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• 300,000 hens killed in egg farm fire

  04-01-2020 23:47 via cnn.com
  
  About 300,000 hens were killed by a fire at a poultry farm in southwestern Michigan, CNN affiliate WWMT reported.
  
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• Outraged Americans condemn US actions in Iraq and Iran: 'Enough with this nonsense'

  04-01-2020 23:44 via news.yahoo.com
  
  More than 70 demonstrations were planned across the country to protest the Trump administration's killing of top Iranian Gen. Qasem Soleimani.
  
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• Alabama police say they found the body of a woman who texted 'I feel in trouble' just before she disappeared

  04-01-2020 23:42 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Paighton Houston had texted a coworker on December 20, saying she might be in trouble. She was last seen at a Birmingham bar leaving with two men.
  
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• Austrian foreign ministry says fighting cyberattack

  04-01-2020 23:38 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Austria's foreign ministry is facing a serious cyberattack, possibly from a foreign country, it said on Saturday.The attack came on the same day the environmentalist Greens backed forming a coalition government with Sebastian Kurz's conservatives.The ministry said a task force was countering the attack on its information technology systems.
  
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• Tally Begins on Fire Damage After Long Night: Australia Update

  04-01-2020 23:21 via news.yahoo.com
  
  (Bloomberg) -- Authorities are assessing mass property damage across southeastern Australia after searing temperatures and strong winds fanned catastrophic wildfires Saturday in one of the worst days of the weeks-long crisis.Dozens of communities, from small towns on the south coast of New South Wales, to alpine villages in neighboring Victoria state, faced extreme conditions as fires grew so large they generated dry thunderstorms.Thousands of people, including tourists, had heeded the advice of
  
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• 2019-2020 Flu Season on Track to Be Especially Severe, New CDC Data Suggests

  04-01-2020 23:04 via news.yahoo.com
  
  The number of flu cases in the U.S. has risen sharply since the season began in the fall
  
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• Elizabeth Warren vows to be the last president elected by the Electoral College

  04-01-2020 22:57 via news.yahoo.com
  
  University of Memphis law professor Steven Mulroy discusses the effectiveness and history of the Electoral College.
  
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• Return to Ricky Gervais to Golden Globes has a whiff of desperation

  04-01-2020 22:43 via cnn.com
  
  Ricky Gervais is a talented, funny guy. But if you sense a whiff of desperation about having him emcee the Golden Globes again -- on the order of "Forget the awards, tune in to see what outrageous things the host might say" -- NBC's promos, promising "We have no idea what he's going to do," sort of gave the game away.
  
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• Golden Globes reunion with host Ricky Gervais has a whiff of desperation

  04-01-2020 22:43 via cnn.com
  
  • Live updates: 77th Golden Globe Awards kick off Hollywood's award season
  • Moments to watch out for at tonight's show
  
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• 'Comedic provocateur' Gervais doing Golden Globes has whiff of desperation

  04-01-2020 22:43 via cnn.com
  
  Ricky Gervais is a talented, funny guy. But if you sense a whiff of desperation about having him emcee the Golden Globes again -- on the order of "Forget the awards, tune in to see what outrageous things the host might say" -- NBC's promos, promising "We have no idea what he's going to do," sort of gave the game away.
  
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• Libyan authorities report airstrike on military academy

  04-01-2020 22:40 via news.yahoo.com
  
  An airstrike slammed into a military academy in Libya’s capital, Tripoli, on Saturday, killing at least 16 people, most of them students, health authorities said.Malek Merset, a spokesman with the Tripoli-based health ministry, told The Associated Press that the airstrike took place in the capital’s Hadaba area, just south of the city center where fighting has been raging for months.Tripoli has been the scene of fighting since April between the self-styled Libyan National Army led by
  
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• Indiana twins were born on different days in different decades

  04-01-2020 22:35 via news.yahoo.com
  
  An Indiana couple welcomed one baby at 11:37 p.m. on Dec. 31, 2019. Exactly 30 minutes later, at 12:07 a.m. on Jan. 1, 2020, they welcomed another.
  
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• An Iranian military commander says there are '35 vital American positions in the region' which they can strike in response to top general's assassination

  04-01-2020 22:33 via news.yahoo.com
  
  The potential targets include US ships stationed near Iran, as well as cities in Israel, one of America's closest allies.
  
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• US government agency website crashes amid panic over military draft

  04-01-2020 22:29 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Selective Service System said on Twitter its website was receiving high traffic volume ‘due to the spread of misinformation’* Fonda and Ellsberg protest against escalating conflict with IranIn the aftermath of the US drone strike that killed the Iranian general Qassem Suleimani in Baghdad, the phrase “World War III” began trending on social media.More startlingly, a US government agency which registers young men for a potential military draft saw its website crash.“
  
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• Climate Skeptic Meat Loaf Says Greta Thunberg is ‘Brainwashed’

  04-01-2020 21:55 via news.yahoo.com
  
  (Bloomberg) -- Teen activist Greta Thunberg has been “brainwashed” into believing in climate change, the American rocker and actor Meat Loaf told an English newspaper.Meat Loaf, 72, is known for his hit 1977 album “Bat Out of Hell” and its follow-ups, and for playing Eddie in the 1975 cult movie “The Rocky Horror Picture Show.”The singer, whose real name is Marvin Lee Aday, told the Mail Online he feels for the 17-year-old Swede -- named last month as Time Mag
  
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• 2 inmates missing in Mississippi after riots, deaths at prisons across the state

  04-01-2020 21:52 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Two inmates at the Mississippi State Penitentiary at Parchman were reported missing early Saturday, amid a week of riots and deaths at prisons across the state.
  
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• Pence's linkage of Soleimani to 9/11 hijackers is challenged

  04-01-2020 21:43 via news.yahoo.com
  
  An assertion by US Vice President Mike Pence that Iranian commander Qasem Soleimani, who died Friday in an American attack in Iraq, had helped the September 11 terrorists has been sharply challenged in the US press.
  
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• With hours' notice, US fast-response force flies to Mideast

  04-01-2020 21:40 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Hundreds of U.S. soldiers deployed Saturday from Fort Bragg, North Carolina, to Kuwait to serve as reinforcements in the Middle East amid rising tensions following the U.S. killing of a top Iranian general.Lt. Col. Mike Burns, a spokesman for the 82nd Airborne Division, told The Associated Press 3,500 members of the division’s quick-deployment brigade, known officially as its Immediate Response Force, will have deployed within a few days.A loading ramp at Fort Bragg was filled Saturday mor
  
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• More US troops deploy to Mideast amid tensions with Iran

  04-01-2020 21:40 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Hundreds of U.S. soldiers deployed Saturday from Fort Bragg, North Carolina, to Kuwait to serve as reinforcements in the Middle East amid rising tensions following the U.S. killing of a top Iranian general.Lt. Col. Mike Burns, a spokesman for the 82nd Airborne Division, told The Associated Press 3,500 members of the division’s quick-deployment brigade, known officially as its Immediate Response Force, will have deployed within a few days.A loading ramp at Fort Bragg was filled Saturday mor
  
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• Pro-Iran factions ramp up pressure on US in Iraq after Soleimani killed

  04-01-2020 21:34 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Pro-Iran factions ramped up pressure on US installations across Iraq Saturday with missiles and warnings to Iraqi troops, after tens of thousands mourned an Iranian general killed in a US strike.In the first hints of a possible retaliatory response, two mortar rounds hit an area near the US embassy in Baghdad on Saturday, security sources told AFP.The Iraqi military confirmed the missile attacks in Baghdad and on al-Balad and said there were no casualties.
  
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• The 5 best Amazon deals you can get this weekend

  04-01-2020 21:23 via news.yahoo.com
  
  During the first weekend of the new year, you can get incredible prices on products like robot vacuums, tea strainers, and Pyrex glassware at Amazon.
  
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• The acting chief of the Department of Homeland Security says there's 'no specific, credible threat' from Iran against the US

  04-01-2020 21:18 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Acting Chief Chad Wolf added that DHS is continuing to monitor the situation, and is working with partners to "ensure the safety of every American."
  
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• Britain's navy to escort UK-flagged ships through Strait of Hormuz

  04-01-2020 21:09 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Britain's navy will accompany UK-flagged ships through the Strait of Hormuz to provide protection after the United States killed Iranian military commander Qassem Soleimani in an air strike, inflaming tensions in the region.Britain was forced to escort its ships through the world's most important waterway for oil shipments for a time last year after Iranian commandos seized a British-flagged tanker in the Strait.British forces had previously captured an Iranian oil tanker near Gibraltar that was
  
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• How Trump's decision to strike a top Iranian commander unfolded at Mar-a-Lago

  04-01-2020 21:08 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Trump reportedly surprised officials with requesting a strike, and later appeared calm and cool while hosting people at his Mar-a-Lago resort.
  
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• Did Israel Really Bomb Iraq Last Summer (With an F-35)?

  04-01-2020 21:00 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Here is what we know going into 2020.
  
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• Iran crisis: Pompeo criticises UK and other US allies for ‘not being helpful’ in response to Soleimani killing

  04-01-2020 20:47 via news.yahoo.com
  
  US secretary of state Mike Pompeo has criticised the UK and other allies for “not being helpful” in their response to the Trump administration’s killing of Iranian commander Qassem Soleimani.A number of European countries have expressed concern over the killing of Soleimani, a top military general in Iran, amid fears of retaliation and a further escalation to all-out war.
  
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• Peru prosecutors seek 12-year term for Kenji Fujimori

  04-01-2020 20:41 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Peruvian prosecutors are seeking a 12-year prison term for former lawmaker Kenji Fujimori on charges of attempting to buy votes in a plot to keep ex-president Pedro Pablo Kuczynski from being impeached.Prosecutor Bersabeth Revilla accused the son of jailed ex-president Alberto Fujimori of bribery and influence-peddling.Also charged are former lawmakers Guillermo Bocangel and Bienvenido Ramirez.
  
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• Officials' conversations have made it clear that it's not a question of if Iran will respond, but when, where and how, source says

  04-01-2020 20:27 via cnn.com
  
  The Trump administration has privately warned members of Congress that Iran is expected to retaliate against the US "within weeks" for the strike that killed Qasem Soleimani even as they failed to convince some that the operation was merited due to an imminent threat against American lives.
  
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• Not if, but when: Iran could retaliate 'within weeks'

  04-01-2020 20:27 via cnn.com
  
  The Trump administration has privately warned members of Congress that Iran is expected to retaliate against the US "within weeks" for the strike that killed Qasem Soleimani even as they failed to convince some that the operation was merited due to an imminent threat against American lives.
  
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• Not if, but when: Administration warns Iran could retaliate 'within weeks'

  04-01-2020 20:27 via cnn.com
  
  The Trump administration has privately warned members of Congress that Iran is expected to retaliate against the US "within weeks" for the strike that killed Qasem Soleimani even as they failed to convince some that the operation was merited due to an imminent threat against American lives.
  
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• Why A U.S.-Iran War Isn't Going To Happen

  04-01-2020 19:56 via news.yahoo.com
  
  The coming weeks and months may see irregular warfare prosecuted with newfound vigor through such familiar unconventional warmaking methods. It’s doubtful Tehran would launch into conventional operations, stepping onto ground it knows America dominates. To launch full-scale military reprisals would justify full-scale U.S. military reprisals that, in all likelihood, would outstrip Iran’s in firepower and ferocity
  
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• Tucker Carlson breaks with Fox News colleagues and criticizes Trump's strike

  04-01-2020 19:50 via cnn.com
  
  On Friday afternoon President Trump praised Tucker Carlson along with other conservative Fox News stars. "We have great people," Trump said.
  
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• Fox News: Tucker Carlson criticizes Trump's strike

  04-01-2020 19:50 via cnn.com
  
  On Friday afternoon President Trump praised Tucker Carlson along with other conservative Fox News stars. "We have great people," Trump said.
  
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• Uganda's Museveni begins jungle march to highlight liberation struggle

  04-01-2020 19:45 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni on Saturday began a six-day march through the jungle to re-trace the route through which his guerrilla forces seized power three decades ago, which critics dismissed as a bid to rally support ahead of 2021 elections.Museveni is one of Africa's longest-ruling leaders, having seized power in 1986 after taking part in rebellions to end the brutal rule of Idi Amin and Milton Obote, and is expected to seek a sixth term in office in the next elections.
  
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• 'Cancer clusters' are popping up in towns across the US and the environment may be to blame

  04-01-2020 19:43 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Despite the 1,000 suspected cases that are reported to state health departments each year, cancer clusters remain hard to prove.
  
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• 'Gangs are at war': Fifth Mississippi prison death reported as violence continues

  04-01-2020 19:38 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Five inmates at Mississippi prisons have been killed in less than a week. Officials confirmed some of the "major disturbances" are gang-related.
  
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• Pence says Iran's Qasem Soleimani aided 9/11 hijackers. Experts say that's not true

  04-01-2020 19:37 via news.yahoo.com
  
  The 9/11 Commission report found: "We have found no evidence that Iran or Hezbollah was aware of the planning for what later became the 9/11 attack."
  
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• Fury, tears as crowds mourn Iran commander killed by US

  04-01-2020 19:37 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Tens of thousands of Iraqis mourned a top Iranian commander and others killed in a US drone attack, before near-simultaneous mortar and rocket attacks targeted American troops late Saturday.The killing of Iran's Major General Qasem Soleimani on Friday was the most dramatic escalation yet in spiralling tensions between Iran and the United States, which pledged to send thousands more troops to the region, amid fears of a regional proxy war between the foes.In the first hints of a possible retaliat
  
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• Wildfire-Threatened Towns Brace for New Blazes: Australia Update

  04-01-2020 19:31 via news.yahoo.com
  
  (Bloomberg) -- Firefighters battled catastrophic wildfires sweeping southeastern Australia as searing temperatures and strong winds intensified the threat to lives and property in one of the worst nights of the already weeks-long crisis.Dozens of communities, from small towns on the south coast of New South Wales, to alpine villages in neighboring Victoria state, braced for extreme conditions as fires grew so large they generated dry thunderstorms.Thousands of people, including tourists, had hee
  
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• Kim Jong-un's Big Speech Is Missing Something: South Korea

  04-01-2020 19:30 via news.yahoo.com
  
  The report of the 5th Plenary Meeting is a stark reminder of the depleted role that South Korea plays in negotiations with North Korea. This wasn’t always the case.
  
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• Qassem Soleimani Is Dead: What You Need To Know And What Happens Next

  04-01-2020 19:20 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Soleimani and Muhandis were targets of opportunity, and Trump took the decision to strike at them. It would be foolish, however, to ignore there will be an aftermath and many second and third-order effects.
  
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• Fox News' Tucker Carlson slammed 'chest-beaters' for 'choosing' conflict with Iran over US problems, but he didn't call out Trump

  04-01-2020 19:17 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Fox News host Tucker Carlson questioned why some elected officials are promoting military acts against Iran instead of focusing on internal problems.
  
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• Fact-check: Pence's tweet about Soleimani

  04-01-2020 19:16 via cnn.com
  
  National security analyst Peter Bergen and CNN's Michael Smerconish discuss Vice President Mike Pence's tweet citing September 11 as a reason for Soleimani's killing, which Bergen says is not correct.
  
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• P!nk Joins Celebrities in Donating to Help Fight Australia's Catastrophic Wildfires, Pledging to Give $500,000

  04-01-2020 19:14 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Australia has been fighting the worst wildfires it's experienced in decades
  
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• What is pansexuality and how does it compare with bisexuality?

  04-01-2020 19:12 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Layla Moran, a British Liberal Democrat politician, has recently revealed that she identifies as pansexual. In an interview, Moran told how she had started a relationship with a woman six months ago, a development she described as “surprising” in terms of her sexual identity.
  
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• Iran general steps out of shadows to lead proxies

  04-01-2020 19:12 via news.yahoo.com
  
  A new Iranian general has stepped out of the shadows to lead the country's expeditionary Quds Force, becoming responsible for Tehran's proxies as the Islamic Republic threatens the United States with "harsh revenge" for killing its previous head, Qassem Soleimani.
  
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• Iran news – live: Rockets fall near US embassy in Baghdad as Tehran warns of revenge attacks over Soleimani killing

  04-01-2020 18:57 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Iran’s ambassador to the United Nations has warned the US “has started a military war by an act of terror” with the killing of Qassem Soleimani, as Donald Trump claimed he ordered the Quds Force general’s death to prevent war rather than provoke it.The country’s UN diplomat declared Iran “has to act, and we will act”, while secretary general Antonio Guterres joined global calls for de-escalation as he cautioned the “world cannot afford” anoth
  
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• Terry Gilliam: 'I'm tired, as a white male, of being blamed for everything'

  04-01-2020 18:42 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Former Monty Python star Terry Gilliam responded to the #MeToo movement, labelling it "a witch hunt," saying he is "tired, as a white male, of being blamed for everything that is wrong with the world."
  
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• Iran ambassador to UN on Soleimani killing: 'the response for a military action is military action'

  04-01-2020 18:34 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Iran has vowed an unspecified harsh retaliation for the killing of Gen. Qasem Soleimani. But will it risk war?
  
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• Train traffic resumes at site of eastern Iowa derailment

  04-01-2020 18:29 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Train traffic resumed early Saturday in an eastern Iowa city a day after a derailment sent more than a dozen freight cars and tankers off the tracks just yards from the Mississippi River.The LeClaire Fire Department said in a news release that all derailed cars had been moved away from the main track and would be hauled away by tractor-trailers throughout the day.Canadian Pacific Railroad had found no significant air or water contamination from the Friday morning derailment, officials said.
  
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