Washington
(CNN) The top commander of U.S. forces in Afghanistan said Tuesday that
he needs to adjust troop level recommendations to respond to the
growing strength of ISIS and al Qaeda.
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ROME
- Russia and the United States tentatively agreed Tuesday to resume
talks on how to prevent conflicts between their warplanes in the skies
over Syria, even as concerns mounted about the potential for a broader
confrontation in the Middle East ...
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The
owner of the 40-year-old cargo ship that stalled and was swallowed up
by Hurricane Joaquin off the Bahamas said work was being done on the
engine room during the doomed voyage - but that wasn't a factor in the
vessel's mysterious power loss.
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| New York Times | - 4 hours ago |
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WASHINGTON
- The Justice Department is preparing to release roughly 6,000 inmates
from federal prison as part of an effort to ease overcrowding and roll
back the harsh penalties given to nonviolent drug dealers in the 1980s
and '90s, according to ...
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SAN
DIEGO - It will soon be legal for the terminally ill to end their own
lives in the nation's most populous state, and right-to-die advocates
expect other states to follow California's example.
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| Miami Herald | - 3 hours ago |
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The
latest on allegations that former United Nations General Assembly
President Josh Ashe accepted bribes to help a Chinese real estate mogul
and other businesspeople gain investments and government contracts (all
times local): 3:55 p.m..
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| NBCNews.com | - 1 hour ago |
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Hillary
Clinton's campaign is flexing its political and organizational muscle
with the announcement Tuesday of leadership councils in Colorado,
Minnesota and Virginia that feature virtually every major Democratic
elected official in the three key states.
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| New York Times | - 5 hours ago |
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Why
President Vladimir Putin is sending “volunteer” ground forces into
Syria is not entirely clear. It may be to protect the Russian base near
Latakia from which Russia has begun flying bombing missions against
Syrian rebel groups, or it may be because ...
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The
European Union's highest court ruled on Tuesday that U.S. law isn't
enough to protect European users' online privacy when it comes to sites
like Facebook, Twitter and Google. A trade program known as "Safe
Harbor" allowed American companies ...
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| KXXV News Channel 25 | - 11 hours ago |
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(AP
Photo/Majdi Mohammed). An Israeli military vehicle drives through
burning tires during a raid in the West Bank city of Nablus, Tuesday,
Oct. 6, 2015.
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There
were five other nominees in the one-country, one-vote election. In a
final run-off ballot, Prof Lee defeated Jean-Pascal van Ypersele from
Belgium, 78 votes to 56.
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David
Cameron has said he will "look to see if there is an opportunity" to
intervene personally on behalf of a protester on death row in Saudi
Arabia.
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Farming
eels is a tricky business. The slippery customers are extremely
sensitive to even the smallest change in water conditions and can die
quickly if the farmer doesn't sort out any problem as soon as it occurs.
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VW
expects to start a recall of cars affected by its emissions scandal in
January, the car giant's new chief executive, Matthias Mueller, has
said.
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| BBC News | - 11 hours ago |
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Dust
blows across the path as women walk up the path carrying what
possessions they have in flimsy blue bin bags. One calls out to a little
boy on a bicycle but her words are lost in the sound of loud drilling
and hammering.
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Six
City brokers have gone on trial, accused of rigging a lending rate used
between banks. The Libor rate is used to carry out trillions of pounds
worth of financial deals.
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Two
Sussex police constables suspended over their conduct at the site of
the Shoreham air crash have left the force. The two probationary
officers, aged 23 and 24, appeared before Assistant Chief Constable
Robin Smith, who recommended they should be ...
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Microsoft
has launched a laptop dubbed the Surface Book, as part of a suite of
new Windows 10 products. It also showed off two new smartphones, an
updated Surface tablet and a new fitness band.
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| Daily Beast | - 1 hour ago |
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Theresa
May's speech to the Conservatives' conference revealed a plan to
undermine fair asylum, her critics claimed. It was also aimed at the
party's Right, in lieu of a leadership bid to succeed David Cameron.
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ADEN,
Yemen Islamic State suicide bombers killed 22 people in attacks on
Yemen's government and its Gulf Arab coalition ally in the port city of
Aden and on a Houthi-run mosque in the capital Sanaa on Tuesday, the
jihadist group and state media said.
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| New York Times | - 6 hours ago |
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ISLAMABAD,
Pakistan - For years, Saudi Arabia has enjoyed a hallowed status here,
considered above question or criticism. Yet the hajj stampede near Mecca
last month has taken some of the luster off the exalted image of the
kingdom.
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| New York Times | - 3 hours ago |
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Europe's
highest court on Tuesday struck down an international agreement that
allowed companies to move digital information like people's web search
histories and social media updates between the European Union and the
United States.
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Sydney
(CNN) Australian police have arrested five men in connection with the
fatal shooting of a police department accountant, the New South Wales
Police Force said Wednesday morning.
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An
argument between two children over puppies turned tragic Saturday when
an 11-year-old boy killed his 8-year-old neighbor with a shotgun,
according to authorities in Jefferson County, Tenn.
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| GlobalPost | - 7 hours ago |
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by
Abu Hanifah. JAKARTA, Oct. 6 (Xinhua) -- Indonesia is facing uphill to
deal with forest fire that massively engulfing forest areas in at least
eight provinces in Sumatra and Kalimantan as the El Nino weather
continues to ensue across the country ...
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COLUMBIA,
S.C. - The family of Miss South Carolina 1954 found her flood-soaked
pageant scrapbook on a dining room floor littered with dead fish on
Tuesday, as the first sunny day in nearly two weeks provided a chance to
clean up from historic floods.
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| ABC News | - 35 minutes ago |
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A
man imprisoned for a quarter-century in a notorious tourist killing was
granted a new trial and freed on Tuesday after a judge overturned his
conviction in a case that helped crystallize an era of crime and fear in
the nation's biggest city.
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| New York Times | - 53 minutes ago |
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Haverford
and Bryn Mawr Colleges sent alerts to students and faculty members this
past weekend informing them that a posting on social media had
threatened violence at an unspecified Philadelphia-area college or
university, just days after the killings ...
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| ABC News | - 15 minutes ago |
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Months
after winning a national title, Harvard's debate team has fallen to a
group of New York inmates. The showdown took place at the Eastern New
York Correctional Facility, a maximum-security prison where convicts can
take courses taught by faculty ...
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| New York Times | - 38 minutes ago |
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Years
of fighting over a Ten Commandments monument on the grounds of the
Oklahoma Capitol came to a quiet end on Monday - for now, at least - as
workers removed the display late at night and trucked it away.
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| Latin Post | - 2 hours ago |
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Democratic
presidential candidate and former U.S. Secretary of State Hillary
Clinton speaks at Rancho High School on May 5, 2015, in Las Vegas,
Nevada.
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| New York Times | - 37 minutes ago |
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Ben
Carson, the Republican presidential candidate, said on Tuesday that
victims of mass shootings should not be timid during attacks, imagining
that if he were facing a raging gunman, “I would not just stand there
and let him shoot me.
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CHICAGO
American Apparel Inc plans to revamp its struggling fashion business
under a restructuring plan that would give ownership to the Standard
General hedge fund, which rescued RadioShack earlier this year, lawyers
said at a hearing on Tuesday.
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McDonald's
shook things up when the burger chain launched all-day breakfast
Tuesday, extending McMuffins sales past the previous 10:30 A.M.
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U.S.
stocks fell on Tuesday, ending a five-day winning streak, as investors
focused on upcoming quarterly reports that are expected to reflect a dip
in corporate earnings.
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There's
enough cash sitting in offshore bank accounts to wipe out the federal
deficit - if only it was subject to U.S. taxes. That's because U.S.
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| TechCrunch | - 1 hour ago |
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Riddle
me this. Why won't people just ignore Twitter's new Moments tab? How
will Moments make money? Will Twitter pay publishers that create them?
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| Reuters | - 44 minutes ago |
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(Adds
details on China management, link to graphic). By Lisa Baertlein. Oct 6
(Reuters) - Yum Brands Inc cut its full-year profit forecast on
Tuesday, citing a slower-than-expected recovery in its key market of
China and the drag from a strong U.S ...
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| Detroit Free Press | - 2 hours ago |
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To
strike or not to strike is the question on the lips of union workers at
Fiat Chrysler Automobiles, who have learned the UAW gave the automaker
notice Tuesday morning that the extension of the current contract is
being terminated Wednesday night.
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For
all its promise and potential, the original Microsoft Band wasn't
exactly a runaway hit. It's OK -- they can't all be winners.
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Andrew
Hoyle/CNET. Apple's brand new iPhone 6S and iPhone 6S Plus have been
given a whole host of new features over their predecessors, but it's the
new camera that I've been giving the most attention.
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| ExtremeTech | - 2 hours ago |
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From
the beginning, Microsoft has tried to set its nascent augmented reality
technology, dubbed HoloLens, apart from competing VR solutions.
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| Washington Post | - 4 hours ago |
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Reddit,
the self-proclaimed front page of the Internet, announced Tuesday that
it's presenting a new face to the world. Meet Upvoted, a Reddit news
production staffed by journalists dedicated to highlighting content from
the sprawling online community.
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Rihanna
attends the Vogue 95th Anniversary Party as part of the Paris Fashion
Week Womenswear Spring/Summer 2016, Oct. 3, 2015, in Paris.
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NEW
YORK Speaking publicly for the first time since admitting that he lied
about his personal experience of the Sept. 11 World Trade Center
attacks, comedian and actor Steve Rannazzisi apologized on Tuesday and
said he feels awful about what he called ...
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| USA TODAY | - 57 minutes ago |
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LOS
ANGELES (AP) - A Los Angeles judge has finalized Stevie Wonder's
divorce from fashion designer Kai Millard Morris. Superior Court Judge
Christine Byrd finalized the pair's divorce on Monday, more than three
years after the Grammy-winning singer ...
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| Entertainment Weekly | - 6 hours ago |
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The
Disney-owned cable channel is undergoing a moniker rebranding that
ditches “Family” - a word that's been part of the network's identity for
nearly 30 years across several previous name changes.
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| NESN.com | - 11 hours ago |
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Dave
Dombrowski inherited a roster with good young talent when he was named
the Boston Red Sox's new president of baseball operations back in
August.
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DraftKings
pulled its advertising from ESPN on Tuesday after the daily sports
company became engulfed in questions this week about possible insider
trading.
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| New York Times | - 5 hours ago |
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Americans
and Internationals mixing it up in the Presidents Cup has been a bad
recipe for suspense. The Americans have lost only once in the 10
editions of golf's other biennial team event.
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| Bleacher Report | - 56 minutes ago |
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Fresh
off a season in which he finished as runner-up for the 2014-15 NBA MVP
award and led the Houston Rockets to the Western Conference Finals,
James Harden is ready to show the world just what he can do.
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| University Herald | - 27 minutes ago |
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Flu
Vaccine (Photo : Flickr/CC) The flu shot reduces the risk of suffering a
stroke, according to a recent study. New research suggests that the flu
shot reduces the risk of suffering a stroke.
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| New York Times | - Oct 5, 2015 |
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SAN
FRANCISCO - It wasn't his first broken condom, so Rafael didn't worry.
But three weeks later, the man he'd met in a bar called to say that he
had “probably been exposed” to H.I.
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Metabolic
syndrome in teenagers may predict risk for preventable future
cardiovascular disease and Type 2 diabetes. Photo by
DONOT6_STUDIO/Shutterstock.
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| The Market Business | - 2 hours ago |
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A
team of researchers has found that an anti-cancer drug may make it
easier to learn a language, sharpen your memory and help those with
dementia and Alzheimer's disease by rewiring the brain and keeping
neurons alive.
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It's
really hard to pick who should get Nobel Prizes for work in physics.
New discoveries in the field tend to come from massive international
collaborations of physicists running multimillion-dollar experiments in
huge particle accelerators and super ...
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| Christian Science Monitor | - 3 hours ago |
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Following
an unprecedented collaborative effort to save the sage grouse, some
conservationists are calling for environmental protections that take
humans into account.
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| New York Daily News | - 6 hours ago |
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If
possible, rats just got even uglier. A new species of pig-like-nosed
mammals were discovered in Indonesia, according to a statement released
Tuesday by Australia's Museum Victoria.
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| Christian Science Monitor | - 1 hour ago |
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Scientists
studied hundreds of bones of the recently discovered early human Homo
naledi to find that our relative had modern abilities, like walking and
tool use, and primitive ones, like tree climbing.
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