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• With clock ticking down EU grants Britain Brexit delay

  21-03-2019 23:57 via news.yahoo.com
  European Union leaders on Thursday granted the United Kingdom an extension to its departure from the bloc – scheduled in eight days.
  
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• New Zealand marks one week since mosque attack with prayers, headscarves

  21-03-2019 23:49 via news.yahoo.com
  Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern will lead thousands of mourners expected to gather at Hagley Park in front of the Al Noor mosque, where most of the victims died.Ardern, who has labelled the attack as terrorism, announced a ban on military-style semi-automatic and assault rifles under tough new gun laws on Thursday.The prime minister is expected to be accompanied in the Christchurch prayers with community leaders and other foreign dignitaries.
  
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• US team seeks to provide water, hygiene in cyclone-hit Mozambique

  21-03-2019 23:33 via news.yahoo.com
  The United States said Thursday it had sent a team to cyclone-hit Mozambique to provide safe drinking water and other necessities after the region's biggest storm in decades.Aimee Lauer, who is heading the response for the US Agency for International Development, said that an initially light 15-member team was en route to Mozambique with a potential expansion planned once the scope of the disaster becomes clear.The group will provide chlorine tabs for safe water and hygiene kits to help stem the
  
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• The Latest: Defense expert supports cop who shot black teen

  21-03-2019 23:32 via news.yahoo.com
  PITTSBURGH (AP) — The Latest on the homicide trial of a white Pennsylvania police officer in the shooting of an unarmed black 17-year-old (all times local):
  
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• GM to invest $300 million in Orion plant to build EVs and AVs

  21-03-2019 23:30 via news.yahoo.com
  New electric vehicle will be build on same platform as the Bolt.
  
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• President Trump says U.S. should recognize Israel's sovereignty over disputed Golan Heights

  21-03-2019 23:25 via news.yahoo.com
  Trump's controversial move is sure to inflame tension in the Middle East. He said in a Tweet that the territory is critical to Israel's security.
  
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• In a gift to Netanyahu, Trump tweets U.S. support for Israel annexing Golan

  21-03-2019 23:19 via news.yahoo.com
  President Trump on Thursday reversed a long-standing American policy that treated Israeli occupation of the Golan Heights as temporary.
  
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• Venezuela arrests Guaido aide for 'terrorism' in defiance of US

  21-03-2019 23:17 via news.yahoo.com
  Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro's regime defied the US on Thursday to arrest a top aide of opposition leader Juan Guaido, whom Washington recognizes as the crisis-hit country's interim leader.The United States has repeatedly warned Maduro's government to not arrest Guaido or his close aides or it would face unspecified repercussions.
  
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• T-Mobile unveils home broadband service that could expand after Sprint merger

  21-03-2019 23:04 via news.yahoo.com
  T-Mobile on Thursday unveiled a limited home internet service that it plans to pilot for 50,000 mobile customers at $50 a month, with the company promising it could build on that, and eventually offer a lot more once its $26.5 billion merger with Sprint finally goes through.For now, the new invitation-only service will focus on areas where the carrier can deliver high-speed internet access to connect up to 50,000 homes in rural and underserved parts of the country. Once it merges with Sprint, ho
  
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• UPDATE 1-U.S. refiner Citgo taking offers on $1.8-bln, 3-year loan -sources

  21-03-2019 22:43 via news.yahoo.com
  Citgo Petroleum, the U.S.-based subsidiary of Venezuelan state-run oil firm PDVSA, is seeking to raise $1.8 billion through a three-year term loan to cover operating expenses and to refinance existing debt, three people close to the deal told Reuters on Thursday.The financing would help Citgo fund operations and replace an existing revolving credit line, following U.S. sanctions and its split from the parent company, which remains under control of Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro and a milita
  
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• House Democrats pressure White House on Kushner's use of WhatsApp

  21-03-2019 22:41 via news.yahoo.com
  U.S. House of Representatives Oversight Committee Chairman Elijah Cummings made the request in a letter seen by Reuters to White House Counsel Pat Cipollone.In the letter, Cummings noted that Kushner's lawyer, Abbe Lowell, had told Congress in December that Kushner used WhatsApp as part of his official duties but did not say whether such messages included classified information.The congressman also said Lowell told his committee that Ivanka Trump - the president's daughter, Kushner's wife and a
  
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• Huawei: Politicizing cybersecurity is a losing proposition

  21-03-2019 22:38 via news.yahoo.com
  Huawei is an independent company, owned by our employees and not the Chinese government, writes Joy Tan, senior vice president of Huawei USA.
  
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• Democrats accuse Ivanka Trump and Jared Kushner of violating law with private emails

  21-03-2019 22:36 via news.yahoo.com
  The chairman of the House Oversight and Reform Committee says the couple may have broken the Presidential Records Act.
  
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• The Latest: New Zealanders to observe Muslim call to prayer

  21-03-2019 22:34 via news.yahoo.com
  CHRISTCHURCH, New Zealand (AP) — The Latest on the mosque attacks in New Zealand (all times local):
  
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• Morgan Stanley holds top spot as activist defense firm: data

  21-03-2019 22:10
  Morgan Stanley was ranked as the top adviser to companies targeted by activist investors publicly for the third straight year in 2018 while Goldman Sachs vaulted past two competitors to the number...
  
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• Missouri governor declares state of emergency amid rising floodwaters in Midwestern U.S.

  21-03-2019 22:08 via news.yahoo.com
  Flooding triggered by last week's so-called "bomb cyclone" storm has already inflicted damage estimated at nearly $1.5 billion in Nebraska, killed at least four people in Nebraska and Iowa and left a man missing below Nebraska's collapsed Spencer Dam."The rising floodwaters are affecting more Missouri communities and farms, closing more roads and threatening levees, water treatment plants and other critical infrastructure," Governor Mike Parson said in issuing his emergency declaration."We will
  
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• Report claims Boeing has been forced to delay first Starliner launch by months

  21-03-2019 22:02 via news.yahoo.com
  NASA needs a way to get astronauts to the International Space Station that doesn't involve paying Russia heaps of money, so it struck deals with both SpaceX and Boeing to build crew capsules capable of fulfilling that need. Earlier this month, SpaceX successfully sent its Crew Dragon capsule to the International Space Station, paving the way for crew tests to be conducted within months, but what about Boeing?A new report from Reuters suggests that Boeing is having a much, much harder time gettin
  
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• Crashed Boeing jets lacked two safety features that would have cost extra

  21-03-2019 21:53 via news.yahoo.com
  Two Boeing jets that crashed in Ethiopia and Indonesia each lacked a pair of cockpit safety features that the plane manufacturer charged extra for. The systems  might have helped the pilots as they struggled to control their planes, aviation experts said. Lion Air Flight 610 crashed in October killing 189 people, and Ethiopian Airlines Flight 302 went down on March 10, shortly after takeoff from Addis Ababa, with the loss of 157 lives. Both Boeing 737 Max aircraft were new but did not have
  
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• Donald Trump awaits the Robert Mueller report: Let's see if it's 'legit'

  21-03-2019 21:50 via news.yahoo.com
  Amid speculation that Robert Mueller will soon issue findings on his investigation into Russian election interference, Trump proclaims his innocence.
  
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• Trump Courts American Jews With Bid to Secure Netanyahu’s Re-Election

  21-03-2019 21:49 via news.yahoo.com
  Trump has made naked appeals to U.S. Jewish voters to abandon any allegiance to the Democratic Party, calling his opposition anti-Semitic while promoting his unprecedented decisions to expand U.S. recognition of Israeli sovereignty at the expense of the Palestinians.The president moved the U.S. embassy to Jerusalem in 2018, recognizing the divided city as Israel’s capital.
  
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• Jeff Sessions, mocked then fired by President Trump, returns to Justice for applause and a chair

  21-03-2019 21:47 via news.yahoo.com
  It was a show of political civility rare in the hyper-contentious capital: Jeff Sessions returned to applause for a Justice Department ceremony.
  
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• Trump signs executive order promoting free speech in higher ed. after complaints from conservatives

  21-03-2019 21:40 via news.yahoo.com
  President Trump signed an executive order to “improve Transparency and Promote Free Speech In Higher Ed.” The order comes after complaints from conservatives that college campuses are against right-leaning views and speakers.
  
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• Your guide to what you can and can't expect from Robert Mueller's final report on Trump, Russia investigations

  21-03-2019 21:36 via news.yahoo.com
  Special counsel Robert Mueller is nearing the completion of his investigation into the Trump campaign and Russian interference in the 2016 election.
  
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• Howard Kurtz: Why Ocasio-Cortez’s star power far outstrips her real power

  21-03-2019 21:32 via news.yahoo.com
  'MediaBuzz' host Howard Kurtz weighs in on freshman Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez landing the cover of Time Magazine.
  
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• Firearm deaths of US school-age children at 'epidemic' levels, study says

  21-03-2019 21:24 via news.yahoo.com
  A new study announced an alarming increase in the number of firearm deaths of school-age children in the United States:  38,942 in those 5 to 18 years old from 1999 to 2017.
  
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• Emilia Clarke Discusses Surviving Life-Threatening Brain Aneurysms During Her Early Game of Thrones Days

  21-03-2019 21:24 via news.yahoo.com
  "At some level, I knew what was happening: my brain was damaged"
  
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• Midwest flooding could be costly: In Nebraska, tab is $1.3 billion and rising with waters

  21-03-2019 21:23 via news.yahoo.com
  Midwest flooding that has overwhelmed levees and swamped wide swaths of Nebraska, Wisconsin and Iowa is creating a 'slow-moving natural disaster' that could cost some states billions.
  
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• ACLU sues FBI for records related to black extremists report

  21-03-2019 21:08 via news.yahoo.com
  SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — The American Civil Liberties Union sued the FBI on Thursday for records related to a divisive 2017 report that said black extremists were on the rise following the shooting deaths of several African-Americans.
  
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• New Zealand banned assault weapons. In US, it's more complicated

  21-03-2019 21:03 via news.yahoo.com
  New Zealand's swift ban on semi-automatic weapons after the Christchurch massacre showed how political courage can spur change, but in gun-obsessed America, lawmakers and activists desperate to curb firearm violence looked on with both admiration -- and bitterness.Action," urged Ted Deutch, a Democratic congressman from Florida where a deadly school shooting last year galvanized a youth gun control movement, but produced no tangible change to federal laws.The speed of New Zealand's response -- d
  
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• Trump celebrates free speech after repeatedly attacking war hero John McCain

  21-03-2019 21:00 via news.yahoo.com
  Donald Trump signed an executive order which will withhold federal funding from colleges and universities that do not permit or protect free speech amidst the president’s own attacks on Senator John McCain, more than six months after his death.During his remarks, Mr Trump invited students from colleges around the country to share their own stories of hindered free speech.One student recalled a time her school stopped her from handing out Valentine’s Day cards with religious messages.
  
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• Home loan applications rise as wealthier shoppers hunt for more expensive houses

  21-03-2019 20:56 via news.yahoo.com
  Mortgage interest rates are now lower than a year ago, and home shoppers are buying in, but most are wealthier and purchasing more expensive homes.
  
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• `Confusing` Sign May Have Caused Deadly Charter Bus Crash in Virginia

  21-03-2019 20:54 via news.yahoo.com
  As investigators work to determine what caused a charter bus crash in Virginia that killed two people and hospitalized 54 others, people familiar with that stretch of interstate wonder if a group of signs may have contributed to the crash.
  
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• May Now Open to No-Deal Brexit If Parliament Rejects Her Deal

  21-03-2019 20:45 via news.yahoo.com
  British prime minister Theresa May, after repeatedly warning the public of the dangers associated with a so-called no-deal Brexit -- in which the country leaves the European Union absent a formal agreement with the EU -- is now reportedly open to that option if Parliament continues to reject the deal she has negotiated with Brussels.After announcing Wednesday that she had formally requested that the EU extend the Brexit deadline from March 29 to June 30, May came to accept the possibility that t
  
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• Iraq ferry sinks, killing at least 79 people

  21-03-2019 20:42 via news.yahoo.com
  At least 79 people died when an overloaded ferry sank in the Tigris river near Mosul in Iraq, medical sources told Reuters on Thursday. Tamara Lindstrom reports.
  
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• Brexit End Likely to Be Based on a Customs Union, JPMorgan Says

  21-03-2019 20:41 via news.yahoo.com
  (Bloomberg) -- The realities of the Brexit situation indicate that the U.K. is going to end up with “something that’s founded on a customs union” with the European Union, according to Karen Ward, chief market strategist for Europe, Middle East and Africa at JPMorgan Asset Management.
  
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• Dem long shot John Delaney wants to take on the 'bully' in the White House

  21-03-2019 20:39 via news.yahoo.com
  Neither of his parents went to college, and it was a scholarship from his father’s labor union that helped fund his attendance at Columbia University.
  
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• Trump says US will recognize Israel's sovereignty over Golan Heights

  21-03-2019 20:35 via news.yahoo.com
  Israel captured Golan Heights from Syria after war in 1967Netanyahu responds on Twitter: ‘Thank you President Trump!’Follow today’s US politics news Donald Trump and Benjamin Netanyahu in 2018. Trump said the Golan Heights were of ‘critical strategic and security importance to the state of Israel and regional stability’. Photograph: Mandel Ngan/AFP/Getty ImagesDonald Trump has announced that the US will recognize Israel’s sovereignty over the Golan Heights, ca
  
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• Trump says US will recognize Israel's sovereignty over Golan Heights

  21-03-2019 20:35 via news.yahoo.com
  * Israel captured Golan Heights from Syria after war in 1967* Netanyahu responds on Twitter: ‘Thank you President Trump!’* Follow today’s US politics newsDonald Trump and Benjamin Netanyahu in 2018. Trump said the Golan Heights were of ‘critical strategic and security importance to the state of Israel and regional stability’. Photograph: Mandel Ngan/AFP/Getty ImagesDonald Trump has announced that the US will recognize Israel’s sovereignty over the Golan Height
  
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• Kellyanne Conway thanks Trump for defending her after president calls her husband a 'stone cold loser'

  21-03-2019 20:35 via news.yahoo.com
  White House aide Kellyanne Conway publicly backed Donald Trump on Wednesday after an extraordinary 48-hour Twitter row between the president and her husband came to a head. Mrs Conway used a cable news interview to insist she would not resign and rebuked her husband George for airing his views in public. It follows two days during which Mr Conway and Mr Trump have traded blows on twitter in a war of words that has generated a slew of headlines. It began earlier this week with Mr Conway, a p
  
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• This town shouldn't be under water

  21-03-2019 20:34 via news.yahoo.com
  After heavy rain caused severe flooding across the midwest, cities in Iowa are underwater.
  
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• Gov. Newsom wants to charge you $10 a month to help clean up contaminated water

  21-03-2019 20:32 via news.yahoo.com
  Gov. Gavin Newsom wants to charge you $10 a month to help clean up contaminated water in low-income and rural areas.
  
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• Aid workers rush to rescue African cyclone victims amid mounting death toll

  21-03-2019 20:28 via news.yahoo.com
  Helicopters whirred above the turbid, red-brown flood waters searching for people to ferry back to the port city of Beira, headquarters of the huge rescue operation in Mozambique.The death toll in that country was now 242, Land and Environment Minister Celso Correia said, adding that the number of dead was rising as rescue workers found bodies that had been hidden by Cyclone Idai's now-receding floodwaters.Correia told a news conference that around 15,000 people, many of them very ill, still nee
  
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• Floods threaten more states in rain-soaked U.S. Midwest

  21-03-2019 20:24 via news.yahoo.com
  By Humeyra Pamuk VALLEY, Neb. (Reuters) - As icy floodwaters fed by rains and melting snow receded in Nebraska and Iowa, leaving destroyed homes, drowned cattle and swamped farmland, Midwestern states downstream on Thursday braced for a relentless surge along the Missouri River, with more rain expected. Flooding from last week's storm has already caused nearly $1.5 billion in damage in Nebraska, killed at least four people with another missing. U.S. ...
  
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• U.S. senators call on Venezuela to release jailed Citgo executives

  21-03-2019 20:12 via news.yahoo.com
  U.S. Republican Senators Ted Cruz and John Cornyn on Thursday pressed Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro to release six executives from Houston-based oil company Citgo Petroleum that have been in jail in the country since 2017.The former top employees of Venezuelan PDVSA's refiningsubsidiary, most of whom are U.S. citizens, were arrested in late 2017 and accused of embezzlement and money laundering linked to talks to refinance Citgo's debt.Family members of Jose Luis Zambrano, Alirio Zambrano,
  
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• U.S. farmers face devastation following Midwest floods

  21-03-2019 19:53 via news.yahoo.com
  WINSLOW, Neb./CHICAGO (Reuters) - Midwestern farmers have been gambling they could ride out the U.S.-China trade war by storing their corn and soybeans anywhere they could - in bins, plastic tubes, in barns or even outside.Record floods have devastated a wide swath of the Farm Belt across Iowa, Nebraska, South Dakota and several other states.Early estimates of lost crops and livestock are approaching $1 billion in Nebraska alone.
  
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• 4 things to know about Jacinda Ardern, New Zealand's prime minister

  21-03-2019 19:51 via news.yahoo.com
  Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern is the youngest New Zealand leader in more than a century.
  
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• New Zealand’s swift change to gun laws highlights 25 years of US inaction

  21-03-2019 19:32 via news.yahoo.com
  Sweeping new ban that came just six days after mass shooting in Christchurch is a stark contrast to the political stalemate in the US Vigil at Forsyth Barr Stadium on Thursday in Dunedin, New Zealand for 50 people killed when a gunman opened fire at the Al Noor and Linwood mosques in Christchurch on 15 March. Photograph: Dianne Manson/Getty ImagesNew Zealand’s sweeping new ban on a range of semi-automatic rifles and large ammunition magazines, which came just six days after a mass shooting
  
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• Donald Trump announces US should recognise Israeli annexation of Golan Heights

  21-03-2019 19:16 via news.yahoo.com
  Donald Trump has announced it is time for the US to recognise Israel’s annexation of the Golan Heights, handing Benjamin Netanyahu a major diplomatic victory less than three weeks before the Israeli elections.  The US and all other Western nations have always refused to recognise Israeli sovereignty in the Golan, the strategic high ground which Israel captured from Syria in 1967 and annexed in 1981.  Mr Trump cast that policy aside on Thursday with an announcement on Twitter. &ld
  
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• Giant inland sea created by the disastrous Mozambique cyclone

  21-03-2019 19:08 via news.yahoo.com
  Cyclone Idai left death, destruction, and a sprawling inland sea in its wake. The powerful tropical cyclone -- which struck Mozambique last Thursday as the equivalent of a Category 2 or 3 hurricane with winds of around 100 mph -- has left at least 150 dead and 600,000 in need of help in the flooded nation said the EU, though the Associated Press reports over 300 fatalities as of March 21 when accounting for deaths in neighboring Zimbabwe.The cyclone's widespread flooding -- in part overshad
  
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• Apple’s event on Monday could revolutionize the way we watch TV

  21-03-2019 19:02 via news.yahoo.com
  Next week, Apple will hold a special media event in California where the company is expected to, at long last, unveil its brand new TV service. The event should be particularly interesting given that we've seen all sorts of information, at often times conflicting, regarding Apple's plans in the media space.What we do know is that Apple has been investing a lot of money into developing original TV programming, but what remains unclear is how Apple plans to make said content available. Will it be
  
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