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• UK vows action after police kill 'convicted extremist' in terror stabbing

  02-02-2020 23:45 via news.yahoo.com
  
  The British government promised sweeping changes to the system for dealing with convicted terrorists released from prison, after police shot dead an Islamist extremist who stabbed two people in a busy south London street on Sunday.Police said Sudesh Amman, 20, who was wearing a fake suicide vest, was shot on the busy Streatham High Road packed with shoppers at about 2:00 pm (1400 GMT).Amman was recently given early release from prison where he was serving time forterror offences.
  
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• What is coronavirus? What US health officials know about outbreak that originated in Wuhan, China

  02-02-2020 23:44 via news.yahoo.com
  
  The virus has infected at least nine people in the U.S., the CDC reported.
  
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• Libya's neighbors propose tribal meeting to solve conflict

  02-02-2020 23:40 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Algeria's president is proposing that Libya's tribal groups hold meetings in a neighboring country to find new solutions to the conflict tearing oil-rich Libya apart.Fighting among militias, arms and migrant trafficking and extremism in Libya are a big concern to neighboring Algeria and Tunisia, whose presidents met Sunday in Algiers.Both leaders were elected in recent months, and are eager to keep Libya's lawlessness from further spilling over their borders.
  
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• Buttigieg Names His Favorite Beatles Song: Campaign Update

  02-02-2020 23:31 via news.yahoo.com
  
  (Bloomberg) -- The 2020 candidates have been asked a lot of questions over the last year, but there’s always a new one.At a campaign event at Lincoln High School in Des Moines on Sunday, Pete Buttigieg was asked his favorite Beatles song, and he quickly came up with an answer that managed to keep on message.“I feel at this time it has to be ‘Come Together,’” he said.He’s not the only presidential candidate who has favored that song. Former Starbucks CEO Howard
  
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• Coronavirus: 2nd case of coronavirus confirmed in Santa Clara County, officials say

  02-02-2020 23:30 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Santa Clara County health officials say a female who recently traveled to Wuhan, China and is in the Bay Area to visit family has tested positive for coronavirus. Officials say this case is not related to the first Bay Area case, reported on Thursday.
  
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• Virus fears wipe $393 billion off China's stock market despite government support moves

  02-02-2020 23:28 via news.yahoo.com
  
  SHANGHAI/HONG KONG (Reuters) - Investors erased $393 billion from China's benchmark stock index on Monday, sold the yuan and dumped commodities as fears about the spreading coronavirus and its economic impact drove selling on the first day of trade in China since the Lunar New Year.The Chinese yuan blew past the 7-per-dollar mark and Shanghai-traded commodities from palm oil to copper hit their maximum down limits.The total number of deaths in China from the coronavirus rose to 361 by Sunday, co
  
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• 'SNL' calls witnesses in Trump impeachment trial 'you wish had happened'

  02-02-2020 23:28 via news.yahoo.com
  
  "Saturday Night Live" gave viewers "The (Trump Impeachment) Trial You Wished Had Happened" in a version led by Judge Greg Mathis.
  
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• Days after Brexit, Macron visits Poland amid frosty ties

  02-02-2020 23:14 via news.yahoo.com
  
  French President Emmanuel Macron visits Poland on Monday and Tuesday in an effort to reset frosty ties at a time when the departure of Britain from the European Union is reshaping political alliances in the 27-member bloc.Arriving in Warsaw days after Brexit, Macron is signaling the importance of one of the EU's biggest members, despite a relationship marked by clashes over issues ranging from climate change policy, NATO and Poland's adherence to the rule of law.In an attempt to strengthen ties,
  
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• What I learned watching Andrew Yang barnstorm rural Iowa

  02-02-2020 23:13 via politico.com
  
  He's a changed candidate from even a month ago.
  
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• Plane carrying Portuguese from coronavirus-hit Wuhan touches down in Lisbon

  02-02-2020 23:07 via news.yahoo.com
  
  A military airplane carrying a group of mostly Portuguese nationals who were stuck in coronavirus-hit Wuhan, the capital of China's Hubei province, touched down in Lisbon late on Sunday.Portugal's minister of health, Marta Temido, said all 20 evacuees, including two Brazilians, agreed to be kept in isolation for 14 days as a preventive measure, a protocol followed by several other European nations.Portuguese law states that compulsory hospitalisation is reserved for cases related to mental illne
  
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• America is Making a Bad Bet on India

  02-02-2020 23:06 via news.yahoo.com
  
  America is dangerously emboldening India’s Hindu nationalist government as it nears the point of no return. Modi, whose term ends in 2024, could be succeeded by someone far more extreme.
  
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• Promises Kept: The Trump Administration Has Paved the Way for Promoting the Culture of Life

  02-02-2020 23:05 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Despite recent unprecedented attention to pro-life concerns, international policy on abortion remains mostly unchanged, largely because the pro-abortion European Union virtually controls UN social policy.
  
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• Coronavirus: China apologizes for comparing travel bans to treatment of Jews during Holocaust

  02-02-2020 23:05 via news.yahoo.com
  
  The Philippines says a man from Wuhan, China, is the first death from coronavirus outside of of China, where the outbreak began.
  
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• Bernie Sanders built a campaign that made him the frontrunner

  02-02-2020 22:53 via news.yahoo.com
  
  For much of the Democratic presidential primary race, Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders and his supporters have felt ignored, particularly by the media establishment. But now, with just one day until primary voting begins in the Iowa caucuses, Sanders’s status as one of the top candidates in the crowded field is unmistakable.
  
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• Bloomberg campaign says Trump has 'fake hair'

  02-02-2020 22:43 via news.yahoo.com
  
  President Trump seems to have former New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg on his mind at the moment. And Bloomberg’s campaign isn't holding back in its response.
  
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• Impeachment trial heads to historic end in frenetic week

  02-02-2020 22:40 via news.yahoo.com
  
  President Donald Trump's impeachment trial heads toward a historic conclusion this week, with senators all-but-certain to acquit him on charges of abuse of power and obstruction of Congress after narrowly rejecting Democratic demands to summon witnesses.The vote is expected to cap a months-long investigation spurred by a whistleblower complaint that Trump improperly withheld U.S. military aid from Ukraine in a bid to pressure it to launch investigations into 2020 Democratic rival Joe Biden.In th
  
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• Appeal of man who shot Army recruiters in Arkansas rejected

  02-02-2020 22:34 via news.yahoo.com
  
  The Arkansas Supreme Court has rejected the appeal of a man who fatally shot a U.S. Army soldier and wounded another outside a recruiting station in Little Rock.The ruling dated Thursday and first reported by the Arkansas Democrat-Gazette said Abdulhakim Muhammad's appeal is without merit.Muhammad, 34, was sentenced to life without parole after pleading guilty to the 2009 fatal shooting of Pvt.
  
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• DHS: New screening to begin amid coronavirus concerns

  02-02-2020 22:31 via news.yahoo.com
  
  As the U.S. steps up its response to the coronavirus outbreak, the Department of Homeland Security is warning airline passengers that their flights may wind up rerouted if officials discover mid-flight that someone onboard has been in China in the last 14 days.Under the new rules, U.S. citizens who have traveled in China within the last 14 days will be re-routed to one of eight designated airports, where they will undergo enhanced health screening procedures.
  
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• DHS: Flights could be rerouted over coronavirus concerns

  02-02-2020 22:31 via news.yahoo.com
  
  As the U.S. steps up its response to the coronavirus outbreak, the Department of Homeland Security is warning airline passengers that their flights may wind up rerouted if officials discover mid-flight that someone onboard has been in China in the last 14 days.Under the new rules, U.S. citizens who have traveled in China within the last 14 days will be re-routed to one of seven designated airports, where they will undergo enhanced health screening procedures.U.S. citizens who have been in Hubei
  
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• Federal report on Kobe Bryant crash, funeral plans could come this week

  02-02-2020 22:29 via news.yahoo.com
  
  A federal report on the helicopter crash that killed basketball icon Kobe Bryant, his daughter and seven other people is due for release this week.
  
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• Apple is expected to launch its new iPhone 12 lineup this fall — here's everything we know about it so far

  02-02-2020 22:12 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Apple's iPhone 12 is expected to come in four versions when it's presumably released next September. Here's what we know.
  
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• The Latest: Warren assures supporters a woman can win

  02-02-2020 22:02 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Former Secretary of State John Kerry is denying an NBC News report that said he was overheard discussing the possibility of running for president in 2020 -- even as he campaigns for Joe Biden.The report was based on an NBC political analyst hearing Kerry’s side of a telephone conversation as he sat in a Des Moines hotel lobby restaurant.Kerry tweeted after the report that he told the reporter he is “absolutely not running for President.” An initial tweet from Kerry was even mor
  
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• Thai doctors say cocktail of drugs can fight coronavirus

  02-02-2020 22:02 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Thai doctors have seen success in treating severe cases of the new coronavirus with a combination of medications for flu and HIV, with initial results showing vast improvement 48 hours after applying the treatment, they said on Sunday.
  
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• The Perfect Storm of Economic Risks on Hong Kong’s Horizon

  02-02-2020 22:00 via news.yahoo.com
  
  (Bloomberg) -- Terms of Trade is a daily newsletter that untangles a world embroiled in trade wars. Sign up here. The hits just keep coming for Hong Kong.In 2019 there was the escalating U.S.-China trade war, which squeezed exports. Then came violent protests beginning mid-year, with street-fighting between police and protesters driving away tourists and shoppers, hurting the services industries, and tipping the economy into its first contraction in a decade.Now, as Hong Kong awaits co
  
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• Closely-watched Iowa poll release is canceled less than 48 hours before caucuses

  02-02-2020 21:55 via news.yahoo.com
  
  The release of the Des Moines Register poll results, closely watched in Iowa and among political insiders, were canceled Saturday night, less than 48 hours before the state will caucus. CBS News political reporter Caitlin Huey-Burns joins CBSN from Des Moines, Iowa, for the latest.
  
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• Amid feud with NPR, Pompeo tells Kazakhs the U.S. is committed to press freedoms

  02-02-2020 21:54 via politico.com
  
  The secretary of State, however, also says journalists have to conform to “certain sets of behaviors.”
  
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• In Iowa, a vote for Warren is a vote for Biden

  02-02-2020 21:46 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Those who like both progressives should study how the caucus works and make sure they don’t accidentally destroy bothLet’s look at where things stand with the Democratic candidates in Iowa as of right now, according to FiveThirtyEight:> 1 Sanders: 22.0%> > 2 Biden 21.5%> > 3 Buttigieg 15.5%> > 4 Warren 14.4%> > 5 Klobuchar 10.2%> > 6 Yang 3.6%> > 7 Steyer 3.5%If you’re a Bernie Sanders supporter, you might be thinking: “OK, we’
  
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• Doomsday Writer Claimed Dead Wife Helped Him Find New One

  02-02-2020 21:38 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Chad Daybell, a prolific author of doomsday-focused religious novels, married widow Lori Vallow soon after his first wife Tammy was found dead under mysterious circumstances.Days later, the middle-aged newlyweds were looking for housing in Hawaii—with Chad telling a potential landlady that it was Tammy who helped him, from beyond the grave, find love again.“I woke up that morning and she had been dead for a couple hours but she had a peaceful look on her face at her burial. I felt he
  
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• 'I stand twice as tall as he does': Bloomberg responds to Trump's gibes about his height

  02-02-2020 21:35 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Trump posted tweets early Sunday tearing into Bloomberg, whom he mocked as "Mini Mike" in reference to Bloomberg's height.
  
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• Al-Qaida in Yemen claims deadly Florida naval base shooting

  02-02-2020 21:31 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Al-Qaida's branch in Yemen claimed responsibility Sunday for last year's deadly shooting at the Naval Air Station Pensacola by an aviation student from Saudi Arabia.The shooter, 2nd Lt. Mohammed Saeed Alshamrani, was a member of the Saudi Air Force in training at the base.Al-Qaida in the Arabian Peninsula, or AQAP, released a video claiming the attack.
  
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• Is The Royal Navy The Solution For America's Aircraft Carrier Troubles?

  02-02-2020 21:30 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Leasing might be the answer.
  
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• Trump goes after 'communist' Sanders and 'little' Bloomberg in Super Bowl interview

  02-02-2020 21:20 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Donald Trump exhibited his seeming obsession with size again in a pre-Super Bowl interview with Fox News in which he attacked Democratic presidential candidate Mike Bloomberg over his height - and alleges the former New York mayor is getting special treatment while also subbing a leading Democratic presidential candidate "a communist."The Fox host asked Mr Trump if the impeachment saga will become a "campaign issue" or if he will "let it go" after the Senate holds its final votes later this week
  
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• Groundhog Day 2020 results: No shadow! Phil predicts early spring is coming

  02-02-2020 21:20 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Punxsutawney Phil did not see his shadow on Groundhog Day 2020. As the legend goes, this means we're in for an early spring.
  
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• Senators will vote Wednesday to acquit or convict Trump: What we know

  02-02-2020 21:09 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Senators decided against allowing additional testimony and set the stage for a final vote Wednesday.
  
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• Biden Opens Lead in Texas While Support in South Carolina Slips

  02-02-2020 21:09 via news.yahoo.com
  
  (Bloomberg) -- Joe Biden is opening a daunting lead over the rest of the field in the March 3 Texas primary, but his advantage has slipped in South Carolina, where the primary later this month is crucial for his campaign, according to two polls released Sunday.The former vice president leads Senator Bernie Sanders, his closest competitor, in Texas by 17 points in a poll by the Dallas Morning News and the University of Texas at Tyler.The good news for Biden in one of the biggest “Super Tues
  
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• Protesters in Beirut decry Trump plan

  02-02-2020 21:08 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Hundreds of protesters gathered near the US Embassy in Beirut against a White House plan for ending the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. The US plan heavily favored Israel, granting Palestinians limited self-rule in parts of the occupied West Bank. (Feb. 2)
  
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• A US national security adviser says 'there is no reason for Americans to panic' about coronavirus as report claims second US plane heads to China to evacuate more Americans from Wuhan

  02-02-2020 21:08 via news.yahoo.com
  
  A second plane is on the way to evacuate US citizens still in Wuhan in China as the death toll from coronavirus continues to rise.
  
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• Another suspect in November mass shooting now booked in Fresno Co. Jail

  02-02-2020 21:07 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Fresno Police announced that another suspect in the November mass shooting has been booked in the Fresno County Jail.
  
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• Joe Biden Could Be Impeached by GOP Over Ukraine if He Wins, Iowa Senator Says

  02-02-2020 21:02 via news.yahoo.com
  
  (Bloomberg) -- Iowa Senator Joni Ernst warned Sunday that Republicans would immediately push to impeach Joe Biden over his work in Ukraine as vice president if he win the White House.“I think this door of impeachable whatever has been opened,” Ernst said in an interview with Bloomberg News. “Joe Biden should be very careful what he’s asking for because, you know, we can have a situation where if it should ever be President Biden, that immediately, people, right the day af
  
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• New Chinese city locked down as virus kills abroad

  02-02-2020 21:00 via news.yahoo.com
  
  China imposed a lockdown Sunday on a major city far from the epicentre of the coronavirus epidemic, as its death toll soared to 304 and the first fatality outside the country was reported in the Philippines.The events added to deepening concern about the potential for the virus to spread, as governments around the world closed their borders to people from China.Struggling to contain the virus, authorities took action in the eastern city of Wenzhou on Sunday -- some 800 kilometres (500 miles) fro
  
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• Problem: Are Humans Creative Enough To Solve the Climate Crisis?

  02-02-2020 20:30 via news.yahoo.com
  
  There is growing evidence that Earth’s systems are heading towards climate “tipping points” beyond which change becomes abrupt and unstoppable.
  
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• Yang Says He Would Pardon Trump: Campaign Update

  02-02-2020 20:26 via news.yahoo.com
  
  (Bloomberg) -- Picture this: President Andrew Yang declaring the “long, national nightmare over” and pardoning Donald Trump.On ABC News’ “This Week” Sunday, the Venture for America founder said that he would consider following in the footsteps of Gerald Ford and pardon his predecessor.“It’s a very, very nasty pattern that developing countries have fallen into where a new president ends up throwing the president before them in jail, and that pattern, unfo
  
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• Ukraine wants larger compensation for its citizens killed in plane shootdown in Iran

  02-02-2020 20:19 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelenskiy said on Sunday that Kiev was not satisfied with a size of compensation Iran had offered to families of Ukrainians killed in the downing of a plane near Tehran last month and would seek larger payments.The airliner was struck by a missile on Jan. 8 shortly after it left Tehran en route to Kiev.Iran admitted its forces had shot down the Ukraine International Airlines plane in error, after initially denying it had a role in the incident.
  
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• 'Pathological liar': Bloomberg hits back at Trump 'Mini Mike' insult

  02-02-2020 20:15 via news.yahoo.com
  
  * Bloomberg and Trump traded insults on Sunday* Martin O’Malley: ‘How do you fall for the Sanders scam?’Michael Bloomberg traded insults with Donald Trump on Sunday, calling the president “a pathological liar who lies about everything: his fake hair, his obesity and his spray-on tan”.The comment came in response to abusive tweets the president sent overnight.Calling the billionaire former New York City mayor “Mini Mike”, Trump said his rival for the Whit
  
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• No Palestinian recognition if peace plan goals unmet: Trump aide

  02-02-2020 19:57 via news.yahoo.com
  
  The plan laid out by Kushner, President Donald Trump's son-in-law, and unveiled Tuesday was warmly embraced by Israel but curtly dismissed by the Palestinian Authority along with others in the region, including the Arab League."There is no Arab country that would meet these criteria, certainly not Saudi Arabia, Egypt" or other countries Kushner has worked with closely, Zakaria said.
  
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• Trump and Bloomberg Trade Insults Ahead of Super Bowl

  02-02-2020 19:54 via news.yahoo.com
  
  (Bloomberg) -- President Donald Trump used a pre-Super Bowl interview to ridicule Democratic presidential candidate Michael Bloomberg over his height and said he wanted to run against the former New York mayor.“Very little. I just think of little,” Trump told Fox News host Sean Hannity when asked about Bloomberg. “Now he wants a box for the debates,” suggesting Bloomberg wants to appear taller on the debate stage.Bloomberg hasn’t qualified for any of the Democratic
  
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• Ecuador president slammed for ugly words about harassment

  02-02-2020 19:53 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Ecuador's President Lenín Moreno has scrambled to apologize for comments suggesting women tend to complain about sexual harassment when it comes from ugly people.“That is to say, that the harassment is when it comes from an ugly person,” he added.
  
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• Trump, Bloomberg trade schoolyard taunts as spending war heats up

  02-02-2020 19:51 via news.yahoo.com
  
  U.S. President Donald Trump and Democratic presidential candidate Mike Bloomberg traded withering taunts on Sunday, in an exchange that suggests the Bloomberg campaign is willing to fight Trump's notorious insults head on.Trump's remarks to FOX News Channel's Sean Hannity, coupled with a series of Twitter posts late on Saturday, also indicate the president is keeping a wary eye on the billionaire and former New York City mayor as a potentially tough competitor who has the funds to outspend him.A
  
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• Bernie Sanders draws 3,000 with Vampire Weekend as Caucus Day approaches

  02-02-2020 19:47 via news.yahoo.com
  
  The campaign announced it hit goal of knocking on 500,000 doors in January, two days before caucuses.
  
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• Ex-inmate acquitted in fatal prison riot back in custody

  02-02-2020 19:28 via news.yahoo.com
  
  A former prison inmate who was accused of leading a fatal riot at Delaware's maximum-security prison but acquitted on all charges is back behind bars.Authorities at Howard R. Young prison in Wilmington took custody of 33-year-old Roman Shankaras shortly after 5:30 p.m. Saturday after he was arrested by Wilmington police.David Karas, a spokesman for Wilmington police, did not respond to multiple phone calls and emails seeking details on Shankaras' arrest.
  
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