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• Facebook Prepares for Wave of Influencer Marketing in Politics

  14-02-2020 23:56 via news.yahoo.com
  
  (Bloomberg) -- Facebook Inc. is trying to clarify how it will handle a new wrinkle in the world of digital political advertising: politicians paying influencers to post on social media platforms like Instagram, which it owns.In the past, political entities were technically barred from offering money for posts, which has become a common practice for marketers. But Facebook is changing its policy after a New York Times report this week about how Michael Bloomberg’s presidential campaign is p
  
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• New accusers emerge after Andrew Yang's wife reveals sexual assault by doctor

  14-02-2020 23:50 via cnn.com
  
  Emilia Heckman trusted Dr. Robert Hadden.
  
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• New accusers emerge after Andrew Yang's wife reveals sexual assault

  14-02-2020 23:50 via cnn.com
  
  Emilia Heckman trusted Dr. Robert Hadden.
  
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• Dozens of accusers emerge after Andrew Yang's wife reveals sexual assault

  14-02-2020 23:50 via cnn.com
  
  Emilia Heckman trusted Dr. Robert Hadden.
  
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• AOC lowers expectations on Medicare for All, admitting Sen. Sanders 'can't wave a magic wand' to pass it

  14-02-2020 23:42 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez said Thursday that if Bernie Sanders was elected president, he still might not be able to get Medicare for All, his signature health plan, passed in Congress.
  
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• Pregnant actresses: 'We're not treated like people'

  14-02-2020 23:37 via bbc.co.uk
  
  The way some actresses are treated is straight out of "the dark ages", says the Equality Commission.
  
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• Klobuchar shifts on immigration before Nevada caucuses

  14-02-2020 23:32 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Democratic presidential candidate Amy Klobuchar says she no longer believes English should be the national language of the U.S., disavowing a vote she took more than a decade ago as she tries to build support in a state where Hispanics make up a critical constituency.Campaigning in Las Vegas, the three-term Minnesota senator said Friday that she has changed her stance since voting for an English-language amendment in 2007 and has "taken a strong position against” it.Klobuchar’s recor
  
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• 'Imminent threat' noticeably absent in White House report justifying Soleimani strike

  14-02-2020 23:24 via cnn.com
  
  The Trump administration has repeatedly insisted that its decision to kill Iranian General Qassem Soleimani was justified because he posed an "imminent threat" to American lives but that phrase was notably absent in an official White House report sent to Congress that outlines the legal and policy rationale for conducting last month's strike.
  
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• For military personnel, 'mere membership' in a neo-Nazi group 'is not prohibited,' say military officials

  14-02-2020 23:19 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Merely being a member of a white-supremacist group while serving in the military is not grounds for investigation or discharge, officials say.
  
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• The Japanese government gave 2,000 iPhones to passengers stuck on a cruise ship where nearly 200 coronavirus cases have been confirmed

  14-02-2020 23:16 via news.yahoo.com
  
  The iPhones have an app that allows passengers to request medication, chat with doctors, and receive information from health officials.
  
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• Chinese national faces prison after being detained at Mar-a-Lago

  14-02-2020 23:14 via news.yahoo.com
  
  A Chinese woman found guilty of resisting arrest on President Donald Trump’s Mar-a-Lago property was sentenced to six months in prison on Friday.Jing Lu was ultimately acquitted of the trespassing charge against her, but will go to prison for “resisting” officers during the December incident.
  
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• U.S. renews pressure on China to join nuclear talks

  14-02-2020 23:11 via news.yahoo.com
  
  The United States on Friday renewed pressure on China to join nuclear arms control talks with Washington and Moscow, seeking to overcome Beijing's long-standing opposition to entering such a dialogue.
  
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• Sex trafficking charges against a dad: How does this happen?

  14-02-2020 23:06 via cnn.com
  
  What to make of the story of the man arrested and accused of exploiting and abusing his daughter's friends and former roommates at Sarah Lawrence College? It's shocking, certainly — and in more ways than one.
  
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• Who is Mexico's president? Ummm... say Democratic candidates

  14-02-2020 23:02 via news.yahoo.com
  
  He is the president of a top US trading and security partner but two of the Democratic candidates for the White House couldn't name the leader of Mexico.Asked in a Nevada election forum Thursday held by the Telemundo channel and the League of United Latin American Citizens, neither Amy Klobuchar nor Tom Steyer could recall the name of the leader of America's immediate neighbor to the south: Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador."I forgot," said billionaire Steyer, when asked if he could name Mexico's pres
  
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• Military-trained border agents being sent to US cities for immigration arrests

  14-02-2020 23:00 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Donald Trump's administration plans to add military-trained and heavily armed and armoured border patrol agents to support immigration crackdowns in US cities in the country's interior.Administration officials confirmed to the New York Times that US Customs and Border Protection plans to magnify Immigration and Customs Enforcement operations with 100 agents trained to work in violent, high-risk conditions along the US-Mexico border to support what are otherwise routine arrests for people without
  
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• ‘I Think People Will Starve.’ Experts Are Worried About the Hundreds of Thousands Who Could Lose Food Stamps Come April

  14-02-2020 23:00 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Kate Maehr’s job is about to get a lot harder. Maehr runs a food bank that’s part of a network distributing nearly 200,000 meals around…
  
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• America's Military Fears A War At The Korean DMZ For Good Reason

  14-02-2020 23:00 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Electric fences, armed guards, artillery, and more.
  
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• Bernie Sanders allegedly pranked by Russian posing as Greta Thunberg

  14-02-2020 22:58 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Russian pranksters claim they called U.S. Democratic presidential candidate Bernie Sanders pretending to be climate activist Greta Thunberg and offered Thunberg's support to his campaign.
  
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• A major US ally in the Pacific wants to scrap an important military deal with the US, and that may give China an edge

  14-02-2020 22:57 via news.yahoo.com
  
  The Philippines wants to end the Visiting Forces Agreement it has with the US. A similar move in the '90s gave Beijing an edge in the South China Sea.
  
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• Harrison Ford will start filming new Indiana Jones movie sooner than you might think

  14-02-2020 22:55 via cnn.com
  
  The man who plays Indiana Jones and is ready for his next crusade.
  
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• New York Mayor de Blasio endorses Sanders in 2020 Democratic race

  14-02-2020 22:50 via news.yahoo.com
  
  New York Mayor Bill de Blasio endorsed U.S. Senator Bernie Sanders in the 2020 Democratic presidential race on Friday, the Sanders campaign said.De Blasio, a liberal who dropped out of the Democratic contest in September, will travel with Sanders on Sunday and Monday to Nevada, which holds its caucuses on Feb. 22, a campaign announcement said.The endorsement comes after Sanders, who was born in New York but represents Vermont in the U.S. Senate, came out of the first nominating contests in Iowa
  
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• Army Secretary: No investigation into Vindman, Army aide and impeachment witness fired by Trump

  14-02-2020 22:47 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Vindman, an impeachment witness fired from the White House by Trump, will have interim assignment before enrolling at a senior service war college.
  
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• Truck spilling cement on roadway causes 'violent crash,' killing 2

  14-02-2020 22:46 via news.yahoo.com
  
  A driver traveling northbound drove over the wet mortar, jumped the median and hit a car going southbound, police said.
  
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• Syrian chopper downed over rebel area, killing crew

  14-02-2020 22:45 via news.yahoo.com
  
  A Syrian military helicopter was shot down over the last major rebel bastion in northwest Syria on Friday, the second such incident in a week of high tensions with Turkey.The attack in a region where Turkish troops and Russian-backed government forces have engaged in multiple clashes came as Washington urged Ankara to look to its Western allies in light of Moscow's actions.Syrian and Russian forces have pressed a deadly offensive against the shrinking pocket in the country's northwest since Dece
  
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• Queer activists escorted out of Pete Buttigieg event in San Francisco – video

  14-02-2020 22:44 via theguardian.com
  
  Queer activists were met with chants of ‘Boot-Edge-Edge’ after they disrupted a private fundraiser for Pete Buttigieg in San Francisco on Friday evening. The activists, escorted out of the event, reflected unease among the LBGTQ+ community over the Buttigieg campaignQueer activists disrupt Pete Buttigieg event in San Francisco: ‘We deserve better’ Continue reading...
  
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• Experts weigh in on how coronavirus may, or may not, run rampant in US in coming months

  14-02-2020 22:42 via news.yahoo.com
  
  The coronavirus, officially known as COVID-19, has infected more than 60,000, killed over 1,300 and terrified millions. In the United States, residents wait with bated breath as new cases of infected Americans arise. Also worth noting is that more than 7,000 patients diagnosed with the virus have recovered, according to data from Johns Hopkins University.On Thursday, the 15th U.S. case of coronavirus was confirmed by the Center for Disease Control (CDC) after a patient returned from China to Tex
  
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• More than 1,700 healthcare workers in Wuhan have gotten the coronavirus. A study found that 29% of infections were in medical staff.

  14-02-2020 22:30 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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• In interview, Klobuchar, Steyer can't name Mexican president

  14-02-2020 22:30 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Democratic presidential hopefuls Amy Klobuchar and Tom Steyer were stumped when asked during a televised interview in Nevada to name the Mexican president.Klobuchar, Steyer and fellow 2020 candidate Pete Buttigieg were asked during one-on-one interviews with the Spanish-language station Telemundo on Thursday night if they knew the name of the president whose country borders the U.S. It is Andrés Manuel López Obrador, who took office in December 2018.Buttigieg, the former mayor of S
  
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• EXCLUSIVE-Senior China diplomat concedes challenge of coronavirus, slams 'overreaction'

  14-02-2020 22:29 via news.yahoo.com
  
  A top Chinese official acknowledged on Friday that the new coronavirus is a deep challenge to the country, but defended Beijing's management of the epidemic while lashing out at the "overreaction" of other countries. In a wide-ranging interview with Reuters in the German capital, State Councillor Wang Yi, who also serves as China's foreign minister, urged the United States not to take unnecessary virus-response measures that could hamper trade, travel and tourism.
  
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• AOC lowers expectations on Medicare for All, admitting Sanders 'can't wave a magic wand' to pass it

  14-02-2020 22:29 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez said Thursday that if Bernie Sanders was elected president, he still might not be able to get Medicare for All, his signature health plan, passed in Congress.
  
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• Trump's 'Deep State' conspiracy theory just took a big hit

  14-02-2020 22:27 via cnn.com
  
  President Donald Trump is deeply invested in the idea that there is a "Deep State" embedded within the government bureaucracy -- and centered in the Department of Justice -- which actively worked to defeat him in 2016 and then sought to undermine him once he won the presidency.
  
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• ISIS is bigger now than when it first formed, and Trump's conflict with Iran could give it a boost

  14-02-2020 22:26 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Trump's conflict with Iran has taken attention away from ISIS while the terror organization shows strong signs of resilience.
  
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• Trump pushed U.S. and Iran 'close to the brink,' Iran's Zarif tells NBC News

  14-02-2020 22:25 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Zarif also says Iran can't decipher the black box from a Ukraine plane shot down by Iran without help, but won't hand it over to the U.S. or others.
  
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• Step into the world of America's most notorious gangster

  14-02-2020 22:25 via cnn.com
  
  At first glance, the building looks like others in downtown Chicago. Home today to Harry Caray's Italian Steakhouse, its exterior is punctuated by a bright neon sign; for fans of Major League Baseball and the restaurant's namesake, this is a destination.
  
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• Best Washing Machines of 2020

  14-02-2020 22:17 via news.yahoo.com
  
  For most of us, doing laundry is a chore. But for Consumer Reports’ testers, it’s a mission. Our laundry lab hums year-round as the testers work to determine the best models for every budget and ...
  
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• Oracle employees are protesting Larry Ellison's planned fundraiser for Trump: 'His alliance with this ignoble and destructive figure damages our company culture'

  14-02-2020 22:06 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Oracle employees protested Larry Ellison's fundraiser for Trump, blasting the tech titan's "alliance with this ignoble and destructive figure."
  
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• Venezuelan president says arrest of opposition leader Juan Guaidó 'will come'

  14-02-2020 21:58 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro said Friday that authorities haven't detained opposition leader Juan Guaidó because the courts haven’t ordered it, but he warned: “It will come.”
  
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• Barr Orders Flynn Review, Adding to Uproar Over Political Cases

  14-02-2020 21:52 via news.yahoo.com
  
  (Bloomberg) -- Attorney General William Barr has ordered a review of the prosecution against Donald Trump’s former National Security Advisor Michael Flynn, adding to a series of interventions this week in politically sensitive cases tied to the president.Barr has appointed U.S. Attorney Jeffrey Jensen to examine the case against Flynn and potentially other matters, according to a person familiar with the decision.Flynn, who stepped down after less than a month as national security adviser,
  
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• NASA missions could uncover secrets on Venus, Io and Triton

  14-02-2020 21:40 via cnn.com
  
  In order to further explore our solar system, NASA has chosen four proposals for missions that would investigate Venus, Jupiter's moon Io and Neptune's moon Trident. If chosen, NASA would develop the missions.
  
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• Two Years Later, Don’t Misplace Blame for Parkland

  14-02-2020 21:39 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Two years ago, 17 people died in a mass shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School, in Parkland, Fla. In the intervening years, both those who survived it and those who observed it from afar have tried to figure out how something so terrible could have happened.That is understandable. Unfortunately, the tone of public debate on this matter was set early, and unhelpfully, on just one subject: gun control. The morning after the shooting, Parkland school superintendent Robert Runcie said that
  
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• First a trade war. Now coronavirus. The roller coaster life of a US farmer.

  14-02-2020 21:39 via news.yahoo.com
  
  A U.S.-China trade deal allays Farm Belt worries, but coronavirus and swine flu in China are also affecting exports for farmers like Andy Stickel.
  
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• Bernie Sanders pranked by Russians posing as Greta Thunberg

  14-02-2020 21:32 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Russian pranksters claim they called U.S. Democratic presidential candidate Bernie Sanders pretending to be climate activist Greta Thunberg and offered Thunberg's support to his campaign.Vladimir Kuznetsov and Alexey Stolyarov, who have fooled many high-profile victims around the world, posted a recording of the phone call on YouTube on Thursday.The call itself took place in early December, but the duo decided to release it more than two months later because of Sanders' success in Iowa and New H
  
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• 'An introvert's dream': Here's what it's like for passengers on board the quarantined coronavirus cruise

  14-02-2020 21:32 via news.yahoo.com
  
  The Diamond Princess cruise ship is currently under a 14-day quarantine, where Cheryl and Paul Molesky have been posting regular vlogs.
  
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• Mississippi gave $2M in welfare money to wrestler's group

  14-02-2020 21:31 via news.yahoo.com
  
  DiBiase is the father of a man recently indicted on charges of embezzling federal welfare money from the state.Ted DiBiase Sr. himself hasn't been indicted.The Clarion Ledger reported that DiBiase's Heart of David Ministries had a contract with the Mississippi Department of Human Services for a subgrant of Temporary Assistance to Needy Families funds.
  
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• This isn't America say French politicians, after candidate quits in sex scandal

  14-02-2020 21:29 via cnn.com
  
  The French do not care about the extramarital affairs of their politicians; but they do care about being told that they should.
  
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• Paris mayoral candidate drops out over sex video scandal

  14-02-2020 21:29 via cnn.com
  
  The French do not care about the extramarital affairs of their politicians; but they do care about being told that they should.
  
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• Wife Slams White Supremacist Husband Accused of Kidnapping Her: He Has ‘Charles Manson-like Mind Control’

  14-02-2020 21:25 via news.yahoo.com
  
  The wife of white supremacist Augustus Sol Invictus, who is accused of kidnapping his spouse and their two children in December, railed against her husband at his Friday bail hearing, calling him a “master manipulator” with “Charles Manson-like mind control” over his followers.Invictus, 36, who legally changed his name from Austin Gillespie, has been charged with kidnapping and aggravated domestic violence for allegedly forcing his wife, Anna Invictus, at gunpoint to trav
  
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• Chinstrap penguins are starving to death in Antarctica as the temperature hits record highs.

  14-02-2020 21:25 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Here are six photos that show how researchers are studying the crisis among penguins as the planet continues to warm.
  
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• Would Bernie Sanders really wreck the US economy if he became President?

  14-02-2020 21:24 via news.yahoo.com
  
  This week Bernie Sanders, fresh from his victory in the Democratic primary in New Hampshire, was attacked by a vampire squid.Or rather he was attacked by the former boss of that Wall Street banking vampire squid (that’s how it was described by Rolling Stone magazine) known as Goldman Sachs.
  
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• Barr privately ordered re-examination of Michael Flynn's case, US officials say

  14-02-2020 21:23 via cnn.com
  
  • Barr's stunning Trump rebuke sparks debate over motives
  • Trump and Bloomberg in Twitter spat
  
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