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• Here's how long coronaviruses may linger on surfaces

  17-02-2020 23:59 via cnn.com
  
  Concerns are mounting about how long the novel coronavirus may survive on surfaces -- so much so that China's central bank has taken measures to deep clean and destroy its cash, which changes hands multiple times a day, in an effort to contain the virus.
  
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• Brexit negotiator says UK must be able to set its own laws

  17-02-2020 23:50 via bbc.co.uk
  
  David Frost's remarks come amid warnings the UK and EU will "rip each other apart" in trade talks.
  
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• Man Utd win at Chelsea in game full of VAR controversy

  17-02-2020 23:48 via bbc.co.uk
  Manchester United are up to seventh in the Premier League after beating Chelsea 2-0 in another game in which the video assistant referee played a key role.
  
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• Apple warns coronavirus will hurt iPhones supplies

  17-02-2020 23:47 via bbc.co.uk
  
  The tech giant says it is "experiencing a slower return to normal conditions" in China than expected.
  
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• Gunmen kill 24 and injure 18 in attack on Burkina Faso church

  17-02-2020 23:42 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Gunmen killed 24 people, including a pastor, in an attack on a church during Sunday Mass in northwestern Burkina Faso, four security sources told Reuters on Monday.
  
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• 'Everything is a mess right now': Hundreds who were stuck on Westerdam cruise ship held up in Cambodia

  17-02-2020 23:26 via news.yahoo.com
  
  The Holland America cruise ship nightmare seemed to be over, but things turned when one woman tested positive for coronavirus.
  
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• Iconic landmark Plymouth Rock vandalized

  17-02-2020 23:20 via cnn.com
  
  Plymouth Rock and other historic landmarks in Plymouth, Massachusetts were vandalized with spray paint.
  
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• The Roger Stone Double Standard

  17-02-2020 23:18 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Whether Roger Stone, the loopy, self-aggrandizing political operative, deserves nine years in Supermax for obstructing an investigation into Russia–Donald Trump “collusion” is debatable. Whether the powerful men who helped create the investigation that ensnared Stone have been allowed to lie with impunity is not. They have.Only a few days after prosecutors melodramatically left the DOJ after Trump tweeted a defense of Stone and the DOJ subsequently revised its sentencing recomm
  
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• Apple warns of 'iPhone supply shortages' because of outbreak

  17-02-2020 23:18 via cnn.com
  
  Apple warned investors on Monday that the ongoing coronavirus outbreak is hurting its business more than previously expected by limiting how many devices it can make and sell in China.
  
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• The Latest: Warren calls for party unity in taking on Trump

  17-02-2020 23:07 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Elizabeth Warren is preaching Democratic unity in taking on President Donald Trump, a challenge she framed as an existential crisis for America. Warren, having partly recovered her voice after catching a cold, said at a Monday afternoon town hall in the Las Vegas suburb of Henderson that America is at its best when it takes on a problem. The Massachusetts senator also spoke about how she’s adopted policy plans and hired staff from Democrats who have dropped out of the race, including New Y
  
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• Delta reaching out to people on flight after learning 2 riders reportedly have coronavirus

  17-02-2020 23:03 via cnn.com
  
  • Four Chinese cities completely sealed off
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• Mississippi and Tennessee Have Been Deluged With Near-Record Levels of Flooding. Here's What to Know

  17-02-2020 22:59 via news.yahoo.com
  
  During a Monday press conference, Mississippi Governor Tate Reeves said that the Pearl River crested at 36.7 feet just above the major flood level which is 36 feet.
  
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• Man cleaning gun fatally shoots best friend in apparent accident

  17-02-2020 22:59 via nbcnews.com
  
  The Midwest City, Oklahoma, police chief said "all evidence indicates the shooting was not intentional — an unfortunate, tragic event while mishandling a loaded firearm."
  
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• Denmark finds huge cocaine stash on cargo ship; 27 arrested

  17-02-2020 22:57 via feeds.foxnews.com
  
  Danish authorities arrested 27 suspected drug smugglers after finding 100 kilograms of cocaine during a bust on a Russia-bound container ship over the weekend. 
  
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• Indiana professor is suspended for calling police on student who wouldn't switch seats

  17-02-2020 22:46 via nbcnews.com
  
  "This decision is in the best interest of Dr. Borna and the University," Ball State University said in a statement.
  
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• Indiana professor is suspended for calling police on student who wouldn't switch seats

  17-02-2020 22:46 via news.yahoo.com
  
  "This decision is in the best interest of Dr. Borna and the University," Ball State University said in a statement.
  
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• Police drone finds blind man in the woods after he went missing for 33 hours

  17-02-2020 22:45 via cnn.com
  
  A 62-year-old blind man was found in the woods by a police drone on Saturday after he went missing for about 33 hours, a Connecticut police department said in a statement.
  
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• Native American tribe says Pentagon failed to consult on border wall construction

  17-02-2020 22:41 via nbcnews.com
  
  The Tohono O'odham Nation in Arizona is asking for "government-to-government" consultation after barrier construction has disrupted sacred sites.
  
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• UK adviser who defended eugenics resigns

  17-02-2020 22:39 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Andrew Sabisky said that he wanted to help the government, "not be a distraction".
  
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• Country music radio has ignored women for years — and we have the data to prove it

  17-02-2020 22:31 via nbcnews.com
  
  Naturally, the declining presence of women on country radio has evolved into a sustained, industry-wide gap.
  
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• A jetpack company just reached a major milestone in the quest for flight

  17-02-2020 22:28 via cnn.com
  
  We may be closer to seeing a real-life Iron Man suit than you think.
  
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• Johnson Aide Quits U.K. Government After Black Inferiority Storm

  17-02-2020 22:24 via news.yahoo.com
  
  (Bloomberg) -- An adviser to Boris Johnson quit the British government just a few days into the job after a storm over his claims that white Americans are more intelligent than their black compatriots.Andrew Sabisky, who was hired to work in Johnson’s Downing Street office last week, said he had joined the government to do “real work” but found himself “in the middle of a giant character assassination.”“The media hysteria about my old stuff online is mad but I
  
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• Michael Bloomberg Is a Condescending Jerk . . .

  17-02-2020 22:16 via news.yahoo.com
  
  The hunt is on for offensive clips of Michael Bloomberg talking off the cuff, and over the weekend a new one circulated. In the version passed around, Bloomberg nonchalantly tells his Oxford audience that he could teach anyone how to farm — “even people in this room”: “It’s a process; you dig a hole, you put a seed in, you put dirt on top, add water, up comes the corn.” He adds that modern “information economy” jobs require more “gray matter.
  
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• Girl, 6, survives mountain lion attack after adult pushes animal into bushes

  17-02-2020 22:05 via news.yahoo.com
  
  One of the adults the girl was with pushed the mountain lion off of her and into the bushes, a ranger with Midpeninsula Regional Open Space District said.
  
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• Jeff Bezos is giving $10 billion to fight climate crisis

  17-02-2020 22:00 via cnn.com
  
  Jeff Bezos is throwing his weight — and wealth — behind the fight against climate change months after Amazon employees publicly pressured him and the company to do more to address the issue.
  
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• Jeff Bezos is giving $10 billion to fight climate change

  17-02-2020 22:00 via cnn.com
  
  Jeff Bezos is throwing his weight — and wealth — behind the fight against climate change months after Amazon employees publicly pressured him and the company to do more to address the issue.
  
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• Boris Johnson adviser who voiced support for eugenics resigns

  17-02-2020 21:50 via cnn.com
  
  British Prime Minister Boris Johnson is facing calls to fire an adviser who has previously suggested that black Americans have lower IQs than white Americans and has voiced support for compulsory contraception to prevent a "permanent underclass."
  
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• Database shows how China targets minority Uighur Muslims

  17-02-2020 21:47 via feeds.foxnews.com
  
  A recently leaked database from China reportedly shows religion and family ties as playing a key role behind the internment of the country’s minority Uighur Muslims.
  
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• Cruise passengers took Cambodia bus tours despite virus fears

  17-02-2020 21:45 via news.yahoo.com
  
  A scramble intensified on Monday to trace passengers from a cruise liner —with more than 600 Americans aboard — allowed to disembark in Cambodia Thursday despite at least one traveler later being diagnosed with the coronavirus.
  
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• Quarantines, isolation and lockdowns draw mixed reviews: 'There is no zero risk in the world'

  17-02-2020 21:42 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Lockdowns, quarantines and isolation protocols have been strategies in the global assault on the coronavirus that has killed more than 1,700.
  
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• Coronavirus Case Study; U.S. Cruisers Quarantined: Virus Update

  17-02-2020 21:40 via news.yahoo.com
  
  (Bloomberg) -- A case study of a patient who died from the new coronavirus shows similarities with two prior deadly coronavirus outbreaks.The U.S. evacuated citizens from the Diamond Princess cruise liner, including 14 who tested positive for the virus, and will quarantine more than 300 passengers. The U.S. is still figuring out what to do with American passengers on another cruise ship who disembarked in Cambodia, including one who tested positive.Beijing may delay a high-profile political meet
  
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• 14 Americans evacuated from cruise ship in Japan test positive for coronavirus

  17-02-2020 21:32 via abcnews.go.com
  
  More than 300 Americans who were passengers aboard a cruise ship quarantined at sea in Japan over the coronavirus outbreak have evacuated the country.
  
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• Jeff Bezos commits $10 billion to combat climate change

  17-02-2020 21:24 via nbcnews.com
  
  "Climate change is the biggest threat to our planet," Amazon's CEO said.
  
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• Stacey Abrams Says She’s Open to Joining Dem Ticket as Veep after Dismissing Idea of Running for ‘Second Place’

  17-02-2020 21:13 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Stacey Abrams, the former Democratic gubernatorial candidate for Georgia who called out alleged voter suppression during her election, said Monday that she "would be honored" to be the vice presidential candidate on the 2020 Democratic ticket."It would be doing a disservice to every woman of color, every woman of ambition, every child who wants to think beyond their known space for me to say no or to pretend, 'Oh, no, I don't want it,'" Abrams said on ABC's "The View." "Of course I want it.
  
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• Cuba burning tires to power factory as US oil sanctions bite

  17-02-2020 21:10 via news.yahoo.com
  
  The Cuban government has ordered a cement factory to burn old tires to power its operations and save on oil, amid a worsening fuel shortage brought on by US sanctions on the Communist island.On orders of President Miguel Diaz-Canel, the firm Cementos Cienfuegos, located in the center of the country, will receive an increasing supply of used tires to burn, the official daily Granma said Monday.Cuba has been suffering oil shortages since last September, when the administration of President Donald
  
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• Pier 1 Imports files for bankruptcy, plans to sell company

  17-02-2020 21:02 via news.yahoo.com
  
  The home retailer will continue to close 450 locations as executives search for a potential buyer.
  
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• NSA whistleblower who leaked Russian hacking report petitions for clemency

  17-02-2020 21:01 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Reality Winner was sentenced to five years in 2018 after leaking classified report about Russia’s interference in the 2016 electionSupporters of Reality Winner, a National Security Agency whistleblower who leaked classified information about Russia’s interference in the 2016 presidential election, petitioned Donald Trump on Monday for her early release from prison.Alison Grinter, an attorney representing the former US air force intelligence specialist, announced at a press conference
  
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• More than 2,000 ex-DOJ employees call for Attorney General Barr's resignation

  17-02-2020 21:01 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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• How quarantined parents explain coronavirus to their kids

  17-02-2020 21:01 via cnn.com
  
  CNN's Will Ripley reports from Japan, where fears of the coronavirus have left passengers on the Diamond Princess cruise ship quarantined. Watch "Full Circle" every weeknight at 5 p.m. ET.
  
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• Here Comes Michael Bloomberg (And Here Come the Questions)

  17-02-2020 21:00 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Can he get the nomination? Can he beat Donald Trump?
  
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• Storm Dennis: 'Ghost ship' washes up on Irish coast

  17-02-2020 20:57 via bbc.co.uk
  
  The mysterious cargo ship was drifting without crew on the high seas for more than a year.
  
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• Over 26,000 vote early in Nevada caucuses

  17-02-2020 20:56 via nbcnews.com
  
  The Nevada Democratic Party announced Monday that more than 26,000 residents in the Silver State participated in the first two days of early voting ahead of the Saturday caucuses.
  
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• The health benefits of a random act of kindness

  17-02-2020 20:55 via cnn.com
  
  This year, "Random Acts of Kindness" Day falls on Monday, but the foundation behind it wants you to consider being kind every day.
  
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• 'Now We Are Refugees': A Family in Limbo Amid the Coronavirus Outbreak

  17-02-2020 20:54 via news.yahoo.com
  
  These days, Chloe Chang, a Taiwanese woman stranded at the center of China's coronavirus outbreak, says she wakes up every half-hour during the night. Sometimes she breaks down in tears.She and her family are effectively trapped in her grandmother's apartment building, where a man recently died from the virus. Workers in hazmat suits haunt the surrounding streets, and the neighborhood has a strong police presence. There are shortages of food and other essentials throughout Yichang, the Hubei pro
  
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• New York's most famous buildings

  17-02-2020 20:53 via cnn.com
  
  By historical standards, New York is still a relatively new city -- a youngster compared with the likes of London, Cairo or Beijing. But in its short life, New York has captured the world's collective attention like no other.
  
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• 11 Children Among 26 People Shot During Single Weekend of Gun Violence in Chicago

  17-02-2020 20:51 via news.yahoo.com
  
  According to the Chicago Police Department, there were a total of 15 shooting incidents over the weekend but that number could go up as the final numbers will be released tomorrow.
  
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• Pelosi Objects to CNN Anchor’s Claim That Trump Was Acquitted in Impeachment Trial

  17-02-2020 20:50 via news.yahoo.com
  
  House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D., Calif.) interjected during an interview Saturday to make the case that President Trump was not acquitted from impeachment because his Senate trial lacked additional witnesses and documents demanded by Senate Democrats.“You can’t have an acquittal unless you have a trial, and you can’t have a trial unless you have witnesses and documents — so he can say he’s acquitted, and the headlines can say ‘acquitted,’ but he’s i
  
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• 'Glad to be going home': Passengers on coronavirus-quarantined cruise detail US evacuation

  17-02-2020 20:49 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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• Singapore megachurch moves online as coronavirus spreads in country

  17-02-2020 20:46 via feeds.foxnews.com
  
  A megachurch in Singapore that boasts a congregation of 16,000 announced Sunday it is moving its worship to an online forum, halting all services in person due to the rising number of coronavirus cases in the city-state.
  
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• Trump says black poverty has been 'reversed'... government data says otherwise

  17-02-2020 20:44 via news.yahoo.com
  
  On its face, President Trump's remark to Fox News personality Sean Hannity about the African-American poverty rate was just another bold pronouncement. But, as often is the case, a review of his government's own data suggest it was something of a whopper — even by his standards.
  
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