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Witnesses said the car was pulling out of a driveway when the crash happened

The Duke of Edinburgh has been involved in a car crash, Buckingham Palace has said.

Prince Philip, 97, was not injured in the accident, which happened close to the Queen's Sandringham estate in Norfolk on Thursday.

Buckingham Palace said the crash involved another vehicle and police attended the scene.

The duke was driving a Range Rover and was pulling out of a driveway onto the A149 when the accident happened.

According to eyewitnesses, the car that the duke was driving overturned.

The eyewitnesses said they helped the duke out of the vehicle. He was conscious but very shocked and shaken, royal correspondent Nicholas Witchell said.

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The Heath and Human Services inspector general says thousands more migrant kids may have been separated from their families

A government watchdog says thousands more migrant children may have been separated from their families than the Trump administration has acknowledged.

Government investigators has said that thousands more migrant children may have been separated from their families than the Trump administration has acknowledged.

A report from the Health and Human Services inspector general’s office found that family separations were occurring before the spring of last year, when the administration announced its “zero tolerance” policy on the southwest border.

“The total number and current status of all children separated from their parents or guardians … is unknown,” according to the report. It could be thousands more because family separations were taking place much earlier, during an influx that began in 2017, investigators found.

The administration has identified a little more than 2700 children who were separated from their families. That figure was released as part of a court case in which a federal judge ordered the families reunited.

Despite “considerable” effort by the department to locate all the children who were placed in its care after immigration authorities separated them from their families, officials were still finding new cases as long as five months after the judge’s order requiring reunifications, the report said.

Investigators raised concerns about the children who have not been identified because they were not covered by Judge Dana Sabraw’s reunification order.

That directive did not apply to “an estimated thousands of children whom (immigration authorities) separated during an influx that began in 2017,” the report said.

Most of those children would have already been placed with sponsors before the court case.

“There is even less visibility for separated children who fall outside the court case,” investigators concluded.

Moreover, inaccurate and incomplete information in government files may be hampering efforts to identify more recent cases of family separations.

US President Donald Trump rescinded the family separation policy last summer after an outcry. In some cases, toddlers had been separated from their parents and placed into HHS custody.

“Zero tolerance” for border crossers, under which everyone who enters the US illegally faces potential criminal charges, triggered the family separations. Children cannot be kept indefinitely with parents or relatives under federal detention.

The watchdog’s report found ongoing problems keeping track of children, which could affect their wellbeing.

It said “it is not yet clear whether (HHS’s) recent changes are sufficient to ensure consistent and accurate data about separated children, and the lack of detail in information received from (immigration authorities) continues to pose challenges.”

The border continues to be a crucible for the Trump administration, with a partial government shutdown that has dragged on nearly a month over the president’s demand for $US5.7 billion ($A8 billion) for a border wall that congressional Democrats are unwilling to provide.

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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Donald Trump unveiled a revamped U.S. missile defense strategy on Thursday that called North Korea an ongoing and “extraordinary threat,” seven months after he declared the threat posed by Pyongyang had been eliminated.

The Missile Defense Review, which also detailed concerns about the burgeoning capabilities of Iran, Russia and China, was a broad examination of efforts to shield the United States from enemy missiles, including a push to develop space-based sensors and study the development of space-based weapons.

“Our goal is simple: To ensure we can detect and destroy any missile launched against the United States - anywhere, anytime, anyplace,” Trump said at the Pentagon as he unveiled the report.

Trump did not mention the North Korean missile threat in his remarks. But acting U.S. Defense Secretary Patrick Shanahan called North Korea’s missiles a “significant concern.”

The document was even stronger.

“While a possible new avenue to peace now exists with North Korea, it continues to pose an extraordinary threat and the United States must remain vigilant,” the report said.

U.S. President Donald Trump speaks during the Missile Defense Review announcement at the Pentagon in Arlington, Virginia, U.S., January 17, 2019. REUTERS/Kevin Lamarque

For Trump, who is trying to revive efforts to persuade North Korea to abandon its nuclear arsenal, the report’s release came at an awkward moment. Senior North Korean envoy Kim Yong Chol was headed for Washington on Thursday for expected talks with Secretary of State Mike Pompeo on Friday and a possible encounter with Trump, a person familiar with the matter said.

The talks could lead to an announcement of plans for a second Trump summit with North Korean leader Kim Jong Un after their meeting last year in Singapore, the source told Reuters.

Trump wrote on Twitter after the June 2018 summit that there is “no longer a Nuclear Threat from North Korea.”

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Strawberry Guava Diet Coke? Coca-Cola gets creative in refreshing its flavors

Zlati Meyer, USA TODAY Published 6:35 p.m. ET Jan. 16, 2019 | Updated 1:11 p.m. ET Jan. 17, 2019

Coca-Cola continues to go after new diet soda drinkers with the launch of two new flavors of Diet Coke — Strawberry Guava and Blueberry Acai.

They’re the first additions to the soda giant’s line of new flavors, which launched last January to attract millennials.

Like the inaugural flavors, these two will also come in 12-ounce, skinny cans.

The pair will hit store shelves across the U.S. next week and will be available as single cans or in eight-packs, Coca-Cola said Wednesday. The suggested retail prices are 99 cents and $3.99, respectively.

In January 2018, the classic zero-calorie soda morphed into Ginger Lime, Feisty Cherry, Zesty Blood Orange and Twisted Mango. The original flavor remains, too.

Coca-Cola unveiled two new flavors of Diet Coke on Wednesday, Strawberry Guava and Blueberry Acai. (Photo: Eli Blumenthal)

Other flavors that Coca-Cola said it had tested but ultimately nixed included Oro Blonco Grapefruit and Vanilla Chai.

“We focused on modernizing Diet Coke to appeal to a new consumer base while at the same time connecting with our core drinkers by preserving the essence of what makes this brand so special,” Rafael Acevedo, Diet Coke's group director, said in a statement. "Different consumers have different favorites, so it’s important to offer a range."

Coca-Cola found that when new drinkers try one of the flavors, they’re also more likely to reach for original Diet Coke, which first launched in 1982.

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The Atlanta-based beverage maker said that the Diet Coke refresh helped turn sales around after at least half a decade of decline.

The soda industry continues to face criticism over what carbonated beverages may do to Americans' unhealthy diets and obesity rates and opposition to its products in the form of so-called soda taxes in various municipalities across the U.S.

For the first time ever, in 2016, bottled water topped Americans' list of favorite drinks, beating soda 12.8 billion gallons sold to 12.4 billion gallons sold, according to the research and consulting company Beverage Marketing.

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US Islamic militant sought to attack White House, says FBI

WASHINGTON (AFP) - Authorities in the US state of Georgia have arrested a 21-year-old man who sought to buy explosives and an anti-tank rocket for a "jihad" suicide attack on the White House planned for Thursday (Jan 17).

Byung Pak, the US attorney for the Northern District of Georgia, announced the arrest of Hasher Taheb of Cumming, Georgia late on Wednesday after a months-long FBI investigation sparked by a tip from the local community "that Taheb had become radicalised."

According to the indictment, Taheb tried to recruit an informant and an undercover FBI agent into a plan to attack the White House and other targets in Washington, including the Washington Monument, the Lincoln Memorial and an unnamed synagogue.

Wanting to fulfil his "duty" to carry out an attack and expecting to become a "martyr," Taheb originally hoped to travel to Islamic State-held territory in the Middle East, he told the FBI source, according to the indictment.

But because he had lost his passport, Taheb told the informant it would be better to launch attacks inside the United States.

On Dec 7, 2018, he met the undercover agent and revealed a hand-drawn diagram of the White House West Wing, where the president's office is located.

In the subsequent weeks, Taheb detailed what weapons he wanted to acquire for the plot, and assigned the FBI agent to obtain them: semi-automatic weapons, grenades and an AT-4 shoulder-mounted anti-tank weapon.

His plan was for the trio to jointly launch the attack on what he referred to as "game day," eventually pinpointed as Jan 17.

"Specifically, he described his plan to use the AT-4 to blow a hole in the White House so that the group could enter," the indictment said.

Taheb advised the source "that jihad was the best deed in Islam and the peak of Islam," the indictment said.

On Wednesday, the three met in the parking lot of a store in Buford, Georgia where the FBI agent was to hand over the explosives and weapons, all of which had been rendered inert.

When Taheb took delivery of the weapons, he was arrested.

Officials and the indictment provided no background on Taheb or whether he had made any contact with Islamic militant groups abroad.

But Pak said no targets in Washington or Georgia were ever truly threatened by the plot.

In a separate case, on Thursday a 49-year-old man, Demetrius Nathaniel Pitts or Abdur Raheem Rafeeq, was arrested in a Cleveland, Ohio suburb and charged with planning a terror attack on the city on July 4, the US Independence Day holiday.

Undercover FBI agents communicated with Pitts for months on the plot before arresting him.

"Pitts, a US citizen living in Ohio, pledged his allegiance to Al-Qaeda," a Justice Department statement said.

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Transcripts reveal FBI & DOJ were warned in 2016 about ‘bias’ in Steele dossier & ‘links’ to Clinton

Published time: 17 Jan, 2019 18:31

FBI and DOJ officials were warned in 2016 that the infamous anti-Trump Steele dossier was likely biased, but they ignored the warning and used the document to obtain a FISA warrant to spy on a Trump campaign official.

Justice Department official Bruce Ohr briefed the then-deputy director of the FBI Andrew McCabe, a top DOJ official, and a lawyer for then-Attorney General Loretta Lynch about his concerns surrounding the objectivity of the Steele dossier, according to transcripts of a closed-door meeting between Ohr and congressional investigators, which were first published this week by the Epoch Times.

Two of the people Ohr warned about the document are now part of Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s team investigating the Trump campaign’s alleged ties to Russia. One of them, Andrew Weissmann, is now Mueller's top deputy.

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U.S. special envoy in Pakistan for talks on Afghan peace

ISLAMABAD (Reuters) - U.S. special envoy Zalmay Khalilzad and the top NATO commander in Afghanistan met Pakistani officials on Thursday as they pursued diplomatic efforts to push forward talks with the Afghan Taliban.

Khalilzad, who has been leading efforts to broker an agreement with the Taliban, met the chief of the Pakistan army staff Gen. Qamar Javed Bajwa along with Gen. Scott Miller, commander of the Resolute Support mission in Afghanistan, and Lisa Curtis, senior director for South and Central Asia at the U.S. National Security Council.

Afghanistan’s frequently hostile relations with Pakistan, which it has regularly accused of supporting the Taliban, have warmed somewhat as regional countries have joined the effort to push the insurgents to open talks with Kabul.

On Thursday, Afghan President Ashraf Ghani called Pakistani Prime Minister Imran Khan and “expressed his gratitude for Pakistan’s sincere facilitation of these efforts”, according to a statement from the Pakistan government spokesman’s office.

The two leaders also issued invitations to visit their respective countries and agreed “to remain engaged and create an environment for resolving all outstanding issues”, it said.

Pakistani officials deny supporting the Taliban and say Islamabad is strongly in favor of a settlement that would maintain stability in Afghanistan and prevent a disastrous economic collapse of its neighbor.

Taliban officials said this week that Pakistan was putting pressure on its leaders to accept talks with the Afghan government, detaining a senior leader in the city of Peshawar before releasing him a few days later.

Taliban representatives have met Khalilzad on at least three occasions but have so far refused to talk directly to the internationally recognized Afghan government, which they consider an illegitimate regime put in place by foreign powers.

The date of Khalilzad’s next meeting with Taliban officials remains unclear after the insurgents threatened to stall the process over disagreements about plans to withdraw international forces from Afghanistan.

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Here's your guide to the 'super blood wolf moon eclipse' that's coming this weekend

Doyle Rice, USA TODAY Published 1:09 p.m. ET Jan. 14, 2019 | Updated 1:27 p.m. ET Jan. 17, 2019

Impress your fellow skywatchers with these actually interesting eclipse facts. USA TODAY

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Sure, you may know the "super blood wolf moon eclipse" is coming to a sky near you this weekend. But what exactly does it mean?

Unquestionably, the main event is the total lunar eclipse, also known as an eclipse of the moon, which will start late Sunday, Jan. 20, and finish early Monday, Jan. 21 (Eastern time).

This type of eclipse happens when the moon passes fully into the shadow of Earth.

Beyond that, despite all the hullabaloo over the various names, there's still only one moon. There's no separate super, blood, wolf or anything else moon.

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The full moon during a 'blood moon' eclipse as seen from the town of Kazanlak, Bulgaria, on July 27, 2018. (Photo: DIMITAR DILKOFF, AFP/Getty Images)

Here's some more info about this month's sky spectacle:

Total lunar eclipse: You'll have to stay up late for this event, so drink some coffee and grab some blankets.

A total lunar eclipse occurs when the moon and the sun are on exact opposite sides of Earth, according to NASA. When this happens, Earth blocks the sunlight that normally reaches the moon. Instead of that sunlight hitting the moon’s surface, Earth's shadow falls on it.

(Note: In this graphic above, there is nothing visibly different when the moon enters the penumbra at 9:35. The first shading on the moon won't appear until roughly 10:10.)

Starting at 10:34 p.m. EST Sunday, skywatchers will notice a "little notch is taken out of the moon," according to Brian Murphy, director of Indiana's Holcomb Observatory & Planetarium and Butler University professor. This is the beginning of the partial eclipse.

"The moon starts to enter into the Earth's shadow in a portion called the umbra when the sun is totally blocked out," he said. "Earth is moving from right to left through the shadow."

Starting at 11:41 p.m., the full eclipse will begin. A maximum eclipse will occur at 12:12 a.m. Monday. The total eclipse will end at 12:44 a.m.

Supermoon: A supermoon occurs when the full moon is at the closest point of its orbit to the Earth, which is also called the perigee.

That makes the moon look extra close and extra bright – up to 14 percent bigger and 30 percent brighter than a full moon at its farthest point from Earth, known as the apogee, NASA said.

This is the first of three supermoons in 2019. The others will be on Feb. 19 and March 21. Of these, the Feb. 19 full moon will be the closest and largest full supermoon of 2019…….. (moar in article)

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Florida politician doubles down against ‘Hamas-loving anti-Semite’ Congresswoman Rashida Tlaib

Published time: 17 Jan, 2019 18:50

Hallandale Beach commissioner Anabelle Lima-Taub faces a formal reprimand for “hateful” comments after claiming the Senate’s new Muslim representative might “blow up Capitol Hill” and refusing to back down.

Calls for the South Florida beach-side city commissioner’s resignation began pouring in after the comment posted on Facebook went viral. There, Lima-Taub wrote that she “proudly” signed a petition to remove Palestinian-American Rashida Tlaib from Congress.

“A Hamas-loving anti-Semite has NO place in government! She is a danger and [I] would not put it past her to become a martyr and blow up Capitol Hill,” the post stated.

The message was eventually deleted, but not before the screenshots were taken and started making the rounds on social media.

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WATCH: AOC’s First Speech From Floor Goes Off The Rails, She Accuses Trump Of Starving People January 17, 2019 Martin

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Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, D-N.Y., delivered her first House floor speech on Thursday, and she wasted little time attacking President Donald Trump.

In her roughly 3-minute speech, Ocasio-Cortez blamed Trump for the partial government shutdown, accused him of starving people, and said his demands for a border wall have resulted in “the erosion of American democracy.”

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“It is actually not about a wall, it is not about the border, and it is certainly not about the well-being of everyday Americans. The truth is, this shutdown is about the erosion of American democracy and the subversion of our most basic governmental norms,” Ocasio-Cortez said.

She then accused Trump of starving people.

“It is not normal to hold 800,000 workers’ paychecks hostage. It is not normal to shut down the government when we don’t get what we want. And it is certainly not normal to starve the people we serve for a proposal that is wildly unpopular among the American people,” she said.

Ocasio-Cortez went on to share the story of one of her constituents, an air traffic controller who she said is one of the 800,000 federal workers who missed their first paychecks last week due to the funding lapse.

“Federal workers’ jobs are stressful enough,” she said, before claiming Trump pushes “anti-immigrant sentiment.”

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