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• 'HELP!!!': Newly released NOAA emails show uproar over Trump's hurricane claims

  02-02-2020 23:53 via nbcnews.com
  
  "What’s next? Climate science is a hoax?" the NOAA's acting chief scientist wrote. "Flabbergasted to leave our forecasters hanging in the political wind."
  
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• 'Pathological liar': Bloomberg hits back at Trump 'Mini Mike' insult

  02-02-2020 23:45 via theguardian.com
  
  Trump uses Super Bowl interview to attack potential rivalRobert Reich: Democrats are partly to blame for TrumpMartin O’Malley: ‘How do you fall for the Sanders scam?’Michael Bloomberg traded insults with Donald Trump on Sunday, calling the president “a pathological liar who lies about everything: his fake hair, his obesity and his spray-on tan”. Related: 'My party is a cult': Republican Joe Walsh on his Iowa challenge to TrumpContinue reading...
  
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• 'Pathological liar': Bloomberg hits back at Trump 'Mini Mike' insult

  02-02-2020 23:45 via news.yahoo.com
  
  * Trump uses Super Bowl interview to attack potential rival* Robert Reich: Democrats are partly to blame for Trump* Martin O’Malley: ‘How do you fall for the Sanders scam?’Michael Bloomberg traded insults with Donald Trump on Sunday, calling the president “a pathological liar who lies about everything: his fake hair, his obesity and his spray-on tan”.The comment, made through the Democratic presidential candidate’s press secretary, came in response to abusive
  
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• Libya's neighbors propose tribal meeting to solve conflict

  02-02-2020 23:40 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Algeria's president is proposing that Libya's tribal groups hold meetings in a neighboring country to find new solutions to the conflict tearing oil-rich Libya apart.Fighting among militias, arms and migrant trafficking and extremism in Libya are a big concern to neighboring Algeria and Tunisia, whose presidents met Sunday in Algiers.Both leaders were elected in recent months, and are eager to keep Libya's lawlessness from further spilling over their borders.
  
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• Buttigieg Names His Favorite Beatles Song: Campaign Update

  02-02-2020 23:31 via news.yahoo.com
  
  (Bloomberg) -- The 2020 candidates have been asked a lot of questions over the last year, but there’s always a new one.At a campaign event at Lincoln High School in Des Moines on Sunday, Pete Buttigieg was asked his favorite Beatles song, and he quickly came up with an answer that managed to keep on message.“I feel at this time it has to be ‘Come Together,’” he said.He’s not the only presidential candidate who has favored that song. Former Starbucks CEO Howard
  
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• Coronavirus: 2nd case of coronavirus confirmed in Santa Clara County, officials say

  02-02-2020 23:30 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Santa Clara County health officials say a female who recently traveled to Wuhan, China and is in the Bay Area to visit family has tested positive for coronavirus. Officials say this case is not related to the first Bay Area case, reported on Thursday.
  
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• Virus fears wipe $393 billion off China's stock market despite government support moves

  02-02-2020 23:28 via news.yahoo.com
  
  SHANGHAI/HONG KONG (Reuters) - Investors erased $393 billion from China's benchmark stock index on Monday, sold the yuan and dumped commodities as fears about the spreading coronavirus and its economic impact drove selling on the first day of trade in China since the Lunar New Year.The Chinese yuan blew past the 7-per-dollar mark and Shanghai-traded commodities from palm oil to copper hit their maximum down limits.The total number of deaths in China from the coronavirus rose to 361 by Sunday, co
  
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• Biden on the bus: Inside the former vice president's final Iowa pitch

  02-02-2020 23:25 via nbcnews.com
  
  During a final nine-day swing through Iowa, a feeling of uncertainty surrounds Biden's campaign.
  
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• What I learned watching Andrew Yang barnstorm rural Iowa

  02-02-2020 23:13 via politico.com
  
  He's a changed candidate from even a month ago.
  
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• Plane carrying Portuguese from coronavirus-hit Wuhan touches down in Lisbon

  02-02-2020 23:07 via news.yahoo.com
  
  A military airplane carrying a group of mostly Portuguese nationals who were stuck in coronavirus-hit Wuhan, the capital of China's Hubei province, touched down in Lisbon late on Sunday.Portugal's minister of health, Marta Temido, said all 20 evacuees, including two Brazilians, agreed to be kept in isolation for 14 days as a preventive measure, a protocol followed by several other European nations.Portuguese law states that compulsory hospitalisation is reserved for cases related to mental illne
  
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• America is Making a Bad Bet on India

  02-02-2020 23:06 via news.yahoo.com
  
  America is dangerously emboldening India’s Hindu nationalist government as it nears the point of no return. Modi, whose term ends in 2024, could be succeeded by someone far more extreme.
  
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• Promises Kept: The Trump Administration Has Paved the Way for Promoting the Culture of Life

  02-02-2020 23:05 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Despite recent unprecedented attention to pro-life concerns, international policy on abortion remains mostly unchanged, largely because the pro-abortion European Union virtually controls UN social policy.
  
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• Coronavirus: China apologizes for comparing travel bans to treatment of Jews during Holocaust

  02-02-2020 23:05 via news.yahoo.com
  
  The Philippines says a man from Wuhan, China, is the first death from coronavirus outside of of China, where the outbreak began.
  
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• Iowa still bars ex-felons from voting, frustrating Democratic caucusgoers

  02-02-2020 23:00 via nbcnews.com
  
  The state's Republican governor wants to fix the issue via state constitutional amendment, frustrating Democrats and advocates who have pushed for more immediate action.
  
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• Bernie Sanders built a campaign that made him the frontrunner

  02-02-2020 22:53 via news.yahoo.com
  
  For much of the Democratic presidential primary race, Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders and his supporters have felt ignored, particularly by the media establishment. But now, with just one day until primary voting begins in the Iowa caucuses, Sanders’s status as one of the top candidates in the crowded field is unmistakable.
  
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• Streatham attacker freed from jail days ago after terror conviction

  02-02-2020 22:51 via theguardian.com
  
  Sudesh Amman, who was shot dead by police, was under police surveillance following release Streatham attack: latest updatesFirst witness accountsThe man shot dead by police after he stabbed two people in London on Sunday left prison only days ago and had previously been noted by police as having a “fascination with dying in the name of terrorism”, it has emerged.Sudesh Amman, whose attack on Streatham High Road left one person initially in a life-threatening condition, was under acti
  
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• Bloomberg campaign says Trump has 'fake hair'

  02-02-2020 22:43 via news.yahoo.com
  
  President Trump seems to have former New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg on his mind at the moment. And Bloomberg’s campaign isn't holding back in its response.
  
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• Impeachment trial heads to historic end in frenetic week

  02-02-2020 22:40 via news.yahoo.com
  
  President Donald Trump's impeachment trial heads toward a historic conclusion this week, with senators all-but-certain to acquit him on charges of abuse of power and obstruction of Congress after narrowly rejecting Democratic demands to summon witnesses.The vote is expected to cap a months-long investigation spurred by a whistleblower complaint that Trump improperly withheld U.S. military aid from Ukraine in a bid to pressure it to launch investigations into 2020 Democratic rival Joe Biden.In th
  
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• Stringent US travel restrictions take effect to combat spread

  02-02-2020 22:35 via cnn.com
  
  The United States will implement stringent travel restrictions Sunday evening in an effort to contain the novel coronavirus outbreak that has so far killed more than 300 people in China and infected more than 14,000 worldwide.
  
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• Appeal of man who shot Army recruiters in Arkansas rejected

  02-02-2020 22:34 via news.yahoo.com
  
  The Arkansas Supreme Court has rejected the appeal of a man who fatally shot a U.S. Army soldier and wounded another outside a recruiting station in Little Rock.The ruling dated Thursday and first reported by the Arkansas Democrat-Gazette said Abdulhakim Muhammad's appeal is without merit.Muhammad, 34, was sentenced to life without parole after pleading guilty to the 2009 fatal shooting of Pvt.
  
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• DHS: New screening to begin amid coronavirus concerns

  02-02-2020 22:31 via news.yahoo.com
  
  As the U.S. steps up its response to the coronavirus outbreak, the Department of Homeland Security is warning airline passengers that their flights may wind up rerouted if officials discover mid-flight that someone onboard has been in China in the last 14 days.Under the new rules, U.S. citizens who have traveled in China within the last 14 days will be re-routed to one of eight designated airports, where they will undergo enhanced health screening procedures.
  
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• Federal report on Kobe Bryant crash, funeral plans could come this week

  02-02-2020 22:29 via news.yahoo.com
  
  A federal report on the helicopter crash that killed basketball icon Kobe Bryant, his daughter and seven other people is due for release this week.
  
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• Apple is expected to launch its new iPhone 12 lineup this fall — here's everything we know about it so far

  02-02-2020 22:12 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Apple's iPhone 12 is expected to come in four versions when it's presumably released next September. Here's what we know.
  
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• The Latest: Warren assures supporters a woman can win

  02-02-2020 22:02 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Former Secretary of State John Kerry is denying an NBC News report that said he was overheard discussing the possibility of running for president in 2020 -- even as he campaigns for Joe Biden.The report was based on an NBC political analyst hearing Kerry’s side of a telephone conversation as he sat in a Des Moines hotel lobby restaurant.Kerry tweeted after the report that he told the reporter he is “absolutely not running for President.” An initial tweet from Kerry was even mor
  
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• The Perfect Storm of Economic Risks on Hong Kong’s Horizon

  02-02-2020 22:00 via news.yahoo.com
  
  (Bloomberg) -- Terms of Trade is a daily newsletter that untangles a world embroiled in trade wars. Sign up here. The hits just keep coming for Hong Kong.In 2019 there was the escalating U.S.-China trade war, which squeezed exports. Then came violent protests beginning mid-year, with street-fighting between police and protesters driving away tourists and shoppers, hurting the services industries, and tipping the economy into its first contraction in a decade.Now, as Hong Kong awaits co
  
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• Amid feud with NPR, Pompeo tells Kazakhs the U.S. is committed to press freedoms

  02-02-2020 21:54 via politico.com
  
  The secretary of State, however, also says journalists have to conform to “certain sets of behaviors.”
  
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• In Iowa, a vote for Warren is a vote for Biden

  02-02-2020 21:46 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Those who like both progressives should study how the caucus works and make sure they don’t accidentally destroy bothLet’s look at where things stand with the Democratic candidates in Iowa as of right now, according to FiveThirtyEight:> 1 Sanders: 22.0%> > 2 Biden 21.5%> > 3 Buttigieg 15.5%> > 4 Warren 14.4%> > 5 Klobuchar 10.2%> > 6 Yang 3.6%> > 7 Steyer 3.5%If you’re a Bernie Sanders supporter, you might be thinking: “OK, we’
  
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• America's universities are a soft target for Chinese spies, say U.S. intelligence officials

  02-02-2020 21:45 via nbcnews.com
  
  University of Texas professor Bo Mao is the latest defendant in a string of U.S. criminal cases alleging Chinese spying in the academic world.
  
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• Doomsday Writer Claimed Dead Wife Helped Him Find New One

  02-02-2020 21:38 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Chad Daybell, a prolific author of doomsday-focused religious novels, married widow Lori Vallow soon after his first wife Tammy was found dead under mysterious circumstances.Days later, the middle-aged newlyweds were looking for housing in Hawaii—with Chad telling a potential landlady that it was Tammy who helped him, from beyond the grave, find love again.“I woke up that morning and she had been dead for a couple hours but she had a peaceful look on her face at her burial. I felt he
  
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• Superb Bergwijn goal helps Spurs to win against Man City

  02-02-2020 21:35 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Steven Bergwijn marks his debut with a superb volley as Tottenham win a bad-tempered Premier League affair against 10-man Manchester City to boost their top-four hopes.
  
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• Bafta film awards 2020 under way in London

  02-02-2020 21:35 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Spoiler alert! If you don't want to see the winners until the BBC broadcast later, look away now!
  
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• Streatham attack: Man shot dead by police after stabbings in London

  02-02-2020 21:33 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Three people are injured by a man under police surveillance in a "terrorist-related" incident.
  
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• Al-Qaida in Yemen claims deadly Florida naval base shooting

  02-02-2020 21:31 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Al-Qaida's branch in Yemen claimed responsibility Sunday for last year's deadly shooting at the Naval Air Station Pensacola by an aviation student from Saudi Arabia.The shooter, 2nd Lt. Mohammed Saeed Alshamrani, was a member of the Saudi Air Force in training at the base.Al-Qaida in the Arabian Peninsula, or AQAP, released a video claiming the attack.
  
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• The hottest BAFTA red carpet looks

  02-02-2020 21:30 via cnn.com
  
  Catherine, Duchess of Cambridge, took a stand for sustainable fashion on Sunday night, re-wearing a familiar Alexander McQueen gown to the 73rd annual British Academy Film Awards (BAFTAs).
  
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• Is The Royal Navy The Solution For America's Aircraft Carrier Troubles?

  02-02-2020 21:30 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Leasing might be the answer.
  
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• Burkina Faso: Gunmen kill 20 civilians in attack

  02-02-2020 21:28 via bbc.co.uk
  
  The attack took place in a village in north-western Burkina Faso late on Saturday.
  
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• Trump goes after 'communist' Sanders and 'little' Bloomberg in Super Bowl interview

  02-02-2020 21:20 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Donald Trump exhibited his seeming obsession with size again in a pre-Super Bowl interview with Fox News in which he attacked Democratic presidential candidate Mike Bloomberg over his height - and alleges the former New York mayor is getting special treatment while also subbing a leading Democratic presidential candidate "a communist."The Fox host asked Mr Trump if the impeachment saga will become a "campaign issue" or if he will "let it go" after the Senate holds its final votes later this week
  
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• The best red carpet fashion at the BAFTAs

  02-02-2020 21:12 via cnn.com
  
  Catherine, Duchess of Cambridge, took a stand for sustainable fashion on Sunday night, re-wearing a familiar Alexander McQueen gown to the 73rd annual British Academy Film Awards (BAFTAs).
  
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• Senators will vote Wednesday to acquit or convict Trump: What we know

  02-02-2020 21:09 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Senators decided against allowing additional testimony and set the stage for a final vote Wednesday.
  
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• Biden Opens Lead in Texas While Support in South Carolina Slips

  02-02-2020 21:09 via news.yahoo.com
  
  (Bloomberg) -- Joe Biden is opening a daunting lead over the rest of the field in the March 3 Texas primary, but his advantage has slipped in South Carolina, where the primary later this month is crucial for his campaign, according to two polls released Sunday.The former vice president leads Senator Bernie Sanders, his closest competitor, in Texas by 17 points in a poll by the Dallas Morning News and the University of Texas at Tyler.The good news for Biden in one of the biggest “Super Tues
  
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• Protesters in Beirut decry Trump plan

  02-02-2020 21:08 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Hundreds of protesters gathered near the US Embassy in Beirut against a White House plan for ending the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. The US plan heavily favored Israel, granting Palestinians limited self-rule in parts of the occupied West Bank. (Feb. 2)
  
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• A US national security adviser says 'there is no reason for Americans to panic' about coronavirus as report claims second US plane heads to China to evacuate more Americans from Wuhan

  02-02-2020 21:08 via news.yahoo.com
  
  A second plane is on the way to evacuate US citizens still in Wuhan in China as the death toll from coronavirus continues to rise.
  
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• Joe Biden Could Be Impeached by GOP Over Ukraine if He Wins, Iowa Senator Says

  02-02-2020 21:02 via news.yahoo.com
  
  (Bloomberg) -- Iowa Senator Joni Ernst warned Sunday that Republicans would immediately push to impeach Joe Biden over his work in Ukraine as vice president if he win the White House.“I think this door of impeachable whatever has been opened,” Ernst said in an interview with Bloomberg News. “Joe Biden should be very careful what he’s asking for because, you know, we can have a situation where if it should ever be President Biden, that immediately, people, right the day af
  
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• London stabbing attack 'Islamist-related', police say

  02-02-2020 20:58 via cnn.com
  
  A man has been shot by armed officers in Streatham, south London, in a terrorist-related incident, London's Metropolitan Police said on Sunday.
  
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• Pamela Anderson and Jon Peters split 12 days after their wedding

  02-02-2020 20:55 via cnn.com
  
  Pamela Anderson and Jon Peters are calling it quits after just 12 days of marriage.
  
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• Jared Kushner insists Middle East peace plan is ‘a real effort to break logjam’

  02-02-2020 20:55 via theguardian.com
  
  Kushner hopes Palestinians ‘read’ the Middle East peace plan Mahmoud Abbas cuts ties with US and Israel after rejecting planThough the Palestinian Authority has cut ties with the US and Israel over the Trump administration’s plan for Middle East peace, its author has insisted his plan is not dead yet. Related: What we Palestinians think does not matter – all that matters is Israel | Diana ButtuContinue reading...
  
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• UK will refuse close alignment with EU rules, Johnson to say

  02-02-2020 20:48 via theguardian.com
  
  Prime minister’s vision on future trading relationship will clash with that of EU leadersBoris Johnson will issue a direct warning on Monday that the UK will refuse close alignment of rules and reject the jurisdiction of the European courts in any trade deal as EU leaders prepare to give his plans a frosty reception.In a bullish speech setting out the government’s negotiating position, the prime minister will set out his vision for future relations with the trading bloc and reject ac
  
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• Man shot dead by police in London after 'terrorist-related' stabbing incident

  02-02-2020 20:45 via nbcnews.com
  
  At least one person is in life-threatening condition, according to London's Metropolitan Police.
  
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• Problem: Are Humans Creative Enough To Solve the Climate Crisis?

  02-02-2020 20:30 via news.yahoo.com
  
  There is growing evidence that Earth’s systems are heading towards climate “tipping points” beyond which change becomes abrupt and unstoppable.
  
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• Jeff Bezos added $8 billion to his wealth in one day

  02-02-2020 20:30 via cnn.com
  
  It was a good week for Jeff Bezos: The world's richest person got even richer.
  
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