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• Trump says U.S. military intervention in Venezuela 'an option;' Russia objects

  03-02-2019 23:58 via news.yahoo.com
  Trump said U.S. military intervention was under consideration in an interview with CBS aired on Sunday."Certainly, it's something that's on the - it's an option," Trump said, adding that Maduro requested a meeting months ago."So, I think the process is playing out."The Trump administration last week issued crippling sanctions on Venezuelan state-owned oil firm PDVSA, a key source of revenue for the country, which is experiencing medicine shortages and malnutrition.
  
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• Photo of Mitch McConnell in Front of a Confederate Flag Resurfaces Amid Northam Yearbook Controversy

  03-02-2019 23:56 via news.yahoo.com
  It's not the first time the photo has made the rounds on social media
  
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• Walmart introduces paid time-off for sick days and other absences

  03-02-2019 23:53 via news.yahoo.com
  Walmart employees can now earn paid time-off unplanned absences from work. The retailer will pay a higher bonus to those with spotless attendance.
  
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• Pentagon sending another 3,750 troops to Southwest border

  03-02-2019 23:38 via news.yahoo.com
  WASHINGTON (AP) — The Pentagon said Sunday it will send 3,750 more troops to the U.S.-Mexico border to put up another 150 miles of concertina wire and provide other support for Customs and Border Protection.
  
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• Employers add booming 304,000 jobs in January, marking 100th straight month of employment gains

  03-02-2019 23:38 via news.yahoo.com
  Employers added 304,000 jobs in January, the 100th straight month of gains. Economists expected 165,000. Government shutdown was set to have modest impact
  
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• The Latest: Blizzard, avalanche warnings for California

  03-02-2019 23:37 via news.yahoo.com
  SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — The Latest on the winter storm hitting California (all times local):
  
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• One deputy killed, another injured during deadly overnight standoff in Ohio

  03-02-2019 23:37 via news.yahoo.com
  A deadly standoff that began Saturday evening ended Sunday morning following the death of a deputy and the arrest of one suspect.
  
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• More snow, winds prompt warnings in California mountains

  03-02-2019 23:34 via news.yahoo.com
  SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — A forecast of more intense snowfall and powerful winds in the Sierra Nevada has prompted authorities to issue blizzard and avalanche warnings on Sunday and say that conditions in the mountains could become "life-threatening."
  
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• The person behind the World Record Egg has been revealed

  03-02-2019 23:22 via news.yahoo.com
  The World Record Egg's creator has finally been revealed, and it's ... Are you sitting down for this? Are you ready? Guys. The person behind the bizarrely normal egg that managed to beat Kylie Jenner's world record for the most liked photo on Instagram has been revealed. It's Chris Godfrey, who works at the advertising agency The&Partnership in London.> View this post on Instagram
  >> Let's set a world record together and get the most liked post on Instagram. Beating the cu
  
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• University of Vermont identifies Connor Gage as student found dead of exposure

  03-02-2019 23:09 via news.yahoo.com
  Connor Gage has been identified at the University of Vermont student who died Saturday, possibly due to exposure to sub-zero temperatures.
  
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• Virginia Gov. Ralph Northam squanders his moral authority

  03-02-2019 22:59 via news.yahoo.com
  Blackface/KKK photo poses difficult questions. If the Democrat has something to contribute, he can best do so from the private sector: Our view
  
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• Inside a raid in Maduro's crackdown on critics in Venezuela slums

  03-02-2019 22:50 via news.yahoo.com
  It was the afternoon of Jan. 24, the day after tens of thousands of slum residents left their hillside homes to join mass protests against President Nicolas Maduro, who they blame for an economic crisis that has left them without water, power, medicines and food.Several dozen officers from the National Police's Special Action Force (FAES) drove into the slum in armored vehicles and on motorcycles.By dawn, the FAES unit had killed as many as 10 people, leaving with their bodies and about a dozen
  
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• Erdogan says Turkey keeping 'low-level' contact with Syria

  03-02-2019 22:09 via news.yahoo.com
  Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan on Sunday said his government maintained "low-level" contact through its spy agency with the Syrian regime despite being one of its most fervent critics.Ankara fell out with the regime of President Bashar al-Assad following the 2011 crackdown on popular dissent, with Erdogan denouncing him as "killer Assad".The Turkish leader has ruled out any direct talks with Assad and Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu said in December Ankara was only in contact with Dama
  
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• Erdogan says cannot understand US 'silence' over Khashoggi murder

  03-02-2019 21:42 via news.yahoo.com
  Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan on Sunday accused the United States of maintaining a "silence" on the murder of Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi, who killed by a Saudi hit team in the kingdom's Istanbul consulate."I cannot understand America's silence... We want everything to be clarified because there is an atrocity, there is a murder," Erdogan told an interview with state-run TRT television.Khashoggi, a Washington Post contributor and Saudi regime critic, was murdered at the Saudi consu
  
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• Democratic candidate trusts Americans ready for gay president

  03-02-2019 21:31 via news.yahoo.com
  Pete Buttigieg, an openly gay mayor who is running for US president, said Sunday he believes America will judge him based on the quality of his ideas and experience.Buttigieg, the mayor of South Bend, Indiana, launched his candidacy for the Democratic presidential nomination in January.If elected -- which for now seems unlikely -- Buttigieg, a former naval intelligence officer who served in Afghanistan, would become the first openly homosexual president of the United States.
  
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• 'El Chapo' allegedly had sex with underage girls, called them his 'vitamins,' records show

  03-02-2019 21:22 via news.yahoo.com
  Accused drug lord Joaquín 'El Chapo' Guzmán allegedly had sex with girls as young as 13, called them 'vitamins,' newly disclosed court records show
  
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• On Super Bowl weekend, it's worth considering whether male-focused sports are out of step

  03-02-2019 21:12 via news.yahoo.com
  If sport is indeed a mirror to society, then what we see is a culture dominated by men for men. Sport should reflect changing culture and norms.
  
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• What is Causing China's Recent War of Words on Washington?

  03-02-2019 21:05 via news.yahoo.com
  The nuanced Chinese rebuttals concerning economic issues do not extend to those concerning defense or security, and have become increasingly menacing in nature.
  
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• Israel's Uphill Battle with Iran in Syria

  03-02-2019 21:05 via news.yahoo.com
  It is not a coincidence that the end of the Syrian conflict has dovetailed with the rise in the Israel-Iran confrontation in Syria.
  
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• This glacier has a gigantic cavity and that's not good for the sea level

  03-02-2019 21:03 via news.yahoo.com
  Whether they're in your teeth or in an Antarctic glacier, cavities are a bad sign. The Thwaites Glacier in West Antarctica has developed a cavity roughly two-thirds the size of Manhattan and about 1,000 feet tall, according to a NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory study published Thursday. This empty space has the negative effect of speeding up the rate at which the glacier melts and, in turn, how quickly sea levels rise.SEE ALSO: Climate change made these 17 extreme weather events radically worseAn
  
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• Israel releases report on links between BDS and militants

  03-02-2019 20:51 via news.yahoo.com
  JERUSALEM (AP) — The Israeli government on Sunday released a report claiming to reveal close links between the Palestinian-led boycott movement against Israel and militant groups.
  
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• Rep. Roger Marshall: I’ve been to the border, I know a crisis when I see it

  03-02-2019 20:18 via news.yahoo.com
  Kansas Republican Rep. Roger Marshall says if the wall is not built the only person to blame will be Speaker Nancy Pelosi.
  
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• President Trump Appoints Ronny Jackson, Who Withdrew From VA Head Consideration, to Chief Medical Advisor

  03-02-2019 20:10 via news.yahoo.com
  His nomination to head the VA was derailed by allegations of professional misconduct
  
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• Donald Trump will keep troops in Iraq to 'watch Iran'

  03-02-2019 19:52 via news.yahoo.com
  The United States will keep troops in Iraq in order to “watch” Iran, Donald Trump said on Sunday. Mr Trump said he wanted to maintain a military presence in the country even though he had repeatedly described the original decision to invade Iraq as one of the “greatest mistakes” ever made by the US. “We spent a fortune on building this incredible base. We might as well keep it,” Mr Trump said in a wide-ranging interview on the CBS flagship political programme,
  
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• Trump wants U.S. military in Iraq to 'watch Iran': CBS interview

  03-02-2019 19:27 via news.yahoo.com
  The Republican president lamented "endless wars" in Syria and Afghanistan in an interview with CBS' "Face the Nation" and made clear he wants to reduce the costly U.S. military presence in those countries despite warnings against such moves from his military advisers and spy chiefs.The United States could rely heavily on intelligence work in Afghanistan, he said, and respond to developments in Syria from U.S. bases in neighboring Iraq.Iran's Revolutionary Guards have sent weapons and thousands o
  
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• Rep. Jim Jordan: We need a wall to secure the border, drug trafficking problem continues to grow

  03-02-2019 19:25 via news.yahoo.com
  Ohio Republican Rep. Jim Jordan says Democrats aren’t fulfilling their promise to negotiate a border security deal now that the government has been reopened.
  
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• Hawaiian Airlines flight returns to Los Angeles three times for three separate issues

  03-02-2019 19:24 via news.yahoo.com
  A Maui-bound Hawaiian Airlines flight returned to Los Angeles International Airport three times over the weekend before finally getting canceled.
  
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• Empire actor Smollett says he's OK at first show since alleged attack

  03-02-2019 19:13 via news.yahoo.com
  Smollett, an openly gay African-American who plays a gay character on the hip-hop drama "Empire," performed in West Hollywood less than a week after he reported to Chicago police that he was attacked on Tuesday by two men who shouted racist and homophobic slurs and put a rope around his neck.News of the alleged assault sparked outrage on social media, but some questioned Smollett's account as the Chicago police have not found video evidence.Chicago police said they are investigating the incident
  
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• The dangers of a little bit of this and that | Brief letters

  03-02-2019 19:07
  Student loan interest | Rooks and crows | PG Wodehouse | Adding this and that to recipesIf Mr Adcock (How I spend it, 2 February) took a student loan of £18,000 and has repaid it at £150 a month for nine years but still owes £10,000, he has paid £16,200 and is still not halfway there. Was he – and the thousands of others who have taken such loans (many still in their teens) – informed of, and do they understand, the usurious compound interest that they will be
  
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• Trump pushes withdrawal from 'endless' Afghanistan, Syria wars

  03-02-2019 19:02 via news.yahoo.com
  Pushing back against Republican opposition, US President Donald Trump reaffirmed his determination to pull US troops out of "endless wars" in Syria and Afghanistan, in an interview that aired Sunday.Trump cited the high cost in blood and money after years of fighting in Afghanistan, in arguing for a US withdrawal from the place where the 9/11 attacks were hatched.Trump's comments come in the face of warnings by US intelligence chiefs that a hasty US withdrawal from Afghanistan and Syria could al
  
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• Out-of-state money boosts Collins after Supreme Court vote

  03-02-2019 18:58 via news.yahoo.com
  BANGOR, Maine (AP) — Maine Republican U.S. Sen. Susan Collins had the best fundraising quarter of her career after she delivered a pivotal vote that helped seat Brett Kavanaugh on the Supreme Court, according to documents filed with the Federal Election Commission.
  
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• Israel's Netanyahu takes aim at media in webcast

  03-02-2019 18:51 via news.yahoo.com
  JERUSALEM (AP) — Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Sunday launched a new weekly webcast to "get rid of the fake from the news" ahead of national elections in April.
  
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• Jussie Smollett tearfully speaks out at first concert since attack: 'I fought ... back'

  03-02-2019 18:08 via news.yahoo.com
  "Empire" star Jussie Smollett took the stage Saturday in L.A. for his first concert since being attacked in what Chicago police call a "hate crime."
  
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• US, South Korean diplomats meet ahead of Trump-Kim summit

  03-02-2019 17:52 via news.yahoo.com
  SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — Senior U.S. and South Korean officials met Sunday to discuss an expected second summit between President Donald Trump and North Korean leader Kim Jong Un.
  
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• On-Duty TSA Agent Dies in 'Apparent Suicide' at Orlando International Airport

  03-02-2019 17:45 via news.yahoo.com
  A TSA agent died inside the Orlando International Airport on Saturday morning in what police are calling an “apparent suicide.”TSA confirmed to TIME that an on-duty officer fell from a hotel balcony inside MCO Airport.
  
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• Donald Trump says deploying US troops to Venezuela 'an option'

  03-02-2019 17:44 via news.yahoo.com
  Donald Trump has said sending troops to crisis-hit Venezuela is “an option” as western nations increase pressure on socialist leader Nicolas Maduro to hand power over to self-proclaimed president Juan Guaido.In an astonishing interview, the US president also revealed he had turned down a request to meet Maduro, whose tenure as president has seen the country fall into economic turmoil amid a growing humanitarian crisis.Excerpts from the interview – carried out by CBS’s Fac
  
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• Dizzying Hubble video zooms in for a detailed, layered look at the Whirlpool Galaxy

  03-02-2019 17:23 via news.yahoo.com
  You ever get the feeling that you're just a tiny, insignificant speck floating free in the vast ocean of our universe? If the answer is "no" then you haven't been spending enough time on the Hubble Space Telescope's YouTube channel.A video posted late last month offers a detailed view of one of our Milky Way's neighbors, the Whirlpool Galaxy. The three-minute assemblage of photos and 3D visualizations breaks down the anatomy of the galaxy using data pulled from three sources.Hubble itself only c
  
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• Trump Says He’s Inclined to Keep Base in Iraq to ‘Watch’ Iran

  03-02-2019 17:17 via news.yahoo.com
  Trump also said he’d ignore the advice of intelligence community officials on Iran if their views run counter to his own.“When my intelligence people tell me how wonderful Iran is -- if you don’t mind, I’m going to just go by my own counsel,” Trump said in an interview with CBS News.
  
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• Top Yemeni commander wounded in rebel drone strike dies

  03-02-2019 17:08 via news.yahoo.com
  Yemen's deputy chief of staff died Sunday from wounds sustained last month in a drone attack by Huthi rebels on the country's largest air base, the information minister said."Major General Saleh al-Zandani, deputy chief of staff, was martyred while undergoing treatment after he was wounded in the terrorist bombing at the Al-Anad base," Moammer al-Eryani wrote on Twitter.Zandani was among 11 wounded in the January 10 drone attack on a military parade at the base in Lahij, a province some 60 kilom
  
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• What you need to know about Virginia Gov. Ralph Northam's Eastern shore roots

  03-02-2019 17:05 via news.yahoo.com
  A scandal over college yearbook photographs featuring blackface and KKK robes has thrust Virginia Gov. Ralph Northam into the spotlight. But who is he?
  
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• TSA agent dies after jumping from Hyatt Hotel into atrium area of Orlando airport, police say

  03-02-2019 17:03 via news.yahoo.com
  Police say a man jumped from the airport hotel onto the atrium on Saturday morning.
  
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• Trump says release of Mueller report up to attorney general

  03-02-2019 16:59 via news.yahoo.com
  WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump says it's "totally up to" his attorney general whether the public gets to read special counsel Robert Mueller's Russia report.
  
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• Here are two truths to help you build a successful career and future

  03-02-2019 16:13 via news.yahoo.com
  What makes companies like Coca-Cola and Merck endure? It’s a culture that stays restless. You need that same attitude to build your career.
  
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• Egypt hosts Palestinian groups, urges calm with Israel

  03-02-2019 15:34 via news.yahoo.com
  The head of the Islamist militant group Hamas, which runs the Gaza Strip, led a delegation to meet with Egyptian security officials in Cairo.The leader of a smaller Gaza-based faction, Islamic Jihad, also headed to Cairo, Palestinian officials said.Hamas has been in a bitter rivalry with Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas, who is based in the occupied West Bank, for more than a decade.
  
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• Here’s how most fans are going to watch Super Bowl 53 this weekend

  03-02-2019 15:31 via news.yahoo.com
  Cord-cutting is one of the storylines we cover regularly here, and for good reason. It is dramatically reshaping the TV and broader entertainment landscape, bringing major new services into the mix like Disney's forthcoming streaming service and upending the business models of cable providers and all of Hollywood.There's still one corner of the TV industry, though, that retains its dominance in spite of the changes wrought by cord-cutting. And if you intend to plant yourself on the couch in fron
  
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• Trapped in shrinking Syria holdout, IS turns to human shields

  03-02-2019 15:24 via news.yahoo.com
  On a rooftop near the front line with the Islamic State group's collapsing caliphate in eastern Syria, a US-backed fighter and his comrades sip tea as they await orders to restart the battle.The Syrian Democratic Forces halted their ground assault on IS's final shreds of territory last week, saying the jihadists are increasingly using civilians as human shields to block the advance.In the desert hamlet of Baghouz, held mostly by the SDF, 22-year-old Mohammed Ibrahim Mohammed points towards a dir
  
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• 'El Chapo' Guzman facing life as lawyers offer extraordinary capitulation in 'trial of the century'

  03-02-2019 15:19 via news.yahoo.com
  After 25 years on the run - hiding from the army and the police, imprisoned and staging astonishingly audacious escapes – Mexico’s most infamous drug lord finally had his day in court. Thirty minutes later, it was all over. Joaquin “El Chapo” Guzman, the $14 billion man, a short and stocky 61-year-old cartel leader sent to the US on the last day of Barack Obama’s presidency, had only one witness called to his defence. And even that witness, an FBI agent who gave fle
  
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• China's Super Assault Rifle: Meet the QBZ-95-1

  03-02-2019 15:00 via news.yahoo.com
  Is it ready for battle?
  
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• Passenger slits Uber driver's throat, survives injuries

  03-02-2019 14:45 via news.yahoo.com
  The attacker has been charged with second degree attempted murder and aggravated assault with a weapon.
  
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• Israel begins construction of new Gaza border barrier

  03-02-2019 14:30 via news.yahoo.com
  Israel said Sunday that work to strengthen its border with the Gaza Strip had entered a new phase, with construction starting on a massive new barrier along the frontier."Over the weekend we began building the above-ground barrier along the Gaza border," Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu told journalists before the weekly cabinet meeting.The barrier, set to stand six metres (20 feet) off the ground, "will prevent terrorists from Gaza from penetrating into our territory on the ground", he said in
  
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