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• Doomsday couple Lori Vallow and Chad Daybell were found vacationing in Hawaii — but their kids are still nowhere to be found

  27-01-2020 23:59 via news.yahoo.com
  
  After months of searching, police found Idaho doomsday couple Lori Vallow and Chad Daybell vacationing in Hawaii — but their kids are still missing.
  
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• A Ukraine gas company tied to Joe Biden's son is at the center of Trump's impeachment

  27-01-2020 23:59 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Burisma Holdings is among Ukraine's largest independent natural gas companies, and it's now linked to President Donald Trump's impeachment.
  
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• Nicki Minaj's brother sentenced to 25 years to life

  27-01-2020 23:54 via news.yahoo.com
  
  The brother of rapper Nicki Minaj was sentenced Monday to 25 years to life in prison for sexually assaulting an 11-year-old girl at his Long Island home.A judge convicted Jelani Maraj of predatory sexual assault and child endangerment in November 2017.
  
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• Trump team braces for deeper impeachment drama after Bolton surprise

  27-01-2020 23:49 via politico.com
  
  The president’s lawyers are already contemplating which administration witnesses would be best to rebut potential testimony from Bolton — if enough Senate Republicans turn against them.
  
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• Trump's defense team wrapped up day 2 of opening arguments in the impeachment trial

  27-01-2020 23:48 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Former national security adviser John Bolton shattered President Trump's biggest defense against impeachment in an upcoming book.
  
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• Pilot Killed in Kobe Bryant Crash Remembered as ‘Dear Friend’ With Clean Safety Record

  27-01-2020 23:41 via news.yahoo.com
  
  In the hours since a helicopter carrying Kobe Bryant and his 13-year-old daughter crashed in Calabasas, California, on Sunday, gut-wrenching accounts have trickled out about the seven other passengers on board. Among them was 50-year-old Huntington Beach resident Ara Zobayan, the pilot of the aircraft who had a clean safety record and was attempting to travel through adverse conditions.Before Sunday’s crash, the pilot and flight instructor had no prior accidents or flight incidents, accord
  
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• British man dies in US immigration detention in Florida

  27-01-2020 23:41 via news.yahoo.com
  
  * Death of man, 39, initially attributed to hanging* UK Foreign Office said to be in touch with man’s wifeA British man has died while being held in US immigration detention in Florida, the Guardian has confirmed.The death was first reported by BuzzFeed News, which said the man was 39 years old and that the cause was initially attributed to asphyxiation due to hanging. The incident was reported to have occurred on Saturday last week.“Our staff are in contact with the US authorities f
  
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• Trump's lawyers attack the Bidens during impeachment trial

  27-01-2020 23:29 via news.yahoo.com
  
  After much speculation, President Trump's defense team finally reeled the Biden family into the Senate impeachment trial Monday.For the most part, the case against impeachment was focused on poking holes in the Democrats' opposing argument, but former Florida Attorney General Pam Bondi, who's defending the president, made former Vice President Joe Biden, his son Hunter, and Burisma -- the Ukrainian gas company upon whose board Hunter Biden sat -- the centerpieces of her presentation, as did anot
  
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• Trump defense counsel Ken Starr says impeachment is 'hell'

  27-01-2020 23:29 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Impeachment, he said, “is hell.” A measure of "last resort.” A bad habit to be kicked. With that, Ken Starr, the man whose years-long probe led to the impeachment of the 42nd president, stood before senators on Monday and delivered a nearly hour-long argument against the ouster of the 45th. Starr spoke to the senators in a modulated tone, flicking at the Pentagon Papers, Richard Nixon’s crimes, the Iran-Contra scandal and, yes, the Clinton impeachment in a presentation th
  
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• Analyst on Trump team's presentation: Are you kidding?

  27-01-2020 23:16 via cnn.com
  
  Following Trump defense team member Ken Starr's argument before the Senate, CNN's Jeffrey Toobin called Starr's argument against impeachment "mind boggling," considering his role as independent counsel in the impeachment proceedings against former President Clinton.
  
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• Analyst on Trump defense: Are you kidding?

  27-01-2020 23:16 via cnn.com
  
  Following Trump defense team member Ken Starr's argument before the Senate, CNN's Jeffrey Toobin called Starr's argument against impeachment "mind boggling," considering his role as independent counsel in the impeachment proceedings against former President Clinton.
  
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• Trump's spiritual adviser defends her controversial prayer

  27-01-2020 23:14 via cnn.com
  
  Trump spiritual adviser and White House staff member Paula White is defending her recent prayer at her church in Florida that "satanic pregnancies" be miscarried.
  
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• Trump's spiritual adviser defends controversial prayer

  27-01-2020 23:14 via cnn.com
  
  Trump spiritual adviser and White House staff member Paula White is defending her recent prayer at her church in Florida that "satanic pregnancies" be miscarried.
  
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• FACTBOX-'This is stunning': Quotes from Capitol Hill on Day 6 of Trump impeachment trial

  27-01-2020 23:08 via news.yahoo.com
  
  U.S. President Donald Trump's Senate impeachment trial was overshadowed on Monday by an unpublished manuscript from former national security adviser John Bolton that said Trump wanted to freeze U.S. aid to Ukraine to pressure the country for politically beneficial investigations.
  
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• The Pacific Ocean is so acidic that it's dissolving Dungeness crabs' shells

  27-01-2020 23:07 via cnn.com
  
  The Pacific Ocean is becoming more acidic, and the cash-crabs that live in its coastal waters are some of its first inhabitants to feel its effects.
  
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• Pacific Ocean is so acidic that it's dissolving Dungeness crabs' shells

  27-01-2020 23:07 via cnn.com
  
  The Pacific Ocean is becoming more acidic, and the cash-crabs that live in its coastal waters are some of its first inhabitants to feel its effects.
  
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• Historians Unmask Fourth Soviet Spy Who Worked on the Atomic Bomb

  27-01-2020 23:07 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Just what nuclear secrets did "Godsend" deliver to Russia in the 1940s?
  
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• CNN’s Jake Tapper Calls Out Trump Lawyers, Fox News for Pretending Bolton Bombshell Doesn’t Exist

  27-01-2020 23:05 via news.yahoo.com
  
  During a break in the Trump impeachment trial Monday afternoon, CNN anchor Jake Tapper tore into both the president’s defense team and a certain other cable news network for ignoring the revelations contained in leaks from former National Security Adviser John Bolton’s forthcoming book The Room Where It Happened. “The president’s defenders—the White House legal team and others—are acting as though senators don’t read the newspaper, senators don&rsqu
  
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• Collins expected to try ousting new GA senator in GOP battle

  27-01-2020 23:03 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Georgia Rep. Doug Collins, an ardent ally of President Donald Trump and vocal opponent of his impeachment, is expected to announce he will challenge fellow Republican and newly appointed Sen. Kelly Loeffler for her seat this year, a Republican official said Monday.The decision by the four-term lawmaker could complicate the GOP's chances of holding onto the seat as Republicans battle to retain their Senate majority in this November's elections.Loeffler, 49, was appointed this month to the seat by
  
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• After Book Leak, Republicans Face a Choice on Whom to Believe: President Trump or John Bolton?

  27-01-2020 23:01 via news.yahoo.com
  
  John Bolton's allegations in his forthcoming book about President Trump withholding Ukraine aid put Senate Republicans in a tight spot.
  
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• Trump Predicts Mideast Plan Will Fly But It’s Fine If Not

  27-01-2020 22:58 via news.yahoo.com
  
  (Bloomberg) -- President Donald Trump said there’s a chance the Middle East peace plan he plans to release on Tuesday -- after three years in development -- wins the support of Palestinians and Arab nations but that he can live with its rejection.“We’re going to show a plan that’s been worked on by everybody,” Trump said Monday at the White House, alongside Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. “And we’ll see whether or not it catches hold. If it do
  
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• Top EU official says Brexit is a 'wound' for the bloc

  27-01-2020 22:49 via cnn.com
  
  A top European official has warned that reaching a "good agreement" on the future relationship between the United Kingdom and the European Union will take time.
  
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• The oldest cruise ship on the seas is retiring. Here's a look at its bizarre history

  27-01-2020 22:48 via news.yahoo.com
  
  From its fatal collision with the Andrea Doria to entertaining East German Communist Party leaders, the MV Astoria cruise ship has a wild backstory.
  
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• How Amy Klobuchar's supporters could play a pivotal role in the Iowa caucus

  27-01-2020 22:47 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Sen. Amy Klobuchar might prove to be the most important Democratic presidential candidate when all is said and done in Iowa next week — even if she doesn't win the state's caucus.That's because many Iowa voters appear to be split among moderate candidates like Klobuchar, South Bend, Indiana, Mayor Pete Buttigieg, and former Vice President Joe Biden, which The New York Times reports is at least playing a role in the rise of Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.). If those moderate voters want to preve
  
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• Trump's defense called Giuliani a 'minor player' in impeachment. He came up in the Trump-Zelensky call 6 times.

  27-01-2020 22:46 via news.yahoo.com
  
  This might be the most easily debunked claim of the whole impeachment trial.President Trump's team of defenders got their turn on the Senate floor on Monday, with one of them, Trump lawyer Jane Raskin, employing a new strategy to distance Trump from his lawyer and Ukraine link Rudy Giuliani altogether. "In this trial, in this moment, Mr. Giuliani is just a minor player, that shiny object designed to distract you," Raskin said. "Senators, I urge you most respectfully, do not be distracted."While
  
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• So many drones and aircraft swarmed the site of Kobe Bryant's helicopter crash that the FAA was forced to close the airspace

  27-01-2020 22:44 via news.yahoo.com
  
  The restriction is in effect until the end of the month to prevent aircraft from entering the airspace, a rare occurrence for crashes.
  
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• US officials are testing for the new coronavirus in 26 states after 5 cases were confirmed. Here's what we know about the US patients.

  27-01-2020 22:34 via news.yahoo.com
  
  The US's confirmed cases of the coronavirus consist of two patients in California, one in Arizona, one in Washington, and one in Illinois.
  
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• Dozens of boats burn at dock, killing at least 8 people

  27-01-2020 22:31 via cnn.com
  
  At least eight people died after an overnight fire destroyed about 35 boats docked in an Alabama lake, authorities said Monday.
  
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• There Is No Going Back If Iran Sinks A U.S. Navy Aircraft Carrier

  27-01-2020 22:30 via news.yahoo.com
  
  It would mean war.
  
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• 'Appease the left': GOP senator slams Romney's call for witnesses

  27-01-2020 22:26 via cnn.com
  
  Republican Georgia Sen. Kelly Loeffler targeted her colleague GOP Sen. Mitt Romney of Utah on Monday over the issue of witnesses at the Senate impeachment trial.
  
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• 'Get your facts straight': Fox News hosts clash over Trump impeachment claims

  27-01-2020 22:26 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Fox host Chris Wallace slammed a network contributor and told her to "get your facts straight" as they sparred over Donald Trump's impeachment trial on Monday afternoon.While senators determine whether to hear testimony from former national security chief John Bolton, panellist Katie Pavlich claimed that Congress "did not come with a complete case" to present to the Senate, and that "every impeachment beforehand, the witnesses that were called had been called in the House before being brought to
  
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• Navistar loses lawsuit against US Army and Oshkosh over vehicle buys

  27-01-2020 22:25 via news.yahoo.com
  
  The U.S. Court of Federal Claims has dismissed Navistar's complaint against the U.S. Army and Oshkosh Defense over the service's decision to avoid competition for a vehicle procurement effort.
  
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• Blake Shelton and Gwen Stefani drop duet music video

  27-01-2020 22:25 via cnn.com
  
  Blake Shelton and Gwen Stefani released a music video for their duet "Nobody But You" ahead of the 2020 Grammy Awards.
  
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• Fox News' Chris Wallace calls out Trump supporters for 'spinning' Bolton news 'like crazy'

  27-01-2020 22:19 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Fox News' Chris Wallace is once again calling out pro-Trump spin on the network, even slamming one contributor on air in a tense exchange.Wallace spoke Monday about the explosive New York Times report that former National Security Adviser John Bolton in his upcoming book writes that President Trump told him he wanted to continue withholding aid to Ukraine until officials helped with investigations into former Vice President Joe Biden and his son.To get a sense of how "big" this news is, one only
  
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• Everything GOP senators have said about Bolton testifying

  27-01-2020 22:09 via cnn.com
  
  In the midst of the ongoing Senate impeachment trial of President Donald Trump, a report from The New York Times has renewed calls from Democrats for John Bolton to testify.
  
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• 3 ways Bolton's revelations undercut Trump's defense

  27-01-2020 22:08 via cnn.com
  
  New revelations about the Ukraine scandal from former national security adviser John Bolton dealt a significant blow to President Donald Trump's defense strategy, contradicting key elements of the case his attorneys presented to senators in his impeachment trial.
  
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• Murder charges in Vale dam collapse case complicate Brazilian probes

  27-01-2020 22:04 via news.yahoo.com
  
  The filing of murder charges against the former CEO of Brazilian miner Vale SA and 15 others for a 2019 dam collapse that killed more than 250 people was hailed by victims' families as a major step in bringing those responsible to justice.Federal investigators are yet to identify the cause of the Jan. 25, 2019 collapse of a tailings dam at the Corrego do Feijao iron ore mine dam east of Brumadinho, which released a sea of mud that slammed into Vale's offices and cut through a nearby community, k
  
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• Tech billionaire Vinod Khosla has sued California and a county sheriff in what is the latest battle in the investor's fight to keep a beach near his $37 million estate to himself

  27-01-2020 21:49 via news.yahoo.com
  
  The lawsuit comes just three weeks after the state of California sued Vinod Khosla, alleging that he blocked public access to Martin's Beach.
  
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• Ex-Illinois lawmaker charged with red-light camera bribery

  27-01-2020 21:47 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Federal prosecutors filed bribery and tax charges on Monday against a former Illinois state senator who led the powerful transportation committee, alleging he accepted payments in exchangefor supporting costly red-light camera programs across the state.The U.S. attorney's office in Chicago listed the charges against Sen. Martin Sandoval in atwo-page filing in U.S. District Court.The 56-year-old Chicago Democrat “corruptly solicited, demanded, agreed to accept and accepted” payments f
  
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• ‘Not a Single Witness’: Trump Lawyer Continues to Deny Quid Pro Quo Despite Bolton Book Leak

  27-01-2020 21:43 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Just one day after a leaked excerpt of John Bolton's upcoming book revealed that he directly witnessed President Trump condition Ukrainian military aid on a politically beneficial investigation, Trump's personal lawyer Jay Sekulow claimed during Monday’s impeachment trial that "not a single witness” made such a claim.“Not a single witness testified that the president himself said that there was any connection between any investigation and security assistance, a presidential mee
  
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• John Bolton: the flame-throwing aide now threatening Trump

  27-01-2020 21:36 via news.yahoo.com
  
  John Bolton has long been known as the bomb-thrower of US diplomacy, but the former White House national security advisor now threatens to blow a hole in President Donald Trump's impeachment defense.Fired last September, Bolton's coming tell-all book about his 17 months in the Trump administration could contain the strongest evidence yet for charges that the president illicitly held up military aid to Ukraine to help his own reelection campaign.A draft of "The Room Where it Happened," scheduled
  
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• Trump spiritual adviser: Prayer referencing 'satanic pregnancies' taken out of context

  27-01-2020 21:35 via cnn.com
  
  President Donald Trump's spiritual adviser Paula White defended herself on Sunday against criticism over a prayer she made earlier this month in which she asked for "all satanic pregnancies to miscarry right now," saying her words were taken "out of context for political gain."
  
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• Arizona Republicans discriminated against minority voters, court rules

  27-01-2020 21:35 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Ruling says Republican effort to restrict third-party ballot collection appeared to be part of effort to suppress black, Hispanic and Native American votesA federal court has ruled Arizona Republicans’ ban on mail-in ballots is illegal and unconstitutional, calling it intentionally discriminatory toward people of color, who already face increased barriers to voting.The ruling is a major victory for the Democratic party, which filed the suit, and will likely make it easier for minorities to
  
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• US military plane crashes in Afghanistan

  27-01-2020 21:32 via cnn.com
  
  The US military is investigating reports of a plane crash in Afghanistan's Ghazni province, a US official told CNN on Monday.
  
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• US Air Force's 'WiFi in the sky' crashes in Afghanistan

  27-01-2020 21:32 via cnn.com
  
  The US military is investigating reports of a plane crash in Afghanistan's Ghazni province, a US official told CNN on Monday.
  
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• Sen. Josh Hawley disputes Bolton is a 'firsthand witness.' Bolton reportedly said he spoke directly with Trump on Ukraine.

  27-01-2020 21:28 via news.yahoo.com
  
  The Senate would probably want to hear from a firsthand witness in President Trump's impeachment trial. But Sen. Josh Hawley (R-Mo.) isn't sure where you'd find one.Despite a Sunday report indicating former National Security Adviser John Bolton will say in his book he spoke directly to President Trump about Ukraine, a number of GOP senators still don't want to hear from him in Trump's impeachment trial. Hawley is among those lawmakers, giving new reasoning to his anti-Bolton argument Monday by q
  
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• Helicopter carrying Kobe Bryant reportedly received special permission to fly in thick fog

  27-01-2020 21:28 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Details are still emerging about the circumstances surrounding the helicopter that killed Los Angeles Lakers legend Kobe Bryant, his 13-year-old daughter Gianna, and seven others including the pilot, but the flight was reportedly granted special approval to fly in challenging weather conditions.Fog was thick Sunday morning in the Los Angeles area when the helicopter took off and made its way toward Gianna Bryant's youth basketball tournament, but air traffic control at Burbank airport gave the p
  
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• In wake of Bolton book news, White House allies say Trump lawyers bungled defense

  27-01-2020 21:24 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Reports that John Bolton had written a firsthand account of President Trump’s direct involvement in withholding aid to Ukraine has left some Republicans confused and angry over the legal strategy by the president’s defense team.
  
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• US military jet crashes in Taliban territory in Afghanistan

  27-01-2020 21:20 via news.yahoo.com
  
  A US military jet crashed in mountainous territory in eastern Afghanistan, where there is a heavy Taliban presence, the Pentagon confirmed Monday, rejecting the insurgents' suggestions that it was shot down.Afghanistan US Forces spokesman Colonel Sonny Leggett confirmed in a statement that the aircraft was a US Bombardier E-11A, a type of jet used as a military airborne communications node in the region."While the cause of crash is under investigation, there are no indications the crash was caus
  
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• Democrats Set High Money Goals Before Caucuses: Campaign Update

  27-01-2020 21:20 via news.yahoo.com
  
  (Bloomberg) -- Elizabeth Warren’s campaign set the most aggressive fundraising goal for the last 5 days of the month, as candidates work furiously to raise enough money to keep their campaigns in high gear.In an email to supporters Monday, Warren set a financial goal of raising $3.5 million between now and Friday, which would average out to $700,000 per day, her biggest fund-raising goal to date. “That’s what it’s going to take to start 2020 in the strongest position poss
  
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