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Wall Street Journal White House reporter Eli Stokols has a possible theory about why Donald Trump reportedly accepted a border wall offering from Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) — then reneged. from Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines http://ift.tt/2mZLKcU via Latest News

WASHINGTON ― The government shutdown is about to get a lot more visible. from Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines http://ift.tt/2BjfnKL via Latest News

A billionaire and his wife found dead side-by-side were both murdered, a report by private investigators has said. from Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines http://ift.tt/2mZdxtU via Latest News

PORTLAND, Maine (AP) — Leaders in a Maine town said Sunday they will meet with their town manager, who has come under fire for espousing white separatist views. from Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines http://ift.tt/2BklY7v via Latest News

A court in Vietnam sentenced one former official from state oil and gas group PetroVietnam to life in prison and another to 13 years on Monday for embezzlement and violating state rules amid a widespread corruption crackdown, state media said. Dinh La Thang, a former politburo official and the most senior Vietnamese politician to be tried in decades, was jailed for 13 years for violating state rules, the state-run Voice of Vietnam said. from Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines http://ift.tt/2F3UXHL via Latest News

Gunmen stormed a luxury hotel in Kabul and killed at least 18 people, most of them foreigners, sparking a 12-hour battle with Afghan forces backed by Norwegian troops that left terrified guests scrambling to escape. Several Ukrainians were among those killed in the Taliban-claimed assault on the six-storey Intercontinental Hotel in the Afghan capital, Ukrainian foreign ministry official Vasyl Kyrylych confirmed to AFP, adding that more information would be released Monday. Afghan interior ministry spokesman Najib Danish said 14 foreigners were among the dead, but did not specify their nationalities, in comments to Afghanistan’s Tolo News hours after the overnight attack that ended Sunday. from Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines http://ift.tt/2F2ug67 via Latest News

“Can I pray for you?” a woman asked after I shared my abortion story at the Women’s March Convention in Detroit last year. from Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines http://ift.tt/2F1Azae via Latest News

North Korea has informed Seoul it will send a delegation on Sunday to prepare cultural performances during the Winter Olympics, the South's unification minister said, a day after Pyongyang abruptly cancelled the visit. The North had initially planned to send a seven-member advance team headed by the leader of a popular all-female Western-style band for a two-day visit from Saturday to inspect venues for proposed performances in Seoul and the eastern city of Gangneung. Hyon Song-Wol, reportedly an ex-girlfriend of leader Kim Jong-Un, would be the first North Korean official to visit the South in four years. from Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines http://ift.tt/2DUwPIc via Latest News

As the federal government partially shut down at the stroke of midnight early Saturday morning, progressive activists presented a united front with congressional Democratic leadership. from Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines http://ift.tt/2DXRoUp via Latest News

House Speaker Paul Ryan (R-Wis.) said Sunday he wasn’t planning on leaving Congress any time soon, but he also didn’t disclose whether he will serve another term in the House of Representatives. from Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines http://ift.tt/2BhLhXN via Latest News

(Reuters) - A U.S. Army Apache attack helicopter crashed early Saturday morning in California, killing two soldiers, a spokesman for the Army said. An investigation is ongoing into the crash of the AH-64 Apache helicopter on the sprawling National Training Center at Fort Irwin in southern California, Lieutenant Colonel Jason Brown, U.S. Army spokesman, said in a statement emailed to Reuters. Another Army spokesman said that the pilot and the co-pilot were killed, but did not give their names, saying their families had yet to be notified. from Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines http://ift.tt/2n2sqMb via Latest News

ROCHESTER, Vt. (AP) — With just three students left attending high school here, junior Kimberly Taylor moves from one empty classroom to the next, taking mostly online classes or studying alone. from Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines http://ift.tt/2DqimTy via Latest News

"This is a season that has a lot more steam than we thought" from Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines http://ift.tt/2rlrdE8 via Latest News

There were more than 25,000 murders across drug-ravaged Mexico in 2017, the highest annual tally since modern records began, government data showed. Investigators opened 25,339 murder probes last year, up nearly 25 percent from the 2016 tally, interior ministry data released on Saturday showed. Mexico has struggled with years of violence as the government has battled vicious drug cartels that have increasingly splintered into smaller, more bloodthirsty, gangs. from Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines http://ift.tt/2DVXF2M via Latest News

Utah State University student ingested detergent. from Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines http://ift.tt/2BlkwC4 via Latest News

A Republican tasked with fighting against sexual harassment in Congress secretly settled a misconduct complaint filed against him by a former aide, The New York Times first reported Saturday. from Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines http://ift.tt/2F1Kdtv via Latest News

One year into President Trump's administration, another Women's March. Here are scenes from the New York City event. from Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines http://ift.tt/2F18mQH via Latest News

Miles de personas participan en la “Marcha de las mujeres, en Washington, EEUU. EFE from Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines http://ift.tt/2Dt13Ff via Latest News

Just days after the House passed its version of the federal tax law slashing corporate tax rates, House Speaker Paul Ryan collected nearly $500,000 in campaign contributions from billionaire energy mogul Charles Koch and his wife, according to a recent campaign donor report. from Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines http://ift.tt/2F0We2b via Latest News

HASSA, Turkey (AP) — The Latest on the Syrian conflict (all times local): from Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines http://ift.tt/2n0nLJU via Latest News