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President Trump has installed a room-sized golfing simulator inside his personal quarters at the White House from Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines https://yhoo.it/2N8dfgq via Latest News

Orca could help to fill a yawning gap in the American submarine fleet. In December 2016, the U.S. Navy announced it needed 66 nuclear-powered attack subs, or SSNs, to meet regional commanders' needs. from Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines https://yhoo.it/2GtDxsJ via Latest News

The British Islamic State (Isil) bride Shamima Begum has a legal right to return to the UK the Head of MI6 has said. The Director General of MI6 has said that British citizens have a right to return home from Syria, even though they may still present a threat to national security. Alex Younger, the head of Britain’s Secret Intelligence Service - better known as MI6 - said he was "very concerned" about returning British nationals that had fought for or supported the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (Isil). Speaking ahead of the Munich Security Conference which started on Friday, Mr Younger said: "All experience tells us that once someone's put themselves in that sort of position they are likely to have acquired both the skills and connections that make them potentially very dangerous. "Anyone who has put themselves in this situation can expect to be questioned and investigated and potentially prosecuted if they return to our jurisdiction." When asked abo...

Paul Manafort, Donald Trump’s former campaign manager, breached his plea deal with special counsel Robert Mueller’s office by intentionally lying to prosecutors, a federal judge has ruled. There was a “preponderance” of evidence that Manafort lied on three different topics, including his communications with his former business partner and alleged Russian operative Konstantin Kilimnik, Judge Amy Berman Jackson in the US District Court for the District of Columbia found. from Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines https://yhoo.it/2GKfUeP via Latest News

DETROIT (AP) — The U.S. archbishop helping to organize next week's summit of the world's bishops at the Vatican on sexual abuse by clergy said Thursday he expects to make "significant progress" in responding to the scandal that's riven the church, and that lay Catholics will help to hold the hierarchy accountable. from Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines https://yhoo.it/2N84EKH via Latest News

Elliott Abrams, who pleaded guilty in 1991 to withholding information from Congress, was appointed as U.S. envoy to Venezuela on Friday. from Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines https://yhoo.it/2SAiQlD via Latest News

WASHINGTON (AP) — Paul Manafort, the one-time chairman of Donald Trump's presidential campaign, could spend more than 19 years in prison on tax and bank fraud charges, prosecutors said Friday. from Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines https://yhoo.it/2DHbgeA via Latest News

A British schoolgirl who fled to Syria to join Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant has said she does not regret it, but wants to return to the UK to give birth. Shamima Begum, 19, vanished from her home in Bethnal Green in London four years ago, along with two other teenage girls, Kadiza Sultana and Amira Abase. A girl who identified herself as Shamima Begum, was found in a refugee camp in Syria as the Isil caliphate collapsed, the Times reported. In an interview with the newspaper she described how she had been living in the caliphate and had married an Isil fighter from the Netherlands called Yago Riedijk. She was heavily pregnant and due to give birth any day. Kadiza Sultana, Amira Abase, and Shamima Begum  Credit: PA The girl is living in the al-Hawl refugee camp in northern Syria along with 39,000 other refugees. She described having seen a severed head in a bin during her time with Isil, and escaping bombs dropping, the Times reported. The teenager also said she had already ...

Californians are experiencing some unusually nasty winter weather this week as an "atmospheric river" passes through most of the state, bringing howling winds and heavy rain.The storm arrived on Tuesday night (Feb. 12) in Northern California and continued into Wednesday (Feb. 13), leading the National Weather Service (NWS) to issue warnings of flash flooding, mudslides and high winds in the region. It is forecast to bring "excessive rainfall" to Southern California on Thursday (Feb. 14), according to the NWS.[Weirdo Weather: 7 Rare Weather Events]Atmospheric rivers are huge "rivers in the sky" that cause moisture from the tropics to flow north, from California to Canada. These huge weather systems can carry many times the freshwater that flows through the mighty Mississippi River, local news outlet KQED reported."They're the biggest freshwater rivers on Earth," F. Martin Ralph, the director of the Center for Western Weather and Water Extremes...

The Democratic phenom scores a victory over the "richest man in the world." from Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines https://yhoo.it/2DESuVi via Latest News

Social media reacts to the tech giant's decision not to move to Long Island City after all from Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines https://yhoo.it/2SV23c4 via Latest News

Joanna Mae Macy-Rogers faces several charges after she and another suspect, who was later shot and killed, allegedly hijacked a UPS truck, held the driver hostage, and forced a police chase and standoff. from Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines https://yhoo.it/2NaNHPq via Latest News

Love him or loathe him, the election is all about Netanyahu. If he wins, he will become Israel's longest-serving prime minister this summer. "There's no central issue other than Netanyahu's reign and clean government - whether he remains prime minister and what the price is for corruption," said Tamar Hermann, a political science professor with the Israel Democracy Institute. from Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines https://yhoo.it/2tl8VkJ via Latest News

New York (AFP) - European and US stock markets leapt on Friday as positive signs emerged from US-China trade talks aimed at averting an escalation of a tariff war between the world's top two economies. from Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines https://yhoo.it/2TO4LNO via Latest News

PARKLAND, Fla. (AP) — A student journalism project has concluded that at least 1,149 children and teenagers died from a shooting in the year since the massacre at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School. from Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines https://yhoo.it/2BCbmUJ via Latest News

LONDON (AP) — The family of a pregnant British teenager who ran away to join the Islamic State group urged the government Friday to help bring her home. from Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines https://yhoo.it/2S6HUvc via Latest News

The Senate voted Thursday to confirm William Barr as attorney general.Barr, who previously served as attorney general under President George H.W. Bush, was confirmed 51–45 largely along party lines, with Republicans backing the president's nominee and Democrats opposing.Democratic senators Doug Jones of Alabama, Joe Manchin of West Virginia, and Kyrsten Sinema of Arizona defected, backing Barr's nomination, while Senator Rand Paul of Kentucky was the lone Republican who voted against him.Barr will be sworn in Thursday afternoon at the White House, the Department of Justice announced shortly after his confirmation. Chief Justice John Roberts will administer the oath of office.Acting attorney general Matthew Whitaker, who was appointed by the president in November to assume ousted AG Jeff Session's post, will now be relieved of his duties, which include overseeing Special Counsel Robert Mueller's Russia investigation. Democrats opposed to Barr's confirmation cited his...

New York Governor Andrew Cuomo and Mayor Bill de Blasio had lobbied hard for Amazon headquarters; Laura Ingle reports. from Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines https://yhoo.it/2TPnhFF via Latest News

Republicans are embracing Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez’s sweeping plan known as the Green New Deal to avert climate change, but not because they like it. Fueling the effort is a fact sheet that Ocasio-Cortez’s office circulated -- then retracted -- that included references that aren’t in the text of the actual resolution. from Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines https://yhoo.it/2N8tV7s via Latest News

The scratching of the superjumbo jet Airbus A380 echoes the sad fate of the supersonic Concorde, another feat of aviation technology that turned out to be a commercial flop. The inaugural commercial flight on January 21, 1976 of Concorde, the world's first supersonic passenger plane, promised a revolution in aviation. It was the first computer-controlled commercial aircraft in history and also innovated with a weight-saving aluminium body and triangular delta wings. from Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines https://yhoo.it/2SvGuzD via Latest News

After visiting the Auschwitz concentration camp in Poland, Pence said the Nazi death camp had made him more determined to confront Tehran, saying it was "breathing out murderous threats, with the same vile anti-Semitic hatred that animated the Nazis in Europe." Iran's ancient Jewish community has slumped to an estimated 10,000 to 20,000 from 85,000 at the time of the 1979 Islamic Revolution, but is believed to be the biggest in the Middle East outside Israel. Pence, who said he was deeply moved by his Auschwitz visit, cited Iran's stated desire to destroy Israel as justification for singling out the country, rather than focusing on anti-Semitism across the Middle East. Iranian Brigadier General Hossein Salami, deputy head of the elite Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps, said in January Iran's strategy was to wipe "the Zionist regime" (Israel) off the political map, Iran's state TV reported. from Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines https://yho...

Amazon's plans for a campus in Long Island City bitterly divided a community grappling with rapid change. from BBC News - Business https://bbc.in/2S5JFbY via Online Shopping

The illegal car seats have appeared for sale online, although sites say listings have been deleted. from BBC News - Business https://bbc.in/2SY4Xgc via Online Shopping

Clothing discounts helped retail sales to rebound sharply last month, official figures show. from BBC News - Business https://bbc.in/2STaiFD via Online Shopping

The UK's competition body lists the top, and bottom, rated banks for customer satisfaction. from BBC News - Business https://bbc.in/2TLrJoO via Online Shopping

Fashion Director Donata Meirelles has been criticised for party photos said to "evoke slavery." from BBC News - Business https://bbc.in/2UYseMo via Online Shopping

Employees at mining giant Vale are arrested amid a criminal probe into the dam break that killed 166. from BBC News - Business https://bbc.in/2SC51mr via Online Shopping

The US says "very difficult issues" remain unresolved with talks due to resume in the US next week. from BBC News - Business https://bbc.in/2BDZktK via Online Shopping

Unions say they had warned about the "disastrous privatisation programme" four years ago. from BBC News - Business https://bbc.in/2TPKbfZ via Online Shopping

Millennium & Copthorne says its London hotels are facing difficulties in recruiting EU workers. from BBC News - Business https://bbc.in/2RZRBf3 via Online Shopping

It was billed as the future of air travel, but airlines increasingly saw the jet as too big and inefficient. from BBC News - Business https://bbc.in/2tne7Vg via Online Shopping

Test compares cellular speeds for top iPhone models, difference between the iPhone 5s and XS, more    9to5Mac Sketchy Chinese social media report claims red iPhone XS and iPhone XS Max launching soon    9to5Mac View full coverage on Google News from Technology - Latest - Google News http://bit.ly/2GsvHQo via Technology

Congress is set to resolve its clattering brawl with President Donald Trump in uncommonly bipartisan fashion as lawmakers prepare to pass a border security compromise. European plane manufacturer Airbus says it will stop making its superjumbo A380 in 2021 for lack of customers. from Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines https://yhoo.it/2IguSMc via Latest News

Five families with a total of 16 people, including children from El Salvador, Honduras and Guatemala, arrived in the Mexican border city of Tijuana on Wednesday, according to a person who works in migration for the Mexican government, who asked not to be named. In late January, the United States began sending non-Mexican migrants who had crossed at the U.S. border with Mexico back to Mexico to wait as their asylum requests are processed, a program called Migrant Protection Protocols. Rights groups say the program endangers asylum seekers by forcing them to remain in regions of Mexico experiencing record levels of violence. from Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines https://yhoo.it/2tlYX2m via Latest News

Electric vehicle startup Rivian on Friday announced a $700 million investment round led by Amazon, which recently pumped money into a young self-driving car technology firm. Details of Amazon's stake in US-based Rivian were not disclosed, but the company said it will remain independent. The potential Tesla rival late last year unveiled an electric pickup truck and an electric sport utility vehicle at an auto show in Los Angeles. from Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines https://yhoo.it/2TSmcN8 via Latest News

A mudslide slammed into a Sausalito neighborhood, causing a home to slide down the hillside into another. from Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines https://yhoo.it/2SVxKlJ via Latest News

Jussie Smollett, the 'Empire' star who was attacked in a "possible hate crime" Jan. 29 in Chicago, talked to "GMA" about the incident. from Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines https://yhoo.it/2DDsZnf via Latest News

Donald Trump’s envoy to Venezuela was left flustered and visibly angry following an interrogation by Democratic congresswoman Ilhan Omar over his controversial political past. Elliot Abrams was appointed special envoy to Venezuela last month to help lead the US response to the political crisis in the South American country, which is seeing widespread hunger and violence following the collapse of its economy. On Wednesday, Mr Abrams, who served in the Reagan administration, testified in front of the House foreign affairs select committee, where he was subjected to a fierce line of questioning by Ms Omar. from Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines https://yhoo.it/2tmgGGY via Latest News

Californians are experiencing some unusually nasty winter weather this week as an "atmospheric river" passes through most of the state, bringing howling winds and heavy rain.The storm arrived on Tuesday night (Feb. 12) in Northern California and continued into Wednesday (Feb. 13), leading the National Weather Service (NWS) to issue warnings of flash flooding, mudslides and high winds in the region. It is forecast to bring "excessive rainfall" to Southern California on Thursday (Feb. 14), according to the NWS.[Weirdo Weather: 7 Rare Weather Events]Atmospheric rivers are huge "rivers in the sky" that cause moisture from the tropics to flow north, from California to Canada. These huge weather systems can carry many times the freshwater that flows through the mighty Mississippi River, local news outlet KQED reported."They're the biggest freshwater rivers on Earth," F. Martin Ralph, the director of the Center for Western Weather and Water Extremes...

“We are not triumphant because I think from triumphant you get to hubris,” MI6 Chief Alex Younger told reporters in Munich on Friday. Younger said Islamic States’s so-called caliphate was now in its “end game,” with the extremist militants clinging to the last square mile of land they hold in the village of Baghuz in eastern Syria. Meanwhile the U.K. is debating the case of Shamima Begum, a 19-year-old from east London who wants to come home despite expressing no regrets over becoming a so-called jihadi bride with Islamic State in Syria at the age of 15. from Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines https://yhoo.it/2GsHYnN via Latest News

DENVER (AP) — The Latest on the Denver teachers strike (all times local): from Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines https://yhoo.it/2N70MJM via Latest News

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School buses brought only a handful of students to a shortened class day at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida, where a former student with an assault gun killed 17 people on Feb. 14, 2018. Leaders of March for Our Lives, a national student movement formed in the aftermath of the Parkland tragedy to fight gun violence, were not in the spotlight, having noted they would "go dark" or cease most communications during the anniversary. "Every day it feels like the shooting is happening again, or happened yesterday, or will happen tomorrow," said Gonzalez, who rose to prominence by urging her fellow students to "call B.S." on supporters of the gun lobby. from Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines https://yhoo.it/2UYYn6q via Latest News

New York (AFP) - European and US stock markets leapt on Friday as positive signs emerged from US-China trade talks aimed at averting an escalation of a tariff war between the world's top two economies. from Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines https://yhoo.it/2TO4LNO via Latest News

Mike Pence, the US vice president, has accused Britain, France and Germany of trying to sabotage American sanctions against Iran and called on the European states to withdraw from the 2015 nuclear deal.  In an unusually blunt attack on America’s traditional European allies, Mr Pence told a summit in Warsaw that the three countries were leading “an effort to break American sanctions against Iran’s murderous revolutionary regime”.  He focused his criticism on a financial mechanism created by the three states and the EU to allow European firms to continue trading with Iran in a way that skirts punishing US sanctions.  “It's an ill-advised step that will only strengthen Iran, weaken the EU, and create still more distance between Europe and the United States,” Mr Pence said.  He said the British, French, and German governments had “not been nearly as cooperative” in backing America’s anti-Iran policy as Israel and the Gulf Arab states like Saudi Arabia and the UAE. Mr Pen...

A second-grader wrote a chilling note to her parents on her arm during school lockdown. from Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines https://yhoo.it/2Ih6gCP via Latest News

One year after gunfire began in the freshman building of Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School, the movement those bullets sparked has swept through the US and opened a new chapter on guns in America. Guns have come to dominate political debate this past year in way unseen previously in the US, with massive protests from March for Our Lives attracting headlines and major news coverage — and virtually all Democrat presidential candidates supporting stricter gun control. Meanwhile, dozens of states have moved to pass new gun control laws in an historic effort, as communities across America continue to be scarred by gun violence. from Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines https://yhoo.it/2Ea4vTQ via Latest News

Amazon.com Inc's decision on Thursday to scrap its proposal to locate a second headquarters in the Queens borough of New York City ignited a sea of duelling reactions on Twitter, with some calling it a victory for working people while others said it meant that fewer people would work. Some people who praised the pullout included references to the wealth of Amazon's chief executive and founder, Jeff Bezos, the world's richest man with an estimated fortune of about $135 billion, while many who saw the decision as a blow to New York cited the loss of potentially tens of thousands of new jobs. The deal negotiated by New York Governor Andrew Cuomo and New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio had offered the world's largest online retailer about $3 billion in incentives, in exchange for the company's promise of 25,000 new jobs in the Long Island City section of Queens. from Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines https://yhoo.it/2SQ6nto via Latest News

California's suspension this week of a high-speed rail project underscores the up-hill battle the modern mode of transport faces in the United States -- including myriad cultural, political and economic obstacles. Long gone are the days of the 19th century gold rush, when Americans raced to build transcontinental rail links and conquer the nation's vast expanse. "We have a Congress polluted by special interest money ... that has been working for years to stop/prevent any rail investment," said Andy Kunz, head of the US High Speed Rail Association, pointing to the oil, aviation and auto industries in particular. from Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines https://yhoo.it/2XdzMgq via Latest News

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DENVER (AP) — Denver teachers went on strike to improve their pay, but the fight wasn't that simple. from Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines https://yhoo.it/2BCdZWn via Latest News

The Federal Bureau of Investigation has released more than a dozen drawingsmade by a prolific serial killer in hopes the public may be able to identifysome of his victims from Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines https://yhoo.it/2TPTzQJ via Latest News

President Trump has put on a few pounds over the past year and is now in the obese range, although he remains in "very good health overall." from Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines https://yhoo.it/2BB3zqc via Latest News

Three of the five injured passengers on a Delta Air Lines flight were taken to a local hospital. from Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines https://yhoo.it/2topIDr via Latest News

The Constitutional Court on Thursday accepted a case calling for the party, Thai Raksa Chart, to be dissolved for hostility toward the constitutional monarchy. The accusation reached the court five days after King Maha Vajiralongkorn sunk the party’s shock bid to make his sister a candidate for prime minister. "If parties linked to Thaksin keep being disbanded, the conflict will never end, and will intensify," said Punchada Sirivunnabood, an associate professor at Mahidol University’s Faculty of Social Sciences and Humanities near Bangkok. from Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines https://yhoo.it/2GKObuv via Latest News

Senator Bob Menendez (D-NJ) reportedly threatens to call police on Daily Caller reporter Henry Rodgers who asked the Senator about the Green New Deal. from Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines https://yhoo.it/2BN9skf via Latest News

Authorities have warned of the threat of mudslides after a damaging storm struck California, trapping people in floodwaters, triggering a debris flow which destroyed homes and forcing residents to flee communities scorched by wildfires last year. The powerful system swept in from the Pacific Ocean and unleashed rain, snow and wind across the US west coast into Wyoming and Colorado after walloping northern California and southern Oregon. The National Weather Service reported staggering rainfall amounts across California, including more than 24cm over 48 hours at one location in the San Bernardino Mountains east of Los Angeles. from Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines https://yhoo.it/2IfuHRd via Latest News

The British Islamic State (Isil) bride Shamima Begum has a legal right to return to the UK the Head of MI6 has said. The Director General of MI6 has said that British citizens have a right to return home from Syria, even though they may still present a threat to national security. Alex Younger, the head of Britain’s Secret Intelligence Service - better known as MI6 - said he was "very concerned" about returning British nationals that had fought for or supported the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (Isil). Speaking ahead of the Munich Security Conference which started on Friday, Mr Younger said: "All experience tells us that once someone's put themselves in that sort of position they are likely to have acquired both the skills and connections that make them potentially very dangerous. "Anyone who has put themselves in this situation can expect to be questioned and investigated and potentially prosecuted if they return to our jurisdiction." When asked abo...

SEATTLE (AP) — A research vessel funded by the late Seattle billionaire Paul Allen has discovered the wreckage of an American aircraft carrier sunk in the South Pacific during World War II. It is the latest in an ongoing effort to discover sunken vessels. from Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines https://yhoo.it/2UVNCSw via Latest News

The mobile network industry has called for a new security testing scheme to check 5G equipment. from BBC News - Technology https://bbc.in/2Gsvvk3 via Online Shopping in Pakistan

The code putting ads on webpages can stop pages loading by seconds, finds analysis of millions of sites. from BBC News - Technology https://bbc.in/2S1hhYE via Online Shopping in Pakistan

Online multiplayer game Roblox has reinstated PewDiePie after banning the YouTuber for using his name. from BBC News - Technology https://bbc.in/2DSaaNl via Online Shopping in Pakistan

Tilly Lockey, 13, has bionic arms that are so sophisticated she can now use a paintbrush and apply make-up. from BBC News - Technology https://bbc.in/2GteXrV via Online Shopping in Pakistan

Made In Chelsea's Andy Jordan has a warning about the realities of being a social media influencer. from BBC News - Technology https://bbc.in/2GqXYqj via Online Shopping in Pakistan

LG's next flagship was just spotted going through the FCC and the document certifies three different variants headed to the US. The model number is LM-G820UM, LM-G820TM, and LM-G820QM. We assume the first two models are US unlocked and T-Mobile variants, respectively based on the penultimate letter in the model number. There's another number ending in "QM" which could be destined for CDMA networks like Sprint and Verizon. Of course, this is purely speculation because another model is spotted as LM-G820V. Is this perhaps the Verizon variant? Source:... from GSMArena.com - Latest articles http://bit.ly/2TSPHhQ via IFTTT

The latest update to Samsung's Wearable app shows three new wearables that are yet to be officially announced. This is the same app found on the Play Store which is used to pair your Android phone with Samsung's wearable accessories like the Galaxy Watch and the Icon X earbuds. As of the writing of this post, the devices are still visible regardless of which device you download the app on. First on the list of devices in the Samsung Galaxy Watch Active. This confirms that the wearable will not be called the "Samsung Galaxy Sport" as initially rumored. It also looks like the Galaxy... from GSMArena.com - Latest articles http://bit.ly/2V7FnDd via IFTTT