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• Dutch left-wing election rally draws thousands

  09-03-2017 23:46 via yahoo.com
  
  Dutch left-wing political hopeful Jesse Klaver on Thursday staged one of the largest campaign rallies seen in The Netherlands in recent times, as political parties scramble for last-minute votes ahead of next week's crunch elections."We have a unique opportunity as left-wing parties to win this election and to be the biggest," Klaver said to thunderous applause.Dutch political observers say the youthful Klaver, who is of Moroccan descent, is the antithesis of far-right politician Geert Wilders,
  
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• German police arrest suspect in boy's killing, find 2nd body

  09-03-2017 23:45 via yahoo.com
  
  BERLIN (AP) — A 19-year-old man suspected of killing a 9-year-old boy in the German city of Herne and posting pictures of the victim's body on the internet was arrested Thursday, police said.
  
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• Searching for Trump condemnation in Pope Francis’ words

  09-03-2017 23:41 via yahoo.com
  
  Pope Francis warned against the rising tide of populism in an interview with German paper Die Zeit this week, reigniting an ongoing search for subliminal criticism of President Trump in the pope’s words.
  
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• 911 audio: Decapitation suspect says his mother made him mad

  09-03-2017 23:35 via yahoo.com
  
  LOUISBURG, N.C. (AP) — An 18-year-old man accused of decapitating his mother promised an emergency dispatcher that he wouldn't kill two young siblings heard wailing in the background of his 911 call, according to a recording released Thursday.
  
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• EPA Chief Wrong Not To Believe Human Activity Causes Global Warming

  09-03-2017 23:30 via yahoo.com
  
  The science says human-caused carbon dioxide emissions cause global warming, but EPA Administrator Scott Pruitt believes CO2 from humans does not lead to climate change.
  
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• Couple Shaken Up After Cruise Ship Nearly Hit Their Home: 'I've Never Seen Anything That Close'

  09-03-2017 23:28 via yahoo.com
  
  Yasmine and Bill Todhunter said the massive vessel was moments from crashing into their property.
  
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• U.S. State Department rethinks plan not to take media on Asia trip

  09-03-2017 23:25 via yahoo.com
  
  The U.S. State Department held out the possibility on Thursday that Secretary of State Rex Tillerson might take reporters with him to Asia after it initially broke with decades of tradition by telling the media he would not."We are still working out the logistics for this trip, so (we) cannot yet speak definitively as to whether we'll be able to accommodate any press on the Secretary's plane," State Department spokesman Mark Toner wrote in an email."Going forward, the State Department will do ev
  
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• Republican health plan clears first hurdles, fate uncertain

  09-03-2017 23:18 via yahoo.com
  
  The Republican plan backed by President Donald Trump to overhaul the U.S. healthcare system cleared its first hurdles in Congress on Thursday, but its chances for passage looked uncertain and top Republicans scrambled to bring disgruntled conservatives aboard.In the face of opposition by Democrats, healthcare providers and many conservatives, two House of Representatives committees approved the legislation that would undo much of the 2010 Affordable Care Act, popularly known as Obamacare, moving
  
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• Construction unearths centuries-old coffins in Philadelphia

  09-03-2017 23:15 via yahoo.com
  
  PHILADELPHIA (AP) — Construction crews working on an apartment building in Philadelphia's historic district got a shock last month when their backhoes started hitting coffins and unearthing fully intact human remains.
  
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• The Latest: Dutch PM tells Turkey minister: 'Don't show up!'

  09-03-2017 22:52 via yahoo.com
  
  BERLIN (AP) — The Latest on the growing tensions between Germany and Turkey (all times local):
  
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• Toyota Will Eventually Have Three Sports Cars in its Lineup

  09-03-2017 22:48 via yahoo.com
  
  Reverting to the "Three Brothers" philosophy, Toyota wants to become a serious contender in the sports car market again.
  
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• Dead Sharks Parked In Florida Lots and Driveways

  09-03-2017 22:44 via yahoo.com
  
  Florida has had a long history with abandoned exotic animals.
  
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• U.S. FCC probes why AT&T customers could not call 911

  09-03-2017 22:22 via yahoo.com
  
  By David ShepardsonWASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. Federal Communications Commission said on Thursday it will investigate why AT&T wireless subscribers in several states could not make emergency 911 calls late Wednesday.The FCC has previously fined carriers that had 911 outages that it deemed preventable and required steps to prevent further outages.“Every call to 911 must go through,” FCC Chairman Ajit Pai said in a statement.
  
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• RadioShack Files For Bankruptcy Again, 187 Locations Will Be Closed

  09-03-2017 22:19 via yahoo.com
  
  After its revival in 2015, RadioShack filed for bankruptcy a second time and will close a portion of its stores.
  
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• Iraqi forces advance as US boosts Syria troops

  09-03-2017 22:09 via yahoo.com
  
  Iraqi forces advanced on the Islamic State group in west Mosul on Thursday as the United States nearly doubled its troops to help defeat the jihadists in their Syrian stronghold Raqa.The US-led coalition fighting IS said the United States was deploying another 400 troops against the jihadists in their self-proclaimed capital in Syria, joining 500 already on the ground."They are temporary forces," coalition spokesman US Colonel John Dorrian told reporters in Baghdad, adding the long-term authoris
  
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• Resistance Report: D.C. bar sues Trump for unfair competition from his hotel

  09-03-2017 22:04 via yahoo.com
  
  D.C. UNCORKED. President Trump’s business interests are ruffling feathers in the District of Columbia business community.“Cork Wine Bar owners Khalid Pitts and Diane Gross filed an unfair competition lawsuit against Donald Trump and the Trump International Hotel in DC Wednesday night, alleging that the president’s continued affiliation with the government-owned property puts competing businesses at a disadvantage,” reports Washingtonian.
  
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• Meghan Markle Pens A Moving Essay About Wanting To Help Women In India and More News

  09-03-2017 21:45 via yahoo.com
  
  Find out the details about Meghan Markle’s moving essay to help women in India, Jennifer Lopez and Alex Rodriguez apparently dating, and Amal Clooney stepping out of the United Nations with her baby bump. Get all the details at MarieClaire.com!
  
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• WikiLeaks offers CIA hacking tools to tech companies - Assange

  09-03-2017 21:41 via yahoo.com
  By Dustin Volz and Joseph MennWASHINGTON/SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Wikileaks will provide technology companies with exclusive access to CIA hacking tools that it possesses so they can patch software flaws, founder Julian Assange said on Thursday, presenting Silicon Valley with a potential dilemma on how to deal with the anti-secrecy group.If the offer is legitimate, it would place technology companies in the unusual position of relying on Assange, a man believed by some U.S. officials and lawmak
  
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• What exactly does the iPhone 8 mean for Apple?

  09-03-2017 21:36 via yahoo.com
  
  To date, the iPhone 6 is still responsible for the biggest iPhone upgrade cycle in history. And with good reason, the iPhone 6 marked the first time Apple delved into the world of larger-screened iPhones, at long last giving users with a preference for larger screens a compelling reason to upgrade. What's more, Apple in 2014 didn't just release one new device; rather, it released two distinct iPhone models, the 4.7-inch iPhone 6 and the gargantuan 5.5-inch iPhone 6 Plus.
  
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• Pope open to studying ordination of married men as priests

  09-03-2017 21:35 via yahoo.com
  
  BERLIN (AP) — Pope Francis says the church must study whether it's possible to ordain married men to minister in remote communities facing priest shortages.
  
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• How Michelle Obama surprised students at a DC high school

  09-03-2017 21:22 via yahoo.com
  
  Former first lady Michelle Obama surprised students at Ballou STAY High School in Washington, D.C., last week, leaving what seemed to be a deep impression on a group of students going to the alternative high school.Principal Cara Fuller personally selected the 14 students who met Ms. Obama.Recommended:Michelle Obama: How well do you know the first lady?
  
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• Demonstrators march in Washington, D.C., to protest the global gag rule

  09-03-2017 21:17 via yahoo.com
  
  On Wednesday, March 9, demonstrators took the the streets of Washington, D.C., to march and protest President Trump’s Global Gag Rule. They marched from Freedom Plaza to the White House chanting and holding signs.
  
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• Photos of the day - March 9, 2017

  09-03-2017 21:14 via yahoo.com
  
  Buddhist monks push Thai soldiers at a gate of Dhammakaya temple in Pathum Thani province, Thailand; dogs and owners arrive for the first day of Crufts dog show at NEC Arena in Birmingham, England; an Indian paramilitary soldier stands guard near the site of a gun fight at Padgampora, Indian Kashmir. These are some of the photos of the day. (AP/EPA/Getty/Reuters)
  
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• US Treasury chief calls on Congress to raise debt limit

  09-03-2017 21:05 via yahoo.com
  
  The government will bump up against the roughly $20 trillion ceiling Wednesday, which will force Treasury to take extraordinary accounting steps to remain within the limit.Congress agreed late last year to suspend the debt limit, but only until March 15, so it will need to either raise the limit or renew the suspension to avoid the risk of a default on US obligations.
  
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• Kansas man in 'get out of my country' shooting of Indian man appears in court

  09-03-2017 21:04 via yahoo.com
  
  A Kansas man accused of killing an Indian software engineer and shooting two other people while shouting "get out of my country" appeared in Johnson County Circuit Court on Thursday as lawyers worked out a schedule for his upcoming trial.At the short hearing, alleged shooter Adam Purinton, 51, sat quietly, wearing an orange jumpsuit and looking haggard, his hair scraggly, sometimes whispering to his attorney.Purinton is charged with first-degree murder in the shooting death of Srinivas Kuchibhot
  
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• New York immigrant rights activist escapes deportation

  09-03-2017 21:00 via yahoo.com
  
  For years, Ravi Ragbir has been a prominent New York immigrant rights activist who has helped protect hundreds of undocumented migrants from deportation."We are Ravi," "We stand with Ravi," "Ravi we love you," shouted hundreds of supporters accompanying him to his annual date with an Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agent, which can end in arrest and expulsion.
  
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• Investigators say threats to Jewish groups in U.S. and UK are linked

  09-03-2017 20:55 via yahoo.com
  
  By Mark HosenballWASHINGTON (Reuters) - Scotland Yard and the Federal Bureau of Investigation are investigating more than a hundred bomb threats made to Jewish groups in the United States and Britain since Jan. 7, U.S. and UK law enforcement and Jewish community officials said.Investigators said there is evidence that some of the U.S. and British bomb threats are linked.
  
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• White House responds to reports that Flynn registered as foreign agent while national security adviser

  09-03-2017 20:52 via yahoo.com
  
  During the White House daily press briefing Thursday, press secretary Sean Spicer responded to reports that Michael Flynn registered as a foreign agent while he was White House national security adviser.
  
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• The Latest: Indiana, Iowa killings not believed linked

  09-03-2017 20:31 via yahoo.com
  
  DELPHI, Ind. (AP) — The Latest on the investigation into the slaying of two northern Indiana teenage girls (all times local):
  
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• Nissan Leaf leases can extend until all-new 2018 electric car late this year: updated

  09-03-2017 20:15 via yahoo.com
  
  More Nissan Leaf electric cars were sold in 2014 than in any model year before or since, fully 30,000 of them.Now Nissan is offering to extend those leases—and in the process, it's given us a little more information on the upcoming 2018 Nissan Leaf.
  
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• Does India’s Hindu Heartland Still Love Modi?

  09-03-2017 20:09 via yahoo.com
  
  A deeply divided country is about to stage the world's biggest local elections.
  
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• Syrian force a 'few weeks' from Raqqa, U.S. Marines deploy

  09-03-2017 20:04 via yahoo.com
  
  By Tom PerryBEIRUT (Reuters) - U.S.-backed Syrian forces said on Thursday they were closing in on Islamic State-held Raqqa and expected to reach the city outskirts in a few weeks, as a U.S. Marines artillery unit deployed to help the campaign.The Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF), a militia alliance including the Kurdish YPG, is the main U.S. partner in the war against Islamic State in Syria.Since November it has been working with the U.S.-led coalition to encircle Raqqa.
  
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• Border Patrol 'tunnel rats' plug underground passages

  09-03-2017 19:57 via yahoo.com
  
  SAN DIEGO (AP) — They are known in the U.S. Border Patrol as "tunnel rats" — agents who go in clandestine passages that have proliferated on the U.S.-Mexico border over the past 20 years to smuggle drugs.
  
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• Florida lawyer’s pants burst into flames while defending client against arson charges

  09-03-2017 19:51 via yahoo.com
  
  In a story that quite honestly could only come out of Florida, a Miami defense lawyer was defending his client against arson charges when his pants started on fire. The culprit wasn't his client, but his e-cigarette which was resting in his pocket at the time. Somehow, this isn't a joke.Stephen Gutierrez, a defense attorney based out of Miami, was defending 48-year-old Claudy Charles at the time. Charles has been accused of setting his car on fire in order to intentionally destroy the vehic
  
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• #ProfessorRyan: House speaker’s health care PowerPoint becomes a meme

  09-03-2017 19:47 via yahoo.com
  
  House Speaker Paul Ryan rolled up his sleeves on Thursday to sell the Republican bill to repeal and replace Obamacare, using a PowerPoint presentation to explain the GOP plan during his weekly press conference on Capitol Hill.
  
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• Assange says leaks show CIA's 'devastating incompetence'

  09-03-2017 19:38 via yahoo.com
  
  WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange on Thursday accused the CIA of "devastating incompetence" for failing to protect its hacking secrets and said he would work with tech companies to develop fixes for them."This is a historic act of devastating incompetence, to have created such an arsenal and then stored it all in one place," Assange said.
  
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• Man jumps from car, saves elderly woman from oncoming train

  09-03-2017 19:37 via yahoo.com
  
  SADDLE BROOK, N.J. (AP) — An elderly woman trying to cross the tracks in front of an oncoming train was saved by a driver who sprinted from his car and pulled her out of the way, authorities said.
  
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• Europol: police must get 'tech-savvy' to catch criminals

  09-03-2017 19:21 via yahoo.com
  
  Europe's police officers need to become "as tech-savvy" as the criminals they are trying to catch, its policing agency urged Thursday, saying it had identified some 5,000 gangs operating across the continent."Technology is a key component of most, if not all criminal activities carried out by organised crime groups in the EU," Europol director Rob Wainwright said at the launch of a new report, aimed at helping to shape European crime-fighting policy for the next four years."The point we're makin
  
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• General says no bad decisions in Yemen raid, probe is over

  09-03-2017 19:14 via yahoo.com
  
  WASHINGTON (AP) — The top U.S. commander for the Middle East told senators Thursday that he has completed an exhaustive review of the Yemen raid that killed a Navy SEAL, and has concluded there were no lapses in judgment or decision-making surrounding the operation.
  
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• Unhealthy eating is linked to 400,000 US deaths per year: study

  09-03-2017 19:05 via yahoo.com
  
  Unhealthy eating habits can be blamed for more than 400,000 US deaths a year due to heart disease and related illnesses, researchers said Thursday.The problem is twofold: Americans are eating too much salty, fatty and sugary fare, and not enough fruit, vegetables and whole grains, experts said at a meeting of the American Heart Association in Portland, Oregon."Low intake of healthy foods such as nuts, vegetables, whole grains and fruits combined with higher intake of unhealthy dietary components
  
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• To Moscow, Trump's choice for envoy makes Russian thaw less likely

  09-03-2017 19:00 via yahoo.com
  
  By Andrew OsbornMOSCOW (Reuters) - Reports that Jon Huntsman will become the next U.S. ambassador to Russia stirred anxiety in Moscow on Thursday, with one politician calling him a hawk and pro-Kremlin media recalling what they said was his worrying history of hostile rhetoric.An official in U.S. President Donald Trump's administration said on Wednesday that Huntsman, a one-time Republican presidential candidate and ambassador to China and Singapore, had accepted Trump's offer to represent the U
  
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• Putin hosts Netanyahu for talks set to focus on Syria

  09-03-2017 18:42 via yahoo.com
  
  MOSCOW (AP) — Russian President Vladimir Putin hosted Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Thursday for talks focusing on the situation in Syria and Israeli concerns about the role of Iran and its proxies there.
  
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• CIA Leaks Reveal Backdoors In Phones, TVs, and More

  09-03-2017 18:37 via yahoo.com
  
  The CIA can turn these devices into recorders of everyday conversations.
  
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• White House sharpens axe for Clean Power Plan

  09-03-2017 18:29 via yahoo.com
  
  Seven weeks into the Trump presidency, the coal industry and electric utilities are getting restless for their promised relief from the Obama administration’s Clean Power Plan, which regulates carbon dioxide emissions. But they might not have to wait much longer, according to the authoritative energy news site E&E News, which is reporting that the administration is preparing to set the repeal in motion with an executive order as early as next week.
  
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• Share turnover by fund managers not helping business: expert

  09-03-2017 18:26
  
  LONDON (Reuters) - Fund managers who are usually seen as the market's more patient investors are not holding shares long enough to encourage firms to adjust for a more environmentally sustainable...
  
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• Illinois budget impasse increasingly hurts universities: Moody's

  09-03-2017 18:14 via yahoo.com
  
  Illinois' record-breaking budget impasse, which has led to sporadic funding for higher education, is increasingly pressuring the finances and competitiveness of state universities, Moody's Investors Service said on Thursday.The credit rating agency said the lack of complete state funding has forced schools to take "considerable steps," including cutting academic programs and raising tuition, in order to keep operating and preserve financial liquidity."Material programing reductions and staffing
  
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• Pope Francis says he is open to studying whether priests can marry

  09-03-2017 18:12 via yahoo.com
  
  In an interview with a German newspaper, Pope Francis said he is open to studying whether priests can marry. The pope did add that revoking clerical celibacy is not a solution for priest shortages in rural areas.
  
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• Petition to suspend 'sexist' Polish MEP goes viral

  09-03-2017 18:07 via yahoo.com
  
  More than 700,000 people had by Thursday signed a petition demanding the European Parliament suspend a Polish far-right MEP who said women should be paid less because they are weaker and less intelligent than men.Global civic movement Avaaz launched the online petition against MEP Janusz Korwin-Mikke on Wednesday, International Women's Day."We ask the European Parliament to suspend the Polish MEP Janusz Korwin-Mikke following his hateful remarks about women and migrants, and after making a Nazi
  
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• Firefighters Rescue Litter of 9 Puppies From Burning Home

  09-03-2017 18:06 via yahoo.com
  
  A few of the pups suffered minor burns but they're all now back with their mother.
  
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• Colossus probably depicting Ramses II found in Egypt

  09-03-2017 18:05 via yahoo.com
  
  By Ahmed AbouleneinCAIRO (Reuters) - Archaeologists from Egypt and Germany have found a massive eight-metre statue submerged in ground water in a Cairo slum that they say probably depicts revered Pharaoh Ramses II, who ruled Egypt more than 3,000 years ago.The discovery, hailed by the Antiquities Ministry as one of the most important ever, was made near the ruins of Ramses II's temple in the ancient city of Heliopolis, located in the eastern part of modern-day Cairo."Last Tuesday they called me
  
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