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• Egyptian mummy can 'live forever' after development in scanning technique

  31-12-2017 23:58 via yahoo.com
  An 3,000 year old Egyptian mummy can “live forever” after his name was discovered written on his sarcophagus, a curator has claimed. The desicated remains of the man formerly known as Irethoreru are held by Chiddington Castle, Kent, but his precise identity had always remained a mystery - until now. His name, which means “The eye of Horus is against them”, and is thought to date from between 664 BC and 30 AD, was discovered thanks to a scanning technique developed by Brit
  
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• John Mayer Goes Shirtless For Kylo Ren Challenge

  31-12-2017 23:52 via yahoo.com
  The singer shared a photo of himself shirtless on Instagram, Saturday night, for a new challenge that is slowly taking over social media — the #kylorenchallenge
  
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• Tiny Bird Found In Cockpit Forces Delta Flight To Make A U-Turn

  31-12-2017 23:49 via yahoo.com
  A Delta pilot traveling from Detroit to Atlanta turned back when he found a small-winged creature flapping around his large-winged aircraft on Saturday.
  
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• Police officer shot dead and four wounded in Colorado during ambush-style attack

  31-12-2017 23:48 via yahoo.com
  A man fired more than 100 rounds at sheriff's deputies in Colorado early Sunday, killing one and injuring four others, before being fatally shot himself in what authorities called an ambush. Two civilians were also injured.  Tony Spurlock, Douglas County Sheriff, said deputies came under fire almost immediately after entering a suburban Denver apartment and trying to talk with the suspect, who was holed up inside a bedroom.  "I do know that all of them were shot very, very quickly
  
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• Costa Rica plane crash claims 12 lives including 10 American visitors

  31-12-2017 23:18 via yahoo.com
  A plane carrying 10 America tourists crashed in a wooded area of Costa Rica on Sunday, killing everyone on board, according to the country’s government. The Public Safety Ministry posted photographs and video of the burning wreckage in the north-west region of Guanacaste. It offered no further details of the cause but said the plane's two Costa Rican crew members also died in the crash. Local media reported that five members of an American family were among the dead and said that the
  
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• 10 killed in fiery crash along Mexico's Pacific coast

  31-12-2017 23:11 via yahoo.com
  ACAPULCO, Mexico (AP) — Five people visiting from the United States were among 10 people killed in a fiery car crash on a coastal highway in southern Mexico, authorities said Sunday.
  
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• Maria Menounos Gets Married on Live TV

  31-12-2017 23:09 via yahoo.com
  The couple, who have been together for 20 years, got hitched on live TV in a major surprise just after midnight during Fox's New Year's Eve broadcast, which Menounos was co-hosting with Steve Harvey
  
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• Virginia Man With Suspected Ties to ISIS Arrested for Destroying Evidence

  31-12-2017 22:43 via yahoo.com
  He may have been interested in a U.S. attack
  
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• Words banned for the new year? 'Fake news' gets top vote

  31-12-2017 22:04 via yahoo.com
  DETROIT (AP) — Let me ask you this: Would a story that unpacks a list of tiresome words and phrases be impactful or a nothingburger? Worse, could it just be fake news?
  
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• US military will accept transgender recruits after court strikes down Trump ban, says Department of Defence

  31-12-2017 21:49 via yahoo.com
  Transgender recruits can soon begin applying to the US military after Donald Trump’s efforts to block them were struck down.“The DoD is prepared to comply with the court order to access transgender applicants for military service 1 January,” a Department of Defence spokesperson said.Earlier this year, Mr Trump announced his intention to block transgender people from openly serving, reversing Barack Obama’s move to lift a prohibition.
  
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• Plane Carrying 10 Americans Crashes In Costa Rica, Killing All On Board

  31-12-2017 21:47 via yahoo.com
  All 12 people aboard a Nature Air flight were killed when the place crashed and burned in northwestern Costa Rica, officials said.
  
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• New York Family Of 5 Among 12 Killed In Costa Rica Plane Crash

  31-12-2017 21:47 via yahoo.com
  A plane carrying 10 American tourists, including a family of five from New York, and two Costa Rican pilots crashed in northwestern Costa Rica on Sunday, killing everyone on board, officials said.
  
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• Macron vows 'French renaissance' in 2018

  31-12-2017 21:45 via yahoo.com
  President Emmanuel Macron vowed to pursue his reform agenda with the "same intensity" in 2018 and kickstart a "French renaissance" in his first New Year's address as leader, which comes as the economy picks up.Despite winning May's presidential election on a promise to ditch politics as usual Macron stuck with tradition in Sunday's televised address from the Elysee Palace, which began and ended with the national anthem.
  
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• Pope says 2017 was marred by war and lies

  31-12-2017 21:27 via yahoo.com
  In his year-end message, Pope Francis said that 2017 had been marred by war, lies and injustice, and he urged people to take responsibility for their actions. Rough Cut (no reporter narration).
  
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• New Year's Eve celebrations: world welcomes 2018 

  31-12-2017 21:27 via yahoo.com
  The New Year has officially begun, as midnight passed in Samoa, Tonga and Christmas Island/Kiribati, the first places in the world to welcome in 2018.  The last places on Earth to see in the New Year are minor outlying US islands like Baker Island and Howland Island - although these are uninhabited. The last inhabited island is American Samoa which will welcome 2018 when it's 11am in London on January 1.  When major cities will welcome 2018 11.00 GMT Auckland, New Zealand 13:
  
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• 5 Colorado deputies shot, 1 fatally, in 'ambush' attack

  31-12-2017 21:18 via yahoo.com
  DENVER (AP) — A man fired more than 100 rounds at sheriff's deputies early Sunday, killing one and injuring four others, before being fatally shot himself in what authorities called an ambush. Two civilians were also injured.
  
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• Arrest Made in 'Swatting' Prank That Led to Fatal Shooting

  31-12-2017 21:14 via yahoo.com
  Police in Los Angeles have arrested a man they suspect made a hoax emergency call that resulted in a SWAT police officer fatally shooting a man at the door of his own home in Kansas, a law enforcement official said Saturday.
  
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• Congo forces kill at least 7 in anti-government protests

  31-12-2017 21:05 via yahoo.com
  KINSHASA, Congo (AP) — Congolese security forces killed at least seven people and at least one policeman died amid violence as more than a thousand people demonstrated in the capital against President Kabila's refusal to step down from power, the United Nations mission in Congo and police said Sunday.
  
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• A Decorated Soldier Died While Trying to Rescue His Neighbors from the Bronx Apartment Fire

  31-12-2017 21:02 via yahoo.com
  He reportedly saved multiple people
  
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• Israel ruling party votes for push to annex West Bank

  31-12-2017 20:53 via yahoo.com
  The central committee of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's Likud Party on Sunday voted for a resolution urging Likud parliamentarians to push to annex the occupied West Bank.The non-binding vote by the party's decision-making committee called on its MPs "to spread Israeli sovereignty over Judea and Samaria (the West Bank)".Netanyahu, who is a member of the central committee, was not present for the vote.
  
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• Ohio's move to toss inactive voters from rolls goes to court

  31-12-2017 20:26 via yahoo.com
  COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — Joseph Helle was expecting a different sort of reception when he returned home from Army tours in Iraq and Afghanistan and showed up to vote in his small Ohio town near Lake Erie.
  
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• Sheriff's Deputy Killed in Colorado Shooting

  31-12-2017 20:17 via yahoo.com
  The Douglas County Sheriff’s Office says that a deputy has died following a shooting in Highlands Ranch, Colo.
  
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• What has brought Iranian protesters to the streets?

  31-12-2017 20:07 via yahoo.com
  By Bozorgmehr SharafedinLONDON (Reuters) - Iran warned of a tough crackdown on Sunday against demonstrators posing one of the boldest challenges to its clerical leaders since nationwide unrest shook the Islamist theocracy in 2009.Political protests are rare in Iran, where security services are pervasive.The demonstrations are the biggest since unrest in 2009 that followed the disputed re-election of then-President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad.
  
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• Witnesses: Residents prevented much worse attack in Egypt

  31-12-2017 20:06 via yahoo.com
  CAIRO (AP) — Witnesses to an attack outside a Coptic Christian church in Egypt that left nine people dead said it was residents and worshippers, not police, who kept the death toll from soaring even higher. One man in particular — a 53-year-old resident who pounced on the gunman as he was reloading his automatic rifle — likely saved dozens of lives.
  
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• Man Found With AR-15, Shotgun, and Ammo in Top-Floor Hotel Room in Houston

  31-12-2017 19:55 via yahoo.com
  Police said the man was drunk when they searched his room.
  
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• Venezuela raises minimum wage 40 percent, stoking world's fastest inflation

  31-12-2017 19:37 via yahoo.com
  Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro announced a 40 percent increase to the minimum wage as of January, a move that will foment what many economists already consider hyperinflation in the oil-rich but crisis-stricken nation."Good news!" said the former bus driver and union leader, speaking next to a Venezuelan flag in a midday address.Most economists say the government is in fact fomenting a vicious cycle in a country already wrestling with the world's fastest inflation.
  
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• UN's Guterres issues year-end 'red alert' for a world divided

  31-12-2017 19:35 via yahoo.com
  UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres on Sunday issued a year-end "red alert" to a world he said faces the perils of inequality, nationalism, xenophobia and possibly even nuclear war unless it works to resolve its differences.Global anxieties about nuclear weapons are the highest since the Cold War," an allusion to the crisis over North Korea's nuclear tests and missile firings.
  
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• Angry at Trump, North Carolina Democrats hope for 2018 gains

  31-12-2017 19:29 via yahoo.com
  RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — North Carolina Democrats say they are beginning 2018 energized and intent on regaining their historical control of the state's General Assembly, harnessing anger over Republican Donald Trump's presidency and buoyed by Democratic victories elsewhere.
  
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• Iran 'tested by its own citizens': Haley

  31-12-2017 19:27 via yahoo.com
  Nikki Haley, the US ambassador to the United Nations, said Sunday Iran's government is "being tested by its own citizens" after three days of protests against the clerical regime."We pray that freedom and human rights will carry the day," she said in a statement.Haley's comments echoed those of US President Donald Trump, who earlier Sunday said the United States was watching closely for human rights violations.
  
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• Senior U.S. Republican senator: 'Let Mr. Mueller do his job'

  31-12-2017 19:24 via yahoo.com
  By Valerie VolcoviciWASHINGTON (Reuters) - The special counsel investigation of links between Russia and President Trump's 2016 election campaign should continue without interference in 2018, despite calls from some Trump administration allies and Republican lawmakers to shut it down, a prominent Republican senator said on Sunday.Lindsey Graham, who serves on the Senate armed forces and judiciary committees, said Department of Justice Special Counsel Robert Mueller needs to carry on with his Rus
  
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• Thousands to ring in 2018 in Las Vegas under tight security

  31-12-2017 19:17 via yahoo.com
  LAS VEGAS (AP) — Tens of thousands of revelers will ring in the new year in Las Vegas under the close eye of throngs of law enforcement officers and National Guard members assembled to keep them safe just three months after the deadliest mass shooting in modern U.S. history.
  
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• Top GOP Races To Watch In 2018

  31-12-2017 19:11 via yahoo.com
  WASHINGTON ― With a hint of a blue wave on the horizon, Republicans are facing added pressure to get their house in order and field the best candidates possible ahead of next year’s congressional midterm elections.
  
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• U.S. citizens among 10 dead in southwest Mexico car crash

  31-12-2017 19:09 via yahoo.com
  Several U.S. citizens were among 10 people who died in a car crash and subsequent fire on the southwestern coast of Mexico near tourist hot spot Acapulco, the U.S. State Department said on Sunday.Two other were injured in the accident late Friday, when two cars and a motorcycle collided on the highway between Acapulco and beach city Zihuatanejo in the state of Guerrero, Mexico's civil protection agency said.A 1-year-old and 4-year-old were killed in the accident, along with others ranging in age
  
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• Iran's Rouhani rejects violence but vows 'space for criticism'

  31-12-2017 19:08 via yahoo.com
  Iran's President Hassan Rouhani said Sunday that government bodies must provide "space for criticism" as he sought to head off days of unrest, but warned protesters that violence was unacceptable."Criticism is different to violence and destroying public property," he said in a cabinet meeting, according to the state broadcaster."Government bodies should provide space for legal criticism and protest," Rouhani said in his first public comments since the protests began on Thursday.
  
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• Sydney New Year's Eve Fireworks Celebration

  31-12-2017 19:03 via yahoo.com
  Australia ushered in the new year with a fireworks display over Sydney Harbour Bridge Sunday night/Monday morning.
  
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• UK may use taxes to get tech giants to do more to fight extremism, minister says

  31-12-2017 19:00 via yahoo.com
  Britain may impose new taxes on tech giants like Google and Facebook unless they do more to combat online extremism by taking down material aimed at radicalising people or helping them to prepare attacks, the country's security minister said.Ben Wallace accused tech firms of being happy to sell people's data but not to give it to the government which was being forced to spend vast sums on de-radicalisation programmes, surveillance and other counter-terrorism measures."If they continue to be less
  
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• Meghan Markle Says No New Year's Resolution For Her

  31-12-2017 18:49 via yahoo.com
  While most people are creating long lists of New Year's Resolutions, Meghan Markle says she has given them up!
  
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• Trump looks to cash in from lavish NYE party at Mar-a-Lago – but is it ethical?

  31-12-2017 18:42 via yahoo.com
  Guests ate ‘Mr Trump’s wedge salad’ and baked Alaska, the president’s favorite dessert.Donald Trump is throwing a lavish party tonight, as he does every New Year, at Mar-a-Lago, his private club in Palm Beach, Florida.At $600 for dues-paying members and $750 for their guests, ticket prices are up from last year, when, as president-elect, Trump charged $525 for members and $575 for guests.
  
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• Iran protesters rally again, defying warning of crackdown

  31-12-2017 18:34 via yahoo.com
  Police in the center of Tehran fired water cannon to try to disperse demonstrators, according to pictures on social media.Video posted online also showed a clash between protesters and police in the city of Khoramdareh in Zanjan province in the country's northwest.There were also reports of demonstrations in the cities of Sanandaj and Kermanshah in western Iran as well as Chabahar in the southeast and Ilam and Izeh in the southwest.
  
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• 1 officer killed, multiple shot in active situation near Denver

  31-12-2017 18:00 via yahoo.com
  Authorities say 1 deputy dead, 4 deputies and 2 civilians hurt, in suburban Denver; suspected gunman believed dead.
  
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• Bright lights of Times Square beckon, even on a frigid New Year's Eve

  31-12-2017 17:35 via yahoo.com
  Hundreds of thousands of merrymakers are making the annual pilgrimage to New York's Times Square on Sunday to witness the giant New Year's Eve ball drop at midnight, undeterred by bitter cold and an unprecedented security operation.The temperature in midtown Manhattan is expected to plunge to about 10 degrees Fahrenheit (minus 12 degrees Celsius) in the waning hours of 2017, with a "Real Feel" of 4F (minus 15C), according to AccuWeather.com.If forecasts prove accurate, 2017 would match 1962 as t
  
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• Six dead after Sydney seaplane crash

  31-12-2017 17:32 via yahoo.com
  Six people were killed when a seaplane crashed into a river in Australia on Sunday, police said, with the cause of the accident still under investigation.The plane went down in the Hawkesbury River near the suburb of Cowan some 50 kilometres (31 miles) north of Sydney.The British Foreign Office was unable to confirm the reports but said it was in touch with Australian authorities.
  
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• New Year's celebrations around the world

  31-12-2017 17:27 via yahoo.com
  A look at the New Year’s celebrations around the globe to ring in 2018.
  
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• Trump calls Mueller fair

  31-12-2017 17:24 via yahoo.com
  As president's allies slam prosecutor.
  
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• One Officer Dead and 4 Others Injured After Colorado Shooting, Officials Say

  31-12-2017 17:23 via yahoo.com
  The extent of the officer's injuries is not clear.
  
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• Americans sound off on the 2017 headlines

  31-12-2017 17:16 via yahoo.com
  NBC News talks to Americans across the country to find out which news stories affected them the most this year.
  
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• China's Xi vows to support UN, boost living standards

  31-12-2017 17:13 via yahoo.com
  China will play its part in defending the international order and combating climate change while working to raise living standards for its own people, President Xi Jinping pledged Sunday in a New Year speech.Xi said the nation was committed to economic reforms in 2018, the 40th anniversary of the transformation led by Deng Xiaoping, "as reform and opening-up is the path we must take to make progress in contemporary China and to realise the Chinese dream".It would be the first time in thousands o
  
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• Sheriff’s deputy killed, others wounded in Colorado ambush

  31-12-2017 17:12 via yahoo.com
  A Colorado sheriff's deputy was killed and several more were wounded in a shootout while responding to a report of a disturbance, the Douglas County Sheriff's Office said Sunday.
  
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• 'Multiple deputies down' in active situation near Denver

  31-12-2017 17:10 via yahoo.com
  Police and other emergency workers in an affluent suburban county outside of Denver are responding to reports of multiple officers down.
  
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• Chaffetz talks battle over spending, immigration reform

  31-12-2017 17:08 via yahoo.com
  Former Utah congressman shares his predictions for the 2018 agenda on 'Sunday Morning Futures.'
  
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