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• You can now use Google Maps to show people exactly where you are

  22-03-2017 23:57 via yahoo.com
  
  Google Maps is the undisputed champion of mobile navigation and it's an extremely powerful tool for helping you find locations, but what about people? The search giant wants that to be just as easy and, as long as you're cool with it, you can now use Google Maps to share your real-time location with whoever you choose, and for however long you want. The feature isn't live for everyone just yet, but it's coming very soon to all iOS and Android users. Google describes its functionality &
  
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• Immigrant whose daughter appealed to pope requests asylum in U.S.

  22-03-2017 23:51 via yahoo.com
  
  A Mexican immigrant whose daughter appealed to Pope Francis three years ago to stop his deportation from the United States requested asylum at a federal court hearing in Los Angeles on Wednesday.Mario Vargas-Lopez's attorney argued the 45-year-old could be the victim of violence if he is deported to Mexico because of the international attention his case has received."People in Mexico know who he is, and he might be targeted for ransom and extortion," attorney Alex Galvez said in a phone intervie
  
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• Bill would bar discrimination toward climate change doubters

  22-03-2017 23:51 via yahoo.com
  
  AUGUSTA, Maine (AP) — Maine laws protect people from discrimination based on factors such as race, disabilities and sexual orientation, and a Republican lawmaker wants to add a person's beliefs about climate change to that list.
  
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• Ex-head of Colorado Republicans charged with voter fraud

  22-03-2017 23:46 via yahoo.com
  
  By Keith CoffmanDENVER (Reuters) - A Colorado talk radio host who once chaired the state Republican Party and has accused Democrats of widespread voter fraud has been charged with forging his ex-wife’s signature on a mail-in ballot in the 2016 election, court records showed on Wednesday.Steven Curtis, 57, who served as state GOP boss from 1997 until 1999, is charged with one felony count of forgery and one misdemeanor count of tampering with a mail-in ballot, according to a criminal compla
  
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• 7 Richard Simmons Quotes We Love

  22-03-2017 23:41 via yahoo.com
  
  Richards Simmons took the fitness world by storm over three decades ago, with his inspiring story of weight loss and believing in himself. Watch the video to revisit all the times he reminded us to love yourself.
  
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• The Latest: Gorsuch flatters senators as questioning wraps

  22-03-2017 23:40 via yahoo.com
  
  WASHINGTON (AP) — The Latest on Senate confirmation hearings for Supreme Court nominee Judge Neil Gorsuch: (all times EDT):
  
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• GOP Health Care Bill On Life Support As Many GOP Lawmakers Hold Out

  22-03-2017 23:40 via yahoo.com
  
  An NBC News analysis shows that 28 House Republicans will probably vote against the bill. If those “no” votes hold, and no Democrats vote for the bill, the bill would fail during Thursday’s vote.
  
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• House Intel Cmte. Creates Confusion As Chairman Releases New Trump Details

  22-03-2017 23:38 via yahoo.com
  
  House Intel Committee Chairman Devin Nunes made revelations concerning "incidentally collected" intelligence related to the Trump campaign, triggering confusion about why he revealed the information.
  
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• The Latest: Mayor: Sword killing 'unspeakable human tragedy'

  22-03-2017 23:35 via yahoo.com
  
  NEW YORK (AP) — The Latest on the sword attack death of a black man in what police say was a racially motivated killing (all times local):
  
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• London Terror Attack: At Least 5 Killed, 40 Injured Outside Parliament

  22-03-2017 23:31 via yahoo.com
  
  An attacker plowed through pedestrians on Westminster Bridge before stabbing and killing a police officer outside Parliament in London on Wednesday.
  
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• Is FreedomPop's Crazy Cheap $20 Family Plan Worth It?

  22-03-2017 23:30 via yahoo.com
  
  Families looking to shave a lot of money off their monthly cell phone bill have a new option at discount carrier FreedomPop — provided they're also willing to skimp on data.Credit: Syda Productions/ShutterstockFreedomPop, which offers contract-free cell phone coverage over the networks of AT&T and Sprint, has added family plans to its list of service options.FreedomPop bills that as a free plan, though there is a $5 charge per line.
  
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• Trump faces off against Washington Republicans used to saying no

  22-03-2017 23:25 via yahoo.com
  
  WASHINGTON — President Trump, while trying to push a health care bill through Congress, is also trying to overcome a Republican political culture that for years has rewarded saying no to political leaders.
  
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• White House says it’s ‘insane’ to suggest Trump knew campaign chairman worked on pro-Putin project

  22-03-2017 23:20 via yahoo.com
  
  On Wednesday, White House press secretary Sean Spicer sought to put additional distance between President Trump and his former campaign chairman, Paul Manafort.Yahoo News asked Spicer about an Associated Press report that Manafort crafted a plan to advance Putin’s interests in 2005 for a billionaire client with ties to the Russian president.
  
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• GOP Health Insurance Plan Hits Older People Hardest

  22-03-2017 23:18 via yahoo.com
  
  Helen Bell, a 59-year-old former hospital worker, suffers from several chronic conditions that often land her in the hospital and require frequent doctor visits and expensive medications. But hea...
  
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• White man who wanted to harm blacks arrested in New York stabbing: police

  22-03-2017 23:07 via yahoo.com
  
  A white man who police said traveled to New York City to harm black people turned himself in with knives in his pocket at a Manhattan police station on Wednesday, a day after authorities say he fatally stabbed a black man on a city sidewalk.James Harris Jackson, 28, told police he left his home in Baltimore on Friday and took the bus to New York "because it is the media capital of the world and he wanted to make a statement," Bill Aubrey, a deputy chief at the New York Police Department, told re
  
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• Trump's Ex-Aide Paul Manafort Denies Signing Contract With Russian Billionaire to 'Benefit Putin's Government'

  22-03-2017 23:03 via yahoo.com
  
  A report said the former Trump campaign chair signed the $10 million contract in 2005.
  
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• Tim Kaine on the investigation into Russian interference in the 2016 election

  22-03-2017 22:58 via yahoo.com
  
  On Wednesday, March 22, 2017, Senator Tim Kaine speaks with Yahoo News Global Anchor Katie Couric about the investigations into Russian interference in the 2016 election as well as the revelations from Rep. Devin Nunes about alleged communications collection of President Trump prior to the inauguration.
  
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• U.S. Senate takes up broadband privacy repeal

  22-03-2017 22:54 via yahoo.com
  By David ShepardsonWASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. Senate on Wednesday took up a measure to repeal regulations adopted by the Obama administration requiring internet service providers to do more to protect customers' privacy than websites like Alphabet Inc's Googleor Facebook Inc .The Senate began debate on Wednesday evening under a provision that allows Congress to repeal recently approved federal regulations.Under the rules approved by the Federal Communications Commission in October under the
  
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• GOP Rep. Brooks bashes party’s health care bill ahead of key vote

  22-03-2017 22:43 via yahoo.com
  
  The American Health Care Act, embraced by Speaker Paul Ryan, is in danger of losing too many Republican votes to pass during Thursday’s vote in the House.Brooks’s Freedom Caucus, a group of staunchly conservative lawmakers, is opposing the bill in its current form, and there was speculation Wednesday that the vote may be delayed.“The best argument that the proponents of the legislation have right now is that it’s not as bad as Obamacare.
  
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• US stocks end mostly higher ahead of legislative vote

  22-03-2017 22:33 via yahoo.com
  
  US stocks mostly rebounded Wednesday ahead of a key congressional vote on health care, but doubts about the prospects for President Donald Trump's broader agenda weighed on European and Asian equities.
  
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• 911 call: Mom tried to resuscitate unresponsive twin babies

  22-03-2017 22:33 via yahoo.com
  
  LINDENWOLD, N.J. (AP) — The mother of twin baby girls who were found dead in an apartment can be heard screaming on a 911 call that they "are not breathing and both are purple."
  
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• Xiaomi Mi Mix 2 leak shows the phone of your dreams

  22-03-2017 22:28 via yahoo.com
  
  The iPhone 7 may have dominated sales in 2016 but Xiaomi's Mi Mix stole its fair share of headlines thanks to its edge-to-edge-to-edge display that gave the device a really striking "glass phone" appearance. The company is said to be planning a successor, and newly leaked renders claim to show exactly what the Mi Mix 2 will look like. If it turns out to be legit, Xiaomi will have somehow made its insane phone design even more wild with a screen-to-bezel ratio fast approaching its limit.The
  
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• Can you tally up world progress?

  22-03-2017 22:28 via yahoo.com
  
  When the cold war ended a quarter century ago, and with it the division of the world into two “camps,” the United Nations decided to start measuring the progress of humanity as a whole.The hope behind such alternative indicators is that an attempt to measure something might help reveal what causes it or could push it along.
  
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• Nest Cam Just Dropped to Lowest Price Yet

  22-03-2017 22:18 via yahoo.com
  
  The Nest Cam Outdoor is a reliable outdoor security camera that provides good to high quality video and audio.Sadly, all of those features don't come cheap and the Nest Cam Outdoor's $199 price tag requires a bit of an investment.Fortunately, Amazon has lowered the price of this top-rated cam to $173.44, for an instant savings of $26.
  
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• After ISIS: For Iraqis, reconciliation in Mosul will be challenging, and vital

  22-03-2017 22:17 via yahoo.com
  
  The colonel is a quintessential Iraqi military man: shaved head, bushy black mustache, and very proud of how the Iraqi Army has rebuilt and “proved it is professional” in the fight to oust the Islamic State from Mosul.Like many in Iraq, the colonel is wary that the challenges of reconciliation and winning the peace in Mosul and across the complex ethnic mosaic of Nineveh Province will be harder than winning the war.Recommended:How much do you know about the Islamic State?
  
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• Trump fights for support ahead of U.S. healthcare vote

  22-03-2017 22:13 via yahoo.com
  
  By David Morgan and Susan CornwellWASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. President Donald Trump and Republican congressional leaders appeared on Wednesday to be losing the battle to get enough support in the House of Representatives to pass their Obamacare rollback bill, watched by wary investors in financial markets.The current House Republican plan is scheduled for a floor vote on Thursday, but faces resistance from some conservative Republicans who view it as too similar to Obamacare, and from moderates
  
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• Teacher Accused of Sexual Relations With Student Smiled in Mugshot Because She's Innocent: Lawyer

  22-03-2017 22:11 via yahoo.com
  
  Sarah Fowlkes was pictured grinning in her mugshot.
  
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• US tells allies to do more amid new offensive against IS

  22-03-2017 22:09 via yahoo.com
  
  WASHINGTON (AP) — Declaring the Islamic State group's destruction its top Middle East priority, the Trump administration on Wednesday urged coalition partners to contribute more to forces who are retaking Iraq's second largest city and readying an assault on the extremists' self-declared Syrian capital. There was no apparent announcement of a new overall strategy, however.
  
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• US military helping op to seize strategic dam near Syria's Raqa

  22-03-2017 22:08 via yahoo.com
  
  The US military provided air and artillery support -- and transported local forces -- in an offensive for a vitally important dam near the Islamic State group's stronghold of Raqa in Syria, officials said Wednesday.Colonel Joseph Scrocca, a spokesman for the US-led coalition helping local fighters, said US support came overnight Tuesday-Wednesday via Apache helicopter gunships, airlifts, air strikes and advice to the Syrian Democratic Forces, an Arab-Kurdish alliance.In a first, US forces helico
  
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• Justice Department Sees Drop In Cases Against Corrupt Officials

  22-03-2017 22:07 via yahoo.com
  
  Government corruption has been in general decline over the past two decades, but the trend might've been difficult for the average American to notice.
  
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• Democrats grill U.S. high court nominee over Trump concerns

  22-03-2017 22:03 via yahoo.com
  
  By Lawrence Hurley and Andrew ChungWASHINGTON (Reuters) - Supreme Court nominee Neil Gorsuch said on Wednesday presidents must obey court orders and expressed uncertainty about language in the Constitution barring U.S. government officials from taking payments from a foreign country as Democrats grilled him on issues involving President Donald Trump.Gorsuch, the conservative appeals court judge from Colorado nominated by Trump on Jan. 31 to a lifetime job on the nation's highest court, sparred w
  
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• Tillerson pledges safe areas for refugees, more pressure on Islamic State

  22-03-2017 21:59 via yahoo.com
  
  By Lesley Wroughton and Yara BayoumyWASHINGTON (Reuters) - Secretary of State Rex Tillerson said on Wednesday the United States would set up "interim zones of stability" to help refugees return home in the next phase of the fight against Islamic State and al Qaeda in Syria and Iraq.The top U.S. diplomat did not make clear where these zones were to be set up.
  
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• Billionaire raises questions about Putin critic’s mysterious fall

  22-03-2017 21:57 via yahoo.com
  
  A U.K.-based billionaire is raising pointed questions about the most recent in a series of mysterious accidents, illnesses and muggings to befall critics of Russian President Vladimir Putin: lawyer Nikolai Gorokhov’s fall from a window of his fourth-floor apartment near Moscow earlier this week.“People don’t just go falling out of their apartments,” Bill Browder, the American-born CEO of Hermitage Capital Management, told Yahoo News and Finance Anchor Bianna Golodryg
  
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• Ex-pharmacy exec convicted in deadly meningitis outbreak

  22-03-2017 21:55 via yahoo.com
  
  BOSTON (AP) — The former head of a Massachusetts pharmacy was acquitted Wednesday of murder allegations but convicted of racketeering and other crimes in a meningitis outbreak that was traced to fungus-contaminated drugs and killed 64 people across the country.
  
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• Did Rex Tillerson Misspeak or Intentionally Kowtow to China?

  22-03-2017 21:55 via yahoo.com
  
  During his visit to Beijing last weekend, Secretary of State Rex Tillerson made a strange move — adopting Chinese verbiage to characterize the U.S.-China relationship.
  
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• South Korea raises sunken ferry: Yonhap

  22-03-2017 21:47 via yahoo.com
  
  Salvage operators raised part of South Korea's sunken Sewol ferry early Thursday, Yonhap news agency reported, nearly three years after the disaster killed more than 300 people and dealt a crippling blow to now-ousted president Park Geun-Hye."As of 3:45 am (1845 GMT Wednesday), part of the Sewol's structure, which is believed to be its stabilizer, can be seen above the water with the naked eye," an official from the Oceans and Fisheries Ministry was quoted as saying by Yonhap news agency.The ves
  
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• 2018 Toyota Sienna: Updated Looks and Tech to Match the Updated Powertrain

  22-03-2017 21:46 via yahoo.com
  
  New face and new tech for Toyota's preeminent people mover.
  
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• Attacker among 4 dead in suspected terror incident near UK Parliament in London

  22-03-2017 21:45 via yahoo.com
  
  Authorities said they were treating the attacks as a terrorist incident. Some of those injured were French high school students, France's prime minister said.
  
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• Foreigners buy more longer-dated U.S. bonds at auctions

  22-03-2017 21:41
  
  NEW YORK (Reuters) - Foreign investors raised their purchases of longer-dated U.S. government debt in early March, in a sign of renewed appetite for dollar-denominated assets as the greenback has...
  
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• Arctic sea ice dips to record low for winter

  22-03-2017 21:41 via yahoo.com
  
  WASHINGTON (AP) — The frigid top of the Earth just set yet another record for low levels of sea ice in what scientists say is a signal of an overheating world.
  
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• Trump Wishes Persians A Happy Nowruz

  22-03-2017 21:35 via yahoo.com
  
  The six-day holiday between March 18 and 24, is widely known for the ritual of participants jumping over bonfires as a symbol of “rebirth, rejuvenation and reconciliation’ for the New Year and the arrival of springtime.
  
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• If healthcare vote fails, would jeopardize 'Trump trades': Gundlach

  22-03-2017 21:33
  
  NEW YORK (Reuters) - If the U.S. healthcare legislation overhaul is not passed, or is postponed, it will put "a lot of doubt" on the "Trump trades," which include higher U.S. equities and bond...
  
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• What we know about Trump team Russia links – and why that matters

  22-03-2017 21:29 via yahoo.com
  
  Paul Manafort was Donald Trump’s campaign manager for months in 2016.Mr. Manafort “played a very limited role for a very limited amount of time,” White House press secretary Sean Spicer said Monday at his daily briefing.Ditto longtime Trump associate Roger Stone and former foreign policy adviser Carter Page.
  
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• Erdogan warns Europeans 'will not walk safely' if attitude persists, as row carries on

  22-03-2017 21:26 via yahoo.com
  
  By Ece Toksabay and Tuvan GumrukcuANKARA (Reuters) - President Tayyip Erdogan said on Wednesday that Europeans would not be able to walk safely on the streets if they kept up their current attitude toward Turkey, his latest salvo in a row over campaigning by Turkish politicians in Europe.Turkey has been embroiled in a dispute with Germany and the Netherlands over campaign appearances by Turkish officials seeking to drum up support for an April 16 referendum that could boost Erdogan's powers.Anka
  
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• Trump feels “somewhat” vindicated after Nunes’ announcement

  22-03-2017 21:21 via yahoo.com
  
  On March 22, President Trump said that he felt “somewhat” vindicated after Rep. Devin Nunes, the chairman of the House Intelligence Committee, stated that the communications of Trump transition officials may have been "monitored" as part of an "incidental collection."
  
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• 10 Parliament Attack Victim's Nationalities Revealed

  22-03-2017 21:12 via yahoo.com
  
  The victims include South Korean tourists, French students and two Romanians.
  
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• White House all in before crucial health care vote: 'There is no Plan B'

  22-03-2017 21:05 via yahoo.com
  
  On what could be the eve of a crucial health care vote and with the reported numbers still seemingly unfavorable, the White House remained confident that the American Health Care Act would pass the House on Thursday.“Piece by piece, member by member, we’re getting there, and we’re getting much closer,” White House press secretary Sean Spicer said Wednesday of gathering the votes necessary to repeal Obamacare.The White House team did have some success on Wednesday, flippin
  
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• Puerto Rico governor, bondholders divided on PREPA deal

  22-03-2017 21:04 via yahoo.com
  
  Puerto Rico's governor told U.S. lawmakers on Wednesday the island's struggling power utility, PREPA, could undergo an in-court restructuring process akin to U.S. bankruptcy if a consensual deal with creditors cannot be achieved.Governor Ricardo Rossello said at a U.S. House Natural Resources subcommittee hearing his administration would prefer a consensual deal to bankruptcy, as lawmakers questioned him about delays in completing a $9 billion restructuring at PREPA.The hearing showcased growing
  
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• Photos of the day - March 22, 2017

  22-03-2017 21:03 via yahoo.com
  
  A peek at Boris in Washington; members of a Chinese honor guard salute caskets of Korean War dead; heavy snowfall in Northumberland, England; and people embrace during anniversary service for Brussels suicide attacks victims.
  
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• Who is Mary Elizabeth Taylor? Social Media Loses It Over Woman at Gorsuch Hearing

  22-03-2017 21:02 via yahoo.com
  
  She's been sitting behind Supreme Court nominee Neil Gorsuch during his confirmation hearings.
  
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