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• Implosion fails to take down entire Dallas building

  16-02-2020 23:46 via cnn.com
  
  A building is still partially standing in Dallas after a scheduled implosion failed the take down the entire tower.
  
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• Implosion fails to take down building

  16-02-2020 23:46 via cnn.com
  
  A building is still partially standing in Dallas after a scheduled implosion failed the take down the entire tower.
  
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• Mississippi prison crisis: 18th inmate dies since Dec. 29, second in 24 hours

  16-02-2020 23:37 via news.yahoo.com
  
  An unidentified inmate died Sunday at Central Mississippi Correctional Facility, marking the 18th death at state prisons since Dec. 29.
  
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• See house collapse and slide over bluff during historic floods

  16-02-2020 23:26 via cnn.com
  
  Hundreds of people in Jackson, Mississippi, are fleeing their homes as the swollen Pearl River nears historic flood levels. Also, a house collapsed and slide down a rain soaked bluff into the Tennessee River.
  
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• House slides off bluff in historic floods

  16-02-2020 23:26 via cnn.com
  
  Hundreds of people in Jackson, Mississippi, are fleeing their homes as the swollen Pearl River nears historic flood levels. Also, a house collapsed and slide down a rain soaked bluff into the Tennessee River.
  
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• House collapses and slide over bluff during historic floods

  16-02-2020 23:26 via cnn.com
  
  Hundreds of people in Jackson, Mississippi, are fleeing their homes as the swollen Pearl River nears historic flood levels. Also, a house collapsed and slide down a rain soaked bluff into the Tennessee River.
  
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• Elton John had to stop a performance due to walking pneumonia. What is it?

  16-02-2020 23:22 via cnn.com
  
  Walking pneumonia causes milder symptoms than pneumonia, including being tired and having a sore throat, fever, and cough, the CDC says. Symptoms can be mild, more like a bad cold, but it can still lead to pneumonia.
  
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• Clock's ticking for Nissan boss Uchida to show he has a plan: sources

  16-02-2020 23:08 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Nissan's new CEO Makoto Uchida doesn't have time to work his way into the job.The pressure intensified on Thursday when Nissan, which has had a year of turmoil since the arrest and sacking of long-time leader Carlos Ghosn, posted its first quarterly net loss in nearly a decade and slashed its annual profit forecast.One of the people familiar with the intentions of some on Nissan's 10-member board said an assessment of Uchida's efforts and a decision on his future would likely be made toward the
  
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• Iran: US sanctions 'create some problems'; talks possible with conditions

  16-02-2020 22:42 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Iran says it would be willing to negotiate with the US if the Trump administration returns to the Iranian nuclear deal and drops economic sanctions.
  
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• More than 1,100 ex-DOJ employees call for Attorney General Barr's resignation

  16-02-2020 22:31 via news.yahoo.com
  
  The letter comes after a contentious week for the Justice Department, which already faces allegations of succumbing to political pressure.
  
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• Robert Hadden: Dozens of new accusers emerge after Andrew Yang's wife reveals gynaecologist's sexual assault

  16-02-2020 22:30 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Nearly 40 more women have come forward with accusations against gynaecologist Dr Robert Hadden, after former presidential candidate Andrew Yang’s wife said he had sexually assaulted her.Before her husband suspended his campaign last week, Evelyn Yang revealed along the campaign trail that she was a victim of sexual assault in an emotional interview with CNN.
  
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• Elton John announces he has pneumonia

  16-02-2020 22:24 via cnn.com
  
  British singer Elton John announced that he was diagnosed with walking pneumonia while on tour in Auckland, New Zealand, on Sunday.
  
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• A deer bolts through a supermarket

  16-02-2020 22:03 via cnn.com
  
  As customers strolled the aisles of a Kroger supermarket in Indiana they were joined by an unexpected visitor.
  
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• U.S. evacuates Diamond Princess cruise passengers; 40 Americans on board test positive for coronavirus

  16-02-2020 22:00 via news.yahoo.com
  
  While the U.S. evacuates American passengers from the Diamond Princess cruise ship, a passenger who chose to remain on board shares an inside look.
  
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• Ultimate Doomsday Weapon: Missiles Powered By Nuclear Reactors

  16-02-2020 22:00 via news.yahoo.com
  
  With disastrous results.
  
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• Judge sets Tuesday phone hearing in Roger Stone case

  16-02-2020 21:57 via politico.com
  
  The court session would be the first since prosecutors abruptly quit last week
  
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• Trump's motorocade drives a lap to open Daytona 500

  16-02-2020 21:41 via cnn.com
  
  A portion of the presidential motorcade, including President Donald Trump and first lady Melania Trump, will take a lap around the speedway before the start of NASCAR's Daytona 500 on Sunday a source familiar with the event and a White House official confirms to CNN. They'll be riding the car known as "The Beast."
  
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• Trump takes lap around track to open Daytona 500

  16-02-2020 21:41 via cnn.com
  
  A portion of the presidential motorcade, including President Donald Trump and first lady Melania Trump, will take a lap around the speedway before the start of NASCAR's Daytona 500 on Sunday a source familiar with the event and a White House official confirms to CNN. They'll be riding the car known as "The Beast."
  
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• History not forgotten: Colorado students, teacher rebuild WWII prison camp

  16-02-2020 21:36 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Thanks to their efforts, Amache, which opened in the fall of 1942 a mile outside Granada, Colorado, is now being considered as a new national park.
  
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• American Passenger’s Coronavirus Diagnosis Raises New Fears

  16-02-2020 21:31 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Officials are scrambling to track down passengers who came into contact with an American woman who tested positive for coronavirus after leaving a cruise ship that was supposedly free of the bug.The nightmare scenario linked to the MS Westerdam, which is docked in Cambodia, came as the U.S. evacuated Americans from another cruise liner, the Diamond Princess. More than 300 passengers, including 44 Americans, were infected on that voyage.The MS Westerdam was stranded at sea for two weeks after Tha
  
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• North Macedonia parliament dissolves, sets poll date, after EU shuns talks

  16-02-2020 21:30 via news.yahoo.com
  
  North Macedonia's parliament dissolved itself on Sunday and set April 12 for an early election, eight months ahead of the end of the current term, in what is seen as a major test for the pro-EU policies of former Prime Minister Zoran Zaev's Social Democrats.The move, endorsed by 108 deputies in the 120-seat parliament, follows Zaev's resignation last month that came after the European Union failed to give his country a date to start talks on joining the bloc.Zaev's cabinet was replaced by an int
  
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• 'I love my husband': Buttigieg responds to Limbaugh claiming America is not ready for a gay president

  16-02-2020 21:26 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Pete Buttigieg said that he would not take "lectures on family values" from conservative radio host Rush Limbaugh.
  
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• Trump to take lap at Daytona 500

  16-02-2020 21:25 via cnn.com
  
  A portion of the presidential motorcade, including President Donald Trump and first lady Melania Trump, will take a lap around the speedway before the start of NASCAR's Daytona 500 on Sunday a source familiar with the event and a White House official confirms to CNN. They'll be riding the car known as "The Beast."
  
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• American woman from cruise ship tests positive again for coronavirus

  16-02-2020 21:25 via news.yahoo.com
  
  An American passenger from a cruise ship that docked in Cambodia has tested positive for the new coronavirus a second time in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysiam officials said on Sunday, after the cruise line and Cambodian authorities sought further tests.
  
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• William Barr must quit over Trump-Stone scandal – former justice officials

  16-02-2020 21:24 via news.yahoo.com
  
  * More than 1,000 public servants decry presidential interference* Aide Conway claims justice system rigged against Trump* Robert Reich: assaulting justice, Trump has out-Nixoned NixonMore than 1,000 former US justice department officials, including some of the top government lawyers in the country, have called on attorney general William Barr to resign in the wake of the Roger Stone scandal.Some 1,143 alumni of the Department of Justice posted to Medium on Sunday a group letter that tore into B
  
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• Clinton 'wants back in' as Bloomberg campaign VP pick

  16-02-2020 21:11 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Michael Bloomberg's campaign attempted to stop rumors that he was considering failed presidential candidate and former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton for his running mate in the 2020 election.
  
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• North Korea vs. South Korea: Who Wins a War Straight-Up?

  16-02-2020 21:00 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Quality vs. quantity?
  
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• Two British Airways executives step down following the airline's first strike in decades

  16-02-2020 20:56 via news.yahoo.com
  
  The departures also arrive as the airline's parent firm, International Consolidated Airlines Group, transitions to a new CEO.
  
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• Seattle-area teachers reported fired for being gay; Catholic school says they resigned

  16-02-2020 20:45 via news.yahoo.com
  
  A County Council member claims the two teachers were forced out of their positions at Kennedy Catholic High School "solely because they are gay."
  
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• Trump blames border wall falling over on 'big winds'

  16-02-2020 20:41 via news.yahoo.com
  
  President Trump has blamed reports about a section of his border wall falling over on the “Fake News,” claiming in a tweet the part of the wall fell due to “big winds” and had since been fixed “forever.”
  
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• Over 1,000 ex-DOJ officials and prosecutors call for Barr to resign

  16-02-2020 20:41 via cnn.com
  
  More than 1,110 former Justice Department officials who served in Republican as well as Democratic administrations posted a statement calling on Attorney General Bill Barr to resign.
  
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• More than 1,110 former officials call for Barr to resign

  16-02-2020 20:41 via cnn.com
  
  More than 1,110 former Justice Department officials who served in Republican as well as Democratic administrations posted a statement calling on Attorney General Bill Barr to resign.
  
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• Lost purse from 1957 discovered inside a school wall

  16-02-2020 20:37 via cnn.com
  
  The mystery of the contents of a purse found in the space between a locker and a wall in an Ohio middle school have been revealed.
  
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• A senior adviser for Pete Buttigieg was accused of running a fake Nigerian supporter account

  16-02-2020 20:37 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Twitter users noted that the account tweeted "Team Pete. Hey. It's Lis," in January, raising suspicion that the tweet could have been an accident.
  
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• 40 goals so far this season -- meet Europe's most prolific striker

  16-02-2020 20:30 via cnn.com
  
  Bayern Munich's prolific Robert Lewandowski added his name to the Bundesliga record books by becoming only the second player in the history of the German top division to score 23 goals in the opening 22 games of the season.
  
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• Police found more than 1,400 marijuana plants inside a California building

  16-02-2020 20:19 via cnn.com
  
  A man was arrested in West Point, California, after authorities discovered 440 pounds of illegal marijuana inside a building, the Calaveras County Sheriff's Office said.
  
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• As the US evacuates Americans from a virus-struck cruise ship, not all of them are happy about it. And passengers from other countries are angry too

  16-02-2020 20:17 via cnn.com
  
  The US plan to evacuate Americans and their families from the Diamond Princess cruise ship appears, on its face, to be the case of a powerful government coming to the aide of its most vulnerable citizens.
  
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• An invasion of propaganda: Experts warn that white supremacist messages are seeping into mainstream

  16-02-2020 20:06 via news.yahoo.com
  
  White supremacy propaganda is on the rise, and experts say mainstreaming of that ideology contributes to acts of domestic terrorism.
  
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• Biden accused Univision journalist Jorge Ramos of 'not telling the truth' during contentious interview comparing Obama and Trump's immigration policies

  16-02-2020 20:05 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Biden and Ramos had an exchange at a Democratic debate about immigration in September, and Ramos followed up in a recent Univision interview.
  
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• Photos show how fiery protesters using fake blood took over Mexico City in response to the rise of brutal killings of women

  16-02-2020 20:03 via news.yahoo.com
  
  The grisly killing of Ingrid Escamilla set off a massive protest among activists who are concerned about the rising trend of femicide in the country.
  
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• Israel's Iron Dome: A Rocket-Killer or Just Hype?

  16-02-2020 20:00 via news.yahoo.com
  
  It's hard to calculate
  
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• If William Barr Truly Believed in Rule of Law, He Would Resign

  16-02-2020 20:00 via news.yahoo.com
  
  If the President insists that DOJ must submit its prosecutions to his control whenever he chooses to intervene, Attorney General William Barr's only response can be to resign.
  
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• Human composting could be the future of deathcare

  16-02-2020 20:00 via theguardian.com
  
  Washington becomes first US state to legalise practice as interest in green burials surges in UKIt is viewed as a fitting end for a banana skin or a handful of spent coffee grounds. But now people are being urged to consider human composting and other environmentally friendly “deathcare” options.Speaking before a talk at the American Association for the Advancement of Science conference in Seattle on Sunday, Lynne Carpenter-Boggs, a professor of soil science and sustainable agricultu
  
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• Diamond Princess passenger describes watching 'bizarre' process of U.S. coronavirus evacuation

  16-02-2020 19:56 via news.yahoo.com
  
  While the U.S. evacuates American passengers aboard the Diamond Princess cruise ship, a passenger who chose to remain on board shares an inside look.
  
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• Former DOJ officials call on Attorney General Barr to resign

  16-02-2020 19:49 via news.yahoo.com
  
  More than 1,000 former U.S. Justice Department officials on Sunday called for Attorney General William Barr to resign over his handling of the trial of a longtime adviser of President Donald Trump.The former officials, who served under both Republican and Democratic administrations, criticized Barr, the country's top law enforcement officer, for overruling his own prosecutors in a case that has prompted accusations that the Trump administration is weakening the rule of law.On Tuesday, the Justic
  
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• New York drops fight against T-Mobile-Sprint merger

  16-02-2020 19:44 via news.yahoo.com
  
  New York on Sunday dropped its fight against the $40 billion merger of U.S. wireless carriers T-Mobile US Incand Sprint Corp , saying the state would not appeal a judge's approval of the deal.New York Attorney General Letitia James said her office would end the court challenge to the 2018 merger agreement between the third- and fourth-largest U.S. wireless carriers.New York, California and other states had challenged it on antitrust grounds, saying it would drive up prices for consumers.
  
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• Israel hopes Germany, other ICC members will help stave off Palestinian investigation

  16-02-2020 19:39 via news.yahoo.com
  
  JERUSALEM/THE HAGUE (Reuters) - Israel's prime minister on Sunday hailed what he called efforts by friendly states to stop the International Criminal Court opening an investigation into alleged war crimes against Palestinians.The court's chief prosecutor Fatou Bensouda said in December there was enough evidence for an investigation into thousands of killings - but asked the court to rule on whether it had the jurisdiction over the Palestinian territories.Brazil, Hungary, Austria, Germany, the Cz
  
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• US embassy in Baghdad attacked with rockets

  16-02-2020 19:29 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Rockets have dropped near the US embassy in Iraq and a military base hosting American troops, according to officials.There have been no causalities reported following the strikes, which fell amid heightened tensions in the Middle East.
  
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• Costa Rica seizes five tons of cocaine bound for Holland in largest ever drug bust

  16-02-2020 19:29 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Police in Costa Rica seized more than 5 tons of cocaine bound for the Dutch port of Rotterdam in the country's largest ever drugs bust, officials said.The authorities on Saturday found the cocaine in Costa Rica's Caribbean port of Limon, stashed inside a shipping container of decorative canopy plants bound for the Netherlands.The drugs had an estimated street value of about 126 million euro ($136 million) in Holland, Costa Rica's Security Minister Michael Soto said late on Saturday.
  
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• Families of Troubles victims warn against amnesty for soldiers

  16-02-2020 19:26 via theguardian.com
  
  Emmett McConomy, whose 11-year-old brother died in 1982, said cases ‘not going away’A man whose 11-year-old brother was killed by a soldier in Northern Ireland nearly 40 years ago has warned that victims’ families “were not going to go away” if the British government tried to introduce an amnesty for military personnel.Emmett McConomy, whose older brother Stephen was shot in the back of the head with a plastic bullet, said the new Northern Ireland secretary, Brandon
  
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