Source: Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines — 21st February 2019 at 23:16 (about 6 hours ago)
Senior Trump administration officials pushed a project to share nuclear power technology with Saudi Arabia over the objections of ethics officials, according to a congressional report, in a move that could have benefitted a company which has since provided financial relief to the family of Jared Kushner. Citing whistleblowers within the US government, the report by the Democrat-led House oversight and reform committee alleges ?abnormal acts? in the White House regarding the proposal to build dozens of nuclear reactors across the kingdom. The committee on Tuesday opened an investigation into the allegations, which include concerns over whether White House officials in the early months of the Trump administration sought to work around national security procedures to push a Saudi deal that could have financially benefited close supporters of the US president. #
Source: Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines — 21st February 2019 at 23:16 (about 6 hours ago)
Yvette Gaytan says that Trump's proposed border wall would likely interfere with her property and is unnecessary from what she's seen in the area. #
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Pretty much anyone who shops at the Walmart in Selinsgrove, Pennsylvania, knows store greeter Adam Catlin, who's been welcoming customers with a huge smile and a hearty hello for more than a decade. #
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Chicago Police superintendent Eddie Johnson announced during a Thursday press conference that Empire actor Jussie Smollett hired two men to stage a racially motivated attack on him in order to advance his career and increase his earnings.Upon taking the stage, Johnson immediately expressed regret that Chicago's victims of gun violence do not receive the same media attention that was afforded to Smollett's story. He then condemned the actor's willingness to cynically use the history of racism in America to advance his career.?Smollett took advantage of the pain and anger of racism to promote his career,? Johnson said. ?This publicity stunt was a scar that Chicago didn?t earn, and certainly didn?t deserve.?Johnson went on to explain that the two Nigerian brothers hired by Smollett to carry out the hoax told police he hoped the staged attack would be financially beneficial.?The stunt was orchestrated by Smollett because he was dissatisfied with his salary,? Johnson said.Smollett turned himself in early Thursday morning after being charged with disorderly conduct, a class-four felony that typically results in a sentence of anywhere between probation and three years in prison.Johnson also confirmed reports that Smollett first attempted to claim victimhood status by sending himself a threatening letter that included racist, homophobic, and politically charged language. When the letter, which was accompanied by white powder, failed to elicit the reaction Smollett hoped for, he paid the brothers, one of whom worked on Empire, $3,500 to stage an attack on him early on the morning of January 29. #
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Trump wants Europe to take back "over 800 ISIS fighters? #
Source: Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines — 21st February 2019 at 23:16 (about 6 hours ago)
President Donald Trump is preparing to establish a panel to examine whether climate change affects national security, despite existing reports from his own government showing that global warming is a growing threat. According to a White House memo dated 14 February, Mr Trump?s staff members have drafted an executive order to create a 12-member committee, which will include a White House adviser, William Happer, whose views are at odds with the established scientific consensus that carbon dioxide pollution is dangerous for the planet. #
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The family of Nicholas Sandmann, the teen caught up in a viral encounter in January, has sued The Washington Post for $250 million #
Source: Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines — 21st February 2019 at 23:16 (about 6 hours ago)
Willemstad, Curaçao (Netherlands Antilles) (AFP) - A plane carrying food and medical aid from the United States landed on the Caribbean island of Curacao Thursday en route to Venezuela, whose government has vowed to block it. AFP reporters saw the jet land at the airport in Curacao, one of the focal points of a volatile standoff between Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro and self-declared head of state Juan Guaido. #
Source: Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines — 21st February 2019 at 21:46 (about 7 hours ago)
Hot on the heels of Benetton, which opened Milan Fashion Week Tuesday, February 20, fashion houses Gucci, Alberto Zambelli, Annakiki, Alberta Ferretti and Moncler showed their fall/winter 2019-2020 collections in the Italian city. This first official day reiterated certain trends spotted in New York and London with some colorful displays, notably at Byblos and Annakiki, mixing bright shades and prints, as well as at Gucci. Like in London and New York, plays on volume and proportion -- especially with outerwear designs -- were also on the agenda in Milan, with several extravagant pieces covered with frills and furbelows. #
Source: Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines — 21st February 2019 at 21:46 (about 7 hours ago)
Donald Trump?s refusal to let an American-born woman return to the US after she ran away to join Isis amounts to a dangerous overreach by a president who wants to ?operate by executive fait?, immigration lawyers and critics say. The criticism comes after the Trump administration announced this week that 24-year-old Hoda Muthana would not be allowed to return to the US saying she has no legal basis to be in the country, in spite of her lawyer?s and family?s claims that she was issued a US passport in 2014 before leaving the country. #