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• Donald Trump rejects Democratic funding plan, wishes Happy New Year to 'haters'

  01-01-2019 23:46 via news.yahoo.com
  President Donald Trump rang in the new year by rejecting a Democratic plan to reopen the government and taunting his critics
  
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• Activision CFO Terminated, Might Be Joining Netflix

  01-01-2019 23:37 via gamespot.com
  
  Activision Blizzard, the gaming giant behind franchises like Call of Duty, Overwatch, World of Warcraft, and Diablo, has lost one of its senior executives. The California-based publisher announced that chief financial officer Spencer Neumann was notified on December 31 that his contract with Activision Blizzard was terminated.The company decided to terminate Neumann's contract "for cause unrelated to the Company's financial reporting or disclosure controls and procedures," Activision Blizzard sa
  
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• Activision CFO Fired, Might Be Joining Netflix

  01-01-2019 23:37 via gamespot.com
  
  Update: Durkin has been officially named to the role of CFO, which he previously held from 2012-2017. As for Neumann, Activision said in a statement that he was "terminated for cause for violating his legal obligations to the Company." The original story follows.Activision Blizzard, the gaming giant behind franchises like Call of Duty, Overwatch, World of Warcraft, and Diablo, has lost one of its senior executives. The California-based publisher announced that chief financial officer Spencer Neu
  
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• Activision CFO Fired, Joins Netflix

  01-01-2019 23:37 via gamespot.com
  
  Update: Netflix has officially announced the hiring of Spencer Neumann, who becomes the company's new CFO, replacing David Wells. There's only a single mention in Netflix's press release of his role at Activision. It's unclear how soon he'll start in the new role or whether he'll attempt to prove he should not have been dismissed by Activision. The original story follows.Activision Blizzard, the gaming giant behind franchises like Call of Duty, Overwatch, World of Warcraft, and Diablo, has lost
  
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• Manchester stabbings suspect may have mental problems as UK terrorism probe ongoing

  01-01-2019 23:31 via news.yahoo.com
  Greater Manchester Police were, however, continuing to investigate the attack because of suspected links to terrorism, they said in a statement.A witness, a BBC producer who was at the busy station full of New Year's Eve revelers, said a man stabbed several people at the station, shouting "Allah" and linking his actions to "bombings in other countries."The station is very close to Manchester Arena, where a suicide bomb attack in May 2017 killed 22 people as they left a concert by pop star Ariana
  
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• Manchester terror: knife attack suspect detained under Mental Health Act

  01-01-2019 23:21 via news.yahoo.com
  The suspect in the stabbings at Manchester Victoria Station on New Year's Eve has been detained under the Mental Health Act, police said. Police said the 25-year-old man arrested over the stabbings has been detained under the Mental Health Act on Tuesday evening after being  assessed by medical staff. This comes after a police sergeant stabbed in the incident was praised for showing “incredible bravery” to prevent a suspected terrorist from rampaging through a tra
  
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• Manchester terror: family of knife attack suspect speak out after he is detained under Mental Health Act

  01-01-2019 23:21 via news.yahoo.com
  The family of the suspect in the stabbings at Manchester Victoria Station on New Year's Eve has released a statement after he was been detained under the Mental Health Act. "Our thoughts and prayers are with those who were seriously injured, their families and friends," the statement read. "We are also eternally grateful for the swift response from the emergency services and the comfort given to those affected by fellow Mancunians and citizens. "The GMP [sic] have informed us that our famil
  
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• Child enters US rhino enclosure, treated in hospital

  01-01-2019 23:21 via news.yahoo.com
  A young child slipped Tuesday into the rhinoceros enclosure at a Florida zoo and was injured, officials said."The family was transported to a local hospital by ambulance," the Brevard Zoo in the central-eastern Florida city of Melbourne said.At the Rhino Encounter exhibit, participants and the rhinoceroses are kept separate by a series of steel poles.
  
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• Here's How The Halo TV Show Is Shaping Up Right Now

  01-01-2019 23:15 via gamespot.com
  
  The Halo TV show, which has been in development for a very long time, hit a bit of speedbump at the end of 2018 when director Rupert Wyatt (Planet of the Apes) dropped out. Microsoft has now confirmed it is is "knee-deep" in conversations with potential replacements.Kiki Wolfkill, the head of Transmedia efforts at 343, said in a blog post that 2018 was a "year of momentum and energy" for the Halo TV show, and this included "a few roadbumps." In better news, the project continues to move ahead, a
  
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• New Happy Death Day 2U Trailer Kills Characters Many, Many Times

  01-01-2019 22:53 via gamespot.com
  
  New year, new Happy Death Day 2U trailer! The upcoming sequel to 2017's Happy Death Day is heading to theaters on Valentine's Day, with the original cast returning for a new take on its horror-tinged Groundhog Day-like premise.In the new film, Tree (Jessica Rothe) isn't the only one dying every time the day resets. Now she's leading a ragtag group of college buddies in an attempt to stop whatever force it is that wants them all very dead. As seen in the new trailer, she's also figured out a clev
  
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• Girl, 15, arrested following death of baby found in North Philadelphia dumpster

  01-01-2019 22:52 via news.yahoo.com
  TRAGIC: A teen is under arrest following the death of her newborn son, who was found in a North Philadelphia dumpster.
  
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• Trump Suggests He’s Open to a Shutdown Deal

  01-01-2019 22:24 via news.yahoo.com
  It’s the first sign of a possible opening for negotiations to break the stalemate that’s had parts of the government shut for 11 days.Congressional aides said the offer was extended to the eight top leaders from both parties in the new House and Senate that convenes on Thursday and will include a briefing by Homeland Security officials.Democratic leaders haven’t publicly said whether they’ll accept the invitation.
  
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• Girl, 2, airlifted to hospital after falling into rhino enclosure at Florida zoo

  01-01-2019 22:03 via news.yahoo.com
  A child has been injured after falling into a rhino exhibit in a zoo in Florida.In a statement, the zoo said the child stumbled and fell between two metal poles separating the family from the zoo’s white rhinoceroses during a hands-on experience.“At this point, the snout of at least one of the rhinoceroses made contact with the child,” the zoo said.
  
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• You can now make charitable donations through Google Assistant

  01-01-2019 21:59 via news.yahoo.com
  If you forgot to make any New Year's resolutions last night, here an easy one: Donate to charity. You can change lives by donating just a few dollars to a cause or group of your choice, and now, thanks to Google, it's simpler than ever to do so. As reported by 9to5Google this week, Google Assistant recently gained the ability to make a donation with a voice command. This comes just weeks after a donation page was added to the Play Store.In order to start the process, just say "Ok Google, donate
  
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• Trump invites congressional leaders to border security briefing, source says

  01-01-2019 21:34 via news.yahoo.com
  President Trump invitescongressional leaders to a briefing on border security as a government shutdown over his $5 billion border wall demand drags on.
  
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• Retired U.S. Marine held in Russia for spying is innocent: family

  01-01-2019 21:32 via news.yahoo.com
  Paul Whelan had been staying with a wedding party for a fellow former Marine at the Metropol hotel in Moscow, said his brother David Whelan, who learned of the arrest on Monday.Russia's FSB state security service said the American had been detained on Friday, but it gave no details of the nature of his alleged espionage activities.A U.S. State Department representative said Russia had notified it that a U.S. citizen had been detained and it expected Moscow to provide consular access to see him.
  
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• Stranger Things Season 3 Release Date Announced With New Teaser And Poster

  01-01-2019 21:31 via gamespot.com
  
  After over a year, it's finally time to start getting ready for the next trip to the Upside Down. To celebrate the new year, Netflix released the first teaser trailer for Stranger Things 3 at midnight on December 31. While the quick clip didn't contain any new footage--it did include some vintage Dick Clark's New Year's Rockin' Eve imagery--it revealed when the hit series would return.The third season of Stranger Things will premiere on Netflix on July 4, because what better way is there to cele
  
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• Russian baby found alive in 'New Year's miracle' after 35 hours under rubble of collapsed building

  01-01-2019 21:11 via news.yahoo.com
  Russian rescuers find baby boy alive after 35 hours under the rubble of a collapsed apartment building
  
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• Terror returns to Manchester, just yards from where 22 where killed at Ariana Grande concert

  01-01-2019 21:00 via news.yahoo.com
  In the hours before midnight when the nation would be welcoming in the New Year, terror returned to Manchester. Just before 9pm and yards from the Manchester Arena, where 22 people, many of them children had been murdered in a suicide attack, all hell was about to break loose. Between platforms A and B at Manchester Victoria Metrolink tram station, a man dressed head-to-toe in black mounted a frenzied and sustained attack on a couple in their 50s waiting patiently for a tram. He screamed ‘
  
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• NASA space probe 'phones home' in landmark mission to solar system's edge

  01-01-2019 20:39 via news.yahoo.com
  The nuclear-powered space probe has traveled 4 billion miles (6.4 billion km) to come within 2,200 miles (3,540 km) of Ultima Thule, an apparently peanut-shaped, 20-mile-long (32-km-long) space rock in the uncharted heart of the Kuiper Belt.Engineers at Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory in Maryland cheered when the spacecraft's first signals came through the National Aeronautic and Space Agency's Deep Space Network at 10:28 a.m. EST (1528 GMT)."We have a healthy spacecraft," Mission Opera
  
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• OMG, there’s an Instant Pot with a built-in sous vide cooker

  01-01-2019 20:38 via news.yahoo.com
  Instant Pots have always been thought of as the kitchen gadgets that do it all, but there's one popular feature that no Instant Pot has ever had: sous vide cooking. Sure you can slow cook, sear, saute, bake, and more, but home cooks looking for a good sous vide machine had to look elsewhere… until now. Most people don't even realize it, but Instant Pot now makes a multi-use cooker with built-in sous video immersion cooking functionality. It's called the Instant Pot 8 Qt Aura Pro Multi-Use
  
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• German man drives into crowds, injures 5

  01-01-2019 20:37 via news.yahoo.com
  BERLIN (AP) — A German man has been arrested after repeatedly driving into crowds of people, injuring at least five, in what authorities said Tuesday appeared to have been intentional attacks against foreigners.
  
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• Watch Dubai’s record-breaking New Year’s display

  01-01-2019 20:11 via news.yahoo.com
  Yesterday, as clocks struck midnight in time zones around the world, countless people filled the streets of major cities to celebrate the start of yet another year. New York City fancies itself the ultimate New Year's party capital, but plenty of other countries hold booming gatherings complete with fireworks and cheering crowds, and this year it looks like Dubai might have taken the crown. Dubai, a massive city in the United Arab Emirates, is known for extravagance. From indoor ski mountains to
  
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• The Punisher Season 2 Release Date Revealed

  01-01-2019 19:49 via gamespot.com
  
  The Netflix series The Punisher has dropped a new teaser trailer for its second season along with, seemingly inadvertently, a release date. It appears that the return of the vigilante Frank Castle is right around the corner.The brief teaser shows a hand taking a drink of liquor and then burning a full pardon for one Frank Castle, aka The Punisher--followed by the tagine "back to work." The video only vaguely teases that the second season is coming soon, but we may know the release date regardles
  
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• No new tone for Donald Trump, as he attacks McChrystal and 'haters'

  01-01-2019 19:48 via news.yahoo.com
  Whether it's mocking "haters" or attacking retired four-star general Stanley McChrystal for criticizing him, President Donald Trump served New Year's Day notice Tuesday that he is not soothing his aggressive tone.
  
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• Manchester stabbings: UK police raid house, quiz suspect

  01-01-2019 19:28 via news.yahoo.com
  LONDON (AP) — Police in the English city of Manchester are quizzing a suspect and searching a house for clues about the "terror-related" stabbings of three people at a train station on New Year's Eve.
  
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• American arrested in Russia as spy was there for a wedding

  01-01-2019 19:02 via news.yahoo.com
  WASHINGTON (AP) — Paul Whelan, a former U.S. Marine arrested in Russia on espionage charges, was visiting Moscow over the holidays to attend a wedding when he suddenly disappeared, his brother said Tuesday.
  
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• Ultima Thule is getting clearer, and it looks like a big bowling pin

  01-01-2019 18:51 via news.yahoo.com
  It looks like a giant bowling pin. NASA's New Horizons spacecraft has sent back its closest view of the most distant world humanity has ever visited, Ultima Thule, a snapshot taken on December 31. From half a million miles out, Ultima still appears fuzzy, but the irregularly-shaped object is becoming increasingly clear. The day prior, New Year's Eve, Ultima was just comprised of a few pixels — so this is a notable improvement. "Even though it’s a pixelated blob still, it's a better p
  
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• Four injured after German man rams car into crowd; racist motive suspected

  01-01-2019 18:24 via news.yahoo.com
  A 50-year-old German man clearly intended to kill foreigners when he rammed his silver Mercedes into a crowd of people in the northwestern German town of Bottrop in the early hours of New Year's Day, injuring four, a senior government official said."A German man deliberately drove into crowds of people ... that were largely made up of foreigners.There was a clear intention by this man to kill foreigners," Herbert Reul, interior minister of the state of North Rhine-Westphalia, where Bottrop is lo
  
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• Pull-out from Syria changes nothing in US support for Israel: Pompeo

  01-01-2019 18:20 via news.yahoo.com
  Brasília (AFP) - President Donald Trump's decision to pull American troops out of Syria "in no way changes anything" in terms of US support and protection of Israel, US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said Tuesday.Pompeo gave the assurance as he met Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu for talks in Brasilia on the sidelines of the inauguration of Brazil's new president, Jair Bolsonaro."The decision the president made on Syria in no way changes anything that this administration is work
  
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• Destiny 2 Ascendant Challenge Week 6 Location Video Guide (Jan. 1-8)

  01-01-2019 18:18 via gamespot.com
  
  Find out exactly where the Destiny 2: Forsaken Ascendant Challenge portal location is for Week 6 of the expansion and what you have to do to complete it.
  
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• Destiny 2's Ascendant Challenge Location Guide, Week 6 (Jan. 1-8)

  01-01-2019 18:17 via gamespot.com
  
  With the new year comes Destiny 2's weekly reset, and while the game's holiday event, The Dawning, might have ended, there are still lots of ways to chase Powerful gear to get up to the new Power level cap of 650. Most notable is the rotating Ascendant Challenge, which takes you into the strange recesses of the Dreaming City. This is the end of the six-week cycle of challenges, and it's one of the most spookiest and most involved. Here's where to find the Taken portal and what to do once you're
  
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• 'We have a healthy spacecraft': NASA succeeds in historic flyby of faraway world

  01-01-2019 18:15 via news.yahoo.com
  NASA rang in the New Year on Tuesday with a historic flyby of the farthest, and quite possibly the oldest, cosmic body ever explored by humankind -- a tiny, distant world called Ultima Thule -- in the hopes of learning more about how planets took shape.A series of anxiously awaited "phone home" signals arrived after 10:30 am (1530 GMT), indicating that the spacecraft had made it, intact, through the risky, high-speed encounter."We have a healthy spacecraft," said mission operations manager Alice
  
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• Fighting erupts between rival insurgent groups in Syria

  01-01-2019 17:56 via news.yahoo.com
  BEIRUT (AP) — Clashes broke out between two powerful insurgent groups in northern Syria on Tuesday, leaving up to seven people dead in the most serious fighting in months in the last major rebel stronghold in the country.
  
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• Taliban kill 21 Afghan security forces, threaten city: official

  01-01-2019 17:51 via news.yahoo.com
  Taliban fighters killed more than 20 Afghan security forces in simultaneous raids on a provincial capital and district in northern Afghanistan, an official said Tuesday, as the city braced for further violence.Hundreds of militants were outside Sar-e-Pul city, which provincial governor spokesman Zabihullah Amani said was at risk of falling to the Taliban if reinforcements were not sent.The Taliban have stepped up attacks on security forces across the country, slaughtering police and soldiers in
  
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• Pompeo says cooperation with Israel over Syria and Iran to continue

  01-01-2019 17:45 via news.yahoo.com
  Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said as he met with Pompeo in the Brazilian capital that he planned to discuss how to intensify intelligence and operations cooperation in Syria and elsewhere to block Iranian "aggression."In his first public comments on Trump's decision, Pompeo said it "in no way changes anything that this administration is working on alongside Israel.""The counter-ISIS campaign continues, our efforts to counter Iranian aggression continue and our commitment to Middle E
  
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• Did this cheap Porsche 944 survive the Sahara desert?

  01-01-2019 17:38 via news.yahoo.com
  Ben Coombs set out to drive from England to South Africa in a Porsche 944. With a badly behaved Porsche and all manner of terrain problems, here’s what happened…
  
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• Quadrantid meteor shower, 1st of 2019, to peak Thursday night

  01-01-2019 17:28 via news.yahoo.com
  The first meteor shower of the new year will peak later this week as the Quadrantids dart through the January night sky.
  
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• 1st meteor shower of 2019 occurs this week as Quadrantids peak

  01-01-2019 17:28 via news.yahoo.com
  The first meteor shower of the new year will peak later this week as the Quadrantids dart through the January night sky.
  
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• What to expect from special counsel Robert Mueller's investigation in 2019

  01-01-2019 17:04 via news.yahoo.com
  The expectation is that special counsel Robert Mueller could finalize his report and provide it to the Justice Department as early as February, but Mueller's office does not comment publicly on its progress or the timeline; chief intelligence correspondent Catherine Herridge reports from Washington.
  
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• NASA’s New Horizons zoomed past Ultima Thule, and now we wait

  01-01-2019 17:00 via news.yahoo.com
  NASA kicked off the new year with a midnight flyby of the most distant Solar System object ever visited by a manmade spacecraft. New Horizons passed within a few thousand miles of the oblong space rock known as Ultima Thule just after the calendar page turned to 2019 on the East Coast, and it's a huge achievement for the space agency and astronomy community in general.Unfortunately, NASA has very little to show for its accomplishment, at least right now.NASA's live stream of the event was very i
  
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• DUI suspect gets foot stuck in steering wheel after New Year's Eve crash

  01-01-2019 16:50 via news.yahoo.com
  The California Highway Patrol shared a funny picture with a serious message on New Year's Eve: don't drink and drive!
  
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• Amazon’s rare Apple Watch Series 4 discount is back

  01-01-2019 16:37 via news.yahoo.com
  Discounts on last year's Apple Watch Series 3 are a dime a dozen. Of course, discounts on the hot new Series 4 watches are far more rare. Amazon was running a sale last week that shaved $15 off the price of a new Apple Watch Series 4 (GPS, 44mm) in either Space Gray with a black sport band or silver with a white sport band, and now that deal is back! It's not a massive discount, of course, but every penny counts so why would you pay full price at Apple when you don't have to?Here are some key de
  
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• Leak on International Space Station blamed on 'botched repair job'

  01-01-2019 15:57 via news.yahoo.com
  The commander of the International Space Station has confirmed that a leak in its space capsule was caused deliberately and could have had “severe” consequences for him and his crew. The leak was detected by NASA officials in late August, when flight controllers on Earth noticed a dip in the air pressure of the ISS. It was identified by the crew as coming from a two millimetre hole on a section of the Russian-made Soyuz space capsule. Nasa said at the time the crew were “never
  
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• Brother: American arrested in Russia as a spy is innocent

  01-01-2019 15:41 via news.yahoo.com
  WASHINGTON (AP) — The brother of a U.S. citizen arrested in Russia on espionage charges said Tuesday that he's innocent and was in Moscow to attend a wedding.
  
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• What changes to the minimum wage mean for small businesses in America

  01-01-2019 15:32 via news.yahoo.com
  The minimum wage is set to increase in 20 states, affecting millions of workers. But how will this forced pay increase impact business owners?
  
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• Spanish police discover 2 migrants hidden inside mattresses

  01-01-2019 15:03 via news.yahoo.com
  MADRID (AP) — Desperate to reach Europe from North Africa, two African migrants were discovered by police attempting to cross the Spanish border hidden inside a pair of mattresses.
  
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• Daily Digit: How do Americans feel about gun control?

  01-01-2019 14:58 via news.yahoo.com
  According to a new study, 61% of Americans support stricter gun laws. But this number changes based on political affiliation, with Republicans showing less support.
  
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• Is Warren the candidate Democrats have been waiting for? Some doubt it: Today's Talker

  01-01-2019 14:41 via news.yahoo.com
  Presidential victory for her means 'finding the balance between anger and aspiration' and tapping into voters failed by the economy.
  
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• Man crashes car into crowd in Tokyo

  01-01-2019 14:19 via news.yahoo.com
  Nine people have been injured after a man deliberately ploughed his car into crowds celebrating New Year's Eve along a famous street in Tokyo, police and media said on Tuesday. With an "intent to murder", a man identified as 21-year-old Kazuhiro Kusakabe drove a small vehicle into Takeshita Street in Tokyo's fashion district of Harajuku at 10 minutes past midnight. According to national broadcaster NHK, Kusakabe told police he was acting in "retribution for the death penalty" without g
  
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