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LANSING,
Mich. - A top aide to Michigan's governor referred to people raising
questions about the quality of Flint's water as an “anti-everything
group.
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(CNN)
A nasty snowstorm is expected to bury the Washington, D.C., area
beginning Friday, and possibly surpass totals for a benchmark 1922
storm.
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SHANGHAI
China's fragile stock markets edged up on Thursday as oil prices
bounced from their lows and helped push Asian share markets higher.
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WHITEFIELD,
N.H. - Ted Cruz did not have to say a cross word about Scott Walker.
Rick Perry and Bobby Jindal faded on their own. And when Ben Carson
briefly rocketed to the top of the Iowa polls, Mr. Cruz and his team
stayed cool, confident that the ...
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CAIRO
- Attacks on education have long been a signature atrocity of the
Pakistani Taliban, whose militants have set schools on fire, banished
girls from classrooms and gunned down students at their desks in a quest
to impose an extremist ideology on ...
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This
artist's conception illustrates a gas giant planet alone in the dark of
space, ejected from its own star system. Astronomers think our solar
system might hold a distant ninth planet, hurled to the fringes during
the solar system's early evolution ...
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DETROIT
President Barack Obama, facing Republican criticism over the state of
the economy, did a Detroit victory lap on Wednesday to showcase the auto
companies his administration helped save, but the industry has not
turned out the way he hoped in ...
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| Huffington Post | - 53 minutes ago |
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The
Republican establishment has spent the last few months warning that the
rise of Trump's presidential candidacy represented a grave threat, not
just to the party, but to the country itself.
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Hillary
Clinton has come up with a plan to blunt Bernie Sanders's attacks from
the left: reframe them as attacks not on her policies but on President
Barack Obama's record.
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| Express.co.uk | - 15 hours ago |
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In
a letter, the Christian Democratic Union (CDU) lawmakers said Merkel
must face up to reality. They said: "In light of the developments in
recent months, we can no longer speak of a great challenge - we are on
the verge of our country being ...
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Financial
Times front page Image caption Stock market turmoil is the centre
attention for the papers. The Financial Times says the global equity
rout accelerated, sending the FTSE All-World index into bear market
territory - a fall of 20% or more from ...
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A 2013 article about babies affected by Thalidomide in the Sixties suddenly reappeared in the Most Read section of the BBC News website at the weekend after a storyline featured in an episode of the BBC One drama "Call The Midwife". Rory says: "It's ...
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The
release of the next Star Wars film has been delayed until the end of
2017, Disney has announced. Star Wars: Episode VIII was due to go on
global release in May 2017 but instead will not be aired until the
following December.
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The
long-awaited findings of a public inquiry into the killing of former
Russian spy Alexander Litvinenko are due to be released by a judge.
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Scientists
have described a new species of bird in northern India and China,
called the Himalayan forest thrush. During fieldwork in the mountains,
researchers noticed that thrushes in the forests sang much more
musically than those on the rocky peaks.
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| BBC News | - 10 hours ago |
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The
family of three victims of the Glasgow bin lorry accident have taken
the first formal step towards bringing a private prosecution against the
driver, Harry Clarke.
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| BBC News | - 13 hours ago |
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The
boss of a bed-making firm has been found guilty of human trafficking.
Mohammed Rafiq employed large numbers of Hungarian men as a "slave
workforce" at the now defunct Kozee Sleep in Ravensthorpe, Dewsbury,
West Yorkshire.
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The
UK's broadband providers have been told to expect tougher rules on how
they advertise their services. The UK's Advertising Standards Authority
said it was considering the step to ensure people "aren't misled by
pricing claims".
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| Fox News | - 13 minutes ago |
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KABUL,
Afghanistan - The Afghan reporters recognized the voice threatening
them with death on the Islamic State group's local radio station.
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| Washington Post | - 7 hours ago |
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ZURICH
- Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said Wednesday that neither
Russia nor the United States supports a delay in Syrian peace talks, due
to start next week, though it was not clear whether he and Secretary of
State John F. Kerry had ...
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| Los Angeles Times | - 5 hours ago |
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For
the last 12 months the average surface temperature across the globe was
58.47 Fahrenheit, a 0.23-degree increase from 2014's record-breaking
average temperature of 58.24.
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| ABC News | - 40 minutes ago |
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A
magnitude-6.4 earthquake struck a remote region of northwest China
early Thursday, damaging a few dozen homes but causing no casualties.
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(CNN)
Iran's foreign minister says Saudi Arabia is "panicking" over the
potential for reduced tensions between Tehran and the West, that he is
happy for the families of Americans previously imprisoned in Iran, and
that the U.S.
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| Al-Bawaba | - 47 minutes ago |
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Defense
Secretary Ash Carter announced that defense ministers from France and
five other nations have agreed to intensify the battle against Daesh
militants in Syria and Iraq, and that the coalition will work together
over the coming months.
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| Washington Post | - 5 hours ago |
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HANOI,
Vietnam - Vietnam's ruling Communist Party Thursday opened an eight-day
congress to name the country's new set of leaders, who will determine
the pace of critical economic reforms, the fight against corruption and
relations with key trading ...
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NEW
YORK (AP) - Wall Street is drowning in oil. Stocks are having their
worst start to a year in history in part because of a rapid plunge in
the price of oil.
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Protesters
wait to cross the street on Jan. 20, 2016, in Detroit. Most of
Detroit's public schools closed for the day due to teacher absences, as
disgruntled educators stepped up efforts to protest the governor's plans
for the district.
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BALTIMORE
- A Baltimore judge on Wednesday rejected prosecutors' request to force
an officer whose trial ended in a hung jury to testify against three of
his fellow officers facing charges in the death of Freddie Gray.
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| USA TODAY College | - 6 hours ago |
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A
new program being held this April at Portland Community College,
Whiteness History Month, has garnered lots of unwanted negative
attention.
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| NBCNews.com | - 1 hour ago |
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In
her first lengthy public comments on the armed occupation of a wildlife
refuge in Oregon, Governor Kate Brown said Wednesday that the federal
government had urged state officials to "limit" their public comments
about the standoff.
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| Washington Post | - 6 hours ago |
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It
is easy to understand why Alaska outdoorsman John Sturgeon finds a
hovercraft useful in skimming across a shallow riverbed to get to his
favorite moose-hunting spot in the Yukon wilderness.
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| The Bellingham Herald | - 1 hour ago |
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Police
and emergency crews respond to the scene of a car accident along Las
Vegas Boulevard, on Dec. 20. One person was killed and more than 30
injured.
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| Wall Street Journal | - 1 hour ago |
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Crude
prices rose but then fell slightly in Asia on Thursday, driven by
short-covering, but any gains were expected to be temporary as an
expanding global glut continues to spook investors.
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An
employee uses a remote control as he inspects a Sharp Aquos LCD
television. Foxconn has offered about $5.1 billion to buy Japan's Sharp
Corp.
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| New York Daily News | - 31 minutes ago |
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Faced
with increasing scrutiny from powerful places, former Turing
Pharmaceuticals CEO Martin Shkreli resorted to a familiar tactic,
lashing out at his opponents on Twitter.
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TOKYO
Battered crude oil prices bounced back from their lows on Thursday,
propelling solid gains in Asian shares and the dollar. Thursday's gains
built on Wall Street's consolidation overnight in which major indexes
finished with declines of more than ...
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| Wall Street Journal | - 5 hours ago |
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Wal-Mart
Stores Inc. WMT -2.75 % will give nearly all its U.S. hourly store
employees—and not just minimum-wage earners—a raise next month, as the
nation's largest private employer tries to combat a tighter labor market
and the turnover endemic in ...
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| New York Times | - 5 hours ago |
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Viacom
cut the annual pay for its executive chairman, Sumner M. Redstone, by
85 percent during the 2015 fiscal year, the company disclosed on
Wednesday, in the face of growing questions about whether Mr. Redstone,
an ailing 92-year-old, should continue ...
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| StreetInsider.com | - 17 hours ago |
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Goldman
Sachs (NYSE: GS) reported Q4 EPS of $4.78, ex. CVA/DVA and RMBS
settlement, versus the analyst estimate of $3.56. Revenue for the
quarter came in at $7.27 billion versus the consensus estimate of $7.14
billion.
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One
of the best video of games of 2015 is back with an extra special
package. In 2015 the massive Mortal Kombat X hit the scene, properly
ushering this brutal franchise into the future with its takes on the
violence that has had gamers enraptured since ...
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| MediaPost Communications | - 6 hours ago |
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At
a time when both Madison Avenue and the digital publishing community it
depends on are struggling to find a solution to the potentially
existential threat of ad blocking, one of the Internet's most visionary
developers is introducing a new browser ...
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| PC Magazine | - 9 hours ago |
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Learning
is no longer confined to the classroom. With Google's new Expeditions
Pioneer Program, students can take field trips to Asia, Australia, and
the U.K.
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Oculus
founder Palmer Luckey isn't going to escape that lawsuit over the
alleged misuse of confidential data. A judge has ruled that Luckey has
to face the core claim, which accuses him of breaching a contract with
his former employer (Total Recall ...
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| E! Online | - 3 hours ago |
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Troy
and Gabriella forever! It's hard to believe that it's been 10 years
since the Disney Channel debuted High School Musical on the small
screen.
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| The New Yorker | - 5 hours ago |
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Zach Galifianakis stars on FX as the struggling clown Chip Baskets, but it is often the women of “Baskets” who steal the show.
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| E! Online | - 4 hours ago |
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Adele
is ready to perform on two stages very few artists have the opportunity
to visit. After belting out "Skyfall" at the Oscars, the singer has
graciously accepted an invitation to perform at the Grammy Awards airing
next month from Los Angeles.
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| People Magazine | - 5 hours ago |
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The Trainwreck star denied allegations of joke theft after a video was released comparing her material to other comedians' gags.
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The
Buffalo Bills made history Wednesday by hiring the NFL's first female
full-time coach, naming Kathryn Smith as a special teams quality control
coach.
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| Los Angeles Times | - 2 hours ago |
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UFC
fighter Conor McGregor arrives late for a UFC 197 news conference at
the MGM Grand in Las Vegas on Jan. 20. UFC fighter Conor McGregor
arrives late for a UFC 197 news conference at the MGM Grand in Las Vegas
on Jan. 20.
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| Los Angeles Times | - 26 minutes ago |
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The
Lakers lost their fourth-straight game on Wednesday night, losing to
the Sacramento Kings, 112-93. The Kings led by as many as 14 points in
the second quarter, but the Lakers closed to within two points on a pair
of Kobe Bryant free throws early in ...
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| Bleacher Report | - 1 hour ago |
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No.
2 seed Andy Murray will surely be tested in the later rounds of the
2016 Australian Open. Fortunately for him, he conserved energy for those
matches Wednesday with a relatively easy 6-0, 6-4, 6-1 victory over Sam
Groth.
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BRASILIA
The cases of babies born with unusually small heads continue to rise in
Brazil where researchers said on Wednesday they had found new evidence
linking the increase to the Zika virus spreading through the Americas.
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| National Geographic | - 5 hours ago |
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Governments
must help solve the problem of no new antibiotics by funding and
creating incentives for developing new drugs, almost 100 pharmaceutical
companies and trade associations say in a statement being released this
evening at the World Economic ...
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| New York Times | - 1 hour ago |
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WASHINGTON
- Move over, millennials. The centenarians are coming. The number of
Americans age 100 and older - those born during Woodrow Wilson's
administration and earlier - is up by 44 percent since 2000, federal
health officials reported ...
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| San Francisco Chronicle | - 1 hour ago |
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Eaze
delivers medical medical marijuana in plastic containers. The company
has released the first compilation of data about its customers.
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| The Seattle Times | - 1 hour ago |
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The
skeleton of a man found prone on the ancient shore of Kenya's Lake
Turkana is part of a discovery of a prehistoric massacre reported
Wednesday in the journal Nature.
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WASHINGTON
In the early years of the Jurassic Period, when the world was
recovering from one of the worst mass extinctions on record, a modest
meat-eating dinosaur from Wales helped pave the way for some of the most
fearsome predators ever to stalk ...
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| Voice of America | - 7 hours ago |
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January
20, 2016 4:24 PM. Biologists say they have captured photos of one of
the most elusive dogs in the world. The photos of the bush dogs, which
live in Central and South America, may also prove the rarely seen and
threatened species is somewhat ...
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| Huffington Post | - 4 hours ago |
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It
is a quite extraordinary figure. Dr. Curtis Cooper from the University
of Central Missouri has found the largest-known prime number - written
(274207281)-1. It is around 22 million digits long and, if printed in full, would take you days to read ...
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