Fake
Syrian passports aren't exactly a dime a dozen, but they can be had for
as little as $200, according to a report from the Department of
Homeland Security that could call into question the ability to screen
Middle East refugees fleeing to the West.
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Businessman
Donald Trump and the man on his heels in the polls, Sen. Ted Cruz, have
spent much of the year in an odd political bromance, lavishing each
other with praise, appearing at a rally together or just saying nothing
at all.
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| New York Times | - 1 hour ago |
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LE
BOURGET, France - After almost two weeks of marathon negotiations, the
lines for food and coffee on Friday night snaked through the temporary
tent city here that has been home to the global climate talks.
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Jannie
Ligons, left, one of the victims of sexual assault by former Oklahoma
City police officer Daniel Holtzclaw, smiles as attorney Benjamin Crump
holds up her arm during a news conference in Oklahoma City, Friday, Dec.
11, 2015.
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| Los Angeles Times | - 2 hours ago |
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Law
enforcement officials investigate the scene of suspected arson at the
Islamic Society of the Coachella Valley on Friday. Law enforcement
officials investigate the scene of suspected arson at the Islamic
Society of the Coachella Valley on Friday.
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| New York Times | - 1 hour ago |
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KABUL,
Afghanistan - An Afghan official says that at least six people have
been killed after the Taliban attacked near the Spanish embassy in the
capital Kabul.
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| Chicago Tribune | - 20 hours ago |
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Bill
Clinton's visit comes a day after two Republican presidential
candidates were in Chicago. Florida Sen. Marco Rubio held a Thursday
evening reception with ticket prices ranging from $1,000 to $5,400.
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| Daily News & Analysis | - 1 hour ago |
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Syrian
President Bashar al-Assad declared on Friday that he would not
negotiate with armed groups, appearing to scupper peace talks that
Russia and the United States hope to bring about in January.
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| Chicago Tribune | - 16 hours ago |
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They have supported President Barack Obama's claims of unchecked authority in a variety of areas, particularly immigration.
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| The Star Online | - 15 hours ago |
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In
early Friday trade, declining issues outnumbered advancing ones on the
New York Stock exchange (pic) by 2,391 to 331. - AFP pic.
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The
future for adult social care services in England "looks bleak", a think
tank has warned. Chancellor George Osborne announced measures in his
Spending Review that would lead to a rise in care budgets.
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| BBC News | - 11 hours ago |
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Largely
driven by the outrages perpetrated by the so-called Islamic State, the
Syrian settlement process seems to have more or less passed its first
major hurdle with the declaration on Thursday night from Syrian
opposition and rebel groups pledging ...
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| BBC News | - 13 hours ago |
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Spice
Girl Geri Horner will also be getting out her wooden spoon, along with
former footballers David James and Chris Kamara, and veteran BBC News reporter John Simpson, among others. Judges Mary Berry and Paul Hollywood will return to critique the ...
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| BBC News | - 11 hours ago |
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Stock
markets on both sides of the Atlantic fell on Friday and oil sank
further as fears about global oversupply mounted. In London the FTSE 100
closed under 6,000 points as investors dumped commodities shares.
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With
Donald Trump and Marine Le Pen surging in the polls in the US and
France, comparisons between the two politicians have been popping up all
over the place.
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A
long-awaited new West Midlands hospital will cost at least £588m over a
30-year contract, the BBC can reveal. A contract was signed on Friday
to build the 670-bed Midland Metropolitan Hospital on land in Smethwick.
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Saudi
Arabia is going to the polls in unprecedented municipal elections in
which women can cast a ballot for the first time. Women are also
standing as candidates, another first, despite the conservative kingdom
being the only nation where women are ...
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British
military officials have held talks with their counterparts in Moscow
over "incursions" of Russian aircraft around the UK, the defence
secretary has said.
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| Voice of America | - 3 hours ago |
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December
11, 2015 10:47 PM. Iraq is asking the U.N. Security Council to demand
Turkey immediately and unconditionally pull its troops out of northern
Iraq.
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NAIROBI
Gunmen attacked military sites in Burundi's capital on Friday and 12 of
the assailants were killed while 20 were arrested after heavy fighting,
the army said.
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| NBCNews.com | - 5 hours ago |
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KIEV
- Fighting broke out among members of Ukraine's ruling coalition in
parliament on Friday after a member of President Petro Poroshenko's bloc
physically picked up Prime Minister Arseny Yatseniuk and pulled him
from the podium.
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(Photo
credit: SAUL LOEB/AFP/Getty Images). In the opaque digital world of the
loose hacktivist collective Anonymous, December 11 is also known as
“Trolling ISIS Day,” an open invitation to the world to join the hackers
in mocking the Islamic State on ...
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| New York Times | - 17 hours ago |
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SYDNEY,
Australia - New Zealanders have a new flag to consider, and not many of
them seem happy about it. If the numbers released on Friday did not
quite tell the story, Dave Baxter, a 52-year-old hotel manager, summed
it up succinctly.
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| Washington Post | - 8 hours ago |
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JERUSALEM
- Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has stepped up his
rhetorical campaign to convince the world that the surge in Palestinian
violence here is not born of frustration against Israel's decades-long
military occupation but instead is ...
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| New York Times | - 15 hours ago |
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BEIRUT
- The Islamic State group claimed responsibility Friday for triple
suicide bombings in northern Syria that killed at least 26 people and
wounded 90, underscoring its ability to launch attacks in areas that it
has lost to rival groups.
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| ABC News | - 20 minutes ago |
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A
member of the FBI dive team searches Seccombe Lake Friday, Dec. 11,
2015, in San Bernardino, Calif., for evidence in connection with last
week's fatal shooting at Inland Regional Center, The FBI says divers are
searching the lake because leads ...
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NEW
YORK, Dec. 11 (UPI) -- NBA on TNT has a crew of large former players
with even bigger personalities. So it was no surprise Thursday, when
Charles Barkley went off script to comment on presidential candidate
Donald Trump and his supporters.
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| ABC News | - 12 minutes ago |
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In
this photo provided by the Northstar California Resort, skiers make
their way down a run at the Northstar California Resort Thursday, Dec.
10, 2015, in Truckee, Calif.
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| New York Times | - 5 hours ago |
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WASHINGTON
- With negotiators certain to blow a midnight deadline for a $1.1
trillion spending bill for 2016, Congress on Friday approved a stopgap
measure to forestall a government shutdown and provide an additional
five days to reach a deal.
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MINNEAPOLIS
- A Minneapolis man was charged Friday with tweeting threats against
FBI agents after the arrest of a friend on charges of conspiring to help
the Islamic State group, and authorities allege the man had hopes
himself of traveling to Syria.
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| New York Times | - 3 hours ago |
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Dean
G. Skelos, the former majority leader of the New York Senate, and his
son were found guilty of federal corruption charges on Friday, a quick
and devastating follow-up punch to the State Capitol, which has seen two
entrenched leaders convicted and ...
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| Sun Sentinel | - 7 hours ago |
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Attorney
John Burris, right, comforts Gwen Woods, the mother of Mario Woods, the
a knife-wielding stabbing suspect who was fatally shot by San Francisco
Police last week, at a news conference at Southeast Community College
in San Francisco, Friday, Dec.
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| Pittsburgh Post-Gazette | - 2 hours ago |
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Federal
Reserve Chair Janet Yellen and the board of governors could raise the
interest rate at its meeting next week. By Tim Grant / Pittsburgh
Post-Gazette.
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| The Denver Post | - 5 hours ago |
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This
Thursday, Dec. 10, 2015 photo shows a Dow Chemical plant in La
Porte,... (Pat Sullivan/AP). « 1; ». DOVER, Del. (AP) - Dow Chemical and
DuPont are merging to form a company valued at about $130 billion as
they try to counter falling commodities ...
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| The Denver Post | - 6 hours ago |
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Mail
delivery services added employees to Denver operations to handle the
holiday online shopping deliveries. USPS turned on a new "high-speed"
sorting machine the size of a football field on Dec. 2 to help sort
mail.
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| Wall Street Journal | - 8 hours ago |
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The
$28,500 loan that Syed Rizwan Farook received from an online finance
startup a few weeks before he and his wife allegedly opened fire at a
holiday gathering in San Bernardino, Calif.
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The
once-lauded fund's closure raises questions about the high-yield
market, and what happens when hard-to-trade bonds are owned by mutual
funds and ETFs.
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| Huffington Post | - 11 hours ago |
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Nothing
lasts forever, and neither does Kitson. Once known as the
see-and-be-seen clothing store for young Hollywood's tabloid darlings,
the store is now closing all 17 locations, including its famous boutique
on Robertson Boulevard in Los Angeles.
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| Boston Herald | - 2 hours ago |
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Investigators
gather evidence from the Red Line train that departed Braintree station
without a driver. 0 comments. inShare. submit to reddit.
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| Huffington Post | - 5 hours ago |
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"Our
goal is to advance digital intelligence in the way that is most likely
to benefit humanity as a whole." Reuters/The Huffington Post.
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| Mac Rumors | - 15 hours ago |
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Apple
this week has encouraged customers to trade in and upgrade to a new
iPhone through its website, email and an App Store banner advertisement.
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Microsoft
has grudgingly agreed to let current OneDrive users keep their 15GB of
free cloud storage and 15GB of free Camera Roll “bonus” storage, rather
than dropping you to 5GB as previously stated, but only if you're aware
of the offer and don't mind ...
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| Macworld | - 12 hours ago |
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Google's
iOS app has been updated to support AirPlay on the Apple TV, but we're
still missing a tvOS app. google play movies and tv ios app.
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| Washington Post | - 36 minutes ago |
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TRENTON,
N.J. - Frank Sinatra was the Chairman of the Board, Ol' Blue Eyes and
The Voice. But “Slacksy O'Brien?” That was an early nickname for Sinatra
in the Hoboken neighborhood where he grew up because, as a youngster,
he wore nice clothes.
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| People Magazine | - 1 hour ago |
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For
her newly released "BB Talk" music video, the singer dressed like a
literal baby, specifically a foul-mouthed infant wearing an inflatable
diaper costume, sucking suggestively on a pacifier.
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| Chron.com | - 3 hours ago |
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In
anticipation of Thursday night's opening of "Star Wars: The Force
Awakens," former Houston Chronicle film critic Louis B. Parks recaps the
first six installments of the "Star Wars" space saga created by George
Lucas.
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| Entertainment Weekly | - 14 hours ago |
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With
the new trailer for X-Men: Apocalypse out now, EW presents our July
cover story on the new film in full. Uninvited houseguests are the
worst, especially when one of them is an evil immortal who definitely
doesn't bring a gift.
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| USA TODAY | - 42 minutes ago |
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BOSTON
- Walking into the locker room after his postgame news conference,
Draymond Green knew what he accomplished, recording a rare 5x5 game.
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| Chicago Tribune | - 6 hours ago |
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The
Cubs gave their World Series-thirsty supporters the biggest of numerous
gifts Friday at the expense of their long-standing rival.
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| Las Vegas Review-Journal | - 1 hour ago |
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UFC
fighters Jose Aldo, left, and Conor McGregor pose during their weigh in
event at the MGM Grand Garden Arena in Las Vegas Friday, Dec. 11, 2015.
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| CBSSports.com | - 40 minutes ago |
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Gretz:
Erik Karlsson -- 32 points in 28 games -- is on a tear in Ottawa. And
with two Norris trophies at 25, he may be the most impactful defenseman
since Bobby Orr.
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| New York Daily News | - 7 hours ago |
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Will
I get sick from eating at my neighborhood Chipotle? Outbreaks of E.
Coli, salmonella and norovirus in Chipotle restaurants across the
country have prompted mass closings and questions from consumers and
investors.
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The
initial phase of inoculations in the country will focus on about 40,000
people in areas where dengue fever is endemic. By Stephen Feller | Dec.
11, 2015 at 4:43 PM.
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| Fox News | - 12 hours ago |
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There
isn't enough evidence yet to say whether routine full-body skin cancer
screenings are safe or effective, according to new proposed U.S.
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| Daily Mail | - 5 hours ago |
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Which
of the following threats to your wellbeing would you say is easier to
deal with? A terrorist in a suicide vest running at you with a machete
or your mum offering you a plate of doughnuts?
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| Tech Times | - 6 hours ago |
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Researchers
at the University of West England have developed a pair of socks that
use urine to generate electricity. The socks use integrated tubes, and
when the user walks, the urine is forced into microbial fuel cells.
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Machine
learning is all about getting computers to "understand" new concepts,
but it's still a pretty inefficient process, often requiring hundreds of
examples for training.
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| AsiaOne | - 48 minutes ago |
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Smog
in China's capital, caused by severe air pollution, has jolted travel
agencies here into action. Several have told their tour operators there
to distribute face masks and.
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| seattlepi.com | - 11 hours ago |
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International
Space Station crew member U.S. space agency's Kjell Lindgren smiles
after landing near the town of Dzhezkazgan, Kazakhstan, Friday, Dec. 11,
2015.
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