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• Tesla eyes 'robotaxis' by 2020 with new self-driving technology

  22-04-2019 23:56 via news.yahoo.com
  Tesla said Monday it is expecting to deploy self-driving "robotaxis" by 2020 as it unveiled its upgraded technology for driverless vehicles.Chief executive Elon Musk told an investor presentation he expected regulator approval in some jurisdictions for autonomous ride-hailing that could use some of the Teslas on the road if their owners agree to share the vehicles."I feel very confident in predicting autonomous robotaxis next year," Musk told the event, saying he expected the plan to operate on
  
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• Oil prices jump as Trump cracks down on Iranian exports

  22-04-2019 23:52 via news.yahoo.com
  Oil prices jumped to near six-month highs on Monday as the Trump administration cracked down on Iranian oil exports, announcing it would no longer grant waivers from US sanctions.
  
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• Ask for American democracy ... : Today's Toon

  22-04-2019 23:48 via news.yahoo.com
  Want to keep up with USA TODAY's editorial cartoons? Bookmark this page. We'll update it frequently.
  
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• Police Say Mother of Missing Illinois Boy Continues to be `Uncooperative`

  22-04-2019 23:32 via news.yahoo.com
  The search continues for Andrew "AJ" Freund, a 5-year-old boy reported missing last week, as Crystal Lake police say say there are no updates, arrests, or new developments in the case on Monday.
  
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• Elon Musk says Tesla driverless taxis coming next year, touts self-driving chip

  22-04-2019 23:30 via news.yahoo.com
  Tesla designed 'the best chip in the world' and lidar 'is a fool's errand'
  
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• Target recalling nearly half million wooden toys because of possible choking hazard

  22-04-2019 23:29 via news.yahoo.com
  Target is recalling about 495,000 Bullseye’s Playground wooden toy vehicles sold between October and November 2018 because of a possible choking risk.
  
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• Johnson & Johnson Heirs List Hudson Valley Estate with Helipad for $13 Million

  22-04-2019 23:12 via news.yahoo.com
  The property is a subdivision of the family’s 600-acre estate called Lightning Tree Farm
  
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• Trump Drops Plan to Put Herman Cain on Fed as Moore Faces New Scrutiny

  22-04-2019 23:10 via news.yahoo.com
  “My friend Herman Cain, a truly wonderful man, has asked me not to nominate him for a seat on the Federal Reserve Board,” the president said in a tweet on Monday.Cain, 73, is bowing out after a path to Senate confirmation appeared blocked.A fourth Senate Republican said earlier this month he’d oppose Cain.
  
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• Tesla pushes forward on autonomous driving with new computer chip

  22-04-2019 22:59 via news.yahoo.com
  Tesla on Monday unveiled computer hardware for "full self-driving" capabilities as part of its strategy to bring autonomous cars to the mainstream.At an investor presentation, the electric carmaker revealed technical details of a new chip and computer being installed in all its vehicles to advance its goals for autonomous driving.Tesla already enables partial autonomy for its cars, but the road to full autonomy faces considerable legal and regulatory hurdles.
  
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• Herman Cain withdraws name for a seat on the Federal Reserve after backlash in Congress

  22-04-2019 22:53 via news.yahoo.com
  President Trump says the former GOP presidential candidate asked that his name be withdrawn from consideration for a seat on the Federal Reserve.
  
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• U.S. to end all waivers on imports of Iranian oil, crude price jumps

  22-04-2019 22:46 via finance.yahoo.com
  The United States on Monday demanded that buyers of Iranian oil stop purchases by May 1 or face sanctions, a move to choke off Tehran's oil revenues which sent crude prices to six-month highs on fears of a potential supply crunch.The Trump administration on Monday said it will not renew exemptions granted last year to buyers of Iranian oil, a more stringent than expected decision that caught several key importers who have been pleading with Washington to continue buying Iranian oil sanctions-fre
  
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• Attorney General William Barr faces a political firestorm after release of the Mueller report

  22-04-2019 22:37 via news.yahoo.com
  President Trump's new attorney general is facing sharp criticism for his handling of the release of the special counsel's final Trump-Russia report.
  
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• Samsung delays launch of Galaxy Fold following display issues

  22-04-2019 22:36 via news.yahoo.com
  Following display issues reported by some reviewers, Samsung is going to delay the launch of the Galaxy Fold hybrid device until at least next month
  
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• Sri Lanka bombings: Who is responsible? And did the government know an attack was coming?

  22-04-2019 22:03 via news.yahoo.com
  At least 290 people were killed in a string of suicide bombings carried out by a domestic militant group in Sri Lanka. Here's what we know now.
  
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• Tesla reveals computer chip at heart of self-driving initiative

  22-04-2019 21:58 via finance.yahoo.com
  Tesla Inc unveiled on Monday technical details on the computer chip at the center of its self-driving strategy as Chief Executive Elon Musk tries to show that the electric car maker's massive investment in the sector will pay off.Global carmakers, large technology companies and an array of startups are developing self-driving - including Alphabet Inc's Waymo and Uber Technologies Inc - but experts say it will be years before the systems are ready for deployment.The webcast, delayed by about 30 m
  
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• New Mexico Border Militia Leader Allegedly Said Group Planned to Assassinate Obama, Clinton

  22-04-2019 21:49 via news.yahoo.com
  PAUL RATJEThe border militia leader who was arrested in New Mexico over the weekend on weapons charges allegedly said that his far-right group was training to kill prominent Democratic figures because of their “support of Antifa.”According to an arrest warrant for Larry Mitchell Hopkins, witnesses told authorities that he’d said the United Constitutional Patriots were training to “assassinate” liberal billionaire George Soros, former Democratic presidential nominee
  
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• Trump tells child at Easter Egg Roll the border wall is 'being built now'

  22-04-2019 21:41 via news.yahoo.com
  At the White House Easter Egg Roll, the president couldn't resist the opportunity to tout his long-promised wall along the U.S. southern border with Mexico.
  
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• Trump: Congress 'can't impeach' him

  22-04-2019 21:38 via news.yahoo.com
  President Donald Trump said Monday that Congress "can't impeach" him over the findings of the Mueller report into Russian election meddling and his alleged attempts to hamper the investigation.Defiantly insisting that he did nothing wrong, Trump also denied a portrait of dysfunction in the White House where disobedient aides are said to have saved him from committing obstruction of justice by refusing to carry out his instructions.
  
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• Trump aims to stop all Iran oil exports by halting US sanctions waivers

  22-04-2019 21:34 via news.yahoo.com
  Donald Trump is halting all waivers from US sanctions for countries which continue to buy oil from Iran.The announcement increases pressure on Iran, which branded the sanctions “illegal”, and primarily affects the five major importers of its oil - China, India and the US treaty allies Japan, South Korea and Turkey.The US president made the decision as part of his administration’s “maximum pressure” campaign on Iran. It aims to eliminate all the country’s reven
  
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• Official: 6 people died in Texas small plane crash

  22-04-2019 21:29 via news.yahoo.com
  All six people aboard a small plane died Monday when it crashed while preparing to land in central Texas, authorities said. (April 22)
  
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• Pete Buttigieg scrambles to turn 2020 buzz into momentum

  22-04-2019 20:50 via news.yahoo.com
  MANCHESTER, N.H. (AP) — There are no policy positions on his website. He has virtually no paid presence in the states that matter most. And his campaign manager is a high school friend with no experience in presidential politics.
  
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• Experts Warn Latest Trump Administration Move on Iran Could Backfire

  22-04-2019 20:50 via news.yahoo.com
  Officials within the U.S. State Department, Defense and intelligence warn that the latest move against Iran could backfire.
  
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• President Trump Bragged About the Border Wall to a Group of Children at the Easter Egg Roll

  22-04-2019 20:34 via news.yahoo.com
  'Oh it’s happening, it’s being built now,' he said while coloring with kids
  
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• Which Chinese Cars Are Coming to the U.S.? The Shanghai Auto Show Offered Strong Hints

  22-04-2019 20:30 via news.yahoo.com
  Increasingly, Chinese brands are eyeing the U.S. market and making serious plans to come here. Which ones? Read on.
  
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• Samsung delays launch of folding Galaxy smartphone

  22-04-2019 20:22 via news.yahoo.com
  Samsung on Monday said it is delaying the launch of its folding smartphone after trouble with handsets sent to reviewers.Some reviewers who got their hands on the Galaxy Fold early reported problems with screens breaking.The South Korean consumer electronics giant planned to announce a new release date for the Galaxy Fold in the coming weeks.
  
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• President Donald Trump moves to cut off Iran oil exports; decision could roil markets

  22-04-2019 20:12 via news.yahoo.com
  Seeking to cut off Iran's oil exports, President Donald Trump decided against renewing waivers on Iranian oil sales, the administration said.
  
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• Samsung delays Galaxy Fold indefinitely as it tries to fix multiple severe problems

  22-04-2019 20:02 via news.yahoo.com
  Samsung today officially acknowledged its intention to delay the launch of its highly-anticipated Galaxy Fold smartphone. The news shouldn't come as much of a surprise given that a number of early review units handed out to prominent tech publications suffered from broken displays, a turn of events that can appropriately be categorized as an unabashed PR disaster.The Galaxy Fold is undoubtedly an ambitious device, and while it's always exciting to see companies take measures to raise the bar for
  
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• 'Game of Thrones': Former CIA deputy director David Cohen cameos in Winterfell soup line

  22-04-2019 19:59 via news.yahoo.com
  That was David S. Cohen, the former deputy director of the Central Intelligence Agency getting a hot meal from Davos Seaworth on "Game of Thrones."
  
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• Tesla Claims Fully Automated Autopilot Upgrade Will Be Fail-Safe

  22-04-2019 19:43 via news.yahoo.com
  How much of this announcement is hype and how much is tech that's ready for market, we won't know right away, but they've got our attention.
  
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• Easter Bunny hops into all-out brawl in Florida

  22-04-2019 19:42 via news.yahoo.com
  A Bad Bunny was on the loose in Florida this weekend — and we're not talkingabout the Latin singer
  
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• Top Apple insider reveals when the first 5G iPhone will be released

  22-04-2019 19:39 via news.yahoo.com
  It seems increasingly unlikely that Apple will enter the 5G era in 2019, but the pieces are beginning to fall into place for the company to take advantage of the technology in the near future. In a new research note, the incredibly prolific analyst Ming-Chi Kuo forecasts that Apple's 2020 iPhone models will be the first to support 5G.In order for Apple's 5G ambitions to be realized, it will need to acquire 5G modems. That's where Qualcomm comes into play. If you have been keeping up with the new
  
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• Meghan McCain Blows Up Over Mueller Report; Whoopi Goldberg Cuts Her Off

  22-04-2019 19:37 via news.yahoo.com
  The ViewReturning from a week-long break, The View began Monday’s broadcast reacting to the recently released Mueller report. Naturally, that segment ended with Whoopi Goldberg cutting off conservative co-host Meghan McCain during a tirade claiming Democrats are going to get President Trump re-elected by “demonizing” all Republicans.In response to Sen. Mitt Romney’s (R-UT) highly critical statement of Trump following the report—which found Trump repeatedly tried to
  
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• Ukraine leaps into unknown after comic elected president

  22-04-2019 19:36 via news.yahoo.com
  Ukraine leapt into the unknown Monday after comedian Volodymyr Zelensky was elected president on promises of change but with just a vague blueprint of what he might do as leader.Zelensky, whose previous political experience was playing the president on a TV show, crushed incumbent Petro Poroshenko in a stinging rebuke to the establishment fuelled by voters' anger over war with separatists and social injustice.Ukrainians looked to the future with hope and anxiety after the performer took 73 perce
  
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• 10 Home Decor Sales We’re Excited About This Week

  22-04-2019 19:26 via news.yahoo.com
  Consider us your personal shoppers
  
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• Military vet Moulton joins 2020 presidential race

  22-04-2019 19:24 via news.yahoo.com
  BOSTON (AP) — U.S. Rep. Seth Moulton is the latest Democrat to jump in the race for the White House.
  
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• Elizabeth Warren’s Student Loan Relief Would Lift Black, Latino Borrowers

  22-04-2019 19:24 via news.yahoo.com
  The policy would also help close racial wealth gaps in the U.S., according to an estimate provided to the campaign by Arizona State University assistant professor Raphael Charron-Chenier and Brandeis University law professor Thomas Shapiro.“Gains to net worth for households of color would be meaningful under the policy, increasing median wealth by roughly $6,741 for Black households as a whole and $3,280 for Latino households as a whole,” they wrote in the analysis.High levels of stu
  
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• Larry Mitchell Hopkins: Leader of right-wing militia ‘planned assassination of Obama, Clinton, and Soros’, FBI claims

  22-04-2019 19:20 via news.yahoo.com
  The head of a far-right New Mexico militia group known for detaining undocumented families at gunpoint has been accused of claiming to train a group to assassinate Barack Obama, Hillary Clinton, and billionaire Democratic donor George Soros.The accusations follow after Larry Mitchell Hopkins, a 69-year-old who lives in a borer town near El Paso, was arrested on charges of possession of firearms and ammunition. He had previously been convicted in 2006 on charges and firearm possession.The FBI now
  
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• British father whose entire family were wiped out in Sri Lanka attack tells of his 'catastrophic' loss

  22-04-2019 19:11 via news.yahoo.com
  A British father whose entire family were killed in the suspected terror attack in Sri Lanka has paid tribute to his "talented and thoughtful" children and his "brilliant, loving" wife. Ben Nicholson said his wife Anita, 42, son Alex, 14, and daughter Annabel, 11, had been killed as they sat at a table for breakfast in the Shangri-la Hotel in Colombo on Easter Sunday. "Mercifully, all three of them died instantly and with no pain or suffering," Mr Nicholson said. They were on the second floor of
  
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• Philippine quake topples building, at least 3 dead

  22-04-2019 19:08 via news.yahoo.com
  A strong earthquake killed three people and trapped at several others Monday in a collapsed building that housed a supermarket in a northern Philippine province. (April 22)
  
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• Trump 'not even a little bit' worried about impeachment. Should he be?

  22-04-2019 19:02 via news.yahoo.com
  President Trump says he’s “not even a little bit” worried about being impeached. But the history of the presidency suggests his unconcern might be premature.
  
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• President Trump Drops Plan to Nominate Herman Cain to Federal Reserve Board

  22-04-2019 18:59 via news.yahoo.com
  Opposition from Senate Republicans would have sunk his confirmation chances
  
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• Amazon sale gets you a Dyson cordless vacuum for just $140, today only

  22-04-2019 18:53 via news.yahoo.com
  Dyson's newest cordless vacuum is the V11 and it costs as much as $700. That's no typo... the V11 Torque costs $700! It's a phenomenal vacuum of course, but $700 is a whole lot of money to spend on something that sucks up dirt off the floor. If you don't need all of Dyson's new bells and whistles though, you can score a great cordless vacuum for a tiny fraction of that price. Amazon is running a one-day sale on Dyson V6 Motorhead Cord Free Vacuum refurbs for just $149.99, and they're of course g
  
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• Turkish police hold ruling party member, five others after opposition chief attack

  22-04-2019 18:52 via news.yahoo.com
  Turkish police on Monday were holding six people, including a member of the ruling AKP party, after a mob attack on opposition leader Kemal Kilicdaroglu that sparked widespread criticism.Kilicdaroglu, 70, of the Republican People's Party (CHP) was assaulted on Sunday in a crowd as he attended a funeral in Ankara for a soldier killed fighting Kurdish militants in the southeast.The attack came days after the opposition CHP won Ankara and Istanbul from President Recep Tayyip Erdogan's AKP in March
  
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• SpaceX’s Crew Dragon appears to have self-destructed during engine testing

  22-04-2019 18:30 via news.yahoo.com
  SpaceX has had a really fantastic 2019 thus far, with its crowning achievement being the successful launch, docking, and reentry of its Crew Dragon capsule that is expected to be delivered to NASA for crewed missions sooner rather than later. Everything -- well, almost everything -- appeared to be going SpaceX's way this year... until Saturday, that is.According to NASA and multiple eyewitness reports something went very, very wrong with the Crew Dragon vehicle during an abort engine test at Cap
  
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• 'Today' show's Dylan Dreyer opens up about miscarriage and secondary infertility struggle

  22-04-2019 18:27 via news.yahoo.com
  The 'Today' show meteorologist and her husband decided to talk about their struggle to have a second baby in an effort to get rid of the stigma attached to secondary infertility.
  
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• The Latest: Ambassador cautions overseas Sri Lankans

  22-04-2019 18:16 via news.yahoo.com
  COLOMBO, Sri Lanka (AP) — The Latest on explosions in Sri Lanka on Easter Sunday (all times local):
  
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• Supreme Court Will Decide Whether Employment Discrimination Laws Apply to LGBT Community

  22-04-2019 18:14 via news.yahoo.com
  The Supreme Court will decide whether the main federal civil rights law that prohibits employment discrimination applies to LGBT people.
  
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• White House Easter Egg Roll rolls on for 141st year, the third for Trumps

  22-04-2019 18:02 via news.yahoo.com
  It's first lady Melania Trump's third White House Easter Egg Roll, a 141-year-old tradition that attracts thousands of kids.
  
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• Police shift focus to parents in search for missing 5-year-old boy

  22-04-2019 18:00 via news.yahoo.com
  Authorities in Illinois declared AJ Freund's home a crime scene after their search dogs found no trace suggesting the boy left the house on foot.
  
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• Goodwin to Trump: Your lease on the Oval Office has been renewed. Time to make the most of it

  22-04-2019 17:56 via news.yahoo.com
  After the release of the Mueller report, New York Post columnist and Fox News contributor Michael Goodwin argues that it's time for the president to ignore the Democrats and focus on policy.
  
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