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Newly released files detail election-swinging efforts by the consultancy and other linked firms. from BBC News - Technology https://ift.tt/2uwXjP2 via IFTTT

The UK government says online content portability is still subject to Brexit negotiations. from BBC News - Technology https://ift.tt/2IdoOyZ via IFTTT

Shares in Baidu's iQiyi streaming platform fell below their opening price on Wall Street's Nasdaq. from BBC News - Technology https://ift.tt/2GqGXJq via IFTTT

Women working at Facebook in the UK are paid bonuses worth less than 60% of those their male colleagues receive. from BBC News - Technology https://ift.tt/2E2xGoT via IFTTT

People who have only a landline from BT will have their monthly line rental fee cut from Sunday. from BBC News - Technology https://ift.tt/2GmSSb9 via IFTTT

The latest video game craze is hard to stop playing but not addictive says a researcher. from BBC News - Technology https://ift.tt/2E3li7W via IFTTT

The company permanently revokes access to the anti-Islamic activist after earlier temporary suspensions. from BBC News - Technology https://ift.tt/2uxJakq via IFTTT

The accused is alleged to have posed as the firm's chief executive and abused its food. from BBC News - Technology https://ift.tt/2pMSn2R via IFTTT

As well as its tax record, President Trump launches into Amazon for destroying retail jobs. from BBC News - Technology https://ift.tt/2IeX65d via IFTTT

The social network claims the overhaul will make it easier for users to find and edit their data. from BBC News - Technology https://ift.tt/2GdfbDP via IFTTT

The Chinese company's news flagship has three rear cameras and can create handheld long-exposure snaps. from BBC News - Technology https://ift.tt/2ut8dVM via IFTTT

The prime minister was the "last member" of Downing Street team using the device. from BBC News - Technology https://ift.tt/2GebHB5 via IFTTT

Shares in Tesla and Nvidia dive amid fresh worries about the promise of self-driving car technology. from BBC News - Technology https://ift.tt/2GfcM7I via IFTTT

The Facebook boss declines to appear before MPs and will send a senior executive instead. from BBC News - Technology https://ift.tt/2DYo9io via IFTTT

Arizona's governor says he was disturbed and alarmed by video footage of a fatal accident. from BBC News - Technology https://ift.tt/2I7qtWM via IFTTT

At least 26 forces in England and Wales have begun using new technology to extract data from phones. from BBC News - Technology https://ift.tt/2IWq4aU via IFTTT

The individual led a prolific gang that stole cash from banks for more than five years, says Europol. from BBC News - Technology https://ift.tt/2I5OPjA via IFTTT

The accounts were used to spread disinformation during the 2016 US presidential election, Tumblr says. from BBC News - Technology https://ift.tt/2G6pZ6Q via IFTTT

Facebook shares fall as a federal agency investigates whether the firm broke data security laws. from BBC News - Technology https://ift.tt/2IWerB2 via IFTTT

UK Anti-Doping confirms it was the target of a cyber attack over the weekend but says no systems were compromised and no data lost. from BBC News - Technology https://ift.tt/2pJmBUv via IFTTT

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Taiwan President Tsai Ing-wen will visit one of the island's oldest and most reliable diplomatic allies next month, amid growing pressure from China to whittle away the number of countries with which Taiwan has formal ties. China considers self-ruled Taiwan to be a wayward province, ineligible for state-to-state relations, and has slowly managed to cut the dwindling number of countries which maintain ties with Taipei. Last year, China established relations with Panama, which had for decades been a steadfast Taiwan ally, in a major diplomatic coup for Beijing. from Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines https://ift.tt/2E85QaK via IFTTT

Former Whitewater independent counsel Kenneth Starr said the hush money payment to Stormy Daniels on the eve of the 2016 election raises “difficult and serious” issues that need to be evaluated by the Justice Department. from Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines https://ift.tt/2GD5Jcn via IFTTT

Starbucks and other coffee roasting companies in California may be required to from Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines https://ift.tt/2GmUXYv via IFTTT

A Utah man tied up two teenagers, stabbed them to death, and dumped their bodies in an abandoned mine shaft before they were reported missing nearly three months ago, police said Thursday. from Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines https://ift.tt/2IkAj86 via IFTTT

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LOS ANGELES (AP) — Judge Stephen Reinhardt, a liberal stalwart on the U.S. 9th Circuit Court of Appeals for nearly four decades, died Thursday in Southern California. He was 87. from Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines https://ift.tt/2pTiHZ9 via IFTTT

By Michelle Nichols UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) - United Nations chief Antonio Guterres warned on Thursday that Russian and U.S. relations were deteriorating into a situation "similar, to a large extent, to what we lived during the Cold War" and called for safeguards to be put in place. Just days after the United States announced it would expel 12 Russian U.N. diplomats over a nerve agent attack in Britain, Guterres called for Washington and Moscow to re-establish lines of communication aimed at preventing any escalation of tensions. from Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines https://ift.tt/2GoSQiK via IFTTT

NEW YORK (AP) — A Guatemalan immigrant who entered a New York City church to seek refuge from immigration authorities said Thursday she will fight to prevent being separated from her children. from Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines https://ift.tt/2GqvDwU via IFTTT

In a rambling speech billed as a curtain-raiser for his $1.5 trillion plan to rebuild the nation's crumbling infrastructure, President Trump veered off topic numerous times, at one point chiding his predecessor for leaving him a high number of court vacancies.  from Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines https://ift.tt/2J6VLhN via IFTTT

In the face of the chaos and confusion that come with raising a family today, from Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines https://ift.tt/2J6ue0b via IFTTT

SACRAMENTO, Calif. ― Hundreds of mourners gathered in California's capital on from Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines https://ift.tt/2GCFaEp via IFTTT

Volkswagen has taken parking lots to a whole new level in the United States and will not be emptying them soon. Volkswagen AG has paid more than $7.4 billion to buy back about 350,000 U.S. diesel vehicles through mid-February, a recent court filing shows. The German automaker has been storing hundreds of thousands of vehicles around the United States for months. from Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines https://ift.tt/2uvoTw6 via IFTTT

Palestinians in Gaza pitched tents near the volatile border with Israel on Thursday ahead of a six-week protest camp under the gaze of wary Israeli soldiers. The protest is dubbed "The Great March of Return" and has the backing of the Gaza Strip's Islamist rulers Hamas. It comes amid rising tensions as the United States prepares to move its Israel embassy to Jerusalem. from Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines https://ift.tt/2IeZad9 via IFTTT

Two pilots flying different aircraft above Arizona have reported close encounters with an unidentified flying object (UFO). ABC News obtained an audio clip of a conversation between the two pilots and the Albuquerque Air Route Traffic Control Centre. “OK, something did,” says the pilot of the Learjet plane. from Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines https://ift.tt/2uAWVii via IFTTT

A boy who hugged a cop in a photo that went viral amid national unrest over from Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines https://ift.tt/2uvA0VR via IFTTT

Russia’s massive 200-ton RS-28 Sarmat heavy liquid-fuelled intercontinental ballistic missile is set to become operational by 2021. “Under the government-run program for armaments extending till 2027 Sarmat is to be produced serially starting from 2020,” a defense industry source told the TASS news agency. The weapon does not appear to have started testing yet, but the comments from the TASS source appear to somewhat contradict previous comments from other Russian officials. from Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines https://ift.tt/2pXANdB via IFTTT

FRUITPORT TOWNSHIP, Mich. (AP) — About 30 dogs are believed to have died in an early morning fire Friday at a boarding kennel in western Michigan, leaving owners of the animals and the facility devastated. from Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines https://ift.tt/2pRDJZ7 via IFTTT

Former Veterans Affairs Secretary David Shulkin wrote a New York Times op-ed reflecting on his service in President Trump's administration. from Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines https://ift.tt/2GlPJbf via IFTTT

Tesla Inc said on Friday that a Tesla Model X involved a fatal crash in California last week had activated its Autopilot system, raising new questions about the semi-autonomous system that handles some driving tasks. Tesla also said vehicle logs from the accident showed no action had been taken by the driver soon before the crash and that he had received earlier warnings to put his hands on the wheel. from Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines https://ift.tt/2uAqBwi via IFTTT

ORLANDO, Fla. -- Noor Salman, the widow of the Pulse nightclub shooter, was from Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines https://ift.tt/2J6OcaZ via IFTTT

Britain's biggest companies have less than a week to publish their gender pay gap figures. from BBC News - Business https://ift.tt/2GkXXVa via IFTTT

The industry could contribute almost a fifth of the global total of CO2 by 2050 but some nations resist targets. from BBC News - Business https://ift.tt/2E8bv0m via IFTTT

The transport secretary wants the UK's three biggest motorway service station operators investigated. from BBC News - Business https://ift.tt/2GjlzJO via IFTTT

Unions want the bid for Britain's biggest engineering firm to be blocked on national security grounds. from BBC News - Business https://ift.tt/2uujdTa via IFTTT

The firm denies it believes that growth at all costs is "good" even if it leads to deaths. from BBC News - Business https://ift.tt/2IfBLZc via IFTTT

The actress fails to convince judges that a character in Grand Theft Auto V was based on her. from BBC News - Business https://ift.tt/2E77Wrg via IFTTT

WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. (Reuters) - President Donald Trump has told advisers he wants an early exit of U.S. troops from Syria, two senior administration officials said on Friday, a stance that may put him at odds with U.S. military officials who see the fight against Islamic State as nowhere near complete. from Reuters: World News https://ift.tt/2GoPReo

MOSCOW (Reuters) - Russia expelled 59 diplomats from 23 countries on Friday and said it reserved the right to take action against four other nations in a worsening standoff with the West over the poisoning of a former Russian spy and his daughter in Britain. from Reuters: World News https://ift.tt/2IhR1oD

MINGORA, Pakistan (Reuters) - In the Pakistani hometown of Nobel Peace Prize laureate Malala Yousafzai, reminders are frequent of the daughter of scenic northwestern Swat Valley who survived a gun attack – and so are memories of harsh rule by the Taliban. from Reuters: World News https://ift.tt/2IkxxzI

GAZA-ISRAEL BORDER (Reuters) - At least 16 Palestinians were killed and hundreds injured on Friday by Israeli security forces confronting one of the largest Palestinian demonstrations along the Israel-Gaza border in recent years, Gaza medical officials said. from Reuters: World News https://ift.tt/2E4BZQt

ROME (Reuters) - Pope Francis led Roman Catholics in Good Friday services under tight security, urging people, including ministers of his Church, to rediscover the capacity to feel shame for their role in the world's ills. from Reuters: World News https://ift.tt/2J2DEtz

PANAMA CITY (Reuters) - Venezuelan president Nicolas Maduro along with more than 50 Venezuelan nationals are considered "high risk" for laundering money and financing terrorism, according to an advisory issued by Panama's economy and finance ministry. from Reuters: World News https://ift.tt/2pRS8DG

BEIJING (Reuters) - China will prosecute a former senior provincial official for corruption after an investigation found he illegally accepted gifts and abused his power, the ruling Communist Party's anti-graft watchdog said on Saturday. from Reuters: World News https://ift.tt/2GHZN1H