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• The unexpected red-flag words and emojis suicide counselors look for, including 'vampire' and '11:11'

  10-02-2020 23:57 via news.yahoo.com
  
  A study of 129 million texts by Crisis Text Line found those who used the pill emoji were 4.4 times more likely to be in a life-threatening situation.
  
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• Accuser Called Weinstein a ‘Spiritual Soul Mate,’ Former Friend Tells Jury

  10-02-2020 23:57 via news.yahoo.com
  
  (Bloomberg) -- Former friends of two Harvey Weinstein accusers assailed their credibility at Weinstein’s sexual assault trial, with one saying that prosecution witness Jessica Mann once referred to the movie producer as her “soul mate.”Testifying on Monday for the defense, Talita Maia, a Brazilian actor who lived with Mann in Los Angeles, contradicted her former roommate’s account that Weinstein sexually assaulted her in a Beverly Hills hotel in February 2013 as Maia was
  
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• Mystery $844B pot in Trump budget signals possible Medicaid cuts

  10-02-2020 23:52 via news.yahoo.com
  
  President Trump’s budget contains an $844 billion mystery pot for his still undefined health care plan, signaling steep cuts to Medicaid and “Obamacare.”
  
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• U.S. Justice Department files new lawsuits in renewed push to pressure 'sanctuary cities'

  10-02-2020 23:49 via news.yahoo.com
  
  The U.S. Justice Department on Monday ramped up its fight against states and municipalities that adopt "sanctuary" policies to protect unauthorized immigrants from deportation, with Attorney General William Barr announcing new lawsuits against the state of New Jersey and King County, Washington, where Seattle is located.Barr also touted another recently filed lawsuit against California over a law that bars the use of private detention facilities."Unfortunately, in various jurisdictions, so-calle
  
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• Iran's missile attack reportedly left more than 100 troops with traumatic brain injury

  10-02-2020 23:48 via news.yahoo.com
  
  The aftermath of Iran's January missile strike is looking more and more serious by the day.The U.S. military will soon announce more than 100 troops suffered traumatic brain injuries after Iran attacked an Iraqi military base where they were stationed last month, a U.S. official tells Reuters. That's an increase from the 64 diagnosed troops the government originally acknowledged, and comes after Trump dismissed the injuries as "headaches."Iran launched the Jan. 8 attack after the U.S. government
  
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• 'We don't want him': Trump tells Utah governor he can 'keep Mitt Romney' after impeachment vote

  10-02-2020 23:33 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Trump slammed Mitt Romney again on Monday as he continued to seethe from the GOP senator's vote to remove him from office.
  
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• It's not the president's budget. It’s the spending, stupid!

  10-02-2020 23:32 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Today’s deficits were pretty much baked into the cake long before Donald Trump entered the Oval Office, writes Stephen Moore of Heritage Foundation.
  
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• U.K.’s Johnson to Spend 5 Billion Pounds on Bus Service Overhaul

  10-02-2020 23:30 via news.yahoo.com
  
  (Bloomberg) -- The U.K. plans to spend 5 billion pounds ($6.5 billion) on new bus and cycle routes as part of Prime Minister Boris Johnson’s agenda to “level up” investment and infrastructure for regions outside London.“Our daily journeys for work or leisure are about so much more than just getting from A to B -- they are the key to accessing skilled jobs and opportunities, boosting businesses and unlocking economic growth for towns, cities and regions across this country
  
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• Xi Jinping made a rare public appearance amid coronavirus outbreak

  10-02-2020 23:26 via news.yahoo.com
  
  China's President Xi Jinping was out and about in Beijing on Monday as part of an effort to show he's taking active role in the country's response to the coronavirus outbreak.Xi doesn't often mingle with the public, per The New York Times, but his absence during the virus' spread has been particularly noticeable. So on Monday, he was seen making stops at various spots in the capital, including a community center, hospital, and center for disease control. The president was wearing a surgical mask
  
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• Former Chicago cop sentenced to 10 years in fatal shooting

  10-02-2020 23:26 via news.yahoo.com
  
  A former Chicago police officer found guilty of second-degree murder in the off-duty shooting of an unarmed man in 2017 was sentenced Monday to 10 years in prison.Lowell Houser, 60, sat slumped in a chair between his lawyers as Cook County Judge William Gamboney handed down the sentence.Houser will get credit for the nearly three years he spent on an ankle monitor awaiting trial.
  
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• In risky strategy, Sanders’s Democratic rivals hold their fire against him

  10-02-2020 23:25 via news.yahoo.com
  
  He won the most votes in Iowa. He leads every single New Hampshire poll. He’s starting to pull ahead nationally for the first time. And he’s lapping the field with his mammoth fundraising. But Bernie Sanders is also the most polarizing Democrat in the race.
  
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• Air Force One may soon get its first new paint job since the Kennedy years — here's what it was like on JFK's version of the presidential airliner

  10-02-2020 23:20 via news.yahoo.com
  
  The SAM 26000 arrived in 1962 and would carry eight presidents, numerous dignitaries, and countless diplomats during its 36 years in service.
  
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• Texas officer charged with manslaughter in fatal shooting

  10-02-2020 23:18 via news.yahoo.com
  
  A Central Texas police officer was charged Monday with manslaughter for the fatal shooting of an unarmed man during a traffic stop, officials said.Temple Officer Carmen DeCruz was charged with the second-degree felony in the Dec. 2 shooting of Michael Dean, Bell County District Attorney Henry Garza said in a statement.If convicted of the charge, DeCruz could face two to 20 years in prison.
  
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• Here’s how many bombs the US plans to buy in the next year

  10-02-2020 23:17 via news.yahoo.com
  
  The U.S. is slowing down its procurement of weapons that are used in Afghanistan and Iraq.
  
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• Rip B-1 Bomber: The Air Force Wants a Shiny New B-21 Instead

  10-02-2020 23:00 via news.yahoo.com
  
  A good idea?
  
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• Trump cautioned for insisting 'coronavirus will be gone by April'

  10-02-2020 22:56 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Medical experts have urged the president to remain vigilant about the danger posed by coronavirus in the US, after he said it would be “gone by April”.As the World Health Organisation warned the spread of coronavirus cases which had no history of travel to China could be “the spark that becomes a bigger fire” as people across China returned to work after the Lunar New Year holiday, Donald Trump claimed the US was in good shape,
  
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• Trump's budget reflects campaign priorities but abandons pledge to wipe out deficit in 10 years

  10-02-2020 22:54 via news.yahoo.com
  
  The budget President Donald Trump delivered to Congress reads more like a 2020 campaign document than a spending proposal that can win approval.
  
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• Electrical issue in attic started house fire that killed 7

  10-02-2020 22:53 via news.yahoo.com
  
  A house fire that killed seven people in Mississippi over the weekend was accidental and it was caused by an electrical issue in the attic, the state fire marshal said Monday.“It also appears there were no working smoke alarms in the home," said a news release from Mike Chaney, who doubles as fire marshal and state insurance commissioner.Investigators from the fire marshal's office believe metal bars on the home's windows “played a small role in the deaths,” the release said.
  
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• A school resource officer in Florida threatened to shoot a student as he was trying to leave the campus for a dentist appointment

  10-02-2020 22:51 via news.yahoo.com
  
  "You're gonna get shot if you come another f---ing foot closer to me," the officer told the teen.
  
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• Biden's support slumps to lowest on record, Bloomberg surges nationally as Democratic race heats up: poll

  10-02-2020 22:45 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Support for Joe Biden's U.S. Democratic presidential bid has tumbled nationally to the lowest on record since his lackluster finish in the Iowa caucuses, while interest is surging in the upstart candidacy of billionaire media mogul Michael Bloomberg, according to a Reuters/Ipsos poll released on Monday.The opinion poll taken from Thursday to Monday found that 17% of registered Democrats and independents said they would vote for Biden, down 5 percentage points from a similar poll that ran last we
  
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• Kobe Bryant's widow says her brain can't process her loss in emotional Instagram outpouring

  10-02-2020 22:44 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Kobe Bryant’s widow says her brain “refuses to accept” that both her husband and daughter Gianna are gone.In an emotional Instagram post alongside memorial video, Vanessa wrote: “I can’t process both at the same time. It’s like I’m trying to process Kobe being gone but my body refuses to accept my Gigi will never come back to me. It feels wrong.”
  
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• Voter registration error risks deportation and criminal charges for immigrants

  10-02-2020 22:40 via news.yahoo.com
  
  A handful of immigrants could face deportation or criminal charges, after a mistake in Illinois' automatic voter registration system allowed of hundreds of people who identified themselves as non-U.S. citizens to register. Sixteen cast ballots.
  
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• Trump campaign boots local GOP bigwigs from New Hampshire event

  10-02-2020 22:36 via politico.com
  
  The president is holding a rally in Manchester on Monday evening.
  
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• Clay Aiken on 2020 primary: Why I'm changing my vote from Joe Biden to Amy Klobuchar

  10-02-2020 22:32 via news.yahoo.com
  
  It was difficult for me to move my support from Joe Biden. But Amy Klobuchar is simply a better candidate for the 2020 race against Donald Trump.
  
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• Michael Flynn's prosecutors are trying to get his former defense team to testify against him

  10-02-2020 22:26 via news.yahoo.com
  
  If you were getting excited about former National Security Adviser Michael Flynn's sentencing later this month, it's time to temper your expectations, because it might be a while.District Judge Emmet Sullivan on Monday canceled the Feb. 27 sentencing indefinitely, per CNN, after Justice Department prosecutors wrote in a court filing they believe Flynn's old defense team from the Washington, D.C., law firm Covington & Burling would be willing to share information about Flynn if Sullivan allow
  
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• Kobe Bryant once swam with sharks so a marine conservation group named a great white after him

  10-02-2020 22:25 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Kobe Bryant wore a pair of Nikes while diving with sharks in 2013. While working to make a comeback against Allen Iverson, he studied how they hunt seals.
  
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• U.S. Counterintelligence Chief Warns of Meddling After Iowa Vote

  10-02-2020 22:17 via news.yahoo.com
  
  (Bloomberg) -- The head of U.S. counterintelligence operations said he’s worried foreign adversaries might seize on the confusion that erupted over voting in the Iowa Democratic caucuses last week to advance disinformation and influence campaigns.“How could our adversaries take what happened in Iowa and pour gasoline on that?” William Evanina, director of the National Counterintelligence and Security Center, said during a briefing with reporters on Monday.The reporting of the r
  
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• Manchin to Trump: I'm no Munchkin, and by the way, you're 'much heavier than me'

  10-02-2020 22:11 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Sen. Joe Manchin, D-W.Va., aka (by President Trump) as “Joe Munchkin,” said Monday that he wasn’t bothered by a flurry of weekend taunts by Trump, who has singled him out, along with Mitt Romney, R-Utah, for abuse for their votes in the Senate impeachment trial.
  
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• Jackson State University president arrested in Mississippi prostitution sting

  10-02-2020 22:09 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Police made contact with the alleged offenders in prostitution sting through online "dark web" sites, where services were discussed.
  
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• Princess cruise ship forced to turn around after over 300 sickened with norovirus

  10-02-2020 22:07 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Coronavirus isn't the only virus causing concern on cruise ships right now. Norovirus has forced Princess Cruises' Caribbean Princess to turn around.
  
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• Amy Klobuchar surges to third in New Hampshire polls as she warns against 'socialist' Sanders

  10-02-2020 21:59 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Amy Klobuchar really wants New Hampshire to know that she is not a socialist, and she doesn't think it is a particularly good idea to nominate one as the Democratic nominee, either.Just hours before voters in the Granite State were set to start casting ballots in the first in the nation primary, Ms Klobuchar emphasised that point as she mounts what could be her last real chance at turning her long-shot presidential candidacy into a winning prospect.
  
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• 'A lying, dog-faced pony soldier': just what was Joe Biden talking about?

  10-02-2020 21:51 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Biden called a woman a ‘lying, dog-faced pony soldier’ – but no one can find the film he thinks he’s quoting fromIt was all going so badly for Joe Biden. And then it got worse.Concerns for the former vice-president’s 2020 bid were mounting after he was caught on camera calling a woman a “lying, dog-faced pony soldier” at a campaign stop in New Hampshire on Sunday.When Madison Moore, a 21-year-old economics student, asked Biden whether voters could remain
  
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• 'Reaper of death,' newfound cousin of T. rex, discovered in Canada

  10-02-2020 21:46 via news.yahoo.com
  
  The newly identified tyrannosaur lived during the Cretaceous period, which lasted from about 145 million to 65 million years ago.
  
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• Bernie Sanders Tops U.S. Poll; Bloomberg Overtakes Warren in Third Spot

  10-02-2020 21:37 via news.yahoo.com
  
  (Bloomberg) -- Bernie Sanders is leading the Democratic field and Joe Biden has lost his front-runner status in a national poll taken after the Iowa caucuses.The Quinnipiac University poll showed the Vermont senator with 25% support, topping the survey for the first time. He was followed by Biden at 17% and former New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg at 15%.Biden dropped dramatically since the previous Quinnipiac poll on Jan. 28, when he had 26% and the lead. In that poll, Sanders was second wi
  
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• Orange County Sheriff Don Barnes claims rise in crime is direct result of 'sanctuary law' bill

  10-02-2020 21:35 via news.yahoo.com
  
  The head of the Orange County Sheriff's Department is claiming that the increased crime in his community is a result of Senate Bill 54, also known as the "sanctuary state" bill.
  
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• Manchin to Trump: I'm no Munchkin, and by the way, you're 'much heavier than me'

  10-02-2020 21:35 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Sen. Joe Manchin and former Mayor Michael Bloomberg respond to taunts by President Trump in a similar way.
  
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• Americans divided on Trump's acquittal, but majority wanted Senate to call witnesses, poll finds

  10-02-2020 21:30 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Overall, 22% of Americans said Trump did nothing wrong, while 30% said his acts were "improper" but not impeachable.
  
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• Record 209-mph wind gust whipped Northern California ... not so fast

  10-02-2020 21:27 via news.yahoo.com
  
  On a windy, wintry day, a wobbly chairlift can feel like the scariest place to be. And with potentially record-breaking wind gusts lashing the mountain, Kirkwood Ski Resort in Northern California near the Nevada border wasn't going to take a chance.An unverified 209-mph wind gust was recorded shortly before 8 a.m. PST on Sunday by the National Weather Service (NWS) office in Reno. If the eye-popping reading is accurate, the gust would shatter the state record and rank third all-time among verifi
  
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• The VA secretary is being accused of digging up dirt on a woman veteran who made a sexual-assault claim

  10-02-2020 21:26 via news.yahoo.com
  
  VA Secretary Robert Wilkie says his agency is making marked progress on veterans' care, but he and it are still dogged by scandals.
  
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• Conservative activist says he wishes Romney ‘no harm’ after comments cause alarm

  10-02-2020 21:23 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Matt Schlapp, CPAC chair, said he would be ‘afraid’ for senator’s safety if he attended major conservative conferenceA prominent conservative activist and Trump supporter has insisted he wishes “no harm” to Mitt Romney, despite saying the Utah senator would be “afraid for his physical safety” if he attended a major conservative conference near Washington later this month.Last week, Romney cast the sole Republican vote to convict and remove the president
  
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• Wisconsin kindergarten student, 6, killed while waiting for bus; family member injured

  10-02-2020 21:22 via news.yahoo.com
  
  A 6-year-old Wisconsin girl was killed Monday and a family member was injured after being struck by a car while waiting for the girl's school bus.
  
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• US college students under strict quarantine after returning from China since the coronavirus outbreak say 'it feels like I've been told I deserve this'

  10-02-2020 21:22 via news.yahoo.com
  
  After imposing a coronavirus quarantine, Barnard heads apologized to students for sending emails that were "not accurate, appropriate, or acceptable."
  
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• Airline workers reveal how they're dealing with being on the front lines of the coronavirus outbreak as it spreads around the world

  10-02-2020 21:20 via news.yahoo.com
  
  As the coronavirus spreads to countries outside China, flight attendants shared their thoughts about working in air travel during an outbreak.
  
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• China president in rare visit to virus patients, medics

  10-02-2020 21:17 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Chinese President Xi Jinping donned a face mask and had his temperature checked Monday while visiting medical workers and patients affected by the deadly coronavirus that has killed more than 900 people.The outbreak has prompted unprecedented action by the Chinese government, including locking down entire cities in Hubei as well as cutting transport links nationwide, closing tourist attractions and telling hundreds of millions of people to stay indoors.
  
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• The rise and fall of Elizabeth Holmes, who started Theranos when she was 19 and will now stand trial over 'massive fraud' in July 2020

  10-02-2020 21:07 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Elizabeth Holmes started blood-testing startup Theranos at 19, and grew it to a $9 billion valuation. Then she was charged with 'massive fraud.'
  
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• Bernie Sanders takes lead for the first time in national Quinnipiac poll ahead of New Hampshire primary

  10-02-2020 21:05 via news.yahoo.com
  
  This is the first time Bernie Sanders has led Quinnipiac's national poll, surpassing Joe Biden who was hit hard by the Iowa caucus results.
  
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• Biden plummets in new national poll, ceding top spot to Bernie

  10-02-2020 21:04 via politico.com
  
  The new Quinnipiac survey also shows Bloomberg surging 7 points to third place and eating into Biden's support among black voters.
  
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• Mercedes-Benz parent company Daimler is preparing to lay off 15,000 workers as it tries to adapt to electric cars

  10-02-2020 21:03 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Daimler is wasting no time in making deep cuts to its workforce as the German auto industry continues to face tough times.
  
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• #SiliconValleySoWhite: Black Facebook and Google employees speak out on big tech racism

  10-02-2020 20:58 via news.yahoo.com
  
  A hostile workplace in mostly white and male companies from Facebook to Google makes black employees feel like they don’t belong, Leslie Miley says.
  
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• Bernie Sanders Campaign Calls for Recalculation of Iowa Caucus Results

  10-02-2020 20:52 via news.yahoo.com
  
  (Bloomberg) -- The campaigns of Bernie Sanders and Pete Buttigieg requested a partial retabulation of Iowa caucus results, the Iowa Democratic Party announced Monday.Buttigieg collected the most delegates in Iowa, earning 14 delegates to Sanders’ 12.The Sanders campaign said it filed the recanvass request because it found “widespread issues and miscalculations.” If successful, the challenge could result in a delegate moving from Buttigieg to Sanders, giving them 13 delegates ap
  
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