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• Hoverboard eyed in fire that killed girl, critically hurt 2

  11-03-2017 23:35 via yahoo.com
  
  HARRISBURG, Pa. (AP) — A fire that killed a toddler and critically injured two others, and also led to critical injuries to a responding fire official, appears to have been sparked by a recharging hoverboard, authorities said.
  
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• Dutch PM bars Turkish minister as rally dispute escalates

  11-03-2017 23:23 via yahoo.com
  
  By Tuvan Gumrukcu and Thomas EscrittANKARA/ROTTERDAM (Reuters) - The Netherlands barred Turkey's foreign minister from landing in Rotterdam on Saturday in a row over Ankara's political campaigning among Turkish emigres, leading President Tayyip Erdogan to brand its fellow NATO member a "Nazi remnant".The dispute escalated in the evening as Turkey's family minister was prevented by police from entering the Turkish consulate in the Rotterdam while hundreds of protesters waving Turkish flags gather
  
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• UN report: How to save 20 million people from starvation

  11-03-2017 23:15 via yahoo.com
  
  Stephen O’Brien, the UN undersecretary-general for humanitarian affairs, said on Friday that more than 20 million people in Yemen, Somalia, South Sudan, and Nigeria are facing the threat of starvation and famine."We stand at a critical point in history," O'Brien told the Security Council on Friday.
  
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• Photos of the day - March 11, 2017

  11-03-2017 22:53 via yahoo.com
  
  Seppe Smits of Belgium competes during the Women’s Slopestyle Final in the FIS Freestyle Ski and Snowboard World Championships 2017, in Sierra Nevada, Spain; Katie McCloughlin lies with Topsy, her English setter, during the Crufts dog show in Birmingham, Britain; displaced Iraqi get on a truck to be carried to a safe place, as Iraqi forces battle with Islamic State militants in western Mosul, Iraq. These are some of the photos of the day. (AP/EPA/Getty/Reuters)
  
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• Hate daylight saving time? You may have a point, researchers say

  11-03-2017 22:38 via yahoo.com
  
  Daylight saving time is the practice of moving clocks forward by one hour during summer months so that daylight lasts longer into evening.In December, a psychology journal published results showing that federal judges handed out sentences that were on average 5 percent longer the day after daylight saving time began than those given out one week before or after.Disruptions, even minor ones, to human beings' sleep patterns can have outsized effects, according to researchers.
  
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• Millennial engagement: Youth are spurred by causes, not party loyalty

  11-03-2017 22:30 via yahoo.com
  
  Millennials attend the IMF/World Bank Group’s Spring summit featuring young world leaders in Washington, D.C., in 2014.A new report suggests that millennials care less about party loyalty than previous generations and increasingly feel that the terms “liberal” and “conservative” fail to capture the diversity of contemporary political affiliations.The 2016 Millennial Impact Report, released Saturday, focuses on how millennials, broadly defined as those born between 1
  
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• Alleged Drunk Man Steals Forklift Because He 'Needed to Drive': Cops

  11-03-2017 22:09 via yahoo.com
  
  He has been charged.
  
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• U.S. civil liberties group ACLU seeks to tap anti-Trump energy

  11-03-2017 21:53 via yahoo.com
  
  By Joseph AxNEW YORK (Reuters) - The American Civil Liberties Union is launching what it bills as the first grassroots mobilization effort in its nearly 100-year history, as it seeks to harness a surge of energy among left-leaning activists since the November election of Republican Donald Trump as U.S. president.The campaign, known as PeoplePower, kicks off on Saturday with a town hall-style event in Miami featuring "resistance training" that will be streamed live at more than 2,300 local gather
  
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• Resistance Report: The fight against the Dakota Access pipeline came to Washington with the Native Nations Rise march

  11-03-2017 21:35 via yahoo.com
  
  They came from across the United States, and from as far away as Mexico and Canada.Miss Standing Rock H.S., in braces and pale blue beaded moccasins, led the march along with other Standing Rock Sioux youth who had been a critical part of the movement against the Dakota Access pipeline.
  
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• Will gerrymandering ruling turn Texas blue?

  11-03-2017 21:22 via yahoo.com
  
  In the ongoing struggle over voting rights in Texas, a federal ruling may have given voting rights advocates reason to hope.On Friday evening, a panel of federal judges in the Western District of Texas ruled 2-1 that three Congressional districts must be redrawn.The ruling affects the districts currently represented by Reps. Blake Farenthold (R), Will Hurd (R), and Lloyd Doggett (D).
  
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• President Trump commends US Secret Service for its handling of White House intruder

  11-03-2017 21:17 via yahoo.com
  
  During a working lunch at Trump National Golf Club in Virginia, the president commented on the intruder who scaled a fence to enter the White House grounds Friday.
  
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• Twin Damascus bombs kill 59, mostly Iraqi pilgrims

  11-03-2017 21:03 via yahoo.com
  
  Twin bombs targeting Shiite pilgrims killed 59 people in Damascus on Saturday, most of them Iraqis, a monitoring group said of one of the bloodiest attacks in the Syrian capital.There have been periodic bombings in Damascus, but the stronghold of the regime of President Bashar al-Assad has been largely spared the destruction faced by other major cities in six years of civil war.A roadside bomb detonated as a bus passed by and a suicide bomber blew himself up in the Bab al-Saghir area, which hous
  
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• T-Mobile adds more data to its unlimited plan before it starts throttling you

  11-03-2017 21:03 via yahoo.com
  
  So far, 2017 has seen more changes to cellphone plans than the last five years before. In the space of a couple of weeks, all the big carriers suddenly started offering unlimited data plans for reasonable prices. AT&T even removed its ridiculous triple-play requirement for unlimited customers, which was generous.
  For T-Mobile, which started the unlimited data trend last year, it didn't seem like things could get much better. But the entry of Verizon and AT&T forced it to remove the last
  
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• Puerto Rico governor ups revenue forecast in revised fiscal plan

  11-03-2017 21:03 via yahoo.com
  
  Governor Ricardo Rossello's initial plan, presented on Feb. 28, was rejected by the board, which said it relied on overly optimistic baseline revenue and economic growth forecasts.The board must approve a turnaround blueprint for the island under the federal Puerto Rico rescue law known as PROMESA.Francisco Cimadevilla, a spokesman for the board, said the seven-member panel is still evaluating the new proposal and will not have any comment before a public hearing in New York on Monday.
  
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• Damascus twin bombings kills dozens

  11-03-2017 20:32 via yahoo.com
  
  Twin bombs targeting Shiite pilgrims on Saturday killed 46 people in Damascus, most of them Iraqis, a monitoring group said, in one of the bloodiest attacks in the Syrian capital.
  
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• Thousands gather to mourn former Haitian president Preval

  11-03-2017 20:10 via yahoo.com
  
  PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (AP) — Thousands of people from around Haiti gathered at a city park Saturday for former President Rene Preval's state funeral capping six days of mourning for the man who led the country during a devastating January 2010 earthquake and its chaotic aftermath.
  
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• S.Koreans celebrate Park's removal, but ousted leader silent

  11-03-2017 20:00 via yahoo.com
  
  SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — A day after a court removed her from power over a corruption scandal, ousted South Korean President Park Geun-hye maintained her silence on Saturday as her opponents and supporters divided the capital's streets with massive rallies that showed a nation deeply split over its future.
  
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• How the ACLU is gearing up to take on Trump, one city at a time

  11-03-2017 19:56 via yahoo.com
  
  WASHINGTON — The American Civil Liberties Union wants to take over your town.Trump’s administration is currently asking for cooperation from local law enforcement for the president’s crackdown on illegal immigration and on immigration from certain predominantly Muslim countries.The ACLU’s new strategy is designed to pressure city officials to reject that request.
  
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• Club for Growth not happy with health care bill

  11-03-2017 19:42 via yahoo.com
  
  David McIntosh shares his thoughts on the legislation
  
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• Niantic CEO Teases ‘New Products’ At SXSW 2017

  11-03-2017 19:38 via yahoo.com
  
  Niantic Labs founder and CEO John Hanke just dropped a bombshell during his appearance at this year’s SXSW Conference. He apparently revealed that new “new products” are coming soon.
  
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• Pope considering Egypt trip: Vatican

  11-03-2017 19:37 via yahoo.com
  
  The Vatican is examining the possibility of Pope Francis visiting Egypt, but no dates have been set, his spokesman said Saturday after Italian reports suggested the trip would happen in May."A trip by the Holy Father to Egypt is under study but neither dates nor a programme have been finalised," the spokesman, Greg Burke, said in a statement.Italy's national broadcaster RAI had claimed that Pope Francis would visit Cairo from May 20-21 and that his programme would include a stop at the Al-Azhar
  
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• Cop Visits 3-Week-Old Baby Whose Life He Helped Save After He Stopped Breathing

  11-03-2017 19:32 via yahoo.com
  
  The baby is now doing well.
  
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• Cyclone kills at least 50, affects 176,000 in Madagascar

  11-03-2017 19:26 via yahoo.com
  
  Cyclone Enawo killed at least 50 people and affected 176,000 people after it hit Madagascar earlier this week, the national disaster management agency said Saturday, with thousands forced into emergency shelters.The toll issued by the head of the BNGRC agency Thierry Venty was significantly higher than the earlier estimate of just four deaths and 10,000 people displaced issued on Thursday.More than 53,000 people have been displaced and 180 injured by the storm, the agency said in a statement on
  
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• PAX East Trailer Shows Shows Retro Intro, New Kills

  11-03-2017 18:30
  
  When we last saw Friday the 13th game, it received a delay but was getting a single-player campaign. Last night at Pax East, IllFonic and Gun Media premiered a new trailer of the game, showing off a few new locations and gruesome kills in the game.
  In addition to the trailer, Gun Media also announced two new outfits for Jason: One From Friday The 13th Part 9: Jason Goes To Hell (the one where Jason goes to hell), and an alternate take on the events of that movie from renowned makeup artist Tom
  
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• PAX East Trailer Shows Retro Intro, New Kills

  11-03-2017 18:30
  
  When we last saw Friday the 13th game, it received a delay but was getting a single-player campaign. Last night at Pax East, IllFonic and Gun Media premiered a new trailer of the game, showing off a few new locations and gruesome kills in the game.
  In addition to the trailer, Gun Media also announced two new outfits for Jason: One From Friday The 13th Part 9: Jason Goes To Hell (the one where Jason goes to hell), and an alternate take on the events of that movie from renowned makeup artist Tom
  
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• Scars of looting, destruction all that remain at Mosul museum

  11-03-2017 18:08 via yahoo.com
  
  By Kawa OmarMOSUL, Iraq (Reuters) - After two and a half years under Islamic State control, all that is left in Mosul's museum are the traces of looting and destruction.Inside the rubble-strewn building, where militants filmed themselves destroying ancient artifacts, the large stone wing of a statue of lamassu -- an Assyrian winged bull deity -- lies on the dusty floor among other broken remnants of the past.A block engraved with Arabic Islamic calligraphy lies close by, and some Islamic manuscr
  
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• Possible change in governors not altering Kansas tax debate

  11-03-2017 18:00 via yahoo.com
  
  TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — As Kansas legislators debate raising income taxes to fix the state's big budget problems, they're not tying any of their plans to whether Republican Gov. Sam Brownback departs for President Donald Trump's administration.
  
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• Couple Charged After Allegedly Staging Fake Murder and Texting Friends: 'It Did Go a Bit Too Far'

  11-03-2017 17:49 via yahoo.com
  
  They were charged with inducing panic.
  
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• Dutch polls campaign hits fever pitch amid row with Turkey

  11-03-2017 17:41 via yahoo.com
  
  Dutch political leaders hit the campaign trail Saturday, criss-crossing the country to woo voters ahead of next week's elections now overshadowed by a bitter row with Turkey.On the final weekend before Wednesday's elections, the leaders of six of the top political parties were converging on the southern city of Eindhoven for a key televised debate.Notable by his absence was far-right MP Geert Wilders, whose Freedom Party (PVV) is within a whisker of topping the polls even though he has largely e
  
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• When Is Daylight Saving Time?

  11-03-2017 17:40 via yahoo.com
  
  It's about that time of the year to spring forward.
  
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• Germany shuts down shopping mall over attack threat

  11-03-2017 17:31 via yahoo.com
  
  The country is on high alert following scenes of carnage at a Christmas market carnage in Berlin in December, when an Islamic State jihadist rammed a truck into a crowd of pedestrians, killing 12 people."The shopping centre will be closed all Saturday due to security concerns.The police have concrete information regarding a possible attack," local police said in a statement published on social media.
  
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• Assad calls U.S. forces 'invaders', but still hopeful on Trump

  11-03-2017 17:22 via yahoo.com
  
  By Tom PerryBEIRUT (Reuters) - Syrian President Bashar al-Assad said U.S. forces in Syria were "invaders" and he had yet to see "anything concrete" emerge from U.S. President Donald Trump's vow to prioritize the fight against Islamic State.Assad has said he saw promise in Trump's statements emphasizing the battle against Islamic State in Syria, where U.S. policy under President Barack Obama had backed some of the rebels fighting Assad and shunned him as an illegitimate leader.
  
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• Ex-Trump adviser swaps messages with DNC hacking suspect

  11-03-2017 17:13 via yahoo.com
  
  WASHINGTON (AP) — A political consultant and former campaign adviser to President Donald Trump says he communicated last year with an individual involved in hacking Democratic National Committee emails.
  
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• Today in History: The Confederate Constitution is approved

  11-03-2017 16:55 via yahoo.com
  
  On March 11, 1861, delegates from the newly formed Confederate States of America agreed on their own constitution. And much of it mirrored the Constitution of the United States as it existed at the time.
  
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• Iraq paramilitaries say mass grave of hundreds found

  11-03-2017 16:13 via yahoo.com
  
  Iraqi paramilitary forces announced Saturday that they had discovered a mass grave at Badush prison near Mosul containing the remains of hundreds of people executed by the Islamic State group.Iraqi forces have found dozens of mass graves containing hundreds of bodies as they pushed IS back in more than two years of heavy fighting, including during the operation to retake Mosul.IS reportedly killed up to 600 people after seizing Badush in 2014, and was also said to have held hundreds of kidnapped
  
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• Modi party wins India's biggest state, strengthens grip on power

  11-03-2017 16:11 via yahoo.com
  
  Narendra Modi's party won a landslide victory in India's most populous state on Saturday in a massive vote of confidence for the prime minister halfway into his first term.Modi's Hindu nationalist Bharatiya Janata Party won a surprise absolute majority in Uttar Pradesh in the north, which is home to 220 million people and seen as a key indicator of national politics.Party leader Amit Shah called the win a "historic mandate" for the BJP, which also won a majority in the mountainous northern state
  
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• German police shut shopping mall over fears of attack

  11-03-2017 15:37 via yahoo.com
  
  German police sealed off and closed a shopping mall in the heart of the western city of Essen on Saturday after the security services warned of a possible terrorist attack.Germany is on high alert following deadly militant Islamist attacks in France and Belgium and after a failed asylum seeker from Tunisia drove a truck into a Berlin Christmas market in December, killing 12 people."Yesterday, we received very serious indications from security sources that a possible attack was planned here for t
  
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• World faces worst humanitarian crisis since WWII: UN

  11-03-2017 15:02 via yahoo.com
  
  The United Nations is warning that the world is facing its worst humanitarian crisis since the end of World War II, with more than 20 million people facing starvation and famine in four countries."Otherwise, many people will predictably die from hunger, livelihoods will be lost and political gains that have been hardwon over the last few years will be reversed," O'Brien said in his stark warning to the UN Security Council.
  
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• These bizarre iPhone wallpapers will make your folders disappear

  11-03-2017 15:00 via yahoo.com
  
  Apple's iOS platform has never been more capable and versatile as it is right now, but there are still some pretty big limitations in some areas. One of those areas, of course, is customization. Apple has a very specific vision of the mobile experience it wants to provide for its user base, and it has structured its mobile platform in such a way that users can't stray very far from that vision unless they choose to jailbreak their iPhones or iPads.
  For most people, that's fine, but some users wa
  
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• Two Ukrainian soldiers killed, 16 wounded in fresh fighting

  11-03-2017 14:47 via yahoo.com
  
  Ukraine's army reported Saturday two soldiers killed in clashes with Russian-backed rebels, in a new uptick in violence across eastern Ukraine.Ukrainian military spokesman Andriy Lysenko told reporters that two servicemen were killed and another 16 wounded in the past 24 hours, accusing insurgents of using heavy weapons against government troops.The latest casualties along eastern Ukraine's volatile frontline come despite the warring sides announcing a truce deal in February that has failed to s
  
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• Trump administration seeks resignations of 46 US attorneys

  11-03-2017 14:28 via yahoo.com
  
  Many of the federal prosecutors nominated by President Barack Obama have already left their positions, but the nearly four dozen who stayed have been asked to leave .
  
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• Modi wins landslide election victory in India's biggest state

  11-03-2017 14:27 via yahoo.com
  
  By RupamJain and Tommy WilkesNEW DELHI (Reuters) - Prime Minister Narendra Modi's party won a landslide victory in India's most important battleground state on Saturday, in a personal triumph that will strengthen his claim to a second term as national leader.Wresting control of Uttar Pradesh is a ringing endorsement of Modi's stewardship of Asia's third-largest economy after his high-risk decision last November to scrap high-value banknotes to rein in corruption.The Election Commission of India
  
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• Break up the family? White House weighs new border deterrent

  11-03-2017 14:15 via yahoo.com
  
  When Homeland Security Secretary John Kelly confirmed this week that the Trump administration was considering separating immigrant mothers from their children at the border – a calculated way to deter other families from making the journey to seek refuge in the United States – Lisa Koop immediately thought of the fears and hardships many of her clients faced.For their part, officials say the surge is so large that such a drastic policy is necessary.
  
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• Holi Set To Coat India In Color

  11-03-2017 14:10 via yahoo.com
  
  Holi, the Festival of Colors, creates a stunning spectacle to celebrate the arrival of spring each year.
  
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• The Secret Bike Collector

  11-03-2017 14:00 via yahoo.com
  
  The Secret Bike Collector An anonymous tale of being hopelessly addicted to buying motorbikes (The author of this article is someone I bumped into in England recently. He was willing to share his story of being obsessed with bikes, but didn't want us to use
  
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• Examining child marriage around the globe

  11-03-2017 14:00 via yahoo.com
  
  The I Don't Project explored the issue of child marriage in Ethiopia, India and Brazil.
  
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• Halftime Report: Clinton's campaign strategy

  11-03-2017 13:40 via yahoo.com
  
  TV's Andy Levy reports from the 'Red Eye' News Deck
  
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• Dutch bar plane carrying Turkish foreign minister from landing

  11-03-2017 13:38 via yahoo.com
  
  Dutch Prime Minister Mark Rutte on Saturday barred a plane carrying Turkey's foreign minister from landing, saying his visit would be a threat to public order.The move comes after Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu said he would travel to Rotterdam, despite a ban on him addressing a rally there.Rutte said in a statement published on his official Facebook page that Turkey had upset discussions under which Cavusoglu would have been allowed to enter the country, by calling for a massive publ
  
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• China-U.S. trade war would only cause pain: commerce minister

  11-03-2017 13:18 via yahoo.com
  
  A trade war between China and the United States would only cause pain, China's commerce minister said on Saturday, as analysts say the spectre of deteriorating U.S.-China ties is likely to weigh on confidence of exporters and investors worldwide."A trade war would not benefit either country or either country's people, you could say it would have no advantage whatsoever," Chinese Commerce Minister Zhong Shan told reporters on the sidelines of the annual parliament session in Beijing."Many America
  
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• First Daughter Begins Celebrations For Purim

  11-03-2017 13:16 via yahoo.com
  
  The Jewish holiday Purim begins at sunset on March 11 and ends on the evening of March 12 this year.
  
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