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  04-02-2020 23:59 via cdn.cnn.com
  350 000 Spanish Unionists rally marches through Barcelona in response to last Sundays disputed referendum on Catalan independence on October 8, 2017 in Barcelona, Spain. Large numbers of citizens are expected to protest on Sunday in Barcelona against the independence movement in a march that has been organised by the Societ at Civil Catalana. Catalonia's president Carles Puigdemont will address the Catalan Parliament on 10th October to discuss the result of the referendum that was held on Octobe
  
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• Face mask and hand sanitizer hoarders face $42,108 fine and up to 2 years in prison under new South Korean law amid coronavirus spread

  04-02-2020 23:55 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Stores in the country, including Costco, have reportedly had trouble meeting the demand for face masks.
  
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• Tapper on Biden: This is a bad sign for his campaign

  04-02-2020 23:53 via cnn.com
  
  With 62% of the precincts reporting, CNN's Jake Tapper discusses how Joe Biden's standing in the Iowa Democratic caucuses will make it difficult for his presidential campaign to pick up momentum moving forward.
  
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• She Reported Her Cop Husband for Domestic Violence. Now She's Dead.

  04-02-2020 23:50 via news.yahoo.com
  
  A Georgia woman who recently reported her husband, a local police officer, for domestic violence was found dead in her home Monday, authorities said. Her husband told authorities it was a suicide—but police are still investigating.Deputies found Amanda Perrault, 44, dead in her Eatonton, Georgia, home on Monday afternoon, Putnam County Sheriff Howard Sills told The Daily Beast. Sills said the woman's husband, Eatonton County Police officer Michael Perrault, was there at the time of her dea
  
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• Nevada bookmakers score super profit thanks to Kansas City Chiefs' victory

  04-02-2020 23:47 via nbcnews.com
  
  Gamblers in 14 states took action on pro football's biggest game, with six states taking bets on the Super Bowl for the first time.
  
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• Trump impeachment: Key swing-vote senator will vote to acquit president on both articles

  04-02-2020 23:36 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Susan Collins had her answer on Tuesday for House Intelligence Committee Chairman Adam Schiff after his plea for "just one" Republican senator to vote to convict Donald Trump: No.The Maine politician, who voted with Democrats on whether to allow witnesses in Mr Trump's impeachment trial, announced in a floor speech that she intends to vote to acquit the president on two House-approved charges of misconduct.
  
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• Kansas no longer fighting claims of wrongly convicted man

  04-02-2020 23:32 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Kansas is dropping its fight against the compensation claim from a man who spent 23 years in prison for a double homicide before a judge vacated convictions that were secured even though no physical evidence or motive tied him to the crimes, the state's attorney general said Tuesday.Attorney General Derek Schmidt said in an Associated Press interview that his office made the decision after reviewing 900 pages of documents from Lamonte McIntyre's attorney that had not been provided to it previous
  
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• Supreme Court won't produce a majority for Trump's State of the Union address

  04-02-2020 23:27 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Various justices have called the event a "childish spectacle" or a "political pep rally" at which they feel "very awkward" and "very uncomfortable."
  
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• 'Pose' star Billy Porter delivers his 'State of the LGBTQ Union' address

  04-02-2020 23:27 via nbcnews.com
  
  The actor and activist reflected on President Donald Trump's first three years in office and the past year's gains and losses for LGBTQ rights.
  
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• Bernie Sanders is close behind in a tight battle for first with 62% reporting

  04-02-2020 23:26 via cnn.com
  
  • Van Jones: Iowa caucus delay 'a debacle'
  • Opinion: Caucuses an embarrassment to Democratic Party
  
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• Joe Biden flopped in the Iowa caucuses despite a strong showing in recent polling

  04-02-2020 23:25 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Former Vice President Joe Biden came in fourth place in the Iowa caucuses, according to preliminary results released Tuesday evening.
  
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• Trump is the winner of the Iowa Democratic caucuses

  04-02-2020 23:24 via cnn.com
  
  As impeachment collapses (thanks to cowardly Republicans) and as the President nets a personal high on his approval ratings, Democrats couldn't have given him a bigger gift than the confusion and chaos in Iowa, says Jill Filipovic.
  
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• Opinion: Trump is the winner of the Iowa Democratic caucuses

  04-02-2020 23:24 via cnn.com
  
  As impeachment collapses (thanks to cowardly Republicans) and as the President nets a personal high on his approval ratings, Democrats couldn't have given him a bigger gift than the confusion and chaos in Iowa, says Jill Filipovic.
  
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• Iowa Democrats release two-thirds of caucus results with Buttigieg narrowly ahead in delegate count

  04-02-2020 23:24 via news.yahoo.com
  The results are (partially) in.Iowa's Democratic party has officially released the first chunk of results from Monday night's presidential caucus. With 62 percent of precincts reporting, former South Bend, Indiana, Mayor Pete Buttigieg has secured 26.9 percent of the delegates, while Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) is narrowly behind with 25.1 percent. Sanders did beat Buttigieg in the precincts' popular vote by more than 1,000 votes.> POPULAR VOTE with 62%> > Sanders 28,220> Pete 27,030
  
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• Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and Other Democrats Plan to Boycott President Trump's State of the Union Address

  04-02-2020 23:23 via news.yahoo.com
  
  "This is a deeply personal decision for each member to make," Ocasio-Cortez said
  
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• Startup Behind Faulty Iowa Election App Linked to Top Democrats

  04-02-2020 23:19 via news.yahoo.com
  
  (Bloomberg) -- The Iowa caucuses were a key test for the cottage industry building campaign and election technology for the Democratic Party headed into the 2020 election season. As chaos and recriminations erupted Monday night over problems in reporting results, it became painfully clear what failure could look like.At the center of the storm was Shadow Inc., a little-known software company and Acronym, a Democratic political operation that launched in 2017 to much fanfare on the promise it wou
  
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• Permafrost collapse is speeding climate change: study

  04-02-2020 23:12 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Permafrost in Canada, Alaska and Siberia is abruptly crumbling in ways that could release large stores of greenhouse gases more quickly than anticipated, researchers have warned.Scientists have long fretted that climate change -- which has heated Arctic and subarctic regions at double the global rate -- will release planet-warming CO2 and methane that has remained safely locked inside Earth's frozen landscapes for millennia.It was assumed this process would be gradual, leaving humanity time to d
  
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• AP VoteCast: Many coalitions in Iowa Democratic caucus vote

  04-02-2020 23:12 via news.yahoo.com
  
  The outcome of the Iowa caucuses was muddled, but voters sent clear signals about their values and how they shaped their candidate preferences.Bernie Sanders got a boost from younger voters.Pete Buttigieg connected with voters who want to dramatically change the political system but view themselves as moderates.
  
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• Weinstein accuser hits back at defense: 'I want this jury to know he's my rapist'

  04-02-2020 23:11 via nbcnews.com
  
  Jessica Mann's testimony is a pivotal point in the rape trial of Weinstein, the former Hollywood producer who is accused by dozens of women of decades of abuse.
  
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• Mayor Pete Leads Iowa Delegate Race With 62% Reporting

  04-02-2020 23:11 via news.yahoo.com
  
  MILFORD, New Hampshire—A chaotic Iowa caucus descended into further uncertainty on Tuesday when officials released partial results showing that Mayor Pete Buttigieg enjoyed a small lead among delegates in the Hawkeye State while Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) had a lead among actual voters. The numbers represented just 62 percent of the precincts from all of the state’s 99 counties and the decision to release them sparked backlash among several campaigns, who argued that the state w
  
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• LIVE RESULTS: Initial wave of data from Iowa caucuses show Buttigieg and Sanders in the lead

  04-02-2020 23:09 via news.yahoo.com
  
  After a disastrous meltdown in the Iowa caucus reporting system, the Iowa Democratic Party began finally reporting results on Tuesday afternoon.
  
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• Ford full-year profit plunges on slower sales, pension costs

  04-02-2020 23:09 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Ford Motor Co.'s profit last year plunged by more than $3.6 billion, weighed down by slowing U.S. sales, the cost of a botched SUV launch and some big pension expenses.Excluding one-time items, Ford made 12 cents per share for the quarter, falling short of Wall Street's expectations.Shares of Ford, which released results after the markets closed Tuesday, tumbled 9% to $8.35 i n extended trading.
  
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• Here's how to stop second-guessing yourself all the time

  04-02-2020 23:08 via nbcnews.com
  
  All that constant second-guessing is likely a waste of time and effort. Here are three better ways to stop over analyzing everything and get things done.
  
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• California shooting shows security vulnerabilities on buses

  04-02-2020 23:08 via news.yahoo.com
  Would-be plotters bent on staging an attack aboard a passenger plane know they've first got to pass through a gauntlet of security measures at an airport, from body scans and spot interrogations to pat-downs and even close scrutiny of their shoes.The comparative scant security prompted at least one survivor of Monday's shooting on the bus heading from Los Angeles to San Francisco to rethink his future mode of travel.“I think I will just fly from now on," Mark Grabban said.
  
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• Buttigieg leads Iowa caucuses with 62% of the results counted

  04-02-2020 23:08 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Pete Buttigieg is leading the Iowa caucuses with 62 percent of 99 counties reporting, the Iowa Democratic Party said at a briefing Tuesday afternoon, nearly an entire day after a smartphone app malfunction delayed the reporting of results.
  
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• Iowa caucus: Results pour in showing Buttigieg and Sanders leading after controversial 'Shadow' app chaos

  04-02-2020 23:00 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Votes from America’s first-in-the-nation Iowa caucus have started coming in the day after technical problems held up results.With 62 per cent of votes counted, former South Bend, Indiana mayor Pete Buttigieg was narrowly leading in delegates ahead of Bernie Sanders, Elizabeth Warren, Joe Biden and Amy Klobuchar. Mr Sanders was ahead in the popular vote.
  
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• Iowa caucus – live updates: Results pour in showing Sanders and Buttigieg leading after controversial 'Shadow' app chaos

  04-02-2020 23:00 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Votes from America’s first-in-the-nation Iowa caucus are expected Tuesday afternoon after the state's Democratic party spotted “inconsistencies” in the results, forcing them to grapple with apparent technical issues involving an app brought in to help streamline the process. Party leaders said a "coding issue" led to errors preventing some precincts from reporting their votes.Early entrance polls showed Bernie Sanders with a strong lead among young voters, while Pete Buttigieg
  
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• Senate Republicans show little interest in new Biden probes

  04-02-2020 22:58 via politico.com
  
  Sen. Lindsey Graham has called for investigations, but most GOP chairmen aren't going there.
  
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• Ex-Fox News journalist Gretchen Carlson calls on Michael Bloomberg to release women from NDAs they signed as his employees

  04-02-2020 22:56 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Michael Bloomberg has been repeatedly accused of making sexist remarks and sued for propagating a "culture of discrimination."
  
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• 1 dead, 81 hurt as truck carrying migrants crashes in Mexico

  04-02-2020 22:55 via news.yahoo.com
  
  A truck loaded with Central American migrants crashed in southern Mexico on Tuesday, killing one and injuring dozens more, authorities said.Images posted online by Mexican media outlets showed the crumpled truck on the side of the road and health workers treating the injured at the scene.The Civil Defense department in the Gulf Coast state of Veracruz gave the injury toll as 81.
  
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• Drone footage shows the 11-million-person city of Wuhan, China, empty during the largest quarantine in human history

  04-02-2020 22:47 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Chinese authorities have placed Wuhan — where the coronavirus outbreak began — under quarantine. The city has become a ghost town.
  
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• Ohio lawmaker pushes bill to allow Dr. Richard Strauss' accusers to sue Ohio State

  04-02-2020 22:46 via nbcnews.com
  
  Republican Ohio House Speaker Larry Householder criticized inaction on the bill, which would allow people to sue the university over allegations of sexual abuse by the former school doctor.
  
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• The state Democratic Party is reporting 62% of precincts and apologizes for chaos on caucus night

  04-02-2020 22:45 via cnn.com
  
  • Van Jones: Iowa caucus delay 'a debacle'
  • Opinion: Caucuses an embarrassment to Democratic Party
  
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• After a massive delay, the Iowa caucuses are about to give the first indication of who Democrats want in 2020

  04-02-2020 22:45 via cnn.com
  
  • Van Jones: Iowa caucus delay 'a debacle'
  • Opinion: Caucuses an embarrassment to Democratic Party
  
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• Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and Ayanna Pressley are skipping the State of the Union

  04-02-2020 22:42 via news.yahoo.com
  
  The State of the Union will have a few empty seats Tuesday night.Some of the House's highest profile representatives won't be listening to President Trump's annual address on Tuesday in the wake of his impeachment and ongoing Senate trial. Reps. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.), Ayanna Pressley (D-Mass.), and Maxine Waters (D-Calif.) all announced Tuesday they wouldn't be showing up."After much deliberation," Ocasio-Cortez tweeted she would be skipping the State of the Union because she didn't
  
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• Doomsday author Chad Daybell claims his deceased wife helped him 'reconnect' with new wife Lori Vallow

  04-02-2020 22:39 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Weeks after his first wife died, Chad Daybell and Lori Vallow were married. He credits his deceased wife for helping him find a new one.
  
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• US Army wants to expand pre-positioned stock in Pacific

  04-02-2020 22:30 via news.yahoo.com
  
  As operations increase in the Indo-Pacific region, the Army's pre-positioned stocks will grow.
  
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• State of the Union: Trump ‘to face Pelosi for first time in months’ as Republicans urge him not to bring up impeachment

  04-02-2020 22:21 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Donald Trump’s annual State of the Union address will bring him face-to-face with Nancy Pelosi, reportedly for the first time since an incendiary meeting in which he called her a “third-rate politician” and stormed out.The House Speaker described the president as having a “meltdown” at the October meeting – which came just weeks after she called the impeachment inquiry, and hours after the House voted overwhelmingly to condemn his decision to pull troops out o
  
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• Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and Ayanna Pressley will boycott Trump's 'sham' State of the Union address

  04-02-2020 22:21 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Ocasio-Cortez called it a "deeply personal decision" that she "did not take lightly" and said she'd answer questions in an Instagram Live session.
  
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• Margot Robbie and the 'Birds of Prey'

  04-02-2020 22:16 via cnn.com
  
  Margot Robbie's 'Harley Quinn' character joins an all-female superhero team to take down a crime lord.
  
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• Winter weather: Airports in Illinois, Indiana, Missouri, Texas added to waiver lists

  04-02-2020 22:14 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Delta, American, Frontier, Spirit, Southwest and United have all announced travel waivers for those flying through Colorado, Oklahoma, Texas and Utah.
  
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• Escobar's 'cocaine hippos' are invasive species, but scientists say they're not all bad

  04-02-2020 22:13 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Drug lord Pablo Escobar kept four hippos at the illegal zoo on his estate. When he was shotdead in 1993, the hippos were left alone. There are now up to 100 of the animals living in the Magdalena River.
  
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• Bloomberg to double TV spending, expand staff after Democrats' Iowa caucus chaos

  04-02-2020 22:05 via news.yahoo.com
  
  DETROIT/DES MOINES, Iowa (Reuters) - Democratic presidential contender Michael Bloomberg on Tuesday said he will immediately double his already massive nationwide television ad spending and expand his staff after the debacle of Iowa's failure to promptly announce its caucuses results.Bloomberg, 77, has spent more than a quarter of a billion dollars of his own fortune on TV advertising on an unconventional White House bid that has him skipping early voting states and entering the race on March 3,
  
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• With State of the Union guests, Latino Democrats dig at Trump

  04-02-2020 22:02 via nbcnews.com
  
  The guests include a woman who blames her daughter's death in Puerto Rico on the lack of a medical facility years after Hurricane Maria.
  
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• When Pluto's frozen heart beats, it creates wind

  04-02-2020 22:02 via cnn.com
  
  During its flyby of Pluto in 2015, NASA's New Horizons mission captured a now iconic image of a heart-shaped feature on the dwarf planet. And new research about Pluto's "frozen heart" has revealed that its "heartbeat" actually controls wind, which could sculpt the landscape on its surface.
  
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• 'Australia Should Be Ashamed' After More Than 40 Koalas Killed on Logging Site

  04-02-2020 21:57 via news.yahoo.com
  
  30 koalas were euthanized after being found injured among the felled trees
  
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• Man charged with breaking into nursing home, killing patient

  04-02-2020 21:55 via news.yahoo.com
  
  William Hawkins, 47, is charged with first-degree murder for the Jan. 5 slaying of Robert Morell, who was suffocated with a pillow as he slept by an intruder at the Tiffany Hall Nursing & Rehab Center in Port St. Lucie.According to a redacted police arrest report, Hawkins quickly became the prime suspect because he was on Morell's visitor list and matched the description of the man employees saw fleeing the room after being spotted on top of Morell shortly after midnight.Detectives learned t
  
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• Timing of Trump's State of the Union speech ramps up the drama

  04-02-2020 21:53 via cnn.com
  
  With the Senate on the verge of an impeachment vote expected to keep him in office, President Donald Trump will use Tuesday's State of the Union address to implore Americans to do the same.
  
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• US tests pilotless combat jets controlled from another aircraft

  04-02-2020 21:46 via news.yahoo.com
  
  The US Navy and Boeing announced Monday they had flown two fighter jets in exercises under the control of a third jet nearby, proving that multiple pilotless combat missions can be run from a separate aircraft.In experimental tests late last year at the Patuxent River Naval Air Station southeast of Washington, the Navy and Boeing sent two EA-18G Growlers through 21 distinct missions during four flights, with each aircraft being controlled from a third EA-16 nearby.The two "unmanned" or "surrogat
  
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• Sanders slams Buttigieg's victory declaration, campaign releases internal Iowa data suggesting a win

  04-02-2020 21:41 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) didn't have much time for former South Bend, Indiana, Mayor Pete Buttigieg's apparent Iowa caucus victory declaration Monday evening, partly because his campaign's internal data suggests otherwise.Even while results from the Iowa Democratic caucus were delayed thanks to a series of mishaps, Buttigieg addressed his supporters and told them all indications pointed to them leaving Iowa "victorious." Sanders found it odd that his competitor made such a speech.> On his
  
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