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• Venezuela hit with new U.S. sanctions after clashes over food aid on border

  25-02-2019 23:50 via news.yahoo.com
  As Colombia's foreign minister warned about "credible threats to the life" of Venezuela's opposition leader Juan Guaido, the Trump administration also took its pressure campaign to the United Nations Security Council, asking it to discuss the situation in Venezuela, diplomats said.The U.S. Treasury Department's sanctions were imposed on four Venezuelan state governors allied with the government of President Nicolas Maduro, blocking any assets they control in the United States.
  
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• Authorities: Kraft visited parlor for sex on day of AFC game

  25-02-2019 23:50 via news.yahoo.com
  WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. (AP) — New England Patriots owner Robert Kraft visited a Florida massage parlor for sex acts the night before and the morning of last month's AFC championship game, authorities said Monday in documents charging him with two misdemeanor counts of soliciting prostitution.
  
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• Sanofi, Regeneron lose U.S. patent challenge to Amgen cholesterol drug

  25-02-2019 23:48 via news.yahoo.com
  Amgen Chief Executive Robert Bradway said in a statement that the company was "thankful that the jury weighed the evidence carefully and recognized the validity of Amgen's patents."Regeneron and Sanofi said in a statement they disagreed with aspects of the ruling and would seek to have it overturned."We will continue to vigorously defend our positions against Amgen's overly broad patent claims," Joseph LaRosa, Regeneron's general counsel, said in the statement.Thousand Oaks, California-based Amg
  
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• Democrats face hurdles in bid to get full Mueller report

  25-02-2019 23:45 via news.yahoo.com
  "Congress can subpoena the information Mueller has collected, but faces huge hurdles in getting it," said Ross Garber, a lawyer in Washington who focuses on political investigations."It would have to file a civil lawsuit, which would take a long time to get through the court system, likely many years."Mueller is preparing the eagerly anticipated report on the investigation he took over in May 2017 examining potential Trump campaign conspiracy with Moscow to help tip the election his way and whet
  
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• After Putin's warning, Russian TV lists nuclear targets in U.S.

  25-02-2019 23:01 via news.yahoo.com
  The targets included the Pentagon and the presidential retreat in Camp David, Maryland.The report, unusual even by the sometimes bellicose standards of Russian state TV, was broadcast on Sunday evening, days after President Vladimir Putin said Moscow was militarily ready for a "Cuban Missile"-style crisis if the United States wanted one.With tensions rising over Russian fears that the United States might deploy intermediate-range nuclear missiles in Europe as a Cold War-era arms-control treaty u
  
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• Paris fashion week begins under Lagerfeld's shadow

  25-02-2019 22:59 via news.yahoo.com
  Paris women's fashion week started late Monday with fashionistas in a sombre mood following the death of legendary designer Karl Lagerfeld last week.It is still not clear how much of the collection was created by Lagerfeld, who died last Tuesday aged 85.The workaholic German, who always insisted that he would design until he dropped, drew his creations by hand and then handed them on to Viard to realise.
  
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• Pinterest, YouTube say acting against anti-vaccine messages

  25-02-2019 22:55 via news.yahoo.com
  Several social networks including Pinterest and YouTube have detailed measures they are taking in response to pressure to combat disinformation on vaccines, which they have been accused of enabling.Pinterest confirmed to AFP Monday it changed its policy last year with regards to anti-vaccine content, a development first disclosed last week by the Wall Street Journal.
  
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• The Latest: Colombian FM warns Maduro on Guaido's safety

  25-02-2019 22:47 via news.yahoo.com
  BOGOTA, Colombia (AP) — The latest on Venezuela's political crisis (all times local):
  
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• Mozilla May Reject UAE Firm's Root Inclusion Request

  25-02-2019 22:44
  Mozilla is considering rejecting a request by United Arab Emirates-based DarkMatter to be accepted as a top-level certificate authority in Mozilla’s root certificate program.
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• Facebook content moderators using drugs `and sex` at work to cope with PTSD symptoms

  25-02-2019 22:33 via news.yahoo.com
  Facebook content moderations disclosed the extreme consequences that come with the stress of constantly reviewing graphic and offensive material, according to a new report from the Verge.Facebook’s content moderators are based in a facility in Arizona, operated by contract vendor Cognizant, where employees told the tech website that they cope with using drugs and having sex while on the job.The content moderators, most of whom are paid $15 an hour, are hired to look through a constant stre
  
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• UN council to meet on Venezuela after deadly clashes

  25-02-2019 22:20 via news.yahoo.com
  The UN Security Council will meet Tuesday to discuss Venezuela, diplomats said, following weekend violence over a failed opposition bid to bring in humanitarian aid.The United States requested the meeting to be held in open session at 3:00 pm (2000 GMT).Four people died in clashes at the weekend on Venezuela's border with Brazil between security forces and civilians seeking to bring in aid.
  
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• Mike Pence: ‘It’s Time’ for World Leaders to Confront Maduro

  25-02-2019 22:06 via news.yahoo.com
  Vice President Mike Pence on Monday called on world leaders to levy sanctions against the government of Venezuelan dictator Nicolás Maduro."To leaders around the world: It's time. There can be no bystanders in Venezuela's struggle for freedom," Pence said in Bogota, Colombia at a meeting of the Lima Group, a group of mostly Latin American leaders. “The day is coming soon when Venezuela’s long nightmare will end and Venezuela will once more be free.”"Nicola
  
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• Couple stranded in Mexico after kicked off cruise ship for medical emergency

  25-02-2019 22:03 via news.yahoo.com
  The wife's illness while on board in Mexico led the ship's crew to remove the New Jersey couple, leading to a grueling, costly trip home by cab and plane.
  
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• New England Patriots owner, Robert Kraft charged with soliciting prostitution

  25-02-2019 21:59 via news.yahoo.com
  Robert Kraft, one of the most powerful figures in US sport, has been charged with two counts of soliciting prostitution. Mr Kraft, the owner of Super Bowl winners New England Patriots, is one of 25 people facing similar charges following a lengthy investigation into human trafficking and money laundering across Florida. The 77-year-old sports magnate could, in theory, face a year in jail if convicted. However, announcing the misdemeanour charges, Palm Beach County state attorney Dave Aronberg sa
  
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• 'Bomb cyclone' strikes: 550,000 still powerless from fierce winds

  25-02-2019 21:48 via news.yahoo.com
  Ferocious winds from a potent 'bomb cyclone' roared across the eastern U.S. Monday, leaving hundreds of thousands of homes and businesses powerless.
  
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• Patriots owner Kraft formally charged in Florida prostitution sting

  25-02-2019 21:40 via news.yahoo.com
  Florida prosecutors on Monday filed formal charges against Robert Kraft, the billionaire owner of the New England Patriots football team, and about two dozen other men for soliciting prostitution at massage parlors, authorities said on Monday.The investigation by law enforcement officers in three Florida counties into the trafficking of young women to work at day spas and massage parlors has led to hundreds being charged.Kraft, 77, and the other defendants charged with first-degree misdemeanors
  
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• Justin Fairfax: Virginia lieutenant governor stuns senators by comparing himself to lynching victims

  25-02-2019 21:12 via news.yahoo.com
  The lieutenant governor of Virginia has likened himself to a lynching victim while battling accusations of sexual assault and calls to resign from his post amid a series of scandals impacting the state’s top lawmakers.Justin Fairfax made the controversial statements during a surprise speech on Sunday, lashing out against his critics in the state Senate as 2019 legislative session was coming to a close.“I’ve heard much about anti-lynching on the floor of this very Senate, where
  
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• Search continues for body of victim, black box in Amazon Prime Air cargo plane crash

  25-02-2019 20:54 via news.yahoo.com
  Investigators in Texas continued to search for the body of an Amazon cargo plane crash victim and clues to what caused the accident outside Houston.
  
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• Roundup weed killer contributed to man's cancer, 1st US federal trial told

  25-02-2019 20:47 via news.yahoo.com
  The controversial weed killer Roundup was a "substantial factor" in the cancer of a US man who woke up one day with a lump in his throat and was soon diagnosed with non-Hodgkin's lymphoma, his lawyer said Monday, opening the first US federal trial of its kind.Edwin Hardeman, of Sonoma County north of San Francisco, filed a complaint against Roundup's manufacturer Monsanto in early 2016, a year after being diagnosed with the cancer.Jurors in a California State Court last August unanimously found
  
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• Venezuela: US increasingly isolated as allies warn against use of military force

  25-02-2019 20:32 via news.yahoo.com
  The US vice-president, Mike Pence, has repeated a veiled threat of military intervention in Venezuela, but Washington appeared increasingly isolated in its willingness to contemplate using force to oust President Nicolás Maduro.European powers and some of Donald Trump’s key Latin American allies – all of whom have recognised the opposition leader, Juan Guaidó, as Venezuela’s legitimate leader – warned that they would oppose sending troops into the country.
  
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• Robert Kraft prostitution scandal exposes the horrors in our backyard: Today's talker

  25-02-2019 20:05 via news.yahoo.com
  A 'community' of clients looks for sexual services; Robert Kraft just happened to be a big name among many.
  
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• The Porsche 718 T Is Pure Driving Enjoyment

  25-02-2019 19:56 via news.yahoo.com
  More focused and a touch simpler, Porsche's new 718 T models embody the basic goodness of a driver's machine.
  
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• Video shows rare 'ice tsunami' along Niagara River

  25-02-2019 19:48 via news.yahoo.com
  Incredible video out of Canada shows a rare "ice tsunami" along the Niagara River, which forced officials to close the parkway to protect drivers.
  
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• Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez's Green New Deal Could Cost $93 Trillion, Group Says

  25-02-2019 19:43 via news.yahoo.com
  The so-called Green New Deal may tally between $51 trillion and $93 trillion over 10-years, concludes American Action Forum, which is run by Douglas Holtz-Eakin, who directed the non-partisan CBO from from 2003 to 2005.“The Green New Deal is clearly very expensive,” the group said in its analysis.
  
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• Ex-Swedish P.M. Mocks Bernie Sanders’s Past Praise of Soviet Union

  25-02-2019 19:11 via news.yahoo.com
  Former Swedish prime minister Carl Bildt mocked Senator Bernie Sanders's (D., Vt.) past praise of the Soviet Union in a Monday morning tweet.Bildt, who was Sweden's prime minister from 1991 to 1994 as the leader of the moderate party, cited a 1988 speech in which Sanders and his wife, having recently returned from the Soviet Union, celebrated the then-crumbling state's public-transportation system and government-backed cultural programs.> Bernie Sanders was lucky to be able to get to the Sovi
  
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• Trump heads to Vietnam for summit with Kim

  25-02-2019 18:54 via news.yahoo.com
  President Donald Trump departed for Vietnam on Monday for his second summit with North Korea's Kim Jong Un. The two leaders are due to meet in the Vietnamese capital, Hanoi, on Wednesday and Thursday. Rough Cut (no reporter narration).
  
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• The Latest: Northeast's highest peak records 144 mph gust

  25-02-2019 18:48 via news.yahoo.com
  The Latest on a windstorm affecting the Northeast (all times local):
  
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• U.S. asks U.N. Security Council to meet on Venezuela: diplomats

  25-02-2019 18:36 via news.yahoo.com
  The United States has asked the United Nations Security Council to meet to discuss the situation in Venezuela on Tuesday, said diplomats after Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro's troops repelled foreign aid convoys at the weekend.The United States has been pushing the 15-member council to formally call for free, fair and credible presidential elections in Venezuela with international observers, a move that prompted Russia to propose a rival draft resolution.Moscow and Washington have been at l
  
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• How to roast broccoli florets and get them crispy browned

  25-02-2019 18:32 via news.yahoo.com
  Roasting might just be the best way to cook vegetables. Roasting is a fancy term for cooking food in a hot oven. The intense heat causes excess moisture to evaporate, leaving a crispy, browned exterior. And all that browning makes food taste better.
  
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• Irish chef flips special burgers for Trump-Kim summit in Vietnam

  25-02-2019 18:14 via news.yahoo.com
  An Irish chef in Hanoi is serving a cheeky menu specially tailored to mark this week's summit between U.S. President Donald Trump and North Korean leader Kim Jong Un.Two new burgers - the "Durty Donald" and "Kim Jong Yum" - will be on sale at the Durty Bird restaurant from Monday, as Vietnam's capital prepares to greet the two leaders and, hopefully, help them agree on peace.The restaurant's co-owner and head chef, Collin Kelly, said the two burgers were designed to capture the likeness of the l
  
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• How To Write A Good Resume for Applicant Tracking Systems

  25-02-2019 18:13 via news.yahoo.com
  When you submit your credentials online, they are often screened by an applicant tracking system.The applicant tracking system resume evaluation algorithm scans your materials for resume keywords related to the job description, looking for work experience and education that match what the position calls for.This means an effective resume is one that plays the applicant tracking system game well but also appeals to the human reviewer who will hopefully examine it, too.
  
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• Serious Flaws in WibuKey DRM Impact Siemens Products

  25-02-2019 18:07
  Siemens has informed customers that some of its products are affected by recently disclosed vulnerabilities affecting the WibuKey digital rights management (DRM) solution from Wibu Systems.
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• The Truth about Business Risk Intelligence

  25-02-2019 18:03
  Starting a business risk intelligence (BRI) program often requires overcoming challenges that involve resource allocation, operational bandwidth, or stakeholder support, to name a few. And occasionally, these challenges can be exacerbated by myths and misconceptions about what BRI is and can accomplish.
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• Pro-Trump political group launches ad campaign to back border emergency declaration

  25-02-2019 17:53 via news.yahoo.com
  The America First Policies ad features former Border Patrol chief Mark Morgan, who served under former President Barack Obama, discussing dangers at the border and urging construction of a wall, according to a video seen by Reuters.America First Policies will spend $250,000 on the ad campaign, which will air on Fox News starting on Tuesday and conclude on Friday, according to Erin Montgomery, a spokeswoman for the group.The group will also launch a text message campaign aimed atTrump supporters
  
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• Man who looks like Kim Jong Un deported from Vietnam ahead of Trump meeting with North Korean leader

  25-02-2019 17:49 via news.yahoo.com
  Howard X, a Hong Kong resident who is a Kim Jong Un lookalike, and Trump impersonator Russell White were detained and told to stop their act.
  
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• Racist Graffiti Being Investigated as Possible Hate Crimes in Washington State

  25-02-2019 17:33 via news.yahoo.com
  Police in Sammamish, Washington say they are now investigating more than a dozen incidents of possibly racist and anti-Semitic graffiti in the past three days.
  
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• Another Family Tells Police Serial Killer's Sketch of Victim Is Their Loved One

  25-02-2019 17:32 via news.yahoo.com
  More families are reaching out to police about the picture serial killer Samuel Little drew of a woman he said he strangled to death in Memphis.
  
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• White House Denies Former Campaign Staffer's Claim That Donald Trump Kissed Her Without Consent

  25-02-2019 17:27 via news.yahoo.com
  The White House has denied a former campaign staffer's claim that Donald Trump kissed her without her consent during his 2016 run.
  
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• European Telecommunications Standards Institute Publishes New IoT Security Standard

  25-02-2019 17:27
  On February 19, the European Telecommunications Standards Institute (ETSI) published the ETSI TS 103 645 V1.1.1 -- or more simply, a high-level outcome-focused standard (PDF) for cybersecurity in the consumer-oriented Internet of Things (IoT).read more
  
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• Analysis: Pope's sex abuse summit: What it did and didn't do

  25-02-2019 17:18 via news.yahoo.com
  VATICAN CITY (AP) — Pope Francis' summit on preventing sexual abuse was never going to meet the expectations placed on it by victims groups, the media and ordinary Catholics outraged over a scandal that has harmed so many and compromised the church's moral authority so much.
  
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• 5 Tax Tips Investors Can Use Now

  25-02-2019 17:16 via news.yahoo.com
  Investors still have ways to save at tax time.In addition, investors can use tax season as an opportunity to address charitable giving and estate planning.As deadlines approach for 2018 contributions to qualified vehicles, such as individual retirement accounts, investors should take some time now to review whether or not they are eligible to contribute before April 15.
  
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• South Carolina woman dies after being attacked by her dogs while she was wrestling with them

  25-02-2019 17:09 via news.yahoo.com
  Authorities say a 52-year-old woman in South Carolina has been killed after she was wrestling with her dogs in her front yard and they started to attack her.
  
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• This Twitter thread of dads texting the bare minimum will make you say 'OK'

  25-02-2019 17:06 via news.yahoo.com
  Dads are not known for being prolific texters. While there are exceptions to the rule, we suspect that all dads have, at some point, received secret instructions to only respond with "OK."Now, this phenomenon has been immortalized in an extremely good Twitter thread. It was started by user @zenuhhh, who tweeted her text history with her dad on Saturday.> deep convos with ur dad >>>> pic.twitter.com/6OBpBvMCaX> > -- zena (@zenuhhh) February 24, 2019SEE ALSO: This Twitter thre
  
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• Support for FIDO2 Passwordless Authentication Added to Android

  25-02-2019 16:29
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• US negotiating position in disarray ahead of summit with North Korea

  25-02-2019 16:27 via news.yahoo.com
  One analyst says North Korea has a ‘game plan’ for the Hanoi summit while ‘Trump obviously does not’.Donald Trump has said the US will be “happy” if North Korea simply agrees to continue its moratorium on nuclear and missile testing at this week’s summit in Hanoi.The US president’s remarks on Sunday night represented a lowering of already modest expectations for his second meeting with Kim Jong-un in Hanoi, due to begin on Wednesday.
  
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• South Carolina woman dies after her dogs began 'eating her alive,' neighbors say

  25-02-2019 16:18 via news.yahoo.com
  She suffered several "extremely severe" dog bites at her home, according to the Greenville County Coroner's Office.
  
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• How to Stop Bed-Wetting

  25-02-2019 16:16 via news.yahoo.com
  As a pediatrician, I understand the stress and frustration that bed-wetting can have on families.On the other hand, some kids don't care they wet, but their parents don't like the mess, the daily cleanup process or the continued expense of diapers.For some perspective, about 20 percent of a kindergarten class is still routinely wetting the bed, 7 percent of kids in elementary school wet the bed at least once per week, and 1 in every 100 teens still wets the bed.
  
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• The Latest: China rebukes foreign opponents of Maduro

  25-02-2019 16:13 via news.yahoo.com
  CUCUTA, Colombia (AP) — The Latest on Venezuela's political crisis (all times local):
  
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• Trump rips Harry Reid, falsely states he 'got thrown out' of the Senate

  25-02-2019 15:54 via news.yahoo.com
  President Trump on Monday lashed out at former Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid after the Nevada Democrat criticized him in a new interview with CNN.
  
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• The Crisis in Venezuela Is Rapidly Escalating. Here's Everything That Happened Over the Weekend

  25-02-2019 15:50 via news.yahoo.com
  Deadly clashes at the border over humanitarian aid led to the end of diplomatic ties with Colombia and fresh talk of intervention
  
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