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Why Do Some People Wish the Attack on Smollett Happened?

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The reactions of many on the left to the case of Jussie Smollett prove two important things: 1. There is little racism in America. 2. The Left -- white and black -- is morally and psychologically impaired.There is no doubt that most Americans on the left, including black Americans, are distraught over the fact that Smollett faked the “racist” attack on him. Apparently leftists, Democratic leaders, and, most depressingly, many of his fellow blacks wish Smollett had been attacked by white racist homophobes.Representative Eric Swalwell (D., Calif.), a white leftist, tweeted, “I hope this was not something that Mr. Smollett did to himself, or created.”Washington Post columnist Jonathan Capehart told MSNBC there has been “an atmosphere of menace and hate” since Donald Trump was elected president, which made “people want to believe” Smollett’s story. Exactly. Capehart, a black leftist, wanted to believe that racists yelling “This is MAGA country” beat up blacks.Another black leftist who writ

All-New 2020 Toyota Corolla First-Drive Review

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All-New 2020 Toyota Corolla Adds Sizzle, Still Sensible The redesigned 2020 Toyota Corolla sedan joins the Corolla hatchback (which we’ve already tested), and it is offered for the first time as... from Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines https://ift.tt/2IBxQes

The Latest: Pompeo urges restraint in India, Pakistan

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ISLAMABAD (AP) — The Latest on India-Pakistan tensions (all times local): from Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines https://ift.tt/2U8mzDB

Trump and Kim Jong Un might officially end the Korean War. Here's why that could matter.

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After 66 years, a peace declaration at the Vietnam summit could lead to negotiations and more normal relations between the two Koreas and America. from Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines https://ift.tt/2GLYdwl

UK PM May proposes votes on no-deal exit and Brexit delay if her deal rejected: Telegraph

LONDON (Reuters) - British Prime Minister Theresa May is proposing that parliament votes on whether to leave the European Union without a deal or delay Brexit if her exit deal fails to win parliamentary approval, a Daily Telegraph reporter said on Twitter. "The PM (Prime Minister) has said there will be a three line whip on an amendable motion tomorrow that will commit to two votes on March 12th in the event that her deal fails," Telegraph reporter Steven Swinford wrote, citing details of an ongoing cabinet meeting. ... from Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines https://ift.tt/2IDpyCK

Mother and adult daughter charged with killing 5 relatives

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MORRISVILLE, Pa. (AP) — A mother and her adult daughter killed five of their close relatives, including three children, and were found "disoriented" after child welfare authorities arrived for a surprise visit to their trashed apartment outside Philadelphia, police and prosecutors said Tuesday. from Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines https://ift.tt/2Xro41N

Univision team deported from Venezuela after Maduro interview

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The six-person team was held for more than two hours and had their equipment confiscated, Ramos told reporters on Monday evening after arriving back at his Caracas hotel which was surrounded by intelligence agents. Ramos and his team left the hotel on Tuesday morning guarded by personnel from the U.S. and Mexican embassies while intelligence agents escorted them to Caracas' Maiquetia airport. "They didn't give us a reason" for the deportation, Ramos told reporters as he arrived at the terminal. from Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines https://ift.tt/2tNSZb7

Southwest Airlines wing scrapes runway during aborted landing in Hartford

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A Southwest flight from Orlando to Hartford, Connecticut, ended up diverting to Rhode Island after trying to land three times in high winds. from Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines https://ift.tt/2SsKagx

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

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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. from Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines https://ift.tt/2NvwFvy

Trump says deal with Kim thwarted by North Korean sanction demands

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Earlier, both Trump and Kim had expressed hope for progress on improving relations and on the key issue of denuclearization, in their talks in the Vietnamese capital, Hanoi, their second summit in eight months. "Basically, they wanted the sanctions lifted in their entirety, but we couldn't do that ... we had to walk away from it," Trump told reporters after summit talks were cut short. The United Nations and the United States ratcheted up sanctions on North Korea when the reclusive state undertook a series of nuclear and missile tests in 2017, cutting off its main sources hard cash. from Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines https://ift.tt/2BYvtwe

Pakistan 'captures Indian pilot after shooting down two jets in dogfight over Kashmir'

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Two planes shot down over Kashmir border Pakistan claims to have two pilots held Sources: jets shot down in 'four-on-four' dogfight Both countries dispute each other's claims Analysis: Pakistan and India need help climbing down, or risk another war over Kashmir ​ Pakistan has claimed to have shot down two Indian jets and captured a pilot after a dogfight over Kashmir, igniting fears of an all-out conflict between the nuclear-armed neighbours.  Tensions remain high on the Asian Subcontinent where tens of thousands of Indian and Pakistani soldiers face off along the disputed Kashmir boundary. There are competing claims regarding the exact details of what has taken place, but Pakistan's Major General Asif Ghafoor said a pilot was in Army custody. Pakistan had earlier said it was holding two pilots. Ghafoor said the jets had been shot down after Pakistani planes earlier Wednesday flew across the Line of Control, the de facto border in disputed Kashmir, to the Indian side in

Ivanka Trump endorses working your way up through life

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Ivanka Trump, elder daughter of a billionaire president, married to the son of a real estate mogul, thinks Americans want to make their own way up life’s ladder. from Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines https://ift.tt/2H43nTH

Manafort sentencing hearing rescheduled to March 7: court filing

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A federal judge in Virginia rescheduled the sentencing hearing for Paul Manafort, the former chairman of U.S. President Donald Trump's 2016 presidential campaign, to March 7, according to a court filing on Tuesday. It was not immediately clear why the sentencing hearing was rescheduled from March 8. Manafort was convicted in August of eight charges of bank and tax fraud as part of Special Counsel Robert Mueller's investigation into Russian meddling in the 2016 election. from Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines https://ift.tt/2Vqa0Uy

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

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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. from Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines https://ift.tt/2NxIt0B

Trump, Kim bet big on personal relationship at second summit

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Despite little progress toward his stated goal of ridding North Korea of its nuclear weapons since first meeting Kim in Singapore last year, Trump has said he is fully committed to his personal diplomacy with Kim. Trump said late last year he and Kim "fell in love", and on the eve of his departure for the second summit said they had developed "a very, very good relationship". Whether the bonhomie can move them beyond summit pageantry to substantive progress on eliminating Pyongyang's nuclear arsenal that threatens the United States is the question that will dominate their talks in the Vietnamese capital of Hanoi. from Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines https://ift.tt/2GQS9CO

10 Things to Know for Today

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Your daily look at late-breaking news, upcoming events and the stories that will be talked about today: from Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines https://ift.tt/2XpN0GP

Pennsylvania teen found alive after five family members murdered

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A teen whose mother and twin 9-year-old sisters were among five family members killed in their Pennsylvania home was staying at a friend's house at the time of the murders and is safe, officials said on Tuesday. Joshua Campbell, 17, was not at home when his aunt Shana Decree, 45, and her daughter Dominique Decree, 19, are alleged to have murdered five relatives in their apartment in Morrisville, about 30 miles (50 km) northeast of Philadelphia, Bucks County District Attorney Matthew Weintraub said. After police found the bodies on Monday, relatives of the victims said they had begged authorities for weeks to check on Shana Decree due to concerns she might have fallen under the influence of a fringe religious group. from Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines https://ift.tt/2GK04Sg

Risk of India-Pakistan War May Hang on the Fate of Downed Pilot

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India and Pakistan, which have fought three major wars since the bloody partition of 1947, regularly exchange artillery and small-weapons fire across a disputed border. India’s Prime Minister Narendra Modi must contest a general election within weeks, while his counterpart, Imran Khan, faces a military that is seeking to assert its dominance when Pakistan is in the eye of a financial and economic storm. from Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines https://ift.tt/2NwNpmh

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

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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. from Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines https://ift.tt/2T3ty4k

Las principales noticias del jueves

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By Por ELDA CANTรš from NYT Universal https://ift.tt/2BW5Hsq

A Sports Hijab Has France Debating the Muslim Veil, Again

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By ELIAN PELTIER and AURELIEN BREEDEN from NYT World https://ift.tt/2H7rG36

Huawei’s Cutest Fans in China? A Troupe of Dancing Children

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By RAYMOND ZHONG from NYT Technology https://ift.tt/2XuNo7c

The Cutest Animal on Instagram Is Possibly in Your Trash Can

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By GRAY CHAPMAN from NYT Style https://ift.tt/2TilY57

Central Park Detective Retires With the Horse He Rode in On

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By COREY KILGANNON from NYT New York https://ift.tt/2H6efAz

Word + Quiz: skein

By THE LEARNING NETWORK from NYT The Learning Network https://ift.tt/2tJV87i

A New Editor, and a New Take on Brexit, for a Brawny London Tabloid

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By MICHAEL M. GRYNBAUM from NYT Business https://ift.tt/2UdgaqC

Michael Cohen, Kim Jong-un, Kashmir: Your Thursday Briefing

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By PENN BULLOCK and MELINA DELKIC from NYT Briefing https://ift.tt/2UegBB6

What’s on TV Thursday: ‘Better Things’ and ‘The Guilty’

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By GABE COHN from NYT Arts https://ift.tt/2EmarZ1

Beal, Wizards Roll to 125-116 Victory Over Nets

By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS from NYT Sports https://ift.tt/2Udak8G

Trudeau’s Ex-Attorney General: ‘Veiled Threats’ Were Made to Drop Case

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By IAN AUSTEN from NYT World https://ift.tt/2IHuDKp

Patient Shoots Doctor at Florida Veterans Affairs Hospital, Officials Say

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By JULIA JACOBS and MATT STEVENS from NYT U.S. https://ift.tt/2EEhde9

On Politics: Michael Cohen Testifies

By Unknown Author from NYT U.S. https://ift.tt/2XroCEN

Cohen’s Testimony Is a Test for Both Parties in the Year Ahead

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By MICHAEL D. SHEAR from NYT U.S. https://ift.tt/2TkjCCB

White Man Who Shot Black Men After Hurricane Katrina Dies Days After Sentencing

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By MATT STEVENS from NYT U.S. https://ift.tt/2IQ7upc

Quotation of the Day: Confessed Liar Meets With Ardent Partisans to Set the Record Straight

By Unknown Author from NYT Today’s Paper https://ift.tt/2Tg1ry9

Tampa Bay and Calgary Keep Streaks Alive by Beating Rangers and Devils

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By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS from NYT Sports https://ift.tt/2tGgTFh

Warriors Host Survivors of the Parkland School Shooting

By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS from NYT Sports https://ift.tt/2IFx3ZG

Corrections: February 28, 2019

By Unknown Author from NYT Corrections https://ift.tt/2BWfWNr

Blue Jays

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By DEB AMLEN from NYT Crosswords & Games https://ift.tt/2EAoHOX

Fox News Breaking News Alert

Fox News Breaking News Alert No agreement after second nuclear summit 02/27/19 11:12 PM

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Fox News Breaking News Alert Trump sits down with North Korean leader Kim Jong Un in Vietnam 02/27/19 5:59 PM

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Fox News Breaking News Alert Cohen says he has never been to Prague, refuting key Russia collusion claim of Steele dossier 02/27/19 10:49 AM

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Fox News Breaking News Alert President Trump and Kim Jong Un shake hands to kick off Hanoi summit 02/27/19 3:36 AM

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Fox News Breaking News Alert Pakistan shuts down airspace to all commercial flights 02/27/19 1:08 AM

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. from Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines https://ift.tt

Univision's Jorge Ramos details detainment, expulsion from Venezuela

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Univision anchor Jorge Ramos shared details in TV interviews Tuesday night on how Venezuelan authorities detained his team during an interview Monday. from Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines https://ift.tt/2T0QGjZ

Was the media biased against the Covington students?

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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. from Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines https://ift.tt/2T9HY2Y

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

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The $300 a night Metropole is redolent with colonial history from Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines https://ift.tt/2EAJhid

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

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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): from Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines https://ift.tt/2tJ6Krw

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

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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. from Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines https://ift.tt/2SwIna9

Miami-Dade cop caught on tape slapping suspect

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Two Miami-Dade Police officers are facing charges after surveillance video appeared to show one sergeant slapping a teenager who was handcuffed and another trying to destroy evidence. from Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines https://ift.tt/2GSKALU

Nuclear Nightmare: India and Pakistan are on the Brink

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Whatever happens next rests in the fates of political decisionmakers in India. from Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines https://ift.tt/2H77EFT

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. from Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines https://ift.tt/2ViCz62

La Tragicommedia รจ Finita

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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 indictme

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

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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. from Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines https://ift.tt/2XnbkZW