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• “Let the People Decide.” The Dangerous Idea At the Heart of Trump's Impeachment Acquittal.

  05-02-2020 23:59 via news.yahoo.com
  
  With the end of Trump's impeachment, we are moving towards a democracy driven by the market, not the rule of law, writes Philip Bobbitt.
  
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• 'Let the People Decide.' The Dangerous Idea At the Heart of Trump's Impeachment Acquittal

  05-02-2020 23:59 via news.yahoo.com
  
  We are moving towards a democracy driven by the market, not the rule of law
  
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• Trump impeachment: Ivanka speaks out after father's acquittal

  05-02-2020 23:53 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Donald Trump's daughter Ivanka Trump has spoken up following his acquittal, saying the country needs to move forward "together" just as her father tweeted a trolling video to mark his success."This factional fever and incoherent, ill-conceived process has finally ended and the President has rightfully been acquitted," Ms Trump, who is also a White House adviser, wrote on Twitter. "It is time for our Country to move forward. Together."
  
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• Democratic Sen. Sherrod Brown reveals Republican senators privately admit Trump is 'reckless and unfit'

  05-02-2020 23:47 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Sen. Sherrod Brown (D-Ohio) had some harsh words for his Republican colleagues following the acquittal of President Trump.Brown, like his fellow Democrats, voted to remove Trump from office on both articles of impeachment, abuse of power and obstruction of Congress. But he still wanted to get his point across. So in an op-ed in The New York Times he offered a scathing rebuke of the GOP for, as he sees it, cowering before the Trump administration.The senator noted many Republicans in the upper ch
  
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• Read the White House's response to Trump's acquittal in the Senate impeachment trial

  05-02-2020 23:46 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Shortly after the Senate acquitted President Donald Trump of two articles of impeachment, the White House issued a statement.
  
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• The California firefighters who volunteered to battle flames in Australia return home

  05-02-2020 23:41 via cnn.com
  
  Capt. Leonard Dimaculangan hugged his daughter for the first time in a month after battling flames half way across the world in Australia.
  
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• Merkel’s Party Just Broke the Ultimate Taboo in German Politics

  05-02-2020 23:35 via news.yahoo.com
  
  (Bloomberg) -- When Chancellor Angela Merkel’s embattled heir left Berlin on Wednesday, she looked like she might catch a break from her domestic woes at a routine conference in the European Parliament. By the time Annegret Kramp-Karrenbauer landed in Strasbourg, she was facing a scarcely believable crisis: an eastern branch of her party had thrown its lot in with the far right.Across Europe, the center-right allies of Kramp-Karrenbauer’s Christian Democratic Union are wrestling with
  
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• Irish election: Will Sinn Féin redefine Irish politics?

  05-02-2020 23:35 via bbc.co.uk
  
  The political party on the rise seeks to destroy long-time duopoly Fianna Fáil and Fine Gael.
  
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• Abidal to keep Barcelona role despite Messi criticism

  05-02-2020 23:33 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Barcelona sporting director Eric Abidal is to keep his job at the club despite being criticised by star forward Lionel Messi.
  
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• Trump’s Acquittal Boxes In Republicans

  05-02-2020 23:32 via news.yahoo.com
  
  (Bloomberg Opinion) -- With Mitt Romney the sole Republican voting to remove the president from office, the Senate fell well short of convicting Donald Trump on two articles of impeachment today.I agree with my Bloomberg Opinion colleague Noah Feldman that the senators’ speeches, particularly those of Republicans who were voting to acquit him, were important. What the senators said about their votes matters to history, but more important it will matter right now: T
  
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• Lewandowski scores twice as Bayern reach German Cup quarter-finals

  05-02-2020 23:31 via bbc.co.uk
  Robert Lewandowski scores his 34th and 35th goals of the season as Bayern Munich beat Hoffenheim to reach the German Cup quarter-finals.
  
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• What Trump’s Acquittal Means for the Rule of Law

  05-02-2020 23:28 via news.yahoo.com
  
  In Wednesday’s final impeachment vote in the Senate, only one Senate Republican, Mitt Romney, crossed party lines to vote to remove Donald Trump from office. No Senate Democrat bucked party-line discipline to vote for Trump’s acquittal. This followed last Friday’s 51–49 vote to conclude the trial on the basis of the evidence heard in the House, without live witness testimony. Only two Republicans (Romney and Susan Collins), and no Democrats, crossed party lines in that vo
  
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• Police kill knife-wielding man in Brazil missionary center

  05-02-2020 23:28 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Police shot and killed a man on Wednesday after he tried to attack officers with a knife in The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints' missionary training center in Brazil, church and police officials said.No missionaries or training center employees were hurt, according to a statement released by the church.Security guards initially detained the man near the reception desk of the building in Sao Paulo, Nei Garcia, the church's director of public affairs for Brazil, said in the statement.
  
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• Buttigieg keeps slim lead over Sanders after error in results updated — updates

  05-02-2020 23:27 via news.yahoo.com
  
  After problems emerged with the Iowa caucus results, frustrated Democratic presidential candidates headed to New Hampshire.
  
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• Trump celebrates impeachment acquittal by again suggesting he'll be president for life

  05-02-2020 23:24 via news.yahoo.com
  
  President Trump is celebrating his impeachment acquittal in the best way he knows how.After the Senate voted Wednesday to acquit Trump on charges of abuse of power and obstruction of Congress, he took irony to a new level and made yet another joke about being president for life. Specifically, he tweeted a video that places him in front of election signs promising he'll run for president in the year 90000, which he had already shared for the first time back in June.> pic.twitter.com/JDS4zUXXJG
  
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• Late comeback sees Spurs beat Southampton in FA Cup replay

  05-02-2020 23:24 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Tottenham battle past Southampton in a thrilling FA Cup fourth-round replay to set up a home tie against Norwich City.
  
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• Justice Roberts was gifted a golden gavel for enduring the impeachment trial

  05-02-2020 23:23 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Chief Justice John Roberts was in the unenviable position of having to sit through the entirety of the Senate impeachment trial over the last few weeks while also continuing to serve on the Supreme Court, but at least he got a present out of it.At the conclusion of the trial, Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) presented Roberts with a golden gavel, which is typically awarded to new senators after they've sat in their chair for more than 100 hours. But McConnell thought it was ok to b
  
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• Sanders Holds Solid Lead in New Hampshire Poll: Campaign Update

  05-02-2020 23:18 via news.yahoo.com
  
  (Bloomberg) -- Democratic presidential candidate Bernie Sanders holds a comfortable lead before next week’s New Hampshire primary with nearly double the support of Pete Buttigieg and is favored in nearly every subgroup, according to a new Emerson College poll.The Vermont senator leads with 32% in the state, followed by the former South Bend, Indiana, mayor with 17%. Former Vice President Joe Biden was next with 13%, trailed by Senators Amy Klobuchar of Minnesota and Elizabeth Warren of Mas
  
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• The moment when Trump was acquitted

  05-02-2020 23:15 via bbc.co.uk
  
  The Senate has voted in favour of acquitting President Trump on the impeachment charges.
  
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• Republicans called Trump's impeachment trial is a 'sham.' And they made it that way before it even began.

  05-02-2020 23:11 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Trump's impeachment trial was more a loyalty test for Senate Republicans than a thoughtful examination of the allegations against him.
  
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• Bernard Madoff is dying, seeks early release from prison: lawyer

  05-02-2020 23:09 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Bernard Madoff is dying of kidney failure and has fewer than 18 months to live, and is seeking to end his 150-year prison sentence for masterminding what prosecutors have called the largest Ponzi scheme ever.In a court filing on Wednesday, Madoff's lawyer said the 81-year-old is confined to a wheelchair, often requires oxygen, and suffers from cardiovascular disease, hypertension, insomnia and other chronic and serious medical conditions.Madoff, who has served 10-1/2 years of his term, is perhap
  
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• Trump impeachment trial: Four numbers that explain why he was cleared

  05-02-2020 23:06 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Acquittal was always the likely outcome - but the path of how we got there was intriguing.
  
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• Trump acquitted himself

  05-02-2020 23:01 via news.yahoo.com
  
  President Trump was formally acquitted in the Senate on Wednesday afternoon to the surprise of nobody in particular. Mitt Romney was the lone Republican to support his removal from office. (His nomination at the next convention of the Shadow Republican Party is now assured, if it had ever been in doubt, despite the fact that he voted in favor of only one of the two articles of impeachment.) Despite what some previous reports had suggested might occur, no Democrats broke with their party. Otherwi
  
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• Romney breaks with Republicans and votes to remove Trump

  05-02-2020 22:56 via cnn.com
  
  Republican Sen. Mitt Romney harshly criticized President Donald Trump on Wednesday over his actions toward Ukraine, saying the President is "guilty of an appalling abuse of public trust" in an emotional speech on the Senate floor.
  
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• Four takeaways from Trump impeachment trial

  05-02-2020 22:56 via news.yahoo.com
  
  President Donald Trump was acquitted Wednesday after a two-week impeachment trial in the Senate.The drama has divided Americans and their institutions and confirmed Trump's tight grip on his Republican Party, while also showcasing the oratorical and other skills of the chief Democratic accuser, Adam Schiff.The trial illustrated the deep fissures that divide Democrats and Republicans in Congress but also those between everyday Americans under the presidency of the norm-shattering billionaire and
  
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• Romney and Trump have a long-running love-hate relationship

  05-02-2020 22:54 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Sen. Mitt Romney’s dramatic speech on Wednesday announcing he would vote to convict President Trump for abuse of power is the latest salvo in a contentious relationship between the two Republican politicians, and will certainly not be the last.
  
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• 'Grey death': Louisiana police say powerful opiod can kill on contact

  05-02-2020 22:54 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Police in Louisiana have issued a warning over 'grey death' - a powerful drug combination that can reportedly cause severe illness and even death through skin contact alone.David Spencer, a spokesperson for St Mary Parish Sheriff’s Office near New Orleans, said: “The public recognises a lot of the drugs that we deal with. This is a new one."
  
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• Trump impeachment news: President tweets video boasting about re-election as Senate votes to acquit president

  05-02-2020 22:52 via news.yahoo.com
  
  The US Senate has acquitted Donald Trump in a historic impeachment vote on Wednesday afternoon, as Utah Republican Mitt Romney broke ranks to join a united Democratic Party in voting to convict the president for wrongdoing over his Ukraine dealings.​The Utah Republican said in a speech on the floor of the Senate that Mr Trump was “guilty of an appalling abuse of public trust”, though he noted the president’s acquittal was nearly all but certain given a Republican majority
  
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• Trump impeachment news – live: President tweets video boasting about re-election as Senate votes to acquit president

  05-02-2020 22:52 via news.yahoo.com
  
  The US Senate has acquitted Donald Trump in a historic impeachment vote on Wednesday afternoon, as Utah Republican Mitt Romney broke tradition by joining a united Democratic Party in voting to convict the president for wrongdoing over his Ukraine dealings.​The Utah Republican said in a speech on the floor of the Senate that Mr Trump was “guilty of an appalling abuse of public trust”, though he noted the president’s acquittal was nearly all but certain given a Republican m
  
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• Bernie Sanders Backed by One-Third of New Hampshire Democrats in Poll

  05-02-2020 22:49 via news.yahoo.com
  
  (Bloomberg) -- Democratic presidential candidate Bernie Sanders holds a comfortable lead before next week’s New Hampshire primary with nearly double the support of Pete Buttigieg and is favored in nearly every subgroup, according to a new Emerson College poll.The Vermont senator leads with 32% in the state, followed by the former South Bend, Indiana, mayor with 17%. Former Vice President Joe Biden was next with 13%, trailed by Senators Amy Klobu
  
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• Every Democrat votes to convict Trump on impeachment charges

  05-02-2020 22:48 via cnn.com
  
  Sen. Mitt Romney said Wednesday he will vote to remove President Donald Trump from office on the House's charge of abuse of power, making the Utah Republican the first senator in US history to vote to convict a president from the same party in an impeachment trial.
  
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• Only a handful of children have been diagnosed with the coronavirus — and experts have a few guesses as to why

  05-02-2020 22:43 via news.yahoo.com
  
  More than 24,000 people have been diagnosed with the new coronavirus. But only a handful are children.
  
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• Astronaut Christina Koch spent a record-breaking 328 days in space. Here's what she did

  05-02-2020 22:42 via cnn.com
  
  NASA astronaut Christina Koch made the most of her first trip to the International Space Station by breaking the record for the longest single spaceflight by a woman and conducting the first all-female spacewalk with fellow NASA astronaut Jessica Meir.
  
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• After impeachment: Storm of investigations, lawsuits awaits President Trump amid reelection bid

  05-02-2020 22:42 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Trump is embroiled in legal battles that could have far-reaching consequences for the balance of power between the executive and legislative branches.
  
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• 2020 Oscars Trivia: From 'Parasite' to Pitt

  05-02-2020 22:40 via cnn.com
  
  Pitt, Pesci, 'Parasite' and more: David Daniel shares some trivia tidbits for this year's Academy Awards.
  
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• This is how ancient Rome's republic died – a classicist sees troubling parallels at Trump's impeachment trial

  05-02-2020 22:39 via news.yahoo.com
  
  The U.S. Senate has made its judgment in the impeachment trial of President Donald Trump, acquitting the president. Fifty two of 53 senators in the Republican majority voted to acquit the president on the abuse of power charge and all 53 Republican senators voted to acquit on the obstruction of Congress charge. Senator Mitt Romney of Utah was the only Republican voting to convict for abuse of power.The Republican senators’ speedy exoneration of Trump marks perhaps the most dramatic step in
  
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• Trump's trial is over but the final verdict is not yet in

  05-02-2020 22:37 via news.yahoo.com
  
  President Donald Trump’s impeachment trial ended on Wednesday with a conclusion that was unsurprising – his acquittal.Opinion polls during the impeachment proceedings suggested little political harm to Trump - opinions among Republicans and Democrats were largely entrenched from the outset.November is also when Republican Party lawmakers in the U.S. Congress, especially those in districts and states that are a toss-up, may learn the political costs of erecting a human wall to block e
  
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• Impeachment done, Pelosi unburdens herself about Trump

  05-02-2020 22:37 via news.yahoo.com
  
  President Donald Trump was gone, the House lights were dimming, and House Speaker Nancy Pelosi looked up to her friends and family in the gallery overhead.The moment showcased Pelosi's sharper, less-restrained approach to the nation's 45th president at the bitter end of the impeachment saga she led.
  
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• Jamie Dimon Sees a President Bernie Sanders as Unlikely But Survivable

  05-02-2020 22:36 via news.yahoo.com
  
  (Bloomberg) -- Bernie Sanders may have performed well in this week’s Iowa caucuses, but it’s still unlikely he’ll be the next U.S. president -- at least according to Jamie Dimon.“I don’t think it’s going to happen,” the JPMorgan Chase & Co. chief executive officer said Wednesday of the Vermont senator, who’s seeking the Democratic nomination. “And he has very strong support, but he’s not anyone’s second or third choice.”
  
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• Hundreds of anti-Trump protests planned nationwide after impeachment acquittal

  05-02-2020 22:35 via news.yahoo.com
  
  More than 200 "Reject the Cover-Up" protests, as they're called, are scheduled to take place at 5:30 p.m. EST in opposition to the expected acquittal.
  
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• The great escape: how Donald Trump survived impeachment

  05-02-2020 22:34 via theguardian.com
  
  How did Trump and his team pull off his successful defense? Here’s a look at key factorsWill historians find Donald Trump’s impeachment remarkable because Republican politicians turned a blind eye to such egregious wrongdoing and acquitted him? Or will they find it remarkable because it was the last time a cadre of Republican officials publicly turned against Trump?While most of the career civil servants who defied the president by testifying in the impeachment inquiry do not publicl
  
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• Impeachment didn't remove Trump. But what if elections won't either?

  05-02-2020 22:34 via news.yahoo.com
  
  A Democratic victory on election day should free us from the chaos of the Trump presidency. But that is far from guaranteedBy all measures, the president was a malicious demagogue with a “taste for public performance”, reviled for his “swaggering vanity”. Many considered him incompetent and unfit for office; some called him mad. He impugned the character of the country’s most famous war hero but was, himself, “exquisitely sensitive to slights, real or perceive
  
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• Trump's acquittal in impeachment 'trial' is a glimpse of America's imploding empire

  05-02-2020 22:33 via news.yahoo.com
  
  In a hyperpartisan era, Republicans cast Trump as a victim while Democrats lamented his ‘normalisation of lawlessness’Donald Trump’s short but indelible political career has been based around the principle of divide-and-fool. His acquittal in the impeachment trial by the US Senate will further fan the flames of the most profound national split since the Vietnam war, perhaps even the civil war.First, expect Trump to be cocky and take a victory lap, falsely claiming “exoner
  
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• Trump impeachment: Republicans say they want to expunge record if they retake the House

  05-02-2020 22:33 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Republicans are reportedly plotting a way to expunge Donald Trump’s impeachment should they regain control of the House of Representatives in 2020.The idea comes on the heels of a months long process that Democrats began last year in the House, and has now led to the acquittal of Mr Trump after he became the third president to be impeached in US history.
  
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• Donald Trump Has Been Acquitted. But Our Government Has Never Seemed More Broken.

  05-02-2020 22:33 via news.yahoo.com
  
  The Senate voted to acquit President Donald Trump. Here's what the vote means for Trump — and the future of our government.
  
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• Biden Adviser Casts Doubt on Iowa Results: Campaign Update

  05-02-2020 22:33 via news.yahoo.com
  
  (Bloomberg) -- A senior adviser to Joe Biden’s campaign raised questions about the results of the Iowa caucus, where the former vice president is currently in fourth place.In an interview on CNN Wednesday, senior adviser Symone Sanders pointed to problems with an app used to tabulate precinct results.Pressed by CNN anchor Brianna Keilar over whether this meant she was contesting the reported results, Sanders demurred, saying she has not “analyzed the back ends of the data.”When
  
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• Senate Republicans Admit Trump Did It but Vote to Acquit Him Anyway

  05-02-2020 22:32 via news.yahoo.com
  
  During the last four months, congressional Democrats pored over thousands of pages of evidence, listened to dozens of hours of testimony and compiled a 300-page report outlining how President Donald J. Trump abused his office when he withheld Ukraine’s military aid in exchange for politically-motivated investigations into Democratic opponents.Through it all, Trump appeared defiant, even calm, in the face of one of the most significant U.S. political storms in modern history. The phone call
  
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• 'A national scandal:' AOC says the US is 'in denial' about the number of Americans actually living in poverty

  05-02-2020 22:30 via news.yahoo.com
  
  "We would have to force ourselves to acknowledge that our systems have failed," Ocasio-Cortez said at a House hearing on measuring poverty.
  
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• The last 2 Democratic Senate holdouts vote to convict Trump

  05-02-2020 22:26 via news.yahoo.com
  
  It won't change the course of the Senate trial's outcome, but the Democrats wound up sticking together during Wednesday's vote.The last two holdouts among Democratic senators, Sens. Joe Manchin (D-W.V.) and Kyrsten Sinema (D-Ariz.), decided they had seen enough to convict President Trump on both abuse of power and obstruction of Congress. Manchin was seen as an especially likely candidate to possibly give Trump a bipartisan acquittal, but he said, in the end, he "reluctantly" reached the conclus
  
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• LIVE RESULTS: Buttigieg and Sanders are neck and neck in the Iowa caucuses as votes continue to trickle in

  05-02-2020 22:24 via news.yahoo.com
  
  After a disastrous meltdown in the Iowa caucus reporting system, the Iowa Democratic Party began finally reporting results Tuesday afternoon.
  
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