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• College President Apologizes For Cotton Stalk Centerpieces During Dinner With Black Students

  17-09-2017 23:51 via yahoo.com
  A university president apologized after he displayed cotton stalks during a dinner with black students.
  
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• The Latest: Chelsea Manning tells crowd she took a risk

  17-09-2017 23:20 via yahoo.com
  NANTUCKET, Mass. (AP) — The Latest on Chelsea Manning addressing a conference in Nantucket, Massachusetts (all times local):
  
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• United Nations has 'exhausted' options on North Korea, says top US diplomat

  17-09-2017 23:15 via yahoo.com
  The UN has run out of options for confronting an increasingly belligerent North Korea, US Ambassador to the United Nations Nikki Haley has said, presenting a unified front with Trump administration officials who continue to float a military option ahead of this week’s summit in New York.“We have pretty much exhausted all the things that we can do at the Security Council at this point,” Haley told CNN, adding that she had “no problem kicking to” Jim Mattis, the US de
  
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• US urges Syria cooperation with Russia after strike

  17-09-2017 22:53 via yahoo.com
  Washington and Moscow have held high-level talks aimed at shoring up military "deconfliction" zones in eastern Syria after Russia was accused of targeting US-backed forces battling the Islamic State group in an air strike, a top US general said Sunday.The Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF), an alliance of Washington-backed Kurd and Arab fighters, said Saturday that several of its fighters were injured in a bombing by Russian warplanes east of the Euphrates River near Syria's oil-rich province of Dei
  
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• Four Female U.S. Tourists Attacked With Acid In France

  17-09-2017 22:46 via yahoo.com
  Four female American tourists were attacked with acid Sunday in France
  
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• Police think 2 Louisiana slayings likely racially motivated

  17-09-2017 22:27 via yahoo.com
  BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) — The slayings of two black men in Baton Rouge last week were likely racially motivated, police said Sunday, and a suspect — a 23-year-old white man — was in custody. In both shootings the gunman fired from his car then walked up to the victims as they were lying on the ground and fired again multiple times.
  
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• Clash between military and suspected gang leaves nine dead in southern Mexico

  17-09-2017 22:10 via yahoo.com
  The Mexican military fought back against an armed attack in the violent southwestern state of Guerrero on Saturday night, leaving eight suspected gang members and one soldier dead, authorities said on Sunday.At around 11 p.m., troops were making their rounds in the city of Teloloapan, about 155 miles (250 km) from Mexico City, when they came under gunfire from suspected gang members dressed in fake military uniforms, Roberto Álvarez Heredia, a spokesman for the Guerrero Coordinating Group
  
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• Trump mocks ‘Rocket Man’ Kim Jong-un as advisers issue warnings

  17-09-2017 22:08 via yahoo.com
  Advisers to Donald Trump have warned North Korea to give up its nuclear weapons programmes, saying that the regime faced destruction if it continued its reckless behaviour and forced the US to defend itself or its allies.The warning came on Sunday after Trump tweeted about a phone call to South Korean president Moon Jae-in, and appeared to mock Kim Jong-un.“I spoke with President Moon of South Korea last night,” the US president wrote.
  
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• Fatal Baton Rouge Shootings Investigated As Racially Motivated: Police

  17-09-2017 21:44 via yahoo.com
  A 23-year-old Louisiana man is reportedly being held as a person of interest in the separate slayings of two black men who police say were gunned down last week in potentially racially motivated attacks.
  
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• Iran's Khamenei warns U.S. against 'wrong move' on nuclear deal

  17-09-2017 21:42 via yahoo.com
  Iran will not be bullied by the United States and will react strongly to any "wrong move" by Washington on Tehran's nuclear deal, Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei said on Sunday.U.S. President Donald Trump said on Thursday that Iran was violating "the spirit" of the 2015 deal under which it got sanctions relief in return for curbing its nuclear program.State television quoted Khamenei as saying Iran was standing firm "and any wrong move by the domineering regime regarding the (nuclear accor
  
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• With TV epic, Ken Burns seeks fuller understanding of Vietnam War

  17-09-2017 21:32 via yahoo.com
  A half century after the United States plunged into war in Vietnam, scars remain unhealed.With a 10-part television epic, Ken Burns is hoping for a fuller understanding.The celebrated documentary filmmaker has invested 10 years into making "The Vietnam War", which aims to offer a more balanced view on the still divisive conflict by bringing in a wide range of American and Vietnamese voices.
  
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• Veteran Albuquerque TV reporter killed in helicopter crash

  17-09-2017 21:08 via yahoo.com
  ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) — A longtime reporter-videographer at an Albuquerque TV station has died after the news helicopter he was piloting crashed in central New Mexico, authorities said Sunday.
  
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• President Trump Dubs North Korea's Kim Jong Un 'Rocket Man' Amid Rising Tensions

  17-09-2017 21:03 via yahoo.com
  Another dig in the war of words between the U.S. and North Korea
  
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• The Latest: Thousands told to evacuate as Fla. river floods

  17-09-2017 20:26 via yahoo.com
  MIAMI (AP) — The Latest on Hurricane Irma in Florida (all times local):
  
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• US may close Cuba embassy after 'attacks' on diplomats

  17-09-2017 20:16 via yahoo.com
  The United States may again close its embassy in Cuba, which reopened two years ago after a half-century stand-off, following a series of mystery "health attacks" on its diplomats, Secretary of State Rex Tillerson said Sunday.At least 21 members of the US mission in Havana and a smaller number of Canadians have suffered brain injuries and hearing loss in what have been reported as "acoustic attacks", although US officials say their origin remains unclear.The incidents began last year, and the la
  
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• Nintendo, I've Missed You - Reboot Episode 14

  17-09-2017 20:00 via gamespot.com
  
  After years of sheltered development and third-party aversion, the Nintendo powerhouse has come out swinging in 2017.
  
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• President Trump Greets Wife Melanie With A Handshake

  17-09-2017 19:59 via yahoo.com
  At a Friday night event held at Joint Base Andrews in Maryland, Melania gave a speech introducing her husband, after which the president thanked her by firmly shaking her hand
  
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• President Trump Greets Wife Melania With A Handshake

  17-09-2017 19:59 via yahoo.com
  At a Friday night event held at Joint Base Andrews in Maryland, Melania gave a speech introducing her husband, after which the president thanked her by firmly shaking her hand
  
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• The Latest: Authorities outline charges against protesters

  17-09-2017 19:53 via yahoo.com
  ST. LOUIS (AP) — The Latest on protests over the acquittal of a white former St. Louis police officer in the killing of a black suspect (all times local):
  
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• Watch Out 'Hot Cops'! Police Parody Stephen King's 'It' in Viral Photo

  17-09-2017 19:51 via yahoo.com
  The officers said they just wanted to engage with the community.
  
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• Tillerson says U.S. could stay in Paris climate accord

  17-09-2017 19:43 via yahoo.com
  By Lucia MutikaniWASHINGTON (Reuters) - The United States could remain in the Paris climate accord under the right conditions, Secretary of State Rex Tillerson said on Sunday, signaling a shift in tone from the Trump administration, which angered allies with its decision to pull out of the agreement.President Donald Trump is willing to work with partners in the Paris agreement if the United States could construct a set of terms that are fair and balanced for Americans, Tillerson said on the CBS'
  
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• Stowaway Koala Survives 10-Mile Ride Hidden Behind Car's Wheel

  17-09-2017 19:36 via yahoo.com
  A koala is alive after a driver unknowingly drove for about 10 miles while the animal clung to the inside of his car’s wheel arch, animal officials said.
  
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• New Ken Burns Doc Dismisses Origins of the Vietnam War

  17-09-2017 19:31 via yahoo.com
  Ken Burns aims to win hearts and minds with his epic Vietnam series, but loses sight of how we got involved.
  
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• Ken Burns' New PBS Doc Wades Into Vietnam’s Big Muddy

  17-09-2017 19:31 via yahoo.com
  Ken Burns aims to win hearts and minds with his epic Vietnam series, but loses sight of how we got involved.
  
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• Warm waters off West Coast has lingering effects for salmon

  17-09-2017 19:26 via yahoo.com
  SEATTLE (AP) — The mass of warm water known as "the blob" that heated up the North Pacific Ocean has dissipated, but scientists are still seeing the lingering effects of those unusually warm sea surface temperatures on Pacific Northwest salmon and steelhead.
  
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• Hurricane-hit St Martin takes first steps to rebuild

  17-09-2017 19:21 via yahoo.com
  Almost two weeks after Hurricane Irma slammed into St Martin, killing 15 people, the French-Dutch Caribbean island has begun to take small steps toward reconstruction."We are still in an emergency situation but rebuilding is also in the back of our minds," Guadeloupe's governor Eric Maire said during a visit to the island.Petrol stations that once held empty tanks are now again open for business.
  
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• Official: 4 US tourists attacked with acid in France

  17-09-2017 19:16 via yahoo.com
  PARIS (AP) — Four young American tourists were attacked with acid Sunday at a train station in the French city of Marseille and a 41-year-old woman has been arrested as their alleged assailant, the Marseille prosecutor's office said.
  
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• Kevin Hart publicly apologizes to wife and children after woman threatens to release 'sexually suggestive' video

  17-09-2017 19:13 via yahoo.com
  Kevin Hart issued a very public apology on Saturday to his pregnant wife and kids after news broke that the actor is involved in a multimillion-dollar extortion attempt.
  
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• Trump Mentions 'Rocket Man' Kim Jong Un As White House Tries To Be Unified On North Korea

  17-09-2017 19:12 via yahoo.com
  WASHINGTON ― President Donald Trump on Sunday affirmed in a tweet that he was conferring with world leaders on North Korea’s growing nuclear program, appearing to refer to North Korean leader Kim Jong Un as “Rocket Man.”
  
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• Dreamers Want Trump to Know They're Not All Mexican

  17-09-2017 19:00 via yahoo.com
  "To Trump, DACA is an issue of illegal immigration from Mexico, and it’s not."
  
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• Don't Knock Twice Review

  17-09-2017 19:00 via gamespot.com
  
  The elevator pitch for Don't Knock Twice could be applied to dozens of games. You are faced with a door leading to a house in unsettling, chilling neglect, and proceed to explore its spooky, dim-lit hallways to discover a hidden truth about its former inhabitants. However, where the fine details clearly delineate, say, Gone Home from Resident Evil 7, the details of Don't Knock Twice are almost non-existent.Surprisingly, Don't Knock Twice is based on a movie, a low-budget 2016 British horror flic
  
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• Ultra-Orthodox Israelis protest against army draft

  17-09-2017 18:35 via yahoo.com
  Several hundred ultra-Orthodox Jews scuffled with police in Jerusalem on Sunday in protest against a court ruling that could require them to serve in the army like secular Israelis. The demonstration in an ultra-Orthodox neighbourhood of the city was organised by a particularly hardline group known as the Eda Haredit. Rabbis gave speeches in Yiddish in the Mea Shearim neighbourhood, while a banner read: "We're Jews and therefore will not enlist in the Zionist army." The protest became
  
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• 10-Year-Old Boy Killed in Fire in Mobile Home Without Power After Hurricane Irma

  17-09-2017 18:28 via yahoo.com
  A neighbor said the fire was ignited by a candle.
  
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• Kuwait orders North Korea's ambassador to leave within a month

  17-09-2017 18:21 via yahoo.com
  Kuwait has ordered North Korea's ambassador to leave within a month as the Gulf country downgraded diplomatic relations with Pyongyang, a North Korean diplomat in the Gulf region said on Sunday.The United Nations Security Council imposed new sanctions after North Korea's sixth and largest nuclear test this month, and the United States called on countries to sever diplomatic and financial ties with it.
  
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• Minnesota Mom Left Paralyzed After Tree Fell on Her During Freak Hammock Accident

  17-09-2017 18:14 via yahoo.com
  A Minnesota woman was left paralyzed after a falling tree broke her neck as she lounged in a hammock with her boyfriend
  
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• Twin Peaks: Agent Albert Rosenfield's Best Insults & Musings

  17-09-2017 18:00 via gamespot.com
  
  Special Agent Albert, played by the irreplaceable Miguel Ferrer (1955-2017), is one of the best characters in all of Twin Peaks. Here are Greg & Ryan's favorite moments with Albert from seasons one through three!
  
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• Donald Trump To Campaign For Luther Strange In Alabama

  17-09-2017 17:58 via yahoo.com
  President Donald Trump announced Saturday that he plans to campaign next week for Sen. Luther Strange (R-Ala.),
  
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• Irma evacuation nightmare: Next time some may not leave

  17-09-2017 17:54 via yahoo.com
  FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. (AP) — After a painful flight across several states to escape unpredictable Hurricane Irma, Suzanne Pallot says it's unlikely she would evacuate South Florida again — an attitude echoed by other evacuees that experts say could put them in danger when the next storm hits.
  
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• Hurricanes Jose Could Lash East Coast as Hurricane Maria Heads Toward Caribbean

  17-09-2017 17:47 via yahoo.com
  Hurricane Jose is whipping 90-mile-per hour winds, creating dangerous currents as it barrels up the East Coast while Hurricane Maria, just behind it, strengthens as it heads straight for the Virgin Islands, St. Martin and Barbuda.
  
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• Donald Trump Jr. To Testify Publicly In Russia Probe 'This Fall,' Top Democrat Says

  17-09-2017 17:35 via yahoo.com
  WASHINGTON ― One of the congressional committees probing whether President Donald Trump’s campaign colluded with Russia in last year’s election expects public testimony from Trump’s eldest son and may subpoena the president’s former campaign chairman, two key figures in the ongoing investigations, according to the top Democrat on the committee, Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D-Calif.).
  
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• London Underground terror attack leaves 30 injured

  17-09-2017 17:29 via yahoo.com
  George Stephanopoulos reports on the London terror attack which happened just before he sat down to interview the British prime minister.
  
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• Blood and embalming fluid seeps onto street outside Baton Rouge funeral home

  17-09-2017 17:13 via yahoo.com
  Blood and embalming fluid leaked from a storage tank onto the street outside a funeral home before it was spotted by passersby.Images showed the mix of blood and formaldehyde as it seeped onto the street behind the Greenoaks Funeral Home in Baton Rouge, Louisiana.A blockage in the storage tank had caused the leak, which lasted around 20 minutes.
  
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• Video Shows Police Fatally Shooting Georgia Tech Student

  17-09-2017 17:10 via yahoo.com
  A 21-year-old student was shot and killed on Georgia Tech's campus on Saturday, September 16. Police said he was carrying a knife. The incident was caught on camera.
  
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• British police arrest second man over London train bomb

  17-09-2017 17:07 via yahoo.com
  By Paul SandleLONDON (Reuters) - British police arrested a second man over the bombing of a London commuter train on Friday that injured 30 people and the security services lowered the threat level for an attack from its highest setting.The 21-year-old man was detained under Britain's terrorism laws in the west London suburb of Hounslow just before midnight on Saturday, London police said in a statement.Police earlier arrested an 18-year-old man in the departure lounge of Dover port in what they
  
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• Hamas says ready to hand Gaza to a Palestinian unity government

  17-09-2017 16:47 via yahoo.com
  By Mohamed el Sherif and Ali SawaftaCAIRO/RAMALLAH (Reuters) - Hamas has agreed to dismantle the administration that runs Gaza, it said on Sunday, a major step toward handing control of the Palestinian enclave to a unity government after a decade of bitter rivalry with President Mahmoud Abbas.The Islamist group, which has ruled Gaza since a brief Palestinian civil war in 2007, said it had taken "a courageous, serious and patriotic decision to dissolve the administrative committee" that runs the
  
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• UK lowers official terrorist threat level after 2nd arrest

  17-09-2017 16:38 via yahoo.com
  LONDON (AP) — The British government lowered the country's official terrorist threat level Sunday after a second man was arrested in connection with the attack on a London subway train where a bomb partially exploded.
  
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• Japan's PM Abe considers snap election as early as October: sources

  17-09-2017 16:37 via yahoo.com
  By Takaya Yamaguchi and Linda SiegTOKYO (Reuters) - Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe is considering calling a snap election for as early as next month to take advantage of hisimproved approval ratings and disarray in the main opposition party, government and ruling party sources said on Sunday.Abe's ratings have recovered to 50 percent in some polls, helped by public jitters over North Korea's missile and nuclear tests and chaos in the opposition Democratic Party, which has been struggling wit
  
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• Iraq VP warns against 'second Israel' in Kurdistan

  17-09-2017 16:34 via yahoo.com
  An Iraqi vice president warned Sunday that Baghdad would not tolerate the creation of "a second Israel" after the Jewish state became the only country to support a planned Kurdish independence referendum in northern Iraq.The leaders of autonomous Iraqi Kurdistan must "call off the (September 25) referendum that is contrary to the constitution and does not serve the general interests of the Iraqi people, not even the particular interests of the Kurds", said Vice President Nuri al-Maliki."We will
  
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• Pot shampoo to cannabis sommeliers: Inside one of America's biggest marijuana business conventions

  17-09-2017 16:22 via yahoo.com
  Entrepreneurs looking to cash in on California’s new marijuana gold rush flocked to Los Angeles this week for the city’s Fourth Annual Cannabis World Congress & Business Exposition, taking in advice and pitches from venture capitalists to a marijuana “sommelier”.Workshops were conducted, business cards were swapped with more than 200 bustling booths – exhibiting everything from pot paper, to shampoo and even suppositories – at the LA Convention Centre.It w
  
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• Donald Trump labels Kim Jong-Un 'Rocket Man' in series of unguarded tweets

  17-09-2017 16:00 via yahoo.com
  Donald Trump let loose on Twitter Sunday with a shoot-from-the-hip volley of posts referring to North Korea's leader Kim Jong-Un as "Rocket Man" - and picturing himself taking out Hillary Clinton with a golf ball. The US leader spoke Saturday night with South Korea's President Moon Jae-In, pledging joint "steps to strengthen deterrence and defense capabilities and to maximize economic and diplomatic pressure on North Korea," according to the White House. Mr Trump's own account of the c
  
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