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Northern rail: Government takes over after chaos

The government takes over services from Sunday which were previously operated by Arriva Rail North. from BBC News - Business https://ift.tt/2I8uJr6 via IFTTT

Coronavirus: Italian economy takes a body blow

Could Italy's health crisis be the factor that tips the country into another recession? from BBC News - Business https://ift.tt/2vuDBEJ via IFTTT

Fox News Breaking News Alert

Fox News Breaking News Alert Biden wins South Carolina Democratic primary, Fox News projects, in crucial boost to campaign after early losses 02/29/20 4:01 PM

Mainland China reports 573 new coronavirus cases on Feb. 29

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Mainland China reported 573 new confirmed coronavirus cases on Feb. 29, up from 427 on the previous day, the country's health authority said on Sunday. from Reuters: World News https://ift.tt/2vjsr5X via IFTTT

Biden projected as winner in South Carolina, halting momentum of front-runner Sanders

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Joe Biden was projected to win South Carolina's Democratic primary on Saturday, reviving his faltering White House campaign and halting the surge of national front-runner Bernie Sanders, who appeared headed to a distant second-place finish. from Reuters: U.S. https://ift.tt/39buzeH via IFTTT

Biden projected to win South Carolina Democratic presidential primary

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Former U.S. Vice President Joe Biden is projected to win the South Carolina Democratic presidential primary on Saturday and is expected to defeat rival Bernie Sanders decisively for his first victory of the 2020 election campaign, according an analysis of exit polls by Edison Research. from Reuters: U.S. https://ift.tt/2Vyt8mw via IFTTT

Weinstein stir crazy at New York hospital days after sex crimes conviction, spokesman says

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Harvey Weinstein is sitting under guard in a cinderblock room at a New York City hospital days after his conviction for sexual assault and rape, and at times "can go stir crazy just staring at the emptiness," according to a spokesman. from Reuters: U.S. https://ift.tt/2I9ni36 via IFTTT

Biden Wins in South Carolina, Adding New Life to His Candidacy

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Joe Biden wins South Carolina primary with overwhelming support.

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After 12 hours, the polls in South Carolina have closed.

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A crowd waits for Warren in Houston: ‘I just love her energy.’

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Looking to Super Tuesday, Buttigieg campaigns in Nashville.

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New Yahoo News/YouGov poll: Who is strongest against Trump? Must-win states and swing voters show Biden holds edge over Sanders

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A new Yahoo News/YouGov poll suggests that Sanders could be a riskier nominee than his supporters are willing to admit. from Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines https://ift.tt/2Tjgrcs via IFTTT

Virus fears keep hundreds of cruise passengers at sea

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Operators of a British cruise ship that was turned away from its destination due to fears of the new coronavirus said Saturday they have chartered planes to ferry passengers home — but don't yet have permission to dock anywhere. The Braemar, which had been scheduled to disembark its hundreds of passengers in the Dominican Republic on Friday, was still cruising through the Caribbean more than a day later, with no immediate word on where it might wind up. Olsen Cruise Lines issued statements insisting that nobody aboard had symptoms consistent with the COVID-19 illness. from Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines https://ift.tt/2I7vEbo via IFTTT

Why the Navy's New Lrasm Missile Would Be a Real Ship-Killer

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A very good idea. from Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines https://ift.tt/2wUHhQx via IFTTT

Coronavirus latest news: US records first death as patient dies in Washington state

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Outbreak could leave one in 10 people in the UK in hospital Virus fears threatening to spark stockpiling and panic buying FAQ: Everything you need to know about coronavirus Fake news: 10 myths and conspiracies about the virus Subscribe to The Telegraph, free for 30 days Donald Trump reassured Americans that there was "no reason to panic" after the United States reported its first death from the coronavirus. Mr Trump said the victim in King County in Washington state was a "wonderful woman" in her late 50s who was "medically high risk". The president banned anyone who had visited Iran in the last 14 days from entering the US, and also advised Americans not to travel to affected areas of Italy and South Korea. Mr Trump said he was "very strongly" considering closing the US border with Mexico. He said the US had 43 million masks ready, and he would meet with the heads of pharmaceutical companies at the White House on Monday to discuss a possible vac...

South Carolina primary results in full – county by county

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Get the results in the crucial early voting state * South Carolina Democrats vote as Biden looks for win to boost flagging campaign * Help us cover the critical issues of 2020. Consider making a contributionSouth Carolina is the first state in the deep south to cast its vote in the primary race, where African American voters form a majority of the electorate. Democrats and Republicans will be voting, but because Donald Trump faces no serious opposition, all eyes will be on the Democratic contest.default What is a primary?The primaries and caucuses are a series of contests, in all 50 US states plus Washington DC and US territories, by which the party selects its presidential nominee. Most US states hold primary elections, in which voters go to a polling place, mail in their ballots or otherwise vote remotely. A handful of states hold caucuses – complicated, hours-long meetings, which continue until one candidate emerges as victor. And the process is different for Democrats and Republica...

'I guess I wasn't arrested': Joe Biden reverses on claim of an arrest in South Africa

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Joe Biden has previously told of being arrested in South Africa while traveling with black lawmakers. He reversed himself Friday in a CNN interview. from Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines https://ift.tt/2VBZ6yl via IFTTT

Erdogan Is Holding a Gun to His Own Head in Syria

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Man whose son was found encased in cement sentenced to 72 years in prison

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A Colorado man whose seven-year-old son was repeatedly abused before being found encased in concrete in a Denver storage unit has been sentenced to 72 years in prison for the death.Leland Pankey received the sentence on Friday, with one count of child abuse landing him 48 years in prison and 24 years for tampering with the body. from Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines https://ift.tt/2TaIVX3 via IFTTT

The five men who died together when a co-worker opened fire in Milwaukee have been identified

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The five co-workers killed in the Molson Coors shooting were power house operators, machinists and electricians, Milwaukee police said. from Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines https://ift.tt/3cm1peT via IFTTT

Iran reports new surge in coronavirus cases

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Iran on Saturday reported a surge in new coronavirus cases as the number of deaths jumped to 43, but it dismissed as "rumours" a report the real toll was much higher. Since it announced its first deaths from COVID-19, Iran has scrambled to bring the outbreak under control, shutting schools, suspending cultural and sporting events and halting meetings of the cabinet and parliament. The health ministry on Saturday reported nine new deaths and a 53 percent jump in infections over the previous 24 hours, taking the overall totals to 43 deaths among 593 cases. from Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines https://ift.tt/32DxLgy via IFTTT

Pence tells Rush Limbaugh, who said coronavirus has been overhyped: 'We're all in this together'

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Limbaugh has said concerns about the coronavirus are being "weaponized" by Democrats and the media and compared the virus to "the common cold." from Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines https://ift.tt/2wZQTd3 via IFTTT

Biotechnology trade group taps former Biogen CEO as its coronavirus czar

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The Biotechnology Innovation Organization (BIO), the biotechnology industry's largest trade association, told Reuters on Friday that former Biogen Inc CEO George Scangos would coordinate its response to the global coronavirus outbreak. from Reuters: World News https://ift.tt/2I3WoJP via IFTTT

Walkout as Polanksi wins 'best director' at Césars

The Polish-French director is wanted in the US for the statutory rape of a 13-year-old in the 1970s. from BBC News - World https://ift.tt/2wikSfz via IFTTT

Leap Year: What it's like being born on 29 February?

People around the world tell us what it's like being born on 29 February. from BBC News - World https://ift.tt/2TcbZ0p via IFTTT

Latvia railway: Why I love living in an old train station

Milda Romanova's home is an old rail station, and at 88 she still loves all things trains. from BBC News - World https://ift.tt/2VvjX6j via IFTTT

Leap Year: What it's like being born on 29 February?

People around the world tell us what it's like being born on 29 February. from BBC News - Home https://ift.tt/2TcbZ0p via IFTTT

Walkout as Polanksi wins 'best director' at Césars

The Polish-French director is wanted in the US for the statutory rape of a 13-year-old in the 1970s. from BBC News - Home https://ift.tt/2wikSfz via IFTTT

Knife offenders lack male role models, says senior police officer

Senior officers says it is "too easy" to blame cuts, social media and drugs for a rise in offences. from BBC News - Home https://ift.tt/2PALFe9 via IFTTT

The decade that shattered trust in politics

Laura Kuenssberg explores the scandals that shook faith in elites at the start of the 21st century. from BBC News - Home https://ift.tt/2I5OQGp via IFTTT

Map: Confirmed coronavirus cases, worldwide

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More than 81,000 people have been sickened by a coronavirus, mostly in China. This map is updated daily. from Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines https://ift.tt/2uxBlw0 via IFTTT

The Sinister Sanders Child-Care Plan

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Bernie Sanders announced a “universal child care” proposal at the end of his wide-ranging 60 Minutes interview with Anderson Cooper. The plan would guarantee “every child in America free full-day, full-week, high-quality child care from infancy through age three,” and the campaign estimates that it would cost taxpayers 1.5 trillion dollars over ten years. But aside from being prohibitively expensive and distressingly vague, the plan looks an awful lot like social engineering.Start with the price tag. After failing to explain how he would pay for his expansive agenda — “I can't rattle off to you every nickel and every dime,” Sanders told Anderson Cooper in a disastrous moment of candor — the Sanders campaign released a partial list of pay-fors the day after the interview, laying out the cost of the senator’s major proposals alongside the tax hikes a Sanders administration would pursue to finance its domestic agenda. The campaign pegged the child-care proposal at a $150 billion annua...

Idaho targets transgender people, birth certificate changes

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Idaho lawmakers moved forward Thursday with legislation banning transgender people from changing the sex listed on their birth certificates despite a federal court ruling declaring such a ban unconstitutional. Ohio and Tennessee are the only other states in the country where transgender people cannot change their birth certificates, according to a law firm that has challenged the practice in court. In Idaho, this is another effort by the conservative state to target the population as Republicans in the House a day earlier advanced legislation to keep transgender women from competition. from Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines https://ift.tt/398dUsa via IFTTT

Central Park Five's Kevin Richardson slams Bloomberg campaign

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Kevin Richardson, a member of the Central Park Five, has hit out at Mayor Michael Bloomberg’s presidential run and his blocking of a multimillion-dollar settlement over the group’s wrongful persecution.Mr Richardson, one of the five teenagers wrongfully convicted for the shocking assault of Trishia Meili in 1989, was reported to have criticised Mr Bloomberg at an event outside his campaign office in Manhattan. from Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines https://ift.tt/3cjCXdJ via IFTTT

Court won't let Trump pardon void guilty verdict against Arpaio

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Used to giving orders, Kansas abortion foes can't cut a deal

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Abortion opponents who've become used to giving orders to Kansas lawmakers on the exact wording of new restrictions are stymied now that they face compromising to get a proposed anti-abortion amendment to the state constitution on the ballot. After falling short in a House vote three weeks ago, abortion opponents have pressured a dozen members who voted no, moderate Republicans and Democrats who are Catholic or who represent relatively conservative or heavily Catholic districts. Kansans for Life, the state's most influential anti-abortion group and a GOP power-broker, has for years told lawmakers what proposals to pursue and has watched them approve the group's language and echo its talking points. from Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines https://ift.tt/32F1IwD via IFTTT

Mexico Has Two Coronavirus Cases, Health Officials Say

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(Bloomberg) -- A 35-year-old man was confirmed as the first coronavirus case in Mexico, the country’s deputy health minister said on Friday. A second case was verified by a state health official.The first patient has a mild case and has been put in quarantine along with family members in the country’s Institute of Epidemiological Diagnosis and Reference for further testing, deputy health minister Hugo Lopez-Gatell said at the National Palace.The man is a resident of Mexico City who took a trip to Italy in February. The case is Mexico’s first, and the second known instance in Latin America after Brazil confirmed a case on Wednesday.“We have the capacity to deal with the situation,” President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador said at his morning press conference.The man traveled to Bergamo, Italy, for a conference, where he had direct contact with an infected Italian national who normally lives in Malaysia.The second case, in the northern border state of Sinaloa, is a 41-year-old man who also ...

Why is Iran's reported mortality rate for coronavirus higher than in other countries?

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Iran has now suspended parliament indefinitely due to the outbreak. Secretary of State Pompeo says the U.S. has offered to help Iran respond to the virus. from Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines https://ift.tt/3c6yyLf via IFTTT

A man convicted for killing his high school girlfriend was freed by decades-old DNA evidence. Now he's on a mission to find the real killer.

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Leah Freeman's shoes were the only clue police had in her murder — and the only evidence that her high school boyfriend Nick McGuffin wasn't her killer. from Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines https://ift.tt/2w9592y via IFTTT

The Strange Tale of How British Commandos Attacked Hitler's Fish Oil Production

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More important than you know. from Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines https://ift.tt/2w9OlbH via IFTTT

Mike Huckabee goes on bizarre rant about Trump 'sucking' coronavirus out of Americans' lungs

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In Donald Trump’s America, very few national figures are as loyal to the president as Mike Huckabee, the former governor of Arkansas and father of the former White House press secretary.And, as criticism has mounted regarding Mr Trump’s reaction to the deadly coronavirus, Mr Huckabee got a chance to display that obedience once again — and took the bait, hook line and sinker, by delivering a bizarre defence of the man. from Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines https://ift.tt/39abrNV via IFTTT

Fox News Breaking News Alert

Fox News Breaking News Alert President Trump holds a rally in North Charleston, S.C., 24 hours before the polls close in the state's Democratic primary. Watc 02/28/20 4:09 PM

New top story on Hacker News: GDC 2020 has been "postponed"

GDC 2020 has been "postponed" 4 by minimaxir | 0 comments on Hacker News.

New top story on Hacker News: Second U.S. coronavirus case of unknown origin confirmed in Santa Clara County

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New top story on Hacker News: If your cipher were secure, this image wouldn't have obvious repeating patterns

If your cipher were secure, this image wouldn't have obvious repeating patterns 10 by EthanHeilman | 1 comments on Hacker News.

Protecting whales from the noise people make in the ocean

Oil drilling and construction is creating a din for sealife - new tech is hoping to turn the volume down. from BBC News - Technology https://ift.tt/389xJy2 via IFTTT

Road schemes may face Heathrow-style court action

Environmentalists could try to block new road plans if they fail to take climate targets into account. from BBC News - Business https://ift.tt/2vpDx9f via IFTTT

Gambling industry 'needs tougher regulation'

The government is being urged to do more to tackle problem gambling by beefing up oversight of the industry. from BBC News - Business https://ift.tt/2T5IWvn via IFTTT

New 'east-west divide' splitting north start-up economy

New research shows more start-up business are thriving on the west of the Pennines. from BBC News - Business https://ift.tt/3a8tGn9 via IFTTT

The boss who put everyone on 70K

A tech boss introduced a $70,000 minimum salary for all his staff - by cutting his own wages. Five years, on he has no regrets. from BBC News - Business https://ift.tt/384Yh3z via IFTTT

'After the coral ban, I lost everything'

Thousands of Indonesian coral farms had to close after an export ban, but a policy U-turn offers hope. from BBC News - Business https://ift.tt/3aeiHIZ via IFTTT

Philippines volcano: Residents allowed to visit island

Philippines residents briefly allowed to return to homes near the Taal volcano find haunting scenes. from BBC News - World https://ift.tt/2uBigcm via IFTTT

Leap years and why we need them

It's a leap year which means there's an extra day in the calendar - 29 February 2020. But why do we need it? from BBC News - World https://ift.tt/2T4hbmU via IFTTT

Coronavirus: On the front line in Wuhan

The BBC speaks to a Chinese doctor who has been on the front line of fighting Coronavirus in Wuhan. from BBC News - World https://ift.tt/3950UDG via IFTTT

Burst water main leaves drivers stranded

Flooding in Houston led to cars being submerged and people having to take refuge on their roofs. from BBC News - World https://ift.tt/2Tm0Mcf via IFTTT

Thousands of depression cases 'linked to universal credit'

The number of unemployed people with psychological distress rose 6.6% between 2013 and 2018, a study suggests. from BBC News - Home https://ift.tt/2T6NFge via IFTTT

The Papers: Virus raises fears over economy and major events

Friday's papers say mass UK gatherings may be restricted due to the spread of coronavirus. from BBC News - Home https://ift.tt/2I154AP via IFTTT

Sanders has a convenient change of heart on delegate rules. Will Democrats buy it?

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There’s one big issue the Vermont senator has reversed himself on — and it could complicate his path to the nomination. from Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines https://ift.tt/395XUHn via IFTTT

The US Navy orders ships in the Pacific to stay at sea at least 14 days between port calls over coronavirus concerns

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Ships have been instructed to remain at sea at least 14 days, the maximum incubation period for the coronavirus. from Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines https://ift.tt/398xEvP via IFTTT

Bloomberg offered running mate spot to Andrew Yang, report claims

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Michael Bloomberg is reportedly trying to convince entreprenuer and former presidential candidate Andrew Yang to join his campaign as his running mate.According to individuals with knowledge of the discussion, aides working with the former New York City mayor reportedly reached out to Mr Yang to discuss how the businessmen could join forces in Mr Bloomberg’s quest for the Democratic nomination. from Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines https://ift.tt/2PwvtdF via IFTTT

Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez says it was 'horrifying' the debate didn't have any climate change questions. Bernie Sanders agrees.

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Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.) watched Tuesday night's Democratic debate, and one thing stood out to her."Not a single climate change question," she tweeted. "Horrifying." One of the participants, Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.), agreed, responding, "A disgrace." The Democratic candidates don't shy away from talking about climate change on the campaign trail; billionaire investor and environmentalist Tom Steyer told voters in South Carolina on Tuesday that climate change is his "No. 1 priority," and if elected, he will declare a climate emergency on his first day in office.Poll after poll has shown that climate change is a key issue for voters; last week, the Pew Research Center released a survey showing that for the first time in two decades, a majority of Americans believe that tackling climate change should be a main priority for the president and Congress.Another poll released last week by the nonpartisan nonprofit Climate Nexus f...

Doctors Inside Iran Believe Coronavirus Is More Serious Than Reported, and Getting Worse

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Medical professionals inside the Islamic Republic tell TIME they believe the country is now grappling with an “epidemic” from Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines https://ift.tt/2TijwcR via IFTTT