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• Pete Buttigieg formally enters 2020 race to take on Donald Trump pledging 'courage to reimagine our future'

  14-04-2019 23:35 via news.yahoo.com
  Pete Buttigieg has officially announced his candidacy for president of the United States, promising to bring the “courage to reimagine our future” from his job as mayor of South Bend into the White House.From a partially rebuilt autos factory in the Indiana town he has served as mayor for two terms, the 37-year-old Rhodes Scholar said its resurgence from one of America’s top 10 “dying cities” into an attractive location for technology firms illustrates his qualifica
  
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• Tiger Woods: From highs to lows

  14-04-2019 23:31 via cnn.com
  Tiger Woods, one of the greatest golfers of all time, has changed the face of the modern game since his breakthrough Masters win in 1997. However, injuries and off-course problems have blighted the latter years of his stellar career.
  
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• Red Cross appeals for three staff missing in Syria since 2013

  14-04-2019 23:30 via news.yahoo.com
  The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) appealed on Sunday for information on the whereabouts of three employees abducted in Syria more than five years ago and last known to have been held by Islamic State.Breaking its silence on the case, the independent aid agency identified the three as Louisa Akavi, a nurse from New Zealand, and Syrian drivers Alaa Rajab and Nabil Bakdounes.U.S.-backed forces proclaimed the capture of Islamic State's last territory in Syria last month, eliminatin
  
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• Puppies rescued from rubble after tornadoes rip up house in Texas

  14-04-2019 23:30 via news.yahoo.com
  A couple lost their home of 18 years to tornadoes on Saturday, but they're grateful for the return of something irreplaceable.
  
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• 2 children dead, many homes damaged as storms slam the South

  14-04-2019 23:30 via news.yahoo.com
  Powerful storms that rolled across the South on Saturday spawned at least two suspected tornadoes, damaged homes and killed two children in Texas, authorities said.
  
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• Assange skateboards inside the Ecuadorian Embassy

  14-04-2019 23:29 via cnn.com
  The newly leaked surveillance video obtained by Spanish newspaper El Pais is one of a series of clips showing Assange's life inside the Ecuadorian Embassy.
  
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• New ruling Sudan military council promises civilian Cabinet

  14-04-2019 23:14 via finance.yahoo.com
  Sudan's new ruling military council announced Sunday that it will name a civilian prime minister and Cabinet but not a president to help govern the country following the coup that removed longtime leader Omar al-Bashir.An army spokesman, Lt. Gen. Shamseldin Kibashi, also said in televised remarks that the military had begun to overhaul security organizations and would not break up demonstrations that have continued outside the military headquarters since Thursday's coup.The announcement was unli
  
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• Tiger Woods wins fifth Masters to end 11-year major drought

  14-04-2019 22:36 via cnn.com
  Tiger Woods clinched his fifth Masters and 15th major title to seal one of the greatest comeback stories in sport after overcoming career-threatening back problems.
  
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• 'They call me Mayor Pete': Buttigieg launches 2020 presidential run

  14-04-2019 22:32 via news.yahoo.com
  South Bend mayor makes announcement at rally in his hometown, saluting his husband and setting out his vision Pete Buttigieg speaks during a rally to announce his presidential candidacy in South Bend, Indiana. Photograph: John Gress/ReutersPete Buttigieg officially launched his run for the White House on Sunday, against a backdrop of surging poll numbers and increasing national interest. The 37-year-old mayor of South Bend, the fourth-largest city in Indiana, madethe announcement at an afternoon
  
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• 90 million people at risk from deadly US storms and tornadoes

  14-04-2019 22:24 via cnn.com
  Storms that killed at least two people in Texas crossed the Mississippi/Alabama state line early Sunday, moving the risk of life-threatening winds, strong tornadoes and large hail to a large section of the United States.
  
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• UPDATE 1-Trump wishes 'no ill will' with tweet on Muslim lawmaker -White House

  14-04-2019 22:19 via news.yahoo.com
  President Donald Trump did not wish any harm in his Twitter post criticizing Democratic congresswoman Ilhan Omar's comments on the 9/11 attacks, White House spokeswoman Sarah Sanders said on Sunday."Certainly the president is wishing no ill will, certainly not violence towards anyone," Sanders told ABC News' "This Week" show."But the president is absolutely and should be calling out the congresswoman for her, not only one-time, but history of anti-Semitic comments," she said.
  
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• Baby whale sighting sparks hope for future of endangered species

  14-04-2019 22:19 via cnn.com
  North Atlantic right whale calves are being spotted again this year, a small ray of light for one of the world's endangered large whale species.
  
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• Hints, but no proof of crime, in Mueller's hunt for a Trump-Russia conspiracy

  14-04-2019 22:12 via news.yahoo.com
  Barr told U.S. lawmakers on March 24 that the special counsel investigation "did not establish that members of the Trump campaign conspired or coordinated with the Russian government in its election interference activities."To be sure, the investigation documented numerous contacts between Trump campaign figures and Russia, a willingness on the part of the campaign to accept help from Moscow, and no indication that the campaign told the Kremlin to keep out of an American presidential race.No cri
  
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• Julian Zelizer: What's behind the surging interest in Pete Buttigieg

  14-04-2019 22:03 via cnn.com
  It looks like Mayor Pete Buttigieg --a married, gay millennial whom few voters had heard of until a few months ago -- now has a real shot at the Democratic nomination. Who would have thought that the mayor of South Bend, the fourth largest city in Indiana, could compete in one of the most crowded primary fields ever? Buttigieg, who is expected to formally launch his campaign Sunday, has emerged as a formidable candidate.
  
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• Tornadoes kill at least three children as massive storm sweeps U.S. South

  14-04-2019 21:59 via news.yahoo.com
  A tornado touched down and spun toward Enigma, Georgia, on Sunday, after 17 twisters were reported on Saturday and Sunday across the South from Texas to Alabama."We'll be seeing severe weather from Florida to New York, with the most unstable parts so far in Georgia," said meteorologist David Roth of the National Weather Service Weather Prediction Center.More than 100 million people from the middle of the United States to the East Coast were at risk of extreme weather, facing warnings of heavy th
  
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• Pelosi concerned about Omar's safety after Trump 9/11 tweet

  14-04-2019 21:55 via cnn.com
  House Speaker Nancy Pelosi said she talked with the House Sergeant-at-Arms, the House official in charge of security, about the safety of Rep. Ilhan Omar and said she wanted to make sure a security assessment was being conducted.
  
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• Trump 'likes the idea' of sending migrants to sanctuary cities, spokeswoman says

  14-04-2019 21:45 via news.yahoo.com
  The White House had said the plan was rejected, but Sanders said Trump "likes the idea" and officials are looking to "make it possible."
  
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• White House says Congress 'not smart enough' to understand Trump's taxes

  14-04-2019 21:38 via news.yahoo.com
  "I don't think Congress, particularly not this group of congressmen and women, are smart enough to look through the thousands of pages that I would assume that president Trump’s taxes will be,” press secretary Sarah Sanders said.
  
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• Mo Salah's wonder goal sinks Chelsea

  14-04-2019 21:35 via cnn.com
  Liverpool's hopes of winning the Premier League title for the first time in 29 years are very much alive thanks a stirring second half performance against Chelsea and a quite sublime long-range strike from Mohamed Salah.
  
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• Royal baby name: Britons bet on Diana, Albert for Prince Harry & Meghan Markle's firstborn

  14-04-2019 21:19 via news.yahoo.com
  If Britain's bookmakers are to be believed, it's definitely a girl - and Diana may well be one of her many names.
  
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• Idris Elba just made his Coachella debut

  14-04-2019 21:09 via cnn.com
  He's played a ruthless Baltimore drug dealer and Nelson Mandela. He's been named People magazine's Sexiest Man Alive. Now he's just performed as a DJ at Coachella.
  
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• Yo-Yo Ma plays concert at US-Mexico border crossing

  14-04-2019 20:56 via cnn.com
  World-renowned cellist Yo-Yo Ma performed at the US-Mexico border Saturday to make a statement about global unity, urging listeners to "build bridges, not walls."
  
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• World War II bomb found in Frankfurt river detonated

  14-04-2019 20:41 via cnn.com
  A WWII bomb found by firefighters taking part in a diving exercise in a river in Frankfurt, Germany, was safely detonated Sunday.
  
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• Rockets kill 11 in Syria's Aleppo: state media

  14-04-2019 20:33 via news.yahoo.com
  Rockets fired by jihadists on Sunday killed at least 11 people in the Syrian city of Aleppo held by President Bashar al-Assad's regime, state news agency SANA reported.Aleppo sits in the north of the country next to Idlib, a province dominated by Syria's former Al-Qaeda affiliate, Hayat Tahrir al-Sham (HTS).Since the regime regained control of Aleppo at the end of 2016, the city has been targeted intermittently by jihadists and rebel fighters.
  
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• Are Julian Assange and WikiLeaks essential or criminal? After all, hacking is theft.

  14-04-2019 20:18 via news.yahoo.com
  Julian Assange is a trespasser, not a whistleblower. As an investigator, I was always prepared to detail under oath how I'd come by my information.
  
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• Trump 'was making a joke' when he repeatedly said he loved WikiLeaks during 2016 campaign, Sanders says

  14-04-2019 20:12 via news.yahoo.com
  White House press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders has claimed Donald Trump was simply joking when he repeatedly praised WikiLeaks and declared his love of the platform.Ms Sanders, during an appearance on Fox News Sunday with Chris Wallace, defended the president when questioned over his claim he knows “nothing about” WikiLeaks in the wake of the arrest of Julian Assange.“Look clearly the president was making a joke during the 2016 campaign, certainly we take this seriously,&rd
  
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• White House aide believes Trump had no advance knowledge of Assange arrest

  14-04-2019 20:01 via news.yahoo.com
  "Not to my knowledge," Conway told NBC's "Meet the Press" show, when asked if Trump knew ahead of time about Assange, who last Thursday was hauled out of the Ecuador's embassy in London where he had taken refuge since 2012 to avoid extradition.U.S. prosecutors subsequently announced charges on Thursday and accused Assange of conspiring with former Army intelligence analyst Chelsea Manning to gain access to a government computer as part of one of the largest compromises of classified information
  
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• Lawyer alleges Ecuador spread lies about WikiLeaks founder

  14-04-2019 20:00 via news.yahoo.com
  LONDON (AP) — A lawyer representing WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange alleged Sunday that Ecuador's government has spread lies about his behavior inside its embassy in London, where Assange sought asylum in 2012.
  
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• This Country Has a Choice to Make: F-35s, F/A-18 Super Hornets or a European Fighter

  14-04-2019 19:57 via news.yahoo.com
  The Swiss air force is beginning to test foreign warplane designs as part of a lengthy and much-delayed, $8-billion effort finally to replace the air arm's old Northrop Grumman F-5E/F Tiger fighters.On April 12, 2019, two Eurofighter Typhoons --  an FGR4 single-seat, multi-role variant and a T3 two-seat trainer, both operated by British Aerospace -- reportedly flew missions from Payerne."A Swiss evaluator was noted flying in the two-seater," Scramble magazine reported.Switzerland is testing
  
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• Many Democrats and liberals are cheering Assange's arrest. That's foolish

  14-04-2019 19:47 via news.yahoo.com
  Some have argued that Assange isn’t under attack for ‘journalism,’ but for ‘activism.’ That’s a troubling logic to fall for‘This prosecution is about silencing dissent rather than enforcing the law.’ Photograph: Victoria Jones/PAThe attempted extradition and prosecution of WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange by the United States should be an obvious outrage. It’s a very clear effort by the US government to punish those who expose embarrassing se
  
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• Democratic rep rips into Trump administration's 'sanctuary cities' plan, calling it 'manufactured chaos' that simply cannot work

  14-04-2019 19:28 via news.yahoo.com
  “California certainly is always saying, ‘Oh, we want more people,’ and they want more people in their sanctuary cities — well, we’ll give them more people."
  
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• Man accused in fatal shooting of mother's boyfriend in northwest Houston

  14-04-2019 19:22 via news.yahoo.com
  According to the victim's son, the pregnant girlfriend was upset the victim was seeing another woman.
  
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• Ilhan Omar will not be 'silenced' after Trump attacks over 9/11 comments

  14-04-2019 19:22 via news.yahoo.com
  One of America's first Muslim congresswomen has vowed not to be silenced after Donald Trump led an attack on her for controversial remarks she made about 9/11. Rep Ilhan Omar of Minnesota sparked a furious row after she characterised the atrocity by saying “some people did something” during a speech in Los Angeles last month to the Council on American-Islamic Relations. On Friday, President Trump tweeted a video tagged “WE WILL NEVER FORGET” which featured foota
  
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• From Toyota Highlander to Lincoln Corsair, 9 cars to watch at New York auto show

  14-04-2019 19:09 via news.yahoo.com
  Lincoln Corsair, Toyota Highlander, Hyundai Sonata among new cars at New York s
  
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• Florida man attacked and killed by his cassowary, the ‘world’s most dangerous bird’

  14-04-2019 19:04 via news.yahoo.com
  A 75-year-old man in Florida was killed by a cassowary, a large, flightless bird native to Australia and New Guinea.
  
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• Facebook, lose my digits: Here's how to unlist your phone number

  14-04-2019 19:01 via news.yahoo.com
  A phone number can mean much more when it’s stored on Facebook’s servers – even if you only provided it to help secure your account.
  
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• Israeli spacecraft crashes into pieces attempting moon landing, dashing hopes of making history

  14-04-2019 18:59 via news.yahoo.com
  The lander named Beresheet (“In the beginning” in Hebrew)  was attempting to become the first privately funded mission to land on the moon.
  
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• Trump Isn't Inciting Violence Against Ilhan Omar, Sanders Says

  14-04-2019 18:58 via news.yahoo.com
  Friday’s tweet was the latest attack by Trump on Omar of Minnesota, one of the first Muslim women elected to Congress.In the latest incident, Trump posted a video to his 60 million Twitter followers that used a short snippet of an Omar speech followed by images of the burning Twin Towers in New York.
  
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• White House backs Trump revenge plot against 'sanctuary cities'

  14-04-2019 18:52 via cnn.com
  White House press secretary Sarah Sanders said Sunday that the Trump administration was still considering whether to place some immigrants in so-called sanctuary cities.
  
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• 'Significant concern' in WH about what will be in the Mueller report: Jonathan Karl

  14-04-2019 18:43 via news.yahoo.com
  The "This Week" Powerhouse Roundtable debates the latest on the impending release of the Mueller report and the crisis at the border.
  
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• Ukraine leader puts on one-man show as vote frontrunner skips debate

  14-04-2019 18:26 via news.yahoo.com
  Ukraine's leader on Sunday held a one-man debate next to an empty lectern, roused thousands of supporters at a stadium and even sang, as a comedian tipped to become the next president skipped the event before a high-stakes run-off vote.A week before the second round of voting, President Petro Poroshenko failed to lure his rival Volodymyr Zelensky for a policy debate and chose to walk it alone at Kiev's Olympic Stadium as several thousand supporters flooded a nearby square.Poroshenko, a 53-year-o
  
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• Democratic presidential candidate Kamala Harris releases 15 years of tax returns

  14-04-2019 18:23 via news.yahoo.com
  Harris held public office during the years 2004 through 2018.With her husband, Douglas Emhoff, an attorney, she had a combined adjusted gross income in 2018 of about $1.89 million, and paid total taxes of about $697,000, according to the returns.Harris and Emhoff, who have filed joint tax returns since marrying in 2014, have paid more than $2.2 million in federal taxes over the past five years at an average effective tax rate of 32.6 percent, according to her campaign.
  
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• American Airlines extends cancellations through Aug. 19

  14-04-2019 18:14 via news.yahoo.com
  American Airlines Group Inc said on Sunday it is extending Boeing Co 737 MAX cancellations through Aug. 19, leading to about 115 daily canceled flights
  
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• Ukraine president holds 1-man 'debate' before runoff vote

  14-04-2019 18:05 via news.yahoo.com
  KIEV, Ukraine (AP) — Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko stood next to an empty lectern bearing his election rival's name and used a solo appearance at Ukraine's largest sports stadium Sunday to lash out at the race's inexperienced front-runner as a "virtual candidate."
  
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• White House denies Trump inciting violence against Muslim lawmaker

  14-04-2019 17:50 via news.yahoo.com
  White House press secretary Sarah Sanders on Sunday defended Donald Trump against accusations that he was inciting violence against a Muslim congresswoman after the president tweeted a video of her spliced with footage of the 9/11 attacks.Sanders was referencing a previous controversy sparked by Omar speaking out against the influence of the American Israel Public Affairs Committee lobby group in US politics.
  
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• More than 120 killed as Libya's rivals battle for Tripoli

  14-04-2019 17:46 via news.yahoo.com
  Fighting near Tripoli has killed 121 people since strongman Khalifa Haftar launched an offensive earlier this month to take the Libyan capital, the World Health Organization said Sunday.In clashes between Haftar's forces and those of the UN-backed Government of National Accord (GNA), both sides have proclaimed "advances" but neither appears to have made substantial progress on the ground in recent days.The mounting violence has sparked global alarm over the oil-rich country, in turmoil since NAT
  
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• Cassowary attacks and kills Florida man who kept it in backyard

  14-04-2019 17:40 via cnn.com
  A cassowary, a giant bird with long claws on each foot, killed its owner after he fell in the backyard of his Gainesville, Florida, home, officials told CNN.
  
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• W. House reviewing 'options' to send migrants to sanctuary cities

  14-04-2019 17:33 via news.yahoo.com
  The White House confirmed Sunday it is looking at ways to transfer undocumented migrants to US sanctuary cities as Democrats accused President Donald Trump of creating "manufactured chaos" at the US-Mexico border.Sanctuary cities are jurisdictions in 27 US states that limit cooperation between local law enforcement and immigration authorities.Many of the biggest are in Democratic strongholds like San Francisco, Los Angeles and New York, giving Trump's threats to launch the policy a menacing part
  
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• Egypt's president meets Libyan commander Haftar in Cairo

  14-04-2019 17:33 via news.yahoo.com
  Egypt has close ties with Haftar, whose Libyan National Army (LNA) controls the east and swept through the mainly desert south earlier this year before moving to Tripoli ten days ago in a major escalation of conflict.Haftar has projected himself as the scourge of Islamist militants and of the militias that grew powerful after the uprising.Egypt and the United Arab Emirates publicly support U.N.-led peace efforts in Libya, while being seen as Haftar's closest regional allies.
  
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• Trump Slams Fed Again, Says Stocks Should Be 5,000-10,000 Higher

  14-04-2019 17:10 via news.yahoo.com
  “If the Fed had done its job properly, which it has not, the Stock Market would have been up 5000 to 10,000 additional points,” the president tweeted on Sunday.The president delivered his latest assault on the Fed as his motorcade pulled into Trump National Golf Club in Sterling, Virginia, for a Sunday outing.
  
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