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[Watch
the pope's arrival here]. Pope Francis's chartered Alitalia jet landed
at Joint Base Andrews on Tuesday afternoon, more than 10 minutes ahead
of schedule.
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BERLIN
Volkswagen AG (VOWG_p.DE) said a scandal over falsified U.S. vehicle
emission tests could affect 11 million of its cars worldwide as
investigations of its diesel models multiplied, heaping fresh pressure
on CEO Martin Winterkorn.
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On
Monday, former neurosurgeon Ben Carson was bailed out of the
controversy over his views of Islam by an unexpected ally. Nihad Awad,
executive director of the Council on American-Islamic Relations, called a
news conference to "ask Mr. Ben Carson to ...
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BRUSSELS
- European Union ministers approved a plan on Tuesday that would compel
member countries to take in 120,000 migrants seeking refuge on the
Continent - but only after overruling four countries in Central Europe.
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WASHINGTON
- Pope Francis landed to a red carpet welcome here on Tuesday afternoon
as he opened his first visit to the United States determined to press
the world's last superpower to do more to care for the planet and its
most marginalized inhabitants.
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The
greater sage grouse, a bird whose habitat is spread across 11 Western
states, has been saved by collaborative conservation effort and won't be
listed as endangered or threatened, the Interior Department announced
Tuesday.
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| International Business Times UK | - 6 hours ago |
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Several
thousand supporters of the Iran-backed Houthi rebels took to the
streets of the Yemeni capital Sanaa on 21 September, dancing, cheering,
and chanting pro-Houthi slogans in celebration of the one-year
anniversary of the Shi'ite militia's ...
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NEW
YORK (TheStreet) -- Greece's left-wing leader Alexis Tsipras won the
snap election Greece held on Sunday, but his worries might have just
worsened.
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| Philly.com (blog) | - 20 hours ago |
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That's
an embarrassment to the party of Jefferson, Jackson FDR and JFK. This
weekend at a New Hampshire Democratic Party confab, the party's national
chair, Rep. Debbie Wasserman-Schultz, was confronted as she tried to
speak by protesters from the ...
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The
"untouchable" founder of the aid charity Shelterbox fraudulently gave
contracts to his son and set up sham companies, the Old Bailey has
heard.
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Agreeing
a price for any drug is a tricky business. In the UK, the NHS is the
main buyer and prices are set through a voluntary scheme between
manufacturers and the government, trying to strike the right balance of
serving patients and generating money ...
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A
man who fantasised about "putting a bullet in Prince Charles's head"
has been convicted of plotting a mass cyanide attack from his bedroom.
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An
Apple 1 motherboard, a 79-year-old TV and the only surviving processor
of the last supercomputer designed by Seymour Cray have been auctioned
at a vintage tech sale in New York.
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This
week, Chinese President Xi Jinping is making his first official visit
to the US. It takes place against a background of accusations flung by
both the US and China over state-backed hacking.
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The
EU faces what could be two bruising summits this week over a proposal
to redistribute an extra 120,000 asylum seekers throughout Europe.
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A
memorial service is being held for a man who died during a Hajj
pilgrimage when a crane collapsed in Mecca. Kamran Khan, 43, died while
taking part in Tawaf, walking around the sacred Kabbah shrine located
near the centre of the Great Mosque, on 11 ...
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Missing
murderer Richard Bracken has been found in London. Share this story
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WASHINGTON
The U.S. military has assessed that the type of Russian aircraft in
Syria is consistent with protecting their own forces, U.S.
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MANILA
Two Canadian tourists, a Norwegian resort manager and a Filipino woman
have been kidnapped by unidentified gunmen from a popular resort island
in the southern Philippines, the army said on Tuesday.
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| Washington Post | - 1 hour ago |
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WASHINGTON
- The commander of U.S. forces in Afghanistan said Tuesday he expects
U.S. personnel to report to military superiors any allegations of sexual
abuse of boys by Afghan forces.
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| Wall Street Journal | - 4 hours ago |
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ATHENS—Greece's
newly appointed Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras will unveil his
government's cabinet late on Tuesday. Top positions are expected to go
to ministers who served in his previous administration, dissolved in
August following Greece's ...
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MOSCOW
- A Russian court on Tuesday began hearing the high-profile case
against a Ukrainian officer who is charged in the deaths of two Russian
journalists in eastern Ukraine.
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PESHAWAR,
Pakistan The new leader of the Afghan Taliban, Mullah Mansour, called
for unity in a message released on Tuesday to mark the coming Muslim
festival of Eid al-Adha, but a rival faction issued its own statement
calling for a new leadership vote.
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April
16, 2015: Carnations are placed on the barbed wire in the former Nazi
death camp of Auschwitz. (Reuters). German prosecutors have charged a
91-year-old woman with playing a role in the deaths of 260,000 Jews at
the infamous Auschwitz death camp ...
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Senate
Republicans introduced a short-term spending bill designed to spark a
series of moves to fund the government through Dec. 11 and avert a
shutdown.
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An
American Airlines plane with 141 passengers on board has returned to
Sacramento International Airport after an apparent problem with a fuel
line.
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| Las Vegas Review-Journal | - 58 minutes ago |
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After
being denied entrance into school on Monday, a Pennsylvania high school
student doused a school security guard in gasoline and then poured the
remaining fuel onto the floor of the building, police and school
officials said.
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| Reuters | - 53 minutes ago |
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BEIJING/AUSTIN,
Texas The White House has contacted China's Foreign Ministry over the
detention of an American businesswoman accused of spying, a spokesman
said on Tuesday, in a case that blew up just as President Xi Jinping
began a visit to the ...
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LOS
ANGELES - Declaring the growing homeless population a public emergency,
the Los Angeles City Council is planning to spend $100 million to help
get people off the streets.
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| Washington Post | - 2 hours ago |
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David
Petraeus, the retired Army general and former CIA director, apologized
Wednesday before the Senate Armed Services Committee for his
high-profile extramarital affair, and then proceeded to lay out his his
vision for how the United States should ...
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| People Magazine | - 1 hour ago |
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The
longtime female companion of Boston mob boss James "Whitey" Bulger, who
spent 16 years on the run with him when he was a fugitive, has been
indicted for criminal contempt for refusing testify to a grand jury
about whether other people helped the ...
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| Insurance Journal | - 3 hours ago |
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Health
insurance costs have been rising at historically low rates over the
last several years. Yet it may not feel that way to consumers.
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| Wall Street Journal | - 9 minutes ago |
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The
disclosure that Lloyd Blankfein, Goldman Sachs Group Inc. GS -2.05 % 's
chairman and chief executive, was diagnosed with lymphoma shines a
light on the most common blood cancer, one that comes in many forms and
that generally is either curable or ...
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| Reuters | - 44 minutes ago |
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BOSTON,
Sept 22 An executive for State Street Global Advisors said it voted to
let Bank of America Chief Executive Brian Moynihan keep his additional
title of chairman, votes that helped him retain the role at the bank's
shareholder meeting held ...
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| ABC News | - 25 minutes ago |
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Leaders
of two major health insurers planning multibillion dollar acquisitions
made their case to Congress that bigger can mean better in their
industry, but concerns are being raised in Washington about how these
deals will affect consumers and ...
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| North American Windpower | - 2 hours ago |
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Renewable energy could provide 100% of the world's electricity by 2050, according to a new report from Greenpeace International.
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Darden
Restaurants (DRI), the owner of the popular Italian food chain,
reported earnings and sales on Tuesday that beat Wall Street's
forecasts.
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| TheStreet.com | - 2 hours ago |
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NEW
YORK (TheStreet) -- It's time to get out of biotech stocks, because the
sector is headed for big declines. Biotech stocks are slumping this
week following a tweet about "price gouging" in the sector by Democratic
presidential candidate Hillary Clinton.
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Apple
has done it again, at least according to the first takes trickling out
today. iphone 6s primary Apple. Caitlin McGarry | @Caitlin_McGarry.
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For
years, the breathless speculation around Apple AAPL -0.89% was whether
or not the company would start producing televisions, especially after
biographer Walter Isaacson quoted the late Steve Jobs saying he had
'finally cracked it.
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Where
is the 3D-printing market heading? If you consider leaders like 3D
Systems and Stratasys, the picture doesn't look so good.
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| PC Magazine | - 27 minutes ago |
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Has
your ex been sending you nasty emails that you just don't care to see?
Now you don't have to with Gmail. Google on Tuesday finally introduced a
block sender feature, which will help you keep your Gmail inbox devoid
of messages from people with ...
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| USA TODAY | - 18 minutes ago |
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Sean
Penn has filed a $10 million defamation lawsuit against Empire creator
Lee Daniels. The complaint, filed Tuesday in New York Supreme Court,
asserts that in Daniels' recent interview with The Hollywood Reporter,
Penn was falsely accused of hitting ...
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Ta-Nehisi
Coates, a leading voice in the America's current debates surrounding
race, is taking on a new role: a writer of Marvel Comics' Black Panther,
Marvel's first black superhero.
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Ryan
Murphy is uniquely positioned to make a show about college in the 21st
century. The writer and producer is still best known for Glee, a series
whose giddy musical numbers coexisted with a take-no-prisoners attitude
towards every member of its high ...
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| Los Angeles Times | - 2 hours ago |
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Harry
Potter has left the Gryffindor Boys' Dormitory for a new home online.
Pottermore, the Internet home of all things Hogwarts, has undergone an
extensive redesign, removed its registration requirements and will
feature a host of new stories and ...
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| FOXSports.com | - 3 hours ago |
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Tom
Brady looked like a surgeon against the Buffalo Bills in Week 2,
shredding the defense for 466 yards and three touchdowns. In fact, he
was so good that he set the record for most passing yards by an opposing
quarterback against the Bills.
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| CBSSports.com | - 2 hours ago |
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Forward
Anthony Bennett's contract was bought out by the Timberwolves on
Tuesday, Shams Charania of Yahoo! Sports reports. Reports surfaced
Monday night suggesting the two sides were working toward a buyout, and
that has now been finalized, ...
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A
team usually waits until the bye week to do a thorough self-scouting,
but maybe the 0-2 Indianapolis Colts get started a little sooner this
season given the state of their team.
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The
Daily Bagel is your dose of the interesting reporting, writing and
quipping from around the Internet. • From The Wall Street Journal:
Sinclair Broadcast Group, the nation's largest owner of local TV
stations, is interested in acquiring the Tennis ...
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Many
things change after a heart attack, but new research suggests your sex
life need not be one of them. German researchers studied more than 500
heart attack survivors, men and women, over a 10-year period.
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The
Obama administration is gearing up for what it expects to be the
toughest healthcare sign-up season yet, officials said Tuesday.
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| NBCNews.com | - 4 hours ago |
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Most
Americans will get a wrong or late diagnosis in their lifetimes, a new
report finds - often with devastating effects. It's almost impossible to
quantify, but the problem is serious, and the lack of a coherent
medical system helps keep it under ...
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| CBS News | - 14 minutes ago |
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In
the wake of outrage over the massive price increases for older drugs
like Daraprim, a plan for the purchase and large price increase of a
critical drug to treat a rare tuberculosis has been reversed.
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Every
person emits a unique blend of microbes into the air, and this
"microbial cloud" is personalized enough that it could be used to
identify people, a new study finds.
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| AL.com | - 48 minutes ago |
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In
this 2015 photo released by the University of Alaska Museum of the
North, a handful of dinosaur bones are seen after they were discovered
at the Liscomb Bonebed on the Colville River, near Nuiqsut , Alaska.
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| Discovery News | - 2 hours ago |
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With
the huge supermoon lunar eclipse just one week away, it's time to dust
off your small telescopes and binoculars, track down an observatory
event or webcast, or draft your invitations for a moon-cake party.
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| Christian Science Monitor | - 46 minutes ago |
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Archaeologists
find salmon bones dating from 11,500 years ago, the oldest evidence of
humans eating fish in the region. By Eva Botkin-Kowacki, Staff writer
September 22, 2015.
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