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• 'We cannot have perfection as a litmus test': Stacey Abrams defends Biden amid allegations

  04-04-2019 23:56 via news.yahoo.com
  Abrams said there was no truth to the reports that Biden approached her about entering the 2020 race as his vice presidential running mate.
  
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• Trump threatens car import tariffs in new warning to Mexico

  04-04-2019 23:47 via news.yahoo.com
  After backing away from a threat this week to immediately shut the border to stop a surge of migrants from Central America, Trump raised the specter of a 25-percent tariff on cars as a possible tool he could use to force Mexico to halt illegal immigration and drugs."Before we close the border we'll put the tariffs on the cars.Earlier, Trump said he would give Mexico "a one-year warning" to stop drug trafficking, or face tariffs.
  
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• DNA test dashes the hopes of  Timmothy Pitzen's family after boy claimed to be their son

  04-04-2019 23:38 via news.yahoo.com
  The family of a boy who vanished at the age of six in 2011 had their hopes dashed last night when it emerged a teenager, who claimed to be the missing child, was not telling the truth. The youth claimed to be Timmothy Pitzen, whose disappearance from Aurora, Illinois, became a high-profile case. But the FBI said DNA tests showed he was not. An FBI spokesman said: "DNA results have been returned indicating the person in question is not Timmothy Pitzen. A local investigation continues into this pe
  
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• Pilots of doomed Boeing 737 MAX fought the plane’s software and lost

  04-04-2019 23:33 via news.yahoo.com
  New details into the horrific crash of a Boeing 737 MAX commercial airliner reveal just how messed up the plane's flight control software really was when it brought the plane crashing down in early March. A preliminary look at the crash report for Ethiopia Airlines flight 302, obtained by CNN, suggests that the pilots of the doomed airliner were absolutely powerless to keep the plane in the air, and it was Boeing's flight software that was to blame.The investigation reportedly revealed that the
  
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• How college students are rethinking using Uber, Lyft after tragic death of Samantha Josephson

  04-04-2019 23:33 via news.yahoo.com
  For college students, using ride-share apps has become a way of life. But, in the wake of Samantha Josephson's death, many are now concerned.
  
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• Teen found in Kentucky is not missing boy Timmothy Pitzen: FBI

  04-04-2019 23:31 via news.yahoo.com
  DNA testing confirms that the teen found in Kentucky on Wednesday who claimed to be Timmothy Pitzen is not him, according to federal investigators.
  
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• FBI: Teen found by police isn't Timmothy Pitzen, DNA tests show

  04-04-2019 23:14 via news.yahoo.com
  "DNA results have been returned, and the person in question is not Timmothy Pitzen," FBI Louisville spokesman Timothy Beam said.
  
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• Boeing Takes Full Responsibility For Two Plane Crashes That Killed 360 People

  04-04-2019 23:13 via news.yahoo.com
  Boeing's CEO apologized for the two incidents and says a software update is imminent.
  
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• Teen Found Wandering Around Kentucky Is Not Missing Boy Timmothy Pitzen. He’s Actually a 23-Year-Old Man.

  04-04-2019 22:58 via news.yahoo.com
  Photo Illustration The Daily Beast/ReutersThe person who claimed to be long-lost Timmothy Pitzen is not the Illinois boy who vanished in 2011—but a 23-year-old man, the FBI confirmed through DNA testing on Thursday.It’s not clear why Brian Michael Rini of Medina, Ohio, concocted the story, but a relative said he has been plagued by mental illness. He also has a criminal past.“He’s been doing stupid stuff, not the serious, but stupid stuff for as long as I can remember,&rd
  
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• The Latest: Boeing stock rise despite preliminary report

  04-04-2019 22:49 via news.yahoo.com
  ADDIS ABABA, Ethiopia (AP) — The Latest on the reactions to the preliminary report issued by the Ethiopian government on the March 10 crash of the Ethiopian Airlines Boeing 737 Max 8 jet shortly after takeoff which killed all 157 people on board. (all times local):
  
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• The Latest: Ghosn predicted arrest in French TV interview

  04-04-2019 22:46 via news.yahoo.com
  TOKYO (AP) — The Latest on the criminal case against Nissan's former chairman, Carlos Ghosn (all times local):
  
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• US remains committed to private sector-led 5G wireless: Kudlow

  04-04-2019 22:44 via news.yahoo.com
  A top advisor to President Donald Trump said Thursday the United States is committed to private sector deployment of 5G wireless networks, brushing aside the notion of a nationalized system.Larry Kudlow, the top White House economic advisor, sought to quell speculation that Washington would seek to nationalize ultrafast fifth-generation networks for national security reasons in view of the dominant position of Chinese firms like Huawei, which has been banned from US government contracts."I want
  
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• A New Strongman Marches on the Libyan Capital

  04-04-2019 22:42 via news.yahoo.com
  Abdullah Doma/GettyROME–The orders in Libya are clear: “Don’t shoot civilians if they are waving a white flag.” But what’s not clear is whether Libyan strongman Khalifa Haftar’s rogue Libyan National Army will listen as it advances toward Tripoli, guns blazing. The militia army, which is known to have some ISIS fighters in its ranks, has taken the town of Gharyan, about 50 miles from Tripoli, and is moving west toward the Libyan capital.“We hear your cal
  
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• Grassley Blasts Democrats for Finding 'Pretext' to Get Trump

  04-04-2019 22:32 via news.yahoo.com
  (Bloomberg) -- Senate Finance Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley blasted House Ways and Means Chairman Richard Neal for demanding that the IRS turn over President Donald Trump’s tax returns.
  
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• NATO plans for Russian 'aggression' on 70th anniversary

  04-04-2019 22:31 via news.yahoo.com
  NATO said Thursday it was taking new action to counter Russia's "aggression," finding a united message amid other differences within the Western alliance on its 70th anniversary.NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg said the alliance approved new surveillance measures and naval exercises in the Black Sea to back Ukraine and Georgia, aspiring members of NATO that are facing Russian-backed separatist forces.Stoltenberg urged Russia to return three Ukrainian navy vessels and its sailors which it
  
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• Congress to sue to block Trump border wall funding action: Pelosi

  04-04-2019 22:30 via news.yahoo.com
  The U.S. House of Representatives will sue to block President Donald Trump's transfer of money to pay for a border wall along the border with Mexico, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi said on Thursday.The Republican president in February declared a national emergency at the border to secure the money that Congress refused to give him for the wall."The President's action clearly violates the Appropriations Clause by stealing from appropriated funds, an action that was not authorized by constitutional or
  
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• Woman fired after berating man with pro-Trump hat at Starbucks

  04-04-2019 22:14 via news.yahoo.com
  Victor, a 74-year-old man from Palo Alto, California, said a woman began screaming and calling him a racist after she spotted him wearing a 'Make America Great Again' hat outside a Starbucks. Victor, who is Jewish, also said the woman called him a Nazi. The woman was later fired from her job at a guitar sales and repair shop, after the store owner was made aware of the altercation.
  
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• Timmothy Pitzen vanished in 2011. His mom wrote a note that said 'you will never find him'

  04-04-2019 22:13 via news.yahoo.com
  “You will never find him.” That was the startling claim in a suicide note discovered in a hotel room in Rockford, Illinois in 2011.
  
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• Trump rails over Mueller cover-up reports, as Republican senator brands him 'idiotic' over windmill cancer comments

  04-04-2019 22:08 via news.yahoo.com
  Investigators working for FBI special counsel Robert Mueller say attorney general William Barr has misrepresented just how damaging their report really is to Donald Trump, according to reports.Mr Barr’s four-page letter to Congress summarising its contents last month stated Mr Mueller had reached a “no collusion” conclusion regarding the president’s relationship with Russia, but stopped short of exonerating him on obstruction of justice charges.In response to that limitd
  
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• California AG: Illegal Immigration Should Be Decriminalized

  04-04-2019 22:08 via news.yahoo.com
  California attorney general Xavier Becerra called Thursday for unauthorized immigration to be decriminalized, saying those crossing the southern border are “not criminals.”“They haven’t committed a crime against someone, and they are not acting violently or in a way that’s harmful to people," California's top cop told HuffPost. "And I would argue they are not harming people indirectly either.”“If you call them criminals, it’s a lot easier
  
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• How a Russian S-400 Could Shoot Down an F-35 (Thanks to Turkey)

  04-04-2019 22:00 via news.yahoo.com
  Russian and American technology don't mix.
  
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• MacKenzie Bezos now world's third-richest woman after finalising divorce with Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos

  04-04-2019 21:49 via news.yahoo.com
  MacKenzie Bezos is set to become the third-richest woman in the world after finalising her divorce from Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos. The couple released individual statements regarding the terms of their divorce on Twitter, with Ms Bezos announcing in her first-ever tweet that she would be giving her ex-husband 75 per cent of the company’s stock.Expressing her gratitude for the amicable split and for those who sent well-wishes, Ms Bezos​ said that she was looking forward to the “next
  
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• Mike Pompeo appeals for unity to confront Russia, China and Iran on Nato's 70th anniversary

  04-04-2019 21:45 via news.yahoo.com
  Mike Pompeo, the US secretary of state, has appealed for unity to confront "great power" challenges from Russia, China and Iran on the 70th anniversary of Nato. "We have rightly sought peace through strength here in Nato. We must continue to do so, especially in this new era of great power competition from Russia, from China, and the Islamic Republic of Iran," he told a meeting of the alliance’s foreign ministers. The ministers approved a new raft of measures in the Black Sea to counter Ru
  
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• California Man Doesn’t Want Neighbors to Know He Lent Paul Manafort $1 Million

  04-04-2019 21:43 via news.yahoo.com
  The lender is “a U.S. citizen residing in Southern California, where President Trump is highly unpopular,” according to the filing on Thursday in response to a request by Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s prosecutors.“It is well known that friendships and other relationships have shattered over political views in our current ‘tribal’ society,” and so the man doesn’t want his name made public, Woodlawn’s lawyer, David Smith, wrote.
  
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• Putin says body of missing Israeli soldier found by Russian army

  04-04-2019 21:32 via news.yahoo.com
  The body of an Israeli soldier missing since the 1982 Lebanon War was found by the Russian and Syrian armies and returned, President Vladimir Putin said Thursday.Sergeant First Class Zachary Baumel had been listed as missing along with two other Israeli soldiers after a deadly battle with Syrian forces in a Lebanese village.Russia said it handed over the remains to Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, who is visiting Putin five days before he is to seek a fifth term in office in a difficul
  
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• 12-year-old girl dies after 2 sisters struck by big rig while walking to school east of Exposition Park

  04-04-2019 21:17 via news.yahoo.com
  A 12-year-old girl died after she and her sister were struck by a big rig while walking to school east of Exposition Park Thursday morning, police said.
  
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• Southwest blasted for poor Max 8 customer service: 'They're kind of just saying, 'Too bad''

  04-04-2019 21:16 via news.yahoo.com
  The airline is facing unprecedented criticism for its handling of passenger rebooking after the Max 8 grounding caused 2,800+ flight cancellations.
  
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• Trump mocks Biden's statement on 'personal space' with doctored video

  04-04-2019 21:06 via news.yahoo.com
  President Trump shared a crude video on Twitter mocking former Vice President Joe Biden’s statement acknowledging allegations from multiple women of inappropriate behavior.
  
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• National Burrito Day features specials from Chipotle, Moe's, Del Taco and more today

  04-04-2019 21:00 via news.yahoo.com
  Chipotle Mexican Grill, El Pollo Loco, QDOBA, Rubio's, Moe's Southwestern Grill and more are celebrating National Burrito Day April 4 with deals.
  
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• BB&T, Wells Fargo Get Failing Grades From Gun-Control Group

  04-04-2019 20:59 via news.yahoo.com
  JPMorgan Chase & Co. also received an F, for providing $273 million in financing and failing to ban gun-company investments, while Goldman Sachs Group Inc. and Bank of America Corp. received C grades.Citigroup Inc. got a B, the highest grade among the banks scored.Key InsightsThe scorecard comes as corporate America faces pressure to take stands on controversial political issues.
  
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• Istanbul mayoral candidate confident of win after recount

  04-04-2019 20:47 via news.yahoo.com
  ISTANBUL (AP) — The opposition party's mayoral candidate in Istanbul said Thursday's he's confident that the result of a recount of votes in the city will confirm his victory, and renewed an appeal to President Recep Tayyip Erdogan to help end the standoff.
  
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• Mark Halperin Comes Out of #MeToo Hiding, Weighs In on Biden’s Creepy Touching

  04-04-2019 20:38 via news.yahoo.com
  Frederick M. Brown/GettyMark Halperin returned from a two-year media exile to apologize for sexually harassing women, and weigh in on allegations of inappropriate touching by former Vice President Joe Biden.The former MSNBC and Bloomberg pundit was fired in spring 2017 following accusations of sexual misconduct from multiple women during the time he worked at ABC News. Since then, Halperin has not given a major interview, posted a tweet, or publicly opined on politics. In a 25 minute-long interv
  
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• Screw-shaped bird sperm swim faster -- but it comes at a cost

  04-04-2019 20:37
  New research suggests that bird sperm cells with a spiral or screw-like shape swim faster than straighter sperm -- but that the spiral shape also makes them more fragile.
  
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• ICE arrests more than 280 at Texas business, largest workplace immigration raid in a decade

  04-04-2019 20:27 via news.yahoo.com
  ICE performed the largest immigration raid of the last decade after hearing the tech company was hiring undocumented immigrants.
  
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• Jail Jussie

  04-04-2019 20:16 via news.yahoo.com
  Lock him up!The FBI and Justice Department are investigating the shocking, inexplicable dismissal of a Chicago grand jury’s 16 felony counts against actor Jussie Smollett. The charges could have  cost serious prison time for a ham-handed hoax in which Smollett allegedly paid two body-building brothers to attack him and blame it on supporters of President Donald Trump.Dueling demonstrations brought this simmering controversy to an even higher boil this week: The local Fraternal Order o
  
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• Bezos ex-wife to surrender 75% of couple's Amazon shares

  04-04-2019 20:09 via news.yahoo.com
  MacKenzie Bezos, ex-wife of Amazon founder Jeff Bezos, announced Thursday they had finalized their divorce, and that she would surrender 75 percent of the couple's shares in the tech giant.MacKenzie Bezos also said she would give all of her stake in The Washington Post and the space exploration firm Blue Origin to her ex-husband -- the world's richest man -- as well as voting control of her remaining Amazon shares.In a filing with the US Securities and Exchange Commission, Amazon said MacKenzie
  
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• Trump just a blowhard on windmills, lawmakers say of 'idiotic' comments

  04-04-2019 20:08 via news.yahoo.com
  Chuck Grassley and Nancy Pelosi reach the same conclusion about the president's remarks on wind power.
  
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• This Indiana pilot program is feeding needy students — with food that once would have gone to waste

  04-04-2019 19:57 via news.yahoo.com
  An Indiana school district has started a partnership with a non-profit to use excess cafeteria food to create to-go meals for students in need.
  
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• Oregon college students scammed Apple out of $900,000 using fake iPhones

  04-04-2019 19:54 via news.yahoo.com
  Apple is one of the most valuable companies on the planet, but it didn't reach the pinnacle of consumer tech by allowing itself to be scammed out of hundreds of thousands of dollars. A pair of college students in Oregon learned that the hard way after they managed to bleed the tech giant for nearly a million dollars before being nabbed by authorities.According to reports, Quan Jiang and Yangyangg Zhou, both foreign students on U.S. visas, were receiving shipments of counterfeit iPhone knockoffs
  
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• Teen found in Kentucky claims he is boy missing since 2011, DNA test results awaited

  04-04-2019 19:53 via news.yahoo.com
  Pitzen went missing eight years ago at the age of six, after his mother, Amy Fry-Pitzen, pulled him out of his suburban Chicago school and took him on a trip to a zoo and a water park."You will never find him."Her words rang true until Wednesday, when a woman in Newport, Kentucky, found a teenager wandering lost and scared.The boy said he had been held captive for seven years by two white men he descried as "body-builder types," until he escaped and ran across a bridge from Ohio into Kentucky.
  
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• US police investigating teen's claim he is boy missing for eight years

  04-04-2019 19:50 via news.yahoo.com
  US police were working Thursday to confirm whether a teenager found a day earlier was the same boy who went missing eight years ago after his mother was found dead.In a case that spanned multiple states and involved the FBI, a 14-year-old found wandering the streets of aCincinnati, Ohio suburb told police he was Timmothy Pitzen and had escaped from his captors."You'll never find him," Amy Fry-Pitzen wrote, according to CNN.
  
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• UPDATE 1-Family of American woman sues Boeing, Ethiopian Airlines over 737 Max crash

  04-04-2019 19:49 via news.yahoo.com
  The family of an American woman killed in the crash of an Ethiopian Airlines 737 MAX filed a lawsuit on Thursday against the airline, Boeing Co and Rosemount Aerospace Inc, which makes a part of the aircraft that is the focus of investigators.The complaint was filed in U.S. federal court in Chicago by the parents of Samya Stumo, who lawyers said was on a work trip when Ethiopian Airlines Flight 302 crashed on March 10 soon after taking off from Addis Ababa, killing all 157 on board.It was the fi
  
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• Boeing 737 MAX: Company reveals new software problem detected in jets which 'must be fixed before planes can fly'

  04-04-2019 19:41 via news.yahoo.com
  Boeing has reportedly revealed its troubled 737 MAX jets are suffering from an additional software problem that regulators say must be fixed before the planes can be cleared to fly again.As investigators in Ethiopia said a preliminary examination suggested the Boeing jet that crashed last month with the deaths of 157 passengers and crew was struck by excessive speed and was forced downwards by a wrongly-triggered automation system, new problems emerged for the airline back home in Seattle.The Wa
  
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• AOC and the cast of 'Queer Eye' hung out on Capitol Hill

  04-04-2019 19:40 via news.yahoo.com
  Four members of the Queer Eye cast (we missed you, Karamo) were on Capitol Hill this week to promote the Equality Act. Of course, they still squeezed in some time to hang out with Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez.Photos of AOC and Jonathan Van Ness strolling breezily through the halls of Congress started circulating Thursday afternoon. The internet loved it, which is unsurprising. Come on: AOC + Queer Eye? JVN and AOC both wearing pink? It is a situation tailor-made for Twitter screaming.> View this
  
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• Libya Showdown Looms as Haftar Orders Advance on Tripoli

  04-04-2019 19:28 via news.yahoo.com
  “We hear your call, Tripoli,” the commander told his self-styled Libyan National Army, according to recording of a speech he gave to troops.March forward.” Haftar, whose stronghold is in Libya’s east, urged fighters to show restraint and not fire at anyone who doesn’t raise a weapon at them.“It’s been clear for a long time that Haftar’s ambition is to be leader of Libya,” said Crispin Hawes, founder of the Idrisi Advisors consultancy in Londo
  
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• Body of Israeli soldier missing since 1982 Lebanon War found by Russian and Syrian armies

  04-04-2019 19:19 via news.yahoo.com
  The body of an Israeli soldier missing since the 1982 Lebanon War was found by the Russian and Syrian armies, Vladimir Putin, the Russian president, said yesterday. But Syrian state news agency SANA said Damascus had no details on the discovery of the corpse. Sergeant First Class Zachary Baumel had been listed as missing along with two other Israeli soldiers after a deadly battle with Syrian forces in a Lebanese village, and the return of his remains will bring to a close a highly sensitive case
  
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• Bengals RB Walton arrested again

  04-04-2019 19:18 via news.yahoo.com
  Cincinnati Bengals running back Mark Walton surrendered to police in Florida on Thursday, marking his third arrest of 2019.The Miami Herald reported that Walton was arrested on felony charges of carrying a concealed weapon, along with marijuana possession and reckless driving in connection with an incident that occurred March 12 in North Miami-Dade.A search of the car, which had been rented in Walton's name, resulted in police locating a 9 mm carbine rifle, several loaded clips and 14 grams of m
  
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• Libya braced for war as Khalifa Haftar orders advance on Tripoli

  04-04-2019 19:16 via news.yahoo.com
  Libya was on the brink of all-out civil war on Thursday after the renegade general Khalifa Haftar defied the United Nations to order his forces to march on Tripoli and overthrow the country’s internationally recognised government. In an audio address to his self-styled Libyan National Army on Thursday evening, General Haftar ordered a "victorious march"  on the capital to "shake the lands under the feet of the unjust bunch." "Tripoli, we hear your call," he said in the address. "Whoev
  
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• Boeing Told 737 MAX Pilots to Follow Instructions After First Fatal Crash. They Did and Died Anyway.

  04-04-2019 19:02 via news.yahoo.com
  Baz Ratner/ReutersBoeing CEO Dennis Muilenburg issued an astonishing mea culpa on behalf of his company  after a report by Ethiopian air crash investigators added to the pressure on Boeing to prove that they have truly understood and fixed flaws in the flight control system of their new 737 MAX series of jets. On the heels of a previously anonymous company statement, Muilenburg said, “The history of our industry shows most accidents are caused by a chain of events. This again is the c
  
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• The 2019 Audi e-tron Has an EPA-Rated Electric Range of 204 Miles

  04-04-2019 19:00 via news.yahoo.com
  Audi's first fully electric car is finally here, and U.S. deliveries will start in May.
  
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