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Former Sen. John Warner (R-Va.) is encouraging Republican senators to vote in favor of calling witnesses in President Trump's impeachment trial.Warner, 92, served in the Senate for 30 years. He said in a statement Thursday night he is "mindful of the difficult responsibilities those currently serving now shoulder. I believe, as I am sure you do, that not only is the president on trial, but in many ways so is the Senate itself. As such, I am strongly supportive of the efforts of my former Republican Senate colleagues who are considering that the Senate accept the introduction of additional evidence that they deem relevant."It wasn't so long ago that "senators of both major parties always worked to accommodate fellow colleagues with differing points of view to arrive at outcomes that would best serve the nation's interests," Warner said. "If witnesses are suppressed in this trial and a majority of Americans are left believing the trial was a sham, I c...

(Bloomberg) -- President Vladimir Putin’s pardon of an Israeli woman imprisoned in Russia on drug-smuggling charges gave a much-needed electoral gift to visiting Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.Naama Issachar, 26, was released Thursday from a prison outside of Moscow, according to Russia’s Federal Penitentiary Service. She was arrested in April and sentenced in October to 7 1/2 years for carrying a small amount of hashish on a transit flight via Moscow after a backpacking trip to India.Putin pardoned Issachar late Wednesday. He had previously rebuffed Netanyahu’s appeals for her release and his about-face couldn’t have been timed better for the premier, who’s battling fraud and bribery charges ahead of March elections. The Israeli leader flew to Moscow from Washington, where he attended the unveiling of the U.S. Middle East peace plan, whose heavy tilt in Israel’s direction also favored his campaign.Netanyahu said Russian-Israeli relations were the strongest in history as he ...

Colombia rejected Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro's proposal that the two countries resume diplomatic relations on Thursday, amid a dispute over a fugitive former Colombian congresswoman who was captured in Venezuela. Maduro abruptly cut diplomatic relations with neighboring Colombia last February after Colombian President Ivan Duque helped Venezuelan opposition politicians deliver humanitarian aid to their crisis-stricken country. from Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines https://ift.tt/2uJc5CN

Vallow had until Thursday to turn her children over to the state of Idaho. She missed it and is believed to still be in Hawaii. from Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines https://ift.tt/38V69W1

The holiday was over for almost 80 Chinese visitors to Thailand. Wuhan has been under tight lockdown as Chinese authorities seek to contain further spread of the virus. The virus outbreak has attached a measure of fear and loathing to the city's name, as was demonstrated Friday when another group of Chinese tourists at the airport was asked whether they were the ones waiting for the flight to Wuhan. from Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines https://ift.tt/2GSEadT

If it was made in China—or uses Chinese parts—it ain't flying. from Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines https://ift.tt/2GDpJtP

Demand has plummeted because of the coronavirus outbreak, putting airline profits and China's economy at risk. from Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines https://ift.tt/36MARPQ

Asylum seekers sent to Mexico to wait US court hearings under Trump scheme routinely targeted for abduction, survey findsA staggering 80% of asylum seekers sent to Mexico to await US court hearings report being victims of violence, according a survey by Doctors Without Borders (MSF).In one month – October – three-quarters of asylum seekers seen by MSF physicians in Nuevo Laredo reported having been kidnapped for ransom, according to the figures released on Wednesday.Some 44% of MSF patients also reported having been victims of violence in the week leading up to their consultations.Wednesday marked the first anniversary of a scheme officially known as Migrant Protection Protocols (MPP), under which migrants seeking asylum in the United States are sent to Mexico to wait as their cases wind their way through US courts.Under the scheme, also known as “remain in Mexico”, more than 57,000 non-Mexican asylum seekers have been sent to wait in cities along the border – many of which have been p...

(Bloomberg Opinion) -- Get Jonathan Bernstein’s newsletter every morning in your inbox. Click here to subscribe.The impeachment trial of President Donald Trump moved to questions from senators on Wednesday. It wasn’t an encouraging day.The president’s lawyers moved closer than ever to simply embracing the idea that the president can do whatever he wants. Alan Dershowitz even went so far as to argue that since presidents always think that their re-election is in the national interest, they cannot be legitimately impeached for any use of their powers of office to aid that re-election. This would have been good news for President Richard Nixon. And surprising news to pretty much everyone throughout U.S. history. It appears more and more that even if the House managers serving as the impeachment prosecutors are eventually allowed to call one or more witnesses, the trial will end after establishing the principles that the president may use the powers of the office any way he or she...

The Trump administration, while insisting the risk to Americans from coronavirus is low, nevertheless declared a public health emergency on Friday and announced the extraordinary step of barring entry to the United States of foreign nationals who have traveled to China. In addition, starting on Sunday U.S. citizens who have traveled within the past two weeks to China's Hubei Province - epicenter of the coronavirus epidemic - will be subject to a mandatory quarantine of 14 days: the incubation period of the virus, officials said. The emergency measures were unveiled by U.S. Health and Human Services Secretary Alex Azar at a White House briefing, shortly before the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and local health authorities announced a seventh U.S. coronavirus case had been confirmed in Northern California. from Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines https://ift.tt/2OwyLxl

ROME—More than 7,000 people were quarantined on an Italian cruise ship in the Mediterranean port of Civitavecchia outside of Rome after a Chinese woman from Hong Kong came down with a fever and symptoms that mimic the coronavirus. Initial tests seemed to exclude the deadly virus, according to Italian media, but passengers were expected to be kept onboard overnight as a precaution. A second round of tests late Thursday completely excluded contagion, and Italy’s health authorities gave the green light for passengers to disembark. But as of Thursday evening, the mayor of Civitavecchia refused to authorize any passengers to get off the ship. Tourism operators, suddenly confronted with a new nightmare scenario tied to the virus, scrambled to address fears of an outbreak on a cruise ship. “We have no information, the internet inside the ship isn’t working, and we can’t get news. But above all we take meals together in the common areas, and we don’t know if someone is infected,” Liborio Iervo...

The money will be donated through Ma's charitable foundation, which will use it to help medical research efforts and disease prevention. from Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines https://ift.tt/318gYSb

A former top Trump official has defended leading witnesses who have testified against the US president in his impeachment inquiry, according to local media.John Bolton reportedly said the ex-members of the Trump administration “acted in the best interest of the country as they saw it” as Democrats push to hear his own testimony. from Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines https://ift.tt/2GINtgh

Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas will speak in the U.N. Security Council in the next two weeks about the plan, Palestinian U.N. envoy Riyad Mansour said on Wednesday, adding that he hoped the 15-member council would also vote on a draft resolution on the issue. from Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines https://ift.tt/37O502j

A top Pakistani health official said Thursday that Islamabad had no immediate plan to evacuate any of some 30,000 nationals living in China to study and work, despite the new coronavirus that surfaced there. Zafar Mirza, who advises Prime Minister Imran Khan on health issues, told a news conference that so far only four Pakistani students in China have been diagnosed with the new virus and their conditions are listed as stable. China has been largely praised for its response to the outbreak. from Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines https://ift.tt/2GEO3vA

The quarantine and fears of coronavirus have made Wuhan a ghost city. Residents only occasionally go out to stock up on supplies. from Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines https://ift.tt/2S7kPL1

DES MOINES, Iowa—Of the many pledges that Pete Buttigieg has made in his as-yet unfruitful quest to earn the support of black voters, his guarantee that a quarter out of every federal contracting dollar will be awarded to minority- and women-owned businesses is one of his most ambitious. “Look at what it would be like if we were co-investing in promising businesses led by black entrepreneurs, start-ups and other kinds of businesses that have the best track record of creating the kind of employment that can help lift people up economically,” Buttigieg told BET in September. But an analysis of such spending during Buttigieg’s tenure as mayor of South Bend, Indiana, shows that the presidential hopeful fell dramatically short of that goal. According to a 2019 study analyzing the city’s contract data conducted by Colette Holt & Associates, a national law and consulting firm specializing in disparity studies, the city of South Bend did not award a major contract to a black-owned...

Hungary will begin an ambitious prison-building program in an attempt to stem a tide of costly lawsuits by inmates complaining of overcrowding and inhumane conditions, Prime Minister Viktor Orban said on Friday. Orban accused "business-savvy lawyers" of exploiting the conditions to launch 12,000 lawsuits against the Hungarian state for breaking EU prison standards, leading to penalties of 10 billion forints ($33 million) in total. Orban, who has often come under fire from the European Union and rights groups over his perceived erosion of the rule of law since he took power in 2010, announced plans for more prisons to reduce the prison overcrowding and disarm "malignant lawyers". from Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines https://ift.tt/2uajlrj

Some Americans to leave China, many stay after US advisory    AOL from Top stories - Google News https://ift.tt/2RMX7Ve

Americans in coronavirus epicenter say they feel abandoned by U.S.    NBC News Delta, American, United to suspend all China mainland flights as coronavirus crisis grows    USA TODAY Coronavirus live updates: CDC quarantines Americans evacuated from Wuhan, airlines suspend China flights    CNBC American, Delta and United airlines suspend most US- China flights amid coronavirus outbreak    CNN Here are the 20 U.S. airports where health officials are screening for coronavirus    The Washington Post View full coverage on Google News from Top stories - Google News https://ift.tt/31eACf3

New sci-fi RPG from BioWare veterans announced – and it sounds like Mass Effect    PCGamesN Wizards of the Coast announces 'story driven' RPG studio led by ex Bioware vets    PC Gamer Wizards of the Coast teams with ex-BioWare devs on a sci-fi RPG    Engadget Wizards of the Coast reveals new studio headed up by BioWare veterans    GamesIndustry.biz Wizards of the Coast details new studio led by former BioWare developers    Gamasutra View full coverage on Google News from Top stories - Google News https://ift.tt/2GK5ACk

'The Crown' set to end with Season 5    CNN ‘The Crown’: Netflix Royal Drama To End With Season Five As Imelda Staunton Confirmed As Final Queen Elizabeth II    Yahoo Celebrity The Crown Will End After Season 5 — and They've Cast Imelda Staunton as the Final Queen Elizabeth!    PEOPLE.com Netflix 'The Crown' to End With Season 5; Imelda Staunton Set as Queen    Hollywood Reporter 'The Crown' is coming to an end after 5 seasons amid real-life 'Megxit' drama    Fox News View full coverage on Google News from Top stories - Google News https://ift.tt/37PBLfy

How a beef with Jim Harbaugh has made Richard Sherman a future Hall of Famer    Yahoo Sports Richard Sherman wanted to escape Jim Harbaugh, Stanford, but his mom wouldn't let him leave    SFGate Stephen A. disagrees with Richard Sherman over 17-game season criticism | First Take    ESPN Richard Sherman is mad (again) about being drug-tested by NFL    Yahoo Sports Super Bowl LIV Preview | San Francisco 49ers CB Richard Sherman    ABC10 View full coverage on Google News from Top stories - Google News https://ift.tt/31g1Stz

U.S. President Donald Trump promised on Thursday during a speech in Michigan to reverse course on some deportations of Iraqi Christians whom his administration sought to remove earlier in his term, but gave no specifics. from Reuters: World News https://ift.tt/2O9B6hi

A charter flight carrying 367 South Koreans from Wuhan, the epicenter of a virus outbreak in China, landed at the Gimpo International Airport on Friday, South Korea's foreign ministry said. from Reuters: World News https://ift.tt/2GEmdzm

China has confidence and capability to win the war against the new coronavirus, said the country's foreign ministry spokeswoman in responding to the World Health Organization (WHO)'s decision to declare the virus outbreak in China as a global emergency. from Reuters: World News https://ift.tt/36BUWIs

China's U.N. ambassador, Zhang Jun, said on Thursday Beijing was assessing the World Health Organization's declaration that the coronavirus outbreak was a global emergency. from Reuters: World News https://ift.tt/2RFMaEV

As pressure mounts on senators to allow John Bolton’s testimony in President Trump’s impeachment trial, the president used Twitter to trash his former national security adviser. from Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines https://ift.tt/36Cnx04

The Navy SEAL has been charged in the death. His defense attorneys previously said the incident was merely a "prank" that "went bad." from Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines https://ift.tt/313bMPn

The World Health Organization declared on Thursday that the coronavirus epidemic in China now constitutes a public health emergency of international concern. Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, WHO director-general, announced the decision after a meeting of its Emergency Committee, an independent panel of experts, amid mounting evidence of the virus spreading to some 18 countries. Tedros told a news conference in Geneva that recent weeks have witnessed an unprecedented outbreak which has been met by an unprecedented response. from Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines https://ift.tt/2ti8hIs

A family of four Chinese tourists in the United Arab Emirates on Wednesday became the first cases in the Mideast of a new Chinese virus that causes flu-like symptoms, with an Emirati doctor saying the first to fall ill only showed symptoms after over a week on vacation. Dr. Hussein al-Rand, an assistant undersecretary at the UAE's Ministry of Health and Prevention, told The Associated Press that there was no reason to panic over virus. from Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines https://ift.tt/36G3Zbz

Chief Justice John Roberts on Wednesday thwarted several attempts by Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.) to submit a question naming the alleged whistleblower whose complaint about President Trump's interactions with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky spurred the impeachment inquiry, three people familiar with the matter told The Washington Post. Senators were given the opportunity to submit questions to the House impeachment managers and Trump's legal team, with Roberts screening the questions before reading them out loud. Paul drafted a query that included the alleged whistleblower's name, but Roberts declined to read it, two officials told the Post. Sen. John Thune (R-S.D.) told reporters there are Republicans "who have an interest in questions related to the whistleblower. But I suspect that won't happen. I don't think that happens. And I guess I would hope it doesn't."For months, Paul — who is one of the loudest voices during discussions about Americans...

Asylum seekers sent to Mexico to wait US court hearings under Trump scheme routinely targeted for abduction, survey findsA staggering 80% of asylum seekers sent to Mexico to await US court hearings report being victims of violence, according a survey by Doctors Without Borders (MSF).In one month – October – three-quarters of asylum seekers seen by MSF physicians in Nuevo Laredo reported having been kidnapped for ransom, according to the figures released on Wednesday.Some 44% of MSF patients also reported having been victims of violence in the week leading up to their consultations.Wednesday marked the first anniversary of a scheme officially known as Migrant Protection Protocols (MPP), under which migrants seeking asylum in the United States are sent to Mexico to wait as their cases wind their way through US courts.Under the scheme, also known as “remain in Mexico”, more than 57,000 non-Mexican asylum seekers have been sent to wait in cities along the border – many of which have been p...

In the six weeks since Idaho police announced that Tylee and J.J. Vallow were missing, the investigation into the siblings’ disappearance has taken more turns than one of their stepfather’s Mormon apocalypse novels.And there’s likely to be another one Thursday—the court-ordered deadline for their mother, Lori Vallow, to produce them or face a contempt of court charge and possible arrest and extradition from Hawaii.That’s where she and husband Chad Daybell have been holed up since cops started looking into the whereabouts of their children, the deaths of their previous spouses, and other bizarre incidents connected to the couple.Last weekend, police on the island of Kauai served Vallow with a court order signed by an Idaho judge, giving her five days to turn up with 17-year-old Tylee and 7-year-old J.J., who was adopted and is autistic.Ominously, police found no sign of the kids or any indication that they had been in Hawaii. Now, authorities in Kauai are waiting to see if Vallow compli...

Joint military operations with the U.S.-led coalition to counter the Islamic State group have resumed after a nearly three-week pause, an Iraqi military statement said Thursday. Meanwhile, anti-government protesters called for 1 million Iraqis to take to the streets Friday in what they said was a “last chance” for the protest movement to build on momentum gained after followers of influential Shiite cleric Muqtada al-Sadr packed up and left last week. The pause in joint anti-IS operations came amid heightened tensions after a Washington-led airstrike killed a top Iranian general in Baghdad. from Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines https://ift.tt/2Oe0cvD

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As it appears less likely that new witnesses will be called in President Trump's impeachment trial, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) is suggesting his acquittal will, therefore, not be valid. "He will not be acquitted," Pelosi said in a news conference Thursday, The New York Times reports. "You cannot be acquitted if you don't have a trial, and you don't have a trial if you don't have witnesses and documentation and all of that."Pelosi's comments Thursday, which came in response to a question about how Trump will react to his likely acquittal, comes as the Senate is set to determine whether to call additional witnesses in the impeachment trial. Republican senators reportedly believe they have the votes to prevent new witness from being called, and the Times reports "cracks are beginning to show in Democrats' unity" as well. The impeachment trial could, therefore, be on the verge of wrapping up with Trump's acquittal on Frid...

Pence adviser who testified during the House impeachment inquiry is leaving her role    CNN Pence aide who testified in impeachment inquiry to leave VP's office    POLITICO Trump impeachment trial live coverage: Senators ask final questions before critical vote on witnesses    NBCNews.com Trump, Pence Show Off Contrasting Styles in Iowa Visits    The Wall Street Journal Pence tells evangelicals he is a Christian first and a conservative second    Washington Examiner View full coverage on Google News from Top stories - Google News https://ift.tt/2u2RyZO

GOP senators know Trump’s defense is based on lies. Here’s proof.    The Washington Post Impeachment trial: Kyrsten Sinema revealed a weakness in Trump’s defense    Vox.com White House's Philbin suggests president will keep using Giuliani as international 'confidante'    NBCNews.com The ‘Corrupt Motives’ Doctrine    The Wall Street Journal Warren calls out John Roberts and the other key questions asked at today's trial    POLITICO View full coverage on Google News from Top stories - Google News https://ift.tt/3aVmFqO

Document shows Bernie Sanders’s team preparing dozens of potential executive orders    The Washington Post WATCH: Plagiarized speech that sank Biden's 1988 presidential campaign    Fox News The 2020 Democratic candidates, ranked    CNN Can Bernie Sanders tackle the question of electability?    Washington Examiner What are Democratic primary voters thinking?    The Washington Post View full coverage on Google News from Top stories - Google News https://ift.tt/3aVVts9

Border Patrol discovers 'longest' tunnel yet between Mexico and California | TheHill    The Hill Longest-ever border smuggling tunnel found stretching between Tijuana and San Diego, officials say    Fox News Record-length U.S.-Mexico drug tunnel discovered    CBS Evening News Take a look inside the longest drug tunnel ever found on California’s US-Mexico border    Sacramento Bee Longest illegal underground tunnel found l ABC News    ABC News View full coverage on Google News from Top stories - Google News https://ift.tt/2RECpqz

House approves measure blocking funding for war with Iran | TheHill    The Hill House approves bills to limit Trump's ability to launch attacks on Iran    CBS News House Approves Two Measures to Curtail Trump’s War-Making Powers    National Review House backs measures asserting congressional war powers    Washington Post White House threatens veto of Democrats’ Iran measures    POLITICO View full coverage on Google News from Top stories - Google News https://ift.tt/2U654GS

American Airlines pilots sue to halt US-China flights amid coronavirus epidemic    CNN International Coronavirus: death toll reaches 212 after WHO declares global emergency – live news    The Guardian Airlines remove hot food, blankets, magazines and more amid coronavirus outbreak    Fox News Here are the 20 U.S. airports where health officials are screening for coronavirus    The Washington Post Coronavirus: Britons on Wuhan flights to be quarantined - BBC News    BBC News View full coverage on Google News from Top stories - Google News https://ift.tt/38OuFYM

You can now reserve your spot to pay for a Samsung Galaxy S20    The Verge It's Time to Reserve Your Galaxy S20, S20+, or S20 Ultra    Droid Life The Galaxy S20 will be released on March 6th, reservations now live on Samsung's site    Android Police UK Daily Deals: Register Your Interest for the Galaxy S20 and Get £50 Cashback - IGN    IGN Samsung's crazy light Galaxy S book is finally available for pre-order    Mashable View full coverage on Google News from Top stories - Google News https://ift.tt/37IKWyj