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• 12 Sustainable Alternatives To Paper Towels Your Kitchen Needs

  26-01-2018 23:56 via yahoo.com
  Transitioning to a sustainable kitchen isn’t easy, but it can be done with a few thoughtful lifestyle tweaks.
  
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• Och-Ziff hedge fund rebounds but succession, other issues linger

  26-01-2018 23:47
  NEW YORK (Reuters) - Och-Ziff Capital Management Group LLC rode bets on Asian stocks and U.S. corporate mergers to strong returns in 2017 - its best showing in years - but remained challenged by...
  
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• Jemele Hill Is Leaving ‘SportsCenter’ To Write About Race And Culture

  26-01-2018 23:43 via yahoo.com
  The ESPN “SportsCenter” anchor will be exiting the evening news hour to write for the Undefeated, the network’s sports culture website, according to the Hollywood Reporter.
  
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• 'We Weren't Prepared for This.' Inside the Accidental Liberation of a Concentration Camp

  26-01-2018 23:41 via yahoo.com
  A Holocaust camp survivor recently reunited with a U.S. soldier who help liberate him
  
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• Kentucky school shooting suspect did not target victims: local prosecutor

  26-01-2018 23:33 via yahoo.com
  The teenaged boy who opened fire in a Kentucky high school this week, killing two students and wounding many others, appeared not to have targeted his victims and shot at random, a local prosecutor said on Friday.Three security cameras captured the Tuesday morning incident in Marshall County High School's common area, Commonwealth's Attorney Mark Blankenship told Reuters in an email on Friday."The video clearly shows what happened," Blankenship said.
  
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• The Atlantic Politics & Policy Daily: The Titan of Davos

  26-01-2018 23:23 via yahoo.com
  Today in 5 Lines During his address at the World Economic Forum in Davos, President Trump said “America is open for business.” Trump dismissed a New York Times report that revealed he tried to fire Special Counsel Robert Mueller in June 2017 as “fake news.” Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer rejected a White House plan that would provide citizenship for Dreamers in exchange for tighter restrictions on immigration. The Wall Street Journal reports that Steve Wynn, a Las V
  
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• Prominent businessmen reach settlements in Saudi corruption probe: source

  26-01-2018 23:22 via yahoo.com
  By Katie PaulRIYADH (Reuters) - Several prominent businessmen have reached financial settlements with Saudi Arabian authorities in the kingdom's sweeping crackdown on corruption, an official source told Reuters on Friday.
  
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• White House counsel was 'fed up' with Trump: source

  26-01-2018 23:19 via yahoo.com
  If Trump did try to fire Mueller, it could strengthen a case for obstruction of justice against the president based on whether he had "corrupt intent" in trying to hinder Mueller's investigation, legal experts said.A person familiar with the situation told Reuters Trump sought to have Mueller removed over what the president perceived as conflicts of interest.
  
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• Kimora Lee Simmons Defends Ex-Husband Russell Simmons From Rape Allegations

  26-01-2018 23:19 via yahoo.com
  Kimora Lee Simmons is defending her ex-husband against the numerous accusations of rape and sexual assault he’s facing.
  
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• Suge Knight's lawyers arrested on bribery charges in murder trial

  26-01-2018 23:04 via yahoo.com
  Two former lawyers of rap record producer and music executive Marion “Suge” Knight have been arrested for acting as “accessories after the fact” as part of the music mogul’s ongoing murder trial.Matthew Fletcher and Thaddeus Culpepper were allegedly attempting to bribe eyewitnesses to help Mr Knight's case.Both deny the allegations and are being held on $1m bail, according to Los Angeles County police.
  
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• What to Know About Don McGahn, the Lawyer Who Bucked Trump's Order to Fire Robert Mueller

  26-01-2018 23:02 via yahoo.com
  The New York Times and other outlets recently reported that President Trump wanted to fire special counsel Robert Mueller over the summer.
  
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• Everybody We Know Robert Mueller Has Interviewed in the Trump Investigation So Far

  26-01-2018 22:56 via yahoo.com
  Special counsel Robert Mueller and congressional investigators have interviewed roughly 50 people who work at the White House.
  
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• KTM Unveils RC 390 R for 2018

  26-01-2018 22:47 via yahoo.com
  KTM Unveils RC 390 R for 2018 The Ready-To-Race brand has just revealed its SSP300-grade homologation racer. KTM’s has developed quite a few championship-winning, small-displacement racers – such as the RC250R Moto3 machine – before introducing the popular
  
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• Police: 27-year-old man found dead inside gym tanning bed

  26-01-2018 22:32 via yahoo.com
  Police are investigating the death of a New Jersey man whose body was found in a gym tanning bed.
  
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• Alabama GOP Told Gay Sheriff Candidate He Couldn’t Run As A Republican

  26-01-2018 22:26 via yahoo.com
  A former police officer and married gay man said GOP leaders in Alabama denied his request to run for sheriff on the Republican ticket because of his sexuality.
  
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• 4 Reasons to File Taxes Early

  26-01-2018 22:21 via yahoo.com
  Don’t panic about how the new tax law could affect you this tax filing season. The giant Tax Cuts and Jobs Act, passed late last year, doesn’t apply to your 2017 taxes in most cases. The new law ...
  
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• Kentucky shooting fuels debate on allowing guns in schools

  26-01-2018 22:15 via yahoo.com
  FRANKFORT, Ky. (AP) — Hours after authorities say a 15-year-old student shot and killed two classmates at a western Kentucky high school, a Republican senator in the state's Capitol rushed to file a bill intended to prevent future tragedies by putting more guns in schools.
  
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• US sees most active flu season since 2009 'swine' pandemic

  26-01-2018 22:14 via yahoo.com
  Flu is sweeping the United States, killing at least 37 children and sending the most people nationwide in search of medical care since the 2009 "swine flu" pandemic, US officials said Friday.This year, the most common strain of influenza is H3N2, and nearly every state has been hit hard, said the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention."For the past three weeks, the entire country has been experiencing lots of flu, all at the same time," said Dan Jernigan, director of the Influenza Divisio
  
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• Canadian billionaires Barry and Honey Sherman were 'murdered', Toronto police say

  26-01-2018 22:12 via yahoo.com
  “We believe we have sufficient evidence to describe this as a double homicide and that both were targeted,” detective sergeant Susan Gomes said.The couple were found dead by an estate agent on 15 December in the pool area of their mansion in North York, Toronto.The family said in statement shortly after the police update: “The announcement by the Toronto Police Service that the tragic deaths of their parents are being investigated as a double homicide was anticipated by the She
  
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• Lisa Page and Peter Strzok: Did the FBI agents really text about forming a secret society?

  26-01-2018 22:11 via yahoo.com
  If you’ve been anywhere near a computer or iPhone, however, you likely know that “the texts” refers to hundreds of recently released messages exchanged by two FBI agents working on the Special Counsel investigation into Donald Trump’s possible ties to Russia.The messages set off a firestorm on the right, with conservatives claiming they contain evidence of everything from biased FBI agents to the existence of a secret society within the agency.“The texts” is s
  
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• As Republicans Attack The DOJ And FBI, Sessions Vows To Stand Up To 'Unfair' Criticism

  26-01-2018 22:11 via yahoo.com
  WASHINGTON ― With his Justice Department and FBI facing broad attacks from some of his former colleagues on Capitol Hill, Attorney General Jeff Sessions said on Friday that he’ll stand up to any “unfair” attacks on the men and women of the Justice Department he now oversees.
  
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• Kentucky governor says shootings are a "cultural problem"

  26-01-2018 22:09 via yahoo.com
  BENTON, Ky. (AP) — This was supposed to be Spirit Week at Marshall County High School.
  
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• Connecticut day care owner jailed after kid overdoses on Benadryl

  26-01-2018 22:09 via yahoo.com
  A daycare owner from Connecticut will be spending the next 30 months in prison after reportedly killing a 4-month-old boy by giving him an overdose of Benadryl.
  
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• U.S. stocks, VIX dance in tandem in break with history

  26-01-2018 22:06
  NEW YORK (Reuters) - A rising U.S. stock market normally reduces fear among investors, but the blistering pace of the current rally has instead also driven up the anxiety factor in the market.
  
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• White House immigration proposal has critics on the left and the right

  26-01-2018 22:05 via yahoo.com
  Democrats called the proposal a Trojan horse, with the DACA fix carrying a slew of anti-immigrant measures, while Breitbart referred to the president as "Amnesty Don."
  
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• East Coast Defender looks back on the SUV's past with Project Tuki

  26-01-2018 22:00 via yahoo.com
  East Coast Defender will happily build customers an original Land Rover Defender with a modern twist, but for those who seek something with a little more heritage, Project Tuki may be the answer.Project Tuki is a fully customized Defender 110 created to celebrate the original Land Rover Defender's timelessness.
  
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• Looming water shortages spell catastrophe for Cape Town

  26-01-2018 21:56 via yahoo.com
  Cape Town faces “catastrophic" consequences as water taps to four million citizens will be turned off within the next 80 days.  Unless the skies defy weather forecasts and rain floods the city’s six dams, "Day Zero”  is April 12.  This is when the municipality will shut taps and residents will have to queue to collect water daily at about 150 sites around the already congested city.  Many fear lack of water will spark civil unrest and even more cri
  
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• Dash: Real 'fake news' bites President Trump

  26-01-2018 21:56 via yahoo.com
  President Trump travels halfway around the world and gets booed after trashing "fake news" while at home, that very same "fake news" broke the story that Trump once sought to fire special counsel Robert Mueller.
  
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• Jimmy Kimmel To Interview Stormy Daniels After Trump’s State Of The Union

  26-01-2018 21:49 via yahoo.com
  A well-publicized smirk and now a late-night talk show booking may hint that perhaps she is.
  
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• France urges more EU sanctions on Venezuela over "shift to authoritarianism"

  26-01-2018 21:46 via yahoo.com
  French President Emmanuel Macron called on Friday for further European Union sanctions on Venezuela, days after the 28-nation bloc agreed a travel ban and asset freezes on seven senior Venezuelan officials.The West accuses President Nicholas Maduro's government of violating democracy and human rights in the oil-producing nation, which is in the grip of a major economic and social crisis with millions suffering food and medicine shortages.Venezuela's pro-government Supreme Court late on Thursday
  
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• Canada pharma tycoon and wife's deaths 'targeted' murders: police

  26-01-2018 21:35 via yahoo.com
  The deaths of Canadian pharmaceutical tycoon Barry Sherman and his wife were "targeted" homicides, Toronto police ruled Friday after a six-week investigation.The 75-year-old chairman of Apotex and his 70-year-old wife Honey were found dead in their Toronto home on December 15.Apotex is the largest maker of generic drugs in Canada, and the Shermans' fortune was estimated at Can$4.7 billion (US$3.8 billion).
  
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• Execution halted for man attorneys say can't remember crime

  26-01-2018 21:34 via yahoo.com
  ATMORE, Ala. (AP) — Alabama Attorney General Steve Marshall said Friday he was disappointed in the U.S. Supreme Court's decision to delay the execution of an inmate convicted of killing a police officer in 1985, saying "justice is again delayed" for the officer's family.
  
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• Has the Wreckage of the Clotilda, America's Last Slave Ship, Been Found?

  26-01-2018 21:28 via yahoo.com
  The Clotilda brought more than 100 captives to Alabama more than 50 years after slavery was outlawed.
  
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• Three Pennsylvania teens charged with purposely exposing classmate to pineapple

  26-01-2018 21:21 via yahoo.com
  Three teenage girls are facing multiple felony charges after reportedly devising a plan to expose their classmate, who is allergic to pineapples, to pineapple juice.
  
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• Dr. James Kauffman Dead: Doctor Accused of Hiring Hit Man to Kill Wife Kills Self in Jail

  26-01-2018 21:12 via yahoo.com
  Kauffman's body was found Friday morning in his cell at the Hudson County Jail.
  
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• US sanctions Russian officials over Crimea power plant

  26-01-2018 21:07 via yahoo.com
  The United States imposed sanctions Friday on Russian officials who supplied turbines to a power plant in annexed Crimea, as well as several "ministers" from the breakaway region in eastern Ukraine.The turbines were built by German engineering giant Siemens for delivery to Russia but were later sent to Crimea -- which Russia seized from Ukraine and annexed in 2014 -- by its Russian partner.No US action has been taken against the Munich-based firm, which says it was not aware the equipment would
  
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• Billionaire Canadian couple's mysterious death being treated as murder, Toronto police say

  26-01-2018 20:54 via yahoo.com
  The mysterious deaths of a Canadian billionaire and his wife shortly before Christmas are now being treated as murder, Toronto police announced on Friday. Barry Sherman, 75, and his wife Honey, 70, were found dead in their home on December 15. Mr Sherman was the founder of Canadian pharmaceutical giant Apotex, and both he and his wife have been recognized internationally for their philanthropic work. The socially-active couple was believed to have amassed a fortune of some $4.77 billion before t
  
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• Bombardier wins trade dispute with Boeing amid fears huge tariffs could cost UK jobs

  26-01-2018 20:51 via yahoo.com
  Bombardier has won a trade dispute with rival Boeing in a move that potentially safeguards hundreds of jobs in Northern Ireland.Wings for the aircraft are made in Northern Ireland, prompting the union Unite to warn that thousands of jobs would be at risk if the imposition of the extra duty had led to the loss of sales.Four commissioners from the International Trade Commission rejected Boeing’s injury claims, voting unanimously to overturn the decision.
  
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• Boy, 14, arrested with weapons after alleged school threat

  26-01-2018 20:50 via yahoo.com
  UNIONTOWN, Pa. (AP) — A 14-year-old boy was arrested and weapons including a semi-automatic rifle and throwing knives were seized from his home after an alleged threat to shoot other students at a Pennsylvania high school, authorities said Friday.
  
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• Houston Texans star J.J. Watt sends soldiers in Afghanistan a pair of his shoes

  26-01-2018 20:34 via yahoo.com
  J. J. Watt sent a platoon of soldiers in Afghanistan a pair of his shoes after one of the soldiers tweeted to him about it.
  
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• Driller at center of Oklahoma well blast has history of deadly accidents

  26-01-2018 20:31 via yahoo.com
  Patterson-UTI Energy, the contractor at the center of the deadliest U.S. drilling accident since the Deepwater Horizon rig explosion in 2010, has the second worst worker fatality rate among its peers, according to federal workplace safety data.Monday's disaster, which killed five workers drilling a well in eastern Oklahoma, put a spotlight on safety in the shale industry amid President Donald Trump's policy of boosting U.S. output of fossil fuels.Last month, the administration proposed scaling b
  
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• These Bills Would Prevent Donald Trump From Firing Robert Mueller. They're Going Nowhere

  26-01-2018 20:22 via yahoo.com
  Reports that Donald Trump attempted to fire special counsel Robert Mueller last June have led to renewed calls to protect the investigation.
  
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• RNC Finance Chair Steve Wynn Accused Of Decades Of Sexual Misconduct: Report

  26-01-2018 20:14 via yahoo.com
  Las Vegas mogul Steve Wynn has been accused of a decades-long pattern of sexual harassment and abuse toward workers at his casinos, according to an investigation by The Wall Street Journal.
  
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• California's big question: What happens after Jerry Brown?

  26-01-2018 20:10 via yahoo.com
  California Gov. Jerry Brown wasted no time in his final State of the State address Thursday morning. Clocking in at just under half an hour, the speech dove right into a defense of the governor’s pet projects: grappling with the effects of climate change; the controversial water tunnel he wants to construct under and around the Sacramento-San Joaquin Water Delta; and the overpriced high-speed rail that he’s dreamed of building since the 1970s.
  
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• This Bar Says It Will Kick You Out If You Use The Word 'Literally'

  26-01-2018 19:53 via yahoo.com
  Continental is a rather infamous dive bar in New York City’s East Village.
  
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• The Latest: Pope sends condolences on hospital fire

  26-01-2018 19:48 via yahoo.com
  SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — The Latest on a hospital fire in South Korea (all times local):
  
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• El Chapo's lawyer says jurors don't need special protection

  26-01-2018 19:43 via yahoo.com
  Mr Guzman has pleaded not guilty to the charges.Prosecutors in the case have requested that Brooklyn Federal Court Justice Brian Cogan — who is overseeing the case — impanel an anonymous jury with armed guards as protection, and to house those individuals in a secure location, in order to keep them safe.In requesting the special protections, the prosecution had cited Mr Guzman’s alleged history of violence, and said that he is believed to have tried killing witnesses in the pas
  
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• Turkey's Erdogan says military operation to make big sweep east across Syria

  26-01-2018 19:42 via yahoo.com
  By Ece Toksabay and Lisa BarringtonANKARA/BEIRUT (Reuters) - President Tayyip Erdogan said on Friday Turkish forces would sweep Kurdish fighters from the Syrian border and could push all the way east to the frontier with Iraq -- a move which risks a possible confrontation with U.S. forces allied to the Kurds.The Turkish offensive in northwest Syria's Afrin region against the Kurdish YPG militia has opened a new front in the multi-sided Syrian civil war but has strained ties with NATO ally Washin
  
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• Lawmakers vote to outlaw references to 'Polish death camps'

  26-01-2018 19:38 via yahoo.com
  WARSAW, Poland (AP) — The lower house of the Polish parliament approved a bill Friday that prescribes prison time for defaming the Polish nation by using phrases such as "Polish death camps" to refer to the killing sites Nazi Germany operated in occupied Poland during World War II.
  
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• Iowa mom gets 3 life sentences in girl's starvation death

  26-01-2018 19:36 via yahoo.com
  DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — An Iowa woman convicted of murder in the starvation death of her 16-year-old daughter was given three life sentences Friday.
  
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