| Los Angeles Times | - 2 hours ago |
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Nine
people were killed and at least 10 injured by a gunman at Umpqua
Community College in Roseburg, Ore., on Thursday. The gunman was later
killed in a shootout with police.
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Jeb
Bush: Praying for Umpqua Community College, the victims, and families
impacted by this senseless tragedy. - Jeb Bush (@JebBush) October 1,
2015.
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| New York Times | - 1 hour ago |
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VATICAN
CITY - Ever since it became public that Pope Francis met in Washington
with Kim Davis, the Kentucky county clerk who refused to issue marriage
licenses for same-sex couples, the questions have been swirling: Why did
he meet with her, and was ...
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FAIRFAX,
Va. - Jesse Matthew Jr., charged with the murders of college students
Hannah Graham and Morgan Harrington, was sentenced Friday to three life
prison terms for a sexual assault on a woman a decade ago in northern
Virginia.
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| Washington Post | - 45 minutes ago |
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In
his first remarks on Syria since Russian airstrikes began, President
Obama said the United States would continue its fight against Islamic
State fighters and other extremists, but said "we're not going to make
Syria into a proxy war between the ...
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(CNN)
Education Secretary Arne Duncan will step down in December, an
administration official said Friday. Duncan is one of the few original
members of President Barack Obama's Cabinet who are still in office.
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| Daily Caller | - 1 hour ago |
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President
Barack Obama argued “the Republican Party is just uniformly opposed to
all gun safety laws” during a press conference at the White House
Friday.
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| Telegraph.co.uk | - 4 hours ago |
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Angela
Merkel 'firm favourite' for Nobel prize over refugee crisis - but
losing favour A man holds a Merkel banner on the Hungarian border Photo:
MARKO DJURICA/REUTERS.
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It's
not that Netanyahu has experienced a sudden conversion on the Iranian
nuclear deal, which he desperately tried -- and failed -- to thwart.
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| Middle East Eye | - 6 hours ago |
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The
strait, through which the US Energy Information Administration says 3.8
million barrels of oil and petroleum products passed to the US, EU and
Asia in 2013, had been in the hands of Houthis and their allies, units
still loyal to ousted former ...
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The
government has said owners of VW cars fitted with software to fool
emissions tests will not have to pay extra road tax if the vehicles now
fall into a higher banding.
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A
search is under way for an Indonesian passenger plane carrying 10
people that lost contact with air traffic control over Sulawesi island.
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Now
she uses its popularity to promote the original works of the artists.
Eleanor has her own show, in London, where many of her works are on
display.
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The
government says it is extending funding for councils to "assist" with
the costs of helping Syrian refugees. The UK will take in 20,000 people
fleeing the war-torn country by 2020.
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Five
children, four girls and one boy, were behind a series of blasts in the
north-eastern Nigerian city of Maiduguri on Thursday, sources say.
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A
virtual assistant that can communicate in a human-like way has been
developed at Cardiff University. Sherlock (Simple Human Experiment
Regarding Locally Observed Collective Knowledge) is similar to
smartphone assistants such as Apple's Siri or ...
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| BBC News | - 12 hours ago |
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...
trying to slowly rebuild it and I want to tell my story to stop it
happening to anybody else. I don't want them to suffer how I did.
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| BBC News | - 10 hours ago |
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India,
the world's third largest carbon emitter, has pledged to the UN to
reduce the rate by which its greenhouse gas emissions increase by up to
35% by 2030, compared with 2005.
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Roseburg,
Oregon (CNN) [Breaking news update, posted at 5:43 p.m. ET]. The
sheriff of Douglas County, Oregon, John Hanlin, named the nine victims
of Thursday's shooting at Umpqua Community College.
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| New York Times | - 5 hours ago |
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KABUL,
Afghanistan - The new leader of the Afghan Taliban boasted in a phone
call with The Associated Press on Friday that the group's three-day
occupation of the northern city of Kunduz was a "symbolic victory"
demonstrating the insurgents' strength, ...
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| New York Times | - 1 hour ago |
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PARIS
- The fragile cease-fire in Ukraine brought the leaders of Russia,
Germany, Ukraine and France together in Paris on Friday for a summit
meeting meant to strengthen it, in a meeting that was overshadowed by
events in the Middle East.
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(Adds
comment from United States). ATLANTA Oct 2 (Reuters) - Six Pacific
trading partners are resisting a U.S. push to set rules that would
protect patented next-generation medicines from competition from generic
drugs for eight years and are insisting ...
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| Miami Herald | - 43 minutes ago |
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Hurricane
Joaquin weakened to a Category 3 storm Friday afternoon as it continued
battering the Bahamas and sent a 735-foot cargo ship adrift.
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GENEVA
The United Nations backed a Saudi-led resolution on Friday to support
Yemen in setting up a national inquiry into human rights violations,
having ditched an attempt led by the Netherlands to mandate an
independent U.N.
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| The Atlantic | - 2 hours ago |
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Overshadowed
by its relative smallness and obscured by its relative complexity, the
six-month-old civil war in Yemen is the middle child of Middle East
conflict.
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| Miami Herald | - 1 hour ago |
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A
34th-floor boiler room blew up atop a new waterfront Sunny Isles Beach
condominium Friday, injuring six people, including at least one worker
in or near the boilers at the time of the explosion.
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| Washington Post | - 1 hour ago |
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This
post has been updated. The U.S. Hispanic Chamber of Commerce canceled a
question-and-answer session with Donald Trump that was scheduled for
Thursday in Washington after the candidate said Friday that he had never
agreed to appear at the ...
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A
5-month-old girl in a car with her mom is shot dead in Cleveland; a
5-year-old boy playing football is killed by crossfire police blame on
two teenagers; and a 3-year-old boy riding in a car is fatally wounded
during a drive-by.
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| Reuters | - 30 minutes ago |
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(Adds
Obama on debt limit, House Republican turmoil). By Richard Cowan.
WASHINGTON Oct 2 (Reuters) - President Barack Obama on Friday urged the
U.S.
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| Washington Post | - 1 hour ago |
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BEIRUT
- U.S.-backed rebels in Syria appealed to the Obama administration
Friday for antiaircraft missiles to defend their positions against
relentless Russian airstrikes that have so far mostly targeted the
moderate opposition to President Bashar al ...
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| Bloomberg | - 29 minutes ago |
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If
you're John Kasich, it starts with a morning work out at the gym. What
follows is a stream of press conferences, endorsements, policy reveals,
questions from voters, and hopefully a stop for food along the way.
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The
University of Louisville and the NCAA are looking into allegations in a
soon-to-be-published book that a former director of basketball
operations paid an escort service to provide sex to Cardinals recruits.
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WASHINGTON
U.S. employers slammed the brakes on hiring over the last two months,
raising new doubts the economy is strong enough for the Federal Reserve
to raise interest rates by the end of this year.
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| Fox Business | - 2 hours ago |
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Last
month the Fed voted to delay raising interest rates for the first time
in nearly a decade, postponing liftoff until it's clearer what the
impact of a global economic slowdown will be on the U.S.
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| USA TODAY | - 42 minutes ago |
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Client
names and addresses for as many as 4.6 million clients of discount
brokerage firm Scottrade may have been compromised by hackers, the
company said Friday.
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| Chicago Tribune | - 4 hours ago |
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United
Airlines CEO Oscar Munoz is focusing on the importance of people --
United customers and employees. United Airlines CEO Oscar Munoz is
focusing on the importance of people -- United customers and employees.
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FRANKFURT
Flanked by interest rate decisions in Britain, Japan and Australia, the
IMF's annual meeting in Lima takes centre stage in the calendar next
week, with policymakers focussing on China's economic slide and its
impact on the rest of the world.
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The
world has come to love Swedish massage, Swedish meatballs, even IKEA.
The world may love the next big thing coming out of Sweden -- the six
hour work day.
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| Los Angeles Times | - 1 hour ago |
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A
Wall Street road sign near the New York Stock Exchange building in New
York. A Wall Street road sign near the New York Stock Exchange building
in New York.
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| Computerworld | - 2 hours ago |
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This
is the last day that Google is operating without a parent company.
After the close of markets Friday, the company officially will become
Alphabet and will trade as such on Monday.
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| PC Magazine | - 5 hours ago |
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Since
Apple embraced mobile ad blocking for Safari in iOS 9, folks have been
quick to download ad blockers like Purify Blocker and Crystal.
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| Inside Bitcoins | - 53 minutes ago |
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When
the Patreon database hack was announced, the technology industry was
once again reminded why centralized solutions are not the way forward.
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| Washington Post | - 36 minutes ago |
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NEW
YORK - In the latest high-profile breach of a U.S. organization,
hackers broke into Experian's database of information on 15 million
T-Mobile customers and potential customers.
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Watch
this on The Scene. Demi Lovato is baring it all. The pop star appears
completely naked and makeup-free in a new series of portraits by
photographer Patrick Ecclesine.
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| Los Angeles Times | - 9 minutes ago |
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Taran
Killam and Miley Cyrus" in the season premiere of Saturday Night Live"
on NBC. Dana Edelson / NBC. Miley Cyrus is guest host and performs in
the return of "Saturday Night Live" on NBC.
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| People Magazine | - 57 minutes ago |
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"I
went to Caitlyn's photo shoot," Kardashian West, 34, reveals to her
sister - who at the time the episode was filmed had still not met
Caitlyn, formerly known as Bruce, since she transitioned.
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| Hollywood Reporter | - 4 hours ago |
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"The
minute I started reading about Lucca, it was really clear to me that
they were two different entities," new series regular Cush Jumbo tells
THR about her character.
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| Sports Illustrated | - 1 hour ago |
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Coca-Cola
and McDonald's have called on FIFA president Sepp Blatter to stand down
from his post immediately. Coca-Cola released the following statement
on Friday: “For the benefit of the game, The Coca-Cola Company is
calling for FIFA President ...
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| USA TODAY | - 2 hours ago |
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Hope
Solo, star goalkeeper of the U.S. Women's national team, will face
domestic violence charges after an appeals court on Friday reversed a
decision to throw out the case.
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Even
with Steve Kerr out indefinitely due to a back problem, the Warriors
have what it takes to keep their championship roll going.
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Here
at the end of what could forever be known in the golf world as The Year
of Jordan Spieth -- briefly interrupted only by The Late Summer of
Jason Day -- this past week has served as a victory lap for our guest of
honor.
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| Curetoday.com | - 1 hour ago |
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Every
October, pink ribbons appear to signal the start of Breast Cancer
Awareness Month. Pink has become the color of breast cancer, but some
survivors don't like the color pink and they have a good reason for
feeling the way they do.
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| Hartford Courant | - 1 hour ago |
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So
you've been burned by flaming water skis? Attacked by an orca? Sucked
into a jet engine? Try to remember the details for your doctor, because
there's now a medical code for your condition.
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| Immortal News | - 3 hours ago |
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According
to a new study, previous printed scientific literature concerning
psychotherapy–also known as “talk therapy”–has grossly over stated the
therapy's benefits for depression treatment.
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(Adds
analyst comment, updates share prices). By Deena Beasley and Natalie
Grover. Oct 2 (Reuters) - The U.S. Food and Drug Administration on
Friday approved Merck & Co Inc's immunotherapy, Keytruda, for
patients with the most common form of lung ...
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| Vulture | - 51 minutes ago |
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With
Ridley Scott's The Martian hitting theaters Friday, the question on
everybody's mind this weekend is will be, What would NASA actually do if
they really did leave a wisecracking botanist stranded on the surface
of the Red Planet?
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| Christian Science Monitor | - 2 hours ago |
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Researchers
say that the dinosaur-killing asteroid might not have been the only
thing that did in the prehistoric beasts. By Eva Botkin-Kowacki, Staff
writer October 1, 2015.
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A
farmer near Ann Arbor, Michigan, recently unearthed the skull, tusks
and other bones of a mammoth possibly butchered by early human hunters
nearly 15,000 years ago, according to a paleontologist at the University
of Michigan.
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| Nature World Report | - 2 hours ago |
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The
latest color-coded topographic map of Ceres released by NASA given an
in-depth knowledge of over a dozen recently approved names for features
on the planet.
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