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• After Nearly 20 Years, the Air Force Will Fly Brand New F-15s

  29-01-2020 23:53 via news.yahoo.com
  
  The F-15 Eagle is staging an unlikely comeback.
  
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• Justice Dept. won't oppose probation for ex-Trump aide Flynn

  29-01-2020 23:51 via news.yahoo.com
  
  The Justice Department said Wednesday that it would not oppose probation for former Trump administration national security adviser Michael Flynn — a more lenient stance than prosecutors took earlier this month, when they said he deserved prison time.The latest sentencing filing still seeks a sentence of up six months, but unlike before, prosecutors explicitly state that probation would be a “reasonable" punishment and that they would not oppose it.It was not clear why the Justice Dep
  
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• Kobe's last ever photo may be this fan selfie

  29-01-2020 23:44 via cnn.com
  
  When Brady Smigiel, 13, captured a blurry selfie with his idol, Kobe Bryant, on Saturday at the Mamba Sports Academy, he didn't know it probably would be one of the last photos of the NBA legend alive.
  
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• 'Getting a little squirrely': Americans stuck in Wuhan are bored, hungry for coronavirus info

  29-01-2020 23:44 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Amid the coronavirus outbreak, hundreds of Americans were unable to secure a seat on a flight out of Wuhan or chose to stay behind with family.
  
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• Pentagon identifies 2 Air Force airmen killed in Afghanistan

  29-01-2020 23:40 via news.yahoo.com
  
  The Pentagon on Wednesday released the names of two Air Force officers killed in the crash of their Bombardier E-11A electronic surveillance plane in Afghanistan.Voss was assigned to Air Combat Command headquarters at Joint Base Langley-Eustis in Virginia.Phaneuf was assigned to the 37th Bomb Squadron at Ellsworth Air Force Base in South Dakota.
  
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• Family of handcuffed man fatally shot expresses sorrow, relief after officer charged

  29-01-2020 23:39 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Michael Owen Jr., a veteran of the Prince George's County Police Department, was charged with murder Tuesday in the shooting death of William Green.
  
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• More Japanese evacuated from China virus epicenter as death toll climbs

  29-01-2020 23:36 via news.yahoo.com
  
  TOKYO/SHANGHAI (Reuters) - A plane of Japanese evacuees from the virus-hit Chinese city of Wuhan arrived in Tokyo on Thursday as the total number of confirmed deaths from the newly identified pathogen in the country rose by 38 to 170 and infections also jumped.Chinese health authorities said there were 7,711 confirmed cases of infection as of the end of Wednesday, mostly in Hubei province where the death toll rose by 37 to 162.Infections have been reported in at least 15 other countries and, wit
  
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• China virus toll rises to 170 as fear grows over global economic hit

  29-01-2020 23:36 via news.yahoo.com
  
  BEIJING/SEOUL (Reuters) - Countries began isolating hundreds of citizens evacuated from the Chinese city of Wuhan on Thursday to stop the spread of an epidemic that has killed 170 people as worry about the impact on the world's second-biggest economy rattled markets.Asian stocks and currencies fell as the death toll rose and more cases were reported with fears growing that the hit to China's economy will ripple around the world in coming months.India became the latest country to report a case -
  
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• Suspected associate of El Chapo's sons flees Mexico City prison

  29-01-2020 23:31 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Three prisoners wanted by the United States for their links to drug trafficking, including an alleged associate of the sons of Mexican drug lord Joaquin "El Chapo" Guzman, on Wednesday escaped from a Mexico City prison, authorities said.Mexico and the United States, its most important trade partner, have been looking for ways to address the escalating security situation as well as clamp down on illegal drug and arms trade.Mexican authorities said the prisoners escaped from a penitentiary in sout
  
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• South Dakota doctors who offer transgender kids hormone treatments and puberty blockers could face jail time if lawmakers pass a new bill

  29-01-2020 23:28 via news.yahoo.com
  
  A bill, being voted on Wednesday, would stop doctors from providing gender-affirming medical services like puberty-blockers and hormones to under-16s.
  
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• Colorado Republican Cory Gardner Is a ‘No’ for New Impeachment Witnesses

  29-01-2020 23:18 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Senator Cory Gardner (R., Colo.) said in a statement Wednesday that he does “not believe” additional witnesses in President Trump’s impeachment trial are necessary, casting doubt on a Tuesday claim that at least four Republicans were willing to call additional witnesses.“I do not believe we need to hear from an 18th witness," the Colorado Republican told Colorado Politics in a statement. "I have approached every aspect of this grave constitutional duty with the respect an
  
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• Watch a new kind of Northern Lights

  29-01-2020 23:08 via cnn.com
  
  A group of amateur Finnish amateur stargazers along with scientists from the University of Helsinki have discovered a new auroral phenomenon.
  
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• Stunning new kind of Northern lights discovered

  29-01-2020 23:08 via cnn.com
  
  A group of amateur Finnish amateur stargazers along with scientists from the University of Helsinki have discovered a new auroral phenomenon.
  
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• New kind of Northern Lights spotted

  29-01-2020 23:08 via cnn.com
  
  A group of amateur Finnish amateur stargazers along with scientists from the University of Helsinki have discovered a new auroral phenomenon.
  
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• A new kind of Northern Lights is spotted

  29-01-2020 23:08 via cnn.com
  
  A group of amateur Finnish amateur stargazers along with scientists from the University of Helsinki have discovered a new auroral phenomenon.
  
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• 'Who mentored you?' Retired US Army general slams Mike Pompeo and his West Point graduating class

  29-01-2020 23:07 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Secretary of State Mike Pompeo has come under intense fire in recent days.
  
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• Day care worker fired after writing message on child's stomach

  29-01-2020 23:06 via cnn.com
  
  A day care worker has been fired after a mother discovered a message asking for more diapers written in marker on her son's chest and stomach.
  
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• In Iowa, Andrew Yang Considers Who His Supporters Will Back When His Campaign Ends

  29-01-2020 22:59 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Five days out from the Iowa caucuses, the race feels like a birthday party without the guests of honor. Three of the top five contenders…
  
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• Man's chronic severe headaches caused by tapeworm

  29-01-2020 22:57 via cnn.com
  
  Gerardo Moctezuma suffered from headaches for years. A C-T scan revealed the cause: a tapeworm living in his brain.
  
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• Man was sweating from severe pain. See what CT scan revealed

  29-01-2020 22:57 via cnn.com
  
  Gerardo Moctezuma suffered from headaches for years. A C-T scan revealed the cause: a tapeworm living in his brain.
  
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• Democrats have to decide if John Bolton's testimony is worth calling Hunter Biden as a witness

  29-01-2020 22:50 via news.yahoo.com
  
  If Mitch McConnell loses the vote on witnesses, he'll likely demand to hear from Hunter Biden, which could pose problems for Democrats.
  
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• Trump impeachment lawyer criticised for 'very odd' quid pro quo theory

  29-01-2020 22:46 via news.yahoo.com
  
  One of Donald Trump's plucked-from-television impeachment lawyers argued every action taken by a sitting president is in the interests of the country – even if carried out mostly to win re-election."If the president does something that he thinks will help him get elected, in the public interest, that cannot be the kind of quid pro quo that results in impeachment," Alan Dershowitz, a celebrity Harvard University professor, told senators.
  
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• A Purple Heart recipient who feds say faked his own death after raping his step-daughter is now on the '15 most-wanted' list

  29-01-2020 22:46 via news.yahoo.com
  
  US Marshals say that Jacob Scott is a survivalist and a military veteran who knows how to live off the grid.
  
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• Minnesota priest apologizes for calling Muslims a 'threat'

  29-01-2020 22:43 via news.yahoo.com
  
  A Minnesota Roman Catholic priest apologized Wednesday for saying in a sermon that Islam was “the greatest threat in the world” to the United States and Christianity.The Rev. Nick VanDenBroeke apologized in a statement issued by the St. Paul-Minnesota Catholic archdiocese.The Minnesota chapter of the Council on American-Islamic Relations, a civil rights group, had called earlier Wednesday on Minnesota's Roman Catholic church leaders to repudiate the sermon.
  
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• Palestinian refugees insulted by Trump's 'shameful' Mideast deal

  29-01-2020 22:38 via news.yahoo.com
  
  “Insulting.” “Shameful.” “A disgrace.” Those were some of the words used by Palestinian refugees in Lebanon on Wednesday to describe a White House plan for ending the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.
  
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• Is it safe to travel right now?

  29-01-2020 22:36 via cnn.com
  
  Much is still unknown about the Wuhan coronavirus outbreak, and health officials are urging vigilance.
  
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• Everything travelers need to know about virus

  29-01-2020 22:36 via cnn.com
  
  Much is still unknown about the Wuhan coronavirus outbreak, and health officials are urging vigilance.
  
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• Putin pardons Israeli-American woman jailed for drug smuggling

  29-01-2020 22:35 via cnn.com
  
  Russian President Vladimir Putin has pardoned Naama Issachar, an American-Israeli woman jailed in Russia on drug charges, the Kremlin said in a statement Wednesday.
  
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• Dershowitz: Trump can't be impeached because he believed his reelection is in the national interest

  29-01-2020 22:27 via news.yahoo.com
  
  The retired Harvard law professor said that Trump’s demand for Ukraine to investigate former Vice President Joe Biden is not an impeachable offense because the president was acting on the belief that his reelection is “in the public interest.”
  
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• Here's what the White House letter about Bolton's book really means

  29-01-2020 22:25 via news.yahoo.com
  
  What appeared to be a White House bid to stop former national security adviser John Bolton from publishing his book, which may have explosive claims about his interactions with President Trump, is really just a standard letter regarding classification review, according to legal experts.
  
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• Schiff responds to Trump Lawyer Dershowitz's 'very odd argument'

  29-01-2020 22:24 via news.yahoo.com
  
  House Manager Adam Schiff responded to President Trump's lawyer Alan Dershowitz on Wednesday. Dershowitz said that "If a president does something which he believes will help him get elected in the public interest, that cannot be the kind of quid pro quo that results in impeachment."
  
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• Chile Holds Rates as Protests Portend Months of Uncertainty

  29-01-2020 22:21 via news.yahoo.com
  
  (Bloomberg) -- Terms of Trade is a daily newsletter that untangles a world embroiled in trade wars. Sign up here. Chile kept its benchmark interest rate unchanged as the worst social unrest in decades clouds the outlook for economic growth and saps demand for the peso.The bank board, led by Mario Marcel, voted unanimously to keep borrowing costs steady at 1.75% Wednesday, as forecast by all 24 analysts surveyed by Bloomberg.Since October, Chile has been in the grips of a social revolt
  
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• Tracking the virus: Real-time map shows where it has spread

  29-01-2020 22:17 via cnn.com
  
  The number of novel coronavirus cases is changing quickly. A real-time tracking map shows us just how quickly.
  
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• Real-time map shows where virus has spread

  29-01-2020 22:17 via cnn.com
  
  The number of novel coronavirus cases is changing quickly. A real-time tracking map shows us just how quickly.
  
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• Women, 5 children among 8 victims of Alabama dock fire

  29-01-2020 22:03 via news.yahoo.com
  
  A woman and her five children were among the eight people who died in a dock fire at a north Alabama marina, authorities and relatives said.Grace Annette Watson Miles, 40, was killed in the blaze early Monday, along with Dezli Nicole Miles, 7; Kesston Damien Miles, 9; Traydon Dominic Miles, 10; Bryli Long, 16; and Christopher Zane Long, 19, Jackson County Emergency Management Director Paul Smith told a news conference Wednesday.Witnesses and relatives said the woman's husband, Joe Miles, was res
  
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• Israel delays plans to annex parts of West Bank

  29-01-2020 22:03 via feeds.foxnews.com
  
  Israel on Wednesday delayed plans to annex large parts of the West Bank, following Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s vow to act on President Trump’s Middle East peace plan meant to end decades of conflict between Israelis and the Palestinians.
  
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• Ex-children's doctor charged with abusing adoptive daughter

  29-01-2020 21:58 via news.yahoo.com
  
  A former emergency room doctor at Children's Hospital Wisconsin, charged with physically abusing a newborn he was adopting with his wife, denies he did anything wrong and wants the case dismissed next month.The case is receiving tremendous scrutiny by the medical community around the county, with physicians disagreeing on what exactly caused the injuries to the adoptive daughter of 39-year-old John M. Cox and his wife, Sadie Dobrozsi, a pediatric oncologist at Children's. They have hired more th
  
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• Trump legal team made donations to impeachment jurors

  29-01-2020 21:53 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Members of Donald Trump’s impeachment defence team donated money to some of the senators who will ultimately decide the president’s fate.According to a report released by the Center for Responsive Politics on Monday, former independent counsels Ken Starr and Robert Ray both made substantial campaign contributions to Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell last year prior to joining Mr Trump’s team.
  
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• Rafael Nadal crashes out of Australian Open

  29-01-2020 21:49 via cnn.com
  
  World No. 1 Rafael Nadal's quest for a 20th grand slam title to equal Roger Federer is on hold after he lost to Austrian Dominic Thiem in the quarter finals of the Australian Open.
  
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• Senators keep asking impeachment hypotheticals about Mitt Romney right in front of Mitt Romney

  29-01-2020 21:42 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Sen. Mitt Romney (R-Utah) probably doesn't need a lot of reminders about the 2012 election, but he's getting them anyway.Romney on Wednesday was at the center of some hypothetical scenarios drawn up during the Senate's impeachment trial. First, the House's lead prosecutor Rep. Adam Schiff (D-Calif.) posed a scenario in which former President Barack Obama was caught asking former Russian prime minister Dmitry Medvedev for an investigation into Romney -- Obama's 2012 presidential challenger -- in
  
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• On the defensive, Mike Pompeo wades into feud with media

  29-01-2020 21:42 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Accused of failing to defend his own diplomats in the Ukraine scandal that led to the impeachment of his boss, Mike Pompeo -- who as secretary of state is meant to defend press freedoms around the world -- has now waded into a bitter feud with the media.A key ally of Donald Trump, Pompeo has often echoed the president's disdain for the media.Mary Louise Kelly, a distinguished former national security correspondent, said that once her microphone was off Pompeo launched into an expletive-laden tir
  
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• Authorities find longest Southwest border smuggling tunnel

  29-01-2020 21:42 via news.yahoo.com
  
  U.S. authorities on Wednesday announced the discovery of the longest smuggling tunnel ever found on the Southwest border, stretching more than three-quarters of a mile from an industrial site in Tijuana, Mexico, to the San Diego area.The tunnel featured an extensive rail cart system, forced air ventilation, high voltage electrical cables and panels, an elevator at the tunnel entrance and a drainage system.“This one blows past (the second-longest),” said Lance LeNoir, a Border Patrol
  
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• This may be the last photo of Kobe Bryant

  29-01-2020 21:41 via cnn.com
  
  When Brady Smigiel, 13, captured a blurry selfie with his idol, Kobe Bryant, on Saturday at the Mamba Sports Academy, he didn't know it probably would be one of the last photos of the NBA legend alive.
  
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• Easy slow cooker pimento cheese dip and 4 other hot dips for the big game

  29-01-2020 21:40 via nbcnews.com
  
  Ooey-gooey and oh-so-delicious. Hot dips are the perfect way to kick off Super Bowl Sunday.
  
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• These Republican Senators May Decide Whether Trump's Impeachment Trial Includes New Witnesses

  29-01-2020 21:30 via news.yahoo.com
  
  In order to call more witnesses — like John Bolton — four Republicans will need to break from McConnell and vote for Friday’s measure
  
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• France to send warships to support Greece in Turkish standoff

  29-01-2020 21:28 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Greek PM welcomes move as row with Ankara over energy reserves intensifiesGreece’s prime minister, Kyriakos Mitsotakis, has welcomed a decision by France to dispatch war frigates to the eastern Mediterranean as a standoff with Turkey over regional energy reserves intensifies.With tensions between Athens and Ankara causing growing international alarm, Mitsotakis described the vessels as “guarantors of peace”.“The only way to end differences in the eastern Mediterranean is
  
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• Scientists release highest resolution images of the sun ever taken

  29-01-2020 21:25 via news.yahoo.com
  
  The future is looking bright for solar physicists.On Wednesday, scientists released the highest resolution images and videos ever taken of the sun's surface. The images, produced by the National Science Foundation's Daniel K. Inouye Solar Telescope on the summit of Haleakala, Maui, in Hawaii, will help scientists learn more about activity on the sun — a.k.a. space weather — per a press release from the National Solar Observatory.Space weather can affect life on Earth by interfering w
  
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• Genetically engineered moths have been released into the wild to wipe out pests

  29-01-2020 21:25 via cnn.com
  
  Genetically modified diamondback moths designed to wipe out wild pest populations were released in fields for the first time in New York state.
  
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• EU backs terms of Brexit deal, UK set to leave Friday

  29-01-2020 21:25 via feeds.foxnews.com
  
  European lawmakers on Wednesday overwhelmingly backed the terms of Britain’s departure from the European Union, paving the way for a full departure by Friday.
  
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• Impeachment: Jay Sekulow bumbles the John Bolton witness question

  29-01-2020 21:20 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Impeachment is serious business. Our senators need to take a breath, slow down and carefully consider all of the evidence.
  
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