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Cuba Gooding Jr.’s Groping Trial Can Include Testimony From 2 More Women
Prosecutors asked permission to allow 19 women with accusations against Mr. Gooding to testify. The accounts date back as far as 2001 and cover seven states.
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2 of the 19 women with accusations against Cuba Gooding Jr., who has been charged with groping 3 women, will be allowed to testify. The accounts date back as far as 2001.
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U.N. Experts Call for Inquiry into Hack of Bezos’s Phone
Two prominent U.N. rights experts lent their weight to explosive allegations that Saudi Arabia’s crown prince hacked the cellphone of Jeff Bezos, owner of The Washington Post, to “influence, if not silence,” its reporting.
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Breaking News: Jeff Bezos’s cellphone was hacked using a WhatsApp account belonging to Saudi Arabia’s Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman, 2 UN experts said, in an effort to “influence, if not silence” reporting on the kingdom by The Washington Post
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Where Senators Get Their Sugar Fix During the Impeachment Trial
Candy, stashed in the desk of Senator Patrick J. Toomey, Republican of Pennsylvania, is the only food allowed in the chamber.
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The impeachment trial diet consists of milk, water and candy, the only food allowed onto the Senate floor under the chamber’s staid rules, which don’t allow coffee, either. “The candy desk is bipartisan," a spokesman said.
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Terry Jones, a Python and a Scholar, Is Dead at 77
In addition to being a charter member of the celebrated Monty Python sketch troupe, he was a director, a screenwriter and an authority on Chaucer.
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Breaking News: Terry Jones, a member of the British troupe Monty Python who also had success as a director, screenwriter and author, has died at 77.
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I Quit a Famous Rock Band
Steve Gorman played drums in the Black Crowes from 1987 to 2001. Then again from 2005 to 2014.
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Steve Gorman played drums in the Black Crowes from 1987 to 2001. Then again from 2005 to 2014. He struggled to leave the band that felt like it encompassed his life.
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Maps: Where the Wuhan Coronavirus Has Spread
The virus has sickened about 300 people in Asia and one person in the United States.
First Wuhan Coronavirus Patient Identified in the United States
A person in Washington State is infected with a new respiratory virus. The outbreak began at a market in China and now has spread to at least four other countries.
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Breaking News: The first U.S. case of the Wuhan coronavirus has been confirmed in Washington State, federal officials said. The virus has spread from China to at least 4 other countries.
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Democrats are livid about the proposed trial rules.
Democrats quickly attacked Mr. McConnell’s proposed rules as little more than what they called a “cover up.”
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Breaking News: The Senate rejected a Democratic effort to subpoena John Bolton, the former national security adviser, for testimony in President Trump’s impeachment trial. Republicans have signaled openness to hearing from him later.
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Democrats are urging people to flood the Senate switchboard with calls as part of their effort to pressure Republicans into allowing witnesses and evidence to be considered during the impeachment trial of President Trump
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Greta Thunberg’s Remarks at the Davos Economic Forum
The Swedish climate activist spoke Tuesday afternoon at an event hosted by The New York Times and the World Economic Forum.
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"Our house is still on fire. Your inaction is fueling the flames by the hour."
Read Greta Thunberg's full speech from the World Economic Forum in Davos
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Hillary Clinton on Bernie Sanders: ‘Nobody Likes Him’
Mrs. Clinton also dodged a question about whether she’d endorse and campaign for Mr. Sanders if he became the Democratic nominee.
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Breaking News: Hillary Clinton criticized Bernie Sanders in a documentary, saying "nobody likes him, nobody wants to work with him, he got nothing done," and declining to commit to supporting him if he is the Democratic nominee
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A Challenge for the Trial: 100 Senators Who Love to Talk, Sitting in Silence
Senators will have to give up their cellphones and speeches, and sit silently at their desks for the duration of the impeachment trial.
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Senators will have to give up their cellphones and speeches, and sit silently at their desks for the duration of President Trump's impeachment trial
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Sanders Apologizes to Biden for Surrogate’s Critique
The opinion piece by Zephyr Teachout accused Joe Biden of having “a big corruption problem.”
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Bernie Sanders apologized to Joe Biden after a Sanders campaign surrogate wrote an opinion article accusing the former vice president of having “a big corruption problem”
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Greta Thunberg’s Message at Davos Forum: ‘Our House Is Still on Fire’
The Swedish climate activist will accuse leaders of “empty words and promises” that will do little to avert a climate crisis, according to prepared remarks.
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“I wonder, what will you tell your children was the reason to fail and leave them facing the climate chaos you knowingly brought upon them?”
The climate activist Greta Thunberg addressed business and political leaders at the World Economic Forum in Davos
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“Our house is still on fire. Your inaction is fueling the flames by the hour. We are still telling you to panic."
Greta Thunberg will speak to the world’s business and political leaders today. Read her prepared speech for the World Economic Forum.
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Africa’s Richest Woman Is Barred From Her Bank and Under Investigation
A trove of leaked documents showed how Isabel dos Santos, the daughter of Angola’s ex-president, exploited the country’s wealth to enrich herself.
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On Sunday, news outlets around the world reported on more than 700,000 leaked documents showing how Africa's wealthiest woman exploited Angola's riches. On Monday, she was barred by her own bank — where she is the biggest shareholder.
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Where Surgeons Don’t Bother With Checklists
In many poor countries, older surgeons resist being questioned, and operations are more often emergencies, which leaves less time to review checklists.
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When surgical checklists are strictly adhered to, missing even one of those elements can prevent the operation from beginning. Instead, some hospitals just avoid the checklist.
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McConnell Pushes to Speed Impeachment Trial as Trump Requests Swift Acquittal
On Monday, the president’s lawyers asserted he did nothing wrong and urged the Senate to “swiftly reject” the charges against him.
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Breaking News: Mitch McConnell unveiled rules for the impeachment trial that would hurry the proceeding and would not admit the House evidence without a vote.
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Video Reveals Unused Earthquake Aid in Puerto Rico: ‘We Are Outraged’
The governor dismissed three members of her cabinet, but some Puerto Ricans still took to the streets in protest.
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“This is an act of pure evil, to hold back supplies. It’s like watching someone dying in front of you and not helping them,” one resident said. A video of unused disaster supplies in Puerto Rico has inspired protests.
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Harvey Weinstein’s Dark Days
As his trial begins, he’s hobbled and “terrified.” His accusers say he deserves his misfortune for his treatment of women.
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As his trial begins on charges of rape, Harvey Weinstein is "utterly isolated," according to associates. “He thinks he’s the victim," one said. "He doesn’t blame himself for anything.”
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Trump Legal Team to Ask Senate for Speedy Acquittal in Impeachment Trial
The day before the trial starts, the president’s lawyers will assert he did nothing wrong and dismiss the proceeding as “rigged.”
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Breaking News: President Trump’s legal team will dismiss impeachment as a “rigged process” in its formal brief, urging the Senate to quickly acquit him at trial
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Australia’s Wild Weather: First Fires, Now Baseball-Size Hail
Severe heat and dry skies have given way to strong thunderstorms in the country’s southeast, where giant hailstones destroyed cars.
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Large hailstones have rained down on the Australian cities of Sydney, Melbourne and Canberra over the past 2 days, destroying vehicles, punching holes in roofs and blanketing the lawn in front of Parliament
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