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Lori Vallow didn't meet the Thursday deadline to turn her kids over to the state. Their grandma believes the 'monster' will face consequences.

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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 via IFTTT

'Unbelievable': Giant sinkhole threatens to swallow two homes in Florida

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Anwar El Khouri's Tallahassee mobile home hangs off the edge of the crater, which also swallowed a pine tree. from Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines https://ift.tt/2RBl8yA via IFTTT

Crude oil tanker in the Persian Gulf caught fire Wednesday night

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A crude oil tanker in the Persian Gulf caught fire Wednesday night, prompting a warning from British naval officials to “exercise extreme caution.” from Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines https://ift.tt/2SaO5Am via IFTTT

Trump got the number of US coronavirus patients wrong in a tweet about how he's on top of the outbreak

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Trump described himself as a 'germaphobe' but called in the small number of cases in the U.S. a "very little problem," the AP reported. from Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines https://ift.tt/2tdSYQZ via IFTTT

Tom Cotton Claims Coronavirus Epidemic ‘Much Worse’ than China Admits

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Senator Tom Cotton (R., Ark.) claimed on Thursday that the coronavirus epidemic spreading across China is worse than the country is willing to admit."There was a 28% increase in coronavirus cases overnight in China," Cotton wrote in a Twitter post. "Make no mistake, though: these aren’t 'new' cases. Just what China is willing to admit. It’s much worse."By Thursday morning over 7,700 cases of the virus were confirmed worldwide, mostly in mainland China, while 68 cases were recorded in other locations around the world. 170 people have died from the virus so far.Cotton has repeatedly pushed for a travel ban to China due to concerns over the spread of the virus. On Tuesday Cotton sent a letter to members of President Trump's cabinet, including Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, urging the administration to enact a travel ban."As of [Tuesday] morning, China has reported that the Wuhan coronavirus has infected more than 4,500 people and killed more than 100,...

U.S. coronavirus evacuee from China placed under quarantine order after trying to flee base

One of 195 Americans evacuated from Wuhan, China, to a U.S. air base in California to begin 72 hours of voluntary observation for signs of coronavirus infection was placed under mandatory quarantine after trying to leave the facility, public health officials said on Thursday. The individual, whose identity was not disclosed, was presented the quarantine order on Wednesday night, hours after arriving at March Air Reserve Base near Los Angeles on a government-chartered flight from Wuhan, the epicenter of the coronavirus outbreak, officials from the Riverside County Public Health Department said. from Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines https://ift.tt/2tb6xR1 via IFTTT

Brexit finally arrives Friday: A momentous yet quiet moment

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A few Union Jack flags will be lowered from European Union buildings in Brussels, more will be waved in jubilation by Brexiteers in London at the moment of Britain's departure — at 11 p.m. in the U.K., midnight in much of the EU (2300 GMT). Britain and the bloc fought tooth and nail for the best part of four years — with insults flying across the English Channel — over the terms of their divorce. Now, on the eve of one of the most significant events in European Union history, the political eruptions have ceased and an uneasy quiet reigns: the calm before the next storm. from Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines https://ift.tt/31blGP4 via IFTTT

Carter Page is Suing the DNC For the Steele Dossier

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How much responsibility should they have? from Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines https://ift.tt/38Us6EM via IFTTT

Britain Is Finally Leaving the European Union Today. Here's What Will Change

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It's Brexit day on Jan. 31 from Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines https://ift.tt/2RKbNV7 via IFTTT

Hangings of Delhi bus gang-rapists postponed

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The hanging of four men scheduled for Saturday for a notorious gang-rape and murder on a Delhi bus in 2012 has been postponed "until further orders," a court ruled Friday. The brutal attack on Jyoti Singh sparked weeks of demonstrations and shone a spotlight on the alarming rates of sexual violence and the plight of women in India. Four men were convicted in 2013 and were due to be hanged simultaneously on Saturday at 6:00 am in India's first execution since 2015. from Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines https://ift.tt/2vwLfOy via IFTTT

Bernie Sanders is starting to get slammed on how he would finance Medicare for All

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The attacks on Medicare for All echo what Sen. Elizabeth Warren faced last year as she surged ahead in national polls. from Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines https://ift.tt/37Cz54W via IFTTT

Parents charged after Chicago boy shot in struggle over gun

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The parents of a 1-year-old boy who was shot in the head as his parents struggled over a gun inside a Chicago home were each ordered held on Thursday in lieu of $10,000 bond. Travis McCoy, 26, is charged with felony false alarm to 911 and misdemeanor child endangerment. Adriana Smith, 28, is charged with felony obstruction of justice and misdemeanor child endangerment. from Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines https://ift.tt/2uO9Kqe via IFTTT

U.S. envoy warns Palestinians against raising opposition to U.S. peace plan at U.N.

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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 via IFTTT

U.S. Declares Public Health Emergency Over Coronavirus Fears

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Federal officials declared a public health emergency and will be restricting entry into the United States in light of the 2019 novel coronavirus that has killed at least 200 people and infected nearly 10,000 more worldwide. Health and Human Services Secretary Alex Azar told reporters Friday that President Trump would sign a proclamation temporarily suspending entry to foreign nationals deemed to pose a transmission risk.Azar also said any U.S. citizen who traveled to China's Hubei province within the past 14 days before arriving home would be subjected two weeks of mandatory quarantine. And citizens who traveled to any other regions in China would undergo a “proactive entry health screen” and 14 days of monitored self-quarantine.“The risk for infections for Americans remains low,” Azar said, adding that these steps were “measured” reactions that would help officials deal with “unknowns” surrounding the virus.Earlier Friday, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) said ...

How $98 trillion of household wealth in America is distributed

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If a pie represented the wealth in the United States, nine pieces, or 90% of the pie, would go to the wealthiest 20% in the country. from Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines https://ift.tt/2GD0MPn via IFTTT

Alibaba billionaire Jack Ma, China's richest man, pledged $14.5 million to fight the coronavirus

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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 via IFTTT

Biden Claims Trump’s Trial is ‘Not a Partisan Impeachment’ While Clinton’s Was

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Former vice president Joe Biden argued Friday that President Trump was not subject to “a partisan impeachment” even if no Republicans vote to remove him from office, while simultaneously defending his resistance to “a partisan impeachment” during Bill Clinton’s 1998 trial.Biden, speaking from Iowa, was challenged in an interview with ABC News’s George Stephanopoulos over comments he had made in Bill Clinton’s impeachment trial. “No president should be removed from office, merely because one party enjoys a commanding lead in either house of Congress,” Biden said at the time.Stephanopoulos then asked the former vice president why a partisan impeachment was no longer wrong, to which Biden replied “it’s not partisan impeachment.” After Stephanopoulos pushed back and pointed out that no Republicans in the House had voted to impeach the president, Biden insisted that the Constitution had been violated, and that those voting against impeachment were denying the facts.“That’s the issue — was t...

Chinese planes to bring overseas Wuhan citizens back to virus-hit city

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China sent two planes to Malaysia and Thailand on Friday to bring "stranded" Hubei province residents back to the virus-stricken city of Wuhan, authorities said. The Xiamen Airlines flights will pick up the Chinese nationals from Kota Kinabalu in Malaysia and the Thai capital Bangkok, according to the Civil Aviation Administration of China (CAAC). from Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines https://ift.tt/2S30qa4 via IFTTT

Firefights, blocked roads in Mexican city after senior cartel leader detained

Armed men blocked roads, burned cars and there were reports of shootouts in the city of Uruapan in western Mexico after a senior leader of the Los Viagras cartel was detained, local media and a source from the prosecutor's office said. Luis Felipe, also known as "El Vocho", was captured earlier in the day in the western state of Michoacan, which has long been convulsed by turf wars between drug gangs and where unrest is not uncommon after the detention of senior cartel figures. Michoacan's state security services, without giving names, said on Twitter that three people have been detained. from Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines https://ift.tt/2vxLEjM via IFTTT

7,000 People Trapped on Mediterranean Cruise in Italy Over Suspected Coronavirus Case

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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...

Coronavirus: US declares emergency and issues new entry rules

Foreign nationals who recently visited China will be barred and some US citizens will be quarantined. from BBC News - World https://ift.tt/31e8atJ

Kobe Bryant helicopter firm was not allowed to fly in fog

Island Express Helicopters was restricted to flying in clear conditions, officials say. from BBC News - World https://ift.tt/2vFDiqy

Could you handle the most remote campsite on earth?

Take a look inside an Antarctic campsite and find out how they survive. from BBC News - World https://ift.tt/3b5OOMf

Manufacturers urge clarity on post-Brexit trade

As Britain prepares to leave EU, businesses say the future trading relationship remains unclear. from BBC News - Business https://ift.tt/2RHFFSa via IFTTT

China virus death toll tops 200 as WHO declares global emergency

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The death toll in China from the new coronavirus reached 213 on Friday, with overall cases worldwide rising rapidly in an outbreak that the World Health Organization (WHO) declared a global health emergency. from Reuters: World News https://ift.tt/2uRP3tl

WHO declares global emergency as China virus death toll reaches 170

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The World Health Organization (WHO) said on Thursday it was declaring the coronavirus outbreak that has killed 170 people in China a global emergency, as cases spread to at least 18 countries. from Reuters: World News https://ift.tt/3aSu4aF

Pilots, flight attendants demand flights to China stop as virus fear mount worldwide

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Pilots and flight attendants are demanding airlines stop flights to China as health officials declare a global emergency over the rapidly spreading coronavirus, with American Airlines' pilots filing a lawsuit seeking an immediate halt. from Reuters: World News https://ift.tt/38WzLCG

Singapore Airlines to reduce capacity to mainland China in February due to virus

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Singapore Airlines Ltd said on Friday it would reduce capacity on some of its routes to mainland China in February due to the growing scale of the coronavirus epidemic. from Reuters: World News https://ift.tt/2RWGJjS

Trump vows to reverse course on deportations of Iraqi Christians

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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

Charter flight carrying South Koreans from Wuhan arrives home

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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 coronavirus: foreign ministry

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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. envoy says Beijing assessing WHO coronavirus declaration

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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