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• CORRECTED-Trump threats complicate negotiations for whistleblower to testify to Congress

  03-10-2019 23:57 via news.yahoo.com
  U.S. President Donald Trump's public attacks on the unidentified whistleblower at the center of a Democratic-led impeachment inquiry are complicating negotiations for the person to testify to Congress, according to three people familiar with the matter.Trump has suggested the whistleblower committed treason, prompting concerns among Democrats on the U.S. House of Representatives Intelligence Committee that testifying could raise the risk of exposure.White House officials were not immediately ava
  
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• Uh oh: Trump’s attorney general asks Facebook for ‘backdoor’ messaging access

  03-10-2019 23:33 via news.yahoo.com
  US Attorney General Bill Barr is scheduled to make some remarks at a Justice Department event Friday focused on how tech companies promoting encryption has hampered government access to information.That's according to a New York Times preview of the event, which will come in tandem with a chilling demand from Barr: In a letter from President Trump's AG to Facebook dated October 4, Barr asks the social networking giant to immediately halt its plan to expand end-to-end encryption across the compan
  
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• The History of “Nine-O-Nine”, the B-17 Bomber that Crashed

  03-10-2019 23:28 via news.yahoo.com
  The bomber involved in Tuesday’s fatal crash in Connecticut never made it to war, but served as a search and rescue plane and water bomber.
  
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• Ohio University suspends all fraternities over hazing claims

  03-10-2019 23:22 via news.yahoo.com
  Ohio University on Thursday announced it was suspending all its fraternities following allegations of widespread hazing.Suspension of the 15 fraternities at the university was immediate and indefinite.It followed allegations within the past week of hazing at seven of the fraternities, as well as the expulsion in May of a fraternity following the alleged hazing of a freshman who died last year.
  
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• IRS Employee Files Whistleblower Complaint Over Audit of Trump/Pence Tax Returns: Report

  03-10-2019 23:17 via news.yahoo.com
  A career IRS official has filed a whistleblower complaint over inappropriate interference by at least one Treasury Department official in a mandatory annual audit of the president and vice president’s taxes.The House Ways and Means Committee was alerted to “possible misconduct” at the end of July, but The Washington Post shed more light on the situation Thursday when it reported that the individual was an IRS employee and revealed that the allegation pertained to Treasury
  
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• Some see rush to forgive as rush to forget racial violence

  03-10-2019 23:16 via news.yahoo.com
  When a white Dallas police officer who killed an innocent black man in his own living room was sent off to prison this week with a hug from the victim’s brother and the black judge on the case, some saw it as a moment of amazing grace and redemption.Many black Americans, though, saw something all too familiar and were offended.Some saw the rush to forgive as a rush to forget racial violence.
  
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• McDonald's McRib is coming back for a limited time. How to find it

  03-10-2019 23:10 via news.yahoo.com
  The McRib, McDonald's iconic barbecue sandwich, is set to return for a limited time as early as Monday, Oct. 7, in more than 10,000 U.S. restaurants.
  
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• Photos of starving grizzly bear family stirs concern for climate crisis

  03-10-2019 23:08 via news.yahoo.com
  A Canadian photographer’s images of an emaciated grizzly bear family has sparked widespread concern for the effect of climate change on wildlife in the area.Rolf Hicker shared a series of photos on Facebook of the bears looking for food on the shores of Canada’s Knight Inlet.
  
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• Warren turns 'cougar' accusation into a talking point for her college debt plan

  03-10-2019 23:03 via news.yahoo.com
  Sen. Elizabeth Warren turned an unfounded personal attack into an opportunity to promote her college debt forgiveness plan.
  
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• What happens America is condensed into one room? Partisanship fades.

  03-10-2019 22:50 via news.yahoo.com
  ‘America in One Room’ polled voters before and after discussions and briefings. Centrist proposals gained support, as did confidence in democracy.
  
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• Tyshawn Lee murder trial: Chicago prosecutors urge jury for a 'just' ending to boy's short life

  03-10-2019 22:24 via news.yahoo.com
  Closing arguments began Thursday in the case of Tyshawn Lee, a 9-year-old boy was shot and killed in one of Chicago's most horrific crimes.
  
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• Gandhi’s ashes stolen and photo vandalized after 150th birthday celebrations, reports say

  03-10-2019 22:19 via news.yahoo.com
  An urn containing some of Mahatma Gandhi’s ashes was reportedly stolen from a government building in India, according to the Wire, an Indian news site.
  
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• A ‘Limited’ Nuclear War Quickly Could Kill 90 Million People

  03-10-2019 22:00 via news.yahoo.com
  That’s the startling conclusion that a team of researchers at Princeton University reached when they simulated an exchange of small-yield “tactical” nuclear weapons between the United States and Russia.
  
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• Treason! Arrest him! The Democratic lawmaker who enrages Donald Trump

  03-10-2019 21:41 via news.yahoo.com
  For nearly three years, President Donald Trump has dismissed the investigations that have shadowed almost every day of his presidency as hoaxes and witch-hunts, and the people leading them as crooks and liars.TheDemocratic lawmaker, chairman of the House Intelligence Committee, has become the public face of a rapidly escalating impeachment inquiry that is the latest and perhaps most serious threat to Trump’s presidency.Trump, who has branded the impeachment probe a "hoax," has attacked Sch
  
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• Trump asking foreign countries for help against Biden violates law, Election Commission chair warns

  03-10-2019 21:39 via news.yahoo.com
  FEC chair Ellen Weintraub posted a reminder about U.S. election law following Trump's latest requests to foreign nations.
  
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• Election Commission chair hints that Trump asking foreign countries for help against Biden violates law

  03-10-2019 21:39 via news.yahoo.com
  FEC chair Ellen Weintraub posted a reminder about U.S. election law following Trump's latest requests to foreign nations.
  
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• NEWSMAKER-Treason! Arrest him! The Democratic lawmaker who enrages Donald Trump

  03-10-2019 21:37 via news.yahoo.com
  For nearly three years, President Donald Trump has dismissed the investigations that shadowed almost every day of his presidency as hoaxes and witch-hunts, and the people leading them as crooks and liars.Trump, who has branded the impeachment probe as a "hoax," has attacked Schiff as a "lowlife" and a liar, thundered at him during a White House news conference, and suggested that he be questioned or arrested for treason."Schiff is a lowlife who should resign (at least!)," Trump wrote on Twitter
  
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• iPhone users, beware: 1,370 scam apps might’ve just been uncovered in the App Store

  03-10-2019 21:34 via news.yahoo.com
  Policing a mobile applications marketplace is no easy feat when you're a tech giant the size of Google or Apple, both of which are constantly flooded with requests for new apps to be approved and both of which manage that inflow with a variety of tools that include human oversight and review.Google has been under fire in recent months over the discovery of hundreds of sketchy apps in its Google Play Store, apps found to be engaged in all manner of shady practices including serving as delivery me
  
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• GM can withstand losses of UAW strike — because of what it stands to gain

  03-10-2019 21:33 via news.yahoo.com
  The UAW's nationwide strike against GM has cost the company about $1 billion. But GM can withstand the loss because of what it stands to gain.
  
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• Ecuador president declares state of emergency over strike

  03-10-2019 21:18 via news.yahoo.com
  Ecuador’s president declared a state of emergency Thursday to confront rowdy street protests and a nationwide transport strike over his decision to end government fuel subsidies and relax labor protections.Public transport in major cities and between provinces was virtually shut down, forcing many people to walk long distances to get to work.In Quito, university students tried to march to the government headquarters in the historic part of the city.
  
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• Michael Avenatti Takes Stormy Daniels to Court for Millions in Legal Backpay

  03-10-2019 21:12 via news.yahoo.com
  Photo Illustration by Elizabeth Brockway/The Daily BeastEmbattled lawyer Michael Avenatti is taking legal action against his ex-client Stormy Daniels for $2 million in legal fees from their infamous “hush agreement” lawsuit against President Donald Trump. Avenatti, who currently faces federal criminal charges set for trial next month, filed an attorney’s lien on Thursday. It alleges that despite “repeated demands that Ms. Daniels fulfill her contractual obligations a
  
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• CNN says it won't air a Trump campaign ad featuring 'false' claim against Biden

  03-10-2019 21:05 via news.yahoo.com
  A CNN spokesperson said that the Trump campaign ad attacking Biden does not meet its advertising standards because it includes "demonstrably false" claims.
  
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• Will P&G split its stock? It hasn't happened in 15 years

  03-10-2019 21:00 via news.yahoo.com
  The longest P&G; has allowed the stock to remain above $100 before a stock split: 11 months. We're at six months, 10 days and counting.
  
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• RAH-66 Comanche Helicopter: Amazing to Look At (But a Massive Failure)

  03-10-2019 21:00 via news.yahoo.com
  Waste of money.
  
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• Fighting GM puts a financial squeeze on striking union workers

  03-10-2019 20:59 via news.yahoo.com
  BOWLING GREEN, Ky. - (Reuters) - While striking workers at General Motors Co's U.S. auto plants continue walking picket lines for a third week to demand better pay and benefits, the financial pressure has mounted for union members like Frank Lee.Analysts estimate that GM could lose $1 billion from the labor dispute that began on Sept. 16 and is now the longest nationwide strike at the automaker since 1970.For GM, which had $24 billion in cash and marketable securities as of June 30, that cost is
  
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• Trump calls on China to investigate Biden in extraordinary demand

  03-10-2019 20:55 via news.yahoo.com
  * ‘If they don’t do what we want, we have tremendous power’* Impeachment inquiry concerns similar behavior with Ukraine* Trump calls on China to investigate Biden – liveDonald Trump has called for China to investigate his leading political rival, in defiance of impeachment proceedings in Congress where he stands accused of abusing his office to put similar pressure on Ukraine.At the same time as calling for an investigation of the former vice-president and frontrunner in
  
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• A tropical wave is forming in the Caribbean as Lorenzo is expected to hit Ireland and the UK

  03-10-2019 20:55 via news.yahoo.com
  For the first time in several weeks, there are no named tropical storms or hurricanes anywhere in the Atlantic.
  
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• New York sues big U.S. student loan servicer for abusing borrowers

  03-10-2019 20:30 via news.yahoo.com
  New York state on Thursday sued one of the largest federal student loan servicers, whose practices the U.S. government singled out for criticism earlier this year, saying it abusively treated borrowers working in lower-paying public service jobs.The lawsuit by state Attorney General Letitia James adds to a growing list of complaints by borrowers and regulators against the Pennsylvania Higher Education Assistance Agency, which operates as FedLoan and American Education Services.James said FedLoan
  
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• Greta Thunberg hits back at Putin with Twitter bio

  03-10-2019 20:26 via news.yahoo.com
  After the Russian president described her as "a kind and very sincere girl" who doesn't understand the complexities of "the modern world," the 16-year-old responded by changing her Twitter bio to mock his dismissive words.
  
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• The Latest: Woman gets 10 years in prison in son’s death

  03-10-2019 20:22 via news.yahoo.com
  A Phoenix woman who says her 2-year-old son fatally shot her 9-year-old son with a handgun that she left on a bed was sentenced to 10 years in prison for her role in the 2017 killing.The sentence given Thursday to Wendy Lavarnia in the death of her son, Landen, marked the most lenient punishment available under the terms of her guilty pleas to manslaughter and attempted child abuse.A Phoenix woman who says her 2-year-old son fatally shot her 9-year-old son with a handgun that she left on a bed f
  
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• Ant-plant partnerships may play unexpected role in ant evolution

  03-10-2019 20:15
  Partnerships between ant and plant species appear to arise from -- but not drive -- rapid diversification of ants into new species.
  
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• Paris Knife Attacker Converted to Islam 18 Months Before Attack: Report

  03-10-2019 20:14 via news.yahoo.com
  The French police employee who killed four of his colleagues at the Paris police headquarters on Thursday was a recent convert to Islam, according to French television BFM TV.The 45-year-old attacker killed three police officers and an administrative worker, three men and one woman, before being shot and killed by police. Officials so far have not publicly released a motive, and are trying to discover if there was a terrorism link. The man’s wife has been taken in custody.Paris Mayor Anne
  
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• Camp Shelby accident: What you need to know about the camp where 22 paratroopers were hurt

  03-10-2019 20:12 via news.yahoo.com
  Camp Shelby, where an accident occurred Wednesday, is unfamiliar to many. What is it? Where is it? What happens there? Find answers to your questions.
  
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• Rudy Giuliani says some of the documents State Dept. IG gave to Congress came from him

  03-10-2019 20:10 via news.yahoo.com
  After State Department Inspector General Steve Linick briefed Congress on Wednesday and handed over materials that some Democrats said amounted to a packet of “propaganda” apparently designed to smear former Vice President Joe Biden, Trump lawyer Rudy Giuliani proudly told CNN that some of these documents originated with him.
  
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• School leaves 'bullied' child outside in cold with no coat and then reports him missing

  03-10-2019 20:06 via news.yahoo.com
  A woman is suing school bosses in Chicago after her nine-year-old son was left outside in the cold without a coat.Yvonne Pinkston said her son, then a fourth grader at Fiske Elementary School in Englewood, Illinois, was deliberately locked outside of his school in near-freezing temperatures after he complained about being bullied by both students and staff.
  
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• Populations of UK’s most important wildlife have plummeted since 1970

  03-10-2019 20:00 via theguardian.com
  Quarter of mammals and nearly half of birds assessed are at risk of extinction, says State of Nature reportPopulations of the UK’s most important wildlife have plummeted by an average of 60% since 1970, according to the most comprehensive analysis to date.The State of Nature report also found that the area inhabited by officially designated “priority species” has shrunk by 27%. The species are those deemed most important and threatened, and include hedgehogs, hares and bats, ma
  
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• Pentagon orders officials to submit all documents on Ukraine aid freeze

  03-10-2019 19:57 via politico.com
  The Pentagon's Office of General Counsel has ordered officials to send all documents and communications about military aid to Ukraine “for cataloguing and review,” the top Defense Department spokesperson said today, adding that this is standard practice for high-profile issues.The documents could play a role in the House's impeachment inquiry, launched after President Donald Trump appeared to make military aid to Ukraine conditional on officials investigating Trump’s political
  
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• Fate of Georgia ex-cop who shot naked man is in jury’s hands

  03-10-2019 19:56 via news.yahoo.com
  Shortly after arriving, he killed 26-year-old Anthony Hill, an Air Force veteran, who had been diagnosed with bipolar disorder and PTSD.The charges against Olsen include two counts of felony murder, two counts of violation of oath of office, and one count each of aggravated assault and making a false statement.Prosecutor Pete Johnson told jurors it’s unreasonable to believe that Olsen, who was bigger than Hill and had multiple weapons, was afraid of the unarmed, naked man and justified in
  
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• Fox Host Praises ‘Classic’ Trump’s ‘Legitimate’ Call for China to Dig Up Dirt on Biden

  03-10-2019 19:45 via news.yahoo.com
  Shortly after President Donald Trump publicly called for China to investigate former Vice President Joe Biden amid an impeachment inquiry into his urging the Ukraine president to do the same thing, Wall Street Journal editor-at-large Gerard Baker praised the president for doubling down, claiming Trump feels this is a “legitimate thing to ask of foreign powers.Appearing on Fox News’ America’s Newsroom on Thursday morning, Baker—who also hosts the Fox Business Network weekl
  
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• 3 Dead, 3 Critically Injured After Plane Crashes in Michigan

  03-10-2019 19:30 via news.yahoo.com
  Three people are dead and three others are seriously injured after a small plane from Indiana crashed at an airport in Lansing, Michigan.
  
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• Because of Larry Nassar, Michigan State has the most rapes reported in a year in campus safety report

  03-10-2019 19:04 via news.yahoo.com
  The annual Clery Act report, which is mandated by the federal government, includes more than 1,000 rapes – most attributed to Larry Nassar.
  
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• ACLU challenges deportation of man to El Salvador

  03-10-2019 18:56 via news.yahoo.com
  The American Civil Liberties Union is demanding that the federal government return a Salvadoran man to the United States after he was deported despite a court order allowing him to remain here.In its brief filed Wednesday, the ACLU of New Hampshire said that José Daniel Guerra-Castañeda was deported last month by U.S. Immigration and Enforcement to El Salvador and is in a crowded jail there.A federal judge in Boston ruled last month that Guerra-Castañeda could remain in the
  
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• Abby Huntsman Confronts Rachel Maddow: Aren’t You ‘Part of the Problem?’

  03-10-2019 18:45 via news.yahoo.com
  MSNBC’s Rachel Maddow brought her media tour to promote her new book Blowout about corruption in the oil and gas industry to The View on Thursday, but just like Stephen Colbert earlier in the week, all the hosts really wanted to talk about was Trump’s impeachment inquiry. Maddow continued to predict that Trump will be impeached over his phone call with the Ukrainian president and this time suggested that the scandal could bring down Vice President Mike Pence as well. Referr
  
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• Sperm donor sues clinic after discovering he has fathered 17 children

  03-10-2019 18:36 via news.yahoo.com
  A doctor is suing his medical school after discovering sperm he donated 30 years ago was used to father at least 17 children.Dr Bryce Cleary has filed a $5.25million (£4.23m) lawsuit against Oregon Health & Science University for allegedly breaking an agreement that his sperm would be used to father no more than five children.
  
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• AP Exclusive: Many problems at jail where inmates escaped

  03-10-2019 18:35 via news.yahoo.com
  CLEVELAND (AP)The overcrowded Ohio county jail from which four inmates escaped last weekend has been repeatedly cited by state inspectors for its lack of a security perimeter, broken security cameras and a lack of records showing whether officers conducted daily inmate counts, The Associated Press has learned.The male inmates who escaped overpowered two female corrections officers at the Gallia County Jail near the southern tip of Ohio using a handmade shank early Sunday.A report by the Ohio Dep
  
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• The Latest: Pilot in B-17 crash logged 7,300 hours in bomber

  03-10-2019 18:30 via news.yahoo.com
  An official from the National Transportation Safety Board says the pilot in a deadly Connecticut plane crash had more than 7,000 hours’ experience flying B-17s.The pilot, Ernest McCauley, was among the seven people killed in the crash Wednesday at Bradley International Airport.The wife of a man who died in a B-17 bomber crash in Connecticut says she had “a really bad feeling” the plane was going to go down.
  
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• A rapper’s quest to be president

  03-10-2019 18:20 via news.yahoo.com
  Bobi Wine wants to unseat Uganda’s entrenched ruler. Can he stir a youth revolution here and across Africa?
  
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• Trump’s former Ukraine envoy reveals damaging texts

  03-10-2019 18:17 via politico.com
  The former envoy, Kurt Volker, who is at the center of a scandal that may lead to Trump’s impeachment, spent more than eight hours on Thursday being deposed by lawmakers and aides from three House committees.The committees are looking into allegations that include whether Trump and his personal lawyer Rudy Giuliani improperly pressured Ukrainian officials to launch an investigation into Biden while withholding U.S. military aid.Speaker Nancy Pelosi launched an impeachment inquiry last week
  
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• 2020 Vision Thursday: How a tough impeachment vote could threaten the GOP's Senate majority

  03-10-2019 18:14 via news.yahoo.com
  For a small group of endangered GOP senators, their votes on impeachment may eventually decide their electoral fates — and control of the Senate itself.
  
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• Family outraged after a Universal character made 'OK' symbol on 6-year-old's shoulder

  03-10-2019 18:08 via news.yahoo.com
  A family is shaken and looking for answers after they say a Universal Orlando actor displayed a hateful gesture in a vacation photo and video.
  
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