| Rep. Ilhan Omar punches back at Trump: 'You have trafficked in hate your whole life' Posted: 13 Feb 2019 07:36 AM PST  Freshmen Rep. Ilhan Omar was already getting outsized attention before Democratic leaders rebuked her and Trump said she should resign. So who is she?
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| Politician's accuser speaks about issue of sexual assault Posted: 12 Feb 2019 08:42 PM PST  STANFORD, Calif. (AP) — On Tuesday night, college professor Vanessa Tyson avoided talking directly about her accusation that Virginia's lieutenant governor sexually assaulted her, but she wasn't shy about publicly discussing her research and thoughts on the growing number of women reporting abuse.
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| Monica Witt: US Air Force officer defects to Iran with information 'seriously damaging' to national security, officials reveal Posted: 13 Feb 2019 08:49 AM PST  A US Air Force officer has defected to Iran and shared information that could cause "serious damage" to America's national security, officials have revealed. The former Air Force intelligence specialist was charged with espionage and was accused of working for Iran, according to an unsealed federal indictment. The announcement arrived after Assistant Attorney General for National Security John Demers and other senior officials held a call with reporters to discuss what they called "a national security related action involving Iran".
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| Venezuela opposition delivers first cargo of humanitarian aid: Guaido Posted: 11 Feb 2019 03:47 PM PST  Guaido, who has been recognized by most Western nations as Venezuela's legitimate president over the past month, tweeted a photo of himself surrounded by stacks of white pots of vitamin and nutritional supplements. "Today we delivered the first donation, or the first cargo of humanitarian aid, albeit on a small scale, because you know they have blocked the border for the time being," Guaido, 35, said in televised remarks in Caracas on Monday evening. Venezuela's opposition has been coordinating an effort by Western nations, companies and organizations to deliver aid to Venezuela where malnutrition and preventable disease have proliferated in recent years as the economy has nosedived.
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| Journalist Sues Twitter for Banning Her over ‘Women Aren’t Men’ Tweets Posted: 11 Feb 2019 02:57 PM PST  After a number of temporary suspensions, Twitter in November permanently locked the verified account of Murphy, a Canadian writer and self-described feminist, informing her that she had violated the platform's hateful-conduct rules. In late October, Twitter added "targeted misgendering or deadnaming of transgender individuals" to its list of prohibited behavior and applied the policy retroactively to Murphy's earlier tweets. "Women aren't men," read an October tweet from Murphy.
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| Fleeing IS holdout, French women say foreigners still inside Posted: 11 Feb 2019 10:00 AM PST  Two French women who fled the Islamic State group's last pocket in Syria told AFP on Monday more foreigners were trapped inside, barred from leaving by Iraqi jihadists. The Muslim converts said they paid smugglers to take them out of the battered IS-held holdout of Baghouz to territory held by the US-backed Syrian Democratic Forces.
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| New York Lawmakers Fuming Without Key Details on Amazon Campus Posted: 12 Feb 2019 11:06 AM PST  "Is it a done deal?" Senator John Liu, a Democrat who represents the borough's northeast, asked Howard Zemsky, president and chief executive officer of Empire State Development, at a hearing on Tuesday in Albany. When Zemsky said finalization is pending, Liu asked him to disclose any up-front taxpayer costs to lure Amazon, one of the world's richest companies, to Long Island City. "You have to perform, be it on jobs or the investment, before you get anything back if you're Amazon," said Zemsky, referring to targets the Internet retailer must hit, including those involving job creation and capital expenditures.
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| 'Pineapple Express' storm douses California with rain, snow Posted: 13 Feb 2019 07:17 AM PST  "The (Pineapple) Express is no joke," said Bob Oravec, meteorologist with the National Weather Service's Weather Prediction Center in College Park, Maryland of the strongest weather system of the season. The weather system, also known as an atmospheric river, gets its name from the flow of moisture that periodically heads east from waters adjacent to the Hawaiian Islands to soak the U.S. West Coast.
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| Ocasio-Cortez hits back after Trump says her Green New Deal looks like high school paper Posted: 12 Feb 2019 09:38 AM PST  "Sounds like a high school term paper that got a low mark," Trump said of the ambitious environmental initiative.
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| Teen gets vaccinated against parents' wishes Posted: 12 Feb 2019 01:52 AM PST  An unvaccinated Ohio teen who turned to the internet for help is sparking renewed debate over anti-vaccination efforts. ABC News' Kenneth Moton reports.
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| Police: Ex-boyfriend arrested in death of Valerie Reyes, woman found dead in suitcase Posted: 12 Feb 2019 08:46 AM PST  The 24-year-old New Rochelle resident was found dead in a suitcase in Greenwich, Connecticut, last week.
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| Venezuela's Guaido vows to bring in aid next week Posted: 12 Feb 2019 02:35 PM PST  Venezuela's opposition leader Juan Guaido told tens of thousands of supporters on Tuesday that desperately-needed humanitarian aid would be brought into the country on February 23, despite opposition from President Nicolas Maduro. "It's sure that the humanitarian aid will enter Venezuela because the usurper will have no choice but to leave Venezuela," said self-proclaimed acting president Guaido. US aid has been piling up in Colombia at the border with crisis-hit Venezuela but until now the bridge border crossing has been barricaded by the military, under Maduro's orders.
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| Ford recalls 1.48 million F-150 pickups in North America over transmissions Posted: 13 Feb 2019 09:06 AM PST  Ford Motor Co said on Wednesday it was recalling about 1.48 million F-150 pickup trucks in North America due to a potential transmission downshift issue that could increase the risk of a crash. Ford said select 2011-2013 model year trucks with six-speed automatic transmission could experience an unintended downshift into first gear without warning, which could result in the loss of vehicle control. Ford is aware of five accidents, including one report of whiplash potentially related to the issue.
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| US weather: Storm sweeping across America and Canada grounds thousands of flights Posted: 12 Feb 2019 08:48 AM PST  A deadly winter storm sweeping across the Midwest to the East Coast, including parts of Canada, has caused more than 1,700 flights to be cancelled. The winter storm is responsible for the heavy mix of snow, ice, and heavy rain sweeping from Minnesota to Maine, and parts of southern Canada, on Tuesday morning. LaGuardia Airport in New York City had the worst impact with the storm, forced to cancel more than 470 flights scheduled to depart and arrive at the airport, which is about 40 per cent of its scheduled flights.
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| Brexit: extending Article 50 would serve no purpose - FT quotes PM May Posted: 12 Feb 2019 12:37 PM PST  (Reuters) - British Prime Minster Theresa May told business leaders on Tuesday that extending the Article 50 process under which the UK is meant to leave the European Union on March 29 would serve no purpose, the Financial Times reported on Tuesday. May said delaying Britain's departure from the EU would bring no end to Brexit uncertainty or push parliament any closer to approving a withdrawal agreement, the FT report said, citing people who took part in a phone call with the prime minister. ...
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| Democrats Con Their Base with Green New Deal Posted: 11 Feb 2019 11:43 AM PST  In the days since Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and Senator Ed Markey unveiled their "Green New Deal," we've seen the headlines lurch from new rape allegations against Virginia lieutenant governor Justin Fairfax, to confusion and lies about a background document issued by Ocasio-Cortez's office that contained some, ahem, vivid interpretations of the Green New Deal (upgrading every building in ten years, sustaining people "unwilling" to work, phasing out nuclear power, and – of course – "farting cows"), and now to anti-Semitic tweets from one of the most celebrated freshman Democrats in Congress. The U.S. is the most powerful economy on earth and we must lead the world in the fight against climate change.
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| In Texas, Trump backs wall while O'Rourke rallies opponents Posted: 12 Feb 2019 07:06 AM PST  EL PASO, Texas (AP) — President Donald Trump charged ahead with his pledge to build a wall at the U.S.-Mexico border, skimming over the details of lawmakers' tentative deal that would give him far less than he's been demanding and declaring he's "setting the stage" to deliver on his signature campaign promise.
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| Best High-End Dishwashers From Consumer Reports' Tests Posted: 12 Feb 2019 12:31 PM PST  Best High-End Dishwashers From CR's Tests You'd think that spending $1,500 or more would get you, well, the best dishwasher money could buy. But in fact, our tests show that dishwashers in the $...
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| OPEC squeezes oil output to 4-year low, Russia compliance low Posted: 13 Feb 2019 01:19 AM PST  OPEC production fell to a four-year low in January as the cartel applied a new pact to boost global oil prices, the International Energy Agency said Wednesday, but Russia and other ex-Soviet states failed to cut back output as much as promised. The Paris-based organisation said that OPEC crude output dropped by 0.93 million barrels per day (mbd) to 30.83 mbd in January. OPEC members along with allies including Russia agreed in early December to trim production by 1.2 mbd from January 1, in a bid to eliminate a production glut and shore up prices.
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| 10 Things to Expect from the 2020 Toyota Camry TRD Posted: 12 Feb 2019 01:32 PM PST |
| Blackface and black eye: Louisiana police department latest embroiled in racist scandal Posted: 12 Feb 2019 07:06 PM PST  The police department in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, apologized after a photo surfaced showing two officers in blackface during a 1993 sting operation.
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| Subaru expected to debut two new mild-hybrids in Geneva Posted: 12 Feb 2019 07:00 AM PST  As reported by AutoCar, Subaru is bringing an electrified Boxer engine to the Geneva Motor Show next month. In just a month, two "unspecified" models will be getting electric versions of Subaru's 2.0-liter flat-four petrol Boxer engine, coined the e-Boxer, according to AutoCar. As of now, details are sparse about which models will get this mild-hybrid powertrain whose specs are still unknown, they will probably produce similar outputs to those of the Forester e-Boxer that was seen at the Singapore Motor Show last month as noted by AutoExpress: with its 13 hp motor connected to a continuously variable transmission, the model delivered an output of 156 hp and about 187 lb.-ft. of torque to all four wheels.
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| Sweet airfare deals just in time for Valentine's Day Posted: 13 Feb 2019 05:57 AM PST ![Sweet airfare deals just in time for Valentine's Day]( "Sweet airfare deals just in time for Valentine's Day") Love is really in the air as airlines try to woo travelers' Valentine's bookings.
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| Showdown looms as Venezuela's Guaido sets aid entry date Posted: 12 Feb 2019 01:09 PM PST  Tens of thousands of protesters had taken to the streets to demand that Maduro allow aid into Venezuela, where food and medicine shortages are rife. Most Western countries, including the United States, have recognized Guaido as Venezuela's legitimate head of state, but Maduro retains the backing of Russia and China as well as control of state institutions including the military. An aid convoy supplied by the United States and Colombia arrived in the Colombian border town of Cucuta last week, where it is being held in warehouses.
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| California governor to withdraw National Guard from border Posted: 11 Feb 2019 11:27 AM PST  In a rebuke to President Donald Trump, the governor of California on Monday was set to sign an order to pull most of the National Guard troops deployed on the Mexico border. Governor Gavin Newsom's office said he was signing the order ahead of his State of the State speech on Tuesday. Newsom's office said most of the 360 troops deployed at the US-Mexico border will be redeployed to focus on "the actual threats" facing the western state, such as wildfires.
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| Fierce battles near final IS foothold in eastern Syria Posted: 11 Feb 2019 12:15 PM PST  BEIRUT (AP) — Islamic State group militants cornered in their last foothold in eastern Syria fought back with suicide car bombs, snipers and booby traps Monday, slowing Kurdish fighters advancing under the cover of U.S.-led coalition airstrikes, Kurdish news agencies and a Syrian war monitor said.
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| Substitute teacher resigns after she allegedly told student his athletic wear is 'prison attire' Posted: 12 Feb 2019 02:29 PM PST  A substitute music teacher at Rand Road Elementary has resigned after she allegedly told a student his athletic clothes looked like "prison attire," Lisa Luten with Wake County schools said Tuesday.
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| Pentagon to review certification of Elon Musk's SpaceX launch vehicles Posted: 12 Feb 2019 07:54 AM PST  "Our objective is to determine whether the U.S. Air Force complied with the Launch Services New Entrant Certification Guide when certifying the launch system design for the Evolved Expendable Launch Vehicle-class SpaceX Falcon 9 and Falcon Heavy launch vehicles," U.S. Department Of Defense Deputy Inspector General Michael Roark said in the memo. The review will begin this month, the memo stated.
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| Green New Deal: McConnell wants Democrats to go 'on record' about AOC's climate change plan Posted: 12 Feb 2019 01:34 PM PST  Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell doesn't like the Green New Deal, but he wants a vote on the controversial so Democrats can be put on the record.
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| NASA to make final attempt to contact Mars Opportunity Rover Posted: 12 Feb 2019 09:08 PM PST  US space agency NASA will make one final attempt to contact its Opportunity Rover on Mars late Tuesday, eight months after it last made contact. Opportunity landed on Mars in 2004 and covered 28 miles (45 kilometers) on the planet, securing its place in history after lasting well beyond its expected 90-day mission. Despite NASA engineers' best efforts to get a response via radio channels, its last communication was on June 10, 2018.
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| Democratic senators urge administration to reject Sprint, T-Mobile merger Posted: 12 Feb 2019 11:58 AM PST  The signatories included potential or confirmed presidential candidates Sanders, Amy Klobuchar, Sherrod Brown, Kirsten Gillibrand, Elizabeth Warren and Cory Booker. Also signing the letters were Senators Richard Blumenthal and Tom Udall. The senators noted the four largest wireless carriers including AT&T Inc and Verizon Communications Inc control 98 percent of the market.
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| Police apologise for sending officers in blackface to impersonate black drug dealers Posted: 13 Feb 2019 08:58 AM PST  One night in February 1993, Frankie Caruso and another white Baton Rouge detective darkened their faces to impersonate black drug dealers, as part of what was then characterised as a successful sting operation. The blackface operation, which current officials said had been approved by the Police Department, drew swift condemnation this week from the city's mayor and its police chief. "Blackface photographs are inappropriate and offensive," Police Chief Murphy J Paul Jr said in a statement on Monday.
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| California Gov. Gavin Newsom Accuses Trump of 'Fear-Mongering' in Major Speech Posted: 12 Feb 2019 12:38 PM PST  California Gov. Gavin Newsom used his first "state of the state" speech to criticize President Donald Trump's vision of America.
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| The Toyota 86 British Green Limited Is a Thing of Beauty from Toyota Japan Posted: 12 Feb 2019 09:15 AM PST  British racing green and a black-and-tan interior make this Toyota 86 just about irresistible.
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| Johnson & Johnson's nasal spray for depression wins FDA panel backing Posted: 12 Feb 2019 01:50 PM PST  The panel voted 14-2 in favor of the drug esketamine, developed to treat major depression in patients who have not benefited from at least two different therapies, saying its benefits outweighed the risks. One panel member abstained from voting. Esketamine is a chemical mirror image of anesthetic ketamine, which is also abused as a recreational party drug and goes by the street nickname "Special K".
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| Charges: Jail nurse killed husband, wanted to wed inmate Posted: 12 Feb 2019 04:26 AM PST  KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) — A Missouri jail nurse who allegedly wanted to marry a man convicted of killing a lottery winner has been charged with poisoning her husband and setting their home on fire, according to court records.
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| 7 of the Best Semiconductor Stocks to Buy for 2019 Posted: 12 Feb 2019 12:06 PM PST ![7 of the Best Semiconductor Stocks to Buy for 2019]( "7 of the Best Semiconductor Stocks to Buy for 2019") The best semiconductor stocks this year.
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| Refugee footballer makes triumphant return to Australia Posted: 12 Feb 2019 01:11 AM PST  Refugee footballer Hakeem al-Araibi made a triumphant return to Australia Tuesday, ending a harrowing two months in Thai detention, as his supporters called for an investigation into why he was arrested in the first place. "I want to thank Australia," said a smiling Araibi, ending an ordeal that saw him jailed during his honeymoon and threatened with extradition to his native Bahrain. "I don't have citizenship yet, but my country is Australia.
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| U.S.-Russia nuclear treaty 'in real danger': NATO chief Posted: 12 Feb 2019 07:46 AM PST  NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg was speaking days after Washington announced it would withdraw from the treaty in six months unless Russia ended what it says were violations of the pact. Rough cut (no reporter narration)
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| U.S. House panel postpones sanctions hearing, cites scheduling changes Posted: 12 Feb 2019 07:47 AM PST  The U.S. House Financial Services committee has postponed a hearing planned for Tuesday on the use of U.S. sanctions against countries such as North Korea, Iran, Russia and Venezuela, the panel said, citing scheduling issues. Committee Chairwoman Maxine Waters said in a statement late on Monday the hearing would be held at a future date. The delay was "due to scheduling changes in the House of Representatives," the panel said in an earlier notice on Sunday.
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| Government shutdown: What's in the tentative deal on border security and federal funding? Posted: 12 Feb 2019 10:50 AM PST  No one gets everything they want in a tentative border security deal announced Monday, including Trump. Here's a look at what's in the deal.
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| In-Depth Photos of the New 2020 BMW X3 M and X4 M Posted: 12 Feb 2019 02:58 PM PST |
| Thai polls regulator heeds king, blocks princess' candidacy Posted: 11 Feb 2019 08:50 PM PST  BANGKOK (AP) — Thailand's Election Commission on Monday disqualified the sister of the country's king from becoming a candidate for prime minister in next month's general election, saying all royals have to be above politics and the monarchy must remain politically neutral.
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| U.S. oil output to hit new record above 13 million bpd in 2020: EIA Posted: 12 Feb 2019 10:45 AM PST  U.S. oil production this year is forecast to be at a record 12.41 million bpd, the EIA said. The country's oil output has surged, boosted by technology to unlock production from shale formations. "February's Short-Term Energy Outlook revises the forecast for U.S. crude oil production in 2019 and 2020, expecting increased growth during both years," EIA Administrator Linda Capuano said in a statement issued after the report.
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