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The 'caravans of love' visiting Spain's empty villages

For the men who remain to farm the land in emptying Spanish villages it can be hard to meet women. The 'caravans of women' are one solution.

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Abhinandan: Who is the Indian pilot captured by Pakistan?

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Risks to Mexico journalists remain despite Amlo's promises

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Venezuela crisis: How much aid is getting in?

A large shipment of US humanitarian aid has been refused entry into Venezuela.

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Can Georgian wine win over global drinkers?

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Political Scandal Worsens for Canada’s Justin Trudeau - The Wall Street Journal

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2. SC Timeline: Johnny Manziel's run in the CFL  TSN
3. Manziel released, barred from other CFL teams  ESPN
4. Johnny Manziel gets kicked out of CFL  USA TODAY
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2. Ex-N.J. superintendent who defecated in public says police shouldn't have released mugshot  NBC News
3. School 'pooperintendent's' life 'has been ruined,' attorney says  WND.com
4. Ex-New Jersey 'pooperintendent' sues police for $1 million over mug shot release  WABC-TV
5. ‘Mystery pooper’ school chief who repeatedly defecated on a running track moans his life has been ‘ruined’ aft  The Sun
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Doctor shot by patient in wheelchair in Florida VA hospital, FBI says - NBC News

Doctor shot by patient in wheelchair in Florida VA hospital, FBI says  NBC News

Larry Ray Bon, 59, of Michigan, opened fire with a handgun at West Palm Beach VA Medical Center, the FBI said Wednesday night.

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Trump says deal with Kim thwarted by North Korean sanction demands

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.

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

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 a show of strength, hitting non-military targets including supply depots. Although this version of events is disputed by India, the Pakistani official said: "The Pakistan Air Force was ready, they took them on, there was an engagement. As a result both the Indian planes were shot down and the wreckage of one fell on our side while the wreckage of the other fell on their side." Pulwama suicide attack - Map Initially, the Indian Air Force (IAF) denied Pakistani claims, despite videos of the two pilots in Pakistani captivity being broadcast by state media. The IAF is also decried claims that two Indian fighter aircraft had been shot down. But later on Wednesday a foreign ministry official told a press conference in Delhi that there was an "aerial engagement", conceding just one Indian jet was shot down.  IAF sources said that there were four Pakistani F-16 fighters against four IAF MiG-21 Bison combat aircraft and the dogfight happened in a chase. The four Pakistani fighters are believed to have tried attacking an ammunition dump at Nowshera near the Line of Control in Kashmir, when they were chased by four Indian planes. India claims it has also shot down one of the Pakistani fighter jets.  The incident is the latest in a dangerous sequence of events between the two countries, whose ties have been under intense strain since a February 14 suicide bombing in Indian Kashmir that killed 40 troops. Islamabad insisted the latest move was in self defence and officials said strikes had been taken at non-military targets avoiding civilian casualties. Ghafoor said: "We do not want escalation, we do not want to go towards war," at a press conference in the garrison city of Rawalpindi, calling for talks with New Delhi. Pakistan closed its airspace Wednesday, "until further notice", the civil aviation authority and the military said. A military spokesman said the decision had been taken "due to the environment". How did we get here? The claim came a little over 24 hours after Delhi said it had struck a Jaish-e-Mohammad training camp near Balakot where it said militants were preparing for imminent terrorist attacks. Islamabad had denied any camp was struck, but on Tuesday warned India to prepare for a surprise and vowed a "befitting" response at a time and place of its choosing. In a statement headed "Pakistan strikes back", the foreign ministry said the action was not retaliation " to continued Indian belligerence". "Pakistan has therefore, taken strikes at non military target, avoiding human loss and collateral damage. Sole purpose being to demonstrate our right, will and capability for self defence.  Pakistani soldiers stand next to what Pakistan says is the wreckage of an Indian fighter jet shot down in Pakistan controled Kashmir at Somani area in Bhimbar district Credit: AFP A spokesman for Pakistan's military said that Indian jets had then crossed the line of control and the Pakistan air forces had gone on to shoot two of them down inside Pakistani airspace. "One of the aircraft fell inside Azad Jammu and Kashmir, while other fell inside Indian Occupied Kashmir. One Indian pilot arrested by troops on ground while two in the area," said Maj Gen Asif Ghafoor. There was no immediate response from Delhi, but Indian media did report an Indian air force jet crashed in Indian-controlled Kashmir on Wednesday morning. Delhi said on Tuesday it had said it had struck a pre-emptive blow against the Pakistan-based militant group it blames for a suicide bomb that killed at least 40 paramilitary police in Kashmir earlier this month. The force of jets destroyed a hilltop training camp near Balakot where Jaish-e-Mohammad (JeM) jihadists were preparing an imminent attack, the country's foreign minister said. But Pakistan dismissed that claim as “fictitious” and “self-serving”, saying its own jets had intercepted the raiding force and seen it off. Pakistan's military said the Indian jets dropped their payload of bombs “in haste” as they fled and they caused no damage after landing in deserted forest. Indian soldiers gesture near the remains of an Indian Air Force helicopter after it crashed in Budgam district, outside Srinagar on February 27, 2019 Credit: Tauseef Mustafa/AFP Villagers near Balakot said they had been woken by jets and four blasts in an area close to a JeM madrassa. But they denied heavy casualties and said the damage was largely to trees. One person was wounded. "We saw trees fallen down and one house damaged and four craters where the bombs had fallen," said Mohammad Ajmal, a 25-year-old who visited the site told Reuters. Another neighbour, who declined to be named, said JeM ran a nearby Islamic school. An Indian attack had been widely predicted as Narendra Modi faced domestic outrage over the bomb attack in Pulwama blamed on JeM. A history of trouble Pakistan has long been accused of harbouring and supporting militant groups as tools of its foreign policy in India, Kashmir and Afghanistan. JeM is a primarily anti-India group that forged ties with al Qaeda and has been on a UN terrorist list since 2001. India says the JeM was also behind the 2001 attack on the Indian parliament and on an Indian air force base in 2016. Pakistan denies any involvement in the Pulwama attack and has challenged Delhi to deliver actionable intelligence on who carried out the attack. Indian and Pakistan: timeline of a testy relationship Western diplomats now fear any counter retaliation by Pakistan could dangerously escalate the stand-off and trigger an international crisis. One diplomat said both sides must try to carefully measure their action to satisfy domestic nationalist fervour, while not provoking all out war. However with an Indian general election only weeks away, Mr Modi had come under intense pressure to act. As news channels on both sides of the border became increasingly bellicose, a Pakistani military spokesman even alluded to its nuclear arsenal, highlighting the escalation in hostile rhetoric. Indian soldiers and Kashmiri onlookers stand near the remains of an Indian Air Force helicopter after it crashed in Budgam district Credit: Tauseef Mustafa/AFP 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 Indian strike 30 miles from the frontier was thought to be the first strike inside its neighbour's territory since their 1971 war. Indian military sources said 12 French Mirage 2000 fighters crossed the line of control dividing the adversaries in Kashmir on their raid into Pakistani territory at around 3.15am local time. Accompanied by an airborne early warning and control aircraft and a mid-air re-fueller, the Mirages reportedly employed 1,000kg precision guided munitions to hit their targets in a mission that lasted a few minutes. Kashmir: why the tension?  The Kashmir dispute dates from 1947. The partition of the Indian sub-continent along religious lines led to the formation of India and Pakistan. However, there remained the problem of over 650 states, run by princes, existing within the two newly independent countries. In theory, these princely states had the option of deciding which country to join, or of remaining independent. In practice, the restive population of each province proved decisive. As a result, both India and Pakistan control parts of Kashmir, but claim it in its entirety and have fought two wars over Kashmir since Partition in 1947. Where do we go now? Pakistan have claimed the two pilots are being treated well, according to its state media.  One is in hospital and one has been arrested, but there are question marks over where this tit-for-tat will go next.  Islamabad has said it does not want to escalate the situation to a full-blown war - a sentiment echoed by those around the world.  China is renewing calls for Pakistan and India to take steps to avoid a further deterioration of ties following the latest flare-up. Indian army soldiers arrive near the wreckage of an Indian aircraft after it crashed in Budgam area Credit: Mukhtar Khan/AP Foreign Ministry spokesman Lu Kang told reporters at a daily briefing on Wednesday that "both Pakistan and India are important countries in the subcontinent of South Asia." He added that China hopes "they will keep in mind the regional peace and stability, exercise restraint, take effective measures to strengthen dialogue, and maintain two sides' fundamental interests and the regional peace and stability." Lu also said: "We hope they will avoid deterioration of the situation." China is longstanding close ally and arms supplier to Pakistan, but has also sought better ties with its southern neighbor and Asian rival India. US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo also urged the two countries to exercise restraint and avoid escalation at any cost, and said in a statement he had spoken to foreign ministers from Indian and Pakistan to "encourage both ministers to prioritise direct communication and avoid further military activity."  Sign up for your essential, twice-daily briefing from The Telegraph with our free Front Page newsletter.

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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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Manafort sentencing hearing rescheduled to March 7: court filing

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.

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Trump, Kim bet big on personal relationship at second summit

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.

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

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.

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

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3. Ralph Northam's wife now under fire for slave comment towards black student  New York Post
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3. Roberts Confirms He’s the New Swing Justice  Slate
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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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2. Gun Control Legislation: House Passes Sweeping Bill  NPR
3. House Approves First Major Gun Control Measure In Nearly 25 Years | TIME  TIME
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3. North Korea finding new ways to evade sanctions, secret U.N. report reveals  CBS 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
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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. Lighthizer strikes a tough tone on China trade talks  CNN
4. Trump is headed for a bad trade deal that China won’t honor  The Washington Post
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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
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Is Samsung's Galaxy S10+ Worth $1000? - CNBC

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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
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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
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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
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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
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Who won 'The Masked Singer'? Here's what happened on the season finale - Deseret News

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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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Lady Gaga on Oscar Win & Being “In Love” with Bradley Cooper - Jimmy Kimmel Live

1. Lady Gaga on Oscar Win & Being “In Love” with Bradley Cooper  Jimmy Kimmel Live
2. Lady Gaga Bradley Cooper Romance Theories Are Hurtful  Refinery29
3. Bradley Cooper's ex-wife angry at backlash over Gaga duet comments  CNN
4. Barbra Streisand chose not to introduce 'A Star Is Born' at Oscars  Page Six
5. Taylor Kinney shades Lady Gaga after Bradley Cooper Oscars duet  Fox 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 hits buzzer-beater 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. Accountability easier for Warriors than solutions right now  NBCSports.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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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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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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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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