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• US white supremacist arrested hours before far-right conference in Norway

  03-11-2019 23:58 via news.yahoo.com
  An American white supremacist was arrested hours before he was due to speak at an international far-right conference in Norway.Greg Johnson was detained under immigration law on the basis that he posed a threat to national interests, according to the police security agency PST.
  
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• A year before 2020 election, a divided and 'angry' America

  03-11-2019 23:49 via news.yahoo.com
  America on Sunday kicked off the one-year countdown to Election Day 2020, with President Donald Trump betting an "angry" Republican surge can deliver him a second term, and Democratic candidates battling for a chance to win back the White House.The building clash -- dramatically fueled by the House of Representatives' impeachment inquiry into Trump -- virtually guarantees another year of division in a nation grown weary of such drama.The latest projection from a University of Virginia political
  
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• ‘We'll see what happens’: Trump refuses to rule out government shutdown if Democrats continue impeachment inquiry

  03-11-2019 23:29 via news.yahoo.com
  Donald Trump has refused to rule out forcing a government shutdown if Democrats do not stop their impeachment inquiry into him."We'll see what happens," the US president said when asked about the possibility of agencies being shuttered.
  
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• McDonald's CEO is out over relationship with employee

  03-11-2019 23:24 via cnn.com
  
  Steve Easterbrook is out as McDonald's CEO and president after the board determined that he violated company policy, the company said on Sunday.
  
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• Lewis Hamilton clinches sixth F1 world title

  03-11-2019 23:16 via cnn.com
  
  Lewis Hamilton clinched his sixth Formula One world title with second place behind Mercedes teammate Valtteri Bottas in the US Grand Prix Sunday.
  
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• Missing New Hampshire couple found buried on Texas beach, sheriff's office says

  03-11-2019 23:07 via news.yahoo.com
  Missing New Hampshire couple James and Elaine Bulter were found dead, buried on a beach in Kleberg County, Texas in an ongoing homicide investigation.
  
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• A U.S.-North Korea Nuclear War Would Mean Millions Dead

  03-11-2019 23:00 via news.yahoo.com
  And one website can help you see what would happen.
  
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• Boat stuck above Niagara Falls for over a century moves downriver

  03-11-2019 22:55 via news.yahoo.com
  An iron boat stuck above Niagara Falls for more than a century has moved because of severe weather, a park official said.Known as the "Iron Scow," the boat is an iconic feature of Niagara Falls and had been stuck in the rocks about 600 meters from the edge of the falls.The boat broke loose from a tug on August 6, 1918, leaving two men stranded aboard, but they were rescued the following day, according to Niagara Parks.
  
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• Florida teen calls hotline on parents, police find 'deplorable living conditions'

  03-11-2019 22:40 via nbcnews.com
  The girl's parents left her in charge of her four younger siblings each day in their home, which was soiled with animal waste and lacked food and running water.
  
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• South Africa: Inside the township where Siya Kolisi grew up

  03-11-2019 22:37 via bbc.co.uk
  As South Africa celebrates its World Cup victory, the BBC visited Zwide, home of their first black captain.
  
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• Jimmy Carter says he is 'absolutely and completely at ease' with death

  03-11-2019 22:35 via cnn.com
  
  Former President Jimmy Carter said Sunday that he found he "was absolutely and completely at ease with death" after doctors told him in 2015 that his cancer had spread to his brain.
  
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• Chicago teenager accused of shooting 7-year-old girl on Halloween faces court hearing Monday

  03-11-2019 22:34 via news.yahoo.com
  The teenage boy accused of shooting a Chicago girl who was out trick-or-treating on Halloween faces a court hearing Monday.
  
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• Maryland governor slams official who banned 'divisive' pro-police flag

  03-11-2019 22:25 via nbcnews.com
  A county executive blocked a police department from displaying a flag embraced by the Blue Lives Matter movement.
  
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• White nationalists caught trying to record video in front of Emmett Till memorial

  03-11-2019 22:11 via nbcnews.com
  The Emmett Till Memorial Commission executive director said the group, carrying a neo-Confederate flag, appeared to be making a propaganda video.
  
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• North Carolina police arrest man pretending to be officer

  03-11-2019 22:10 via abcnews.go.com
  He was arrested after he got himself involved in a police chase.
  
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• Former therapist: VA is hurting mental health care for combat veterans at its Vet Centers

  03-11-2019 22:09 via nbcnews.com
  A former VA therapist says productivity pressure on counselors who treat veterans for mental health issues like PTSD is hurting the quality of care.
  
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• PHOTOS: Jepkosgei wins NYC in 1st marathon, Kamworor takes men's

  03-11-2019 22:08 via news.yahoo.com
  Joyciline Jepkosgei arrived in New York with a modest goal for her first marathon ever. Jepkosgei upset four-time champion Mary Keitany to win the New York City Marathon on Sunday with a historic debut seven seconds off the course record. Geoffrey Kamworor of Kenya won the men's event for the second time in three years.
  
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• German swingers' club evacuated after carbon monoxide alarm

  03-11-2019 22:07 via abcnews.go.com
  A carbon monoxide alarm went off and several guests reported feeling unwell,
  
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• Trump threatens to pull federal aid for California wildfires

  03-11-2019 21:58 via nbcnews.com
  California Gov. Gavin Newsom responded by saying, "You don’t believe in climate change. You are excused from this conversation."
  
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• Foster mom arrested for alleged illegal adoption scheme surrounding her son

  03-11-2019 21:58 via abcnews.go.com
  A Florida foster mother has been arrested on charges of organizing an adoption scheme and allegedly used her own adopted son as a pawn in the fraud.
  
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• Republicans, Democrats, "SNL" attack Warren's U.S. 'Medicare for All' plan

  03-11-2019 21:52 via news.yahoo.com
  Senator Elizabeth Warren's $20.5 trillion plan to provide healthcare for all Americans was attacked and mocked over the weekend by Democrats, Republicans, and "Saturday Night Live," the long-running New York comedy show.The 20-page "Medicare for All" plan, which Warren's 2020 presidential campaign released on Friday, calls for cuts in defense spending and passing immigration reform to increase tax revenue from newly legal Americans, two steps that would face an uphill battle in Congress.Warren's
  
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• Thousands of Romanians protest against illegal logging, attacks on forest workers

  03-11-2019 21:44 via news.yahoo.com
  Thousands of Romanians marched in the capital Bucharest and other cities on Sunday in protest against widespread illegal logging, which is believed to be behind the deaths of two forest workers in the past two months.The protests, organized by Greenpeace Romania and other environmental groups, demanded thorough criminal investigations into the deaths and attacks against forest workers, as well as immediate upgrades to the country's automated logging tracking system and tighter legislation.The Si
  
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• The whistleblower at the heart of the impeachment inquiry has offered to answer written questions from House Republicans, their lawyer says

  03-11-2019 21:42 via news.yahoo.com
  The lawyer for the whistleblower whose complaint incited the impeachment inquiry is willing to answer written questions from House Republicans.
  
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• El Salvador archbishop apologizes over priest sex abuse case

  03-11-2019 21:40 via news.yahoo.com
  El Salvador's top Roman Catholic cleric apologized Sunday for the alleged sexual abuse by a priest of an unidentified minor 25 years ago."We have apologized to the victim and now I am repeating it publicly, and we also ask for forgiveness from the community for the scandal that this has caused," San Salvador Archbishop José Luis Escobar Alas said in a news conference after celebrating Mass.In 2016, the church defrocked three Salvadoran priests after they were found guilty of sexually abus
  
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• See the hazardous air pollution in New Delhi

  03-11-2019 21:38 via cnn.com
  
  Smog made visibility so poor that 37 flights were diverted from the city's Indira Gandhi International Airport. Delhi's Chief Minister says the situation is "unbearable."
  
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• 'It is a zone of death, and we're complicit': Why Evangelicals are upset with Trump's Syria policy

  03-11-2019 21:37 via news.yahoo.com
  The crisis in Syria has sparked a visceral reaction from U.S. Christian leaders who are concerned about Christian communities in northeast Syria.
  
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• Could you pull a 92,500-pound plane? American Airlines employees do it for charity

  03-11-2019 21:36 via news.yahoo.com
  Teams compete in the annual American Airlines contest to see who can pull a 92,500-pound Airbus jet 15 feet the fastest. Proceeds go to charity.
  
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• How to Break the Legal Logjam in the South China Sea

  03-11-2019 21:26 via news.yahoo.com
  Washington could ask New Delhi, as part of its larger Indo-Pacific strategy, to lead the effort to broker accords on two levels to help establish a rules-based order in the South China Sea.
  
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• PG&E CEO Causes Outrage After Saying Struggling California Residents’ Houses Are ‘Still There’ Because of Blackouts

  03-11-2019 21:25 via news.yahoo.com
  California Gov. Gavin Newsom has been vocal in his criticism of PG&E
  
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• Trump 2020 challenger says Fox News and conservative radio are lying to Americans

  03-11-2019 21:19 via cnn.com
  
  Former Republican Congressman and 2020 presidential hopeful Joe Walsh is slamming Fox News and conservative talk radio for their coverage of the impeachment probe of President Donald Trump.
  
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• Jepkosgei takes down 5-time champ to win NYC Marathon

  03-11-2019 21:18 via cnn.com
  
  Joyciline Jepkosgei ruined her esteemed countrywoman's chance at a fifth women's title in the New York City Marathon on Sunday.
  
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• Former President Jimmy Carter is back teaching Sunday school

  03-11-2019 21:16 via news.yahoo.com
  Former President Jimmy Carter taught a Bible lesson on life after death Sunday less than two weeks after breaking his pelvis in a fall.Using a walker, the 95-year-old Democrat slowly entered the crowded sanctuary at Maranatha Baptist Church in the southwest Georgia town of Plains.With help, Carter sat on a motorized lift chair at the front of the room to teach a 45-minute lesson based on the Old Testament book of Job.
  
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• Venezuela Gives El Salvador’s Diplomats 48 Hours to Head Home

  03-11-2019 21:08 via news.yahoo.com
  (Bloomberg) -- Venezuela gave El Salvadoran diplomats just 48 hours to leave the country after a similar move by El Salvador’s President Nayib Bukele.The meltdown in foreign relations came amid an ongoing power struggle between sitting Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro and National Assembly leader Juan Guaido, who has declared himself president and says Maduro’s administration is illegitimate.El Salvador is awaiting new diplomatic representation from Guaido in the near future, acco
  
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• Massive ship stranded on rocks at Niagara Falls dislodged after 101 years

  03-11-2019 21:08 via nbcnews.com
  For over a century, the dumping scow was considered an unmovable landmark — then it shifted on Thursday.
  
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• Lawyer for whistleblower who sparked impeachment inquiry says client is willing to answer written questions

  03-11-2019 20:58 via cnn.com
  
  Mark Zaid, an attorney for the anonymous whistleblower whose allegations about President Donald Trump's dealings with Ukraine ignited the House impeachment inquiry into the President, said Sunday he offered to have Republican lawmakers submit questions to his client directly without having to go through the committee's Democratic majority.
  
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• Krispy Kreme orders student to halt doughnut resale service

  03-11-2019 20:58 via news.yahoo.com
  An enterprising Minnesota college student who drove to Iowa every weekend to buy hundreds of Krispy Kreme doughnuts that he then sold to his own customers in the Twin Cities area has been warned by the confectionary giant to stop.There have been no Krispy Kreme stores in Minnesota for 11 years.Jayson Gonzalez, 21, of Champlin, Minnesota, would drive 270 miles (430 kilometers) to a Krispy Kreme store in Clive, Iowa, pack his car with up to 100 boxes, each carrying 12 doughnuts, then drive back up
  
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• 12-year-old calls police after mom overdoses on side of highway

  03-11-2019 20:56 via cnn.com
  
  A 12-year-old girl called police after her mother passed out from a heroin overdose on the side of the highway in Volusia County, Florida, on Thursday night.
  
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• Trump impeachment: Whistleblower offered to communicate directly with Republicans after repeated attacks

  03-11-2019 20:51 via news.yahoo.com
  The US official whose whistleblower complaint led to the impeachment inquiry against Donald Trump, has agreed to communicate directly with members of the Republican Party on the intelligence committee leading the probe, his attorney has said.Mark Zaid said he had reached out to congressman Devin Nunes to offer to provide sworn written responses to questions from Republicans, under penalty of perjury.
  
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• Why the President's Twitter typos matter

  03-11-2019 20:19 via cnn.com
  
  Spelling mistakes on social media are not uncommon, but President Donald Trump makes a lot more Twitter typos than most others in the political spotlight. CNN's Brian Stelter takes a closer look.
  
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• The President's Twitter typos matter. Brian Stelter explains why

  03-11-2019 20:19 via cnn.com
  
  Spelling mistakes on social media are not uncommon, but President Donald Trump makes a lot more Twitter typos than most others in the political spotlight. CNN's Brian Stelter takes a closer look.
  
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• TSA stopped a traveler after finding a toilet-paper 'gun' in his bag

  03-11-2019 20:14 via cnn.com
  
  TSA agents at New Jersey's Newark Liberty International Airport were prepared to give a traveler crap when they spotted a revolver in his carry-on bag.
  
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• Popular astrologer Walter Mercado dies

  03-11-2019 20:12 via cnn.com
  
  Puerto Rican astrologer Walter Mercado Salinas died Saturday night at Auxilio Mutuo Hospital in San Juan, Puerto Rico, according to hospital spokeswoman Sofia Luquis. He was 87.
  
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• Central European governments accused of abusing European agriculture subsidies

  03-11-2019 19:56 via news.yahoo.com
  Central European governments have been systematically abusing the European Union’s Common Agricultural Policy to enrich family members and political allies, an investigation claims.  The New York Times survey of subsidies in nine European countries found that millions of euros in agricultural subsidies had been directed to a handful of companies, often linked to national leaders. It alleged that the CAP had even underwritten “mafia-style land grabs” in Slovakia and Bulgari
  
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• Kamala Harris called a Pete Buttigieg comment 'naive' — and Buttigieg agreed

  03-11-2019 19:49 via news.yahoo.com
  Sen. Kamala Harris (D-Calif.) had a good laugh at her fellow Democratic presidential candidate South Bendia, Indiana Mayor, Pete Buttigieg's comments that the race was "getting to be" a two-person showdown between Buttigieg and Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.)In an interview with CBS that aired Sunday, Harris called the suggestion "naive" and said the mayor should review some history books to remind himself of the fact that elections generally aren't decided this early.> .@KamalaHarris literal
  
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• US white supremacist arrested in Norway

  03-11-2019 19:36 via cnn.com
  
  Norwegian authorities have arrested a high-profile American white supremacist, hours before he was due to give a speech at a far-right conference in Oslo on Saturday.
  
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• Turkish bus driver slams into stop, stabs people, then jumps into sea

  03-11-2019 19:16 via nbcnews.com
  13 people were injured in the incident in Istanbul and the bus driver's motive remains unclear.
  
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• Man falls to his death in Washington state on mountain climbing trip with son

  03-11-2019 19:07 via nbcnews.com
  The son called police late Thursday night to report that his father had not returned after climbing Aasgard Pass.
  
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• The World's Most Powerful Navies Of 2030 Won't Look Like Those Of Today

  03-11-2019 19:00 via news.yahoo.com
  Who will hold the number 1 spot?
  
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• Milwaukee man suffers acid burns to his face in alleged racist attack

  03-11-2019 18:55 via nbcnews.com
  Police believe that a white male suspect threw battery acid at a 42-year-old man, whom a family member said is a Peruvian immigrant.
  
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• Politician's ear bitten off in Hong Kong knife attack

  03-11-2019 18:53 via cnn.com
  
  Four people were injured during a knife attack outside a Hong Kong mall on Sunday, including a local politician whose ear was reported to have been partially bitten off.
  
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