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• R. Kelly's life mirrors that of prosecutor who charged him

  23-02-2019 23:54 via news.yahoo.com
  In R. Kelly's fight for his freedom, he faces a straight-talking prosecutor whose life in some ways parallels his own.
  
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• Trucks return to Colombia warehouse after failed Venezuela aid effort

  23-02-2019 23:47 via news.yahoo.com
  At least two trucks carrying food and medicine for Venezuela returned to warehouses in Colombia on Saturday after being turned back from the border by troops loyal to President Nicolas Maduro who fired teargas.At least two trucks caught fire on the Simon Bolivar bridge linking the two countries after a convoy carrying aid was met by Venezuelan troops who repelled the attempt to cross.As well as the two trucks that returned to warehouses in Cucuta, a further two trucks left the area of the bridge
  
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• Three ministers throw weight behind Brexit delay to stop no-deal

  23-02-2019 23:41 via news.yahoo.com
  Three British cabinet ministers publicly indicated on Saturday they will back plans to delay Brexit if lawmakers vote down Prime Minister Theresa May's plan for a new deal with the European Union.Business minister Greg Clark, work and pensions minister Amber Rudd, and justice minister David Gauke signaled in a Daily Mail column that they will side with rebels and opposition parties next week to stop Britain leaving the European Union without a divorce deal on March 29 if necessary, adding their
  
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• Prayers, holy water as Venezuelan Curacao aid shipment delayed

  23-02-2019 23:30 via news.yahoo.com
  Willemstad, Curaçao (Netherlands Antilles) (AFP) - Venezuelan opposition supporters rallied in Curacao's port Saturday, pushing for their own shipment to join in a dangerous aid effort for their country, but the vessel's captain declined to sail yet for security reasons.While in Venezuela border clashes and military desertions raised tensions, on the sleepy Caribbean island of Curacao a handful of expatriates applied pressure on a separate front, waving flags and singing.Standing near one
  
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• Cargo jet with three on board crashes near Houston airport

  23-02-2019 23:07 via news.yahoo.com
  A Boeing 767 cargo jetliner heading to Houston with three people aboard disintegrated after crashing Saturday into a bay east of the city, according to a Texas sheriff. Witnesses told emergency personnel that the twin-engine plane "went in nose first," leaving a debris field three-quarters of a mile long in Trinity Bay, Chambers County Sheriff Brian Hawthorne said. "It's probably a crash that nobody would survive," he said, referring to the scene as "total devastation." Witnesses said
  
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• The Latest: North Korea confirms leader on train to summit

  23-02-2019 23:01 via news.yahoo.com
  HANOI, Vietnam (AP) — The Latest on North Korean leader Kim Jong Un's travels to the summit with President Donald Trump in Vietnam (all times local):
  
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• Shoes and stripes: Brits present Ferragamo, Cavalli shows

  23-02-2019 22:44 via news.yahoo.com
  British designers on Saturday presented fashion collections for two Italian houses at Milan fashion week, with one inspired by shoes as key items, and the other by tiger motifs.Paul Andrew presented Italian fashion label Salvatore Ferragamo's latest collection, just days after being announced as the group's creative director.
  
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• Giorgio Armani presents a 'Rhapsody in Blue' at Milan fashion show

  23-02-2019 22:43 via news.yahoo.com
  Veteran designer Giorgio Armani dedicated his main winter line to the color blue at Milan Fashion Week on Saturday, presenting his usual sleek, elegant and tailored looks in mainly darker tones, mixed only with black.The 84-year-old designer, affectionately called "King Giorgio" in his native Italy, gave his audience a taste of what to expect ahead of the presentation of more than 100 womens' and menswear looks, with a blue-light setting at his Armani/Silos museum venue, the first time he hosted
  
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• Saudi Arabia replaces envoy to Washington: royal decree

  23-02-2019 22:35 via news.yahoo.com
  Saudi Arabia has replaced its ambassador to the United States, a royal decree announced Saturday, as the fallout over journalist Jamal Khashoggi's murder tests relations between the two allies.Princess Rima bint Bandar was appointed the kingdom's first woman envoy to Washington, replacing Prince Khalid bin Salman, who was named vice defence minister.Prince Khalid is the younger brother of Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman, the country's de facto ruler who also serves as the defence minister.
  
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• U.S. prosecutors say no leniency needed for Trump ex-aide Manafort

  23-02-2019 22:21 via news.yahoo.com
  The recommendation from Mueller, who is investigating Russia's role in the 2016 U.S. election and whether Trump's campaign conspired with Moscow, increases the likelihood that Manafort will spend the rest of his life behind bars.Manafort pleaded guilty in a federal court in Washington last September to conspiracy against the United States - a charge that includes a range of conduct from money laundering to unregistered lobbying - and conspiracy to obstruct justice for attempts to tamper with wit
  
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• Back to business for Duke and Duchess of Sussex as they touch down in Morocco

  23-02-2019 22:02 via news.yahoo.com
  With a star turn in New York and a celebrity-packed baby shower for the Duchess, and a series of visits to military and underprivileged children for the Duke, it has been quite the week in the Sussex household. As they landed in Morocco last night, it was back to business as a team for a whirlwind tour, which will see them boost the profile of gender equality, try out their French and meet their royal family counterparts. The Duchess, who will have “medical provision” at more than se
  
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• Fiery Skirmishes Erupt as Guaido Tries to Bring Venezuela Aid

  23-02-2019 21:28 via news.yahoo.com
  On the border with Colombia, National Guard soldiers fired volleys of tear gas and plastic pellets at supporters of opposition leader Juan Guaido, who were trying to persuade them to defect and permit tons of food and medicine into the country.Masked paramilitary gangs supporting the autocrat Maduro tore through the area there on motorcycles, firing guns in the air.Maduro said on state television that his forces had managed to repel an invasion and said he was breaking off diplomatic relations w
  
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• Buffett appears to fault Trump in annual Berkshire letter

  23-02-2019 21:23 via news.yahoo.com
  In his annual letter, the Berkshire Hathaway Inc. chairman on Saturday suggested that the president takes too much credit for the nation's economic growth.
  
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• Defense chief gets close look at US-Mexico border

  23-02-2019 21:16 via news.yahoo.com
  The Pentagon's acting chief is visiting the U.S.-Mexico border in Texas as he considers how to use emergency powers invoked by President Donald Trump to help build a border wall. (Feb. 23)
  
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• Twitter rips PETA for criticizing Steve Irwin's Google doodle on the late conservationist's birthday

  23-02-2019 20:58 via news.yahoo.com
  Steve Irwin would have turned 57 on Friday, and to honor "The Crocodile Hunter" host, Google changed the logo its search page, which PETA criticized.
  
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• Sen. Feinstein debates children over climate change

  23-02-2019 20:50 via news.yahoo.com
  SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — U.S. Sen. Dianne Feinstein and a group of San Francisco Bay Area students squared off over climate change in a sometimes tense exchange captured on video and widely shared on social media.
  
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• Illinois talk radio host says the narrative being pushed is that Jussie Smollett’s case was an ‘anomaly’

  23-02-2019 20:48 via news.yahoo.com
  Radio host Michael Koolidge says he is outraged that so many people were quick to believe that a Trump supporter attacked Jussie Smollett.
  
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• Venezuelan soldiers defect as troops fire tear gas at protesters on Colombia border

  23-02-2019 20:30 via news.yahoo.com
  Venezuela's socialist government was facing its biggest rebellion in almost 20 years on Saturday as military officers began to defect in numbers and the opposition leader claimed to have succeeded in bringing in supplies of aid. More than a dozen Venezuelan soldiers appeared to turn their backs on president Nicolas Maduro and defected to Colombia while food and medicine was said to have been delivered through Brazil, where the border had supposedly been shut. Ugly scenes erupted on the bridges f
  
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• NASCAR expects fireworks from rules debuting at Atlanta

  23-02-2019 20:30 via news.yahoo.com
  HAMPTON, Ga. (AP) — NASCAR was long overdue for an added punch to its racing product and eagerly awaits the results from a new competition package designed to increase the entertainment factor for the troubled series.
  
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• Venezuela: Two killed in clashes over humanitarian aid as Maduro breaks relations with Colombia

  23-02-2019 20:09 via news.yahoo.com
  At least two people have been killed in Venezuela in clashes with security forces over the opposition’s plan to bring in humanitarian aid from neighbouring Brazil and Colombia, doctors said.Hospital staff in a town near the border said another 18 were injured as violence between residents and soldiers erupted, though Bogota later claimed a much higher figure of 285.Images suggested some of the wounded were Venezuelan soldiers.
  
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• Venezuela: Maduro breaks relations with Colombia as clashes escalate over humanitarian aid

  23-02-2019 20:09 via news.yahoo.com
  Venezuela‘s president, Nicolas Maduro, has announced he will break relations with Colombia as a row over humanitarian aid shipments deepens.Mr Maduro ​vowed to defend the country’s independence with his life if necessary as violent clashes on the border escalated.The president announced he was expelling some Colombian diplomatic staff after the country helped Venezuela’s opposition’s efforts to bring in humanitarian aid.
  
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• Cardinal admits Church files on paedophile priests 'destroyed'

  23-02-2019 19:56 via news.yahoo.com
  A top Catholic cardinal admitted Saturday that Church files on priests accused of sexually abusing children were destroyed or never even drawn up in a move which allowed paedophiles to prey on others.German Cardinal Reinhard Marx was speaking on the third day of an unprecedented summit of the world's top bishops convened by Pope Francis in a bid to tackle the crisis over paedophilia within the clergy."Files that could have documented the terrible deeds and named those responsible were destroyed,
  
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• Report: Kushner family firm pays $1.1B for 6,000 apartments

  23-02-2019 19:54 via news.yahoo.com
  NEW YORK (AP) — The real estate firm run by White House adviser Jared Kushner's family has pulled off its biggest deal in more than a decade.
  
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• Robert Kraft, accused of soliciting prostitution, gave hundreds of millions to charitable causes

  23-02-2019 19:53 via news.yahoo.com
  The $400 million Robert Kraft has contributed to a wide range of causes has earned him enormous goodwill in Boston and beyond.
  
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• Extra 1,000 troops to be sent to US-Mexico border, says senior defence official

  23-02-2019 19:51 via news.yahoo.com
  The Pentagon will increase the number of active-duty troops along the US-Mexico border to about 6,000 by the start of next month, a senior US defence official has said.The troops currently stationed at the border have also been ordered to string more concertina wire and install detection systems in remote areas away from official ports of entry, the senior defence official said.The official, who was authorised by the Pentagon to speak to reporters only on the condition of anonymity, said that so
  
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• 'Surviving R. Kelly' creator: Sex abuse charges should shame all of us who ignore victims

  23-02-2019 19:28 via news.yahoo.com
  Rumors about R. Kelly have persisted for decades. All of us are guilty that we let his star power blind us to injustice against women and girls.
  
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• The Latest: Sex abuse victims speak of lost childhoods

  23-02-2019 19:27 via news.yahoo.com
  VATICAN CITY (AP) — The Latest on the sex abuse prevention summit at the Vatican (all times local):
  
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• In a shift, Buffett says focus on Berkshire's stock price

  23-02-2019 19:10 via news.yahoo.com
  The shift is something of a retreat from the 88-year-old Buffett's decades of preaching patience and long-term thinking for investors and Berkshire shareholders, the antithesis of what stock prices often represent.Buffett's business acumen has helped make him the world's third-richest person, worth $82.9 billion according to Forbes magazine, and transformed Berkshire from a failing textile company into a $496 billion behemoth.
  
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• Rising anti-US sentiment on Okinawa ahead of military base referendum

  23-02-2019 19:05 via news.yahoo.com
  When Chiemi Yonashiro was told an object from a United States military helicopter appeared to have fallen onto the nursery where she had dropped off her three-year-old daughter Mimaru just hours earlier, she burst into tears. Her daughter – and around 70 other children playing at the nursery at the time – were unhurt, but for Mrs Yonashiro, 46, the incident confirmed her conviction that her family was not safe living in southern Japan’s Okinawa region for one uncomfortable reas
  
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• Robert Kraft 'categorically' denies soliciting sex at spa after police said he was filmed twice in the act

  23-02-2019 18:57 via news.yahoo.com
  New England Patriots owner Robert Kraft has “categorically” denied soliciting sex at a spa in Florida after police said he was filmed doing so twice.Mr Kraft, 77, faces two counts of soliciting sex from a prostitute.The billionaire is one of two dozen men who were arrested for allegedly paying $59 (£45) for a half-hour and $79 (£60) for an hour of sex at Orchids of Asia Day Spa in Jupiter, Florida.
  
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• Virgin Galactic takes crew of three to altitude of 55 miles

  23-02-2019 18:38 via news.yahoo.com
  Virgin Galactic's spacecraft reached an altitude of more than 55 miles (88.5 kilometers) on Friday, carrying for the first time a passenger in addition to its two pilots.SpaceShipTwo, built by British billionaire Richard Branson to carry tourists into space, launched from California's Mojave desert and flew to an altitude of 55.87 miles (89.9 kms), the company said.The US definition of space is anything over an altitude of 50 miles.
  
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• Airlines admit having cameras installed on back of passengers’ seats

  23-02-2019 18:28 via news.yahoo.com
  Three of the world’s biggest airlines have admitted some of their planes have cameras installed on the backs of passenger seats.American Airlines, United Airlines and Singapore Airlines have new seat-back entertainment systems that include cameras.Companies that make the entertainment systems are fitting them with cameras to offer passengers options such as seat-to-seat video conferencing, according to an American Airlines spokesman.
  
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• India police arrest Kashmir activists amid rising tensions

  23-02-2019 18:26 via news.yahoo.com
  SRINAGAR, India (AP) — Police have arrested at least 300 activists seeking the end of Indian rule in disputed Kashmir, officials said Saturday, escalating fears among already wary residents that a sweeping crackdown could touch off renewed anti-India protests and clashes.
  
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• Women vent their anger at Vatican child abuse conference

  23-02-2019 17:57 via news.yahoo.com
  Some 200 senior Church officials, all but ten of them men, listened at times in stunned silence in a Vatican audience hall as the women read their frank and at times angry speeches on the penultimate day of the conference convened by the pope to confront a worldwide scandal.Sister Veronica Openibo, a Nigerian who has worked in Africa, Europe and the United States, spoke with a soft voice but delivered a strong message, telling the prelates sitting before her: "This storm will not pass".
  
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• India detains Kashmir separatists, issues new warning to Pakistan

  23-02-2019 17:44 via news.yahoo.com
  Indian authorities arrested dozens of Muslim leaders in raids across Kashmir and sent thousands of reinforcements to the troubled territory on Saturday as Prime Minister Narendra Modi stepped up warnings to Pakistan over a suicide bomb attack.As international concern grows over India-Pakistan sabre-rattling, residents of Kashmir, at the centre of a decades-old struggle between the nuclear-armed neighbours, reported heightened military activity.India has accused Pakistan of supporting the attack
  
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• Bill Maher says the reason red state voters are so upset is because they want to be the blue states

  23-02-2019 17:41 via news.yahoo.com
  The blue parts of America are having a prosperity party while that big sea of red feels like their invitation got lost in the mail, says Bill Maher.
  
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• It's not just the Florida spa investigation allegedly tied to Robert Kraft. Sex trafficking is rampant across US

  23-02-2019 17:37 via news.yahoo.com
  Sex trafficking accounted for 6,081 of over 8,500 reported cases of human trafficking in 2017, according to the National Human Trafficking Hotline.
  
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• Barack Obama's '44' bomber jacket wins over the internet

  23-02-2019 17:33 via news.yahoo.com
  Former President Barack Obama can now add style icon to his list of titles.
  
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• Venezuela: Violent clashes break out as nation closes border with three countries amid escalating crisis

  23-02-2019 17:29 via news.yahoo.com
  Venezuelan soldiers fired tear gas at civilians near the country's border with Colombia, amid growing tensions after a crowd tried to clear a barricade in an effort to access humanitarian aid, including food and medicine.Flames from the bus blaze caused nearby power lines to spark along the border.The fresh burst of violence came as Nicolas Maduro's government closed Venezuela's border bridges with Colombia on Friday, having also closed the nation's borders with Brazil and the island of Curacao,
  
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• Blizzard to dump nearly 2 feet of snow over central US

  23-02-2019 17:28 via news.yahoo.com
  Locations from the Central Plains to the Upper Midwest could receive 6-12 inches of snow.
  
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• More than 100 separatists detained in Kashmir in pre-election crackdown

  23-02-2019 16:50 via news.yahoo.com
  On Saturday there were increasing signs that the military clampdown in Indian-controlled Kashmir and the government’s threats against Pakistan were prompting panic buying of fuel, medicines and food.Mohammad Amin Rather, owner of A-Z grocery Store in the Rajagh area of Srinagar, said: "People are buying rice, edible oil, pulses, eggs and other essentials in bulk."People in the valley, especially the cities and towns, are taking everything said or done as a sign that some big trouble is jus
  
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• 'I know what I'm doing.': Video shows Sen. Dianne Feinstein arguing with kids on climate bill

  23-02-2019 16:17 via news.yahoo.com
  The children were with the Sunrise Movement, a climate advocacy organization, and asked Senator Feinstein to support the Green New Deal.
  
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• Top cardinal tells Vatican summit that some sex abuse documents destroyed

  23-02-2019 16:06 via news.yahoo.com
  Germany's Reinhard Marx says church must redefine confidentiality or face charges of cover-up.
  
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• Planes and armoured trains: the Kims' foreign trips

  23-02-2019 16:00 via news.yahoo.com
  The first sign that Kim Jong Un was potentially on his way to meet US President Donald Trump for a second summit was the reported appearance of an armoured train in China.If that train trundles all the way to Hanoi carrying the North Korean leader, it'll mean a nearly 4,000-kilometre (2,500-mile), 60-hour journey on board for Kim.On that occasion, in January, he travelled to Beijing with his entourage in an olive-green train emblazoned with a yellow stripe.
  
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• Warren Buffett's Message to Washington: Bipartisanship Works

  23-02-2019 15:39 via news.yahoo.com
  “Our country’s almost unbelievable prosperity has been gained in a bipartisan manner,” he wrote in his annual letter to shareholders as he traced the growth of U.S. economy over the last 230 years.The billionaire investor’s annual letter, which ran 13 pages this year and quoted Abraham Lincoln and Christopher Wren, typically goes beyond Berkshire Hathaway Inc.’s results to discuss investing principles and his and business partner Charlie Munger’s thoughts on a
  
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• Trump's UN nominee Kelly Craft says she believes ‘both sides’ of climate change science

  23-02-2019 15:36 via news.yahoo.com
  Kelly Craft, the US diplomat put forward to serve as the country’s next ambassador to the United Nations, has said she respects “both sides” of climate change science.The remarks made by the US ambassador to Canada have been widely ridiculed following Donald Trump’s decision to nominate her for the UN role.Framing the scientific consensus on global warming as a debate in which deniers have equal credibility, Ms Craft said: “I believe there are scientists on both sid
  
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• North Korea's Kim begins long train trip to Vietnam for summit with Trump: report

  23-02-2019 15:16 via news.yahoo.com
  The reports of Kim's departure from North Korea came after Vietnam announced that Kim would make an official visit in "coming days", as the Southeast Asian country prepares to host the summit with Trump on Wednesday and Thursday.Trump and Kim will meet in the Vietnamese capital, Hanoi, eight months after their historic summit in Singapore in June - the first between a sitting U.S. president and a North Korean leader - at which they pledged to work towards the complete denuclearization of the Kor
  
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• Venezuela troops fire tear gas on demo at Colombia border

  23-02-2019 14:51 via news.yahoo.com
  Ureña (Venezuela) (AFP) - Venezuelan forces on Saturday fired rubber bullets and tear gas to break up a crowd demanding to cross a closed border bridge to Colombia, AFP journalists reported."We want to work!" they chanted while facing the Venezuelan National Guard riot police who were blocking the crossing in Urena, a town in Tachira state.Late on Friday, President Nicolas Maduro ordered the closure of all four bridges linking Tachira to Colombia.
  
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• Palestinians bury teen killed by Israeli gunfire during border protests

  23-02-2019 14:11 via news.yahoo.com
  Gaza health officials say the 15-year-old boy was shot by Israeli troops during a protest attended by thousands on the Gaza Strip border. Rough cut (no reporter narration)
  
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• Police say they have identified a potential suspect in the assault on a conservative activist on Berkeley campus

  23-02-2019 14:08 via news.yahoo.com
  Reaction from founder and president of Turning Point USA Charlie Kirk.
  
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