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• U.S. Men's Olympic Hockey Team Includes First Black Player In 98-Year History

  09-02-2018 23:54 via yahoo.com
  Boston University hockey player Jordan Greenway will make history in Pyeongchang, South Korea, becoming the first African-American ever to be selected for the U.S. men’s Olympic hockey team.
  
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• Man accused in priest attack believed girlfriend was raped

  09-02-2018 23:51 via yahoo.com
  BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) — Court documents unsealed Friday show a Minnesota man charged with attacking and trying to kill a priest in North Dakota believed the priest had sexually assaulted the man's girlfriend.
  
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• Equifax Data Breach Was Bigger Than Previously Reported

  09-02-2018 23:43 via yahoo.com
  Equifax hackers reportedly accessed more personal information than previously disclosed, but the additional breach may not have put consumers at more risk than they already are, a cybersecurity e...
  
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• John Kelly Reportedly Offers To Resign As Trump Eyes Potential Replacements

  09-02-2018 23:39 via yahoo.com
  White House chief of staff John Kelly expressed his willingness to resign over his handling of the domestic abuse allegations against staff secretary Rob Porter this week, The New York Times and ABC News reported on Friday, citing two anonymous sources within the West Wing.
  
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• Pennsylvania lawmakers face Friday deadline for new congressional map

  09-02-2018 23:22 via yahoo.com
  Republican leaders in Pennsylvania's legislature said they will submit new proposed congressional districts to Democratic Governor Tom Wolf by Friday's court-ordered deadline, moving closer to a revamped map that could reshape the 2018 electoral battle for Congress.The new map is the result of a Jan. 22 order from Pennsylvania's Supreme Court, which invalidated the existing district boundaries as an illegal gerrymander by the Republican-controlled legislature.In a 5-2 vote along party lines, the
  
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• Pence's bid to isolate North Korea at Olympics falls flat

  09-02-2018 23:13 via yahoo.com
  PYEONGCHANG, South Korea (AP) — For all of Vice President Mike Pence's efforts to keep North Korea from stealing the show at the Winter Olympics, the images of the two Koreas marching together — and their officials shaking hands — at a time of heightened tensions on the peninsula proved impossible to counteract.
  
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• Ex-Virginia Tech student pleads no contest in girl's killing

  09-02-2018 23:12 via yahoo.com
  CHRISTIANSBURG, Va. (AP) — After listening to days of damaging testimony from prosecution witnesses, a former Virginia Tech student pleaded no contest Friday to killing a 13-year-old girl he met through social media.
  
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• Trump taps U.S. Pacific Commander Harris as ambassador to Australia

  09-02-2018 23:02 via yahoo.com
  President Donald Trump on Friday named U.S. Pacific Commander Admiral Harry Harris, who is known for his hawkish views on China's military expansion, as his pick to serve as the American ambassador to Australia, the White House said in a statement.The naval officer has served in the military for 39 years and is in his seventh command assignment as head of the U.S. Pacific Command, according to the White House.During Harris' tenure as head of U.S. forces in the Pacific,tensions over North Korea's
  
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• 'Henry Was a Joy.' Comedian Rob Delaney Announces Death of His 2-Year-Old Son

  09-02-2018 22:56 via yahoo.com
  Delaney said his son was diagnosed with a brain tumor in 2016
  
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• The Trump Team’s Blinkered Obsession With the Iran Deal Is Poisoning the Well

  09-02-2018 22:39 via yahoo.com
  Opponents of the nuclear agreement have distorted the debate over U.S. policy in the Middle East.
  
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• US stocks finish rollercoaster session higher, Dow up 1.4%

  09-02-2018 22:32 via yahoo.com
  Wall Street stocks finished a topsy-turvy session solidly higher Friday, surging in the final hour of trading and lessening the losses in a brutal week.The Dow Jones Industrial Average ended up 1.4 percent at 24,190.90 after swinging more than 1,000 points during the session.The broad-based S&P 500 gained 1.5 percent to 2,619.55, while the tech-rich Nasdaq Composite Index advanced 1.4 percent to 6,874.68.
  
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• Flu season still getting worse; now as bad as 2009 swine flu

  09-02-2018 22:24 via yahoo.com
  NEW YORK (AP) — The flu has further tightened its grip on the U.S. This season is now as bad as the swine flu epidemic nine years ago.
  
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• Bond vigilantes awaken counterparts in the stock market

  09-02-2018 22:22
  NEW YORK (Reuters) - Bond vigilantes could be finding allies in the stock market.
  
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• Donald Trump defends former top official after domestic abuse allegations from his ex-wives

  09-02-2018 22:19 via yahoo.com
  President Donald Trump has defended former White House official Robert Porter, who has been accused of domestic abuse by his two ex-wives.Mr Porter’s ex-wives accused him of physical abuse in interviews with the Daily Mail.Both alleged that their ex-husband had consistently, violently abused them over the course of several years before he entered the White House.
  
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• Tillerson sees tough talks with Turkey, others on Mideast trip

  09-02-2018 22:12 via yahoo.com
  By Arshad Mohammed and Yara BayoumyWASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. Secretary of State Rex Tillerson expects to have tough talks during a five-nation trip of the Middle East next week, including in Turkey, where he will urge leaders to rein in an offensive in northern Syria, U.S. officials said on Friday.Briefing reporters on Tillerson's Feb. 11-16 trip to Jordan, Turkey, Lebanon, Egypt and Kuwait, U.S. officials acknowledged there would be difficult conversations at each stop.Jordanian leaders were
  
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• Egypt launches unprecedented assault against Isil militants on Sinai peninsula

  09-02-2018 22:11 via yahoo.com
  Egypt launched a major assault against militants Friday focused on the Sinai peninsula, where Isil has staged deadly attacks, aiming to crush their insurgency by an end of February deadline set by President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi. The former general last November ordered the military to defeat militants in North Sinai within three months, after an attack on a mosque which killed more than 300 people, the deadliest such incident in the Arab world's most populous country. Residents said they sa
  
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• Some Trump allies blame White House 'boys' club' for mishandling of Porter scandal

  09-02-2018 22:05 via yahoo.com
  A female White House staffer said it's not a surprise that the administration mishandled abuse allegations against a top aide, who has since resigned.
  
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• Bette Midler’s Rand Paul Tweet raises eyebrows

  09-02-2018 22:03 via yahoo.com
  Actress Bette Midler faces backlash for a tweet that references they brutal assault that Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.) faced at the hands of his neighbor.
  
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• Isis militants hunted down in Syria after intelligence extracted from captured members of 'The Beatles' cell

  09-02-2018 22:02 via yahoo.com
  Intelligence extracted from two British Isis militants captured in Syria has already sparked operations hunting other jihadis down, security sources have told The Independent.Alexanda Kotey and El Shafee Elsheikh were the last two members of the British Isis cell known as “The Beatles” to remain at large until they were detained by the Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) last month.
  
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• Afghanistan: In midwinter attacks, a brutal Pakistani reply to Trump

  09-02-2018 22:02 via yahoo.com
  Why, in the dead of winter, two months before the traditional start of Afghanistan’s fighting season, has the country been rocked by four attacks that killed more than 150 people?The trigger was not a change in the Taliban’s fighting calendar, analysts say, nor was it necessarily evidence of intensified competition between Taliban and the so-called Islamic State (ISIS) to lead the insurgency against the Western-backed government.Rather, they say, it was a violent Pakistani response &
  
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• Nvidia is scrambling to get graphics cards to gamers amid crypto boom

  09-02-2018 22:00 via yahoo.com
  Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang says his company is working to get more graphics cards on the market and into gamers’ hands as cryptominers empty stocks and drive up prices.Nvidia’s (NVDA) most loyal customers, — gamers — are feeling the squeeze as cryptominers buy up every graphics card they can find, driving card prices through the roof.The graphics card maker announced record fourth quarter revenue of $2.9 billion on Thursday, with its gaming division leading the way with $1.7
  
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• Captured jihadi 'Beatles' should suffer 'long, painful death', says victim's daughter

  09-02-2018 22:00 via yahoo.com
  The two captured members of the jihadist execution squad dubbed the Beatles should be subjected to “a long, slow, painful death”, according to the grieving daughter of one of their victims. But Bethany Haines, who was just 17 when her father David was murdered in September 2014, accepted it was unlikely the two men would be sentenced to death. Instead she pleaded for them never be freed from jail. The capture of Alexanda Kotey and El Shafee Elsheikh was welcomed by the families of th
  
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• Comedian Rob Delaney Announces Death Of Two-Year-Old Son

  09-02-2018 21:54 via yahoo.com
  Comedian Rob Delaney announced on Friday the heartbreaking death of his 2-year-old son, Henry.
  
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• Amazon tests delivery in Los Angeles, shipping shares sink

  09-02-2018 21:47 via yahoo.com
  Amazon is running "Shipping with Amazon" in Los Angeles and possibly other locations, a person familiar with the matter told Reuters on condition of anonymity.FedEx Corp and United Parcel Service Inc shares were down more than 4 percent in afternoon trading.FedEx, UPS and analysts played down the idea that a trial poses a near-term threat to the couriers' businesses.
  
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• Olympic Skier Lindsey Vonn Gives Tearful Interview About Late Grandfather

  09-02-2018 21:42 via yahoo.com
  Olympic skier Lindsey Vonn teared up while speaking of her beloved late grandfather during a news conference Friday in Pyeongchang, South Korea.
  
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• Father pleads guilty to fatally stabbing 6-year-old daughter

  09-02-2018 21:36 via yahoo.com
  ASHEVILLE, N.C. (AP) — A North Carolina man pleaded guilty Friday to fatally stabbing his 6-year-old daughter as national park rangers approached rather than give up custody of the girl.
  
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• Donald Trump has made clear he wants to send 'bad dudes' to Guantanamo Bay - will the Isis 'Beatles' end up there?

  09-02-2018 21:35 via yahoo.com
  Britain may be tempted to “outsource” the prosecution of two Isis fighters captured in Syria to the US, where it has often been easier to secure terror convictions, experts believe.The US military has confirmed British citizens Alexanda Kotey and El Shafee Elsheikh, the last outstanding members of a group known as “the Beatles” for their English accents, were captured by the Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF), a Kurdish-led militia.As relatives of those killed by the men &nda
  
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• Wittes: Brand denies undue pressure to leave Justice Department

  09-02-2018 21:29 via yahoo.com
  Benjamin Wittes, editor in chief of Lawfare and friend of Rachel Brand, talks with Rachel Maddow about Donald Trump's hollowing-out of the Justice Department and what Rachel Brand has told him about her decision to resign.
  
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• Fidelity restricts clients from buying 'fear gauge' ETF

  09-02-2018 21:29
  BOSTON/NEW YORK (Reuters) - Fidelity Investments on Friday told clients they could not buy shares in an exchange-traded fund that bets on the direction of Wall Street's "fear gauge," after the...
  
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• These U.S. States Have the Most Winter Olympians Competing in PyeongChang

  09-02-2018 21:27 via yahoo.com
  This map shows which U.S. states sent the most athletes to compete at the 2018 Winter Olympics in PyeongChang, South Korea
  
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• U.S. stock market chill threatens to 'put IPOs on ice'

  09-02-2018 21:22
  NEW YORK (Reuters) - Wide swings in the U.S. stock market has blunted initial public offering (IPO) activity on Wall Street in what was set to be the busiest week for new listings in more than...
  
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• Who's to blame for the chaos in the Trump White House?

  09-02-2018 21:20 via yahoo.com
  Two staffers resigned in one week over abuse allegations. So who's to blame for the lack of oversight? Chief of Staff John Kelly, other senior advisers, or does it fall to President Trump himself? Jonathan Alter, Chris Whipple & Daniel Dale join Katy Tur.
  
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• Another Trump White House staffer resigns amid abuse allegations

  09-02-2018 21:17 via yahoo.com
  A second White House staffer, speechwriter David Sorensen, resigns amid allegations of domestic abuse by his ex-wife. It's another stunning development in a week of damaging moments for Kelly, who is reportedly willing to resign over the developments.
  
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• Ex-Virginia Tech student convicted in killing of 13-year-old

  09-02-2018 21:16 via yahoo.com
  CHRISTIANSBURG, Va. (AP) — A former Virginia Tech student was convicted Friday of killing a 13-year-old girl he met through social media.
  
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• Texas struggles with labor market amid immigration crackdown

  09-02-2018 21:12 via yahoo.com
  Attorney General Ken Paxton goes on 'The Daily Briefing' to discuss immigration reform and border security.
  
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• Trump to approve release of Democrats' memo rebutting Republican claims of FBI abuses

  09-02-2018 21:08 via yahoo.com
  US President Donald Trump has said that he will approve the release of Democrats' memo rebutting claims of FBI abuse laid out in a previous memo by Republicans.The Republicans' memo, authored by the Congressman Devin Nunes' staff, had alleged "serious violations of public trust" by the FBI over their conduct in the Russia investigation, per a statement from Mr Nunes.The House Intelligence Committee voted unanimously to make the memo authored by ranking Democrat Adam Schiff public earlier this we
  
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• Kremlin critic says top Russian official vacationed with tycoon

  09-02-2018 21:02 via yahoo.com
  A video published online by Kremlin critic Alexei Navalny alleging that an influential Russian deputy prime minister enjoyed lavish hospitality from a billionaire tycoon went viral on Friday, receiving more than 2 million views.The video includes footage that Navalny said was shot by a woman who has written a book about seducing oligarchs.Navalny, who has been barred from running against President Vladimir Putin in next month's election, said the video appears to show Putin's former top foreign
  
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• Shani Davis Was Right To Be Mad About Getting Snubbed As Team USA Flag Bearer

  09-02-2018 21:00 via yahoo.com
  Even if tweeting about it was the wrong move
  
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• Trump’s Use of Sanctions May Be Unsustainable

  09-02-2018 20:56 via yahoo.com
  The president risks weakening one of America's most formidable policy tools.
  
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• Attorney calls for sanctions in Dakota Access pipeline suit

  09-02-2018 20:50 via yahoo.com
  BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) — Attorneys for a Florida-based environmental publication want a federal judge in North Dakota to sanction the Texas-based developer of the Dakota Access oil pipeline in a dispute over whether the publication can be sued.
  
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• Rob Porter's Ex-Wife Warns Hope Hicks That He Will Turn Abusive 'If He Hasn't Already'

  09-02-2018 20:49 via yahoo.com
  It was a serious warning by one of the ousted White House adviser's former wives.
  
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• Catt Sadler Says She Left E! To Avoid 'Collaborating With An Evil System'

  09-02-2018 20:47 via yahoo.com
  Catt Sadler says she left E! in December for bigger reasons than getting only half the salary of her male co-star.
  
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• Kim Jong-un's Sister Is Making History at the Winter Olympics. Here’s What We Know About Her

  09-02-2018 20:45 via yahoo.com
  “She’s the one who watches Kim Jong-un's back"
  
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• Two Philadelphia Eagles Fans Pulled Off the Ultimate Recreation of That Iconic WWII Kiss Photo

  09-02-2018 20:42 via yahoo.com
  The pair met on Twitter following the Super Bowl
  
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• Farthest photos ever taken, from nearly 4 billion miles away

  09-02-2018 20:39 via yahoo.com
  CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — The NASA spacecraft that gave us close-ups of Pluto has set a record for the farthest photos ever taken.
  
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• Korean unity, historic handshake as Pyeongchang Olympics open

  09-02-2018 20:33 via yahoo.com
  The two Koreas marched together and South Korea's president shared a historic handshake with Kim Jong Un's sister as the Pyeongchang Winter Olympics opened in a spirit of intense rapprochement on Friday.At a glittering but sub-zero ceremony, South and North Korea brought the crowd to its feet as they entered behind the blue-and-white Korean unification flag.South Korean President Moon Jae-in shook the hand of a smiling Kim Yo Jong, the powerful sister of North Korean leader Kim Jong Un, as he en
  
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• Speedskater Shani Davis Boycotts Winter Olympics' Opening Ceremony Over Flag Bearer Controversy

  09-02-2018 20:32 via yahoo.com
  Davis was denied the honor in a coin toss with luger Erin Hamlin.
  
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• Pro-Iranian militia used US Abrams tanks in Syria: Pentagon

  09-02-2018 20:30 via yahoo.com
  US Abrams tanks sold to Iraq have been used by a pro-Iranian paramilitary group in fighting against the Islamic State group in Syria, the Pentagon said Friday.The tanks, however, were later returned to the Iraqi military, Pentagon spokesman Eric Pahon said.
  
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• For Trump, There's Nothing More Important Than A Powerful Man's Word

  09-02-2018 20:26 via yahoo.com
  WASHINGTON ― On Friday, President Donald Trump weighed in publicly for the first time about the domestic violence allegations leveled at one of his closest aides.
  
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• The Latest: YPG official confirms British extremist detained

  09-02-2018 20:25 via yahoo.com
  LONDON (AP) — The Latest on the capture of two British Islamic State members (all times local):
  
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