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Washington's top diplomat said Saturday he was "optimistic" a way could be found to protect Syrian Kurds while allowing Turks to "defend their country from terrorists" following a US pullout from Syria. "We are confident we can achieve an outcome that achieves both of those," Secretary of State Mike Pompeo told journalists in Abu Dhabi. The Gulf emirate is his latest stop in a regional tour aimed at reassuring allies after a shock December announcement by President Donald Trump that US troops would be withdrawn from Syria. from Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines https://yhoo.it/2RnMWYF via Latest News

The New York Times reported that the probe began in the days after Trump fired James Comey as director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation in May 2017 and said the agency's counterintelligence investigators had to consider whether Trump's actions constituted a possible threat to national security. Trump rejected the Times piece in a late Saturday night interview on Fox News as "the most insulting article I've ever had written" and lashed out at Comey and the FBI in half a dozen tweets. House Judiciary Committee Chairman Jerrold Nadler said his panel "will take steps to better understand both the president's actions and the FBI's response to that behavior" in coming weeks. from Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines https://yhoo.it/2HaigFV via Latest News

ABU DHABI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — Saudi Arabia's energy minister said Sunday that major oil producers need to do better to narrow swings in prices that dip below $60 a barrel and rise above $86. from Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines https://yhoo.it/2FpvOLM via Latest News

Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif met with his Iraqi counterpart in Baghdad on Sunday for wide-ranging talks, including on US sanctions against Tehran. The visit came just days after US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo made a surprise stop on his regional tour to urge Iraq to stop relying on Iran for gas and electricity imports. Washington has granted Baghdad a waiver until late March to keep buying Iranian gas and power, despite reimposing tough sanctions on Tehran in November. from Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines https://yhoo.it/2FvrWbl via Latest News

A storm Jan. 13, 1982, led to one of the most haunting tragedies in Washington, D.C., history: the crash of Air Florida Flight 90, which killed 78. from Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines https://yhoo.it/2RsOxwm via Latest News

BARRON, Wis. (AP) — The Latest on a Wisconsin teenager found alive three months after she disappeared following her parents' deaths (all times local): from Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines https://yhoo.it/2D9wy5H via Latest News

As hundreds of thousands of federal workers fretted on Friday about how they will pay bills amid the partial government shutdown, the missed pay-checks turned out to be particularly cruel for nearly three dozen employees at one obscure government agency. Because of an apparent clerical error, a federal division that processes pay-checks for a big chunk of the government workforce mistakenly paid about 30 employees at the Chemical Safety and Hazard Investigation Board. The District of Columbia-based board investigates industrial chemical accidents, but nearly all of the board's employees have been furloughed during the government shutdown. from Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines https://yhoo.it/2SQPoUi via Latest News

U.S. coasts are a terrorist's best hope of wreaking havoc on America. from Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines https://yhoo.it/2RNFXrE via Latest News

A new Cadillac model will be the first vehicle to use GM's new battery-electric vehicle architecture. from Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines https://yhoo.it/2smvhli via Latest News

A bitter winter storm that dumped at least 10 inches of snow on St. Louis Saturday left five people dead in crashes on slick roadways in Kansas and Missouri as it spread eastward across the country. from Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines https://yhoo.it/2D65vrD via Latest News

The crash was the world's first of a Boeing Co 737 MAX jet and the deadliest of 2018, and the recovery of the aircraft's second black box earlier on Monday may provide an account of the last actions of the doomed jet's pilots. "We have our own laboratory and personnel team to do it," Haryo Satmiko, deputy chief of the transportation safety committee, told Reuters. Contact with flight JT610 was lost 13 minutes after it took off on Oct. 29 from the capital, Jakarta, heading north to the tin-mining town of Pangkal Pinang. from Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines https://yhoo.it/2QPdUne via Latest News

A jet slid off a taxiway in Cincinnati and power outages climbed in North Carolina as a deadly winter storm roared east. from Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines https://yhoo.it/2RKuEAj via Latest News

US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo hopes for an imminent end to the longest government shutdown in American history, he said Sunday during a whistle-stop Middle East tour. "I hope it ends tomorrow," Pompeo said to applause as he addressed US diplomats in Doha, the latest stop on his eight-day regional tour. The partial US government shutdown entered its 23rd day on Sunday and has seen 800,000 federal employees go without wages being paid -- including embassy staff. from Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines https://yhoo.it/2QLEM7k via Latest News

(Bloomberg) -- Julian Castro, the former San Antonio mayor and Obama administration housing secretary, slammed President Donald Trump’s policy of separating families at the southern U.S. border a day after announcing his 2020 White House bid, highlighting what is likely to be a principal issue in his campaign. from Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines https://yhoo.it/2QHQyQi via Latest News

A car dashboard that can display directions and points of interest as holograms has been developed. from BBC News - Technology https://bbc.in/2Cv4MPx via Online Shopping in Pakistan

Two years ago, Oppo attended MWC 2017 but didn't showcase a smartphone. Instead, the company chose to go with mobile technologies, announcing the world's first dual camera with 5x zoom. Now the company is ready to go even further and is sending out media invites for its 10x lossless zoom solution. The event will take place in Beijing, China, on January 16. The current 5x setup is essentially a 5P lens, followed by a 90-degree angular prism that directs the light to a vertically positioned camera sensor. The OIS unit is put on the other end, so it would work even when the zoom is... from GSMArena.com - Latest articles http://bit.ly/2FoS9t3 via IFTTT

It's week 2 of the year and CES was its main event. There weren't many grand phone announcements at the CES floor though - in fact the most popular news of the week was the announcement of the Redmi Note 7 and Redmi's new life as a separate brand, complete with its own logo. Xiaomi also dropped the AirDots Pro competitor to Apple's AirPods. We can't speak to their design or sound quality, but their $60 price is more than half of the AirPods' $160. In unconfirmed Xiaomi news we saw a Xiaomi Cepheus on Geekbench, packing the next-gen Snapdragon 855 chipset - is it the Xiaomi Mi... from GSMArena.com - Latest articles http://bit.ly/2M5UlpG via IFTTT

It's still early in the year, but we are already getting an action-packed week in our trending chart including a new leader and 3 new phones in the top 10. The Redmi Note 7 debuted on Thursday and it wasted no time climbing to the top and dethroning its stablemate - the Xiaomi Redmi Note 6 Pro had to settle for second this time around. In third and fourth we have a couple of new phones that are yet to even become official. The Samsung Galaxy M30 and Xiaomi Mi 9 are already getting people excited and their specs pages are among the most searched on our website. In sixth we find the... from GSMArena.com - Latest articles http://bit.ly/2FsxQdg via IFTTT

Carriers are trying to get a 5G hype train going - some quite desperately. 5G networks will offer much higher bandwidth and will deliver better Internet to homes - better than the crummy wired Internet some people are getting, at least. And it's low-latency promises VR/AR and autonomous vehicle applications. But do smartphone users care about 5G? Well, you tell us - what feature are you most looking forward to in 2019? Here are a few major trends we think might be "the next big thing". Motorola Moto Z3 Triple, quad and even penta cameras have become standard on flagships and are... from GSMArena.com - Latest articles http://bit.ly/2H66Brs via IFTTT

Sliders are experiencing a resurgence as the form factor has found a new use. In the early days it was used to make a phone smaller and protect the keypad from accidental presses (by putting the keypad on a slider), today they are used to maximize the screen-to-body ratio - there's no more keyboards, it's the selfie camera that's on the slider. Sliders hit their peak in the 2007-2009 period. A whopping 109 different slider phones were launched in 2009. However, as the chart below shows they experienced a steep decline soon after. The popularity of the form factor peaked in the same... from GSMArena.com - Latest articles http://bit.ly/2HaxzOD via IFTTT