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• Senate votes to block new witnesses 51-49

  31-01-2020 23:59 via news.yahoo.com
  
  During the tenth day of the Senate impeachment trial, the Senate voted 51 to 49 to block new witnesses from testifying in the impeachment trial of President Trump.
  
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• China virus toll passes 250 as travel curbs tightened

  31-01-2020 23:59 via news.yahoo.com
  
  The death toll from China's coronavirus outbreak has surpassed 250, the government said Saturday, as foreign nations tightened restrictions on travellers from China in response to the rapid spread of the illness.At least 258 people have died and more than 11,000 people have been infected in China by the new coronavirus, according to new figures from officials in hard-hit Hubei province.The top Communist Party official in Wuhan, the central city of 11 million people where the virus first emerged
  
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• Senate slams door on witnesses in Trump impeachment trial

  31-01-2020 23:52 via news.yahoo.com
  
  The U.S. Senate on Friday rejected by a slim margin calling witnesses to the impeachment trial of President Trump, setting up a final vote to end the proceedings.
  
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• US declares coronavirus outbreak a public health emergency – video

  31-01-2020 23:49 via theguardian.com
  
  US officials have declared a public health emergency over the coronavirus outbreak. Foreign nationals who have travelled to China will be barred from entering the country from Sunday. Alex Azar, the health and human services secretary, said US citizens who had travelled to China’s Hubei province in the last fortnight would be subject to a mandatory 14-day quarantine on their returnWhat is coronavirus and how worried should we be? Continue reading...
  
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• US travel ban: Trump restricts immigration from Nigeria and five other countries

  31-01-2020 23:46 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Nigeria, Africa's most populous nation, is among the countries subject to the new immigration ban.
  
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• Senate Republicans Decide Impeachment Trial Doesn’t Need Any Witnesses

  31-01-2020 23:43 via news.yahoo.com
  
  After a ten-day trial packed with appeals from Democrats, counter-arguments from the White House and a few fresh revelations about President Trump’s conduct, the Senate voted against considering any new evidence in the impeachment trial, clearing the only real obstacle to a speedy acquittal of the president.On Friday, 49 senators—all 47 Democrats and two Republicans—voted in favor of a motion that would have allowed the chamber to subpoena additional documents and witnesses per
  
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• Eating disorder used to sell diets on Instagram

  31-01-2020 23:38 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Kara Henry explains how Instagram accounts are using images of her eating disorder to promote weight loss.
  
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• DNC members discuss rules change to stop Sanders at convention

  31-01-2020 23:31 via politico.com
  
  The talks reveal rising anxiety over the Vermont senator's momentum on the eve of voting.
  
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• The US just confirmed its 7th coronavirus case: a man in the San Francisco Bay Area. Here's what we know about all the US patients.

  31-01-2020 23:27 via news.yahoo.com
  
  The US has confirmed seven cases of the coronavirus: two in Illinois, three in California, one in Arizona, and one in Washington.
  
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• George Soros: Facebook, Zuckerberg in cahoots with Trump to win 2020 election

  31-01-2020 23:26 via news.yahoo.com
  
  George Soros is accusing Facebook and its CEO Mark Zuckerberg of conspiring with Trump to help the president win re-election. Facebook denies it.
  
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• Coronavirus: Brit arrives at Wirral hospital for quarantine after leaving Wuhan – video

  31-01-2020 23:15 via theguardian.com
  
  A British family who had been trapped at the centre of the coronavirus outbreak landed in the UK on Friday. Matt Raw and his wife Ying were transferred to a hospital in Wirral, where they will be quarantined for 14 daysCoronavirus live updates: returning Britons arrive at Wirral for quarantine Continue reading...
  
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• As impeachment trial draws to an end, the circus outside packs its bags

  31-01-2020 23:15 via news.yahoo.com
  
  This is how impeachment ends, on a sunless Friday in January, with underwear foisted to U.S. senators as they passed by in their tinted-window SUVs.
  
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• U.S. Rejects Obamacare Work-Around Sought by Republican States

  31-01-2020 23:12 via news.yahoo.com
  
  (Bloomberg) -- A health insurance venture that threatened to erode Obamacare and had the backing of seven Republican state attorneys general has been rejected by the U.S. Labor Department.The proposal, from an obscure company in Georgia that was the subject of a Bloomberg News article last month, won the support of states including Georgia and Louisiana, whose attorney general personally pitched it last year to senior White House officials. Among those pushing for the plan was a Washington lobby
  
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• Return to the UK and a quarantine flat

  31-01-2020 23:11 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Briton Matt Raw, who was flown out of Wuhan, shows the BBC his living quarters at Arrowe Park Hospital.
  
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• GOP senators seek to acquit Trump without condoning conduct

  31-01-2020 23:10 via news.yahoo.com
  
  There is no question, Sen. Lamar Alexander said, that President Donald Trump actions were “inappropriate” when he asked Ukraine's leader to investigate Democratic rival Joe Biden.It's also in line with arguments from Trump's legal team, which after initially asserting that the president did “absolutely nothing wrong" moved toward insisting that Trump had done nothing impeachable — and attacked thetrial as a partisan exercise.The evolving arguments have allowed Republicans
  
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• This forced Elton John off stage during Australia show

  31-01-2020 23:09 via cnn.com
  
  Elton John canceled one of his concerts in Australia due to a massive storm and was forced off stage during his performance.
  
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• See why Elton John was forced off stage

  31-01-2020 23:09 via cnn.com
  
  Elton John canceled one of his concerts in Australia due to a massive storm and was forced off stage during his performance.
  
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• Stacey Abrams says she could be elected president in the next 20 years: ‘That’s my plan’

  31-01-2020 23:08 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Stacey Abrams plans on being elected U.S. president within the next two decades, the former Democratic gubernatorial candidate for Georgia said in a recent interview.
  
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• Boris Johnson to make Brexit day address

  31-01-2020 23:01 via cnn.com
  
  • WATCH: Four years of Brexit in four minutes
  • Britain needs a big trade deal with Europe and wants one with US. It may end 2020 with neither
  
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• Boris Johnson calls for unity in 'new act of our great national drama'

  31-01-2020 23:01 via cnn.com
  
  • WATCH: Four years of Brexit in four minutes
  • Britain needs a big trade deal with Europe and wants one with US. It may end 2020 with neither
  
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• Trump expands controversial travel ban restrictions to six new countries

  31-01-2020 23:00 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Officials will suspend overseas visas for nationals of Eritrea, Kyrgyzstan, Myanmar and Nigeria. Sudanese and Tanzanian nationals face restrictions.
  
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• Boris Johnson Heralds Brexit as Opportunity for ‘Renewal and Change’

  31-01-2020 23:00 via news.yahoo.com
  
  (Bloomberg) -- Prime Minister Boris Johnson said Brexit offers the U.K. an opportunity for “renewal and change” as he called on the divided nation to pull together in an address ahead of its split with the European Union.“If we can get this right, I believe that with every month that goes by, we will grow in confidence not just at home but abroad,” Johnson said in a speech filmed by his office and released to media organizations. “I know that we can turn this opport
  
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• Coronavirus outbreak highlights cracks in Beijing’s control

  31-01-2020 22:56 via news.yahoo.com
  
  China’s coronavirus outbreak has raised simple but powerful questions about its style of government, in a system with little room for dissent.
  
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• U.S. killed a top al-Qaida leader in Yemen, reports say

  31-01-2020 22:55 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Reports indicate a top al-Qaida leader was killed by a U.S. strike in Yemen.
  
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• Trump loosens restrictions on landmines

  31-01-2020 22:55 via cnn.com
  
  President Donald Trump rescinded restrictions on the US military's ability to use landmines, weapons that have been banned by more than 160 countries due to their history of killing and wounding civilians, the White House said Friday.
  
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• U.S. Declares Public Health Emergency Over Coronavirus and Will Deny Entry to Foreign Nationals Who Have Been in China

  31-01-2020 22:50 via news.yahoo.com
  
  In an effort to contain spread of coronavirus, the U.S. will temporarily deny entry to foreign nationals who have been in China.
  
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• Harvey Weinstein trial: Accuser says 'No' was a trigger for him

  31-01-2020 22:48 via bbc.co.uk
  
  The Hollywood producer faces the threat of life in jail in a criminal trial taking place in New York.
  
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• Schiff calls out Trump lawyer Cipollone after Bolton places him 'in the loop' on Ukraine

  31-01-2020 22:47 via news.yahoo.com
  
  House impeachment manager Adam Schiff called out President Trump's defense team lawyer Pat Cipollone Friday, saying he was “in the loop” in the effort to persuade Ukrainian officials to dig up dirt on former Vice President Joe Biden.
  
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• Parnas lists explosive evidence about Trump he'd share as an impeachment witness

  31-01-2020 22:41 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Lev Parnas has a lot to share with the Senate -- if only it'll let him.Parnas, the indicted former Rudy Giuliani associate who has claimed he furthered President Trump's agenda in Ukraine, has since turned on Trump and pitched himself as a witness in his impeachment trial. It's become pretty clear senators won't vote to give Parnas that chance, but in a last-ditch effort to change their minds, Parnas explained Friday just what he'd reveal if he were called as a witness for the Senate.Parnas has
  
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• Two new Airbus planes have experienced engine shutdowns mid-flight after drinks were spilled in the cockpit

  31-01-2020 22:36 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Recent flights by Airbus A350-900s have experienced mid-flight engine shutdowns after drinks were spilled in cockpits, leading them to divert to nearby airports.
  
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• Firefights, blocked roads in Mexican city after senior cartel leader detained

  31-01-2020 22:33 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Armed men blocked roads, burned cars and there were reports of shootouts in the city of Uruapan in western Mexico after a senior leader of the Los Viagras cartel was detained, local media and a source from the prosecutor's office said.Luis Felipe, also known as "El Vocho", was captured earlier in the day in the western state of Michoacan, which has long been convulsed by turf wars between drug gangs and where unrest is not uncommon after the detention of senior cartel figures.Michoacan's state s
  
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• U.S. Temporarily Bars Foreigners Who Have Recently Visited China from Entering U.S. to Prevent Coronavirus Outbreak

  31-01-2020 22:32 via news.yahoo.com
  
  The White House coronavirus task force announced Friday that it was enacting a public health emergency in the wake of the virus’s outbreak, which so far has resulted in seven confirmed cases in the U.S.Health and Human Services Secretary Alex Azar explained in a press conference that, starting Sunday at 5 p.m., the administration is "temporarily suspending the entry into the United States of foreign nationals who pose a risk of transmitting the 2019 novel coronavirus."As of Friday afternoo
  
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• The US will bar foreigners who have been to China within the past 14 days and quarantine some returning Americans

  31-01-2020 22:32 via news.yahoo.com
  
  US citizens who have been to the Hubei, China, in the past two weeks could be quarantined.
  
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• Federal quarantine order issued for 195 Americans who returned from China

  31-01-2020 22:29 via news.yahoo.com
  
  WHO declares global health emergency as virus spreads to 20 countries.
  
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• Bolton: Trump asked me to ensure Zelenskiy, Giuliani met

  31-01-2020 22:28 via news.yahoo.com
  
  In May 2019, President Donald Trump asked then-national security adviser John Bolton to help make sure Ukraine's newly elected leader met with Rudy Giuliani about investigations he sought into Democrats, according to an unpublished manuscript of Bolton's book.Bolton writes that Trump issued the directive in an Oval Office meting where Giuliani, acting chief of staff Mick Mulvaney and White House counsel Pat Cipollone, who is leading Trump's defense in the Senate impeachment trial, were also pres
  
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• U.S. Declares Public Health Emergency Over Coronavirus Fears

  31-01-2020 22:27 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Federal officials declared a public health emergency and will be restricting entry into the United States in light of the 2019 novel coronavirus that has killed at least 200 people and infected nearly 10,000 more worldwide. Health and Human Services Secretary Alex Azar told reporters Friday that President Trump would sign a proclamation temporarily suspending entry to foreign nationals deemed to pose a transmission risk.Azar also said any U.S. citizen who traveled to China's Hubei province withi
  
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• Democratic Debate Rule Change Could Open Stage to Bloomberg

  31-01-2020 22:26 via news.yahoo.com
  
  (Bloomberg) -- The Democratic Party has changed requirements for candidates to earn a spot on the presidential debate stage, a move that could mean Michael Bloomberg will face his rivals for the nomination for the first time. The changes could also knock some other candidates off.The change will eliminate the current fund-raising requirement, which has kept the former New York mayor out of the debates to date, but also raises the polling threshold to 10% in four approved polls. Bloomberg has yet
  
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• China is using drones to scold people for going outside and not wearing masks amid the coronavirus outbreak

  31-01-2020 22:22 via news.yahoo.com
  
  A video posted by a Chinese state-run paper shows drones hovering above rural and urban areas with a voice commanding them to don masks or go indoors.
  
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• Three countries delay Ethiopia dam deadline but Trump sees deal

  31-01-2020 22:19 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Ethiopia, Egypt and Sudan on Friday pushed back their deadline to resolve a bitter row on a dam on the Nile until the end of February, but President Donald Trump voiced confidence that a deal was near.It was the latest delay in the US-brokered talks on the giant Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam, which is slated to begin operations later this year and has sparked fears of conflict over scarce water resources.Ethiopia says the dam -- which will be the largest in Africa -- is crucial for its growing
  
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• Guardian of Monarch butterfly grounds eulogized in Mexico

  31-01-2020 22:19 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Hundreds of farmers and agricultural workers thronged the funeral of activist Homero Gómez González on Friday, and the homage to him was like a tribute to the monarch butterfly he so staunchly defended.The butterflies' annual migration, threatened by logging, avocado farming and climate and environmental change, has also represented a ray of hope and income for the impoverished, pine-clad mountains of Michoacan state.Nobody worked harder than Gómez González — wh
  
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• Why the black mayor of this Iowa city endorsed Buttigieg

  31-01-2020 22:17 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Waterloo offers a ray of hope for a candidate who has struggled to gain traction among African Americans. But it’s complicated.
  
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• Trump Is Right: Presidents Can Fire Ambassadors—It's the Law

  31-01-2020 22:08 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Donald Trump didn't act out of bounds.
  
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• Egypt, Ethiopia, Sudan say final agreement on Blue Nile dam ready by next month

  31-01-2020 22:08 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Ministers from Egypt, Ethiopia and Sudan said on Friday a final agreement will be signed by the end of February on the giant Blue Nile hydropower dam that sparked a years-long diplomatic crisis between Cairo and Addis Ababa.The countries have been at odds over the filling and operation of the $4 billion Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam (GERD), under construction near Ethiopia's border with Sudan on the Blue Nile, which flows into the Nile river.
  
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• Schiff cries foul after Bolton implicates Trump lawyer in Ukraine scheme

  31-01-2020 22:06 via news.yahoo.com
  
  House manager Adam Schiff cried foul on Friday after Former National Security Advisor John Bolton implicated one of President's Trump lawyer in the Ukraine scheme.
  
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• Trump impeachment trial: Why Republicans don’t want witnesses

  31-01-2020 21:46 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Republicans senators explain why they don't want witnesses in President Trump's impeachment trial.
  
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• U.S. envoy warns Palestinians against raising opposition to U.S. peace plan at U.N.

  31-01-2020 21:38 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas will speak in the U.N. Security Council in the next two weeks about the plan, Palestinian U.N. envoy Riyad Mansour said on Wednesday, adding that he hoped the 15-member council would also vote on a draft resolution on the issue.
  
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• Kobe Bryant’s family blasts ‘inaccurate’ media reports for causing them ‘unnecessary pain’

  31-01-2020 21:37 via news.yahoo.com
  
  The president of Kobe Inc, Molly Carter, criticised the media’s coverage of the death of NBA superstar Kobe Bryant in a statement she released Thursday night.“We are disappointed in some media’s broad use of unnamed sources and blind quotes, and remind everyone that the Bryant family will speak on our own behalf when appropriate,” Ms Carter said.
  
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• Bloomberg could qualify for debates under new DNC party rules

  31-01-2020 21:37 via news.yahoo.com
  
  The Democratic National Committee has dropped grassroots fundraising qualifications for the party’s Feb. 19 debate before the Nevada caucuses, opening the possibility that billionaire Michael Bloomberg could make his first appearance onstage.
  
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• Worker dies when Russian stadium roof collapses

  31-01-2020 21:27 via feeds.foxnews.com
  
  A demolition worker died Friday when the roof of a Russian sports stadium collapsed, authorities said. 
  
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• A Killer? The Legend of Confederate General Nathan Bedford Forrest

  31-01-2020 21:27 via news.yahoo.com
  
  A cunning foe.
  
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