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• Duke of Sussex's speech about Royal Family split, in full

  19-01-2020 23:48 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Here is the text of the Duke of Sussex's remarks about his future made during a speech at a private dinner at the Ivy Chelsea Garden in central London for his charity Sentebale. "Good evening, and thank you for being here for Sentebale, a charity me and Prince Seeiso created back in 2006 to honour my mother's legacy in supporting those affected by HIV and Aids. "Before I begin, I must say that I can only imagine what you may have heard or perhaps read over the last few weeks... "So, I want you t
  
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• Virginia gun rally: anti-fascist activists will not mount counter-protest

  19-01-2020 23:30 via news.yahoo.com
  
  * Local leftist groups cite serious safety concerns* Far-right groups expected to attend Richmond eventAnti-fascist activists will not mount a counter-protest at a gun rights rally at Virginia’s state capitol on Monday that is expected to attract thousands, including white supremacists and anti-government militia groups.Anti-fascists from Richmond and Charlottesville publicly advised supporters to avoid the rally altogether, citing serious safety concerns. Molly Conger, a journalist and ac
  
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• Two Hawaii police officers shot, gunman at large: local media

  19-01-2020 23:08 via news.yahoo.com
  
  One news organization, Hawaii News Now, cited law enforcement sources as saying that the two Honolulu police officers were killed in the shooting, which media reports said took place near Diamond Head.Spokespersons for the Honolulu Police Department and the Honolulu field office of the Federal Bureau of Investigation did not immediately reply to telephone messages seeking information.
  
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• Gunman kills two Hawaii police officers, dies in house fire: local media

  19-01-2020 23:08 via news.yahoo.com
  
  "Our entire state mourns the loss of two Honolulu police officers killed in the line of duty this morning," Hawaii Governor David Ige said in a statement.Honolulu Mayor Kirk Caldwell called the shootings "an unprecedented tragedy" for the state.A third officer was injured in the incident in which the spreading fire destroyed several houses in an affluent area near the base of Diamond Head, a volcanic mountain at the southern tip of the island, KITV News reported.
  
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• Elon Musk says the Crew Dragon spacecraft is designed to escape a fireball 'literally like something out of Star Wars'

  19-01-2020 22:58 via news.yahoo.com
  
  The SpaceX Crew Dragon spacecraft can 'fly out of the fireball' similarly to the Millennium Falcon in 'Return of the Jedi,' according to Elon Musk.
  
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• 2 more Puerto Rico officials fired after warehouse break-in

  19-01-2020 22:57 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Gov. Wanda Vázquez fired the heads of Puerto Rico’s housing and family departments Sunday in the latest fallout over the discovery of a warehouse filled with emergency supplies dating from Hurricane Maria.The removal of Housing Secretary Fernando Gil and Department of Family Secretary Glorimar Andújar came a day after the governor fired the director of Puerto Rico’s emergency management agency.Vázquez fired him hours after a Facebook video showed angry people bre
  
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• Sanders distances himself from group backing his WH run

  19-01-2020 22:53 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Bernie Sanders said Sunday that outside political groups that can raise and spend unlimited sums backing candidates for public office should be abolished — including those supporting his own bid for the White House.The remarks, made during a candidate forum with New Hampshire Public Radio, are the first substantive response from Sanders after The Associated Press reported earlier this month that Our Revolution's advocacy for his White House bid appeared to skirt campaign finance law.
  
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• Oklahoma state senators want 'MAGA' license plate designs, raising campaign finance concerns

  19-01-2020 22:53 via news.yahoo.com
  
  The designs include two of Trump's signature slogans, "Make America Great Again" and "Keep America Great," for drivers to upgrade their plates.
  
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• Sussexes cannot cash in on royal name and 'uphold the values' of Queen

  19-01-2020 22:48 via news.yahoo.com
  
  The Duke and Duchess of Sussex’s pledge to “uphold the values” of the Queen threatens a collision course with their new found freedom to strike commercial deals. The Duke and Duchess’s decision to resign as ‘senior’ Royals and become ‘financially independent’ allows them to earn cash to support their new, breakaway life. They have agreed not to use their HRH titles nor receive public funds. In a statement issued on Saturday night, Buckingham palace
  
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• At least 2 police officers killed in Hawaii shooting as suspect sets house on fire

  19-01-2020 22:48 via cnn.com
  
  The FBI said Sunday authorities are responding to an "active shooter" in Waikiki, Hawaii.
  
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• Document trove shows how 'Africa's richest woman' stole fortune: ICIJ

  19-01-2020 22:46 via news.yahoo.com
  
  An award-winning investigative team published a trove of files Sunday allegedly showing how the daughter of Angola's former president -- dubbed Africa's richest woman -- syphoned hundreds of millions of dollars of public money into offshore accounts.The New York-based International Consortium of Investigative Journalists (ICIJ) worked with newspapers such as Munich's Suddeutsche Zeitung to reveal the "Panama Papers" tax haven scandal in 2016.Its latest series called "Luanda Leaks" zeros in on Is
  
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• Dean Obeidallah: Trump knows his presidency is forever tainted

  19-01-2020 22:38 via cnn.com
  
  Speaker Nancy Pelosi wants you to know that impeachment, like a diamond, as the saying goes, is forever. Last Sunday, she stated as much to ABC's George Stephanopoulos, saying, "This President is impeached for life," and adding that "there is nothing the Senate can do to ever erase that."
  
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• Meet the man who tracks the Fox News-Trump feedback loop

  19-01-2020 22:37 via cnn.com
  
  Matt Gertz, senior fellow at the progressive advocacy group Media Matters, has found hundreds of examples of Trump tweeting in direct response to something Trump saw on Fox News. Gertz says he wants to show how much Fox is "impacting the President of the United States and, through him, our daily lives."
  
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• Trump backers and critics clash as impeachment trial nears

  19-01-2020 22:36 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Donald Trump's defenders and supporters skirmished over the airwaves on Sunday a day after the US president's legal team dismissed his impeachment trial as unconstitutional and dangerous.Coming two days before Trump's trial opens in the Senate, the clashing arguments offered an early taste of the historic drama to play out in coming weeks.Beginning Tuesday, the chamber will meet six hours a day for six days a week in only the third impeachment trial of a US president, with lofty constitutional i
  
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• National Archives altered anti-Trump pic

  19-01-2020 22:36 via cnn.com
  
  Brian Stelter credits the Washington Post with discovering that the National Archives blurred an anti-Trump protest photo to promote an exhibit. The museum subsequently apologized. Margaret Sullivan says "it was a great instinct" on the part of Post reporter Joe Heim.
  
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• Germans are slamming Elon Musk's plans to clear 740 acres of forest for a $45.6 million Tesla factory

  19-01-2020 22:36 via news.yahoo.com
  
  "I am not against Tesla," one activist said. "But it's about the site; in a forest area that is a protected wildlife zone. Is this necessary?"
  
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• Germans are slamming Elon Musk's plans to clear 740 acres of forest for a $45.36 million Tesla factory

  19-01-2020 22:36 via news.yahoo.com
  
  "I am not against Tesla," one activist said. "But it's about the site; in a forest area that is a protected wildlife zone. Is this necessary?"
  
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• Prince Harry barred from wearing military uniform after stepping back from Armed Forces

  19-01-2020 22:30 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Harry, Duke of Sussex, will be barred from wearing his military uniform after he agreed to step back from his Armed Forces appointments. Retired service personnel can wear their medals - but not their uniform - at official engagements once they have left the military. Prince Harry was commissioned in 2006 and left the Army in 2015, having undergone two operational tours of Afghanistan twice in that time. In the Army he was known as ‘Captain Wales’. But under the terms of the deal to
  
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• Dentist convicted after being filmed extracting a tooth while on a hoverboard

  19-01-2020 22:30 via cnn.com
  
  A dentist in Anchorage, Alaska, has been convicted on dozens of charges after he was filmed extracting a patient's tooth as he stood on a hoverboard, according to the Alaska Department of Law.
  
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• Boris Johnson should negotiate trade deals with individual US states, an ex-trade secretary will say today

  19-01-2020 22:30 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Britain should negotiate trade deals with individual US states as a backstop while Boris Johnson tries to seal a post-Brexit free trade agreement with America, a former trade secretary will say on Monday.  Liam Fox will point out that four US states - California, Texas, Florida and New York - would be members of the G20 if they were independent nations, and that many deals could be struck with states, rather than the US as a whole. While tariffs on goods can only be negotiated by Washington
  
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• China reports 17 new cases of mystery virusChina reports 17 new cases of mystery virus

  19-01-2020 22:25 via news.yahoo.com
  
  China reported 17 new cases of the mysterious SARS-like virus on Sunday, including three people in serious condition, heightening fears ahead of China's Lunar New Year holiday when hundreds of millions of people move around the country.The new coronavirus strain has caused alarm because of its connection to Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome, which killed nearly 650 people across mainland China and Hong Kong in 2002-2003.Of the 17 new cases in the central city of Wuhan -- believed to be the epice
  
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• Sharon Osbourne accuses Harry and Meghan of wanting money and the celebrity lifestyle

  19-01-2020 22:20 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Sharon Osbourne has chimed in on Prince Harry and Meghan Markle’s decision to depart the Royal Family. The wife of legendary rocker Ozzy Osbourne believes Markle just wants the celebrity lifestyle and predicts they will end up in Los Angeles.
  
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• 'I Dare You to Mock Me.' Capt. 'Sully' Sullenberger Defends Joe Biden Against Attacks on His Speech in New York Times Op-Ed

  19-01-2020 22:18 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Chesley “Sully” Sullenberger opened up about his past struggles with stuttering in defending Biden and his speech.
  
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• US student loan debt is about $1.6 trillion and people are struggling to pay it down

  19-01-2020 22:17 via cnn.com
  
  The student loan burden in the US is about $1.6 trillion and rising, mostly because people have barely made a dent in paying down their loans.
  
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• DNA confirms injured coyote captured in Lincoln Park as animal connected to 6-year-old boy bitten, series of sightings

  19-01-2020 22:17 via news.yahoo.com
  
  A coyote captured on Chicago's North Side underwent DNA testing to determine if it's the same coyote that attacked a child in Lincoln Park this week.
  
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• Police tried to arrest man. Video shows what happened next

  19-01-2020 22:10 via cnn.com
  
  A group of people kicked a Baltimore police sergeant as he tried to arrest a man who'd spat in his face, authorities say.
  
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• DNA tests confirm coyote captured in Chicago attacked boy

  19-01-2020 22:07 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Animal control officials in Chicago said Sunday that DNA tests confirm a coyote recently captured in the city is the same animal that attacked a 6-year-old boy.An evaluation determined that the animal was shot with a BB gun, “which could have caused the limp in its movements as well as the aggressive behavior,” according to the Chicago Animal Care and Control's statement.Officials said they worked with the U.S. Department of Agriculture to evaluate the animal.
  
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• Dentist convcted after being filmed extracting a tooth while on a hoverboard

  19-01-2020 22:07 via cnn.com
  
  A dentist in Anchorage, Alaska, has been convicted on dozens of charges after he was filmed extracting a patient's tooth as he stood on a hoverboard, according to the Alaska Department of Law.
  
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• Trump's Russia adviser 'escorted from White House' amid investigation

  19-01-2020 22:06 via news.yahoo.com
  
  President Trump's latest Russia expert has reportedly been escorted from the White House amid claims of a security-related investigation.
  
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• FBI responding to an active shooter in Honolulu

  19-01-2020 22:03 via cnn.com
  
  The FBI said Sunday authorities are responding to an "active shooter" in Waikiki, Hawaii.
  
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• Report Warned of Threat to U.S. Troops in Germany: Newsweek

  19-01-2020 22:00 via news.yahoo.com
  
  (Bloomberg) -- The U.S. received intelligence about a potentially imminent attack being planned against military personnel stationed in Germany, Newsweek reported, citing a memo it saw.The 66th Military Intelligence Brigade received third party information stating that a possible attack could occur against soldiers at either Tower Barracks in Grafenwohr or Tower Barracks, Dulmen; the exact location, date and time of possible attack was unknown Information was marked unclassified and from a senio
  
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• Did Congress Make a Mistake With Trump's U.S.-Mexico-Canada Agreement?

  19-01-2020 22:00 via news.yahoo.com
  
  CATO thinks so.
  
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• Joe Biden, Nancy Pelosi and other top Democrats declare open season on Facebook, Mark Zuckerberg

  19-01-2020 21:50 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Former Vice President Joe Biden and House Speaker Nancy Pelosi used to be Facebook's friends. Things have changed.
  
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• Graham, Dershowitz say effort to dismiss articles of impeachment 'dead' as they prepare for trial

  19-01-2020 21:48 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Alan Dershowitz, who joined Trump's defense team, plans to argue that even if Trump did everything he is accused of, his acts aren't impeachable.
  
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• SpaceX launches, destroys rocket in astronaut escape test

  19-01-2020 21:43 via news.yahoo.com
  
  SpaceX completed the last big test of its crew capsule before launching astronauts in the next few months, mimicking an emergency escape shortly after liftoff Sunday. “I'm super fired up,” Elon Musk, the company's founder and chief executive, told reporters. NASA astronauts have not launched from the U.S. since the space shuttle program ended in 2011.
  
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• Republican senator on Trump soliciting foreign interference: 'Things happen'

  19-01-2020 21:42 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Republican Senator Richard Shelby defended an argument from President Trump’s legal team that soliciting foreign interference in an election is not an impeachable offense, saying, “things happen.”
  
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• US service members injured in Iraq: How soon do concussion symptoms appear?

  19-01-2020 21:22 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Reports that several U.S service members were treated for concussion symptoms are raising questions about how soon the Pentagon knew of the injuries.
  
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• Trump had to persuade Dershowitz's wife to support decision to represent Trump

  19-01-2020 21:22 via cnn.com
  
  Alan Dershowitz, a member of Donald Trump's impeachment defense team, said Sunday the President had to call his wife, Carolyn Cohen, to persuade her to support the idea of Dershowitz making the case for "the Constitution" in the Senate impeachment trial.
  
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• Abandoned husky with 'weird' eyes adopted after photos went viral

  19-01-2020 21:18 via cnn.com
  
  A Siberian husky that was surrendered to a New Jersey shelter because of "weird" eyes has been adopted after photos posted on Facebook went viral.
  
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• Virginia on edge as pro-gun activists seethe over governor’s state of emergency

  19-01-2020 21:05 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Moments after Virginia Gov. Ralph Northam approached the podium at the state capitol building on Wednesday to announce that he was issuing a temporary state of emergency ahead of a gun rights rally on Monday in Richmond, the angry comments started pouring in.What started in November as a fight between rural Virginia gun owners and newly elected Democratic lawmakers seeking to propose gun control legislation has since been warped and amplified by extremist groups which, for different reasons, hav
  
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• Puerto Ricans discovered a warehouse full of unused food, water, and supplies from Hurricane Maria, resulting in the firing of the island's emergency manager

  19-01-2020 21:02 via news.yahoo.com
  
  The supplies, including food, water, cots, and diapers from 2017's Hurricane Maria, were discovered Saturday following earthquakes in Puerto Rico.
  
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• Migrant caravan gathers on Guatemala border to enter Mexico en masse

  19-01-2020 21:02 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Hundreds of Central Americans gathered on the Guatemala-Mexico border on Sunday, aiming to cross en masse early on Monday in what could prove a stiff test of the Mexican government's pledge to satisfy U.S. demands to curb migrant flows.President Donald Trump has threatened to hurt Mexico and Central American countries economically if they allow large numbers to reach the U.S. border.Small groups of migrants crossed the bridge from Tecun Uman, Guatemala, to Ciudad Hidalgo, Mexico, on Saturday aft
  
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• Schiff: NSA is withholding Ukraine documents from Congress

  19-01-2020 20:54 via cnn.com
  
  Lead impeachment manager Adam Schiff said Sunday that the National Security Agency is withholding from Congress documents pertaining to the "issue of Ukraine" ahead of the Senate's impeachment trial of President Donald Trump.
  
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• Dozens wounded as Iraqi protesters up pressure on government

  19-01-2020 20:50 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Iraqi security forces wounded dozens of protesters on Sunday as renewed anti-government demonstrations gripped the capital and Iraq's south, activists and officials said.The mass protests had lost steam when soaring U.S.-Iran tensions threatened an open conflict on Iraqi soil in past weeks.As the regional crisis receded, Iraqi activists gave the government a week's deadline to act on their demands for sweeping political reforms or said they would up the pressure with new demonstrations.
  
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• Archie's future: Rubbing shoulders with well-heeled expats at international school rather than Eton?

  19-01-2020 20:47 via news.yahoo.com
  
  When Archie Harrison Mountbatten Windsor was christened in a small, closed ceremony last year, his parents made it clear that they wanted to raise him as a “private citizen.” He did not assume the title of Earl of Dumbarton and he is not a Prince. The seventh in line to the throne is simply ‘Master’ Archie.  After the Duke and Duchess of Sussex’s decision to quit The Firm and relocate to Canada, questions have been raised about the young child’s future. A
  
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• SpaceX rocket explodes after liftoff as planned; Crew Dragon capsule escapes fireball

  19-01-2020 20:45 via news.yahoo.com
  
  A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket lifted off from Kennedy Space Center on Sunday, ultimately sacrificing itself to a test.
  
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• 2 more bodies found at Tijuana home where US couple buried

  19-01-2020 20:44 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Mexican authorities say they have discovered two more bodies at a house in Tijuana where a couple with dual U.S.-Mexico citizenship were found buried, allegedly by their son-in-law.The attorney general's office for the state of Baja California, just south of San Diego, California, said late Saturday the second set of bodies —one male and the other female— are in a state of advanced decomposition.The suspect was deported from the U.S. in 2012 and had been living at a property in Tijua
  
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• Schiff accuses NSA, CIA of withholding documents on Ukraine

  19-01-2020 20:29 via news.yahoo.com
  
  The chairman of the House Intelligence Committee is accusing U.S. intelligence agencies of withholding documents from Congress on Ukraine that could be significant to President Donald Trump’s impeachment trial.
  
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• Why the U.S.-China Cold War Will Be Different

  19-01-2020 20:27 via news.yahoo.com
  
  This second cold war, conducted on a teeming planet whose anxiety is intensified by the passions and rages of social media, is only in its beginning stages. The aim, like in the first Cold War, is negative victory: not defeating the Chinese, but waiting them out, just as we waited the Soviets out.
  
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• 'We're going to win the league': Liverpool fans start to dream after victory over Manchester United

  19-01-2020 20:25 via cnn.com
  
  "We're going to win the league," sang thousands of Liverpool fans inside Anfield.
  
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