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• American tourist killed in Costa Rica shark attack

  02-12-2017 23:51 via yahoo.com
  San José (AFP) - A 49-year-old US female tourist was killed by a tiger shark this week while diving off a Costa Rican island in the Pacific Ocean, the government and local media reported.The attack also badly injured the 26-year-old male Costa Rican diving guide leading the group that included the American woman.The shark savaged the two on Thursday as they were surfacing after a dive off Coco Island, a pristine national park located 500 kilometers (300 miles) off the Costa Rican mainland
  
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• Trump notes Flynn lied to FBI, says his actions during transition were lawful

  02-12-2017 23:30 via yahoo.com
  By Jeff Mason and JanWolfeWASHINGTON/NEW YORK (Reuters) - U.S. President Donald Trump said on Saturday that actions by former national security adviser Michael Flynn during the presidential transition were lawful, and that he had had to fire him because Flynn had lied to the FBI and the vice president.The president's comment suggested he may have known Flynn lied to the FBI before he urged the FBI director not to investigate his former adviser, legal experts said.Flynn is the first member of Tru
  
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• Is Hope Hicks the next target of Mueller's investigation? Here's why she might be

  02-12-2017 23:23 via yahoo.com
  White House Communications Director Hope Hicks could be the next target in Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s probe into Trump campaign collusion with Russia.
  
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• FBI agent removed from Robert Mueller's Russia investigation after sending anti-Trump text messages

  02-12-2017 23:20 via yahoo.com
  A FBI agent who sent text messages to a friend which were critical of Donald Trump has been removed from his senior role in the investigation into Russian interference in the US election. Peter Strzok, described by The New York Times as being considered one of the most experienced and trusted FBI counterintelligence investigators, was removed from the investigation headed by Robert Mueller this summer. On Saturday it emerged that the reason for his removal was the discovery of text messages
  
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• The Latest: FBI asks for footage to help find girl's body

  02-12-2017 22:35 via yahoo.com
  JACKSONVILLE, N.C. (AP) — The Latest on the search for a missing North Carolina child (all times local):
  
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• Trump toasts major tax reform victory calling Republicans 'unbeatable' after Senate passes bill

  02-12-2017 22:18 via yahoo.com
  President Donald Trump has called his fellow Republicans “unbeatable” as he revels in the passage through the Senate of a sweeping tax reform bill which should secure his first major legislative victory since entering office.In a 51-49 pre-dawn vote, Republicans approved a measure that Mr Trump claimed was “the largest tax cut in the history of our country”, but will seemingly benefit the wealthiest Americans most and would also add $1 trillion to the national debt over 1
  
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• 'Just Why? Why?' Parents of Suspected Serial Killer Say They Are 'Devastated'

  02-12-2017 22:16 via yahoo.com
  He was arrested for four killings in Seminole Heights
  
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• Brock Turner, Former Stanford Swimmer Convicted Of Sexual Assault, Files Appeal

  02-12-2017 22:13 via yahoo.com
  Brock Turner, a former Stanford University student, sparked nationwide outrage last year when he received a jail sentence of just six months after being convicted for sexually assaulting an unconscious, intoxicated woman beside a dumpster.
  
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• Key players in the Michael Flynn investigation

  02-12-2017 22:11 via yahoo.com
  WASHINGTON (AP) — A list of key players relevant to the special counsel investigation into former Trump administration national security adviser Michael Flynn:
  
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• Retirement Community Resident Allegedly Tested Homemade Poison On Neighbors

  02-12-2017 22:07 via yahoo.com
  A Vermont woman living in a retirement community has been arrested for allegedly making a deadly poison and testing it out on her fellow residents.
  
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• Mitch McConnell: Tax Bill Won't Add to U.S. Debt Woes

  02-12-2017 21:58 via yahoo.com
  McConnell disputed projections that the Senate's tax bill would add to the debt
  
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• Germany's far-right AfD chooses nationalist as co-leader

  02-12-2017 21:48 via yahoo.com
  By Sabine EhrhardtHANOVER, Germany (Reuters) - Members of the anti-immigrant Alternative for Germany (AfD) party elected a right-wing nationalist to be their co-leader on Saturday, signaling a possible toughening of tone before regional votes next year.A party congress chose Alexander Gauland - who once defended an AfD member who had said history should be rewritten to focus on German victims of World War Two - to return to the post he had held until 2015.As members deliberated, thousands of ant
  
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• Actual Asian Comic Writers Respond To Marvel Editor-In-Chief's 'Yellowface' Controversy

  02-12-2017 21:27 via yahoo.com
  As the comic industry grapples with the revelation that new Marvel editor-in-chief C.B. Cebulski posed as an Asian writer for a year, real writers of Asian descent are speaking up.
  
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• Prisoner Executions in the U.S. Increased in 2017

  02-12-2017 21:03 via yahoo.com
  23 executions in 2017 is up from last year but half of what it was a decade ago
  
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• Arctic Drilling Would (At Best) Recoup 0.075 Percent Of The Debt From GOP Tax Plan

  02-12-2017 21:03 via yahoo.com
  WASHINGTON — The Trump administration and Republican lawmakers have touted the economic benefits, an estimated $1.1 billion in federal revenues by 2027, that they say would come from opening Alaska’s fragile Arctic National Wildlife Refuge to oil and gas development.
  
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• North Korea: Donald Trump Is 'Begging for Nuclear War'

  02-12-2017 20:56 via yahoo.com
  The feud between Trump and North Korea continues
  
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• Obama laments lack of U.S. climate leadership in Paris

  02-12-2017 20:38 via yahoo.com
  Former President Barack Obama lamented the lack of U.S. leadership in the fight against climate change during a visit to Paris on Saturday, in a veiled rebuke of his Republican successor's decision to pull out of the Paris climate accord.Speaking at an invitation-only event organized by a network of communications professionals known as the Napoleons, Obama did not mention President Donald Trump, who announced his withdrawal from the landmark global deal in June."I grant you that at the moment w
  
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• Leader of 'Cult-Like' Boarding School Is Arrested In Late 1980s Cold Case Death Of Toddler

  02-12-2017 20:30 via yahoo.com
  Anna E. Young once ran a religious boarding house in Florida.
  
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• Yemen rebel alliance unravels as strongman turns to Saudis

  02-12-2017 20:24 via yahoo.com
  The rebel alliance controlling Yemen's capital appeared to crumble Saturday as a strongman opposed to the internationally recognised government reached out to a Saudi-led coalition fighting the insurgents.The rift within rebel ranks erupted into violence in Sanaa this week, raising fears of a new front in a three-year war that has claimed thousands of lives and triggered a humanitarian catastrophe.Ex-president Ali Abdullah Saleh, who joined forces with the Iran-backed Huthi rebels to seize the c
  
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• Donald Trump: Michael Flynn's actions during transition were lawful

  02-12-2017 20:20 via yahoo.com
  Donald Trump on Saturday tweeted his defiance over the guilty plea made by his former national security adviser Michael Flynn, writing that the general’s “actions during the transition were lawful”.The president passed comment on the same day it the New York Times reported that a “veteran FBI counterintelligence agent” was removed in the summer from special counsel Robert Mueller’s team investigating Russian meddling in the US election, after the discovery of
  
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• Trump says opposing tax cuts will cost Democrats 'very big' in midterms

  02-12-2017 19:45 via yahoo.com
  President Trump on Saturday hailed the passage of a sweeping tax reform bill through the Senate in the early hours of the morning, calling it “one of the big nights” and predicting Democratic opposition would “cost them very big” in midterm elections next year.Critics warned, however, that the bill was a shameless giveaway to lobbyists, corporations and the wealthy that would hurt ordinary Americans and push up the national debt.After nine months of stumbles and setbacks,
  
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• Ex-Stanford swimmer appeals sexual assault conviction

  02-12-2017 19:30 via yahoo.com
  A former Stanford University swimmer found guilty of sexual assault in California has appealed his conviction after serving a sentence that many condemned as an example of how the justice system fails to take such crimes seriously enough.Brock Turner, then 19, was arrested in 2015 after two of his fellow students at the Northern California university saw him outside of a fraternity house on top of an unconscious woman.After serving three months of a six-month sentence, Turner was released early
  
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• Donald Trump Alters Story on Why He Fired Michael Flynn

  02-12-2017 19:19 via yahoo.com
  Trump tweeted he had to fire Flynn because of his lies to VP Pence and the FBI
  
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• Officer who shot, killed unarmed man set to learn sentence

  02-12-2017 19:18 via yahoo.com
  COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — A former South Carolina police officer will soon learn how long he'll spend in prison for the shooting death - captured on video by a witness - of an unarmed motorist.
  
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• Landmark shift in Yemen crisis as former president reaches out to Saudi adversaries

  02-12-2017 19:03 via yahoo.com
  Yemen's former president on Saturday proposed talks with Saudi Arabia after an apparent split in the rebel alliance that could change the course of the war that has left thousands dead and the country on the brink of famine. Former president Ali Abdullah Saleh, who formed an uneasy alliance with the Iran-backed Houthi rebels to take control of the capital three years ago, said Saturday he was prepared to "turn the page" with the Saudi-led coalition he has been fighting if it lifts a crippli
  
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• Remembering 2007: The Biggest Games That Turned 10 This Year

  02-12-2017 19:00 via gamespot.com
  
  The Year Was 2007
  2007 was a year in gaming that many still remember fondly. With the successful launches of several remarkable franchises--including Mass Effect, Uncharted, The Witcher, Bioshock, and many more--this particular year in gaming was a whirlwind of high-quality games that pushed the medium forward. Further more, many of the games of 2007 expanded the gaming community in a big way, propelling interest in videogames even further to the general masses.GameSpot is taking a look back at
  
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• Xenoblade Chronicles 2 - Combat Beginner's Guide

  02-12-2017 18:47 via gamespot.com
  
  Xenoblade Chronicles 2 offers a deep combat system with multiple interconnected mechanics. It's gratifying once you get the hang of it all, but that can be easier said than done. Xenoblade Chronicles 2 throws lots of tutorials at you that are lost once you click past them, with only meager reference material available from merchants after the fact.To...combat this issue, we've compiled a breakdown of combat terminology and mechanics that will hopefully help you master the possibilities available
  
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• The evangelical professor who turned against 'reparative therapy' for gays

  02-12-2017 18:43 via yahoo.com
  Warren Throckmorton, a psychologist and evangelical Christian, once believed gays could turn straight if they wanted to. But science has convinced him otherwise. And direct experience with members of the LGBT community has made him question his religious assumptions about the issue.
  
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• Fox News' Shepard Smith Says 'It's A Lie' To Call Trump-Russia Probe 'Fake News'

  02-12-2017 18:28 via yahoo.com
  President Donald Trump may invoke “fake news” to push back on special counsel Robert Mueller’s investigation into his presidential campaign, but Fox News’ Shepard Smith has cast doubt on that claim.
  
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• Senate Republicans pass sweeping overhaul of US tax code

  02-12-2017 17:48 via yahoo.com
  Senate Republicans have passed the most sweeping overhaul of the US tax code in three decades, a significant step that moves Donald Trump closer to achieving the first major legislative victory of his presidency.The Senate passed its tax plan in a 51-49 vote early on Saturday morning, with Vice-President Mike Pence presiding over the chamber and after a frantic rewrite.Bob Corker was the sole Republican to vote against the bill, which would bestow huge benefits on US corporations and the wealthi
  
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• Mother's Boyfriend Arrested as 3-Year-Old Girl, Still Missing, Is Believed to Be Dead

  02-12-2017 17:48 via yahoo.com
  The little girl went missing Monday
  
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• Waffle House Customer Sneaks Into Kitchen And Cooks Own Meal At 3 AM

  02-12-2017 17:35 via yahoo.com
  When a South Carolina man got hit with a strong Waffle House craving at 3 a.m. on Thursday, he wasn’t going to let anything stop him — including an employee who he says was asleep when he got there.
  
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• Fiat Chrysler CEO says in talks with Hyundai on tech partnership

  02-12-2017 17:33 via yahoo.com
  Fiat Chrysler Automobiles is in talks with South Korea's Hyundai about a technical partnership, but there are no merger talks between the two, FCA Chief Executive Sergio Marchionne said on Saturday.FCA is often the subject of merger speculation, especially after its unsuccessful 2015 attempt to tie up with larger U.S. rival GM.
  
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• House GOP Unveils Plan to Avert Government Shutdown

  02-12-2017 17:11 via yahoo.com
  The move comes despite opposition from some GOP conservatives
  
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• Yemen's Saleh says ready for 'new page' with Saudi-led coalition

  02-12-2017 17:08 via yahoo.com
  Former Yemeni President Ali Abdullah Saleh said on Saturday he was ready for a "new page" in relations with the Saudi-led coalition fighting in Yemen if it stopped attacks on his country.The call came as his supporters battled Houthi fighters for a fourth day in the capital Sanaa while both sides traded blame for a widening rift between allies that could affect the course of the civil war.Together they have fought the Saudi-led coalition which intervened in Yemen in 2015 aiming to restore the in
  
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• Kids send more than 600 backpacks of hope to Puerto Rico

  02-12-2017 17:08 via yahoo.com
  Students at a Florida elementary school have sent backpacks to recently reopened schools all around Puerto Rico, each with a note to a child they have never met.
  
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• Here’s what scientists say a nuclear attack would look like

  02-12-2017 17:04 via yahoo.com
  NBC News’ Miguel Almaguer reports from Los Angeles, where America’s first responders are preparing for nuclear emergency in case of attack.
  
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• 13-year-old commits suicide after being bullied at school

  02-12-2017 17:03 via yahoo.com
  Family and friends are mourning the loss of 13-year-old Rosalie Avila, who took her own life after being relentlessly bullied at school.
  
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• Xenoblade Chronicles 2 - Combat And Mechanics EXPLAINED

  02-12-2017 17:00 via gamespot.com
  
  Xenoblade Chronicles 2 can be a tough nut to crack, and if you miss a few tutorials you could be screwed later on. Here’s how Xenoblade 2's combat works and some of the mechanics you will need to know.
  
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• Shooter Fires Through Hospital's Emergency Room Window, Police Say

  02-12-2017 16:53 via yahoo.com
  No one was injured before police shot and wounded the gunman
  
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• These Students Are Finishing High School, But Their Degrees Don't Help Them Go To College

  02-12-2017 16:51 via yahoo.com
  Julie Comeaux’s 17-year-old son, Matthew, is a student with special needs.The alternative diploma, attained through the LEAP Alternate Assessment, Level 1 (LAA1) graduation pathway, allows students with severe disabilities to forgo typical academic expectations and requirements, and it doesn’t end with the high school diploma.
  
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• Progressives Enjoy Wealth Of Good Options In Race To Succeed Key Chicago Congressman

  02-12-2017 16:38 via yahoo.com
  Once the dust settled after Democratic Rep. Luis Gutiérrez’s surprise announcement Tuesday that he would retire from Illinois’ 4th Congressional District at the end of his term, something even more unexpected happened.
  
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• Final death toll in Somalia's worst attack is 512 people

  02-12-2017 16:36 via yahoo.com
  MOGADISHU, Somalia (AP) — The final death toll in October's massive truck bombing in Somalia's capital is 512 people, according to the committee tasked with looking into the country's worst-ever attack.
  
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• GameSpot Game Of The Year Schedule For PS4, Xbox One, Switch, PC, And More

  02-12-2017 16:31 via gamespot.com
  
  To call 2017 a "good year" for gaming would be a grave understatement. With Zelda Breath of the Wild, Super Mario Odyssey, and Divinity: Original Sin 2 all receiving Essential 10 review scores, and a multitude of amazing games that have captured similar critical accolades, trying to pick just one title to be Game of the Year seems like an almost impossible task. But that's just what we're going to try and do!Over the course of December, we'll be rolling a out a series of features and videos that
  
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• Trump Says 'Absolutely No Collusion' With Russia After Michael Flynn Pleads Guilty

  02-12-2017 16:26 via yahoo.com
  President Donald Trump told reporters he’s not worried about former national security adviser Michael Flynn pleading guilty as part of special counsel Robert Mueller’s Russia probe.
  
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• Obama says ‘I wouldn’t vote for me’ if I watched Fox News

  02-12-2017 15:57 via yahoo.com
  Barack Obama has said he would not have voted for himself if he watched Fox News, while warning Indian conference attendees about the need to escape their information "bubbles"."Those who watch Fox News and those who read the New York Times occupy completely different realities," the former US President told the assembled crowd at the Hindustan Times Leadership Summit.This character named Barack Obama and he's just portrayed in these weird ways'," he said.
  
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• Zimbabwe's new leader drops 2 ministers after public outcry

  02-12-2017 15:40 via yahoo.com
  Zimbabwe's President Emmerson Mnangagwa on Saturday dropped two ministers he had appointed to his new cabinet just a day earlier, a move widely seen as a response to a public uproar over the nominations.Mnangagwa, 75, named his cabinet overnight Thursday, and is expected to appoint two vice presidents following a special ZANU-PF congress in mid-December.Professor Clever Nyathi was dropped as labour minister in favour of Petronella Kagonye, also a ZANU-PF lawmaker, though Nyathi will remain as sp
  
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• Parents of Suspected Tampa Serial Killer Speak Out In Support Of Son Cops Say Killed 4

  02-12-2017 15:36 via yahoo.com
  The parents of Howell Donaldson III say their 'hearts are heavy' for the victims' families.
  
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• Charred Smokies town rebounds, doubts fires are 'new normal'

  02-12-2017 15:25 via yahoo.com
  GATLINBURG, Tenn. (AP) — Bob Bentz had just installed underground utility lines and paved a new road when wildfires roared through the eastern Tennessee treetop canopy he wanted to transform into a $30 million adventure park.
  
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• 'Dreams do pay off': Black women cheer royal engagement

  02-12-2017 14:53 via yahoo.com
  For some black women, Meghan Markle and Prince Harry's engagement was something more. One of the world's most eligible bachelors has chosen someone who looks like them and grew up like them.
  
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