In
this photo provided by Christina Cathleen Coons, a person lies on the
floor after an incident on a high-speed train traveling from Amsterdam
to Paris on Friday, Aug. 21, 2015.
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| Washington Post | - 3 hours ago |
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MOBILE,
Ala. -- Donald Trump's rallies have the rhythm all their own, all
captured live on cable TV. There is the press conference, typically
first, at which the Republican presidential front-runner spars for 10 to
15 minutes with reporters, sparing no ...
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| Reuters | - 9 minutes ago |
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SEOUL
Top aides to the leaders of North and South Korea will meet at the
Panmunjom truce village straddling their military border at 0900 GMT
(5.00 a.m.
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| CNN International | - 3 hours ago |
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Des
Moines, Iowa (CNN) Ted Cruz took a page out of his pastor father's
Bible on Friday night in Iowa. At his "Rally for Religious Liberty,"
Cruz sought to appeal to evangelical Republican voters and frame himself
as a fighter for religious rights.
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| USA TODAY | - 6 hours ago |
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INDIANAPOLIS
- Jared Fogle, who has agreed to plead guilty to child pornography
charges and having sex with minors, will have his sentencing hearing
Nov. 19.
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(CNN)
The first Atlantic hurricane of the year reached major status briefly
on Friday before weakening to a Category 2 storm about 810 miles east of
the eastern Caribbean islands, the National Hurricane Center said.
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| New York Times | - 15 hours ago |
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Prime
Minister Alexis Tsipras called for new elections. In a nationally
televised address on Thursday, Mr. Tsipras said that he would submit his
resignation to Greece's president, a move he hoped would clear the way
for his radical left Syriza party to ...
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| Sentinel Republic | - 1 hour ago |
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Wase
said Shekau sounds subdued in the recording, perhaps an indication that
he had to flee or was wounded in the ongoing fighting between the
militaries of Nigeria and its neighbors against the insurgents.
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| Voice of America | - 6 hours ago |
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Obama's
letter was sent on the same week that a second prominent Senate
Democrat, Robert Menendez of New Jersey, said he would oppose the
nuclear deal when it comes up for a vote in Congress next month.
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| ValueWalk | - 12 hours ago |
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Citing
survey results, Pew says Internet services are being used by 85% of
adults while smartphones are used by 67% of them - many of whom log into
Pinterest and Instagram at increasing rates. In the last three years,
the proportion of online adults ...
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Macedonia
has defended its handling of security at the country's border with
Greece, where migrants were beaten back with truncheons and riot
shields.
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Thefts
of blue parking badges used by disabled drivers have more than doubled
in a year in England, figures suggest. The latest Department for
Transport data shows a 167% increase, from 656 thefts in 2012/13 to
1,756 in 2013/14.
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The
30th anniversary of the Manchester air disaster is due to be marked
later with a memorial service. Fifty-three passengers and two crew
members died when an engine caught fire on a British Airtours 737 jet at
Manchester Airport on 22 August 1985.
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Doctors
in Ghana have suspended a three-week strike they called to press for
better working conditions, the Ghana Medical Association (GMA) said.
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Divers
exploring a 10,000-year-old submerged forest off the Norfolk coast say a
shift in the seabed has exposed much more of the hidden treasure.
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| BBC News | - 11 hours ago |
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More
than a week after a warehouse packed with hazardous chemicals exploded
in the Chinese city of Tianjin, many are still scared that poisons lurk
in the air, the ground or the water.
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| BBC News | - 11 hours ago |
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A
schoolgirl was "radicalised" when her family exposed her to propaganda
by the Islamic State group and must be removed from their home, the High
Court says.
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A
man is in a critical condition after being shot by police following a
siege lasting seven hours in south London. The Met Police said the
incident happened at a residential address in Tilson Gardens in south
Brixton.
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| The Hindu | - 4 hours ago |
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The
second-in-command of the dreaded Islamic State militant group has been
killed in a US air strike in northern Iraq, the White House has said.
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WASHINGTON:
President Barack Obama's nuclear agreement with Iran won an important
endorsement on Friday from Democratic Rep. Jerrold Nadler of New York,
who bucked opposition from fellow New York Jewish lawmakers including
his home state's ...
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| Herald Sun | - 3 hours ago |
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A
POWERFUL typhoon has toppled electricity transmission lines and trees
as it triggered landslides and floods that left at least nine people
dead in the northern Philippines, local officials say.
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| RadioFreeEurope/RadioLiberty | - 2 hours ago |
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Islamic
State extremists in Syria and Iraq are engaged in the "most brutal,
systematic" destruction of ancient sites since World War II, the head of
the UN cultural agency said August 21.
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Four
rockets were fired from Syria on Thursday afternoon, two of which
exploded in open areas of Israel's Golan Heights. Haaretz.
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| India Today | - 1 hour ago |
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Adding
another feather to her cap, Malala Yousafzai, the youngest recipient of
a Nobel peace prize, has now secured the highest grades possible in
UK's national school exams.
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| New York Times | - 11 hours ago |
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ISTANBUL
- President Recep Tayyip Erdogan of Turkey said on Friday that he would
call a snap election for Nov. 1 to break the impasse among the
country's four main political parties, an impasse that opponents say is
partly of his own making.
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| Charlotte Observer | - 1 hour ago |
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A
protester talks to a Charlotte-Mecklenburg police officer outside of
BB&T BallPark in Charlotte, NC. Jeff Siner jsiner@charlotteobserver.
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| Washington Post | - 1 hour ago |
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Wildfires
picked up their destructive pace across the drought-choked West on
Friday, leading residents to flee their homes and authorities to
scramble for resources to beat back the flames.
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Aug.
21, 2015: Police officers work at the scene following a shooting at a
federal building. (AP). NEW YORK - An armed veteran slipped through a
side door of a federal building on Friday and shot a security guard in
the head, killing him, before ...
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| Washington Post | - 4 hours ago |
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FORT
BENNING, GA. - The first female soldiers to complete the Army's
rigorous Ranger School pinned on their black-and-gold Ranger tab at a
raucous graduation ceremony Friday, capping their history-making week
and putting a spotlight on the debate ...
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A
federal judge in California on Friday ordered the government to release
immigrant children from family detention centers “without unnecessary
delay,” and with their mothers when possible, according to court papers.
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| Jackson Hole News&Guide | - 27 minutes ago |
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A
handmade sign at North Rocheblave and Lamanche streets in the Lower 9th
Ward of New Orleans attempts to thwart the illegal dumping of tires and
industrial waste.
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Washington
(CNN) A group targeting Planned Parenthood released another video
Friday that purports to show the controversial organization breaking
federal laws in its abortion procedures.
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| Moneycontrol.com | - 5 hours ago |
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Investing.com
- Investing.com -- U.S. stocks crashed more than 2% for the second
straight session as the Dow Jones Industrial Average fell more than 500
points to enter into correction territory, amid weak Chinese
manufacturing data and cascading crude ...
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| Livemint | - 50 minutes ago |
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New
York: Oil plunged below $40 a barrel in New York for the first time in
more than six years, extending the longest decline since 1986 on concern
slower demand growth will prolong a global glut.
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| Post-Bulletin | - 3 hours ago |
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WASHINGTON
- Thanks to a strengthening U.S. economy, four weeks from now the
Federal Reserve is widely expected to engineer its first interest rate
hike in nearly a decade.
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| Bangor Daily News | - 11 hours ago |
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PORTLAND,
Maine - Maine's jobless rate dipped slightly in July to 4.6 percent
from 4.7 percent one month earlier, a combination of a higher estimate
of employment and slightly lower estimate of how many people are
actively seeking work.
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| Firstpost | - 6 hours ago |
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TOKYO
Toyota Motor Corp(7203.T), in a bid to reduce its risk from potentially
lethal air-bag inflators supplied by Takata Corp(7312.
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| USA TODAY | - 13 hours ago |
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American
Airlines is pulling out of Israel, saying its US Airways-operated
service was never able to consistently make money on flights between
Philadelphia and Tel Aviv.
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| Junior College | - 42 minutes ago |
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The
Mountain View company's shares slid to as low as $85.11 after the
market opened Friday, after closing at $102.93 before posting its
quarterly financials on Thursday.
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| Telegraph.co.uk | - 27 minutes ago |
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As
Loraine, 43, put her three-year-old daughter to bed in their home in
Windsor she received a text from her husband. Instead of his usual
“almost home” cheery tone, what she opened ripped her world apart.
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| Dispatch Times | - 1 hour ago |
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The
search doesn't need to include the term “twitter” or twitter hashtags -
if there are tweets that Google thinks are relevant, it will surface
them anyway.
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Online
music streamer Spotify defended itself Friday after angry users accused
it of abusive personal data collection by asking for access to their
contacts and photos.
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| Computerworld | - 10 hours ago |
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Mozilla
on Friday spelled out major changes to one of Firefox's strengths --
its deep ecosystem of add-ons -- that will make it easier for developers
to port Google Chrome extensions to Firefox.
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| NEWS.com.au | - 1 hour ago |
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WHEN
Sam Rader made a YouTube video surprising his wife Nia with the news
she was pregnant, he seemed like the perfect spouse. And just days
later, when the couple revealed they had suffered a miscarriage, the
American Christian vloggers were ...
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(Adds
information from court filing). LOS ANGELES Aug 21 (Reuters) -
"Transformers" star Megan Fox on Friday filed for divorce from actor
Brian Austin Green after five years of marriage, a Los Angeles court
spokeswoman said.
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| NBCNews.com | - 18 minutes ago |
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Apple said it supports Dr. Dre after the rapper apologized "to the women I've hurt" via a statement to The New York Times.
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| Sentinel Republic | - 16 minutes ago |
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Colbert,
who officially succeeds David Letterman as host of the CBS program on
September 8, addressed his new job at the Television Critics Association
summer press tour in Beverly Hills on Monday.
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HOUSTON
-- Mike Fiers has pitched the second no-hitter in the major leagues in
nine days, leading the Houston Astros to a 3-0 victory over the Los
Angeles Dodgers on Friday night.
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DENVER
-- Yoenis Cespedes hit three home runs, and the New York Mets blew an
early six-run lead before rebounding to beat the Colorado Rockies 14-9
Friday night.
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| CBSSports.com | - 2 hours ago |
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Frankly,
this column is starting to become tiresome to write. You know the
column. School X's coach allows Player Y to transfer to his school --
either knowing the player's past violent behavior, or a wink-wink,
nod-nod that the coach doesn't want to ...
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| New York Times | - 2 hours ago |
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Tiger
Woods shot a five-under-par 65 on Friday to share the second-round lead
in the Wyndham Championship in Greensboro, N.C. Woods joined Tom Hoge
at 11-under 129.
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| Western Daily Press | - 22 minutes ago |
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Families
face substantial changes and pressures when a relative is diagnosed
with dementia. But scientists found the proportion of British people
aged 65 and above with dementia fell by more than a fifth in 2011
compared with what it was predicted to ...
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| Morning Ticker | - 19 minutes ago |
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A
strain of super-lice has invaded a huge amount of the United States -
and it may be more extensive than believed. Share on Facebook.
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| iSchoolGuide | - 9 minutes ago |
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Risk
of breast cancer was greatly increased with just one glass of alcohol
per day. Sign Up For Our Newsletter >>. A glass of alcohol
increases risk of breast cancer.
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| Miami Herald | - 4 hours ago |
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When
Matthew Gonzalez was 8 months old, his pediatrician noticed that he was
having difficulty moving. Matthew lacked muscle tone and wasn't
breastfeeding properly.
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| UC Berkeley | - 12 hours ago |
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If
dark energy is hiding in our midst in the form of hypothetical
particles called “chameleons,” Holger Müller and his team at UC Berkeley
plan to flush them out.
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| VICE News | - 8 hours ago |
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Human-generated
climate change has probably made California's historic drought 15 to 20
percent more severe, said scientists from Columbia University's
Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory, NASA's Goddard Institute for Space
Studies, and the University of ...
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| Forbes | - 15 minutes ago |
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WASHINGTON:
The world can breath easy. A giant asteroid is not hurtling towards
Earth about to wipe out much of the Americas, Nasa has felt compelled to
explain following a swirl of online rumors.
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