(CNN)
The calendar says it's nearly Christmas, but the damage looks more like
spring. A powerful storm system roared across the South, claiming seven
lives in Mississippi, Tennessee and Arkansas and injuring scores more.
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WASHINGTON
-- The Department of Homeland Security is planning a large-scale effort
to detain and deport hundreds of immigrant families who have illegally
crossed the southern border of the U.S.
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KOH
SAMUI, Thailand (AP) - A Thai court on Thursday sentenced two Myanmar
migrants to death for the murder of two British backpackers on a resort
island last year, in a case that raised questions about police
competence and the treatment of migrant ...
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Beijing
(CNN) The British and the American embassies in China say they have
received information of possible threats against Westerners visiting a
popular shopping district in Beijing around Christmas.
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| Voice of America | - 2 hours ago |
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December
24, 2015 1:11 AM. British Prime Minister David Cameron's office says he
will "look into" the cases of British Muslims who were denied
permission at the last minute to fly to the United States.
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| NBCNews.com | - 36 minutes ago |
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A
school cafeteria worker allegedly fired after she gave a hungry student
a free lunch has been offered her job back, the Idaho school district
involved said.
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| The Week Magazine | - 22 hours ago |
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During Bill Clinton's presidency, the U.S. economy grew at a blazing 4 percent annually and created 23 million new jobs.
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shooting rampage at a Planned Parenthood clinic in Colorado was ordered
on Wednesday to undergo a psychiatric evaluation after he insisted on
acting as his own lawyer.
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| NanoNews (blog) | - 6 hours ago |
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When
Hagen was asked if he still maintains that Barack Obama is a Muslim,
despite the president's assertions to the contrary, he said: “I have no
proof to know whether he's a Christian or a Muslim“.
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| Al-Monitor | - 12 hours ago |
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13,
Erdogan broke with his usual hostile rhetoric against Israel, saying
that “Turkish-Israeli rapprochement is vital for the region” and that
normalizing ties would be “to the benefit of the whole region.
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Housing
projects helping more than 400,000 vulnerable adults face closure
because of government welfare cuts, analysis on behalf of Labour
suggests.
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Australian
markets have closed off the week in a shortened trading day on
Christmas eve, with some holiday cheer. The benchmark S&P ASX 200
got a lift from a commodities-led rally in US stocks overnight.
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| BBC News | - 11 hours ago |
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A
Californian relative of a British family which was refused entry to the
United States for a holiday has told the BBC the US government must
explain its actions.
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"I
wish everything could go back to the way that it was," sighed Najat,
remembering her 19-year-old son. Last month, jihadist group Islamic
State (IS) claimed that Abdelmalek Boutalliss had blown himself up in
Iraq.
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An
overnight fire at a hospital in southern Saudi Arabia has killed at
least 25 people and injured more than 100 others, officials said.
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Millions
of savers are being reminded that they may need to move some of their
cash, to guarantee it will be fully protected in the event of their bank
going bust.
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Russia has dismissed as "total lies" a report by Amnesty International accusing it of indiscriminate air strikes in Syria.
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The solution to the four-part bonus question will be published in a special edition of the BBC News Magazine newsletter on Christmas Eve - subscribe here to get it sent to your inbox.
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| Washington Post | - 3 hours ago |
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NAIROBI
- Two-thousand miles from Syria,the Islamic State is trying to expand
its territory by establishing a branch in what its fighters call the
“little emirate”: the war-torn country of Somalia.
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| Voice of America | - 23 minutes ago |
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December
24, 2015 3:16 AM. Syria's foreign minister says his country is ready to
participate in peace talks in Geneva, "without any foreign
interference," nearly a week after the United Nations Security Council
approved a plan for an international ...
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| Washington Post | - Dec 22, 2015 |
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BETHLEHEM,
West Bank - The city celebrated as the birthplace of Jesus is usually
filled with parades and parties this time of year.
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| Reuters Africa | - 2 hours ago |
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N'DJAMENA/NIAMEY
(Reuters) - Suspected Boko Haram militants launched four attacks over
24 hours on villages in Niger, Chad and Cameroon, killing at least seven
people, security and administrative sources said on Wednesday.
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UNITED
NATIONS The U.N. Security Council on Wednesday endorsed a U.N.-brokered
agreement among Libya's warring factions to form a national unity
government, a deal Western powers hope will bring stability and help to
combat a growing Islamic State ...
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TOKYO
Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe's cabinet approved on Thursday a
record fiscal 2016 budget that counts on higher growth and tax revenue
to achieve his aim of reviving the economy and curbing the world's
heaviest debt burden.
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| New York Times | - 16 hours ago |
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SHENZHEN,
China - With little more than an architect's drawing and a sales pitch
to go by, Tim Chen paid around $500,000 last month for a small apartment
being built above a shopping mall on the outskirts of this southern
Chinese metropolis.
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Protesters
get on light rail at the Mall of America transit hub. A large protest
that started at the Mall of America quickly migrated Wednesday, Dec. 23,
2015, to Minneapolis-St. Paul International Airport, where
demonstrators blocked roads and caused ...
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| Washington Post | - 2 hours ago |
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ROTTERDAM,
N.Y. - An 8-year-old girl who lost her father and younger siblings in
an arson fire that left her severely scarred is sharing the good cheer
that has been bestowed on her, by the tractor-trailer load, since her
simple Christmas wish went viral.
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President
Barack Obama speaks at a news conference in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia,
Sunday, Nov. 22, 2015. In Southeast Asia, Obama has taken a softer tone
on human rights and corruption in a part of the world that rights groups
claim is rife with abuses.
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| International Business Times | - 1 hour ago |
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planned
parenthood gunman Robert Lewis Dear addresses Judge Gilbert Martinez
during a court appearance in Colorado Springs, Colorado, Dec. 9, 2015.
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Washington
(CNN) Ben Carson pushed back Wednesday against reports that said he was
considering a major shakeup to his campaign staff, though he did not
dispute the possibility that changes to his operation could be coming
soon.
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| Washington Post | - Dec 22, 2015 |
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Earlier
this month, the Supreme Court justices debated the use of race in
college admissions. After oral arguments in the landmark case involving
the University of Texas, much of the public debate centered on questions
asked by Justice Antonin Scalia ...
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In
this Dec. 22, 2015, photo, Democratic presidential candidate Hillary
Clinton speaks during a town hall meeting at Keota High School in Keota,
Iowa.
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| Reading Eagle | - 3 hours ago |
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As
the holiday shopping season comes to a close, procrastinators still
have one fail-safe option: gift cards. TODAY'S SPONSOR: Whitney Young
plans to give five this year, including an American Express card for her
mother and one from Best Buy for her ...
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| Hospitality Net | - 1 hour ago |
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Hyatt
Hotels Corporation (NYSE: H) today announced that it recently
identified malware on computers that operate the payment processing
systems for Hyatt-managed locations.
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| Washington Post | - 6 hours ago |
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People
hitting the road this week are being granted a nice holiday present:
low gas prices. National gas prices fell below $2 a gallon Monday for
the first time in about seven years, and have been around $2 a gallon
since then, according to AAA.
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TOKYO
An index of Asian shares climbed to 2-1/2-week highs on Thursday,
heartened by gains on Wall Street and a recovery in crude oil prices in
thin markets ahead of the Christmas holiday.
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| Business Insider | - 2 hours ago |
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MOSCOW
(Reuters) - Russia on Wednesday issued a new banknote dedicated to
Crimea, the Ukrainian peninsula it annexed last year, in a move likely
to anger Kiev which says it wants the territory back.
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| Pittsburgh Post-Gazette | - 3 hours ago |
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Radio
Flyer sells a red scooter for boys and a pink scooter for girls. Both
feature plastic handlebars, three wheels and a foot brake.
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| Business Insider | - 2 hours ago |
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WASHINGTON
(AP) - Americans appear less inclined to buy new homes as the year
ends. Sales improved in November only because fewer people bought new
homes in October than initially reported.
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Facebook's
plan to provide limited Internet services for free in India has run
into a roadblock, with the country's top Internet regulatory body
requesting its local partner to temporarily suspend the program.
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| The Seattle Times | - 6 hours ago |
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IT-Mobile
CEO John Legere introduces Binge On in November. The company's free
program has drawn complaints, enough that the FCC wants more information
on it.
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| Macworld | - 14 hours ago |
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A new Apple TV app called Littlstar is putting the remote's touchpad to clever use with a set of interactive 360-degree videos.
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| Regal Tribune | - 54 minutes ago |
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Taking
into account the prevalence of adds, because their spread can very well
be compared to a plague at this point, the news that ASUS devices will
benefit from AdBlock Plus in 2016 is beneficial to say the least.
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| Daily Beast | - 2 hours ago |
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The
infamous 'Star Wars Holiday Special' might be even worse than the
terrible reputation that precedes it. With critics and audiences fawning
over Star Wars: The Force Awakens it is slowly becoming easier to
pretend that the three prequel films that ...
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| People Magazine | - 11 hours ago |
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The
Kardashian family Christmas card has become a staple of the holiday
season, but the famous family's youngest members are so cute that they
get a card of their own!
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| Chicago Tribune | - 3 hours ago |
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Two
men were killed in the Austin neighborhood on Dec. 23, 2015, in
separate shootings in Chicago, police said. (Armando L. Sanchez /
Chicago Tribune).
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| E! Online | - 7 hours ago |
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Gigi
Hadid got some body ink. No, the supermodel didn't get any permanent
tattoos imprinted on her money-maker, but she did have an eventful time
with longtime friends while getting some henna designs on their hands.
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| FOXSports.com | - 2 hours ago |
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ORLANDO,
Fla. (AP) Maybe it's a mark of the Orlando Magic's progress that they
weren't particularly happy with the way they played in a victory against
one of the hottest teams in the NBA.
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OAKLAND,
Calif. -- Fresh from a much-needed, four-day break that included two
days with no practice, the Golden State Warriors showed no signs of
slowing down.
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| Miami Herald | - 3 hours ago |
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Dirk
Nowitzki was running through the laundry list of things working against
him ever becoming the NBA's sixth-best scorer. "Way back when I was a
skinny 20-year-old, bad haircut, bad earring, not the most confident
guy," he said, before stopping ...
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| New York Daily News | - 3 hours ago |
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Carmelo
Anthony lives for big moments. But the Knicks' forward admitted there's
one pressure situation that would be too much for him.
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| nwitimes.com | - 1 hour ago |
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WEDNESDAY,
Dec. 23, 2015 (HealthDay News) -- As parents scramble to find the
perfect gifts for their children this Christmas, new research suggests
that electronic toys that light up, talk or play music might slow
language development in toddlers.
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| Voice of America | - 3 hours ago |
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December
24, 2015 12:40 AM. Brazil is warning pregnant women to stay inside and
avoid mosquito bites during the upcoming summer season, due to an
apparent link between the spread of a mosquito-borne virus and babies
born with birth defects.
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| Morning Ticker | - 1 hour ago |
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A
911 dispatcher - a man who had been on the job for just two weeks -
helped deliver a baby over the telephone while the mother was on a Utah
highway, according to an ABC News report.
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Aside
from those with low birth weight, nearly all infants experienced health
benefits from the extra contact with their mothers. By Stephen Feller |
Dec. 23, 2015 at 4:27 PM.
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| Los Angeles Times | - 6 hours ago |
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Two
species on Earth are known to use hook-shaped tools: humans and New
Caledonian crows. And now, for the first time, the people have caught
the birds using them on camera.
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Department
of Energy produces Plutonium-238 in America after 30 years for NASA's
future Mars space mission! The golf-ball sized Plotinum-238 chunk was
formed at the Oak Ridge National Laboratory.
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| Science World Report | - 56 minutes ago |
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These
images of an asteroid 3,600 feet (1,100 meters) long were taken on Dec.
17 (left) and Dec. 22 by scientists using NASA's giant Deep Space
Network antenna at Goldstone, California.
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| The Atlantic | - 11 hours ago |
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I
have watched a lot of rocket-launch live streams. I know how they work.
If it's a big American launch, there is a rocket, a marsh, and an
ocean.
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