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Mueller report on Trump and Russia to be made public by mid-April: Barr

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"Everyone will soon be able to read it on their own," Barr wrote in the letter to the top Democrats and Republicans on the Senate and House Judiciary committees. On March 22, Mueller completed his 22-month probe and Barr on Sunday sent a four-page letter to Congress that outlined the main findings. Barr told lawmakers that the investigation did not establish that members of the election campaign of President Donald Trump conspired with Russia. from Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines https://ift.tt/2uATJR1 via Latest News

Autopsy: Migrant child who died in US custody had infection

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HOUSTON (AP) — A 7-year-old girl from Guatemala died of a bacterial infection while detained by the U.S. Border Patrol, according to an autopsy released Friday, in a case that drew worldwide attention to the plight of migrant families at the southern U.S. border. from Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines https://ift.tt/2uADZxq via Latest News

Venezuelans Take to the Streets After Another Round of Blackouts

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“We will continue to hit the streets,” Juan Guaido, head of the National Assembly recognized as interim president by some 50 nations, told protesters Saturday in San Antonio de Los Altos. Unlike other protests since January, Guaido did not call for huge rallies in the capital of Caracas but rather urged Venezuelans to protest at key locations or in their own neighborhoods. “My food is rotting and my appliances are going haywire,¨ said Yolanda Bellorin, a retired lawyer protesting among her neighbors in Caracas’ Colinas de la California neighborhood. from Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines https://ift.tt/2I34uDU via Latest News

The War Between Trump and Schiff is Just Starting

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A proponent of Trump-Russia collusion theories, Rep. Adam Schiff has been enveloped by fallout from the conclusions of Mueller's investigation. from Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines https://ift.tt/2JQpnV3 via Latest News

O'Rourke to rally in his native Texas, where tough 2020 presidential primary awaits

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O'Rourke's campaign hopes the former congressman's personal ties to delegate-rich Texas give him a critical early boost in the large Democratic field fighting for the party's nomination to challenge Republican President Donald Trump. In the unexpectedly close race against incumbent Republican Senator Ted Cruz that earned O'Rourke national prominence last year, he was the lone Democrat competing against a Republican figure reviled by Democrats nationally. Now, O'Rourke, 46, faces a diverse slate of accomplished and well-funded rivals hunting for the same votes, especially among the state's African-American and Hispanic communities. from Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines https://ift.tt/2CJ9tWS via Latest News

UK lawmakers reject Brexit deal for third time

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British MPs on Friday rejected Prime Minister Theresa May's EU divorce deal for a third time, opening the way for a long delay to Brexit -- or a chaotic "no deal" withdrawal in two weeks. The pound slipped as lawmakers defied May's plea to end the deadlock that has plunged Britain into a deep political crisis, defeating her withdrawal agreement by 344 votes to 286. The EU has set a deadline of April 12 for a decision, with two likely options: Britain leaves with no deal at all, or agrees a lengthy extension to allow time for a new approach. from Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines https://ift.tt/2Oy80Ho via Latest News

See Photos of the 2019 Mercedes-AMG E53 Sedan

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"We started to smell gas in the plane": Passengers describe odor that diverted SFO-bound flight

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"We started to smell gas in the plane": Passengers describe the in-cabin odor that caused an SFO-bound flight to be diverted after takeoff. from Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines https://ift.tt/2V8zYvS via Latest News

Trump’s Group Health Plan Rules Struck Down as ACA ‘End-Run’

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U.S. District Judge John Bates in Washington on Thursday blocked new rules governing so-called association health plans, or AHPs, which let businesses and individuals band together to create group health plans that offer less expensive coverage than the ACA -- but without some of its protections. It follows twin rulings Wednesday by another Washington judge who blocked administration-sanctioned plans to impose work requirements for some Medicaid recipients in Kentucky and Arkansas. The Justice Department has hardened its opposition to Obamacare in separate litigation, and Trump is seeking to make health care a centerpiece of the Republican agenda going in to the 2020 campaign season. from Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines https://ift.tt/2HLpOOJ via Latest News

Attorney General Barr says Mueller report to be released 'by mid-April'

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We are preparing the report for release,” Barr wrote. from Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines https://ift.tt/2Ozec23 via Latest News

Things That Are Working, and Things That Aren’t: Weekend Reads

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From themes like Brexit to the Mueller report and Medicare, and places like Japan, Kosovo and Gaza, our reporters looked deep into successes, failures and cases that still have a long way to go to be figured out. Joe Mayes, Irene Garcia Perez, and Aine Quinn tell the story of businesses that are now spending millions for naught. There’s also this piece from Alan Crawford that explains how Britain’s tortured relationship with Europe just got worse.One Week Into the Mueller Report Fight, Battle Lines Are DrawnWhile Attorney General William Barr determined that the findings in Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s report into the 2016 election didn’t warrant an obstruction charge, there may still be plenty that the White House wants to keep secret and that Democrats want to see. from Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines https://ift.tt/2TLwP3J via Latest News

'That's unacceptable': Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez stops person who insulted Republican

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Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez shut down an audience member at an MSNBC town hall after someone called former Rep. Bob Inglis a "moron." from Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines https://ift.tt/2U3CgA1 via Latest News

Chance of UK 'no-deal' Brexit has risen 'sharply', says France

French President Emmanuel Macron's office said on Friday the risk of Britain leaving the European Union without a deal had risen "very sharply" following parliament's rejection of Prime Minister Theresa May's withdrawal agreement for a third time. "France is well prepared (for no deal) and will accelerate its preparations for such a scenario," the Elysee said in a statement. It said it was now up to Britain to present an alternative plan in the coming days -- whether new elections, a second referendum, or a proposal for a customs union -- otherwise the country would leave the EU with no deal. from Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines https://ift.tt/2WC0wGh via Latest News

The Latest: Rockets fired from Gaza into Israel

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GAZA CITY, Gaza Strip (AP) — The Latest on protests at Gaza border with Israel (all times local): from Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines https://ift.tt/2HU9Emr via Latest News

Mueller Did the Right Thing

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It seems that “13 hardened Democrats” or “angry Democrats” did not deliver a politically motivated, illegitimate hit job after all. Based on what we know so far, the special counsel’s office reported that it did not find evidence of collusion between the Trump campaign and the Russian government. This is a fabulous vindication of the integrity of the system.No one is noticing that. Instead, the Trump team is gorging on schadenfreude, and the anti-Trump team is choking on bile.It’s fair to say that those who spent hour upon cable-TV hour lovingly anticipating that President Trump would be frog-marched from the White House in handcuffs after the delivery of this report have egg on their faces. It isn’t clear which hurts more, the disappointment about being wrong or the worry about drooping ratings.But there’s plenty of egg to go around. Team Trump spent nearly two years denouncing the Mueller investigation as a “rigged witch hunt.” By one count, the president used the term “witch hunt” m

Investigators believe anti-stall system activated in Ethiopia crash: WSJ

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Investigators probing the fatal crash of a Boeing 737 Max in Ethiopia have reached a preliminary conclusion that a suspect anti-stall system activated shortly before it nose-dived to the ground, the WSJ reported Friday citing people familiar with the matter. The findings were based on flight recorder data and represented the strongest indication yet that the system, known as MCAS, malfunctioned in both the Ethiopian Airlines crash on March 10 and the Lion Air crash in Indonesia last year, the Wall Street Journal said. US government experts have been analyzing details gathered by their Ethiopian counterparts for the past few days, the newspaper added, and the emerging consensus was relayed at a high-level briefing of the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) on Thursday. from Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines https://ift.tt/2UhjLal via Latest News

Taipei's goes dark for Earth Hour

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Taiwan's tallest building joined cities around the world to mark Earth Hour by turning off its lights on Saturday in a call for global action on climate change. (March 30) from Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines https://ift.tt/2WzUnKu via Latest News

Turks vote in local elections which could see Erdogan lose in big cities

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Erdogan, who has dominated Turkish politics for more than 16 years thanks to strong economic growth and supreme campaigning skills, has become the country's most popular, yet also most divisive, leader in modern history. With the economy contracting following a currency crisis last year in which the lira lost more than 30 percent of its value, some voters appeared ready to punish Erdogan who has ruled with an increasingly uncompromising stance. This week, as authorities again scrambled to shore up the lira, Erdogan cast the country's economic woes as resulting from attacks by the West, saying Turkey would overcome its troubles following Sunday's vote and adding he was "the boss" of the economy. from Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines https://ift.tt/2HSiJMm via Latest News

Trump threatens to shut border with Mexico next week

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The president returns to a familiar threat as Democrats continue to deny him funding for construction of a border wall. from Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines https://ift.tt/2JRZ1lC via Latest News

Pound Slides as Parliament Fails to End Brexit Impasse Once More

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The failure of May’s last-ditch effort to get her deal through Parliament leaves the U.K. with the choice between crashing out of the European Union without a deal in two weeks and seeking a long extension of its departure date. The British parliament will vote Monday on various alternatives to May’s agreement. Implied volatility on two-week pound-dollar options, which cover the current April 12 deadline for the U.K.’s exit, have surged to the highest level since the immediate aftermath of the 2016 Brexit referendum amid increased anxiety about a no-deal outcome. from Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines https://ift.tt/2FMRbFW via Latest News