| 'What about MAGA'?: Trump rips Jussie Smollett after arrest in alleged hoax Posted: 21 Feb 2019 08:54 AM PST  President Trump reacted Thursday to the news that Jussie Smollett has been charged with falsifying a police report alleging he was attacked by men who made a reference to the president's "Make America Great Again" campaign slogan.
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| U.S. won't partner with countries that use Huawei systems: Pompeo Posted: 21 Feb 2019 05:28 AM PST ![U.S. won't partner with countries that use Huawei systems: Pompeo]( "U.S. won't partner with countries that use Huawei systems: Pompeo") U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo on Thursday warned that the United States would not be able to partner with or share information with countries that adopt Huawei Technologies Co Ltd systems, citing security concerns. In an interview on Fox Business Network, Pompeo said nations in Europe and elsewhere need to understand the risks of implementing Huawei's telecommunications equipment and that when they did, they would ultimately not use the company's systems. "If a country adopts this and puts it in some of their critical information systems, we won't be able to share information with them, we won't be able to work alongside them," Pompeo said.
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| Colorado Man Fatally Beat Fiancee with Bat on Thanksgiving, Officer Testifies Posted: 19 Feb 2019 08:23 PM PST  Kelsey Berreth was beat to death with a baseball bat at the hands of her fiance after he failed to persuade a woman he was having an affair with to commit the killing, investigators said Tuesday.
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| Pakistan bans groups linked to Mumbai attack suspects Posted: 21 Feb 2019 09:05 AM PST  Pakistan on Thursday banned two groups believed to be fronts for the group blamed for the 2008 Mumbai terror attack, amid heightened pressure on Islamabad to act against militants. Jamaat-ud-Dawa and Falah-e-Insaniat Foundation were designated "proscribed organisations", the interior ministry said in a statement, adding that Prime Minister Imran Khan had ordered officials to accelerate action against banned groups. JuD and FIF are considered by the UN to be fronts for Lashkar-e-Taiba, a group accused by Washington and New Delhi of carrying out the Mumbai attack, which killed 166 people and brought India and Pakistan to the brink of war.
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| With Top Investor in Jail, Putin Hits at Business Climate Posted: 20 Feb 2019 05:21 AM PST  (Bloomberg) -- Russian President Vladimir Putin said honest business people shouldn't have to live under "constant fear of criminal prosecution," days after the arrest of one of the country's top foreign investors.
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| Meet the 'New' F-21 Fighter: An F-16 On Steroids (With F-22 and F-35 DNA)? Posted: 20 Feb 2019 05:00 PM PST  Is this the fighter India needs?
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| Britain, EU closer to possible agreement on Brexit: EU diplomats Posted: 21 Feb 2019 04:35 AM PST ![Britain, EU closer to possible agreement on Brexit: EU diplomats]( "Britain, EU closer to possible agreement on Brexit: EU diplomats") The backstop is an insurance policy designed to avoid border controls between EU member Ireland and British-ruled Northern Ireland after Brexit. "We are also looking at updating the declaration on future EU-UK ties after Brexit to give more prominence to the 'alternative arrangements' sought by Britain," said one EU diplomat who deals with Brexit. "But May won't get any firm wording before Feb. 28." A second diplomat, briefed on the May-Juncker talks on Wednesday evening, confirmed the EU would only signal this was the direction of travel before the British prime minister faces another round of Brexit votes in the UK parliament.
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| Every Photo From Our EV Battle Between the 2019 Chevrolet Bolt EV and 2019 Hyundai Kona Electric Posted: 20 Feb 2019 11:30 AM PST |
| Trump apparently not familiar with his administration's push for global decriminalization of homosexuality Posted: 20 Feb 2019 02:54 PM PST  The president expresses confusion when asked about one of his administration's own policies.
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| Law center: Hate groups in US at highest level in 2 decades Posted: 20 Feb 2019 12:13 PM PST ![Law center: Hate groups in US at highest level in 2 decades]( "Law center: Hate groups in US at highest level in 2 decades") The U.S. had more hate groups last year than at any point in at least the past two decades, according to an organization that tracks white supremacists and other far-right extremists.
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| Canada looks to reunite Syrian family after fire claims seven kids Posted: 21 Feb 2019 10:18 AM PST  Canada is looking to quickly bring over siblings of a Syrian refugee distraught over the loss of her seven children in a Halifax house fire, the prime minister said Thursday. "The immigration minister is seized with this particular case," Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said when asked if Ottawa would fast-track the immigration or asylum process to bring the woman's brothers to Canada in order to provide her with family support. The family was among tens of thousands of Syrian refugees welcomed by Canada over the past four years.
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| Pakistani-held Kashmir on alert as tensions with India rise Posted: 20 Feb 2019 04:15 PM PST  Bunkers are being rebuilt and a blackout has been ordered, but schools and bazaars remained open Thursday in Chakothi, a border village in Pakistani-held Kashmir, after a deadly attack sent tensions with neighbouring India soaring. Residents were worried but life was going on in the village of some 3,000 inhabitants just three kilometres (two miles) from the "Line of Control", the de facto border which divides Kashmir between India and Pakistan. India and Pakistan, both nuclear powers, have been fighting for seven decades over the Himalayan region of Kashmir, now one of the most militarised zones in the world.
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| Venezuela Army Trucks Block Guaido's Travels as Showdown Looms Posted: 21 Feb 2019 10:32 AM PST  Earlier today, three buses carrying about 40 lawmakers sympathetic to Guaido left Venezuela's capital heading for the frontier. The National Assembly president was traveling separately for security reasons and was unable to cross the tunnel, said Edward Rodriguez, his press team coordinator.
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| Police say Jussie Smollett is a suspect in setting up his own attack Posted: 20 Feb 2019 04:33 PM PST  Chicago Police Department spokesman Anthony Guglielmi says "Empire" actor Jussie Smollett – or at least his legal team – met with prosecutors and detectives Wednesday.
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| 3 Conservative U.K. Lawmakers Defect to New Independent Group Over 'Disastrous Handling of Brexit' Posted: 20 Feb 2019 04:50 AM PST  The trio accused the Conservative Party of abandoning the political center ground
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| French TV cuts Facebook live feed from Jewish cemetery after anti-Semitic abuse Posted: 20 Feb 2019 01:47 PM PST  A French TV channel said on Wednesday it had been forced to cut short a live Facebook broadcast from a desecrated Jewish cemetery in eastern France because of an onslaught of anti-Semitic commentary. "Our country is confronted with a resurgence of anti-Semitism undoubtedly without precedent since the Second World War," President Emmanuel Macron said later on Tuesday in an annual speech to Jewish leaders in France. France 3 television said it went live from the first cemetery in the village of Quatzenheim on Tuesday as President Emmanuel Macron was visiting to pay his respects after more than 90 graves were vandalised with swastikas and anti-Semitic abuse.
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| Southwest Airlines cancels nearly 400 flights as maintenance woes, winter storms linger Posted: 21 Feb 2019 01:55 PM PST  The airline continues to have a higher-than-usual number of aircraft out of service due to maintenance and is dealing with snow in Las Vegas.
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| Putin: We'll target U.S. if Washington deploys missiles in Europe Posted: 20 Feb 2019 05:44 AM PST  Russia will respond to any U.S. deployment of short or intermediate-range nuclear weapons in Europe by targeting not only the countries where they are stationed, but the United States itself, President Vladimir Putin said on Wednesday (February 20). Rough Cut (no reporter narration).
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| Andrew McCabe says it is ‘possible’ Trump is Russian asset Posted: 20 Feb 2019 09:25 AM PST  In a startling remark from a top US intelligence official, former acting FBI Director Andrew McCabe says that it is "possible" that Donald Trump is a Russian asset. Mr McCabe made the comments on Tuesday, when he said that the FBI's Russia investigation was launched to suss out the president's ties to Moscow, and that he is eager to see what special counsel Robert Mueller's investigation uncovers. "I think it's possible," Mr McCabe told CNN's Anderson Cooper.
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| Israel PM deal seeks to boost ultra-right in April vote Posted: 20 Feb 2019 09:54 AM PST  Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu brokered an agreement Wednesday aimed at uniting ultra-right parties ahead of April elections, prompting accusations he was pandering to extremists. Netanyahu pushed for the deal to try to boost the number of seats held by right-wing parties after the April 9 elections, with an eye on his next coalition government should he win as expected. The agreement would see three parties on the far right run on a single electoral list instead of running separately: Jewish Home, National Union and Jewish Power.
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| Working While Receiving Social Security Disability Posted: 20 Feb 2019 07:35 AM PST ![Working While Receiving Social Security Disability]( "Working While Receiving Social Security Disability") To become eligible for Social Security disability benefits, you must be unable to engage in substantial gainful activity. "It is possible to qualify for Social Security disability benefits and still work in a limited capacity," says Nick Ortiz, a board-certified Social Security disability attorney and owner of Ortiz Law Firm in Pensacola, Florida. Read on for a look at what's involved with Social Security disability benefits, as well as the rules related to working while receiving benefits.
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| Charity says 24 Polish bishops covered up sex abuses of minors Posted: 21 Feb 2019 09:00 AM PST  A Polish charity helping victims of child abuse committed by Catholic priests accused 24 bishops on Thursday of concealing perpetrators of sexual molestation of minors. The "Have No Fear" charity made the allegation in a report released as Pope Francis convened Catholic leaders from around the world to address scandals over child sexual abuse by priests that have ravaged the Church's credibility over the last three decades. The report, which has been delivered to the pope, named Polish bishops whom it said had "concealed clerical crimes and moved pedophilic priests from one parish to another".
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| United Airlines: Three new routes for fast-growing Denver hub Posted: 20 Feb 2019 05:39 AM 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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| France Says Internet Platforms Could Be Fined for Racist Content Posted: 21 Feb 2019 02:11 AM PST ![France Says Internet Platforms Could Be Fined for Racist Content]( "France Says Internet Platforms Could Be Fined for Racist Content") President Emmanuel Macron on Wednesday night told the annual meeting of France's largest Jewish organization that a law could be presented in May in response to a recent spate of anti-Semitic incidents. "There will be an obligation for results: if the content is not taken down then there will be a fine, and a large fine," Mahjoubi said on France Info radio.
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| One Last Grift for Bernie Sanders Posted: 20 Feb 2019 03:30 AM PST  Bernie Sanders, the antique Brooklyn socialist who represents Vermont in the Senate, is not quite ready to retire to his lakeside dacha and so once again is running for the presidential nomination of a party to which he does not belong with an agenda about which he cannot be quite entirely honest.Progressivism in 2019 is a funny critter, indeed.Comrade Muppet puts on a good show, but if you want to know where his heart is, go to berniesanders.com, where you'll find a Bernie Sanders swag store and a donations link and precious little about what the candidate thinks and believes. Sanders has been around long enough to appreciate that Democratic presidential campaigns are made of rage and money, with ideas way back there somewhere near the caboose. Fresh ideas don't pay the mortgage on second and third homes, either, which must be of some interest to a man with Senator Sanders's real-estate portfolio, relatively modest senator's salary, and light professional résumé.To the very limited extent that Senator Sanders is a man of ideas, he is — not that he'd ever admit it — a man of Donald Trump's ideas. Who does this sound like? "I don't know why we need millions of people to be coming into this country as guest workers who will work for lower wages than American workers and drive wages down even lower than they are now." President Trump? Yes, indeed, but it is Senator Sanders. Representative Steve King of Iowa, immigration restrictionists such as Roy Beck of NumbersUSA, and President Trump himself all have found occasion to praise Senator Sanders for his beady-eyed, zero-sum view of immigration.Senator Sanders has, in fact, been all too happy to appropriate the rhetorical scheme of the alt-right knuckleheads (remember those guys?), denouncing those who take a more liberal view of immigration as advocates of "open borders" — a position held by approximately zero figures in American public life — and agents of a sinister conspiracy advanced by the Koch brothers and affiliated business interests. Which is to say: Senator Sanders's criticism of the Koch brothers comes from the same direction as President Trump's.Like his populist fellow-travelers — including President Trump — Senator Sanders applies much of the same zero-sum thinking to trade. Quiz question: Who described the Trans-Pacific Partnership as a "disaster" — Donald Trump or Bernie Sanders?Both, actually.Right-wing populists and left-wing populists may disagree about such world-changing issues as whether the phrase "a man with ovaries" actually means anything, but on the fundamental policy questions they come down strikingly close to one another. That is because the enemy of populism isn't the right wing or the left wing — the enemy of populism is liberalism, understood here not in the demented sense we use it in U.S. politics (where liberals are the people opposed to liberalism) but in its proper sense, meaning the classical-liberal regime of property rights, free enterprise, free trade, individual rights, and a worldview based on well-ordered liberty emphasizing cooperation within and between nations.Senator Sanders, like President Trump, is an anti-liberal — and, fundamentally, a nationalist. Sanders may be deep-dipped and tie-dyed in 1970s countercultural horsepucky, but he is a practitioner of a very old and established kind of politics that would have been familiar to such frankly nationalist politicians as Franklin Roosevelt (and Teddy Roosevelt, for that matter), Woodrow Wilson, and Benito Mussolini. He has been shamed out of the blunt, Trumpish way he talked about immigration during those 2016 union-hall speeches, but his worldview remains essentially the same. Most politicians do not evolve very much at his advanced age.The feature of nationalism that Trump and Sanders — and, to a considerable degree, figures such as Senator Elizabeth Warren and Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez — are rehabilitating is, in part, corporatism, a word that all of them certainly would abjure and that none of them quite understands. Contemporary progressives use the word corporatism to describe a situation in which the notionally democratic character of government is subverted by private business interests, but in reality it means something closer to the opposite: the subordination of private business interests to the "national interest," something formally short of the Marxist-Leninist model of outright appropriation of the means of production but functionally similar to it.Mussolini was, for all his absurd macho-man peacocking and bluster, a practitioner of what American progressives sometimes call "stakeholder" economics and politics. The corporazioni of fascist Italy were intended to coordinate the efforts of business owners, labor, government, and other interest groups in the service of a unified national agenda. Senator Warren, in particular, frequently speaks of the social role of American businesses in explicitly corporatist terms, but the far-left American intellectuals who dream of "workers' councils" and grand industrial projects directed by the central government are practitioners of classical corporatism, whether they understand the fact or do not. The so-called Green New Deal is a textbook corporatist boondoggle.Senator Sanders may call himself a socialist, but then, so did Mussolini, for a long time.If you view the economy as a kind of national household (which is what the Greek root of "economy" literally means), then Sanders-ism — including his restrictionist immigration views, however muffled they now are — makes perfect sense: Why take on responsibility for a bunch of shiftless strangers you don't really need? Why even contemplate it when you have enough mouths to feed as it is? Especially when you believe (wrongly, but sincerely) that what ails Americans is that there aren't enough good jobs to go around?If you take a more intelligent view — well, then you probably aren't taking the Sanders campaign very seriously. The good news is that he probably isn't, either.
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| The Latest: Snow forces closure of Vegas to Phoenix route Posted: 21 Feb 2019 12:05 PM PST  LAS VEGAS (AP) — The Latest on rare snowfall in the Las Vegas area (all times local):
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| Abbas says will reject reduced tax reimbursement from Israel Posted: 20 Feb 2019 09:02 AM PST  Palestinian president Mahmud Abbas said Wednesday he would not accept partial payment of tax transfers owed by Israel, which decided to withhold reimbursements in retaliation for payments to prisoners jailed for attacks. "We shall not accept the (tax) money if it is not paid in full," Abbas told a central committee of the Palestine Liberation Organisation in Ramallah in the occupied West Bank. Israel's security cabinet on Sunday approved the freezing of $138 million (122 million euros) over the Palestinian Authority's payments to prisoners jailed for attacks on Israelis.
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| 9 Great Utility Stocks to Buy for Income Posted: 21 Feb 2019 09:26 AM PST ![9 Great Utility Stocks to Buy for Income]( "9 Great Utility Stocks to Buy for Income") When investors think of low-risk investments, they often think of utility stocks. When times get tough it's much easier to cut back on discretionary spending like travel or apparel than it is to materially reduce your energy use. Income investors are particularly drawn to energy utilities because consistent demand fuels consistent profits -- and regular dividends are the result.
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| Sarah Isgur Flores: Former Trump aide hired as CNN political editor despite having no journalism experience Posted: 20 Feb 2019 02:29 AM PST  CNN has appointed a former Trump administration official with no journalism experience as a political editor, provoking consternation among the broadcaster's staff and Democrat politicians. Sarah Isgur Flores, who served as chief spokeswoman and senior adviser for the US Department of Justice under attorney general Jeff Sessions, is to join the network to coordinate coverage of the 2020 presidential election. Ms Isgur Flores has previously been communications director for Republican National Committee and worked on the campaign teams of former presidential hopefuls Carly Fiorina and Ted Cruz.
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| Tesla prepares Model 3 leasing option to boost demand Posted: 20 Feb 2019 01:45 PM PST  The timing for lease deals are still up in the air.
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| No more A380s? Why Airbus' bet on 'superjumbo' jets failed Posted: 20 Feb 2019 05:40 AM PST ![No more A380s? Why Airbus' bet on 'superjumbo' jets failed]( "No more A380s? Why Airbus' bet on 'superjumbo' jets failed") It's official: Airbus will pull the plug on its A380 double-decker jet. The latest A380 is now expected to roll off the assembly line in 2021.
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| Funeral held for youngest victim of factory shooting Posted: 20 Feb 2019 07:00 PM PST  SHERIDAN, Ill. (AP) — A small funeral home was packed with hundreds of mourners for a 21-year-old college student who was killed on the first day of his internship when a worker opened fire inside an Illinois manufacturing facility.
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| ACLU on border wall 'emergency': We'll see you in court, President Donald Trump Posted: 20 Feb 2019 08:59 AM PST  Donald Trump's emergency declaration is a blatant abuse of power in the service of his anti-immigrant agenda. No president has ever tried this before.
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| Stepfather Arrested in Murder of Two-Year-Old Girl Posted: 20 Feb 2019 07:53 PM PST  Police arrested an Arkansas man and charged him with first-degree murder in relation to the death of his two-year-old stepdaughter.
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| Why vote for Sanders when you can have Elizabeth Warren instead? Posted: 20 Feb 2019 03:00 AM PST  Senator Bernie Sanders announced his 2020 presidential run on Tuesday, reigniting old divisions within the Democratic party. In the 2016 primary, Democratic voters were presented with a choice: Sanders, who represented the potential of redistributive policy, and Clinton, who represented the possibility of shattering, as she put it, the last, highest glass ceiling. For leftist women, to express enthusiasm for Sanders' policy proposals was seen as condoning the sexist attacks on Clinton.
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| Southwest Air Drops on $60 Million Hit From U.S. Shutdown Posted: 20 Feb 2019 02:04 PM PST  The political stalemate that ended last month will reduce first-quarter revenue by $60 million as the aftereffects lingered on, Southwest said in a regulatory filing Wednesday. "With more of first quarter under our belt now, and a higher percentage of March bookings in place, we feel like we are at the point where we can reasonably quantify the total impact from the shutdown," Southwest said by email.
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| How to Determine Whether a Warehouse Club Membership is Worth It Posted: 20 Feb 2019 07:20 AM PST ![How to Determine Whether a Warehouse Club Membership is Worth It]( "How to Determine Whether a Warehouse Club Membership is Worth It") Warehouse clubs such as Sam's Club, Costco and BJ's Wholesale Club are marketed to consumers as great places to find bargains on all kinds of goods, particularly items sold in bulk. Many discount grocers offer comparable prices on the goods you can find at a warehouse club. For most customers, there are three major areas that will provide enough savings throughout the year to pay for a warehouse club membership.
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| Three UK Conservatives quit party in protest at 'disastrous Brexit' Posted: 20 Feb 2019 07:01 AM PST  The lawmakers, who support a second EU referendum and have long said May's Brexit strategy is being led by Conservative eurosceptics, said they would join a new independent group in parliament set up by seven former opposition Labour politicians. The resignations put May in an even weaker position in parliament, where her Brexit deal was crushed by lawmakers last month when both eurosceptics and EU supporters voted against an agreement they say offers the worst of all worlds. While the three were almost certain to vote against any deal, the hardening of their positions undermines May's negotiating position in Brussels, where she heads later to try to secure an opening for further work on revising the agreement.
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| Carbon dioxide in our atmosphere may soar to levels not seen in 56 million years Posted: 21 Feb 2019 12:17 PM PST  Emissions of carbon dioxide – the greenhouse gas most responsible for global warming – could soar to levels not seen in 56 million years, scientists warned.
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| Driver hurt by air bag shrapnel as investigation drags on Posted: 20 Feb 2019 12:23 PM PST ![Driver hurt by air bag shrapnel as investigation drags on]( "Driver hurt by air bag shrapnel as investigation drags on") DETROIT (AP) — Nearly four years ago, the U.S. government's highway safety agency began investigating air bag inflators made by ARC Automotive of Tennessee when two people were hit by flying shrapnel after crashes.
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| National emergency: House will vote on rejecting Trump’s declaration in coming days, Pelosi says Posted: 21 Feb 2019 05:28 AM PST  Nancy Pelosi has said that the House will vote in the coming days on a resolution rejecting Donald Trump's national emergency declaration, while encouraging fellow Democrats to support the effort as they try to stop the president's push to expand efforts to build a barrier along the US-Mexico border. Ms Pelosi announced that the House would move "swiftly" to pass a disapproval resolution written by Texan Democrat Joaquin Castro, although she did not specify an exact date and indicated that it would move through a House committee before coming to the floor.
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| Customers angry that disabled Walmart greeter could lose job Posted: 20 Feb 2019 03:02 PM PST  Pretty much anyone who shops at the Walmart in Selinsgrove, Pennsylvania, knows store greeter Adam Catlin, who's been welcoming customers with a huge smile and a hearty hello for more than a decade.
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