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• Trump 'fine' with end of Philippines military pact

  12-02-2020 23:58 via news.yahoo.com
  
  US President Donald Trump dismissed concerns Wednesday about the Philippines canceling a major military accord, saying the decision would save Americans money.The 1998 Visiting Forces Agreement (VFA) created a legal framework for the presence of US troops in the Philippines and for organizing joint military exercises.Manila announced its decision Tuesday -- a move the US embassy in the Philippines called a "serious step" -- touching off a six-month countdown to the end of the deal.
  
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• Trump's impeachment lesson: Democrats are 'crooked'

  12-02-2020 23:53 via cnn.com
  
  • Analysis: Trump's conduct is so gallingly unpresidentlal, it's historic
  • Analysis: Susan Collins' Trump defense keeps looking worse and worse
  
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• Trump says Bernie Sanders is the Democratic frontrunner after strong showings in Iowa, New Hampshire

  12-02-2020 23:46 via news.yahoo.com
  
  "It would certainly seem that Bernie Sanders has the advantage right now," Donald Trump said on Wednesday, after Sanders won New Hampshire's primary.
  
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• Can a blood pressure drug help ease the painful memory of an ex?

  12-02-2020 23:35 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Clinical psychologist Alain Brunet has come up with an innovative treatment for "romantic betrayal".
  
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• A 'humiliated' 5th-grader withdrew from school after her teacher asked if she was in a relationship with another girl — as their entire class watched

  12-02-2020 23:35 via news.yahoo.com
  
  The teacher reportedly asked her in front of the entire class whether they were dating. She's spending the rest of the year in homeschooling.
  
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• More than 500 healthcare workers in Wuhan have gotten the coronavirus. One study found that 29% of infections were in medical staff.

  12-02-2020 23:29 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Medical workers fighting the new coronavirus, called COVID-19, face resource shortages and a high risk of infection.
  
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• Exclusive: More drawings allege CIA's horrific treatment of Abu Zubaydah

  12-02-2020 23:29 via cnn.com
  
  They shock the conscience.
  
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• How the Army could end Vindman's career without an investigation

  12-02-2020 23:27 via news.yahoo.com
  
  The Army is not investigating Lt. Col. Alexander Vindman for testifying during the House impeachment inquiry despite President Trump's wishes. But an anonymous retired senior Army officer told The Daily Beast that doesn't necessarily meant the coast is clear for the Purple Heart recipient.For starters, the Army could always change its mind and wind up launching an investigation into whether his testimony was appropriate. But there's also a chance his career may hit a wall. If Vindman is denied a
  
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• After impeachment: Congress adrift, oversight uncertain

  12-02-2020 23:23 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Inside the Capitol, it’s as if the impeachment of President Donald Trump never happened.One week after the historic undertaking shuttered to a close, Congress is feverishly back at work emboldened but also arguably diminished by the outcome.Senate Republicans are flexing their new status as Trump’s unshakable allies, hitching their election pursuits to his and looking the other away as the president seems to dole out favoritism for friends and payback for critics with apparent impuni
  
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• Sanders in talks with DNC to headline big-dollar fundraiser

  12-02-2020 23:20 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Bernie Sanders is in talks with the Democratic National Committee to headline the first of two party fundraisers, where he will likely appear before the same big-dollar donors that he has repeatedly railed against on the campaign trail.A DNC official confirmed the conversations on Wednesday.While establishment leaders have raised alarms about Sanders' far-left candidacy in recent weeks, the strong finishes in the two opening contests of the 2020 primary season all but ensure he will be a force i
  
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• Reports: Trump donor accused of spying on Yovanovitch hands 'everything' to Congress

  12-02-2020 23:18 via news.yahoo.com
  
  A donor to President Trump who was accused of “stalking” the former ambassador to Ukraine at the behest of Rudy Giuliani’s associates has provided documents to Congress as it opens its investigation into the ousting of Marie Yovanovitch, a crucial witness in the president’s impeachment.
  
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• Enslaved labor built these universities. Now they are starting to repay the debt

  12-02-2020 23:17 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Eastern universities are researching their pasts, educating themselves and others about their role in perpetuating slavery.
  
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• Nevada's most powerful labor union warns workers about Bernie Sanders' health care plan

  12-02-2020 23:08 via news.yahoo.com
  
  At the top of the Culinary Union's presidential asks is to maintain the robust health care plans members have fought hard to negotiate and win.
  
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• Astronaut reflects on her record-breaking mission: 'Do what scares you'

  12-02-2020 23:05 via cnn.com
  
  NASA astronaut Christina Koch returned to Earth last Thursday after a record-breaking 328 days in space, the longest single spaceflight by a woman. The first thing she did was relish the special aspects of home, like reuniting with her dog, eating her favorite foods and taking a family trip to the beach, Koch said during a press conference Wednesday.
  
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• Trump reportedly spent important policy meetings grilling Reince Priebus about badgers

  12-02-2020 23:02 via news.yahoo.com
  
  President Trump reportedly took badgering to a new — and very literal — level when working with Reince Priebus.Before his brief tenure as Trump's chief of staff, Priebus grew up in Wisconsin, went to college there, and eventually became the chair of its Republican party. Trump apparently found Priebus' badger background especially interesting, and he often spent meetings questioning Priebus about Wisconsin's official animal, The Daily Beast's Lachlan Markay and Asawin Suebsaeng repor
  
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• A Long-Time India Bull Falls In With the Bears

  12-02-2020 23:00 via news.yahoo.com
  
  (Bloomberg) -- A long-time India bull, which recommended the country’s stocks even at the height of an emerging-market sell-off in 2018, just fell in with the bears.WisdomTree Investments Inc., with $64 billion under management, says it hasn’t lost faith in the country’s growth story, but it’s concerned rising political and social tensions will delay an economic recovery from the slowest pace of growth in six years. That contrasts with the asset manager’s earlier st
  
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• Mother with mental health symptoms died in jail from 'torturous' neglect, lawsuit claims

  12-02-2020 22:54 via news.yahoo.com
  
  "The police arrived before an ambulance," the suit says. "This fact set in motion a tragic series of events that led Damaris ... to her eventual death."
  
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• Don't look back, Bernie — Bloomberg is gaining on you

  12-02-2020 22:54 via news.yahoo.com
  
  The problem with the argument that Bloomberg isn’t running a real campaign with real supporters, however, is that it isn’t true. And progressives — particularly those who want Sanders to win the Democratic nomination — ignore that at their peril.
  
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• Italy's populist leader could face kidnapping charges over treatment of migrants

  12-02-2020 22:42 via cnn.com
  
  The leader of Italy's popular populist party, Senator Matteo Salvini, has lost his legal immunity from a criminal investigation and potential trial over his 2019 treatment of a group of migrants.
  
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• Just 'Mayor Pete'? -- Trump struggles for killer nickname

  12-02-2020 22:41 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Donald Trump likes to coin disparaging nicknames for his political opponents -- but so far, he hasn't quite hit the mark with rising young Democrat Pete Buttigieg.Is it perhaps that Trump doesn't see "Mayor Pete" as a credible opponent?
  
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• Trump shrugged off the Philippines' decision to scrap a defense pact with U.S.

  12-02-2020 22:39 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Defense Secretary Mark Esper is a little concerned about the Philippines' decision to scrap a defense pact with the United States, but his boss thinks it's no big deal.The Visiting Forces Agreement was signed in 1998, allowing U.S. troops, ships, and aircraft to visit the Philippines and train soldiers, conduct joint exercises, and assist with counterterrorism efforts. But Filipino President Rodrigo Duterte has been pivoting away from the U.S. and toward China since he took office, so it's no su
  
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• Army Isn’t Investigating Lt. Col. Vindman, Despite Trump’s Tweets

  12-02-2020 22:30 via news.yahoo.com
  
  The Army officer and former National Security Council staffer who testified in the impeachment inquiry is not under Army investigation, a knowledgeable Defense Department official told The Daily Beast. But veteran Army officers caution that the lack of an investigation does not necessarily mean Lt. Col. Alexander Vindman has escaped reprisal. Ever since Vindman was escorted out of the White House on Friday, along with his twin brother, there has been intense speculation over the future
  
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• Prominent Elizabeth Warren supporter says 'she's done' after poor N.H. results

  12-02-2020 22:24 via news.yahoo.com
  
  A high-profile supporter of Massachusetts Sen. Elizabeth Warren was point-blank with criticism as the candidate’s disappointing results rolled in primary night in New Hampshire.
  
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• Three Democrats end their 2020 bids in about 12 hours. Here's why it matters

  12-02-2020 22:21 via news.yahoo.com
  
  For the first time in almost a year, the Democratic presidential race is at only eight candidates.
  
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• I only spent about 30 minutes with Samsung's new foldable flip phone, but I'm convinced Motorola should be worried

  12-02-2020 22:07 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Samsung is bringing back the flip phone as a foldable smartphone in 2020. Here's what it's like to use it.
  
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• Barr sets March 31 congressional testimony amid Roger Stone controversy

  12-02-2020 22:05 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Attorney General William Barr is headed back to Congress. Barr is set to testify before the House Judiciary Committee next month, the committee announced Wednesday. In a letter, Democratic members of the committee say they plan to discuss concerns about "the misuse of our criminal justice system for political purposes."This comes a day after all four prosecutors involved in the Roger Stone case quit when the Department of Justice backed off its sentencing recommendation of seven to nine years fo
  
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• Secret Service ordered to reveal how much it has paid to Trump's private company

  12-02-2020 22:04 via news.yahoo.com
  
  House Democrats are demanding to see documentation following reports in The Washington Post that the Trump Organisation is charging the Secret Service rates of up to $650 per night to stay at its properties.The disturbing reports of “exorbitant charges” at President Donald Trump’s private clubs and resorts, and the administration’s failure to disclose the amount of taxpayer dollars being spent at these private properties, are the subject of a letter (PDF) sent to James Mu
  
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• Trump Denies Meddling in Stone Case and Then Scolds Prosecutors

  12-02-2020 22:01 via news.yahoo.com
  
  (Bloomberg) -- President Donald Trump denied meddling in his former associate Roger Stone’s criminal prosecution, saying that tweets he issued about the case don’t amount to political interference.Four federal prosecutors resigned from the Stone case on Tuesday after the Justice Department reversed a recommendation for a seven-to-nine-year prison sentence for Stone. He was convicted of lying to Congress and other charges stemming from Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s investigat
  
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• Barr to testify to House panel over accusations of Trump's 'improper influence'

  12-02-2020 21:57 via cnn.com
  
  • Analysis: Susan Collins' defense of Trump vote keeps looking worse and worse
  
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• BlackRock, Fidelity Form Argentina Bondholder Group Ahead of Talks

  12-02-2020 21:56 via news.yahoo.com
  
  (Bloomberg) -- Some of Argentina’s largest creditors are forming a bondholder group as South America’s second-largest economy teeters on the edge of default.Money managers including BlackRock Inc. and Fidelity Investments launched a committee focused on the nation’s sovereign debt, according to people familiar with the matter. White & Case LLP is legal adviser, the people said. White & Case’s Ian Clark, a veteran restructuring adviser, visited Buenos Aires this we
  
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• 12 notable airlines have gone out of business in the last 14 months — here's the full list

  12-02-2020 21:56 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Fuel costs, increasing competition from low-cost carriers, and political uncertainty have all contributed to recent airline bankruptcies.
  
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• Hilton closes 150 hotels in China due to the coronavirus. But US hotels seeing effects, too

  12-02-2020 21:55 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Hilton has closed about 150 of its hotels in China amid the growing coronavirus crisis, and its impact on the hotel industry may be just beginning.
  
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• Voters approve of Romney's impeachment vote to convict Trump 50%-39%, poll finds

  12-02-2020 21:53 via news.yahoo.com
  
  The Utah senator's vote marked the first time in U.S. history a senator voted to convict a president from his own party in an impeachment trial.
  
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• Uber riders livestream nightmare ride

  12-02-2020 21:51 via cnn.com
  
  Two Uber passengers shared this video of them begging their driver to let them out after he got rear-ended and attempted to chase down the driver that hit him.
  
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• Trump says the lesson he learned from impeachment is that 'Democrats are crooked'

  12-02-2020 21:50 via news.yahoo.com
  
  It turns out Sen. Susan Collins (R-Maine) was right — President Trump said he did, in fact, learn some lessons from his impeachment.Trump was asked Wednesday if he had any takeaways from the experience now that he's been acquitted and he certainly did, though his answer was probably not quite what Collins had in mind when she said she believed the process would prove to be a teachable moment for the commander-in-chief. The president said, first and foremost, he learned congressional Democr
  
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• $202 million Mega Millions winning lottery ticket sold in New Jersey

  12-02-2020 21:47 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Only one lottery ticket matched all six numbers in Tuesday night's $202 million Mega Millions drawing and that ticket was sold in New Jersey.
  
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• Coronavirus updates: Some test kits sent to states were flawed, CDC says

  12-02-2020 21:40 via news.yahoo.com
  
  As the death toll in mainland China reaches 1,113, here is the latest news.
  
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• Trump is undermining American justice with the help of a well-placed accomplice

  12-02-2020 21:34 via cnn.com
  
  • Power play reveals a presidency unleashed
  
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• 8 Republicans join Democrats in vote to limit Trump's military powers in Iran

  12-02-2020 21:34 via news.yahoo.com
  
  The Senate voted 51-45 on Wednesday to limit President Trump from pursuing military action in Iran without congressional approval.Eight Republicans sided with all Democrats to approve Sen. Tim Kaine's (D-Va.) resolution. Sens. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.), Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.), and Amy Klobuchar (D-Minn.) didn't vote as they were likely on the presidential campaign trail, and recent 2020 dropout Sen. Michael Bennet (D-Colo.) didn't vote either.President Trump tweeted earlier Wednesday to encoura
  
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• Bipartisan group of senators to meet with Ukrainian president

  12-02-2020 21:31 via politico.com
  
  The trip comes soon after Trump was acquitted in an impeachment trial that centered on his pressure campaign against Ukraine.
  
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• Haftar's forces ban U.N. from using Tripoli airport

  12-02-2020 21:27 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Eastern forces loyal to Khalifa Haftar will not allow the United Nations to use the only functioning airport in the capital Tripoli which they have been trying to take in a campaign, a force spokesman said on Wednesday.Force spokesman Ahmed Mismari told reporters the U.N. would have to use other airports such as Misrata because it could not guarantee the safety of flights into Tripoli Mitiga airport as Turkey was using it as base.The U.N. mission to Libya earlier on Wednesday accused Haftar's fo
  
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• Trump says he does not mind if Philippines cuts military pact with U.S.

  12-02-2020 21:22 via news.yahoo.com
  
  U.S. President Donald Trump said on Wednesday he did not mind Philippines President Rodrigo Duterte's decision to end a decades-old military agreement with the United States, a position at odds with that of his defense secretary who viewed the move with dismay.Duterte on Tuesday announced termination of the two-decade-old Visiting Forces Agreement (VFA).U.S. Defense Secretary Mark Esper called the decision "unfortunate" as Washington and its allies press China to abide by "international rules" i
  
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• Coronavirus 'to take a foothold' in US warn experts

  12-02-2020 21:14 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Health experts have warned that the new coronavirus, which has killed at more than 1,100 people and made ill a further 45,000 globally, is will likely “take a foothold in the US”.As officials said the number of new cases in China appeared to have stabilised, experts at the centres for disease control (CDC) said they were preparing for the disease to spread here.
  
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• 2 police officers serving attempted murder warrant shot in Baltimore; suspect dead

  12-02-2020 21:11 via news.yahoo.com
  
  One officer was shot in the leg and the other was shot in the stomach, but the injuries were not life-threatening.
  
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• We tried out the Galaxy Z Flip phone. Samsung could be onto something

  12-02-2020 21:07 via cnn.com
  
  A week ago, it'd be easy to dismiss foldable smartphones as a trend that never became a full-on fad. After all, Samsung's Galaxy Fold model, at nearly $2,000, famously broke for early reviewers, and the newly-launched $1,500 Motorola RAZR flip phone -- twice the cost of an iPhone 11 -- touts mostly lackluster features, including a small battery and plastic screen.
  
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• A DC elementary school accidentally gave the wrong second-grader to a child-welfare worker

  12-02-2020 21:07 via news.yahoo.com
  
  A child-welfare worker arrived at an elementary school last month to pick up a young student. The school brought out the wrong 8-year-old.
  
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• Argentina and IMF discuss debt in shadow of 2001 crisis

  12-02-2020 21:04 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Argentina has been here before: recession, growing poverty, high inflation, billions of dollars in debt, a looming deadline for repayment and simmering anger toward the International Monetary Fund.This is a big week for one of Latin America's biggest economies, which is hosting an IMF team for talks on restructuring $44 billion in debt owed to the lender.All involved are anxious to avoid a replay of 2001, when Argentina defaulted on about $100 billion in debt during the worst economic crisis &md
  
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• South America’s Top Economies Seek to Heal Diplomatic Wounds

  12-02-2020 20:59 via news.yahoo.com
  
  (Bloomberg) -- Argentina’s President Alberto Fernandez will meet Brazilian counterpart Jair Bolsonaro in March for the first time, in a sign that both governments are working to overcome recent bad blood.The pair will meet March 1 at the swearing-in for Uruguay’s new president, Argentina’s Foreign Affairs Minister Felipe Sola told reporters Wednesday following talks with Bolsonaro in Brasilia. It was Bolsonaro who proposed the get-together, Sola said, adding that Bolsonaro had
  
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• Ukrainian Political Shake-up Involves Figures in U.S. Impeachment

  12-02-2020 20:48 via news.yahoo.com
  
  MOSCOW -- Ukraine's president, Volodymyr Zelenskiy, fired his chief of staff Tuesday in a personnel shake-up affecting central figures on the Ukrainian side of the events leading to the impeachment trial of President Donald Trump.The shuffle in Kyiv, the Ukrainian capital, offered fresh evidence of how deeply entangled Ukrainian and American politics have become.The new chief of staff, Andriy Yermak, negotiated last summer with Trump's personal lawyer, Rudy Giuliani, as Giuliani and Trump pressu
  
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• Coronavirus outbreak 'could still go in any direction', says WHO director – video

  12-02-2020 20:41 via theguardian.com
  
  The World Health Organization director general, Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, said at a briefing on Wednesday that although the number of newly confirmed cases of coronavirus reported from China had stabilised over the past week, the outbreak 'could still go in any direction'. He also confirmed that Cambodia has agreed to accept the Westerdam cruise ship, which has been stranded at sea for several days over virus fears
  Coronavirus: first case confirmed in London as 83 quarantined in Wirral test ne
  
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