| Washington Post | - 36 minutes ago |
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RANCHO
MIRAGE, Calif. - President Obama on Tuesday vowed to nominate an
“indisputably qualified” candidate to the Supreme Court, forcefully
rejecting Republican calls that he cede the pick to his successor
because the Court vacancy comes late in his ...
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COLUMBIA,
S.C. - The call-bank headquarters of Hillary Clinton's campaign in this
suddenly must-have state is in a small house on a tree-lined street not
far from the Capitol.
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| New York Times | - 49 minutes ago |
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President
Obama on Tuesday offered an extended critique of the Republicans
running to replace him, describing them as “troubling” to people around
the world and singling out Donald J. Trump as someone who would not be a
serious president.
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| Washington Post | - 1 hour ago |
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Republican
candidate Jeb Bush made a campaign stop at a firearm manufacturer in
Columbia, S.C., on Tuesday, marking the occasion with a pithy tweet of a
handgun that has gone viral on social media.
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The
Egyptian diplomat Boutros Boutros-Ghali, whose five years at the helm
of the United Nations was marked by war in Europe and genocide and
famine in Africa, died on Tuesday at the age of 93.
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| NBCNews.com | - 35 minutes ago |
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A
federal judge on Tuesday ordered Apple to give investigators access to
encrypted data on the iPhone used by one of the San Bernardino shooters,
assistance the computer giant "declined to provide voluntarily,"
according to court papers.
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| New York Times | - 2 hours ago |
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In
a wide-ranging speech on “ending systemic racism,” Hillary Clinton
presented a $125 billion plan to assist poor and minority communities
with job training, education and re-entering society after
incarceration, part of an effort to speak directly to ...
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| CBS Local | - 2 hours ago |
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WASHINGTON
(AP) - The Republican chairman of a special House panel investigating
Planned Parenthood and other abortion providers has issued the first
three subpoenas to groups she says are withholding information.
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| New York Times | - 3 hours ago |
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“I
believe the biggest banks are still too big to fail and continue to
pose a significant, ongoing risk to our economy,” Mr. Kashkari said at
the Brookings Institution, delivering his first public speech as the new
president of the Federal Reserve Bank ...
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Here
we are in mid-February 2016, and there are still vast swaths of the
Republican Party that can't come to accept the fact that Donald Trump -
winner of the New Hampshire primary, runner-up of the Iowa caucus -
stands a very strong chance of being ...
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'Audacious
demand': UK's wish list seriously taken by EU leaders. Guide: All you
need to know about the referendum. Referendum timeline: What will happen
when?
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Ukrainian
Prime Minister Arseniy Yatsenyuk's government has survived a
no-confidence vote hours after the president asked him to step down.
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The
Canadian government has confirmed that the number of missing or
murdered indigenous women in the country may be higher than the
previously cited 1,200.
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| BBC News | - 10 hours ago |
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For
the first time, astronomers have managed a direct measurement of the
gases present on a "super-Earth" planet orbiting an alien star.
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| BBC News | - 10 hours ago |
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A
black commuter who was pushed off the Paris Metro by Chelsea fans ahead
of a match against Paris Saint-Germain will watch the clubs play later.
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Personal
details about hundreds of London-based research students were posted
online in an apparent breach of data privacy laws. The University of
Greenwich has apologised and said it is in the process of contacting
those affected.
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| BBC News | - 12 hours ago |
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A
Carmarthenshire driver who tried to shake off a chasing police officer
by deploying a smokescreen has been given a community order.
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| BBC News | - 10 hours ago |
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Uganda's
President Yoweri Museni is seeking to extend his 30-year rule by
winning a fifth term in government in presidential elections on
Thursday.
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| Washington Post | - 28 minutes ago |
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Turkey continued its bombardment of Kurdish forces inside northwestern Syria Tuesday, and expressed “disappointment” in a U.S.
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Iran's
defense minister met Tuesday in Moscow with Russian President Vladimir
Putin about delivery of the advanced S-300 air defense system -- and the
purchase of powerful offensive weapons, including Russia's most
sophisticated tank and jet fighters.
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| Huffington Post | - 1 hour ago |
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Satellite
images show the deployment of a surface-to-air missile system to Woody
Island, Fox News reports. 02/16/2016 07:27 pm ET.
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GENEVA
The Syrian government has approved access to seven besieged areas and
U.N. convoys are expected to set off in days, the United Nations said on
Tuesday after crisis talks in Damascus.
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| Tribune-Review | - 48 minutes ago |
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BERLIN
- A deadly train crash in southern Germany that killed 11 people
probably was caused by human error on the part of the train dispatcher,
prosecutors said Tuesday.
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| Salt Lake Tribune | - 1 hour ago |
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President
Barack Obama, center, waves as he poses for a group photo with leaders
of ASEAN, the 10-nation Association of Southeast Asian Nations, at the
Annenberg Retreat at Sunnylands in Rancho Mirage, Calif.
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| Myrtle Beach Sun News | - 1 hour ago |
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In
this Sunday, Feb. 14, 2016 photo a Cubana airlines, aircraft is
stationed at the international terminal of the Jose Marti Airport in
Havana, Cuba.
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| Miami Herald | - 46 minutes ago |
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A
Texas prisoner was executed Tuesday for the shotgun slaying of a
Dallas-area liquor store clerk during a robbery more than 25 years ago.
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| OregonLive.com | - 24 minutes ago |
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A
federal judge Tuesday ordered Nevada rancher Cliven Bundy to remain in
custody pending trial on a complaint stemming from his 2014 standoff
with federal agents trying to round up his cattle grazing on public
land.
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| ABC News | - 30 minutes ago |
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The
notorious "Grim Sleeper" trial began today in Los Angeles with a
statement from L.A. County Deputy District Attorney Beth Silverman, more
than three decades after the discovery of the alleged serial killer's
first victim.
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| Washington Post | - 1 hour ago |
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PIERRE,
S.D. - South Dakota would be the first state in the U.S. to approve a
law requiring transgender students to use bathrooms and locker rooms
that correspond to their sex at birth if the governor signs a bill
passed Tuesday by the state Senate.
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| New York Daily News | - 3 hours ago |
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The
24-year-old Russian beauty supposedly choked by “Luv Guv” Eliot Spitzer
accused another man of assaulting her in a 2013 lawsuit, court records
indicate.
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| Los Angeles Times | - 39 minutes ago |
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A
magnitude 4.8 earthquake six miles from Big Pine on the eastern edge of
the Sierra Nevada knocked items of store shelves and rattled residents,
but produced little to no damage Tuesday afternoon, officials said.
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| Appeal-Democrat | - 3 hours ago |
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FAIRFIELD,
Conn. (AP) - A man whose wife and her three children were violently
attacked at home was shot to death Tuesday by police officers he
confronted in his driveway, authorities said.
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Saudi
Arabia and Russia have taken the first step to stem the slide in oil
prices. There's just one problem: If they are successful -- and that's a
big if -- the wildcatters of Texas, Oklahoma and North Dakota are
waiting to pounce.
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| Chicago Tribune | - 1 hour ago |
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United
Airlines mechanics voted overwhelmingly Tuesday to reject the company's
contract offer and authorize a strike, a setback in efforts to repair
labor relations as the airline awaits the return of its CEO.
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| Washington Post | - 58 minutes ago |
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WASHINGTON
- A new analysis of Republican presidential candidate Ted Cruz's tax
plan concluded that it would add trillions to the federal deficit while
providing huge tax cuts to the nation's wealthiest earners.
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| Bloomberg | - 45 minutes ago |
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The
former U.S. Treasury official who led the 2008 bailout program for the
nation's biggest banks says in his new role at the Federal Reserve that
Congress and regulators should consider breaking them up to protect the
financial system from another crisis.
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| Bloomberg | - 41 minutes ago |
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Investor
Carl Icahn and Greenlight Capital, the hedge fund led by David Einhorn,
cut their stakes in Apple Inc. in the last three months of 2015, just
before the company's shares started to slide this year on concerns that
the smartphone market is ...
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| Reuters | - 45 minutes ago |
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(Adds
Boeing considering legal options). By Andrea Shalal. WASHINGTON Feb 16 A
U.S. government agency on Tuesday rejected a protest filed by Boeing Co
and Lockheed Martin Corp aimed at overturning a multibillion-dollar
bomber contract awarded to ...
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| The San Diego Union-Tribune | - 20 minutes ago |
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Shares
of satellite Internet outfit ViaSat surged nearly 12 percent Tuesday on
speculation that American Airlines might use the Carlsbad company to
supply in-flight Wi-Fi on some of its commercial jets.
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| San Francisco Chronicle | - 1 hour ago |
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A
Southern California hospital fell victim to hackers last week -
offering a glimpse at one of many digital threats facing health care.
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| Wall Street Journal | - 57 minutes ago |
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Apple
Inc. will debut its electronic-payment system Apple Pay in mainland
China on Thursday, according to a person familiar with the matter, its
first such attempt to break into the Asian payment market.
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| Mac Rumors | - 3 hours ago |
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Samsung
is expected to unveil its newest smartphones at Mobile World Congress
on February 21, and ahead of their debut date, several leaks have hinted
at the specs we can expect to see in the flagship devices of Apple's
main competitor.
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| PC Magazine | - 4 hours ago |
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Eager
to try out Sony's PlayStation VR? You'll need to practice your
patience, because the virtual reality headset isn't launching for
months, according to GameStop CEO Paul Raines.
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Aw,
love is in the air Twittersphere. Calvin Harrismay not have been able
to join his ladylove Taylor Swift at the 2016 Grammy Awards last night
(he was busy cookin' up in the lab), but the music producer was able to
reunite with his girl after the ...
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| People Magazine | - 1 hour ago |
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SNL
viewers couldn't tell from home there was any drama going on when Kanye
West took the stage, but behind the scenes it was a different story.
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| People Magazine | - 1 hour ago |
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Alexa
"Lex" McAllister, the former Bachelor contestant who died on Tuesday
after a suicide attempt, has left her family in complete shock.
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| TheWrap | - 31 minutes ago |
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Idris
Elba is flawless in “Luther” as the Detective Chief Inspector with a
very dark side, and now the gritty British actor is playing an equally
as badass former CIA agent in “Bastille Day.
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New
England Patriots linebacker Jerod Mayo, 29, bid farewell to the team
Tuesday in an Instagram post that was captioned "retiring a Patriot.
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Tobias
Harris on a rookie contract was a curiosity -- a super-young,
position-less pile of skills. Skeptics saw a tweener jack-of-all-trades
who wasn't actually good at any of them, and hogged the ball on offense.
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| Washington Post | - 1 hour ago |
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Ronda
Rousey is reportedly trying to trademark another phrase, or several
variants thereof. And while it shares a trait in common with the
previous phrase on which she recently filed for a trademark - a distinct
element of profanity - this one ...
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| FOXSports.com | - 5 hours ago |
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The
NFL commissioner reportedly made a whopping salary in 2014, but he has
had to navigate the league through some rough waters during his tenure.
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| Reuters | - 46 minutes ago |
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WASHINGTON
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration recommended on Tuesday that blood
should no longer be collected from regions where the Zika virus is
circulating, and that blood needed for transfusions be obtained from
areas of the country without ...
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This
week officials from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control will launch an
investigation into these clusters. 0 Shares. Email. Shawna Chen
recalled the unsettling response she got when she was in middle school
and she told friends that she was going ...
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| Voice of America | - 2 hours ago |
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February
16, 2016 5:54 PM. An experimental therapy that harnesses the power of
the immune system is showing remarkable success in the fight against
some of the mostly deadly blood cancers.
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Flexion
Therapeutics Inc's pain drug was found to be effective in a late-stage
study, taking the company one step closer to its first ever U.S.
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