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• Ashleigh Banfield Responds On Air To Insulting Email From Aziz Ansari Story Reporter

  17-01-2018 23:51 via yahoo.com
  HLN anchor Ashleigh Banfield on Tuesday criticized the woman who wrote an article alleging that actor Aziz Ansari had committed sexual misconduct, saying the writer had emailed her derogatory and anti-feminist comments.
  
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• Glossier Just Dropped Its First-Ever Solution To Acne-Prone Skin

  17-01-2018 23:50 via yahoo.com
  The glossy-faced, dewy-skinned experts at Glossier just dropped a new addition to the skincare-as-makeup retailer’s collection that’s perfect for blemish-prone faces.
  
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• What about the memory test Trump aced? It's not for everyone

  17-01-2018 23:46 via yahoo.com
  WASHINGTON (AP) — Drawing a clock. Counting backward by sevens. Rattling off words that begin with "F'' before a minute's up.
  
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• Authorities: Deputy fatally shoots teen in Ohio courtroom

  17-01-2018 23:33 via yahoo.com
  COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — A deputy fatally shot a 16-year-old boy in an Ohio courtroom when a fight broke out involving the boy, his family and the officer on Wednesday, a sheriff's office investigator said.
  
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• Did Fox News Hide Story Of Trump’s Alleged Affair With Stormy Daniels?

  17-01-2018 23:31 via yahoo.com
  A new report says that Fox News killed a story about President Donald Trump’s alleged affair with ex-porn star Stormy Daniels.
  
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• Gay Olympian Adam Rippon: I Don't Think Mike Pence 'Has A Real Concept Of Reality'

  17-01-2018 23:21 via yahoo.com
  Adam Rippon is using his new, history-making platform to resist the Trump administration’s anti-LGBTQ agenda.
  
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• Barack Obama Gave Michelle Obama a Romantic Surprise for Her 54th Birthday

  17-01-2018 23:14 via yahoo.com
  "Getting notes and flowers from you will never get old."
  
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• Apple plans new U.S. campus, to pay $38 billion in foreign cash taxes

  17-01-2018 23:12 via yahoo.com
  The company has been under increasing pressure to make U.S. investments since the 2016 presidential campaign, when Trump targeted the iPhone maker for making products in Asian factories.While Apple has announced no plans to change that practice and experts say it would be economically impractical to make iPhones in the United States, the company has begun to emphasise its U.S. economic impact, from developers who sell software on its App Store to the tens of billions of dollars per year it spend
  
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• Here's Your 10-Piece Winter Capsule Wardrobe Checklist

  17-01-2018 23:11 via yahoo.com
  If you’ve been toying around with the idea of a simplified wardrobe, there’s no better time to start than the winter.
  
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• Syrian Kurds appeal to UN as Turkey prepares to attack

  17-01-2018 23:09 via yahoo.com
  BEIRUT (AP) — Syria's dominant Kurdish party on Wednesday called on the U.N. Security Council to act quickly to ensure the safety of Kurdish-controlled territories in the country's north, including an enclave that Turkey has threatened to attack.
  
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• Murders By U.S. White Supremacists More Than Doubled In 2017, New Report Shows

  17-01-2018 23:06 via yahoo.com
  White supremacists in the United States killed more than twice as many people in 2017 as they did the year before, and were responsible for far more murders than domestic Islamic extremists, helping make 2017 the fifth deadliest year on record for extremist violence in America, a new report states.
  
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• U.S. signals open-ended presence in Syria, seeks patience on Assad's removal

  17-01-2018 22:54 via yahoo.com
  By David BrunnstromPALO ALTO, Calif. (Reuters) - The United States on Wednesday signaled an open-ended military presence in Syria as part of a broader strategy to prevent Islamic State's resurgence, pave the way diplomatically for the eventual departure of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad and curtail Iran's influence.Secretary of State Rex Tillerson, in a speech at Stanford University, called for "patience" on Assad's departure - the clearest indication yet of an acknowledgment that Russia and I
  
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• 4 Simple Ways to Protect Your Child From the Flu

  17-01-2018 22:53 via yahoo.com
  This year’s flu season is especially bad, and kids are at risk
  
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• US nuclear review calls for development of low-yield weapons

  17-01-2018 22:45 via yahoo.com
  The US military wants to overhaul its atomic arsenal and develop a new type of low-yield weapon that experts worry could lead to greater proliferation and heighten the risk of nuclear war.The proposed changes to the nuclear weapons program, outlined in a draft version of the Pentagon's Nuclear Posture Review, mark a significant break from the vision for America's nuclear future under Barack Obama, who during a famous speech in Prague in 2009 called for the elimination of nuclear weapons.Arguing
  
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• RBS boss to be hauled in front of MPs after damning memo emerges

  17-01-2018 22:44
  Training document published in which staff are urged to let struggling business customers “hang themselves”
  
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• US border patrol routinely sabotages water left for migrants, report says

  17-01-2018 22:39 via yahoo.com
  Volunteers are said to have found hundreds of water gallons vandalised in a patch of Sonoran desert.United States border patrol agents routinely vandalise containers of water and other supplies left in the Arizona desert for migrants, condemning people to die of thirst in baking temperatures, according to two humanitarian groups.Volunteers found water gallons vandalised 415 times, on average twice a week, in an 800 sq mile patch of Sonoran desert south-west of Tucson, from March 2012 to December
  
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• ‘We tend to look after each other here’: Inside the Turpin family’s neighbourhood as it reels from discovery of captive siblings

  17-01-2018 22:17 via yahoo.com
  As Wednesday unfolded, investigators began their work of combing through the filthy, foul-smelling house looking for answers to the central question that has so far baffled authorities: why the Turpins apparently imprisoned their children before being arrested at the weekend, allegedly allowing them to starve and shackling them to furniture.The tranquil suburban street where the Turpin home sits was clogged with news crews hoping to offer answers, as neighbours grappled with how the apparent imp
  
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• Winter Storm Warning extended as snow continues to fall

  17-01-2018 22:16 via yahoo.com
  ABC11 is in First Alert Mode as snow moves through the area.
  
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• Former High School Classmate Charged With Murder of UPenn Student

  17-01-2018 22:15 via yahoo.com
  Blaze Bernstein was found buried in a park
  
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• Worst-case global warming scenarios not credible: study

  17-01-2018 22:04 via yahoo.com
  Earth's surface will almost certainly not warm up four or five degrees Celsius by 2100, according to a study released Wednesday which, if correct, voids worst-case UN climate change predictions.A revised calculation of how greenhouse gases drive up the planet's temperature reduces the range of possible end-of-century outcomes by more than half, researchers said in the report, published in the journal Nature.How effectively the world slashes CO2 and methane emissions, improves energy efficiency,
  
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• American Sh*thole

  17-01-2018 21:41 via yahoo.com
  The biggest problem with many African countries is that they're led by men like Trump.
  
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• White House releases report on foreign-born criminals in the U.S.

  17-01-2018 21:26 via yahoo.com
  During a press briefing at the White House on Wednesday, January 17, The Justice Department's National Security Division released a report on criminals in the U.S. who were foreign-born.
  
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• Can Jeff Flake turn the tide in the Republican war on the media?

  17-01-2018 21:18 via yahoo.com
  President Trump has waged war on the media, to the delight of his base and with the unspoken – or explicit – support of his party. Now, on the floor of the Senate, one Republican, Jeff Flake of Arizona, has denounced Trump for labeling the press “the enemy of the people,” a phrase also used by Stalin. Will it change anything?
  
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• America and Russia May Find Themselves in a Nuclear Arms Race Once Again

  17-01-2018 21:16 via yahoo.com
  Despite the Trump administration’s decision to treat it as an afterthought, arms control is not dead.Upon entering office last January, President Donald Trump asked Secretary of Defense James Mattis to prepare a Nuclear Posture Review (NPR) that would lay out the Trump administration’s nuclear strategy.The document will soon be released, and while claiming to seek a world where nuclear weapons use is less likely, the review’s recommendations would actually expand the conditions
  
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• Napolitano: Is a government shutdown really all that bad?

  17-01-2018 21:06 via yahoo.com
  Freedom Watch with Judge Andrew Napolitano: Judge Napolitano and Chris Stirewalt discuss the possibility of a government shutdown, what that means for everyday Americans, and whether or not it's all that bad.
  
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• Chris Christie Didn't Break a Leg While Governor of New Jersey. Here's Why That's a Big Deal

  17-01-2018 21:01 via yahoo.com
  Republican Chris Christie left the New Jersey governor's office with his popularity in tatters, but at least he didn't break a leg
  
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• Russia says North Korea summit undermines U.N., aggravates situation

  17-01-2018 21:00 via yahoo.com
  Russia hit out on Wednesday at a U.S.-led effort to increase international pressure on North Korea, saying it was making the situation worse and undermining the United Nations.Twenty nations hosted by the United States and Canada in Vancouver agreed on Tuesday to consider tougher sanctions to press North Korea to give up its nuclear weapons.North Korean leader Kim Jong Un has refused to give up development of nuclear missiles capable of hitting the United States in spite of increasingly severe U
  
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• Ethiopia frees prominent opposition leader

  17-01-2018 20:52 via yahoo.com
  Prominent Ethiopian opposition leader Merera Gudina was freed from jail on Wednesday after the government dropped charges against him as part of a wider prisoner amnesty, state media reported.In his first comments after his release, Merera vowed to stay active in politics and urged Ethiopia's all-powerful government to hold "honest negotiations" with the country's many opposition parties.The detention of Merera, chairman of the opposition Oromo Federalist Congress (OFC), had become a cause celeb
  
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• Israel says India to restart talks on missile sales

  17-01-2018 20:39 via yahoo.com
  India is to restart talks with Israel over a cancelled deal to buy anti-tank missiles, the office of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said Wednesday.New Delhi had suspended the $500 million (417 million euro) deal to buy the Spike anti-tank missiles from Israel's state-owned defence contractor Rafael after apparently deciding to manufacture the equipment at home."Following the talks I had with my friend Prime Minister Narendra Modi, the Indian government has informed us that it is putting the S
  
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• Ethiopia releases top opposition figure from prison

  17-01-2018 20:39 via yahoo.com
  BURAYU, Ethiopia (AP) — Ethiopia's top opposition figure and hundreds of others were released from prison on Wednesday as part of the government's recent pledge to free detained politicians and "widen the democratic space for all" after the worst anti-government protests in a quarter-century.
  
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• Mormons: What does the powerful religious group actually believe?

  17-01-2018 20:26 via yahoo.com
  On Sunday, in the Salt Lake Temple, Utah, “in a sweet, sacred experience in which the Lord’s will was clearly manifested” – according to the later announcement – the “Quorum of the Twelve Apostles” laid hands on Russell M Nelson and ordained him the new leader of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints, (aka the Mormons).“A giant of a man, a prophet of God,” Mr Nelson called him.To many of the unfaithful, though, the Mormons are not s
  
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• Most American Catholic Women Want The Church To Have Female Deacons, Poll Finds

  17-01-2018 20:25 via yahoo.com
  Pope Francis has made it abundantly clear that he doesn’t think women could ever become priests in the Catholic church.
  
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• Paul Ryan: Republicans Need To 'Pay Attention' To Democrats' Big Special Election Win

  17-01-2018 20:19 via yahoo.com
  WASHINGTON ― Wisconsin Democrats scored a major upset victory Tuesday when they won a state Senate race in a district that Donald Trump easily carried in the 2016 presidential election.
  
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• David Turpin's Sister-in-Law Says He Would Watch Her in the Shower, Wouldn't Let Her Contact Kids

  17-01-2018 20:10 via yahoo.com
  Elizabeth Flores says she was creeped out by Turpin when she stayed with the family 20 years ago.
  
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• 5 things we learned about Trump from his medical checkup

  17-01-2018 20:07 via yahoo.com
  WASHINGTON (AP) — Five things we learned about President Donald Trump from Navy Rear Adm. Ronny Jackson, the doctor who oversaw Trump's first medical checkup in office.
  
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• Republican governor tells Republicans to 'wake up' after Democrats win big in Wisconsin

  17-01-2018 19:58 via yahoo.com
  A Democratic victory in one of Wisconsin’s Republican-leaning districts is “a wake up call for Republicans” in the state, Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker has said, as the party prepares for a vicious fight to maintain control of US Congress this year.In a special election on Tuesday, Democrat Patty Schachtner won the state’s 10th Senate District, which had voted heavily for Donald Trump in the 2016 presidential election.While the special election was held to fill an empty
  
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• U.S. judge may extend freeze on Indonesian immigrants' deportation

  17-01-2018 19:36 via yahoo.com
  A federal judge on Wednesday signaled she may extend an order preventing the deportation of roughly 50 Indonesian Christians living illegally in New Hampshire, a process that immigration officials began after U.S. President Donald Trump took office.U.S. District Judge Patti Saris in Boston expressed concern the Indonesians could be deported before their administrative appeals were finished, given their claims they could face religious persecution in the world's largest majority-Muslim nation.The
  
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• Crowley: GOP doesn't need Democrats' help to fund government

  17-01-2018 19:34 via yahoo.com
  Chairman of the House Democratic Caucus notes that Republicans control the White House, U.S. Senate and House of Representatives and can pass any bill they want, but if they need Democrats' help the bill must reflect the values of the Democratic Caucus.
  
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• California community reeling over Turpin 'house of horrors': 'I served them pizza while their children were starving?'

  17-01-2018 19:34 via yahoo.com
  The quiet California community of Perris has been left reeling after the discovery of 13 children  found chained and malnourished in squalid conditions in their parents' house. Matthew Alex Padilla, a 20-year-old former Marine, said he was sickened to learn that Louise Turpin, the woman he served pizza to near the Perris property, had a house full of starving children.  Mr Padilla has worked at Leonardi’s Pizza inside the WinCo supermarket for a year, and told The Teleg
  
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• Blessing of the animals on St. Anthony's Day

  17-01-2018 19:29 via yahoo.com
  The feast of St. Anthony, Spain’s patron saint of animals, is celebrated each year.On the eve of St. Anthony’s Day, riders guide their horses through a bonfire in the village of San Bartolome de Pinares as part of the Luminarias ritual in honor of St. Anthony the Abbot.
  
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• 'Today' Show Gets First Female Executive Producer During Key Hours

  17-01-2018 19:28 via yahoo.com
  In the wake of Matt Lauer’s ouster from the “Today” show, it appears women are taking over.
  
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• What Is A 'Sunshine Baby'?

  17-01-2018 19:11 via yahoo.com
  Over the years, some of this vocabulary has gained wider currency, like the term “rainbow baby,” which refers to a child born after a miscarriage, stillbirth, infant death or other early loss of a child.
  
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• Pennsylvania Supreme Court Appears Open To Striking Down Gerrymandered Map

  17-01-2018 19:11 via yahoo.com
  ― A plurality of state Supreme Court justices seemed open to the possibility that the Pennsylvania congressional map may violate the state’s constitution, but during oral argument on Wednesday seemed unclear as to how to remedy the situation.
  
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• Evercore shuts London trading desk weeks after start of Mifid II

  17-01-2018 19:09
  EU's sweeping new trading rulebook is expected to put pressure on smaller execution providers
  
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• 14 Humboldt Park elementary students hospitalized after possibly eating laced candy

  17-01-2018 19:09 via yahoo.com
  Fourteen students, ages 13 or 14, were taken to the hospital Wednesday morning after a hazardous materials situation on Chicago's Northwest Side, the Chicago Fire Department said.
  
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• The Latest: Murder charge filed in college student's killing

  17-01-2018 18:57 via yahoo.com
  SANTA ANA, Calif. (AP) — The Latest on the killing of a University of Pennsylvania student in California (all times local):
  
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• Blaze Bernstein homicide case: Murder charge announced against suspect

  17-01-2018 18:46 via yahoo.com
  A felony murder charge was filed Wednesday against a former classmate of slain Ivy League student, 19-year-old Blaze Bernstein.
  
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• Rep. Pramila Jayapal Is Skipping Trump's State Of The Union Speech Due To His 'Racism'

  17-01-2018 18:36 via yahoo.com
  The list of Democrats planning to boycott President Donald Trump’s State of the Union address later this month continues to grow.
  
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• 'This Is Reprehensible.' Read Jeff Flake's Speech Comparing Trump's Attacks on the Media to Josef Stalin

  17-01-2018 18:26 via yahoo.com
  "If we compromise the truth for the sake of our politics, we are lost"
  
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• Here's Why the Flu Is Especially Bad This Year

  17-01-2018 18:04 via yahoo.com
  Every part of the continental U.S. is showing "widespread" flu activity
  
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