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Guaido's Safety Is at Risk in Return to Venezuela, U.S. Envoy Warns

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(Bloomberg) -- The safety of Venezuelan opposition leader Juan Guaido is at risk as he prepares to return to his country and embattled President Nicolas Maduro remains in power, the top U.S. envoy for the crisis told the United Nations Security Council. from Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines https://ift.tt/2TkGfXD

U.S. disrupted Russian trolls on day of November election: report

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The U.S. military disrupted the internet access of a Russian troll farm accused of trying to influence American voters on Nov. 6, 2018, the day of the congressional elections, The Washington Post reported on Tuesday. The U.S. Cyber Command strike targeted the Internet Research Agency in the Russian port city of St. Petersburg, the Post reported, citing unidentified U.S. officials. The group is a Kremlin-backed outfit whose employees had posed as Americans and spread disinformation online in an attempt to also influence the 2016 election, according to U.S. officials. from Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines https://ift.tt/2VmLCTu

Justice Department loses appeal to block AT&T-Time Warner merger, won't appeal again

The Justice Department, which lost its latest attempt to block the AT&T-Time Warner merger, will not appeal the U.S. District Court of Appeals ruling. from Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines https://ift.tt/2ViCz62

Q&A: What's at stake as India-Pakistan tensions rise?

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ISLAMABAD (AP) — Nuclear-armed rivals India and Pakistan face their worst tension in years over the disputed region of Kashmir, with Islamabad saying they shot down two Indian warplanes Wednesday and captured a pilot. Pakistan, which previously said it captured two pilots, immediately shut down its civilian airspace in response. from Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines https://ift.tt/2NxIt0B

Tesla's Musk must address SEC contempt bid as he calls agency 'broken'

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A federal judge on Tuesday ordered Tesla Inc Chief Executive Elon Musk to explain by March 11 why he should not be held in contempt for violating his fraud settlement with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission. The order by U.S. District Judge Alison Nathan in Manhattan came hours after the billionaire criticized SEC oversight as "broken," in the wake of the regulator's request on Monday night that he be held in contempt. Lawyers for Tesla and Musk did not immediately respond to requests for comment. from Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines https://ift.tt/2H9DSQO

Donald Trump meets Kim Jong-un at Vietnam summit and praises North Korea's 'unlimited' potential

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Donald Trump praised Kim Jong-un as a “great leader” on Wednesday and talked up North Korea’s “unlimited” economic potential as the pair begun their two-day summit in Vietnam.  The US and North Korean leaders shared a 10-second handshake, warm words and a laugh while posing for the camera as they met for only the second time in Hanoi, the Vietnam capital.  They talked alone at first, save only for interpreters, before enjoying a wider dinner with key members of their administrations at a luxury colonial-era hotel in the city.  Mr Trump, who earlier in the day had tweeted about “my friend Kim”, talked up North Korea’s economic prospects - the carrot with which he hopes to convince Kim to give up his nuclear weapons. “I think that your country has tremendous economic potential - unbelievable, unlimited," the US president told Kim at the beginning of their one-on-one chat.  "I think that you will have a tremendous future with your country - a great leader - and I look forward to

US seeks vote on UN resolution to allow aid into Venezuela

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UNITED NATIONS (AP) — U.S. envoy Elliott Abrams said Tuesday the Trump administration will seek a U.N. Security Council vote this week on a resolution calling for Venezuela's government to let in humanitarian aid and to hold free elections, and then sparred with Russia over possible U.S. military intervention in the politically divided country. from Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines https://ift.tt/2GPeYa3

Miami-Dade cop caught on tape slapping suspect

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Two Miami-Dade Police officers are facing charges after surveillance video appeared to show one sergeant slapping a teenager who was handcuffed and another trying to destroy evidence. from Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines https://ift.tt/2GSKALU

TripAdvisor names the world's best beaches for 2019

Plan some fun in the sun with the winners of TripAdvisor's 2019 Travelers' Choice awards for beaches. from Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines https://ift.tt/2ICOev5

Michael Cohen's explosive allegations suggest danger for Trump on two fronts

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Michael Cohen on Wednesday delivered a sharp warning to Donald Trump and the Republican party that the president faces legal and political peril on at least two fronts. Cohen became the first Trump associate to allege that, in 2016, Trump knew in advance that his eldest son, Donald Jr, was meeting Russians promising dirt on Hillary Clinton – and that WikiLeaks would be releasing emails stolen from Democrats by Russian operatives. Cohen was asked by Debbie Wasserman Schultz, the Florida Democrat forced to resign as party chairwoman over the WikiLeaks disclosures, how they could corroborate his explosive allegations, which are based on remarks he says he overheard in Trump’s office. from Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines https://ift.tt/2GNPXvJ

SoCal police: Mother to face charges after daughter dies, son thrown off balcony

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An Upland mother is expected to face charges for killing her infant girl and throwing her son off a balcony, police say. from Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines https://ift.tt/2SAFeGI

The Latest: 7 of 8 prototype border walls demolished

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SAN DIEGO (AP) — The Latest on the demolition of eight prototypes of the president's prized border wall. (all times local): from Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines https://ift.tt/2BUPx2S

Apple self-driving car layoffs give hints to division's direction

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The tech firm said in a filing with state regulators that it planned to lay off people from eight different Santa Clara County facilities near its Cupertino, California, headquarters, as of April 16. A company spokesman confirmed that the reduction was from the self-driving car program. Among those laid off were at least two dozen software engineers, including a machine learning engineer, and 40 hardware engineers, according to a letter sent by Apple to California employment regulators earlier this month. from Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines https://ift.tt/2Egwgcu

Southwest Airlines gets FAA approval for Hawaii flights

The airline says it will announce details on ticket sales and inaugural flights in the "coming days'' from Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines https://ift.tt/2XsOnof

Trump and Kim Jong Un might officially end the Korean War. Here's why that could matter.

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After 66 years, a peace declaration at the Vietnam summit could lead to negotiations and more normal relations between the two Koreas and America. from Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines https://ift.tt/2GLYdwl

India launches air strike in Pakistan; Islamabad denies militant camp hit

Pakistan said it would respond at a time and place of its choice, with a military spokesman even alluding to its nuclear arsenal, highlighting the escalation in hostile rhetoric from both two sides since a suicide bombing in Kashmir this month. The spokesman said a command and control authority meeting, which decides over the use of nuclear weapons, had been convened for Wednesday, adding: "You all know what that means." The air strike near Balakot, a town 50 km (30 miles) from the frontier, was the deepest cross-border raid launched by India since the last of its three wars with Pakistan in 1971 but there were competing claims about any damage caused. The Indian government, facing an election in the coming months, said the air strikes hit a training camp belonging to Jaish-e-Mohammad (JeM), the group that claimed a suicide car bomb attack that killed at least 40 Indian paramilitary police in Kashmir on Feb. 14. from Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines https://ift.tt

Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez says it is 'legitimate' for people to not want children because of climate change

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Democratic Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez argues that it is a “legitimate question” to ask whether it’s moral for people to have children with the looming threat of climate change continues to exacerbate global conflicts. “There’s scientific consensus that the lives of children are going to be very difficult,” Ms Ocasio-Cortez said during an Instagram livestream. Ms Ocasio-Cortez, a co-sponsor of the progressive Green New Deal resolution, said the clock is ticking when it comes to reversing the effects of global warming within the estimated 12-year deadline the United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change reported last fall. from Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines https://ift.tt/2Ti1RE4

North Koreans endure sleepless nights and give up alcohol during Kim's trip to Hanoi

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North Koreans are pining for their leader and enduring sleepless nights during his week-long trip to Vietnam, if the reclusive country’s state-controlled media is to be believed.  Pictures from Hanoi showing Kim’s red-carpet treatment and excited crowds lining the streets of the Vietnamese capital to wave North Korean flags at his passing convoy are playing out well in a state that already portrays its leader and his ancestors as a living deities.  North Korea’s flagship state newspaper Rodong Sinmun devoted its front and second pages on Wednesday to pictures of Kim surrounded by welcoming throngs, acting statesman-like with his chief aides, and greeting cheering children of North Korean embassy staff.  Meanwhile, in Pyongyang, gushing televised vox-pops with city residents have conveniently revealed a longing for their “great leader” to return and a renewed desire to serve him.  “We can’t survive even for a moment without our respected Marshal,” said Kim Song Suk, a public service wor

Ivanka Trump endorses working your way up through life

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Ivanka Trump, elder daughter of a billionaire president, married to the son of a real estate mogul, thinks Americans want to make their own way up life’s ladder. from Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines https://ift.tt/2H43nTH

Nuclear Nightmare: Are India and Pakistan on the Brink of War?

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As the world is focused on the summit in Hanoi trouble is brewing between two other nuclear states. from Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines https://ift.tt/2BSlgle

Sen. Kamala Harris dismisses concerns about cost of the Green New Deal

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New report finds Green New Deal could cost as much as $93 trillion over 10 years; reaction from Fox News contributor Judy Miller and Dan Henninger. from Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines https://ift.tt/2VkyGgQ

Elon Musk could face contempt charge over latest controversial tweet

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Tesla boss Elon Musk could be held in contempt if a tweet is found to have violated a settlement deal agreed last year. US stock market regulator the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has asked a court in New York to hold the chief executive in contempt for violating a $40m (£30m) settlement he reached five months ago. Now the US financial regulator is alleging that Mr Musk broke the terms of that agreement with a tweet on 19 February which showed an aerial photo of thousands of new Tesla vehicles and said the company would make about 500,000 cars in 2019. from Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines https://ift.tt/2Vp3IV2

Twitter bans Trump-supporting hoaxster after USA TODAY exposé

Jacob Wohl left a career in finance amid fraud allegations to create deceitful schemes and spread false claims in support of President Trump from Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines https://ift.tt/2StnsVy

Top strategists split from Bernie Sanders for his 2020 White House run

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Prominent consultants Tad Devine, Mark Longabaugh and Julian Mulvey, who played leading roles in Sanders' insurgent 2016 presidential campaign, said they would not work on the Vermont senator's 2020 bid for the Democratic nomination, which was launched last week. "We are leaving because we believe that Senator Sanders deserves to have media consultants who share his creative vision for the campaign," the three said in a joint statement. It also put together the video that Sanders used to launch his 2020 campaign, and advised Sanders on his announcement schedule and rollout, Longabaugh said. from Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines https://ift.tt/2T21Epj

Key Asia-Europe Air Route Closed as India-Pakistan Tensions Rise

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A Singapore Airlines Ltd. flight to London was diverted to Dubai Wednesday to refuel before heading to its final destination, the carrier said in an email. Qantas Airways Ltd. had to change the flight path for its London-Singapore service, which is scheduled to arrive at the Asian city-state later Thursday, adding an extra 20 minutes to the journey. Thai Airways International Pcl scrapped all 10 flights from Europe to Bangkok as well as those to Pakistan that were due to depart late Wednesday and early Thursday, it said on its website. from Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines https://ift.tt/2NARvKk

Pakistan 'captures Indian pilot after shooting down two jets in dogfight over Kashmir'

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Two planes shot down over Kashmir border Pakistan claims to have two pilots held Sources: jets shot down in 'four-on-four' dogfight Both countries dispute each other's claims Analysis: Pakistan and India need help climbing down, or risk another war over Kashmir ​ Pakistan has claimed to have shot down two Indian jets and captured a pilot after a dogfight over Kashmir, igniting fears of an all-out conflict between the nuclear-armed neighbours.  Tensions remain high on the Asian Subcontinent where tens of thousands of Indian and Pakistani soldiers face off along the disputed Kashmir boundary. There are competing claims regarding the exact details of what has taken place, but Pakistan's Major General Asif Ghafoor said a pilot was in Army custody. Pakistan had earlier said it was holding two pilots. Ghafoor said the jets had been shot down after Pakistani planes earlier Wednesday flew across the Line of Control, the de facto border in disputed Kashmir, to the Indian side in

Trump meets North Korea's Kim in Vietnam for second nuclear summit

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Kim and Trump shook hands and smiled briefly in front of a row of their countries' flags at the Metropole hotel in the Vietnamese capital, Hanoi. from Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines https://ift.tt/2TiNFdT

Australian Cardinal Pell convicted of molesting 2 choirboys

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MELBOURNE, Australia (AP) — The most senior Catholic cleric ever charged with child sex abuse has been convicted of molesting two choirboys moments after celebrating Mass, dealing a new blow to the Catholic hierarchy's credibility after a year of global revelations of abuse and cover-up. from Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines https://ift.tt/2EfRqHD

Risk of India-Pakistan War May Hang on the Fate of Downed Pilot

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India and Pakistan, which have fought three major wars since the bloody partition of 1947, regularly exchange artillery and small-weapons fire across a disputed border. India’s Prime Minister Narendra Modi must contest a general election within weeks, while his counterpart, Imran Khan, faces a military that is seeking to assert its dominance when Pakistan is in the eye of a financial and economic storm. from Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines https://ift.tt/2NwNpmh

Wallace: Cohen's testimony indicates 'criminal exposure' for Trump

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Chris Wallace and Martha MacCallum share their analysis on Michael Cohen's testimony. from Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines https://ift.tt/2Tnb5Pw

Why Did Senate Democrats Refuse to Protect Infants?

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A moral catastrophe unfolded on the floor of the U.S. Senate on Monday. Forty-four Democratic senators voted against legislation that would have required doctors to give the same care to infants who survive abortion procedures that they would give to any other infant.One after another, Democratic senators took to the floor to smear the bill as an attack on women’s health care, a baseless criticism that they failed to substantiate. In the process, they revealed their belief that allowing unwanted infants to perish after birth constitutes a form of women’s health care.Senator Ben Sasse (R., Neb.) reintroduced his Born-Alive Abortion Survivors Protection Act in direct response to Virginia governor Ralph Northam’s endorsement of permitting mothers and doctors to let infants die of neglect. “The infant would be delivered,” Northam said, explaining a hypothetical case in which a woman in labor wanted an abortion. “The infant would be kept comfortable. The infant would be resuscitated if that

Pennsylvania teen found alive after five family members murdered

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A teen whose mother and twin 9-year-old sisters were among five family members killed in their Pennsylvania home was staying at a friend's house at the time of the murders and is safe, officials said on Tuesday. Joshua Campbell, 17, was not at home when his aunt Shana Decree, 45, and her daughter Dominique Decree, 19, are alleged to have murdered five relatives in their apartment in Morrisville, about 30 miles (50 km) northeast of Philadelphia, Bucks County District Attorney Matthew Weintraub said. After police found the bodies on Monday, relatives of the victims said they had begged authorities for weeks to check on Shana Decree due to concerns she might have fallen under the influence of a fringe religious group. from Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines https://ift.tt/2GK04Sg

Q&A: What's at stake as India-Pakistan tensions rise?

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ISLAMABAD (AP) — Nuclear-armed rivals India and Pakistan face their worst tension in years over the disputed region of Kashmir, with Islamabad saying they shot down two Indian warplanes Wednesday and captured a pilot. Pakistan, which previously said it captured two pilots, immediately shut down its civilian airspace in response. from Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines https://ift.tt/2NxIt0B

Can CBD Help Your Child?

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When a child is sick and conventional medicine isn’t helping, parents understandably often turn to alternative treatments. Recently, that includes cannabidiol, aka CBD, which is a cannabis compou... from Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines https://ift.tt/2GOyPpO

Rep. Ilhan Omar deletes the controversial tweets that drew charges of anti-Semitism

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Rep. Ilhan Omar apologized for the tweets the next day. from Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines https://ift.tt/2BUvjWV

India builds bunkers to protect families along Pakistan border

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On Tuesday evening, Pakistan used heavy caliber weapons to shell 12 to 15 places along the Indian side of the de facto border known as the Line of Control (LoC) that divides the disputed Kashmir region, a spokesman for the Indian defense forces said. The Indian army retaliated with its own shelling of the Pakistani side, he said. There have been frequent exchanges of fire along the actual and de facto borders in recent months, but Tuesday's firing marked a major escalation after India carried out an air strike on what it said was a training camp run by an Islamist militant group in Pakistan. from Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines https://ift.tt/2GNYMFW

Kashmir conflict heats up as India, Pakistan claim to down each other's jets

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Both countries have ordered air strikes over the last two days, the first time in history that two nuclear-armed powers have done so, while ground forces have exchanged fire in more than a dozen locations. Tensions have been running high since at least 40 Indian paramilitary police died in a Feb. 14 suicide car bombing by Pakistan-based militants in Indian-controlled Kashmir, but the risk of conflict rose dramatically on Tuesday when India launched an air strike on what it said was a militant training base. Pakistan says no one died. from Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines https://ift.tt/2GKM8aV

Top strategists split from Bernie Sanders for his 2020 White House run

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Prominent consultants Tad Devine, Mark Longabaugh and Julian Mulvey, who played leading roles in Sanders' insurgent 2016 presidential campaign, said they would not work on the Vermont senator's 2020 bid for the Democratic nomination, which was launched last week. "We are leaving because we believe that Senator Sanders deserves to have media consultants who share his creative vision for the campaign," the three said in a joint statement. It also put together the video that Sanders used to launch his 2020 campaign, and advised Sanders on his announcement schedule and rollout, Longabaugh said. from Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines https://ift.tt/2T21Epj

Why the Case against Cardinal George Pell Doesn’t Stand Up

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With the lifting of the trial judge’s order banning coverage of the conviction of Cardinal George Pell this past December on charges of “historical sexual abuse,” the facts can finally be laid out for those willing to consider them. (Disclosure: Cardinal Pell and I are longtime friends.)Victoria police commenced an investigation one year before any complaints had been filed. During that investigation, the police took out newspaper ads seeking information about any untoward behavior with minors at the St. Patrick’s Cathedral in Melbourne —without any hint of such misbehavior having been received by the authorities.Once charges had been laid and Cardinal Pell had returned to Australia from his post at the Vatican, a committal hearing (to determine whether the charges were capable of being tried) was held. The committal-hearing judge threw out several charges but allowed others to go forward — even though she observed that she would not vote to convict on several charges, she thought they

Nuclear Nightmare: India and Pakistan are on the Brink

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Whatever happens next rests in the fates of political decisionmakers in India. from Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines https://ift.tt/2H77EFT

Attacked and powerless, Venezuela soldiers choose desertion

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CUCUTA, Colombia (AP) — The simple house on a street ridden with potholes in this town on Colombia's restive border with Venezuela has become a refuge for the newly homeless: 40 Venezuelan soldiers who abandoned their posts and ran for their lives. from Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines https://ift.tt/2Exbdn5

Why Do Some People Wish the Attack on Smollett Happened?

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The reactions of many on the left to the case of Jussie Smollett prove two important things: 1. There is little racism in America. 2. The Left -- white and black -- is morally and psychologically impaired.There is no doubt that most Americans on the left, including black Americans, are distraught over the fact that Smollett faked the “racist” attack on him. Apparently leftists, Democratic leaders, and, most depressingly, many of his fellow blacks wish Smollett had been attacked by white racist homophobes.Representative Eric Swalwell (D., Calif.), a white leftist, tweeted, “I hope this was not something that Mr. Smollett did to himself, or created.”Washington Post columnist Jonathan Capehart told MSNBC there has been “an atmosphere of menace and hate” since Donald Trump was elected president, which made “people want to believe” Smollett’s story. Exactly. Capehart, a black leftist, wanted to believe that racists yelling “This is MAGA country” beat up blacks.Another black leftist who writ

All-New 2020 Toyota Corolla First-Drive Review

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All-New 2020 Toyota Corolla Adds Sizzle, Still Sensible The redesigned 2020 Toyota Corolla sedan joins the Corolla hatchback (which we’ve already tested), and it is offered for the first time as... from Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines https://ift.tt/2IBxQes

The Latest: Pompeo urges restraint in India, Pakistan

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ISLAMABAD (AP) — The Latest on India-Pakistan tensions (all times local): from Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines https://ift.tt/2U8mzDB

Trump and Kim Jong Un might officially end the Korean War. Here's why that could matter.

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After 66 years, a peace declaration at the Vietnam summit could lead to negotiations and more normal relations between the two Koreas and America. from Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines https://ift.tt/2GLYdwl

UK PM May proposes votes on no-deal exit and Brexit delay if her deal rejected: Telegraph

LONDON (Reuters) - British Prime Minister Theresa May is proposing that parliament votes on whether to leave the European Union without a deal or delay Brexit if her exit deal fails to win parliamentary approval, a Daily Telegraph reporter said on Twitter. "The PM (Prime Minister) has said there will be a three line whip on an amendable motion tomorrow that will commit to two votes on March 12th in the event that her deal fails," Telegraph reporter Steven Swinford wrote, citing details of an ongoing cabinet meeting. ... from Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines https://ift.tt/2IDpyCK

Mother and adult daughter charged with killing 5 relatives

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MORRISVILLE, Pa. (AP) — A mother and her adult daughter killed five of their close relatives, including three children, and were found "disoriented" after child welfare authorities arrived for a surprise visit to their trashed apartment outside Philadelphia, police and prosecutors said Tuesday. from Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines https://ift.tt/2Xro41N

Univision team deported from Venezuela after Maduro interview

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The six-person team was held for more than two hours and had their equipment confiscated, Ramos told reporters on Monday evening after arriving back at his Caracas hotel which was surrounded by intelligence agents. Ramos and his team left the hotel on Tuesday morning guarded by personnel from the U.S. and Mexican embassies while intelligence agents escorted them to Caracas' Maiquetia airport. "They didn't give us a reason" for the deportation, Ramos told reporters as he arrived at the terminal. from Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines https://ift.tt/2tNSZb7

Southwest Airlines wing scrapes runway during aborted landing in Hartford

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A Southwest flight from Orlando to Hartford, Connecticut, ended up diverting to Rhode Island after trying to land three times in high winds. from Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines https://ift.tt/2SsKagx

Trump-Kim summit: North Korea leader arrives in Vietnam to red carpet reception ahead of talks

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Kim Jong-un has rolled into Hanoi in an armoured limousine ahead of talks with Donald Trump in the Vietnamese capital. The North Korean leader had earlier received a red-carpet reception amid tight security following a 65-hour, 2,500-mile journey from Pyongyang in a bulletproof train. After disembarking at Dong Dang rail station, close to Vietnam’s border with China, he walked past a guard of honour before climbing into his personal Mercedes limousine on Tuesday morning. from Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines https://ift.tt/2NvwFvy