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• How real is Iran threat? Democrats fear Trump administration using intel to justify conflict

  21-05-2019 23:59 via news.yahoo.com
  Secretary of State Mike Pompeo and Acting Defense Secretary Patrick Shanahan on Tuesday briefed members of the House and Senate behind closed doors.
  
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• Easing tone, US says robust actions deterred Iran

  21-05-2019 23:41 via news.yahoo.com
  President Donald Trump's administration on Tuesday appeared set on easing weeks of escalating tensions with Iran, assuring worried lawmakers it does not seek war and crediting robust US military moves with deterring the clerical regime.After a month of fiery warnings to Iran, top Trump officials delivered a classified briefing to the full US Congress where Democrats have accused the administration of hyping intelligence and pushing the United States dangerously close to war.
  
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• HUD Secretary Ben Carson mixes up a real estate term and Oreo sandwich cookies

  21-05-2019 23:32 via news.yahoo.com
  On Tuesday afternoon, Oreo responded on its official Twitter account. "REO stands for 'Really Excellent OREO (cookie).' Everyone knows that."
  
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• Democrat impeachment talk gains as Trump blocks lawyer testimony

  21-05-2019 23:30 via news.yahoo.com
  Democratic Party talk of impeachment intensified Tuesday after Donald Trump's former lawyer Don McGahn refused to testify about obstruction allegations against the US president.House Democratic leaders held off fresh pressure from rank-and-file legislators to launch an effort to remove the president, after the White House again stymied their probe into Trump's actions in the Russia meddling investigation.
  
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• The Latest: Shanahan: US not rushing into Iran confrontation

  21-05-2019 23:19 via news.yahoo.com
  WASHINGTON (AP) — The Latest on the Trump administration's Iran policy (all times local):
  
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• Starbucks Accused of Exposing Customers to Poisonous Pesticide

  21-05-2019 23:13 via news.yahoo.com
  Justin Sullivan/GettyTrouble is once again brewing for Starbucks, the global coffee empire that Seattle billionaire Howard Schultz—who recently flirted with running for president before backing off—spent three decades building into a highly-caffeinated behemoth.On Tuesday, the iconic company—which claims more than $22 billion in annual revenue and more than 27,500 outlets in nearly 80 countries—was slapped with two lawsuits alleging that thousands of customers who patroni
  
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• U.S. House Democrats subpoena more Trump ex-aides, including Hicks

  21-05-2019 23:06 via news.yahoo.com
  As tensions rose between the Republican president and the Democrats who control the House of Representatives, lawmakers also negotiated for future testimony by Special Counsel Robert Mueller on his Russia investigation and debated whether to launch high-stakes impeachment proceedings against Trump.The showdown between Trump and the Democrats intensified after McGahn, heeding Trump's instructions, ignored a subpoena from the Democratic-led House Judiciary Committee and did not show up to testify
  
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• Google Changes Policy after Backlash over Anti-Abortion Ads

  21-05-2019 23:03 via news.yahoo.com
  Google has adopted a more stringent policy regarding health-care and medical advertisements after facing severe criticism over reports it provided $150,000 worth of free advertising to pro-life crisis-pregnancy centers.Advertisers using "keywords related to getting an abortion" must now apply for a designation as an entity that either provides abortions or one that does not provide them, according to Google's policy update. Google will verify the information the advertiser provides and then 
  
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• Don McGahn, former White House counsel, defies House subpoena and skips hearing on Russia probe

  21-05-2019 23:00 via news.yahoo.com
  Don McGahn, the former White House counsel, skipped a House hearing on Tuesday. Lawmakers wanted to ask him about obstruction by the president.
  
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• Latest migrant child death raises questions about U.S. detention practices

  21-05-2019 22:57 via news.yahoo.com
  The fifth Guatemalan child to die after illegally crossing the border since December, Carlos Vasquez’s death at a Border Patrol station raises new questions about the length of time minors are being detained, as well as the conditions provided to them while in custody.
  
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• U.S. Intel to Congress: No Evidence al Qaeda Is Helping Iran

  21-05-2019 22:52 via news.yahoo.com
  Kena Betancur/AFP/GettyThe American intelligence community has no evidence that al Qaeda has cooperated with the Iranian government in its recent aggressive moves in the Persian Gulf region, a senior U.S. government official told members of Congress on Tuesday. That finding, which was relayed to The Daily Beast by three sources familiar with the matter, could undercut a potential legal case for going to war with Iran if tensions between Washington and Tehran keep escalating. The assessment was d
  
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• Tornado season has been wild, and more storms are coming

  21-05-2019 22:47 via news.yahoo.com
  The deadly and destructive 2019 tornado season has been above-average, and shows no signs of letting up.
  
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• Oklahoma reels, Missouri declares state of emergency from storm, floods

  21-05-2019 22:46 via news.yahoo.com
  Rescue crews using boats pulled at least 50 people from rising water as heavy downpours inundated roads and homes, Oklahoma Emergency Management Agency spokeswoman Keli Cain said, although there were no reports of deaths or serious injuries.Only the tops of cars engulfed by water were could be seen in video footage of roadways near Oklahoma City, and some houses were entirely surrounded by floods."It's real dangerous," said Ross Reuter, a spokesman for Canadian County, where 10 people were rescu
  
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• Airbus seeks resolution to German arms export row: CEO

  21-05-2019 22:43 via news.yahoo.com
  Airbus is in discussions to try to find solutions to a row with the German government over a ban on arms exports to Saudi Arabia that threatens a border security contract, Chief Executive Guillaume Faury said on Tuesday.The planemaker has warned of legal action against Germany after taking financial charges over the long-delayed border contract between Airbus's defense unit and the Gulf kingdom."We are not yet there," Faury told reporters when asked about possible legal action.
  
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• Huawei Founder Believes New U.S. Order Will Have No Impact on Sales

  21-05-2019 22:40 via news.yahoo.com
  The founder of Huawei Technologies says that President Trump’s recent curb on sales will have little effect on the company.
  
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• New Quinnipiac poll shows Biden leading Dems, Trump not getting credit for the economy

  21-05-2019 22:35 via news.yahoo.com
  According to the poll, 71% of the voters say that the economy is "good" or "excellent," but only 38% of voters approve of Trump.
  
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• Elizabeth Warren calls comedian to give love life advice: 'We have a plan to get my mom grandkids'

  21-05-2019 22:16 via news.yahoo.com
  Elizabeth Warren is the only presidential candidate with a plan for comedian Ashley Nicole Black's love life.That's at least according to Black, who wrote on Twitter that she had a chat with the Democratic presidential candidate had called her up — making good on a weekend tweet from Ms Warren offering to help."Guess who's crying and shaking and just talked to Elizabeth Warren on the phone?!?!? We have a plan to get my mom grand kids, it's very comprehensive, and it does involve raising ta
  
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• The Latest: House panel subpoenas Hicks and counsel's aide

  21-05-2019 22:12 via news.yahoo.com
  WASHINGTON (AP) — The Latest on the House Judiciary Committee and Don McGahn (all times local):
  
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• Trump's attorneys appeal judge's decision to uphold subpoena for president's financial records

  21-05-2019 21:59 via news.yahoo.com
  President's legal team accuses Democrats of trying to dig up damaging information ahead of 2020 election; chief White House correspondent John Roberts reports.
  
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• House Democrats Subpoena Hope Hicks

  21-05-2019 21:59 via news.yahoo.com
  PoolThe House Judiciary Committee said on Tuesday it had issued subpoenas for Hope Hicks and Annie Donaldson for testimony and documents related to the committee’s ongoing investigation into obstruction of justice and public corruption by President Trump, his associates, and other members of the administration.The committee had previously sent document requests to Hicks, a former communications director for Trump and Donaldson, former chief of staff of White House counsel Don McGahn, in Ma
  
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• Abortion ban protests: Thousands demonstrate against new restrictive laws across America

  21-05-2019 21:59 via news.yahoo.com
  Massive protests opposing a series of bans against abortions have continued for several days after one of the most stringent abortion laws in the nation was signed into law in Alabama last week. Crowds of demonstrators on Capitol Hill were joined by prominent women’s rights activists and politicians on Tuesday, including 2020 presidential hopeful Kirsten Gillibrand, for a rally titled StopTheBans. “Our democracy only works when the people of this country stand up and demand it,&rdquo
  
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• US fingers Iran on Gulf attacks but eases tone

  21-05-2019 21:58 via news.yahoo.com
  President Donald Trump's administration charged Tuesday it was "quite possible" Iran was responsible for the sabotage of Gulf oil interests but said its own robust response had prevented potential attacks on Americans.Top Trump officials appeared to be toning down weeks of fiery warnings to Iran before delivering a classified briefing to the full Congress, where opposition Democrats have accused the administration of hyping intelligence and pushing the United States dangerously close to war.Secr
  
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• New laws bring confusion, uncertainty for abortion clinics

  21-05-2019 21:54 via news.yahoo.com
  HUNTSVILLE, Ala. (AP) — Abortion clinics are facing protesters emboldened by a flurry of restrictive new state laws as they reassure confused patients that the laws have yet to take effect, abortion providers said.
  
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• Airbus prepares counter-punch to new Boeing mid-sized jet

  21-05-2019 21:51 via news.yahoo.com
  U.S. planemaker Boeing is studying whether to launch a 220-270-seat jet wedged between traditional twin-aisle models like the Airbus A330 or its own 787, and the industry's bread-and-butter single-aisle models like the A320/321 and Boeing 737.Airbus aims to defend that space with its own A330neo at the top end and the best-selling A321neo at the bottom - two models boasting new engines on older airframes."Those programs are both so mature that it gives Airbus pricing flexibility to address this
  
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• The Latest: Merkel, Macron and Putin discuss Iran situation

  21-05-2019 21:44 via news.yahoo.com
  DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — The Latest on developments in the Persian Gulf region and elsewhere in the Mideast amid heightened tensions between the U.S. and Iran (all times local):
  
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• Rex Tillerson Secretly Meets With House Foreign Affairs Committee to Talk Trump

  21-05-2019 21:34 via news.yahoo.com
  Jonathan Ernst/ReutersFormer Secretary of State Rex Tillerson was spotted entering a congressional office building on Tuesday morning for what a committee aide told The Daily Beast was a meeting with the leaders of the House Foreign Affairs committee and relevant staff about his time working in the Trump administration. Tillerson’s appearance took place as virtually every other Trumpworld luminary has been stonewalling congressional oversight efforts. At the same time that the former Secre
  
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• HUD Secretary Ben Carson stumped during congressional hearing

  21-05-2019 21:22 via news.yahoo.com
  The HUD secretary faced a tough hearing before the House Financial Services Committee on Tuesday.
  
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• White House, Democrats in Talks to End Holdup on USMCA Approval

  21-05-2019 21:14 via news.yahoo.com
  Pelosi told Lighthizer that she will designate members of her caucus to be working group representatives to deal with labor, enforcement, environment and pharmaceutical provisions of the deal, two people briefed on the discussions said.The groups will likely consist of Democrats from the Ways and Means Committee, the congressional Progressive Caucus and the Congressional Black Caucus to ensure they can build consensus within the party, one of the people said.
  
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• Researchers say a tiny planet slammed into the Moon a long time ago

  21-05-2019 21:11 via news.yahoo.com
  Earth's Moon only ever shows us one face. It's locked into its current orientation, with a permanent nearside and farside, but it wasn't until the Apollo missions that scientists were able to see just how different the two sides really are. The nearside, with its sea of dark gray basins standing in contrast to the brilliant white powder that covers the rest of its face, varies dramatically from the farside, which is marked with countless smaller craters in a more uniform distribution.The debate
  
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• Here's How Those Game of Thrones Bets Played Out After That Twisty Ending

  21-05-2019 21:10 via news.yahoo.com
  With the Iron Throne itself gone, the results varied
  
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• New Feature on 2020 Chevrolet and GMC Models Won't Let Car Move Till Driver Fastens Seatbelt

  21-05-2019 21:03 via news.yahoo.com
  The new tech is called Buckle to Drive, and it rolls out on several Chevrolet and GMC models for 2020 as part of the Teen Driver package.
  
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• I'm the same age as Elizabeth Warren. We 70-somethings have no business being president.

  21-05-2019 20:57 via news.yahoo.com
  I have nothing against old people — I'm one of them. But maybe it's time to add a maximum age limit to our minimum age requirement for our presidents.
  
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• French widow sues Boeing for at least $276 million over Ethiopian crash

  21-05-2019 20:49 via news.yahoo.com
  The crash of Ethiopian Airlines flight 302 in March killed all 157 passengers and crew aboard and followed the death in October of 189 people on a Lion Air 737 MAX which plunged into the ocean off Indonesia in similar circumstances.Dozens of families have sued Boeing over the Lion Air crash, and several lawsuits have been lodged over the Ethiopian crash near the capital Addis Ababa, which led airlines around the world to ground the Boeing 737 MAX.The lawsuit on behalf of Nadege Dubois-Seex, whos
  
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• Mississippi governor signs 'heartbeat' abortion ban into law. Here's what you need to know

  21-05-2019 20:45 via news.yahoo.com
  The ban would be among the strictest in the country, but is expected to quickly be challenged in federal court.
  
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• American Airlines blames mechanics for 2,200 flight delays, cancellations, warns of summer travel trouble

  21-05-2019 20:39 via news.yahoo.com
  American Airlines says a slowdown by mechanics led to nearly 2,200 flight cancellations, delays since February and has intensified.
  
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• Russian bombers, fighters intercepted off Alaska: US military

  21-05-2019 20:37 via news.yahoo.com
  US fighters intercepted six Russian military aircraft in international airspace west of Alaska, and shadowed them until they exited the area, the North American Air Defense Command said Tuesday.The Russian aircraft included two Tu-95 strategic bombers, which were intercepted Monday by two F-22 fighters, the command said.A second group of two Tu-95 bombers and two Su-35 fighters were also intercepted by a pair of F-22 fighters, it said.
  
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• Who can beat James Holzhauer on 'Jeopardy!'? Former opponent sounds off

  21-05-2019 20:36 via news.yahoo.com
  If you ask Claudia Walters, there's only one person who can derail James Holzhauer's journey to the top of the "Jeopardy!" leaderboard.
  
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• AOC renews Trump impeachment calls after McGahn ignores subpoena: 'We have to move forward'

  21-05-2019 20:27 via news.yahoo.com
  Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez is ramping up pressure on her fellow Democrats to begin impeachment proceedings against Donald Trump, saying that she and her colleagues have “a duty” to hold the president accountable."We have to move forward on impeachment," Ms Ocasio-Cortez said on Tuesday during an interview with CNN.She continued, paying respect to speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi, who has so far pushed back on impeachment calls.“I trust the speaker's taking a measured approach to
  
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• Apple’s latest MacBook Pro refresh once again addresses keyboard issues

  21-05-2019 20:25 via news.yahoo.com
  Apple doesn't often admit fault, but the quiet launch of a new MacBook Pro model today, alongside an adjustment to the Keyboard Service Program, seems to be the company's way of acknowledging that there's more work to be done to address the butterfly keyboard issues of its laptop line. According to Apple, the keyboard design has been tweaked to reduce double and missed key presses, which users have been complaining about for years.New materials in the switch mechanism of the keyboard are said to
  
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• Mueller Shuns Public Hearing as Talks Stall With House Democrats

  21-05-2019 20:22 via news.yahoo.com
  Mueller has told the Democratic-controlled House Judiciary Committee that he doesn’t want to be dragged into a political fight and that he’s hesitant to publicly discuss his final report, according to the people, who asked not to be identified discussing the continuing negotiations.Among the options Mueller has raised is making a public statement before the committee questions him in private, the people said.Democrats are eager to hear from Mueller in public because his report chroni
  
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• Bomb-laden drone from Yemen rebels targets Saudi airport

  21-05-2019 20:20 via news.yahoo.com
  DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — Yemen's Iranian-allied Houthi rebels attacked a Saudi airport and military base with a bomb-laden drone Tuesday, an assault acknowledged by the kingdom as Middle East tensions remained high between Tehran and Washington. There were no immediate reports of injuries or damage.
  
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• Hundreds rally at U.S. Supreme Court, calling state abortion bans as step backward

  21-05-2019 20:13 via news.yahoo.com
  Abortion-rights campaigners, including Democrats seeking their party's 2020 presidential nomination, rallied at the U.S. Supreme Court on Tuesday to protest new restrictions on abortion passed by Republican-dominated legislatures in eight states.Many of the restrictions are intended to draw legal challenges, which religious conservatives hope will lead the nation's top court to overturn the 1973 Roe v. Wade decision that established a woman's right to terminate her pregnancy."We are not going to
  
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• Mississippi judge who blocked 15-week abortion ban hears arguments on fetal heartbeat law

  21-05-2019 19:58 via news.yahoo.com
  Mississippi's fetal heartbeat law which bans abortions after approximately six weeks could be blocked or upheld by Judge Carlton Reeves.
  
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• Former Tesla bull makes $10 worst case call on China worries

  21-05-2019 19:58 via news.yahoo.com
  Shares of Tesla edged down, heading for their fifth straight session of losses, and bonds weakened, after Morgan Stanley analyst Adam Jonas outlined his worst case scenario.Jonas forecast the shares could be worth $10 to $391, with a price target of $230, a wide range that underscores the confusion and risks about Tesla's future.The company is facing signs of dragging demand as rivals step up electric efforts, as well as issues related to cash flow and manufacturing, its outlook in China and its
  
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• DOD: Iranian Threats ‘Put on Hold’ Thanks to U.S.

  21-05-2019 19:51 via news.yahoo.com
  The Department of Defense said Tuesday that potential threats from Iran have been "put on hold" thanks to precautionary measures taken by the U.S.“We have put on hold the potential for attacks on Americans,” Acting Secretary of Defense Pat Shanahan said at the Pentagon.The U.S. deployed four B-52 bombers, Patriot air-defense missiles, and the USS Abraham Lincoln carrier-strike group to the Persian Gulf earlier this month amid fears that Iran was transporting short-range ballisti
  
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• Dog sitter caught walking around naked in customer's home

  21-05-2019 19:50 via news.yahoo.com
  A dog sitter has been caught on camera walking around her client’s house naked.Rosie Brown hired Casey Brengle to look after her two dogs, Penny and Daisy, while she went to a wedding for four days.
  
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• WRAPUP 2-Southwest Airlines mechanics dispute ends just as American's heats up

  21-05-2019 19:46 via news.yahoo.com
  Southwest Airlines Co's mechanics union said on Tuesday its members had overwhelmingly voted to ratify a tentative contract agreement with the airline, ending seven years of labor negotiations fraught with legal disputes and flight disruptions.The agreement, which brought to a close one of the most disruptive labor disputes to hit a top-four U.S. airline in more than a decade, came a day after rival U.S. carrier American Airlines Group Inc said it was filing a labor-related lawsuit against its m
  
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• Elon Musk hires man behind 'absolute unit' sheep meme to run Tesla's social media

  21-05-2019 19:38 via news.yahoo.com
  * Adam Koszary’s tweet of giant sheep went viral last year* Musk adopted image and description for his Twitter profileElon Musk is legally obliged to have his tweets checked by lawyers. ‘My Twitter is pretty much complete nonsense at this point,’ he observed last month. Photograph: Mike Blake/ReutersElon Musk has reportedly hired the man responsible for a viral tweet about a giant sheep to be Tesla’s social media manager.Adam Koszary, programme manager for the UK’s
  
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• See the stunning videos: Tornadoes rip through central US as storm chasers capture their power

  21-05-2019 19:31 via news.yahoo.com
  A string of tornadoes tore through the central United States in recent days, and the videos showing their power and havoc are stunning.
  
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• Rep. Tom McClintock says Jerry Nadler knows he'd be humiliated if he challenged executive privilege claim in court

  21-05-2019 19:22 via news.yahoo.com
  House Judiciary Committee Chairman Nadler cannot compel former White House counsel Don McGahn to testify, says California Congressman Tom McClintock, Republican member or the House Judiciary Committee.
  
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