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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

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