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• UT Austin announces coronavirus 'breakthrough' could help yield vaccine

  20-02-2020 23:59 via foxnews.com
  
  Researchers at the National Institute of Health (NIH) and the University of Texas at Austin claimed to have made a breakthrough in their coronavirus research on Wednesday and said their data could help develop a vaccine. 
  
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• Trump will let process 'play out' after ally Roger Stone gets 40 months in prison

  20-02-2020 23:57 via abcnews.go.com
  
  Roger Stone, a longtime friend and campaign adviser to President Donald Trump, faces sentencing Thursday morning for lying to Congress. Might Trump pardon him?
  
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• Southwest Airlines urges passengers to report 'any unwelcome behavior' during flight

  20-02-2020 23:57 via news.yahoo.com
  
  The addition to Southwest Airline's pre-flight safety briefing comes amid high-profile claims of sexual assault on airlines.
  
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• After Trump attacks, judge handling Stone case responds sternly

  20-02-2020 23:50 via news.yahoo.com
  
  U.S. District Judge Amy Berman Jackson remained silent last week when President Donald Trump attacked the prosecutors, the jurors and her personally for their roles in the trial of his long-time friend and adviser Roger Stone. Jackson said Stone showed "flagrant" disrespect for the proceedings. The 65-year-old jurist, without mentioning Trump by name, called his attempts to influence the case "inappropriate" and said he did not sway her decision.
  
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• Trump says Roger Stone has 'very good chance of exoneration' hours after sentencing

  20-02-2020 23:48 via news.yahoo.com
  
  The president also attacked the jury forewoman in Stone's criminal case, calling her "totally tainted."
  
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• Biden slams Sanders over Brady Bill vote in speech to gun-control activists

  20-02-2020 23:48 via foxnews.com
  
  Former Vice President Joe Biden took aim Thursday at Sen. Bernie Sanders’ record on gun control, calling him out for voting against the 1993 Brady Bill.
  
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• NYT: Russia is trying to get Trump re-elected, intel officials told lawmakers

  20-02-2020 23:44 via cnn.com
  
  Intelligence officials warned lawmakers earlier this month that Russia was interfering in the 2020 presidential election in an attempt to get President Donald Trump reelected, five people familiar with the matter told The New York Times.
  
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• House leaders reportedly learned Russia was trying to get Trump re-elected — and Trump was angry about it

  20-02-2020 23:41 via news.yahoo.com
  
  President Trump would rather keep the facts to himself.Last week, the House Intelligence Committee reportedly received a briefing detailing how Russia was once again interfering in the 2020 election. The next day, Trump attacked his outgoing national intelligence director for letting the briefing happen, people familiar with the exchange told The New York Times.The committee, led by Rep. Adam Schiff (D-Calif.), learned from intelligence official Shelby Pierson that Russia was working to get Trum
  
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• Amy Klobuchar blanks Pete Buttigieg and avoids shaking his hand at the end of Democratic debate

  20-02-2020 23:41 via news.yahoo.com
  
  At the end of a raucous Democratic primary debate in Las Vegas that saw multiple clashes between the six presidential hopefuls on stage, there seemed to be no love lost between two sparring partners in particular.Minnesota senator Amy Klobuchar and the former mayor of South Bend, Indiana, Pete Buttigieg, traded blows over the former forgetting the name of the President of Mexico, and the latter’s relative electoral inexperience, in a heated exchange.
  
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• 'This is not just Roger being Roger': Stone gets 40 months – and a scolding from the judge

  20-02-2020 23:36 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Amy Berman Jackson tore into Trump’s longtime friend and reminded the court ‘he was prosecuted for covering up for the president’Roger Stone, a longtime friend of Donald Trump and a self-styled dirty trickster of American politics, showed little emotion as he stood, squeezed between his defense team, at the front of the courtroom to await his sentence on Thursday.“Unsurprisingly, I have a lot to say,” the federal district court judge Amy Berman Jackson began.She was
  
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• Man who bought 100-round magazine for Dayton mass shooter sentenced to 32 months

  20-02-2020 23:30 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Ethan Kollie bought parts for the assault-style rifle used by Connor Betts in last year's mass shooting in Dayton.
  
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• Trump decided to replace his top spy chief after his aide told Congress that Russia is interfering in 2020 to help Trump win

  20-02-2020 23:27 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Trump was led to falsely believe that Rep. Adam Schiff was fed exclusive information that could help Democrats if released publicly.
  
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• Apple has been granted a temporary restraining order against a man it says has been stalking Tim Cook

  20-02-2020 23:26 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Apple alleged the man has been harassing Tim Cook, and has shown up at his house in Palo Alto twice, once with champagne and flowers.
  
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• 'Angst, anger and disappointment': Roger Stone intervention stokes uncertainty across federal justice system

  20-02-2020 23:26 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Prosecutors and judges have expressed concern about political intervention in criminal cases after the DOJ backtracked on Roger Stone's sentence.
  
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• More than 12M in Southeast bracing for snowstorm; Charlotte, Raleigh under winter weather alerts

  20-02-2020 23:17 via news.yahoo.com
  
  A winter storm was forecast to bring up to 6 inches of snow to the Southeast; Charlotte and Raleigh, North Carolina, under winter weather alerts.
  
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• Back Home in Oregon, U.S. Man Says He Flouted Request to Remain in Cambodia After Westerdam Passenger's COVID-19 Diagnosis

  20-02-2020 23:17 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Frank King says he snuck out of the back of a hotel in Cambodia to flee to the U.S. after passengers were being held for COVID-19 testing.
  
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• Will Turkey Drag America Into a ‘World War III Scenario’ With Russia?

  20-02-2020 23:16 via news.yahoo.com
  
  The U.S. military is cautious about the role it is playing in Syria while the State Department is eager to step in and help Turkey as it tussles with Russia.
  
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• As Latino clout rises, Sanders leads field in courting them.

  20-02-2020 23:16 via news.yahoo.com
  
  The first primary contest in a majority-minority state, Saturday’s caucuses could also offer clues about the role Latino voters may play in the fall.
  
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• Car crash fatalities declined in 2019, but NSC says numbers are 'still unacceptable'

  20-02-2020 23:15 via abcnews.go.com
  
  For the second year in a row the number of people who died in car crashes dropped, according to the National Safety Council’s preliminary estimates released Thursday.
  
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• A Google manager has been arrested and is facing one count of murder after his wife was reported missing in Hawaii

  20-02-2020 23:11 via news.yahoo.com
  
  His wife, a Microsoft business program manager, was reported missing Tuesday while the Seattle couple was vacationing in Hawaii.
  
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• A Google manager has been arrested and charged with murder after his wife was reported missing in Hawaii

  20-02-2020 23:11 via news.yahoo.com
  
  His wife, a Microsoft business program manager, was reported missing Tuesday while the Seattle couple was vacationing in Hawaii.
  
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• Irish leader Varadkar to resign

  20-02-2020 23:09 via cnn.com
  
  Irish leader Leo Varadkar has told parliament that he will resign on Thursday night, after suffering a crushing defeat in a parliamentary vote. No clear successor has emerged from the process to lead the country.
  
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• Wake Forest apologizes for slavery in university's past

  20-02-2020 23:03 via news.yahoo.com
  
  WINSTON-SALEM, N.C. (AP) — The president of Wake Forest University issued a public apology Thursday for the institution's past involvement in slavery.President Nathan Hatch's apology, delivered in a speech during the school's Founders' Day ceremonies, comes after a series of events stirred up racial tension on the campus, including anonymous, racist emails sent to faculty members last year.Schools around the South and beyond have been grappling in recent years with what to do about past ti
  
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• Americans stranded at Pakistan airport after cruise ship was denied entry to multiple countries over coronavirus fears

  20-02-2020 23:00 via news.yahoo.com
  
  A plane full of Americans and Canadians was stranded on a tarmac at an airport in Karachi, Pakistan, for several hours on Thursday after it was turned away from multiple countries due to fears of the coronavirus, according to a family member of two of the passengers.
  
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• What travelers need to know about coronavirus

  20-02-2020 22:59 via cnn.com
  
  The spread of novel coronavirus has travelers around the world on edge. Much is still unknown about the outbreak, and health officials are urging caution.
  
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• Grace Millane case: 'I went on a date with her killer after her murder'

  20-02-2020 22:55 via bbc.co.uk
  
  "It was a very strange insight into what someone's brain does after they do something like that."
  
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• State Department reportedly overruled CDC to fly coronavirus-infected Americans home

  20-02-2020 22:54 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Fourteen Americans who contracted coronavirus on a cruise ship in Japan were transported back to the U.S. against the wishes of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, The Washington Post reports.A total of 328 Americans were quarantined on the Diamond Princess ship for weeks before test results showed 14 of them had the COVID-19 virus, the Post writes. The U.S. State Department had said no one with the infection would be allowed on a flight. But it fought with the CDC to transport the i
  
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• Airport worker with no license takes plane for spin near D.C., almost crashes, feds say

  20-02-2020 22:53 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Ryan Guy Parker allegedly "bounced" the landing and spun out when he touched down at the end of one harrowing flight.
  
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• Bloomberg Staffers Dispute That He Pays Women Equally

  20-02-2020 22:46 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Michael Bloomberg claimed during Wednesday night’s contentious Democratic primary debate that women at his company “get paid exactly the same as men.” But data from parts of his massive media empire suggest the opposite.While Bloomberg L.P. has not publicly released a comprehensive company-wide gender pay study, parts of the ex-mayor’s business media empire have done so. And the results have shown that female employees are not paid the same amount as their male counterpar
  
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• Trump weighs in on clemency for Stone hours after sentencing

  20-02-2020 22:42 via cnn.com
  
  President Donald Trump hinted Thursday he's eyeing clemency for his former adviser Roger Stone, who was sentenced to 40 months in prison.
  
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• Trump: Stone 'has a very good chance of exoneration'

  20-02-2020 22:42 via cnn.com
  
  President Donald Trump hinted Thursday he's eyeing clemency for his former adviser Roger Stone, who was sentenced to 40 months in prison.
  
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• Trump: Stone has 'a very good chance for exoneration'

  20-02-2020 22:42 via cnn.com
  
  President Donald Trump hinted Thursday he's eyeing clemency for his former adviser Roger Stone, who was sentenced to 40 months in prison.
  
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• Trump says he won't pardon Roger Stone -- for now

  20-02-2020 22:42 via cnn.com
  
  President Donald Trump said Thursday he won't act to grant clemency to his friend and former associate Roger Stone right now, saying he wants the process to play out before making a decision.
  
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• Brazilian senator shot during strike by military police

  20-02-2020 22:42 via feeds.foxnews.com
  
  A Brazilian senator was shot Wednesday while trying to intervene in an illegal military police strike in the northeastern state of Ceara, video from the chaotic scene shows.  
  
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• College student dies of flu before 911 rescuers can find him

  20-02-2020 22:35 via abcnews.go.com
  Authorities say a college student was found dead in his home of the flu after a garbled 911 call left rescuers with no means of locating him
  
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• More than 5 tons of drugs seized from homemade vessel

  20-02-2020 22:26 via cnn.com
  
  More than 5 tons of drugs were seized off the coast of Panama after authorities spotted what appeared to be a semi-submersible vessel, the country's ministry of public security said.
  
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• Coronavirus: Princess Cruises boss under fire for blowing kisses at ship where two have died and 3,000 have been quarantined for weeks

  20-02-2020 22:18 via news.yahoo.com
  
  The president of Princess Cruises welcomed a coronavirus-quarantined ship by blowing kisses and making heart signs, captured on a video set to upbeat music and posted on social media the same day as reports of the deaths of two passengers had surfaced.In a video posted to the company's social media on Wednesday, Jan Swartz is seen wearing a surgical mask and forming heart hands over her head as the cruise ship finally begins to disembark after its passengers were forced to remain at a port in Yo
  
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• Watch Trump's reaction to Roger Stone's sentence

  20-02-2020 22:17 via cnn.com
  
  President Donald Trump addressed the Roger Stone sentencing for the first time during a commencement address in Las Vegas. CNN's Elie Honig fact-checks Trump's claims about the case.
  
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• U.S. military truck caught on camera ramming Russian jeep off Syrian road

  20-02-2020 22:17 via news.yahoo.com
  
  A video circulating on Twitter shows U.S. military forces in Syria running a Russian military vehicle off the road.
  
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• Global food waste twice as high as previously estimated, study says

  20-02-2020 22:16 via cnn.com
  
  Twice as much food as previously estimated -- or a third of all food available for human consumption -- is wasted, with people in wealthier countries wasting more, according to a recent study published in the journal PLOS One.
  
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• Grace Millane's mother tells killer she is 'haunted' by 'barbaric' murder

  20-02-2020 22:12 via news.yahoo.com
  
  The mother of murdered British backpacker Grace Millane said she will be forever “haunted” by the violent end her daughter met, as her Tinder date murderer was sentenced to life imprisonment. The 28-year-old New Zealand man, who retained temporary name suppression, was sentenced to life imprisonment at a New Zealand court on Friday morning, with a minimum non-parole period of 17 years. Millane had been in New Zealand for less than two weeks when she matched with her killer on Tinder.
  
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• Creator of copy, cut and paste functions dies at 74

  20-02-2020 22:11 via cnn.com
  
  Larry Tesler, a pioneer of personal computing credited with creating the cut, copy and paste as well as the search and replace functions, has died. He was 74.
  
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• A year on this exoplanet only takes 18 hours. And it might be doomed

  20-02-2020 22:11 via cnn.com
  
  Every 18 hours, a newly discovered exoplanet found 2,000 light-years away from Earth completes an orbit around its star -- and potentially takes another step closer to being ripped apart.
  
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• NFL player arrested for allegedly possessing 157 pounds of marijuana

  20-02-2020 22:08 via cnn.com
  
  Cleveland Browns player Gregory Robinson was arrested after US Border Patrol agents found 157 pounds of marijuana in a car, officials said.
  
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• Execution for a Facebook post? Why blasphemy is a capital offense in some Muslim countries

  20-02-2020 22:08 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Junaid Hafeez, a university lecturer in Pakistan, had been imprisoned for six years when he was sentenced to death in December 2019. The charge: blasphemy, specifically insulting Prophet Muhammad on Facebook. Pakistan has the world’s second strictest blasphemy laws after Iran, according to U.S. Commision on International Religious Freedom.Hafeez, whose death sentence is under appeal, is one of about 1,500 Pakistanis charged with blasphemy, or sacrilegious speech, over the last three decade
  
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• Three people dead in fiery rural Louisiana plane crash

  20-02-2020 22:06 via news.yahoo.com
  
  The plane was on its way from Jackson, Mississippi, to Shreveport. The Monroe Regional Airport tower lost contact with the plane at 2:10 p.m.
  
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• Joe Biden says his DACA proposal will help Asian Americans

  20-02-2020 22:02 via news.yahoo.com
  
  The former vice president says Asian immigrants are part of the “reason why America is who we are.”
  
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• Trump defeats all 2020 Democrats in Wisconsin but loses in Pennsylvania and Michigan, poll finds

  20-02-2020 22:01 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Michigan, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin were key to Trump's 2016 win, but according to a new poll, he faces an uphill battle to sweep all three again.
  
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• Virus Surge in Japan Risks Undoing Abe’s Efforts to Woo China

  20-02-2020 22:00 via news.yahoo.com
  
  (Bloomberg) -- Prime Minister Shinzo Abe has so far managed to keep the coronavirus outbreak from damaging his hard-won relationship with China. That’s getting even more difficult with each new case confirmed in Japan.Abe has taken a softer approach to China over the virus than the Trump administration, winning Tokyo praise in Beijing. That chimes with his efforts to nurse Japan’s relationship with its giant neighbor and biggest trading partner back to health since he took office in
  
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• Don't Sleep on Russia's Super-Fast "Avangard" Hypersonic Missile

  20-02-2020 22:00 via news.yahoo.com
  
  It'll keep you up at night.
  
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