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• Utility cancels $130 million in worker performance bonuses

  23-02-2019 23:43 via foxnews.com
  Northern California utility Pacific Gas & Electric said it won't award $130 million in employee bonuses because of its recent bankruptcy filing, a newspaper reported Saturday.
  
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• Three ministers throw weight behind Brexit delay to stop no-deal

  23-02-2019 23:41 via news.yahoo.com
  Three British cabinet ministers publicly indicated on Saturday they will back plans to delay Brexit if lawmakers vote down Prime Minister Theresa May's plan for a new deal with the European Union.Business minister Greg Clark, work and pensions minister Amber Rudd, and justice minister David Gauke signaled in a Daily Mail column that they will side with rebels and opposition parties next week to stop Britain leaving the European Union without a divorce deal on March 29 if necessary, adding their
  
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• Russia will pay a big price for arms control treaty violations

  23-02-2019 23:37 via foxnews.com
  By violating a nuclear arms control treaty, Russian President Vladimir Putin has given the U.S. and other NATO nations another reason to continue economic sanctions on Russia that were imposed after it seized Crimea from Ukraine.
  
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• Prayers, holy water as Venezuelan Curacao aid shipment delayed

  23-02-2019 23:30 via news.yahoo.com
  Willemstad, Curaçao (Netherlands Antilles) (AFP) - Venezuelan opposition supporters rallied in Curacao's port Saturday, pushing for their own shipment to join in a dangerous aid effort for their country, but the vessel's captain declined to sail yet for security reasons.While in Venezuela border clashes and military desertions raised tensions, on the sleepy Caribbean island of Curacao a handful of expatriates applied pressure on a separate front, waving flags and singing.Standing near one
  
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• Mueller Tells Judge That Manafort ‘Brazenly' Broke the Law

  23-02-2019 23:28 via news.yahoo.com
  Manafort, 69, is set to be sentenced on March 13 in Washington, where he pleaded guilty to two conspiracy counts and faces as much as a decade in prison.“For over a decade, Manafort repeatedly and brazenly violated the law,” Mueller’s prosecutors wrote in a sentencing memo unsealed Saturday in federal court in Washington.Mueller is investigating whether anyone in Trump’s campaign conspired with Russians who interfered in the 2016 U.S. elections.
  
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• Would-be channel surfer gets Dad's help, through the doorbell cam

  23-02-2019 23:07 via foxnews.com
  While away from home, the father of a Michigan boy got a pleasant surprise when he answered his family's Ring camera. His son was at the door blowing kisses to him, and later asking for advice on how to find his favorite TV show
  
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• Cargo jet with three on board crashes near Houston airport

  23-02-2019 23:07 via news.yahoo.com
  A Boeing 767 cargo jetliner heading to Houston with three people aboard disintegrated after crashing Saturday into a bay east of the city, according to a Texas sheriff. Witnesses told emergency personnel that the twin-engine plane "went in nose first," leaving a debris field three-quarters of a mile long in Trinity Bay, Chambers County Sheriff Brian Hawthorne said. "It's probably a crash that nobody would survive," he said, referring to the scene as "total devastation." Witnesses said
  
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• Venezuelan soldiers set fire to aid convoys as troops fire tear gas at protesters on Colombia border

  23-02-2019 22:59 via news.yahoo.com
  Venezuelan troops loyal to President Nicolas Maduro set fire to convoys of humanitarian aid on Saturday night, burning the desperately-needed supplies as they crossed into the country. Volunteers working for Juan Guaido, the self-declared interim president, frantically tried to salvage the medical supplies and emergency rations before they went up in flames. The blaze, which sent acrid smoke up into the sky and filled the air with sickly smells mingled with tear gas, was reportedly ignited by te
  
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• 2 killed after small plane crashes, catches fire at Massachusetts airport: police

  23-02-2019 22:50 via foxnews.com
  Two people were killed when a small plane crashed and caught fire Saturday afternoon at a Massachusetts airport, officials said.
  
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• North Korean leader's train arrives in China

  23-02-2019 22:47 via news.yahoo.com
  North Korean leader Kim Jong Un's armoured train arrived in China late Saturday ahead of his highly anticipated second summit with US President Donald Trump in Vietnam, according to media reports.Official North Korean news agency KCNA confirmed Kim's departure from Pyongyang earlier Saturday."The senior officials of the Party, government and armed forces organs sincerely wished Kim Jong Un good success... and safe return," KCNA reported.
  
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• Shoes and stripes: Brits present Ferragamo, Cavalli shows

  23-02-2019 22:44 via news.yahoo.com
  British designers on Saturday presented fashion collections for two Italian houses at Milan fashion week, with one inspired by shoes as key items, and the other by tiger motifs.Paul Andrew presented Italian fashion label Salvatore Ferragamo's latest collection, just days after being announced as the group's creative director.
  
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• US-backed Syrian forces hand over 150 IS militants to Iraq

  23-02-2019 22:40 via foxnews.com
  Iraqi security officials say they have received custody of a second batch of 150 Iraqi Islamic State fighters from U.S.-backed forces in Syria.
  
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• Army sergeant, pooch reconnected in Texas following his overseas deployment: report

  23-02-2019 22:40 via foxnews.com
  A U.S. Army sergeant was reportedly reconnected in Texas on Friday with the pup who helped him get through part of his time serving overseas.
  
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• Two killed as Maduro sends troops to block Venezuela aid convoys

  23-02-2019 22:38 via news.yahoo.com
  Maduro said he was breaking diplomatic relations with Colombia and ordered its diplomatic staff to leave Venezuela within 24 hours because of its government's assistance to opposition leader Juan Guaido.Guaido, who most Western nations recognize as Venezuela's legitimate leader, gave a personal send-off on Saturday to a convoy carrying U.S. aid departing from the Colombian city of Cucuta.The opposition says the foreign humanitarian assistance is desperately needed to tackle widespread food and m
  
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• Saudi Arabia replaces envoy to Washington: royal decree

  23-02-2019 22:35 via news.yahoo.com
  Saudi Arabia has replaced its ambassador to the United States, a royal decree announced Saturday, as the fallout over journalist Jamal Khashoggi's murder tests relations between the two allies.Princess Rima bint Bandar was appointed the kingdom's first woman envoy to Washington, replacing Prince Khalid bin Salman, who was named vice defence minister.Prince Khalid is the younger brother of Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman, the country's de facto ruler who also serves as the defence minister.
  
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• Timeline of R. Kelly's life and career

  23-02-2019 22:21 via foxnews.com
  R&B singer R. Kelly has been charged with aggravated sexual abuse involving multiple victims dating back to 1998, marking the latest charges against a man trailed for decades by lurid rumors.
  
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• Pentagon officials tour border wall to determine stability of area

  23-02-2019 22:14 via foxnews.com
  Top defense officials toured sections of the U.S.-Mexico border Saturday to analyze if reinforcement efforts are needed to block drug smuggling and other illegal activity, as the Pentagon weighs diverting billions of dollars for President Donald Trump's border wall.
  
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• Has Obama become a conservative?

  23-02-2019 22:10 via foxnews.com
  President Obama sounded like a conservative Tuesday at the My Brother’s Keeper Alliance Summit in Oakland, Calif., when he addressed hundreds of young men of color alongside basketball superstar Steph Curry.
  
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• Back to business for Duke and Duchess of Sussex as they touch down in Morocco

  23-02-2019 22:02 via news.yahoo.com
  With a star turn in New York and a celebrity-packed baby shower for the Duchess, and a series of visits to military and underprivileged children for the Duke, it has been quite the week in the Sussex household. As they landed in Morocco last night, it was back to business as a team for a whirlwind tour, which will see them boost the profile of gender equality, try out their French and meet their royal family counterparts. The Duchess, who will have “medical provision” at more than se
  
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• Nigeria election: Delays and violence

  23-02-2019 21:55 via cnn.com
  Multiple bomb blasts rocked the northern Nigerian city of Maiduguri just hours before presidential polls opened on Saturday.
  
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• Pro-KKK newspaper editor replaced by African-American woman

  23-02-2019 21:49 via cnn.com
  An African-American woman is now the publisher and editor of the Alabama newspaper that recently urged the Ku Klux Klan to "night ride again," the paper said.
  
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• Predict your 2019 Oscar winners with your own ballot

  23-02-2019 21:31 via cnn.com
  The 91st Academy Awards are here, and it's about time you get your predictions in order.
  
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• Wales beat England in Six Nations

  23-02-2019 21:30 via cnn.com
  Wales overcame a halftime deficit and scored two late tries to beat England 21-13 in rugby union's Six Nations in what might turn out to be the competition's title decider.
  
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• Six Nations: Wales in pole position after comeback win over England

  23-02-2019 21:30 via cnn.com
  Wales overcame a halftime deficit and scored two late tries to beat England 21-13 in rugby union's Six Nations in what might turn out to be the competition's title decider.
  
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• Fiery Skirmishes Erupt as Guaido Tries to Bring Venezuela Aid

  23-02-2019 21:28 via news.yahoo.com
  On the border with Colombia, National Guard soldiers fired volleys of tear gas and plastic pellets at supporters of opposition leader Juan Guaido, who were trying to persuade them to defect and permit tons of food and medicine into the country.Masked paramilitary gangs supporting the autocrat Maduro tore through the area there on motorcycles, firing guns in the air.Maduro said on state television that his forces had managed to repel an invasion and said he was breaking off diplomatic relations w
  
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• Prosecutors say Manafort's 'criminal actions were bold'

  23-02-2019 21:23 via cnn.com
  Prosecutors from special counsel Robert Mueller's office wrote in a sentencing memo filed Friday for Paul Manafort that the former Trump campaign chairman's years of criminality were "bold" and continued even when and after he served as Donald Trump's campaign chair in the 2016 election.
  
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• Former Trump campaign chairman's 'criminal actions were bold,' prosecutors say

  23-02-2019 21:23 via cnn.com
  Prosecutors from special counsel Robert Mueller's office wrote in a sentencing memo filed Friday for Paul Manafort that the former Trump campaign chairman's years of criminality were "bold" and continued even when and after he served as Donald Trump's campaign chair in the 2016 election.
  
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• Defense chief gets close look at US-Mexico border

  23-02-2019 21:16 via news.yahoo.com
  The Pentagon's acting chief is visiting the U.S.-Mexico border in Texas as he considers how to use emergency powers invoked by President Donald Trump to help build a border wall. (Feb. 23)
  
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• US actor's allegedly fake assault could cause 'real harm'

  23-02-2019 21:14 via news.yahoo.com
  American advocacy groups and police have a shared concern over the fallout from allegations that an openly gay black TV actor faked a hate-motivated assault: that future victims will face more skepticism even as hate crimes are on the rise.Chicago police have accused Jussie Smollett of engineering an elaborate hoax to exploit Americans' anxieties over political and racial divisions in order to generate publicity and a bigger paycheck.The 36-year-old star of the Fox drama "Empire" allegedly sent
  
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• #MeToo Oscars: What's changed?

  23-02-2019 21:11 via bbc.co.uk
  The 2018 Oscars directly addressed the #MeToo movement, so how are women faring in the industry this year?
  
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• 2 inmates released from prison after murder conviction vacated

  23-02-2019 21:01 via news.yahoo.com
  Both men spent over a decade in prison for crimes they say they did not commit.
  
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• Twitter rips PETA for criticizing Steve Irwin's Google doodle on the late conservationist's birthday

  23-02-2019 20:58 via news.yahoo.com
  Steve Irwin would have turned 57 on Friday, and to honor "The Crocodile Hunter" host, Google changed the logo its search page, which PETA criticized.
  
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• Maduro severs diplomatic ties with Colombia as tensions rise along border

  23-02-2019 20:56 via cnn.com
  Tensions escalated along Venezuela's borders Saturday as the Venezuelan National Guard fired tear gas at protesters and the opposition began to usher aid into the troubled country in defiance of President Nicolas Maduro.
  
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• Sen. Feinstein debates children over climate change

  23-02-2019 20:50 via news.yahoo.com
  SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — U.S. Sen. Dianne Feinstein and a group of San Francisco Bay Area students squared off over climate change in a sometimes tense exchange captured on video and widely shared on social media.
  
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• Venezuela: two killed in clashes over humanitarian aid as Maduro breaks relations with Colombia

  23-02-2019 20:09 via news.yahoo.com
  Two people have been killed in Venezuela in clashes with security forces over the opposition’s plan to bring in humanitarian aid from neighbouring Brazil, doctors said.Hospital staff in a town near the border said another 18 were injured as violence between residents and soldiers erupted.It came 24 hours after president Nicolas Maduro shut the frontier with Brazil amid the row over aid supplies, at the same time as a fundraising concert was staged to help ease the crisis.
  
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• Venezuela: Four dead and hundreds injured in border clashes – video report

  23-02-2019 20:03 via theguardian.com
  Government forces and opposition activists have clashed in Venezuelan border regions amid president Nicolás Maduro's ban on aid entering the country.Hundreds of Venezuelans and Colombians gathered at the Simón Bolívar bridge connecting the countries to urge authorities to allow humanitarian aid to enter Venezuela, while in other areas on the border Venezuelan soldiers defected and violent protests broke out between police and demonstratorsVenezuela: at least four dead and hu
  
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• Cardinal admits Church files on paedophile priests 'destroyed'

  23-02-2019 19:56 via news.yahoo.com
  A top Catholic cardinal admitted Saturday that Church files on priests accused of sexually abusing children were destroyed or never even drawn up in a move which allowed paedophiles to prey on others.German Cardinal Reinhard Marx was speaking on the third day of an unprecedented summit of the world's top bishops convened by Pope Francis in a bid to tackle the crisis over paedophilia within the clergy."Files that could have documented the terrible deeds and named those responsible were destroyed,
  
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• Report: Kushner family firm pays $1.1B for 6,000 apartments

  23-02-2019 19:54 via news.yahoo.com
  NEW YORK (AP) — The real estate firm run by White House adviser Jared Kushner's family has pulled off its biggest deal in more than a decade.
  
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• Robert Kraft, accused of soliciting prostitution, gave hundreds of millions to charitable causes

  23-02-2019 19:53 via news.yahoo.com
  The $400 million Robert Kraft has contributed to a wide range of causes has earned him enormous goodwill in Boston and beyond.
  
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• Extra 1,000 troops to be sent to US-Mexico border, says senior defence official

  23-02-2019 19:51 via news.yahoo.com
  The Pentagon will increase the number of active-duty troops along the US-Mexico border to about 6,000 by the start of next month, a senior US defence official has said.The troops currently stationed at the border have also been ordered to string more concertina wire and install detection systems in remote areas away from official ports of entry, the senior defence official said.The official, who was authorised by the Pentagon to speak to reporters only on the condition of anonymity, said that so
  
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• Trump’s cronies are in secret talks to sell nuclear tech to Saudi. The risks are clear

  23-02-2019 19:39 via theguardian.com
  The congressional report on this multibillion-dollar scheme provides further evidence of attempts to monetise the Trump presidencyThe idea that the US might sell state-of-the-art nuclear technology to Saudi Arabia, potentially enabling Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman’s reckless regime to build nuclear weapons, sounds so far-fetched as to be almost grotesque.After all the near-hysterical American and Israeli warnings about the risk of Iran, the Saudis’ arch-rival, acquiring the bomb,
  
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• 'Surviving R. Kelly' creator: Sex abuse charges should shame all of us who ignore victims

  23-02-2019 19:28 via news.yahoo.com
  Rumors about R. Kelly have persisted for decades. All of us are guilty that we let his star power blind us to injustice against women and girls.
  
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• The Latest: Sex abuse victims speak of lost childhoods

  23-02-2019 19:27 via news.yahoo.com
  VATICAN CITY (AP) — The Latest on the sex abuse prevention summit at the Vatican (all times local):
  
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• In a shift, Buffett says focus on Berkshire's stock price

  23-02-2019 19:10 via news.yahoo.com
  The shift is something of a retreat from the 88-year-old Buffett's decades of preaching patience and long-term thinking for investors and Berkshire shareholders, the antithesis of what stock prices often represent.Buffett's business acumen has helped make him the world's third-richest person, worth $82.9 billion according to Forbes magazine, and transformed Berkshire from a failing textile company into a $496 billion behemoth.
  
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• Rising anti-US sentiment on Okinawa ahead of military base referendum

  23-02-2019 19:05 via news.yahoo.com
  When Chiemi Yonashiro was told an object from a United States military helicopter appeared to have fallen onto the nursery where she had dropped off her three-year-old daughter Mimaru just hours earlier, she burst into tears. Her daughter – and around 70 other children playing at the nursery at the time – were unhurt, but for Mrs Yonashiro, 46, the incident confirmed her conviction that her family was not safe living in southern Japan’s Okinawa region for one uncomfortable reas
  
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• Robert Kraft 'categorically' denies soliciting sex at spa after police said he was filmed twice in the act

  23-02-2019 18:57 via news.yahoo.com
  New England Patriots owner Robert Kraft has “categorically” denied soliciting sex at a spa in Florida after police said he was filmed doing so twice.Mr Kraft, 77, faces two counts of soliciting sex from a prostitute.The billionaire is one of two dozen men who were arrested for allegedly paying $59 (£45) for a half-hour and $79 (£60) for an hour of sex at Orchids of Asia Day Spa in Jupiter, Florida.
  
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• Virgin Galactic takes crew of three to altitude of 55 miles

  23-02-2019 18:38 via news.yahoo.com
  Virgin Galactic's spacecraft reached an altitude of more than 55 miles (88.5 kilometers) on Friday, carrying for the first time a passenger in addition to its two pilots.SpaceShipTwo, built by British billionaire Richard Branson to carry tourists into space, launched from California's Mojave desert and flew to an altitude of 55.87 miles (89.9 kms), the company said.The US definition of space is anything over an altitude of 50 miles.
  
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• 'Why did we keep silent for so long?': Nun condemns Catholic church over clerical abuse - video

  23-02-2019 18:28 via theguardian.com
  A Nigerian nun uses her speech to the Vatican's summit on clerical sexual abuse to condemn the church's hierarchy for its 'mediocrity, hypocrisy and complacency' in handling the scandal. Sister Veronica Openibo is softly spoken but delivers a strong rebuke to the gathering. Catholic nun condemns church hierarchy over failure to tackle abuse Continue reading...
  
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• Airlines admit having cameras installed on back of passengers’ seats

  23-02-2019 18:28 via news.yahoo.com
  Three of the world’s biggest airlines have admitted some of their planes have cameras installed on the backs of passenger seats.American Airlines, United Airlines and Singapore Airlines have new seat-back entertainment systems that include cameras.Companies that make the entertainment systems are fitting them with cameras to offer passengers options such as seat-to-seat video conferencing, according to an American Airlines spokesman.
  
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• India police arrest Kashmir activists amid rising tensions

  23-02-2019 18:26 via news.yahoo.com
  SRINAGAR, India (AP) — Police have arrested at least 300 activists seeking the end of Indian rule in disputed Kashmir, officials said Saturday, escalating fears among already wary residents that a sweeping crackdown could touch off renewed anti-India protests and clashes.
  
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