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• Elizabeth Warren and Her Supporters Now Have Tremendous Power to Shape the Rest of the Primary

  05-03-2020 23:54 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Senator Elizabeth Warren declined to endorse Bernie Sanders or Joe Biden, saying she wanted to take time to think before making a decision.
  
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• Trump and Mike Bloomberg are trolling each other with clips from 'Star Wars' and 'Spaceballs'

  05-03-2020 23:44 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Since Bloomberg's exit from the presidential race, his attacks on Trump — and vice-versa — have had a sci-fi theme.
  
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• Man who filmed himself licking tub of ice cream sentenced to 30 days in prison

  05-03-2020 23:42 via news.yahoo.com
  
  A man has been sentenced to 30 days in prison after filming himself licking a tub of ice cream in Walmart before returning it to the freezer.24-year-old D'Adrien L'Quinn Anderson filmed himself licking a tub of Blue Bell ice cream in Port Arthur, Texas and uploaded it to Facebook and Instagram.
  
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• Guyana's Granger claims victory as U.S. and EU question vote results

  05-03-2020 23:41 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Diplomats and foreign observers on Thursday questioned preliminary results of Guyana's presidential election as incumbent David Granger claimed victory and the opposition denounced fraud, setting up a showdown in the oil-rich South American nation.Opposition leaders denounced "thievery," and diplomats from the United States, the European Union, Britain and Canada said results released by the elections council for one of the country's regions were not credible."This is an embarrassment that this
  
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• Pompeo’s Turkish Gambit Fails in Syria

  05-03-2020 23:37 via news.yahoo.com
  
  The State Department was banking on Turkey to push Russia out of Syria, but the two countries have come to the table.
  
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• Trump's mental state — not Biden's — is the real concern, mental health professionals say

  05-03-2020 23:36 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Mental health professionals who have expressed concern over what they see as Donald Trump’s declining mental state say that similar fears about Joe Biden are overblown.
  
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• Michael Bloomberg to fund independent group to boost Democrats this year

  05-03-2020 23:34 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Michael Bloomberg will form an independent group to help elect the Democratic presidential nominee in November, fulfilling a vow to put his $60 billion personal fortune to work even after abandoning his own White House bid on Wednesday.The independent expenditure organization will employ some of the enormous staff he built during his months-long presidential campaign, when he spent more than $500 million on an unprecedented advertising blitz only to register disappointing results in 14 state con
  
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• Canceling a cruise due to coronavirus? Here’s a list of updated policies

  05-03-2020 23:33 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Following the COVID-19 outbreak, cruise lines like Disney, Norwegian and Viking are implementing strict travel restrictions to protect passengers and crew members.
  
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• Musician Grimes says tech billionaire Elon Musk's goals are very similar to Bernie Sanders' and that he's 'tangibly, visibly' solving the world's problems

  05-03-2020 23:27 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Grimes said that her boyfriend, Tesla and SpaceX CEO Elon Musk, is undeniably making a difference in the world — just like Bernie Sanders.
  
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• Andrew Yang is launching a nonprofit to make universal basic income a reality

  05-03-2020 23:27 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Andrew Yang's $1,000 promise may be coming to a town near you.The entrepreneur is following his failed 2020 bid with a nonprofit dedicated to bringing his signature campaign promise to life, Yang announced Thursday. Humanity First will turn one New York town into a testing ground for the universal basic income Yang constantly promised during his run, along with other initiatives that make the nonprofit basically an extension of Yang's campaign.In a beta version of Yang's so-called "freedom divid
  
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• A 94-year-old former Nazi camp guard who's living in Tennessee is going to be deported to Germany

  05-03-2020 23:25 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Friedrich Karl Berger served as an armed guard at a sub-camp of Neuengamme near Meppen, Germany, during World War II.
  
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• Private investment funds in Colombia have $5 billion ready to invest

  05-03-2020 23:24
  
  Private investment funds operating in Colombia have around $5 billion available to invest in projects in the Andean country, the investors' guild president said Thursday.
  
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• Argentina farmers announce strike after soya exports tax hike

  05-03-2020 23:08 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Argentina's farmers announced on Thursday a four-day strike after the government of President Alberto Fernandez increased tariffs on soya exports just three months after already hitting the agricultural sector with higher taxes.Soya is Argentina's biggest export commodity and the government hiked tariffs from 30 to 33 percent on Thursday.The industrial action announced by the four farming employers federations is the first to hit Fernandez since he assumed power in December.
  
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• Could China's New DF-100 Missiles Really Sink America's Carriers?

  05-03-2020 23:00 via news.yahoo.com
  
  A huge problem.
  
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• Police seek gunman after California mass shooting that left 1 dead, 5 injured

  05-03-2020 22:56 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Tulare police looked for a gunman who fired at a gathering Wednesday night, leaving a man dead and a 7-year-old girl clinging to life.
  
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• Trump prepares scorched earth campaign against Biden

  05-03-2020 22:52 via news.yahoo.com
  
  President Donald Trump makes no secret of the scorched earth campaign he'll mount against Democratic frontrunner Joe Biden -- complete with questioning the former vice president's cognitive abilities and accusing him constantly of corruption.A veteran senator and former wingman to Barack Obama, Biden has shot into pole position ahead of fiery leftist rival Bernie Sanders with a soothing message of restoring calm and "decency" to America.As part of his folksy plain "Joe" persona, Biden often says
  
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• New York state coronavirus cases double to 22; Senate overwhelmingly passes $8.3 billion spending bill

  05-03-2020 22:44 via news.yahoo.com
  
  The number of people who have the novel coronavirus in New York state doubled to 22 on Thursday, following an increase in testing, as Tennessee became the 14th state to report a case of the fast-spreading illness.
  
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• Biden appears to close the door on Warren joining his administration: ‘We need her continued work in the Senate’

  05-03-2020 22:42 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Joe Biden hailed Elizabeth Warren as “the fiercest of fighters for middle class families” after she decided to suspend her presidential campaign, while seemingly closing the door to the senator joining his potential White House administration.The former vice president celebrated Ms Warren in a statement posted to his Twitter account shortly after she announced her decision to end a bid for the Democratic nomination on Thursday, writing: “Her work in Washington, in Massachusetts
  
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• Woman uses drone to look for son's body in Mexico's killing fields

  05-03-2020 22:39 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Leticia Hidalgo smears her face with sunscreen and walks steadily across the weedy wasteland she has come to know as one of Mexico's killing fields.Mexico has been overwhelmed by an escalation of narco violence that has left more than 60,000 people missing since 2006.Hidalgo's son Roy is one of them, and she believes he could well be here, somewhere beneath the scrubland at her feet, in what she calls a likely "place of extermination."
  
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• 11 new COVID-19 cases in New York, officials say

  05-03-2020 22:38 via news.yahoo.com
  
  There are 11 new cases of novel coronavirus reported in New York state, officials said on Thursday.
  
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• Sen. Ted Cruz Hatches Plan to Curtail the International Criminal Court’s Power

  05-03-2020 22:24 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Sen. Ted Cruz is aiming to dramatically curtail the power of the International Criminal Court, The Daily Beast has learned. The Texas Republican is working to garner support for a resolution that would call on the UN Security Council to bar the ICC from bringing charges against people from states who aren’t parties to the treaty that governs it—which would include Russia, China, the U.S., and Israel.The resolution would also condemn the court for investigating American soldiers and I
  
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• 10-year-old boy in San Diego surrenders after shotgun standoff with police

  05-03-2020 22:19 via news.yahoo.com
  
  A 10-year-old boy surrendered to police Thursday after hiding out in a shed and firing a shotgun at them.San Diego police said the unusual firefight began when the boy’s parents called the police because he was having an emotional and mental episode.
  
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• Another senior politician has died of coronavirus in Iran, where 8% of the parliament is infected

  05-03-2020 22:11 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Iran has barred government officials from traveling, and parliament has been suspended indefinitely.
  
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• Mike Bloomberg is rehiring hundreds of staffers in 6 swing states to help the Democratic nominee take on Trump in November

  05-03-2020 22:07 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Bloomberg's advisers have trained their sights on Wisconsin, Michigan, Pennsylvania, Arizona, Florida, and North Carolina.
  
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• Coronavirus: Trump's immigration policies may help spread deadly virus, healthcare experts warn

  05-03-2020 22:07 via news.yahoo.com
  
  The Trump administration’s continued crackdowns on immigration rules may increase the potential for coronavirus to spread in the United States unchecked.Beginning on 24 February, the Department of Homeland Security began enforcing a new rule that allows them to deny immigrants visas or permanent residency to individuals if they’re likely to become “public charges” - in other words, recipients of certain public benefits.
  
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• Doomed: The Tragic Tale of How the Navy Lost This One Submarine Forever

  05-03-2020 22:00 via news.yahoo.com
  
  How it things go so wrong?
  
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• The Democratic Party Destroyed Its Own Chances in 1972. Today's Democrats Could Learn From That Year’s Mistakes

  05-03-2020 21:54 via news.yahoo.com
  
  As some in the Democratic Party look ahead to a possible contested convention, the lessons of 1972 become even more important
  
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• 'It has a 9/11-like feel': Southwest CEO says bookings down precipitously from coronavirus concerns

  05-03-2020 21:54 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Southwest says its first quarter revenue will be $200-$300 million lower than expected due to a sharp decline in bookings and cancellations.
  
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• Arkansas boy dresses as security officer for school event

  05-03-2020 21:49 via news.yahoo.com
  
  An Arkansas boy dressed up as his school's security officer on the day students were told to dress as their favorite person.Officer Jeffery Cross toldKTHV-TVin Little Rock that he was honored that kindergartner Easton Blocker dressed up like him on Wednesday.This is the first year for the Jacksonville North Pulaski School District to have armed security officers.
  
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• The Department of Defense is bracing for a potential coronavirus outbreak at the Pentagon

  05-03-2020 21:46 via news.yahoo.com
  
  "We want to be prepared for everything, and we're taking a variety of measures," Secretary of Defense Mark Esper said Thursday afternoon.
  
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• Bernie Sanders admits he's 'not getting young people to vote like I wanted'

  05-03-2020 21:46 via news.yahoo.com
  
  The share of the electorate under 30 actually declined this year in a host of Super Tuesday states — a huge loss for Sanders.
  
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• Facebook takes down Trump 2020 campaign's 'Census' ads

  05-03-2020 21:35 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Facebook Inc said on Thursday it was removing ads from President Donald Trump's re-election campaign that asked users to fill out an "Official 2020 Congressional District Census" because they violated its policies.The ads, hundreds of which were run through the pages of the president and Vice President Mike Pence, link to a survey on an official campaign website and then to a page asking for donations.Some of the ads, which feature an image of a scroll with the words '2020 census,' ask for repli
  
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• Facebook decides to take down Trump 2020 campaign's 'census' ads

  05-03-2020 21:35 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Facebook Inc on Thursday removed ads by President Donald Trump's re-election campaign that asked users to fill out an "Official 2020 Congressional District Census" because the ads violate the company's policy against misinformation on the government's census.The ads, which come from the pages of the Republican president and Vice President Mike Pence, link to a survey on an official campaign website and then to a page asking for donations.The online newsletter Popular Information, which first rep
  
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• Palestinians declare state of emergency over coronavirus: prime minister

  05-03-2020 21:34 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas declared a 30-day state of emergency on Thursday after coronavirus cases were reported in the West Bank town of Bethlehem.The decree was announced by Palestinian Prime Minister Mohammed Shtayyeh hours after officials closed Bethlehem's Church of the Nativity, the traditional birthplaces of Jesus, and banned foreign tourists from West Bank hotels."We have decided to declare a state of emergency in all Palestinian areas to confront the danger of the coronavirus
  
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• Former Cop Who Fatally Shot Two People Charged With Murdering Neighbor

  05-03-2020 21:33 via news.yahoo.com
  
  A NASA employee was charged Wednesday with murdering his neighbor, a Maryland National Guardsman, with whom he’d fought for years over loud music, dog poop, and guests, according to police and family members. Michael Hetle, 52, faces several charges, including second-degree murder and the use of a firearm in the commission of a felony, in the slaying of his 24-year-old neighbor Javon Prather, Fairfax County police told The Daily Beast on Thursday. Hetle, a former police officer w
  
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• Trump Facebook Ads Removed Over Misleading U.S. Census Link

  05-03-2020 21:27 via news.yahoo.com
  
  (Bloomberg) -- Facebook Inc. will remove ads from U.S. President Donald Trump that encouraged users to take the “Official 2020 Congressional District Census,” but included a link that led them to a re-election campaign survey unrelated to the official U.S. Census.The social network, which has come under fire for its policy against fact-checking ads from politicians, makes exceptions for ads that share misleading information around certain categories, like voting or the 2020 Census.Th
  
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• New coronavirus infections in Wuhan may drop to zero by end of March: Chinese govt. expert

  05-03-2020 21:27 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Wuhan, the epicenter of China’s coronavirus epidemic, will likely see new infections drop to zero by the end of this month, an expert with the country’s top panel on battling the illness said on Thursday, even as the city reported a quicker rise in new confirmed cases.
  
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• A promising 2020 presidential campaign for women falls short

  05-03-2020 21:17 via news.yahoo.com
  
  At her home in suburban Detroit, Jill Warren spent Thursday morning glued to her phone, searching for news about the woman she fiercely believed should be the next president of the United States: Sen. Elizabeth Warren.Voter Warren had known that candidate Warren (no relation) was lagging badly and would likely drop out."It's a day for many people of mourning, just true mourning and grieving," said Jill Warren, a 61-year-old semi-retired nonprofit consultant.
  
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• Meet the self-proclaimed 'billionaire heiress,' bikini enthusiast, and GOP crusader whose dad spied on her date using a controversial facial-recognition app

  05-03-2020 21:14 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Andrea Catsimatidis' dad, the billionaire owner of Gristedes, spied on his daughter's date with a controversial app meant to be used by the police.
  
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• Schumer says he misspoke about conservative justices: 'I should not have used the words I used'

  05-03-2020 21:13 via news.yahoo.com
  
  "I should not have used the words I used yesterday. They did not come out the way I intended to," Schumer said Thursday.
  
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• R Kelly pleads not guilty as trial date pushed back to include new accuser

  05-03-2020 21:11 via news.yahoo.com
  
  R&B; singer R Kelly pleaded not guilty to an updated federal indictment that includes child pornography charges and allegations involving a new accuser.More charges alleging yet another victim are still to come, prosecutor Angel Krull said during the hearing in Chicago on Thursday.
  
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• Lawmakers Brace for Potential Coronavirus Cases on Capitol Hill

  05-03-2020 21:09 via news.yahoo.com
  
  (Bloomberg) -- Members of Congress are bracing for the potential spread of the coronavirus on Capitol Hill, with some acknowledging an outbreak is only a “matter of time” even as they urge their constituents and fellow lawmakers to remain calm.“I assume that we’re going to have infections on Capitol Hill,” said Senator Marco Rubio, a Republican from Florida. “I don’t think there’s any way to avoid that, to be frank.”“We have visitors co
  
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• Amid coronavirus outbreak, some airlines are changing how they clean planes

  05-03-2020 21:06 via news.yahoo.com
  
  With new COVID-19 cases emerging every day, airlines like American, United and Delta are taking extra measures to prevent the spread of the disease.
  
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• Meet Perseverance: Mars rover gets name ahead of July launch

  05-03-2020 20:59 via news.yahoo.com
  
  NASA's next Mars rover finally has a name.Perseverance, a six-wheeled robotic explorer, will blast off this summer to collect Martian samples for eventual return to Earth.The name was suggested by Alex Mather, a Virginia seventh-grader, as part of a naming contest for U.S. schoolchildren.
  
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• McCarthy Calls on Senate Democrats to Reconsider Leadership after Schumer’s SCOTUS Comments

  05-03-2020 20:58 via news.yahoo.com
  
  House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy on Thursday called on Senate Democrats to reconsider whether they want minority leader Chuck Schumer to continue in his current role in light of the threat he directed at the Supreme Court's conservative justices."I don't think you should take this lightly," McCarthy said during a press conference. "Think about who said this and where they said it. We have three co-equal branches. You had the leader of the Democrats in the Senate standing over the Suprem
  
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• US announces $8.3bn in coronavirus funding as cases surge

  05-03-2020 20:54 via news.yahoo.com
  
  San Francisco (AFP) - US lawmakers passed an emergency $8.3 billion spending bill to combat the coronavirus on Thursday as the number of cases surged in the country's northwest and deaths reached 11.
  
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• Donald Trump continues Michael Bloomberg feud with edited Spaceballs clip

  05-03-2020 20:54 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Donald Trump has continued his Twitter feud with Michael Bloomberg by posting a Spaceballs-themed video mocking the former Mayor of New York City.In the video, Mr Trump's head is superimposed on to the character Lone Starr, while Mr Bloomberg's head is placed on to the character Dark Helmet from the 1987 comedy.
  
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• Trump news - live: Documents reveal payouts from Secret Service to president's properties as he is roundly attacked for coronavirus comments and misleading Facebook ads

  05-03-2020 20:47 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Donald Trump has reacted angrily after being criticised for calling in to Sean Hannity’s Fox News show on Wednesday night to contradict the World Health Organisation on the coronavirus death rate, declaring: “I think the 3.4 per cent number is really a false number. Now this is just my hunch, but based on a lot of conversations... personally, I’d say the number is way under one per cent.”Even the president’s key Republican ally Lindsey Graham has since encouraged hi
  
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• Trump news: Documents reveal payouts from Secret Service to president's properties as he is roundly attacked for coronavirus comments and misleading Facebook ads

  05-03-2020 20:47 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Donald Trump has reacted angrily after being criticised for calling in to Sean Hannity’s Fox News show on Wednesday night to contradict the World Health Organisation on the coronavirus death rate, declaring: “I think the 3.4 per cent number is really a false number. Now this is just my hunch, but based on a lot of conversations... personally, I’d say the number is way under one per cent.”Even the president’s key Republican ally Lindsey Graham has since encouraged hi
  
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• San Francisco's first 2 coronavirus cases were just confirmed — authorities say the disease is likely being transmitted in the city

  05-03-2020 20:42 via news.yahoo.com
  
  "We do not know at this point how they were exposed to the virus, which suggests it is spreading in the community," the city's health director said.
  
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