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• John Young, Nasa astronaut who flew to the moon twice, dies aged 87

  06-01-2018 23:41 via yahoo.com
  John Young, an astronaut who walked on the moon in 1972 and even smuggled a corned beef sandwich into orbit during a career that made him the only person to fly with three Nasa space programmes, has died at age 87, officials said on Saturday. Young, who went to space six times, died on Friday night at his home in Houston following complications from pneumonia, Nasa spokesman Allard Beutel said in an email. The former US Navy test pilot was the ninth person to set foot on the moon, an experi
  
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• Egypt's Coptic Christians celebrate Christmas amid tight security

  06-01-2018 23:28 via yahoo.com
  The head of the Coptic Church, Pope Tawadros II, led midnight mass in the cathedral of Egypt's new administrative capital on Saturday, a service attended by President Abdel Fattah al Sisi.The mass, on the eve of Coptic Christmas which is celebrated on Jan. 7, was the first to be held in the newly-built cathedral and took place amid tight security.Sisi was cheered by worshippers as he entered the building.
  
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• NASA: Legendary astronaut, moonwalker John Young has died

  06-01-2018 23:15 via yahoo.com
  Legendary astronaut John Young, who walked on the moon and later commanded the first space shuttle flight, has died, NASA said Saturday. Young was 87.
  
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• Donald Trump and GOP Lawmakers Discuss 2018 Agenda at Camp David

  06-01-2018 23:15 via yahoo.com
  Donald Trump held out the prospect of a deal with Democrats on the fate of young immigrants brought to the country illegally as children
  
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• 13 youths killed by 'armed elements' in south Senegal

  06-01-2018 22:47 via yahoo.com
  Thirteen youths were killed on Saturday by "armed elements" in the Casamance region of southern Senegal, an area ravaged by armed conflict for more than three decades, a security source said.The victims were out collecting wood in the Bayotte forest, 20 kilometres (12 miles) from the regional capital Ziguinchor, "when they were attacked by an armed band of 15 people," army spokesman Abdou Ndiaye told AFP.
  
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• 'We Want the Wall.' No DACA Deal Without Border Wall, Trump Warns

  06-01-2018 22:41 via yahoo.com
  “We want the wall,” Donald Trump said at a press conference Saturday at Camp David in Maryland
  
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• Wife of Pulse Gunman Said He Told Her 'This is My Target' in Detailed Statement

  06-01-2018 22:36 via yahoo.com
  Her trial is set to begin in March.
  
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• The Latest: Astronaut John Young remembered as "fearless"

  06-01-2018 22:35 via yahoo.com
  The Latest on the death of astronaut John Young (all times local):
  
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• How 'wi-fi' connects human brains and explains why people have 'gut feelings'

  06-01-2018 22:30 via yahoo.com
  Humans brains are interconnected through type of 'wi-fi' which allows us to pick up far more information about other people than we are aware of, a leading professor claims. Prof Digby Tantum, Clinical Professor of Psychotherapy, at the University of Sheffield, believes that language plays only a part of in how humans communicate and that actually the brain is working hard to pick up tiny micro-signals that communicate what a person is thinking. It explains how people often have a ‘gut fee
  
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• Iran stages pro-government rallies, derides Trump 'blunder' at U.N.

  06-01-2018 22:28 via yahoo.com
  Thousands of government supporters staged rallies in Iran for a fourth day on Saturday in a backlash against widespread anti-government protests that the clerical establishment has blamed on the country's enemies.Saturday's show of support took place a day after Iran's foreign minister said a United Nations Security Council meeting called by the United States to discuss the protests had proved a "blunder" by the administration of U.S. President Donald Trump.State television showed rallies and ma
  
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• A U.S. Mountain Was Just The Second-Coldest Place On Earth

  06-01-2018 22:17 via yahoo.com
  The temperature atop New Hampshire’s Mount Washington plummeted early Saturday to an astonishing minus 36 degrees Fahrenheit, making it one of the coldest places on the planet.
  
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• High tech, low tech: Big U.S. cities embrace twin approach to crime

  06-01-2018 22:03 via yahoo.com
  Gun violence in major U.S. cities fell in 2017 as police used the latest crime-fighting software combined with a revival of old-fashioned community policing to build trust with a skeptical public.Law enforcement officials and criminologists credit that dual approach with helping extend the decades-long reduction in crime in New York City and reducing gun violence in Chicago by 20 percent in 2017.Chicago became a symbol of U.S. gun violence after homicides soared nearly 60 percent in 2016, drawin
  
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• Pope Francis Gives Career Advice During Epiphany Remarks

  06-01-2018 21:47 via yahoo.com
  Francis said people "often make do"
  
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• Arab League to lobby U.N. to recognize Palestinian state

  06-01-2018 21:43 via yahoo.com
  Arab states will soon embark on a diplomatic drive to persuade the United Nations to recognize a Palestinian state with East Jerusalem as its capital on territory captured by Israel in the 1967 war, Jordan's Foreign Minister Ayman Safadi said.Six Arab foreign ministers met in Amman on Saturday to follow up on earlier decisions taken by the Arab League to counter U.S. President Donald Trump's move in December to recognize Jerusalem as Israel's capital, a decision that overturned decades of U.S. p
  
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• Man Allegedly Calls Police to Report Himself Drunk Driving

  06-01-2018 21:41 via yahoo.com
  Thankfully no one was harmed.
  
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• Pope on Epiphany: Don't make money, career your whole life

  06-01-2018 21:30 via yahoo.com
  VATICAN CITY (AP) — Pope Francis on Saturday advised against making the pursuit of money, a career or success the basis for one's whole life, urging in his Epiphany remarks to also resist "inclinations toward arrogance, the thirst for power and for riches."
  
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• Trump defends "genius" tweets

  06-01-2018 21:22 via yahoo.com
  On Saturday, President Trump spoke to reporters gathered at Camp David and defended his early morning tweets in which he referred to himself as a "genius."
  
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• Elderly couple die after wife ventures out in freezing cold to find husband

  06-01-2018 21:22 via yahoo.com
  An elderly couple died within hours of each other after a man had a heart attack outdoors and his devoted wife froze to death in the brutal cold after she went looking for him.Grant Triebner, 90, and his wife Ada Triebner, 83, were found by police on their property in Ontario, Canada.Police found Mr Triebner's body inside an open barn on their property and said he died of a heart attack, and Mrs Triebner's body was found nearby in the snow.
  
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• Egypt Copts mark Christmas Eve after bloody year

  06-01-2018 21:17 via yahoo.com
  Coptic Orthodox Christians packed Egypt's newly built Nativity of Christ Cathedral on Saturday for a Christmas Eve mass after a bloody year for a minority repeatedly targeted by jihadists.Police had bolstered security around the country's churches for days, especially at the cathedral east of Cairo where President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi came to pay his respects to the ancient community.Sisi said the cathedral, in a new administrative capital Egypt is building, was a "message to the world, a messag
  
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• Trump Says U.S. 'Not Going To Look Foolish As Long As I'm Here'

  06-01-2018 21:12 via yahoo.com
  President Donald Trump took a break from a Camp David strategy session with top Republicans on Saturday to make some unscheduled comments to reporters.
  
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• AP PHOTOS: World celebrates Epiphany with icy dips, parades

  06-01-2018 21:03 via yahoo.com
  ISTANBUL (AP) — Icy dips in the sea. Parades with camels, kings and crowns. Presents for homeless children and admonishments to live a better life.
  
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• Trump claims Mexico will pay for wall – day after seeking $18bn from Congress

  06-01-2018 21:00 via yahoo.com
  Donald Trump insisted on Saturday that Mexico would pay for a wall along the southern US border, one day after his administration asked Congress for $18bn over the next decade to start construction on the barrier.“I believe Mexico will pay for the wall,” Trump said during a brief news conference at Camp David, where he was meeting congressional Republican leaders to plan for the 2018 midterms.
  
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• Trump says he would 'absolutely' talk to North Korea's Kim on phone

  06-01-2018 20:45 via yahoo.com
  By James OliphantCAMP DAVID, Md. (Reuters) - U.S. President Donald Trump said on Saturday he would "absolutely" be willing to talk on the phone to North Korean leader Kim Jong Un and that he hopes a positive development results from talks between North Korea and South Korea.North Korea agreed on Friday to hold official talks with South Korea next week, the first in more than two years, hours after Washington and Seoul delayed a military exercise amid a standoff over Pyongyang’s nuclear and
  
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• Florida man calls 911 to report himself drunk driving

  06-01-2018 20:40 via yahoo.com
  WINTER HAVEN, Fla. (AP) — Florida authorities are sharing the details of an unusual 911 call on New Year's Eve, from a man who said he wanted to report himself drunk-driving.
  
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• Egypt's el-Sissi attends Christmas Mass amid tight security

  06-01-2018 20:36 via yahoo.com
  CAIRO (AP) — In a show of solidarity with Egypt's embattled Christians, President Abdel-Fattah el-Sissi Saturday made a symbolic appearance at an Orthodox Christmas Mass in a new cathedral as tens of thousands of soldiers and police deployed outside churches across the country in anticipation of possible attacks by Islamic militants.
  
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• Orlando shooter's wife 'knew he was planning attack', reports say

  06-01-2018 20:13 via yahoo.com
  The wife of Omar Mateen, the gunman who killed 49 at the Pulse nightclub in Orlando in June 2016, allegedly knew he was preparing for the deadly attack, according to reports of a handwritten statement she gave to the FBI. Hours after the shooting, Noor Salman is said to have told agents that she knew her husband's plans and that he was going to target the Orlando club when he left their home. "My fears had come true and he did what he said he was going to do. I was
  
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• Math Reveals Your Royal Roots

  06-01-2018 20:11 via yahoo.com
  But don't go around calling yourself "royal highness" yet.
  
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• JLo and Alex Rodriguez’s Night Out With Their Kids

  06-01-2018 20:10 via yahoo.com
  Jrod continues to showcase their beautiful blended family
  
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• Legendary Astronaut John Young Dies at 87

  06-01-2018 20:05 via yahoo.com
  He was the ninth man to walk on the moon
  
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• US senator says no evidence of 'sonic attacks' in Cuba

  06-01-2018 19:46 via yahoo.com
  HAVANA (AP) — Republican Sen. Jeff Flake says the U.S. has found no evidence that American diplomats in Havana were the victims of attacks with an unknown weapon.
  
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• 'Swatting' death: accused man has made other false reports to police, officials say

  06-01-2018 19:25 via yahoo.com
  Tyler Barriss, left, appears for an extradition hearing.Tyler Barriss, 25, is set to be transferred to custody in Kansas from Los Angeles, where he allegedly made the call to police that ended with an officer fatally shooting Andrew Finch, an unarmed Wichita man with no known connection to Barriss.Police believe that Finch, who was studying to be a tattoo artist and had two children, had no connection to the dispute and was mistakenly targeted by the prank call, which is known as “swatting
  
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• Trump hopes Korea talks go 'beyond the Olympics'

  06-01-2018 19:02 via yahoo.com
  The two Koreas are planning to hold their first official dialogue in more than two years to discuss the North's participation in next month's Winter Olympics in South Korea."I would love to see them take it beyond the Olympics," Trump said at a news conference at the Camp David presidential retreat.The planned dialogue comes after the North's leader Kim Jong-Un warned in his New Year speech that he had a nuclear button on his desk, but also said Pyongyang could send a team to the Pyeongchang Win
  
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• Rob Bishop Continues His Taxpayer-Funded Feud With Patagonia

  06-01-2018 18:39 via yahoo.com
  WASHINGTON — For the second time in as many months, the House Committee on Natural Resources has taken a public swing at Patagonia.
  
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• John Young dead: Apollo astronaut who walked on the moon dies, aged 87

  06-01-2018 18:34 via yahoo.com
  The astronaut John Young, who walked on the moon and flew the first space shuttle mission, has died aged 87.In a statement, the agency tweeted: “We’re saddened by the loss of astronaut John Young, who was 87.Mr Young’s career at Nasa stretched for 42 years, during which he became the first human to fly in space six times.
  
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• Donald Trump on Russia Investigation: 'Everything I've Done Was 100 Percent Proper'

  06-01-2018 18:28 via yahoo.com
  Trump says he's had some "incredible meetings"
  
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• Donald Trump suggests he wants US law to limit free speech in wake of publication of explosive new book

  06-01-2018 18:22 via yahoo.com
  President Donald Trump has hit out at “very weak” libel laws in the US as he branded an explosive new book detailing the inner workings of the White House as “fiction”.Suggesting he would like to see tougher laws on speech, Mr Trump said that if libel laws “were strong... you wouldn’t have things like that happen where you can say whatever comes into your head” – referring to Michael Wolff’s book Fire and Fury: Inside the Trump White House.Th
  
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• Norwegian Cruise Line sailed right through the nightmarish winter storm

  06-01-2018 18:07 via yahoo.com
  As a powerful 'bomb cyclone' ravaged the U.S. East Coast with snow and high winds this week, a Norwegian Cruise Line ship sailed right into its path, giving thousands of passengers a fearsome experience they aren't likely to forget. SEE ALSO: Incredible photos from space show off the historic East Coast 'bomb cyclone' Passengers on the Norwegian Breakaway cruise were treated to monstrous waves, winds, rain, and flooding for multiple days as the ship made its way to New York City, navigating righ
  
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• Passengers stuck on planes for hours on JFK Airport tarmac

  06-01-2018 18:02 via yahoo.com
  There were many frustrated passengers as JFK Airport struggled to get back up to speed following the weather-related delays.
  
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• Thieves steal estimated millions in jewelry in real-life ‘Italian Job’ heist

  06-01-2018 17:32 via yahoo.com
  A manhunt is underway for thieves who were caught on camera stealing jewels and gold belonging to the royal family of Qatar. The heist happened Wednesday in Venice, Italy at the Doge’s Palace Museum.
  
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• One lucky winner grabs top Mega Millions $450M prize

  06-01-2018 17:29 via yahoo.com
  The golden ticket was bought at a 7-Eleven in Port Richey, Florida, and the mystery winner remains unknown.
  
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• GOP tax change sparks creative counters in high-tax locales

  06-01-2018 17:28 via yahoo.com
  Lawmakers in traditional Blue States are looking to morph taxes into “donations” so they can still be deducted from Federal returns after the new law limits deductibility.
  
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• Wing explodes in flames after on-ground collision at Toronto’s airport

  06-01-2018 17:25 via yahoo.com
  Almost 200 terrified passengers and crew scrambled to escape from a Boeing 737 after another jet hit the plane. Several grabbed luggage, despite a plea to get out quick.
  
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• White House requests $13bn to build Trump's border wall

  06-01-2018 17:02 via yahoo.com
  The White House is asking for $18 billion (£13 billion) from Capitol Hill to fund the US-Mexico border wall, Donald Trump's signature campaign promise. If granted, the money would pay for 316 miles of new fencing and reinforce another 407 miles where barriers are already in place. The entire border stretches almost 2,000 miles, although much of it is already impassable.  The request forms part of a $33 billion, 10-year package to tighten up homeland security with the re
  
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• Trump Says He's 'Like, Really Smart' After His Mental Stability Is Questioned in New Book

  06-01-2018 16:53 via yahoo.com
  On Saturday, President Donald Trump responded to questions about his mental capacity and fitness by calling himself “like, really smart” and saying that he is “a very stable genius”
  
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• Trump Administration To Fight Order To Give Documents To Democratic Voter Fraud Commissioner

  06-01-2018 16:43 via yahoo.com
  The Trump administration says it will fight a court order telling its voter fraud commission to hand over communications and documents to a Democratic member who sued the panel and alleged he was being illegally excluded from its decision-making process.
  
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• Blast kills 4 Indian policemen in disputed Kashmir

  06-01-2018 16:39 via yahoo.com
  SRINAGAR, India (AP) — Police said four officers were killed Saturday when rebels fighting against Indian rule in disputed Kashmir detonated a bomb on a street the officers were patrolling.
  
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• Who is Michael Wolff?

  06-01-2018 16:31 via yahoo.com
  What to Know About the Author of the Explosive New Trump Book
  
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• Air strikes kill at least 17 civilians in Syria rebel enclave: monitor

  06-01-2018 16:10 via yahoo.com
  Regime and Russian air strikes on a rebel-held enclave near the Syrian capital killed at least 17 civilians on Saturday, a war monitor said.Eastern Ghouta, one of the last remaining opposition strongholds in the country, is the target of near-daily air raids.The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said Saturday's deadliest strikes had hit the Hammuriyeh district, killing 12 civilians including two children.
  
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• Minister: Norway to extradite cleric if Italy convicts him

  06-01-2018 16:01 via yahoo.com
  COPENHAGEN, Denmark (AP) — Norway's justice minister said Saturday that an Iraqi-born cleric suspected of enticing recruits to fight in Iraq and Syria will be extradited if a court in Italy convicts him.
  
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• Nagasu, Tennell, Chen earn US Olympic figure skating spots

  06-01-2018 15:58 via yahoo.com
  SAN JOSE, Calif. (AP) — Bradie Tennell, Mirai Nagasu and Karen Chen, the top three finishers at the national championships, were selected Saturday to the U.S. team for the Pyeongchang Olympics.
  
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