Big Time News Blog: 02/09/20

Sunday, February 9, 2020

Nick Taylor Pulls Away From Mickelson to Win at Pebble Beach

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Oscars 2020: Live Chat

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Sinn Fein on Threshold: Party With Old I.R.A. Ties Soars in Irish Election

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Iowa Democrats give Buttigieg the most delegates. But counting errors remain.

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The Best Movies and TV Shows New to Netflix, Amazon and Stan in Australia in February

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Iran Again Fails to Put Satellite Into Orbit

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3 Simple Things You Can Do Today to Improve Your Finances

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America Needs the Left and Center to Get Along

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U.S. official: Americans killed in Afghan military mission

A U.S. military spokesman said in a statement that both Afghan and U.S. personnel were “engaged by direct firing.”

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New Philadelphia police chief starts amid surge in homicides

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Sanders campaign, sensing a win in New Hampshire, looks ahead — all the way to the convention

The Vermont senator looks to repeat his 2016 victory in the nation's first primary and take another step toward the nomination.

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Michael Bloomberg didn't make the New Hampshire debate, but he still came up

Former New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg might have not qualified for the Democratic debates yet, but he still had a cameo on Friday.George Stephanopoulos during Friday's New Hampshire debate asked a question all about Bloomberg submitted via Apple News, asking the candidates why they're "better positioned" to take on President Trump than he is. The Democrats on the stage, naturally, didn't pass up the opportunity to get in some attacks on a candidate who wasn't actually there to respond."I don't think anyone ought to be able to buy their way into a nomination or to be president of the United States," Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) said.Sanders joined in as well, saying, "It's a funny thing. There are millions of people who can desire to run for office, but I guess if you're worth $60 billion and you can spend several hundred million dollars on commercials, you have a slight advantage. That is nonsense."These attacks may end up serving as solid practice for an upcoming debate, as a recent rule change leaves the door open for Bloomberg to soon join the fun himself. > Sen. Sanders on Michael Bloomberg: "I guess if you're worth $60 billion and you can spend several hundred million dollars on commercials you have a slight advantage. That is nonsense." https://t.co/0GxKJz7e8Y DemDebate pic.twitter.com/6p6YtLnEjF> > -- ABC News (@ABC) February 8, 2020More stories from theweek.com 5 scathingly funny cartoons about Trump's impeachment acquittal Vanguard is an anomaly in the investment world. Can it stay that way? For better pasta sauce, throw away your garlic

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10 Wuhan professors signed an open letter demanding free speech protections after a doctor who was punished for warning others about coronavirus died from it

One petition was signed by Wuhan professors, and another was signed by academics from around China calling for a national holiday in Li's honor.

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Trump recalls EU Ambassador Gordon Sondland after impeachment acquittal

President Trump fired Gordon Sondland, U.S. ambassador to the European Union, on Friday, in apparent retribution for testifying against him in the impeachment proceedings.

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The global spread of the coronavirus: Where is it?

The new coronavirus that emerged in central China at the end of last year has killed more than 800 people and spread around the world.

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Biden Says Buttigieg Is ‘No Barack Obama.’ Mayor Pete Responds: Neither Are You.

Days ahead of the New Hampshire primary, Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden ramped up his attacks on former South Bend Mayor Pete Buttigieg, pointedly stating that the surging presidential hopeful “is no Barack Obama.”Buttigieg, meanwhile, responded in kind on Sunday, sniping back that Obama’s former veep also was not on the 44th president’s level.In the wake of his weak fourth-place finish in Iowa, Biden has noticeably taken aim at Buttigieg, who is surging in New Hampshire following his strong showing in the Iowa caucuses. This includes a recent campaign ad slamming Buttigieg’s relative lack of experience while touting Biden’s decades of political accomplishments.Shortly after Friday night’s New Hampshire debate, in which Biden took shots at Buttigieg for complaining about the “politics of the past,” the ex-veep seemed to take issue with the 38-year-old ex-mayor attempting to compare himself to Obama. (Something Saturday Night Live brutally mocked Buttigieg for over this weekend.)Joe Biden Is Running Out Of GasMayor Pete Blows It Again as Democratic Debate Focuses on Race“I think, you know, being a mayor of a town smaller than Manchester is not quite like being a United States senator from the state of Illinois—even though it was only for a short amount of time,” Biden told ABC on Friday evening. “Barack's experience was much wider as well … I know Barack Obama, he’s [Pete’s] no Barack Obama. He's a rare breed, Barack Obama.”During an interview with ABC’s This Week that aired on Sunday morning, Biden continued to take it to Buttigieg, insisting that he wasn’t ready to be president. Host George Stephanopoulos, meanwhile, noted that Biden said the same thing about Obama in 2007 when they were both running for president while questioning his attacks on Buttigieg.“I didn’t attack Pete,” Biden contended. “He’s been attacking me. I think he has completely misunderstood or misrepresented my record. I’ve done great deal. I have gotten a lot done both as a senator and as vice president. He speaks about being ready. We bailed out his city.”Asked why he thinks nominating Buttigieg would be a risk, Biden credited the former mayor for being a “smart guy” but added that he has merely been the mayor of a small city. “Does he know any of the foreign leaders?” Biden wondered aloud. “Barack Obama was a different story. Barack Obama came from a large state, a United States senator, he ran before, he’s been involved in international— he had a clear vision of what he thought the world should look like and so on.”In a subsequent interview with This Week, Buttigieg fired back while taking some digs at Biden.“He’s right, I’m not Barack Obama,” Buttigieg asserted. “Neither is he.”“This isn’t 2008, it’s 2020,” he added. “This election is about where our country is headed next and of course how to defeat Donald Trump. What I’m offering now and the reason we have been able to succeed so far, a sense of belonging, pulling together a coalition that not only will defeat Donald Trump but by a big enough margin.”Stephanopoulos, meanwhile, pointed out that the former mayor’s coalition doesn’t include a sizable amount of black voters at this point, a point that Biden made earlier when he said that Buttigieg has “not been able to unify the African-American community.” “I’ll have to work to earn that vote just as did in South Bend,” Buttigieg answered. “I returned to office by a multiracial coalition. Now, I know especially heading into the South, I’m now getting a second look from a lot of voters who frankly weren’t sure we were competitive in the first place.”Read more at The Daily Beast.Get our top stories in your inbox every day. Sign up now!Daily Beast Membership: Beast Inside goes deeper on the stories that matter to you. Learn more.

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Majority of New Hampshire Democrats Would Prefer a Meteor Extinguish 'All Human Life' Than Trump Get Re-Elected: Poll

With a margin of error of 6.4%, 62% chose the meteor

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On Thai Buddhist holy day, gunman's carnage shatters temple peace

Thai nun Amornrat Putta-ariyawong was washing dishes in preparation to host Buddhist devotees on a holy day when a military Humvee pulled up just inside the temple gates and the driver started shooting into the road. Instead, a Thai soldier fleeing his military base after killing a guard and his commanding officer was gunning people down in the early stages of an 18-hour shooting spree in which he would kill 29 people. In all, nine people, including two police officers, died outside the tree-lined temple as the gunman shot at his pursuers and then targeted passers-by, according to residents who witnessed the shooting.

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Coronavirus: Norwegian, Royal Caribbean cruise lines ban China, Hong Kong passport holders

The cruise industry is stepping up measures to fight the coronavirus outbreak, Cruise Lines International Association said Friday.

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Iran starts countdown for satellite launch 'within hours'

Iran started counting down Sunday to the launch of a new scientific observation satellite scheduled within hours, the country's telecommunications minister said. The United States has raised concerns in the past about Iran's satellite programme, describing the launch of a carrier rocket in January 2019 as a "provocation". "Beginning countdown to launch #Zafar_Satellite in the next few hours... In the Name of God," Mohammad Javad Azari Jahromi wrote on Twitter.

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