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January 31, 2019

News and Times Top stories - Google News: Flipping Out's Jeff Lewis announces split from BF: He 'moved out' - AOL Top stories - Google News: The chances of Donald Trump declaring a national emergency at the border just went way up - CNN Top stories - Google News: Venezuela's Guaido says police agents visited his home - Reuters Michael Novakhov - SharedNewsLinks℠: In Trump’s White House, literally everything is ‘so true’ Michael Novakhov - SharedNewsLinks℠: Roger Stone case: evidence against Trump ally 'voluminous and complex' – live | US news Top stories - Google News: Flipping Out's Jeff Lewis announces split from BF: He 'moved out' - AOL News and Times from Michael_Novakhov (15 sites) It’s over. Jeff Lewis and Gage Edward have parted ways after more than eight years together. The Flipping Out star, 48, announced news of their split during his Sirius XM show, Jeff Lewis Live, on Thursday, January 31. Read More Top stories - Google News: The chances of Donald Trump declaring a national emergency at the border just went way up - CNN News and Times from Michael_Novakhov (15 sites) First, President Donald Trump tweeted this at 7:16 a.m.: "Lets just call them WALLS from now on and stop playing political games! A WALL is a WALL!" Second, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi said this of the congressional committee working to craft a compromise bill too keep the government open: "There's not going to be any wall money in the legislation." Read More Top stories - Google News: Venezuela's Guaido says police agents visited his home - Reuters News and Times from Michael_Novakhov (15 sites) CARACAS (Reuters) - Venezuela’s self-proclaimed interim president, Juan Guaido, said on Thursday that agents from a feared special police unit had called at his home, a sign of increasing pressure on the opposition leader trying to replace socialist President Nicolas Maduro. Read More Michael Novakhov - SharedNewsLinks℠: In Trump’s White House, literally everything is ‘so true’ News and Times from Michael_Novakhov (15 sites) President Trump has many rhetorical quirks. Perhaps none is more unusual than his repeated assertions that what he says is, in fact, true. To hear Trump tell it (which you can, in the video above), he has accomplished more than he promised (“it’s true”), he moves too quickly for his press shop (“that’s true”), and he found the phone number of former Indiana University men’s basketball coach Bobby Knight in a 2,000-page stack of papers on his desk (“true, true”). Read More Michael Novakhov - SharedNewsLinks℠: Roger Stone case: evidence against Trump ally 'voluminous and complex' – live | US news News and Times from Michael_Novakhov (15 sites) Michael_Novakhov shared this story from The Guardian. Over the past two months, as lawmakers were sworn in to office and this year’s legislative sessions got underway, Republicans in California, Kansas and New Jersey switched their party affiliations and became Democrats. Read More

Russia-2 Window on Eurasia -- New Series: Do You Have What It Takes to Be Russian Metropolitan of Istanbul? A New Game will Tell "US military options in Syria" - Google News: House Democrats just told the Pentagon to redo its climate change report - Grist Voice of America: Weather, Shutdown Blamed for Immigration Courts Backlog Voice of America: Venezuelan Opposition Leader Accuses Security Forces of Threatening His Family "US military options in Syria" - Google News: Trump disagrees with his own intelligence team. We catalog the differences - PolitiFact Window on Eurasia -- New Series: Do You Have What It Takes to Be Russian Metropolitan of Istanbul? A New Game will Tell 1. Russia from Michael_Novakhov (114 sites) Paul Goble             Staunton, January 30 – More than 40 years ago, the author of these lines purchased a board game called “The Russian Civil War” because the display at a Detroit department store declared “In this Read More "US military options in Syria" - Google News: House Democrats just told the Pentagon to redo its climate change report - Grist 1. Russia from Michael_Novakhov (114 sites) This story was originally published by Mother Jones and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. Earlier this month, the Pentagon released a landmark report that identified the 79 American military installations most vulnerable to the “effects of a changing climate.” The 22-page filing frankly acknowledged the security implications of climate change — in dramatic contrast with President Trump’s very public global warming skepticism — but Democrats roundly criticized its failure to include several details requested by Congress, including specific cost estimates to protect or replace the ten most vulnerable bases from each of the military services. Read More Voice of America: Weather, Shutdown Blamed for Immigration Courts Backlog 1. Russia from Michael_Novakhov (114 sites) U.S. immigration officials blame the government shutdown and the extreme winter weather for confusion about immigration court hearings.    In an emailed statement, the part of the Justice Department overseeing immigration courts said some immigrants with notices to appear Thursday wouldn't be able to proceed with those hearings.  Read More Voice of America: Venezuelan Opposition Leader Accuses Security Forces of Threatening His Family 1. Russia from Michael_Novakhov (114 sites) Venezuelan opposition leader Juan Guaido says security forces showed up at his wife's Caracas apartment Thursday in an effort to intimidate him. Guaido said the agents from a feared police unit arrived at the unit Thursday, asking for his wife, Fabiana. Read More "US military options in Syria" - Google News: Trump disagrees with his own intelligence team. We catalog the differences - PolitiFact 1. Russia from Michael_Novakhov (114 sites) During testimony before the Senate Intelligence Committee, several intelligence officials testified about security threats to the United States in a way that was sometimes at odds with what President Donald Trump has said. Read More

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