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Russia’s massive 200-ton RS-28 Sarmat heavy liquid-fuelled intercontinental ballistic missile is set to become operational by 2021. “Under the government-run program for armaments extending till 2027 Sarmat is to be produced serially starting from 2020,” a defense industry source told the TASS news agency. The weapon does not appear to have started testing yet, but the comments from the TASS source appear to somewhat contradict previous comments from other Russian officials. from Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines https://ift.tt/2pXANdB via IFTTT

KOBANI, Syria (AP) — The Latest on two detained notorious British IS group members (all times local): from Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines https://ift.tt/2E8yAQx via IFTTT

Contributions to powerful gun lobby group the National Rifle Association (NRA) increased significantly last month in the wake of a mass shooting at a Florida high school. On 14 February, a shooter armed with an AR-15 rifle killed 17 people at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida. The data indicates that as student survivors of the shooting began mobilising a mass movement calling for stricter gun control laws, gun advocates took action in a different way. from Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines https://ift.tt/2pQwa4N via IFTTT

The private firm SpaceX on Friday said a partially-reused rocket successfully launched and deployed the latest group of satellites to upgrade communication networks for Virginia-based company Iridium. "We have successful liftoff of the Falcon 9," a SpaceX commentator said after the rocket roared off with a tail of fiery exhaust from Vandenberg US Air Force base in California. It was the fifth set of 10 satellites that SpaceX has launched for Iridium, whose $3 billion project is expected to include a total of 81 satellites -- with 75 launched by SpaceX. from Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines https://ift.tt/2Gmk4GJ via IFTTT

For too long, the U.S. national-security community has oscillated in its assessment of the Russian Federation, swinging between viewing Moscow as the country’s number one geopolitical threat to dismissing the challenge of a nation whose per capita GDP equals that of Portugal. This has led to the worst of all satisficing comprises: an approach that views Russia as a competitor and adversary, but which does not require a great deal of investment, because the unstoppable Russian threat of today will evaporate when Russia inevitably collapses under the weight of its economic, political and demographic contradictions. from Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines https://ift.tt/2uxFTlt via IFTTT

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President Trump took aim at Amazon on Twitter, claiming the company pays “little or no taxes” (Amazon pays local and federal taxes) and hurts small businesses. from Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines https://ift.tt/2uCJ6jA via IFTTT

Tonight, students are calling for Howard University’s President to resign after it was discovered that the school fired six employees last year for “gross misconduct” after an auditors’ investigation found they misappropriated financial aid funds. from Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines https://ift.tt/2E87gBY via IFTTT

MOSCOW (AP) — Russia has successfully tested its latest intercontinental ballistic missile, the country's military said Friday. from Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines https://ift.tt/2E64DAE via IFTTT

Parkland shooting survivor David Hogg on Friday pilloried Fox News host Laura from Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines https://ift.tt/2pSedlK via IFTTT

SAN DIEGO (AP) — A deported U.S. Army veteran has been granted U.S. citizenship, a move made possible by California Gov. Jerry Brown's pardon of a criminal offense last year. from Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines https://ift.tt/2pQpqUA via IFTTT

Sgt. Bret Barnum and the now-missing teen shared a tearful embrace back in 2014. from Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines https://ift.tt/2IcbXgD via IFTTT

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The two Koreas have set a date for a rare inter-Korean summit, following a high-level meeting that was held days after the nuclear-armed North's leader Kim Jong Un made his international debut with a surprise trip to China. "According to the will of both leaders, the South and North agreed to hold the '2018 South-North summit' on April 27 at the South's Peace House in Panmunjom," said a joint press statement, read out in turn by both delegations' leaders on Thursday. The meeting between Kim Jong Un, leader of nuclear-armed North Korea, and the South's President Moon Jae-in will be only the third of its kind, and will be followed by landmark talks with US President Donald Trump, which could come as early as May. from Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines https://ift.tt/2IiZdVg via IFTTT

President Trump selected his White House doctor, Ronny Jackson, to replace Veterans Affairs Secretary David Shulkin. If confirmed, Jackson would lead the government’s second largest agency. from Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines https://ift.tt/2GX9Iyn via IFTTT

A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket lifted off Friday from Vandenberg Air Force Base in California carrying 10 more Iridium NEXT communications satellites into orbit. from Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines https://ift.tt/2H2ISVH via IFTTT

President Donald Trump told Russia's Vladimir Putin that if the two countries from Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines https://ift.tt/2Gm1e2w via IFTTT

Former Veterans Affairs Secretary David Shulkin wrote a New York Times op-ed reflecting on his service in President Trump's administration. from Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines https://ift.tt/2GlPJbf via IFTTT

David Hogg discusses Laura Ingraham's latest actions involving her attacks against him and her subsequent apology. from Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines https://ift.tt/2Glw67r via IFTTT

A man allegedly killed his wife and then was fatally shot by officers outside his son's high school from Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines https://ift.tt/2J3v261 via IFTTT

MOSCOW (AP) — The latest on the nerve agent attack on an Russian ex-spy in Britain (all times local): from Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines https://ift.tt/2H09iHy via IFTTT

A Texas megachurch pastor stands accused of using his influence to lure from Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines https://ift.tt/2IihAtw via IFTTT

An unannounced visit boosted both Beijing’s and Pyongyang’s leverage in negotiations, but Washington still seems to have no plan. from Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines https://ift.tt/2E8fRoo via IFTTT

Rafael Caro Quintero, aka “The Prince,” is a fugitive on the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration’s most-wanted list. The alleged leader of the world’s most powerful drug cartel gave an interview while hiding. from Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines https://ift.tt/2GJ6911 via IFTTT

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Former Whitewater independent counsel Kenneth Starr said the hush money payment to Stormy Daniels on the eve of the 2016 election raises “difficult and serious” issues that need to be evaluated by the Justice Department. from Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines https://ift.tt/2GD5Jcn via IFTTT

Defense Secretary Jim Mattis has spoken with President Trump about the potential use of military funds for a border wall with Mexico, the Pentagon said on Thursday. from Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines https://ift.tt/2E8D8GG via IFTTT

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A Colorado man has been arrested after allegedly shooting his neighbour five times in the head because he thought he was beating his dog. Michael Kourosh Sadeghi, 32, was arrested for allegedly killing his 42-year-old Denver neighbour, Dustin Schmidt, after an incident in which he is said to have walked into his back yard and unloaded five shots into the back of the neighbour's head. Vicki Branaghan,— the victim's fiancee — who said she was in the backyard at the time, told the Denver Post that the gun shots followed after Mr Schmidt swatted his dog for trying to jump over their fence. from Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines https://ift.tt/2GkgrFs via IFTTT

TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — A Kansas agency plans to conduct a full audit of a water park's inspection records before it reopens this spring, a state official said Wednesday, after criminal charges were filed over the decapitation of a 10-year-old boy on the world's tallest waterslide there in 2016. from Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines https://ift.tt/2DYxPJH via IFTTT

Tesla Inc said on Friday that a Tesla Model X involved a fatal crash in California last week had activated its Autopilot system, raising new questions about the semi-autonomous system that handles some driving tasks. Tesla also said vehicle logs from the accident showed no action had been taken by the driver soon before the crash and that he had received earlier warnings to put his hands on the wheel. from Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines https://ift.tt/2uAqBwi via IFTTT

Kids may say the darndest things, but parents tweet about them in the funniest from Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines https://ift.tt/2E82HHI via IFTTT

Rachel Maddow shares new reporting that Robert Mueller's investigation includes looking at Jeff Sessions contacts with Russians, while at the same time, Sessions is sending investigators to look at the conduct of the Trump Russia investigation. from Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines https://ift.tt/2Gk4dN0 via IFTTT

In a rambling speech billed as a curtain-raiser for his $1.5 trillion plan to rebuild the nation's crumbling infrastructure, President Trump veered off topic numerous times, at one point chiding his predecessor for leaving him a high number of court vacancies.  from Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines https://ift.tt/2J6VLhN via IFTTT

Hundreds more Syrian rebels and civilians prepared Friday to leave Eastern Ghouta under a negotiated withdrawal, as Russia unilaterally announced a similar deal to empty the final pocket of the battered enclave. The former rebel bastion on the outskirts of Damascus has been drained by a nearly six-week Syrian government assault and two evacuation deals brokered by regime ally Moscow. Under such agreements, rebels agree to hand over territory in exchange for safe passage for them and civilians to opposition-held northwest Syria. from Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines https://ift.tt/2GXkbK5 via IFTTT

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Eight years after he was last deported to Mexico, a US army veteran is returning to California. A pardon last year from Governor Jerry Brown cleared the way for Hector Barajas, who was living in Tijuana, to secure citizenship. “Oh my god, this is great”, Mr Barajas said in a Facebook video during which he opened a document confirming the decision while wearing a uniform bristling with medals. from Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines https://ift.tt/2uvi1i4 via IFTTT

Taiwan President Tsai Ing-wen will visit one of the island's oldest and most reliable diplomatic allies next month, amid growing pressure from China to whittle away the number of countries with which Taiwan has formal ties. China considers self-ruled Taiwan to be a wayward province, ineligible for state-to-state relations, and has slowly managed to cut the dwindling number of countries which maintain ties with Taipei. Last year, China established relations with Panama, which had for decades been a steadfast Taiwan ally, in a major diplomatic coup for Beijing. from Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines https://ift.tt/2E85QaK via IFTTT

FRUITPORT TOWNSHIP, Mich. (AP) — About 30 dogs are believed to have died in an early morning fire Friday at a boarding kennel in western Michigan, leaving owners of the animals and the facility devastated. from Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines https://ift.tt/2pRDJZ7 via IFTTT

In the face of the chaos and confusion that come with raising a family today, from Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines https://ift.tt/2J6ue0b via IFTTT

President Trump took aim at Amazon on Twitter, claiming the company pays “little or no taxes” (Amazon pays local and federal taxes) and hurts small businesses. from Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines https://ift.tt/2uCJ6jA via IFTTT

LOS ANGELES (AP) — Judge Stephen Reinhardt, a liberal stalwart on the U.S. 9th Circuit Court of Appeals for nearly four decades, died Thursday in Southern California. He was 87. from Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines https://ift.tt/2pTiHZ9 via IFTTT

ORLANDO, Fla. -- Noor Salman, the widow of the Pulse nightclub shooter, was from Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines https://ift.tt/2J6OcaZ via IFTTT

Public schools closed in at least 25 Kentucky counties on Friday as teachers from Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines https://ift.tt/2J4Kvml via IFTTT

A Utah man tied up two teenagers, stabbed them to death, and dumped their bodies in an abandoned mine shaft before they were reported missing nearly three months ago, police said Thursday. from Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines https://ift.tt/2IkAj86 via IFTTT

Two pilots flying different aircraft above Arizona have reported close encounters with an unidentified flying object (UFO). ABC News obtained an audio clip of a conversation between the two pilots and the Albuquerque Air Route Traffic Control Centre. “OK, something did,” says the pilot of the Learjet plane. from Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines https://ift.tt/2uAWVii via IFTTT

Starbucks and other coffee roasting companies in California may be required to from Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines https://ift.tt/2GmUXYv via IFTTT

President Trump selected his White House doctor, Ronny Jackson, to replace Veterans Affairs Secretary David Shulkin. If confirmed, Jackson would lead the government’s second largest agency. from Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines https://ift.tt/2GX9Iyn via IFTTT

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