Trump border wall prototypes torn down to make way for new barrier

The prototypes for President Donald Trump's contest for a border wall near San Diego, California, were torn down on Wednesday, to make way for a new section of actual border fencing. To the president's supporters, the eight 30-foot-high (9-meter) models were a symbol of his commitment to build a wall along the length of the U.S. Mexico border to enhance national security. To opponents, they were a waste of taxpayer money and an affront to Mexico and immigrants.

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Univision's Jorge Ramos details detainment, expulsion from Venezuela

Univision anchor Jorge Ramos shared details in TV interviews Tuesday night on how Venezuelan authorities detained his team during an interview Monday.

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Trump and Kim Are Meeting One-on-One at This Historic Hanoi Hotel

The $300 a night Metropole is redolent with colonial history

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Justice Department loses appeal to block AT&T-Time Warner merger, won't appeal again

The Justice Department, which lost its latest attempt to block the AT&T-Time Warner merger, will not appeal the U.S. District Court of Appeals ruling.

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Train swapping: North Korea's Kim reliant on Chinese for summit transport

It was the second time Kim had arrived for a summit with U.S. President Donald Trump in transport provided by the Chinese, underscoring just how much the young leader's sudden flurry of international engagements has depended on his larger, more powerful neighbor. When Kim arrived in Singapore last year for his first, historic summit with Trump, it was in an Air China jumbo jet bearing the Chinese flag. With the exception of two summits with South Korean President Moon Jae-in on the border between the two Koreas, every one of Kim's unprecedented summits with China's President Xi Jinping and now the second summit with Trump have depended on trains provided by the Chinese.

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Hollywood Madam: Want to stop human trafficking? Legalize consensual sex for money.

Why would a wealthy and powerful man like Robert Kraft allegedly pay for sex from women at a Florida strip-mall massage parlor? Don't overthink it.

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An All-Electric Un-SUV from Volvo? Sort of—Meet the Polestar 2

Volvo's experimental arm builds a Tesla fighter loaded with tech.

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Nigeria's opposition to launch legal challenge after Buhari wins second term

Nigeria’s opposition leader is to mount a legal challenge after President Muhammadu Buhari secured a second term in an election marked both by apathy and violence that claimed hundreds of lives. The electoral commission officially declared Mr Buhari the victor of Saturday’s poll, saying he had won 56 percent of the vote, against 41 percent secured by his main challenger, Atiku Abubakar. But Mr Abubakar insisted he had been cheated of the chance to lead Africa’s most populous state after a conspiracy between the commission and the president’s ruling party. “It is clear that there were manifest and premeditated malpractices in many states which negate the results announced,” Mr Abubakar, a former vice president, said as he announced that he would file a legal petition to overturn the vote. Mr Buhari, a former military dictator who returned to office as a civilian in 2015, insisted that the election was “free and fair”, claiming the vote was “another milestone in Nigeria’s democratic development.” Nigerian President Muhammadu Buhari walks to the lectern to address the crowd gathered at an electoral commission ceremony in Abuja Credit: AP Observers have so far raised no objection to the conduct of the vote, although analysts say there were troubling aspects to it.  Most controversially, the president suspended the country’s chief justice last month after accusing him of improperly declaring his assets. In so doing, he removed an independently minded figure who would have presided over the hearing of Mr Abubakar’s case. As a result, the petition is thought unlikely to succeed. The suspicion of some Nigerians was also raised after the electoral commission delayed the vote by a week just hours before polling was due to start.  Because many voters who had travelled to their rural homes to cast their ballots were forced to return to work, turnout was barely more than a third. Many Nigerians, particularly in the predominantly Christian south, were little enthused by either candidate, both of whom are Muslim northerners. Despite the apathy, at least 327 people have been killed since campaigning began in October, an independent group that monitors violence in Nigeria said. Most died in attacks by Islamist jihadists or in fighting between gangs and the security forces close to polling stations. More than 60 have died since Saturday. Illustrating the challenges facing the president in a country struggling to emerge from recession and plagued by violence, a non-Islamist insurgent group in an oil region in the south has said it would resume its rebellion after a two-year lull should Mr Buhari win. The president will face less opposition in parliament, however, after his most formidable opponent, Bukola Saraki, the head of the senate, lost his seat.

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Detailed Photos of the 2019 McLaren 720S Spider

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Twitter bans Trump-supporting hoaxster after USA TODAY exposé

Jacob Wohl left a career in finance amid fraud allegations to create deceitful schemes and spread false claims in support of President Trump

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Tensions Between India and Pakistan Are at Their Highest Point in Decades. Here's What to Know

Indian fighter jets bombed Pakistani-controlled territory on Tuesday in a dispute over the long-contested region of Kashmir.

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Elon Musk tweets SEC is 'broken' after it says his tweets violate their deal

War breaks out again between the two as he has to explain himself to a judge.

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Key Asia-Europe Air Route Closed as India-Pakistan Tensions Rise

A Singapore Airlines Ltd. flight to London was diverted to Dubai Wednesday to refuel before heading to its final destination, the carrier said in an email. Qantas Airways Ltd. had to change the flight path for its London-Singapore service, which is scheduled to arrive at the Asian city-state later Thursday, adding an extra 20 minutes to the journey. Thai Airways International Pcl scrapped all 10 flights from Europe to Bangkok as well as those to Pakistan that were due to depart late Wednesday and early Thursday, it said on its website.

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Australian Cardinal Pell convicted of molesting 2 choirboys

MELBOURNE, Australia (AP) — The most senior Catholic cleric ever charged with child sex abuse has been convicted of molesting two choirboys moments after celebrating Mass, dealing a new blow to the Catholic hierarchy's credibility after a year of global revelations of abuse and cover-up.

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Trump-Kim summit: North Korea leader arrives in Vietnam to red carpet reception ahead of talks

Kim Jong-un has rolled into Hanoi in an armoured limousine ahead of talks with Donald Trump in the Vietnamese capital. The North Korean leader had earlier received a red-carpet reception amid tight security following a 65-hour, 2,500-mile journey from Pyongyang in a bulletproof train. After disembarking at Dong Dang rail station, close to Vietnam’s border with China, he walked past a guard of honour before climbing into his personal Mercedes limousine on Tuesday morning.

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Florida Bar opens investigation into Rep. Gaetz's tweet about Michael Cohen - Fox News

1. Florida Bar opens investigation into Rep. Gaetz's tweet about Michael Cohen  Fox News
2. Florida Bar investigating Rep. Matt Gaetz for Cohen tweet  CNN
3. Matt Gaetz Under Investigation by Florida State Bar Over Michael Cohen Threat  The Daily Beast
4. How the Ideas Industry midwifed Matt Gaetz  Washington Post
5. Cooper to Trump: Who are you calling a liar?  CNN
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GOP Rep. Matt Gaetz says he has 'personally apologized' to Michael Cohen for tweet about affairs - NBC News

GOP Rep. Matt Gaetz says he has 'personally apologized' to Michael Cohen for tweet about affairs  NBC News

U.S. Rep. Matt Gaetz said he 'personally apologized' to Michael Cohen after tweeting Tuesday that his wife was about to learn of the lawyer's alleged trysts.

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Virginia's first lady under fire after handing out cotton to visiting students - Fox News

1. Virginia's first lady under fire after handing out cotton to visiting students  Fox News
2. Virginia first lady criticized for handing cotton to black students on mansion tour  Philly.com
3. Ralph Northam's wife now under fire for slave comment towards black student  New York Post
4. Virginia first lady under fire for handing cotton to African American students on mansion tour  The Washington Post
5. Virginia first lady handed out cotton to African-American children on slave cottage tour, mother says  CNN
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Supreme Court says inmate cannot be executed if dementia means he cannot understand punishment - The Washington Post

1. Supreme Court says inmate cannot be executed if dementia means he cannot understand punishment  The Washington Post
2. Chief Justice John Roberts sides with liberals in death penalty case  CNN
3. Roberts Confirms He’s the New Swing Justice  Slate
4. Chief Justice Roberts joins liberals in court's ruling for death row inmate  NBCNews.com
5. U.S. top court backs killer who forgot crime in death penalty case  Reuters
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Eight Republicans side with Dems on background checks for gun sales | TheHill - The Hill

1. Eight Republicans side with Dems on background checks for gun sales | TheHill  The Hill
2. Gun Control Legislation: House Passes Sweeping Bill  NPR
3. House Approves First Major Gun Control Measure In Nearly 25 Years | TIME  TIME
4. Dem gun bill threatens to turn gun owners into criminals  Fox News
5. House passes sweeping gun legislation to expand background checks to cover virtually all sales  Washington Times
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Why being seen as tough on Pakistan helps India's Modi - CNN

1. Why being seen as tough on Pakistan helps India's Modi  CNN
2. Viewpoint: Balakot air strikes raise stakes in India-Pakistan stand-off  BBC News
3. India armed forces IN NUMBERS: How big is India's army? India WAR CHEST REVEALED  Express.co.uk
4. India's air strike on Pakistan: the strategy and the risks  Reuters India
5. After India’s Strike on Pakistan, Both Sides Leave Room for De-escalation  The New York Times
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Previewing Trump's 2nd summit with Kim Jong Un - CBS News

1. Previewing Trump's 2nd summit with Kim Jong Un  CBS News
2. Trump and Kim Jong Un arrive in Vietnam before meeting  CBS Evening News
3. North Korea finding new ways to evade sanctions, secret U.N. report reveals  CBS News
4. Why this North Korea summit will probably turn out like the last one  The Washington Post
5. Ex-CIA Station Chief: In Trump-Kim summit, here's what Trump should ask for  Fox News
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Brexit next steps: How did my MP vote? - BBC News

1. Brexit next steps: How did my MP vote?  BBC News
2. Labour's Brexit amendment has been defeated by an 83 majority  Daily Mail
3. Brexit: Numbers lesson for May and Corbyn  BBC News
4. Labour will win more votes than it loses by backing another referendum  The Guardian
5. The Tories have a historic opportunity to destroy Labour once and for all  Telegraph.co.uk
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Many disabled Walmart greeters are being replaced by 'customer hosts,' causing backlash - USA TODAY

Many disabled Walmart greeters are being replaced by 'customer hosts,' causing backlash  USA TODAY

Walmart is replacing blue-vested people greeters with customer hosts, a move that is affecting many disabled employees.

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U.S. Drops Threat of 25% Tariffs on Chinese Goods in Sign That Accord Is Near - The Wall Street Journal

1. U.S. Drops Threat of 25% Tariffs on Chinese Goods in Sign That Accord Is Near  The Wall Street Journal
2. Trump, Lighthizer dispute may result in 'inadequate' and 'weak' US-China trade deal, expert says  CNBC
3. Asian stocks shaky as Sino-U.S. trade optimism retreats  Reuters
4. Trump is headed for a bad trade deal that China won’t honor  The Washington Post
5. We have reached the end game in the trade war | TheHill  The Hill
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HP is still being disrupted by the internet in 2019 - MarketWatch

1. HP is still being disrupted by the internet in 2019  MarketWatch
2. HP Shares Slip After Disappointing Sales Growth  Yahoo Finance
3. HP Sales Rise, but Fall Short of Estimates  The Wall Street Journal
4. HP stock falls farther after executives detail printer-supply issues  MarketWatch
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Why Best Buy Stock Popped Today - Motley Fool

1. Why Best Buy Stock Popped Today  Motley Fool
2. Best Buy's hot streak continues  CNN
3. A very merry Christmas at Best Buy with sales booming  Fox News
4. Best Buy Shares Surge After Surprise Q4 Earnings Beat, Solid 2019 Guidance  TheStreet.com
5. Best Buy sees opportunity in foldable phones and smart home technology  MarketWatch
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Is Samsung's Galaxy S10+ Worth $1000? - CNBC

1. Is Samsung's Galaxy S10+ Worth $1000?  CNBC
2. Samsung’s Galaxy S10 doesn’t support one of Android’s most innovative new features  BGR
3. Samsung Galaxy S10 Plus: One Week Later...  Dom Esposito
4. Samsung has an amazing new Galaxy phone, but it's facing the same problems as the iPhone  CNBC
5. Samsung Galaxy S10 bitcoin wallet brings cryptocurrency into the mainstream  The Independent
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When slim is not in: Energizer brings another massive phone to MWC - CNET

1. When slim is not in: Energizer brings another massive phone to MWC  CNET
2. Energizer’s brick of a smartphone uses “world’s most powerful” phone battery  Ars Technica
3. Energizer Power Max P18K Pop - Hands On | MWC 2019  Lowyat TV
4. Energizer 'thick boi' phone gives 50 days of battery life  BBC News
5. The Energizer Power Max P18K Pop phone has a large 18,000mAh battery  Gadget Flow
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Kingdom Hearts 3 Director Confirms DLC in the Works - IGN

1. Kingdom Hearts 3 Director Confirms DLC in the Works  IGN
2. 'Kingdom Hearts 3' DLC on the Way, Tetsuya Nomura Confirms  HYPEBEAST
3. Kingdom Hearts III Critical Mode, Story Expansions Confirmed For 2019  Wccftech
4. 'Kingdom Hearts III' DLC Confirmed, First Expansion Details Revealed  Comicbook.com
5. Kingdom Hearts III: Critical Mode, free and paid DLC in development  Gematsu
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Feature: Things We'd Love To See In Super Mario Maker 2 On Switch - Nintendo Life

1. Feature: Things We'd Love To See In Super Mario Maker 2 On Switch  Nintendo Life
2. Why Nintendo keeps returning to classics like Pokémon  CNN
3. Nintendo Announces Pokémon Sword And Shield For Switch  Kotaku
4. Pokémon Direct 2.27.2019  Nintendo
5. Here Are The Three New Starters In 'Pokémon Sword' And 'Pokémon Shield'  Forbes
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Who Won The Masked Singer? | E! News - E! NEWS

1. Who Won The Masked Singer? | E! News  E! NEWS
2. T-Pain Wins The Masked Singer as He's Revealed to be Monster  PEOPLE.com
3. And the winner of ‘The Masked Singer’ is…  Yahoo Entertainment
4. Who won 'The Masked Singer'? Here's what happened on the season finale  Deseret News
5. The Masked Singer: Who Were the Bee and Peacock?  PEOPLE.com
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Does Jordyn Woods Keep Changing Her Story About the Cheating Scandal? - The Cheat Sheet

1. Does Jordyn Woods Keep Changing Her Story About the Cheating Scandal?  The Cheat Sheet
2. Khloé Kardashian Likes Tweets Slamming Jordyn Woods as Tristan Thompson Likes Her Sexy Photos  PEOPLE.com
3. Kardashians Are Upset Jordyn Woods Is Giving Red Table Talk Interview  Entertainment Tonight
4. Jordyn Woods May or May Not Have Also Hooked up With James Harden, Not That It Matters?  Jezebel
5. Khloe Kardashian Breaks Silence On Jordyn Woods & Tristan Thompson Drama | Hollywoodlife  HollywoodLife
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Disney's new 'Star Wars' theme park coming to a galaxy near you - CNN

1. Disney's new 'Star Wars' theme park coming to a galaxy near you  CNN
2. Star Wars: Galaxy’s Edge will be Disneyland’s most interactive experience. Let’s play  Los Angeles Times
3. Star Wars: Galaxy's Edge food and beverages revealed  laughingplace
4. Take EW's epic tour of Star Wars: Galaxy's Edge at Disney's theme parks  Entertainment Weekly News
5. Reporter's Notebook: To Batuu and back  ABC News
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A Star Is Born Returning to Theaters March 1 with New Footage and Songs - HarpersBAZAAR.com

1. A Star Is Born Returning to Theaters March 1 with New Footage and Songs  HarpersBAZAAR.com
2. Lady Gaga on Oscar Win & Being “In Love” with Bradley Cooper  Jimmy Kimmel Live
3. Lady Gaga Bradley Cooper Romance Theories Are Hurtful  Refinery29
4. Bradley Cooper's ex-wife angry at backlash over Gaga duet comments  CNN
5. "A Star Is Born" is returning to theaters with 12 extra minutes and new performances  CBS News
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Dwyane Wade channels Kobe Bryant's 'Mamba Mentality' on game-winner vs. Warriors | NBA Highlights - ESPN

1. Dwyane Wade channels Kobe Bryant's 'Mamba Mentality' on game-winner vs. Warriors | NBA Highlights  ESPN
2. Dwyane Wade hit insane game-winner at buzzer to beat Warriors  Yahoo Sports
3. Dwyane Wade's clutch shot ends Warriors' comeback bid | NBA Highlights  ESPN
4. Video: Bam Adebayo Throws Down Nasty Alley-Oop All Over Kevin Durant  Heat Nation
5. Dwyane Wade On Buzzer-Beater: 'I Needed This One On My Way Out'  RealGM.com
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Joe Starkey: Kevin Colbert deserves an Academy Award — for Worst Actor - Pittsburgh Post-Gazette

1. Joe Starkey: Kevin Colbert deserves an Academy Award — for Worst Actor  Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
2. Antonio Brown trade to Jets is not looking likely  New York Post
3. Steelers GM -- More teams inquiring about Brown  ESPN
4. Price of Le’Veon Bell transition tag prompted Pittsburgh to pass  NBC Sports
5. Where Antonio Brown trade interest, Steelers depth, free agency philosophy & more stand at Day 1 of the NFL Combine  PennLive
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2019 NFL combine: Josh Jacobs, Jawaan Taylor among winners as RBs, OLs weigh in and get measured - CBS Sports

1. 2019 NFL combine: Josh Jacobs, Jawaan Taylor among winners as RBs, OLs weigh in and get measured  CBS Sports
2. NFL Combine with John Clayton, Matt Taylor, and more!  1070 the Fan
3. The NFL Is Drafting Quarterbacks All Wrong  FiveThirtyEight
4. Pete Prisco's 2019 NFL Mock Draft 2.0: Giants take Dwayne Haskins, Redskins land Kyler Murray, Broncos select Drew Lock  CBS Sports
5. Mike Maccagnan Press Conference at the NFL Combine (2/27)  New York Jets
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Broncos GM John Elway preaches optimism; Sanders, Wolfe to return - The Denver Post

1. Broncos GM John Elway preaches optimism; Sanders, Wolfe to return  The Denver Post
2. Elway prefers Keenum returns, as backup QB  ESPN
3. Broncos will exercise options on Sanders, Wolfe  NFL.com
4. Report: Broncos to meet with the agent of CB Chris Harris Jr. at the Combine  Mile High Report
5. Vic Fangio: It was ‘hard to leave’ Bears, but they’ll ‘do fine’  Chicago Sun-Times
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9 things to know about SpaceX's Crew Dragon launch - WFTV Orlando

1. 9 things to know about SpaceX's Crew Dragon launch  WFTV Orlando
2. How to watch SpaceX, NASA launch Crew Dragon to ISS this weekend  CNET
3. SpaceX readies Crew Dragon spacecraft for first test flight to the space station  NBC News
4. NASA will spend $42 million to better understand space weather  BGR
5. Weather Looks Good for SpaceX's 1st Crew Dragon Test Flight  Space.com
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Breathtaking New NASA Images Show Jupiter's Otherworldy Storms - HuffPost

Breathtaking New NASA Images Show Jupiter's Otherworldy Storms  HuffPost

NASA's Juno spacecraft recently captured the images, which were later color-enhanced.

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The Latest: Pittenger doesn't plan to run again for old seat

RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — The Latest on a new election being held for a North Carolina congressional seat after the state elections board reviewed evidence of ballot fraud (all times local):

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Was the media biased against the Covington students?

Conservatives accuse media organizations of trafficking in stereotypes that Trump supporters are bigots. Two recent incidents have strengthened conservatives’ belief that liberal journalists are implacably opposed to Donald Trump and his supporters: the 18 January encounter between a group of Kentucky students and a Native American activist on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial, and the claims by Jussie Smollett that he had been attacked by hoodlums shouting racist and anti-gay slurs.

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India launches air strike in Pakistan; Islamabad denies militant camp hit

Pakistan said it would respond at a time and place of its choice, with a military spokesman even alluding to its nuclear arsenal, highlighting the escalation in hostile rhetoric from both two sides since a suicide bombing in Kashmir this month. The spokesman said a command and control authority meeting, which decides over the use of nuclear weapons, had been convened for Wednesday, adding: "You all know what that means." The air strike near Balakot, a town 50 km (30 miles) from the frontier, was the deepest cross-border raid launched by India since the last of its three wars with Pakistan in 1971 but there were competing claims about any damage caused. The Indian government, facing an election in the coming months, said the air strikes hit a training camp belonging to Jaish-e-Mohammad (JeM), the group that claimed a suicide car bomb attack that killed at least 40 Indian paramilitary police in Kashmir on Feb. 14.

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Cardinal George Pell found guilty of abusing two choir boys

An Australian court has found Cardinal George Pell, the Vatican treasurer and a former top adviser to Pope Francis, guilty on five charges of child sexual offences committed more than two decades ago against 13-year-old boys. The verdict was made public on Tuesday following the lifting of a court suppression order on the trial, after a second abuse case against Pell was dropped by the prosecution. A jury in the Country Court of Victoria in Melbourne found Pell guilty on December 11 last year following a four-week trial. Pell becomes the most senior Catholic clergyman worldwide to be convicted for child sex offences. He had pleaded not guilty to all five charges. He was convicted of five sexual offences committed against the 13-year-old choir boys 22 years earlier in the priests' sacristy of St Patrick's Cathedral in Melbourne, where Pell was archbishop. One of the two victims died in 2014. Each of the five offences carries a maximum 10 years in jail. Pell's lawyers have filed an appeal against the verdict on three grounds, which if successful could lead to a retrial. Pell, who remains on bail, left the court on Tuesday without speaking to reporters, who virtually mobbed him as he walked from the courthouse steps to a waiting car. He is due to return to court on Wednesday for the start of his sentencing hearing. The verdict has been made public as the Catholic church tries to deal with a growing child sexual abuse crisis, following scandals in the United States, Chile, Germany and Australia.  The most senior Catholic cleric ever charged with child sex abuse has been convicted of molesting two choirboys Credit: Andy Brownbill/AP Pope Francis ended a conference on sexual abuse on Sunday, calling for an "all out battle" against a crime that should be "erased from the face of the earth". The Vatican said in December that Francis had removed Pell, 77, from his group of close advisers, without commenting on the trial. Pell, who took indefinite leave in 2016 from his role as economy minister for the Vatican to fight the charges, was not called to the stand in the trial. Instead, the jury was shown in open court a video recording of an interview Australian police held with Pell in Rome in October 2016, in which he strenuously denied the allegations. The jury was also shown a video recording of the surviving victim's testimony behind closed doors. The court had issued a suppression order on the trial out of concern that a second trial Pell faced could be prejudiced by the outcome of the first case. But prosecutors dropped the charges on Tuesday. Judge Peter Kidd had extended bail for Pell, who had been walking with a crutch throughout the trial, to allow him to undergo double-knee surgery in Sydney in December. His bail had been extended since then. Sign up for your essential, twice-daily briefing from The Telegraph with our free Front Page newsletter.

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Wells Fargo Sees ‘Possible’ Legal Losses Rising by $500 Million

The higher estimate for “reasonably possible” legal losses -- essentially a worst-case scenario -- shows risks grew as the bank and authorities examined abuses in recent months and discussed potential penalties. The change stems from “a variety of matters,” including probes of its sales to retail customers, Wells Fargo wrote Wednesday in an annual regulatory report.

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Steven Avery attorney: 'We won!'; court to hear new evidence in 'Making a Murderer' case

Kathleen Zellner, attorney for "Making A Murderer" subject Steven Avery, tweeted "We won!" after the Wisconsin Court of Appeals decision.

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Peugeot Is Officially Leading the Return of French Cars to the U.S.

PSA will reportedly return to selling Peugeots here by 2026, for the first time since it exited the North American market in the early 1990s.

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Attacked and powerless, Venezuela soldiers choose desertion

CUCUTA, Colombia (AP) — The simple house on a street ridden with potholes in this town on Colombia's restive border with Venezuela has become a refuge for the newly homeless: 40 Venezuelan soldiers who abandoned their posts and ran for their lives.

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La Tragicommedia è Finita

Samuel Beckett’s Waiting for Godot, a play in which two men sit around and wait for someone who never shows up, has been claimed by just about everyone: Freudians, Christians, existentialists.Who’s right? I haven’t a clue.But I have lived, all of us have lived, through a similar tragicomedy (a word Beckett added to the subtitle for the English version of his play). We’ve been waiting for Mueller. And waiting.For some, the waiting is the hardest part. But by historic standards, Special Counsel Robert Mueller has been working at a blistering pace. Kenneth Starr’s investigation into the Whitewater scandal wasn’t fully closed down until 2001. It started in 1994. The average running time for special investigations is 904 days. Tuesday marked the 650th day since Mueller was appointed.Most independent counsels take a year to file their first criminal charges, if they file any at all. Mueller hit that milestone a little more than five months in, and he has racked up more than 30 other indictments or guilty pleas since then.And yet, for the “get Trump media” (as Alan Dershowitz and others call it), it’s never enough. Whenever news breaks in the probe, or when news doesn’t break, for that matter, the response tends to be the same: “Remember, we don’t know what Mueller knows.” Watch CNN or MSNBC for a few minutes and someone will say this — gleefully when the news is already bad for Trump, reassuringly when the news is disappointingly good for Trump.“Always keeping in mind that Mueller knows so much more than he has shown,” former CBS newsman Dan Rather told CNN’s Don Lemon. “If you think [Michael Cohen’s guilty plea and Paul Manafort’s conviction] was a shock to our democratic system, just stay tuned. Because the other things Mueller is working on, and sooner or later we’ll find out what they are, is going to make yesterday pale by comparison.”Well, what if it doesn’t? One of the reasons we keep hearing that “Mueller knows more” is that he has delivered less. For all of the drama and the embarrassments, Mueller has yet to file a single charge on the core allegation that justified the launch of the probe in the first place — the allegation that Donald Trump “colluded” with Russia.Sure, the gaudy remoras that attached themselves to Trump’s hide have had a rough time of it. Manafort, who made a career of colluding with horrible regimes, may never have another meal not thwacked from a large spoon onto a prison tray. Roger Stone may join Cohen in the Stoney Lonesome as well. And obviously, Trump has made things worse for himself by seeming like he’s got a lot to hide.But it looks more and more likely that Mueller’s dance of a thousand veils will end with . . . more veils. The Mueller obsessives want him to be a deus ex machina who delivers irrefutable grounds for impeachment and I-told-you-sos. But that Mueller may never arrive. He may never even say a word about it in public at all.That’s in part because the Russia piece of his portfolio is under the rubric of a counterintelligence investigation, not a criminal one. This means he’s under no obligation to file any public report at all. He could submit a report to the newly confirmed attorney general, Bill Barr, but Barr can reveal whatever he wants to the public, assuming the president says it’s OK. Or he can reveal nothing at all.But waiting for Mueller to prove himself a savior may not pan out, for the simpler reason that he can’t find what doesn’t exist. To say that Trump was morally capable of colluding with Russia is not the same thing as saying that he did.If you listen very closely to former FBI deputy director Andrew McCabe, there was never hard evidence of Trump’s colluding beyond the president’s weird statements and behavior in response to the Russia probe. The problem is that you don’t need an international conspiracy to explain why Trump says and does weird things — unless you’ve already decided he’s guilty.That’s why this tragicomedy will not come to an end with the end of the Mueller probe. The audience, on both sides, had already decided what it was about when they entered the theater.Copyright © 2019 Tribune Content Agency, LLC

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Nuclear Nightmare: India and Pakistan are on the Brink

Whatever happens next rests in the fates of political decisionmakers in India.

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Boeing unveils unmanned combat jet developed in Australia

Boeing Co on Wednesday unveiled an unmanned, fighter-like jet developed in Australia and designed to fly alongside crewed aircraft in combat for a fraction of the cost. The U.S. manufacturer hopes to sell the multi-role aircraft, which is 38 feet long (11.6 meters) and has a 2,000 nautical mile (3,704 kilometer) range, to customers around the world, modifying it as requested. The prototype is Australia's first domestically developed combat aircraft since World War II and Boeing's biggest investment in unmanned systems outside the United States, although the company declined to specify the dollar amount.

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Southwest Airlines wing scrapes runway during aborted landing in Hartford

A Southwest flight from Orlando to Hartford, Connecticut, ended up diverting to Rhode Island after trying to land three times in high winds.

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Trump's ex-fixer Cohen to offer new Russia details to Congress: source

As Special Counsel Robert Mueller appears to near the end of his probe into whether Russia meddled in the 2016 presidential election in collusion with Trump's campaign, Cohen's assertion that Trump was inquiring about the skyscraper project as late as June 2016, if true, would show Trump remained personally engaged in the venture well into his candidacy. Cohen was set to offer lawmakers new information about Trump's private affairs over three consecutive days of in-depth discussion with congressional committees that began on Tuesday with a closed hearing before the Senate Intelligence Committee. The focus of the session, which lasted for roughly 9 hours, was mainly on what Cohen knows about Trump's dealings with Russia, as well as about Cohen's previous lies, two congressional sources said.

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At least 4,500 abuse complaints at migrant children shelters

WASHINGTON (AP) — Thousands of accusations of sexual abuse and harassment of migrant children in government-funded shelters were made over the past four years, including scores directed against adult staff members, according to federal data released Tuesday.

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Warren, DNC Use Cohen Testimony in Fundraising Pleas

The Democratic National Committee and Senator Elizabeth Warren both used Michael Cohen's highly anticipated congressional testimony in fundraising pleas addressed to supporters Wednesday.“Under oath and in an open session of Congress, one of Donald Trump’s most trusted advisors implicated him in criminal activity while he’s been in the White House,” read an email from Warren asking for donations. “Our criminal justice system is hanging on and doing its job – the truth is coming out – despite unprecedented, relentless, and potentially illegal pressure from Donald Trump and his associates in and out of government. But here’s the biggest threat right now: Donald Trump, or the next President, using the pardon power to cover up and permanently excuse this wrongdoing.”The Democratic National Committee also sent out a fundraising text that read, “Michael Cohen’s testimony makes this clear: Trump is a threat to our country. It’s up to us to make him a one-term president.”Cohen has been cooperating with Special Counsel Robert Mueller's Russia investigation since November. He appeared before the House Oversight and Reform Committee Wednesday to testify against Trump, comparing the president to a mobster and calling him a "racist" and "conman." While he refused to accuse Trump of collusion with Russia, he told the committee that the president's "desire to win would have him work with anyone."Cohen is scheduled to begin a three-year prison term soon after he was convicted of financial crimes, campaign-finance violations, and lying to Congress late last year.

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Woman brutally mauled to death by her own 2 dogs while playing in front yard

A South Carolina woman died on Thursday night after her two dogs turned on herwhile she was playing with them in the front yard of her Greenville home

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Man who bought $540 of Girl Scouts cookies is arrested

GREENVILLE, S.C. (AP) — A South Carolina man who bought more than 120 boxes of Girl Scouts cookies to help the scouts escape the cold has been arrested on drug charges.

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Can CBD Help Your Child?

When a child is sick and conventional medicine isn’t helping, parents understandably often turn to alternative treatments. Recently, that includes cannabidiol, aka CBD, which is a cannabis compou...

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ECB’s Rimsevics Is Back at Work and Headed to Frankfurt

“I will not restrict him, I will let him travel” to Frankfurt, Viorika Jirgena, the prosecutor in charge of his case, said in an interview. The central banker’s case hasn’t been sent to Latvian court yet, since he is still submitting evidence in the pre-trial stage. The Latvian central bank board won’t grant Rimsevics access to documents involving the case or information about commercial banks that are connected to it, with all legal inquires going through his deputy Zoja Razmusa, spokesman Janis Silakalns said in an email.

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Sen. Kamala Harris dismisses concerns about cost of the Green New Deal

New report finds Green New Deal could cost as much as $93 trillion over 10 years; reaction from Fox News contributor Judy Miller and Dan Henninger.

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Trump touts rapport with North Korea's Kim at summit, 'satisfied' with talks

The U.S. president appeared upbeat with Kim even as on the other side of the world in Washington his former personal lawyer Michael Cohen called Trump a "conman" who knew in advance about the release of stolen emails aimed at hurting his Democratic rival in the 2016 election campaign. "Great meetings" and a "Very good dialogue," Trump said on Twitter after dinner with Kim at Hanoi's French-colonial-era Metropole hotel while the White House said the two planned to sign a "joint agreement" after further talks on Thursday. Facing increasing political and legal pressure at home over investigations into Russian meddling in the 2016 U.S. election, Trump has devoted significant time and effort to trying to persuade North Korea to give up its nuclear weapons in exchange for promises of peace and development, a foreign policy goal that has confounded multiple predecessors.

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Photos of the 2021 Mercedes-AMG GLE53

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Shrimp Cocktail, Steak and Lava Cake. Here's the Menu for Trump and Kim's 'Social Dinner' in Hanoi

The two leaders enjoyed a social dinner together before formal talks begin tomorrow

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Q&A: What's at stake as India-Pakistan tensions rise?

ISLAMABAD (AP) — Nuclear-armed rivals India and Pakistan face their worst tension in years over the disputed region of Kashmir, with Islamabad saying they shot down two Indian warplanes Wednesday and captured a pilot. Pakistan, which previously said it captured two pilots, immediately shut down its civilian airspace in response.

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Trump, North Korea's Kim end Vietnam summit with no agreement

U.S. President Donald Trump and North Korean leader Kim Jong Un failed to reach an agreement on denuclearization of the Korean peninsula at their summit in Vietnam on Thursday, the White House said.

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China says hopes U.S., North Korea dialogue can continue

China's Foreign Ministry said on Thursday that it hopes dialogue and communication between the United States and North Korea can continue.

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No gas? No votes. Subsidy cuts imperil Ukraine leader's reelection bid

Ukrainian pensioner Nadiya Ignatiy says she has had the plum and cherry trees in her garden cut down for firewood since the government raised gas prices late last year.

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