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• Trump Says Don't Do It as Mueller Testimony Tentatively Set

  05-05-2019 23:56 via news.yahoo.com
  The president’s comment, in a pair of Twitter postings on Sunday, came hours after a Democratic member of the House Judiciary Committee said that a “tentative date” of May 15 had been set for testimony by the former FBI director to discuss his investigation into the 2016 election.Democrats have been eager for Mueller to testify at least since last month, when his report on Russian election interference and Trump’s subsequent actions to squelch the investigation became pub
  
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• 'The flames were huge': At least 41 dead in fiery Moscow jet landing caught on video

  05-05-2019 23:44 via news.yahoo.com
  A Russian Aeroflot jet landed in Moscow engulfed in flames and billowing smoke Sunday, which was captured on video.
  
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• Venezuela helicopter crash kills seven military officers near Caracas

  05-05-2019 23:31 via news.yahoo.com
  Seven military officers have died in Venezuela after their helicopter crashed on Saturday.The group had been travelling to San Carlos in Cojedes state, where Nicolas Maduro, the country’s president, was overseeing training exercises at a military facility.The Cougar helicopter the men were travelling in plunged into a mountain outside Caracas, Venezuela’s capital in the early hours of the day.An investigation has been opened into the cause of the crash.Two lieutenant colonels and fiv
  
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• Trump abruptly renews China tariffs threat ahead of upcoming trade deal

  05-05-2019 23:21 via news.yahoo.com
  Donald Trump has announced an increase in US tariffs on Chinese goods, saying trade negotiations with the country are going “too slowly.” The president appeared to contradict statements from his administration suggesting trade talks with China have been going well in recent weeks. His renewed threats suggest the US will increase tariffs on $200bn of Chinese goods from 10 to 25 per cent, after postponing the initial tariffs when officials from both countries agreed to meet for negotia
  
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• NASCAR Cup Series race at Dover postponed to Monday

  05-05-2019 23:10 via news.yahoo.com
  DOVER, Del. (AP) — Jimmie Johnson posed for a photo with Hall of Famers Bobby Allison and Richard Petty from an appearance this weekend and wrote the caption "367 and counting."
  
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• Gandhi Family Faces Tough Fight to Secure Key Seats: India Votes

  05-05-2019 23:00 via news.yahoo.com
  Rahul Gandhi is contesting for the fourth time from the seat of Amethi in Uttar Pradesh -- a family bastion that he has not lost since his first election in 2004.A former model and television soap opera actress, the outspoken Irani was beaten in 2014 but narrowed Gandhi’s margin of victory.
  
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• Gandhi Family Faces Tough Fight to Secure Key Seats in India’s Elections

  05-05-2019 23:00 via news.yahoo.com
  Rahul Gandhi is contesting for the fourth time from the seat of Amethi in Uttar Pradesh -- a family bastion that he has not lost since his first election in 2004.A former model and television soap opera actress, the outspoken Irani was beaten in 2014 but narrowed Gandhi’s margin of victory.
  
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• Trump picks Obama-era Border Patrol head to lead ICE after several recent Fox News appearances

  05-05-2019 22:53 via news.yahoo.com
  President Trump tapped former Border Patrol chief under former President Barack Obama to run the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agency.
  
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• Black box found after crash landing of Boeing 737 in Jacksonville, Florida; plane had a/c problems earlier

  05-05-2019 22:49 via news.yahoo.com
  All 143 people aboard a Boeing 737 survived after the plane skidded off a runway into a river in Jacksonville.
  
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• Russia: Airport says landing started plane fire with 13 dead

  05-05-2019 22:48 via news.yahoo.com
  MOSCOW (AP) — Thirteen people died Sunday in a fiery airplane accident at Moscow's Sheremetyevo Airport, a spokeswoman for the Russian Investigative Committee said.
  
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• Report: Red Sox skipper Cora won't go to White House

  05-05-2019 22:47 via news.yahoo.com
  Boston manager Alex Cora will not be with his team Thursday when the Red Sox celebrate winning the 2018 World Series at the White House.El Nuevo Dia in Puerto Rico reported the news Sunday and said Cora has declined the invitation because his native land continues to struggle to recover from Hurricane Maria, which hit Puerto Rico in September 2017.Last year, Cora criticized President Donald Trump for his tweets downplaying the number of Puerto Ricans who died as a result of the natural disaster.
  
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• Bernie Sanders promises help for family farms, rural residents on trip to Iowa

  05-05-2019 22:47 via news.yahoo.com
  U.S. presidential contender Bernie Sanders unveiled a plan on Sunday to help family farmers and rural residents, promising to break up corporate agricultural monopolies and invest heavily in social and economic programs in struggling rural communities.Sanders, an independent U.S. senator and fierce corporate critic, said on a campaign trip to Iowa that rural areas were being devastated by agribusiness consolidations that hoarded profits, drove family farmers off their land and contributed to gro
  
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• Trump ups pressure on China ahead of last ditch trade talks

  05-05-2019 22:44 via news.yahoo.com
  US President Donald Trump announced Sunday that the United States will raise tariffs on $200 billion of Chinese goods -- a blunt warning to Beijing just days before what is being billed as a last-ditch round of talks to reach a deal or resume their trade war.To press China even more to accept US demands, Trump also threatened again to slap tariffs on all Chinese imports to the US -- worth $539.5 billion last year.
  
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• Nancy Pelosi tries to herd Democrats: Today's Toon

  05-05-2019 22:40 via news.yahoo.com
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• Trump says Special Counsel Mueller should not testify on Russia probe

  05-05-2019 22:36 via news.yahoo.com
  U.S. President Donald Trump said on Sunday that Special Counsel Robert Mueller should not testify in Congress about the investigation into Russian interference in the 2016 presidential election, after saying on Friday it was up to the Justice Department's top official.Trump said on Twitter that Democrats in Congress were seeking a "redo" of Mueller's report, which declined to conclude whether the president's efforts to impede the investigation constituted obstruction of justice."Bob Mueller shou
  
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• North Korea State Media: Kim Jong Un Oversees Missile Firing Drills and Calls for 'High Alert Posture'

  05-05-2019 22:34 via news.yahoo.com
  North Korea State Media: Kim Jong Un Oversees Missile Firing Drills and Calls for 'High Alert Posture'
  
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• At least 13 die in fiery Moscow jet landing caught on video

  05-05-2019 22:24 via news.yahoo.com
  A Russian Aeroflot jet landed in Moscow engulfed in flames and billowing smoke Sunday, which was captured on video.
  
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• Donald Trump set for new clash with Democrats as he urges Robert Mueller not to testify before Congress

  05-05-2019 22:23 via news.yahoo.com
  Donald Trump is on course for a new clash with Democrats after he called on Robert Mueller not to testify before Congress. The US president intervened on Twitter, after it was reported that Mr Mueller had "tentatively agreed" to appear before the Democrat-led House of Representatives Judiciary Committee on May 15. Democrats are keen to hear from Mr Mueller, who carried out a two-year investigation into allegations of Russian interference in the 2016 US presidential election. But Mr Trump accused
  
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• Venezuela: Russia urges US to abandon ‘irresponsible’ plan to topple Maduro

  05-05-2019 21:38 via news.yahoo.com
  Secretary of state meanwhile slammed Russian meddling in the country: ‘We don’t want anyone messing around with Venezuela’Russian foreign minister Sergey Lavrov, right, and Venezuela’s foreign minister Jorge Arreaza give a press conference in Moscow on Sunday. Photograph: Kirill Kudryavtsev/AFP/Getty ImagesWashington and Moscow traded barbs over Venezuela on Sunday with Russia’s foreign minister urging the United States to abandon its “irresponsible” pla
  
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• Sanders Pitches to Iowa, Wants Halt to Agriculture Mega-Mergers

  05-05-2019 21:37 via news.yahoo.com
  Speaking to supporters in tiny Osage, Iowa -- a farming community with about 4,000 residents -- Sanders also promised to steer more farm subsidies away from bigger companies and to strengthen antitrust laws governing the industry.“In rural America, we are seeing giant agribusiness conglomerates extract as much wealth out of small communities as they possibly can, while family farmers are going bankrupt and in many ways are being treated like modern-day indentured servants,” Sanders s
  
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• Plane Crash in Moscow: At Least 40 Dead After Russian Aeroflot Jet’s Fiery Crash Landing

  05-05-2019 21:07 via news.yahoo.com
  Viktor Marchukaites/AFP/GettyAt least 40 people were killed Sunday when a Russian plane made a fiery crash landing at Moscow’s Sheremetyevo Airport, according to Russian officials. The Russian Aeroflot carrier plane had reportedly departed from Moscow, en route to the northern city of Murmansk. But video shows the plane quickly returning at about 7:30 p.m. local time, skidding across the Moscow runway with the back half engulfed in flames and billowing thick clouds of black smoke. It&rsquo
  
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• Plane Crash in Moscow: 41 Dead After Russian Aeroflot Jet’s Fiery Crash Landing

  05-05-2019 21:07 via news.yahoo.com
  Viktor Marchukaites/AFP/GettyAt least 41 people, including one U.S. citizen, were killed Sunday when a Russian plane made a fiery crash landing at Moscow’s Sheremetyevo Airport, according to Russian officials. The Russian Aeroflot carrier plane departed from Moscow, en route to the northern city of Murmansk. But flight tracking data shows the jet making a loop in Moscow’s skies before turning back to the airport. In shocking video, the plane can be seen attempting to land at about 7:
  
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• At least 13 killed after Russian passenger plane catches fire mid-air: news agencies

  05-05-2019 21:02 via news.yahoo.com
  Television footage showed the Sukhoi Superjet-100 making an emergency landing at Moscow's Sheremetyevo airport with much of the rear part of the plane engulfed in flames.Many passengers then escaped via the plane's emergency slides that inflated after the hard landing.Medical workers told the TASS news agency at least 13 people had been killed and that others remained unaccounted for.
  
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• China, climate, Russia to dominate Pompeo Europe tour

  05-05-2019 21:00 via news.yahoo.com
  WASHINGTON (AP) — The Trump administration is energizing its campaign to counter China's growing global influence as Secretary of State Mike Pompeo heads to Europe this week on a four-nation trip that will also highlight disputes with Russia over Venezuela and elsewhere as well as deep U.S. isolation on the cause and impact of climate change.
  
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• Pompeo insists North Korea nuclear deal still possible despite weapons test

  05-05-2019 20:58 via news.yahoo.com
  Secretary of state echoes the president, saying ‘there’s opportunity to get a negotiated outcome’ on a denuclearization dealSecretary of state Mike Pompeo said latest missile launches ‘anded in the water east of North Korea and didn’t present a threat to the US or to South Korea or Japan’. Photograph: Nicholas Kamm/AFP/Getty ImagesSecretary of State Mike Pompeo insisted Sunday that a nuclear disarmament deal between the US and North Korea was still possible, d
  
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• Correction: Trump-Russia Probe-Congress story

  05-05-2019 20:54 via news.yahoo.com
  WASHINGTON (AP) — In a story May 5 about congressional efforts to force the White House to comply with requests for information related to the special counsel's Russia investigation, The Associated Press reported erroneously that the House Judiciary Committee is demanding a redacted version of Mueller's report. The committee wants an unredacted version.
  
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• 'Tentative date' of 15 May agreed for Mueller to testify before Congress

  05-05-2019 20:28 via news.yahoo.com
  Democratic congressman says: ‘We hope that the special counsel will appear’ while Trump tweets: ‘Bob Mueller should not testify’ Special counsel Robert Mueller. Photograph: Tasos Katopodis/Getty ImagesRobert Mueller may be one step closer to being questioned in public on Capitol Hill, with a representative of the special counsel saying he has agreed to testify before Congress, according to a Democratic congressman on Sunday. The Rhode Island congressional representative D
  
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• 'Tentative date' of 15 May agreed for Mueller to testify before Congress

  05-05-2019 20:28 via news.yahoo.com
  Democratic congressman says: ‘We hope that the special counsel will appear’ while Trump tweets: ‘Bob Mueller should not testify’Special counsel Robert Mueller. Photograph: Tasos Katopodis/Getty ImagesRobert Mueller may be one step closer to being questioned in public on Capitol Hill, with a representative of the special counsel saying he has agreed to testify before Congress, according to a Democratic congressman on Sunday.Rhode Island congressional Representative David C
  
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• UN accesses key wheat silos in Yemen's Hodeida

  05-05-2019 20:19 via news.yahoo.com
  SANAA, Yemen (AP) — A U.N. agency said Sunday it has gained access to silos in Yemen's port city of Hodeida that may hold enough grain to feed hundreds of thousands of people in the conflict-battered country.
  
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• Trump to hike tariffs on $200 bn of Chinese goods

  05-05-2019 19:58 via news.yahoo.com
  Trump's action came as a major Chinese delegation is expected to arrive Wednesday in Washington for the latest round of talks to end the trade war between the world's two biggest economies -- a round billed as the last one and possibly leading to a deal to end the conflict."For 10 months, China has been paying Tariffs to the USA of 25% on 50 Billion Dollars of High Tech, and 10% on 200 Billion Dollars of other goods," Trump tweeted.The two sides have imposed tariffs on $360 billion in two-way tr
  
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• Mueller Testimony Tentatively Set for May 15: House Democrat

  05-05-2019 19:48 via news.yahoo.com
  Democrats have been eager for Mueller to testify since last month, when his report on Russian election interference in 2016 and President Donald Trump’s subsequent actions became public.An appearance by former FBI Director Mueller, whose public utterances during the two-year investigation consisted of court filings, would promise to be a dramatic day in the nation’s capital, with Democrats pushing him to expand on his inability to exonerate Trump on obstruction of justice and his dif
  
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• Man charged with posing as ride-share driver and sexually assaulting woman at knifepoint

  05-05-2019 19:39 via news.yahoo.com
  A man has been arrested after a woman in Delaware was sexually assaulted at knifepoint by a man posing as a ride-share service Saturday, police said.
  
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• Mueller testimony to US Congress proposed for May 15: lawmaker

  05-05-2019 19:37 via news.yahoo.com
  Robert Mueller, the man who led the nearly two-year investigation into Russian meddling in the 2016 US presidential election, has been asked to testify to Congress on May 15, a lawmaker said Sunday.US President Donald Trump has said Mueller's voluminous report vindicated him of allegations of collusion with Russia, but Democrats want to ask Mueller about evidence the president might have obstructed justice.
  
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• Secretary of State Pompeo calls Fox News host 'fixated' on Mueller during testy exchange

  05-05-2019 19:36 via news.yahoo.com
  "I'm not fixated about Robert Mueller, I'm fixated on the president's conversation with Vladimir Putin," Fox News host Chris Wallace replied.
  
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• Brexit deal prospects in doubt in 'bad faith' spat

  05-05-2019 19:36 via news.yahoo.com
  British Prime Minister Theresa May on Sunday urged Labour to do a deal on Brexit this week, but the main opposition party accused her of acting in bad faith.The Conservatives and Labour both lost ground in Thursday's English local authority polls as voters vented their frustration at the Brexit impasse dominating British politics.
  
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• Republicans push tax relief through Kansas Legislature

  05-05-2019 19:32 via news.yahoo.com
  TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — Republican legislators have pushed a tax relief proposal through the Kansas Legislature, ignoring predictions from Gov. Laura Kelly's fellow Democrats that she will veto it, just as she did with a larger plan.
  
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• Cause of Venezuelan chopper crash is under investigation

  05-05-2019 19:31 via news.yahoo.com
  CARACAS, Venezuela (AP) — Venezuelan authorities are investigating the cause of a helicopter crash that killed seven military officers while they were while heading to a state where President Nicolás Maduro was visiting troops.
  
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• Trump says Mueller should not testify before Congress after date announced for public questioning

  05-05-2019 19:22 via news.yahoo.com
  Donald Trump has urged Special Counsel Robert Mueller not to testify to the US Congress about his report on Russian interference in the 2016 election. The president’s latest comments arrived after he said he would not allow former White House counsel Don McGahn — a prominent figure in the special counsel’s nearly 400-page report — to testify to the House as it continues probing election interference and the Trump campaign’s interactions with Russian operatives. &ldq
  
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• US, Russia butt heads over Venezuela

  05-05-2019 19:19 via news.yahoo.com
  US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo pressed Sunday for Russia to get out of Venezuela, while his Russian counterpart, Sergei Lavrov, called on Washington to "abandon its irresponsible plans" in the crisis-wracked country.The push and shove set the stage for a Pompeo meeting with Lavrov in Finland this week, and belied the conciliatory tone taken by US President Donald Trump on Friday after what he said was "a very good conversation" with Russian President Vladimir Putin.
  
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• Taliban kill 13 in attack on police headquarters in northern Afghanistan

  05-05-2019 19:18 via news.yahoo.com
  Afghan forces battled for hours against Taliban insurgents who stormed a police headquarters in the northern city of Pul-e-Khumri, after a suicide bomber blew up his explosive-laden car, killing at least 13 people, officials said on Sunday."The complex attack on Baghlan police headquarters has ended with the death of all nine attackers, including the suicide bomber," he said.The Taliban, which is seeking to restore strict Islamic rule and expel foreign forces from Afghanistan, claimed responsibi
  
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• The Latest: Sanders unveiling plan on agriculture reform

  05-05-2019 19:13 via news.yahoo.com
  NORTH CHARLESTON, S.C. (AP) — The Latest on the Democratic presidential campaign (all times local):
  
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• UPDATE 4-Boeing did not disclose 737 MAX alert issue to FAA for 13 months

  05-05-2019 19:01 via news.yahoo.com
  The U.S. planemaker has been trying for weeks to dispel suggestions that it made airlines pay for safety features after it emerged that an alert designed to show discrepancies in Angle of Attack readings from two sensors was optional on the 737 MAX.Erroneous data from a sensor responsible for measuring the angle at which the wing slices through the air - known as the Angle of Attack - is suspected of triggering a flawed piece of software that pushed the plane downward in two recent crashes.In a
  
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• UPDATE 3-Boeing inadvertently made 737 MAX alert optional, denies safety risk

  05-05-2019 19:01 via news.yahoo.com
  CHICAGO/WASHINGTON, May 5 (Reuters) - Boeing Co said on Sunday it had inadvertently made an alarm alerting pilots to a mismatch of flight data optional on the 737 MAX, instead of standard as on earlier 737s, but reiterated that the missing display represented no safety risk.The U.S. planemaker has been trying for weeks to dispel suggestions that it made airlines pay for safety features after it emerged that an alert designed to show discrepancies in Angle of Attack readings from two sensors was
  
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• UPDATE 2-Boeing says safety review corroborated its findings on a 737 MAX sensor

  05-05-2019 19:01 via news.yahoo.com
  Boeing Co said on Sunday that a Safety Review Board convened in late 2018 corroborated its prior conclusion that an angle-of-attack (AOA) sensor on the 737 MAX, which has suffered two fatal crashes, was not necessary for the safe operation of commercial aircraft.In a statement following a series of negative news reports, Boeing provided greater detail on its recent decision to make the previously optional AOA Disagree alert a standard, standalone feature on the 737 MAX before the grounded jets r
  
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• Trump picks Morgan, backer of border wall, to head U.S. immigration agency

  05-05-2019 19:00 via news.yahoo.com
  Morgan, who headed U.S Border Patrol for six months after a career at the FBI, came out in support of Trump's border wall in January, urging Trump in an interview with legal news website Law & Crime to "stay the course.""I am pleased to inform all of those that believe in a strong, fair and sound Immigration Policy that Mark Morgan will be joining the Trump Administration as the head of our hard working men and women of ICE," Trump wrote on Twitter.When Trump took office in January 2017, Mor
  
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• Arrest made in sex assault of woman by faux ride-share driver

  05-05-2019 18:49 via news.yahoo.com
  Police have arrested Roberto Rodriguez after a woman reported being held at knifepoint and sexually by a man posing as a ride-share driver.
  
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• Taliban kill 13 Afghan police in attack on compound

  05-05-2019 18:47 via news.yahoo.com
  KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) — The Taliban stormed a police headquarters in northern Afghanistan on Sunday, killing 13 police and setting off a six-hour gunbattle, officials said.
  
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• U.S. may review ties with countries deemed anti-Israel: envoy

  05-05-2019 18:44 via news.yahoo.com
  U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said in a March speech that anti-Zionism - opposition to Israel's existence as a homeland for the Jewish people - was a form of anti-Semitism, or hostility toward Jews, that was on the rise worldwide and that Washington would "fight it relentlessly".The State Department's special envoy for monitoring and combating anti-Semitism, Elan Carr, said this U.S. position could spell reviews of ties with foreign governments or leaders."The United States is willing to r
  
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• Israel army denies Gaza woman, baby killed by Israeli strike

  05-05-2019 18:35 via news.yahoo.com
  Israel's army on Sunday denied claims from Gazan authorities that an Israeli strike killed a pregnant Palestinian woman and a baby, saying errant Hamas fire was to blame for the deaths.The Gazan health ministry said on Saturday that Falestine Abu Arar, 37, and her 14-month-old daughter Saba were killed by an Israeli strike that hit their home in eastern Gaza City.Israel rejected the claim that one of its retaliatory strikes in response to barrages of rockets from Gaza killed the two.
  
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• NASA fits 265,000 galaxies into a single ‘Hubble Legacy Field’ image

  05-05-2019 18:29 via news.yahoo.com
  Astronomers have assembled the most all-encompassing image of space ever created.It puts together 16 years of data captured from the Hubble Space Telescope, according to a statement from NASA. All together, the composite is made up of nearly 7,500 individual exposures. Dubbed the "Hubble Legacy Field," this wide view image shows around 265,000 galaxies. These galaxies go back 13.3 billion years to 500 million years after the big bang, showcasing how they have changed over time.This latest H
  
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