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Blackface/KKK photo poses difficult questions. If the Democrat has something to contribute, he can best do so from the private sector: Our view from Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines https://yhoo.it/2UDwZuB via Latest News

The audacious exploits of El Chapo, or Shorty, captured the world's imagination and turned him into a folk hero for some in Mexico, despite the thousands of people killed by his brutal Sinaloa cartel. Beyond putting Guzman's personal life and drug dealings on public display, the case has also highlighted Mexico's long-time fight to bring down its chief adversary in the bloody war on drug trafficking. Six months earlier, he had humiliated Mexico's then-president, Enrique Pena Nieto, by escaping from prison through a mile-long tunnel dug straight into his cell - his second time escaping a Mexican jail. from Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines https://yhoo.it/2G9kd47 via Latest News

Now, as Ocasio-Cortez prepares to release a blueprint, details are emerging. “Next week, we plan to release a resolution that outlines the scope and scale of the Green New Deal,” according to a letter the New York Democrat sent to colleagues. from Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines https://yhoo.it/2UCmcAY via Latest News

Jeremy Corbyn and Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez have shared their visions of the future in a “lovely and wide-reaching” phone conversation. Last month the Catholic congresswoman revealed that she has Jewish heritage as a result of her Sephardic ancestors fleeing from Europe to Puerto Rico “a very, very long time ago”. from Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines https://yhoo.it/2Sb67oY via Latest News

The British government has recognised Juan Guaido as the interim president of Venezuela after Nicolas Maduro rejected an an ultimatum by European countries to call snap elections. Foreign secretary Jeremy Hunt said that the United Kingdom considers the 35-year-old opposition leader "constitutional interim president" until "credible elections can be held." "The oppression of the illegitimate, kleptocratic Maduro regime must end," read a statement issued by the Foreign Office.  Earlier this morning Spain also recognised Mr Guaido as "caretaker president" and further European nations are expected to follow suit.  A defiant Mr Maduro refused the demand of seven EU states to call fresh elections by Sunday, saying in an interview with Spanish television station Sexta  that he would not “cave in to pressure” from those calling for his departure. “Why does the European Union have to tell a country in the world that has already had elections that it has t

Among thousands fleeing the crumbling dream of an Islamic State group "caliphate" in eastern Syria are alleged jihadists but also survivors of some of their worst atrocities. "I'll never forget," 40-year-old Bissa says softly, as she recounts being "bought and sold" by six different jihadists. Bissa was one of at least seven Yazidi women and girls to finally escape captivity last week, after years as "sex slaves" at the hands of the extremist group. from Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines https://yhoo.it/2I0nPqy via Latest News

Police say a man jumped from the airport hotel onto the atrium on Saturday morning. from Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines https://yhoo.it/2SdpPk3 via Latest News

The twin-engine Cessna 414A came down in the town of Yorba Linda, killing the pilot and four people inside a house the wreck set on fire. from Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines https://yhoo.it/2TxH0JN via Latest News

President Donald Trump said in remarks aired Sunday he saw a "good chance" of reaching deals on two key US foreign policy challenges: North Korean nuclear disarmament and trade relations with China. Interviewed on CBS's "Face the Nation," Trump said the date and venue of his upcoming second summit with North Korea's Kim Jong Un had been agreed -- and would likely be announced before or during his State of the Union address on Tuesday. from Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines https://yhoo.it/2GlZYzd via Latest News

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Zimbabwe's Vice President Constantino Chiwenga is receiving treatment in South Africa, the second time in four months, after falling ill last week, a privately owned newspaper reported on Monday. The health of Chiwenga, 62, is closely followed in Zimbabwe because he is widely seen as the power behind President Emmerson Mnangagwa and the front-runner to succeed him. The former military general led the coup that ousted long-time ruler Robert Mugabe in 2017. from Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines https://yhoo.it/2t2qVjE via Latest News

“For those who believe in the news that I passed away, then I request of you, please pray for the eternal repose of my soul,” Duterte said in a Facebook Live post on Sunday, via the account of his common-law wife Honeylet Avancena. Avancena posted the video of the 73-year-old leader at a table, as the two of them discussed a newspaper article while he ate some snacks. “The assumption, of course, is that he is still capable of doing his job,” Ramon Casiple, executive director at Manila-based Institute for Political and Electoral Reforms, said of Duterte. from Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines https://yhoo.it/2Tv2SFF via Latest News

Anova makes the most popular consumer-grade sous vide cookers out there right now. In fact, they're so popular that they're currently completely sold out on Amazon. Even when they go on sale at their lowest prices ever though, they only drop as low as $80. What you might not realize is that Instant Pot -- yes, THAT Instant Pot -- makes a similar sous vide cooker and it's always priced at just $80. That's right, the same company that makes extremely expensive multi-cookers has a fantastic sous vide precision cooker that's priced lower than anything else out there. And it just so happens that the Instant Pot SSV800 Accu Slim Sous Vide Immersion Circulator is back in stock right now for they first time since Black Friday! Here are the bullet points from the product page: * Creates Quality Dishes - Accu Slim Sous Vide Immersion Circulator prepares high-end restaurant quality dishes at home, turning home cooks into gourmet chefs * Consistent Cooking - Accu Slim Sous Vide

Russia has warned against “destructive meddling” in Venezuela as Britain recognised opposition leader Juan Guaido as interim president. The US, Canada and several Latin American and European countries have disavowed Nicolas Maduro over his disputed re-election last year and recognised Mr Guaido, the national assembly president, as the country’s rightful leader. “The international community’s goal should be to help [Venezuela], without destructive meddling from beyond its borders,” Alexander Shchetinin, head of the Latin America department at Russia’s foreign ministry, told the Interfax news agency. from Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines https://yhoo.it/2SoxMSS via Latest News

Virginia Lt. Gov. Justin Fairfax on Monday denied a sexual assault allegation raised in an online report, saying the "truth is 100% on our side." Rough Cut (no reporter narration). from Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines https://yhoo.it/2TvfMn9 via Latest News

BEIRUT (AP) — The United States on Monday called on other nations to repatriate and prosecute their citizens who traveled to Syria to fight with the Islamic State group and who are now being held by Washington's local partners. from Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines https://yhoo.it/2Tuqt9p via Latest News

A Southwest flight needed to turn around after the plane experienced a pressurization issue so severe it caused one passenger's ears to bleed. from Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines https://yhoo.it/2SbJnFE via Latest News

U.S. President Donald Trump's former campaign chairman Paul Manafort will be sentenced on March 13 for attempted witness tampering and conspiring against the United States, according to a court filing on Monday. Judge Amy Berman Jackson, the federal judge presiding over Manafort's case in Washington, had previously tentatively scheduled the sentencing hearing for March 5. Manafort pleaded guilty last year to conspiracy against the United States and began cooperating with prosecutors working on U.S. Special Counsel Robert Mueller's probe into Russian meddling in the 2016 presidential election and possible links between the Trump campaign and Moscow. from Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines https://yhoo.it/2BmBgLM via Latest News

A sweep of cold air is bringing snow to the mountains and even the lower elevations of the western United States into Tuesday. from Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines https://yhoo.it/2D6Mmos via Latest News

Virginia governor Ralph Northam’s previously scheduled speaking appearance at the College of William and Mary’s charter day and inauguration ceremony on Friday has been cancelled, the university announced Monday. Northam, a Democrat, came under fire on Friday after it was revealed that his 1984 Eastern Virginia Medical School yearbook page featured an image of two men, one in blackface and the other in a Ku Klux Klan uniform. It stands in stark opposition to William & Mary’s core values of equity and inclusion, which sustain our mission of learning, teaching, and research,” College president Katherine Rowe said of the photo in a Monday statement. from Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines https://yhoo.it/2WHU8Ol via Latest News