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• It's Easter so here's the Easter Bunny destroying a Teddy Roosevelt mascot

  16-04-2017 23:36 via yahoo.com
  
  The Easter Bunny can be a savage creature. SEE ALSO: Sean Spicer was once a terrifying White House Easter Bunny During today's presidential mascot race at the Washington Nationals game, the Easter Bunny made what's becoming a traditional appearance to lay the smack down on Teddy Roosevelt. BAH GAWD HE'S BROKEN IN HALF! pic.twitter.com/MVgQzfkvbT — Washington Nationals (@Nationals) April 16, 2017Check it out from a different angle.@teddy26nats meets the Easter Bunny. Oh Teddy. #Nats A
  
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• Lawsuit accuses company of exploiting foreign workers

  16-04-2017 23:31 via yahoo.com
  
  NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — A Guatemalan man and two of his former co-workers have filed a federal lawsuit against a Tennessee landscaping company, accusing the firm of trafficking immigrants for forced labor.
  
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• Easter bunnies at Coachella and more: April 16 in photos

  16-04-2017 23:25 via yahoo.com
  
  Coachella Easter bunnies; Ferrari driver Sebastian Vettel of Germany steers his car during the Bahrain Formula One Grand Prix, at the Formula One Bahrain International Circuit in Sakhir, Bahrain; Men riding decorated horses are mirrored in a puddle during the traditional Easter procession of Sorbs in Klein Radden, eastern Germany. These are some of the photos of the day.
  
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• The Latest: Migrants held hostage spurs arrests in Greece

  16-04-2017 23:13 via yahoo.com
  
  ROME (AP) — The Latest on Europe's response to the unusually large number of migrants trying to reach the continent: (all times local):
  
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• U.S., allies weigh options after North Korea's missile test: Trump adviser

  16-04-2017 23:01 via yahoo.com
  
  By Lucia Mutikani and Sue-Lin WongWASHINGTON/PYONGYANG (Reuters) - The United States, its allies and China are working together on a range of responses to North Korea's latest failed ballistic missile test, U.S. President Donald Trump's national security adviser said on Sunday, citing what he called an international consensus to act.H.R. McMaster indicated that Trump was not considering military action for now."We are working together with our allies and partners and with the Chinese leadership
  
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• What changes under Turkey's new constitution

  16-04-2017 22:59 via yahoo.com
  
  Turkey on Sunday narrowly voted in a historic referendum to approve a new constitution granting President Recep Tayyip Erdogan greater powers, according to almost complete results.Critics have long denounced the move as part of a grab by Erdogan for one-man rule, but supporters say it simply puts Turkey in line with France and the United States and is needed for efficient government.What will change in the new 18-article constitution for the nation of 79 million people, which will replace the cu
  
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• Police urge help in finding suspects in Ohio club shootings

  16-04-2017 22:55 via yahoo.com
  
  COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — Police in Ohio's capital city appealed Sunday for witnesses to come forward to help them identify suspects in an early morning club shooting that wounded nine people.
  
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• Erdogan: Turkey's pugnacious 'sultan'

  16-04-2017 22:47 via yahoo.com
  
  If there were a global contest for winning elections, Turkey's President Recep Tayyip Erdogan would see himself as the undisputed -- and undefeated -- heavyweight champion of the world.In the 15 years since his ruling party came to power, Erdogan has taken part in 11 elections -- five legislative polls, two referenda, three local elections and a presidential vote -- and won them all.On Sunday, Erdogan claimed victory in his 12t and arguably biggest ballot-box challenge since his ruling Justice a
  
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• Win claimed for Turkey gov't referendum; critics call fraud

  16-04-2017 22:04 via yahoo.com
  
  ISTANBUL (AP) — Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan declared victory in Sunday's referendum that will grant sweeping powers to the presidency, hailing the result as a "historic decision."
  
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• 2 Sisters Killed When College Student Driving Wrong Way On Freeway Smashes Into Them

  16-04-2017 21:57 via yahoo.com
  
  The wrong-way driver was killed as well.
  
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• AP PHOTOS: Christians celebrate Easter around the world

  16-04-2017 21:53 via yahoo.com
  
  Christians around the world celebrated Easter on Sunday, as Pope Francis and others expressed concern over embattled communities in the cradle of the faith following church bombings in Egypt and attacks on civilians in Syria's civil war.
  
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• Wall Street banker Cohn moving Trump toward moderate policies

  16-04-2017 21:45
  
  WASHINGTON/BOSTON (Reuters) - In a White House marked by infighting, top economic aide Gary Cohn, a Democrat and former Goldman Sachs banker, is muscling aside some of President Donald Trump's...
  
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• New York's Easter Parade: 5th Ave lined with revelers wearing their holiday best

  16-04-2017 21:38 via yahoo.com
  
  New Yorkers showed off their festive chapeaus and garb as they promenaded along Fifth Ave. for the annual Easter Parade and Easter Bonnet Festival.
  
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• Easter Parade in New York

  16-04-2017 21:38 via yahoo.com
  
  New Yorkers showed off their festive chapeaus and garb as they promenaded along Fifth Ave. for the annual Easter Parade and Easter Bonnet Festival.
  
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• Dozens of children dead in Syria evacuees bombing

  16-04-2017 21:21 via yahoo.com
  
  Nearly 70 children were among those killed when a suicide car bombing tore through buses carrying evacuees from besieged government-held towns in Syria, a monitor said on Sunday.Saturday's blast hit a convoy carrying residents from the northern towns of Fuaa and Kafraya as they waited at a transit point in rebel-held Rashidin, west of Aleppo.At least 68 children were among the 126 people killed in the attack, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said, updating a previous toll of 112 dead.
  
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• Egypt acquits American woman detained for 3 years

  16-04-2017 20:40 via yahoo.com
  
  CAIRO (AP) — An Egyptian court on Sunday acquitted Aya Hijazi, a dual U.S.-Egyptian citizen who has been held in detention for nearly three years over accusations related to a non-governmental organization she founded to aid street children.
  
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• Trump attends Easter service in Palm Beach

  16-04-2017 20:36 via yahoo.com
  
  PALM BEACH, Fla. (AP) — President Donald Trump attended Easter service at the Church of Bethesda-by-the-Sea near his estate in Palm Beach, Florida on Sunday — an annual ritual that provided a break from a host of foreign policy crises, including escalating tensions with North Korea.
  
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• On Easter, Pope denounces 'oppressive regimes' but urges restraint

  16-04-2017 20:23 via yahoo.com
  
  By Philip PullellaVATICAN CITY (Reuters) - Pope Francis denounced "oppressive regimes" in his Easter message on Sunday but in an apparent call for restraint urged world leaders to prevent the spread of conflicts, as tensions rose in North Korea and Syria.Francis, marking the fifth Easter season of his pontificate, said Mass before tens of thousands of people under exceptional security measures in St. Peter's Square following recent vehicle attacks against pedestrians in London and Stockholm.In h
  
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• Death toll in Sri Lanka garbage mound collapse rises to 26

  16-04-2017 20:20 via yahoo.com
  
  COLOMBO, Sri Lanka (AP) — The death toll from the collapse of a massive garbage mound near Sri Lanka's capital rose to 26 on Sunday, and activists said 20 more people could still be buried underneath the debris.
  
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• Syrian army regains key town in north Hama province

  16-04-2017 20:19 via yahoo.com
  
  The Syrian army regained the strategic town of Soran near the city of Hama in the central part of western Syria on Sunday with an assault backed by heavy Russian air strikes, rebels and residents said."There was hysterical bombing that targeted the town and the whole area and rebels fought fierce battles until they were forced to pull out," said one rebel, a member of the Jaish al Izza group, which has a strong presence in Hama province who requested anonymity.The stronghold of Soran is the army
  
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• Man Arrested After Allegedly Breaking Into Home and Cooking Fried Chicken

  16-04-2017 20:17 via yahoo.com
  
  He also drank some of the homeowner's vodka.
  
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• A look back at the Virginia Tech shootings: 10 years after shooting that killed 32

  16-04-2017 20:17 via yahoo.com
  
  In one of America’s worst school attacks, a mentally ill student fatally shot 32 people on the campus of Virginia Tech before taking his own life, April 16, 2007.College senior Seung-Hui Cho opened fire in a Virginia Tech dorm and then, two hours later, shot up a classroom building across campus.The shooting at Virginia Tech was, at the time, the deadliest mass shooting in recent U.S. history.
  
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• The Latest: Virginia Tech marks 10 years after mass shooting

  16-04-2017 20:07 via yahoo.com
  
  BLACKSBURG, Va. (AP) — The Latest on the 10-year anniversary of the deadly shooting at Virginia Tech that killed 32 people (all times local):
  
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• Fugitive Mexican ex-Gov. Javier Duarte detained in Guatemala

  16-04-2017 20:00 via yahoo.com
  
  GUATEMALA CITY (AP) — The former governor of Mexico's Veracruz state who is accused of running a corruption ring that allegedly pilfered millions of dollars from state coffers was detained in Guatemala after six months as a fugitive and high-profile symbol of government graft in his country.
  
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• N.Korea behavior 'can't continue', Trump advisor warns after missile test

  16-04-2017 19:59 via yahoo.com
  
  The United States slammed North Korea's latest missile test as a provocation and insisted Sunday it is working closely with China to resolve a crisis that Washington sees as reaching a critical stage.Amid broader fears that North Korea may again test a nuclear bomb, the Pentagon said Sunday's missile launch was a failure, with the weapon blowing up almost immediately after its early morning takeoff near Sinpo on North Korea's east coast.Amid sharply heightened tensions, McMaster said the US and
  
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• In Afghanistan, Trump aide promises coordinated response to enemies

  16-04-2017 19:47 via yahoo.com
  
  By Hamid ShaliziKABUL (Reuters) - U.S. President Donald Trump's national security adviser met Afghan officials in Kabul on Sunday and said the new administration was weighing diplomatic, military and economic responses to its Taliban and Islamic State enemies in Afghanistan.The adviser, H.R. McMaster, was making the first high-level visit by a Trump official.
  
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• Death toll from Aleppo bus convoy bomb attack at least 126: Observatory

  16-04-2017 19:45 via yahoo.com
  
  By John DavisonBEIRUT (Reuters) - The death toll from a bomb attack on a crowded bus convoy outside Aleppo has reached at least 126 in the deadliest such incident in Syria in almost a year, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights monitoring group said on Sunday.The Observatory and the United Nations cited reports that more than 60 children were among the dead.Syrian rescue workers of the Civil Defence said that they had taken away at least 100 bodies from the site of Saturday's blast, which hit
  
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• AP Explains: Who are Egypt's Coptic Christians?

  16-04-2017 19:41 via yahoo.com
  
  CAIRO (AP) — Egypt's Copts, one of the oldest Christian communities in the world, marked a solemn Easter this year, a week after suicide bombers struck churches in two cities, killing dozens of worshippers.
  
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• Trump aide McMaster: Time for tough talks with Russia

  16-04-2017 19:19 via yahoo.com
  
  White House national security adviser H. R. McMaster said on Sunday it was time for tough talks with Russia over its support for Syria's government and its "subversive" actions in Europe.Speaking on ABC News' "This Week" program, McMaster said Russia's backing of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad's government has perpetuated a civil war and created a crisis that has bled over into Iraq, neighboring countries and Europe.
  
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• IS attacked Iraq forces with chemical weapons: military

  16-04-2017 18:54 via yahoo.com
  
  The Islamic State group used chemical weapons against Iraqi forces taking part in the operation to recapture Mosul, injuring some security personnel, the military said on Sunday.IS has periodically carried out attacks using chemical weapons, but both the toll and the impact on military operations has been minimal and the jihadists' bombs and bullets are far deadlier."The Daesh terrorist gangs tried to block the advance of our forces by using shells filled with toxic chemical material, but the ef
  
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• U.S., allies weigh options after North Korea's missile test - adviser

  16-04-2017 18:20 via yahoo.com
  
  By Lucia Mutikani and Sue-Lin WongWASHINGTON/PYONGYANG (Reuters) - The United States, its allies and China are working together on a range of responses to North Korea's latest attempted ballistic missile test, U.S. President Donald Trump's national security adviser said on Sunday, citing what he called an international consensus to act."We are working together with our allies and partners and with the Chinese leadership to develop a range of options," national security adviser H.R. McMaster said
  
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• The 8 inmates Arkansas was planning to execute this month

  16-04-2017 18:09 via yahoo.com
  
  LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (AP) — Despite several court rulings that put its plans in jeopardy, Arkansas hopes to go ahead with the executions of six men between Monday and April 27, which would be a pace exceeded only by Texas since the U.S. Supreme Court reauthorized the death penalty in 1976.
  
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• Mass evacuation in Syria to proceed after blast kill 68 kids

  16-04-2017 18:03 via yahoo.com
  
  BEIRUT (AP) — More than 3,000 Syrians were expected to be evacuated Sunday from four areas as part of a population transfer that was briefly stalled a day earlier by a deadly blast that killed more than 120 people, many of them government supporters.
  
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• Family Friends Identify Boy, 5, Killed After Getting Stuck Between Wall And Table At Rotating Restaurant

  16-04-2017 18:02 via yahoo.com
  
  He wandered off from his parents, according to reports.
  
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• The world's greenest island

  16-04-2017 18:00 via yahoo.com
  
  At the outset of an interview with a Dutch journalist, Søren Hermansen apologizes for being tired.The reporter asks Mr. Hermansen how the Australians discovered him, a community leader on a Danish island half the size of Martha’s Vineyard that’s home to just 3,750 people and a few shaggy sheep.“I’m famous,” says Hermansen, adding that he isn’t boasting, it’s just a statement of fact.
  
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• How one man built his own iPhone out of spare parts

  16-04-2017 18:00 via yahoo.com
  
  Simple phone repairs, like a battery or a screen unit, are easier than people think. Thanks to guides like iFixit and the magic of eBay, information and spare parts are cheap and plentiful, and arguably more convenient than fighting your way to the Genius Bar.But building an entire phone out of replacement parts? That's a much harder task, especially when you're working in Shenzen and barely speak the local language.The YouTube channel Spare Parts set out to see how possible it is for
  
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• How one man build his own iPhone out of spare parts

  16-04-2017 18:00 via yahoo.com
  
  Simple phone repairs, like a battery or a screen unit, are easier than people think. Thanks to guides like iFixit and the magic of eBay, information and spare parts are cheap and plentiful, and arguably more convenient than fighting your way to the Genius Bar.But building an entire phone out of replacement parts? That's a much harder task, especially when you're working in Shenzen and barely speak the local language.The YouTube channel Spare Parts set out to see how possible it is for
  
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• A Saudi woman's plea for help exposes risks runaways face

  16-04-2017 18:00 via yahoo.com
  
  DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — A young Saudi woman's plea for help after she was stopped in an airport in the Philippines en route to Australia where she planned to seek asylum has triggered a firestorm on social media and drawn attention to the plight of female runaways.
  
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• Is War With North Korea Imminent?

  16-04-2017 17:56 via yahoo.com
  
  Vice President Mike Pence is in Seoul and said North Korea's failed missile test is a reminder of the risk to freedom.
  
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• At least 68 children dead in Syria evacuees bombing

  16-04-2017 17:55 via yahoo.com
  
  Nearly 70 children were among those killed when a suicide car bombing tore through buses carrying evacuees from besieged government-held towns in Syria, a monitor said on Sunday.Saturday's blast hit a convoy carrying residents from the northern towns of Fuaa and Kafraya as they waited at a transit point in rebel-held Rashidin, west of Aleppo.At least 68 children were among the 126 people killed in the attack, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said, updating a previous toll of 112 dead.
  
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• Border wall could leave some Americans on 'Mexican side'

  16-04-2017 17:42 via yahoo.com
  
  BROWNSVILLE, Texas (AP) — The border wall President Donald Trump has imagined could seal some Americans on the "Mexican side" — technically on U.S. soil, but outside of a barrier built north of the river separating the two countries.
  
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• Trump hits back at tax protests, asks 'who paid' for rallies

  16-04-2017 17:38 via yahoo.com
  
  US President Donald Trump on Sunday hit back at nationwide protests calling for him to release his tax returns, questioning "who paid for" the "small" rallies."Someone should look into who paid for the small organized rallies yesterday.The election is over!" the president tweeted Sunday morning.
  
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• Statement: US national security adviser arrives s Kabul

  16-04-2017 17:27 via yahoo.com
  
  KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) — Afghan President Ashraf Ghani met Sunday with U.S. National Security Adviser H. R. McMaster and discussed mutual cooperation in Afghanistan's fight against the Taliban and Islamic State group.
  
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• Kind-Hearted Man Spends $1300 on Ice Cream for Strangers and Tips for Employees

  16-04-2017 17:19 via yahoo.com
  
  He was originally only planning to spend $300.
  
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• Ganyard after failed N. Korea missile launch: 'We can't be too complacent'

  16-04-2017 17:19 via yahoo.com
  
  ABC News contributor Col. Steve Ganyard analyzes the capabilities of North Korea's weapons program.
  
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• North Korea's attempted missile launch explodes immediately after liftoff

  16-04-2017 17:18 via yahoo.com
  
  With the United States on high alert over North Korea, ABC News' Martha Raddatz reports from Seoul.
  
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• What U.S. cities have the most solar power? New report lays it out

  16-04-2017 17:00 via yahoo.com
  
  Cities across the U.S. are working to limit their emissions of climate-change gases turning to solar power, among other tactics.In 2016, programs focused on bringing the benefits of photovoltaic solar power to business and residents helped to expand that capacity with record-breaking growth.Advances in solar technology, improved costs, and strong community support are now an integral part of shaping local, state, and federal policies for clean energy.
  
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• Fugitive Mexican ex-governor arrested for graft, awaits extradition

  16-04-2017 16:55 via yahoo.com
  
  By Sofia MenchuGUATEMALA CITY (Reuters) - A former Mexican state governor on the run from police for more than five months who has come to symbolize corruption within the country's ruling party was arrested on Saturday night in Guatemala and now awaits extradition.Javier Duarte, a former governor of Veracruz state wanted on graft and organized crime charges, was detained in a hotel lobby in the colonial town of Panajachel, about 80 miles (130 km) west of Guatemala's capital, the national police
  
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• Trump lashes out after Tax March protest: ‘The election is over!’

  16-04-2017 16:47 via yahoo.com
  
  Trump took swipes at tax day marches that featured thousands of protesters demanding the president release his tax returns.
  
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• Trump: 'Who paid for' rallies seeking release of tax returns

  16-04-2017 16:11 via yahoo.com
  
  CHICAGO (AP) — President Donald Trump says "someone should look into who paid" for the rallies around the country Saturday that urged him to release his tax returns.
  
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