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• Mueller report finds no evidence that Trump campaign colluded with Russia: Justice Department

  24-03-2019 23:57 via news.yahoo.com
  In a major political victory for Trump, who quickly hailed the announcement as "complete and total exoneration," Mueller's nearly two years of investigation ended with a finding that no one in Trump's campaign "conspired or coordinated with the Russian government," according to a summary of Mueller's findings.The long-awaited report into whether Trump's campaign colluded with Russia to help the Republican defeat his Democratic opponent, Hillary Clinton, marked a major milestone of his presidency
  
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• Trump Claims Victory as Mueller Finds No Collusion With Russia

  24-03-2019 23:40 via news.yahoo.com
  The president said a four-page summary of Mueller’s report that Barr issued Sunday cleared him of the two major allegations that have hung over his presidency.Democrats in Congress asserted their right to determine Trump’s guilt or innocence on those and other issues.“No Collusion, No Obstruction, Complete and Total EXONERATION,” Trump tweeted about an hour after Barr’s summary was released.
  
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• Trump takes victory lap as Mueller conclusions revealed

  24-03-2019 23:30 via news.yahoo.com
  Despite the Attorney General's note that the special counsel'sreport does not exonerate the president, Trump and his supporters greeted the report’s conclusions as a complete victory.
  
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• Key findings of the Mueller report

  24-03-2019 23:29 via news.yahoo.com
  US Attorney General Bill Barr released a summary Sunday of Special Counsel Robert Mueller's long-awaited report into allegations that Donald Trump's campaign colluded with Russia in the 2016 presidental election.Mueller found that there was conclusive evidence that Russia did interfere in the election, both through a coordinated campaign of disinformation and by hacking emails from Hillary Clinton's election team.
  
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• Reaction to AG William Barr's summary of Mueller report

  24-03-2019 23:25 via news.yahoo.com
  WASHINGTON (AP) — Reaction to Attorney General William Barr's summary of special counsel Robert Mueller's report on the investigation of Donald Trump's campaign and Russian interference in the 2016 presidential election.
  
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• D.C.'s mixed reaction to Mueller report

  24-03-2019 23:17 via news.yahoo.com
  Some visitors and residents in Washington, D.C. on Sunday said they were not all too surprised by the findings released to the public from Special Counsel Robert Mueller's investigation into Russia's influence in the 2016 election, while others said a lot of "good" has come from it. Rough Cut (no reporter narration).
  
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• Trump Won But the Country Is Losing

  24-03-2019 23:12 via news.yahoo.com
  First: It is highly likely that Trump and his campaign didn’t collude with the Russian government or its agents to influence the outcome of the 2016 campaign.Special counsel Robert Mueller didn’t find evidence to suggest that he did, and it’s reasonable to have a strong presumption that if it had happened, Mueller would have discovered it and reported it.
  
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• Rachel Maddow stopped fishing in Tennessee to host show on Mueller report from Knoxville

  24-03-2019 23:08 via news.yahoo.com
  Rachel Maddow of msnbc hosted from UT Knoxville once news broke that Mueller's Trump-Russia investigation report was delivered.
  
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• Keselowski dominates at Martinsville for win No. 29

  24-03-2019 23:00 via news.yahoo.com
  One month ago, Brad Keselowski drove to victory in Atlanta despite being caught in the nauseating grip of the flu.On Sunday it was the rest of the drivers in the field who were left feeling queasy as Keselowski was absolutely dominating in winning the STP 500 Monster Energy NASCAR Cup Series race at Martinsville Speedway in Virginia.The victory in the first short track race of the season was the second of the season for Keselowski and the third for Team Penske.
  
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• Another Parkland Student Has Died by Apparent Suicide

  24-03-2019 22:57 via news.yahoo.com
  The death follows the recent suicide of Parkland shooting survivor Sydney Aiello
  
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• 'Apparent suicide' of Parkland student days after massacre survivor took her life

  24-03-2019 22:56 via news.yahoo.com
  A student at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Florida has died in "an apparent suicide," police said on Sunday, less than a week after a 19-year-old survivor of the 2018 massacre at the school took her own life.“We’re calling it an apparent suicidebecause we don’t have the exact results back from the medical examiner’s office,” Reik said by phone.The Miami Herald reported that the suicide victim was a male sophomore who attend the Parkland, Florida, school wh
  
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• Blind dog gets his own 'seeing eye' dog. Excuse us, we can't see through happy tears

  24-03-2019 22:54 via news.yahoo.com
  The puppy helps the blind 11-year-old golden retriever find his lost toys. The older dog has even begun to act younger.
  
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• No collusion, plenty of corruption: Trump is not in the clear

  24-03-2019 22:50 via news.yahoo.com
  On Mueller, the president’s hand-picked attorney general has had his say. On everything else, Democrats in Congress know they can still have theirsFollow live updates on the Mueller reportSupport the Guardian’s independent journalismSuspend your disbelief for a second. Assume that the Trump administration – which lies so easily and so often on matters big and small – can tell the truth about the Mueller investigation. Forget the cover-up about separating families at the b
  
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• Mali leader sacks generals, disbands vigilantes after massacre

  24-03-2019 22:25 via news.yahoo.com
  The ethnic bloodshed took place less than a week after a deadly assault by jihadists on an army post killed at least 23 soldiers, also in Mali's central region.The army chief of staff General M'Bemba Moussa Keita was removed and replaced by General Abdoulaye Coulibaly, while chief of land forces General Abdrahamane Baby was replaced by Brigadier-General Keba Sangare.Mali's Prime Minister Soumeylou Boubeye Maiga said in a statement after an emergency cabinet meeting that President Keita had also
  
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• Donald Trump declares 'complete exoneration' as Robert Mueller finds no collusion with Russia

  24-03-2019 22:20 via news.yahoo.com
  Donald Trump and his aides did not collude with Russia in the 2016 election campaign, special counsel Robert Mueller concluded in his report, according to a summary from the US attorney general.  Mr Mueller also did not find that Mr Trump obstructed justice in his alleged attempts to thwart the investigation, instead choosing not to reach a conclusion and simply presenting the evidence.  The US attorney general and his deputy - two Trump appointees - then decided there was not enough p
  
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• Republican leader McConnell welcomes more information on Russia probe

  24-03-2019 22:19 via news.yahoo.com
  The U.S. Senate Republican leader Mitch McConnell said on Sunday he was disturbed by Russia's ongoing efforts to interfere with U.S. democracy and looked forward to reviewing additional information from the special counsel's report, which was summarized by Attorney General William Barr."I appreciate the Attorney General’s commitment to continue to review the record in this matter over the coming days, in conjunction with Special Counsel (Robert) Mueller, with the goal of producing as much
  
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• How Republicans Are Reacting to Barr’s Mueller Report Summary

  24-03-2019 22:18 via news.yahoo.com
  (Bloomberg) -- President Trump led a victory parade of Republican lawmakers and White House insiders after a summary of Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s investigation released on Sunday showed no evidence of collusion with Russia.
  
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• The Latest: Slain teen's mother joins supporters at vigil

  24-03-2019 22:15 via news.yahoo.com
  RANKIN, Pa. (AP) — The Latest on the acquittal of an ex-East Pittsburgh police officer's fatal shooting of a teen (all times local):
  
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• How gun laws in a dozen countries compare with New Zealand's new ban on semiautomatic weapons

  24-03-2019 22:11 via news.yahoo.com
  The approach to gun laws in each of the 12 countries varies widely depending on whether owning a gun is considered a right or a privilege.
  
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• Read Attorney General William Barr's Letter to Congress on the Mueller Report

  24-03-2019 22:10 via news.yahoo.com
  Mueller's report does not "exonerate" the President, Barr wrote
  
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• Russian air force planes land in Venezuela carrying troops: reports

  24-03-2019 22:04 via news.yahoo.com
  A flight-tracking website showed that two planes left from a Russian military airport bound for Caracas on Friday, and another flight-tracking site showed that one plane left Caracas on Sunday.Reporter Javier Mayorca wrote on Twitter on Saturday that the first plane carried Vasily Tonkoshkurov, chief of staff of the ground forces, adding the second was a cargo plane carrying 35 tonnes of material.
  
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• Turkey Probes JPMorgan After Lira’s Worst Slide Since 2018 Crash

  24-03-2019 22:00 via news.yahoo.com
  The Banking Regulation and Supervision Agency, known as BDDK, on Saturday said a research note a day earlier by two JPMorgan analysts that recommended selling the lira against the dollar had “misguiding and manipulative” content that resulted in volatility in markets and hurt the reputation of Turkish banks.The Capital Markets Board began its own investigation on similar grounds, according to a statement on its website.
  
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• UPDATE 2-Trump lawyer Giuliani says Mueller report 'better than I expected'

  24-03-2019 21:57 via news.yahoo.com
  President Donald Trump's lawyer Rudy Giuliani said Special Counsel Robert Mueller's report into Russian interference in the 2016 election, whether the Trump campaign colluded, and whether Trump obstructed justice was more positive than he had anticipated, based on the summary of the report released on Sunday."It's better than I expected," said Giuliani, who, echoing Trump, relentlessly attacked Mueller and his work when he began to represent the president last year.Mueller's report, according to
  
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• Mueller Report: Investigation finds no evidence of Russia conspiracy, leaves obstruction question open

  24-03-2019 21:56 via news.yahoo.com
  Attorney General William Barr delivered the findings of special counsel Robert Mueller's probe of Russia and Trump's campaign to Congress Sunday.
  
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• Terror at sea: Helicopter rescues frighten cruise passengers

  24-03-2019 21:52 via news.yahoo.com
  STAVANGER, Norway (AP) — Rodney Horgen recalled the moment he thought he was facing the end: when a huge wave crashed through the Viking Sky cruise ship's glass doors and swept his wife 30 feet across the floor.
  
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• Serbia, Kosovo mark start of NATO intervention 20 years ago

  24-03-2019 21:50 via news.yahoo.com
  BELGRADE, Serbia (AP) — Twenty years after NATO intervened to stop Serbia's onslaught in Kosovo, Belgrade on Sunday commemorated the victims of what it says was an aggression while Kosovo hailed the beginning of its national liberation.
  
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• Five Key Takeaways From Barr’s Summary of the Mueller Report

  24-03-2019 21:43 via news.yahoo.com
  The probe “did not find that the Trump campaign or anyone associated with it conspired or coordinated with Russia in its efforts to influence the 2016 U.S. presidential election,” the summary says.This finding came after Mueller indicted two dozen Russians for hacking Democrats and social media meddling during the campaign and found that a number of Russians had contacted Trump associates.
  
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• Erdogan moots renaming Istanbul's Hagia Sophia a mosque

  24-03-2019 21:41 via news.yahoo.com
  Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan on Sunday mooted the possibility of renaming Istanbul's Hagia Sofia museum as a mosque, in comments during a television interview.Erdogan, who is a former mayor of Istanbul, is campaigning for votes for his Justice and Development Party (AKP) ahead of municipal elections on March 31.The former church and mosque, now a museum, often sparks tensions between Christians and Muslims over Islamic activities held there including the reading of verses from the Kora
  
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• Everything to Expect From Apple's Big Video and News Event On Monday

  24-03-2019 21:35 via news.yahoo.com
  It's all part of Apple's push to reinvent itself as a services provider
  
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• Full text: AG Barr's letter to Congress summarizing the Mueller report

  24-03-2019 21:32 via news.yahoo.com
  Read the full text of Attorney General William Barr's letter to Congress summarizing Robert Mueller's report on Russian meddling in the 2016 presidential election.
  
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• Mueller found no Trump campaign collusion with Russia: official

  24-03-2019 21:21 via news.yahoo.com
  Special Counsel Robert Mueller's report on Moscow's meddling in the 2016 election found no evidence of conspiracy by President Donald Trump's campaign to collude with Russia, the Justice Department said Sunday.Mueller also declined to rule on whether evidence showed Trump obstructed justice, according to a summary submitted to Congress by Attorney General Bill Barr.
  
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• Mueller report does not have proof of Trump crimes: Justice Department

  24-03-2019 21:06 via news.yahoo.com
  U.S. Special Counsel Robert Mueller's report on Russian interference in the 2016 election did not find that President Donald Trump committed a crime but also does not exonerate him, according to a summary of Mueller's findings released on Sunday.Mueller, who spent nearly two years investigating allegations that Russia meddled in the 2016 election to help Trump defeat his Democratic opponent Hillary Clinton, also found no evidence that any member of Trump's election campaign conspired with Russia
  
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• Special counsel delivers his brew: Today's Toon

  24-03-2019 20:59 via news.yahoo.com
  Want to keep up with USA TODAY's editorial cartoons? Bookmark this page. We'll update it frequently.
  
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• Russian military planes deliver troops and cargo to Venezuela: Sputnik

  24-03-2019 20:59 via news.yahoo.com
  Two Russian military planes delivered troops and equipment to Venezuela over the weekend, Russian state news agency Sputnik reported Sunday."Two Russian planes arrived in Venezuela on Saturday with equipment and personnel to fulfill technical military contracts," the agency reported on the Spanish-language version of its website.It gave no other details but quoted an unnamed official from the Russian embassy in Caracas saying "there is nothing mysterious" about the flights.
  
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• Democrat Gillibrand calls Trump 'coward' as she launches 2020 bid outside his NY hotel

  24-03-2019 20:57 via news.yahoo.com
  "President Trump is tearing apart the moral fabric of this country," Gillibrand declared to hundreds of supporters, with Trump International Hotel and Tower - which she called a "shrine to greed, division and vanity" - as a backdrop in midtown Manhattan."Our president is a coward."The speech, the first since Gillibrand formally launched her 2020 campaign last week, and its location were intended to show voters that she will attack Trump directly, in contrast to some Democratic rivals who have he
  
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• Barr Delivers ‘Principal Conclusions’ of Mueller Report to Congress

  24-03-2019 20:54 via news.yahoo.com
  Attorney General William Barr on Sunday delivered to Congress a summary of special counsel Robert Mueller's findings, setting off what is sure to be a protracted partisan battle over how much of the report will eventually be made public.According to Barr's summary of the report, Special Counsel Robert Mueller's nearly-two year investigation into Russian interference in the 2016 presidential election failed to produce sufficient evidence that Trump or anyone involved in his campaign aided in Russ
  
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• Mueller does not find Trump campaign knowingly conspired with Russia

  24-03-2019 20:49 via news.yahoo.com
  WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Special Counsel Robert Mueller's report on Russian meddling in the 2016 election did not find that any U.S. or Trump campaign officials knowingly conspired with Russia, according to details released on Sunday. Attorney General William Barr sent a summary of conclusions from the report to congressional leaders and the media on Sunday afternoon. Mueller concluded his investigation on Friday after nearly two years, turning in a report to the top U.S. law enforcement officer.
  
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• Flu season nears the finish line, but it is not going away quietly

  24-03-2019 20:47 via news.yahoo.com
  CDC says the percentage of medical visits for flu-like symptoms for the week remains stubbornly high, signaling elevated flu activity through April.
  
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• Gillibrand lambastes Trump outside his NYC hotel, says she agrees with Richard Nixon's view the public should know if 'their president is a crook'

  24-03-2019 20:41 via news.yahoo.com
  “People have got to know whether or not their president is a crook,” said Nixon. “Well, I’m not a crook.”
  
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• America's Allies Are Still Allured by Russia's S-400 Air Defense System

  24-03-2019 20:39 via news.yahoo.com
  Washington isn't ready for the fallout from Ankara and Doha buying Moscow's missile system.
  
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• A Skeptics Guide to Managing the India-Pakistan Conflict

  24-03-2019 20:39 via news.yahoo.com
  Washington's and Beijing's visions for the Indo-Pacific region are reflected in their reactions to the recent uptick in tensions between Islamabad and New Delhi.
  
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• Romania to move embassy to Jerusalem, premier pledges

  24-03-2019 20:32 via news.yahoo.com
  The Romanian prime minister promised Sunday in Washington that her country would move its embassy in Israel from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem, breaking with both the European position and apparently with her own country's president.Prime Minister Viorica Dancila made the announcement before the annual conference of the American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC), an influential pro-Israel lobby.
  
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• Netanyahu in Washington with Golan Heights recognition on tap

  24-03-2019 20:29 via news.yahoo.com
  Israel's Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu arrived in Washington on Sunday, looking for an electoral boost from Donald Trump amid expectations the US president will formally recognize Israel's sovereignty over the Golan Heights.Trump broke longstanding international consensus last week over the status of the Golan Heights, which Israel seized from Syria in the 1967 Six Day War, saying the US should recognize Israeli sovereignty over the strategic plateau.
  
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• Biden leads Trump by 7 percentage points in hypothetical 2020 matchup, poll finds

  24-03-2019 20:23 via news.yahoo.com
  Eighty percent say Mueller's report should be made public, and 52 percent say Trump tried to interfere in the investigation.
  
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• Barr delivers Mueller report summary to Congress on Sunday

  24-03-2019 20:23 via news.yahoo.com
  Trump in Florida as Washington waits on tenterhooks for news of special counsel’s findingsDonald Trump and his attorney general, William Barr. Photograph: Mandel Ngan/AFP/Getty ImagesUS attorney general William Barr delivered a summary of Robert Mueller’s investigation into Russian interference in the 2016 election on Sunday afternoon, according congressional sources speaking to the Guardian. The summary comes amid growing and bipartisan calls for the full document to be released to
  
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• Erdogan says Turkey will take issue of Golan Heights to U.N.

  24-03-2019 20:14 via news.yahoo.com
  Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan said on Sunday that Turkey will take the issue of the Golan Heights to the United Nations.In an interview with broadcaster TGRT Haber, Erdogan said U.S. President Donald Trump's statement on Golan Heights was a "gift" to Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu ahead of elections there.
  
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• Thailand's pro-army party leads in election; results delayed

  24-03-2019 20:03 via news.yahoo.com
  The Election Commission had been scheduled to announce the unofficial results Sunday night for the 500-seat lower House of Representatives but later said it was delayed until Monday, without giving a reason.With 93 percent of overall votes counted, the Election Commission reported Palang Pracharat was leading with 7.64 million votes.Trailing with 7.16 million votes was Pheu Thai, a party linked to the self-exiled ousted former premier Thaksin Shinawatra, whose loyalists have won every election s
  
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• Mueller report: Here's what we know and still don't know (and may never know)

  24-03-2019 20:03 via news.yahoo.com
  Robert Mueller finished his investigation into Trump's campaign and Russian election interference. Now, the world awaits the Mueller report. Here's what we know.
  
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