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• Mom fails to meet deadline to bring missing kids to Idaho

  30-01-2020 23:57 via news.yahoo.com
  
  The mom of two children missing since September failed to meet a court-ordered deadline to bring the kids to authorities in Idaho on Thursday.“The only word coming to mind right now is ‘monster,’” Kay Woodcock, JJ's grandmother, said during a press conference Thursday evening.Police have said Lori Vallow and her new husband Chad Daybell have lied about the children's whereabouts and even their very existence, with Chad Daybell allegedly telling one person that Lori Vallow
  
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• Super PAC Attack on Sanders Backfires: Campaign Update

  30-01-2020 23:56 via news.yahoo.com
  
  (Bloomberg) -- In a twist worthy of O. Henry, a Democratic Super PAC’s attacks on Bernie Sanders helped him raise more money in a day than they spent criticizing him.The Democratic Majority for Israel placed $800,000 worth of TV ads asserting the Vermont senator would be unable to beat President Donald Trump in November because of a recent heart attack and his progressive platform.But in the first 24 hours after a Democratic Super PAC released TV ads attacking the Vermont senator, he raise
  
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• LIVE: Trump's lawyer falsely claims Democrats 'locked out' Republicans and the president's counsel from impeachment hearings

  30-01-2020 23:52 via news.yahoo.com
  
  All eyes are on a few Republican senators who could be swing votes in the motion to call witnesses: Susan Collins, Lisa Murkowski, and Mitt Romney.
  
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• Trump news: Rape accuser asks for president's DNA, as impeachment judge foils attempt to reveal whistleblower on Senate floor

  30-01-2020 23:34 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Donald Trump has lashed out at lead impeachment manager Adam Schiff, again calling him “mentally deranged”, as Senate majority leader Mitch McConnell claims to have seen off the threatened Republican rebellion on subpoenaing new witnesses and hopes to press ahead with the president’s acquittal on Friday after a final question-and-answer session in the upper chamber today.Mr Schiff ripped into the president's defence team after the president's lawyer Alan Dershowitz argued that
  
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• US passenger from Wuhan 'attempted to leave' California military base, put on quarantine

  30-01-2020 23:32 via news.yahoo.com
  
  "He or she did not take a step outside the base," a health official told Insider, adding that the passenger was not "trying to do anything sneaky."
  
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• Boris Johnson Urges U.K. to ‘Unite And Level Up’ After Brexit

  30-01-2020 23:30 via news.yahoo.com
  
  (Bloomberg) -- Boris Johnson will urge the U.K. to come together after the years of division over Brexit as it finally leaves the European Union on Friday.“The most important thing to say tonight is that this is not an end but a beginning,” Johnson will say in a video message to be released by his office at 10 p.m., an hour before Britain leaves the bloc. “This is the moment when the dawn breaks and the curtain goes up on a new act.”Earlier in the day, the prime minister,
  
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• Schiff pounces on Trump lawyer who seemingly admits investigations in Ukraine weren't 'foreign policy'

  30-01-2020 23:24 via news.yahoo.com
  
  President Trump's impeachment lawyers just told on themselves.That's what Rep. Adam Schiff (D-Calif.) argued after Trump's legal team said Rudy Giuliani wasn't conducting any "foreign policy" in Ukraine. After a bipartisan group of senators asked in Trump's impeachment trial if he could promise "that private citizens will not be directed to conduct foreign policy unless formally designated by the president and the State Department," the defense rejected the entire premise."I want to make clear t
  
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• New global temperature record is 'likely' within the next five years, report says

  30-01-2020 23:23 via news.yahoo.com
  
  The world will set a new temperature record within the next five years, scientists from the United Kingdom's Met Office said Thursday.
  
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• Just a fraction of Republican voters want to block witnesses in Trump's impeachment trial

  30-01-2020 23:22 via news.yahoo.com
  
  While 37% of likely Republican voters don't see a need for any witnesses, 45% want some combination of witnesses to testify.
  
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• Estranged husband accused of killing Jennifer Dulos dies

  30-01-2020 23:22 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Fotis Dulos, 52, had been hospitalized with carbon monoxide poisoning since Tuesday, when he was found unresponsive inside a vehicle in the garage of his house in Farmington, Connecticut.“To those who contend that Mr. Dulos' death reflects a consciousness of guilt, we say no," Pattis said.Dulos, a luxury home builder originally from Greece, was accused of killing Jennifer Dulos, who has not been seen since she dropped their five children off at school in New Canaan in May. Her body has not
  
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• Lev Parnas Tells Court He Can Give Democrats Evidence Himself

  30-01-2020 23:15 via news.yahoo.com
  
  (Bloomberg) -- Rudy Giuliani associate Lev Parnas withdrew his request for permission to provide government evidence in his criminal prosecution to House Democrats pursuing President Donald Trump’s removal from office, saying he no longer needed the court’s approval.Parnas said at a hearing in federal court in Manhattan on Thursday that he was able to access the material directly from Apple Inc.’s iCloud without relying on a version produced by prosecutors.Parnas, who is charge
  
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• House Democrats’ Super Pac Raises $32.8 Million in Second Half

  30-01-2020 23:14 via news.yahoo.com
  
  (Bloomberg) -- The super PAC that backs House Democrats raised $32.8 million in the second half of 2019 and ended the year with $37.7 million cash on hand, according to its filing with the Federal Election Commission.The biggest contribution to the House Majority PAC was from Michael Bloomberg, who gave $10 million in December. Bloomberg, who’s also spending hundreds of millions of dollars on his presidential campaign, is the founder and majority owner of Bloomberg LP, the parent company o
  
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• California's polarizing housing bill SB 50 has died in the state Senate

  30-01-2020 23:11 via news.yahoo.com
  
  After more than a year of battles over the controversial zoning bill, SB 50 fails to get enough votes to move on to the Assembly.
  
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• 'Unbelievable': Giant sinkhole threatens to swallow two homes in Florida

  30-01-2020 23:10 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Anwar El Khouri's Tallahassee mobile home hangs off the edge of the crater, which also swallowed a pine tree.
  
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• Colombia appoints former human rights adviser as attorney general

  30-01-2020 23:08 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Colombia's Supreme Court on Thursday appointed Francisco Barbosa, a lawyer with close ties to President Ivan Duque, as the country's new attorney general.Barbosa, 46, previously served as a presidential adviser on human rights and international affairs.The new attorney general replaces Nestor Humberto Martinez, who resigned in May last year.
  
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• WRAPUP 2-Pilots, flight attendants demand flights to China stop as virus fear mount worldwide

  30-01-2020 23:07 via news.yahoo.com
  
  CHICAGO/PARIS Jan 30 (Reuters) - Pilots and flight attendants are demanding airlines stop flights to China as health officials declare a global emergency over the rapidly spreading coronavirus, with American Airlines' pilots filing a lawsuit seeking an immediate halt.China has reported nearly 10,000 cases and 213 deaths, but the virus has spread to 18 countries often by plane passengers.The Allied Pilots Association (APA), which represents American Airlines pilots, cited "serious, and in many wa
  
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• Bipartisan senators essentially ask Trump to promise he'll never do this again

  30-01-2020 23:06 via news.yahoo.com
  
  So maybe it wasn't the best choice to send Rudy Giuliani to Ukraine. Well, let's just make sure it doesn't happen again, a group of bipartisan senators seemed to say during Thursday's Senate impeachment trial.The second day of impeachment questioning from senators brought the first inquiry from a bipartisan group: Sens. Susan Collins (R-Maine), Joe Manchin (D-W.V.), Lisa Murkowski (R-Alaska), and Kirsten Sinema (D-Ariz.). "Will the president assure the American public that private citizens will
  
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• Paul Manafort and Rudy’s Indicted Associate Igor Fruman Go Way, Way Back

  30-01-2020 23:04 via news.yahoo.com
  
  The web of connections between Donald Trump’s convicted campaign manager and an indicted man who tried to dig up dirt on his political rival runs tighter and longer than previously understood.Rudy Giuliani ally Igor Fruman and ex-Trump campaign chief Paul Manafort have been friendly for years, two sources familiar with their relationship tell The Daily Beast.And that relationship — stretching from New York to London to Kyiv — long predated Rudy Giuliani’s wide-ranging att
  
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• American Airlines pilots sue to halt flights to China

  30-01-2020 23:01 via news.yahoo.com
  
  The pilots' union at American Airlines sued on Thursday to stop the carrier from flying to China and told members not to operate flights there because of the spreading coronavirus outbreak.The Allied Pilots Association, which represents American’s 15,000 pilots, asked a state district court in Dallas for an injunction to halt the flights immediately.The union cited declarations by international health experts that the virus is a public health emergency.
  
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• ‘You know your client is guilty’: Trump impeachment lawyer’s defence accused of ‘descent into madness’

  30-01-2020 22:59 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Senator Adam Schiff, lead impeachment manager in the Senate trial of Donald Trump, has called arguments made by the president’s defence team a “descent into constitutional madness”.Mr Schiff’s indignation with the president’s defence came in response to comments made by Mr Trump’s lawyer, Alan Dershowitz, who argued his client couldn’t be impeached for an action he thought might get him re-elected.
  
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• ‘You know your client is guilty’: Trump impeachment lawyer’s defence accused of being ‘descent into madness’

  30-01-2020 22:59 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Senator Adam Schiff, lead impeachment manager in the Senate trial of Donald Trump, has called arguments made by the president’s defence team a “descent into constitutional madness”.Mr Schiff’s indignation with the president’s defence came in response to comments made by Mr Trump’s lawyer, Alan Dershowitz, who argued his client couldn’t be impeached for an action he thought might get him re-elected.
  
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• Democrats warn of 'lawless' president in impeachment arguments

  30-01-2020 22:58 via news.yahoo.com
  
  In what could be their last bid to make the case for removing the US leader from office, the House impeachment prosecutors expressed outrage over Trump lawyer Alan Dershowitz's assertion that a president can do almost anything he wants that he claims is in the public interest.Adam Schiff, the leader of the House impeachment managers, said the claim turned US law on its head and echoed the Watergate case of disgraced president Richard Nixon 45 years ago."What we have seen in the last couple of da
  
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• Democratic Candidates Ask Revealing Questions at Senate Trial

  30-01-2020 22:52 via news.yahoo.com
  
  (Bloomberg) -- Presidential candidates are used to answering questions. It’s not often they get to pose them.But as the Senate trial of President Donald Trump comes to a close, the senators running for the 2020 Democratic nomination put questions of the lawyers on both sides by submitting them in writing to be read aloud to the chamber by Chief Justice John Roberts. What they asked was revealing.Ever the Harvard professor, Elizabeth Warren posed a tough hypothetical: “If Ukrainian Pr
  
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• Italy lets passengers off cruise ship after virus scare

  30-01-2020 22:47 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Thousands of stranded tourists were free to disembark from a cruise ship at an Italian port after authorities said two Chinese passengers feared to have the coronavirus tested negative Thursday.Italy's institute for infectious diseases examined samples taken from a Chinese woman ill with a fever, as well as her travelling companion, and both were negative for coronavirus, the health ministry said.Italian Prime Minister Giuseppe Conte however stopped all flights between Italy and China following
  
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• Gavel time: Will chief justice expand his impeachment role?

  30-01-2020 22:44 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Chief Justice John Roberts is the picture of judicial modesty at President Donald Trump's impeachment trial, wearing his unadorned black robe and wielding an ivory gavel as he presides over the Senate.Roberts, who celebrated his 65th birthday this week, has led the Supreme Court for the past 14 years.Appointed by President George W. Bush, he almost always sides with his fellow conservatives in the Supreme Court's majority on contentious cases that divide the court along ideological lines.
  
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• Colombia rejects Venezuelan proposal to resume diplomatic relations

  30-01-2020 22:42 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Colombia rejected Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro's proposal that the two countries resume diplomatic relations on Thursday, amid a dispute over a fugitive former Colombian congresswoman who was captured in Venezuela.Maduro abruptly cut diplomatic relations with neighboring Colombia last February after Colombian President Ivan Duque helped Venezuelan opposition politicians deliver humanitarian aid to their crisis-stricken country.
  
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• Ginni Rometty is out as CEO of IBM, and its cloud boss is replacing her

  30-01-2020 22:41 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Ginni Rometty is out after a troubled eight-year run as the leader of IBM.
  
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• Bloomberg Says He Won’t Accept Contributions to Make the Debates

  30-01-2020 22:38 via news.yahoo.com
  
  (Bloomberg) -- Michael Bloomberg reaffirmed Thursday that he won’t be accepting contributions just to qualify for the Democratic presidential debates.The Democratic National Committee has required candidates to have a certain number of individual donors to qualify for debates, and Bloomberg is self-funding his campaign. The DNC has said candidates could make the Feb. 7 debate in New Hampshire by winning at least one pledged delegate in Monday’s Iowa caucuses, but the former New York
  
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• Movin' on up: Bloomberg glides past Warren to No.3 in Democratic race - Reuters/Ipsos

  30-01-2020 22:37 via news.yahoo.com
  
  After steadily rising in popularity over the last several weeks, former New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg appears to have surpassed U.S. Senator Elizabeth Warren among registered voters for the 2020 Democratic nomination, according to a Reuters/Ipsos national public opinion poll released on Thursday.The Jan. 29-30 poll found that 12% of registered Democrats and independents said they would vote for Bloomberg in the state nominating contests that begin next week in Iowa.Bloomberg appears to h
  
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• The Wuhan coronavirus seems to have a low fatality rate, and most patients make full recoveries. Experts reveal why it's causing panic anyway.

  30-01-2020 22:35 via news.yahoo.com
  
  The coronavirus outbreak that originated in China is sparking fear, distrust, and xenophobia around the world.
  
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• Why are people saying that Lysol sprays and Clorox wipes fight coronavirus?

  30-01-2020 22:28 via news.yahoo.com
  
  No, the current strain of coronavirus was not "developed." And it remains unclear if Lysol or Clorox products work to stop the spread of coronavirus.
  
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• Return of the Imperial Presidency? Why the Impeachment Fight Is About More Than Donald Trump

  30-01-2020 22:26 via news.yahoo.com
  
  As the Senate considers whether to remove Donald Trump from office, there's more at stake in his trial than one man's political fate.
  
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• Deadly attack on indigenous community in Nicaragua

  30-01-2020 22:26 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Some 80 armed men attacked an indigenous community on Nicaragua's northern Caribbean coast, killing several people, authorities said Thursday.Gustavo Sebastián Lino, leader of the territorial government of Sauni As, said the attack occurred at dusk Wednesday in Alal, a community of the Mayangna people in the Bosawas biosphere reserve.The attackers “seized the community, killed six people and burned several houses,” Lino said.
  
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• U.S. coronavirus evacuee from China placed under quarantine order after trying to flee base

  30-01-2020 22:25 via news.yahoo.com
  
  One of 195 Americans evacuated from Wuhan, China, to a U.S. air base in California to begin 72 hours of voluntary observation for signs of coronavirus infection was placed under mandatory quarantine after trying to leave the facility, public health officials said on Thursday.The individual, whose identity was not disclosed, was presented the quarantine order on Wednesday night, hours after arriving at March Air Reserve Base near Los Angeles on a government-chartered flight from Wuhan, the epicen
  
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• Top Republican Sees ‘Momentum’ for Acquittal: Impeachment Update

  30-01-2020 22:13 via news.yahoo.com
  
  (Bloomberg) -- Senators questioned lawyers for both sides in President Donald Trump’s impeachment trial for a second day Thursday, a day before a pivotal vote is planned on whether to call witnesses.Here are the latest developments:Top Republican Sees ‘Momentum’ for Acquittal (4:02 p.m.)Senator John Barrasso, a member of GOP leadership, said he sees the Senate heading toward a vote to acquit Trump on Friday. “That’s where all the momentum is right now,” said B
  
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• Andrew Yang Uses Humor to Build His Outsider Credibility

  30-01-2020 22:11 via news.yahoo.com
  
  (Bloomberg) -- The question was straightforward: What does Andrew Yang think about the presidential candidates who are off the Iowa campaign trail to attend President Donald Trump’s impeachment?The answer was anything but.“I think it should be the decisive criterion,” he deadpanned Wednesday at a Bloomberg News reporters roundtable in Des Moines. “I think that if you haven’t been in the state every weekday for the two weeks before the caucuses, that you’re not
  
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• Evacuated American says Chinese city was like a ghost town

  30-01-2020 22:10 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Jarred Evans, a professional football player in China, is used to wearing a helmet and shoulder pads.Evans, 27, was one of 195 Americans evacuated from the city of Wuhan and flown to March Air Reserve Base in Southern California until authorities confirm they don't have the coronavirus that has sickened thousands and killed more than 170 people.Most cases are in China, but the outbreak has spread to more than a dozen countries, and the World Health Organization declared a global emergency Thursd
  
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• White House Prepares to Expand Ability to Use Land Mines

  30-01-2020 22:06 via news.yahoo.com
  
  (Bloomberg) -- The Trump administration is preparing to loosen rules on the U.S. military’s ability to use land mines, even after more than 150 countries signed a treaty banning them, according to a person familiar with the matter.The current U.S. policy on land mines, adopted by former President Barack Obama in 2014, has been to refrain from using them outside the Korean Peninsula and not assist countries outside the peninsula from deploying them.Land mines can remain active for decades.
  
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• 'Remain in Mexico': 80% of migrants subject to Trump migration policy are victims of violence

  30-01-2020 22:05 via news.yahoo.com
  
  A staggering 80% of asylum seekers sent to Mexico to await U.S. court hearings report being victims of violence, according a survey by Doctors Without Borders (MSF).
  
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• Dear Mr. Dershowitz, 'mixed motives' is no impeachment defense when there's corrupt intent

  30-01-2020 22:04 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Taken together, Donald Trump's actions — at least seven of them — contradict the defense claim that he had any legitimate national interest in mind.
  
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• Trial Date Set for Jeffrey Epstein Jail Guards

  30-01-2020 22:00 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Two Manhattan jail guards charged with falsifying records after Jeffrey Epstein was found dead in his cell will face trial in June, a federal judge ruled Thursday.Tova Noel, 31, and Michael Thomas, 41, who worked inside Metropolitan Correctional Center’s (MCC) Special Housing Unit, are accused of failing to conduct mandated checks on inmates in the hours before the multi-millionaire sex-offender killed himself in August 2019. Both corrections officers have pleaded not guilty.In Manhattan f
  
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• 3 inmates facing US extradition driven out of Mexican jail

  30-01-2020 21:59 via news.yahoo.com
  
  An important financial operator for the Sinaloa Cartel and two other inmates facing extradition to the United States who escaped from a Mexico City prison were driven out of the penitentiary in a jail transport van, city officials said Thursday.Officials in Mexico's capital say city jails are not the appropriate facilities for high-value prisoners and that judges are allowing inmates to manipulate the system to be transferred to or remain in lower-security lockups.Mexico City Interior Secretary
  
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• Pelosi suggests Trump's acquittal will be invalid if witnesses aren't called

  30-01-2020 21:57 via news.yahoo.com
  
  As it appears less likely that new witnesses will be called in President Trump's impeachment trial, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) is suggesting his acquittal will, therefore, not be valid. "He will not be acquitted," Pelosi said in a news conference Thursday, The New York Times reports. "You cannot be acquitted if you don't have a trial, and you don't have a trial if you don't have witnesses and documentation and all of that."Pelosi's comments Thursday, which came in response to a questi
  
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• For 2020 Democrats, the ‘Trump effect’ looms large

  30-01-2020 21:51 via news.yahoo.com
  
  President Trump’s unparalleled ability to command the spotlight is starving Democratic candidates of media attention on the eve of the Iowa caucuses.
  
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• $1,000,000,000,000 F-35 Stealth Fighter: 873 Software Flaws and 13 'Must-Fix' Issues

  30-01-2020 21:47 via news.yahoo.com
  
  The F-35 Joint Strike Fighter reportedly still doesn’t work right, according to the latest annual report from the Pentagon’s chief weapons-tester.
  
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• Senators break into laughter as Schiff points out ironic difference between Trump's legal defense and DOJ arguments

  30-01-2020 21:46 via news.yahoo.com
  
  President Trump's impeachment defense team seems to be on a different page than lawyers in the Department of Justice.Rep. Adam Schiff (D-Calif.) noted this disparity while answering questions from senators in Trump's Senate impeachment trial on Thursday. Schiff said that while Trump's legal team argued the House should have gone to court to force witnesses like former National Security Adviser John Bolton to testify via subpoena, Justice Department lawyers were — nearly simultaneously &mda
  
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• Experts on Dershowitz's impeachment defense: Quid pro whoa

  30-01-2020 21:45 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Alan Dershowitz delivered a stunning defense of President Donald Trump in the Senate that would essentially make it impossible to impeach a president for anything he might do to boost his reelection prospects.Dershowitz said on Thursday that his remarks have been misinterpreted, but Democrats seized on them as they pressed their case for Trump's removal from office for tying the release of military aid to Ukraine to an investigation of his political rivals.As novel as it was, his premise in many
  
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• Rand Paul Defends Blocked Question, Says it Dealt With Obama Holdovers, Not Whistleblower

  30-01-2020 21:39 via news.yahoo.com
  
  After his question was blocked by Chief Justice John Roberts during impeachment proceedings on Thursday, Senator Rand Paul pushed back against speculation that the question named the Ukraine whistleblower, telling reporters it merely addressed the role of two partisan staffers who he believes may have coordinated President Trump's impeachment.Roberts declined to read the question Paul submitted, apparently because it named the alleged whistleblower, a member of the intelligence community who fil
  
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• Britain-EU divorce drives a creative spark

  30-01-2020 21:39 via news.yahoo.com
  
  As they split, the U.K. and European Union are each striving to boost the talents of their people in science and technology. In that venture they are united in seeing the potential for creativity.
  
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• These 12 airplane interior cabin designs could be the future of air travel, from beds in economy class to an onboard spa

  30-01-2020 21:38 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Innovators are setting their sights on reimagining aircraft interiors for the benefit of passengers and airline's bottom lines.
  
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