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LOS
ANGELES - After the Los Angeles public schools were shut down Tuesday
in response to threats of a bomb and poison gas attack, officials
determined that the threats were probably a hoax, but not before the
lives of millions of Angelenos - students ...
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| Washington Post | - 1 hour ago |
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The
main Republican debate has begun in Las Vegas, where billionaire
front-runner Donald Trump will face eight rivals for the first time
after his controversial call to block Muslims from entering the U.S..
The debate could also be a crucial showcase ...
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Washington
(CNN) Hillary Clinton argued Tuesday that the U.S. can stop homegrown
terrorism, outlining a plan to combat domestic radicalization two weeks
after two ISIS-inspired terrorists killed 14 people in San Bernardino,
California.
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| Chicago Sun-Times | - 1 hour ago |
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A
Southwest Airlines plane skidded off the runway while landing at a
Nashville International Airport on Tuesday evening. | Scott Olson/Getty
Images file photo.
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| Washington Post | - 1 hour ago |
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Saudi
Arabia has announced the formation of an “Islamic military alliance” to
combat global terrorism, an effort to respond to Western claims it
could do more in the fight against the Islamic State and to solidify its
claim to leadership of the Sunni ...
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The
Pentagon delivered a warning Tuesday about the growth of the Islamic
State offshoot in Afghanistan, saying the branch has become “more
operationally active” there by carving out territory and openly fighting
the Taliban.
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| Daily Mail | - 8 hours ago |
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With
few notable medical issues during his presidency, Bill Clinton's
ailments came after he left the Oval Office. The now 69-year-old had
quadruple heart bypass surgery in 2004, plus another four-hour operation
the next year to remove fluid and scar ...
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| USA TODAY | - 7 hours ago |
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A
super PAC supporting Democrat Hillary Clinton's White House bid has
released an anti-Donald Trump Snapchat filter for those "snapping" from
Tuesday night's Republican presidential debate.
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| Town Hall | - 5 hours ago |
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Last
week, Ohio's Attorney General Mike DeWine released the findings of an
investigation that showed aborted baby parts from Ohio's Planned
Parenthood branch were ending up in landfills. Planned Parenthood Ohio
denied the allegations, while adding ...
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| Leadership Newspapers | - 8 hours ago |
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President
Muhammadu Buhari has urged religious leaders to support the Federal
Government's in its efforts at stripping Boko Haram of its religious
pretensions. The President made the appeal on Tuesday in Abuja when he
received in audience the ...
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The
US and Russia say world powers will meet in New York on Friday to pass a
UN resolution endorsing the Syria peace process. It follows talks in
Moscow between US Secretary of State John Kerry, his Russian counterpart
Sergei Lavrov and President ...
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| BBC News (blog) | - 9 hours ago |
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By
the end of this week it could be illegal for any European child under
16 to use Facebook - or Snapchat or any messaging service - without the
express consent of their parents.
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UK
astronaut Tim Peake has boarded the International Space Station, which
will be his home for the next six months. Mr Peake and fellow crew
members, Russian Yuri Malenchenko and American Tim Kopra, floated
through the hatch from their Soyuz space ...
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Britain's
busiest and quietest railway stations have been revealed in figures
from the rail regulator. Its data showed the quietest station, Shippea
Hill in Cambridgeshire, had just 22 entries and exits across the whole
of last year.
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| BBC News | - 12 hours ago |
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A
motorist who murdered a love rival when he ploughed into his bicycle at
40mph has been jailed for life. Sam Spaven drove his Audi into Richard
Pencott, 44, as he rode home from work in Harworth, Nottinghamshire, in
June.
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Facebook,
Google and Twitter have agreed a deal with Germany under which they
will remove hate speech posted on their websites within 24 hours.
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| BBC News | - 13 hours ago |
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BBC News Services. On your mobile · On your connected tv · Get news alerts · Contact BBC News. Explore the BBC.
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| BBC News | - 13 hours ago |
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The
first police officer to arrive at the Bataclan has described the
"indescribable moment of fear" he felt on entering the scene of the
massacre.
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MOSCOW
Russia and the United States see enough common ground on Syria for
world powers to meet on the troubled country's peace process in New York
on Friday, but views on the future of President Bashar-al Assad still
diverge.
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UNITED
NATIONS Iran violated a U.N. Security Council resolution in October by
test-firing a missile capable of delivering a nuclear warhead, a team of
sanctions monitors said, leading to calls in the U.S.
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| New York Times | - 5 hours ago |
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PARIS
- Three people are being questioned by French investigators in
connection with terrorist attacks in the Paris area this year, including
two suspected of supplying the guns used in the deadly siege of a
kosher supermarket in January, the Paris ...
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| New York Times | - 58 minutes ago |
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BRUSSELS
- European Union authorities on Tuesday proposed taking control of
border and coastal security at entry points for migrants in countries
like Greece and Italy, to get a grip on a crisis that has divided the
bloc and fed the rise of populist ...
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CAIRO
Yemen's Houthi rebels said on Wednesday the Saudi Arabia-led military
coalition was not adhering to a United Nations-sponsored ceasefire.
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Last
summer, officials in Poland thought they had located a long-lost Nazi
train that, as legend had it, was filled with gold and hidden in an
underground tunnel.
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The
knives are out, sharper and angrier. After Delhi Chief Minister Arvind
Kejriwal accused Prime Minister Narendra Modi of using probe agency CBI
to “intimidate” him and his government by searching the office of Delhi
Principal Secretary in an alleged ...
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(CNN)
South Carolina Sen. Lindsey Graham might be trailing badly in the
polls, but as he's done in debates past, his one-liners during CNN's
undercard Republican debate Tuesday have made him a crowd favorite in
the room in Vegas and across social ...
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| Salt Lake Tribune | - 2 hours ago |
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Philip
Chism, rights, stares straight ahead beside defense attorney John
Osler, as the jury reads the verdict in his trial at Salem Superior
Court, Tuesday, Dec. 15, 2015, in Salem, Mass.
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| Sacramento Bee | - 1 hour ago |
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A
Plumas County couple appeared in court in Quincy Tuesday afternoon
facing felony child abuse charges in the alleged torture of a 9-year-old
girl, while authorities in Redding were investigating their connection
to the deaths of two small children ...
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| AL.com | - 46 minutes ago |
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An
arrest warrant has been issued for Birmingham City Councilman Marcus
Lundy after he and Mayor William Bell were involved in an altercation
Tuesday morning.
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| Huffington Post | - 1 hour ago |
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An
angry hotel guest is accused of slamming his pickup truck through a
hotel's lobby, coming within inches of two employees' lives, all because
of a bill dispute.
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| SFGate | - 43 minutes ago |
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Lillian
Vernon, who created a sprawling catalog business that specialized in
personalized gifts and ingenious gadgets and made her an American
household name, died Monday in New York.
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| The Denver Post | - 2 hours ago |
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Staff
of the front desk prepare for opening at the new Westin DIA hotel at
the south end of Denver International Airport in Denver, Colorado, on
November 19, 2015.
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The
Federal Reserve is poised to end the suspense Wednesday, raising
interest rates first time in nearly a decade and closing an
extraordinary era of easy money spawned by the 2008 financial crisis.
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| San Francisco Chronicle | - 1 hour ago |
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The
fast-growing solar industry scored a tentative victory over
California's utility companies Tuesday when state regulators proposed
leaving largely intact the system that pays solar homeowners for their
excess electricity.
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| Investor's Business Daily | - 5 hours ago |
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Stocks
closed off intraday highs but still scored solid gains as the two-day
Fed monetary policy meeting got under way. The S&P 500 rose 1.1%,
while the Nasdaq and the Dow Jones industrial average each gained 0.9%.
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| Washington Post | - 2 hours ago |
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Throughout
its colorful history, Las Vegas has seen its share of shadowy
characters and suspicious backroom deals. But the latest opaque
transaction in the city doesn't involve one of its gambling dens.
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New
Federal Aviation Administration drone regulations, published yesterday,
require all owners to register their aircraft. With 800,000 expected
under the Christmas Tree, FAA is waiving the small registration fee
until mid January.
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| MarketWatch | - 3 hours ago |
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Valeant
Pharmaceutical International Inc.'s troubles didn't start with dramatic
drug price increases alone, but the company is banking on drug
discounts to restore its reputation and bolster its stock price.
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U.S.
payments processor Global Payments Inc (GPN.N) will buy smaller rival
Heartland Payment Systems Inc (HPY.N) in a $4.3 billion cash-and-stock
deal that will expand its merchant base and reach at a very competitive
time in the industry.
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| Wall Street Journal | - 45 minutes ago |
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Facebook
Inc. FB -0.11 % is joining an increasingly crowded market for local
services. The move pits Facebook against Yelp Inc. YELP -9.16 % and
Angie's List Inc., ANGI 1.87 % as well as tech giants Amazon.
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| TechCrunch | - 5 hours ago |
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After
over a year's worth of controversy around Facebook's real names policy,
Facebook has announced a couple of changes to its process in order to
better serve all of its members, including those in the LGBTQ community.
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| TechCrunch | - 6 hours ago |
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It
seems Apple is continuing to use the App Store's “Top Charts” section
to promote its own applications, by allowing apps like iMovie and those
from its iWork suite to appear in the Top 10 Free apps on users'
iPhones.
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| NEWS.com.au | - 47 minutes ago |
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NETFLIX
is on the verge of rolling out a change that promises to offer
better-looking streams, while also reducing data usage by up to 20 per
cent.
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Kelly
Rutherford has reportedly lost custody of her kids - Hermes, 8, and
Helena, 6. The ruling is the latest update in the actress' ongoing
custody battle with her ex-husband, Daniel Giersch.
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| Wall Street Journal | - 56 minutes ago |
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Chen Fang couldn't wait to see the new “Star Wars” movie—until, that is, he learned that the main star isn't a gorilla.
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| New York Times | - 4 hours ago |
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A
decade ago, Howard Stern surprised the media world by leaving
terrestrial radio - where he had a huge audience but faced constant
headaches over censorship issues - for the relatively new and unproven
world of satellite radio.
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| People Magazine | - 1 hour ago |
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The
54-year-old opened up about his diagnosis on SiriusXM's Eddie Trunk
Live (via Blabbermouth.net) on Monday and revealed that he was diagnosed
over the summer.
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| New York Times | - 4 hours ago |
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With
two outs and the bases empty in the bottom of the eighth inning on Aug.
17, 1986, Pete Rose inserted himself into the Cincinnati Reds' game at
Riverfront Stadium.
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New
England Patriots running back LeGarrette Blount will miss the remainder
of the season because of a left hip injury, a source confirmed to ESPN
NFL Insider Adam Schefter.
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| USA TODAY | - 20 minutes ago |
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DURHAM,
N.C. (AP) - Freshman Brandon Ingram had season highs of 26 points and
14 rebounds, and No. 6 Duke beat Georgia Southern 99-65 on Tuesday
night.
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| The Boston Globe | - 1 hour ago |
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Two
more Patriots are headed to the injured reserve list, which is
collecting players seemingly every week this season. For the second
consecutive year, Dominique Easley will end the season on IR, after
suffering a thigh injury during Sunday night's 27 ...
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| Pulse Headlines | - 35 minutes ago |
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New
York - Daughters of Charity hospital chain, a financially troubled
health system based in Los Altos, California has closed a $260 million
investment deal with BlueMountain Capital Management, the largest deal
and the most complex nonprofit hospital ...
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Merck
& Co Inc.'s drug to reverse the effects of muscle relaxants used
during surgery has won U.S. approval. The Food and Drug Administration
said on Tuesday it approved the drug, Bridion, to reverse the effects of
deep paralysis caused by rocuronium ...
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| U.S. News & World Report | - 4 hours ago |
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TUESDAY,
Dec. 15, 2015 (HealthDay News) -- Children with attention deficit
hyperactivity disorder may have weaker connections among brain networks
that help the mind focus, a new study suggests.
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| Baltimore Sun | - 2 hours ago |
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The
drug and device industry now funds six times more clinical trials than
the federal government, according to Johns Hopkins University
researchers.
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| Washington Post | - 5 hours ago |
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For
a second straight year, the Arctic is warming faster than any other
place in the world, and walrus populations in the area's Pacific and
Atlantic ocean regions are thinning along with the ice sheets that are
critical for their survival, researchers ...
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In
April, a flood of powerful gamma rays that had been traveling from
halfway across the universe found their into Earth's neighborhood.
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| Live Science | - 5 hours ago |
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Attention,
sea-loving explorers: There's a $7 million reason to get serious about
your passion for ocean research right now. Yesterday (Dec. 14), Peter
Diamandis, chairman and CEO of X Prize, announced the launch of the
Shell Ocean Discovery X Prize, ...
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Researchers
filmed Australia's blue-banded bees using high-speed head-banging to
dislodge pollen from tomato plant flowers. Photo by Callin
Switzer/Harvard University.
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