General news

• Oracle Employee Speaks Out Against Her Boss Raising Money for Trump

  19-02-2020 23:53 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Larry Ellison, co-founder of Oracle, one of the largest software companies in the world, hosted a fundraiser for Donald Trump’s re-election on Wednesday at the tech titan’s Southern California estate. The event was expected to bring in some $7 million for the incumbent president. Some of Ellison’s employees were less than pleased about that, signing a protest petition and, according to Recode, planning to walk out on Thursday to demand Ellison and Oracle donate an equivale
  
  Read more

• Harry Reid: Brokered convention 'not the end of the world'

  19-02-2020 23:53 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Former Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid on Wednesday said it was possible the crowded Democratic primary race was headed toward a contentious convention fight and downplayed the political dangers of a scenario many party leaders are dreading.“I don’t think we’ll have one, but we could have one,” Reid told The Associated Press in an interview days before the Democratic caucuses in his home state of Nevada.Reid's attitude is a sharp contrast to many in the Democratic estab
  
  Read more

• Man City boss Guardiola will stay '100%' and says 'truth will prevail' on European ban

  19-02-2020 23:49 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Manchester City boss Pep Guardiola says he will stay at the club "100%" and believes the "truth will prevail", after City's ban from European competition.
  
  Read more

• E. Jean Carroll says Elle declined to renew her contract for her column because of Trump's comments

  19-02-2020 23:47 via cnn.com
  
  A woman who accused President Donald Trump of sexually assaulting her alleges that she lost her long-standing magazine column because of Trump's "defamatory comments," according to court documents filed on Tuesday.
  
  Read more

• Advertisement

• Date night couple foil attempted armed robbery

  19-02-2020 23:47 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Off-duty police officers Chase and Nicole McKeown were at dinner when their night took an unexpected turn.
  
  Read more

• Tottenham overpowered in Champions League last-16 tie

  19-02-2020 23:43 via cnn.com
  
  Bundesliga club RB Leipzig outplayed Tottenham Hotspur to take charge of their Champions League last-16 tie.
  
  Read more

• Spurs dig themselves into a Champions League hole

  19-02-2020 23:43 via cnn.com
  
  Bundesliga club RB Leipzig outplayed Tottenham Hotspur to take charge of their Champions League last-16 tie.
  
  Read more

• Mississippi moving more inmates out of troubled state prison

  19-02-2020 23:43 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Mississippi on Wednesday started transferring more inmates out of a state prison that has been rocked by deadly violence and that is under investigation by the U.S. Justice Department.Republican Gov. Tate Reeves said about 50 inmates were moved from the Mississippi State Penitentiary at Parchman to the privately run Tallahatchie County Correctional Facility, about 5 miles (8 kilometers) to the east.During the next several weeks, more than 500 more will be moved to the same private prison so that
  
  Read more

• Advertisement

• Ex-NYC police commish Kerik says he cried at being pardoned

  19-02-2020 23:42 via news.yahoo.com
  
  New York City's police commissioner during the Sept. 11 attacks said Wednesday he started crying when President Donald Trump pardoned him for felony convictions that put him behind bars for three years, aware he got a break other ex-convicts never see.Bernard Kerik said felony convictions, a prison stint and its aftermath taught himthose convicted of crimes face tens of thousands of knock-on effects.
  
  Read more

• Bernie Sanders aide denies report he considered a primary challenge to Obama

  19-02-2020 23:28 via news.yahoo.com
  
  It didn't take long for the Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) camp to respond to a report published earlier Wednesday by The Atlantic in which former President Barack Obama's 2012 re-election campaign manager Jim Messina said Sanders considered mounting a primary challenge that year. In the report, former Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid was named as the person who talked Sanders out of the idea, but Sanders' deputy campaign manager Rabin-Havt said Wednesday that conversation didn't take place, and S
  
  Read more

• Bloomberg may have entered the race to stop Sanders, but his campaign mostly threatens other moderate candidates

  19-02-2020 23:14 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Bernie Sanders supporters were less likely to say they like Michael Bloomberg than the backers of any other 2020 Democrat, a new Insider poll found.
  
  Read more

• Bernie Sanders 'got so close to running against Obama in 2012 top senator had to intervene'

  19-02-2020 23:12 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Bernie Sanders once contemplated a primary challenge to Barack Obama in 2012, before a top Democratic senator intervened and pleaded with him not to do so, according to a new report.The Vermont senator is now seeking the 2020 Democratic nomination, but he apparently once considered making his first presidential run a longshot bid to take on the most recent Democrat to occupy the Oval Office — and one who remains one of the most popular figures in that same party.
  
  Read more

• Longtime Trump associate Stone to be sentenced by judge he antagonized

  19-02-2020 23:07 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Since his January 2019 arrest, President Trump’s longtime adviser Roger Stone has repeatedly tested the patience of the federal judge who presided over his trial. On Thursday, that judge will tell the self-described “dirty trickster” how much time he will serve in prison.
  
  Read more

• 20-year-old rapper killed in home invasion

  19-02-2020 23:06 via cnn.com
  
  The rapper Pop Smoke was killed during a home invasion at a Hollywood Hills, California, residence early Wednesday, a police official and federal law enforcement source confirmed to CNN.
  
  Read more

• Canada to evacuate citizens from virus-hit cruise ship Thursday

  19-02-2020 23:04 via news.yahoo.com
  
  The Canadian government will begin evacuating its citizens from a virus-hit cruise ship quarantined off Yokohama, Japan, on Thursday evening, Foreign Minister Francois-Philippe Champagne said on Wednesday.People with symptoms of the coronavirus will not be allowed to leave, and those who have tested positive will be treated in Japan, he added.Initially with 3,700 passengers and crew, the Diamond Princess cruise liner has been in quarantine since early this month.
  
  Read more

• 'We don't have a history of murdering our citizens': A Saudi official says reports that the Saudi Crown Prince is connected to the death of Jamal Khashoggi are 'ridiculous'

  19-02-2020 23:04 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Saudi Arabia has made "great progress in terms of human rights," Adel al-Jubeir said, urging outsiders to educate themselves better on its state of affairs.
  
  Read more

• Temperature checks at airports are proving useless. But a low-tech screening method has found success

  19-02-2020 22:58 via cnn.com
  
  One of the enduring images of the current coronavirus outbreak is a space-age looking thermometer pointed at an airplane passenger.
  
  Read more

• No US cases were caught by airport temperature checks. Here's what has worked

  19-02-2020 22:58 via cnn.com
  
  One of the enduring images of the current coronavirus outbreak is a space-age looking thermometer pointed at an airplane passenger.
  
  Read more

• A millionaire fashion designer is accused of sex trafficking and raping women and girls during 'pamper parties' at his exclusive Bahamas estate

  19-02-2020 22:58 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Several women have come forward since the lawsuit was filed alleging they had been sexually abused by other men and women at the direction of Nygard, a lawyer for the plaintiffs told Insider.
  
  Read more

• Fans speculate whether Pop Smoke's social media posts made him a target

  19-02-2020 22:45 via nbcnews.com
  
  Pop Smoke's address was visible in one of his final social media posts, causing some to question whether someone used the post to locate and target him.
  
  Read more

• Russia warns Turkey, blocks UN bid to end Syria bloodshed

  19-02-2020 22:39 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Russia on Wednesday warned Turkey against intervening in Syria as it blocked a UN bid to end the Damascus regime's brutal assault on the last rebel enclave.Syrian aid workers called urgently for a ceasefire and international help for nearly a million people fleeing the regime onslaught in the country's northwestern Idlib province -- the biggest wave of displaced civilians in the nine-year conflict.Turkey, supporter of some rebel groups in Idlib, has been pushing for a renewed ceasefire in talks
  
  Read more

• Bernie Sanders is surging in the polls. Here's how his 'Medicare for All' plan would affect every part of the $3.6 trillion US healthcare system.

  19-02-2020 22:38 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Medicare for All would radically change the structure of American healthcare. Here's what it would mean for patients, hospitals, and employers.
  
  Read more

• Ex-rugby star reportedly set car alight, killing wife and children

  19-02-2020 22:36 via cnn.com
  
  Former rugby league player Rowan Baxter, his wife and their three young children have been killed in a horrific car fire in Brisbane, Queensland.
  
  Read more

• What happened to winter? And where's the polar vortex?

  19-02-2020 22:30 via news.yahoo.com
  
  The first two months of winter – December and January – were the warmest on record across the U.S.
  
  Read more

• George Zimmerman sues Warren, Buttigieg for $265 million

  19-02-2020 22:26 via news.yahoo.com
  
  The ex-neighborhood watch volunteer who was acquitted of killing the 17-year-old says the Democrats defamed him on Twitter.
  
  Read more

• Tunisia names new government, avoids risk of early election

  19-02-2020 22:16 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Tunisia’s designated Prime Minister Elyes Fakhfakh‮ ‬on Wednedsay named a new coalition government‮ ‬after reaching an agreement with Ennahda moderate Islamist Party, the biggest power in Parliament, ending an ongoing political crisis of four months.With this agreement, the proposed government will likely win a confidence vote in Parliament in coming days and the country will avoid an early election.Fakhfakh proposed the line-up of a new government on Saturday and t
  
  Read more

• Pilots aboard Hurricane Hunter plane chasing a winter storm experience strange phenomenon

  19-02-2020 22:14 via news.yahoo.com
  
  An experienced hurricane hunting crew chasing a winter storm came across a far different discovery this past weekend. In what is know as St. Elmo's fire, footage of the forking electric discharge was captured on Saturday by pilots as the spectacle flashed throughout the cockpit.The video, captured by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) Aircraft Operations Center (AOC), was taken as pilots flew across the Atlantic Ocean amid thunderstorms. NOAA deployed the hunters to suppo
  
  Read more

• Kid's hug meant more than he could know

  19-02-2020 22:11 via cnn.com
  
  A sweet moment of a young boy running up to a man delivering pizza and hugging him was captured on a doorbell camera. The man's recent loss made the exchange that much more meaningful. CNN affiliate WLNE reports.
  
  Read more

• Child unaware pizza man suffered horrific tragedy. See moment that brought hope.

  19-02-2020 22:11 via cnn.com
  
  A sweet moment of a young boy running up to a man delivering pizza and hugging him was captured on a doorbell camera. The man's recent loss made the exchange that much more meaningful. CNN affiliate WLNE reports.
  
  Read more

• Child unaware pizza delivery man suffered horrific tragedy. See moment that brought hope

  19-02-2020 22:11 via cnn.com
  
  A sweet moment of a young boy running up to a man delivering pizza and hugging him was captured on a doorbell camera. The man's recent loss made the exchange that much more meaningful. CNN affiliate WLNE reports.
  
  Read more

• What Obama is saying in private about Sanders, NY Magazine reports

  19-02-2020 22:03 via cnn.com
  
  New York Magazine reports that President Obama has privately made clear to Bernie Sanders' campaign that he will support Sanders if he is the nominee.
  
  Read more

• Hate crimes go unchecked at Syracuse University, students say

  19-02-2020 22:02 via news.yahoo.com
  
  The black-led movement NotAgainSU launched the sit-in Monday to protest the administration's handling of racial incidents at the university.
  
  Read more

• Murder of 7yo girl in Mexico fuels anger and protests over brutal killings

  19-02-2020 21:59 via cnn.com
  
  A young girl, known only as Fátima, was last seen being picked up from school by an unidentified woman in Mexico City on February 11.
  
  Read more

• US judge sides with migrants in case against Border Patrol

  19-02-2020 21:55 via news.yahoo.com
  
  A U.S. judge in Arizona sided Wednesday with migrants who have long-complained about inhumane and unsanitary conditions in some U.S. Border Patrol facilities in the state.The ruling came weeks after the conclusion of a seven-day trial in which attorneys for migrants who sued in 2015 argued that the agency holds immigrants in extremely cold, overcrowded, unsanitary and inhumane conditions.The order makes permanent a preliminary injunction that U.S. District Court Judge David C. Bury issued in 201
  
  Read more

• Passenger weeps after leaving cruise ship quarantine

  19-02-2020 21:50 via cnn.com
  
  CNN's Matt Rivers speaks to a woman who spent two weeks quarantined on the Diamond Princess cruise ship off the coast of Japan after passengers on the ship were diagnosed with the coronavirus.
  
  Read more

• Illinois governor looks to income tax change to boost Fiscal Year 2021 revenue

  19-02-2020 21:29 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Illinois Governor J.B. Pritzker proposed a $42 billion fiscal 2021 general funds budget on Wednesday that includes $1.4 billion in new revenue from a change in the state's income tax rate structure that may or may not be approved by voters in November.The Democratic governor's second budget since taking office in January 2019 would put that revenue in reserve pending the outcome of the vote on a constitutional amendment to replace the state's current flat income tax rate with graduated rates sta
  
  Read more

• Trump clemency recipient links her case to Kardashian West

  19-02-2020 21:25 via news.yahoo.com
  
  A Florida woman who got clemency from President Donald Trump while serving prison time for a $205 million Medicare fraud scam said Wednesday her case was brought to Trump's attention by a woman who herself got clemency at the urging of reality TV star Kim Kardashian West.Judith Negron was eight years into a 35-year prison sentence that the FBI called one of the longest sentences ever imposed in a Medicare Fraud Strike Force case when Trump commuted her sentence Tuesday.“I had some guardian
  
  Read more

• The Air Force just started testing its new Grey Wolf helicopter, the replacement for the Huey

  19-02-2020 21:22 via news.yahoo.com
  
  The Air Force got its first in-flight look at the capabilities of the new MH-139A Grey Wolf helicopter.
  
  Read more

• George Zimmerman sues Elizabeth Warren, Pete Buttigieg for defamation, seeks $265 million

  19-02-2020 21:14 via news.yahoo.com
  
  A lawsuit claims Democratic presidential candidates Elizabeth Warren and Pete Buttigieg defamed George Zimmerman in tweets on Feb. 5 recognizing what would have been Trayvon Martin’s 25th birthday.
  
  Read more

• U.S. special envoy discusses Taliban deal with re-elected Afghan president

  19-02-2020 21:13 via news.yahoo.com
  
  U.S. special envoy Zalmay Khalilzad and Afghan President Ashraf Ghani on Wednesday discussed a U.S. deal with Taliban militants on a weeklong reduction in violence, meeting the day after Ghani was declared a winner of a disputed presidential poll.Ghani's main rival, Abdullah Abdullah, who came in second, rejected the result and vowed to form his own government, threatening new political turmoil as the United States strives to seal a U.S. troop withdrawal deal with Taliban militants.
  
  Read more

• Tennessee governor won't intervene in execution

  19-02-2020 21:10 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Tennessee Gov. Bill Lee said on Wednesday that he will not grant clemency to a death row inmate whose group of supporters includes family members of his victims and prison workers.
  
  Read more

• Two women drown after car rolls off ferry from Miami’s exclusive Fisher Island

  19-02-2020 21:08 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Two women died after the car they were in rolled off a ferry and sank between Miami Beach, Florida, and the exclusive enclave of Fisher Island.It is unclear how the blue 2019 Mercedes-Benz came to fall from the ferry at approximately 5pm on Tuesday.
  
  Read more

• Maduro accused of "disappearing" US oilmen as trial delayed

  19-02-2020 21:07 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Family members of six American oil executives jailed in Venezuela are accusing Nicolas Maduro’s government of “forced disappearance” after the men were inexplicably missing for the scheduled start of their trial on Wednesday.Veronica Vadell said that lawyers for her father, Tomeu Vadell, and the five other executives from Houston-based Citgo had been waiting at a Caracas courthouse for more than six hours for the men to be transferred by the nation's intelligence police.The arr
  
  Read more

• Lawyer: Assange was offered US pardon if he cleared Russia

  19-02-2020 21:06 via news.yahoo.com
  
  WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange plans to claim during an extradition hearing that the Trump administration offered him a pardon if he agreed to say Russia was not involved in leaking Democratic National Committee emails during the 2016 U.S. election campaign, a lawyer for Assange said Wednesday. Assange is being held at a British prison while fighting extradition to the United States on spying charges. At a preliminary hearing held Wednesday in London, lawyer Edward Fitzgerald said that now-for
  
  Read more

• Trump's approval rating hits record high as he mocks 'fake media' polls predicting he'll lose the election

  19-02-2020 20:59 via news.yahoo.com
  
  With his approval rating again climbing to post-impeachment high, Donald Trump mocked his Democratic challengers by contending his campaign's internal polling shows him winning a second term.The president used a tweet to call his campaign's polling "REAL," contending those surveys show him "beating all of the Dem candidates".
  
  Read more

• Russia opposes UN declaration calling for Syria ceasefire: diplomats

  19-02-2020 20:58 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Russia on Wednesday objected to the UN Security Council adopting a statement that would have called for a ceasefire in northwest Syria, diplomats said, after a tense closed-door meeting."We tried very hard to have a press statement calling for cessation of hostilities and humanitarian access to Idlib," Nicolas de Riviere, French ambassador to the United Nations, told reporters.
  
  Read more

• Here are the ages of all the 2020 Democratic presidential candidates and how old they would be upon taking office

  19-02-2020 20:55 via news.yahoo.com
  
  If elected, Bernie Sanders, Joe Biden, Michael Bloomberg, and Elizabeth Warren would all break Trump's record as the oldest president to take office.
  
  Read more

• How did ex-con get away with living in his daughter's dorm?

  19-02-2020 20:39 via news.yahoo.com
  
  It was the obvious question after news broke that a 50-year-old charged with forcing college students into prostitution met some of them while living with his daughter in campus housing. “Perhaps because the apartment in question was a small townhouse with its own entrance, students in other housing would not necessarily have been aware of the presence (and have told us they were not) of this student’s father,” President Cristle Collins Judd wrote the day after Ray's arrest las
  
  Read more

• Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez sided with 'The View' hosts after they confront her over 'deeply misogynistic' and 'violent' Bernie Bros

  19-02-2020 20:36 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Elizabeth Warren, a fellow progressive 2020 candidate, said Bernie Sanders "has a lot of questions to answer" about his fans' behavior.
  
  Read more

• Former Australian PM suspected pilot of mass-murder mission in MH370 tragedy

  19-02-2020 20:30 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Former Australian Prime Minister Tony Abbott has said the “top levels” of the Malaysian government long suspected that the disappearance of Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 almost six years ago was a mass murder-suicide by the pilot.
  
  Read more

Follow @newslock_news on Twitter!