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• Vatican rebukes cardinal over 'selling out' to China accusations

  30-01-2018 23:58 via yahoo.com
  By Philip PullellaVATICAN CITY (Reuters) - The Vatican on Tuesday rebuked a senior cardinal who said its diplomats were "selling out" Chinese Catholics loyal to the pope as part of a deal aimed at normalizing ties with Beijing's communist government.In a sharply worded statement, the Vatican said it was surprising and regrettable that some people in the Church were "fostering confusion and controversy".It came a day after Cardinal Joseph Zen, the outspoken former archbishop of Hong Kong, caused
  
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• FEMA criticized for plan to end storm aid in Puerto Rico

  30-01-2018 23:56 via yahoo.com
  WASHINGTON (AP) — Plans by the Federal Emergency Management Agency to halt hurricane relief supplies to Puerto Rico drew criticism Tuesday from members of Congress and the mayor of the island's largest city.
  
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• New attractions coming to Disney Parks

  30-01-2018 23:52 via yahoo.com
  Toy Story Land, Marvel Land, and Star Wars Land are all coming to Disney Parks.
  
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• Hawaii fires warning officer who sent missile alert

  30-01-2018 23:47 via yahoo.com
  The administrator of Hawaii's Emergency Management Agency has resigned and an officer with a track record of "poor performance" has been fired after triggering mass panic with a false alert of a ballistic missile headed for the Pacific islands, officials said Tuesday.HEMA administrator Vern Miyagi resigned on Tuesday to take responsibility for the January 13 incident, Logan said, and the emergency warning officer who sent out the alert of an imminent ballistic missile attack was fired on Friday.
  
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• Photo released of dead child known as 'Little Jacob' found dead on Galveston beach

  30-01-2018 23:20 via yahoo.com
  Detectives release photograph of dead child as 'last resort' in effort to identify him. WARNING: Photograph may disturb some viewers
  
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• The Latest: Vegas shooting records show 2 people of interest

  30-01-2018 23:17 via yahoo.com
  LAS VEGAS (AP) — The Latest on court orders by Nevada judges to release documents that had been sealed in the deadliest mass shooting in modern U.S. history (all times local):
  
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• Oklahoma rapist avoids jail; blindness cited as major factor

  30-01-2018 23:14 via yahoo.com
  SULPHUR, Okla. (AP) — An Oklahoma man who is legally blind has been sentenced to probation for raping a 13-year-old Texas girl at a church camp, after prosecutors cited his disability in agreeing to a plea deal that spares him prison time.
  
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• Pope sends sex crimes expert to Chile to investigate bishop

  30-01-2018 23:05 via yahoo.com
  VATICAN CITY (AP) — After coming under excoriating public criticism, Pope Francis decided Tuesday to send the Vatican's most respected sex crimes expert to Chile to investigate a bishop accused by victims of covering up for the country's most notorious pedophile priest.
  
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• GOP Congressman Calls For Undocumented SOTU Guests To Be Arrested On The Spot

  30-01-2018 23:04 via yahoo.com
  WASHINGTON ― About 30 young undocumented immigrants are attending the State of the Union on Tuesday as guests of lawmakers ― and one of their colleagues wants to use the opportunity to have those guests arrested.
  
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• Trump brings 'deep state' paranoia to SOTU

  30-01-2018 23:01 via yahoo.com
  Nicolle Wallace points out that when Donald Trump calls for the purging of federal employees who undermine the trust of the American people, he is talking about loyalty to Trump, not a meritocracy.
  
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• Police: Kidnap victim shot after grabbing FBI agent's rifle

  30-01-2018 22:59 via yahoo.com
  HOUSTON (AP) — A kidnapping victim killed during a rescue attempt was shot after grabbing the rifle of an FBI agent when the agent tried to enter the home where the victim was being held, police said Tuesday, describing the incident as tragic.
  
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• Ruth Bader Ginsburg's great fear: Courts viewed as partisan

  30-01-2018 22:55 via yahoo.com
  BRISTOL, R.I. (AP) — One of Ruth Bader Ginsburg's great fears is that the federal judiciary will start to be seen as just another political branch of government divided along partisan lines like Congress, the U.S. Supreme Court justice said Tuesday.
  
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• Rocky Syria talks in Russia end, ignore key opposition demands

  30-01-2018 22:46 via yahoo.com
  By Kinda Makieh and Maria TsvetkovaSOCHI, Russia (Reuters) - A Syrian peace conference in Russia ended on Tuesday with a statement calling for democratic elections, but ignoring key opposition demands after a day marred by squabbles and heckling of the Russian foreign minister.The participants also agreed to set up a committee to rewrite the Syrian constitution at the conference, which much of the opposition said aimed to serve the interests of President Bashar al-Assad and his close ally, Mosco
  
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• Victim's dad: Son, killer had run-in before car-wash rampage

  30-01-2018 22:41 via yahoo.com
  MELCROFT, Pa. (AP) — The father of one of four people gunned down by a jealous ex-boyfriend at a car wash says the shooter had an altercation with his son at a bar hours before the deadly rampage.
  
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• Only One President Had The Guts To Say The State Of The Union Is 'Not Good'

  30-01-2018 22:39 via yahoo.com
  WASHINGTON ― The State of the Union is one of the most predictable set pieces of political theater in the United States.
  
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• Trump lawyers try to avoid Mueller interview

  30-01-2018 22:36 via yahoo.com
  Kristen Welker, NBC News White House correspondent, talks with Rachel Maddow about Donald Trump's lawyers working on a way for Trump to speak with Robert Mueller without opening himself to saying something regrettable or worse.
  
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• Trump's first State of the Union in 150 seconds

  30-01-2018 22:19 via yahoo.com
  President Donald Trump made his first State of the Union address. Take a look at the major highlights from his 80-minute address.
  
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• India's 'Unwanted' Girls Number In The Millions, New Report Finds

  30-01-2018 22:17 via yahoo.com
  Indian families’ traditional preference for sons over daughters has led to the existence of millions of “unwanted” girls in the country, a new government report estimates.
  
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• Top Republican Admits Gerrymandering Could Help GOP Keep Control Of The House

  30-01-2018 22:08 via yahoo.com
  The congressman running the National Republican Congressional Committee, the campaign arm of the House GOP, just said openly that partisan gerrymandering could help his party retain control of the House in November.
  
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• Police say Texas kidnap victim fatally shot while pulling on FBI agent's rifle

  30-01-2018 22:02 via yahoo.com
  The Houston Police Department released new information Tuesday about the investigation into the shooting death of a kidnap victim during an FBI raid.
  
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• US Speaker Paul Ryan calls for a 'cleanse' of the FBI

  30-01-2018 21:59 via yahoo.com
  House Speaker Paul Ryan has reportedly called for a “cleansing” of the FBI – a day after its deputy director resigned after being criticised by Donald Trump.Mr Ryan told Republicans he also supported the public release of a memo drawn up by members of the House Intelligence Committee that Democrats have claimed is an attempt to undermine Robert Mueller’s Trump-Russia probe.Cleanse the organisation,” Mr Ryan said, according to Fox News.
  
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• Flake: 'I Have Confidence in the FBI'

  30-01-2018 21:58 via yahoo.com
  Jeff Flake talks about his sense of the threat to Robert Mueller by Donald Trump and whether legislation is needed to protect the investigation of Trump, and the political middle he sees as not being represented by an increasingly partisan Washington.
  
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• Officials ask court to send Kennedy cousin back to prison

  30-01-2018 21:57 via yahoo.com
  HARTFORD, Conn. (AP) — Connecticut officials are asking the state's highest court to revoke Kennedy cousin Michael Skakel's bail and send him back to prison, reminding justices it has been more than a year since they reinstated his murder conviction.
  
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• GOP Rep. Paul Gosar asks Capitol Police to arrest undocumented immigrants at State of the Union

  30-01-2018 21:41 via yahoo.com
  Some Democratic lawmakers are set to bring "Dreamers" as guests to President Donald Trump's State of the Union address on Tuesday night, and Rep. Paul Gosar (R-Ariz.)
  
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• NTSB: Communication problems after American engine fire

  30-01-2018 21:38 via yahoo.com
  CHICAGO (AP) — Federal investigators said Tuesday that communication problems that left flight attendants unable to talk to the pilots in the moments after an American Airlines plane caught fire on the runway in Chicago in 2016 put evacuating passengers at more risk of serious injury.
  
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• Todd: SOTU was not the Trump we Recognize

  30-01-2018 21:37 via yahoo.com
  Chuck Todd notes that the scripted Donald Trump who gave the State of the Union address was not the Trump Americans recognize, but the speech was not the unifying call to Americans that the White House promised.
  
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• Sarah Huckabee Sanders Slams Anti-Trump Celebs: People Don't Care What They Think

  30-01-2018 21:35 via yahoo.com
  White House press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders on Tuesday dismissed the celebrities who’d gathered the night before to offer an alternative to President Donald Trump’s upcoming State of the Union address.
  
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• Mayon Volcano Erupts in the Philippines, Leaving Towns in Darkness

  30-01-2018 21:35 via yahoo.com
  Scientists fear a massive eruption may be imminent.
  
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• Super Bowl Recipes for a Crowd

  30-01-2018 21:30 via yahoo.com
  No matter which team you're rooting for on Super Bowl Sunday, you'll want your party guests to be cheering for the food you've cooked up. But crowd-pleasing party food isn't always healthy. Super...
  
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• Turkish air strikes pound Kurdish fighters in Syria

  30-01-2018 21:28 via yahoo.com
  Turkish air strikes pounded the Syrian border region of Afrin on Tuesday and fighting raged on two fronts as Ankara pursued its offensive against the Kurdish enclave.A monitoring group and Kurdish sources said Turkey's air force had stepped up its raids on the 10th day of operation "Olive Branch", which sees Turkey providing air and ground support to Syrian opposition fighters in an offensive against Kurdish militia in northwestern Syria.Ankara has pushed forward with the operation to force the
  
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• Trump Sotu Speech Given from "Alternate Reality"

  30-01-2018 21:28 via yahoo.com
  Republican strategist Steve Schmidt reacts to Donald Trump’s State of the Union speech, saying it was delivered from an “alternate reality” and will be soon forgotten once Trump returns to "reckless" behavior.
  
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• Texas Gov. Greg Abbott Orders Investigation Into Karolyi Ranch Allegations

  30-01-2018 21:27 via yahoo.com
  Texas Gov. Greg Abbott (R) has ordered additional law enforcement to investigate allegations of sexual assault at Walker County’s Karolyi Ranch, the former training facility for USA Gymnastics athletes.
  
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• Egypt opposition urges boycott of presidential election

  30-01-2018 21:17 via yahoo.com
  Opposition parties and figures in Egypt called Tuesday for a boycott of the March presidential election in which incumbent Abdel Fattah al-Sisi looks set to romp to victory."No to participation in this charade," said Hamdeen Sabbahi, a presidential candidate in 2012 and 2014.Sabbahi accused President Sisi's regime of having "led the country into a deadlock because of his arrogance and his desire to suppress any contrary opinion".
  
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• US threatens new sanctions as Russia laughs off Putin list

  30-01-2018 21:16 via yahoo.com
  The United States warned Tuesday that it may soon impose new sanctions on Russian figures, after Vladimir Putin laughed off the release of a US target list of his closest and richest allies.The world was braced for a US sanctions onslaught on Monday when a new law came into effect 180 days after President Donald Trump, still hopeful for warmer ties, begrudgingly signed it.
  
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• Trump SOTU Fell Short on Truth

  30-01-2018 21:10 via yahoo.com
  Senator Kamala Harris shares her reaction to Donald Trump's State of the Union address, with particular criticism of his characterization of the tax bill and Trump's treatment of immigrants.
  
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• Trump Takes Shot at Mueller in Sotu

  30-01-2018 20:56 via yahoo.com
  Lawrence O'Donnell points out that Donald Trump's call for removing federal employees who undermine the public trust is a thinly veiled shot at Robert Mueller's investigation of Trump.
  
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• Trump Sotu Speech Aimed at "Sweet Spot" Not "Hannity Crowd

  30-01-2018 20:55 via yahoo.com
  MSNBC's Chris Matthews responds to President Trump's 2018 State of the Union speech saying it was aimed at a wider group, not just a "raging right wing theme".
  
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• Everything you need to know about tomorrow's super blue blood moon

  30-01-2018 20:51 via yahoo.com
  A rare celestial phenomenon will take place January 31, when a super moon, blue moon and total lunar eclipse take place at the same time.
  
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• Pfizer's new tax rate higher than investors hoped, shares fall

  30-01-2018 20:44 via yahoo.com
  Pfizer Incsaid on Tuesday it expected to pay tax at an adjusted rate of about 17 percent this year, higher than some investors had expected, sending its shares down more than 3 percent.Shares of the largest U.S. drugmaker jumped last Friday after rival AbbVie Incprojected a new adjusted tax rate of just 9 percent and rose to their highest level since 2002 on Monday on hopes that Pfizer might benefit to a similar extent.Drugmaker stocks were also broadly lower on Tuesday after Amazon.com Inc , Be
  
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• Military blames 'human error' for hidden Afghan war data

  30-01-2018 20:17 via yahoo.com
  The Defense Department is withholding important figures about how the nation's longest war is going, a watchdog office says. The latest quarterly report omits such data as the size of Afghan forces and the number of districts under Taliban control.
  
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• A Controversial GOP Memo Is About to Go Public. Here's What We Know About It

  30-01-2018 20:09 via yahoo.com
  And why it matters for Robert Mueller's Trump investigation
  
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• 76 Immigrants — Including Children — Found Stuffed Inside Tractor-Trailer

  30-01-2018 19:48 via yahoo.com
  One man was arrested.
  
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• Bucking tradition, Melania arrives separately from President Trump to State of the Union

  30-01-2018 19:12 via yahoo.com
  At President Trump's first State of the Union address, First Lady Melania Trump opted to arrive on Capitol Hill with her invited guests instead of the her husband. The situation was different one year ago.
  
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• Memo alleging DOJ, FBI abuse on Russia probe rocks US capital

  30-01-2018 18:58 via yahoo.com
  A secret Republican memo alleging that a politically motivated Department of Justice and the FBI flagrantly abused regulations to spy on the Trump campaign has gripped Washington just as the Russia meddling probe edges closer to the White House.Republicans are keen to see the four-page memo -- written by Republican lawmaker Devin Nunes, the chairman of the House Intelligence Committee and a close defender of President Donald Trump -- released, and his committee voted to do so.Trump, who has five
  
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• Paul Ryan defends Republican memo release

  30-01-2018 18:57 via yahoo.com
  On Tuesday, January Paul Ryan defended the vote by the U.S. House Intelligence Committee to release a classified memo the GOP says shows anti-Trump bias by the FBI and DOJ
  
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• US delegation flees Bethlehem event as Palestinians protest

  30-01-2018 18:42 via yahoo.com
  A delegation of US diplomats had to cut short an event in the Palestinian city of Bethlehem on Tuesday, an attendee said, after protesters stormed their meeting.The angry protesters, who were objecting to US President Donald Trump's controversial recognition of Jerusalem as Israel's capital, also threw tomatoes at the delegation's car as they left.Samir Hazboun, head of the Bethlehem Chamber of Commerce, said they had been holding a training session for local businesspeople about digital commerc
  
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• The State of Accord and Camry: All New at the Same Time for the First Time Ever

  30-01-2018 18:38 via yahoo.com
  A look at how these top-sellers go about their business.
  
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• Russell Simmons 'Started To Kiss Me And Then He Raped Me'

  30-01-2018 18:36 via yahoo.com
  A woman who has accused Russell Simmons of rape is speaking out after filing a $5 million lawsuit against the media mogul, saying she hopes her story inspires other women to “come forward and speak.”
  
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• Suspect faces murder charges in killing of Missouri couple, daughter

  30-01-2018 18:35 via yahoo.com
  Drew Atchison, 24, was charged with three counts of first degree murder, kidnapping and other crimes, after the bodies of the three victims were found on Monday in Butler County, Missouri, about 130 miles south of St. Louis, authorities said.The couple, Harley Million, 24 and Samara Kitts, 23, were murdered at their home in neighboring Wayne County on Thursday following a dispute between Atchison and Million, the Butler and Wayne County Sheriff's Offices said.Atchison is currently being held in
  
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• Iran reformist calls for change 'before it's too late'

  30-01-2018 18:34 via yahoo.com
  A prominent Iranian reformist under house arrest for the past seven years lashed out at the country's supreme leader Tuesday, urging him to bring major reforms "before it is too late".Mehdi Karroubi, 80, lost his bid for the presidency in 2009 and helped lead mass protests against alleged election-rigging that eventually saw him confined to his home without trial.In an open letter published on a blocked reformist website on Tuesday, Karroubi called on supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei to "ac
  
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