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• Super Tuesday 2020 results: live voting updates as Joe Biden seeks edge on Bernie Sanders

  02-03-2020 23:59 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Biden's hopes of taking on Sanders boosted as moderates drop out Bloomberg makes his last stand in Texas What is 'Super Tuesday'? Everything you need to know about how the day works Polls close 7pm and 8pm local time Which candidates are left in the race? Joe Biden’s hopes of beating Bernie Sanders for the Democratic presidential nomination received a boost after a string of moderate rivals dropped out just before today's ‘Super Tuesday’ vote. Amy Klobuchar, the Minnesota senat
  
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• Super Tuesday 2020 results: live results updates as Joe Biden seeks edge on Bernie Sanders

  02-03-2020 23:59 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Biden's hopes of taking on Sanders boosted as moderates drop out Bloomberg makes his last stand in Texas First results declared as polls close on the east coast Which candidates are left in the race? Joe Biden’s hopes of beating Bernie Sanders for the Democratic presidential nomination received a boost after a string of moderate rivals dropped out just before today's ‘Super Tuesday’ vote. Amy Klobuchar, the Minnesota senator, became the third centrist candidate to quit the race
  
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• Super Tuesday 2020 results: Biden sweeps the south but Sanders on course for big wins in California

  02-03-2020 23:59 via news.yahoo.com
  
  'Joementum' proves true: Biden takes Texas and 8 other states while Sanders wins California Sanders expected to lead race when full California results emerge How Joe Biden came back from the dead in the race for the White House Bloomberg's bad night leaves him "reconsidering" campaign Analysis: Biden owes surge to overwhelming African-American support Which candidates are left in the race? Joe Biden's campaign bounced back on 'Super Tuesday' with sweeping victories in key southern states after h
  
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• Super Tuesday 2020 results: Biden dominates southern states while Hispanic vote boosts Sanders - live results

  02-03-2020 23:59 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Biden proves his strength with black voters with wins in Alabama, North Carolina and Virginia Bernie Sanders relying on Hispanic support to maintain his lead Biden's hopes of taking on Sanders boosted as moderates drop out Bloomberg makes his last stand in Texas as he braces for a bad night First results declared as polls close on the east coast Which candidates are left in the race? Joe Biden had a strong start to 'Super Tuesday' with victories in key southern states, while Bernie Sanders has w
  
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• Super Tuesday 2020 results: Biden dominates early southern states while Sanders wins Vermont - live results

  02-03-2020 23:59 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Biden proves his strength with black voters with wins in Alabama, North Carolina and Virginia Bernie Sanders relying on Hispanic support to maintain his lead Biden's hopes of taking on Sanders boosted as moderates drop out Bloomberg makes his last stand in Texas as he braces for a bad night First results declared as polls close on the east coast Which candidates are left in the race? Joe Biden had a strong start to 'Super Tuesday' with victories in key southern states, while Bernie Sanders has w
  
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• The Coronavirus Threatens Africans and China’s Hold on Africa

  02-03-2020 23:51 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Africa’s comparatively poor health-care system is failing to recognize many cases in its midst—setting the stage for a larger tragedy.
  
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• Looking for Obama's hidden hand in candidates coalescing around Biden

  02-03-2020 23:48 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Pressure increases on Mike Bloomberg as candidates exit the race and back Joe Biden.
  
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• US orders Chinese state media to cut US staff by almost 40%

  02-03-2020 23:44 via cnn.com
  
  Under new restrictions, the State Department will impose caps on the number of Chinese nationals that may be employed at five Chinese media entities designated last month as foreign missions.
  
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• Pashtun Paradise: How Years of a U.S.-Led War in Afghanistan Helped Its Adversary Succeed

  02-03-2020 23:38 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Americans tend to think of all their wars in a simplified way in which wars have definite beginnings and ends and in which good guys are clearly distinguishable from the bad. The model was a poor fit for the long and messy Afghanistan conflict.
  
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• 11 civilians killed in NW Syria, regime forces re-enter key town

  02-03-2020 23:37 via news.yahoo.com
  
  At least 11 civilians were killed in Russian air raids on northwestern Syria Monday, a monitor said, as Syrian regime forces re-entered a key town days after losing it to rebels.The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, a Britain-based war monitor, said regime forces had wrested back full control of Saraqeb."Regime forces with Russian air cover were able to retake complete control of the town of Saraqeb on the Damascus-Aleppo highway," it said.
  
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• Man pleads not guilty in 1991 Missouri killing of classmate

  02-03-2020 23:36 via news.yahoo.com
  
  William Christopher Niemet, 43, of Fulton, is charged in the death of Greg Jones, whose body was found in June 1991 near Russellville.Niemet was 15 at the time.Niemet, who appeared via video from the Cole County Jail, will be back in court next Monday to determine if he will be granted bond, The Jefferson City News-Tribune reported.
  
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• Trump lobs fresh barbs at Dems, rallies GOP faithful in NC

  02-03-2020 23:35 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Trump's spirits were high after the Dow Jones Industrial Average soared nearly 1,300 points, or 5%, clawing back from a seven-day rout in which it dropped more than 3,500 points."Do you think our opponents were thrilled when they saw the stock market today?" asked Trump, who has taken credit for a bull market throughout his three years in office.The president threw some of his hardest punches at former Vice President Joe Biden, who is coming off a decisive win in Saturday's South Carolina primar
  
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• U.S. district judge orders Hillary Clinton to sit for deposition on use of private email account

  02-03-2020 23:30 via news.yahoo.com
  
  A federal judge has ordered Hillary Clinton to sit for a sworn deposition regarding her use of a private email account while serving as secretary of state.
  
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• Amid coronavirus outbreak, these airlines will waive flight-change fees

  02-03-2020 23:28 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Following the COVID-19 outbreak, airlines including American, Delta, JetBlue and United are taking measures to help slow the spread of the novel coronavirus.
  
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• The more Democratic voters have gotten to know Mike Bloomberg, the less they like him

  02-03-2020 23:26 via news.yahoo.com
  
  The number of Democratic voters who said they would be unsatisfied with Bloomberg rose sharply between late January and late February.
  
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• Homes along Lake Erie covered in ice

  02-03-2020 23:23 via cnn.com
  
  Lakeshore residents in Hamburg, New York, woke up to find their houses covered in ice that formed after two days straight of gale force winds.
  
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• Netanyahu pulls ahead but remains one seat shy of governing majority, exit polls suggest

  02-03-2020 23:22 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Netanyahu's right-wing bloc looked set to win 60 seats — one seat short of a governing majority, according to exit polls by three Israeli broadcasters.
  
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• Beach bummer: Half of world's sandy coastlines may vanish this century

  02-03-2020 23:13 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Half the world's sandy beaches may be wiped away by the end of the century due to rising sea levels and other climate change effects, with Australia, Canada, Chile, Mexico, China and the United States among the hardest hit, researchers said on Monday.Many beaches that attract frolicking vacationers may be turned into rocky remnants as rising seas, changing weather patterns and other factors erode sandy shorelines that now account for more than a third of global sea coasts, they added."Touristic
  
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• Americans are growing less confident in Trump's coronavirus response, poll shows

  02-03-2020 23:12 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Approval ratings for the coronavirus response from President Trump and the Centers for Disease Control are dipping, a new poll released by Morning Consult on Monday shows.Of those surveyed, 49 percent approved of the job Trump is doing to prepare the U.S. for the virus, which is down 7 percent from the previous week's poll and 12 percent from earlier this month. His disapproval rating, meanwhile, jumped up from 27 percent to 37 percent.The CDC maintains a higher rating than the president, but it
  
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• Trump repeatedly misunderstands health officials advising him about coronavirus

  02-03-2020 23:05 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Donald Trump contended on Monday that a vaccine to prevent coronavirus cases could be ready in three months, only to be corrected by one of his top public health officials after he repeatedly appeared to misunderstand drug company executives' statements about their plans to test possible vaccines.The president, during a Cabinet Room meeting with top pharmaceutical industry executives, said he has heard a vaccine could be ready in just three or four months. But Anthony Fauci, National Institute o
  
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• Vatican sends top 2 sex crimes investigators to Mexico

  02-03-2020 23:02 via news.yahoo.com
  
  The Vatican is sending its top two sex crimes investigators to Mexico on a fact-finding and assistance mission as the Catholic hierarchy in the world's second-largest Catholic country begins to reckon with decades of clergy sex abuse and cover-up.Archbishop Charles Scicluna and Monsignor Jordi Bertomeu teamed up in 2018 to investigate the Chilean church and its wretched record of protecting pedophile priests — a bombshell expose that resulted in every active Chilean bishop offering to resi
  
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• Harry Reid Endorses Biden To Beat Trump's 'Dark Vision Of Racism'

  02-03-2020 22:58 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Joementum is back.
  
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• Amy Klobuchar, Pete Buttigieg rally behind Joe Biden on eve of crucial Super Tuesday contests

  02-03-2020 22:58 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Fresh off his huge South Carolina win, Joe Biden is pitching himself as the most viable alternative to Bernie Sanders, the Democratic front-runner.
  
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• Buttigieg and Klobuchar to endorse Biden

  02-03-2020 22:53 via cnn.com
  
  • Opinion: Klobuchar's exit is a strong message
  • CNN analyst predicts Trump will dump Pence for this person
  
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• Hillary Clinton Ordered To Show Up in Court Over Email Server Controversy

  02-03-2020 22:47 via news.yahoo.com
  
  It just won't go away.
  
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• Managed Care Peers Jump as Sanders Bid Hurt by Rivals’ Exits

  02-03-2020 22:34 via news.yahoo.com
  
  (Bloomberg) -- U.S. health insurers rose the most in five months after two Democratic presidential hopefuls wthdrew from the race and said they would endorse Joe Biden, pressuring Bernie Sanders’s Medicare for All plan.The seven-member index of S&P managed care companies extended gains around midday Monday, after Senator Amy Klobuchar (D-Minn.) ended her bid for the presidency and said she plans to endorse the former vice president for the party’s nomination. The stocks continued
  
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• Prosecutor: Ex-convict was in bed with victim when arrested

  02-03-2020 22:32 via news.yahoo.com
  
  An ex-convict accused of forcing young women he met in his daughter's dormitory into prostitution or forced labor after winning their trust was in bed with a victim when he was arrested, a prosecutor said Monday as the New Jersey man lost a bid to be freed on bail.The detail of Lawrence Ray's arrest was revealed by Assistant U.S. Attorney Danielle Sassoon as she argued against bail in Manhattan federal court.A woman he described as his wife was a victim, the prosecutor said, and they lived in a
  
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• A Democrat asked Mike Pompeo to point to things on a blank map in a nod to his awkward geography quiz

  02-03-2020 22:32 via news.yahoo.com
  
  "To your left, you'll see a map of the world," the lawmaker told Pompeo.
  
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• Sanders: Trump Would ‘Decimate’ Biden in Rust Belt

  02-03-2020 22:29 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Senator Bernie Sanders (I., Vt.) warned Sunday that former vice president Joe Biden would lose to President Trump in the crucial rust belt states of Michigan, Pennsylvania, and Wisconsin for his support of “disastrous” trade deals like the North American Free Trade Agreement.“What do you think Trump will do with him in Michigan and Pennsylvania and Wisconsin?” Sanders told the San Francisco Chronicle in an interview. “He’ll decimate him on that issue.”Bi
  
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• An armed gunman held 70 people hostage in a Philippines mall for 10 hours before letting everyone go and holding an impromptu news conference

  02-03-2020 22:29 via news.yahoo.com
  
  After opening fire in a mall in Manilla, and taking dozens of people hostage, an armed gunman shared why he did it before police tackled him.
  
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• A gunman held 70 people hostage in a Philippines mall for 10 hours before letting everyone go and holding an impromptu news conference

  02-03-2020 22:29 via news.yahoo.com
  
  After opening fire in a mall in Manilla, and taking dozens of people hostage, a man shared why he did it before the police tackled him.
  
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• Dow rallies 1,294 points, most in its history

  02-03-2020 22:27 via cnn.com
  
  US stocks rebounded sharply on Monday, with the Dow logging its biggest point gain in history.
  
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• Parents of autistic boy denied communion say New Jersey church portrayed them 'as liars'

  02-03-2020 22:21 via news.yahoo.com
  
  "They’re just trying to backpedal because of all the backlash they got," Nicole LaCugna, the boy's mother, told NBC News.
  
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• U.S. Senate leader says he hopes Trump intelligence nominee will get bipartisan vote

  02-03-2020 22:15 via news.yahoo.com
  
  U.S. Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell said on Monday he was pleased President Donald Trump had announced a nominee for director of national intelligence, without expressing an opinion about Representative John Ratcliffe's fitness for the job.Trump announced on Friday he would for a second time nominate Ratcliffe, a Republican member of the House of Representatives, to be the nation's top spy.Trump had nominated him last summer, but it was dropped amid questions about a lack of experience a
  
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• Some parts of California had no rain in February — and are already seeing wildfires

  02-03-2020 22:12 via news.yahoo.com
  
  The National Weather Service confirmed that February was the driest on record for San Francisco, Sacramento and other cities around the Northern Sierra foothills.
  
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• Did you own one of these iPhones? Apple owes you $25 for slowing it down

  02-03-2020 22:04 via cnn.com
  
  Apple will pay up to half a billion dollars to settle a class action lawsuit accusing it of slowing down older iPhone models to compel users to buy new ones.
  
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• Did you own one of these iPhones? Apple owes you $25

  02-03-2020 22:04 via cnn.com
  
  Apple will pay up to half a billion dollars to settle a class action lawsuit accusing it of slowing down older iPhone models to compel users to buy new ones.
  
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• British Airways cancels 24 flights on its $1 billion route between London and New York as business travel craters due to coronavirus

  02-03-2020 22:04 via news.yahoo.com
  
  The frequency reduction on its most lucrative route signifies lower demand from business travelers due to coronavirus.
  
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• Apple will pay up to $500M to settle lawsuit over slowing down older iPhones

  02-03-2020 22:04 via cnn.com
  
  Apple will pay up to half a billion dollars to settle a class action lawsuit accusing it of slowing down older iPhone models to compel users to buy new ones.
  
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• Dow surges, gaining 1,200 points in massive comeback rally

  02-03-2020 22:02 via nbcnews.com
  
  Wall Street rebounded Monday morning after weathering its worst week in a decade amid rising fears that the coronavirus will ding the global economy and stunt growth.
  
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• Eddie Gallagher: 60 Minutes segment profiling Navy SEAL accused of 'normalising' war crimes

  02-03-2020 22:01 via news.yahoo.com
  
  CBS news program 60 Minutes is facing criticism and calls for boycott for a piece the program aired profiling alleged war criminal Eddie Gallagher, whose punishment after posing for a “trophy photo” with a dead teenage ISIS fighter was reversed by President Donald Trump.The program featured 60 Minutes correspondent David Martin interviewing Mr Gallagher - a Navy SEAL who was tried for war crimes - at his home in Florida, conducting interviews and questioning him about his life since
  
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• Pete Buttigieg to endorse Joe Biden at Texas rally ahead of Super Tuesday

  02-03-2020 21:56 via news.yahoo.com
  
  The move comes after Sen. Amy Klobuchar, who announced she is ending her campaign Monday, also threw her support to Biden.
  
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• DA's husband pulled gun on protesters in LA

  02-03-2020 21:54 via nbcnews.com
  
  Jackie Lacey, L.A. County's first black district attorney, has been the target of regular protests over the office's handling of high-profile cases.
  
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• DA's husband pulled gun on protesters in LA

  02-03-2020 21:54 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Jackie Lacey, L.A. County's first black district attorney, has been the target of regular protests over the office's handling of high-profile cases.
  
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• Putin could make move to absorb Belarus, Europe’s ‘last dictatorship,’ experts say

  02-03-2020 21:52 via feeds.foxnews.com
  
  It has been bestowed by critics as the "last dictatorship" in Europe and for decades has been one of the world's most closed countries. The former Soviet stronghold of Belarus was almost slapped onto the U.S. travel ban earlier this year and continues to be blacklisted by the European Union with a protracted arms embargo. So what's going on inside the small Eastern European enclave of just nine million?
  
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• California's rules for independent party voters could suppress the Bernie vote

  02-03-2020 21:46 via news.yahoo.com
  
  The state’s arcane and complex voting system could steal hundreds of thousands of votes from Bernie SandersIn February, California mailed 3.7m primary ballots that, to the astonishment of many who received them, excluded the presidential candidates. These ballots do have candidates for all other primary races, including for Congress, but not the race for president.Within this mountain of primary ballots, artifacts of California’s arcane and complex voting system, lies the potential t
  
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• California's rules for independent party voters are another form of suppression

  02-03-2020 21:46 via news.yahoo.com
  
  The state’s strange primary rules could steal hundreds of thousands of votes from Bernie SandersIn February, California mailed 3.7m primary ballots that, to the astonishment of many who received them, excluded the presidential candidates. These ballots do have candidates for all other primary races, including for Congress, but not the race for president.Within this mountain of primary ballots, artifacts of California’s arcane and complex voting system, lies the potential to cripple t
  
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• The 18 cleanest cruise ships

  02-03-2020 21:45 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Eighteen cruise ships have received perfect scores during their most recent sanitation inspection from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
  
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• Stepmother arrested in case of missing 11-year-old Gannon Stauch in Colorado

  02-03-2020 21:44 via nbcnews.com
  
  The boy hasn't been seen since Jan. 27 when the suspect reported him missing. Letecia Stauch was arrested Myrtle Beach, South Carolina.
  
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• It sure looks like both Buttigieg and Klobuchar are headed for Biden's Texas rally

  02-03-2020 21:39 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Sen. Amy Klobuchar (D-Minn.) is a confirmed "yes" for former Vice President Joe Biden's rally Monday night, and it looks like former South Bend, Indiana Mayor Pete Buttigieg will be joining them both.Buttigieg dropped out of the 2020 race on Sunday night, and Klobuchar followed Monday afternoon, with the senator's campaign quickly confirming she'd endorse Biden at his Dallas rally ahead of Super Tuesday. And after The Washington Post's Matt Viser noted a chartered plane was headed from South Ben
  
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