| Trump takes victory lap; parties start to pivot past Russia Posted: 26 Mar 2019 04:39 PM PDT  WASHINGTON (AP) — An exuberant President Donald Trump took a victory lap on Capitol Hill Tuesday, emboldened by the end of the special counsel's Russia probe, even as Democrats pressed insistently for Robert Mueller's full report and Justice Department officials said more information could be released in "weeks, not months."
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| Yale rescinds admission of student whose family allegedly paid $1.2M to bribe entry Posted: 26 Mar 2019 01:56 PM PDT  Yale University has rescinded the admission of a student whose family allegedly paid $1.2 million in bribes to get her into the Ivy League school.
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| Israel-Hamas cross-border fighting renews after lull Posted: 26 Mar 2019 03:15 PM PDT  The biggest Israeli-Palestinian escalation in months, which began on Monday with the longest-range Palestinian rocket attack to cause casualties in Israel in five years, had eased after Egyptian mediation. In the wake of Palestinian rocket attacks and Israeli air strikes, Israel said it reserved the right to strike again and kept its troops and tanks massed at the Gaza frontier. The exchange was less intense than Monday's fighting.
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| Green New Deal: Senate defeats proposal as Democrats unite in protest Posted: 26 Mar 2019 07:46 PM PDT  Non-binding proposal spearheaded by progressives aims to reduce greenhouse gases and lessen social inequity The US Senate defeated a motion to take up the Green New Deal, the non-binding proposal spearheaded by progressive Democratic lawmakers to radically reduce greenhouse gases and try to lessen social inequity. Republican leaders in the Senate had scheduled Tuesday's vote in an effort to turn the proposal into a wedge issue in the 2020 elections, hoping to force Democrats on the record about their support – or opposition – for a proposal that is popular among the Democratic base but has been criticized by many conservatives. Democrats called the efforts by the Senate majority leader Mitch McConnell a "sham", and 43 of them voted "present" rather than casting an up-or-down vote. Lawmakers ultimately voted 57-0 against the proposal. Three Democrats and independent senator Angus King of Maine ultimately joined all 53 Republicans in opposing the plan. The Green New Deal aims to virtually eliminate greenhouse gas emissions by 2030 and calls for the US to shift away from fossil fuels such as oil and coal. It also urges national healthcare coverage and job guarantees, high-quality education and affordable housing, as well as "upgrading all existing buildings in the United States" to be energy-efficient. The proposal has broad support among Democratic activists, and all six of the 2020 presidential contenders serving in the Senate have signed on as cosponsors, putting it at the forefront of the party's sprawling primary race. Republicans say the plan would devastate the economy and lead to a huge tax increase. They call it more evidence of the creep of "socialism" in the Democratic party, along with "Medicare for All" and a sweeping elections reform package that would allow public financing of congressional campaigns. McConnell said the proposal "might sound like a neat idea in places like San Francisco or New York" but would result in communities across the country being "absolutely crushed". He argued the deal would "kill off entire domestic industries" and eliminate millions of jobs. Donald Trump also weighed in against the plan, which the White House called "job crushing". At a luncheon with Senate Republicans, Trump urged lawmakers to keep the Green New Deal alive as an issue to use against Democrats. Mike Lee, a Republican senator from Utah, called the Green New Deal "ridiculous" and displayed pictures of dinosaurs, cartoon characters and babies as he derided the plan. He said he was treating it "with the seriousness it deserves". Democrats derided the GOP moves and said they carried their own political risk by mocking an issue – climate change – that a growing number of Americans care deeply about. Climate change, they said, is deadly serious, citing floods in the midwest, wildfires in the west and hurricanes in the south. "Climate change is not a joke," said Ed Markey, a Democratic senator from Massachusetts and the resolution's lead Senate author. "Mocking it is shameful." "The GOP's climate delaying is costing us lives [and is] destroying communities," congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, the plan's sponsor in the House, tweeted. The GOP's climate delaying is costing us lives + destroying communities.Iowa, Nebraska & many in the Midwest are catastrophically flooded right now, in one of the 1st major climate change disasters of 2019.A #GreenNewDeal urges us to pursue a plan on the scale of the problem. https://t.co/dWXe44hxWX— Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (@AOC) March 26, 2019 Ocasio-Cortez also said she had encouraged fellow Democrats to vote present, and questioned Republicans' reluctance to schedule major hearings on the effects of climate change. Separately, speaking at a hearing of the House financial services committee on Tuesday, Ocasio-Cortez sharply criticized the suggestion that concerns about the environment were "elitist" and condemned past inaction. "You want to tell people that their concern and their desire for clean air and clean water is elitist? Tell that to the kids of the South Bronx, which are suffering from the highest rates of child asthma in the country," she said. "This is about our lives, and this should not be partisan," she added. "Science should not be partisan." By Tuesday evening, the clip of her comments had been shared thousands of times. Watch every second of this... @AOC is so incredibly spot on. pic.twitter.com/ESP4dC5TTo— Brian Tyler Cohen (@briantylercohen) March 27, 2019 The New York senator Kirsten Gillibrand, one of a half-dozen senators seeking the Democratic nomination for president, said Republicans treat climate change "as a game" and said Democrats "will not fall for this stunt". Slowing climate change "should be our nation's moonshot" in the 21st century, Gillibrand argued. "We don't know if we can get to net-zero carbon emissions in 10 years, but why not try?" she said at a rally before the Senate vote.
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| Boeing Readies 737 Max Software Update as Senate Probes Crashes Posted: 27 Mar 2019 04:29 PM PDT  While investigators are still piecing together what caused an Ethiopian Airlines 737 Max 8 to fall out of the sky this month, senators in Washington zeroed in on a controversial safety feature on the plane. Across the U.S. in Renton, Washington, where the plane is made, Boeing hosted news media as well as 200 pilots and industry officials to detail software changes it intends to submit to the Federal Aviation Administration for final approval this week. The company also defended its aircraft-certification process and safety oversight.
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| Case dropped against US actor accused of hate attack hoax Posted: 26 Mar 2019 02:59 PM PDT  Prosecutors said they had shelved all 16 felony charges against "Empire" star Jussie Smollett in exchange for an agreement that he carry out community service and forfeit a $10,000 bond payment. The state dismissed the charges," attorney Patricia Holmes said as the actor celebrated with family, whose claim that Smollett had been vindicated was flatly rejected by the police. The 36-year-old, one of the main cast members on Fox musical drama "Empire" alongside Taraji P. Henson, was accused of masterminding a hoax attack in downtown Chicago to gain publicity and secure a bigger paycheck.
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| Kathie Lee Gifford talks 'crippling loneliness' of losing her husband and mother Posted: 26 Mar 2019 05:59 AM PDT  "I found myself dealing with crippling loneliness," Gifford told AARP's magazine after losing husband Frank Gifford and mother Joan Epstein within two years of each other. "I had to make moves and spiritual moves. You gotta make new memories or the old ones are going to kill you."
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| Biden criticizes 'white man's culture,' role in Hill hearing Posted: 27 Mar 2019 02:45 AM PDT  NEW YORK (AP) — Former Vice President Joe Biden condemned "a white man's culture" as he lashed out at violence against women and, more specifically, lamented his role in the Supreme Court confirmation hearings that undermined Anita Hill's credibility nearly three decades ago.
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| To kiss pope's hand - or not - enters the Catholic culture wars Posted: 26 Mar 2019 08:20 AM PDT  On Monday, when Pope Francis visited a Catholic shrine in Loreto, he repeatedly withdrew his right hand as a long line of people bowed and tried to kiss the ring on it. Rorate Caeli, a website read by Catholic traditionalists, Tweeted: "Francis, If you don't want to be the Vicar of Christ, then get out of there!" Papal biographer Austen Ivereigh, a supporter of Francis, countered by Tweeting: "He's making sure that they engage with him, not treat him like a sacred relic. Some Vatican watchers noted that even former Pope Benedict, a hero to nostalgic conservatives, and his predecessor John Paul, did not like having their hands kissed - at least not by long lines of people, for the sake of expediency.
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| Whataburger-inspired gun turning heads in Houston Posted: 26 Mar 2019 06:24 AM PDT  The custom, orange and white Whataburger firearm from HTX Tactical might just be the most Texan thing you'll see all day.
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| Rep. Omar says it is about one Benjamin: Netanyahu Posted: 26 Mar 2019 09:09 AM PDT  After weeks of fending off accusations of anti-Semitism, Rep. Ilhan Omar, D-Minn., responded to a gibe by Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.
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| Republican tells Ocasio-Cortez that solution to climate change is to have more babies Posted: 26 Mar 2019 04:40 PM PDT  A Republican senator has told Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez that the true solution to climate change is to "fall in love, get married, and have some kids". As the Senate voted against a measure sponsored by Ms Ocasio-Cortez and others that sought to push the US towards the use of renewable energy, Republican Mike Lee said their plan – the so-called Green New Deal – was "ridiculous". During a speech that he illustrated with pictures and posters of dinosaurs, cartoon characters, babies and Aquaman, the senator from Utah claimed he was treating Ms Ocasio-Cortez's proposal "with the seriousness it deserves".
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| Yale expels student implicated in admissions scam Posted: 26 Mar 2019 11:18 PM PDT  The prestigious Yale University has expelled a student whose parents paid more than a million dollars in bribes to get her in, the first such move since a huge admissions scandal erupted earlier this month. Some 50 people have been indicted so far in a scam to help children of the American elite gain entry into top US colleges. In a statement published on its website on Tuesday, Yale said it had first learnt about the scheme in mid-November, when it was approached by the Boston US Attorney's Office requesting information about head women's soccer coach Rudy Meredith.
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| Was Viking Cruises equipped to brave Norway's winters with Viking Sky cruise ship? Posted: 26 Mar 2019 12:20 PM PDT  "It would be foolish if they were ever going to do winter in Norway again," one cruise expert said after Viking Sky's evacuation and rescue.
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| EXPLAINER-Boeing 737 MAX: What to expect at Capitol Hill, Boeing meetings Posted: 26 Mar 2019 05:54 PM PDT ![EXPLAINER-Boeing 737 MAX: What to expect at Capitol Hill, Boeing meetings]( "EXPLAINER-Boeing 737 MAX: What to expect at Capitol Hill, Boeing meetings") Wednesday will be a pivotal day for aircraft maker Boeing Co and federal aviation safety regulators as they try to rebuild trust following two deadly crashes of Boeing 737 MAX airliners. Boeing has scheduled a briefing on Wednesday for about 200 pilots and airline representatives in Renton, Washington, home of its 737 assembly complex. Also on Wednesday in Washington, D.C., a U.S. Senate panel plans to question the acting head of the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA), the Transportation Department's inspector general and the head of the National Transportation Safety Board about how thoroughly the 737 MAX's automated flight control system was tested, and what will be done to assure that any fixes work.
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| Barr Didn’t Answer These 16 Questions. Mueller’s Report Could Posted: 26 Mar 2019 02:10 PM PDT  Barr delivered a verdict on it in 48 hours, leaving many questions unanswered. Many of those could be revealed when Barr releases a more detailed accounting of Mueller's probe in a matter of weeks, not months, a Justice Department official said. 1. Why didn't Mueller reach a finding on whether Trump tried to obstruct justice?
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| New Trump attack on Obamacare leaves Dems wondering: Why now? Posted: 26 Mar 2019 12:59 PM PDT  The unexpected filing in the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals, where a challenge to the ACA is being heard, came in the middle of the administration's victory lap over the conclusion of the special counsel's investigation.
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| These Easy Lunch Ideas Are Perfect for Entertaining Posted: 26 Mar 2019 10:16 AM PDT |
| Severe Flooding Hits South Dakota American Indian Reservation Posted: 26 Mar 2019 06:36 PM PDT  Flooding that has hit parts of the Midwest hard has nearly paralyzed an American Indian reservation in southern South Dakota, swamping roads, trapping people in homes and cutting off water supplies to thousands.
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| Russian troops in Venezuela violates constitution: Guaido Posted: 26 Mar 2019 12:18 PM PDT  Venezuelan opposition leader Juan Guiado charged Tuesday that the deployment of Russian troops in the troubled South American country violates its constitution. Guaido, who is recognized by the US and more than 50 countries as Venezuela's interim president, raised the issue in a speech to the National Assembly, which he heads. "It seems (the government of President Nicolas Maduro) doesn't trust its own troops, because it is importing others ... once again violating the constitution," he said.
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| College admissions scandal: Education Department launches investigation into universities Posted: 26 Mar 2019 05:10 PM PDT  The U.S. Department of Education will open a "preliminary investigation" into the colleges implicated in a massive admissions scandal.
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| CORRECTED-EXCLUSIVE-Fearful of fake news blitz, U.S. Census enlists help of tech giants Posted: 27 Mar 2019 04:00 AM PDT ![CORRECTED-EXCLUSIVE-Fearful of fake news blitz, U.S. Census enlists help of tech giants]( "CORRECTED-EXCLUSIVE-Fearful of fake news blitz, U.S. Census enlists help of tech giants") The U.S. Census Bureau has asked tech giants Google, Facebook and Twitter to help it fend off "fake news" campaigns it fears could disrupt the upcoming 2020 count, according to Census officials and multiple sources briefed on the matter. The push, the details of which have not been previously reported, follows warnings from data and cybersecurity experts dating back to 2016 that right-wing groups and foreign actors may borrow the "fake news" playbook from the last presidential election to dissuade immigrants from participating in the decennial count, the officials and sources told Reuters.
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| Maker of OxyContin agrees to $270M settlement in Oklahoma Posted: 26 Mar 2019 03:20 PM PDT  OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — The maker of OxyContin and the company's controlling family agreed Tuesday to pay a groundbreaking $270 million to Oklahoma to settle allegations they helped create the nation's deadly opioid crisis with their aggressive marketing of the powerful painkiller.
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| CORRECTED-UPDATE 1-Lufthansa plans to buy either Boeing 737 MAX or Airbus A320neo Posted: 26 Mar 2019 11:19 AM PDT ![CORRECTED-UPDATE 1-Lufthansa plans to buy either Boeing 737 MAX or Airbus A320neo]( "CORRECTED-UPDATE 1-Lufthansa plans to buy either Boeing 737 MAX or Airbus A320neo") Deutsche Lufthansa AG plans to buy a triple-digit number of either Boeing 737 MAX or Airbus A320neo jetliners to replace jets in its fleet, Chief Executive Carsten Spohr said on Tuesday. "We have not lost our trust in Boeing" following two fatal 737 MAX crashes and the grounding earlier this month of the worldwide fleet of that aircraft, Spohr said in a meeting with reporters. "They've built wonderful aircraft over the decades, and I am sure they will fix the current issue," Spohr said of Boeing.
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| House Democrats Request Mueller's Full Report Be Sent by April 2 Posted: 25 Mar 2019 05:55 PM PDT  The Democratic chairs of six House committees, in a letter to Barr on Monday, said the attorney general's four-page summary of the Mueller report "is not sufficient for Congress, as a coequal branch of government," to examine President Donald Trump's conduct.
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| Wary calm as Egyptian-brokered ceasefire ends fighting between Hamas and Israel in Gaza Posted: 26 Mar 2019 04:05 AM PDT  A wary calm returned to Gaza and southern Israel on Tuesday after an Egyptian-brokered ceasefire brought an end to hours of intense fighting between Israeli forces and Hamas. Israeli jets struck targets throughout Gaza on Monday night, including the offices of the Islamist group's leader, while Hamas and other Palestinian factions fired rockets at Israeli towns and cities. No fatalities were reported on either side although several people were injured in Gaza, according to the Hamas-run health ministry. The escalation was sparked by Hamas firing a rocket that wounded several members of a British-Israeli family on Monday morning. At around 10pm on Monday, Egyptian mediators managed to broker a ceasefire between the two sides, as they have done during several other flare-ups of violence in recent months. The ceasefire took several hours to take hold and airstrikes and rocket fire continued in the early hours of Tuesday. Millions of civilians on both sides spent the night in fear as the fighting continued. Palestinians sit with their belongings in a street outside their destroyed house after an Israeli missile targeted a nearby Hamas site, in Gaza City Credit: REUTERS/Mohammed Salem However, by mid-morning the situation was tense but calm. Palestinian children went to school in Gaza as usual but school was cancelled for Israeli children in several districts in the country's south. Benjamin Netanyahu, the Israeli prime minister, cut short a trip to Washington to return to Israel to manage the situation. Mr Netanyahu, who is also Israel's defence minister, was due to arrive in Israel in the afternoon and hold meetings with security chiefs. "We have responded very, very forcefully," Mr Netanyahu said before departing Washington. "Hamas needs to know that we will not hesitate to go in and take all necessary steps – regardless of anything, any date, other than Israel's security needs." The Israeli leader is seeking re-election for a fifth term in office when Israelis go to the polls on April 9. He is under pressure from political opponents on both the Centre and the Right to strike forcefully against Hamas. Hamas hailed Monday night's violence as a victory for its cause. "Gaza and the resistance in Gaza are unbreakable. The will of Gaza will always defeat the occupation; Gaza will break the siege and live free and in dignity," a spokesman said. Hamas is under intense pressure within Gaza to raise living standards and deal with horrendous economic conditions in the strip, where unemployment is at around 50 per cent. Anti-Hamas protesters took to the streets last week under the slogan "We Want To Live". Hamas responded with a major crackdown and arrested dozens of people. Egypt and the UN have been trying to broker a long-term deal which would see Hamas promise to stop attacks on Israel in return for Israel lifting its crushing 12-year blockade on Gaza. However, the negotiations have yielded few results and Hamas is believed to be trying to inject fresh urgency into the talks by firing rockets while at the same time avoiding a full-blown war.
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| Top Reasons Your Dishwasher Isn't Drying Posted: 26 Mar 2019 12:37 PM PDT  You'd think that cleaning would be the most difficult—and important—task for a dishwasher. It turns out, maybe not. "Drying is harder than cleaning because dishes and glasses have areas that trap...
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| Amazon sale gets you an extra large $150 air fryer for just $90 Posted: 26 Mar 2019 01:37 PM PDT ![Amazon sale gets you an extra large $150 air fryer for just $90]( "Amazon sale gets you an extra large $150 air fryer for just $90") If you want a well-reviewed air fryer that has huge capacity that costs less than most models half it's size, we've got just what the doctor ordered. The Power Air Fryer XL 5.3 Quart Fryer retails for $150, and it's worth every penny. It cooks up wonderfully crispy food with little or even no oil, so it's much healthier than traditional deep fryers. It also has plenty of capacity -- 5.3 quarts is enough room to feed a large family, and then some. The $150 price tag is more than fair, but hurry up and you can snag one on Amazon for $90.Here are the key details from the product page:> The secret to the Power AirFryer XL is Rapid Air Technology. The Power AirFryer XL surrounds your food with Turbo Cyclonic Air instead of oil. Your meals are cooked in a whirlwind of superheated air, not oil or lard. That means any of your favorite fast foods can be made with fewer calories from added cooking fat/oil, without sacrificing taste. You get the same, crispy fried taste & texture you love. With little to no oil, no trans fats, and no greasy mess! The best part is the state-of-the-art digital touchscreen & 7 one-touch easy pre-sets for French fries, chicken, steak, roasts, shrimp & baked goods. Making your favorite waffle fries from childhood? Just press the French Fries button, and the Power AirFryer XL does the rest!
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| Thailand's puzzling election results explained Posted: 26 Mar 2019 12:53 AM PDT  Thailand's 2014 coup leader and junta chief Prayut Chan-O-Cha is one step closer to power after a shock election Sunday that lifted his party ahead in the popular vote. Army-aligned Phalang Pracharat won more than 7.6 million votes, about 400,000 votes ahead of Pheu Thai, the party linked to exiled former premier Thaksin Shinawatra. Both parties have claimed the right to lead Thailand's next government, leaving voters confused.
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| Olive tree with soil from Ethiopia crash site unites mourners Posted: 26 Mar 2019 10:06 AM PDT  Kenya, Canada and Ethiopia suffered the biggest losses of life and their representatives and others joined about 100 relatives and friends at the memorial ceremony. "Angela was a bright, compassionate, beautiful woman whose smile was infectious," Roland Rehhorn from Canada said, describing his daughter, 24. "In 2011 Angela fell in love with Kenya after being there for 14 days on a high school mission.
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| Google, McClatchy collaborating on local news experiment Posted: 26 Mar 2019 02:16 PM PDT ![Google, McClatchy collaborating on local news experiment]( "Google, McClatchy collaborating on local news experiment") NEW YORK (AP) — Google and the McClatchy publishing company say they will work together on an experiment launching three digital-only outlets to provide local news in U.S. communities that are currently news "deserts."
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| The Mueller interview that wasn't: how Trump's legal strategy paid off Posted: 27 Mar 2019 09:03 AM PDT  Mueller had spent 22 months investigating whether Trump or his aides conspired with Russia during the 2016 election, interviewing 500 witnesses. The strategy paid off, insulating Trump from the legal jeopardy presented by a sit-down interview with the special counsel's team - an interview that Trump had said publicly he wanted to do. There was even a tentative date for the interview - Jan. 27, 2018 - though one of Trump's lawyers told Reuters he never intended to make the president available to Mueller.
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| Trump's border emergency declaration stands after House vote falls short Posted: 26 Mar 2019 04:59 PM PDT  * Lawmakers fail to reach two-thirds majority to override veto * Pentagon reallocates $1bn to help fund Trump's border wallSalvadoran migrants wait for a transport to arrive after turning themselves in to the US border patrol by the border fence under construction in El Paso, Texas, last week. Photograph: Paul Ratje/AFP/Getty ImagesDonald Trump's emergency declaration over the US border with Mexico remained in force after the House failed to garner the two-thirds majority needed to overturn the president's veto.The House voted 248-181 on Tuesday to override Trump's veto, the first of his presidency. Democrats succeeded in attracting 14 Republicans to join them in the effort, but still fell 38 votes short of their target.The result was seized upon as yet another victory by Trump, who is already on a high after the special counsel Robert Mueller found no evidence of collusion between the Trump campaign and Russia. In a tweet, the president pronounced the vote to be a "BIG WIN" and repeated his caricature of the Democrats as the part of open borders, drugs and crime.> Thank you to the House Republicans for sticking together and the BIG WIN today on the Border. Today's vote simply reaffirms Congressional Democrats are the party of Open Borders, Drugs and Crime!> > — Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) March 26, 2019The two Democrats who wrote the resolution to override Trump's veto, the House speaker, Nancy Pelosi, and Joaquin Castro, a congressman from Texas, denounced the emergency declaration as a "dangerous action" that violated the exclusive responsibility of Congress to set budgets. In a joint statement, they vowed to carry on striving to "restore our constitutional system of balance of powers".Trump resorted to the highly contentious move of triggering a national emergency declaration in February, following a five-week government shutdown over funding for the president's much-vaunted border wall. The move provoked a rare display of disapproval towards the president from Republicans in both the House and Senate, who joined Democrats to pass a resolution that would have ended the national emergency, until the president vetoed the measure.One of the Democrats' main concerns was that Trump would use the national emergency to siphon off money from the military to pay for his wall. The first signs of that scenario materializing emerged on Monday night when the Department of Defense announced it had redirected $1bn in funding to allow some construction to go ahead.Democrats immediately warned the reallocation of resources would worsen existing "substantial shortfalls" in defense spending.Patrick Shanahan, the acting defense secretary, said the $1bn would go towards 57 miles of 18ft-high fencing and other measures along the border, CNN reported.Sign up for the US morning briefingIn a letter to the homeland security secretary, Kirstjen Nielsen, Shanahan said he had authorized the Army Corps of Engineers to commence planning and construction of the wall near the Yuma and El Paso sections of the border, according to CNN.In a letter to Shanahan, a group of Democratic senators who sit on subcommittees on defense and military construction, veterans affairs and related agencies accused the Department of Homeland Security of allowing "political interference and pet projects to come ahead of many near-term, critical readiness issues facing our military"."We strongly object to both the substance of the funding transfer, and to the Department implementing the transfer without seeking the approval of the congressional defense committees and in violation of provisions in the defense appropriation itself," the senators, including Tammy Baldwin, Dianne Feinstein and Richard Durbin, wrote."The $1bn reprogramming that the department is implementing without congressional approval constitutes a dollar-for-dollar theft from other readiness needs of our Armed Forces."
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| May's Brexit Deal Wins Support -- But Price Might Be Her Job Posted: 26 Mar 2019 10:00 PM PDT  U.K. Prime Minister Theresa May saw signs that her beleaguered Brexit deal might be winning support -- as it became clear that the price might be her job. With Parliament preparing to vote on rival plans that could soften Britain's departure from the European Union -- or cancel it altogether -- Brexit-backers in May's Conservative Party began to signal that they could shift and back her deal in preference to risking their prize. Former Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson, who would be likely to run to succeed May, gave ITV News his price for backing the deal.
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| Mercedes-Benz Recalls Cars Over Seat Lock Issue Posted: 26 Mar 2019 01:02 PM PDT  Mercedes-Benz Recalls Cars Because Seats Don't Lock Into Place Mercedes-Benz is recalling 22,637 cars and convertibles because the front seats might not lock into place as expected. As a result,...
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| New Gaza rocket threatens truce after Netanyahu warning Posted: 26 Mar 2019 10:51 PM PDT  Palestinian militants fired a rocket at Israel late Tuesday prompting further retaliation strikes from the Israeli army, with the late-night exchanges threatening claims of a truce. It comes hours after Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said he was prepared for further military action in Gaza, at a highly sensitive time ahead of Israel's April 9 elections. The latest severe flare-up began early Monday when a rare long-distance rocket fired from the Gaza Strip hit a house north of Tel Aviv, wounding seven Israelis.
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| A future visit to a McDonald's drive-thru will soon be similar to shopping on Amazon Posted: 26 Mar 2019 08:37 AM PDT  McDonald's says its Drive Thru menu displays will be able to show food based on time of day, weather, current restaurant traffic and trending items.
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| 6 paid iPhone apps on sale for free on March 26th Posted: 26 Mar 2019 07:26 AM PDT  Paid iPhone and iPad apps on sale for free are like money -- no matter how much you have, it's never enough. We've rounded up the six best premium iOS apps that are on sale for free today, and they're all listed below. If you want even more to check out, there are still a few freebies left in yesterday's post so definitely go back and check it out if you missed it.This post covers paid iPhone and iPad apps that have been made available for free for a limited time by their developers. BGR is not affiliated with any app developers. There is no way to tell how long they will be free. These sales could end an hour from now or a week from now -- obviously, the only thing we can guarantee is that they were free at the time this post was written. If you click on a link and see a price listed next to an app instead of the word "get," it is no longer free. The sale has ended. 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| This website keeps track of every product and service that Google has ever killed Posted: 26 Mar 2019 01:14 PM PDT  We're still a few months away from the halfway mark of 2019, and already Google has sent some pretty high-profile products to an early grave -- products that the company had high initial hopes for, like its Inbox email service and its failed Facebook killer Google+. But this, as we all know, is really par for the course when it comes to the search giant, which has tried so many experiments over the years with products, apps and services that didn't quite work out as planned that it's ended up building quite a crowded graveyard of failed ambitions.Maybe there's even a few of those that you loved and are still frustrated with Google for killing them.To keep track of it all, one developer created an open source list called "Killed by Google" that serves as a kind of running tally of all these efforts -- everything from Google Zeitgeist to Buzz -- that the company killed early.The list is simply a rundown of all those former Google properties, listed with a tombstone icon next to them and the years they existed. "Killed by Google is a Free and Open Source list of dead Google products, services, and devices," reads some boilerplate language at the bottom of the site, which continues: "It serves to be a tribute and memorial of beloved products and services killed by Google."The Twitter account associated with the list, @killedbygoogle, notes that it's the product of Minneapolis-area developer Cody Ogden. In a blog post explaining the list's creation, he writes that the early buzzy around the project both surprised him and served as a reminder of "how much we can bond with the technology that we introduce into our lives. We grow accustomed to the apps, services, and devices we use as a part of our routine. We come to know their characteristics, their quirks, and like a relationship, it deeply affects us, even for years after they are no longer with us."As proof, he then goes on to highlight some of the comments from a Reddit post about the "Killed by Google" list which shows how much passionate support many of the products had and still enjoy:https://www.reddit.com/r/Android/comments/b592jc/killed_by_google_a_tribute_and_log_of_beloved/ejc6jcq/https://www.reddit.com/r/Android/comments/b592jc/killed_by_google_a_tribute_and_log_of_beloved/ejc2byd/https://www.reddit.com/r/Android/comments/b592jc/killed_by_google_a_tribute_and_log_of_beloved/ejbwazw/
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| Examining the troubled resume of attorney Michael Avenatti Posted: 26 Mar 2019 06:36 PM PDT  Avenatti accused of attempting to extort Nike; Independent Women's Voice president Tammy Bruce weighs in on 'Tucker Carlson Tonight.'
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| View Photos of the Lego McLaren Senna Posted: 26 Mar 2019 01:24 PM PDT |
