diff --git a/sklearn/datasets/twenty_newsgroups.py b/sklearn/datasets/twenty_newsgroups.py
index cd06b6aafb832d6c042a61108d76e31b5630725f..107088143fa9c399767ec244191dea444cf00f0d 100644
--- a/sklearn/datasets/twenty_newsgroups.py
+++ b/sklearn/datasets/twenty_newsgroups.py
@@ -40,7 +40,6 @@ import urllib
 import logging
 import tarfile
 import pickle
-import warnings
 import shutil
 
 import numpy as np