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Elizabeth Warren Could Be The First Female US President. Here's What You Need To Know

Feb 22, 2020

Elizabeth Warren, the former law school professor and senator from Oklahoma, is a self-styled progressive in the running for the Democratic presidential nomination, vying with Bernie Sanders as the left-wing candidate of choice.

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Coronavirus Now a ‘Tremendous Public Health Threat’: CDC

Feb 21, 2020

Federal officials announced Friday that their tally of 2019 novel coronavirus cases in the United States had increased to 34, with more infections expected sooner than later, even as questions lingered about how efforts at containing the deadly illness had fallen short so far.

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Coronavirus: FBI orders $40k-worth of hand sanitiser to prepare for pandemic as number of infected in US rises to 34

Feb 21, 2020

The FBI has ordered $40,000 of hand sanitiser and face masks “in case the coronavirus becomes a pandemic in the United States,” according to documents seen by CNBC.

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'This is not just Roger being Roger': Stone gets 40 months – and a scolding from the judge

Feb 20, 2020

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.

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US sanctions Iranian officials for barring candidates

Feb 20, 2020

The United States on Thursday slapped sanctions on five Iranian officials in charge of vetting candidates for the Islamic republic's parliamentary elections, in which thousands, predominantly moderates, have been barred from running.

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Mayor Pete and Amy Klobuchar Have Pure Hatred For Each Other

Feb 19, 2020

Of the six candidates on Wednesday night’s Democratic debate stage, Sen.

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U.S. special envoy discusses Taliban deal with re-elected Afghan president

Feb 19, 2020

U.S. special envoy Zalmay Khalilzad and Afghan President Ashraf Ghani on Wednesday discussed a U.S. deal with Taliban militants on a weeklong reduction in violence, meeting the day after Ghani was declared a winner of a disputed presidential poll.

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Lawyer: Assange was offered US pardon if he cleared Russia

Feb 19, 2020

WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange plans to claim during an extradition hearing that the Trump administration offered him a pardon if he agreed to say Russia was not involved in leaking Democratic National Committee emails during the 2016 U.

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Pompeo says 'mature, responsible countries' don't 'restrict speech' after China expels reporters

Feb 19, 2020

Secretary of State Mike Pompeo is condemning China for its decision to expel three reporters from The Wall Street Journal from the country.

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Bernie Sanders and Mike Bloomberg are both 78. And both, it turns out, have had heart operations

Feb 19, 2020

Bernie Sanders and Mike Bloomberg are both 78. And both, it turns out, have had heart operations

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Sanders Campaign Manager Slams MSNBC, Says Fox News Is ‘More Fair’

Feb 18, 2020

Bernie Sanders’s campaign manager, Faiz Shakir, has accused MSNBC of employing “double standard” in its coverage of the Vermont senator, claiming in an interview published Tuesday that Fox News is “more fair” in critiquing Sanders’s progressive platform.

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I’ve Had A Panic Disorder Since I Was Seven. Here's What I Want You To Know

Feb 19, 2020

I don’t seem ‘anxious’. I’m an adrenaline junky, I’ve traveled to over 80 countries by myself, and I’m very go-with-the-flow. But like many mental illnesses, anxiety can be invisible.

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US tightens rules on Chinese state media over 'propaganda' concerns

Feb 18, 2020

State department told five Chinese outlets they would need approval to buy property, and must submit lists of employees

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U.S. Coronavirus Cases Nearly Double With No End in Sight

Feb 18, 2020

Confirmed cases of the new, deadly coronavirus in the United States almost doubled over the holiday weekend thanks to the messy evacuation of Americans from a cruise ship in Japan, while fresh numbers from China suggested the disease might be deadlier than first believed.

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Iran sentences alleged US spies to up to 10 years in prison

Feb 18, 2020

Iran sentenced eight environmental activists, including an Iranian who reportedly also has British and American citizenship, to prison sentences ranging from four to 10 years on charges of spying for the United States and acting against Iran's national security, the judiciary said Tuesday.

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The Roger Stone Double Standard

Feb 17, 2020

Whether Roger Stone, the loopy, self-aggrandizing political operative, deserves nine years in Supermax for obstructing an investigation into Russia–Donald Trump “collusion” is debatable.

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Hundreds of Americans flown home from cruise ship, 14 with coronavirus

Feb 16, 2020

SHANGHAI/TRAVIS AIR FORCE BASE, Calif. (Reuters) - More than 300 American cruise liner passengers, including 14 who tested positive for coronavirus, were flown home to military bases in the United States, after two weeks under quarantine off Japan.

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Why Wasn’t Andrew McCabe Charged?

Feb 15, 2020

The Justice Department announced Friday that it is closing its investigation of Andrew McCabe, the FBI’s former deputy director, over his false statements to investigators probing an unauthorized leak that McCabe had orchestrated.

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'We're an Afterthought': The Push to Get Asian-Americans to Complete the Census

Feb 15, 2020

AUSTIN, Texas -- She thrust a flyer into the hand of a tall young man who looked annoyed.

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Experts weigh in on how coronavirus may, or may not, run rampant in US in coming months

Feb 14, 2020

The coronavirus, officially known as COVID-19, has infected more than 60,000, killed over 1,300 and terrified millions.

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California to apologize for internment of Japanese Americans

Feb 16, 2020

Les Ouchida was born an American just outside California's capital city, but his citizenship mattered little after Japan bombed Pearl Harbor and the United States declared war.

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More Than 350 People From A Quarantined Cruise Ship Have Now Tested Positive For Coronavirus

Feb 16, 2020

More than 350 people who were on board a quarantined cruise ship in Japan have now been diagnosed with coronavirus, making it the place with the most Covid-19 infections outside of China.

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Rebuffed by UK, U.S. pitches 'big tent' for Huawei rivals in Europe

Feb 15, 2020

The United States is seeking to rally European support for competitors to Huawei Technologies following disappointment in Washington over Britain's decision to use 5G equipment made by the Chinese company.

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Trump's latest possible quid pro quo involves New York, airport travel, and his tax returns

Feb 14, 2020

Trump's latest possible quid pro quo involves New York, airport travel, and his tax returns

With the easy credulity that has become so typical of journalists during his pontificate, many observers, both Catholic and secular, expected Pope Francis's recent apostolic exhortation to relax the ancient discipline of clerical celibacy for some priests of the Roman Rite.

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EXCLUSIVE-Senior China diplomat concedes challenge of coronavirus, slams 'overreaction'

Feb 14, 2020

A top Chinese official acknowledged on Friday that the new coronavirus is a deep challenge to the country, but defended Beijing's management of the epidemic while lashing out at the "overreaction" of other countries.

The United States needs to compete with China within international institutions and country-by-country.

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China virus death toll nears 1,400, US bemoans 'lack of transparency'

Feb 14, 2020

The death toll from China's virus epidemic neared 1,400 on Friday, as the United States complained of a "lack of transparency" from Beijing over its handling of a crisis that has fuelled global panic.

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U.S. announces partial Taliban truce amid signs that deal is near

Feb 13, 2020

The United States has secured a seven-day reduction in violence in Afghanistan that it hopes will allow it to strike a deal with the Taliban, officials said Thursday.

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Penned lions still on offer at US trophy hunting convention

Feb 12, 2020

An undercover video recorded by animal welfare activists shows vendors at a recent trophy-hunting convention promoting trips to shoot captive-bred lions in Africa, despite past public assurances by the event's organizers that so-called canned hunts wouldn't be sold.

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Trump's Tweets Make It Impossible For Me To Do My Job, Says US Attorney General

Feb 14, 2020

The US Attorney General has complained that President Donald Trump’s attacks on prosecutors, the judge and jurors of the Roger Stone case are undermining the work of the Justice Department.

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Former chief of staff Kelly rejects Trump North Korea approach as futile: report

Feb 13, 2020

President Donald Trump's former chief of staff John Kelly has dismissed the U.S. president's unprecedented engagement with North Korean leader Kim Jong Un as futile, saying he had never believed North Korea would give up its nuclear weapons and Pyongyang had played the United States to its benefit.

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Iran says it will strike U.S. and Israel if they make the 'slightest error'

Feb 13, 2020

Iran is ready to strike the United States and Israel if they give it any reason to do so, the head of the elite Revolutionary Guards said in a live broadcast on state television on Thursday.

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Joe Biden Bombs Big Time on ‘The View’

Feb 13, 2020

They may not agree on much, but the hosts of The View, to a person, have always been on Joe Biden’s side.

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U.S Defense Chief Signals Imminent Deal With Afghan Taliban

Feb 13, 2020

U.S Defense Chief Signals Imminent Deal With Afghan Taliban

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Trump says US military may discipline dismissed security official Vindman

Feb 11, 2020

Army officer was removed from his post last week after providing damaging testimony during the House impeachment inquiryDonald Trump said on Tuesday the military may consider disciplining Alexander Vindman, the former White House National Security Council official who testified in Trump’s impeachment trial.

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China threatens stability in the Pacific - U.S. commander

Feb 12, 2020

China is threatening the sovereignty of small Pacific Islands and undermining the region's stability, a top U.

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Plant a trillion trees: U.S. Republicans offer fossil fuel-friendly climate fix

Feb 12, 2020

Republican lawmakers on Wednesday proposed legislation setting a goal for the United States to plant a trillion trees by 2050 to fight global warming, a plan intended to address climate change by sucking carbon out of the air instead of by cutting emissions.

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Philippines scraps security agreement with U.S., plans to develop its own defense capabilities

Feb 12, 2020

The Philippine military on Wednesday stood by President Rodrigo Duterte's decision to scrap a security agreement with the United States, saying the country could now develop its own defense capabilities and alliances, and would do fine without it.

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PM Slams US-UK Extradition Rules Amid Claims 'Ex CIA Spy' Anne Sacoolas 'Shielded From Justice'

Feb 12, 2020

Boris Johnson has branded the UK-US extradition treaty “imbalanced”, amid claims Anne Sacoolas is being “shielded from justice”.

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U.N. rights office lists companies it says have ties to Jewish settlements

Feb 12, 2020

The United Nations human rights office issued a report on Wednesday on companies it said have business ties to Israeli settlements in the West Bank, drawing ire from Israel but winning praise from Palestinians.

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More than two-thirds of migrants fleeing Central American region had family taken or killed

Feb 11, 2020

More than two-thirds of migrants fleeing Central American region had family taken or killed

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Two years on, journey of Florida shooting survivors captured on screen

Feb 11, 2020

Two years after a shooting rampage at a school in Parkland, Florida, "the rage, the frustration, the trauma" of the survivors is the focus of a new documentary called "Us Kids" that aims to put gun violence at the heart of this year's US presidential race.

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Coronavirus Keeps Killing and Americans Keep Getting Infected

Feb 10, 2020

The 2019 novel coronavirus claimed more lives in China on Sunday than in any 24-hour period since the outbreak began late last year, and the danger to Americans seemed only to be increasing.

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Central Americans sent to Mexico by U.S. increasingly victims of kidnappings: aid group

Feb 11, 2020

Central Americans asylum seekers sent to Mexico by the United States to await their U.S. court dates increasingly become the victims of kidnappings and other types of violence, aid group Doctors Without Borders said in a report published on Tuesday.

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Prosecutors Quit After DOJ Says It Will Override ‘Excessive’ Sentencing Guideline for Roger Stone

Feb 11, 2020

All four prosecutors handling Trump ally Roger Stone’s court case quit on Tuesday hours after Department of Justice headquarters stepped in to try to override their recommendation for Stone’s still-unannounced prison sentence.

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Migrants raped and trafficked as U.S. and Mexico tighten borders, charity says

Feb 11, 2020

Central American migrants are being kidnapped, raped and trafficked in Mexico as they seek to enter the United States amid a migration crackdown, a medical charity said on Tuesday.

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Bernie Sanders Has Built The Most Powerful Machine In Democratic Politics—And It May Be Unstoppable

Feb 11, 2020

HUDSON, New Hampshire—At the loading dock behind a supermarket, around the corner from a martial arts studio, Bernie Sanders stood to address his latest throng of supporters.

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Wildlife Markets Are Ticking Time Bombs For Coronavirus Outbreaks

Feb 11, 2020

Dozens of species that rarely, if ever, come in contact with one another in the wild ― fish, turtles, snakes, bamboo rats, bats, even foxes and wolf cubs ― are confined in close quarters, waiting to be butchered and sold.

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The FBI Makes a Bizarre Claim About Pro-Choice Terrorism

Feb 10, 2020

The FBI is expanding its focus on domestic terrorism, and that includes pro-choice violence—even though such violence is so vanishingly rare, it’s all but nonexistent.

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