| Trump crashes Iowa ahead of caucuses and crucial impeachment vote Posted: 30 Jan 2020 06:35 PM PST  Four days before the Democratic presidential candidates will compete in the Iowa caucuses, and with the U.S. Senate debating in Washington whether to remove him from office, Trump stormed into the Hawkeye state to try to create headlines of his own.
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| Chinese tourists desert Thai resort as coronavirus spreads Posted: 31 Jan 2020 09:05 PM PST  The narrow laneways and pastel-coloured shophouses of Phuket Old Town are usually bustling with Chinese tourists during the Lunar New Year holiday, but travel bans and local fears about coronavirus have largely emptied the streets this year. "The impact is tremendous," 45-year old Ausana Akaradachakul told Reuters as she waited behind the counter for shoppers in her store selling postcards, straw bags, clothing and jewellery. "Only a few days after the news broke about the virus, the Chinese tourists were visibly few," Akaradachakul said.
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| China's isolation grows as virus toll reaches 259 Posted: 01 Feb 2020 01:36 PM PST  China faced deepening isolation over its coronavirus epidemic on Sunday as the death toll soared to 259, with the United States and Australia leading a growing list of nations to impose extraordinary Chinese travel bans. China toughened its own quarantine measures at the centre of the outbreak in Hubei province, a day after the United States temporarily barred entry to foreigners who had been in China within the past two weeks. "Foreign nationals, other than immediate family of US citizens and permanent residents... will be denied entry into the United States," Health Secretary Alex Azar said.
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| Delta flight attendants fight back against Boeing and a system they claim fed them 'toxic' air Posted: 31 Jan 2020 08:59 AM PST  The system in question takes air from an aircraft's engines and brings it into the cabin for pressurization and air conditioning.
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| Atlanta Couple Caught Up in New Zealand Volcano Eruption Have Both Died From Their Injuries Posted: 31 Jan 2020 08:41 AM PST  Pratap Singh, 49, died a month after his wife Mayuari
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| How Do Stealth Destroyers Sail the Seven Seas (And Not Sink?) Posted: 01 Feb 2020 05:39 AM PST  A vital function.
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| Australian koalas named for American firefighters killed in fires Posted: 31 Jan 2020 11:47 PM PST  The brave firefighters and U.S. military veterans were killed in a plane crash while fighting the devastating fires in New South Wales last week.
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| Some Americans to leave China, many stay after US advisory Posted: 31 Jan 2020 03:15 AM PST  Some Americans plan to leave China after the U.S. government advised about a spreading virus outbreak, but many others are staying. The State Department issued a travel advisory Friday saying Americans in China "should consider departing." That followed the evacuation earlier this week of about 200 Americans from Wuhan, the locked-down city at the center of the outbreak. Dickey, a kindergarten teacher, said he is "really scared" and trying to arrange for his 8-year-old daughter and ex-wife to leave Wuhan for the United States.
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| First case of coronavirus in US: Patient got pneumonia, but now only has cough, study says Posted: 31 Jan 2020 11:55 AM PST  The Snohomish County, Washington man remained in the hospital on Thursday. He has no symptoms other than a cough after treatment with antiviral meds.
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| Schiff calls out Trump lawyer Cipollone after Bolton places him 'in the loop' on Ukraine Posted: 31 Jan 2020 01:47 PM PST  House impeachment manager Adam Schiff called out President Trump's defense team lawyer Pat Cipollone Friday, saying he was "in the loop" in the effort to persuade Ukrainian officials to dig up dirt on former Vice President Joe Biden.
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| Biden Digs Deep Into Wall Street Rolodex to Brace for Fight Posted: 01 Feb 2020 10:20 AM PST  (Bloomberg) -- Joe Biden's campaign has added big-name Democratic fundraisers to the candidate's national finance committee, including billionaire Penny Pritzker and Avenue Capital Croup's Marc Lasry, as it braces for a protracted fight for the Democratic nomination.Muddied or close results in the first few contests paired with multiple candidates who have signaled plans to stay in the race indefinitely drag the nominating contest deep into the year, and Biden's camp argued Friday that it's ready for the fight."The VP remains in a strong position to perform well in the first four states and on Super Tuesday, but we're also planning for an extended process into the summer," campaign manager Greg Schultz said in a memo to Biden supporters, hinting that the campaign expects Bernie Sanders will stay in the race at least until the end of the primary calendar, even if he doesn't have a delegate advantage."Monday's contest begins the process, it doesn't end it," Schultz said. "And, it's a process we are fully prepared and well-positioned to win." After falling behind top opponents in raising money, January has been Biden's "strongest month of fund raising since launch," he said, with much of the growth coming online.Setting the BarWhile Schultz's memo could be interpreted as an effort to lower expectations ahead of an uncertain showing on Monday, so he could tout the results if Biden does reasonably well, it could also be seen as an effort to head off panic among Biden's supporters should he perform poorly.For months, Biden's top aides have stressed that their strategy doesn't rely upon wins in Iowa or New Hampshire as much as it does on strong performances later in February in Nevada and South Carolina, and on Super Tuesday, March 3. But before Biden began falling behind Sanders in a variety of national and key-state polls, they hadn't acknowledged the possibility that the nomination fight would stay competitive deep into the primary calendar.Currently, Biden trails Sanders in the RealClearPolitics polling average.In Iowa, Biden and his team are expecting a close finish, the candidate insisted. "I think it's going to be just a tossup here. It has been all the way along," Biden told reporters in Mount Pleasant at the end of a day of campaigning that took him to small events in three towns in the southeastern corner of the state.Calendar Favorable?Still he projected optimism, even as operatives and pundits in Iowa have become more skeptical about his chances. "I've said from the beginning I expect to do well. I probably shouldn't tell you that, but I expect to do well," he said.However Monday night's caucuses turn out, Biden said he doesn't see those results defining the race – at least for him if he doesn't win. "It's not as consequential in one sense as it has been in years past," he said. New Hampshire will be "a real uphill race as it always is for a non-New Englander." Both Sanders and Warren are from neighboring states.The calendar becomes more favorable to him after that. "I feel very strongly that we have a great firewall in South Carolina. I think we're in a position where we'll do very well in Nevada," he said.Big-Name FundraisersIn addition to teasing a strong fundraising announcement as January comes to a close, Schultz big-name Democratic fundraisers who have joined Biden's finance committee, including Pritzker, the former U.S. Commerce Secretary; former Ambassadors Jane Hartley and Rufus Gifford; Lasry, chairman and CEO of Avenue; Mark Gallogly, managing principal and co-founder of private equity firm Centerbridge Partners; Blair Effron, co-founder of investment banking firm Centerview Partners; and Alex Heckler, founding and managing partner of LSN Partners, a Miami Beach-based consulting firm.Schultz said he anticipates there will be only a small difference between the number of delegates among the top candidates after the Iowa and New Hampshire contests. That will benefit Biden, who has led polls of South Carolina by double-digits for months. To help with delegate strategy, Biden's campaign has hired David Huynh, a veteran of Hillary Clinton's 2016 campaign and Kamala Harris's campaign, as delegate adviser. Schultz said that having Huynh, a top expert on delegate strategy, on board will be an "enormous advantage."(An earlier version corrected the affiliation of Blair Effron.)(DISCLAIMER: Michael Bloomberg is also seeking the Democratic nomination for president. Bloomberg is the founder and majority owner of Bloomberg LP, the parent company of Bloomberg News.)(Recasts first paragraph.)To contact the reporter on this story: Jennifer Epstein in Mount Pleasant, Iowa at jepstein32@bloomberg.netTo contact the editors responsible for this story: Wendy Benjaminson at wbenjaminson@bloomberg.net, Magan CraneFor more articles like this, please visit us at bloomberg.comSubscribe now to stay ahead with the most trusted business news source.©2020 Bloomberg L.P.
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| China virus death toll rises to 304 with 45 new fatalities: govt Posted: 01 Feb 2020 03:17 PM PST  The number of confirmed deaths from China's coronavirus outbreak rose to 304, as authorities in hardest-hit Hubei province on Sunday reported 45 new fatalities. In its daily update, figures from the provincial health commission also showed a sharp increase in confirmed infections in Hubei, with 1,921 new cases. China found itself increasingly isolated over the weekend, with the United States and Australia leading a growing list of nations to impose extraordinary Chinese travel bans.
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| Brazilians sent to Mexico by U.S. say they don't understand why Posted: 30 Jan 2020 07:02 PM PST  Bewildered, sad and disappointed, Brazilians migrants sent from the United States to Mexico this week were left wondering how they had ended up in another country whose language they do not understand. The United States on Wednesday began sending some Brazilian migrants who had crossed the border with Mexico back there to await their U.S. court hearings under a program known as the Migrant Protection Protocols (MPP). It is one of several moves by the administration of U.S. President Donald Trump aimed at reducing the number of people seeking asylum at the U.S.-Mexico border.
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| The outbreaks of both the Wuhan coronavirus and SARS likely started in Chinese wet markets. Photos show what the markets look like. Posted: 31 Jan 2020 09:09 AM PST  The Wuhan coronavirus outbreak likely started in a Chinese wet market, where meat and poultry are sold alongside live animals.
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| This Plane Might Get The Air Force To Give Up The F-22 Raptor Posted: 31 Jan 2020 09:00 PM PST  The F-35 is that impressive.
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| Australian wildfires fan argument over impact of arsonists Posted: 31 Jan 2020 06:16 PM PST  What's to blame for scores of wildfires devastating Australia's southeast? There's an increasingly bitter face-off between those who say arson and those who fault climate change. Firefighters blame lightning strikes for most of the major blazes in New South Wales and Victoria states, and many scientists say climate change is the main reason for fires that have claimed at least 33 lives since September, destroyed more than 3,000 homes and razed more than 1 0.6 million hectares (26.2 million acres ).
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| China’s isolation from world grows as virus toll reaches 259 Posted: 01 Feb 2020 07:44 AM PST  China faced deepening isolation due to its coronavirus epidemic on Saturday as the death toll soared to 259, with the U.S. and Australia leading a growing list of nations to impose extraordinary bans on Chinese travel.
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| Trump adds six new countries to travel ban list Posted: 31 Jan 2020 04:34 PM PST  Three years after President Trump first signed an executive order barring entry to the U.S. for citizens of seven majority-Muslim countries, he's adding six new countries to the so-called travel ban list.
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| Asylum seekers learn about obstacles ahead in a hearing room on the border Posted: 01 Feb 2020 04:08 AM PST  "DHS will treat you as someone who is attempting to enter against U.S. law," a judge said.
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| Alleged leader of Iraqi al Qaeda group arrested in Arizona Posted: 31 Jan 2020 07:36 PM PST ![Alleged leader of Iraqi al Qaeda group arrested in Arizona]( "Alleged leader of Iraqi al Qaeda group arrested in Arizona") Ali Yousif Ahmed Al-Nouri, 42, is wanted in Iraq on charges of premeditated murder of the Iraqi police officers in 2006, according to a statement by the U.S. Attorney's Office District of Arizona. An Iraqi judge issued a warrant for Al-Nouri's arrest and the government there issued an extradition request to the U.S. Justice Department, the statement said.
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| Coronavirus outbreak highlights cracks in Beijing’s control Posted: 31 Jan 2020 01:56 PM PST ![Coronavirus outbreak highlights cracks in Beijing's control]( "Coronavirus outbreak highlights cracks in Beijing's control") China's coronavirus outbreak has raised simple but powerful questions about its style of government, in a system with little room for dissent.
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| Rep. Rashida Tlaib boos Hillary Clinton at a Bernie Sanders event in Iowa over 'nobody likes him' comment Posted: 01 Feb 2020 08:09 AM PST  Rep. Rashida Tlaib, who booed Hillary Clinton at a Bernie Sanders event Friday, said she let her frustration and disappointment "get the best of me."
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| What Will North Korea Do If Coronavirus Comes to Its Shores? Posted: 01 Feb 2020 04:25 AM PST  Pyongyang has neither the resources nor the administrative culture – transparency, empiricism divorced from ideology, technocracy – to respond to a genuine epidemic. Sustained foreign assistance and, failing that, brutal repression would almost certainly be necessary to prevent a local plague.
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| Brexit no detour for migrants hoping to cross Channel to UK Posted: 01 Feb 2020 08:13 AM PST  Migrants and refugees waiting by the French side of the English Channel say Brexit hasn't derailed their determination to cross over to pursue better lives in Britain. Mingled alongside police officers in the French port of Calais, hundreds of people live in squalid conditions and watch for a boat or truck to carry them to their dreams as stowaways. Many of them came to Calais from former French colonies such as Ivory Coast and Niger, only to have their asylum requests rejected by French authorities.
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| Alaska Sen. Murkowski ends the suspense by coming out against witness testimony in Trump trial Posted: 31 Jan 2020 11:46 AM PST  The Democrats' demand to call witnesses in the Senate impeachment trial of President Trump evidently failed Friday.
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| Vanessa Bryant asked to keep items fans left at the Staples Center memorial for Kobe Posted: 01 Feb 2020 11:36 AM PST  The president of Staples Center, L.A. Live and Microsoft Theater said it will be cataloging everything before shipping them to the Bryant family.
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| France, Italy Drag Euro-Area Economy to Worst Quarter Since 2013 Posted: 31 Jan 2020 03:20 AM PST  (Bloomberg) -- Terms of Trade is a daily newsletter that untangles a world embroiled in trade wars. Sign up here. The euro-area economy barely grew at the end of 2019 as unexpected contractions in France and Italy dealt the bloc its weakest quarter in almost seven years.The surprise slump in two of the region's biggest nations is yet another blow for their governments. President Emmanuel Macron is already under fire amid protests over controversial pension reforms, while Italy's fragile coalition is scarred by internal skirmishes.Output in the 19-nation region rose just 0.1% in the fourth quarter, down from 0.3% in the previous period, and underlying inflation slowed in January to the weakest in three months. The French economy shrank 0.1%, and Italy posted a 0.3% contraction. Germany has previously said it posted slight growth at the end of 2019 -- the official reading is due next month.The economic gloom may prove to be temporary. Surveys have suggested that the rot has been stemmed for now. The European Central Bank says the risks to the outlook have become "less pronounced," and more signs of improving momentum came Thursday when the European Commission reported a marked rise in sentiment in January, led by manufacturing and construction.What Bloomberg's Economists Say"Growth momentum is set to build into 2020 reflecting fewer risks from the global economy -- trade tension between the U.S. and China have eased somewhat and the worst type of Brexit should be avoided. We see quarterly growth of 0.3% through 2020."\-- Jamie Rush. Read the EURO-AREA REACTStill, the reports could revive calls for more spending by countries that have fiscal space, such as Germany. The ECB has repeatedly called for action, and the European Union's executive arm is planning to publish a document next week asserting that the euro zone's fiscal rules are too convoluted.The yield on German 10-year debt has slipped in recent days and fell below -0.4% for the first time in three months. The euro was little changed at $1.1031 at 11:57 a.m. Frankfurt time on Friday.Trade risks have returned to the fore with the U.S. renewing threats last week to raise duties on imports of cars from the EU, and France only narrowly avoiding American tariffs on wine and cheese in a dispute over digital taxation. The U.S. just reported the biggest drop in imports since 2009, and new concerns are emerging such as the coronavirus and the hit to Chinese and global growth.Read our Virus UpdateFrench cognac maker Remy Cointreau has already sounded a note of caution over the impact of the virus on its business in China and ditched its guidance for the year. Airlines including Germany's Lufthansa cut flights, and Finnish elevator-maker Kone expect a hit on bottom lines amid factory closures.French Finance Minister Bruno Le Maire blamed his economy's poor results on disruptions in ports, the rail network and fuel deposits and highlighted resilient consumption and business investment."This temporary slowdown does not call into question the fundamentals of French growth," he said. Without the curb from companies using up stocks rather than increasing production, the economy would have expanded about 0.3%.One bright spot was Spain, where the government woke up to more evidence that the economy is one of Europe's outperformers. Faster-than-anticipated growth of 0.5% was driven by buoyant exports and a strong increase in services.\--With assistance from Harumi Ichikura, Kristian Siedenburg, Jeannette Neumann, John Follain and Zoe Schneeweiss.To contact the reporters on this story: William Horobin in Paris at whorobin@bloomberg.net;Jana Randow in Frankfurt at jrandow@bloomberg.netTo contact the editors responsible for this story: Fergal O'Brien at fobrien@bloomberg.net, Paul GordonFor more articles like this, please visit us at bloomberg.comSubscribe now to stay ahead with the most trusted business news source.©2020 Bloomberg L.P.
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| U.S. confirms its 8th case of coronavirus, quarantine in effect Posted: 01 Feb 2020 11:19 AM PST ![U.S. confirms its 8th case of coronavirus, quarantine in effect]( "U.S. confirms its 8th case of coronavirus, quarantine in effect") U.S. health officials on Saturday confirmed an eighth case of the fast-spreading new coronavirus in the United States in a person who had traveled to China. The latest U.S. patient, who was not identified, is in Massachusetts, a spokeswoman for the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) said in an emailed statement. The person recently returned from Hubei province in central China, the epicenter of the outbreak.
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| 12-year-old girl in Egypt dies after genital mutilation Posted: 31 Jan 2020 08:39 AM PST  A 12-year-old girl died this week in southern Egypt after her parents brought her to a doctor who performed female genital mutilation, a criminal practice that remains widespread in the region, according to a judicial statement.
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| The real number of coronavirus cases is more than 75,000, according to a scientific model that says the outbreak will double in size every 6.4 days Posted: 31 Jan 2020 08:50 PM PST  A new scientific model says that on January 25 there were 75,815 infected people in Wuhan alone. At the time the official figure was 761.
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| Coronavirus Has Europe Treating Chinese People Like the Plague Posted: 31 Jan 2020 10:12 AM PST  ROME—The sign taped to the glass door of a popular gelateria in front of Rome's iconic Trevi Fountain is perfectly clear, and perfectly ugly. Written in both Chinese and English, it states what pretty much everyone in a country of hypochondriacs and the rest of Europe is thinking: "Due to international safety measures, all people coming from China are not allowed to have access to this place." The writer then apologizes for any inconvenience. WHO Calls Coronavirus 'Emergency' as Person-to-Person Spread Confirmed in U.S.Italy has confirmed just two coronavirus cases despite quarantining 7,000 people on a cruise ship this week over a feverish woman from Hong Kong who had, as it turned out, nothing but the flu. A full 24 hours after the woman was cleared, citizens of the port town of Civitavecchia near Rome staged a protest at the port, demanding that all 750 Chinese passengers on board be tested for the disease before anyone could get off the ship. The two cases that actually are confirmed in Italy are a Chinese couple who traveled from Wuhan to Milan and then across the peninsula on a bus tour with more than 100 other Chinese tourists over the last five days, sparking a panic across the entire country as authorities alert everyone at every stop of their tour—highway rest areas included. The hotel where they were staying, just a block from the Colosseum, was cordoned off with armed police on Friday, prompting passersby to ask each other if there was a terrorist threat. You would think the epidemic has reached plague proportions. On Friday, Italy's civil protection authority announced a six-month "state of emergency" over the health crisis—the first time in the country's history. Twelve people who are tied to the confirmed cases are in Rome's Spallanzani Infectious Disease Hospital under surveillance. But Chinese restaurants, Chinese-owned convenience stops, and even coffee bars with Chinese staff have been empty all week. In Tuscany, where the town of Prato has the highest concentration of Chinese residents in the country, Italians have stopped sending their children to school out of fear they'll contract the virus. About five million Chinese tourists visit Italy each year, pouring millions of euros into the economy, but the Rome Tourism Bureau told The Daily Beast that many tour guides have called off group tours for Chinese people "until things blow over" out of fear their very presence will make other tourists feel uncomfortable. There are also 300,000 Chinese residents living and working across Italy, many in the service and fashion industries. The lack of government guidance on how to handle the epidemic has angered the Chinese community across Italy, many of whom feel betrayed that the government seems to be scapegoating them, according to the head of Rome's Chinese Community in Italian media interviews. A Chinese woman who runs a small convenience store in the bustling neighborhood of Trastevere told The Daily Beast that she has simply started wearing a surgical mask and rubber gloves because Italians wouldn't enter her store. "I haven't been to China for more than 10 years, but they are so scared of us, it just makes sense to show them I'm being safe," she said. "It's either this or risk closing if I lose business."Matteo Salvini, the leader of Italy's xenophobic far-right League party, didn't miss an opportunity to exploit the situation. "Every day dozens of flights arrive in Italy from China," he said at a recent rally. "We need checks, checks, and more checks." At a civil protection press conference in Rome on Friday, the panel of doctors meant to calm fears continued to insist that only people with symptoms were contagious despite confirmation last weekend that the opposite is true. There have also been troubling reports of blatant racism and bullying in the Italian press including how a Chinese-Italian boy playing in a school soccer match in Milan was told by an opponent, "I hope you get the virus, too."Roberto Giuliani, director of the prestigious Santa Cecilia Conservatory in Rome, was sanctioned by the institution after telling students from China, Japan, and even South Korea that they needed a doctor certificate to attend class—even if they had not traveled to China recently. 7,000 People Trapped on Mediterranean Cruise in Italy Over Suspected Coronavirus CaseThe same paranoia has sparked a race debate in France, where six cases have been confirmed. There, Chinese citizens have started using the hashtag JeNeSuisPasUnVirus or "I am not a virus" after the local newspaper Le Courier Picard used the race baiting headlines "Yellow Alert" and "Yellow Peril" over a photo of a Chinese woman wearing a white surgical mask.The French aren't only stigmatizing Chinese people but all Asians, it seems. Shana Cheng, a 17-year-old Paris resident of Vietnamese and Cambodian origin, told the BBC that she was hassled on a Paris bus last weekend. "There's a Chinese woman, she is going to contaminate us, she needs to go home," Cheng says she heard two passengers say. Then she said they looked at her "in a disgusted way, as if I was the virus."Another woman tweeted, "Not all Asians are Chinese. Not all Chinese were born in China and not all have been there. An Asian who coughs doesn't have the coronavirus. Insulting an Asian because of the virus is like insulting a Muslim because of the bombings."In Germany, the only other continental European country with confirmed cases so far—six and counting tied to the automotive supplier Webasto in Stanberg—things aren't much better. A 33-year-old German who worked there is the first human-to-human contact case in Europe after attending a training session hosted by a visiting Chinese colleague who has since returned to Wuhan. All such training sessions with Chinese visitors have since been suspended.As the number of confirmed cases grows across Europe, fear will surely spread, too. And a continued lack of guidance by authorities about how the virus is actually transmitted and who potential carriers are will undoubtedly feed racism and xenophobia, which risks becoming a worse epidemic than the disease itself. Read more at The Daily Beast.Get our top stories in your inbox every day. 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| Bernie Sanders told Ninth Graders the U.S. Committed Acts in Vietnam ‘Almost as Bad as what Hitler Did’ Posted: 31 Jan 2020 06:27 AM PST  During his 1972 gubernatorial run, Senator Bernie Sanders told high-school students that the U.S. had committed acts in its war with Vietnam that were "almost as bad as what Hitler did."An article in the Rutland, Vermont, newspaper, The Rutland Herald, reported on the comments, made while Sanders was campaigning for governor as a member of the Liberty Union party. The article was first unearthed by the Washington Free Beacon.The North Vietnamese "are not my enemy," Sanders told a class of ninth graders in Rutland while on the campaign trail. "They're a very, very poor people. Some of them don't have shoes. They eat rice when they can get it. And they have been fighting for the freedom of their country for 25 years. They can hardly fight back."The American death toll from the Vietnam War was over 58,000. The Herald reported that students pushed back against Sanders's support for amnesty for draft evaders, saying it wouldn't be fair to the parents of soldiers killed in the fighting.Sanders also outlined other positions that may sound familiar to today's voters, including increasing the minimum wage and availability of low-income housing, as well as increased access to dental care. He also charged that the Democratic Party was too beholden to large corporations.The Vermont senator received around one percent of the vote in that election. Sanders is currently the strongest presidential candidate from the progressive wing of the Democratic Party, and has polled ahead of moderate Joe Biden in various Iowa and New Hampshire surveys.Establishment Democrats have been worried by Sanders's rise and durability throughout the primary. The senator has relied on an enthusiastic base of younger progressive voters, and has received strong grassroots financial support.
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| Quarantines await Europeans flown home amid virus outbreak Posted: 01 Feb 2020 09:43 AM PST  European governments ramped up flights Saturday to bring their citizens back from China amid the outbreak of a new virus that has sickened thousands of people. A German air force plane arrived in Frankfurt carrying 128 passengers who were expected to spend two weeks quarantined at a military base. Russia sent military aircraft to evacuate citizens from Wuhan and other areas of China most affected by the virus.
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| Why the F-35s Crazy 'Beast Mode' Should Terrify North Korea, China (Or Anyone) Posted: 01 Feb 2020 07:22 AM PST  It can take out multiple targets with ease.
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| High school teacher charged with secretly recording students to create child porn Posted: 31 Jan 2020 06:26 AM PST ![High school teacher charged with secretly recording students to create child porn]( "High school teacher charged with secretly recording students to create child porn") The charges follow an investigation triggered by the discovery of cameras in the Minneapolis hotel room of students David Kruchten was chaperoning.
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| Kurdistan's Erbil airport denies entry to three Chinese over coronavirus Posted: 01 Feb 2020 03:21 AM PST  Erbil International Airport in the semi-autonomous Kurdistan Region of Iraq denied entry to three Chinese citizens over fears about the coronavirus outbreak in China, authorities said on Saturday. The three passengers were sent back to Dubai, from where they had flown to Erbil, a statement from Kurdistan's airport authority said. Iraq's Basra International Airport said on Friday it was denying entry to passengers of any nationality traveling to Iraq from China.
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| Stacey Abrams says she could be elected president in the next 20 years: ‘That’s my plan’ Posted: 31 Jan 2020 02:08 PM PST  Stacey Abrams plans on being elected U.S. president within the next two decades, the former Democratic gubernatorial candidate for Georgia said in a recent interview.
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| Trump got the number of US coronavirus patients wrong in a tweet about how he's on top of the outbreak Posted: 30 Jan 2020 06:21 PM PST  Trump described himself as a 'germaphobe' but called in the small number of cases in the U.S. a "very little problem," the AP reported.
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| Lori Vallow didn't meet the Thursday deadline to turn her kids over to the state. Their grandma believes the 'monster' will face consequences. Posted: 31 Jan 2020 07:34 AM PST  Vallow had until Thursday to turn her children over to the state of Idaho. She missed it and is believed to still be in Hawaii.
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| U.S. Rejects Obamacare Work-Around Sought by Republican States Posted: 31 Jan 2020 02:12 PM PST  (Bloomberg) -- A health insurance venture that threatened to erode Obamacare and had the backing of seven Republican state attorneys general has been rejected by the U.S. Labor Department.The proposal, from an obscure company in Georgia that was the subject of a Bloomberg News article last month, won the support of states including Georgia and Louisiana, whose attorney general personally pitched it last year to senior White House officials. Among those pushing for the plan was a Washington lobbying firm whose senior adviser is Corey Lewandowski, Donald Trump's onetime campaign manager.The initiative would allow LP Management Services to create a data-sharing partnership that small firms could join; after agreeing to provide online user data, those in the network could then pay full premiums to buy into LP Management's health insurance.Read More: Manafort Mystery Lender's Next Act Is an Obamacare End RunBut in a highly technical advisory ruling, the Labor Department said on Jan. 24 that those joining the venture wouldn't be "bona fide partners" and "do not work for or through the partnership.""The DOL is turning LP Management down," said Timothy Jost, a health-law expert at Washington and Lee University.Several health policy specialists who reviewed the plan for Bloomberg News said LP Management's plan, if approved, could undermine the Affordable Care Act, known as Obamacare, by allowing insurers to cherry-pick their policyholders. The plan's supporters deny that.The ruling could scuttle the venture because potential partners won't join a health-insurance program that lacks the Labor Department's blessing, experts said. A lawyer behind the plan, Alexander Renfro, said LP Management would seek approval through a pending lawsuit."We are disappointed that after 14 months of ignoring our request, and four days before they were required to respond to our lawsuit, the DOL has rushed out an opinion that violates its own rules, ignores the facts presented, and rewrites existing statutes and regulations without a legal basis to do so," he said in an email.One executive involved in the health initiative is Arjan "Ari" Zieger, a California man who made a mysterious $1 million loan in 2017 to Trump's former campaign manager, Paul Manafort. Zieger's lawyer has said the loan had nothing to do with the insurance venture.Companies Zieger helps run have spent about $400,000 to lobby the Trump administration on behalf of the plan.Emails to the attorneys general of Georgia and Louisiana weren't immediately returned.To contact the reporter on this story: David Glovin in New York at dglovin@bloomberg.netTo contact the editors responsible for this story: Jeffrey D Grocott at jgrocott2@bloomberg.net, David S. Joachim, Joe SchneiderFor more articles like this, please visit us at bloomberg.comSubscribe now to stay ahead with the most trusted business news source.©2020 Bloomberg L.P.
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| Iraqi blocs select new PM-designate after weeks of jockeying Posted: 01 Feb 2020 07:09 AM PST  Former communications minister Mohammed Allawi was named prime minister-designate by rival Iraqi factions Saturday after weeks of political deadlock. The choice comes as the country weathers troubled times, including ongoing anti-government protests and the constant threat of being ensnared by festering U.S.-Iran tensions. The selection of Allawi, 66, to replace outgoing Prime Minister Adel Abdul-Mahdi was the product of many back-room talks over months between rival parties.
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| We Don't Know How Many Bullets, Guns or Planes China Sells Around the World Posted: 31 Jan 2020 03:45 AM PST  China may be the world's No. 2 arms producer, according to a new estimate. But we still don't know how many arms it actually sells.
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| How $98 trillion of household wealth in America is distributed Posted: 31 Jan 2020 02:53 AM PST  If a pie represented the wealth in the United States, nine pieces, or 90% of the pie, would go to the wealthiest 20% in the country.
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| Coronavirus is spreading. And so is anti-Chinese sentiment and xenophobia Posted: 31 Jan 2020 04:14 PM PST  Coronavirus is spreading. And so is anti-Chinese sentiment and xenophobia
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| Firefights, blocked roads in Mexican city after senior cartel leader detained Posted: 31 Jan 2020 01:36 PM PST ![Firefights, blocked roads in Mexican city after senior cartel leader detained]( "Firefights, blocked roads in Mexican city after senior cartel leader detained") Armed men blocked roads, burned cars and there were reports of shootouts in the city of Uruapan in western Mexico after a senior leader of the Los Viagras cartel was detained, local media and a source from the prosecutor's office said. Luis Felipe, also known as "El Vocho", was captured earlier in the day in the western state of Michoacan, which has long been convulsed by turf wars between drug gangs and where unrest is not uncommon after the detention of senior cartel figures. Michoacan's state security services, without giving names, said on Twitter that three people have been detained.
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