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• Egyptian mummy can 'live forever' after development in scanning technique

  31-12-2017 23:58 via yahoo.com
  An 3,000 year old Egyptian mummy can “live forever” after his name was discovered written on his sarcophagus, a curator has claimed. The desicated remains of the man formerly known as Irethoreru are held by Chiddington Castle, Kent, but his precise identity had always remained a mystery - until now. His name, which means “The eye of Horus is against them”, and is thought to date from between 664 BC and 30 AD, was discovered thanks to a scanning technique developed by Brit
  
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• John Mayer Goes Shirtless For Kylo Ren Challenge

  31-12-2017 23:52 via yahoo.com
  The singer shared a photo of himself shirtless on Instagram, Saturday night, for a new challenge that is slowly taking over social media — the #kylorenchallenge
  
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• Tiny Bird Found In Cockpit Forces Delta Flight To Make A U-Turn

  31-12-2017 23:49 via yahoo.com
  A Delta pilot traveling from Detroit to Atlanta turned back when he found a small-winged creature flapping around his large-winged aircraft on Saturday.
  
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• 10 killed in fiery crash along Mexico's Pacific coast

  31-12-2017 23:11 via yahoo.com
  ACAPULCO, Mexico (AP) — Five people visiting from the United States were among 10 people killed in a fiery car crash on a coastal highway in southern Mexico, authorities said Sunday.
  
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• Maria Menounos Gets Married on Live TV

  31-12-2017 23:09 via yahoo.com
  The couple, who have been together for 20 years, got hitched on live TV in a major surprise just after midnight during Fox's New Year's Eve broadcast, which Menounos was co-hosting with Steve Harvey
  
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• Virginia Man With Suspected Ties to ISIS Arrested for Destroying Evidence

  31-12-2017 22:43 via yahoo.com
  He may have been interested in a U.S. attack
  
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• Words banned for the new year? 'Fake news' gets top vote

  31-12-2017 22:04 via yahoo.com
  DETROIT (AP) — Let me ask you this: Would a story that unpacks a list of tiresome words and phrases be impactful or a nothingburger? Worse, could it just be fake news?
  
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• 'What a year it's been': Trump lauds major feats of 2017 in end-of-year video

  31-12-2017 22:03 via yahoo.com
  Trump’s message and video was posted on his Twitter timeline on Sunday afternoon.Donald Trump has posted a video summarising his first year in office, which gives an insight into what the president sees as his biggest accomplishments as 2018 begins.Beginning with martial drums and numerous shots of the Marine One helicopter, and US soldiers keeping watch over the president, the three-and-a-half-minute clip focuses first on Trump’s nomination of Neil Gorsuch to the supreme court &ndas
  
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• US military will accept transgender recruits after court strikes down Trump ban, says Department of Defence

  31-12-2017 21:49 via yahoo.com
  Transgender recruits can soon begin applying to the US military after Donald Trump’s efforts to block them were struck down.“The DoD is prepared to comply with the court order to access transgender applicants for military service 1 January,” a Department of Defence spokesperson said.Earlier this year, Mr Trump announced his intention to block transgender people from openly serving, reversing Barack Obama’s move to lift a prohibition.
  
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• Plane Carrying 10 Americans Crashes In Costa Rica, Killing All On Board

  31-12-2017 21:47 via yahoo.com
  All 12 people aboard a Nature Air flight were killed when the place crashed and burned in northwestern Costa Rica, officials said.
  
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• New York Family Of 5 Among 12 Killed In Costa Rica Plane Crash

  31-12-2017 21:47 via yahoo.com
  A plane carrying 10 American tourists, including a family of five from New York, and two Costa Rican pilots crashed in northwestern Costa Rica on Sunday, killing everyone on board, officials said.
  
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• Macron vows 'French renaissance' in 2018

  31-12-2017 21:45 via yahoo.com
  President Emmanuel Macron vowed to pursue his reform agenda with the "same intensity" in 2018 and kickstart a "French renaissance" in his first New Year's address as leader, which comes as the economy picks up.Despite winning May's presidential election on a promise to ditch politics as usual Macron stuck with tradition in Sunday's televised address from the Elysee Palace, which began and ended with the national anthem.
  
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• Arrest Made in 'Swatting' Prank That Led to Fatal Shooting

  31-12-2017 21:14 via yahoo.com
  Police in Los Angeles have arrested a man they suspect made a hoax emergency call that resulted in a SWAT police officer fatally shooting a man at the door of his own home in Kansas, a law enforcement official said Saturday.
  
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• Congo forces kill at least 7 in anti-government protests

  31-12-2017 21:05 via yahoo.com
  KINSHASA, Congo (AP) — Congolese security forces killed at least seven people and at least one policeman died amid violence as more than a thousand people demonstrated in the capital against President Kabila's refusal to step down from power, the United Nations mission in Congo and police said Sunday.
  
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• A Decorated Soldier Died While Trying to Rescue His Neighbors from the Bronx Apartment Fire

  31-12-2017 21:02 via yahoo.com
  He reportedly saved multiple people
  
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• Iran protesters rally again, defying warning of crackdown

  31-12-2017 20:59 via yahoo.com
  Giving his first public reaction to the protests, President Hassan Rouhani appealed for calm, saying Iranians had the right to protest and criticize the authorities.Police in the center of Tehran fired water cannon to try to disperse demonstrators, according to pictures on social media.Demonstrations turned violent in Shahin Shahr in central Iran.
  
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• Ohio's move to toss inactive voters from rolls goes to court

  31-12-2017 20:26 via yahoo.com
  COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — Joseph Helle was expecting a different sort of reception when he returned home from Army tours in Iraq and Afghanistan and showed up to vote in his small Ohio town near Lake Erie.
  
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• Sheriff's Deputy Killed in Colorado Shooting

  31-12-2017 20:17 via yahoo.com
  The Douglas County Sheriff’s Office says that a deputy has died following a shooting in Highlands Ranch, Colo.
  
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• What has brought Iranian protesters to the streets?

  31-12-2017 20:07 via yahoo.com
  By Bozorgmehr SharafedinLONDON (Reuters) - Iran warned of a tough crackdown on Sunday against demonstrators posing one of the boldest challenges to its clerical leaders since nationwide unrest shook the Islamist theocracy in 2009.Political protests are rare in Iran, where security services are pervasive.The demonstrations are the biggest since unrest in 2009 that followed the disputed re-election of then-President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad.
  
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• Witnesses: Residents prevented much worse attack in Egypt

  31-12-2017 20:06 via yahoo.com
  CAIRO (AP) — Witnesses to an attack outside a Coptic Christian church in Egypt that left nine people dead said it was residents and worshippers, not police, who kept the death toll from soaring even higher. One man in particular — a 53-year-old resident who pounced on the gunman as he was reloading his automatic rifle — likely saved dozens of lives.
  
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• 1 deputy killed, multiple shot in active situation near Denver

  31-12-2017 19:44 via yahoo.com
  Authorities say 1 deputy dead, 4 deputies and 2 civilians hurt, in suburban Denver; suspected gunman believed dead.
  
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• Angry at Trump, North Carolina Democrats hope for 2018 gains

  31-12-2017 19:29 via yahoo.com
  RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — North Carolina Democrats say they are beginning 2018 energized and intent on regaining their historical control of the state's General Assembly, harnessing anger over Republican Donald Trump's presidency and buoyed by Democratic victories elsewhere.
  
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• Senior U.S. Republican senator: 'Let Mr. Mueller do his job'

  31-12-2017 19:24 via yahoo.com
  By Valerie VolcoviciWASHINGTON (Reuters) - The special counsel investigation of links between Russia and President Trump's 2016 election campaign should continue without interference in 2018, despite calls from some Trump administration allies and Republican lawmakers to shut it down, a prominent Republican senator said on Sunday.Lindsey Graham, who serves on the Senate armed forces and judiciary committees, said Department of Justice Special Counsel Robert Mueller needs to carry on with his Rus
  
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• Top GOP Races To Watch In 2018

  31-12-2017 19:11 via yahoo.com
  WASHINGTON ― With a hint of a blue wave on the horizon, Republicans are facing added pressure to get their house in order and field the best candidates possible ahead of next year’s congressional midterm elections.
  
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• U.S. citizens among 10 dead in southwest Mexico car crash

  31-12-2017 19:09 via yahoo.com
  Several U.S. citizens were among 10 people who died in a car crash and subsequent fire on the southwestern coast of Mexico near tourist hot spot Acapulco, the U.S. State Department said on Sunday.Two other were injured in the accident late Friday, when two cars and a motorcycle collided on the highway between Acapulco and beach city Zihuatanejo in the state of Guerrero, Mexico's civil protection agency said.A 1-year-old and 4-year-old were killed in the accident, along with others ranging in age
  
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• Iran's Rouhani rejects violence but vows 'space for criticism'

  31-12-2017 19:08 via yahoo.com
  Iran's President Hassan Rouhani said Sunday that government bodies must provide "space for criticism" as he sought to head off days of unrest, but warned protesters that violence was unacceptable."Criticism is different to violence and destroying public property," he said in a cabinet meeting, according to the state broadcaster."Government bodies should provide space for legal criticism and protest," Rouhani said in his first public comments since the protests began on Thursday.
  
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• Sydney New Year's Eve Fireworks Celebration

  31-12-2017 19:03 via yahoo.com
  Australia ushered in the new year with a fireworks display over Sydney Harbour Bridge Sunday night/Monday morning.
  
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• UK may use taxes to get tech giants to do more to fight extremism, minister says

  31-12-2017 19:00 via yahoo.com
  Britain may impose new taxes on tech giants like Google and Facebook unless they do more to combat online extremism by taking down material aimed at radicalising people or helping them to prepare attacks, the country's security minister said.Ben Wallace accused tech firms of being happy to sell people's data but not to give it to the government which was being forced to spend vast sums on de-radicalisation programmes, surveillance and other counter-terrorism measures."If they continue to be less
  
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• Spellforce 3 Review

  31-12-2017 19:00 via gamespot.com
  
  Some cross-genre games are blended like ingredients in a mixing bowl, while others let their two halves live side-by-side. SpellForce III fits into the latter category, pairing role-playing and real-time-strategy elements. Though the end result is anything but unified, such a contrasting design keeps you from falling into a consistent routine. It also broadens the outlook of the stereotypical fantasy RPG, expanding the limited worldview of a handful of adventurers into the more expansive perspec
  
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• Meghan Markle Says No New Year's Resolution For Her

  31-12-2017 18:49 via yahoo.com
  While most people are creating long lists of New Year's Resolutions, Meghan Markle says she has given them up!
  
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• New Year's celebrations around the world

  31-12-2017 17:27 via yahoo.com
  A look at the New Year’s celebrations around the globe to ring in 2018.
  
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• Trump calls Mueller fair

  31-12-2017 17:24 via yahoo.com
  As president's allies slam prosecutor.
  
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• One Officer Dead and 4 Others Injured After Colorado Shooting, Officials Say

  31-12-2017 17:23 via yahoo.com
  The extent of the officer's injuries is not clear.
  
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• Americans sound off on the 2017 headlines

  31-12-2017 17:16 via yahoo.com
  NBC News talks to Americans across the country to find out which news stories affected them the most this year.
  
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• Sheriff’s deputy killed, others wounded in Colorado ambush

  31-12-2017 17:12 via yahoo.com
  A Colorado sheriff's deputy was killed and several more were wounded in a shootout while responding to a report of a disturbance, the Douglas County Sheriff's Office said Sunday.
  
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• Chaffetz talks battle over spending, immigration reform

  31-12-2017 17:08 via yahoo.com
  Former Utah congressman shares his predictions for the 2018 agenda on 'Sunday Morning Futures.'
  
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• Video captures emotional moment a teenager asks her stepfather to adopt her for Christmas

  31-12-2017 17:07 via yahoo.com
  A father has shared footage of the moment his 18-year-old stepdaughter asked him to adopt her on Christmas Eve.Makayla Dabney made the decision to ask her stepfather Stephen, the man who raised her for 14 years, to become one of her legal guardians as his Christmas present.The college student from Cuyahoga Falls, Ohio, was inspired by a dream in which she asked him to adopt her.
  
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• Where the U.S. stands in the fight against ISIS

  31-12-2017 17:06 via yahoo.com
  In 2017, President Donald Trump expanded the war on ISIS, leading to group losing former strongholds Mosul and Raqqa. But there were also American casualties in new battlefields: 21 service members killed in six countries.
  
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• 4-day week being tested in some Oklahoma schools

  31-12-2017 17:04 via yahoo.com
  Facing a budget crisis and a teacher shortage, about 20 percent of schools in Oklahoma are trying a new approach: shorter school weeks, but longer days.
  
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• Sheriff's Deputy Killed, 6 Other People Hurt In Colorado Shooting

  31-12-2017 17:03 via yahoo.com
  The Douglas County Sheriff’s Office in Colorado says “multiple deputies” were shot as they responded to a domestic disturbance call at an apartment complex south of Denver on Sunday morning.
  
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• 2 million at Times Square NYE celebration will see increased security

  31-12-2017 17:03 via yahoo.com
  The NYPD is ramping up security efforts for this year’s New Year’s Eve celebration, preparing officers for two big threats: terror attacks and dangerously cold temperatures.
  
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• 18 dead in attack on Afghan funeral: officials

  31-12-2017 16:40 via yahoo.com
  An explosion at a funeral in Afghanistan's restive east on Sunday killed at least 18 mourners and wounded another 13, officials said, capping a deadly year for ordinary Afghans.The Taliban said on Twitter they had nothing to do with the incident -- the latest violence to claim the lives of civilians in the war-torn country."The explosion was caused by a motorcycle bomb our investigation has concluded," Nangarhar governor spokesman Attaullah Khogyani told AFP.
  
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• Houston Police Arrest 'Drunk' Man With Stash Of Weapons In Hotel Room

  31-12-2017 16:37 via yahoo.com
  Houston police arrested an intoxicated man with a cache of weapons in his hotel room early Sunday, according to local media reports.
  
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• Sheriff's Deputy Killed in Colorado Shooting

  31-12-2017 16:34 via yahoo.com
  Residents were advised to shelter in place
  
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• A Sheriff’s Deputy Was Killed and Four Officers Injured in an 'Ambush' Shooting in Colorado

  31-12-2017 16:34 via yahoo.com
  Four other officers and two civilians were injured after a gunman sprayed more than 100 rounds
  
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• Iran's Revolutionary Guard Vows to Crush Anti-Government Protests

  31-12-2017 16:20 via yahoo.com
  Days of conflict have turned deadly
  
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• New Year's Eve celebrations: world welcomes 2018 

  31-12-2017 16:16 via yahoo.com
  The New Year has officially begun, as midnight passed in Samoa, Tonga and Christmas Island/Kiribati, the first places in the world to welcome in 2018.  The last places on Earth to see in the New Year are minor outlying US islands like Baker Island and Howland Island - although these are uninhabited. The last inhabited island is American Samoa which will welcome 2018 when it's 11am in London on January 1.  When major cities will welcome 2018 11.00 GMT Auckland, New Zealand 13:
  
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• The Navy's Ultimate Fantasy: Underwater Submarine Bases to Fight Russia

  31-12-2017 16:13 via yahoo.com
  Did the Navy ever actually pursue the Rock-Site concept at Point Sur or elsewhere? A 1971 study discussed various methods of sea-floor excavation, but by then most man-in-the-sea development was classified.Point Sur is 600 feet of tough rock facing Pacific rollers that come 6,000 miles to pound the central California coast.Like the 19th-century lighthouse that marks the Point, the now-derelict compound of the former Naval Facility Point Sur evokes another era.
  
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• Iran cuts social media access as unrest turns deadly

  31-12-2017 15:44 via yahoo.com
  Iran cut access to social media on Sunday in a bid to head off further protests after days of unrest that saw two people killed and dozens arrested.The interior minister warned protesters will "pay the price" as footage on social media showed thousands marching across the country overnight in the biggest test for the Islamic republic since mass demonstrations in 2009.The spate of demonstrations began in second city Mashhad on Thursday over high living costs, but quickly spread throughout the cou
  
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• Night sky – January 2018: Once in a Blue Moon

  31-12-2017 15:42 via yahoo.com
  The full Moon on Jan 2 will be the perigee full Moon of 2018. Perigee is the point in an object’s elliptical orbit around the Earth where its distance to our planet is minimised. The Moon experiences perigee once per orbit but not always coinciding with full Moon. When it does, it produces a Moon which is appears slightly larger and brighter than those that proceed or follow it. The popular press uses the term Supermoon to describe such an event, a loose term originating from astrolog
  
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