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• Joe Biden says there is 'a real possibility he could run for president'

  18-02-2018 23:43 via yahoo.com
  Former Vice President Joe Biden is said to have told longtime policy aides it’s a real possibility he could run for president in 2020.The former Vice President to Barack Obama ruled out running for office in 2016 for a race that would have seen him pitted against Hillary Clinton and Bernie Sanders.While promoting his new book, “Promise Me, Dad”, late last year, Mr Biden declined to say if he would consider running for president in 2020.
  
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• Student survivors of Florida shooting slam Trump over FBI tweets

  18-02-2018 23:31 via yahoo.com
  By Katanga JohnsonPARKLAND, Fla (Reuters) - Student survivors of the deadliest-ever shooting at a U.S. high school reacted angrily on Sunday after U.S. President Donald Trump said the FBI may have been too distracted with a Russia probe to follow leads that could have prevented the massacre."Very sad that the FBI missed all of the many signals sent out by the Florida school shooter," Trump tweeted late Saturday."They are spending too much time trying to prove Russian collusion with the Trump cam
  
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• Turkey denies allegation of chemical attack in Syria

  18-02-2018 23:00 via yahoo.com
  Turkey never used chemical weapons in its operations in Syria, and takes the utmost care of civilians, its foreign minister said, after Syrian Kurdish forces and a monitoring group accused it of carrying out a gas attack in Syria's Afrin region.Turkey has never used any kind of chemical weapons," Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu told reporters at the Munich Security Conference.
  
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• Trump: FBI missed signs on Florida shooting due to Russia probe

  18-02-2018 22:30 via yahoo.com
  By Michelle PriceWASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Donald Trump attacked the FBI and lawmakers probing suspected Russian meddling in the 2016 presidential election and said an excessive focus on Russia led federal investigators to miss signs that could have prevented a deadly mass shooting at a Florida high school.In a series of tweets over the weekend sent from his Mar-a-Lago estate in Florida, Trump said congressional investigations and political "hatred" showed that Russia had succeeded in sow
  
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• Researchers discover hidden details lurking beneath a Picasso masterpiece

  18-02-2018 21:56 via yahoo.com
  There are many layers to great art — sometimes literally.  We are reminded of this fact by researchers at the Art Institute of Chicago's Center for Scientific Studies in the Arts, who have revealed hidden details lurking beneath the Pablo Picasso masterpiece "La miséreuse accroupie."
    SEE ALSO: This app tells you which museum art you look like and it's way too real While the presence of another artwork — specifically, a painting of the Catalan countryside by a diffe
  
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• Iran's Zarif says Israel's "myth of invincibility" has crumbled

  18-02-2018 21:32 via yahoo.com
  Iran's foreign minister said on Sunday the shooting down of an Israeli jet after it bombed an Iranian site in Syria had shattered Israel's "so-called invincibility", reacting to a critical speech delivered earlier by Israel's premier."Israel uses aggression as a policy against its neighbors," Mohammad Javad Zarif told the Munich Security Conference, accusing Israel of "mass reprisals against its neighbors and daily incursions into Syria, Lebanon.""Once the Syrians have the guts to down one of it
  
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• Iran postpones hunt for plane lost in mountain blizzard

  18-02-2018 21:24 via yahoo.com
  The hunt for a plane that disappeared with 66 people onboard in Iran's Zagros mountains was stopped until morning as blizzard conditions made progress impossible for rescue teams, state television said Sunday."With the wind intensifying, and with snow, rain and darkness, it is not possible for rescue and relief teams to reach high altitudes and the search operation has been postponed until tomorrow," broadcaster IRIB announced.Aseman Airlines flight EP3704 disappeared from radar 45 minutes after
  
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• 2 bears burned in California wildfire spotted in the wild

  18-02-2018 21:19 via yahoo.com
  GOLETA, Calif. (AP) — Officials tracking two bears that were badly burned in the largest wildfire in California history say the animals are settling back into their home in the wild after receiving unusual treatment for their injured paws.
  
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• 'Bad guy' Russia emerges as central player in Western diplomacy

  18-02-2018 21:12 via yahoo.com
  By Robin Emmott and Andrea ShalalMUNICH (Reuters) - European and U.S. officials divided over U.S. President Donald Trump's foreign policy found common cause this weekend in decrying what they say is Russia's covert campaign to undermine Western democracies.From eastern Ukraine to North Korea, Russia's status as a nuclear power, its military intervention in Syria and its veto on the United Nations Security Council mean any diplomacy must ultimately involve Moscow, officials said.
  
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• ROTC leader shocked that accused school shooter 1 of his own

  18-02-2018 21:03 via yahoo.com
  PARKLAND, Fla. (AP) — The sound of gunfire still ringing in his ears after his mad half-mile sprint, Jack Ciaramello was standing with friends in a grocery store parking lot when a sheriff's deputy approached. He asked the Marjory Stoneman Douglas High senior if he knew a former student named Nikolas Cruz.
  
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• Pakistan's Imran Khan ties knot to 'spiritual adviser' in third marriage

  18-02-2018 20:52 via yahoo.com
  Pakistani cricketer-turned-politican Imran Khan has tied the knot for the third time, his party said on Sunday, confirming his marriage to a woman local media call a "faith healer".Khan, who captained the Pakistan team when it won the Cricket World Cup in 1992, wed Bushra Watto in a low-key ceremony in the eastern city of Lahore.Khan has previously referred to Watto, a mother of five, as his 'spiritual adviser' and someone whose guidance he valued.
  
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• The Latest: Iran says 65 killed in airplane crash

  18-02-2018 20:44 via yahoo.com
  TEHRAN, Iran (AP) — The Latest on the crash of an Iranian passenger plane in southern Iran (all times local):
  
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• Immediately After Interviewing Parkland Students, Fox News Invites Criticism Of Them

  18-02-2018 20:28 via yahoo.com
  Minutes after interviewing a group of Parkland, Florida, students organizing marches in response to the mass shooting at their school, “Fox News Sunday” put conservative pundit Rush Limbaugh on the air to dismiss their plans and condemn them for trying to advance a “political agenda.”
  
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• Five killed in attack on church in Russia's Dagestan

  18-02-2018 20:04 via yahoo.com
  A man in Russia's southern province of Dagestan shot into a crowd of people leaving a church on Sunday, killing five and injuring at least five others, Russian news agencies reported, citing the local health ministry. The attack occurred in the village of Kizlyar in the Muslim-majority republic of Dagestan, agencies said. The small republic in the Caucasus mountains borders Chechnya, where Moscow has led two wars against separatists and radical religious groups since the 1991 Soviet collapse and
  
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• Parkland students slam Trump for tying shooting to Russia probe: 'He has already made it about himself'

  18-02-2018 20:01 via yahoo.com
  Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School students Aly Sheehy and Giuliana Matamoros were astounded that Donald Trump would use their tragedy to push back against U.S. special counsel Robert Mueller's probe into possible collusion between Moscow and his 2016 campaign.
  
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• Get A Look At This RPG's Character Creator

  18-02-2018 20:00
  Since we first saw it at Gamescom, the quirky action-RPG Biomutant has quickly become one of the most anticipated games of this year for us. Yesterday, PC Gamer talked with the developer Experiment 101 on a livestream that showcased the character creator in action.
  You can watch the livestream segment below if you want to see it in action. The character creator lets you choose mutants for your rodent hero as well as their fur type and color. It's weirdly enthralling to watch the fur shift as th
  
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• Rainbow Six Siege: Outbreak Adds Character (Not Just Aliens)

  18-02-2018 19:55
  The stakes are usually pretty high in Rainbow Six Siege. Protect the hostage, disarm the bomb, contain a biological outbreak precipitated by an extraterrestrial pathogen. The last one’s new.
  Yes, as strange as it sounds, an alien virus really is the latest threat to face Siege’s global band of elite operators. As part of the wider Chimera season, Outbreak ushers in the game’s third year with its most eccentric, character-driven content to date.
  Outbreak contains three missions
  
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• After family's murder, father wants convicted son's life spared

  18-02-2018 19:44 via yahoo.com
  Kent Whitaker, who survived a deadly domestic attack hatched by his son, is pushing the state of Texas to grant clemency to the condemned man, although it has never spared a death row inmate solely at the formal request of the victim's family. Jillian Kitchener reports.
  
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• Sally Field Is Playing Matchmaker Between Adam Rippon And Her Son

  18-02-2018 19:33 via yahoo.com
  Sally Field appears to be gunning for a new accolade: best supporting mom.
  
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• Florida shooting: As community tries to heal, students say they want theirs to be the last school massacre

  18-02-2018 19:30 via yahoo.com
  For residents in the otherwise quiet and safe community of Parkland, Florida, the past several days have been tinged with sorrow, concern, and anger.In the wake of the shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School, funerals for the 17 dead have begun alongside candlelit vigils to remember those who passed.Parents and students alike have been left to grapple with the simple question of whether Stoneman – a high school with roughly 3,200 students, situated in a relatively affluent pocket
  
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• Death toll rises to 14 in Mexico helicopter crash

  18-02-2018 19:28 via yahoo.com
  The death toll from a helicopter crash that followed a strong earthquake in southern Mexico rose to 14 Sunday, as the defense minister said the government assumed full responsibility.The tragedy struck Friday night as a military helicopter flew the interior minister and other officials to an area near the epicenter of a 7.2-magnitude earthquake that shook Mexico earlier that evening.Inside the helicopter, Interior Minister Alfonso Navarrete and Oaxaca state Governor Alejandro Murat were unharmed
  
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• Man Who Accused Former Seattle Mayor Ed Murray of Sex Abuse Found Dead

  18-02-2018 19:23 via yahoo.com
  Delvonn Heckard, 47, was found dead in a suburban Seattle motel room Friday; the cause of death is still pending.
  
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• Parents Outraged After Learning About School Threat Months Later

  18-02-2018 19:22 via yahoo.com
  A letter from a New Jersey school district regarding school safety in the wake of the recent shooting in Florida was sent out Friday, saying there was a threat made against Ramapo Ridge Middle School months earlier.
  
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• Bernie Sanders On AR-15s: They’re 'Not For Hunting. They’re For Killing Human Beings’

  18-02-2018 19:09 via yahoo.com
  Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) has once again called for a ban on the sale of assault weapons in the wake of the Parkland, Florida, school shooting that left 17 dead last Wednesday.
  
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• Putin’s shock troops - how Russia's secret mercenary army came up against the US in Syria

  18-02-2018 18:58 via yahoo.com
  It was one of Isil’s biggest cash cows, a strategic prize crucial to the Kremlin and Bashar Assad’s plans to re-establish his rule over Syria. But the assault on Conoco oilfield near Deir Ezzor earlier this month ended in disaster, sparking the first deadly combat between Americans and Russians since the Vietnam War and embarrassing Vladimir Putin just weeks before an election.  It also cast an unwelcome light on one of the worst kept secrets of Russia’s war in Syria - its
  
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• Parents Capture Last Time Young Daughter With 'Childhood Alzheimer's' Says 'I Love You'

  18-02-2018 18:27 via yahoo.com
  They didn't know it would be the last time.
  
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• In Memoriam: The 17 lives cut short in the Parkland, Florida school shooting

  18-02-2018 18:07 via yahoo.com
  ABC News "This Week" honors the 17 students and faculty of Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School who were killed inWednesday's mass shooting.
  
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• Couple looking after Florida shooting suspect say they had no idea there was a 'monster living under our roof'

  18-02-2018 18:02 via yahoo.com
  The stunned couple who took in Nikolas Cruz after the death of his mother has spoken for the first time about the troubled teenager suspected of killing 17 students and staff at his former high school in Florida on Valentine's Day. Kimberly and James Snead described the 19 year-old as immature, quirky and depressed - but pleasant and growing happier and giving no clues of the horror he was about inflict as he plotted the massacre under their roof. “We had this monster l
  
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• Teen Survivors Of Florida Shooting To March On Washington For Gun Law Reform

  18-02-2018 17:41 via yahoo.com
  A group of students who survived the Wednesday mass shooting at a Florida high school are organizing a nationwide march to demand lawmakers make ending gun violence a priority.
  
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• Israeli PM Netanyahu to Iran: Don't test Israel's resolve

  18-02-2018 17:30 via yahoo.com
  MUNICH (AP) — The nuclear deal with Iran has emboldened Tehran to become increasingly aggressive in the Middle East, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said Sunday, warning that Iran should "not test Israel's resolve" as he showed off what he said was part of a downed Iranian drone.
  
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• Swastikas, slurs daubed on Polish embassy in Tel Aviv

  18-02-2018 17:06 via yahoo.com
  By Agnieszka Barteczko and Ori LewisJERUSALEM/WARSAW (Reuters) - Swastikas and profanities were daubed on the entrance to Poland's embassy in Israel on Sunday after Polish Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki said Jews, as well as Poles and others, were among perpetrators of the Nazi Holocaust.Poland sparked international criticism over its stance on the facts of the Holocaust when it passed a law imposing jail terms for suggesting the country was complicit in the deaths of millions of Jews during
  
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• Olympic Analyst Laments Hockey Player's 'Unfortunate' Domestic Abuse Incident

  18-02-2018 17:03 via yahoo.com
  NHL analyst Mike Milbury referred to one hockey player’s domestic abuse conviction as an “unfortunate incident,” as he offered commentary for NBC’s coverage of the men’s match between Team USA and the Olympics Athletes from Russia on Saturday.
  
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• Report Shows Ties Between Opioid Makers and Patient Groups

  18-02-2018 16:55 via yahoo.com
  An investigation from Senator Claire McCaskill reviewed donations from opioid manufacturers and found nearly $9 million was given to advocacy groups over five years.
  
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• Iranian Foreign Minister Zarif on Israel: ‘We Will Act if Necessary’

  18-02-2018 16:53 via yahoo.com
  In an exclusive interview with NBC News, Iran’s foreign minister commented on its tenuous relationship with Israel as well as on the fate of the Iran nuclear deal.
  
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• Survivors of a New Mexico School Shooting Share Parkland’s Pain

  18-02-2018 16:51 via yahoo.com
  Survivors from a shooting at Aztec High School last December have been reaching out to those impacted by the deadly shooting in Parkland, Florida to help heal together.
  
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• Poland defends PM over Holocaust remark denounced by Israel

  18-02-2018 16:51 via yahoo.com
  Poland on Sunday sought to defend remarks by its prime minister which Israeli leader Benjamin Netanyahu called "unacceptable" and tantamount to denying the Holocaust."The comments of Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki during a discussion in Munich were by no means intended to deny the Holocaust, or charge the Jewish victims of the Holocaust with responsibility for what was a Nazi German perpetrated genocide," Morawiecki's spokeswoman Joanna Kopcinska said in a statement.The Israeli premier, who l
  
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• ‘Putin’s Chef’, One of 13 Russians Indicted for Alleged Election Interference

  18-02-2018 16:47 via yahoo.com
  Yevgeny Prigozhin is one of Russia’s richest and most powerful oligarchs and Russian President Putin’s so-called chef. Now, Special Counsel Mueller’s indictment ties him to the Internet Research Agency, a source of disinformation during the 2016 election.
  
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• Trump Says Russians ‘Laughing’ Over Election Interference Indictment

  18-02-2018 16:46 via yahoo.com
  The president was critical of the Russia investigation on Twitter this weekend, writing that if Russia’s goal was to create discord, then the investigation and partisan divide show they succeeded.
  
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• All 65 passengers, crew feared dead in Iranian plane crash

  18-02-2018 16:37 via yahoo.com
  All 65 passengers and crew were feared dead in a plane crash in central Iran on Sunday after the domestic flight came down in bad weather in a mountainous region.A spokesman for Iranian carrier Aseman Airlines had told state television everyone was killed, but the airline then issued a statement saying it could not reach the crash site and could not "accurately and definitely confirm" everyone died.The airline had also initially said 60 passengers and six crew were on board the twin-engined turb
  
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• Family that took in Florida shooting suspect speaks out

  18-02-2018 16:33 via yahoo.com
  The 19-year-old suspect in the Florida school shooting that killed 17 people didn't know how to use a microwave, didn't pick up after himself and didn't know how to do his own laundry.
  
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• Teen Brothers Exchange Heartbreaking Text Messages During Florida High School Shooting: 'Are the Cops Here?'

  18-02-2018 16:32 via yahoo.com
  The tragedy has brought them closer together.
  
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• Trump accuses FBI of 'spending too much time' on Russia probe

  18-02-2018 16:31 via yahoo.com
  By Michelle PriceWASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. President Donald Trump attacked the FBI and lawmakers probing alleged Russian meddling in the 2016 presidential election and said an excessive focus on Russia led federal investigators to miss signs that could have prevented the deadly school shooting in Florida last week.In a series of tweets over the weekend, Trump accused President Barack Obama of failing to do enough to stop Russian election interference and belittled Representative Adam Schiff, o
  
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• 'Do not test Israel's resolve', Netanyahu warns Iran

  18-02-2018 16:26 via yahoo.com
  Munich (Germany) (AFP) - Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu warned Tehran on Sunday over aggressions by Iran and its "proxies" in Syria, saying he would not allow them to "put a noose of terror around our neck".
  
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• Man shot in head at IHOP following argument between customers

  18-02-2018 16:14 via yahoo.com
  Authorities say one man is in critical condition following an early morning shooting at IHOP.
  
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• Watch Biomutant's mut-tastic upgrades genetically, cybernetically and psychicly enhance a space cat-racoon... thing

  18-02-2018 16:13 via gamesradar.com
  Biomutant is doing a good job of not quite looking like any other game
  
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• Secret of Mana Weapons and Orb Locations Guide

  18-02-2018 16:05
  Learn how to get orbs to upgrade every weapon in Secret of Mana.
  
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• Monster Hunter World Live Game Help Q&A

  18-02-2018 16:05
  Ask one of our guide writers anything you need to know about Monster Hunter World during today's livestream bootcamp.
  
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• Monster Hunter World 1.06 Patch Notes

  18-02-2018 16:05
  Squad fixes, matchmaking repairs, and more with this update.
  
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• How to Unlock Street Fighter's Ryu in Monster Hunter World

  18-02-2018 16:05
  This special event quest features a gigantic Barroth and is only around for a limited time.
  
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• How to Unlock Every Mantle and Booster in Monster Hunter World

  18-02-2018 16:05
  It can be a pain figuring out what quests you need to beat to unlock that shinty new specialized tool - thankfully, we've got them all right here.
  
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