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• Welp, humanity had a good run: Humpback whales organize into mysterious 'super-groups'

  15-03-2017 23:51 via yahoo.com
  
  Huge groups of humpback whales have been seen gathering in the Southern Hemisphere, and it's leaving scientists and people on the internet a little confused.  Usually, humpbacks are pretty solitary creatures, but a study published on March 1 in the journalPLOS One details multiple "super-groups" of whales gathering in 2011, 2014 and 2015. SEE ALSO: Hundreds of whales mysteriously die — and scientists have a few theories as to whyThe groups range in size from 20 to 200 individuals
  
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• US State Dept tests new media rules as Tillerson heads solo to Asia

  15-03-2017 23:44 via yahoo.com
  
  The US State Department said Wednesday that it is testing new media coverage rules as its boss Rex Tillerson traveled to Asia with no accredited reporters in tow -- a break with 50 years of tradition.Now Tillerson has angered US and foreign correspondents accredited to cover the State Department by traveling to Asia on Tuesday with just one journalist -- from a conservative publication called the Independent Journal Review.
  
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• Pres. Trump: ‘Interesting’ Information Coming On Wiretapping Claims

  15-03-2017 23:36 via yahoo.com
  
  11 days after his explosive tweet accusing Pres. Obama of wiretapping him, the president offered new hints -- but still no evidence -- of what exactly he meant.
  
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• Arlington Republican Loses His Cool At Town Hall Meeting Among Rowdy Attendees

  15-03-2017 23:35 via yahoo.com
  
  A video of Texas Congressman Joe Barton has gone viral after a stressful town hall meeting over the weekend.
  
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• Asia-Pacific seeks to save TPP trade deal without US

  15-03-2017 23:21 via yahoo.com
  
  Viña del Mar (Chile) (AFP) - Asia-Pacific ministers said Wednesday they would seek to move forward on a trade agreement resembling the Trans-Pacific Partnership after President Donald Trump killed the deal by withdrawing the United States.After two days of high-level meetings in Chile, officials from the 11 other countries in TPP -- plus China and South Korea -- wrapped up their talks with no clear plan to replace the defunct deal but a dogged determination not to throw out years of pains
  
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• Feast Your Eyes on Japan’s Gorgeous Cherry Blossoms

  15-03-2017 23:01 via yahoo.com
  
  This is the perfect springtime travel destination.
  
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• McDonald's Employee Jumps Through Drive-Thru Window to Help Rescue Unconscious Cop

  15-03-2017 23:00 via yahoo.com
  
  The woman is listed in critical condition.
  
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• We can't stop making these 10 stupid grammar mistakes according to Microsoft

  15-03-2017 22:39 via yahoo.com
  
  We've been taught since day one that poor grammar leads to unfortunate situations - bad grades, missed job opportunities and ridicule by the internet, just to name a few. Nevertheless, we continue to make them. Nothing can stand in the way of us and our bad grammar. Using data gathered from Editor, one of Microsoft's newest features in Word, Microsoft has released a list of the 10 most commonly flagged grammar mistakes by their proofing tools.SEE ALSO: The chat app war between Microsoft and Slac
  
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• Pfeiffer Syndrome: Behind the Rare Genetic Disorder That Killed Prince's Infant Son

  15-03-2017 22:29 via yahoo.com
  
  The condition affects 1 in 100,000 babies, and it can cause skeletal deformities and respiratory problems. 
  
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• Walters' insider trading defense hinges on U.S. government witness: lawyer

  15-03-2017 22:26 via yahoo.com
  
  Prosecutors say Davis passed confidential information about Dean Foods to Walters, allowing him to make more than $40 million in profits and avoided losses between 2008 and 2014.Assistant U.S. Attorney Michael Ferrara kicked off the trial with his own opening statement laying out the charges against Walters.
  
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• Samsung Galaxy Note 8 Specs May Include Dual Camera And 3D Touch

  15-03-2017 22:26 via yahoo.com
  
  Samsung may save some features for that Galaxy Note 8 that were originally intended for the Galaxy S8.
  
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• Cooler Filled With '5 Very Large Bags of Marijuana' Donated to Goodwill Store

  15-03-2017 22:22 via yahoo.com
  
  The Monroe Police Department said Goodwill employees believe the cooler was dropped off Monday night, but "they're not exactly sure how it was donated."
  
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• Rise in reports of sexual assault at U.S. Navy, Army academies

  15-03-2017 22:20 via yahoo.com
  
  There was a rise in reports of sexual assault at U.S. Navy and Army military academies in the last year, the Department of Defense said on Wednesday.An annual report, based on anonymous surveys, said reports of sexual assault in total across the military academies had decreased slightly in the last year, and the Air Force Academy specifically saw a decrease from 49 reports to 32.
  
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• Father Discovers 1-Year-Old Son's Cancer After Noticing a Minor Blemish on a Photograph

  15-03-2017 22:17 via yahoo.com
  
  "The news was deafening. We had no idea something so serious could be spotted in a harmless flash photo," said Owen Scrivens, father of little Jaxson.
  
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• Dutch Apparently Fend off Far-Right Election Challenge

  15-03-2017 21:54 via yahoo.com
  
  Rutte loses seats but, at least according to first exit polls, wins the day.
  
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• iOS 11 lock screen gets re-imagined in brand new concept photos

  15-03-2017 21:44 via yahoo.com
  
  These days, it's not uncommon to come across stunning and thought-provoking iOS 11 concepts that aren't necessarily feasible. Indeed, some designers, when putting together iOS 11 mockups, seem to focus on cobbling together fantastical features without ever stopping to contemplate whether or not their designs are practical or even doable. Imagining futuristic iOS 11 features can certainly be fun and entertaining, but sometimes we've got to take a step back and focus on iOS features Appl
  
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• Suspected Boko Haram militants attack northeast Nigeria town: witnesses

  15-03-2017 21:32 via yahoo.com
  
  MAIDUGURI, Nigeria (Reuters) - Suspected members of Islamist militant group Boko Haram attacked a town in northeast Nigeria's Borno state on Wednesday, shooting indiscriminately and forcing locals to flee their homes, witnesses said. Residents who fled Magumeri, a town around 50 kilometers (31 miles) from state capital Maiduguri, said the attackers burned down buildings and opened fire after arriving around 05:00 p.m. (1600 GMT). One witness said he saw a dead body. ...
  
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• Turkey may cancel migrant readmission deal with EU, says foreign minister

  15-03-2017 21:22 via yahoo.com
  
  Turkey may cancel a migrant readmission agreement with the European Union, and is also re-evaluating a $6 billion refugee deal with the bloc, foreign minister Mevlut Cavusoglu said in a televised interview late Wednesday.Cavusoglu's remarks came at a time when Turkey-EU tensions are running high after several European countries prevented Turkish politicians, including the foreign minister, from holding rallies intended to drum up support for plans to give President Tayyip Erdogan sweeping new po
  
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• Polish court issues arrest warrant for US man in Nazi case

  15-03-2017 21:19 via yahoo.com
  
  WARSAW, Poland (AP) — A court in Poland has issued an arrest warrant for a Minnesota man sought in a Nazi massacre, opening the way for Poland to seek his extradition from the United States on war crimes charges.
  
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• Study: Stopping global warming only way to save coral reefs

  15-03-2017 21:15 via yahoo.com
  
  SYDNEY (AP) — Reducing pollution and curbing overfishing won't prevent the severe bleaching that is killing coral at catastrophic rates, according to a study of Australia's Great Barrier Reef. In the end, researchers say, the only way to save the world's coral from heat-induced bleaching is with a war on global warming.
  
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• Man Hospitalized After He's Attacked by Group He Offered to Help Buy Meals For: Cops

  15-03-2017 21:14 via yahoo.com
  
  The 37-year-old victim told two young men that he would help them after he overheard them asking for money for something to eat, cops said.
  
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• President Trump's Longtime Accountant Weighs In on Leak of His 2005 Tax Returns

  15-03-2017 21:13 via yahoo.com
  
  It is being speculated that Trump himself leaked the document.
  
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• US demands UN pull report accusing Israel of apartheid

  15-03-2017 20:59 via yahoo.com
  
  The United States on Wednesday demanded that UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres withdraw a report by a UN body accusing Israel of imposing apartheid on the Palestinians.Guterres distanced himself from the report by the UN Economic and Social Commission for Western Asia (ESCWA) but US Ambassador Nikki Haley said it should be scrapped altogether.
  
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• Photos of the day - March 15, 2017

  15-03-2017 20:59 via yahoo.com
  
  Doctors and medical personnel scuffle with riot police during a march in front of the Finance Ministry in Athens, Greece; House Select Committee members speak to the media about the ongoing Russia investigation on Capitol Hill in Washington, D.C.; an ultra-Orthodox Jew gets hit by a police water cannon during a protest against Israeli army conscription, in Jerusalem. These are some of the photos of the day. (AP/EPA/Getty/Reuters/Zuma)
  
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• 3 service men killed in military plane crash in New Mexico

  15-03-2017 20:44 via yahoo.com
  
  Three service members assigned to a special operations unit were killed after a single-engine reconnaissance and surveillance plane crashed in eastern New Mexico during a training flight, the Air Force said.
  
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• 911 Dispatcher, Police Officer Disciplined in Connection With Tamir Rice Case

  15-03-2017 20:36 via yahoo.com
  
  An official ruled the dispatcher did not follow protocol and an off-duty officer involved hadn't informed bosses he was moonlighting as a security officer.
  
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• Senate confirms Trump intelligence nominee, security adviser

  15-03-2017 20:27 via yahoo.com
  
  By Patricia ZengerleWASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. Senate voted overwhelmingly on Thursday to confirm former Republican senator Dan Coats to be President Donald Trump's director of national intelligence and to approve Army Lieutenant General H.R. McMaster's transfer to become his national security adviser.The vote was 85-12 to confirm Coats, who also served as ambassador to Germany under former President George W. Bush.The only Republican who voted against Coats was Senator Rand Paul, one of th
  
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• At Rally, Trump Attacks Media and Mentions Health Care

  15-03-2017 20:22 via yahoo.com
  
  President Trump attacked the media at a Nashville rally but gave little new information about the struggling health care bill, which he promised to "arbitrate" on.
  
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• Rachel Maddow had Trump's 2005 tax returns. The April 15 Tax March wants all of them.

  15-03-2017 20:14 via yahoo.com
  
  Rachel Maddow and David Cay Johnston may have had “Trump tax returns” Tuesday night, as her Twitter feed announced, but they didn’t have the Trump tax returns.No one has seen those — the full itemized forms that list sources of income — and President Trump and his 2016 campaign surrogates have offered a conflicting and bewildering array of reasons for not disclosing them.Against this backdrop, a determined group of activists has vowed to amp up the pressure for thei
  
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• House Intelligence Committee: No Wiretapping Evidence

  15-03-2017 19:48 via yahoo.com
  
  It was “obvious” that Obama didn’t personally implore his national security advisers to install listening devices in Trump Tower, the chairman of the House Intelligence Committee said.
  
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• 'Where's Winston?': Dying Mom's Last Words Launch Search for Missing Baby

  15-03-2017 19:37 via yahoo.com
  
  Cops say Mandi Mangas was shot dead by the father of her baby, who was allegedly kidnapped.
  
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• Cameroon says regional forces free 5,000 Boko Haram captives

  15-03-2017 19:23 via yahoo.com
  
  By Sylvain AndzongoYAOUNDE (Reuters) - Regional West African forces freed 5,000 captives from a Boko Haram base in a more than week-long operation that also completely destroyed the militants' hideout in mountains along the Nigeria-Cameroon border, Cameroon said Wednesday.The "hostages freed consisted mostly of women, children and elderly people," Communications Minister Issa Tchiroma Bakary told a news conference.Nigerian Islamist group Boko Haram has been fighting since 2009 to try to establis
  
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• Ethiopia trash dump death toll rises to 113

  15-03-2017 19:19 via yahoo.com
  
  By Aaron MaashoADDIS ABABA (Reuters) - The death toll from a landslide at a dump in the Ethiopian capital Addis Ababa has reached 113, officials said on Wednesday, as the government declared three days of national mourning.    Flags flew at half mast to mark the disaster that occurred at the 50-year-old Reppi dump on Saturday evening."The total number of dead has reached 113, of which 38 are male and 75 are female," said Dagmawit Moges, a spokeswoman for the city."At least 80 other res
  
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• Mom May Have Watched Daughter's Sucide on Social Media Livestream: Officials

  15-03-2017 19:15 via yahoo.com
  
  Naika Venant, 14, broadcast on Facebook Live as she took her life on January 22, killing herself during the three-hour video, investigators wrote.
  
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• Killer of Father and Infant Son - Who Also Tried to Abduct Trial Judge - Is Executed in Texas

  15-03-2017 19:15 via yahoo.com
  
  James Bigby, 61, killed a father and his 4-month-old baby in 1987 and attacked his capital murder trial judge three years later.
  
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• Fresh leak shows Samsung’s Galaxy S8 with Apple’s Jet Black finish

  15-03-2017 19:15 via yahoo.com
  
  Considering the hype surrounding the sleek new Jet Black finish on the iPhone 7 and iPhone 7 Plus when Apple's latest flagship iPhones were unveiled last September, it seemed like a forgone conclusion that Samsung would copy the color and incorporate a glossy black into its own flagship smartphone lineup. Sure enough, Samsung made record time and managed to copy Apple in less than three months by adding a new glossy black color to its Galaxy S7 lineup in early December.
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• Ford Focus RS Demand Stays High Months After Release

  15-03-2017 18:55 via yahoo.com
  
  The Ford Focus RS, everyone’s new favorite hot hatchback, is still flying out of dealer showrooms and shows no sign of slowing sales. Since arriving in showrooms last summer, Ford has averaged more than 500 sold per month, with more than 3,500 total units sold stateside so far.
  
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• Ukraine bans all trade with rebel-held territory, as separatists seize assets

  15-03-2017 18:53 via yahoo.com
  
  By Pavel Polityuk and Alexei KalmykovKIEV (Reuters) - Ukrainian authorities on Wednesday halted all cargo traffic with rebel-held territory in the east of the country, formalizing an existing rail blockade by Ukrainian activists that has fueled the worst political crisis in nearly a year.In a standoff that is hurting the economies of both sides, separatists have seized control of strategic Ukraine-registered industries in their territory in response to the rail blockade, which has cut off coal a
  
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• Joe Kennedy’s emotional Obamacare story: Law saved my intern’s life

  15-03-2017 18:53 via yahoo.com
  
  For Rep. Joe Kennedy III, D-Mass., the fight to protect the Affordable Care Act (ACA) from Republican attacks isn’t just politics.Jen Fox, a cancer survivor who is an intern in Kennedy’s Capitol office, credits Obamacare for saving her life twice and fears that her story would have had a different ending if she had needed treatment under President Trump’s American Health Care Act (AHCA).“I think that the Affordable Care Act is amazing.
  
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• Mourinho says Paul Pogba's critics envious, short of money

  15-03-2017 18:45 via yahoo.com
  
  LONDON (AP) — As the world's most expensive player, Paul Pogba can't escape the limelight.
  
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• Conservative website only media on Tillerson plane to Asia

  15-03-2017 18:42 via yahoo.com
  
  By Yeganeh TorbatiSEOUL (Reuters) - U.S. Secretary of State Rex Tillerson flew to Asia accompanied by only one journalist on his aircraft, a reporter from a website founded by former Republican political operatives, in a departure from decades of practice.Tillerson, who became the top U.S. diplomat underRepublican President Donald Trump in February, traveled to Mexico and Germany last month with a small contingent of journalists, including a "pool" reporter who informed colleagues of Tillerson's
  
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• Portion of President Trump's 2005 federal tax return leaked

  15-03-2017 18:34 via yahoo.com
  
  "View" co-hosts discuss the gravity of Trump's tax return and whether the leak is a distraction from larger issues in his administration.
  
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• Death toll in Ethiopia landfill collapse up sharply to 113

  15-03-2017 18:33 via yahoo.com
  
  ADDIS ABABA, Ethiopia (AP) — The death toll from a collapse at a landfill outside Ethiopia's capital has risen sharply to 113, an Addis Ababa city official said Wednesday, as the country began three days of mourning for victims who were mostly women and children.
  
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• As Solar Becomes More Popular, Could You Have A Solar Home?

  15-03-2017 18:32 via yahoo.com
  
  Google mapped homes across the country to see if they could be solar homes.
  
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• Top lawmakers see no evidence for Trump wiretap claim

  15-03-2017 18:27 via yahoo.com
  
  Senior US lawmakers said Wednesday they had seen no evidence to support President Donald Trump's claim that his predecessor Barack Obama wiretapped his New York home and office building."We don't have any evidence that that took place," said Devin Nunes, Republican chairman of the congressional committee conducting a probe into the allegation, at a press conference.Based the investigation by the House Intelligence Committee he heads, "I don't think there was an actual tap of Trump Tower," said N
  
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• ‘Best of British’ fund manager retires from JO Hambro

  15-03-2017 18:13
  
  News arrives on the same day that John Wood is named as one of the UK's top 25 investment managers
  
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• Guess which iPhone feature Samsung seemingly plans to steal next

  15-03-2017 18:10 via yahoo.com
  
  Often accused to copy the iPhone with its high-end Galaxy phones, Samsung is in a unique position when it comes to anticipating its biggest rival’s next moves. Samsung is also a supplier of critical iPhone components, which means it knows ahead of time what Apple is working on. A new report from Korea indicates that Samsung is already working on a major component for the iPhone 8, and it's one that might be seen in the upcoming Galaxy S8 and Galaxy Note 8 as well.According to South Korea's
  
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• London’s clearing houses can ‘win’ from EU oversight – S&P

  15-03-2017 17:56
  
  The future of euro clearing in London has been one of the big talking points in the City since the Brexit vote
  
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• No Evidence For Trump Wiretap Claims, House Intel Panel Says

  15-03-2017 17:43 via yahoo.com
  
  At a press conference on investigating Russia ties, the House intelligence committees top members say they've seen no evidence to back Trump's tweeted claim.
  
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• The last of the Goodyear blimps

  15-03-2017 17:35 via yahoo.com
  
  Goodyear has let the helium out of its fabled fleet of blimps with the decommissioning of the Spirit of Innovation, the last of the company’s GZ-20 model blimps.The GZ-20 model was introduced to Goodyear’s fleet in 1969.The model type was the flagship design of the Goodyear Airship Operations program for almost 50 years — more than half the life of the publicity blimp’s 92-year program.
  
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