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• Kurds call on Syrian regime to intervene in Afrin battle

  25-01-2018 23:55 via yahoo.com
  Kurdish militias fighting against Turkey in the Syrian enclave of Afrin have called on the government of Bashar al-Assad to intervene and protect the area’s borders.The latest development, nearly a week into Turkey’s military offensive, could undermine Kurdish aspirations for self-governance and, if heeded, could set the stage for a direct military confrontation between Ankara and Damascus.
  
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• Images of Elon Musk's $600 Boring Company Flamethrower Have Leaked

  25-01-2018 23:46 via yahoo.com
  Wait, this is real?
  
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• President Trump Proposes Citizenship Path for 1.8 Million 'Dreamers' and $25 Billion for Border Security

  25-01-2018 23:43 via yahoo.com
  The proposal is a reversal for Trump, who promised to eliminate DACA
  
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• Intel gets lift from earnings, investors look past chip flaw

  25-01-2018 23:43 via yahoo.com
  A stronger-than expected earnings report Thursday lifted Intel shares as investors looked past a troubling computer chip flaw weighing on the US tech giant.Intel shares climbed more than four percent to $47.13 in after-market trades that followed release of its earnings figures, despite its warning of lawsuits, claims, and negative publicity from security vulnerabilities including recently disclosed Spectre and Meltdown flaws.For the fourth quarter, Intel posted a loss of $700 million due to som
  
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• John Kerry predicts Trump administration 'won't last the year,' according to report

  25-01-2018 23:37 via yahoo.com
  Former US Secretary of State John Kerry has reportedly said he believes President Donald Trump will not make it another year in office.Mr Kerry recently met with Hussein Agha, a close associate of Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas, according to the Jerusalem Post.During the meeting, the former US diplomat reportedly asked Mr Agha to tell the Palestinian leader to “hold on and be strong,” and not “yield to [Mr Trump’s] demands”.
  
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• Trump offers amnesty to Dreamers in return for $25bn fund to build Mexico border wall

  25-01-2018 23:08 via yahoo.com
  The White House has presented an immigration reform plan to Congress that would include a pathway to citizenship for as many as 1.8 million Dreamers in exchange for a dramatic increase in restrictions for immigration in the future and $25 billion to fund his long promised border wall.A senior White House official reportedly outlined one-page framework to Republican staffers on Capitol Hill.The inclusion of a path to citizenship for so many immigrants who came here illegally when they were young
  
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• Crock-Pot Created A Twitter Account Just To Comfort 'This Is Us' Fans

  25-01-2018 23:03 via yahoo.com
  The latest episode of “This Is Us” was so powerful that it even prompted Crock-Pot to start tweeting.
  
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• The Latest: Warrant nixed for professor who spoke Hawaiian

  25-01-2018 22:59 via yahoo.com
  WAILUKU, Hawaii (AP) — The Latest on an arrest warrant issue for a professor who spoke Hawaiian in court (all times local):
  
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• The Oldest Human Fossil Outside of Africa Has Been Found

  25-01-2018 22:51 via yahoo.com
  Indicating humans left Africa earlier than previously thought
  
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• Donald Trump's Request for a White House Van Gogh Was Swiftly Rejected by the Guggenheim

  25-01-2018 22:43 via yahoo.com
  The museum had something else in mind...
  
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• Customers vote on new Krispy Kreme doughnut flavor

  25-01-2018 22:40 via yahoo.com
  Customers got to choose between lemon, blueberry, caramel, and maple.
  
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• Manager Had Open Sores, Used Heroin While Making Pizza at Little Caesars: Police

  25-01-2018 22:33 via yahoo.com
  A former manager of an Indiana Little Caesars and her boyfriend are accused of buying and using heroin at the restaurant.
  
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• Oldest human remains outside Africa found in Israeli cave, showing species left continent far earlier than known

  25-01-2018 22:25 via yahoo.com
  A partial jawbone bearing seven teeth unearthed in a cave in Israel represents what scientists are calling the oldest-known Homo sapiens remains outside Africa, showing that our species trekked out of that continent far earlier than previously known. Researchers on Thursday announced the discovery of the fossil estimated as 177,000 to 194,000 years old, and said the teeth bore telltale traits of Homo sapiens not present in close human relatives alive at the time including Neanderthals. The
  
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• Davos Is Inspiring Quite a Few Game of Thrones Memes for a Hilarious Reason

  25-01-2018 22:08 via yahoo.com
  The World Economic Forum is happening in Davos, Switzerland, but all Game of Thrones fans see are the memes of their beloved character.
  
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• U.S. urges Russia and Myanmar to reconsider fighter jet deal

  25-01-2018 22:04 via yahoo.com
  The United States called on Russia and Myanmar on Thursday to reconsider a reported agreement for the supply of Russian fighter planes to the Southeast Asian country.Russian media quoted the Defense Ministry in Moscow as saying this week that Russia would sell six SU-30 planes to Myanmar.The RIA news agency said Myanmar, which is also known as Burma, was interested in buying other Russian military hardware for its land and naval forces.
  
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• The White House 'requested a Van Gogh, but got a golden toilet instead'

  25-01-2018 22:02 via yahoo.com
  A White House request to loan a Vincent Van Gogh painting was reportedly rejected by an art gallery who offered another artwork instead – a golden toilet.  The Washington Post has reported that it was hoped the 19th century Van Gogh would hang in the private quarters of Donald Trump and his wife Melania.  However Nancy Spector, chief curator at the Guggenheim – the New York museum which housed the work – was said to have rejected the request and made a counter-of
  
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• Man Surprises Stepdad With Adoption Papers and Plans to Take His Name

  25-01-2018 22:01 via yahoo.com
  "I wish I had done it years and years ago," Logan Borden told InsideEdition.com.
  
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• Trump asks to borrow Van Gogh painting for White House from Guggenheim - they offer a used gold toilet instead

  25-01-2018 21:54 via yahoo.com
  The White House apparently contacted the Guggenheim Museum in New York and asked for the loan of Van Gogh’s 1888 Landscape With Snow.The museum wrote back to say it could not loan the item but instead offered an 18 karat gold sculpture by Maurizio Cattelan of a functioning toilet.The piece, America, designed as “a cipher for the excesses of affluence” and the creation of which was inspired by Mr Trump's decision to run for the White House, had been on display at the museum wher
  
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• Kidnapping victim killed when FBI agents open fire during raid in northeast Houston

  25-01-2018 21:54 via yahoo.com
  A man who police say was kidnapped during a home invasion was fatally shot hours later, as FBI agents moved in on the home where he was held.
  
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• Welcome to Syria 2.0

  25-01-2018 21:53 via yahoo.com
  The country’s civil war is over — and an entirely new one has started, with the United States at the center of it.
  
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• Robert Mueller Might Question Donald Trump. Here's What Could Go Wrong

  25-01-2018 21:45 via yahoo.com
  Special counsel Robert Mueller may soon interview President Donald Trump under oath, setting up a risky situation for the White House.
  
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• Trump Evokes Nixon Again with Mueller Firing

  25-01-2018 21:40 via yahoo.com
  Michael Beschloss, NBC News presidential historian, talks with Rachel Maddow about parallels between Donald Trump's desire to fire Robert Mueller and Richard Nixon's criticism of his investigation.
  
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• Vegas shooting victim's husband says wife visited him in dream to tell him not to take her off life support

  25-01-2018 21:33 via yahoo.com
  A husband whose wife was critically injured during the Las Vegas shooting on October 1 says she visited him in a dream and told him everything would be okay.
  
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• Man sentenced for attacking wife after she found evidence

  25-01-2018 21:33 via yahoo.com
  GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. (AP) — A former Michigan teacher has been sentenced to 30 to 60 years in prison for slashing his wife's throat after she discovered evidence of an affair that investigators said involved a middle-school student.
  
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• China mom pays dearly for husband's probe of Ivanka Trump

  25-01-2018 21:29 via yahoo.com
  XIANGYANG, China (AP) — With two young children, Deng Guilian hadn't planned on going back to work. That changed after her husband was arrested while investigating labor abuses at Chinese suppliers for Ivanka Trump's brand.
  
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• An unexpected legacy for Ivanka Trump in China

  25-01-2018 21:25 via yahoo.com
  XIANGYANG, China (AP) — The young woman, new to the grind of Chinese factory life, knew the man who called himself Kalen only by the photo on his chat profile. It showed him with a pressed smile holding a paper cup in a swank skyscraper somewhere late at night.
  
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• Venezuela seeks Interpol red alert for ex-oil czar Ramirez

  25-01-2018 21:17 via yahoo.com
  By Brian Ellsworth and Marianna ParragaCARACAS/HOUSTON (Reuters) - Venezuelan authorities said on Thursday they were seeking an Interpol red alert for ex-oil czar Rafael Ramirez on corruption charges, heightening tensions between the former political heavyweight and the country's socialist government.Ramirez, who headed the powerful oil ministry and state energy firm PDVSA [PDVSA.UL] for a decade, is a longtime rival of President Nicolas Maduro who has become more critical of his handling of the
  
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• 4.0-magnitude earthquake hits Trabuco Canyon area

  25-01-2018 21:17 via yahoo.com
  An earthquake with a preliminary magnitude of 4.0 hit the Trabuco Canyon area at 2:09 a.m. Thursday.
  
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• McGahn oddly central in recent Trump stories

  25-01-2018 21:10 via yahoo.com
  Bob Bauer, White House counsel to President Barack Obama, talks with Rachel Maddow about what can be inferred about the relationship between Donald Trump and White House counsel Don McGahn from reports including the New York Times.
  
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• Stormy Daniels Smirks When Asked If She Had Affair With Donald Trump

  25-01-2018 21:05 via yahoo.com
  If a picture is worth a thousand words, what’s the going price for a knowing smirk?
  
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• Correction: Burned Bears story

  25-01-2018 21:04 via yahoo.com
  SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — In a story Jan. 24 about medical care for three wild animals burned in fires in Southern California, The Associated Press, relying on information from the animal's caregivers, reported erroneously that a 5-month-old mountain lion being treated for burns would be released back into the wild this week.
  
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• 750,000 DACA 'Dreamers' are holding their breath. Here's how one is coping.

  25-01-2018 21:02 via yahoo.com
  Last August, Fairooz Haider was about to start her senior year at City College of New York with big plans for her future. But then an announcement left her feeling shattered and hopeless.
  
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• Turkey to U.S.: End support for Syrian Kurd YPG or risk confrontation

  25-01-2018 20:58 via yahoo.com
  By Tuvan Gumrukcu and Dahlia NehmeANKARA/BEIRUT (Reuters) - Turkey urged the United States on Thursday to halt its support for Kurdish YPG fighters or risk confronting Turkish forces on the ground in Syria, some of Ankara's strongest comments yet about a potential clash with its NATO ally.The remarks, from the spokesman for President Tayyip Erdogan's government, underscored the growing bilateral tensions, six days after Turkey launched its air and ground operation, "Olive Branch", in Syria's nor
  
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• Oldest human fossil outside Africa is dug up in Israel

  25-01-2018 20:53 via yahoo.com
  The oldest remains of a modern human outside Africa have been dug up in Israel, offering evidence of what genetic studies have already suggested -- that humans migrated out of Africa some 50,000 years earlier than previously thought.Facial fragments, including a jawbone and several teeth, were found at a site called Misliya Cave in Israel, one of several prehistoric cave sites located on Mount Carmel.Until now, the earliest modern human fossils found outside of Africa were estimated to be betwee
  
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• Three dead as packed Italy commuter train derails

  25-01-2018 20:52 via yahoo.com
  Three women were killed and a dozen people seriously injured after a packed Italian commuter train derailed on Thursday near the northern city of Milan.Witnesses told the media the regional train began to shake heavily as if it were running over rocks, before braking suddenly and derailing.Italian Prime Minister Paolo Gentiloni promised that full light would be shed on the circumstances of the crash, whose cause was not immediately clear.
  
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• Here's How to Tell Whether Your Supplements Are Dangerous

  25-01-2018 20:48 via yahoo.com
  The NIH Office of Dietary Supplements released two new fact sheets about the safety and efficacy of weight loss and fitness supplements.
  
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• Exclusive: Commodities fund Jamison Capital to shut -source

  25-01-2018 20:44
  NEW YORK/LONDON (Reuters) - Jamison Capital Partners LP, a New York-based macro commodity hedge fund run by former Morgan Stanley trader Stephen Jamison, will be shutting its nearly $1.5 billion fund...
  
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• 'He Kissed My Forehead and Slit My Throat.' Ex-Teacher Attacked Wife Who Discovered His Affair With 14-Year-Old Student, Police Say

  25-01-2018 20:36 via yahoo.com
  James Chelekis slashed his wife's throat after she discovered his affair
  
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• At UN, US takes swipe at Abbas

  25-01-2018 20:34 via yahoo.com
  US Ambassador Nikki Haley took direct aim at Palestinian leader Mahmud Abbas on Thursday, telling the United Nations Security Council that he lacked the courage needed for a peace deal.Haley spoke soon after President Donald Trump insisted that Palestinians had "disrespected" the United States and issued a new threat to cut aid during a meeting with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in Davos, Switzerland.
  
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• There’s A Line Between Justice And Vengeance. Larry Nassar’s Judge Crossed It.

  25-01-2018 20:33 via yahoo.com
  Rosemarie Aquilina, the judge who presided over the astounding sentencing hearing of former USA Gymnastics team doctor Larry Nassar this month, has emerged as a heroine for victims of sexual assault.
  
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• Trump firing of Mueller stopped by McGahn: NYT

  25-01-2018 20:32 via yahoo.com
  Michael Schmidt, Washington correspondent for The New York Times, talks with Rachel Maddow about breaking new reporting that Donald Trump ordered the firing of Robert Mueller based on dubious conflict accusations and more.
  
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• Astronomers really hate that bright disco ball satellite secretly launched to space

  25-01-2018 20:28 via yahoo.com
  On Thursday, the rocket company Rocket Lab announced that it had secretly launched the Humanity Star, a satellite in the shape of a reflective sphere that effectively works as a disco ball and could at times become the brightest object in the night sky.  The Humanity Star was launched as a way to unite all who see it under the night sky, according to Rocket Lab.  SEE ALSO: A satellite secretly launched by a little rocket is expected to be 'the brightest thing in the night sky' "The Hum
  
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• Fossil shows modern humans left Africa earlier than thought

  25-01-2018 20:23 via yahoo.com
  WASHINGTON (AP) — A fossil found in Israel indicates modern humans may have left Africa as much as 100,000 years earlier than previously thought.
  
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• Engineer says he misjudged train location in fatal wreck

  25-01-2018 20:14 via yahoo.com
  SEATTLE (AP) — An engineer told investigators he misjudged the location of an Amtrak train before it derailed in Washington state on a new high-speed route while traveling at nearly 80 mph — more than twice the speed limit around a curve, the National Transportation Safety Board disclosed Thursday.
  
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• GLMX reboots high-tech platform in post-crisis repo environment

  25-01-2018 20:13
  NEW YORK (Reuters) - GLMX has raised $20 million in financing and updated its high-tech platform for trading repurchase agreements and secured lending to help clients comply with new regulatory...
  
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• Putin hails new bomber as a boost to Russia's nuclear forces

  25-01-2018 20:08 via yahoo.com
  By Vladimir SoldatkinKAZAN, Russia (Reuters) - President Vladimir Putin praised a newly-built supersonic strategic bomber on Thursday after watching it in flight, saying it would beef up Russia's nuclear weapons capability.Under a contract signed on Thursday, 10 of the modernized TU-160M nuclear bombers, codenamed Blackjacks by NATO, will be delivered to the Russian Air Force at a cost of 15 billion rubles ($269 million) each between now and 2027.The giant swing-wing plane is a substantially mod
  
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• Nikki Haley says Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas lacks 'courage and the will' to seek Israel peace deal

  25-01-2018 20:07 via yahoo.com
  The US's ambassador to the United Nations, Nikki Haley, has harshly reprimanded Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas, saying he lacks the “courage and the will” to strive for a lasting peace deal with Israel.Speaking at a UN Security Council meeting, she said that Mr Abbas had insulted President Donald Trump and advanced outrageous conspiracy theories in a speech before the Palestinian Liberation Organization (PLO) Central Council earlier in January.“In his speech, President Abb
  
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• U.S. Justice Department recovers FBI officials' missing text messages

  25-01-2018 19:58 via yahoo.com
  The U.S. Justice Department's internal watchdog said Thursday it recovered five months of missing text messages between two Federal Bureau of Investigation officials whom Republicans have accused of bias against President Donald Trump.In a letter to several key Republican lawmakers, Inspector General Michael Horowitz said he would not object if the Justice Department shares with congressional committees the messages between FBI agent Peter Strzok and FBI lawyer Lisa Page that were recovered usin
  
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• The Latest: Pentagon: Turkey's Syria operations not helpful

  25-01-2018 19:49 via yahoo.com
  ANKARA, Turkey (AP) — The Latest on developments related to Syria (all times local):
  
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• Epic Bollywood Movie That Sparked Protests, Court Battles And Burnings Opens In India

  25-01-2018 19:48 via yahoo.com
  A controversial new Bollywood movie is causing security concerns in India as it opens in theaters across the country on Thursday.
  
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