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Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines Yahoo Search Search Mail News US World Politics Health Science Originals Contact Us Videos Podcasts Yahoo News Exclusives Michael Isikoff Trump lawyer: Joe and Hunter Biden have ’relevant evidence’ for impeachment trial Matt Bai To impeach or not to impeach? How Democrats should weigh the question. Live Updates: Senate impeachment trial President Trump’s defense team makes statements as the Senate impeachment trial starts up again on Capitol Hill. Will John Bolton testify? » Investigators seek cause of Bryant helicopter crash Trump denies Bolton’s claims about Ukraine U.S. embassy in Baghdad hit by rocket attack Politics The Week How Amy Klobuchar’s supporters could play a pivotal role in the Iowa caucus Sen. Amy Klobuchar might prove to be the most important Democratic presidential candidate when all is said and done in Iowa next week — even if she doesn’t win the state’s caucus. That’s because many Iowa voters appear to be split among moderate candidates like Klobuchar, South Bend, Indiana, Mayor Pete Buttigieg, and former Vice President Joe Biden, which The New York Times reports is at least playing a role in the rise of Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt. Biden, Sanders Pull Further Ahead in ABC-WaPost National Poll Bloomberg New poll shows Biden, Sanders leading the Democratic 2020 race ABC News Videos Politics AFP Palestinians threaten to quit Oslo Accords over Trump peace plan Palestinian leaders threatened Sunday to withdraw from key provisions of the Oslo Accords, which define arrangements with Israel, if US President Donald Trump announces his Middle East peace plan next week. Trump was scheduled to unveil the plan ahead of his meeting in Washington this week with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. Netanyahu, who has called Trump "the greatest friend that Israel has ever had", said he hoped to "make history" in Washington this week. Friends of Zion’s Mike Evans to Be Briefed on Peace Plan on Monday PR Newswire On eve of Trump’s long-awaited Middle East peace plan, Palestinians urge boycott The Independent U.S. The Independent South Carolina shooting: Two dead and four wounded after gunman opens fire in bar Two people are dead and at least four are wounded following a shooting at a South Carolina bar on Sunday morning. The Darlington County Coroner’s Office identified Dicaprio Collins, 21 and Bryan Robinson, 29 as the victims of the shooting at Mac’s Lounge in Hartsville, South Carolina. Hartsville Police confirmed in a Monday morning Facebook post that they had two suspects in custody in connection with the shooting. 2 Dead, 4 Injured in Shooting at South Carolina Bar Time 3 dead, child injured after shooting at Orange County home WABC – NY Celebrity Business Insider Kobe Bryant’s helicopter crashed in foggy conditions considered so dangerous that the LAPD grounded all its flights The NBA legend Kobe Bryant died in a helicopter crash on Sunday morning. The fog conditions were so bad that the Los Angeles Police Department had grounded its flights that morning, deeming it too dangerous to fly. Flight-tower audio recordings published by TMZ showed aviation authorities telling the helicopter pilot he was flying "too low" at some point during Sunday’s flight. Kobe Bryant death: Vigils held as Los Angeles pays tribute to basketball hero PA Media: Sport Kobe Bryant’s retired Lakers jerseys are lit up inside the Staples Center at the Grammys INSIDER World Reuters German Auschwitz prosecutor recalls powerful tales from Holocaust survivors Of the hundreds of testimonies he heard from survivors of the Nazi death camp at Auschwitz, retired German prosecutor Gerhard Wiese says the one that touched him most was of a Jewish father who had tried but failed to save his twins from the gas chamber. The father had offered his children to Josef Mengele, the Nazi officer known as the Angel of Death for his inhumane genetic experiments focused on twins, hoping they stood a better chance of survival. But Mengele waved them away to the gas chamber, said Wiese, the last surviving prosecutor of the Auschwitz trials which took place in Frankfurt in the 1960s of hundreds of ex-members of Adolf Hitler’s feared SS group for their roles in the Holo... Sorrow and triumph, an Auschwitz survivor’s journey back to a former hell Reuters Born in Auschwitz, survivor says stories of atrocity must be told AFP World The National Interest Why The Ninth Circut Court Reluctantly Dismissed The Kids’ Climate Case A big assist is due the Supreme Court, which bench‐​slapped some sense into the Ninth Circuit. In 2015, a group of children filed suit in a federal district court in Oregon, alleging that the federal government infringed on on their putative constitutional right to a climate unaffected by anthropogenic global warming. For starters, it’s not terribly plausible to claim there’s an unenumerated constitutional right to a specific atmospheric concentration of greenhouse gases. World Associated Press Underwater bombs damage Syria’s offshore oil facilities Bombs planted underwater off Syria’s coast exploded Monday, damaging oil facilities used to pump oil into one of Syria’s two petroleum refineries, state media and the oil minister said. Oil minister Ali Ghanem told state TV that the bombs were planted by divers in the facility used to pump oil to the coast. "The aim of the attack is to cease (oil) imports into Syria," Ghanem said, adding the ministry’s experts are evaluating and fixing the damage. World INSIDER ’Chernobyl 2020:’ Chinese people are comparing the government’s delayed response to the Wuhan coronavirus outbreak to the Chernobyl disaster and the HBO series about it China Daily via Reuters Chinese people are criticizing local authorities’ delayed response to the Wuhan coronavirus online, comparing its handling of the outbreak to how the Soviet Union mishandled the Chernobyl nuclear disaster. Some referred to the Wuhan virus outbreak as "Chernobyl 2020" and made comments that Chinese people were "witnessing history" repeat itself. The comments appeared on a Chinese film review website in discussion groups for HBO’s miniseries "Chernobyl" — a rare instance of open dissent in one of the most censored countries in the world. China virus outbreak rams global tourism, costing billions Associated Press Coronavirus: Ministers urge Britons to leave Wuhan but fail to say if they will provide airlifts after lockdown leaves many trapped The Independent World The New York Times North Korean Leader’s Aunt Re-Emerges After Husband’s Execution The aunt of North Korea’s leader, Kim Jong Un, has re-emerged in Pyongyang, the capital, the country’s media said Sunday, dispelling rumors that she was purged after her powerful husband was executed on charges of plotting a coup to topple Kim in 2013. North Korea’s state-run media said Kim Kyong Hui, the only sister of Kim Jong Un’s father, Kim Jong Il, accompanied her nephew to an orchestra performance Saturday for Lunar New Year’s Day. Photos released in state media showed her dressed in black and sitting with her nephew, his wife, his sister and other top leaders in the front row at a theater in Pyongyang. Kim Jong-un’s aunt appears in public for first time since husband’s execution in 2013 The Independent Influential aunt of North Korea’s Kim Jong Un makes first public appearance in six years Reuters U.S. Popular Mechanics Historians Unmask Fourth Soviet Spy Who Worked on the Atomic Bomb Historians have unmasked a fourth Soviet spy who worked at Los Alamos National Laboratory during nuclear bomb development in the 1940s. Los Alamos is still one of the foremost nuclear research facilities in the world. The fourth spy was much more involved in high-level explosives research than historians could extrapolate before. Politics Politico ‘They let him get away with murder’: Dems tormented over how to stop Bernie With Bernie Sanders gaining steam a week before the Iowa caucuses, tormented Democrats are...