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MEXICO
CITY - The world's most wanted drug lord, Joaquin “El Chapo” Guzman,
was recaptured in western Mexico on Friday after a fierce pre-dawn
gunbattle that left five people dead, Mexican authorities said.
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A 30-year-old man who allegedly ambushed and shot a Philadelphia police
officer sitting in his patrol car confessed he did it in the name of
the Islamic State, presumably referring to the terrorist group ISIS,
officials said Friday.
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As
the Powerball jackpot reaches a record $800 million, millions of
Americans have filled their heads with Champagne wishes and caviar
dreams, even though the odds are better of getting struck in a given
year by lightning (1 in 280,000) than striking ...
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Washington
(CNN) President Barack Obama on Friday vetoed legislation that would
have repealed the Affordable Care Act and cut federal funding for
Planned Parenthood.
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Greg
Abbott gives the closing keynote at the 2016 Texas Public Policy
Foundation Policy Orientation on Jan. 8, 2016. Reference Material.
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Airline
passengers in five states and a U.S. territory will be unable to
present their current driver's licenses at airport checkpoints after
Jan. 22, 2018, under new rules announced on Friday by the Department of
Homeland Security.
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| USA TODAY | - 5 hours ago |
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WASHINGTON
- President Obama has vetoed the first bill sent to him by Congress
this year, a symbolic attempt by Republicans to repeal the Affordable
Care Act and defund abortion provider Planned Parenthood in an election
year.
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WASHINGTON -- Hillary Clinton's campaign spent much of this week waging a dishonest attack on Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.
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Ahead
of a high-level meeting of Chancellor Angela Merkel's Christian
Democratic Union (CDU) party officials on Friday, de Maiziere said
authorities would focus on "prevention, more video surveillance in
public places where many people gather, police ...
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Richmond
Federal Reserve President Jeffrey Lacker on Friday said persistently
strong economic growth would need to be met with more aggressive
interest rate hikes by the U.S.
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Astronomers
have measured the age of 70,000 stars across the Milky Way and put the
results into a galactic map. It confirms what was already suspected
about our galaxy's growth: it started in the middle and grew outward.
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A
74-year-old man has been arrested on suspicion of making threats to
kill following a bomb scare in the centre of Liverpool. Police
negotiators were called to a building in Silkhouse Court in Tithebarn
Street at about 10:30 GMT after reports a man was ...
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Justin
Bieber has pulled off another chart coup by occupying the number one,
two and three spots with his songs - a feat never accomplished before.
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Guessing
when the referendum on the UK's EU membership will be held is
Westminster's current favourite parlour game. Amid all the speculation,
one could be forgiven for saying that only one man - David Cameron -
knows when the public will be asked to ...
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Talks to resolve the junior doctors dispute will "not prevent" strike action on 12 January, conciliation service Acas has said.
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Belgian
prosecutors believe they may have found a bomb factory also used as a
hideout by one of the jihadists after the Paris attacks.
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The
Army's chain of command "failed to prevent" unlawful physical
punishments known as beastings which led to a soldier's death, a coroner
has found.
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The
interim chief executive of the Financial Conduct Authority has defended
her record in regulating the banking sector. Tracey McDermott took over
the role after Martin Wheatley left the organisation in September.
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CAIRO,
Two assailants armed with a gun, a knife and a suicide belt attacked a
hotel in the Egyptian Red Sea resort town of Hurghada on Friday,
wounding two foreign tourists, security sources said.
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BERLIN
- At least 21 asylum seekers from the Middle East and North Africa are
suspects in the New Year's Eve rampage of sexual assaults and thefts in
the German city of Cologne, authorities said, as word emerged of similar
acts in Finland and Sweden ...
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ANKARA/BAGHDAD
An attempted attack by Islamic State on a military base in northern
Iraq shows Turkey's decision to deploy troops there was justified,
President Tayyip Erdogan said on Friday, suggesting Russia was stirring
up a row over the issue.
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SEOUL
- South Korea unleashed an ear-splitting propaganda barrage across its
border with North Korea on Friday in retaliation for its recent nuclear
test, while pressure grows on China to intervene.
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Jewish settler Refael Morris stands at an observation point overlooking
the West Bank village of Duma, near Yishuv Hadaat, an unauthorised
Jewish settler outpost January 5. It is becoming increasingly clear that
while talks ...
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(CNN)
Australian firefighters are battling a huge blaze that's engulfed the
small town of Yarloop, and is threatening others south of Perth in
Western Australia.
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Already
notorious for its public and gruesome executions, a member of the
Islamic State killed his own mother in front of a crowd in Syria this
week after she tried to get him to leave the terrorist organization,
according to reports.
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This
Tuesday, Jan. 5, 2016 photo, shows the Los Angeles River after
torrential rains from a series of El Nino storms turned the normally
trickling river into a raging torrent.
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| Washington Post | - 48 minutes ago |
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WASHINGTON
- Officials in Washington say they've arrested a North Dakota man who
allegedly traveled to the nation's capital to kidnap a dog belonging to
President Barack Obama.
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J.
Tony Serra, lead attorney for Raymond "Shrimp Boy" Chow, walks away
after speaking at a news conference Friday, Jan. 8, 2016, at the Phillip
Burton Federal Building in San Francisco.
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Mary
Ann and Wesley Landers posted a social media update earlier this week
saying their 7-month-old daughter's surgery for a congenital throat
problem was a success.
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| Christian Science Monitor | - 1 hour ago |
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Jeb
Bush is at 3.3 percent in the polls. Ever since summer, he's been on a
steady, slow slide. By Peter Grier, Staff writer January 8, 2016.
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(CNN)
Two refugees arrested this week on federal terrorism-related charges
were in communication with each other, a law enforcement official told
CNN.
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Boston
police officials said on Jan. 8, 2016, that a tourniquet like the one
pictured here helped save the life of an officer who was allegedly shot
by a convict on probation.
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WASHINGTON
U.S. payrolls surged in December and the job count for the prior two
months was revised sharply higher, showing the economy on solid ground
despite a troubling international backdrop.
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(Adds
Point72 investment returns). By Jonathan Stempel. Jan 8 The hedge fund
billionaire Steven A. Cohen has resolved U.S. charges related to insider
trading, in an accord that clears the way for one of Wall Street's top
investors to soon manage ...
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Traders
work on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange on Friday. Associated
Press. By Associated Press. Posted: 01/08/16, 4:27 PM EST | Updated: 15
secs ago.
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There is mounting evidence that the U.S. stock market is being decimated and undermined by a so-called "stealth" bear market.
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| Bloomberg | - 2 hours ago |
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Saudi
Arabia's potential initial public offering of its state oil company
could be the largest ever, a juicy target for any ambitious Wall Street
bank.
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| Washington Post | - 6 hours ago |
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U.S.
stocks closed a dismal week with a whimper Friday, capping one of the
worst starts to a trading year in history and cementing concerns that
global economic turmoil will continue to rattle investors.
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(Adds
comments from Campbell executive, public health lawyer). By Siddharth
Cavale and Subrat Patnaik. Jan 8 Campbell Soup Co is to start disclosing
the presence of genetically modified organisms (GMOs) in all its U.S.
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Google
finally has a partner willing to make something out of its computer
vision project, Project Tango. At an event on Thursday night, Google and
Lenovo announced that a phone equipped with Project Tango capabilities
is coming to market sometime ...
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The
light poured directly into my eyes. It flashed, strobed, pulsated,
faded, and changed color, desperately begging for my attention.
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CES
2016 LAS VEGAS, NV - JANUARY 07: Attendees look at an EHang 184
autonomous-flight drone that can fly a person at CES 2016 at the Las
Vegas Convention Center on January 7, 2016 in Las Vegas, Nevada.
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| Tom's Hardware | - 8 hours ago |
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At
CES 2016, Alienware and Dell announced Oculus Ready PC bundles that
will start at $1,600. The companies also said that there is a chance
that your Rift will arrive sooner if you take advantage of one.
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Liv
Tyler is pregnant again, less than a year after giving birth to her
second child, E! News has learned. The 38-year-old The Lord of the Rings
and The Leftovers actress and fiancé Dave Gardner are expecting their
second baby together.
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| Vanity Fair | - 3 hours ago |
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The
Golden Globes, famously known as the rowdier, more drunken cousin to
the Oscars, are a chance to celebrate the best in both film and
television—and, yes, to watch your favorite stars cut just a bit loose
on national television and imagine what it ...
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| USA TODAY | - 3 hours ago |
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Justin
Bieber's latest boo-boo in Latin America could be a lesson to remember
for all: Stay off the ancient ruins. After the Canadian pop star's
latest display of either a) cluelessness or b) disrespectful behavior,
Bieber was booted Thursday from one ...
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| Pulse Headlines | - 31 minutes ago |
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Natalie
Maria Cole, the songwriter recognized for expressing her true soul in
the album “Unforgettable,” died of a lung disease, called idiopathic
pulmonary arterial hypertension that she had since five years ago, which
caused her a heart failure, that ...
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| USA TODAY | - 2 hours ago |
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Former
St. Louis Cardinals scouting director Christopher Correa pleaded guilty
to five counts of unauthorized access of a protected computer,
according to a release from the U.S.
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| Los Angeles Times | - 4 hours ago |
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Frankie
Edgar celebrates after defeating Chad Mendes with a first-round
knockout in a featherweight bout on Dec. 11, 2015. Frankie Edgar
celebrates after defeating Chad Mendes with a first-round knockout in a
featherweight bout on Dec. 11, 2015.
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NEW
YORK -- In a season that has already seen Alex Ovechkin become the
highest-scoring Russian of all-time, the dynamic captain of the
Washington Capitals is now within three goals of the magic 500-goal
plateau.
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DOHA,
Qatar -- Novak Djokovic and Rafael Nadal will break their tie -- their
head-to-head record stands at 23-23 -- when they meet for the 47th time
in the Qatar Open final Saturday.
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| Huffington Post | - 2 hours ago |
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NEW
YORK -- Chipotle Mexican Grill's legal woes are mounting in the wake of
several outbreaks of foodborne illnesses. Susie Ong, a shareholder in
the burrito chain, sued Chipotle on Friday for misleading investors
about food safety controls.
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The
British government has just updated its guidelines for how much alcohol
is safe to consume, based on the latest research. The recommendations
are stricter than earlier ones, which had been issued back in 1995, and
were due a tweaking.
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The
addition of a third producer will boost the stockpile to six million
doses, enough to vaccinate three million people. By Stephen Feller |
Jan. 8, 2016 at 4:29 PM.
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SAN
ANTONIO - Texas-based Blue Bell Creameries, which stopped production
and distribution of ice cream to 25 states in April after the discovery
of listeria bacteria, said on Friday that listeria was discovered again
in a production facility.
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| The Weather Channel | - 1 hour ago |
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There's
no doubt about it: humans have left an enduring impact on Earth - so
much so, in fact, that a new study published in the journal Science
describes how our existence warrants an entirely separate geological
distinction on the vast timeline of ...
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| Discovery News | - 4 hours ago |
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Astronomers
have discovered a rather odd discrepancy in the heart of a distant
galaxy - it contains two supermassive black holes, but one of those
black holes is “naked”, with few stars surrounding it.
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These
might be the most stylish bugs around. Scientists made praying mantises
wear tiny 3D glasses to test if the insects have strereopsis, or 3D
vision.
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| Los Angeles Times | - 12 hours ago |
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This
world map shows the sites and frequencies of Neanderthal-like DNA found
in a set of human immunity genes. The orange represents findings of DNA
from Neanderthals, and the blue indicates DNA unique to modern humans.
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