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Monday, February 17
2020 DEMS TARGET 'MONEY MIKE' With the Nevada caucuses less than a week away, Democratic presidential candidates are fixated on a rival who isn’t contesting the state. Bernie Sanders, Joe Biden, Amy Klobuchar, Elizabeth Warren and Pete Buttigieg on Sunday all targeted billionaire Mike Bloomberg, accusing him of buying his way into the election and making clear they were eager to take him on in a debate. [AP]
CALIFORNIA TO FORMALLY APOLOGIZE FOR INTERNMENT OF JAPANESE AMERICANS California is poised to formally apologize to all Americans of Japanese heritage for the state’s role it the internment of more than 120,000 people during World War II. On Thursday, the California Assembly is expected to approve HR-77, which details a series of profound civil rights abuses perpetrated against Americans in 1942 at the height of anti-Japanese hysteria. [HuffPost]
AMERICANS EVACUATED FROM CRUISE SHIP LAND IN U.S. WITH CORONAVIRUS Fourteen of the 300 Americans evacuated from a cruise ship in Japan where they had been quarantined were discovered infected with the coronavirus shortly before they boarded a chartered flight bound for California, U.S. authorities said. All of the passengers have now landed in the U.S., The Washington Post reported. The coronavirus has infected more than 71,000 people globally, mostly in mainland China. The death toll is 1,775, including five people outside mainland China. [CNN]
ARIZONA CREW MEMBER WHO SURVIVED PEARL HARBOR DIES Donald Stratton, one of the remaining USS Arizona crew members who survived the attack on Pearl Harbor, died at his Colorado Springs home over the weekend. The 97-year-old veteran had been in poor health since October. “He was a very humble, very quiet hero,” said his son, Randy Stratton. “He didn’t want or seek the attention he received.” [AP]
BUTTIGIEG RESPONDS TO LIMBAUGH'S HOMOPHOBIC REMARKS Pete Buttigieg shrugged off Rush Limbaugh’s homophobic remarks about his marriage, saying he isn’t going to “take lectures on family values” from the right-wing radio host ― a man known for pushing racist, sexist and anti-LGBTQ views. “I love my husband,” Buttigieg told CNN’s “State Of The Union.” [HuffPost]
JAPAN'S 'NAKED' FESTIVAL DRAWS 10,000 MEN TO TEMPLE About 10,000 Japanese men clad only in loincloths braved freezing temperatures to pack into a temple and scramble in the dark for lucky wooden talismans tossed into the crowd in a ritual that dates back five centuries. [Reuters] | 
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