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Kill Shot: Did Elizabeth Warren Just Knock Michael Bloomberg Out of the Presidential Race?

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Fighting words last night at the MSNBC debate: “So, I'd like to talk about who we're running against, a billionaire who calls women ‘fat broads’ and ‘horse-faced lesbians.’ And, no, I'm not talking about Donald Trump. I'm talking about Mayor Bloomberg,” Warren said. from Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines https://ift.tt/38PyBck via Latest News

Putin hails US for helping prevent terror attack in Russia

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Russia's President Vladimir Putin on Thursday hailed the FBI for sharing information that helped thwart a terror attack by adherents of the Islamic State group in St. Petersburg during the New Year holidays. The FSB in December announced the detention of two Russian men who confessed to plotting the terror attacks in St. Petersburg. from Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines https://ift.tt/37LNM4Z via Latest News

Moscow says Russian official detained in Spain after U.S. request

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Two groups of US Diamond Princess passengers, two disparate experiences: 'I feel ill-used by my country'

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Two groups of American travelers who were stuck on board the Diamond Princess cruise ship due to a coronavirus quarantine are now in limbo. from Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines https://ift.tt/2vXiSJu via Latest News

Ilhan Omar accuses Meghan McCain of hypocrisy towards 'Bernie bros' over online attacks

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Representative Ilhan Omar has accused The View's Meghan McCain of hypocrisy for her opinions about Bernie Sanders supporters and their online attacks given her own social media behaviour."The same people who chastise the progressive movement regularly traffic in anti-Muslim smears and hate speech against me and those I represent," the freshman representative wrote in a tweet Thursday. from Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines https://ift.tt/3bUg7JE via Latest News

Warren: Bloomberg will drop 'another $100 million' just to 'erase America's memory' of the Las Vegas debate

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Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) was not pulling her punches in Wednesday night's Democratic presidential debate in Las Vegas, and her most potent haymakers landed on former New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg, standing to her right. MSNBC's post-debate panel showed the moment she started pummeling Bloomberg, and Chris Matthews described it in elaborate boxing metaphors.The Daily Show was a little more succinct:> Elizabeth Warren rn pic.twitter.com/HbrrAFVNRx> > -- The Daily Show (@TheDailyShow) February 20, 2020Warren's biggest blow was set up by Bloomberg himself, and Joe Biden jumped in to help her finish him off.After the debate, Matthews asked Warren why she went after Bloomberg so hard. "I think it's important for people to know exactly what Michael Bloomberg has said and done," she said. "It is important to know who this guy is," and "he is a threat because he's already dropped $400 million in this campaign, and understand t

The Politicization of Russia Policy Is a Massive Mistake

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Forget about the latest drama for a moment and consider this hypothesis: regardless of where you stand on the Trump presidency, Russia policy is now as politically explosive in the daily Washington grind as tax policy, healthcare policy, and social policy. And that could have a damaging effect on any president’s ability to get the bilateral relationship back on track. from Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines https://ift.tt/2T2ynrC via Latest News

Tennessee man gets electric chair for killing fellow inmate

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A convicted murderer was put to death in Tennessee's electric chair Thursday, becoming the state's fifth prisoner over 16 months to choose electrocution over the state's preferred method of lethal injection. Nicholas Sutton, 58, was pronounced dead at 7:26 p.m. at the Riverbend Maximum Security Institution in Nashville. Sutton was sentenced to death in 1986 for killing fellow inmate Carl Estep in a conflict over a drug deal while both were incarcerated in an East Tennessee prison, where Sutton had been serving time for the killings of his grandmother and two others when he was 18. from Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines https://ift.tt/2ws9TAo via Latest News

After Confessing To Playing 300 Hours Of Breath Of The Wild, St. Vincent Realizes She's Played 300 Hours Of Breath Of The Wild - Kotaku

After Confessing To Playing 300 Hours Of Breath Of The Wild, St. Vincent Realizes She's Played 300 Hours Of Breath Of The Wild    Kotaku View Full Coverage on Google News from Technology - Latest - Google News https://ift.tt/2VbBikv via Technology

Microsoft Defender ATP preview arrives for Linux distros — iOS and Android versions to follow - BetaNews

Microsoft Defender ATP preview arrives for Linux distros — iOS and Android versions to follow    BetaNews View Full Coverage on Google News from Technology - Latest - Google News https://ift.tt/2Vd1Q4M via Technology

New Star Wars movie could be coming from Sleight director J.D. Dillard - CNET

Luke Cage writer Matt Owens will pen the new Star Wars project. from CNET https://ift.tt/2wurNT5 via Mobiles

Microsoft's Xbox Series X: Better graphics, xCloud and everything we know so far - CNET

Microsoft hasn't given a price, but we do know the next-gen Xbox, previously called Project Scarlett, is coming later this year. from CNET https://ift.tt/36xyDE4 via Mobiles

Coronavirus prompts Verizon to pull out of RSA sponsorship - CNET

Verizon joins AT&T Cybersecurity, IBM and a small number of exhibitors in declining to attend the event. from CNET https://ift.tt/2HGUvTg via Mobiles

A 46,000-year-old bird carcass provides clues to evolution and climate change - CNET

The remains of an ancient horned lark were discovered frozen in the Siberian permafrost. from CNET https://ift.tt/32hMHAX via Mobiles

A police officer was fired and told to immediately turn in his uniform at a town meeting, so he stripped down to his underwear and walked home in the snow

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The Police Chief in Croydon, New Hampshire, was fired Tuesday night and ordered to turn over his uniform. He walked home in his underwear. from Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines https://ift.tt/2T4MUmR via Latest News

Mexico extradites son of powerful cartel leader to United States

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He has 4 murder convictions. His victims' families don't want him to die.

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Nicholas Sutton, 58, is scheduled to be executed by the electric chair Thursday. from Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines https://ift.tt/37G9Uh5 via Latest News

Son of powerful Mexican cartel boss extradited to U.S.

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The son of a powerful Mexican drug lord was extradited Thursday to the United States, where he is wanted for trafficking, a government source told Agence France-Presse. from Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines https://ift.tt/2T8NhfW via Latest News

Coronavirus: US flew infected Americans home against CDC instructions, report says

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Despite the objections of US health officials, the US State Department ultimately decided to evacuate Americans infected with coronavirus on a plane with healthy people, putting them at risk of infection.The Washington Post reports that the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention argued to keep 14 people infected with the flu-like respiratory illness in Japan, where they were docked with the quarantined Diamond Princess cruise ship, instead of sending them back to the US and susbsequently doubling the population of infected people in the US and potentially endangering others. from Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines https://ift.tt/3bYmjjW via Latest News

Back Home in Oregon, U.S. Man Says He Flouted Request to Remain in Cambodia After Westerdam Passenger's COVID-19 Diagnosis

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Frank King says he snuck out of the back of a hotel in Cambodia to flee to the U.S. after passengers were being held for COVID-19 testing. from Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines https://ift.tt/37P955H via Latest News