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• U.S. Midwest braces for record-breaking cold blast

  27-01-2019 23:54 via news.yahoo.com
  In the Chicago area, snow will begin on Sunday night.Then the "coldest air mass in years" will hit the region on Tuesday with extreme cold lasting through Friday, the weather service said."I cannot stress how dangerously cold it will be," said Mike Doll, a senior meteorologist at AccuWeather.
  
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• U.S. lifts sanctions on Rusal, other firms linked to Russia's Deripaska

  27-01-2019 23:50 via news.yahoo.com
  Earlier this month, 11 of Trump's fellow Republicans in the U.S. Senate joined Democrats in a failed effort to keep the sanctions on Rusal, its parent, En+ Group Plc, and power firm JSC EuroSibEnergo.Advocates for keeping the sanctions had argued that Deripaska, an ally of Russian President Vladimir Putin, retained too much control over the companies to lift sanctions imposed in April to punish Russia for actions including its annexation of Ukraine's Crimea, efforts to interfere in U.S. election
  
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• The Latest: Harris says the powerful seek to divide America

  27-01-2019 23:40 via news.yahoo.com
  OAKLAND, Calif. (AP) — The Latest on Democratic Sen. Kamala Harris of California and her bid for president (all times local):
  
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• May to seek binding changes to Irish backstop: Boris Johsnon in The Telegraph

  27-01-2019 23:34 via news.yahoo.com
  British Prime Minister Theresa May will seek legally binding changes to the Irish backstop from the European Union in an attempt to break the deadlock over Brexit, lawmaker Boris Johnson wrote in The Telegraph on Sunday, citing senior government sources.The PM is looking to change the text of the agreement to insert either a sunset clause or a mechanism for the UK to escape without reference to the EU, Boris Johnson said in The Telegraph.The contentious backstop arrangement is designed to preven
  
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• The Latest: Maduro foe warns authorities over killings

  27-01-2019 23:32 via news.yahoo.com
  CARACAS, Venezuela (AP) — The latest on the political crisis in Venezuela (all times local):
  
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• 'Alleluia! ... Time to go back to work': Federal employees return Monday, will get back pay

  27-01-2019 23:22 via news.yahoo.com
  About 800,000 federal employees who went without paychecks during the government shutdown should almost all get their back pay by week's end.
  
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• Louisiana man suspected of killing spree is arrested in Virginia

  27-01-2019 23:15 via news.yahoo.com
  Sheriff's deputies in Virginia on Sunday arrested a 21-year-old man wanted on suspicion of shooting five people to death in Louisiana including his parents, his girlfriend and members of her family.Following a multistate manhunt, Dakota Theriot was arrested in Richmond County, Virginia, after pointing a firearm out the window of a home, officials said.Theriot will be taken back to Louisiana to face charges including first-degree homicide, home invasion and illegal use of weapons, the Ascension P
  
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• Hopes dim in search for survivors after Brazil dam collapse

  27-01-2019 22:46 via news.yahoo.com
  Search efforts were paralyzed for much of the day on fearsanother dam could give way in the Vale SA iron ore mining complex in the state of Minas Gerais.The collapsed dam at Vale's Corrego do Feijao mine buried mining facilities and nearby homes in the town of Brumadinho and killed at least three dozen people.Firefighters spent Sunday morning evacuating thousands from their homes before resuming search-and-rescue efforts in the afternoon once civil defense authorities ruled out the risk of anoth
  
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• Trump Lifts Rusal Sanctions as Putin Ally Deripaska Cuts Stake

  27-01-2019 22:26 via news.yahoo.com
  Deripaska, an ally of Russian leader Vladimir Putin, will remain under U.S. sanctions, and his property will remain blocked."The companies have also agreed to unprecedented transparency for Treasury into their operations by undertaking extensive, ongoing auditing, certification, and reporting requirements.All sanctions on Deripaska continue in force,” the Treasury’s Office of Foreign Assets Control said in a release.
  
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• Dakota Theriot, suspect in 5 killings in Louisiana, arrested at gunpoint in Virginia

  27-01-2019 22:07 via news.yahoo.com
  Authorities said the killings in two areas around Baton Rouge appeared to involve a domestic dispute.
  
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• We can expect a coal-free Germany by 2038

  27-01-2019 21:44 via news.yahoo.com
  It took hours, but Germany finally agreed on a plan to close its coal power plants and rely heavily on renewable energy sources.The country will shut down 84 coal-based power plants -- that's all of them -- by 2038 a government group decided on Saturday. The commission convened in Berlin to map out how to move away from coal. Fossil fuels still account for about 40 percent of Germany's power, according to The Guardian, despite recent gains in renewable energy sources. The country also plans
  
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• Roger Stone decries FBI's 'Gestapo tactics' but doesn't rule out cooperating with Mueller

  27-01-2019 21:31 via news.yahoo.com
  The political operative says Paul Manafort associate Rick Gates is the unnamed "senior Trump campaign official" in the indictment against him.
  
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• Lost North Carolina Boy, Age 3, Who Went Missing Says He 'Hung Out With A Bear For 2 Days'

  27-01-2019 21:29 via news.yahoo.com
  A 3-year-old boy who was found after missing for two days in the North Carolina woods, says he “hung out with a bear.”
  
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• Hotel Wall Collapses, Killing at Least 15 During Wedding in Peru

  27-01-2019 21:29 via news.yahoo.com
  A hotel wall collapsed during a wedding celebration in Peru, killing at least 15 people on Sunday, authorities said.
  
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• Mueller investigation: Trump confidant Roger Stone says he could cooperate with special counsel

  27-01-2019 21:13 via news.yahoo.com
  Roger Stone, the longtime ally of President Donald Trump, said on Sunday he will not rule out potentially cooperating with special counsel Robert Mueller over the ongoing investigation regarding possible links between the Trump campaign and Russian operatives.Mr Stone told ABC’s This Week he would have to consult with his lawyers before possibly cooperating with the special counsel team.Mr Trump’s longtime confidant insisted he will not testify against the president, a promise he rep
  
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• Let one hero's quest to pet 100 dogs at a dog show inspire you

  27-01-2019 20:56 via news.yahoo.com
  A dog show is already a magical land where dreams come true, but one innovative attendee made a good thing even better.Sally Kuchar arrived at the Golden Gate Kennel Club Dog Show on Saturday with one goal: Pet 100 dogs. It was an optimal place for such an undertaking. The Golden Gate show is a bench show, which means that the dogs hang on on assigned benches (and are available for meet and greets) while they're not being shown."Folks are encouraged to walk around and familiarize themselves with
  
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• Brazil dam collapse: Search for survivors resumes as death toll reaches 58

  27-01-2019 20:47 via news.yahoo.com
  Firefighters in Brazil have resumed their search for hundreds of people missing in the wake of a massive dam collapse.The dam burst at Vale’s Corrego do Feijao mine in southeastern Brazil unleashed a torrent of mud on Friday, burying the mining facilities and nearby homes in the town of Brumadinho.Nearly 300 people are still missing, with the list of those unaccounted for being constantly updated, Flavio Godinho, a spokesman for the Minas Gerais civil defense agency, said.
  
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• Brazil prosecutor says Vale dam burst may scramble Samarco talks

  27-01-2019 20:42 via news.yahoo.com
  Federal prosecutor Jose Adercio Sampaio said that depending on Vale's culpability in the new disaster, it may change how his task force handles a 155 billion reais ($41 billion) case against Samarco Mineracao SA, a Vale joint venture with BHP Group ."Now an intervening fact has appeared and that may completely change the course of those talks," Sampaio said in a telephone interview.On Friday, a burst tailings dam at a Vale mine in the town of Brumadinho, about 100 kilometers (62 miles) west of t
  
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• Xi Sells 'One China' Dreams to the Wrong Country

  27-01-2019 20:37 via news.yahoo.com
  The Taiwanese people have acclimated to their own culture and way of life. Uncoerced unification between Taipei and Beijing is a Chinese pipe dream.
  
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• Hezbollah's Finances are Its Achilles' Hell

  27-01-2019 20:36 via news.yahoo.com
  Fighting Hezbollah is not only a military competition, but a financial one.
  
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• Hezbollah's Finances are Its Achilles' Heel

  27-01-2019 20:36 via news.yahoo.com
  Fighting Hezbollah is not only a military competition, but a financial one.
  
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• NATO chief says Trump's funding gripes having 'real results'

  27-01-2019 20:32 via news.yahoo.com
  NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg said Sunday that US President Donald Trump's regular complaints about the alliance had not undermined it -- adding that his criticism on defense spending was having a positive impact.Trump has frequently blasted members of the 29-nation western security partnership for not paying more into their national defense budgets.Before taking office, he called NATO "obsolete" and recent media reports said he spoke to senior officials last year about pulling out.
  
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• Trump will build border wall 'one way or another', says chief of staff Mick Mulvaney

  27-01-2019 20:31 via news.yahoo.com
  President Donald Trump will build his border wall "one way or another", the White House said on Sunday, as Democrats and Republicans prepared to begin three weeks of negotiations to strike a deal and avoid another government shutdown. As federal employees return to work on Monday after a bruising 35 day absence, Democrat and Republican leaders are to form a bipartisan 'conference committee" to start the difficult process of finding common ground before the February 15 deadline. For his
  
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• High-schoolers get face time with extremists in class

  27-01-2019 20:23 via news.yahoo.com
  WORTHINGTON, Ohio (AP) — Last week's videotaped encounter at the Lincoln Memorial left many wondering about the state of reasoned political discourse in the country, or if it exists at all in a hyperpartisan era of red "Make America Great Again" hats versus pink women's march caps.
  
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• Nicolas Maduro rejects 'insolent' election demand from European leaders

  27-01-2019 20:16 via news.yahoo.com
  Venezuelan leader Nicolas Maduro on Sunday rejected an ultimatum from the UK and four other European countries giving him eight days to call new elections, describing the move as "complete insolence". On Saturday, the UK, France, Germany, Spain and the Netherlands said that if Mr Maduro did not call a vote within that time-frame, they would join others in formally recognising the head of Venezuela's parliament as the legitimate president. In his first interview since the intense leadership
  
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• Shutdown lesson? We can survive without the federal government: Readers sound off

  27-01-2019 20:02 via news.yahoo.com
  From shutdown lessons to the Covington Catholic boys incident to reproductive rights, our readers sound off on recent headlines.
  
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• Amid border wall shutdown, Trump golf club fired undocumented workers, report says

  27-01-2019 19:55 via news.yahoo.com
  Most of the workers said they bought fake immigration documents after entering the U.S. and the Trump Organization did not closely examine them.
  
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• Russian painting stolen from Moscow gallery during exhibition

  27-01-2019 19:54 via news.yahoo.com
  A 20th century landscape painting by a Russian artist was stolen from a Moscow art gallery in a brazen act of theft during an exhibition, police said on Sunday.Crimea", was painted in 1908 by Arkhip Kuindzhi, a Russian artist of Greek origin, and depicts a mountain in the Crimea peninsula.Russian news agencies said the painting was stolen from the Tretyakov gallery, one of Russia's leading art galleries, which has been targeted by criminals several times in recent years.
  
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• Nato members increase defence spending by $100 billion after Donald Trump called them 'delinquents'

  27-01-2019 19:53 via news.yahoo.com
  Nato states will increase their defence spending by 100 billion dollars in response to Donald Trump's demands that European allies shoulder a greater financial burden, the alliance's secretary general has said.   Jens Stoltenberg said on Sunday that the alliance had heard Mr Trump's call for non-US members to shoulder a greater financial burden "loud and clear" and that allies are "stepping up." In conciliatory comments apparently designed to smooth over repeated public criticism
  
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• Prince Philip sends personal apology to victims of Sandringham car crash

  27-01-2019 19:48 via news.yahoo.com
  The Duke of Edinburgh has personally written to the two women injured in the car crash he was involved in on the Sandringham estate to say he is “deeply sorry.” The 97-year-old wrote to Ellie Townsend, the driver of the Kia Carens that collided with his Land Rover as he pulled out of a sideroad, and her passenger, Emma Fairweather. It follows mounting criticism of the way both Buckingham Palace and the police handled the fallout from the crash. The Duke was pictured back at the wheel
  
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• Aide says Trump OK with second shutdown over border spat

  27-01-2019 19:43 via news.yahoo.com
  WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump is prepared to shut down the government again or declare a national emergency if Congress won't give him the border wall money he wants, the White House said Sunday.
  
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• Palestinians attend funeral of man shot in settlement clashes

  27-01-2019 19:32 via news.yahoo.com
  Around 3,000 people attended the funeral Sunday of a Palestinian killed the day before in clashes with Israeli civilians near a Jewish settlement in the occupied West Bank.Hamdi Nassan, 38, died after being shot in the back with live ammunition, according to the Palestinian health ministry.The Israeli army said clashes had erupted after a "physical confrontation" between residents of Mughayir village near Ramallah and a settler from nearby Adei Ad settlement.
  
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• Norwegian Air drops Newark-Paris route; no other US cuts

  27-01-2019 19:30 via news.yahoo.com
  Newark change comes amid broader cuts, mostly intra-Europe routes dropped at Norwegian’s operation in Rome. No other U.S.-Europe routes are being cut.
  
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• The Latest: Muslim leader condemns Philippines bombings

  27-01-2019 18:23 via news.yahoo.com
  MANILA, Philippines (AP) — The Latest on a bomb attack targeting a church in the southern Philippines (all times local):
  
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• Trump accuses Hillary Clinton of being behind Russia dossier in Twitter rant after Roger Stone arrest

  27-01-2019 18:15 via news.yahoo.com
  Donald Trump attacked the media and Hillary Clinton following the arrest of his former adviser Roger Stone, accusing the 2016 Democratic candidate of paying for the infamous dossier alleging ties between Russia and the Trump campaign.The president sent out a series of angry tweets attempting to distance himself from his campaign ally and divert attention towards Ms Clinton late on Saturday.The FBI arrested Mr Stone on seven charges in connection with Robert Mueller’s investigation into Rus
  
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• Polish PM says Hitler's Germany responsible for Holocaust, not Nazis

  27-01-2019 18:02 via news.yahoo.com
  Hitler's Germany was responsible for the Holocaust, not the Nazis, Polish Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki said Sunday, as Poland marked 74 years since the liberation of the Auschwitz-Birkenau death camp."Hitler's Germany fed on fascist ideology... But all the evil came from this (German) state and we cannot forget that, because otherwise we relativise evil," said Morawiecki at an official ceremony at Auschwitz.
  
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• US and Canadian jet fighters scrambled to escort Russian bombers off American coast

  27-01-2019 17:53 via news.yahoo.com
  US and Canadian fighter jets were scrambled to intercept two Russian strategic bombers heading for the North American coastline.
  
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• Maduro Abandons Demand That U.S. Diplomats Leave Venezuela

  27-01-2019 17:51 via news.yahoo.com
  The Saturday evening announcement that the missions would remain open was a retreat after days of bellicose rhetoric prompted by the U.S. decision to recognize National Assembly leader Juan Guaido as the nation’s rightful head of state.President Nicolas Maduro’s election to a six-year term last year has been widely criticized as a fraud designed to keep him and his military allies in power despite the country’s years-long spiral into misery and hunger.This weekend, Guaido&rsquo
  
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• Meghan McCain: 'I completely underestimated how powerful and how strong' Pelosi is

  27-01-2019 17:49 via news.yahoo.com
  The "This Week" Powerhouse Roundtable debates the week in politics.
  
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• You could win a $1.7 million mansion by writing a standout letter

  27-01-2019 17:45 via news.yahoo.com
  Broke English majors, take your places. A homeowner in Alberta, Canada is selling her $1.7 million (CAD) home via essay contest.Alla Wagner is searching for a new owner for her 5,000 square foot home, which, according to a report from CNN, has "three bedrooms, three full baths and two half baths, in addition to a wine cellar, panoramic views of the surrounding mountains and a pond." Not bad.Here's how it works: Entrants must write a short letter (maximum 350 words) explaining why they should get
  
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• 20 Dead in Sunday Church Bombing in Philippines

  27-01-2019 17:44 via news.yahoo.com
  Two bombs minutes apart tore through a Roman Catholic cathedral on a southern Philippine island where Muslim militants are active, killing at least 20 people and wounding 111 others during a Sunday Mass, officials said.
  
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• Syria air defenses target suspected drones over Russia base

  27-01-2019 17:41 via news.yahoo.com
  DAMASCUS, Syria (AP) — Syria state media said Sunday the country's air defense systems intercepted and destroyed three "hostile" targets over a Russian air base in the country's coastal region.
  
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• U.S. college official who told Chinese students to speak English quits

  27-01-2019 17:36 via news.yahoo.com
  Megan Neely left her position as director of graduate studies for the biostatistics master's program "effective immediately," the dean of the school told students in a letter on Sunday, according to the university's newspaper, The Chronicle.The dean, Mary Klotman, said Duke's Office of Institutional Equity would conduct a thorough review of the program.The email by Neely, who remains an assistant professor of biostatistics and bioinformatics at Duke, said she was approached by two faculty member
  
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• Former San Francisco mayor claims extramarital affair with Kamala Harris

  27-01-2019 17:30 via news.yahoo.com
  Former San Francisco Mayor Willie Brown is claiming he had an extramarital affair with Kamala Harris 20 years ago.
  
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• Taxes 2019: When to file and what big changes to expect

  27-01-2019 17:29 via news.yahoo.com
  Tax filers need to realize, though, that it won’t be business as usual when it comes to filing their 2018 tax returns.
  
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• 'I failed to see the car coming': Prince Philip apologizes to crash victim, reports say

  27-01-2019 17:17 via news.yahoo.com
  In a letter published by Britain's Sunday MIrror, the 97-year-old royal told the other driver, “I can only imagine that I failed to see the car coming, and I am very contrite about the consequences.”
  
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• Dakota Theriot, suspect in 5 killings in Louisiana, arrested in Virginia

  27-01-2019 17:06 via news.yahoo.com
  Authorities said the killings in two areas around Baton Rouge appeared to involve a domestic dispute.
  
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• Roger Stone Doesn't Rule Out Cooperating With Mueller If He's Asked

  27-01-2019 17:02 via news.yahoo.com
  “That’s a question I would have to, I’d have to determine after my attorneys have some discussion,” Stone said in an interview on ABC’s “This Week” on Sunday.Stone was charged Friday with obstructing Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s investigation of Russian interference in the 2016 U.S. election and lying to congressional investigators.Stone has said that the charges are politically motivated and that he will plead not guilty.
  
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• Member of the bipartisan working group to end the government shutdown weighs in on border security negotiations

  27-01-2019 16:51 via news.yahoo.com
  North Carolina Democrat Rep. David Price shares his thoughts on whether or not Democrats will negotiate border security in good faith.
  
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• Trump Says His Pressure for NATO Spending Boost Is Paying Off

  27-01-2019 16:49 via news.yahoo.com
  Trump commented on Twitter within minutes after Jens Stoltenberg, the North Atlantic Treaty Organization’s secretary-general, said on Fox News Sunday that NATO allies will add $100 billion in military outlays by the end of next year.“We see that the clear message from President Trump is having an impact,” Stoltenberg said.“NATO allies have heard the president loud and clear and now NATO allies are stepping up.
  
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