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• Navy SEAL acquitted of murder in killing of captive in Iraq

  02-07-2019 23:56 via news.yahoo.com
  A military jury acquitted a decorated Navy SEAL of premeditated murder Tuesday in the killing of a wounded Islamic State captive under his care in Iraq in 2017.Special Operations Chief Edward Gallagher was cleared of all charges except for posing for photos with the dead body of the captive in a verdict that is a major blow to military prosecutors.Gallagher reacted with "tears of joy, emotion, freedom and absolute euphoria," defense lawyer Marc Mukasey said.
  
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• Beijing issues ominous warning after 'atrocities,' but Hong Kong protesters undeterred

  02-07-2019 23:34 via news.yahoo.com
  Protests rocking Hong Kong were condemned by China's mainland government as a challenge to Beijing's authority, but activists were undeterred.
  
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• Government photos show detained migrants pleading for help

  02-07-2019 23:33 via news.yahoo.com
  The images were released Tuesday by U.S. government auditors who visited facilities in South Texas where migrant adults and children who crossed the nearby border with Mexico are processed and detained.An autopsy report also released Tuesday confirmed that a 2-year-old child who died in April had multiple intestinal and respiratory infectious diseases, including the flu.Wilmer Josué Ramírez Vásquez is one of five children to die after being detained by border agents since la
  
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• Trump administration to print census forms without citizenship question

  02-07-2019 23:31 via news.yahoo.com
  The Trump administration announced Tuesday that the 2020 census questionnaire will be printed without a citizenship question.
  
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• Mexico buses home migrants who gave up on U.S. asylum claims

  02-07-2019 23:26 via news.yahoo.com
  Dozens of Central American migrants who were forced to wait in Mexico for their asylum claims to be processed in the United Stated opted on Tuesday to return to their home countries with the Mexican government's help, the foreign ministry said.Sixty-six people from Honduras, Guatemala and El Salvador had been sent back to Mexico's Ciudad Juarez opposite El Paso, Texas, after requesting asylum in the United States, the ministry said in a statement, under a contentious U.S policy known as Migratio
  
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• House Democrats Sue Treasury, IRS Head for Trump Tax Returns

  02-07-2019 23:24 via news.yahoo.com
  (Bloomberg) -- House Democrats asked a U.S. court to force the Treasury Department to turn over six years of President Donald Trump’s personal and business tax returns.The long-expected lawsuit filed in a Washington federal court on Tuesday is Congress’s latest attempt to assert oversight over the executive branch, as the Trump administration has either rejected or ignored various subpoenas since Democrats took the majority in the House in January."In refusing to comply with the stat
  
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• Mexico deports 33% more migrants after deal with US

  02-07-2019 23:21 via news.yahoo.com
  Mexico deported 33 percent more foreigners month-on-month in June, officials said Tuesday, after the country agreed to take "unprecedented" steps to reduce migration in order to avoid tariffs threatened by US President Donald Trump.The total number of deportations from Mexico in June was 21,912, up from 16,507 in May, according to preliminary figures from the Mexican migration authority.The upswing came after Trump threatened in May to impose tariffs on all Mexican goods if the country did not d
  
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• Trump's July 4: Patriotic or self-promoting?

  02-07-2019 23:20 via news.yahoo.com
  The Fourth of July is always a major celebration, especially in the nation's capital. This year, President Trump is planning a bigger event in Washington, D.C., than anything that's come before. The "Salute to America" will feature a massive fireworks display, military aircraft flyovers, music and an address by the president from the Lincoln Memorial. Trump has said tanks will be part of the proceedings as well.
  
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• Poll: Two-Thirds of Voters Say Citizenship Question Should Be Allowed on Census

  02-07-2019 23:16 via news.yahoo.com
  Two-thirds of voters support allowing the U.S. census to include a question about an individual's citizenship status, disagreeing with the Supreme Court's decision to block the question.In a Harvard CAPS/Harris poll released Tuesday, 67 percent of respondents said the question, "Is this person a citizen of the United States?" should be allowed on the census. That number included about 88 percent of Republicans, 52 percent of Democrats, and 63 percent of independents agreed."The public here
  
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• What's the Deal: Easing your dog's anxiety during fireworks

  02-07-2019 23:08 via news.yahoo.com
  More dogs go missing on the fourth of July than any other time of year.
  
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• Suspect in woman's death barred from campus, report says

  02-07-2019 23:08 via news.yahoo.com
  A man arrested in the death of a Utah college student whose charred remains were found in his backyard was banned from the campus of Utah State University in 2012, according to documents released on Tuesday.The school took the step after Ayoola A. Ajayi's student visa expired and he was arrested on suspicion of having a stolen an iPad, a misdemeanor, according to university police reports.Jail documents show Ajayi is now a U.S. citizen.
  
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• EU, France, Germany and UK urge Iran to reverse uranium decision

  02-07-2019 23:06 via news.yahoo.com
  The diplomatic chiefs of the EU, France, Germany and Britain said Tuesday they were "extremely concerned" and urged Iran to reverse its decision to breach a limit on enriched uranium reserves under a 2015 nuclear deal."We urge Iran to reverse this step and to refrain from further measures that undermine the nuclear deal," said the joint statement signed by EU diplomatic chief Federica Mogherini and the three countries' foreign ministers -- France's Jean-Yves Le Drian, Germany's Heiko Maas and Br
  
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• What to expect at the Washington DC 4th of July: Army tanks, a burning flag and Baby Trump

  02-07-2019 23:03 via news.yahoo.com
  When Donald Trump holds his Salute to America on the National Mall Thursday, he'll be greeted by a show of military might and ardent protesters.
  
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• Toyota Prius Stalling Problems Continue, Highlighted by a Dealer’s Lawsuit over Five-Year Problem

  02-07-2019 23:00 via news.yahoo.com
  Three recalls to fix more than 800,000 cars have allegedly not remedied tens of thousands of reported failures.
  
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• Harris surges, Biden slips after debates: polls

  02-07-2019 23:00 via news.yahoo.com
  The two Democratic presidential candidate debates appear to have reshuffled the deck in the crowded field, with California Senator Kamala Harris surging and former vice president Joe Biden slipping.Three polls conducted since last week's debates have shown eroding support for the 76-year-old Biden, who has been the frontrunner since entering the race for the 2020 Democratic presidential nomination in late April.Harris, the 54-year-old junior senator from California, picked up substantial backing
  
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• Trump's Fourth of July extravaganza troubles former military leaders

  02-07-2019 22:48 via news.yahoo.com
  "This looks like it’s becoming much more of a Republican Party event," says one retired general.
  
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• Pentagon says China missile test in South China Sea 'disturbing'

  02-07-2019 22:46 via news.yahoo.com
  The Pentagon said on Tuesday a recent Chinese missile launch in the South China Sea was "disturbing" and contrary to Chinese pledges that it would not militarize the disputed waterway.The South China Sea is one of a growing number of flashpoints in the U.S.-China relationship, which include a trade war, U.S. sanctions and Taiwan.China and the United States have repeatedly traded barbs in the past over what Washington says is Beijing's militarization of the South China Sea by building military in
  
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• Iran Would Be Unwise to Play the Long Game with Trump

  02-07-2019 22:37 via news.yahoo.com
  Iran is playing a dangerous game of brinksmanship by threatening to break the terms of the nuclear deal it struck with the United States and other Western nations. Tehran’s recent declaration that it had breached the deal’s limits on the amount of enriched nuclear fuel it could possess is heightening the foreign-policy establishment's panic, in Europe and America, that President Donald Trump will plunge the world into war.As the sanctions reimposed by Trump after his withdrawal of th
  
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• Silver Frost 1966 Ford Mustang Fastback Will Send Chills Down Your Back

  02-07-2019 22:32 via news.yahoo.com
  Better act fast on this Fastback deal. Vintage Car Collector is pleased to announce this stunning 1966 Ford Mustang Fastback for sale. It will set you back about $44,000, but it’s worth it for such a rare and sought-after classic that will only go up in value from here. This silver-on-black ’66 Mustang Fastback has under 50,000 miles on the dash and its whole life ahead of it. You will get many smiles to the gallon for years to come, as well as heads turning no matter where you take
  
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• Shocking photos show migrants in cramped and unsanitary facilities

  02-07-2019 22:29 via news.yahoo.com
  Photos of detained migrants crowded into cells at the US border - with one holding up a sign reading simply "help" - have been released as part of a new report warning of "dangerous" overcrowding.The memo was sent to the Department of Homeland Security by its Inspector General on Tuesday, containing nine photos taken at border facilities in the Rio Grande Valley over a week in June.The report notes that the area has seen a 124 per cent increase in attempted border crossings in the last year, and
  
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• 'Help': Photos from US migrant detention centres reveal despair and overcrowding as people go a month without showers

  02-07-2019 22:29 via news.yahoo.com
  Conditions at five US migrant detention centres in Texas have been described as a “ticking time bomb”, as photographs emerged of people crammed in their dozens into cells far too small for the purpose.Official investigators found thousands of people had been in Border Patrol custody for longer than the agency’s own 72-hour limit, while some had not been given access to showers for a month. Children at three of the five centres had no access to showers.Two sites did not give chi
  
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• Why Nike Has Ignited So Much Controversy by Using the Betsy Ross Flag

  02-07-2019 22:28 via news.yahoo.com
  Many say the flag represents an era of slavery in American history
  
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• Texas migrant detention facilities 'dangerously overcrowded' – US government report

  02-07-2019 22:21 via news.yahoo.com
  Report from government’s own auditors includes images of children and adults penned into roomsA picture of an overcrowded area holding families at a border patrol facility in Weslaco, released as part of a report by the US Department of Homeland Security’s Office of Inspector General. Photograph: Handout/ReutersNew images of children and adults in “dangerously” overcrowded US border patrol facilities in Texas have been released as part of a report from government auditors
  
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• Federal Inspectors Release Photos to Blast DHS for ‘Dangerous’ Overcrowding at Border Facilities

  02-07-2019 22:17 via news.yahoo.com
  CBPA Republican congressman dismissed a constituent’s concerns about the migrant detention crisis during a heated town hall meeting over the weekend, telling her that children being held in squalid conditions in U.S. Customs and Border Protection facilities are free to leave whenever they want.“The people that are there, they can leave,” said Rep. Jim Hagedorn (R-MN), a first-term congressman. “Nobody is holding them against their will—they can leave.”The rema
  
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• Trump administration charging undocumented immigrants $500,000 ahead of planned mass raids

  02-07-2019 21:58 via news.yahoo.com
  Donald Trump’s White House has sent notices of fines totalling nearly $500,000 (£396,715) to some undocumented immigrants in recent weeks, as the federal government prepares to conduct sweeping immigration raids nationwide after the 4 July holiday. Letters notifying undocumented immigrants of the administration’s intention were obtained by NPR, which included copies of the statements in a report published on Tuesday afternoon.The US department of homeland security stated the fi
  
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• The U.S. is 'headed to fascism,' says Ocasio-Cortez after tour of detention facilities at southern border

  02-07-2019 21:58 via news.yahoo.com
  Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez called the conditions at U.S. migrant detention facilities “horrifying” in an interview Monday evening and doubled down on her comparisons of the situation at the border to World War II.
  
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• Nuclear War with North Korea Is Still Possible. Trump’s ‘Walk’ Across the DMZ Made That Less Likely.

  02-07-2019 21:52 via news.yahoo.com
  Donald Trump did the seemingly impossible by being the first sitting U.S. President to set foot in North Korea. On Sunday, Trump met with North Korean leader Kim Jong-un at the Korean demilitarized zone (DMZ), where they held an hour-long summit. They also briefly stepped over the border together into North Korea and back again, replicating the same historic act previously carried out by South Korean President Moon Jae-in and Kim. While many of Trump’s critiques called it nothing more than
  
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• Kellyanne Conway Calls AOC a Liar for Claim That Migrants Are ‘Drinking Out of Toilets’

  02-07-2019 21:44 via news.yahoo.com
  Kellyanne Conway deftly pivoted from defending President Donald Trump’s photo-op with North Korean dictator Kim Jong Un to defending Customs and Border Patrol from Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez on Fox & Friends Tuesday morning.“Chuck Schumer wants to talk about photo-ops?” Conway said, referring to criticism of her boss from the Senate minority leader. “I saw one yesterday. And it’s called Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez going down to one of these facilities and making
  
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• Departing advisers urged John Hickenlooper to quit White House race: source

  02-07-2019 21:41 via news.yahoo.com
  Hickenlooper's campaign confirmed the departures on Tuesday.On Monday, the candidate announced he was hiring M.E. Smith to succeed former campaign manager Bradley Komar.The centrist former governor, one of 25 Democrats seeking the party's nomination to run against incumbent Republican Donald Trump, would not quit, the source said.
  
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• Iran trying to 'blackmail' world by violating nuclear deal: Netanyahu

  02-07-2019 21:31 via news.yahoo.com
  Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Tuesday accused Iran of breaching the nuclear deal in order to "blackmail" the international community into relieving economic pressure on the Islamic republic."This week Iran openly violated the nuclear deal by increasing the stockpile of enriched uranium (to beyond that) allowed under the deal," Netanyahu said at an early reception in Jerusalem marking the United States' July 4 independence day.Iran said Monday it had exceeded a limit on its enriche
  
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• Jury reviews testimony in case of Navy SEAL in murder case

  02-07-2019 21:28 via news.yahoo.com
  A jury of seasoned combat veterans reviewed the partial testimony of a prosecution witness Tuesday before resuming deliberations in the murder case of a decorated Navy SEAL accused of fatally stabbing a wounded war prisoner in Iraq and shooting civilians in separate incidents in 2017.Jurors took notes as they listened to a recording of Lt. Thomas MacNeil, the first of nearly a dozen SEALs who testified at the court-martial of Special Operations Chief Edward Gallagher at Naval Base San Diego.MacN
  
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• Kamala Harris Vaults Into Second Place as Joe Biden Slips After First Debate

  02-07-2019 21:21 via news.yahoo.com
  (Bloomberg) -- The first debate shuffled the Democratic presidential race, vaulting Kamala Harris into second place and highlighting vulnerabilities for front-runner Joe Biden.Meanwhile, Elizabeth Warren continues to rise and 2016 runner-up Bernie Sanders is slipping as voters search for alternatives in the historically large field of candidates.That’s the conclusion from four polls taken since last week’s debate that also show those four candidates clearly make up the top tier at th
  
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• Fire kills 14 Russian sailors aboard deep-sea submersible

  02-07-2019 21:19 via news.yahoo.com
  Fire broke out on one of the Russian navy's deep-sea research submersibles, and toxic fumes from the blaze killed 14 sailors aboard, Russia's Defense Ministry said Tuesday, although it released few details about the disaster or the vessel involved.The Defense Ministry did not say how many sailors were aboard the vessel during Monday's fire, whether there were any survivors or if it was submerged at the time.President Vladimir Putin, who came under criticism for his handling of the Kursk nuclear
  
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• UFOs: Where your state ranks for unexplained sightings

  02-07-2019 21:14 via news.yahoo.com
  The five states with the most UFO sightings per capita are in the north, a new report says. The least frequent sightings of UFOs come from the south.
  
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• Harris surges, Biden slips after debate: new poll

  02-07-2019 20:57 via news.yahoo.com
  Senator Kamala Harris has received a surge in support among Democrats following last week's US presidential candidate debate while former vice president Joe Biden has slipped, according to a poll published Tuesday.Twenty percent of Democrats surveyed in the Quinnipiac University poll said they backed Harris, the junior senator from California, up from just seven percent in a June 11 Quinnipiac poll.Biden, who served as vice president under Barack Obama and has been seen as the frontrunner in the
  
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• Exclusive: Migrant children report verbal abuse, threats while in Border Patrol custody

  02-07-2019 20:51 via news.yahoo.com
  Migrant children kept in Customs and Border Protection custody have faced unsanitary conditions, verbal abuse and threats since arriving in the country, reports submitted to the Office of Refugee Resettlement by clinicians and case managers show.
  
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• The Honda e Urban EV Is a Small, Lightweight, and Torquey Recipe Destined for Fun

  02-07-2019 20:50 via news.yahoo.com
  The little electric commuter packs 148 horsepower and 221 lb-ft of torque.
  
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• US vice president cancels trip, sparking speculation

  02-07-2019 20:49 via news.yahoo.com
  A representative of Pence told an audience in New Hampshire -- where the vice president was scheduled to give a speech on drug addiction -- that he had been "called back" to Washington.The vice president was asked to return to Washington," said a Pence office representative, Randy Gentry, in a video posted online.
  
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• Video: Vintage MotorWeek Compares A Camaro Z/28, Mustang GT in 1982

  02-07-2019 20:48 via news.yahoo.com
  Masters of malaise muscle.Watching old car reviews might be the best way to kill time on YouTube, and with 38 seasons of video reviews under its belt, MotorWeek definitely has some of the best. If you're into malaise-era performance vehicles, the retro comparison review between the 1982 Chevrolet Camaro Z/28 and 1982 Ford Mustang GT is a must-see. At the time, the Camaro was all new entering its third generation, while the Fox-body Mustang was three years old and was still more than a decade awa
  
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• Biden Support Shrinks in Second Post-Debate Poll as Harris Rises

  02-07-2019 20:42 via news.yahoo.com
  (Bloomberg) -- Joe Biden is barely clinging to front-runner status and Bernie Sanders has fallen sharply as Democratic voters give new attention to Kamala Harris and Elizabeth Warren after their strong debate performances.Biden remains at the head of the pack of Democratic presidential contenders -- though barely -- in a Quinnipiac University national poll released Tuesday. The former vice president had support from 22% followed by Harris with 20%, a result within the margin of error. Warren had
  
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• Vice president's staff look to clarify Pence's abrupt return to White House: 'No cause for alarm'

  02-07-2019 20:33 via news.yahoo.com
  Vice President Mike Pence's change of plans cause buzz in Washington; Kevin Corke reports from the White House.
  
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• Joe Biden's backing drops by third in new polls after debate clash with Kamala Harris

  02-07-2019 20:33 via news.yahoo.com
  Support for Joe Biden’s presidential bid has dropped by a third after he was repeatedly challenged in the first debate between Democrats seeking the party nomination for the next US election, according to two polls.  The proportion of Democrats who said they would back Mr Biden, the former US vice president, to be their party's candidate in 2020 dropped from 32 per cent in May to 22 per cent according to a CNN poll.  That was mirrored by a surge in support for Kamala Harris, the
  
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• Pompeo vows support for Venezuela's Guaido ahead of march

  02-07-2019 20:16 via news.yahoo.com
  US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo promised "unwavering" support Tuesday to Venezuela's embattled opposition leader Juan Guaido as he prepares a new rally aimed at deposing President Nicolas Maduro.Pompeo expressed "the United States' unwavering support for Guaido, the National Assembly and the Venezuelan people as they seek to regain their country's freedom and prosperity," State Department spokeswoman Morgan Ortagus said.
  
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• Senator Warren asks former FDA chief Gottlieb to resign from Pfizer board

  02-07-2019 20:15 via news.yahoo.com
  U.S. Senator Elizabeth Warren urged former U.S. Food and Drug Administration Commissioner Scott Gottlieb to immediately step down from Pfizer Inc's board, three months after his departure from the health regulator.Gottlieb, who won bipartisan support for his efforts to curb use of flavored e-cigarettes by youths, stepped down from the FDA in April, a role he had held since May 2017.
  
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• Man who claimed to have protected students during school shooting revealed to be a hoax

  02-07-2019 20:08 via news.yahoo.com
  A man who gained media attention after claiming he saved students from a mass shooting while working as a substitute teacher never worked at the school, officials say.David Briscoe had spoken to numerous news organisations in the wake of the May 2018 Santa Fe High School shooting in Texas, which left 10 people dead and thirteen others wounded.He recounted stories of barricading children from an English class into their room, telling them to find cover and muffle their screams to avoid detection.
  
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• Does the Air Force Really Need 74 Additional Combat Squadrons?

  02-07-2019 20:00 via news.yahoo.com
  She added that five more bomber squadrons are needed, there are now nine.On Sep. 17, 2018 U.S. Air Force (USAF) Secretary Heather Wilson and chief of staff Gen. David Goldfein has unveiled an initiative, titled “The Air Force We Need.”The new strategy calls for the service to gain 74 combat squadrons in order to deal with threats from China and Russia.According to USA Today, The Air Force We Need is based on President Donald Trump’s defense strategy, assessments of the military
  
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• Christine Lagarde continues to break glass ceilings

  02-07-2019 19:53 via news.yahoo.com
  Christine Lagarde has made a career out of breaking glass ceilings in the halls of international finance and is now poised to break one more, leading the European Central Bank.The former lawyer was the first woman to serve as finance minister from any Group of Seven nation and then the first to lead the International Monetary Fund.The silver-haired Lagarde, 63, took the helm in 2011 in the aftermath of the global financial crisis, and is credited with steering the Washington-based IMF through tu
  
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• Mike Pence abruptly returns to White House as reports of ‘emergency’ situation spark online misinformation

  02-07-2019 19:48 via news.yahoo.com
  Vice President Mike Pence was sent back to the White House on Tuesday after originally being scheduled to attend an event on the nationwide opioid crisis in New Hampshire. The development of Mr Pence’s abrupt change in plans was initially reported by Fox News, which stated the vice president was returning to Washington due to an “emergency”. However, officials declined to publicly cite the reason for the change throughout the day, sparking confusion and apparent online misinfor
  
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• Cruz Asks DHS to Create Process for Collecting Donations to Migrants in U.S. Custody

  02-07-2019 19:45 via news.yahoo.com
  Senator Ted Cruz on Monday sent a letter to the Department of Homeland Security asking for the creation of a process that would allow DHS to accept donations meant for migrants in U.S. custody.Currently, no such process for collecting a distributing privately donated aid exists, which has caused generous citizens who have offered supplies to overcrowded migrant-detention facilities to be turned away.Curz called on Acting Secretary of Homeland Security Kevin McAleenan to "establish and publi
  
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• Yuge? Bernie Sanders outraised by newcomer Pete Buttigieg. But Donald Trump crushes both of them.

  02-07-2019 19:37 via news.yahoo.com
  Pete Buttigieg edged out Sen. Bernie Sanders in the money race, underscoring the potential for new voices in the crowded 2020 Democratic field.
  
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