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• Papa John’s Employees Caught Selling Cocaine In Pizza Boxes

  03-06-2017 23:52 via yahoo.com
  
  Papa John’s employees are accused of selling cocaine out of pizza boxes as result of a six-month investigation that detectives dubbed “Operation Extra Olives.”
  
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• Trump Mum on Gay Pride Month

  03-06-2017 23:46 via yahoo.com
  
  Critics are lashing out at President Donald Trump of not publicly recognizing pride month.
  
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• SpaceX blasts off cargo using recycled spaceship

  03-06-2017 23:32 via yahoo.com
  
  SpaceX on Saturday blasted off a shipment of food and supplies for the astronauts living at the International Space Station using for the first time a vessel that had flown before."Three, two, one, and liftoff," said NASA spokesman Mike Curie as the rocket blazed a steady upward path into the clouds.The Dragon is packed with almost 6,000 pounds (2,700 kilograms) of science research, crew supplies and hardware and should arrive at the ISS Monday.
  
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• The Latest: SpaceX launches 1st recycled cargo ship

  03-06-2017 23:26 via yahoo.com
  
  CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — The Latest on SpaceX trying to launch first recycled supply ship to the International Space Station (all times local).:
  
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• 'President Trump believes the climate is changing': Ambassador Haley

  03-06-2017 23:07 via yahoo.com
  
  (Reuters) - U.S. President Donald Trump "believes the climate is changing," U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations Nikki Haley said on Saturday after Trump's decision to take the United States out of the Paris climate accord sparked dismay across the world."President Trump believes the climate is changing and he believes pollutants are part of the equation," Haley said during an excerpt of a CNN interview released on Saturday.Trump "knows that it's changing and that the U.S. has to be responsible
  
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• Anti-Trump ‘March for Truth’ protesters rally across the U.S.

  03-06-2017 23:06 via yahoo.com
  
  As questions remain about Russian interference in the election and Russian ties to the Trump campaign, marches are taking place around the country.
  
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• Anti-Trump "March for Truth" protestors rally across the U.S.

  03-06-2017 23:06 via yahoo.com
  
  Rallies and marches are taking place across the country to call for deeper investigation into possible Russian interference in the U.S. election and the nature of Russia’s ties to President Trump and his administration. (Getty)
  
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• Trump not planning to invoke executive privilege for Comey testimony: NY Times

  03-06-2017 23:03 via yahoo.com
  
  Trump not planning to invoke executive privilege for Comey testimony: NY Times
  
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• Empty pots clang as 'hungry' Venezuela opposition hits streets

  03-06-2017 22:56 via yahoo.com
  
  Banging empty pots as symbols of hunger, opponents of President Nicolas Maduro tried Saturday to bring their fight for his departure to more of Venezuela's poor.Protesters fought back with rocks and Molotov cocktails, some shouting "murderers" at the National Guard troops."How can they attack people like this?", said opposition lawmaker Jose Manuel Olivares, who was sprayed in the face with pepper gas as soldiers put down the protest.
  
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• 1 US tourist dead, 2 injured in Puerto Rico plane crash

  03-06-2017 22:49 via yahoo.com
  
  SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico (AP) — A teenage girl from the U.S. who was visiting Puerto Rico with her relatives died Saturday when a small plane crashed off the island's north coast, authorities said.
  
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• US-backed SDF: Battle for IS capital begins 'within days'

  03-06-2017 22:30 via yahoo.com
  
  BEIRUT (AP) — The battle for control of the Islamic State group's de facto capital Raqqa, in northern Syria, will begin "within days," a spokeswoman for a U.S.-backed Syrian force at the city's edges said Saturday.
  
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• Trump critics, backers march around globe over climate and Russia

  03-06-2017 22:20 via yahoo.com
  
  Sharp political passions over President Donald Trump's withdrawal from the Paris climate accord and his links to Russia brought people onto the streets of cities around the globe on Saturday, mostly to condemn but some to praise him.
  
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• Man accused of deadly Kansas City road-rage shooting

  03-06-2017 22:16 via yahoo.com
  
  KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) — A suburban Kansas City man was accused Saturday of opening fire on a couple in another car during a suspected road-rage confrontation, killing that driver and injuring his pregnant girlfriend as the couple were returning home from a sonogram appointment.
  
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• Trump adviser's husband opts out of possible Justice post

  03-06-2017 22:05 via yahoo.com
  
  WASHINGTON (AP) — The husband of White House counselor Kellyanne Conway has withdrawn from consideration for a position at the Justice Department.
  
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• Timeline in Bill Cosby's sexual assault case

  03-06-2017 22:04 via yahoo.com
  
  Comedian Bill Cosby goes on trial Monday on sexual assault charges stemming from a 2004 encounter at his home near Philadelphia. Andrea Constand will be the star witness during the trial. Cosby could get 10 years in prison if convicted.
  
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• Cosby accuser calm and focused as trial nears, friends say

  03-06-2017 22:02 via yahoo.com
  
  NORRISTOWN, Pa. (AP) — When Andrea Constand takes the stand in the coming days to break her decade-long silence about Bill Cosby, jurors will hear from a free spirit who devotes her life to family, her French poodle, and her work treating cancer patients and others as a massage therapist.
  
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• The Latest: Flights resume after plane goes off Texas runway

  03-06-2017 21:57 via yahoo.com
  
  SAN ANTONIO (AP) — The Latest on an American Airlines plane that veered off of the runway at the San Antonio airport (all times local):
  
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• Tone-deaf pope sings at Catholic Charismatic rally

  03-06-2017 21:54 via yahoo.com
  
  ROME (AP) — Pope Francis joined thousands of Charismatic Catholics, Pentecostals and evangelicals at a rousing rally Saturday aimed at showing Christians united in prayer.
  
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• Trump to hit the road for a jobs-focused reset in tough week

  03-06-2017 21:32 via yahoo.com
  President Donald Trump will hit the road next week to ramp up his long-promised plan to overhaul the nation's aging airports, roads and railways, a push that could energize his supporters and distract from political intrigue in Washington.The infrastructure push - which will include a trip to Cincinnati, Ohio - comes as the White House seeks to refocus attention on core promises to boost jobs and the economy made by Trump last year during his campaign for office.Trump - who has denied any collus
  
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• German president says Europe must stay committed to Balkans

  03-06-2017 21:01 via yahoo.com
  
  BRDO PRI KRANJU, Slovenia (AP) — Despite its own many problems, Europe should remain committed to the western Balkans amid renewed tensions stemming from the wars of the 1990s, Germany's president said Saturday.
  
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• Teen Accidentally Kills 19-Year-Old Girlfriend With Gun He Received As Graduation Gift

  03-06-2017 20:59 via yahoo.com
  
  Police called it a "terrible tragedy."
  
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• Donald Trump 'tried to roll back Russia sanctions the moment he got into power'

  03-06-2017 20:13 via yahoo.com
  
  Investigators are casting a wider net in their probe of alleged connections between Donald Trump’s 2016 election campaign and the Russian government, reportedly taking over a separate criminal investigation into the President's former campaign chairman Paul Manafort.The revelations come amid reports that the Trump administration tried to end the Russian sanctions as soon as the President took office.The special counsel investigating the ties – headed by highly respected former FBI di
  
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• These NASA Missions Are All Scheduled To Launch By 2022

  03-06-2017 20:10 via yahoo.com
  
  NASA has some exciting missions scheduled to launch over the next five years.
  
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• SpaceX’s 11th Cargo Mission To ISS Could Face Bad Weather, Again

  03-06-2017 20:00 via yahoo.com
  
  Weather conditions forced a two-day delay in the launch of the resupply mission to the International Space Station. Watch the live-stream here.
  
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• Deadly blasts hit funeral mourners after protests in Afghan capital

  03-06-2017 19:42 via yahoo.com
  
  Saturday's blasts shattered an uneasy calm which had descended after authorities blocked the streets of Kabul in a bid to prevent a repeat of the bloody confrontation between protesters and police on Friday.The violence, fueled by public anger over the inability of President Ashraf Ghani's divided government to ensure security in Kabul, has exacerbated political tensions between rival factions, and Ghani issued a call for unity.
  
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• Qatar says six of its soldiers wounded on Saudi-Yemeni border

  03-06-2017 19:39 via yahoo.com
  
  Qatar said on Saturday that six of its soldiers were wounded on the Saudi border with Yemen while serving in a Saudi-led military coalition fighting against the Iran-aligned Houthi group.Qatar's defense ministry said in a statement carried by state news agency QNA that the six were injured "while conducting their duties within the Qatari contingent defending the southern borders of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia".Qatar-based Al Jazeera television reported in 2015 thatQatar had deployed 1,000 troops
  
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• Kind Barber Helps Calm Teen With Autism By Cutting His Hair In Family's Car

  03-06-2017 19:18 via yahoo.com
  
  The teen has been going to the barber for 14 years.
  
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• Syria's Assad says war's 'worst is behind us'

  03-06-2017 19:12 via yahoo.com
  
  Syria's President Bashar al-Assad has said the worst of his country's six-year war "is behind us" after a string of advances by his forces backed by key ally Russia.In recent months, Assad's troops and allied fighters have retaken territory across the country, including recapturing all of Aleppo city in December after years of fighting."Things now are moving in the right direction, which is a better direction, because we are defeating the terrorists," he said in an interview in Damascus with the
  
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• Man accused of murdering two people during anti-Muslim rant says 'I call it patriotism'

  03-06-2017 19:07 via yahoo.com
  
  An alleged extremist accused of stabbing two men to death when they challenged him over an anti-Muslim rant on the first day of Ramadan yelled "death to the enemies of America" when he appeared in court.Jeremy Joseph Christian, 35, launched the attack after passengers objected to him screaming abuse at two young Muslim women travelling on a train in Portland on 2 May, it is claimed.Prosecutors claim Christian fatally stabbed Ricky Best, 53, and Taliesin Meche, 23, when the pair tried to protect
  
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• 5 Ways To Get Kids To Eat Their Veggies

  03-06-2017 19:00 via yahoo.com
  
  There has been a long-standing battle between parents and children about eating vegetables.
  
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• Trump's Approval Ratings Continue To Sag

  03-06-2017 18:54 via yahoo.com
  
  The president remains an increasingly polarizing after more than four months in office.
  
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• Manila Casino Shows Video of Gunman's Attack

  03-06-2017 18:38 via yahoo.com
  
  The gunman in a deadly casino rampage in the Philippines was seen on security camera footage firing his M4 rifle in the air, setting fires and shooting at security forces in a stairwell during an attack that killed at least 38 people. (June 3)
  
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• Winter Melt Off Bring Breathtaking Waterfalls to Yosemite

  03-06-2017 18:26 via yahoo.com
  
  The meltoff from a record-setting snowpack this winter has breathed new life into the park after years of drought in the form of more than 50 named waterfalls and hundreds of others that haven’t flowed in decades.
  
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• Shopping Malls Struggling to Survive As Online Retail Sales Surge

  03-06-2017 18:18 via yahoo.com
  
  Experts forecast that over the next five years, 20-25 percent of malls in the U.S. will close permanently. On Friday, the Labor Department reported that 6,000 retail jobs were lost last month.
  
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• Librarians On Front Lines of Philadelphia’s Heroin Epidemic

  03-06-2017 18:12 via yahoo.com
  
  After librarians saw a big increase in people overdosing on heroin just outside their building in McPherson Square Park, they took matters into their own hands to save lives.
  
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• Fight Over Land in Florida Between Church of Scientology and City

  03-06-2017 18:10 via yahoo.com
  
  In the picturesque city of Clearwater, the Church of Scientology had offered 15 million dollars to buy a small parcel of land. Instead, the owner sold it for a fraction: $4.25 million.
  
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• Deadly Texas Shootout: Suspect Dead, Three Officers Injured

  03-06-2017 18:08 via yahoo.com
  
  A man wanted for questioning in a homicide was killed and three police officers hospitalized following a shootout in Laredo, Texas. Several bystanders captured in broad daylight on cell phone cameras.
  
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• This startup wants to monitor drivers with cameras to fix distracted driving

  03-06-2017 18:00 via yahoo.com
  
  Too many drivers get distracted too often behind the wheel, from stealing a quick glance at a text message to taking a phone call and a host of other seemingly innocuous activities.Enter Palo Alto-based transportation technology company Nauto, which has rolled out its solution to address that problem. It’s the company’s software-hardware package that includes cameras and a system that uses visual context and artificial intelligence to monitor drivers and detect whether they’re
  
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• New York City mayor affirms city's plan to carry out Paris climate agreement commitments

  03-06-2017 17:43 via yahoo.com
  
  New York has become the latest American city to put into action its commitment to the Paris climate accord after Donald Trump signalled that the US would drop out of the deal.Mayor Bill DeBlasio signed an executive order directing the city to develop a plan to honour the commitments now spurned by the federal government, which includes reducing greenhouse gas emissions by 80 percent by 2050 with the goal of hopefully keeping global average temperatures from rising beyond 1.5 degrees Celsius.&ldq
  
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• India vows to 'go beyond' Paris accord, adding pressure on Trump

  03-06-2017 17:40 via yahoo.com
  
  Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi vowed after meeting French President Emmanuel Macron Saturday to go "above and beyond" the Paris Agreement on climate change, after the US said it would quit the deal.Two days after US President Donald Trump sensationally announced plans to withdraw from the pact on curbing carbon emissions Modi said India would "continue working... above and beyond the Paris accord", calling it "part of the world's shared heritage".Macron said his discussions with the leader
  
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• India, France show common front on climate change fight

  03-06-2017 17:39 via yahoo.com
  
  PARIS (AP) — French President Emmanuel Macron and the prime minister of India put forth a common front on the need to fight climate change on Saturday, with the French leader saying he would travel to India before year's end for a summit on promoting solar energy.
  
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• India: Islamic State unable to gain foothold in the country

  03-06-2017 17:37 via yahoo.com
  
  NEW DELHI (AP) — India's home minister said Saturday that the Islamic State group has been unable to gain a foothold in the country even though India has the world's second-largest Muslim population.
  
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• 'March for Truth' Protests Draws Thousands Across U.S. Demanding Independent Russia Investigation

  03-06-2017 17:35 via yahoo.com
  
  Thousands marched in cities across the U.S. Saturday, demanding an independent investigation into alleged connections between Pres. Trump’s presidential campaign and Russia.
  
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• Bombers kill at least 6 attending Kabul funeral

  03-06-2017 17:33 via yahoo.com
  
  KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) — At least six people were killed Saturday when a trio of suicide bombers struck a funeral attended by senior government officials, just three days after a powerful truck bomb in one of the most heavily guarded parts of the capital killed 90 people and wounded more than 450.
  
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• Breaking: London Police Responding to Incident at London Bridge

  03-06-2017 17:30 via yahoo.com
  
  Metropolitan Police are on the scene at London Bridge, where there are reports of injuries after an incident on the bridge.
  
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• NYPD looking for man in Bronx who attacked boy

  03-06-2017 17:09 via yahoo.com
  
  According to the New York City Police Department, he grabbed the boy from behind and demanded money.
  
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• Afghan government pledges inquiry into deadly protest violence

  03-06-2017 16:47 via yahoo.com
  
  Afghan authorities will investigate violent clashes that left at least five people dead during an anti-government protest over this week's devastating truck bomb attack in Kabul, the deputy interior minister said on Saturday.Streets in the center of the Afghan capital were closed on Saturday as authorities tried to prevent a repeat of the violence, which has heaped pressure on President Ashraf Ghani's government over its inability to ensure security in Kabul.The demonstration followed the explos
  
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• 27 dead as Yemen army closes in on Taez palace

  03-06-2017 16:47 via yahoo.com
  
  Yemeni government forces fought Saturday to capture a rebel-held presidential palace in the southwestern province of Taez after clashes that killed 27 people, medics and military sources said.Most of Taez province is controlled by Shiite Huthi rebels, who are battling forces allied with UN-backed President Abedrabbo Mansour Hadi holed up in the provincial capital of the same name.Medics at the rebel-controlled Thamar Government Hospital in Taez, Yemen's third city, said 19 Huthis had been killed
  
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• Philippines' Duterte says Islamic State not behind casino attack

  03-06-2017 16:33 via yahoo.com
  
  By Karen LemaMANILA (Reuters) - Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte said on Saturday that Islamic State militants were not behind the attack on a casino in the capital that killed at least 36 people, supporting a police assessment that it was merely a botched robbery.The gunman who burst into the Resorts World Manila entertainment complex early on Friday, firing shots, setting gaming tables alight and killing dozens, all suffocating in thick smoke, had been labeled by a top lawmaker as a "lone
  
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• Why would you even own a Nintendo Switch without these 5 must-have accessories?

  03-06-2017 16:30 via yahoo.com
  
  If you don’t have a Nintendo Switch yet, paying a premium on Amazon is pretty much your only chance to get your hands on a console right now. If you do have a Switch, congratulations because you’re the proud owner of what is easily the most fun and unique video game console since the original Wii. Of course, the Switch is excellent right out of the box, but in this post we’re going to show you five must-have accessories that no self-respecting Switch owner should be without.
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