Trump: Schiff 'has not paid the price, yet’

President Trump continued to ratchet up his rhetoric against Rep. Adam Schiff, D-Calif. tweeting Sunday that the lawmaker has “not paid the price, yet,” for his actions pushing for Trump's impeachment and conviction. Shifty Adam Schiff is a CORRUPT POLITICIAN, and probably a very sick man.

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  'He has not paid the price, yet': Trump tweet about Schiff crossed the line, Democrats say

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  Adam Schiff: Trump Saying I Should Pay a Price Is ‘Intended to Be’ a Threat

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Kobe Bryant's helicopter crashed in foggy conditions considered so dangerous that the LAPD grounded all its flights

The NBA legend Kobe Bryant died in a helicopter crash on Sunday morning. The fog conditions were so bad that the Los Angeles Police Department had grounded its flights that morning, deeming it too dangerous to fly. Flight-tower audio recordings published by TMZ showed aviation authorities telling the helicopter pilot he was flying "too low" at some point during Sunday's flight.

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  Lakers fan Jack Nicholson pays tribute to 'so talented' Kobe Bryant in rare interview

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  Lamar Odom Mourns Kobe Bryant: ‘The Only Loss I Can Compare This to Is When I Lost My Son’

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German Auschwitz prosecutor recalls powerful tales from Holocaust survivors

Of the hundreds of testimonies he heard from survivors of the Nazi death camp at Auschwitz, retired German prosecutor Gerhard Wiese says the one that touched him most was of a Jewish father who had tried but failed to save his twins from the gas chamber. The father had offered his children to Josef Mengele, the Nazi officer known as the Angel of Death for his inhumane genetic experiments focused on twins, hoping they stood a better chance of survival. But Mengele waved them away to the gas chamber, said Wiese, the last surviving prosecutor of the Auschwitz trials which took place in Frankfurt in the 1960s of hundreds of ex-members of Adolf Hitler's feared SS group for their roles in the Holo...

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  Sorrow and triumph, an Auschwitz survivor's journey back to a former hell

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  Born in Auschwitz, survivor says stories of atrocity must be told

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Why The Ninth Circut Court Reluctantly Dismissed The Kids' Climate Case

A big assist is due the Supreme Court, which bench‐​slapped some sense into the Ninth Circuit. In 2015, a group of children filed suit in a federal district court in Oregon, alleging that the federal government infringed on on their putative constitutional right to a climate unaffected by anthropogenic global warming. For starters, it's not terribly plausible to claim there's an unenumerated constitutional right to a specific atmospheric concentration of greenhouse gases.

Global alarm grows as China's capital reports first virus death

China's capital on Monday recorded its first death from a deadly coronavirus as it struggles to contain a rapidly spreading disease that has sparked global alarm, with countries scrambling to evacuate their citizens from the epicentre of the epidemic. The fatality in Beijing raises the death toll from the new virus to 82, with more than 2,700 people infected across the nation. The United States urged its citizens to "reconsider" all travel to China and told them not to go to central Hubei province, where the pneumonia-like virus emerged.

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  Countries evaluate evacuation of citizens in virus epicenter

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  Coronavirus: do airport screenings and face masks work?

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US says mystery crash in Afghanistan was US Air Force plane

An American military aircraft crashed in eastern Afghanistan on Monday, the U.S. military said, adding that there were no indications so far it'd been brought down by enemy fire. The spokesman for U.S. forces in Afghanistan, Col. Sonny Leggett, said that the military plane, a Bombardier E-11A, crashed in the Ghazni province and an investigation of its causes was ongoing. Monday's plane crash is not expected to derail U.S.-Taliban peace talks if it turns out to have been an accident.

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  Taliban says it gunned down U.S. military plane in Afghanistan, killing all personnel onboard

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  U.S. surveillance aircraft crashes in Afghanistan

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Saudi foreign minister says Israeli passport holders cannot visit: CNN

Saudi Arabia's foreign minister said Israelis were not welcome to visit the kingdom after Israel decreed that Israeli citizens could visit Saudi Arabia under certain circumstances, CNN reported on Monday.

British man dies in US immigration detention in Florida

A British man has died while being held in US immigration detention in Florida, the Guardian has confirmed. The death was first reported by BuzzFeed News, which said the man was 39 years old and that the cause was initially attributed to asphyxiation due to hanging. “Our staff are in contact with the US authorities following the death of a British man in Florida,” said a spokeswoman for the Foreign Office in London.

Three Rockets Fired at U.S. Embassy in Baghdad, One Person Injured

The U.S. embassy in Baghdad was attacked with rocket fire on Sunday, leaving one person injured. Three rockets struck the embassy, including one that apparently hit a dining area. The embassy sits in Baghdad's Green Zone, which was secured by American forces in 2003 and has since been home to several embassies and the base of many international operations in Iraq.

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  News On the Move: 3 rockets hit U.S. embassy compound in Iraq, Holocaust survivors meet to mark 75 years since liberation

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  Iraqi security forces kill protester, rockets hit U.S. embassy

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Helicopter carrying Kobe Bryant reportedly received special permission to fly in thick fog

Details are still emerging about the circumstances surrounding the helicopter that killed Los Angeles Lakers legend Kobe Bryant, his 13-year-old daughter Gianna, and seven others including the pilot, but the flight was reportedly granted special approval to fly in challenging weather conditions. Fog was thick Sunday morning in the Los Angeles area when the helicopter took off and made its way toward Gianna Bryant's youth basketball tournament, but air traffic control at Burbank airport gave the pilot Special Visual Flight Rules clearance, allowing the aircraft to enter Burbank's airspace. A Federal Aviation Administration official said air traffic control's approval would not have extended to Calabasas, where the helicopter crashed.

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  Staples Center Only Lights Up Kobe Bryant's Jerseys and More Ways the GRAMMYs Pay Tribute to NBA Star

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  Remembering Kobe Bryant’s Early Days in Hollywood (Flashback)

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Tech billionaire Vinod Khosla has sued California and a county sheriff in what is the latest battle in the investor's fight to keep a beach near his $37 million estate to himself

Robert Galbraith/Reuters Tech billionaire and venture capitalist Vinod Khosla has sued California and the San Mateo County Sheriff over property rights on his waterfront estate near Half Moon Bay, about an hour south of San Francisco. Khosla, a co-founder of Sun Microsystems, bought a 53-acre waterfront estate for $37 million in 2008 and allegedly closed off the road that runs through the private property and that the public had historically used to access Martin's Beach, a beloved beach spot.

North Korean Leader's Aunt Re-Emerges After Husband's Execution

The aunt of North Korea's leader, Kim Jong Un, has re-emerged in Pyongyang, the capital, the country's media said Sunday, dispelling rumors that she was purged after her powerful husband was executed on charges of plotting a coup to topple Kim in 2013. North Korea's state-run media said Kim Kyong Hui, the only sister of Kim Jong Un's father, Kim Jong Il, accompanied her nephew to an orchestra performance Saturday for Lunar New Year's Day. Photos released in state media showed her dressed in black and sitting with her nephew, his wife, his sister and other top leaders in the front row at a theater in Pyongyang.

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  Kim Jong-un’s aunt appears in public for first time since husband’s execution in 2013

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Get Early Access to Backcountry’s Big Winter Sale Right Now

Now's a better time than any to stock up on hiking boots, jackets, and more outdoor gear. From Popular Mechanics

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  17 Going-Out Tops That You Can Actually Wear in the Winter

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  There Are a Bunch of Gorgeous Spring Jackets on Sale Right Now

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Accuser says Weinstein sexually assaulted her in children's bedroom

One of Harvey Weinstein's main accusers told his rape trial Monday that the ex-Hollywood producer forcibly performed oral sex on her in a children's bedroom in his New York home. Mimi Haleyi -- a former production assistant -- cried as she told the Manhattan court that Weinstein, 67, sexually assaulted her in July 2006 while she was on her period. She described how Weinstein, who was then three times her weight, initially appeared "friendly" before he backed her into a bedroom with children's drawings on the wall.

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  Harvey Weinstein jury to hear from accuser alleging forced oral sex in his apartment

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  Accuser sobs as she tells trial she tried to fight off Weinstein

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Survivors return to Auschwitz 75 years after liberation

Survivors of the Auschwitz-Birkenau death camp gathered Monday for commemorations marking the 75th anniversary of the liberation of the camp, using the testimony of survivors to warn about the signs of rising anti-Semitism and hatred in the world today. In all, some 200 survivors of the camp are expected, many of them elderly Jews who have traveled far from homes in Israel, the United States, Australia, Peru, Russia, Slovenia and elsewhere. Many lost parents and grandparents in Auschwitz or other Nazi death camps, but today were being joined in their journey back by children, grandchildren and even great-grandchildren.

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  Descendants of Holocaust survivors, veterans in North Carolina reflect on 75th anniversary of Auschwitz liberation

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  75 Years Later, Powerful Photos from the Liberation of Auschwitz

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To Combat the Soviets, the U.S. Almost Built Its Own "Skyfall" Nuclear Powered Missile

Key Point: Thankfully, Washington decided the weapon would not be necessary in the Cold War standoff. After days of speculation by Western analysts that a deadly accident on August 8 that briefly spiked radiation levels in northwestern Russia was tied to tests of an exotic nuclear-powered “Skyfall” nuclear-powered cruise missile, Russian sources confirmed to the New York Times the explosion of a “small nuclear reactor. While there's a tactical rationale behind Russia's development of a fast, surface-skimming cruise missile with an unlimited range as a means of bypassing American missile defenses, it strikes many analysts as an inordinately expensive, extremely technically challenging, and—ev...

CDC Split With China on Coronavirus Spread as Possible U.S. Cases Hit 110

As authorities in China scrambled to handle a coronavirus that has killed at least 81 people, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention on Monday described a surging potential crisis even as they pushed back on the latest thinking from Beijing about just how easily it spreads. Dr. Nancy Messonnier, director of the CDC's National Center for Immunization and Respiratory Diseases, told reporters that the number of confirmed cases stateside had reached five—and that there had been a total of 110 “persons under investigation” for the virus in 26 states over the past week. Thirty-two of those people tested negative, and there had been no confirmed person-to-person transmissions inside the country, Messonnier said on Monday.

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  Countries evaluate evacuation of citizens in virus epicenter

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  'Chernobyl 2020:' Chinese people are comparing the government's delayed response to the Wuhan coronavirus outbreak to the Chernobyl disaster and the HBO series about it

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Emails cast further doubt on Pompeo's claim NPR reporter lied to him

Newly released emails between the office of Mike Pompeo and NPR reporter Mary Louise Kelly cast further doubt on the secretary of state's extraordinary claim that the journalist lied to him before a contentious interview. Pompeo, who reportedly subjected Kelly to an expletive-ridden rant in his private living room after an interview during which he was asked about his role in the Ukraine scandal, issued a statement in which he accused the reporter of violating “the basic rules of journalism and decency”. Kelly maintained that her meeting with Pompeo after the recorded interview was not agreed to be off the record.

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  Fox News Host Steve Hilton Calls Out 'Baby' Mike Pompeo Over NPR Attack

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  State Dept. kicks NPR reporter off trip after Secretary Pompeo berates her colleague

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Fifth Case of Coronavirus Confirmed in U.S.

The fifth case in the U.S. of the deadly coronavirus was confirmed in Arizona, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said Sunday. Cases of the virus in the U.S. have been reported in Washington state, Chicago, California's Los Angeles County and Orange County, and Arizona. Scientists in Wuhan believe the virus originated in bats, similar to the deadly Ebola virus, which killed thousands in West Africa several years ago.

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  How worried should we be about the coronavirus?

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  China's coronavirus has not mutated in the US, says CDC

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Navistar loses lawsuit against US Army and Oshkosh over vehicle buys

The U.S. Court of Federal Claims has ruled in favor of the U.S. Army's decision to go with only one source for its Family of Medium Tactical Vehicles for more than 10 years, denying Navistar's lawsuit brought against the service and FMTV-maker Oshkosh Defense for not competitively procuring the vehicle. Following the Army's initial five-year contract to buy FMTVs from Oshkosh, the service chose a sole-source procurement route with the company, arguing it didn't have time to reopen competition because of urgent needs. Since 2009, the Army has spent more than $6 billion on FMTVs from Oshkosh.

Iran general warns of retaliation if U.S. threats continue

The chief of Iran's powerful Revolutionary Guard warned on Monday that it will retaliate against American and Israeli commanders if the United States continues to threaten top Iranian generals.

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  Iranian general warns of retaliation if US threats continue

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  Anatomy of a Lie: How Iran Covered Up the Downing of an Airliner

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Hong Kong protesters set planned quarantine building on fire amid coronavirus concerns

A group of protesters launched a Molotov cocktail in a newly built Hong Kong residential building that was slated to serve as a quarantine area for people exposed to the coronavirus. The fire marked a new high in tensions over the government's response to the alarming virus outbreak, as protesters objected to the quarantined area's location. A group of protesters lit a lobby of a newly built residential building on fire Sunday in Hong Kong as tensions rise over the coronavirus outbreak.

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  Hong Kong in virus lockdown: it reminds me of the dark days of Sars

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  Hong Kong bars Hubei residents from entering city as coronavirus fears intensify

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Georgia inmate who came close to execution in 2017 dies

A Georgia death row inmate whose planned execution was halted in September 2017 by the U.S. Supreme Court after his lawyers argued his death sentence was tainted by a juror's racial bias has died, according to the state Department of Corrections. Keith “Bo” Tharpe, 61, died of natural causes Friday, Georgia Department of Corrections spokeswoman Joan Heath confirmed in an email Sunday. In 1991, a jury convicted Tharpe of murder in the September 1990 slaying of his sister-in-law, Jacquelyn Freeman, and sentenced him to death.