| Pence in Bogota to discuss ways to oust Venezuela's Maduro Posted: 25 Feb 2019 06:25 AM PST  BOGOTA, Colombia (AP) — The United States is planning new ways to pressure Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro to give up power and other means to provide assistance to the people of the economically devastated South American nation after a weekend effort failed to deliver aid.
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| ISIS bride Hoda Muthana's family files lawsuit against Trump Posted: 24 Feb 2019 07:49 PM PST  The father of a woman who traveled from her home in Alabama to marry an ISIS fighter files a lawsuit against the Trump administration to get her home.
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| A stern memo about Manafort says he 'brazenly violated' law Posted: 23 Feb 2019 09:20 PM PST  WASHINGTON (AP) — Former Trump campaign chairman Paul Manafort committed crimes that cut to "the heart of the criminal justice system" and over the years deceived everyone from bookkeepers and banks to federal prosecutors and his own lawyers, according to a sentencing memo filed by special counsel Robert Mueller's office.
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| Every Angle of the 2019 Nissan Leaf Plus Posted: 25 Feb 2019 04:00 AM PST |
| Ocasio-Cortez Wants Hearing on Banks Funding Immigrant Prisons Posted: 25 Feb 2019 09:15 AM PST  The New York congresswoman was named this year to the House Financial Services Committee. Its chair, Maxine Waters, reached out to the biggest U.S. banks about testifying, Bloomberg reported after Democrats took control of the House last month. JPMorgan Chase & Co. and Bank of America Corp., the two biggest U.S. banks, are among lenders to GEO Group Inc. and CoreCivic Inc., which run facilities that have held immigrant families.
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| Harry and Meghan meet Moroccan girls during official tour Posted: 24 Feb 2019 11:47 AM PST  The British royals' trip, their last official foreign tour before becoming parents, was set to focus on initiatives promoting girls' education, women's empowerment and the inclusion of people with disabilities. A heavily pregnant Meghan, with henna on one hand, accepted flowers from one of the girls in Asni while she and Harry chatted outside to a group from the programme Education For All Morocco. The organisation runs free boarding houses to give girls aged 12 to 18 from the High Atlas region access to education, working with 185 teenagers in 2017.
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| Robert Kraft prostitution scandal exposes the horrors in our backyard: Today's talker Posted: 25 Feb 2019 11:05 AM PST  A 'community' of clients looks for sexual services; Robert Kraft just happened to be a big name among many.
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| Venezuela: At least 100 soldiers 'flee to Colombia' as two killed and hundreds injured in humanitarian aid clashes Posted: 24 Feb 2019 10:37 AM PST  At least 100 Venezuelan soldiers have deserted the country, reports suggest, as Nicolas Maduro faces increasing public pressure to abandon his presidency. The defections came as Juan Guaido, the country's opposition leader, called on security forces to abandon Mr Maduro and to allow humanitarian aid into the nation Рamid violent clashes at the border that saw two people killed and one shipment burned. Some 104 soldiers have now fled across the border into Colombia, according to CNN en Espa̱ol and the Agence France-Presse news agency.
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| United Airlines: Three new routes for fast-growing Denver hub Posted: 24 Feb 2019 09:00 PM PST ![United Airlines: Three new routes for fast-growing Denver hub]( "United Airlines: Three new routes for fast-growing Denver hub") United Airlines will add three new domestic routes at its Denver hub, all of which will go head-to-head against budget rival Frontier Airlines.
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| Sanctions still biting but pressure waning ahead of Trump-Kim summit Posted: 25 Feb 2019 01:00 AM PST ![Sanctions still biting but pressure waning ahead of Trump-Kim summit]( "Sanctions still biting but pressure waning ahead of Trump-Kim summit") Kim and Trump will meet for the second time this week after their historic meeting in Singapore last year led to general commitments to improve relations and denuclearize the Korean peninsula, but no concrete agreements. North Korea's mission to the United Nations released a memo last week warning the country is facing a food shortfall, blaming the weather as well as "barbaric and inhuman" sanctions it says have blocked much-needed farming supplies. Fraying sanctions enforcement prompted U.S. Senators Ted Cruz and Robert Menendez to write a letter to Secretary of State Mike Pompeo this month expressing "deep concern" that efforts by the United States and South Korea to engage with North Korea may lead to sanctions violations.
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| AP Explains: What to watch as Nigeria awaits vote results Posted: 25 Feb 2019 01:10 AM PST  KANO, Nigeria (AP) — Official results of Nigeria's presidential election are expected as early as Monday in what is called a close race between President Muhammadu Buhari and a former vice president, Atiku Abubakar, both from the largely Muslim north. At stake is Africa's largest economy and largest democracy, that is experiencing a demographic boom that could make Nigeria the world's third most populous country by 2050.
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| Pilot killed when small plane hits Florida home Posted: 25 Feb 2019 01:09 AM PST  Authorities say a flight instructor was killed when his small plane lost power and crashed into a Florida home. A second person on the plane survived. The plane pinned a 17-year-old girl against a wall. She had minor injuries. (Feb. 25)
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| Turkish President Erdogan lashes out at Sisi over Egypt executions Posted: 23 Feb 2019 09:19 PM PST  Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan sharply criticised his Egyptian counterpart Abdel Fattah al-Sisi after the recent execution of nine people in Egypt, saying he refused to talk to "someone like him". This is not something we can accept," Erdogan said Saturday in an interview with Turkish TV channels CNN-Turk and Kanal D, referring to the execution Wednesday of nine men sentenced for the murder of the Egyptian prosecutor general in 2015. There is an authoritarian system, even totalitarian," Erdogan added.
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| Suspected Bangladesh plane hijacker shot dead: army Posted: 24 Feb 2019 09:03 AM PST  Bangladesh commandos stormed a passenger jet in the country's southeast Sunday and shot dead an armed man who allegedly tried to hijack the Dubai-bound flight, an army official said. The suspect, described by officials as a Bangladeshi man in his mid 20s, was shot as special forces rushed the Boeing 737-800 plane after it landed safely in Chittagong. The 134 passengers and 14 crew aboard the Bangladesh Biman flight BG147 were all rescued unharmed, officials said.
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| Weekend beauty highlights from Milan Fashion Week Posted: 25 Feb 2019 02:02 AM PST  Milan Fashion Week put a sophisticated spin on catwalk beauty over the weekend, mixing quirky details with tried-and-tested classics for Fall/Winter 2019. At Giorgio Armani the hair was twisted and pinned in rope-like coils to the head, for a child-like, textured look that was exacerbated by spiky, doll-like lashes and rosy pink lips. At Missoni a peach-hued blusher was dabbed high on the cheekbones for a flushed look that was teamed with a nude, glossy lip and -- in supermodel Bella Hadid's case -- shiny, tidy bangs.
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| US senator argues with school children about climate change policy Posted: 23 Feb 2019 03:53 PM PST  Democratic senator Dianne Feinstein got into a heated exchange with primary-age school children over the Green New Deal, firmly stating that she will not support the renewable energy plan. A group of schoolchildren stopped by the California senator's San Francisco office on Friday to call on her to support the scheme, spearheaded by Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, that calls for net-zero greenhouse emissions and 100 per cent renewable energy in the US by 2030. In the video the California Democrat tells the children she could not support the Green New Deal because "there's no way to pay for it".
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| Southwest Airlines flights temporarily grounded due to computer outage Posted: 24 Feb 2019 05:17 PM PST  Southwest temporarily grounded flights early Friday due to a computer glitch. The airline has been plagued by flight cancellations this week.
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| North Korea warns U.S. skeptics as Kim heads for summit with Trump Posted: 24 Feb 2019 10:34 AM PST  The two leaders will meet in Hanoi on Wednesday and Thursday, eight months after their historic summit in Singapore, the first between a sitting U.S. president and a North Korean leader, where they pledged to work toward the complete denuclearization of the Korean peninsula. The North's KCNA state news agency said such opposition was aimed at derailing the talks. "If the present U.S. administration reads others' faces, lending an ear to others, it may face the shattered dream of the improvement of the relations with the DPRK and world peace and miss the rare historic opportunity," the news agency said in a commentary, referring to North Korea by the initials of its official name, the Democratic People's Republic of Korea.
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| Syrian state news: Mine left by Islamic State group kills 20 Posted: 24 Feb 2019 07:27 AM PST  DAMASCUS, Syria (AP) — A land mine left by the Islamic State group struck a van packed with workers in eastern Syria, killing more than 20 of them, Syria's state news agency said on Sunday. The agency earlier reported that 24 people were killed.
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| U.S. returns to Bitfinex exchange fraction of bitcoin stolen in 2016 heist Posted: 25 Feb 2019 01:12 AM PST  U.S. federal law enforcement agencies have returned 27.7 bitcoin stolen in August 2016, Bitfinex said in a statement. Hackers made off with almost 120,000 bitcoin, worth about $72 million at the time, in one of the biggest ever thefts from a cryptocurrency exchange. U.S. and European law enforcement agencies investigated the heist, Bitfinex General Counsel Stuart Hoegner told Reuters, declining to give further details or name the agencies involved.
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| Robin Roberts reacts to Jussie Smollett's arrest, a week after their 'GMA' interview Posted: 24 Feb 2019 04:44 PM PST  "It's a setback for race relations, homophobia, MAGA supporters..." "Good Morning America" host Robin Roberts said.
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| Fiery Skirmishes Erupt as Guaido Tries to Bring Venezuela Aid Posted: 23 Feb 2019 12:28 PM PST  On the border with Colombia, National Guard soldiers fired volleys of tear gas and plastic pellets at supporters of opposition leader Juan Guaido, who were trying to persuade them to defect and permit tons of food and medicine into the country. Masked paramilitary gangs supporting the autocrat Maduro tore through the area there on motorcycles, firing guns in the air. Maduro said on state television that his forces had managed to repel an invasion and said he was breaking off diplomatic relations with Colombia.
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| Pope vows 'all-out battle' saying child sex abuse like 'human sacrifice' Posted: 24 Feb 2019 07:12 AM PST  Pope Francis on Sunday vowed to tackle every single case of sexual abuse by priests in the Roman Catholic Church, comparing paedophilia to "human sacrifice" in a speech that left victims cold. "If in the Church there should emerge even a single case of abuse – which already in itself represents an atrocity – that case will be faced with the utmost seriousness", Francis promised.
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| Huawei shrugs off threat of US ban Posted: 24 Feb 2019 05:51 AM PST  Huawei's chairman on Sunday shrugged of the risk that President Donald Trump could issue an executive order banning the Chinese telecom giant, saying the company could succeed without the US market. Guo Ping said such an order "is not necessary and should not be released" but if issued would have little impact on Huawei, which has become the leading supplier of the backbone equipment for wireless mobile networks worldwide. "In 2018 Huawei had revenues of over 100 billion dollars.
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| Pence meeting with Venezuelan opposition leader Guaido after weekend of violence Posted: 25 Feb 2019 06:53 AM PST  Vice President Mike Pence travels to Colombia to meet with Juan Guaido after violent clashes on Venezuela's borders.
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| Tornado tears through Columbus, Mississippi, leads to first tornado death of 2019 Posted: 24 Feb 2019 02:13 PM PST  Stunned residents of Columbus, Mississippi, were picking up the pieces Sunday after a violent tornado ripped through town, leaving one person dead.
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| View the 2020 Porsche 718 Boxster T and Cayman T in Photos Posted: 25 Feb 2019 10:55 AM PST |
| Vietnam relishes role as peace maker as it seeks to balance ties Posted: 24 Feb 2019 03:32 AM PST  U.S. President Donald Trump and North Korean leader Kim Jong Un will meet on Wednesday and Thursday in Hanoi, hoping to build on their historic summit in Singapore in June, the first between a sitting U.S. president and a North Korean leader. Vietnam's hosting of the high-stakes talks marks its emergence as a trust-worthy, responsible member of the international community that has forged peace with old enemies, and can now help others to do so, Vietnamese officials say. Since emerging from decades of diplomatic isolation in the early 1990s, Vietnam has been eager to improve ties with large powers and the region to help balance its historically thorny relations with giant neighbor, China, which confronts Vietnam over claims to the resource-rich South China Sea.
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| Tesla stock falls after Consumer Reports drops Model 3 recommendation Posted: 24 Feb 2019 05:59 PM PST ![Tesla stock falls after Consumer Reports drops Model 3 recommendation]( "Tesla stock falls after Consumer Reports drops Model 3 recommendation") Consumer Reports announced Thursday that it is no longer recommending the Tesla Model 3 all-electric sedan. Tesla's stock slid afterwards.
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| Kamala Harris attracts crowds in Iowa, but leaves questions about what she believes Posted: 24 Feb 2019 06:11 AM PST  Sen. Kamala Harris of California is attracting big crowds as she campaigns for the 2020 Democratic presidential nomination.
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| Motorcyclist shot, wounded by possible Mongols Motorcycle Club member on WB 10 Fwy in El Monte Posted: 23 Feb 2019 11:58 PM PST  Authorities investigated a shooting that left a person wounded on the westbound 10 Freeway in El Monte Saturday, and the suspect may be a member of the Mongols Motorcycle Club.
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| Exodus from last IS enclave overwhelms Syria force Posted: 24 Feb 2019 10:51 AM PST  US-backed Syrian forces warned Sunday they were struggling to cope with an outpouring of foreigners from the Islamic State group's imploding "caliphate", urging governments to take responsibility for their citizens. The Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces have evacuated nearly 5,000 men, women and children from the jihadist redoubt since Wednesday, moving closer to retaking the last sliver of territory under IS control. "The numbers of foreign fighters and their relatives that we are holding is increasing drastically," Kurdish foreign affairs official Abdel Karim Omar told AFP.
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| General Electric continues to shrink, selling off its biopharma business Danaher Corp. Posted: 25 Feb 2019 05:39 AM PST ![General Electric continues to shrink, selling off its biopharma business Danaher Corp.]( "General Electric continues to shrink, selling off its biopharma business Danaher Corp.") General Electric is selling its biopharma business Danaher Corp. in a $21.4 billion deal that furthers goal of shrinking to bolster its bottom line.
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| Trump Vents Frustration With Trade Czar as China Talks Continue Posted: 24 Feb 2019 07:31 AM PST  The exasperation between the two erupted into the open during an unusual public exchange in front of China's top negotiator, assembled U.S. officials and journalists on Friday, during which Trump took issue with Lighthizer's explanation that any deal would take the form of a memorandum of understanding. "I don't like MOUs because they don't mean anything,'' the president said, before shooting down Lighthizer when the career lawyer described such documents as legally binding. After Friday's exchange, said two people familiar with the events, the president complained that Lighthizer had embarrassed him by publicly correcting him in front of the Chinese delegation and the press.
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| Weak investment climate main 5G risk, not security fears: Ericsson Posted: 25 Feb 2019 04:59 AM PST  Europe risks falling behind other regions in rolling out 5G mobile services because of onerous regulation and weak investment rather than any security concerns about Chinese equipment, Ericsson CEO Borje Ekholm said on Monday. High spectrum fees, regulatory uncertainty and a lack of investment were more pressing concerns, Ekholm said, alluding to calls by the United States to ban Chinese network vendors on national security grounds. "The debate here often becomes: it's the lack of technology for operators, that's what slowed down Europe.
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| Democrats ready to fight to make Mueller report public Posted: 24 Feb 2019 11:11 PM PST  WASHINGTON (AP) — A top House Democrat has threatened to call special counsel Robert Mueller to Capitol Hill, subpoena documents and sue the Trump administration if the full report on Mueller's Russia investigation is not made public.
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| Buffett, mum on a successor, dreams of 'elephant-sized' acquisition Posted: 23 Feb 2019 05:39 PM PST  Billionaire investor Warren Buffett has yet to name a successor and at age 88 still dreams of making an "elephant-sized" acquisition, he said in his annual letter to shareholders. The letter to shareholders of Buffett's holding company, Berkshire Hathaway, is considered a must-read on Wall Street, distilling the views of the "Oracle of Omaha" on the state of the economy and the wisdom of investing in this or that investment product. "In the years ahead, we hope to move much of our excess liquidity into businesses that Berkshire will permanently own," he said.
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| Britain's next Brexit flashpoint: What happens in parliament on February 26-27? Posted: 24 Feb 2019 12:53 AM PST  If May cannot bring a deal back this week, she has promised to make a statement to parliament on her progress on Feb. 26, and then to allow lawmakers to debate the issue on Feb. 27. This will not involve a vote on whether to approve or reject a Brexit deal. Lawmakers will debate a government statement.
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| Unvaccinated French boy brings measles to Costa Rica for the first time in five years Posted: 24 Feb 2019 03:07 PM PST  A French boy on vacation is suspected of bringing measles to Costa Rica, which last saw a case of measles in 2014.
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| Trump Says Ahead of Kim Summit He Doesn't Plan to Lift Sanctions Posted: 24 Feb 2019 05:58 PM PST  "I'm not pushing for speed, but we're not removing the sanctions," Trump told U.S. governors gathered at the White House on Sunday evening. Kim has made little secret that his key goal for the Feb. 27-28 meeting in Hanoi is to ease sanctions that are choking North Korea's faltering economy. North Korea faces a complex web of penalties piled on by the United Nations, U.S. and American allies such as Japan, South Korea and the European Union, which now give Trump a sliding scale of possibilities for relaxing pressure.
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| Harry and Meghan arrive in Morocco's Atlas Mountains to champion girls' education Posted: 24 Feb 2019 02:07 AM PST  The visit at the request of the British government is the second to the kingdom in recent years by a member of the royal family, following a trip by Prince Charles in 2011. Queen Elizabeth visited Morocco in 1980. Harry and Meghan arrived in Casablanca on Saturday evening.
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