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• Nevada caucus results still up in the air as Buttigieg camp claims 'irregularities'

  23-02-2020 23:46 via news.yahoo.com
  
  A Nevada Democratic Party spokeswoman said that officials were "continuing to verify and to report results."
  
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• Pacific NW winds shut interstate, fell tree that crushes man

  23-02-2020 23:34 via news.yahoo.com
  
  High winds wreaked havoc on the Pacific Northwest on Sunday, closing a stretch of an interstate freeway in Oregon and toppling a large tree that crushed a man sleeping in an apartment complex in Washington state. The man was critically injured in Renton, Washington, after a tree fell on a six-unit apartment building during a morning of high winds and heavy rain. Elsewhere, Interstate 84 was closed in both directions between Pendleton and La Grande in northeast Oregon, about 200 miles (320 kilome
  
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• 'I want to be brave like you': A 9-year-old boy asked Pete Buttigieg how to tell people he is gay

  23-02-2020 23:10 via news.yahoo.com
  
  "Would you help me tell the world I'm gay, too? I want to be brave like you," Zachary Ro asked Buttigieg.
  
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• Daredevil 'Mad Mike' Hughes dies in crash of his homemade rocket in California

  23-02-2020 23:07 via news.yahoo.com
  
  LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - "Mad Mike" Hughes, a self-styled explorer and daredevil bent on proving that the earth is flat was killed over the weekend when his homemade rocket crashed in the California desert over the weekend."Michael 'Mad Mike' Hughes tragically passed away today during an attempt to launch his homemade rocket," the Science Channel, which was planning to feature him on an upcoming series called "Homemade Astronauts," said on Twitter.A videotape of the incident, in which the rocket
  
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• Iran’s Election Turns Back the Clock on Reconciliation With West

  23-02-2020 23:00 via news.yahoo.com
  
  (Bloomberg) -- The victory by hard-liners in Iran’s election puts parliament back in the hands of people determined to turn the clock back on reconciliation with the West. Expect a retreat from commitments to the hollowed-out nuclear deal as the Islamic Republic’s economy bleeds from President Donald Trump’s sanctions onslaught.“The results that we’re seeing in the parliamentary elections are basically a manifestation of what’s been going on since early summer
  
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• Hamburg voters punish Merkel party

  23-02-2020 22:49 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Voters in German city-state Hamburg punished Chancellor Angela Merkel's crisis-racked conservatives in a regional election Sunday, while the incumbent centre-left held off a challenge from the Greens according to exit polls.It was a "bitter day" for Merkel's Christian Democratic Union (CDU), party general secretary Paul Ziemiak said.Turmoil in the federal party, as Merkel's designated successor stepped down following a scandal over cooperation in an eastern region with the far right, had been "a
  
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• Trump's national security advisor wildly claims Russia wants to elect Bernie Sanders because he'd cut defense spending to fund social programs

  23-02-2020 22:34 via news.yahoo.com
  
  "They'd probably like him to be president...because he wants to spend money on social programs and probably would have to take it out of the military"
  
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• Not in my backyard: Alabama balks at plan to house coronavirus patients

  23-02-2020 22:17 via news.yahoo.com
  
  A federal plan to house cruise ship passengers who tested positive for the coronavirus at a facility in Alabama was met with a resounding no thanks.
  
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• Mega rally to kick off Trump's first official visit to India

  23-02-2020 22:10 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Prime Minister Narendra Modi is set to welcome his US counterpart Donald Trump to India with a massive rally on Monday, kicking off a two-day visit likely to be more about pomp and ceremony than concrete agreements.The American president, in his first official visit to India, will deliver a speech at the world's biggest cricket stadium at a "Namaste Trump" rally watched by at least 100,000 people in Modi's home state of Gujarat.The rally comes in the wake of the wildly successful "Howdy, Modi" e
  
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• Bishop shakeup: West Virginia Catholic diocese issues audit

  23-02-2020 22:05 via news.yahoo.com
  
  The net assets of West Virginia's Roman Catholic Diocese dropped by $4.8 million during a fiscal year that coincided with the resignation of its bishop amid allegations of sexual and financial misconduct, an audit shows.Net assets totaled $352.3 million, down from $357 million a year earlier, according to the findings made public by current Bishop Mark E. Brennan.Brennan's predecessor, Bishop Michael Bransfield, resigned in September 2018 and has denied wrongdoing.
  
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• 'Miracle' rescue: California couple in their 70s found alive after disappearing on Valentine's Day hike

  23-02-2020 22:00 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Carol Kiparsky, 77, and her husband, Ian Irwin, 72, were located in a densely forested area about 30 miles north of San Francisco on Saturday.
  
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• Bernie Sanders-backer Susan Sarandon says: 'We’re not looking to keep Nancy Pelosi'

  23-02-2020 21:44 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Actress and activist Susan Sarandon has hit back at Democratic presidential hopeful Pete Buttigieg for claiming that front-runner Bernie Sanders could jeapordise down-ballot candidates in November - and backed the ouster of Nancy Pelosi.He wrote on Twitter: “Senator Sanders is ignoring, dismissing, or even attacking the very Democrats we absolutely must send to Capitol Hill in order to keep Nancy Pelosi as Speaker, in order to support judges who respect privacy and democracy, and in order
  
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• N.Y. Gov. Cuomo compares the 'virus of hate' to the coronavirus after bomb threats were emailed to 19 Jewish community centers in one single morning

  23-02-2020 21:43 via news.yahoo.com
  
  "People are worried about the Coronavirus, which we're watching in this state – there's also a virus of hate, and it's spreading," Cuomo said.
  
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• New York's governor compares the 'virus of hate' to the coronavirus after bomb threats were emailed to 19 Jewish community centers in one morning

  23-02-2020 21:43 via news.yahoo.com
  
  "People are worried about the coronavirus, which we're watching in this state — there's also a virus of hate, and it's spreading," Andrew Cuomo said.
  
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• RESULTS: Bernie Sanders wins the Nevada caucus, follow the full vote count and delegate race here

  23-02-2020 21:42 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Sanders has now won the popular vote in the first three primary contests and holds his biggest lead yet in the diverse state of Nevada.
  
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• Spread of coronavirus confirms WHO fears, say experts

  23-02-2020 21:33 via news.yahoo.com
  
  The sharp rise in cases and the geographical spread of the coronavirus outside China confirm WHO fears over dealing with the crisis, experts warned Sunday as they appealed for ever greater vigilance."There has been a profound shift in the direction that COVID-19 (new coronavirus) is taking over the past 48 hours," said Professor Devi Sridhar, Director of the Global Health Governance Programme at the University of Edinburgh Medical School.On Friday, World Health Organization (WHO) chief Tedros Ad
  
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• World is on the brink of a coronavirus pandemic, warn virologists, as four more cases emerge in Britain

  23-02-2020 21:19 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Four new cases of coronavirus were confirmed in the UK on Sunday, as experts warned of an impending pandemic with parts of Italy in lockdown after a massive rise in the number of new infections there. The new British patients had all been passengers on board the Diamond Princess cruise ship and were in quarantine in The Wirral when they fell ill, having returned from Japan on Saturday. It emerged on Sunday that the patients had been tested while in Japan, but the results were not received until
  
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• Billionaire Tom Steyer qualifies for next debate as Biden blames him for South Carolina slide

  23-02-2020 21:17 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Biden said Steyer had spent "a lot of money" in South Carolina and he assumed that was "part of the reason why those numbers are down."
  
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• Man drives Jeep off 6-story roof of Los Angeles-area garage

  23-02-2020 21:15 via news.yahoo.com
  
  A man drove his Jeep off the the sixth floor of a Los Angeles-area parking garage early Sunday and was taken to a hospital in critical condition, authorities said.When officers arrived shortly after midnight, they found the destroyed vehicle up against a McDonald's restaurant across the street from the garage in Santa Monica, police said.Firefighters extricated him from the wreckage and took him to a local trauma center, where he was listed in critical condition, the Santa Monica Fire Department
  
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• Israel confirms second coronavirus case among cruise returnees

  23-02-2020 21:06 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Israel confirmed its second case of the new coronavirus Sunday -- a second returned citizen from the stricken cruise ship Diamond Princess."Another passenger who returned from the cruise ship in Japan has tested positive," a health ministry statement said."The patient is in isolation and under supervision and was not infected in Israel," it said.
  
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• Buttigieg campaign claims 'irregularities' in Nevada caucus results

  23-02-2020 21:00 via news.yahoo.com
  
  A Nevada Democratic Party spokeswoman said that officials were "continuing to verify and to report result."
  
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• Three Weinstein Accusers Could Send Producer to Prison for Life

  23-02-2020 20:59 via news.yahoo.com
  
  (Bloomberg) -- As the jurors in Harvey Weinstein’s sexual assault trial wrestle with a pair of charges that could send the fallen movie mogul to prison for life, the testimony of three women who don’t even appear in his indictment could help seal his fate.They’re known as Molineux witnesses in New York, where Weinstein is being tried, and they testified to their own encounters with him as prosecutors sought to persuade the jury that the two women he is charged with attacking ne
  
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• Xi says China facing 'big test' with virus, global impact spreads

  23-02-2020 20:57 via news.yahoo.com
  
  China's leader said Sunday the new-coronavirus epidemic is the communist country's largest-ever public health emergency, but other nations were also increasingly under pressure from the deadly outbreak's relentless global march.Italy reported a third death while cases spiked and the country's Venice carnival closed early.Iran's confirmed death toll rose to eight, prompting travel bans from neighbouring countries.
  
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• Despite attacks, Sanders' Medicare for All boosts early-state triumphs

  23-02-2020 20:52 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Among Nevadans who supported a single-payer plan, 49% said they were backing Sanders – more than three times that of any other candidate.If that dynamic holds in South Carolina, which votes on Saturday, and on March 3, when 14 states host elections on "Super Tuesday," Sanders could open up an commanding lead despite moderates' efforts to derail him.
  
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• Police at checkpoints, events scrapped as virus fears hit Italy

  23-02-2020 20:48 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Police patrolled perimeters of virus-stricken town in northern Italy Sunday as tens of thousands of people were placed under lockdown and public events cancelled to stem Europe's worst outbreak of the new coronavirus."Virus -- Northern Italy under Siege," read Sunday's headline in the Il Fatto Quotidiano daily, as television stations delivered a steady stream of images of masked locals and hospital workers in protective suits."Virus Paralysis," read La Repubblica.
  
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• Ira Hayes raised the flag on Iwo Jima. 75 years later, he still inspires this Indian community.

  23-02-2020 20:47 via news.yahoo.com
  
  75 years ago, Ira Hayes was one of the six Marines captured in the historic photograph raising the American flag on Iwo Jima.
  
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• Buttigieg questions 3rd place finish in Nevada, cites errors

  23-02-2020 20:41 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Pete Buttigieg’s campaign has questioned his third-place finish in Nevada’s caucuses and called for the state’s Democratic party to release a more detailed breakdown of votes and address reports of more than 200 problems allocating votes in Saturday’s caucuses.The campaign also said it received reports that volunteers running caucuses did not appear to follow rules that could have allowed candidates to pick up more support on a second round of voting.
  
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• Haiti police exchange fire with troops near national palace

  23-02-2020 20:37 via news.yahoo.com
  
  PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (AP) — Off-duty police officers and their supporters exchanged fire for nearly two hours on Sunday with members of the newly reconstituted Haitian army in front of the national palace, in a dangerous escalation of protests over police pay and working conditions.At least three police officers were wounded, fellow officers told The Associated Press.Associated Press journalists saw dozens of men who said they were off-duty officers march with hundreds of supporters towar
  
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• MSNBC anchors keep comparing Sanders' campaign and its supporters to Nazis, and they're being called to resign

  23-02-2020 20:10 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Chris Matthews's comments come after MSNBC host Chuck Todd quoted a conservative column on air that likened Sanders supporters to "brownshirts."
  
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• How Elizabeth Warren would legalize marijuana and fight ‘Big Tobacco’

  23-02-2020 20:10 via politico.com
  
  Warren has been a prolific co-sponsor of cannabis bills on Capitol Hill.
  
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• B. Smith's husband criticized for having girlfriend while she battles Alzheimer's

  23-02-2020 20:10 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Dan Gasby has fired back at critics upset that he has a girlfriend while caring for his ailing wife of 26 years.
  
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• Iran neighbours impose travel bans as coronavirus toll rises

  23-02-2020 20:07 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Iran's confirmed death toll from the new coronavirus rose to eight on Sunday, the highest outside China, sending neighbouring countries scrambling to contain the outbreak.Four immediate neighbours of the Islamic republic -- Turkey, Pakistan, Afghanistan and Armenia -- said on Sunday they would close land borders, while three imposed restrictions on air traffic, amid growing regional concerns about the spread of the virus.Iraqi and Kuwaiti authorities have already banned travel to and from Iran.
  
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• Merkel’s Party Drops to Record Low in Hamburg Vote, Greens Gain

  23-02-2020 20:06 via news.yahoo.com
  
  (Bloomberg) -- Chancellor Angela Merkel’s party plunged to a post-World War II low in a state election in Hamburg as voters gave their first verdict on political turmoil in Germany that has upended her succession plans.Merkel’s Christian Democratic Union took 11.2% of the vote on Sunday, a drop of more than 4 percentage points, according to projections by ARD public television. The city-state’s governing Social Democratic Party secured a clear victory with about 38.6%, even as
  
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• 10,000 mourn victims of racist shooting rampage in Germany

  23-02-2020 20:00 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Around 10,000 protesters marched through the central German town of Hanau on Sunday to mourn the nine people who were killed by an immigrant-hating gunman four days ago.“These days and hours are the blackest and darkest our town has ever experienced during peace times,” Hanau mayor Claus Kaminsky told the somber crowds, according to the German news agency dpa.Five of the victims were reported to be Turkish citizens.
  
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• Greyhound will stop allowing immigration checks on buses

  23-02-2020 19:54 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Greyhound, the U.S.’s largest bus company, said on Friday that it will stop allowing Border Patrol agents without a warrant to board its buses to conduct routine immigration checks.
  
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• AQAP confirms death of leader, appoints successor: SITE

  23-02-2020 19:52 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula on Sunday confirmed the death of its leader Qassim al-Rimi and appointed a successor, weeks after the US said it had "eliminated" the Islamist militant chief, SITE Intelligence group said.The announcement came in an audio speech delivered by AQAP religious official Hamid bin Hamoud al-Tamimi, said the group which monitors jihadist networks worldwide."In his speech, Tamimi spoke at length about Rimi and his jihadi journey, and stated that Khalid bin Umar Batarfi
  
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• National security adviser says he's seen 'no evidence' Russia backing Trump, contradicting intelligence community

  23-02-2020 19:51 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Intelligence officials briefed members of Congress earlier this month that Russia was interfering in the 2020 campaign to try and boost Trump's re-election chances.
  
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• MSNBC Analyst Calls Out Colleague Chris Matthews for Comparing Bernie’s Nevada Win to Nazi Invasion

  23-02-2020 19:50 via news.yahoo.com
  
  MSNBC political analyst Anand Giridharadas called out his colleague Chris Matthews live on-air Sunday morning after the longtime MSNBC host likened Democratic presidential candidate Bernie Sanders’ strong Nevada showing to France falling to the Nazis in World War II.As early results from Saturday’s Nevada caucuses showed Sanders held a massive lead and was primed for a huge victory, a deflated Matthews—who has been increasingly unhinged over the prospect of a Sanders nomination
  
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• Rockets fired from Gaza after Israel kills Palestinian on border

  23-02-2020 19:28 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Palestinian militants in Gaza said they fired a barrage of rockets at Israel on Sunday, in a new flareup a week ahead of a general election in the Jewish state.The radical group Islamic Jihad said the strikes were in response to Israel's killing of one of its fighters early the same day.The rockets set off warning sirens in the southern city of Ashkelon and several other locations, while around 10 were intercepted by the Jewish state's Iron Dome missile defence system, the Israeli army said.
  
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• Skeptic of world being round dies in California rocket crash

  23-02-2020 18:59 via news.yahoo.com
  
  A California man who said he wanted to fly to the edge of outer space to see if the world is round has died after his home-built rocket blasted off into the desert sky and plunged back to earth.“Mad" Mike Hughes was killed on Saturday afternoon after his rocket crashed on private property near Barstow, California.Waldo Stakes, a colleague who was at the rocket launch, said Hughes, 64, was killed.
  
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• China's Xi calls for action on economy amid virus outbreak

  23-02-2020 18:54 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Warning that China’s virus epidemic is “still grim and complex,” President Xi Jinping called on Sunday for more efforts to stop the outbreak, revive industry and prevent the disease from derailing the spring planting of crops.
  
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• The military's 'war for talent' is affecting what the Navy's future ships will look like

  23-02-2020 18:52 via news.yahoo.com
  
  The Navy needs not only enough people but the right people, and appealing to them is influencing the design of its future ships.
  
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• CNN analyst: Republicans 'may regret' hoping Sanders wins nomination

  23-02-2020 18:44 via news.yahoo.com
  
  President Trump continues to ride the Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.), but some analysts think he and the Republican might want to think twice about what they're wishing for.Trump on Sunday congratulated Sanders on his big win at the Nevada caucuses, which helped increase his lead in the Democratic presidential primary substantially, making him the frontrunner to take on Trump in the general election in November. The president said it remains to be seen if Sanders can hold on, but he just hopes the
  
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• Upbeat Trump leaves for 'biggest event' ever in India

  23-02-2020 18:38 via news.yahoo.com
  
  President Donald Trump left for India on Sunday, buoyed by disarray among his Democratic opponents and predicting that "many millions" will greet him on a lightning visit with Prime Minister Narendra Modi.Despite a first term dogged by near constant scandals and investigations, Trump feels he can win against the growing Democratic frontrunner, leftist Bernie Sanders, and he is clearly chuffed at the idea of huge crowds in India."I look forward to being with the people of India," Trump said as he
  
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• Moscow's preferred U.S. candidate reportedly isn't Trump or Sanders, but 'chaos'

  23-02-2020 18:38 via news.yahoo.com
  
  If you saw the reports that Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) was briefed by U.S. intelligence agencies that Russia was trying to aid his Democratic presidential campaign, you might have wondered, why exactly, Moscow was targeting him. After all, President Trump is still apparently the candidate the Kremlin hopes wins, and Sanders and Trump certainly have different ideological stances.GQ's Julia Ioffe set out to answer that question, and while she reports that some people think Sanders' non-interventi
  
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• Coronavirus challenges $45 billion cruise industry

  23-02-2020 18:37 via news.yahoo.com
  
  'Business is soft, people are scared to travel,' said Frank Del Rio, CEO of Norwegian Cruise Line.
  
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• Nearly two-thirds of voters expect Trump to win reelection in November, poll finds

  23-02-2020 18:35 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Opinions on the race appear to be firmly set for most voters, with 63% saying they know how they will vote no matter who is the Democratic nominee.
  
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• Biden says Steyer’s spending to blame for dip in African American support

  23-02-2020 18:35 via politico.com
  
  The former vice president says Steyer’s ads have hurt his campaign.
  
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• Police at checkpoints, events cancelled as virus fears shake Italy

  23-02-2020 18:31 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Police patrolled the perimeters of virus-stricken northern Italian towns Sunday as Italy put tens of thousands of people under lockdown and cancelled festivals and sporting events in an attempt to halt Europe's worst outbreak of the new coronavirus.High profile events including fashion shows in Milan, Serie A football matches and the last days of the Venice Carnival have been disrupted, even those well outside the lockdown areas."Virus -- Northern Italy under Siege," read Sunday's headline in th
  
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• Michael 'Mad Mike' Hughes dies at 64 after attempting a homemade rocket launch into space

  23-02-2020 18:31 via news.yahoo.com
  
  The rocket launch that occurred Saturday and led to Hughes' death was supposed to be featured on a new Science Channel show, "Homemade Astronauts."
  
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