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• Maduro regime rejects aid, claims it's sending food to Colombia

  18-02-2019 23:56 via cnn.com
  Venezuela will send food to feed hungry Colombian children, communications minister Jorge Rodriguez claimed Monday -- citing statistics about poverty in neighboring Colombia -- even as citizens in his country struggle with food shortages at home.
  
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• Maduro regime rejects aid

  18-02-2019 23:56 via cnn.com
  Venezuela will send food to feed hungry Colombian children, communications minister Jorge Rodriguez claimed Monday -- citing statistics about poverty in neighboring Colombia -- even as citizens in his country struggle with food shortages at home.
  
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• Trump urges Venezuelan military to desert 'Cuban puppet' Maduro

  18-02-2019 23:49 via theguardian.com
  President speaks to US-based Venezuelans in MiamiTrump calls on listeners to support oppositionDonald Trump has appealed to the largest Venezuelan community in the US, seeking to rally support for the opposition leader Juan Guaidó. Related: Panama Papers ‘tightened the noose’ on offshore assets of Maduro’s inner circleContinue reading...
  
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• Trump the pundit handicaps 2020 Democratic contenders

  18-02-2019 23:48 via news.yahoo.com
  WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. (AP) — Kamala Harris had the best campaign roll-out. Amy Klobuchar's snowy debut showed grit. Elizabeth Warren's opening campaign video was a bit odd. Take it from an unlikely armchair pundit sizing up the 2020 Democratic field: President Donald Trump.
  
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• A tax service turned away a gay couple. Both sides claim discrimination

  18-02-2019 23:46 via news.yahoo.com
  This is latest in debate over Indiana's Religious Freedom Restoration Act on whether businesses can refuse service based on religious beliefs.
  
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• 3 children, 1 woman found dead in Michigan home

  18-02-2019 23:44 via nbcnews.com
  “We are actively investigating, trying to get to the bottom of what happened today,” the sheriff said.
  
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• Lindsey Vonn wins big at 'Oscars of Sport'

  18-02-2019 23:36 via cnn.com
  US ski star Lindsey Vonn picked up the Spirit of Sport award at the "Oscars of Sport" Monday -- on a night where Novak Djokovic and Simone Biles were also recognized for their achievements.
  
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• Trump warns Venezuela military they are risking their lives and future

  18-02-2019 23:24 via news.yahoo.com
  MIAMI (Reuters) - U.S. President Donald Trump on Monday warned members of Venezuela's military who are helping President Nicolas Maduro to stay in power that they are risking their future and their lives and urged them to allow humanitarian aid into the country. Speaking to a cheering crowd mostly of Venezuelan and Cuban immigrants, Trump said if the Venezuelan military continues supporting Maduro, "you will find no safe harbor, no easy exit and no way out. You’ll lose everything.” H
  
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• 'No idea': Mathias Cormann faces questions over family travel – politics live

  18-02-2019 23:24 via theguardian.com
  The finance minister is under the microscope over a trip initially paid for by a travel company that won a $1bn contract with his department. All the days events, live 10.16pm GMT The Valedictories keep coming. Really brings home how little sitting days there are left until the election is called. Tomorrow I will be giving my Valedictory in the Parliament at 4:10PM (3:10PM in QLD).
  This is an end of an era. Here are some highlights before tomorrow’s speech.
  Tune in tomorrow here https://t.
  
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• This AI is so good at mimicking human writing, its creators won't release it

  18-02-2019 23:17 via cnn.com
  A new artificial intelligence system is so good at composing text, that the researchers behind it said they won't release it for fear of how it could be misused.
  
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• New York's Amazon rejection exposes US opportunity gap and Democrats' political disconnect

  18-02-2019 23:05 via news.yahoo.com
  Democrats should consider this a wake-up call for 2020 when they must win states that don't have dynamic urban economies like New York or California.
  
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• Pence and Biden in Munich: Stark contrast shows how Trump is ruining relations with Europe

  18-02-2019 23:04 via news.yahoo.com
  Former ambassador: We're safer in NATO than outside it, but Donald Trump doesn't seem to realize that and is separating us from our closest allies.
  
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• Dramatic MP walkout is latest Brexit twist

  18-02-2019 23:04 via cnn.com
  Seven members of Britain's opposition Labour party resigned on Monday, citing what they described as institutional anti-Semitism and the party's "betrayal" on Brexit.
  
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• World yearns for post-Trump era

  18-02-2019 23:00 via cnn.com
  If Europe's leaders, diplomats and security professionals had a vote in the 2020 US presidential elections, it doesn't seem likely they'd give it to President Trump. At least, that's how it seemed at the 2019 Munich Security Conference.
  
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• World looks for post-Trump era

  18-02-2019 23:00 via cnn.com
  If Europe's leaders, diplomats and security professionals had a vote in the 2020 US presidential elections, it doesn't seem likely they'd give it to President Trump. At least, that's how it seemed at the 2019 Munich Security Conference.
  
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• Gene therapy could treat rare brain disorder in unborn babies

  18-02-2019 23:00 via theguardian.com
  Doctors could use Crispr tool to inject benign virus into foetus’s brain to ‘switch on’ key genesScientists are developing a radical form of gene therapy that could cure a devastating medical disorder by mending mutations in the brains of foetuses in the womb.The treatment, which has never been attempted before, would involve doctors injecting the feotus’s brain with a harmless virus that infects the neurons and delivers a suite of molecules that correct the genetic fault
  
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• Farrakhan Praises Omar’s Anti-Semitic Remarks: ‘Shake Up That Corrupt House’

  18-02-2019 22:57 via news.yahoo.com
  Nation of Islam leader Louis Farrakhan on Sunday praised Representative Ilhan Omar's (D., Minn.) recent endorsement of an anti-Semitic trope and urged the freshman lawmaker not to bow to pressure from critics.“Ms. Omar from Somalia – she started talking about ‘the Benjamins' and they are trying to make her apologize. Sweetheart, don't do that. Pardon me for calling you sweetheart, but you do have a sweet heart. You sure are using it to shake the government up, but you have noth
  
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• George Mendonsa, The Kissing Sailor in famous photograph, dies at 95

  18-02-2019 22:48 via theguardian.com
  Alfred Eisenstaedt photographed sailor kissing Greta Friedman in Times Square at the end of the second world warGeorge Mendonsa, the sailor who was captured in a famous photograph kissing a woman in Times Square amidst celebrations of the end of the second world war, has died. He was 95.His daughter, Sharon Molleur, told the Providence Journal her father fell and had a seizure early on Sunday at the assisted living facility in Middletown, Rhode Island, where he lived with his wife of 70 years. H
  
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• Should you apply for a tax refund advance?

  18-02-2019 22:47 via nbcnews.com
  Big tax preparers offer zero interest or no fee programs on refunds, but watch out for fees on the back end.
  
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• Paladin controversy prompts renewed scrutiny of $591m Nauru deal

  18-02-2019 22:33 via theguardian.com
  Brisbane firm Canstruct had limited experience running garrison and welfare services when it bid for Nauru contractlegalled okControversy surrounding the awarding of a $423m Manus Island contract to the security contractor Paladin has prompted new scrutiny of a second major $591m deal to run the Nauru detention centre.The home affairs department used a limited tender process with only one bidder to pick relatively obscure companies in both major contracts.Continue reading...
  
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• Aurora shooting victim sent one last heartbreaking text to wife before dying: 'I love you'

  18-02-2019 22:28 via news.yahoo.com
  A victim of the shooting in Aurora, Illinois, shooting managed to send one last heartbreaking text message to his wife before becoming one of the latest victims to gun violence in the US.Just a day after Valentine’s Day, Terra Pinkard says she received what would be the last text she ever received from her husband, Josh.“I love you, I’ve been shot at work,” the text read.
  
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• REI CEO steps down following revelation of outside personal relationship

  18-02-2019 22:26 via news.yahoo.com
  The CEO of outdoor gear retailer REI is stepping down in the wake of an inquiry into a relationship that appeared to be a conflict of interest.
  
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• Merkel hammers Trump as Ivanka looks on

  18-02-2019 22:26 via cnn.com
  While speaking at the Munich Security Conference, German Chancellor Angela Merkel called out the Trump administration over the President's claim that German cars pose a security threat. CNN's David Sanger discusses.
  
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• Man who claimed to be sailor in WWII Times Square kiss photo dies at 95

  18-02-2019 22:23 via cnn.com
  George Mendonsa, who maintained for decades that he was the sailor in an iconic 1945 Times Square photo, dubbed "The Kiss," that came to symbolize the end of World War II, has died, his family says. He was 95.
  
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• Trial over Delaware prison riot ends with no convictions

  18-02-2019 22:04 via news.yahoo.com
  WILMINGTON, Del. (AP) — The trial for four inmates charged with murder in a 2017 Delaware prison riot ended Monday with no convictions.
  
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• The New Ford Focus ST Looks Awesome and Makes 276 Horsepower

  18-02-2019 22:00 via news.yahoo.com
  It's not too late for Ford to change its mind about bringing this hot hatch to America, is it?
  
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• Isil bride Shamima Begum suggests she is prepared to go to prison if Britain allows her back

  18-02-2019 21:57 via news.yahoo.com
  The schoolgirl who ran away to join Isil has indicated that she is prepared to go to prison if she gets her wish to return to Britain. Shamima Begum said that she was still determined to come back from Syria despite knowing that UK authorities have the “option” to send her to jail. In an interview with the BBC yesterday, while cradling a newborn baby, the teenager was asked what she thought would happen on her return. “My first priority is my son, obviously,” she replied.
  
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• Watson tells Corbyn he must change direction to stop Labour splitting

  18-02-2019 21:55 via theguardian.com
  Deputy leader urges shadow cabinet reshuffle, saying he no longer recognises his own partyToday’s latest political developments - live updates
  Analysis: The first step for exiles? To bring 29 more with themLabour’s deputy leader, Tom Watson, has told Jeremy Corbyn that he must change direction or face a worsening Labour split after seven MPs quit to form a new movement in the party’s biggest schism in nearly 40 years.Watson’s emotional intervention came as a number of Lab
  
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• Aurora man who makes crosses for shooting victims puts five in hometown

  18-02-2019 21:55 via theguardian.com
  Five people died and six were injured in Illinois shootingGreg Zanis has crossed America placing shooting memorialsA man who has delivered more than 26,000 white crosses to sites around the US, largely to remember victims of gun violence, has now found himself doing the same in his hometown: Aurora, Illinois, where five people were killed and six injured in a workplace shooting on Friday. Related: Aurora shooting: background check failures let gunman keep firearmContinue reading...
  
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• Israeli leaders' Nazi comments derail European summit

  18-02-2019 21:54 via news.yahoo.com
  JERUSALEM (AP) — Poland on Monday withdrew from a European summit in Jerusalem, derailing the meeting and embarrassing its Israeli hosts, to protest claims by Israel's acting foreign minister that Poles collaborated with the Nazis and "suckled anti-Semitism with their mothers' milk."
  
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• Aurora shooting victim Josh Pinkard texted love to his wife as he lay dying

  18-02-2019 21:54 via news.yahoo.com
  One of the victims of a gunman's rampage in Illinois texted love to his wife as he lay dying: "I received a text at 1:24 from my precious husband."
  
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• U.S. car buyers could face higher prices from import tariffs, auto industry warns

  18-02-2019 21:52 via nbcnews.com
  The latest wave of concern was triggered by the Commerce Department’s confirmation that it had delivered on Sunday a long-awaited report to President Donald Trump.
  
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• Southwest Airlines under FAA investigation for aircraft weight, balance calculations

  18-02-2019 21:52 via news.yahoo.com
  The investigation began in February 2018, and there have been no fines nor enforcement action from the investigation to date.
  
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• Here's why Donald Trump will threaten Venezuela's military leaders during a speech in Florida

  18-02-2019 21:45 via news.yahoo.com
  President Trump's speech will be directed at Florida's Venezuelan community as he tries to appeal to Latino voters heading into the 2020 election.
  
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• Interval training burns off more pounds than jogging or cycling

  18-02-2019 21:41 via news.yahoo.com
  For the current analysis, researchers examined data from 41 smaller studies that compared weight loss results after at least four weeks of either interval training or moderate intensity continuous training programs, such as jogging, cycling or walking at a steady pace."Losing weight is not only about how many calories you burn during exercise, but also how your body reacts during the hours and days after exercise," said senior study author Paulo Gentil of the Federal University of Goias in Brazi
  
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• Besieged ISIS militants refuse to surrender, ask for an exit

  18-02-2019 21:38
  More than 300 militants surrounded in a tiny area are trying to agree an exit.
  
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• Marvel TV's superhero universe on Netflix officially comes to an end. Could Disney+ be its new home?

  18-02-2019 21:35 via cnn.com
  Netflix on Monday canceled the only two Marvel Television shows it has left, effectively ending its relationship with the Disney company.
  
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• Trump news: California attorney general sues White House over national emergency declaration with 12 states expected to join

  18-02-2019 21:34 via news.yahoo.com
  Donald Trump is being accused of waging a “relentless attack” on the FBI since taking office as the fallout from his decision to declare a national emergency to secure border wall funding continues.The remark comes from former deputy director of the bureau Andrew McCabe - dismissed by ex-attorney general Jeff Sessions in March 2018 after being accused of leaking information to the media - in an interview with NPR’s Morning Edition to promote his new insider account of the burea
  
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• Trump lashes out at officials involved in Russia probe

  18-02-2019 21:34
  Former FBI Deputy Director Andrew McCabe attracted the president's online ire.
  
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• Airlines begin waiving change fees for new winter storm

  18-02-2019 21:29 via news.yahoo.com
  Southwest Airlines had already started waiving rebooking fees ahead of the new storm. It’s likely that others would do the same as forecasts solidified.
  
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• Florida inmates use criminal skills to rescue baby from car

  18-02-2019 21:09 via news.yahoo.com
  A group of prisoners in Florida put their criminal skills to good use on Valentine’s Day – breaking into a car, to free a baby locked inside. The prisoners, on work-release, were repairing parking meters in Pasco County, north of Tampa, when they spotted the family in distress. The one-year-old child was trapped inside the car, with the keys inside. The family was unable to afford a locksmith and so, in the 56 degree Fahrenheit heat, the father was preparing to break the window. That
  
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• Cabinet ministers tell May: stop using no-deal threat to negotiate

  18-02-2019 21:05 via theguardian.com
  MPs tell PM to rule option out, as Brexit secretary and attorney general hold talks with EUFour cabinet ministers have demanded the prime minister stop using the threat of a no-deal Brexit as a negotiating tactic, telling Theresa May that businesses and manufacturers now needed to be given certainty.The demand was made in a meeting with the prime minister on Monday by the justice secretary, David Gauke, the work and pensions secretary, Amber Rudd, the business secretary, Greg Clark, and the Scot
  
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• Amazon announces plans to make half of shipments carbon neutral by 2030

  18-02-2019 20:47 via news.yahoo.com
  Online retail giant Amazon has announced plans to make alf if its shipments carbon neutral by the year 2030.The company, which ships millions of packages a year to shoppers, said that it will achieve that goal by switching to renewable energy sources and by asking suppliers to reimagine their packaging.“It won’t be easy to achieve this goal, but it’s worth being focused and stubborn on this vision and we’re committed to seeing it through,” Dave Clark, Amazon senior
  
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• What Happened to Jussie Smollett? Here Are All of His Case's Twists and Turns

  18-02-2019 20:39 via news.yahoo.com
  Police now want to re-interview the 'Empire' actor
  
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• Trump seeks to rally US-based Venezuelans against Nicolás Maduro

  18-02-2019 20:32 via theguardian.com
  President to speak at Florida International University in MiamiWhite House previews appeal to Venezuela military Donald Trump will speak on Monday in the largest Venezuelan community in the US, seeking to rally support for the opposition leader, Juan Guaidó, and saying the South American country’s “current path toward democracy is irreversible”. Related: Panama Papers ‘tightened the noose’ on offshore assets of Maduro’s inner circleContinue reading...
  
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• Investigator details alleged North Carolina election fraud scheme

  18-02-2019 20:32
  Investigators in North Carolina claim a 'coordinated, unlawful and substantially resourced' took place in the 2018 race in the state's 9th Congressional District.
  
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• Rubio visits Colombia, addresses Venezuelan military

  18-02-2019 20:30
  The senator spoke out against Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro.
  
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• 2020 Democrats embrace populist message

  18-02-2019 20:27 via cnn.com
  It's a rallying cry for Democrats seeking the White House in 2020: fight for Main Street against a system that benefits corporations and the wealthy.
  
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• EU warns of reduced imports if Trump puts tariffs on cars

  18-02-2019 20:22 via news.yahoo.com
  BRUSSELS (AP) — The European Union warned U.S. President Donald Trump Monday that the bloc will step back from a commitment to buy more American soybeans and liquid gas if European cars are hit with punitive tariffs.
  
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• Visegrad summit canceled over Israel-Poland Holocaust spat

  18-02-2019 20:21 via cnn.com
  A summit of central European leaders in Israel has been canceled after Israeli officials sparked outrage by accusing Poland of complicity during the Holocaust.
  
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