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• Biden calls on Sanders to take accountability for supporters' threats

  15-02-2020 23:58 via news.yahoo.com
  
  The message comes after the powerful Culinary Workers Union said supporters of the Vermont senator had “viciously attacked” its members.
  
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• Biden calls on Sanders to take accountability for supporters' threats

  15-02-2020 23:58 via nbcnews.com
  
  The message comes after the powerful Culinary Workers Union said supporters of the Vermont senator had “viciously attacked” its members.
  
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• Joe Biden, grilled on Obama-era record of putting children in 'cages,' argues 'we kept them safe'

  15-02-2020 23:53 via foxnews.com
  
  Former Vice President Joe Biden was grilled on Friday about the Obama administration’s record of detaining migrant children in what activists have described as “cages” -- with the 2020 hopeful claiming the government did it to keep them “safe.”
  
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• Trump headlining most expensive fundraiser of his presidency at billionaire's home

  15-02-2020 23:51 via cnn.com
  
  President Donald Trump on Saturday night will headline the most expensive fundraiser of his presidency at the Palm Beach, Florida, home of billionaire Nelson Peltz, two Republicans familiar with the event said.
  
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• Trump a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity for conservatives

  15-02-2020 23:47 via cnn.com
  
  While it may be easy to dismiss a significant number of President Donald Trump's supporters as members of a worshipful cult of celebrity, underneath that storyline is a stark policy reality -- one that's inadequately understood and reported on. In Trump, politically conservative America has a once-in-a-generation opportunity to fundamentally alter the direction of the nation.
  
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• Conservatives see a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity in Trump

  15-02-2020 23:47 via cnn.com
  
  While it may be easy to dismiss a significant number of President Donald Trump's supporters as members of a worshipful cult of celebrity, underneath that storyline is a stark policy reality -- one that's inadequately understood and reported on. In Trump, politically conservative America has a once-in-a-generation opportunity to fundamentally alter the direction of the nation.
  
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• Pentagon to extend availability of 4 military bases to help with coronavirus efforts: official

  15-02-2020 23:44 via foxnews.com
  
  The Pentagon on Saturday extended the availability of four military installations to act as temporary housing through March 15 in an effort to help the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) manage the novel coronavirus, now known as COVID-19.
  
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• 'Wholly inappropriate' quarantine practices may have helped spread coronavirus on the Diamond Princess cruise ship, experts say

  15-02-2020 23:39 via news.yahoo.com
  
  "They've basically trapped a bunch of people in a large container with [the] virus," one epidemiologist said.
  
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• 12-year-old girl abducted from hospital by armed grandmother, police say

  15-02-2020 23:39 via nbcnews.com
  
  The 66-year-old grandmother struck a security guard with a minivan she was driving before making an escape with her granddaughter.
  
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• 'Holding me hostage': Tensions high for Americans on quarantined cruise ship

  15-02-2020 23:35 via nbcnews.com
  
  “They’re absolutely holding me hostage and treating me like a prisoner when I did nothing wrong,” Karey Maniscalco told NBC News.
  
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• Mali violence: At least 40 killed in spate of violence

  15-02-2020 23:29 via bbc.co.uk
  
  The west African country has been blighted by ethnic and Islamist violence in recent years.
  
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• Woman posed as photographer to steal newborn, police say

  15-02-2020 23:26 via nbcnews.com
  
  During the suspect's visits to the victim's home, she was seen taking selfies with the baby and wiping her fingerprints from items she touched. On the third visit, she drugged the mom, police say.
  
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• DNC announces debate qualification threshold for South Carolina

  15-02-2020 23:19 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Candidates will need to win one delegate in the first three states or poll above 10 percent to make the South Carolina debate state.
  
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• Passenger from Holland America cruise ship diagnosed with coronavirus after disembarking: reports

  15-02-2020 23:15 via news.yahoo.com
  
  An 83-year-old American who disembarked from Holland America's MS Westerdam in Cambodia reportedly has tested positive for coronavirus in Malaysia.
  
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• Air strikes on Yemen kill 31 civilians after Saudi jet crash

  15-02-2020 23:15 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Thirty-one people were killed in air strikes on Yemen Saturday, the United Nations said, the victims of an apparent Saudi-led retaliation after Iran-backed Huthi rebels claimed to have shot down one of its jets.The deadly violence follows an upsurge in fighting in northern Yemen between the warring parties that threatens to worsen the war-battered country's humanitarian crisis."Preliminary field reports indicate that on 15 February as many as 31 civilians were killed and 12 others injured in str
  
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• Man attacks daughter and her teen sister with machete, police say

  15-02-2020 23:10 via cnn.com
  
  A South Florida man is in police custody after he attacked and severely injured his 10-year-old daughter and her teenage sister with a machete, police said.
  
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• Blame America For Russia's City-Destroying TOS-1 Buratino Mortar

  15-02-2020 23:00 via news.yahoo.com
  
  The Soviet Union adopted the weapons shortly after the United States did, using them in a border skirmish against the Chinese in 1969.
  
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• Undying love: Years after losing cancer battle, he still gets wife Valentine's Day flowers

  15-02-2020 22:53 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Rich Cox made sure he bought his wife flowers for Valentine's Day 2020, even though he died in 2012.
  
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• Reid says Biden will do well in diverse Nevada's caucuses

  15-02-2020 22:51 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Former Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid wouldn’t say Saturday whether he’s told any of the eight Democrats running for president to drop out of the race but said people should not count former Vice President Joe Biden out.Biden had weak finishes in the contests in Iowa and New Hampshire, two largely white states, but will do well in much more diverse Nevada, Reid predicted.
  
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• Nick Cannon says he doesn't 'believe in marriage anymore' after Mariah Carey divorce

  15-02-2020 22:51 via foxnews.com
  
  Nick Cannon doesn't see marriage in his future.
  
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• North Korea's Kim makes first public appearance in 22 days amid virus outbreak

  15-02-2020 22:48 via news.yahoo.com
  
  North Korean leader Kim Jong Un made his first public appearance in 22 days amid an outbreak of coronavirus, state media reported on Saturday, to visit a national mausoleum and mark the anniversary of the late leader Kim Jong Il's birth.Kim Jong Un paid tribute to the statue of former leader Kim at Pyongyang's Kumsusan Palace of the Sun, his first public appearance since he attended Lunar New Year celebrations on Jan. 25, state media Korean Central News Agency (KCNA) said.
  
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• NASA launches spacecraft carrying supplies to the ISS

  15-02-2020 22:48 via cnn.com
  
  A Northrop Grumman rocket carrying the Cygnus resupply spacecraft was successfully launched Saturday afternoon from NASA's Wallops Flight Facility in Virginia.
  
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• Kim Jong Un makes first public appearance in 22 days amid virus outbreak

  15-02-2020 22:48 via news.yahoo.com
  
  North Korean leader Kim Jong Un made his first public appearance in 22 days amid an outbreak of coronavirus, state media reported on Saturday, to visit a national mausoleum and mark the anniversary of the late leader Kim Jong Il's birth.Kim Jong Un paid tribute to the statue of former leader Kim at Pyongyang's Kumsusan Palace of the Sun, his first public appearance since he attended Lunar New Year celebrations on Jan. 25, state media Korean Central News Agency (KCNA) said.
  
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• Kate Middleton admits she sometimes has 'mom guilt,' reflects on her own childhood in rare interview

  15-02-2020 22:43 via foxnews.com
  
  Kate Middleton conducted a rare interview this week on a podcast all about motherhood.
  
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• Mississippi braces for 'historic, unprecedented' flooding around its capital

  15-02-2020 22:38 via nbcnews.com
  
  More than 2,400 homes and other structures in and near Jackson could either be inundated or isolated by rising waters.
  
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• Sanders attacks moderate rivals as voting begins in Nevada

  15-02-2020 22:30 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Progressive firebrand Bernie Sanders jabbed his more moderate rivals on Saturday for taking campaign cash from billionaires as Democratic officials at some sites across Nevada were overwhelmed by long lines on the first day of early voting in presidential caucuses.Sanders, who has emerged as a front-runner in the 2020 nomination fight after strong finishes in Iowa and New Hampshire, went on the offensive during a rally at a suburban Las Vegas high school.
  
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• 'Sex and the City' actress Lynn Cohen dies at 86

  15-02-2020 22:26 via cnn.com
  
  'Sex and the City' actress Lynn Cohen died on Friday in New York, according to her manager Josh Pultz. She was 86.
  
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• ‘Photographer’ Drugged New Mom, Planned to Steal Baby, Cops Say

  15-02-2020 22:20 via news.yahoo.com
  
  It began with an offer on Facebook group for the mothers of newborns: An aspiring photographer wanted to take pictures of babies for free to build her portfolio.To the mother of a 5-week-old infant, it sounded like a great deal. But after three sessions with the photographer, her teenage daughter in tow, things allegedly took a terrifying turn.The new mom ate a cupcake offered by the pair and soon began to feel wobbly, numb and drowsy. She feared she had been drugged, told the visitors to leave,
  
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• Liverpool's title charge outstanding, says Klopp

  15-02-2020 22:20 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Liverpool's unstoppable charge towards their first top-flight title in 30 years is "outstanding", says Jurgen Klopp after Sadio Mane's goal gives them victory at Norwich.
  
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• Bush-Era Cabinet Member’s Daughter Charged With Fatally Stabbing Friend

  15-02-2020 22:12 via news.yahoo.com
  
  The daughter of one the country’s highest-ranking former diplomats has been charged with fatally stabbing an acquaintance in the neck during a late-night argument.Sophia Negroponte allegedly killed Yousuf Rasmussen, 24, inside an apartment in Rockville, Maryland just before midnight Thursday, the Montgomery County Department of Police said.The 27-year-old is the daughter of former director of national intelligence John Negroponte, the Washington Post reported.Police said Negroponte an
  
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• 3rd teen cross-country runner dies after driver plows into team

  15-02-2020 22:02 via nbcnews.com
  
  A day after his adult son was killed in a car crash, Max Leroy Townsend drove across two lanes of traffic and onto a sidewalk, hitting seven members of a school cross-country team.
  
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• 31 civilians killed in strikes on Yemen after Saudi jet crash

  15-02-2020 22:02 via news.yahoo.com
  
  At least 31 civilians were killed in strikes on Yemen on Saturday, the United Nations said, following a Saudi-led operation in response to one of its fighter jet crashing, with Iran-backed Huthi rebels claiming to have shot it down.The deadly violence follows an upsurge in fighting in northern Yemen between the warring parties that threatens to worsen the war-battered country's humanitarian crisis."Preliminary field reports indicate that on 15 February as many as 31 civilians were killed and 12
  
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• Jane Sanders on Bernie's 2020 bid: 'I think that he will win' Dem nomination

  15-02-2020 21:57 via foxnews.com
  
  All 2020 presidential candidate Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., needs to clinch the Democratic nomination is a "fair shot," Sanders' wife Jane said Saturday.
  
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• Bloomberg argues he's a 'champion' for women amid scrutiny of past alleged sexist comments

  15-02-2020 21:54 via cnn.com
  
  Democratic presidential candidate Michael Bloomberg on Saturday vowed to "always be a champion" for women in the workplace as new details emerged about his alleged previous comments regarding females at the company he co-founded and owns.
  
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• Winter storm barreling toward the UK is possibly the strongest ever for North Atlantic

  15-02-2020 21:51 via news.yahoo.com
  
  The storm likely to hit Ireland, the U.K., France and northern Germany with winds gusts up to 85 mph.
  
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• Inside Trump's week of rage and retribution

  15-02-2020 21:45 via nbcnews.com
  
  With impeachment behind him, the president's advisers say there is little incentive for him to hold his fire — with more moves to come.
  
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• Caroline Flack of 'Love Island UK' dies at 40

  15-02-2020 21:44 via nbcnews.com
  
  "Everybody at Love Island and ITV are shocked and saddened by this desperately sad news," the show said in a tweet.
  
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• Denouncing US, Venezuelan troops, militias stage drills

  15-02-2020 21:43 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Venezuela's armed forces and civilian militias took the streets in cities, beaches and border regions on Saturday for drills ordered by President Nicolás Maduro, amid tensions between Washington and Caracas.Despite the maneuvers, there are no indications that the U.S. plans any military intervention in Venezuela.Washington has focused on political and diplomatic pressure in its efforts to oust Maduro, only saying last year that it had not ruled out a military option.
  
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• Face masks are must-have accessory of London fashion week amid coronavirus panic

  15-02-2020 21:42 via foxnews.com
  
  Virus protection -- but make it fashion.
  
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• Over 1,000 Alleged Oracle Employees Have Signed a Petition Demanding Founder Larry Ellison Cancel a Trump Fundraiser

  15-02-2020 21:37 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Ellison is the fifth richest person in the U.S.
  
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• Texas airport police taser suspect in wild brawl caught on video

  15-02-2020 21:34 via foxnews.com
  
  It’s not often you see something like this at the terminal.
  
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• Yemen war: Saudi-led coalition warplane crashes

  15-02-2020 21:26 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Houthi rebels say they shot down the plane, while Saudi Arabia says only that it "fell".
  
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• 14-year-old boy charged with murder in stabbing death of Barnard College student Tessa Majors

  15-02-2020 21:16 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Majors, 18, was at Morningside Park in New York City on Dec. 11 when three teenagers tried to rob her. She was stabbed repeatedly during a struggle.
  
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• Mississippi braces for flooding amid cresting river

  15-02-2020 21:13 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Mississippi Gov. Tate Reeves declared a state of emergency Saturday amid predictions that a river running in the area around the state capital of Jackson could burst its banks and spark widespread flooding.Forecasters believe the Pearl River will crest at 38 feet (11.6 meters) Sunday evening to levels not seen in decades, following days of torrential rains across the Southeast.Reeves said the state should prepare for “the third worst flood” in its history.
  
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• Amanda Bynes announces she's engaged to the 'love of my life'

  15-02-2020 21:08 via nbcnews.com
  
  Bynes' engagement news comes after years of ups and downs for the former child star.
  
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• Mark Zuckerberg admits Facebook was ‘slow to understand’ election interference

  15-02-2020 21:04 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Facebook is taking down more than a million fake accounts a day to counter a massive upsurge in malicious material in the web, Mark Zuckerberg told an international security forum, and disclosed that more than 50 information operations aimed at elections have been uncovered since the 2016 US presidential race.There are continuing investigations into claims that Donald Trump was the Muscovian candidate at the election and a Kremlin campaign, including a disinformation drive, helped put him in the
  
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• 'Love Island' host Caroline Flack dead at 40: reports

  15-02-2020 20:57 via foxnews.com
  
  Former "Love Island" host Caroline Flack has died at age 40, a spokesperson for the U.K. network ITV2 confirmed to Fox News.
  
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• Harriet Tubman Visa debit card draws backlash, bank responds

  15-02-2020 20:55 via foxnews.com
  
  Bank is accused of pandering to African-Americans customers during Black History Month.
  
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• 'Sex and the City' actress Lynn Cohen has died at age 86

  15-02-2020 20:51 via nbcnews.com
  
  Cohen is best known for her role as Magda on the popular TV series and movies.
  
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• Von Spakovsky & Smith: Barr is right to reject overly harsh prison term recommended for Roger Stone

  15-02-2020 20:47 via foxnews.com
  
  Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., is not happy – again. And neither are other Democratic elected officials who have mounted a full-scale attack against Attorney General William Barr for recommending a reasonable prison sentence for Roger Stone, rather than the draconian sentence Barr’s subordinates advocated for in a court filing.
  
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