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• Donald Trump's allies target Democrats in swing districts with anti-impeachment ad blitz

  13-12-2019 23:56 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Donald Trump's reelection campaign and the Republican National Committee target Democrats from districts that voted for the president in 2016.
  
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• The Tiny, Simple Nuclear Reactor That Could Change Energy

  13-12-2019 23:51 via news.yahoo.com
  
  The next step in nuclear power is 1/100th the size of today's reactors.
  
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• Scientist's epic experiments go viral

  13-12-2019 23:46 via cnn.com
  
  The internet is falling in love with a physics professor at Tidewater Community College in Virginia Beach, Virginia, after his students tweeted videos of his lessons.CNN affiliate WTKR reports.
  
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• Science teacher's epic experiments go viral

  13-12-2019 23:46 via cnn.com
  
  The internet is falling in love with a physics professor at Tidewater Community College in Virginia Beach, Virginia, after his students tweeted videos of his lessons.CNN affiliate WTKR reports.
  
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• How fake accounts pushing inflammatory content went viral -- with the help of YouTube's algorithms

  13-12-2019 23:40 via cnn.com
  
  YouTube channels posing as American news outlets racked up millions of views on false and inflammatory videos over several months this year, all with the help of YouTube's recommendation engine.
  
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• British Author Found Dead and Buried in Woods Near Her Dominican Republic Home

  13-12-2019 23:28 via news.yahoo.com
  
  A British author was found dead and buried in a shallow grave outside her Dominican Republic home days after she was reported missing, according to local media reports.The body of Lindsay de Feliz, 64, was found Thursday by a canine unit in the woods near her home in Moncion, according to local news outlet, Hoy. Her body, which showed signs of strangulation, had reportedly been buried in a 2-foot-deep hole, wrapped in a yellow sheet and plastic bags used for dog food.  Authorities said
  
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• Investors who lost $190m demand exhumation of cryptocurrency mogul

  13-12-2019 23:15 via news.yahoo.com
  
  * Gerald Cotten, 30, died in ‘questionable circumstances’* Canadian company founder took crucial password to the graveLawyers for customers of an insolvent cryptocurrency exchange have asked police to exhume the body of the company’s founder, amid efforts to recover about $190m in Bitcoin which were locked in an online black hole after his death.Miller Thomson LLP sent a letter to the Royal Canadian Mounted Police on Friday, requesting authorities “conduct an exhumation a
  
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• After UK election, Trump sees 'harbinger' of things to come

  13-12-2019 23:14 via news.yahoo.com
  
  After a tumultuous tenure in office, a controversial candidate expanded his grip on power, surpassing a weak opponent and drawing support from unlikely pockets of voters.It’s the same scenario President Donald Trump is eager to replicate in next year’s American election and Democrats are desperate to avoid.Others cautioned against drawing too many lessons from the British elections.
  
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• Ring says it will introduce new security features after hackers broke into a camera in an 8-year-old's bedroom, where they could watch and talk to the child

  13-12-2019 23:12 via news.yahoo.com
  
  The company said hackers were able to break into the camera in part because of weak passwords. It's unclear what Ring's security improvements will be.
  
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• Sen. Mitch McConnell files for seventh term in Kentucky

  13-12-2019 23:03 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Touting his leadership role as an asset for Middle America, Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell filed for reelection Friday as the Kentucky Republican seeks a seventh term next year.McConnell, the longest-serving U.S. senator in Kentucky history, has tied himself closely to President Donald Trump as he prepares to defend himself against a host of Democrats wanting to unseat him.“What I do is look out for Middle America and, in particular, my favorite state in Middle America — Kent
  
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• Sanders retracts controversial endorsement less than 24 hours after making it

  13-12-2019 23:03 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Sen. Bernie Sanders retracted his endorsement of congressional candidate Cenk Uygur on Friday, less than 24 hours after making it, as allegations of sexism hit the former online talk show host.
  
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• World War II Started Two Years Earlier Than You Think

  13-12-2019 23:00 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Japanese planes fought the U.S. Navy four years before Pearl Harbor.
  
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• US Supreme Court to hear Trump pleas to block subpoenas for financial records

  13-12-2019 22:55 via cnn.com
  
  The Supreme Court said Friday it will consider whether the House and a New York prosecutor can subpoena President Donald Trump's longtime accounting firm and banks for his financial records, two monumental disputes concerning separation of powers and Trump's broad claims of immunity that will be decided in the heart of the presidential campaign.
  
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• What's next for impeachment? Full House vote next week on charges against Trump, Senate trial likely

  13-12-2019 22:46 via news.yahoo.com
  
  The House Judiciary Committee approved two articles of impeachment, moving the articles to a full House vote. Now what?
  
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• First lady appears to condone Trump's criticism of Thunberg

  13-12-2019 22:46 via news.yahoo.com
  
  The first lady's apparent acceptance of her husband's actions stood in contrast to the work she's doing through her “Be Best”initiative to combat online bullying and teach children to be kind.Trump mocked the teenage activist, who has Asperger's syndrome, a week after the first lady tweeted angrily at Stanford law professor Pamela Karlan for mentioning Barron during her testimony as a Democratic witness at a House Judiciary Committee impeachment hearing.
  
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• An influencer and model said she isn't doing a gender reveal because 'that may not be who my child decides to be'

  13-12-2019 22:35 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Iskra Lawrence is among influencers making money for documenting their pregnancies, but she's not cashing in on her baby's sex.
  
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• Arkansas authorities: Slain cop shot 10 times in head

  13-12-2019 22:07 via news.yahoo.com
  
  A police officer who was killed in his patrol car in northwest Arkansas was shot 10 times in the head and his killer was interested in anti-law enforcement groups, sheriffs officials said Friday in releasing video from the scene and autopsy details.Officer Stephen Carr was fatally shot outside police headquarters in Fayetteville, Arkansas, on Saturday night.Authorities said 35-year-old London Philips approached Carr's vehicle and shot him at point-blank range.
  
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• Photos show Michelle Obama and George W. Bush's enduring friendship, built on wisecracks and cough drops

  13-12-2019 22:00 via news.yahoo.com
  
  The friendship between the former president and first lady began when former President Barack Obama was inaugurated in 2009.
  
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• Pompeo warns Iran of 'decisive response' if harm in Iraq

  13-12-2019 21:57 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Secretary of State Mike Pompeo on Friday warned Iran of a "decisive" response if US interests are harmed in Iraq, after a series of rocket attacks on bases."We must... use this opportunity to remind Iran's leaders that any attacks by them, or their proxies of any identity, that harm Americans, our allies or our interests will be answered with a decisive US response," Pompeo said in a statement."Iran must respect the sovereignty of its neighbors and immediately cease its provision of lethal aid a
  
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• Nicki Minaj pays tribute to Juice WRLD in touching speech

  13-12-2019 21:56 via cnn.com
  
  Nicki Minaj paid tribute to Juice WRLD and couldn't help but get emotional.
  
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• Biden, Warren, Sanders, Yang, and Buttigieg are threatening to skip the next Democratic debate amid a labor dispute

  13-12-2019 21:55 via news.yahoo.com
  
  The Democratic candidates say they stand in solidarity with campus food service workers who are on strike as they demand better wages and healthcare.
  
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• Republicans attack Democratic congressman watching golf during impeachment hearing

  13-12-2019 21:51 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Following a House Judiciary Committee's passage of articles of impeachment against a president for the fourth time in US history, Republican leaders have directed their outrage to Democratic congressman who appeared to be watching golf during the 14-hour hearing.Steve Guest, the GOP's rapid response director, asked on Twitter: "What on earth is Democrat Rep. Cedric Richmond watching on his laptop during this impeachment markup? To me, it looks like Rep. Richmond is watching the President's Cup g
  
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• Challenge to immigration law is tossed on eve of enactment

  13-12-2019 21:47 via news.yahoo.com
  
  A law that will allow New Yorkers to get driver’s licenses without having to prove they are in the country legally weathered a second court challenge Friday, days before its enactment.A federal district judge ruled against Rensselaer County Clerk Frank Merola, saying he lacked the legal capacity to bring the lawsuit.Merola, a Republican, had argued that the state law conflicts with federal immigration law.
  
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• Ex-DOJ official: Trump was 'vulnerable' to foreign intelligence agencies

  13-12-2019 21:44 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Mary McCord, the top Justice Department official who oversaw the FBI investigation into Donald Trump’s ties to Russia in its early stages, talks to the Yahoo News “Skullduggery” podcast.
  
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• Kentucky: outgoing governor pardons killer whose brother hosted fundraiser

  13-12-2019 21:40 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Pardons of violent offenders, including a child rapist and a man who beheaded a female victim, provoke widespread backlashDays after leaving office, the former Kentucky governor Matt Bevin is facing widespread backlash and calls for an investigation following a number of controversial pardons of violent offenders on his way out the door.Pardons are traditional at the end of a governor’s term – and most of the Republican’s more than 400 pardons were for drug offenses. But a numb
  
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• Warren, slumping in the polls, attacks Biden and Buttigieg

  13-12-2019 21:39 via news.yahoo.com
  
  With polls showing her once steady rise to the top tier of the Democratic race stalling, Elizabeth Warren went on the attack in New Hampshire.
  
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• Texas a linchpin in Biden's Super Tuesday strategy

  13-12-2019 21:39 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Biden traveled to Texas on Friday, a state his campaign sees as crucial to securing the nomination.While California looms as the main event on March 3, when 16 states and territories cast ballots, Texas could be the real difference-maker for him.Opinion polls show the Democratic race fractured in California, which has 416 delegates at stake.
  
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• Democrats threaten to boycott next debate over labor dispute

  13-12-2019 21:37 via news.yahoo.com
  
  All seven Democratic presidential candidates who qualified for next week's debate threatened on Friday to skip the event if an ongoing labor dispute forces them to cross picket lines on the campus hosting it.The Democratic National Committee said it is trying to come up with an "acceptable resolution” to the situation so the debate can proceed.A labor union called UNITE HERE Local 11 says it will picket as Loyola Marymount University hosts Thursday’s sixth Democratic debate of the cy
  
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• Suit: Pilot tried to warn before dozer killed pot suspect

  13-12-2019 21:20 via news.yahoo.com
  
  The family of a marijuana suspect who wound up dead under the treads of a bulldozer commandeered by Pennsylvania State Police has filed an amended lawsuit that raises new questions about the agency's tactics.The family is suing state police, the Pennsylvania Game Commission and others.The suit accuses police of extreme recklessness in their pursuit of 51-year-old Gregory Longenecker, who had been caught growing marijuana plants on public land near Reading.
  
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• 29 photos show how climate change has ravaged the Arctic in the past decade

  13-12-2019 21:14 via news.yahoo.com
  
  NOAA's Arctic Report Card warns that climate change is transforming the Arctic. These photos show its dire effects on the region so far this decade.
  
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• Would China Try to Claim Most of the Pacific Ocean?

  13-12-2019 21:11 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Nine-dash line? How about two hundred and fifty? Some fake news freaked an academic conference out several years ago.
  
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• An Invisible Menace to the Climate, Revealed in Infrared

  13-12-2019 21:07 via news.yahoo.com
  
  To the naked eye, there is nothing out of the ordinary at the DCP Pegasus gas processing plant in West Texas, one of the thousands of installations in the vast Permian Basin that have transformed America into the largest oil and gas producer in the world.But a highly specialized camera sees what the human eye cannot: a major release of methane, the main component of natural gas and a potent greenhouse gas that is helping to warm the planet at an alarming rate.Two New York Times journalists detec
  
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• No, China Is Not as Strong as It Seems

  13-12-2019 21:06 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Despite commentary to the contrary, Beijing's success isn't perfect or unstoppable.
  
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• New Orleans City Employees Shut Down Computers Amid Cyberattack

  13-12-2019 21:06 via news.yahoo.com
  
  (Bloomberg) -- The city of New Orleans has been hit with a cyber-attack, and employees have been asked to turn off computers as a cautionary measure.City employees began having problems with their computers around 11 a.m. local time, according to spokesman Beau Tidwell.It isn’t yet clear if the cyber-attack included ransomware, in which computers are rendered inoperable until money is paid to the hacker. Ransomware attacks have become increasingly common against cities and other government
  
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• California police officer involved in two fatal shootings in one year

  13-12-2019 21:05 via news.yahoo.com
  
  A new report has found that a California police officer was involved in two fatal shootings in just one year, highlighting the deadly results of American police policies that generally allow officers to use deadly force when they deem necessary.In both instances, according to an analysis by the Washington Post, Ceres police officer Ross Bays shot at individuals who had stumbled out of a car and began running away — and experts say that the timing of the shootings should be worrisome, even
  
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• Defeated governor pardons man convicted of decapitating woman and stuffing her body into barrel

  13-12-2019 21:01 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Outgoing Kentucky Gov. Matt Bevin commuted the sentence on Monday of a man who had been convicted of decapitating a woman and disposing of her body in a 55-gallon barrel.
  
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• ... but cyberbullying crusader Melania Trump is silent on her husband's mocking of 16-year-old Thunberg

  13-12-2019 20:55 via cnn.com
  
  Her cause is anti-bullying, which is making the first lady's silence deafening.
  
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• UN can't confirm weapons used in Saudi attacks were Iranian

  13-12-2019 20:43 via news.yahoo.com
  
  The U.N. chief said in a report to the council obtained Friday by The Associated Press that the U.N. also can’t confirm that the missiles and drones were transferred from Iran “in a manner inconsistent” with the Security Council resolution that endorsed the 2015 nuclear deal between Iran and six key countries.The United States has blamed Iran for the attacks.
  
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• Actor Danny Aiello dies at 86

  13-12-2019 20:37 via cnn.com
  
  Danny Aiello, a prolific actor who was nominated for an Academy Award for his role as pizzeria owner Sal in Spike Lee's "Do the Right Thing," has died, a family representative confirmed Friday to CNN.
  
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• How YouTube's algorithms helped fake accounts go viral

  13-12-2019 20:31 via cnn.com
  
  YouTube channels posing as American news outlets racked up millions of views on false and inflammatory videos over several months this year, all with the help of YouTube's recommendation engine.
  
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• Brazilians arrive in waves at the US-Mexico border

  13-12-2019 20:28 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Growing up along the U.S.-Mexico border, hotel clerk Joe Luis Rubio never thought he'd be trying to communicate in Portuguese on a daily basis.The quiet migration of around 17,000 Brazilians through a single U.S. city in the past year reveals a new frontier in the Trump administration's effort to shut down the legal immigration pathway for people claiming fear of persecution.Like hundreds of thousands of families from Honduras, El Salvador, and Guatemala, known collectively as the Northern Trian
  
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• ‘Marxist, Joke, Disgrace’: How Corbyn United Britain Against Him

  13-12-2019 20:23 via news.yahoo.com
  
  LONDON—Jeremy Corbyn’s radical left-wing experiment has been obliterated by the British public.The Labour leader limped to the party’s most pathetic defeat since 1935 after publishing arguably the most socialist party platform in British history.Boris Johnson—a party leader widely viewed as elitist, dishonest, and out-of-touch—was swept to power by the very working-class communities that have cherished and sustained the Labour party since its foundation in 1900.Form
  
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• Trump slams Democrats and media after impeachment vote, says 'I'll do anything' in Senate trial

  13-12-2019 20:17 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Hours after members of Congress advanced impeachment articles against Donald Trump, the president railed against Democrats and the media in a White House appearance in which he said he would "do anything" he wants as the Senate prepares for an impeachment trial.During an Oval Office meeting with Uruguay's President Mario Abdo Benitez, the president said Democrats were "trivialising impeachment" by supporting charges against him for obstruction and abuses of power in his dealings with Ukraine, wh
  
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• White House further limits officials on Trump's foreign leader calls in wake of Ukraine scandal

  13-12-2019 20:16 via cnn.com
  
  President Donald Trump's senior aides have further restricted the number of administration officials allowed to listen to the President's phone calls with foreign leaders since his July 25 call with Ukraine's President was revealed and became the centerpiece of the impeachment inquiry, according to multiple White House sources.
  
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• Trump is considering boycotting the 2020 TV debates because he thinks the moderators are all biased against him

  13-12-2019 20:11 via news.yahoo.com
  
  President Donald Trump has reportedly told aides he believes that the commission that organizes debates can't be trusted to choose a fair moderator.
  
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• Trump calls impeachment vote 'embarrassment' to nation

  13-12-2019 19:53 via news.yahoo.com
  
  President Donald Trump declared Friday's House committee vote to impeach him ”an embarrassment to our country" and refused to back away from the charge that first ensnared him in the scandal. Almost simultaneous to the vote, Rudy Giuliani, the president's personal lawyer, turned up at the White House to discuss Ukraine. With a vote by the full House expected next week, Trump declared in the Oval Office that the Democrats had "made absolute fools of themselves" by moving ahead with impeachm
  
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• Judge's decision may shine light on secret Trump-Putin meeting notes

  13-12-2019 19:49 via news.yahoo.com
  
  A district court judge in Washington, D.C. has ordered administration lawyers to explain why, for more than two years, the White House has refused to turn over to the State Department an interpreter’s notes from a meeting between President Trump and Russian President Vladimir Putin. 
  
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• Trump threatens Democrats who he says are 'trivializing' impeachment: 'Some day there will be a Democrat president and there will be a Republican House, and I suspect they're going to remember it'

  13-12-2019 19:39 via news.yahoo.com
  
  On Friday the House Judiciary Committee voted to advance two articles of impeachment against Trump for abusing his office and obstructing Congress.
  
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• With son sitting with her, Rep. Martha Roby votes against Trump impeachment

  13-12-2019 19:36 via news.yahoo.com
  
  The retiring representative said she believed the impeachment process was flawed. She did not address the substance of the charges against Trump.
  
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• Lebanon's Hezbollah insists on a coalition government

  13-12-2019 19:36 via news.yahoo.com
  
  The head of Lebanon's militant Hezbollah group said Friday the best emergency government to deal with the country's worsening economic crisis is one that includes all political groups.Hassan Nasrallah's comments indicated there was no resolution yet on who should head an emergency government, two months after Prime Minister Saad Hariri resigned Oct 29.Nasrallah's comments were also a rejection of a proposition put forward by political ally Gebran Bassil, who called for a government made up of ex
  
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