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• Last eastern Ghouta rebels poised to surrender- Syrian state media

  01-04-2018 23:40 via yahoo.com
  By Suleiman Al-KhalidiAMMAN (Reuters) - The group in control of the last rebel bastion near Damascus appeared on Sunday to have agreed a deal for its fighters to make peace with the government or quit the eastern Ghouta enclave, Syrian state media said.Jaish al Islam, most of whose members are drawn from the area, has been defending the city of Douma against a months-long onslaught by government forces.If confirmed, its surrender or departure for rebel-held areas in northwest Syria would herald
  
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• Older Ford Mustang Hits 150 MPH, Colorado Police End Pursuit

  01-04-2018 23:28 via yahoo.com
  Obviously, don’t try this at home – or on the highway.
  
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• Mexico presidential front-runners hit back at Trump tweets

  01-04-2018 22:54 via yahoo.com
  Ciudad Juárez (Mexico) (AFP) - Mexico's top presidential candidates lashed out Sunday at Donald Trump for saying the country was doing "very little" to stop illegal migration, and vowed to take a harder line with the US president."We are going to be very respectful toward the United States government, but we are also going to demand that (the United States) respect Mexicans," he told a cheering crowd as he kicked off his campaign in Ciudad Juarez, on the US border.
  
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• Gator breaks into Florida family's pool

  01-04-2018 22:45 via yahoo.com
  An 11-foot alligator broke through a porch screen and took a midnight swim in a family's pool in Sarasota County, Florida.
  
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• Saks Fifth Avenue data breached: parent firm

  01-04-2018 22:39 via yahoo.com
  A hack at Saks and Lord & Taylor stores in North America has compromised customer payment data, their parent company announced on Sunday.Canadian-based Hudson's Bay Company did not say how many credit and debit cards were affected by the breach at upscale retailer Saks Fifth Avenue, Saks OFF Fifth, and Lord & Taylor department stores."HBC has identified the issue, and has taken steps to contain it," the parent firm said of the intrusion, the latest affecting companies with large user bas
  
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• Incoming national security adviser John Bolton casts doubts on North Korea talks

  01-04-2018 22:37 via yahoo.com
  Donald Trump’s hawkish new choice for national security adviser has cast doubt on upcoming talks with North Korea, a Republican senator said.“He has a very healthy scepticism of North Korea”, Lindsey Graham, a South Carolina Republican and administration ally, said of newly elevated adviser John Bolton in an appearance on Fox News Sunday.“I had dinner with Bolton a couple of nights ago.
  
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• 'Deal reached' for Syria rebels to quit last Ghouta holdout

  01-04-2018 22:18 via yahoo.com
  The Syrian regime on Sunday drew closer to taking full control of rebel bastion Eastern Ghouta after a deal appeared to be reached for fighters and civilians to leave the enclave's last opposition pocket.The agreement brokered by government ally Moscow would see fighters with the Jaish al-Islam rebel faction leave Ghouta's main town of Douma for opposition territory in northern Syria, state media and a monitoring group.
  
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• Duchess Of Cambridge Steps Out For Easter Service In Surprise Appearance

  01-04-2018 21:57 via yahoo.com
  The Duke and Duchess of Cambridge joined Queen Elizabeth II on Sunday for
  
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• France urges Israeli restraint after Gaza deaths

  01-04-2018 21:52 via yahoo.com
  PARIS (Reuters) - France urged Israel on Sunday to show restraint following its military response to Palestinian demonstrations on the Gaza-Israel border that killed at least 15. "France reminds the Israeli authorities of their duty to protect civilians and urges them to show the greatest restraint," a Foreign Ministry spokeswoman said in a statement. "France also highlights the Palestinians' right to peacefully demonstrate," she added. Israel's defense minister rejected calls for an independent
  
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• IS kills 19 regime fighters in east Syria: monitor

  01-04-2018 21:45 via yahoo.com
  Jihadists from the Islamic State group have killed at least 19 pro-government fighters in a spate of attacks in eastern Syria, a monitoring group said Sunday.The Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said the attacks over the past 24 hours struck in and around the town of Albu Kamal, near the border with Iraq.IS has largely been defeated since storming across the region in 2014, but still clings to pockets of territory in eastern Syria and maintains the ability to launch deadly attac
  
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• Hearts ache, anger surges after Siberian mall fire kills 64

  01-04-2018 21:38 via yahoo.com
  KEMEROVO, Russia (AP) — Trapped inside a movie theater at a burning shopping center, 11-year-old Vika Pochankina made a panicked phone call to her aunt. "I'm suffocating. Tell Mama that I loved her," the girl said.
  
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• Environment chief Pruitt under more pressure after condo reports: lawmakers

  01-04-2018 21:10 via yahoo.com
  By Valerie VolcoviciWASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. Environmental Protection Agency chief Scott Pruitt may not survive long in his job after reports that he paid below market rate to live in a condo owned by a lobbyist who deals with issues overseen by his agency, lawmakers and a former Trump official said in television interviews on Sunday.On Friday, ABC News and Bloomberg News reported that during Pruitt's first six months in Washington last year, he made a deal to pay about $50 a night - less tha
  
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• Bahrain makes largest oil discovery in its history

  01-04-2018 21:10 via yahoo.com
  Bahrain on Sunday announced it has discovered the largest oil and gas field in the history of the small kingdom, which unlike its Gulf neighbours is not energy-rich."The new resource is forecast to contain highly significant quantities of tight (light crude) oil and deep gas, dwarfing Bahrain's current reserves," said the country's Higher Committee for Natural Resources, which is chaired by Crown Prince Salman bin Hamad.The find in the Khaleej al-Bahrain, off the west coast, was "the largest dis
  
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• The Latest: Russia in talks with last rebel group in Ghouta

  01-04-2018 21:08 via yahoo.com
  BEIRUT (AP) — The Latest on the conflict in Syria (all times local):
  
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• Ryan Reynolds Comments On Marriage Trouble Rumors Like Only He Can

  01-04-2018 20:39 via yahoo.com
  Actor Ryan Reynolds sought to put to rest any rumors of relationship problems
  
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• Donald Trump says 'Dreamers' will not be protected from deportation

  01-04-2018 20:33 via yahoo.com
  President Donald Trump suggested on Sunday that there would be no deal to save hundreds of thousands of "Dreamers" from deportation, as he warned of "caravans" of migrants heading to the US border. "Dreamers" are  illegal immigrants brought to the US as children by their parents. There are approximately 800,000 in the United States, while the name stems from the Obama-era Development, Relief and Education for Alien Minors (Dream) Act.  During a series of immigration-rela
  
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• Russia asks chemical weapons agency for answers in spy case

  01-04-2018 20:21 via yahoo.com
  MOSCOW (AP) — The Russian Foreign Ministry asked the international agency that monitors chemical weapons for information Sunday about the investigation of the poisoning of a former Russian spy and his daughter in England.
  
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• Vegas Golden Knights Retire Jersey No. 58 To Honor Victims Of Last Year's Mass Shooting

  01-04-2018 20:14 via yahoo.com
  The Vegas Golden Knights, the city's National Hockey League team, honored the
  
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• Las Vegas Golden Knights Retire Jersey No. 58 To Honor Victims Of Last Year's Mass Shooting

  01-04-2018 20:14 via yahoo.com
  The Las Vegas Golden Knights, the city's National Hockey League team, honored
  
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• Erdogan calls Netanyahu 'terrorist' as insults fly after Gaza deaths

  01-04-2018 20:13 via yahoo.com
  Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan called his Israeli counterpart Benjamin Netanyahu a "terrorist" on Sunday, escalating an exchange of insults that started after he criticized Israel's lethal military response to a demonstration on the Gazan border.Israel has defended the killing of 15 Palestinians during Friday's demonstration and Netanyahu tweeted that the Israeli army "will not be lectured by those who have indiscriminately bombed civilian populations for years", referring to Turkey.Erdogan to
  
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• Ousted Shulkin rejects White House claim he resigned VA job

  01-04-2018 20:11 via yahoo.com
  WASHINGTON (AP) — Former Veterans Affairs Secretary David Shulkin is making it clear he was fired from his job amid conflicting claims from the White House.
  
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• UK Labour faces fresh turbulence over anti-Semitism row

  01-04-2018 20:08 via yahoo.com
  Britain's opposition Labour party was facing fresh turbulence on Sunday over an ongoing anti-Semitism row which has seen a donor pull out and a comedian appointed to its governing body.Property tycoon David Garrard, who has donated around £1.5 million ($2.1 million, 1.7 million euros) to Labour since 2003, hit out at the way party has been run by leader Jeremy Corbyn."I consider that it has supported and endorsed the most blatant acts of antisemitism," Garrard added.
  
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• Florida man finds 11-foot alligator swimming in his pool

  01-04-2018 19:56 via yahoo.com
  A Florida homeowner found a surprise visitor in his swimming pool Friday night - an 11-foot alligator floating in the water.
  
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• North Korean leader Kim Jong-un attends 'K-pop' conference

  01-04-2018 19:37 via yahoo.com
  North Korean leader Kim Jong-un and his wife, Ri Sol Ju, attended a rare performance by South Korean singers on Sunday, in the latest of a series of diplomatic breakthroughs in an ongoing thaw between the two countries. The evening concert at the East Pyongyang Grand Theatre, the first visit by South Korean artists to the North Korean capital in over a decade, has been touted as another gesture of reconciliation before a scheduled summit between the leaders of the divided Korean Peninsula on Apr
  
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• McMullin: Trump using DACA as bargaining chip is 'terrible politics'

  01-04-2018 19:31 via yahoo.com
  President Trump’s Easter morning attack on Dreamers and recent tirade against Amazon has sparked controversy.
  
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• Trump says Mexico not stopping migrant flow, threatens NAFTA

  01-04-2018 19:24 via yahoo.com
  US President Donald Trump accused Mexico on Sunday of doing "very little" to stop the flow of people across the US border, and threatened to target the North American Free Trade Agreement in retaliation."Mexico is doing very little, if not NOTHING, at stopping people from flowing into Mexico through their Southern Border, and then into the U.S. They laugh at our dumb immigration laws.
  
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• Analyst: Gun control is now part of GOP's top three issues

  01-04-2018 19:14 via yahoo.com
  Since Fox News Anchor Laura Ingraham attacked Parkland survivor David Hogg on Twitter, more than a dozen advertisers began dropping the conservative host. The panel joins MSNBC’s Yasmin Vossoughian in discussing the shift in the movement for gun control.
  
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• A Sacramento Sheriff's Vehicle Hit a Protester During a Stephon Clark Vigil

  01-04-2018 19:14 via yahoo.com
  She sustained minor injuries
  
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• 20 killed as fighting rages across Indian Kashmir

  01-04-2018 19:04 via yahoo.com
  Twenty people have been killed in Indian Kashmir in some of the fiercest fighting this year in the restive Himalayan region, police said Sunday, as authorities braced for more violence.A total of three Indian soldiers and 13 suspected militants died in several clashes south of Srinagar, the main city of the region.Kashmir has been divided between nuclear-armed India and Pakistan since the end of British colonial rule in 1947, but both claim it in full.
  
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• Defunct Chinese space lab hurtles toward Earth on wide path

  01-04-2018 18:57 via yahoo.com
  BERLIN (AP) — China's defunct Tiangong 1 space station hurtled toward Earth on Sunday and was expected to re-enter the atmosphere within hours.
  
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• Pope, after Gaza violence, says 'defenseless' being killed in Holy Land

  01-04-2018 18:55 via yahoo.com
  By Philip PullellaVATICAN CITY (Reuters) - Pope Francis, in his Easter address on Sunday, called for peace in the Holy Land two days after 15 Palestinians were killed on the Israeli-Gaza border, saying the conflict there "does not spare the defenseless".The pope made his appeal in his "Urbi et Orbi" (to the city and the world) message from the central balcony of St. Peter's Basilica to tens of thousands of people in the flower-bedecked square below where he earlier celebrated a Mass.He also appe
  
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• Republican senator Graham warns against Syria troop withdrawal

  01-04-2018 18:53 via yahoo.com
  A senior Republican senator on Sunday warned U.S. President Donald Trump against pulling U.S. troops from Syria, saying it would lead to a resurgence of Islamic State and increased Iranian sway over the Syrian government in Damascus."It’d be the single worst decision the president could make," Republican Senator Lindsey Graham, a member of the Senate Armed Services Committee, said on the Fox News Sunday program.You want to let 'em off the ropes, remove American soldiers," Graham said, usin
  
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• Donald Trump vows 'no more DACA deal' as he pushes for Mexico border wall in Easter tweet barrage

  01-04-2018 18:53 via yahoo.com
  Donald Trump renounced a push to give young unauthorised immigrants legal status as he lashed out at Democrats and Mexico in an Easter morning Twitter barrage.“Republicans must go to Nuclear Option to pass tough laws NOW.NO MORE DACA DEAL”! Mr Trump tweeted in reference to an Obama-era programme called Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals that he allowed to lapse.
  
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• Violence erupts in Kashmir after security forces kill militants: police

  01-04-2018 18:36 via yahoo.com
  By Fayaz BukhariSRINAGAR (Reuters) - Indian security forces killed at least three civilians and wounded about 70 in restive Kashmir on Sunday when hundreds of people tried to prevent them from carrying out operations against suspected militants, police and residents said.At least 17 other people, including 13 suspected militants, were killed in gunbattles during the day in southern Kashmir, police officials said, the worst violence in the region this year.When hundreds of people came out on the
  
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• Al Shabaab attacks an African Union base in Somalia

  01-04-2018 18:13 via yahoo.com
  Islamist insurgents battled for hours on Sunday with African Union troops after exploding two car bombs outside one of their bases, Somali police, military and the militants said.Al Shabaab militants attacked an African Union (AU) peacekeeper base in the town of Bulamarer, 130 kilometers southwest of the capital Mogadishu, around 9 a.m. local time, residents from the area told Reuters.Since withdrawing from Mogadishu in 2011, the al Qaeda-linked group has lost control of most of Somalia's cities
  
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• Family of man killed by police joins rally for reform

  01-04-2018 18:10 via yahoo.com
  SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — The family of Stephon Clark joined hundreds of people at a rally urging California's capital city not to let his memory or calls for police reform fade nearly two weeks after the 22-year-old unarmed black man was killed by Sacramento officers.
  
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• Chinese space station falling back to Earth

  01-04-2018 18:04 via yahoo.com
  Tiangong-1, China’s first space station, is spinning out of control and, experts say, will crash to earth soon. The chances of getting hit by the 19,000 pound object? About one in a trillion.
  
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• Sen. Scott and Rep. Gowdy on racial divides in America

  01-04-2018 18:03 via yahoo.com
  South Carolina Republicans, Senator Tim Scott and Congressman Trey Gowdy, discuss how their friendship inspired them to write their new book entitled "Unified."
  
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• Senator says Bolton is wary of North Korea stall tactics

  01-04-2018 18:01 via yahoo.com
  WASHINGTON (AP) — Republican Sen. Lindsey Graham of South Carolina said he's glad John Bolton will serve as President Donald Trump's national security adviser going into talks with North Korea because of his "very healthy skepticism."
  
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• Why Is Easter Always Changing? It Has to Do With the Moon

  01-04-2018 18:00 via yahoo.com
  It's still a direct astronomical observation.
  
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• Trump Threatens ‘No more DACA Deal’ in Sunday Tweets

  01-04-2018 17:57 via yahoo.com
  President Trump claimed people are coming through Mexico to take advantage of DACA, or Deferred Action on Childhood Arrivals, when speaking to reporters and later threatened to end the Obama-era policy in a tweet.
  
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• Trump Says He No Longer Sees Deal On DACA

  01-04-2018 17:57 via yahoo.com
  President Donald Trump appeared to rescind his support for a deal with
  
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• David Shulkin Disputes White House Resignation Claim: 'I Had No Intention Of Giving Up'

  01-04-2018 17:57 via yahoo.com
  Former Veterans Affairs Secretary David Shulkin says he was fired from his
  
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• Cat Stuck Between Two Automatic Doors is Rescued

  01-04-2018 17:54 via yahoo.com
  It's not clear if the cat was a stray.
  
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• Cat Stuck Between 2 Automatic Doors Is Rescued

  01-04-2018 17:54 via yahoo.com
  It's not clear whether the cat was a stray.
  
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• New Clues After Family’s SUV Plunges Off California Cliff

  01-04-2018 17:52 via yahoo.com
  California Highway Patrol now believes the Hart family’s SUV may have been intentionally driven off the cliff, possibly at 90 miles per hour. Officers searched their home, taking computers, credit cards and bank statements as part of their investigation.
  
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• Oklahoma Teachers Prepare for Walkout, Joining Growing Movement

  01-04-2018 17:50 via yahoo.com
  Thousands of Oklahoma teachers plan to walk out on Monday, following in the footsteps of teachers in states like West Virginia, Kentucky and Arizona as they demonstrate for better pay and classroom funding.
  
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• Last eastern Ghouta rebels poised to surrender: Syrian state media

  01-04-2018 17:47 via yahoo.com
  By Suleiman Al-KhalidiAMMAN (Reuters) - The group in control of the last rebel bastion near Damascus appeared on Sunday to have agreed a deal for its fighters to make peace with the government or quit the eastern Ghouta enclave, Syrian state media said on Sunday.Jaish al Islam, most of whose members are drawn from the area, has been defending the city of Douma against a months-long onslaught by government forces.If confirmed, its surrender or departure for rebel-held areas in northwest Syria wou
  
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• Trump Threatens to Stop Mexico's 'Cash Cow' Unless Fewer People Come Into U.S.

  01-04-2018 17:40 via yahoo.com
  Trump tweets that Mexico is doing next to "NOTHING" to stop illegal immigration
  
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• GOP retirements could lead to openings for House Democrats

  01-04-2018 17:40 via yahoo.com
  With 23 Republican members of Congress retiring, ABC News' Tom Llamas breaks down how it could help Democrats turn the House blue in 2018.
  
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