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• Second African Elephant Dies at Indianapolis Zoo in a Week

  26-03-2019 23:51 via news.yahoo.com
  Indianapolis Zoo officials confirmed the death of a second African elephant Tuesday in just one week.
  
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• British Parliament considers its own Brexit plans Wednesday

  26-03-2019 23:50 via news.yahoo.com
  The government, which usually controls the scheduling of votes in Parliament, said the lawmakers’ move “sets a dangerous, unpredictable precedent for the future.”
  
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• Barr plans to issue Mueller report details within weeks

  26-03-2019 23:48 via news.yahoo.com
  Democrats attempted to change the subject to healthcare after the report from Robert Mueller appeared to shatter their case that Trump was an illegitimately elected president.A new Reuters/Ipsos poll found that 48 percent of Americans still believed Trump worked with Russia to interfere in the 2016 presidential election, down 6 points since conclusions from the Mueller report came out on Sunday.Barr released his own summary of the report's central findings on Sunday but said he needed more time
  
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• Despite report findings, almost half of Americans think Trump colluded with Russia: Reuters/Ipsos poll

  26-03-2019 23:39 via news.yahoo.com
  Americans did feel slightly more positive about Trump after learning the findings of the 22-month investigation into Russian meddling in the election, the national opinion poll released on Tuesday showed.According to Barr's summary released on Sunday, Mueller found no evidence that the Trump campaign conspired with Russia in the 2016 election, but did not exonerate the president on the question of obstructing the investigation.
  
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• Democrats unveil plan to protect health care

  26-03-2019 23:34 via news.yahoo.com
  Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi, along with fellow House Democrats, unveiled their plans to make health care more affordable for Americans.
  
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• Dow Jones Industrial Average adds Dow Inc, removes DowDuPont

  26-03-2019 23:27 via news.yahoo.com
  DowDuPont, formed by the $130 billion merger of chemical giants Dow Chemical and DuPont in 2017, is in the process of splitting itself up into three companies called Dow, DuPont and Corteva Agriscience.Dow Inc will also join the S&P 500 on April 2, replacing Brighthouse Financial Inc , S&P Dow Jones Indices said in a separate statement.Replacing DowDuPont with Dow will maintain the benchmark's exposure to the materials sector, and its price weight within the Dow Jones Industrial Average
  
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• Maker of OxyContin agrees to $270M settlement in Oklahoma

  26-03-2019 23:20 via news.yahoo.com
  OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — The maker of OxyContin and the company's controlling family agreed Tuesday to pay a groundbreaking $270 million to Oklahoma to settle allegations they helped create the nation's deadly opioid crisis with their aggressive marketing of the powerful painkiller.
  
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• Boeing 737 MAX makes emergency landing during US transfer: FAA

  26-03-2019 23:20 via news.yahoo.com
  A Boeing 737 MAX aircraft operated by Southwest Airlines made an emergency landing Tuesday after experiencing an engine problem as it was being ferried from Florida to California, the US Federal Aviation Agency said."The FAA is investigating," added the agency, which grounded the Boeing 737 MAX on March 13 following two deadly accidents involving Ethiopian Airlines and Lion Air but continues to allow the planes to be ferried from airport to airport.It was the latest setback for Boeing's flagship
  
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• Barr's early letters: Today's Toon

  26-03-2019 23:14 via news.yahoo.com
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• Maduro blames 'terrorists' as new blackout grips Venezuela

  26-03-2019 23:13 via news.yahoo.com
  President Nicolas Maduro blamed "terrorists" for a new, near-nationwide blackout that gripped Venezuela Tuesday, two weeks after a similar outage caused deaths and chaos.In a statement on Twitter, Maduro said a deliberately set "large-scale fire" on Monday hit facilities around the Guri hydroelectric plant in the south of the country that supplies power to 80 percent of Venezuela's 30 million inhabitants.The first blackout, between March 7 and 14, resulted in more than a dozen hospital patients,
  
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• Republicans defeat Green New Deal in U.S. Senate vote Democrats call a stunt

  26-03-2019 23:08 via news.yahoo.com
  The vote was 57 against the resolution in the 100-member chamber, with 43 Democrats voting "present," avoiding an up-or-down vote.Republicans won over Democratic Senators Joe Manchin and Kyrsten Sinema and one independent senator, Angus King, who usually votes with that party.
  
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• Senate Blocks Democrats' Green New Deal in GOP Political Move

  26-03-2019 23:07 via news.yahoo.com
  The vote Tuesday was 0-57 with 43 Democrats voting present, including the Senate’s half-dozen presidential candidates, to sidestep the GOP maneuver and buy time to build their campaign positions.The vote is just the first step by Republicans to put the Green New Deal in the spotlight.
  
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• Ethiopian official: Preliminary report on Boeing 737 MAX 8 crash due out this week

  26-03-2019 23:04 via news.yahoo.com
  A preliminary report on the crash of Ethiopian Airlines Flight 302 will be released this week, a spokesman for the country's transport ministry said.
  
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• At meeting of top spies, the focus is on China, not Mueller

  26-03-2019 23:01 via news.yahoo.com
  According to Demers, China’s public “Made in China 2025” plan is an exact roadmap for Beijing’s spies on issues ranging from space to agriculture. “I believe economic security is national security,” he said.
  
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• Case dropped against US actor accused of hate attack hoax

  26-03-2019 22:59 via news.yahoo.com
  Prosecutors said they had shelved all 16 felony charges against "Empire" star Jussie Smollett in exchange for an agreement that he carry out community service and forfeit a $10,000 bond payment.The state dismissed the charges," attorney Patricia Holmes said as the actor celebrated with family, whose claim that Smollett had been vindicated was flatly rejected by the police.The 36-year-old, one of the main cast members on Fox musical drama "Empire" alongside Taraji P. Henson, was accused of master
  
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• Lima Group concerned over Russian 'provocation' in Venezuela

  26-03-2019 22:51 via news.yahoo.com
  The Lima Group condemned Tuesday the presence of Russian military planes in Venezuela as a provocation threatening regional peace.The statement was issued by the foreign ministry of group member Argentina.
  
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• Chicago Mayor Compares Smollett Case to College-Admissions Scandal

  26-03-2019 22:42 via news.yahoo.com
  Chicago mayor Rahm Emanuel on Tuesday blasted the Cook County state's attorney's decision to drop the charges against Empire actor Jussie Smollett, who was alleged by police to have staged a hate crime to further his career, calling it a "whitewash of justice.""Where is the accountability in the system?" Emanuel said at a press conference on Tuesday. "You cannot have, because of a person's position, one set of rules apply to them and another set of rules apply to everybody else.""Another wa
  
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• Boeing 737 Max 8 makes emergency landing in Orlando

  26-03-2019 22:33 via news.yahoo.com
  ABoeing 737 Max 8 has made an emergency landing in Orlando. The plane, operated by Southwest airlines, was being transported from Orlando to Victorville, California, for grounding when the engine malfunctioned. Only two people - the pilot and co-pilot - were on board, and the plane landed safely. The 737 Max was grounded in the US on March 13 after the deadly Ethiopian Airlines crash on March 10, which killed all 189 people on board. That was the second fatal crash involving the a
  
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• 5 lingering questions about Mueller report summary

  26-03-2019 22:32 via news.yahoo.com
  Make the full Mueller report public, and have special counsel Robert Mueller and Attorney General William Barr testify before Congress: Our view
  
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• Second major blackout leaves Venezuelans fearing power cuts will be the norm

  26-03-2019 22:28 via news.yahoo.com
  President Nicolas Maduro's Socialist government, which had blamed sabotage by the United States and the opposition for the previous power cut, said an "attack" on its electrical system caused the blackout that first hit on Monday.Intermittent service has long affected Venezuela's largely rural interior, but residents of Caracas fear the increasing blackouts in the capital mean that unreliable power is becoming the new normal for them, too."I hope that now with these blackouts in Caracas they can
  
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• Google, McClatchy collaborating on local news experiment

  26-03-2019 22:16 via news.yahoo.com
  NEW YORK (AP) — Google and the McClatchy publishing company say they will work together on an experiment launching three digital-only outlets to provide local news in U.S. communities that are currently news "deserts."
  
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• Ocasio-Cortez’s ‘green New Deal’ blocked by Senate Republicans

  26-03-2019 22:14 via news.yahoo.com
  The US Senate has defeated a proposal to take up the so-called Green New Deal as both parties shunned an opportunity to debate a comprehensive climate change plan offered by liberal Democrats.Majority Republicans forced the vote on Tuesday as they tried to turn the far-reaching Green New Deal into a wedge issue in the 2020 elections.Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez has been leading the charge with the ambitious package.
  
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• New Gaza rocket threatens truce after Netanyahu warning

  26-03-2019 22:14 via news.yahoo.com
  Palestinian militants fired a rocket at Israel late Tuesday despite a ceasefire announced by Hamas, hours after Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said he was prepared for further military action in Gaza.The flare-up began early Monday with a rare long-distance rocket strike from the Gaza Strip that hit a house north of Tel Aviv, wounding seven Israelis.The Israeli military hit back with a series of air strikes across the enclave into the pre-dawn hours of Tuesday and Palestinian militants launch
  
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• Lawmaker still seeks Trump tax returns regardless of Mueller report

  26-03-2019 22:13 via news.yahoo.com
  By David Morgan WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The top Democrat on tax policy in the U.S. House of Representatives said on Tuesday that he is determined to seek President Donald Trump's tax returns, despite the political victory handed to Trump by Special Counsel Robert Mueller. "I'm committed to this. This is not just about one individual. This is a policy issue. And we think that there's a test here of the law," House Ways and Means Committee Chairman Richard Neal told reporters. But he declined to sa
  
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• Boeing 737 MAX software fix: easy to upload, harder to approve

  26-03-2019 22:11 via news.yahoo.com
  SEATTLE/WASHINGTON/MONTREAL (Reuters) - Boeing engineers armed with laptops and thumb drives will be able to upload a crucial software fix for the 737 MAX anti-stall system in about an hour.Before Boeing's workhorse of the future can resume flying, the upgrade must first be approved by the U.S. Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) and then by wary regulators around the globe who have grounded it in the wake of two deadly crashes.Regulators in China, Europe and Canada have signalled they will no
  
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• Barr Didn’t Answer These 16 Questions. Mueller’s Report Could

  26-03-2019 22:10 via news.yahoo.com
  Barr delivered a verdict on it in 48 hours, leaving many questions unanswered.Many of those could be revealed when Barr releases a more detailed accounting of Mueller’s probe in a matter of weeks, not months, a Justice Department official said.1. Why didn’t Mueller reach a finding on whether Trump tried to obstruct justice?
  
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• Mueller report details to be issued in 'weeks, not months': Justice Department

  26-03-2019 22:08 via news.yahoo.com
  Some portions of Mueller's confidential report contain materials that arose during secret grand jury proceedings.Barr has not yet revealed a precise date for when the final public version might be ready.Democrats in the U.S. House of Representatives have called on him to release it by April 2, which would only give the Justice Department little more than a week to complete its review.
  
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• Racist note hidden in tampon applicator prompts outrage at New York City school

  26-03-2019 22:00 via news.yahoo.com
  An alleged racist incident involving a female African American student prompted emergency meetings with families, students and administrators at a prestigious Manhattan high school Tuesday.
  
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• Yale rescinds admission of student whose family allegedly paid $1.2M to bribe entry

  26-03-2019 21:56 via news.yahoo.com
  Yale University has rescinded the admission of a student whose family allegedly paid $1.2 million in bribes to get her into the Ivy League school.
  
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• Amazon sale gets you an extra large $150 air fryer for just $90

  26-03-2019 21:37 via news.yahoo.com
  If you want a well-reviewed air fryer that has huge capacity that costs less than most models half it's size, we've got just what the doctor ordered. The Power Air Fryer XL 5.3 Quart Fryer retails for $150, and it's worth every penny. It cooks up wonderfully crispy food with little or even no oil, so it's much healthier than traditional deep fryers. It also has plenty of capacity -- 5.3 quarts is enough room to feed a large family, and then some. The $150 price tag is more than fair, but hurry u
  
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• Republican congressman Mo Brooks quotes Hitler's Mein Kampf to accuse Democrats of promoting 'big lie' against Trump

  26-03-2019 21:25 via news.yahoo.com
  A Republican congressman has been condemned after he quote from Adolf Hitler's Mein Kampf to accuse Democrats of lying about Robert Mueller’s Trump-Russia probe.Speaking on the floor of the House of Representatives, Mo Brooks claimed Democrats and the media were guilty of pushing a “big lie” over the conclusions of the special counsel.“For more than two years, socialist Democrats and their fake news media allies – CNN, MSNBC, the New York Times, Washington Post and
  
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• 'It's not about the Benjamins,' Netanyahu says of U.S. support for Israel

  26-03-2019 21:16 via news.yahoo.com
  Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said "it's not about the Benjamins" as he hit back on Tuesday against any suggestion that U.S. politicians are paid to support Israel.A tweet in February by Democratic Representative Ilhan Omar, a freshman legislator from Minnesota, was widely seen as echoing an anti-Semitic slur that Jews influence governments through money."It's all about the Benjamins baby," Omar wrote, using a slang term for $100 bills.
  
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• This website keeps track of every product and service that Google has ever killed

  26-03-2019 21:14 via news.yahoo.com
  We're still a few months away from the halfway mark of 2019, and already Google has sent some pretty high-profile products to an early grave -- products that the company had high initial hopes for, like its Inbox email service and its failed Facebook killer Google+. But this, as we all know, is really par for the course when it comes to the search giant, which has tried so many experiments over the years with products, apps and services that didn't quite work out as planned that it's ended up bu
  
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• No plan yet for Barr to brief U.S. Congress on Mueller findings: sources

  26-03-2019 21:13 via news.yahoo.com
  Barr said Mueller concluded there was no collusion between President Donald Trump's campaign team and Moscow.Mueller did not decide one way or the other on whether Trump was guilty of obstruction of justice, but Barr and Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein decided there was not enough evidence to charge the president.
  
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• Widespread computer outage briefly affects passengers on American, Alaska and JetBlue airlines

  26-03-2019 21:05 via news.yahoo.com
  The troubles, which lasted about 30 minutes, were due to a technical glitch at Sabre, a major airline reservations system.
  
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• Barr Plans to Take Weeks, Not Months, to Do Next Mueller Report

  26-03-2019 21:03 via news.yahoo.com
  Democrats have been demanding the release of the special counsel’s full report, as well as the evidence behind it.Six House chairmen wrote Barr a letter on Monday giving him an April 2 date to submit to the full report to Congress, although it’s all but certain he won’t meet that deadline.Barr offered his timeline in a conversation with Senate Judiciary Chairman Lindsey Graham, the official said, who said there are no plans at this time to share the Mueller report with the Whit
  
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• What's in your wallet? Apple wants you to add an Apple Card credit card, coming in summer

  26-03-2019 21:02 via news.yahoo.com
  Apple is partnering with Goldman Sachs on its own Apple Card Mastercard, coming this summer. Its 2 percent rebate goes to 3 percent on Apple products.
  
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• Mercedes-Benz Recalls Cars Over Seat Lock Issue

  26-03-2019 21:02 via news.yahoo.com
  Mercedes-Benz Recalls Cars Because Seats Don't Lock Into PlaceMercedes-Benz is recalling 22,637 cars and convertibles because the front seats might not lock into place as expected. As a result,...
  
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• New Trump attack on Obamacare leaves Dems wondering: Why now?

  26-03-2019 20:59 via news.yahoo.com
  The unexpected filing in the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals, where a challenge to the ACA is being heard, came in the middle of the administration’s victory lap over the conclusion of the special counsel's investigation.
  
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• Trump offers rave reviews for Mueller report he hasn’t seen

  26-03-2019 20:49 via news.yahoo.com
  President Trump offered a rave review to the report written by Special Counsel Robert Mueller on Tuesday even though he has not seen the full document. Speaking to reporters while visiting the Capitol, Trump praised the summary of Mueller’s investigation into Russia’s interference in the 2016 election and suggested it fully cleared him of any wrongdoing.
  
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• UPDATE 3-Russian deployment in Venezuela includes 'cybersecurity personnel' -U.S. official

  26-03-2019 20:47 via news.yahoo.com
  A Russian military contingent that arrived in Venezuela over the weekend, drawing U.S. condemnation, is believed by the U.S. government to be made up of special forces including "cybersecurity personnel," a U.S. official told Reuters on Tuesday.The official, speaking on condition of anonymity, said the United States was still assessing the Russian deployment, which Washington has called a "reckless escalation" of the situation in Venezuela.Two Russian air force planes landed outside Caracas on S
  
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• House passes bills meant to pressure Venezuela's Maduro

  26-03-2019 20:40 via news.yahoo.com
  WASHINGTON (AP) — The House has approved three bills aimed at stepping up U.S. pressure against the government of Venezuela's embattled president, Nicolas Maduro.
  
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• U.S. jury to determine liability, damages in Roundup cancer trial

  26-03-2019 20:32 via news.yahoo.com
  A lawyer for a man who said his cancer was caused by Bayer AG's glyphosate-based weed killer Roundup on Tuesday urged U.S. jurors to "send a message" to the company by holding it liable and awarding millions in damages.The case is only the second of more than 11,200 Roundup lawsuits to go to trial in the United States as litigation setbacks and a prior jury verdict against the company have sent Bayer shares plunging.A responsible company would tell their customers if they knew it causes cancer,"
  
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• The Latest: Israel warns Hamas against further attacks

  26-03-2019 20:22 via news.yahoo.com
  JERUSALEM (AP) — The Latest on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict (all times local):
  
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• Was Viking Cruises equipped to brave Norway's winters with Viking Sky cruise ship?

  26-03-2019 20:20 via news.yahoo.com
  "It would be foolish if they were ever going to do winter in Norway again," one cruise expert said after Viking Sky's evacuation and rescue.
  
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• Russian troops in Venezuela violates constitution: Guaido

  26-03-2019 20:18 via news.yahoo.com
  Venezuelan opposition leader Juan Guiado charged Tuesday that the deployment of Russian troops in the troubled South American country violates its constitution.Guaido, who is recognized by the US and more than 50 countries as Venezuela's interim president, raised the issue in a speech to the National Assembly, which he heads."It seems (the government of President Nicolas Maduro) doesn't trust its own troops, because it is importing others ... once again violating the constitution," he said.
  
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• Israel's Netanyahu to Rep. Ilhan Omar: 'From this Benjamin: It’s not about the Benjamins!'

  26-03-2019 20:11 via news.yahoo.com
  Netanyahu's jab was a response to a tweet Omar wrote in February about the influence of AIPAC. “It’s all about the Benjamins baby,” she wrote, suggesting lawmakers were beholden to the group because of campaign contributions.
  
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• Rethinking pasta primavera to make it taste like spring

  26-03-2019 20:06 via news.yahoo.com
  You'd never know that pasta primavera, a pseudo-Italian dish that appears on virtually every chain restaurant menu, actually has roots in French haute cuisine.
  
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• House Armed Services chairman denies $1 billion transfer for Trump wall

  26-03-2019 20:06 via news.yahoo.com
  Acting Secretary of Defense Patrick Shanahan announced on Monday that the Department of Defense had shifted $1 billion from other military construction projects to build part of the barrier along the southern border.Democratic Representative Adam Smith, the committee's chairman, said the panel did not approve the proposed use of Pentagon funds.The committee does not approve the proposed use of Department of Defense funds to construct additional physical barriers and roads or install lighting in
  
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• Trump: Mueller report 'could not have been better'

  26-03-2019 20:03 via news.yahoo.com
  The president continues to portray the report he hasn't yet seen as a "total exoneration."
  
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