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The remark, which came during a campaign stop in New Hampshire, has gone viral on Twitter, and nearly two dozen national media sites have reported on the incident.
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^Pennsylvania Democrats who won Republican districts on how to beat Trump in 2020
PA-2020-DEMOCRATS-TRUMP:PH _ What’s the key to beating President Donald Trump in Pennsylvania in 2020?
The Democratic presidential candidates mostly aren’t campaigning in Pennsylvania yet. But they are trying to convince voters in early states who are obsessed with “electability” that they can win critical battlegrounds such as Pennsylvania. Trump won the state by less than 1% in 2016, which along with razor-thin victories in Michigan and Wisconsin helped elevate him to the White House. Pennsylvania is expected to play a similarly decisive role this year.
There’s no special formula for Democrats to win back a state they lost for the first time since 1988. But House Democrats who flipped Republican districts in the midterm elections say their 2018 victories offer some clues.
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^Republicans are learning to love Jeff Van Drew thanks to Trump’s endorsement
CONGRESS-VANDREW:PH _ Jeff Van Drew got the Trump stamp of approval. That might be all he needs.
The New Jersey congressman and longtime Democrat faced intense scrutiny after defecting to the GOP in December and pledging his “undying support” to President Donald Trump. Republicans already in the race accused him of political expediency after his opposition to impeaching Trump alienated Democrats, and Democrats who donated money asked for refunds.
But then Trump came to Wildwood for a rally in January, gave him three minutes on stage to bolster his standing with the party faithful _ and, according to interviews with Republican voters in the South Jersey district, it seems to have worked.
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^Polling voters who won’t answer the phone, and other challenges of election math
POLLING-CHALLENGES:PH _ From her cubicle in a quiet New Jersey office park, Maryann Hand called voter after voter in Iowa with this public-service appeal:
“Your participation is very important because only 500 people have been randomly selected for this survey,” she read from a script. “Your views will represent many people throughout the state.”
But would they? It was the week before the Iowa caucuses, and most people chose not to speak with Hand and her colleagues in the Mount Laurel office of Braun Research, calling on behalf of the Monmouth University Polling Institute. After four evenings they finally got 544 people, with the biggest share _ 23% _ saying they favored Joe Biden.
Yet in the actual caucuses, as organizers sorted out the chaos from a balky vote-counting app, Biden’s support appeared lower than that, behind Pete Buttigieg and Bernie Sanders. Did Monmouth (and plenty of other pre-Iowa polls) get it wrong?
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^UNITED STATES
^In Harvey Weinstein trial, witness contests account of assault: ‘That never happened’
WEINSTEIN:LA _ A witness in Harvey Weinstein’s rape trial Monday vehemently denied helping facilitate an alleged assault between the fallen Hollywood mogul and accuser Lauren Young.
Under a fiery cross-examination by the prosecution, however, Claudia Salinas said that her memory of the encounter between Weinstein and Young was patchy.
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^Norwegian Cruise Line backs down _ a little _ on banning people with Chinese passports
CORONAVIRUS-CRUISESHIPS:LA _ Norwegian Cruise Line backed down a bit from a policy arising from the coronavirus outbreak, saying that crew members who hold a passport from China, Hong Kong or Macao can now board its ships if they have not been to those places in at least 30 days.
Travelers, however, are still banned just for having such passports. Royal Caribbean Cruise Lines has a similar policy.
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^5 deaths in one day in one Ohio county add to flood of overdoses linked to fentanyl
OHIO-OPIOID-DEATHS:OH _ The onslaught of fatal overdoses continues in Franklin County, Ohio.
Franklin County Coroner Dr. Anahi Ortiz on a social media posting Sunday night said the tally for overdose deaths has hit 28 from Friday, Jan. 31, through Saturday, Feb. 8.
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^Student safety, well-being in focus following deadly shooting at a Texas university
CMP-TEXAS-AM-SHOOTING-SAFETY:DA _ Campus safety and student well-being are in sharp focus following a deadly shooting at Texas A&M University-Commerce last week.
Authorities say Jacques Dshawn Smith, 21, gained access to Pride Rock residence hall, where he was seen in the elevator about 1 a.m. Feb. 3. No evidence of forced entry was found in the dorm room where his ex-girlfriend Abbaney Matts, 20, and her sister Deja Matts, 19, were found dead later that morning.
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^Coast Guard offloads $338 million worth of seized cocaine in San Diego
COASTGUARD-COCAINEBUST:SD _ Two months. Eight stops. About 20,000 pounds of smuggled cocaine, worth roughly $338 million.
On Monday, a U.S. Coast Guard cutter crew docked in San Diego and offloaded the hefty hauls that cutter crews intercepted from boats in the eastern Pacific Ocean carrying bundles of the illegal drug.
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^’Dixie Highway’ may be renamed in Broward County
DIXIE-HIGHWAY:FL _ Dixie Highway might get a makeover in Broward County, being renamed after a prominent black woman who escaped slavery to help create change.
Arguing the name Dixie represents a “racialized and romanticized reference” to the South, Broward County Mayor Dale V.C. Holness is proposing to rename the roadway. It will be discussed at Tuesday’s County Commission meeting.
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^2020 Oscars telecast draws 23.6 million viewers on ABC, an all-time low
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The 92nd Academy Awards ceremony from the Dolby Theatre was down 20% from 2019. Last year, the telecast was up 12% coming off its previous all-time low of 26.5 million viewers in 2018.
The ceremony presented by the Motion Picture Academy of Arts and Sciences was historic due to the surprising best picture win for “Parasite” _ the first non-English language film ever to take the trophy.
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^Record-breaking gust of wind looks like a mistake, forecasters say
WEA-WIND-RECORD:LA _ A potential record-breaking gust of 209 mph recorded atop a California peak is looking more unlikely after further study, National Weather Service forecasters said Monday.
The blast of wind from a cold storm moving south across the state was captured around 7:45 a.m. Sunday by an instrument at 9,186 feet atop Kirkwood Mountain, south of Lake Tahoe.
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^THE WORLD
^Loans for Venezuela’s oil corruption scheme linked to opposition congresswoman
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Tamara Adri n, a member of the opposition in the Venezuelan National Assembly before becoming the first elected transgender legislator in Latin America, certified the legality of the operation, which consisted in having wealthy Venezuelans lend money in bolivars to state-owned Petr leos de Venezuela SA (PDVSA), which were soon after repaid in U.S. dollars at a highly favorable exchange rate.
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^SCIENCE, MEDICINE, ENVIRONMENT
^Coronavirus: When will it end?
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The answer depends on two possible outcomes: China, the epicenter of the outbreak, gets the virus under control _ or it doesn’t, and permanent new epicenters of infection spring up in poorer, more desperate nations.
Time is of the essence, according to leading infectious disease experts.
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^More high school students than ever are coming out, but their despair remains acute
MED-LGBQ-TEENS:PH _ The proportion of high school students who identify as a sexual minority _ lesbian, gay, bisexual or questioning_ doubled in the past several years, according to a new study published Monday.
Yet those greater numbers have not necessarily meant they have found greater acceptance or peace. The study, based on data from a federal survey, found that those teens attempted suicide at a rate nearly four times higher than their heterosexual peers.
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^Cluster of sharks in one spot off Carolinas coast grows more intense
ENV-SHARKS-CLUSTER:CH _ The clustering of great white sharks off the Carolinas coast is growing more pronounced and mysterious, based on satellite tracking data shared Saturday on social media.
Eight tagged great white sharks are now practically on top of each other along the border of North and South Carolina _ and they represent the only sharks currently tracking along the East Coast, according to a map posted on Facebook by OCEARCH.
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^God and a Glock: Texas churchgoers are training to fight off attackers wielding guns
RELIG-TEXAS-CHURCHES-GUNS:DA _ Beneath the Christmas lights still hanging in the church’s fellowship room, Jack Mills pointed a Glock handgun at his enemy’s chest and pulled the trigger.
A loud crack rang out as a shell casing flew from the weapon, but the man facing the gunfire didn’t fall. Instead a red light on his high-tech vest began blinking, signaling a hit from the laser in Mills’ gun.
A U.S. Air Force veteran, Mills began designing the equipment a year ago to help armed churchgoers learn how to confront a gunman. Shooting a paper target is one thing, Mills said. Firing at a real person is another.
“If you haven’t shot somebody in the face, how do you know you can?” he said.
Mills is part of a growing cottage industry in Texas that uses policelike tactics to train churchgoers who fear the next attack could target their house of worship.
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^Should Chicago open safe sites for drug users? There’s already a makeshift network _ and it’s saving lives
CHICAGO-DRUGS-SAFESITES:TB _ In abandoned buildings, encampments, vacant lots and other secluded areas throughout Chicago, drug users have found spaces where they can be watched over while using drugs. This makeshift network _ hundreds of places, recovery workers estimate _ has grown as groups have distributed naloxone more widely over the last two decades.
But rescues are a matter of chance, of being in the right place at the right time.
Community groups and some public officials believe it’s time for Chicago to set up safe sites: Places where people can legally use drugs under medical supervision, where staff is on hand to administer naloxone and where medical checkups, referrals to housing and other services are offered.
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