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• Trump Dismisses Democratic Push to Pack Supreme Court

  19-03-2019 23:54 via news.yahoo.com
  President Trump on Tuesday rejected the idea that has gained traction among Democrats of adding seats to the Supreme Court, saying it will "never happen.""I wouldn’t entertain that," the president said Tuesday at a press conference at the White House. "If they can’t catch up through the ballot box winning an election, they want to try a different way.""We would have no interest in that whatsoever. It will never happen." he added."“It won’t happen, I guarant
  
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• Guaido official defends Venezuelan consulate takeover

  19-03-2019 23:46 via news.yahoo.com
  As US President Donald Trump told a press conference with his Brazilian counterpart Jair Bolsonaro that his administration could impose "a lot tougher" sanctions on Venezuela, Marcano showed journalists around the consulate.Some rooms were empty, but the building was dotted with art and pictures of former President Hugo Chavez -- Maduro's predecessor -- maps of Venezuela, piles of passport applications and a cabinet where shirts remained on hangers.
  
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• New figures reflect lack of diversity at elite New York City high schools

  19-03-2019 23:40 via news.yahoo.com
  Only seven black students were offered admission to Stuyvesant High School's freshman class of 895 students.
  
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• Are there Zika reservoirs in the Americas?

  19-03-2019 23:22
  A researcher travels the Americas, collecting feces from nonhuman primates to determine the risk of Zika reservoirs.
  
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• New Zealand attacks unite government on gun control. America stands divided.

  19-03-2019 23:14 via news.yahoo.com
  The Second Amendment, as Justice Antonin Scalia wrote, is 'not a right to keep and carry any weapon whatsoever in any manner whatsoever': Our view
  
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• Towns in need of fresh water after Nebraska flooding

  19-03-2019 22:57 via news.yahoo.com
  Historic flooding in Nebraska has caused multiple water treatment plants to shut down.Peru, Nebraska has trucks full of water bottles, but with college students returning soon, they will need more.
  
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• W.Va. suit accuses diocese of knowingly employing pedophiles

  19-03-2019 22:54 via news.yahoo.com
  CHARLESTON, W.Va. (AP) — A Catholic diocese and its former bishop in West Virginia knowingly employed pedophiles and failed to conduct adequate background checks on camp and school workers, according to a lawsuit filed Tuesday by the state attorney general.
  
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• Bernie Sanders hires Beto O'Rourke critic as top aide in 2020 race

  19-03-2019 22:25 via news.yahoo.com
  Sanders’ campaign said it is bringing in David Sirota, whose work has appeared in The Guardian and Newsweek, among other outlets, as a senior adviser and speechwriter.The move could stoke tensions within the Democratic field since Sirota has previously targeted O'Rourke, the former U.S. congressman from Texas who entered the presidential race last week, and other rivals.Sirota on Twitter and in published articles has accused O’Rourke of siding with President Donald Trump and Republic
  
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• Trump gets a U.S. Supreme Court victory on immigration detention

  19-03-2019 22:08 via news.yahoo.com
  The Supreme Court on Tuesday endorsed the U.S. government's authority to detain immigrants awaiting deportation anytime - potentially even years - after they have completed prison terms for criminal convictions, handing President Donald Trump a victory as he pursues hardline immigration policies.The court ruled 5-4 along ideological lines, with its conservative justices in the majority and its liberal justices dissenting, that federal authorities could place such immigrants into indefinite deten
  
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• China Considers Excluding Boeing 737 Max From Trade Deal

  19-03-2019 22:00 via news.yahoo.com
  Boeing jets were featured on a draft list of American products China would buy to reduce its trade surplus with the U.S., the people said, asking not to be identified discussing private deliberations.Now, safety concerns are pushing China to examine whether to cut the 737 Max from the list altogether or replace it with other Boeing models after the crash of a plane operated by Ethiopian Airlines led to the aircraft being grounded worldwide, they said.
  
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• Trump administration plays favorites with faith-based media

  19-03-2019 21:47 via news.yahoo.com
  According to one account, Secretary of State Mike Pompeo promised that “people of all faiths will have ‘something to say’ about the Israeli-Palestinian peace plan the White House is expected to announce after Israel’s elections in two weeks.”
  
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• USC to deny students connected to cheating scheme class registration, transcripts as their status is frozen

  19-03-2019 21:46 via news.yahoo.com
  USC says it won't let students currently at the school who may be connected to the nation's college admissions bribery scandal to register for class.
  
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• NASA's plan to scoop up dirt from asteroid hits a snag

  19-03-2019 21:41 via news.yahoo.com
  NEW YORK (AP) — NASA's plan to scoop up dirt and gravel from an asteroid has hit a snag, but scientists say they can overcome it.
  
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• Netanyahu's main election rival sidesteps Palestinian statehood

  19-03-2019 21:38 via news.yahoo.com
  Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's strongest election rival, former army general Benny Gantz, said on Tuesday he would seek peace with the Palestinians but stopped short of endorsing their goal for statehood.Gantz, a centrist candidate, said in an interview with Hadashot TV news that Israel has a moral obligation to "strive for peace.""I will talk to anyone I can in order to advance a diplomatic solution," Gantz said.When asked whether the ultimate goal would be that of a Palestinian st
  
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• The BMW 3-series Gran Turismo Will Soon Be Gone for Good

  19-03-2019 21:29 via news.yahoo.com
  There will be no weird hatchback derivative of the new G20-generation 3-series.
  
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• Beto O'Rourke campaign: Bernie Sanders' supporters fuel misinformation about Texas Democrat's record-breaking fundraising haul

  19-03-2019 21:28 via news.yahoo.com
  Beto O’Rourke's record-breaking fundraising haul has appeared to upset supporters of Bernie Sanders, who began spreading misinformation about how the Texas Democrat’s campaign managed to top that of the Vermont senator’s in its first 24 hours.A tweet claiming the former congressman’s 2020 campaign was part of a supposed financial kickback with the Texas Democratic Party went viral after Mr O'Rourke released his fundraising figures from his first day on the campaign trail
  
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• Beto O'Rourke makes early impression in Pennsylvania visit

  19-03-2019 21:24 via news.yahoo.com
  STATE COLLEGE, Pa. (AP) — Former U.S. Rep. Beto O'Rourke is making an early impression in Pennsylvania, a late-voting state that may yet play a role in the crowded 2020 Democratic presidential primary contest.
  
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• Former House Speaker Paul Ryan joins board of Fox News parent company Fox Corp.

  19-03-2019 21:15 via news.yahoo.com
  Former House Speaker Paul Ryan was named Tuesday to the board of the new Fox Corp. as the stock was to begin trading as a stand-alone public company.
  
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• Doomed jihadists retreat within shrinking Syria bastion

  19-03-2019 20:36 via news.yahoo.com
  Advancing Kurdish-led forces forced diehard fighters from the Islamic State group out of the main encampment where they had been confined in recent days.The move brought a months-old operation to wipe out the last vestige of IS's once-sprawling proto-state closer to its inevitable outcome but the Syrian Democratic Forces stopped short of declaring the battle over."This is not a victory announcement, but a significant progress in the fight against Daesh," SDF spokesman Mustefa Bali said, using an
  
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• Woman pleads guilty to sneaking aboard international flight

  19-03-2019 20:15 via news.yahoo.com
  CHICAGO (AP) — A woman who's been dubbed a serial stowaway was sentenced Tuesday to 18 months of probation after pleading guilty to sneaking past Chicago airport security last year, boarding a plane and flying to London without a ticket.
  
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• Surveillance Appears to Show Person Carrying Rifle Wandering California Elementary School

  19-03-2019 20:10 via news.yahoo.com
  Investigators say a northern California elementary school staff member called police after watching surveillance footage of an armed person scoping out the school.
  
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• 7 Reasons the Tesla Model Y Disappoints Investors

  19-03-2019 19:47 via news.yahoo.com
  Tesla (ticker: TSLA) investors didn't get the reaction they wanted from the market following the highly anticipated unveiling of the Model Y, Tesla's new SUV starting at $39,000.Tesla stock finished Monday's session under $270, its lowest closing price this year.The stock is down 22.3 percent in the past three months, and it seems Wall Street isn't expecting much help from TSLA's Model Y. Several analysts and experts, including former Kase Capital Management hedge fund manager Whitney Tilson, sa
  
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• Islamic State loses big part of enclave, SDF sees defeat 'very soon'

  19-03-2019 19:44 via news.yahoo.com
  DEIR AL-ZOR PROVINCE, Syria (Reuters) - U.S.-backed Syrian forces said they were close to defeating Islamic State in its final scrap of territory at Baghouz in eastern Syria after seizing an encampment from the jihadists on Tuesday, though the battle was not over yet.Hardened militant fighters holed up in the encampment had been mounting a last-stand defense of the Baghouz enclave, all that is left of Islamic State's self-proclaimed "caliphate" that once spanned a third of both Syria and Iraq."T
  
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• Google’s Inbox app will shut down the same day as Google+

  19-03-2019 19:25 via news.yahoo.com
  A pair of Google products that just never seemed to catch fire are both shutting down two weeks from today -- Google+, the company's once-beleaguered attempt at a social network to rival Facebook, and Inbox, the company's email app that brought a new approach and a slew of new features to managing email. About the latter closure, we already knew the day was fast approaching. Google confirmed in the fall that it would be pulling the plug on Inbox around this time, and users have been getting noti
  
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• Outrage over Pope's decision to reject resignation of archbishop convicted of protecting predator priest

  19-03-2019 19:16 via news.yahoo.com
  Catholic campaigners condemned as “shocking” a decision by Pope Francis not to accept the resignation of a French archbishop who was given a suspended prison sentence this month for failing to report the sexual abuse of boy scouts by a known predatory priest.   Tuesday's surprise decision came just a month after the Vatican convened an unprecedented conference of cardinals in which it pledged to get tough on priests who abuse children and the bishops who cover up for t
  
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• Pope nixes French cardinal resignation after cover-up

  19-03-2019 19:13 via news.yahoo.com
  VATICAN CITY (AP) — Pope Francis has declined to accept the resignation of French Cardinal Philippe Barbarin as archbishop of Lyon after he was convicted of failing to report a known predator priest to police, the Vatican said Tuesday.
  
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• Canada to assess Boeing 737 MAX airworthiness without US

  19-03-2019 19:12 via news.yahoo.com
  Canada said Tuesday it will make its own assessment of Boeing's modifications to its 737 MAX airliners before allowing them to fly again in its airspace, after two crashes in less than five months."Of course, when that software change is ready, which is in a number of weeks, we will, in Canada, even if it's certified by the FAA, we will do our own certification," Transportation Minister Marc Garneau said.Garneau's comments marked a break from protocol, with Canada traditionally working closely w
  
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• Troops celebrate as US-backed force seizes IS camp in Syria

  19-03-2019 19:03 via news.yahoo.com
  BAGHOUZ, Syria (AP) — U.S.-backed Syrian forces on Tuesday seized control of an encampment held by the Islamic State group in eastern Syria, after hundreds of militants surrendered overnight, a spokesman said, signaling the group's collapse after months of stiff resistance. A group of suspects involved in a January bombing that killed four Americans in northern Syria were among militants captured by the Kurdish-led forces.
  
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• Islamic State on brink of defeat as Western-backed forces corner fighters on river bank

  19-03-2019 19:03 via news.yahoo.com
  Western-backed forces look on the brink of defeating Islamic State in its final holdout in eastern Syria after seizing control of all but a tiny sliver of land on a river bank. Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) made major gains on Tuesday after more than 150 “experienced” Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (Isil) militants became the latest to surrender. Hundreds of fighters, most of them foreign, have abandoned the fight in recent days. The SDF had offered those left i
  
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• Beto: ‘I Think There’s a Lot of Wisdom in’ Abolishing Electoral College

  19-03-2019 18:58 via news.yahoo.com
  Beto O'Rourke endorsed fellow Democratic presidential contender Elizabeth Warren's call for the abolition of the Electoral College during a Tuesday campaign stop in Pennsylvania.“I think there's a lot to that. Because you had an election in 2016 where the loser got 3 million more votes than the victor. It puts some states out of play altogether, they don't feel like their vote really counts,” O'Rourke told MSNBC's Garrett Haake when asked about Warren's opposition to the Electoral Co
  
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• Boeing CEO says company understands 'lives depend' on plane safety

  19-03-2019 18:52 via news.yahoo.com
  Boeing Co Chief Executive Dennis Muilenburg, facing the biggest crisis of his tenure, said on Monday that the company understands "lives depend on the work we do" and was taking steps to "fully ensure" the safety of the 737 MAX jet in the wake of deadly crashes.Investigators into the Boeing Co 737 MAX crash in Ethiopia eight days ago have found striking similarities in a vital flight angle with the 737 MAX that came down off Indonesia, a source told Reuters, piling pressure on the world's bigges
  
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• Infamous serial killer 'Jack the Ripper' identified through DNA testing, study claims

  19-03-2019 18:49 via news.yahoo.com
  The internet is abuzz with reports that Jack the Ripper's identity has been revealed through genetic testing, but is the science reliable?
  
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• US State Department under fire for secrecy surrounding 'faith-based media' press conference

  19-03-2019 18:48 via news.yahoo.com
  The US State Department has raised concerns among the American press after conducting a conference call exclusively with “faith based media” outlets.Secretary of state Mike Pompeo reportedly participated in the Monday afternoon press call.Reporters from networks across the country are typically provided the opportunity to listen to these State Department calls and ask questions about news developments and upcoming announcements.
  
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• Trump is 'looking into' Facebook 'bias' as aide melts down over suspension

  19-03-2019 18:48 via news.yahoo.com
  A Facebook spokesperson told Yahoo News that a system intended to stop bots had temporarily halted Dan Scavino’s ability to post comments, and that the company had apologized and restored his account.
  
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• Pence heads to flooded Midwest amid concerns about levees

  19-03-2019 18:43 via news.yahoo.com
  KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) — Vice President Mike Pence was expected to visit the Midwest on Tuesday to view flooding caused by heavy rains and snowmelt that damaged hundreds of homes and inundated tens of thousands of acres with water.
  
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• 'Terrorist' or 'psychopath'? Complex picture of Dutch attack suspect

  19-03-2019 18:25 via news.yahoo.com
  The prime suspect in a deadly shooting on a tram in the Dutch city of Utrecht was known for a "rap sheet from here to Tokyo" but showed few signs of radicalism, according to residents and reports.Turkish-born Gokmen Tanis, 37, had been released from jail only two weeks ago in a rape case and has an extensive criminal record including for the possession of illegal weapons.Police were still questioning Tanis over Monday's rampage in which three people were killed, saying they were "seriously" inve
  
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• EU's Barnier Warns Delay Must Serve a Purpose: Brexit Update

  19-03-2019 18:17 via news.yahoo.com
  European Union leaders are planning to offer the U.K. a conditional Brexit extension at this week’s summit in Brussels, giving Prime Minister Theresa May one more chance to get her deal approved in Parliament before March 29, officials familiar with the plan said.The EU’s chief negotiator Michel Barnier told reporters any extension to Brexit day must serve a clear purpose, and that the U.K. government and Parliament need to decide what to do next, he said.
  
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• Here is what happens when you try to open a plane door mid-flight

  19-03-2019 18:05 via news.yahoo.com
  The possibility of opening a plane door depends on the air pressure as the plane's elevation changes.
  
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• Scenes From the 'Historic' Floods That Hit the Midwest — And Could Get Worse

  19-03-2019 17:58 via news.yahoo.com
  The Midwest is facing even more "historic and catastrophic flooding,” according to the National Weather Service in the wake of a bomb cyclone that dumped…
  
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• Ford shifting 550 jobs to boost SUV production in Kentucky

  19-03-2019 17:53 via news.yahoo.com
  Ford Motor Co. said Tuesday it will shift 550 jobs to its Kentucky Truck Plant to boost production of its Expedition and Lincoln Navigator vehicles to meet growing demand for its large SUVs.
  
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• Beto Doubles Down on Support for Third-Trimester Abortions

  19-03-2019 17:47 via news.yahoo.com
  Beto O'Rourke confirmed his support for unrestricted access to abortion regardless of gestational age during a campaign stop in Pennsylvania on Tuesday, one day after refusing to answer directly when asked about the morality of third-trimester abortion.“I just want to make sure that I had clarity: Yesterday when you were asked about abortion, you said it's a woman's right to choose, correct? Does that include up into the third trimester?” asked the Washington Examiner's Salena Z
  
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• Fox News hires former DNC chair Donna Brazile who left CNN after tipping off Clinton about 2016 debate questions

  19-03-2019 17:46 via news.yahoo.com
  Fox News' newest pundit is one CNN rejected after she colluded with Hillary Clinton's campaign before campaign events in 2016.Fox said on Monday that it has hired Donna Brazile, the former interim Democratic National Committee chair and a long-time CNN commentator before she became embroiled in controversy in 2016.CNN forced Ms Brazile to resign as an on-air contributor in October 2016 after emails revealed that she had tipped off Ms Clinton's aides about questions likely to be asked by CNN mode
  
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• Facebook confirms it briefly limited White House official account

  19-03-2019 17:43 via news.yahoo.com
  WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Facebook Inc confirmed Tuesday it had briefly blocked White House social media director Dan Scavino from replying to comments from a reader, saying it was aimed at stopping "automated bots" and had apologized to him. The social media company said in an emailed statement that it caps "the amount of identical, repetitive activity coming from one account in a short period of time, such as @mentioning people. ...
  
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• Who is running for president? Here's a list of the candidates so so far

  19-03-2019 17:29 via news.yahoo.com
  The 2020 field has become crowded in recent weeks. Here's a look at who has announced their candidacy or opened an exploratory committee in the hunt for the presidency.
  
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• Many pet owners keen to have vegan pets

  19-03-2019 17:17
  A growing number of pet owners is interested in feeding their pets plant-based diets.
  
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• California university says students tied to admissions scam could face expulsion

  19-03-2019 17:02 via news.yahoo.com
  The school said on Monday night it has already "placed holds on the accounts of students who may be associated with the alleged admissions scheme," preventing them from registering for classes or acquiring transcripts.It did not name specific students, but Loughlin and her fashion designer husband Mossimo Giannulli are among 50 people charged last week with participating in what federal prosecutors called a $25 million bribery and fraud scam.Prosecutors said some students involved in the scandal
  
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• Seven in 10 hen harriers in UK study likely illegally killed

  19-03-2019 17:00
  Bird of prey 10 times more likely to die on English grouse moors than other habitatsHen harriers are 10 times more likely to die or disappear from or near to English grouse moors than any other habitat, according to a long-term study which reveals the scale of the illegal persecution of the endangered raptor.An analysis of hen harriers over a decade found 72% of 58 satellite-tagged birds were confirmed or considered “very likely” to have been illegally killed. Just 17% of juvenile he
  
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• US sanctions Venezuela state gold mining company: Treasury

  19-03-2019 16:58 via news.yahoo.com
  The United States slapped sanctions Tuesday on a Venezuelan state mining company, charging that its illicit gold operations were being used to prop up President Nicolas Maduro and his inner circle.The action was taken against CVG Compania General de Mineria de Venezuela CA, or Minerven, and its president Adrian Antonio Perdomo Mata, the US Treasury Department said.
  
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• SEC says Musk's contempt defense 'borders on the ridiculous'

  19-03-2019 16:58 via news.yahoo.com
  DETROIT (AP) — U.S. securities regulators countered Tesla CEO Elon Musk's contempt-of-court defense Monday night, writing in court papers that he brazenly disregarded a federal judge's order and that one of his arguments "borders on the ridiculous."
  
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• Processing migrant families puts added pressure on Border Patrol agents

  19-03-2019 16:56 via news.yahoo.com
  Tens of thousands of migrant families from Central America seek asylum in the U.S.; William La Jeunesse reports from Southern California.
  
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