Jhon Jairo Velásquez, 57, Dies; Escobar Henchman Turned YouTube Star

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Impeachment Briefing: Impeachment’s Legacy

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Inundated With Flu Patients, U.S. Hospitals Brace for Coronavirus

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Kevin Conway, ‘Red Ryder’ and ‘Elephant Man’ Actor, Dies at 77

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C.D.C. and W.H.O. Offers to Help China Have Been Ignored for Weeks

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U.S. cities and states with confirmed coronavirus cases

Six states are currently treating people infected with coronavirus.

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Trump says Congress should 'expunge' his impeachment

President Donald Trump called Friday on Congress to "expunge" his impeachment for abuse of power following his acquittal in the Senate. Trump was impeached in December on two charges related to his campaign to get Ukraine's government to start an corruption investigation into his Democratic election opponent Joe Biden. On Wednesday, the Republican majority in the Senate cleared Trump in only the third impeachment trial of a president in history.

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Pete Buttigieg Once Wrote a High School Essay About His Idol, Bernie Sanders. Tonight, He'll Debate Him

Twenty years ago, a chubby and nearly unibrowed high school senior in South Bend, Indiana wrote an essay about his political idol, the then-57-year old…

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Coronavirus: Cruise ship passengers in New Jersey loaded onto ambulances and tested for virus

Passengers on a cruise ship docked in New Jersey have been seen being placed in ambulances as they are reportedly sent for testing of the deadly new Wuhan coronavirus, according to multiple reports.The passengers in question had a history of having recently travelled to China, one official with the Centre for Disease Control told CNN. The outbreak of the mysterious illness was believed to have originated in a market in Wuhan, China.

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Former Navy secretary ousted by Trump endorses Mike Bloomberg

Richard Spencer was fired as Navy secretary last year over his objection to the president's intervention in the internal review of Navy SEAL Eddie Gallagher.

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Trump says it's 'illegal' for Pelosi to tear up his State of the Union address. Experts say that's not true

"Because Speaker Pelosi’s copy is not a government record, she did not violate the law by ripping it up," said Professor Douglas Cox.

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Latest coronavirus study implicates fecal transmission

Diarrhea may be a secondary path of transmission for the novel coronavirus, scientists said Friday following the publication of the latest study reporting patients with abdominal symptoms and loose stool. The primary path is believed to be virus-laden droplets from an infected person's cough, though researchers in early cases have said they focused heavily on patients with respiratory symptoms and may have overlooked those linked to the digestive tract. A total of 14 out of 138 patients (10 percent) in a Wuhan hospital who were studied in the new paper by Chinese authors in the Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA) initially presented with diarrhea and nausea one or two days prior to development of fever and labored breathing.

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Six Times the Speed of Sound: Will the Air Force Get an SR-72 Spy Plane?

Better than the SR-71?

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Forget Iowa. The Democrats Now Have Bigger 2020 Problems

Caucus confusion clouds the search for a nominee

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In another Trump win, court tosses Democrats' suit over his businesses

A federal appeals court on Friday threw out a lawsuit brought by Democratic lawmakers that accused Donald Trump of violating anti-corruption provisions in the U.S. Constitution with his business dealings, capping a week of political victories for the Republican president. A unanimous three-judge panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit ruled that the more than 210 House of Representatives and Senate Democrats lacked the required legal standing to bring the case, reversing a lower court judge's decision that had allowed the case to proceed. Two days after being acquitted by the Senate in his impeachment trial, Trump hailed the ruling as a "total win," telling reporters that "it was another phony case." Elizabeth Wydra, a lawyer for the lawmakers, said they were disappointed in the decision and were weighing their next steps.

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Mexican president: Raffle winners will get $1M — not the presidential plane

Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador on Friday gave details about a raffle aimed at covering the cost of a luxury presidential plane he has struggled to sell, clarifying that winners will get $1 million in cash rather than the plane itself.

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Trump ousts White House staffer who testified against him in impeachment: lawyer

The Trump administration on Friday removed Army Lieutenant Colonel Alexander Vindman from his position as the White House's top Ukraine expert after he provided damaging testimony about President Donald Trump during the impeachment process, Vindman's lawyer said.

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U.S. Ambassador to EU Sondland says Trump intends to recall him from his post

U.S. Ambassador to the European Union Gordon Sondland, who testified in President Donald Trump's impeachment inquiry, said on Friday that Trump intends to recall him from his post.

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Irish vote may spell the end for Varadkar amid Sinn Fein surge

Irish voters look likely to dump Prime Minister Leo Varadkar from power in an election on Saturday amid a surge by Sinn Fein that could alter the political landscape, even though the nationalist party is unlikely to win a place in government this time.

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Factbox: Who's who in Ireland's national election

Ireland votes in a national election on Saturday. Here are the main parties and their leaders:

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Lockheed Martin drops out of Singapore Airshow over coronavirus concerns

U.S. weapons maker Lockheed Martin Corp said on Friday it will not participate in next week's Singapore Airshow over coronavirus concerns.

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Cruise line bans China citizens; Outrage as doctor who sounded coronavirus alarm dies

A major cruise line on Friday took the extraordinary step of banning citizens of China regardless of when they were last there, while there was sorrow and anger over the coronavirus death of a doctor from Wuhan who had been reprimanded for sounding an early warning about the disease.

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Ambassador to European Union Gordon Sondland, who played key role in impeachment hearings, says Trump recalling him from post

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