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• 1,000 shot in Chicago so far this year

  25-04-2017 23:59 via yahoo.com
  
  Chicago hit a grim milestone Tuesday, with more than a thousand people shot in the Midwestern US city since the beginning of the year.According to the Chicago Tribune newspaper 1,008 people have been shot in the city -- at least 182 fatally -- since the beginning of January, a pace roughly unchanged since the same period last year.The Chicago Police Department (CPD) offered conflicting data for the first four months of 2017, saying 172 people were killed and 954 shot -- a nine percent decline co
  
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• France's Macron says 'nothing's won yet'

  25-04-2017 23:42 via yahoo.com
  
  French presidential frontrunner Emmanuel Macron on Tuesday rejected accusations he was resting on his laurels after winning the first round of the election, insisting "nothing's won yet" in the race against the far right's Marine Le Pen.The 39-year-old centrist said his victory in Sunday's first round of voting was proof that pollsters -- who had long placed him second to Le Pen in the opening round -- "get it wrong"."Nothing's won yet," Macron said during a visit to a hospital near Paris.
  
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• What we do in the next 5 years will determine the fate of the melting Arctic

  25-04-2017 23:39 via yahoo.com
  
  Global warming has pushed the Arctic into a new state unprecedented in human history, with thinning and retreating sea ice, skyrocketing air and sea temperatures, melting permafrost, and glaciers that are shedding ice at increasing rates.  All of these impacts and more may seem remote at first — after all, few of us live in Nunavut — but if you're a coastal resident anywhere in the world, from New York City to Dhaka, Bangladesh, what happens in the Arctic will affect you during
  
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• The Latest: Le Pen sees French presidential vote 'surprise'

  25-04-2017 23:33 via yahoo.com
  
  PARIS (AP) — The latest on the French presidential runoff on May 7 (all times local):
  
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• Democrats troll Donald Trump by 'correcting' his email promoting first 100 days as president

  25-04-2017 23:23 via yahoo.com
  
  Senate Democrats have released their own, red-all-over rewrite of Donald Trump’s commemorative 100th day email.The White House sent out an email earlier this week, touting the president’s accomplishments in advance of his 100th day in office.Titled “President Trump's 100 Days of Historic Accomplishments,” the email claims Mr Trump has “accomplished more in his first 100 days than any other President since Franklin Roosevelt”.
  
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• President Trump says ‘the wall is gonna get built’

  25-04-2017 23:10 via yahoo.com
  
  President Trump told reporters at the White House today that his proposed wall along the length of the U.S. border with Mexico is going to be built. His announcement comes as reports say funding for the construction of the wall may not be in the spending bill put forth by Congress this week.
  
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• Officer who found boy's body testifies at dad's murder trial

  25-04-2017 23:00 via yahoo.com
  
  CAMDEN, N.J. (AP) — A police officer who searched for a 3-year-old boy reported missing by his father became emotional Tuesday at the father's murder trial as she testified about her canine partner alerting her to the child's body in a creek.
  
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• Netanyahu snubs German minister over plan to meet rights groups

  25-04-2017 22:56 via yahoo.com
  
  By Madeline Chambers and Jeffrey HellerBERLIN/JERUSALEM (Reuters) - Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu canceled talks on Tuesday with Germany's visiting foreign minister, snubbing Sigmar Gabriel over his decision to meet groups critical of Israel's treatment of Palestinians.The dispute threatened to widen a rift between Israel and Germany over the Palestinian issue.Berlin has been increasingly critical of the settlement policies of Netanyahu's right-wing government in occupied territory Palestini
  
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• Erdogan says Turkey won't wait at Europe's door forever

  25-04-2017 22:44 via yahoo.com
  
  By Samia Nakhoul, Nick Tattersall and Orhan CoskunANKARA (Reuters) - Turkey will not wait at Europe's door forever and is ready to walk away from EU accession talks if rising Islamophobia and hostility from some member states persist, President Tayyip Erdogan told Reuters in a wide-ranging interview on Tuesday.Speaking at the presidential palace less than two weeks after winning sweeping new powers in a referendum, a relaxed Erdogan said a decision by a leading European human rights body to put
  
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• Lawyers want Aaron Hernandez's murder conviction dismissed

  25-04-2017 22:28 via yahoo.com
  
  BOSTON (AP) — Lawyers for former NFL star Aaron Hernandez formally asked a court on Tuesday to dismiss his first-degree murder conviction now that he has died.
  
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• Hezbollah's defiant signal to Israel, Lebanon, and the UN

  25-04-2017 22:26 via yahoo.com
  
  The stated objective of the Hezbollah-coordinated press tour of southern Lebanon was to see new Israeli defensive installations on the border – indications, according to the powerful Shiite Lebanese militia, of Israeli fears of Hezbollah’s growing military might.The unprecedented spectacle appeared to be a deliberate and calculated breach of a UN Security Council resolution that bans non-state forces from bearing arms in southern Lebanon, and it illustrated the unmatched sway Hezboll
  
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• Long-Range Bull: Driving a 250,000-Mile Lamborghini Murcielago

  25-04-2017 22:18 via yahoo.com
  
  We slide behind the wheel of the highest-mileage modern Lambo in the world.
  
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• Trump's tax cut hopes face an uphill battle

  25-04-2017 22:17 via yahoo.com
  
  Slash corporate taxes and hope the resulting bounce in economic growth brings in enough government revenue to stop the budget deficit from ballooning.This is the centerpiece of a sweeping new tax policy outline that President Donald Trump is due to unveil Wednesday.The move will come with the 100-day mark of Trump's young presidency fast approaching and Congress working to pass spending legislation to avoid a government shutdown Friday night.
  
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• Hernadez Sexuality Rumors Slammed By Lawyers

  25-04-2017 22:11 via yahoo.com
  
  Reports emerged after his death that the former NFL star had been involved in an intimate relationship with a man in prison.
  
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• Bloomberg on the roles of Ivanka Trump and Jared Kushner in the Trump White House

  25-04-2017 22:11 via yahoo.com
  
  Yahoo Global News Anchor Katie Couric asked former New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg what he thought about the roles of Ivanka Trump and Jared Kushner in the White House. He said, “If he has confidence in both of them, there’s nothing wrong with him asking them for advice.”
  
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• 'Bachelor' Held Behind Bars: Reality TV Star Charged in Fatal Hit and Run

  25-04-2017 22:08 via yahoo.com
  
  Chris Soules was charged with leaving the scene of an accident causing death.
  
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• Turkish strikes kill Kurdish fighters in Syria, Iraq

  25-04-2017 22:03 via yahoo.com
  
  AL-MALIKIYAH (Syria) (AFP) - Turkish warplanes killed more than two dozen Kurdish fighters Tuesday in strikes in Syria and Iraq, where the Kurds are key players in the battle against the Islamic State group.Turkey said it had carried out the strikes against "terrorist havens", vowing to continue acting against groups it links to the outlawed Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK).In northeast Syria, strikes targeting the Kurdish People's Protection Units (YPG) -- who are leading the offensive against IS
  
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• Trump's concession on wall funding removes obstacle from spending talks

  25-04-2017 21:52 via yahoo.com
  
  By Susan Cornwell and Richard CowanWASHINGTON (Reuters) - The threat of a U.S. government shutdown this weekend appeared to recede on Tuesday after President Donald Trump backed away from a demand that Congress include funding for his planned border wall with Mexico in a spending bill.There was growing sentiment in Congress that they will need to opt for a short-term extension of current spending, possibly of one week's duration, in order to finish up negotiations on the longer-term bill for fun
  
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• Ivanka Trump unable to answer question on who she represents – her father, business, or the American people

  25-04-2017 21:48 via yahoo.com
  
  Ivanka Trump has admitted she is still getting used to her role in the White House, having been unable to give a clear answer to a question about whether she represents her father, the American people, or her business interests.Ms Trump said she is still “rather unfamiliar” with what her actual role is in the administration of her father at a women’s economic empowerment conference in Berlin, but confirmed she did not represent her business anymore despite the fact that she sti
  
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• America Is Getting Used to Trump’s Insanity

  25-04-2017 21:39 via yahoo.com
  
  The president has managed to accomplish at least one big thing in his first 100 days: the once unthinkable is now unremarkable.
  
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• Turkey strikes Kurds in Iraq, Syria, drawing condemnation

  25-04-2017 21:37 via yahoo.com
  
  ANKARA, Turkey (AP) — Turkish warplanes struck suspected Kurdish rebel positions in Iraq and Syria on Tuesday, drawing condemnation from Baghdad and criticism from the U.S.-led coalition fighting the Islamic State group, which is allied with Kurdish factions in both countries.
  
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• 2 gang members sentenced for deaths of prosecution witnesses

  25-04-2017 21:37 via yahoo.com
  
  CHARLOTTE, N.C. (AP) — U.S. District Court Judge Max O. Cogburn didn't mince his words in describing the 2014 shooting deaths of a South Carolina couple who had been scheduled to testify in a criminal case.
  
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• U.S. slams South Sudan's Kiir over 'man-made' famine, urges truce

  25-04-2017 21:32 via yahoo.com
  
  By Michelle NicholsUNITED NATIONS (Reuters) - The United States slammed South Sudan's President Salva Kiir on Tuesday for the African state's "man-made" famine and ongoing conflict, urging him to fulfill a month-old pledge of a unilateral truce by ordering his troops back to their barracks."We must see a sign that progress is possible," U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations Nikki Haley told a United Nations Security Council briefing on South Sudan."We must see that ceasefire implemented."South S
  
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• US criticizes Turkey for striking Kurds in Iraq, Syria

  25-04-2017 21:21 via yahoo.com
  
  WASHINGTON (AP) — The Trump administration sharply criticized Turkey on Tuesday for attacking Kurdish militants in Syria and Iraq, accusing the U.S. NATO ally of failing to coordinate the airstrikes with the American-led coalition against Islamic State militants.
  
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• House Oversight Committee leaders say Michael Flynn may have broken the law

  25-04-2017 21:18 via yahoo.com
  
  On Tuesday, April 25, Republican Rep. Jason Chaffetz and Democrat Rep. Elijah Cummings said a joint press conference that it appears Michael Flynn may have broken the law by not disclosing payments he received from Russia.
  
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• Rex Tillerson Spurns Africa In Botched Meeting with African Union Chief

  25-04-2017 21:07 via yahoo.com
  
  Tillerson invited African Union chief Moussa Faki to Washington to meet, then backed out. His last-minute snub could sour U.S. ties with Africa.
  
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• U.S. says raised deep concerns with Turkey over air strikes

  25-04-2017 21:04 via yahoo.com
  
  The United States on Tuesday expressed "deep concern" over Turkish air strikes against Kurdish fighters in Syria and Iraq and said they were not authorized by the U.S.-led coalition fighting Islamic State.The raids in Iraq's Sinjar region and northeast Syria killed at least 20 in a campaign against groups linked to the outlawed Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK), which has waged a three-decade insurgency against Turkey for Kurdish autonomy.Turkey is part of the U.S.-led military coalition fighting mi
  
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• Limbaugh Slams Trump for 'caving' On Border Wall

  25-04-2017 21:02 via yahoo.com
  
  Rush Limbaugh and his listeners are worried that President Trump is losing his chance to build the promised border wall. Lawrence O'Donnell explains why this isn't the first time Trump has lost this fight.
  
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• US 'deeply concerned' by Turkish strikes in Syria, Iraq

  25-04-2017 20:50 via yahoo.com
  
  The United States is "deeply concerned" by Turkish air strikes that reportedly killed more than two dozen Kurdish fighters in Iraq and Syria, the State Department said Tuesday.The strikes underscore the delicate political tightrope the United States is treading in Syria -- and to a lesser extent in Iraq -- where it is relying heavily on Kurdish forces to conduct the ground fight against the Islamic State group.
  
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• House Oversight May Subpoena White House

  25-04-2017 20:35 via yahoo.com
  
  Congressman Elijah Cummings talks with Rachel Maddow about the frustration of the House Oversight Committee that the White House won't produce documents on disgraced former Trump NSA Mike Flynn and what it may take to get those documents.
  
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• Dragged United passenger 'aggressive', officers say

  25-04-2017 20:34 via yahoo.com
  
  Newly released reports from security officers at Chicago's O'Hare International Airport paint an unflattering picture of the man dragged from a United Airlines flight, setting off a worldwide uproar.The documents, requested by US media outlets which reported on their contents Tuesday, say passenger David Dao was "aggressive," and that one of the three officers attempting to remove him from his seat on United Flight 3411 had lost his grip when Dao flailed his arms, causing the 69-year-old to fall
  
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• White House Claims No Documents On Flynn

  25-04-2017 20:27 via yahoo.com
  
  Maddow reports on a bizarre impasse between the House Oversight Committee and the Trump White House when a request for paperwork on the security clearance of disgraced former Trump NSA was met with the claim that such paperwork could not be produced
  
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• Police Use Data Found on Slain Woman's Fitbit in Murder Case Against Husband

  25-04-2017 20:19 via yahoo.com
  
  Connie Dabate, 39, was found shot to death in the Ellington home she shared with her two children and husband, Richard Dabate, on December 23, 2015.
  
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• France's 'smug' Macron under pressure to step up game against Le Pen

  25-04-2017 20:06 via yahoo.com
  
  French presidential frontrunner Emmanuel Macron was accused Tuesday of resting on his laurels after winning the first round of the election, with even President Francois Hollande apparently admonishing him for not upping his game against the far right's Marine Le Pen."We need to be extremely serious and mobilised, and not to think it's a done deal, because a vote is earned, it's fought for," said Hollande, who on Monday had urged voters to back Macron and called Le Pen a "risk" for France.At 39,
  
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• How One Woman Shed 137 Lbs. With Strength Training and Simple Diet Changes

  25-04-2017 20:00 via yahoo.com
  
  This is how Ashley Javar lost 137 pounds, one small step at a time.
  
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• IS terrorises Mosul civilians as Iraq forces advance

  25-04-2017 19:57 via yahoo.com
  
  Iraqi forces advanced in west Mosul Tuesday, closing in on the Old City where jihadists executed civilians in a desperate bid to prevent an exodus and hold on to their stronghold.The elite Counter-Terrorism Service retook full control of Tenek -- one of the largest neighbourhoods in west Mosul -- further tightening the noose on the Islamic State group."It used to be one of the main strongholds for terrorist groups," Staff Lieutenant General Abdulwahab al-Saadi, a top CTS commander, told AFP in M
  
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• US sends stealth fighters to Russia's backyard for NATO drills

  25-04-2017 19:53 via yahoo.com
  
  The move was seen by Estonian defence officials as a gesture underscoring Washington's commitment to its NATO partners.Rhetoric by US President Donald Trump, who called NATO "obsolete" shortly before he took office, deeply rattled the alliance's easternmost members bordering Russia.Trump has since reversed much of his criticism.
  
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• US F-35 stealth fighters arrive in Estonia for NATO drills

  25-04-2017 19:45 via yahoo.com
  
  AMARI AIR BASE, Estonia (AP) — Two U.S. F-35 fighter jets arrived on Tuesday in NATO member Estonia to take part in the military alliance's drills as the aircraft saw their first operational deployment in continental Europe.
  
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• US Supreme Court takes narrow view on tribal immunity

  25-04-2017 19:28 via yahoo.com
  
  The US Supreme Court took a narrow view Tuesday on the immunity from lawsuits enjoyed by Native American tribes, which are treated in some respects like sovereign states that cannot be sued in American courts.In a case involving a limousine driver who rear-ended a car on a Connecticut freeway, the highest court in the land ruled unanimously that tribal employees do not always have immunity when involved in incidents that take place far from reservations.The justices revived a civil lawsuit filed
  
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• Booed in Berlin for praising father, Ivanka Trump says fine-tuning role

  25-04-2017 19:21 via yahoo.com
  
  By Michelle MartinBERLIN (Reuters) - Ivanka Trump was booed in Berlin on Tuesday when she described her father Donald as a "tremendous champion of supporting families" and said she was still fine-tuning her role as first daughter and informal White House adviser.Trump, 35, who is seen as an increasingly important influence on her father, told a women's summit organised by the Group of 20 major economies in the German capital that she wanted to use her influence to help empower women.Asked whethe
  
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• Cute Penguin Pictures And Fun Facts

  25-04-2017 19:15 via yahoo.com
  
  Since as early as 1911, penguins were observed engaging in homosexual behavior.
  
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• Gov. John Kasich on President Trump's first 100 days, who's to blame for division in America

  25-04-2017 19:10 via yahoo.com
  
  Kasich weighs in on Donald Trump and how he thinks the country can come together.
  
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• President Le Pen? Just '10 little points'

  25-04-2017 19:06 via yahoo.com
  
  Could France's Marine Le Pen become president?"We can win and I'm going to say it better: we're going to win," a confident-sounding Le Pen told France 2 television on Monday evening.The anti-immigration leader failed to clinch the top spot in the first round of France's presidential election on Sunday, coming second on 21.30 percent behind pro-Europe centrist Emmanuel Macron on 24.01.
  
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• Erin Moran Died From Throat Cancer, a Disease That’s Growing Among Younger People

  25-04-2017 19:02 via yahoo.com
  
  It's not just a disease of old men and chain-smokers, say experts-but fortunately, many cases can be cured.
  
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• 8 Popular Part-Time Jobs for Retirees

  25-04-2017 19:01 via yahoo.com
  
  Many people continue to work after age 65, but they often prefer a part-time role.Some retirees work in low-wage jobs, likely because they need the money or appreciate some other aspect of the job, such as schedule flexibility.Here are the eight most commonly held jobs among people age 65 and older, according to data from the Bureau of Labor Statistics.
  
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• Ancient people left a frightening message for us, and scientists just found it

  25-04-2017 18:38 via yahoo.com
  
  10,000 years from now (assuming humans haven't been wiped out by a plague, space rock, or our own destructive tendencies), it'll probably be fairly easy for the average person to research what life was like in 2017. For us here today, finding out what life was like in 11,000BC is much more challenging, but by studying ancient stone carvings and pairing the somewhat confusing messages with archeological data, researchers believe they've discovered concrete evidence of an apocalyptic event that ma
  
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• Iran nuclear deal under review as uncertainty grows

  25-04-2017 18:35 via yahoo.com
  
  Iran and major powers met Tuesday in Vienna to review adherence to their 2015 nuclear deal as uncertainty grows about the landmark accord's future under US President Donald Trump.The regular quarterly meeting heard, as Washington confirmed last week, that Iran is sticking to its side of the deal with the United States, Russia, China, Britain, France and Germany, diplomats said.The accord saw Tehran drastically curb its nuclear activities in order to ease concerns that Iran wanted to build an ato
  
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• Former Bernie Sanders operative to run for Congress in Iowa

  25-04-2017 18:32 via yahoo.com
  
  Pete D’Alessandro was Bernie Sanders’ first campaign staffer in Iowa in the summer of 2015.The grassroots movement that fueled Bernie Sanders’ rise to prominence in the 2016 Democratic primary has just produced one of its first congressional candidates.The Guardian has learned that Pete D’Alessandro, who helped guide the Vermont senator to a virtual tie with frontrunner Hillary Clinton in the Iowa caucuses, will announce he is exploring a bid for Congress in Iowa’s
  
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• IS 'executes' at least 15 civilians in Mosul: officials

  25-04-2017 18:31 via yahoo.com
  
  Jihadist militants from the Islamic State group posing as liberating security forces killed at least 15 civilians who welcomed them in central Mosul, officials said on Tuesday.Wearing police uniforms, they entered parts of the Old City on Monday to trick residents into showing their support for the federal forces, the Joint Operations Command (JOC) and a local official said."Daesh (IS) terrorist gangs committed a brutal crime yesterday morning in an area of Mosul's Old City," the JOC said in a s
  
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• New Video Shows Dr. David Dao Boarding United Flight Before Being Dragged Off

  25-04-2017 18:25 via yahoo.com
  
  The incident happened on April 9 and sparked global outrage.
  
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