively.Both devices share the same set of specs, and both of them are almost as powerful as the 2018 iPad Pro -- the new tablets have the iPhone XS's A12 Bionic chip inside, rather than the A12X flavor that goes into the Pros. That makes them great alternatives to the iPad Pro, which is more expensive, or the regular iPad, which isn't as powerful. If you're loo
  
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• Pro-Brexit U.K. Ministers Are Plotting to Prevent a Long Delay

  19-03-2019 21:19 via news.yahoo.com
  The meeting is taking place on Tuesday evening in London in an effort to shape what the prime minister asks the European Union to agree to, people familiar with the matter said.May will travel to Brussels on Thursday for a summit of EU leaders, and is expected to write a letter to the bloc first, asking them to extend the Brexit deadline beyond March 29.Pro-Brexit Tories hate the idea of a long delay because it would mean the U.K. has to take part in European Parliament elections in May. That wo
  
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• From Russia to hush money: Court records offer new details on inquiries of ex-Trump lawyer Michael Cohen

  19-03-2019 21:17 via news.yahoo.com
  Unsealed court records show authorities began investigating Michael Cohen in mid-2017 and suggest their inquiry is not concluded.
  
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• Former House Speaker Paul Ryan joins board of Fox News parent company Fox Corp.

  19-03-2019 21:15 via news.yahoo.com
  Former House Speaker Paul Ryan was named Tuesday to the board of the new Fox Corp. as the stock was to begin trading as a stand-alone public company.
  
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• Deadly floods in Midwest cause widespread damage

  19-03-2019 20:39 via news.yahoo.com
  More rain this week could worsen the already devastating floods in the Midwest that have killed at least four people, and inundated stretches of Nebraska and Iowa along the Missouri River. Jillian Kitchener reports.
  
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• Supreme Court: Navy product manufacturers liable for asbestos exposure in sailors' deaths

  19-03-2019 20:38 via news.yahoo.com
  A divided Supreme Court ruled that manufacturers of equipment used on Navy ships should have warned of asbestos that resulted in two sailors' deaths.
  
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• Doomed jihadists retreat within shrinking Syria bastion

  19-03-2019 20:36 via news.yahoo.com
  Advancing Kurdish-led forces forced diehard fighters from the Islamic State group out of the main encampment where they had been confined in recent days.The move brought a months-old operation to wipe out the last vestige of IS's once-sprawling proto-state closer to its inevitable outcome but the Syrian Democratic Forces stopped short of declaring the battle over."This is not a victory announcement, but a significant progress in the fight against Daesh," SDF spokesman Mustefa Bali said, using an
  
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• Woman pleads guilty to sneaking aboard international flight

  19-03-2019 20:15 via news.yahoo.com
  CHICAGO (AP) — A woman who's been dubbed a serial stowaway was sentenced Tuesday to 18 months of probation after pleading guilty to sneaking past Chicago airport security last year, boarding a plane and flying to London without a ticket.
  
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• Surveillance Appears to Show Person Carrying Rifle Wandering California Elementary School

  19-03-2019 20:10 via news.yahoo.com
  Investigators say a northern California elementary school staff member called police after watching surveillance footage of an armed person scoping out the school.
  
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• Lithuanian leader mulls moving embassy to Jerusalem

  19-03-2019 20:05 via news.yahoo.com
  Centrist Prime Minister Saulius Skvernelis said Tuesday he would consider moving Lithuania's embassy in Israel from Tel Aviv to the disputed city of Jerusalem, should he win May's presidential elections.Skvernelis said that moving the mission could lead to closer ties with Israel and the United States, which Lithuania sees as a key security buffer againstRussia.
  
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• Could the Twitter Primary Cost Democrats the Oval Office?

  19-03-2019 20:04 via news.yahoo.com
  In my lifetime, I’ve never seen more presidential candidates advocate breaking more American constitutional, economic, and policy norms than I’ve seen from the Democratic field so far in 2019. When you assemble their proposals, it’s breathtaking.End the Electoral College? Elizabeth Warren is for it, and Beto O’Rourke says there’s “a lot of wisdom” in her proposal.Pack the Supreme Court?  Warren, Beto, Kamala Harris, and Kirsten Gillibrand are open t
  
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• Losses from US Midwest flooding seen above $1 bn

  19-03-2019 20:03 via news.yahoo.com
  Waters began to recede Tuesday in the US Midwest after historic flooding that claimed at least three lives and caused losses estimated at more than $1 billion.Hundreds of homes and businesses were inundated, roadways damaged, and bridges washed away in several states, with much of Nebraska and parts of Iowa hardest hit.Officials also were concerned about crop and livestock losses at farms.
  
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• Trump: Expanding US Supreme Court will 'never happen'

  19-03-2019 19:59 via news.yahoo.com
  US President Donald Trump on Tuesday slapped down ambitious proposals being circulated by some Democratic White House candidates to expand the number of justices on the US Supreme Court, dismissing it as election sour grapes.Trump said Democrats were seeking to rebalance the nine-member court or draw it once again to a more liberal lean after the high court shifted to the right with the president managing to place two of his nominees -- Neil Gorsuch and Brett Kavanaugh -- on the bench."So if the
  
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• 'Trump of the Tropics': Five things you should know about the Brazilian president's visit with Trump

  19-03-2019 19:47 via news.yahoo.com
  Jair Bolsonaro, Brazil's controversial new president and Donald Trump admirer, visits the White House to talk trade, Venezuela and other issues.
  
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• 7 Reasons the Tesla Model Y Disappoints Investors

  19-03-2019 19:47 via news.yahoo.com
  Tesla (ticker: TSLA) investors didn't get the reaction they wanted from the market following the highly anticipated unveiling of the Model Y, Tesla's new SUV starting at $39,000.Tesla stock finished Monday's session under $270, its lowest closing price this year.The stock is down 22.3 percent in the past three months, and it seems Wall Street isn't expecting much help from TSLA's Model Y. Several analysts and experts, including former Kase Capital Management hedge fund manager Whitney Tilson, sa
  
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• Trump says 'something must be done' about big tech alleged anti-conservative bias - while spending $3.5m in Facebook political ads

  19-03-2019 19:34 via news.yahoo.com
  Donald Trump has accused major technology firms such as Facebook and Google of “radical left” bias – even as he is spending millions of dollars in political adverts on the platforms.In a post on Twitter – which he also included in his accusation – the president repeated a claim he and many on the right have made before, namely that big tech companies reduce or minimise access to conservative content.“Facebook, Google and Twitter, not to mention the Corrupt Med
  
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• Google’s Inbox app will shut down the same day as Google+

  19-03-2019 19:25 via news.yahoo.com
  A pair of Google products that just never seemed to catch fire are both shutting down two weeks from today -- Google+, the company's once-beleaguered attempt at a social network to rival Facebook, and Inbox, the company's email app that brought a new approach and a slew of new features to managing email. About the latter closure, we already knew the day was fast approaching. Google confirmed in the fall that it would be pulling the plug on Inbox around this time, and users have been getting noti
  
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• Crop artist stumps for Beto in gun country

  19-03-2019 19:19 via news.yahoo.com
  Crop artist Stan Herd used his artistic media of soil, grass, and rock to create a profile of Democratic presidential candidate Beto O'Rourke, which can be seen from the sky over Austin, Texas. Rough Cut (no reporter narration).
  
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• Assad praises Russia's role in Syria conflict

  19-03-2019 19:19 via news.yahoo.com
  Syrian President Bashar al-Assad met with Russia's defence minister Tuesday, stressing the importance of coordination between the two countries in the fight against "terrorism", state media said.The meeting came one day after the military chiefs of staff of Syria, Iraq and Iran met in Damascus to discuss coordination between their forces.It also came as US-backed forces in eastern Syria cornered holdout Islamic State group fighters in a tiny patch of land near the Euphrates River in the village
  
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• Outrage over Pope's decision to reject resignation of archbishop convicted of protecting predator priest

  19-03-2019 19:16 via news.yahoo.com
  Catholic campaigners condemned as “shocking” a decision by Pope Francis not to accept the resignation of a French archbishop who was given a suspended prison sentence this month for failing to report the sexual abuse of boy scouts by a known predatory priest.   Tuesday's surprise decision came just a month after the Vatican convened an unprecedented conference of cardinals in which it pledged to get tough on priests who abuse children and the bishops who cover up for t
  
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• Pope nixes French cardinal resignation after cover-up

  19-03-2019 19:13 via news.yahoo.com
  VATICAN CITY (AP) — Pope Francis has declined to accept the resignation of French Cardinal Philippe Barbarin as archbishop of Lyon after he was convicted of failing to report a known predator priest to police, the Vatican said Tuesday.
  
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• Canada to assess Boeing 737 MAX airworthiness without US

  19-03-2019 19:12 via news.yahoo.com
  Canada said Tuesday it will make its own assessment of Boeing's modifications to its 737 MAX airliners before allowing them to fly again in its airspace, after two crashes in less than five months."Of course, when that software change is ready, which is in a number of weeks, we will, in Canada, even if it's certified by the FAA, we will do our own certification," Transportation Minister Marc Garneau said.Garneau's comments marked a break from protocol, with Canada traditionally working closely w
  
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• Troops celebrate as US-backed force seizes IS camp in Syria

  19-03-2019 19:03 via news.yahoo.com
  BAGHOUZ, Syria (AP) — U.S.-backed Syrian forces on Tuesday seized control of an encampment held by the Islamic State group in eastern Syria, after hundreds of militants surrendered overnight, a spokesman said, signaling the group's collapse after months of stiff resistance. A group of suspects involved in a January bombing that killed four Americans in northern Syria were among militants captured by the Kurdish-led forces.
  
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• Islamic State on brink of defeat as Western-backed forces corner fighters on river bank

  19-03-2019 19:03 via news.yahoo.com
  Western-backed forces look on the brink of defeating Islamic State in its final holdout in eastern Syria after seizing control of all but a tiny sliver of land on a river bank. Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) made major gains on Tuesday after more than 150 “experienced” Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (Isil) militants became the latest to surrender. Hundreds of fighters, most of them foreign, have abandoned the fight in recent days. The SDF had offered those left i
  
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• Beto: ‘I Think There’s a Lot of Wisdom in’ Abolishing Electoral College

  19-03-2019 18:58 via news.yahoo.com
  Beto O'Rourke endorsed fellow Democratic presidential contender Elizabeth Warren's call for the abolition of the Electoral College during a Tuesday campaign stop in Pennsylvania.“I think there's a lot to that. Because you had an election in 2016 where the loser got 3 million more votes than the victor. It puts some states out of play altogether, they don't feel like their vote really counts,” O'Rourke told MSNBC's Garrett Haake when asked about Warren's opposition to the Electoral Co
  
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• Warren Calls for U.S. to Scrap Electoral College

  19-03-2019 18:53 via news.yahoo.com
  Senator Elizabeth Warren said Monday that she supports eliminating the Electoral College."My view is that every vote matters and the way we can make that happen is that we can have national voting, and that means get rid of the Electoral College," Warren told the audience at a CNN town hall at Mississippi's Jackson State University.The Massachusetts Democrat, who announced her 2020 presidential campaign last month, noted that before a general election, candidates do not visit places li
  
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