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• Three Ways the Government Shutdown Could Affect You

  04-01-2019 23:57 via news.yahoo.com
  President Trump said Friday that the government shutdown triggered over an impasse on border protection could last months or even years, which could spread its impact far beyond the 800,000 feder...
  
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• 3 Ways the Government Shutdown Could Affect You

  04-01-2019 23:57 via news.yahoo.com
  President Trump said Friday that the government shutdown triggered over an impasse on border protection could last months or even years, which could spread its impact far beyond the 800,000 feder...
  
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• Sears deadline expires: Will Eddie Lampert's last-minute offer avoid liquidation?

  04-01-2019 23:56 via news.yahoo.com
  A crucial deadline in the Sears bankruptcy came and went Friday as the retailer's future hangs in the balance.
  
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• Mother: Jazmine Barnes' killing was a hail of glass, bullets

  04-01-2019 23:53 via news.yahoo.com
  HOUSTON (AP) — It was still dark outside when LaPorsha Washington drove her four daughters, including 7-year-old Jazmine Barnes, in the family's silver car at 6:30 a.m. Sunday to a grocery store on the eastern outskirts of Houston.
  
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• UN Security Council meets on DR Congo vote

  04-01-2019 23:51 via news.yahoo.com
  The UN Security Council met behind closed doors on Friday to discuss the elections in the Democratic Republic of Congo as world powers awaited results.France requested the meeting as the European Union and the African Union urged DR Congo authorities to respect the outcome of the December 30 vote.Election results were initially scheduled to be released on Sunday but could be delayed.
  
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• U.S. anti-Islamic State meeting turns to damage control after Syria decision

  04-01-2019 23:49 via news.yahoo.com
  The previously scheduled conference, tentatively set for Feb. 7 in Washington, aims to gather ministers from many of the 79 nations in the Global Coalition To Defeat Islamic State and galvanize their fight against the militant group.In the latest ambiguous signal, a senior State Department official on Friday first told reporters the United States has no timeline for the withdrawal of troops from Syria and then said it does not plan to stay indefinitely.Another senior State Department official, a
  
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• Kyrsten Sinema's Swearing-In Look Was A Bold Queer Statement

  04-01-2019 23:39 via news.yahoo.com
  Sugar and spice and everything nice: That's what femmes are made of.
  
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• 5 children heading to Disney killed in Fla. crash

  04-01-2019 23:38 via news.yahoo.com
  Investigators are trying to determine what triggered the accident Thursday afternoon on Interstate 75 near Gainesville that killed seven people, including five children who were traveling in a church van and headed to Walt Disney World. (Jan. 4)
  
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• Washington D.C. food trucks feel the bite from government shutdown

  04-01-2019 23:23 via news.yahoo.com
  Looking out from her food truck over a sidewalk left empty in downtown Washington on Friday by the U.S. government's partial shutdown, Farida Abou Draa said she felt like crying."My business is to make people happy, to give them something to eat, to see their smiles," said Abou Draa, 38.Food truck operators are among the many non-government workers suffering as a result of the shutdown.
  
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• Intimidated by the gym? Try these tips to feel more confident

  04-01-2019 23:23 via nbcnews.com
  New to the gym? These tricks will help you shake those newbie nerves and feel more comfortable.
  
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• Mother: Jasmine Barnes' killing was a hail of glass, bullets

  04-01-2019 23:14 via foxnews.com
  It was still dark outside when LaPorsha Washington drove her four daughters, including 7-year-old Jazmine Barnes, in the family's silver car at 6:30 a.m.
  
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• US jury sees photos of El Chapo dancing, packing diamond gun

  04-01-2019 23:13 via foxnews.com
  Jurors at the U.S. trial of the notorious Mexican drug lord known as "El Chapo" are seeing evidence he knew how to live it up even while his life was in danger.
  
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• Supreme Court agrees to hear Trump administration's effort to restrict vulgar trademarks

  04-01-2019 23:10 via news.yahoo.com
  The Supreme Court has been avoiding controversial cases in recent months, but on Friday it agreed to take up a case about a clothing line called "fuct."
  
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• Government shutdown could last for years, says Trump – video

  04-01-2019 23:10 via theguardian.com
  The partial government shutdown, which hit the two-week mark on Friday, could continue indefinitely after a meeting between Donald Trump and top Democrats failed to resolve their dispute. The president went on to say he could declare a national emergency and build a wall without congressional approval: ‘I can do it if I want’Trump confirms he said government shutdown could last months or years Continue reading...
  
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• Global stocks soar on dovish Fed, strong US jobs data

  04-01-2019 23:10 via news.yahoo.com
  Global stocks shot higher on Friday following a strong US jobs report and dovish comments from Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell on the prospects for higher interest rates."A solid set of job numbers and some comfortable words from the chairman of the Federal Reserve have been just the ticket to get markets into bullish mode," said Chris Beauchamp, chief market analyst at online trading platform IG.Earlier, Japan's Nikkei had slumped 2.3 percent, due in part due to a strengthening yen, which a
  
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• A U.S. Airstrike Just Killed a Man Wanted for the USS Cole Bombing, Pentagon Says

  04-01-2019 23:06 via news.yahoo.com
  Nineteen years after the attack on a U.S. Navy guided missile destroyer, an Al Qaeda militant involved in the incident was killed in an airstrike.
  
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• White supremacist says he will plead guilty in sword killing

  04-01-2019 23:03 via foxnews.com
  An Army veteran accused of killing a black man with a sword as part of a racist plot told a judge that he intended to plead guilty to the crime, but he asked that it be put off because he'd taken pain medication.
  
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• The shutdown is about to get worse for federal workers

  04-01-2019 23:02 via news.yahoo.com
  Nearly 400,000 workers have been off the federal payroll since the government shutdown began at midnight on Dec. 22.While most workers received back pay after previous shutdowns, there’s no guarantee that will be the case this time around. Some contract workers, including janitors, security guards and administrative staff, won’t receive back pay at all.Congress has to pass — and the president has to sign — legislation that specifically authorizes the government to pa
  
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• Latest: Man charged in shooting of slain children's mother

  04-01-2019 23:02 via foxnews.com
  The Latest on the fatal shooting of three children in Texas (all times local): 10:55 a.m.
  
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• Trump has a temporary edge in the US-China trade war as 2019 begins

  04-01-2019 23:01 via foxnews.com
  There is evidence that Chinese policymakers want to resolve the trade war quickly due to the threat that the prolonged dispute poses to China’s already-slowing economy.
  
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• China's economic slowdown: How worried should we be?

  04-01-2019 23:00 via bbc.co.uk
  A rare warning from Apple and trade tensions are putting pressure on existing economic strains.
  
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• Ex-university student in poisoning case is ordered to jail

  04-01-2019 22:57 via foxnews.com
  A former Lehigh University student accused of poisoning his roommate has been ordered to jail over allegations he sought to flee to his native China by orchestrating his own deportation.
  
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• Supreme Court to take new look at partisan electoral districts

  04-01-2019 22:56 via foxnews.com
  The Supreme Court is plunging back into the issue of whether electoral districts can be too partisan.
  
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• Airline orders cabin crew to lose weight

  04-01-2019 22:55 via cnn.com
  Pakistan's flag carrier is cracking down on what it terms "excess weight" of some of its cabin crew.
  
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• ICE dumping immigrants in border towns due to overcrowding at detention centers

  04-01-2019 22:51 via foxnews.com
  NGO's in El Paso are scrambling to find temporary housing for migrants. The number of immigrants released by ICE could go up to 500 a day.
  
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• Brazil's Bolsonaro sees threat in Russia, considers US base

  04-01-2019 22:50 via news.yahoo.com
  SAO PAULO (AP) — Brazil is open to hosting a U.S. military base to counter Russian influence in the region, the South American country's new far-right president said.
  
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• Police: Boy found in storage unit last went to school in May

  04-01-2019 22:47 via foxnews.com
  Police believe a 7-year-old boy found dead in a Denver storage unit just before Christmas last attended school in late May.
  
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• Mexican president Amlo reveals $23,000 in savings – and no credit card

  04-01-2019 22:43 via theguardian.com
  Leftwing president cut his own pay to $65,000 a yearAmlo to sell presidential plane and travel in Volkswagen JettaDespite spending his adult life in a political system where public service is seen as a route to self-enrichment, Mexico’s president Andrés Manuel López Obrador has revealed that he has a little less than $23,00 in savings. Related: 'It's a comfy plane': Mexico's Amlo seeks buyer for presidential jetContinue reading...
  
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• Can You Drive "Blind" Using Only Parking Sensors Like in Netflix's "Bird Box?"

  04-01-2019 22:43 via news.yahoo.com
  If you cover up a car's windows and parking cameras, can you rely on the parking sensors alone to get you to safety?
  
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• Trump, Dems meet but have two different stories

  04-01-2019 22:42 via foxnews.com
  And the shutdown continues on.
  
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• No-deal Brexit: plan to use airfield as lorry park to get live test

  04-01-2019 22:27 via theguardian.com
  Up to 150 lorries to be used in Kent test of government plans to cope with border disruptionPreparations for the possibility of a no-deal Brexit will include up to 150 lorries queuing up near Dover during rush hour to test plans to deal with any disruption caused by new border customs checks, the government has confirmed.Hauliers in the area will be asked to take part in Monday’s live test of a mass “HGV holding facility” that is designed to deal with any backlog after the UK l
  
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• Trump: I'm prepared for shutdown to last for years

  04-01-2019 22:26 via cnn.com
  A meeting Friday between President Donald Trump and newly powerful Democrats ended in varied descriptions of what transpired, with Republicans expressing fresh optimism a deal could be struck and their political opponents offering drearier views of a compromise.
  
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• A wild day in Washington ends with uncertainty as to how the US President and newly powerful Democrats can compromise to reopen the government

  04-01-2019 22:26 via cnn.com
  A meeting Friday between President Donald Trump and newly powerful Democrats ended in varied descriptions of what transpired, with Republicans expressing fresh optimism a deal could be struck and their political opponents offering drearier views of a compromise.
  
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• A wild day in Washington ends with uncertainty as to how President Trump and newly powerful Democrats can compromise to reopen the government

  04-01-2019 22:26 via cnn.com
  A meeting Friday between President Donald Trump and newly powerful Democrats ended in varied descriptions of what transpired, with Republicans expressing fresh optimism a deal could be struck and their political opponents offering drearier views of a compromise.
  
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• Five teenagers dead after fire in 'escape room' in Poland

  04-01-2019 22:14 via theguardian.com
  Girls, 15, had been celebrating a birthday at the venue in northern city of Koszalin Five teenage girls have died and one man was seriously injured after a fire broke out at an “escape room” interactive game location, in the northern Polish city of Koszalin, officials said.“The victims of this tragedy are 15-year-old children, girls celebrating a birthday,” interior minister Joachim Brudziński told broadcaster TVN24. Continue reading...
  
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• Bolsonaro aide: Brazil will not hike a financial tax

  04-01-2019 21:49 via news.yahoo.com
  Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro's chief of staff said on Friday that there would be no hike in a financial transaction tax, contradicting what the leader himself said earlier in the day.The chief of staff, Onyx Lorenzoni, said that after Bolsonaro spoke with the head of Brazil's tax collection agency, it was understood that there would be no need to increase the tax.Lorenzoni also said it was not set in stone that the Bolsonaro team's pension reform package would have minimum retirement ages
  
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• Takata Airbag Recall Expands to Include More Ford, Lincoln, and Mercury Vehicles

  04-01-2019 21:17 via news.yahoo.com
  Ford is adding 782,384 vehicles in the U.S. to its list of those that should have their Takata airbags replaced. Lincoln and Mercury vehicles are also included in the recall. The Takata recall co...
  
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• High rate of food allergies seen in U.S. adults

  04-01-2019 21:16 via news.yahoo.com
  Among more than 40,000 adults surveyed, 10.8 percent reported the kinds of severe symptoms that are consistent with a food allergy, and another 8.2 percent said they believed they had food allergies, but their symptoms suggested other causes, according to the report in JAMA Network Open."The main message from the survey is that one in five adults have some kind of food related conditions that are causing them to avoid certain foods," said Dr. Ruchi Gupta of Northwestern University's Feinberg Sch
  
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• 'Jersey Shore' star Ronnie Ortiz-Magro files domestic battery report against ex-girlfriend

  04-01-2019 21:16 via news.yahoo.com
  Las Vegas police confirmed to USA TODAY that Ortiz-Magro, 33, had filed a domestic battery violence report against Jen Harley, with whom he shares a 9-month-old daughter, Ariana Sky.
  
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• Reporter to Trump: Why isn't Mexico paying for the wall?

  04-01-2019 21:12 via cnn.com
  CNN's Kaitlan Collins presses President Donald Trump on how he can say he's not failing on delivering his campaign promise to build a concrete wall and have Mexico pay for it.
  
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• CNN reporter to Trump: Why isn't Mexico paying?

  04-01-2019 21:12 via cnn.com
  CNN's Kaitlan Collins presses President Donald Trump on how he can say he's not failing on delivering his campaign promise to build a concrete wall and have Mexico pay for it.
  
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• Trump's fiery response to Tlaib's remark

  04-01-2019 21:10 via cnn.com
  President Trump responds to Rep. Rashid Tlaib's (D-MI) controversial comments. Hours after she was sworn in to Congress, Michigan Democratic Rep. Rashida Tlaib used an expletive in pushing for impeaching President Donald Trump.
  
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• President's fiery response

  04-01-2019 21:10 via cnn.com
  President Trump responds to Rep. Rashid Tlaib's (D-MI) controversial comments. Hours after she was sworn in to Congress, Michigan Democratic Rep. Rashida Tlaib used an expletive in pushing for impeaching President Donald Trump.
  
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• Terrorist behind USS Cole bombing 'killed'

  04-01-2019 21:09 via cnn.com
  The terrorist behind the 2000 attack on the USS Cole is believed to have been killed in a US airstrike in Yemen on Tuesday, according to a US administration official.
  
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• Suspected Ebola sufferer does not have disease, say Swedes

  04-01-2019 20:51 via theguardian.com
  Tests negative for patient who had returned from Burundi and was treated in isolationA young man being treated in isolation at Uppsala University hospital in Sweden after suspicion of Ebola contamination does not have the disease, the regional authority has said.Region Uppsala, which oversees several hospitals and medical clinics north of Stockholm, said a test had been carried out on the patient, who was not identified. Continue reading...
  
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• Control just about anything that plugs into a wall with Alexa using this tiny $17 box

  04-01-2019 20:44 via news.yahoo.com
  Alexa is one of the best things that has happened to the smart home market in the past few years. Thanks to Amazon's strategy of giving third-party companies free access to Alexa, it's now the voice assistant with the widest compatibility in the world. But what about all the older devices you have around the house that aren't compatible with Alexa, like lamps and fans? Check out the Kasa Smart Plug Outlet by TP-Link, which is discounted right now on Amazon. Plug it into any outlet and you can co
  
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• Senior US official: Saudi version of Khashoggi murder 'not credible'

  04-01-2019 20:25 via theguardian.com
  Comments come as the US secretary of state embarks on a tour of Arab capitals The US does not believe the official Saudi version of the murder of the Washington Post columnist and dissident Jamal Khashoggi is credible, a senior administration official has said.The official was speaking to the press before the secretary of state, Mike Pompeo, embarks next week on an tour of eight Arab capitals, seeking to shore up support for US policy, and to reassure allies that the US is not abandoning the reg
  
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• Best new hotels to stay at on your next vacation

  04-01-2019 20:25 via cnn.com
  Whether it's for business or pleasure, travelers these days are savvier than ever about their hotel choices. They demand ultraluxe amenities, show-stopping design, Instagrammable views and unparalleled comfort. Circulation-boosting pillows, anyone?
  
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• New congresswoman responds to dance video haters

  04-01-2019 20:20 via cnn.com
  Freshman Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez is clapping back at the people who criticized an old video of her dancing -- by posting a new video of her dancing.
  
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• Photos of the week: 12/28 - 1/4

  04-01-2019 20:00 via news.yahoo.com
  The partial government shutdown continued this week as Republicans and
  
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