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China’s virus death toll revised up sharply after review

Coronavirus live updates: Sanofi says it can mass produce vaccine, if it works, cases in Russia jump

U.S. deaths pass 33,000 ...

Wuhan death toll jumps 50% after ‘city-wide investigation’

Barr, Pompeo cheer FCC as agency backs Pentagon in airways fight

Coronavirus bill talks will go through the weekend after small-business funds dry up, Schumer says

Trump pushes big reopen ... Shutdown backlash brews  ...

Cotton, Crenshaw unveil bill to allow Americans to sue China for COvID-19 damages

Newsom sidesteps chance to voice support for Biden

Nearly 3 million borrowers have been granted mortgage relief,  and the industry is crying for help

Australia could keep coronavirus restrictions for a year!

Democrats float impeachment over Trump’s W.H.O. funding halt

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Social distancing guidelines will likely be in place beyond April, surgeon general says

Coronavirus live updates: Over 1,000 NYC police get COVID-19, TSA screenings at 10 year low

Pay slashed for ER doctors, nurses fighting virus ... Prisoners dig mass graves ...

Wuhan backlash: Australian dockworker refuse to unload Chinese cargo ship

Russia sends plane with medical supplies to U.S. for coronavirus response

Treasury Secretary Mnuchin says he’s having ongoing discussions about infrastructure

Coronavirus now third leading cause of U.S. deaths ...

Purchase mortgage applications crash 24%

Federal prisons start 14-day lockdown to fight virus

Coronavirus effect could be ‘far deeper than the subprime crisis,’ say mortgage company CEO

New strain ‘lasts for 49 days’ in infected patient ...

CNN host Chris Cuomo tests positive for coronavirus

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Mnuchin: U.S. ‘focused’ on cinching U.K. trade deal this year

Hong Kong confirms virus emergency for coronavirus; first cases appear in Australia

Turley: Neither side really trying to win ...

Molten: Impeachment ratings collapse as Trump job approval hits highs

Poll: Sanders leads field in Iowa

US to evacuate its citizens from Wuhan, China report says

At March for Life, Trump gets an enthusiastic reception ...

Maher: Media was ‘disappointed’ Civil War didn’t break out at VA gun rally

China coronavirus: Death toll rises to 41; more than 1,000 cases of infection confirmed in mainland

Trump impeachment trial: White House argues Democrats want to remove president from 2020 ballot

Doctor at Wuhan hospital dies ... Medic claims 100,000 infected ...

Grahan: ‘I want oversight of the Bidens ’

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Russian government resigns after Putin proposes constitutional shake-up

China trade deal is seen as ‘fragile’ with analysts seeing more tariffs as a possibility

CNN moderator assumes Bernie lying about Warren ...

Iran claims ‘not seeking escalation’ after multiple attacks

Australia snubs Davos session on Australian fires

Judge revokes bail for disgraced lawyer Michael Avenatti after arrest for new financial crimes

VA gov declares state of emergency, imposes Capitol gun ban ahead of gun rights rally ...

Romney: I want to hear from Bolton, ‘open’ to other witnesses

Poll: Majority supports Trump’s decision not to strike back against Iran

2019 was the second hottest year on record, continuing a global warming trend ...

Pelosi: Trump’s impeachment will last forever ...

Elizabeth Warren said debate didn’t focus on ‘trans women of color’

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Bernie campaign slams Warren as candidate of the elite

Protesters in Iran demand leaders quit after military admits it shot down passenger plane

Trump tweets in Farsi ... ‘Do not kill your protesters’ ...

Revealed: McCabe pushed ‘golden shower’ hoax — and Comey approved ...

Australia turns from defense to offense in wildfire battle

Trump tell Iranian protesters he stands with them and warns Tehran: ‘The world is watching’

Last Den [candidate] all in on Medicare for All ...

Andrew Yang blasts DNC after missing polling threshold

Trump suggests he’d invoke executive privilege to block Bolton testimony

The stock market has not been as richly valued or avidly loved in two years

USA warns Iraq about losing bank account access if troops told to leave ...

USA celebrates Taiwan leader’s reelection ... blackeye for Beijing ...

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NATO suspends Iraq training mission

Trump says US not seeking war or regime change in Iraq, but is still ready to act if ‘necessary’

Iran unveils red flag at mosque warning of severe battle to come ...

Zumwalt: Soleimani demise could end Iran’s long, one-way war with America

Booker raises $6.6 million in fourth quarter

Oil prices surge to highest level since April after US kills Iran’s top commander in airstrike

Poll: Bloomberg pops to third place in Dem race ...

Russian pranksters: Maxine Waters fell for call from ‘Greta Thunberg’

Fed officials saw decreased recession risk in December meeting

Australia fires kill half a billion animals as crisis mounts

Worst flu season in decades ...

Gaetz: The world is witnessing a ‘change in doctrine’

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After backlash, Trump says his Doral resort won’t host G-7 summit

Amazon is shipping expired baby formula and granola, putting customers and food brands at risk

Hong Kong descends into chaos again as rioters defy ban ...

Canadian oil, gas workers protest Greta Thunberg: Don't kill our jobs

‘It’s not like she hates lobbyists’: Warren’s Senate record doesn’t match her campaign rhetoric

Brexit could cause a broad ‘investor strike.’ UBS chairman warns

Romney downloads on Trump again: May vote to remove

173 House Republicans back move to condemn Adam Schiff

Defense chief: Troops leaving Syria going to western Iraq

Stocks will likely hit new records in the week ahead if earnings keep bearing expectations

Australian papers unite in protest against media restrictions ...

Study Latino-owned businesses growing at record pace in Trump economy

Firebreaks

From reddit Pics

Attn. California: How firebreaks work!
(In Australia, they handle things well.)

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28 foot Australian crocodile killed in 1918

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Republicans threaten revolt, may block Trump’s Mexico tariffs

The Fed is ‘indicating that a rate cut is coming,’ says former central banker

ISIS terror in Ebola zone ...

Joe Biden lied in 1987 with claim he marched in civil rights movement

Manafort will get no special treatment at Rikers Island, de Blasio says

Trade tensions have had a significant impact on China, IMF says

‘Straight Pride’ parade in Boston?

Border agency buying 2.2 million diapers to help migrants

Former Parkland school deputy arrested on 11 charges tied to school shooting

Japan’s Abe may walk a tightrope between Trump and Tehran

Homelessness jumps 16% in LA; officials stunned ... 59,000 live on streets ...

At least four dead in Darwin, Australia, mass shooting

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Schwarzenegger assaulted in South Africa

China’s currency is sending a warning signal about the trade war

Biden race to the middle

Candice Owens: Big tech trying to ‘subvert a mass awakening’

Austrian government collapses over Russian scandal

A tight labor market is holding small businesses from expanding in this hot economy

Australia prime minister holds onto power ... Polls got it WRONG ...

Trump spox: Trump has said he is for three exceptions to abortion

U.S. warns airlines flying in Persian Gulf amid Iran crisis

It costs $76,623 to go to Dartmouth — here’s how much students actually pay

FOXNEWS surprising poll result: Mueller more trusted than Trump and  Barr ...

[Biden] ... Equates Trump to ‘tyrants and dictators’

Burning Bridges

The growing revelations surrounding our intelligence agencies’ apparent conspiring with foreign spooks to spy on the Trump campaign and then trying to bring down his presidency ... very likely will cast a pall over future cooperation involving legitimate security threats. It looks like those agencies in Great Britain, Australia and Italy ... at least ... will end up with egg on their faces after this chicanery is fully revealed in AG Barr’s investigation of the investigation.

These governments seem to have been up to their eyeballs ... involved into US political intrigue ... and Italy is already cleaning house ... calling for resignations from the involved parties ... see: Citizens Free Press Story. These countries may now be reluctant to cooperate again under actual intrusion threats. Have Obama’s bumbling Keystone Kops, Brennan, Comey and Clapper, burned down our bridges with foreign intelligence agencies?

Quite likely ... at least for the nonce.

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GOP donors: Trump campaign lacks a strategy to win in 2020

Buffet, after last week’s stock plunge, says Berkshire Hathaway ‘overpaid’ for Kraft

Are we on road to civilization collapse? Scientists fear end to mankind ...

Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez to Democrat establishment, ‘We’re in charge’

Ex-Clinton staffers slam Sanders over private jet flights

Former Fed Chairman Paul Volker rips ‘culture of the financial system’ and its focus on profits

After Putin’s warning, Russian TV lists nuclear targets in USA ...

Harris: ‘Of course we can afford’ spending on Green New Deal

Warren shuts down donor dinners, insider access

Oil falls after Trump tells OPEC prices are too high and ‘world cannot take a price hike’

With 5G hype high, consumers risk disappointment ...

Report: Julian Assange receives Australian passport

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'Only with Nancy': How Schumer and Pelosi stuck together on the shutdown

Trump offers limited 'Dreamer' deal in exchange for wall -- and Democrats quickly say no

Facing populist assault, global elites regroup in Davos ...

Report: Donald Trump ready to offer DACA amnesty for wall funding

Trump visits air base to meet  families of Americans killed in Syria

China set to post slowest growth for 28 years in 2018, more stimulus seen

Report: Vatican knew bishop close to pope took naked selfies ...

Pence: Trump's immigration proposal 'is not amnesty'

White House issues formal nix on congressional trips after grounding Pelosi flight

Sandburg admits to Facebook stumbles, says 'we need to do better' after rough year

Suspicious deposits made to Brazil president's son: report

Australia signs deal securing trade with post-Brexit Britain

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Global leaders snub Trump and his nationalistic vision

Australia prime minister: Concerns about political instability are 'overly stated"

Death toll hits 31 from wildfires at both ends of California ...

Dem Sen. Coons: Acting AG Whitaker should recuse himself ..

Democrats vow to tighten the screws on Whitaker

Oil prices jump 2 percent after Saudi Arabia announces December soppy cuts

Macron rips Nationalism, 'old demons reawakening'

Trump pays tribute to 'great warriors' in cemetery visit ...

Cummings: I won't hand out subpoenas like 'candy on Halloween'

Trump cancels visit to US WWI cemetery due to rain, causing Twitterstorm

WSJ: Hillary will run again ...

Report: Putin has good conversation with Trump in Paris

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Obama issues new warning against 'strongman politics'

Powell: 'Rising chorus of concern' from business over tariffs

Russia celebrates: 'West has frailed' ...

Chinese state media: No fear of Trump-Putin ''forming an alliance' against China

Trump's step towards Putin seals a new world order

Key Republican Orrin Hatch threatens to check Trump's tariff policy

Elon Musk's latest outburst raises doubts on leadership ...

... 'American patriot": Australian PM backs POTUS ...

Rand [Paul] sees lots to like about Trump's presser with Putin

Blue states file suit against the U.S. over tax deduction limitations

Poll: 73% of Dems want fresh face in 2020 ...

... Morning Joe: 'Pitin has something over Trump' ...

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Immigration storm bears down on Republicans

Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross': It's 'premature' to assume Trimp's threatened EU auto tariffs will come to pass

Border Patrol arrests drop sharply ...

France: Manhunt for notorious inmate after escaped from prison via helicopter

Bolton downplays North Korean weapons report

Wilbur Ross: There is no downside level in the stock marker that will change Trump's trade policy

Big tech mobilizes for war against CA privacy law ...

Australia ends aid to Palestinian Authority

Mexican Popoulist Lopez Obrador triumphs in  presidential race

Over 800 cryptocurrencies are now dead as Bitcoin is now off 70% from its record high

Merkel future in jeopardy as coolition allies reject immigration deal ...

Romney: 'Not willing to say' he endorses Trump in 2020

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John Bolton to replace H.R. McMaster a us national security adviser

China hits back at up to $60 billion of US tariffs with only $3 billion of its own

Fastest growth for music industry un 20+ years ..

... Border wall: GOP makes excuses, Pelosi taunts Trump ...

Facebook employees fear 'golden' years are over

Senate averts government shutdown with $1.3 trillion spending bill

Tillerson says goodbye to 'very mean-spirited town' ...

... Bolton: What I've said in private is behind me

Trump strikes back at China tech practices with new tariffs

Record number of US Marines to train in Australia in symbolic challange to China

Clapper accused of misleading Congress over media contacts ...

Omnibus bill includes ***specific*** language barring funding for 'wall'

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All from Internet news sites. Guess which from Politico?

Tom Price to halt tax-payer funded travel on private jets

Entire Ravens, Jaguars squads kneel for US national anthem at London game

Merkel seeks fourth term as Germany votes ...

Rove on NFL protests: Trump will be walking away from this a loser ...

Graham: We're going to get the votes next week

Rand Paul on Graham-Cassidy: I'd vote for it at pre-Obama spending levels

Rocket carrying top secret payload launches from Vandenberg ...

[Trump] Admits he will back Roy Moore if he wins Alabama primary

Poll: Majority of Americans see Trump as divisive

Australia starts shipping refuges to U.S. as part of Obama deal

Auditor claims Vatican axed him after probing illegal activities ...

Apple has shed $50 billion -- more than eBay, Target or Ford -- since it unveiled new IPhone

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These headlines are real ... they have all been discovered on Internet news sites. Guess which ones came from Politico?

Trump to hold rally same night as White House Correspondents' Dinner

Mexican authorities kill Gulf Cartel, Zeta leaders in key strikes

Pence: U.S. to honor refugee deal with Australia

[Rep.] Schiff could use Russian probe as Senate springboard

Update: Multiple cities hit with [simultaneous] power grid failures ...

Maher: Cancelling speakers on campus is 'the liberal version of book burning'

Maher: We're 'gassing' Syrians too ... 'with CO2' -- 'conflict started with climate change

DOJ warns 8 cities in sanctuary city crackdown

Police: Indiana State professor fabricates anti-Muslim hate crime

Man fined $128 for idling car in driveway ...

NYT: Trump roars again on trade -- victory again for House economic Nationalists

Berkeley mayor publicly belongs to violent leftist group