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• Sinn Fein Surge Leaves Voters in Suspense With Count Ongoing

  09-02-2020 23:46 via news.yahoo.com
  
  (Bloomberg) -- Ireland’s focus turned to government formation, after a surge in Sinn Fein’s support upended the nation’s traditional two-party power structure. Counting through Sunday confirmed the nationalists’ strength after an exit poll showed a virtual dead heat between Irish Prime Minister Leo Varadkar’s Fine Gael as well as the biggest opposition party, Fianna Fail, and Sinn Fein. Fianna Fail leader Micheal Martin predicted his party would win the most seats,
  
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• 'I'm not going to be the Republican Christopher Steele': Graham fears Giuliani evidence is Russian propaganda

  09-02-2020 23:46 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Sen. Lindsey Graham advised caution before accepting evidence from President Donald Trump's personal attorney Rudy Giuliani.
  
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• Sanders leads polls ahead of New Hampshire primary, while Buttigieg climbs and Biden nosedives

  09-02-2020 23:39 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Pete Buttigieg has come under fire from both Sen. Bernie Sanders and former Vice President Biden as he has climbs in the polls.
  
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• Heavy rains bring both relief and new dangers to bushfire-hit Australia

  09-02-2020 23:37 via news.yahoo.com
  
  MELBOURNE/SYDNEY (Reuters) - A four-day downpour across Australia's east coast has brought relief after months of devastating bushfires and years of drought, but also widespread storm damage and forecasts of more wild weather to come.The weekend drenching represented the biggest sustained run of rainfall in Sydney and surrounding areas for 30 years, dousing some bushfires and replenishing depleted dams across New South Wales, the country's most populous state.Some rural areas received more rain
  
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• NYC Lunar New Year parade showcases support for China, Wuhan

  09-02-2020 23:36 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Signs of support for the Chinese city at the center of a global virus outbreak marked floats at the Lunar New Year parade in Manhattan's Chinatown on Sunday as brightly colored puppets made their way through the streets in front of crowds of onlookers.Some of the paradegoers who filled the streets held signs expressing support for China, as well.The coronavirus outbreak that started in China in December has killed more than 800 people and infected more than 37,000 people around the world, includ
  
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• 2 New York officers shot in 'assassination attempts;' Trump rips Mayor Bill de Blasio

  09-02-2020 23:03 via news.yahoo.com
  
  "I want New Yorkers to be clear, this was an attempt to assassinate police officers," Mayor Bill de Blasio said.
  
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• Trump lashes out at Jones, predicts GOP Senate victory

  09-02-2020 23:02 via news.yahoo.com
  
  President Donald Trump is predicting a GOP Senate victory in Alabama following Democrat Doug Jones' vote at the impeachment trial.“So good to see that Republicans will be winning the Great State of Alabama Senate Seat back,” Trump wrote.Lizzie Grams, a spokeswoman for Jones' campaign, said the senator declined to comment.
  
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• Moderate Democrats have a duty to consider Sanders. He has a clear path to beating Trump.

  09-02-2020 23:01 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Bernie Sanders isn't even my favorite senator running for the 2020 nomination. But I see his potential to unite the Democratic Party and oust Trump.
  
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• Everything we know about the pangolin — the scaly mammal that may have spread the coronavirus to humans

  09-02-2020 22:57 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Pangolins are nocturnal mammals than are often poached for their scales. Their meat is also considered a delicacy in China and Vietnam.
  
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• Trump to propose cuts in foreign aid, social safety nets

  09-02-2020 22:37 via news.yahoo.com
  
  President Trump will propose on Monday a 21% cut in foreign aid and social safety net programs in his $4.8 trillion budget proposal for fiscal 2021, according to senior administration officials.
  
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• Trump expected to ask for $2 billion in funding for border wall, make cuts to medicare, medicaid, and social security in 2020 budget

  09-02-2020 22:31 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Democrats took control of the House last year and are unlikely to pass Trump's budget. Disputes about wall funding led to last year's record shutdown.
  
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• 'We are floating around the ocean': Cruise ship with no coronavirus shut out of ports

  09-02-2020 22:31 via news.yahoo.com
  
  There are no cases of the coronavirus aboard Holland America’s MS Westerdam, but after a stop in Hong Kong, it can't find a port to dock.
  
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• Klobuchar pushes to keep defying expectations in campaign

  09-02-2020 22:27 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Minnesota Sen. Amy Klobuchar titled her 2015 memoir “The Senator Next Door,” but in New Hampshire, her rivals include two congressional colleagues who actually come from neighboring states.Klobuchar has lagged well behind not just Sens.
  
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• Klobuchar pushes to defy expectations in New Hampshire

  09-02-2020 22:27 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Klobuchar is still lagging in most polls, but the crowd was a sign of the energy surrounding her campaign as voters swamped with choices try to make a decision before Tuesday's New Hampshire primary.Former Vice President Joe Biden, meanwhile, began the race as a front-runner but is struggling after a disappointing finish in Iowa and another middling result expected in New Hampshire.
  
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• Romney, vilified by Trump and his allies for voting to convict, finds respect back home

  09-02-2020 22:19 via news.yahoo.com
  
  NBC News interviewed dozens of Utah residents to find out what they thought about their senator bucking the GOP on impeachment.
  
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• Trump budget to face skepticism, overwhelming politics

  09-02-2020 22:12 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Confronted with the threat of trillion-dollar-plus deficits for as far as the eye can see, President Donald Trump is offering a $4.8 trillion budget plan for the upcoming fiscal year that rehashes previously rejected spending cuts while leaving Social Security and Medicare benefits untouched.Trump’s fiscal 2021 budget plan, to be released Monday, isn’t likely to generate a serious Washington dialogue about what to do, if anything this election year, about entrenched fiscal problems t
  
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• Man accused of killing hotel worker seeks lawsuit dismissal

  09-02-2020 22:11 via news.yahoo.com
  
  A Connecticut man charged with killing a hotel worker he says attacked his family on the Caribbean island of Anguilla is seeking dismissal of a lawsuit filed against him.Scott Hapgood, of Darien, says a hotel worker, Kenny Mitchel, 27, of Dominica, showed up at his family's room unannounced during their April vacation, demanded money and attacked them.Mitchel died, and Hapgood, who said he acted in self-defense, was charged with manslaughter.
  
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• Trump’s $4.8 Trillion Budget Plan Would Cut U.S. Safety Net

  09-02-2020 22:10 via news.yahoo.com
  
  (Bloomberg) -- President Donald Trump’s proposed budget includes $4.8 trillion in spending for fiscal 2021, with an increase requested for the Pentagon and substantial cuts to domestic and social safety net programs, but slow-walks plans to trim the deficit for a third year.The proposal, scheduled to be officially unveiled on Monday, includes $740.5 billion for defense and a 5% cut in non-defense spending, to $590 billion, in the year that starts Oct. 1, according to a person familiar with
  
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• Warren enlists high-profile congresswomen in New Hampshire push

  09-02-2020 22:04 via news.yahoo.com
  
  With voters readying to head to the polls, the Massachusetts senator is calling in major voices from her home state and the House's freshman class.
  
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• Trump to propose cuts in foreign aid and social safety nets in budget: officials

  09-02-2020 21:57 via news.yahoo.com
  
  U.S. President Donald Trump will propose on Monday a 21% cut in foreign aid and slashing social safety net programs in his $4.8 trillion budget proposal for fiscal 2021, according to senior administration officials. Trump, a Republican, sought in his budget proposal last year to slash foreign aid but faced steep resistance from Congress and did not prevail. Trump latest blueprint for administration spending proposals is unlikely to be passed by the Democratic-controlled House of Representatives,
  
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• Mom, 6 kids killed in Mississippi house fire; dad hospitalized after rescue attempt, officials say

  09-02-2020 21:52 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Six children and their mother were killed in a fire in Clinton, Mississippi. The father was in critical condition after he tried to rescue his family.
  
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• 20 civilians dead as Syrian govt set to retake key highway: monitor

  09-02-2020 21:41 via news.yahoo.com
  
  At least 20 civilians were killed on Sunday as Syrian regime forces were poised to retake a key motorway connecting Damascus to second city Aleppo, after weeks of battles in the rebel-held Idlib region, a monitor said.The regime and its Russian ally have been engaged in a fierce weeks-long offensive to take back the vital M5 artery which connects Aleppo, once Syria's economic hub, to Damascus and the Jordanian border.A section of the highway southwest of Aleppo city still lies under control of r
  
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• Libertarian Gary Johnson offers 'whatever I can do' to help Tulsi Gabbard in New Hampshire amid third party talk around the candidate

  09-02-2020 21:23 via news.yahoo.com
  
  The 2016 Libertarian Party nominee left a voicemail to a local Gabbard volunteer offering his help to the Democratic presidential hopeful.
  
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• U.S. ambassador to Israel warns against West Bank annexation

  09-02-2020 21:22 via politico.com
  
  David Friedman warns about “unilateral action.”
  
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• Justice Department receiving information on Bidens from Giuliani: Senator

  09-02-2020 21:15 via news.yahoo.com
  
  The U.S. Justice Department is receiving information on former Vice President Joe Biden and his businessman son, Hunter Biden, from President Donald Trump's personal lawyer Rudy Giuliani, a top Trump ally in the Senate said on Sunday.Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Lindsey Graham said Attorney General William Barr told him about the arrangement on Sunday morning and that Justice Department officials were evaluating Giuliani's information to determine whether it is genuine.
  
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• Brazil police kill suspect in Rio councilwoman's murder

  09-02-2020 21:07 via news.yahoo.com
  
  A suspect in the 2018 assassination of an outspoken Afro-Brazilian member of Rio de Janeiro's city council was shot to death Sunday after he fired on police sent to arrest him, Brazilian authorities said.Adriano Magalhaes da Nobrega, who had been on the run for more than a year, was located by police in a rural area of the city of Esplanada, 170 kilometers (105 miles) north of Salvador, the capital of the state of Bahia.Magalhaes, a decorated former captain in an elite Rio military police battal
  
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• Lindsey Graham: Rudy Giuliani is giving DoJ 'information from Ukraine'

  09-02-2020 21:03 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Trump ally cautioned information from president’s personal lawyer ‘could be Russian propaganda’ Senator Lindsey Graham has said Department of Justice officials have created a “process” enabling Rudy Giuliani to provide them with “information from Ukraine”, for further investigation.Graham, a top ally of Donald Trump who was part of the successful vote to acquit him in his impeachment trial last week, cautioned that this information from the president&rsq
  
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• Iowa Laggards Biden, Warren Shift Ad Spending to Stay in Race

  09-02-2020 20:45 via news.yahoo.com
  
  (Bloomberg) -- Elizabeth Warren and Joe Biden are shifting ad spending in early voting states as they fight to re-energize their presidential bids following poor showings in Iowa.At the same time, Iowa’s surprise delegate leader Pete Buttigieg is bulking up his spending, buying ad time in places he hadn’t expected to compete in hopes of a strong showing in New Hampshire.It’s not unusual for candidates to shift resources shortly after an election, either to capitalize on a stron
  
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• Exclusive: Trump proposes 21% cut in U.S. foreign aid in budget proposal - officials

  09-02-2020 20:45 via news.yahoo.com
  
  President Donald Trump will propose cutting billions of dollars in U.S. foreign aid in his fiscal 2021 budget while seeking an increase in funds to counter developing economic threats from China and Russia, senior administration officials told Reuters.Trump, a Republican, sought in his budget proposal last year to slash foreign aid but faced steep resistance from Congress and did not prevail.Trump will seek to make a 21% cut in foreign aid in the proposal, which seeks $44.1 billion in the upcomi
  
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• Trump slashes foreign aid, cuts safety net programs in new budget proposal

  09-02-2020 20:40 via news.yahoo.com
  
  U.S. President Donald Trump will propose on Monday a 21% cut in foreign aid and slashes to social safety net programs in his $4.8 trillion budget proposal for fiscal 2021, according to senior administration officials.The budget would spend money to fund infrastructure projects and defense, but would also raise funds by targeting $2 trillion in savings from mandatory spending programs in the United States.Trump, a Republican, sought in his budget proposal last year to slash foreign aid but faced
  
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• The Latest: Warren says she's best positioned to beat Trump

  09-02-2020 20:40 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Elizabeth Warren is tweaking her standard campaign speech, saying that she’s in the best position to win what some see as an “unwinnable” election for any Democrat against President Donald Trump.Warren finished third in last week’s Iowa caucus, which was too close to call between Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders and former mayor Pete Buttigieg of South Bend, Indiana.Democratic presidential hopeful Tom Steyer says he would call for a $22 hourly minimum wage if elected president
  
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• A Never-Trump Republican leader organized a campaign to call Independent New Hampshire residents in an attempt to persuade votes against Sanders in the Democratic primary

  09-02-2020 20:40 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Never Trump Republicans are trying to avoid a Sanders win, so they're urging right-leaning Independents to vote in the Democratic Primary.
  
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• A 'Never Trump' Republican leader organized a campaign to call independent New Hampshire residents in an attempt to persuade votes against Sanders in the Democratic primary

  09-02-2020 20:40 via news.yahoo.com
  
  'Never Trump' Republicans don't want Sen. Bernie Sanders to win, so they're urging right-leaning independents to vote in the Democratic primary.
  
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• Israeli court nixes ban on Arab politician's parliament bid

  09-02-2020 20:26 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Israel's top court on Sunday struck down a decision to disqualify an Arab politician from running in next month's parliamentary election.The Israeli Supreme Court voted 5-4 to overturn the Central Elections Committee's ruling to bar Heba Yazbak, a lawmaker from the Palestinian nationalist Balad party, saying there was no legal basis for Yazbak's disqualification.The committee, which is made up of Israeli Parliament members, voted 28-7 last month to bar Yazbak.
  
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• Trump hits Medicaid, food stamps in push to slash domestic spending

  09-02-2020 20:21 via politico.com
  
  He will also ask Congress for a slight spending increase for the Pentagon as he releases his $4.8 trillion budget blueprint for the upcoming fiscal year.
  
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• Graham: DOJ has process to review Giuliani's Ukraine info

  09-02-2020 20:20 via news.yahoo.com
  
  The chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee, a close ally of President Donald Trump, said Sunday that the Justice Department has established a way to review information gathered in Ukraine by Trump personal lawyer Rudy Giuliani, who has targeted Democrat Joe Biden and his son.“Rudy Giuliani is a well-known man," said Graham.
  
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• 2 cruise ships have been quarantined over the coronavirus: 1 released its passengers, the other is seeing more people get sick

  09-02-2020 20:01 via news.yahoo.com
  
  The World Dream allowed passengers to disembark on Sunday, while the Diamond Princess saw its number of infected passengers rise.
  
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• Trump warns 'tough guys' who attacked Republican volunteers with van

  09-02-2020 19:53 via news.yahoo.com
  
  A man has been arrested after allegedly driving a van into a tent where Republican volunteers were registering voters.The vehicle narrowly missed six volunteers at a stall outside a shopping centre in Jacksonville, Florida.
  
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• Wuhan journalist has gone missing, and his family says he's been forcibly quarantined

  09-02-2020 19:49 via news.yahoo.com
  
  A Chinese lawyer and citizen journalist has gone missing after his video reports from Wuhan about coronavirus went viral on platforms like Twitter and YouTube.
  
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• Chinese diplomat pushes back against coronavirus 'rumors' from GOP senator

  09-02-2020 19:43 via politico.com
  
  Ambassador Cui Tiankai slammed comments from Arkansas Sen. Tom Cotton.
  
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• Virginia moves to scrap Confederate holiday dating back to the 1800s and instead mark Election Day

  09-02-2020 19:40 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Democrats controlling Virginia's House have voted to remove Lee-Jackson Day, honoring the Confederate leaders, and add Election Day as a holiday.
  
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• Families of Thai shooting victims wait for answers, bodies

  09-02-2020 19:34 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Sirirat Nualraksa blinked back tears as the ambulances delivered gurneys bearing cloth-shrouded bodies to the morgue of a public hospital after a vengeful Thai soldier killed 29 people and wounded dozens of others in a shopping mall rampage.On Facebook, she had talked with her sister, 33-year-old Papatchaya Nualraksa, as she hid with her husband and their 2-year-old in a supermarket storage room.In a Facebook call, Papatchaya told her sister that she was scared.
  
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• Iran satellite launch fails, in blow to space programme

  09-02-2020 19:27 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Iran said it "successfully" launched a satellite Sunday but failed to put it into orbit, in a blow to its space programme that the US alleges is a cover for missile development.The attempted launch of the Zafar -- "Victory" in Farsi -- comes days before the 41st anniversary of the Islamic Revolution and crucial parliamentary elections in Iran.Arch foes Iran and the United States have appeared to be on the brink of an all-out confrontation twice in the past seven months.
  
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• North Korea’s Secret Coronavirus Crisis is Crazy Scary

  09-02-2020 19:20 via news.yahoo.com
  
  SEOUL–North Korea’s not saying a word about deaths or illnesses from the coronavirus, but the disease reportedly has spread across the border from China and is taking a toll in a country with a dismal health care system and scant resources for fighting off the deadly bug.From Lobsters and Steak to Coronavirus: One Couple’s Surreal Cruise NightmareOne sure sign of the regime’s fears is that it failed to stage a parade in central Pyongyang on Saturday, the 72nd anniversary
  
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• Man hunts down alleged hit-and-run driver after wife killed

  09-02-2020 19:17 via news.yahoo.com
  
  A Southern California man who made it his mission to track down the hit-and-run driver who killed his wife and mother of their eight children led police to an 85-year-old suspect, who was arrested, authorities said.Brenda Richardson died after a white Lexus struck her motorcycle last week in Corona, police said.While at the intersection where the collision occurred, Richardson said he spotted the entrance of an apartment complex.
  
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• West Virginia Sen. Joe Manchin responds to Trump calling him 'weak & corrupt' over impeachment vote

  09-02-2020 19:04 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Sen. Joe Manchin defended his vote to convict President Donald Trump on the two articles of impeachment.
  
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• Masked neo-Nazi white supremacists march in Washington DC

  09-02-2020 19:02 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Masked members of a neo-Nazi white supremacist group called Patriot Front marched through Washington’s National Mall on Saturday.Patriot Front, which is part of the so-called “alt right” movement, was established by disillusioned members of another white supremacist group called Vanguard America in September 2017 in the wake of a white supremacist rally in Charlottesville.
  
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• A man was arrested at the White House after he told a Secret Service agent he planned to kill Trump

  09-02-2020 18:59 via news.yahoo.com
  
  The 25-year-old man was taken into custody and brought to a hospital for a mental health evaluation in the Secret Service's latest security incident.
  
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• Nine members of Hong Kong family get virus after 'hotpot': officials

  09-02-2020 18:58 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Nine members of a Hong Kong family are infected with the new coronavirus after sharing a hotpot meal, officials confirmed late Sunday.Hong Kong's Centre for Health Protection later said the man's father, mother, two aunts and three cousins were also infected.First found in the city of Wuhan in central China last December, the new coronavirus has infected nearly 37,200 people on the mainland and at least 36 in Hong Kong.
  
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• British Airways flight breaks New York to London record in high winds

  09-02-2020 18:58 via news.yahoo.com
  
  A British Airways flight broke the record for the fastest passenger flight from New York to London because of winds from Storm Ciara.
  
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