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• Senator Ernst reveals she was raped in college

  24-01-2019 23:56 via news.yahoo.com
  After divorce documents were publicly disclosed revealing she was allegedly abused by her ex-husband, Republican Senator Joni Ernst told Bloomberg News she was also raped in college by another man. Colette Luke has more.
  
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• Canada ambassador walks back comments on Huawai executive

  24-01-2019 23:47 via news.yahoo.com
  Canada's ambassador to China on Thursday walked back comments that Huawei executive Meng Wanzhou has a "strong case" against extradition to the United States, following a political backlash.Meng was arrested on December 1 while changing planes in Vancouver at the request of the United States, which says she committed fraud by lying to bankers about allegedly violating American sanctions on Iran.
  
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• Florida Secretary of State Resigns amid Blackface Controversy

  24-01-2019 23:40 via news.yahoo.com
  Florida secretary of state Michael Ertel submitted his resignation Thursday after photos surfaced of him dressed in blackface as a victim of Hurricane Katrina at a Halloween party in 2005.The Tallahassee Democrat obtained the pictures, which show Ertel wearing false breasts, lipstick, a purple shirt with the words “Katrina Victim” written on it, dark paint on his face, and a New Orleans Saints bandana just two months after Katrina devastated New Orleans.“There&rs
  
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• Nancy Pelosi is wrong to postpone State of the Union: Today's talker

  24-01-2019 23:25 via news.yahoo.com
  'Now is the time to get together and air our respective visions before the public — and do so in a dignified way that respects our traditions.'
  
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• Ford figures no-deal Brexit could cost it $1 billion

  24-01-2019 23:20 via news.yahoo.com
  A big blow in a market where Ford is already struggling.
  
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• Hawaii's Gabbard formally launches campaign for president

  24-01-2019 23:19 via news.yahoo.com
  HONOLULU (AP) — U.S. Rep. Tulsi Gabbard, a Hawaii Democrat known for bucking the party establishment and for criticizing U.S. foreign policy in the Middle East, formally launched her campaign for president with a video posted online Thursday.
  
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• The Shutdown Is Nuts So Senators Vote for More of It: Roundtable

  24-01-2019 23:10 via news.yahoo.com
  What should congressional Republicans do now?Ramesh Ponnuru: As expected, Frank, the Senate votes on legislation to reopen the government — either on President Trump’s terms or Democrats’ — have failed, and so the government shutdown is continuing with no end in sight.
  
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• Trump postponement is latest twist in changeable State of the Union

  24-01-2019 23:07 via news.yahoo.com
  The presidential address is an annual rite in U.S. politics that often changes and has been delayed before, although the Trump-Pelosi spat may have led to the first postponement initiated by someone other than the president.Trump said late on Wednesday that he would delay his address, which had been slated for Jan. 29.Trump acknowledged it was Pelosi's "prerogative" to cancel and said he would wait.
  
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• Tubbs Fire in Sonoma County was caused by homeowner equipment, not PG&E, investigators say

  24-01-2019 23:06 via news.yahoo.com
  The deadliest fire of the 2017 North Bay fires was reportedly caused by private equipment.
  
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• The Latest: Highway Patrol to investigate officer shooting

  24-01-2019 23:06 via news.yahoo.com
  ST. LOUIS (AP) — The Latest on fatal shooting of an off-duty St. Louis police officer (all times local):
  
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• Elizabeth Warren’s Wealth Tax Would Cost Jeff Bezos $4.1 Billion in First Year

  24-01-2019 22:56 via news.yahoo.com
  The Amazon.com Inc. founder and the other 174 Americans on the Bloomberg Billionaires Index, a ranking of the world’s 500 richest people, would collectively owe $61 billion.Warren, a Massachusetts Democrat, plans to propose a tax of 2 percent on those with assets of $50 million to $1 billion and 3 percent on all fortunes exceeding $1 billion, the Washington Post reported Thursday.Almost all of Bezos’s net worth is tied up in Amazon stock, and such a tax bill could force him to sell s
  
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• Giant couture meme dresses are the most relatable fashion on the runway

  24-01-2019 22:53 via news.yahoo.com
  Viktor & Rolf's Spring 2019 Couture Collection has arrived, and let me tell ya, fashion will never be the same.During Fashion Week in Paris on Wednesday, ambitious designers Viktor Horsting and Rolf Snoeren debuted their latest line of tulle-heavy ball gowns on the runway. The expensive and elaborate dresses were each adorned with bold, dramatic statements like "Leave me alone," "Go to hell," "I'm not shy I just don't like you," and a simple yet powerful, "NO." For many, the gowns came
  
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• U.S. seeks to cut off money for Venezuela's Maduro, aid opposition

  24-01-2019 22:52 via news.yahoo.com
  Although short on details, the announcement signals that Washington is willing to go beyond traditional diplomatic measures and will seek to drain cash from Maduro's government, which is already struggling under an unprecedented economic meltdown.Such a move would significantly strengthen the hand of Guaido, who swore himself in as interim head of state on Wednesday with the support of Washington and nations around the region."What we're focusing on today is disconnecting the illegitimate Maduro
  
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• Western Digital quarterly revenue misses estimates, shares fall

  24-01-2019 22:46 via news.yahoo.com
  (Reuters) - Western Digital Corp reported a bigger-than-expected 20.7 percent fall in quarterly revenue on Thursday, exacerbating concerns that a China-led slowdown in smartphone demand is weighing on sales of its data storage devices.
  
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• Envisioned 'octopus farms' would have far-reaching and detrimental environmental impact

  24-01-2019 22:41
  Commercial octopus farming, currently in developmental stages on multiple continents, would have a negative ripple effect on sustainability and animal welfare, concludes a team of researchers.
  
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• For Trump, clear stakes and uncertain end on Venezuela

  24-01-2019 22:38 via news.yahoo.com
  President Donald Trump has intervened in an unusually forceful way in Venezuela's political crisis, but whether the United States can force a change of power remains to be seen.Trump -- who has largely shunned democracy promotion overseas and is pulling troops from Syria and Afghanistan as part of an "American First" worldview -- on Wednesday recognized opposition leader Juan Guaido as Venezuela's interim president.Backed by most but not all Latin American powers, Trump said that leftist firebra
  
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• The Senate's First Attempts to End the Shutdown Failed. No One Knows What Happens Next

  24-01-2019 22:25 via news.yahoo.com
  As expected, both procedural votes that would have paved a path to ending the longest government shutdown in U.S. history failed Thursday.
  
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• Wilbur Ross food bank: Most Americans can't pay $1,000 emergency expense

  24-01-2019 22:19 via news.yahoo.com
  Most Americans can't afford $1000 emergency expense, new survey shows. It belies Commerce Sec. Ross's remarks that federal workers can just get a loan
  
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• Commerce secretary says there's no 'good excuse' for furloughed workers to run out of cash

  24-01-2019 22:18 via news.yahoo.com
  "There really is not a good excuse why there really should be a liquidity crisis," Ross said, explaining furloughed federal workers should get loans.
  
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• China, Russia side with Maduro as US backs Venezuela challenger

  24-01-2019 22:00 via news.yahoo.com
  The United States, Britain and major South American nations recognised opposition chief Juan Guaido as Venezuela's interim leader Thursday but China and Russia threw their weight behind embattled President Nicolas Maduro.Here are some of the key reactions after parliamentary speaker Guaido declared himself "acting president" of Venezuela on Wednesday.US President Donald Trump recognised Guaido as acting leader, declaring his National Assembly "the only legitimate branch of government duly electe
  
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• Dem senator explodes at Ted Cruz for 'crocodile tears' over shutdown

  24-01-2019 21:59 via news.yahoo.com
  In an impassioned speech, the Colorado senator decried Cruz as a hypocrite over his role in forcing a 2013 government shutdown.
  
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• Government shutdown strains emerge in US air travel system

  24-01-2019 21:56 via news.yahoo.com
  The strain of a 34-day partial government shutdown is weighing on the nation's air-travel system, both the federal workers who make it go and the airlines that depend on them.
  
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• Zephen Xaver's ex says Florida shooting suspect 'always hated people'

  24-01-2019 21:51 via news.yahoo.com
  Zephen Xaver is a former prison guard trainee who recently moved to Florida from Indiana, according to police.
  
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• Second bomb attack in days hits Damascus

  24-01-2019 21:36 via news.yahoo.com
  A bomb attack hit near the Russian embassy in the Syrian capital Thursday but caused no casualties, state media said, in the second such blast in Damascus in less than a week.Eight years into Syria's devastating civil war, President Bashar al-Assad's regime is in control of almost two-thirds of the country.Until last week, Damascus had enjoyed more than a year of respite from planted explosives.
  
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• House Democrats to Seek Testimony From Wall Street CEOs, Sources Say

  24-01-2019 21:33 via news.yahoo.com
  The chief executive officers of Goldman Sachs Group Inc., Wells Fargo & Co., JPMorgan Chase & Co., Citigroup Inc., Morgan Stanley and Bank of America Corp. could be asked to testify before the House Financial Services Committee, according to people familiar with the discussions.
  
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• Shutdown 5th week: air transport workers warn 'system will break'

  24-01-2019 21:23 via news.yahoo.com
  Air transport workers warned Thursday that the five-week-old US government shutdown could cause US commercial aviation to collapse.Speaking at the US capital's Reagan Washington National Airport, leaders of the National Air Traffic Controllers Association, Air Line Pilots Association and Association of Flight Attendants warned that if the deadlock between President Donald Trump and Democrats in Congress over funds for a border wall does not end soon, flights could be cut back around the country.
  
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• Heinz made Ketchup Caviar so Valentine's Day dates can dine like fancy trash

  24-01-2019 21:23 via news.yahoo.com
  Nothing says romance like small round capsules filled with tomato goo. That's the new Heinz motto, probably.Why? Well, for starters the condiment company is celebrating Valentine's Day with a fancy new product called Ketchup Caviar, which is, essentially, exactly what it sounds like.Think regular caviar, then remove the delicacy of fish eggs, replace it with balls filled with ketchup, and you have Ketchup Caviar. You OK? Alright, good.> America's favorite ketchup presents America's favorite c
  
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• House Democrats Cancel Tax Refund Panel as Mnuchin Opts Out

  24-01-2019 21:04 via news.yahoo.com
  Representative Richard Neal of Massachusetts, chairman of the Ways and Means committee, canceled a hearing scheduled for Thursday after Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin declined to testify.Mnuchin had offered to send his deputies or other IRS officials who he said would be better equipped to answer questions.Neal has been pushing for testimony from Mnuchin on how the shutdown is affecting the Internal Revenue Service, which will begin accepting tax returns and processing refunds Jan. 28.
  
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• Warren to Propose ‘Wealth Tax’ as Income-Inequality Fix

  24-01-2019 20:46 via news.yahoo.com
  Senator Elizabeth Warren (D., Mass.) will propose a so-called wealth tax on Americans with more than $50 million in total assets, two economists helping develop the policy told the Washington Post Thursday.The tax would raise $2.75 trillion over ten years and would affect just 0.1 percent of the population, or 75,000 families, according to Saez and Zucman.“The Warren wealth tax is pretty big.
  
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• Southwest Airlines: Hawaii flights likely delayed for months

  24-01-2019 20:40 via news.yahoo.com
  Southwest Airlines' long-awaited flights to Hawaii are going to be delayed for months due to the government shutdown, executives said Thursday.
  
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• This is not the first time the State of the Union wasn't 'on schedule' or 'on location'

  24-01-2019 20:38 via news.yahoo.com
  This may be the first time a House speaker has kept the president from delivering his remarks, but it is not the first time it was not "on location."
  
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• Venezuela military chief declares loyalty to Maduro and warns US not to intervene

  24-01-2019 20:36 via news.yahoo.com
  Venezuela’s military chief has declared his support for president Nicolas Maduro and warned the US not to intervene – a move that may be crucial if the man sworn in for a second term two weeks ago is to cling on to power.As Britain became the latest nation to recognise opposition politician Juan Guaido as the country’s president, military forces loyal to Mr Maduro took to the airwaves to declare their support.In a televised speech on Thursday, defence minister Vladimir Padrino
  
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• Ex-Trump lawyer Cohen subpoenaed by Senate panel: adviser

  24-01-2019 20:34 via news.yahoo.com
  WASHINGTON/NEW YORK (Reuters) - President Donald Trump's former personal attorney and self-described "fixer" Michael Cohen has been subpoenaed to testify by the U.S. Senate Intelligence Committee, Cohen's adviser Lanny Davis said on Thursday.Coming one day after he postponed an appearance before a House of Representatives investigative panel, the subpoena thrust Cohen back into the spotlight, with MSNBC and CNN saying he will appear before the intelligence panel in mid-February."This morning the
  
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• Starbucks Happy Hour means buy-one-get-one free Frappuccino and espresso drinks today

  24-01-2019 20:26 via news.yahoo.com
  Starbucks' Happy Hour is back Thursday, Jan. 24 with a buy-one-get-one free deal on espresso drinks and Frappuccino blended beverages.
  
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• Trump's shutdown gift to Pelosi: A unified Democratic caucus

  24-01-2019 20:25 via news.yahoo.com
  WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump has done something remarkable in the government shutdown: He's unified the diverse new House Democratic majority firmly behind Speaker Nancy Pelosi.
  
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• Trump tariffs reduce Ford UAW workers' profit-sharing checks by $750 each

  24-01-2019 20:15 via news.yahoo.com
  Tariff costs of $750 million cut into how much Ford factory workers will share in company profits, the company CFO revealed Wednesday.
  
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• US requests UN Security Council meeting on Venezuela

  24-01-2019 20:02 via news.yahoo.com
  The United States on Thursday called for a UN Security Council meeting on the crisis in Venezuela after it recognized opposition leader Juan Guaido as the acting president.The US mission to the United Nations said it requested that the council meet in open session at 9 am (1400 GMT) Saturday.US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo is expected to attend, diplomats said.
  
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• Hamas refuses to let Qatar pay Gaza salaries

  24-01-2019 19:59 via news.yahoo.com
  In November Qatar began a six-month, $150 million program to fund the wages and shipments of fuel for power generation in Gaza.The staggered payments, widely seen as a Qatari bid to increase its regional role, need Israel's permission to get through - an involvement that has riled many among Hamas' Islamist leadership.Khalil Al-Hayya, a senior Hamas official in Gaza, said on Thursday Israel had broken previous agreements brokered by Qatar and Egypt.
  
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• 2019 Editors' Choice Awards: The Best Trucks, SUVs, and Vans

  24-01-2019 19:55 via news.yahoo.com
  Our extensive automotive knowledge and comprehensive testing help us separate the best from the rest.
  
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• Hamas says rejects Qatari aid millions over Israeli conditions

  24-01-2019 19:54 via news.yahoo.com
  Gaza's Islamist rulers Hamas said Thursday they would not accept a fresh tranche of Qatari funds, accusing Israel of imposing new conditions on the money entering the blockaded Palestinian territory."We refuse to receive the third Qatari grant in response to the (Israeli) occupation's behaviour and attempts to evade the agreement," Khalil al-Hayya, Hamas's deputy head in Gaza, told journalists.The funds to pay salaries of Hamas employees and support impoverished Gazans are in exchange for relati
  
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• Apple puts brakes on car team but keeps eye on road

  24-01-2019 19:50 via news.yahoo.com
  Apple acknowledged Thursday that it has trimmed its team devoted to self-driving car technology but stressed that its still in the race.Apple's comment came in response to a CNBC report that the staff of a secretive Project Titan was reduced this week by more than 200 people, some of whom were transferred to jobs elsewhere at the California-based technology group."We have an incredibly talented team working on autonomous systems and associated technologies at Apple," the company said in a releas
  
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• U.S. has offered to hold arms control talks with Russia: official

  24-01-2019 19:48 via news.yahoo.com
  Under Secretary of State Andrea Thompson reiterated that the Trump administration will "suspend our obligations" under the disputed pact if Russia fails to return to compliance by Feb. 2."I'm not particularly optimistic" that Russia will return to compliance, she told reporters at a breakfast.The dispute over the 1987 Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces (INF) Treaty has added to the gravest U.S.-Russia tensions since the end of the Cold War in 1991.
  
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• Google pushed to curb employee protests while claiming to support walkouts, documents show

  24-01-2019 19:35 via news.yahoo.com
  Google is under fire from its own employees after it asked the US government to change rules which allow staff to plan activism on their work email accounts.  The Silicon Valley tech giant urged the National Labor Relations Board, the US agency which enforces labour laws, to roll back rules which stop companies punishing activist employees who form unions or circulate petitions on workplace communication systems, documents obtained by Bloomberg show. Last November thousands of Google e
  
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• Airbus warns no-deal Brexit could spark 'harmful decisions' for UK

  24-01-2019 19:30 via news.yahoo.com
  Airbus chief Tom Enders on Thursday warned the European aerospace giant could make "very harmful decisions" for Britain if it leaves the European Union without a deal, while Ford said it could cost them $800 million.Enders branded the government's handling of Brexit a "disgrace" and suggested 14,000 jobs at its sites designing and manufacturing wings at Filton in southwest England and Broughton in north Wales were under threat."If there is a no-deal Brexit, we at Airbus will have to make potenti
  
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• As U.S. Digs In at Embassy, Venezuela Military Supports Maduro

  24-01-2019 19:27 via news.yahoo.com
  President Nicolas Maduro quickly severed diplomatic ties with the U.S. on Wednesday after Donald Trump publicly backed the opposition’s Juan Guaido as the legitimate leader of Venezuela and gave U.S. diplomats 72 hours to leave the country.Secretary of State Mike Pompeo responded to Maduro by saying the U.S. doesn’t recognize his authority and therefore won’t pull its staff, prompting Diosdado Cabello, a close Maduro ally, to make the threatening comments.
  
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• Activists wary of Saudi Davos welcome after Khashoggi murder

  24-01-2019 19:18 via news.yahoo.com
  Activists are criticising the World Economic Forum for allowing a large Saudi presence in Davos this week without devoting time to the murder of journalist Jamal Khashoggi.The Saudi presence "is deeply distressing", Amnesty International chief Kumi Naidoo told AFP on the sidelines of the annual meeting of the global elite in the Swiss Alps.The WEF's annual meeting, he said, comes "literally months after one of the most atrocious violations we have ever seen against the journalistic community".
  
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• Big Apple Layoffs Pump Brakes on Its Autonomous Cars

  24-01-2019 18:53 via news.yahoo.com
  Apple’s bid to enter the autonomous vehicle space has just suffered another setback. The Cupertino company has reportedly moved 200 employees off Project Titan, according to CNBC.Credit: ShutterstockTitan has been in development since at least 2014, and although Apple hasn’t always been forthcoming in acknowledging it, a spokesperson responded to CNBC’s report by confirming the layoffs as well as the company’s commitment to self-driving technologies.“We have an incr
  
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• Florida bank shooter killed five women in apparent random attack

  24-01-2019 18:43 via news.yahoo.com
  The attack took place around lunchtime on Wednesday at a SunTrust Bank branchin Sebring, a town of about 10,000 people 95 miles (153 km) south of Orlando, authorities said.The suspect, Zephen Xaver, called the 911 emergency number just after 12:30 p.m. EST (1730 GMT) and told dispatch he had shot five people inside the bank, according to authorities.Hoglund said all the victims were women, and named two of them as Cynthia Watson, a bank customer, and Marisol Lopez, a bank employee.
  
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• Former Mormon conversion therapist says he will be 'choosing to pursue life as a gay man'

  24-01-2019 18:34 via news.yahoo.com
  David Matheson, a once prominent conversion therapist, took to Facebook on Tuesday to say he would be making 'substantial changes' in his dating life.
  
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• Florida Gunman Killed All 5 Women in Bank in 'Random' Mass Shooting, Police Say

  24-01-2019 18:30 via news.yahoo.com
  “We have no information at this time as to what his true motive has been,” Chief Hoglund said. “We believe it was a random act, where nobody specifically was targeted.”
  
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