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• Illinois congressman holds Chicago immigration office sit-in

  13-03-2017 23:58 via yahoo.com
  
  CHICAGO (AP) — U.S. Rep. Luis Gutierrez was briefly handcuffed Monday during a sit-in at federal immigration offices in Chicago where activists' demands included revocation of immigration-related executive orders, no future raids and reconsideration of a deportation case.
  
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• Ed Sheeran is in love with the shape of Westeros, will cameo in Game of Thrones season 7

  13-03-2017 23:38 via gamesradar.com
  
  Pop star Ed Sheeran will be the latest musician to journey to HBO’s world of ice and fire
  
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• Parliament backs Brexit bill as Scotland bids to break away

  13-03-2017 23:32 via yahoo.com
  
  Parliament gave its approval Monday for Prime Minister Theresa May to start Britain's withdrawal from the European Union, even as Scotland signalled its opposition by announcing plans for a fresh independence vote.The House of Lords rejected a last-ditch attempt to amend a bill empowering May to begin Brexit, paving the way for it to become law as early as Tuesday.The prime minister could then trigger Article 50 of the EU's Lisbon Treaty at any time, starting two years of talks that will end wit
  
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• ‘Robin Hood in reverse’: CBO report on GOP health care plan supports Democrats’ charges

  13-03-2017 23:27 via yahoo.com
  
  WASHINGTON — Democrats seized on the Congressional Budget Office’s report estimating that 24 million fewer Americans would be insured under the Republican health care plan 10 years from now, arguing their colleagues should abandon the effort.House Speaker Paul Ryan put a positive spin on the report.The White House disputed its accuracy.
  
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• Is race important? Jury queried in Louisiana murder trial

  13-03-2017 23:25 via yahoo.com
  
  MARKSVILLE, La. (AP) — The head of the Louisiana State Police called it the most disturbing thing he's seen: a 6-year-old autistic boy's lifeless body, strapped into the front seat of a car riddled with bullets fired by two law enforcement officers.
  
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• Congressional Budget Office: Healthcare Replacement Plan Adds 24 Million Uninsured by 2026

  13-03-2017 23:19 via yahoo.com
  
  Two Congressional committees have already passed their legislative efforts to repeal the Affordable Care Act without waiting for feedback from the nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office on how t...
  
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• Kellyanne Conway Blasted for Bizarre Claim Microwaves Can Be Used for Surveillance

  13-03-2017 23:06 via yahoo.com
  
  President Trump later took to Twitter to voice his support for his embattled top adviser.
  
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• Sean Spicer Ambushed by Woman Asked How It Feels to Work For A 'Fascist': 'Are You a Criminal as Well?'

  13-03-2017 23:04 via yahoo.com
  
  The White House press secretary responded with what many have described as a racially charged remark.
  
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• Sheriff's Deputies Heroically Save Jet Skiers in the Path of Cruise Ship in the Nick of Time

  13-03-2017 23:02 via yahoo.com
  
  A tourist filmed the dramatic rescue from the deck of the cruise ship as it approached.
  
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• After killing TPP, Trump to meet Xi, reassure allies

  13-03-2017 22:51 via yahoo.com
  
  President Trump will host Chinese President Xi Jinping early next month, a potentially pivotal summit as the White House tries to reassure allies that the United States will stay engaged in the region after backing out of the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) trade deal.The two leaders are tentatively expected to meet April 7-8, potentially at Trump’s luxury Mar-a-Lago private club in Florida, a U.S. official confirmed on Monday.Secretary of State Rex Tillerson will lock down the exact dates
  
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• Turkey targets Dutch with diplomatic sanctions as 'Nazi' row escalates

  13-03-2017 22:48 via yahoo.com
  
  By Tuvan Gumrukcu and Tulay KaradenizANKARA (Reuters) - Turkey said on Monday it would suspend high-level diplomatic relations with the Netherlands after Dutch authorities prevented its ministers from speaking at rallies of expatriate Turks, deepening the row between the two NATO allies.The sanctions - which include a ban on the Dutch ambassador and diplomatic flights from the Netherlands but do not appear to include economic measures or travel restrictions for ordinary citizens - mark another l
  
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• Indiana winner of $435M Powerball jackpot stays anonymous

  13-03-2017 22:36 via yahoo.com
  
  INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — An Indiana man who won last month's $435.3 million Powerball jackpot has chosen to remain anonymous, collecting the 10th largest lottery jackpot in U.S. history through a limited liability corporation, officials said Monday.
  
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• Photos of the day - March 13, 2017

  13-03-2017 22:34 via yahoo.com
  
  Displaced Iraqis who had fled their homes wait to move to a safe place, as Iraqi forces battle with Islamic State militants, in western Mosul, Iraq; Chinese President Xi Jinping, foreground center, Premier Li Keqiang, foreground center right, and delegates attend a closing session for the Chinese People’s Political Consultative Conference (CPPCC) at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing; and, An Indian reveller covered with powdered colors celebrates the Holi festival in Bangalore, India
  
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• Hat-Wearing Pikachu Headed to Pokemon Sun and Moon

  13-03-2017 22:23
  A special Pikachu wearing Ash's iconic hat from the anime series is headed to Pokemon Sun and Moon in Japan.
  According to Serebii.net, the latest issue of CoroCoro reveals that those who pre-order a ticket to I Choose You, the 20th Pokemon film that recounts Ash's earliest adventures in the anime, will receive a code that grants access to a Pikachu wearing one of the six different hats Ash has worn over the past seven generations of the series.Serebii Update: The Six Ash Pikachu have been c
  
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• Channing Tatum is Basically the Cutest Dad Ever and Here’s the Proof

  13-03-2017 22:22 via yahoo.com
  
  Check out why Channing Tatum is the most adorable dad!
  
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• 14 mn more uninsured under Republican plan in 2018: US budget office

  13-03-2017 22:13 via yahoo.com
  
  About 14 million fewer Americans will have health insurance next year under the new Republican plan to replace the Obamacare reforms, Congress's nonpartisan budget analysis office projected Monday.It also said that enacting the legislation currently before Congress -- a measure backed by President Donald Trump -- would reduce the federal deficit by some $337 billion over the next decade, a relatively small savings given the massive size of the US economy."In 2018, 14 million more people would be
  
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• Parents outraged over 5th grade ‘slave posters’ assignment

  13-03-2017 22:05 via yahoo.com
  
  New Jersey elementary school is under fire for its ‘slave auction poster’ assignment. Parents calls into question whether controversial class project is appropriate for fifth graders
  
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• Making autonomous car play, Intel offers $15B for Mobileye

  13-03-2017 22:05 via yahoo.com
  
  DETROIT (AP) — Computer chip maker Intel paid handsomely for a piece of the next big thing Monday as it offered more than $15 billion for Mobileye, an Israeli company at the forefront of autonomous vehicle technology.
  
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• Poland to seek extradition from United States of suspected Nazi commander

  13-03-2017 21:56 via yahoo.com
  
  Poland plans to seek the extradition of an American on suspicion of committing crimes against humanity in the World War Two deaths of 44 Polish villagers, Poland's government-affiliated history institute said on Monday.The man, identified as Michael K., is suspected of ordering the killings in 1944 in eastern Poland when he was a commander in the Nazi's SS-led Ukrainian Self Defence Legion, the Institute of National Remembrance (IPN) said in a statement.
  
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• Minneapolis hits rogue liquor store with 30-day suspension

  13-03-2017 21:54 via yahoo.com
  
  ST. PAUL, Minn. (AP) — A Minneapolis liquor store that opened for Sunday business nearly four months before a new state law allowed it will lose its license for 30 days.
  
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• Stock markets confident Fed will seal deal

  13-03-2017 21:51 via yahoo.com
  
  New York (AFP) - World stock markets mostly rose Monday as investors priced in the near-certainty of a US rate rise this week following a forecast-busting US jobs report.
  
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• How Much Caffeine Is Too Much?

  13-03-2017 21:48 via yahoo.com
  
  How much caffeine should you actually be drinking in a day? Health's resident medical editor weighs in.
  
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• ‘Well, history’: Fox’s Shep Smith says he tries to avoid quoting Kellyanne Conway

  13-03-2017 21:32 via yahoo.com
  
  Fox News anchor Shep Smith dismissed White House counselor Kellyanne Conway’s credibility on air Thursday, saying, “We don’t really quote [her] anymore, because, well, history.”The barbs were in response to Conway’s defense of President Trump’s unsubstantiated claim that President Obama ordered a wiretap of the phones in Trump Tower.“There are many ways to surveil each other,” Conway said in a Sunday interview with the Record, a New Jersey newspape
  
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• House Completely Covered by Ice in Astonishing Viral Images

  13-03-2017 21:32 via yahoo.com
  
  John Kucko said the ice is up to six inches thick on his lakeside property in upstate New York.
  
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• Sean Spicer says you can trust Trump ‘if he’s not joking’

  13-03-2017 21:22 via yahoo.com
  
  White House press secretary Sean Spicer defended President Trump’s sometimes-tenuous relationship with the truth by saying that he can be taken at his word — unless he’s joking.Amid confusion over several of Trump’s fact-free assertions, Peter Alexander of NBC News asked Spicer on Wednesday whether people should trust the president to tell the truth.“If he’s not joking, of course,” Spicer said to laughter of disbelief from the press corps.
  
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• How to Get Rid of Frizzy Hair

  13-03-2017 21:19 via yahoo.com
  
  Does your hair look great when you walk out the door and poufy three minutes later? These styling maneuvers will keep your strands under control in all kinds of weather.
  
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• Leaked images show the Galaxy S8’s software in intimate detail

  13-03-2017 21:13 via yahoo.com
  
  The Galaxy S8 launch is just weeks away at this point, and the leaks are coming thick and fast. We've seen basically everything there is to see about the outside of the phone, so it's about time we peeked under the hood.
  Thanks to a series of images ripped from a new APK of Samsung Smart Switch, an app that helps you transfer data between devices, we have a good idea of what the software will look like on the S8 and S8+.The images show the main home page and and the app launcher, along with a bu
  
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• An intense cold snap turned this waterfront home into a striking ice castle

  13-03-2017 21:07 via yahoo.com
  
  While a good chunk of the Northeast is prepping for a storm, some New York residents are dealing with another winter nuisance: ice.  A home situated directly on Lake Ontario in Webster, New York, has turned into an almost literal ice house after strong winds coupled with low temperatures over the course of multiple days encased the home with a thick blanket of ice. Bad will soon get worse on Lake Ontario. A foot of snow is on the way for parts of #WNY @spann @JimCantore @StormHour @New
  
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• Chinese Officials Call For 'People's War' Against Islamic State

  13-03-2017 21:03 via yahoo.com
  
  Communist Party officials cited President Trump’s recent travel ban as an  example of how to prevent “religious extremism from seeping into all of American culture.”
  
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• 3 iPad Pro Models Expected To Launch Next Week

  13-03-2017 21:03 via yahoo.com
  
  Analysts are saying new Apple products are scheduled to arrive next week, fueling previous rumors about three iPad Pro models that were believed to be arriving this month.
  
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• Deadly car bomb blast kills 6 near hotel in Somalia's capital

  13-03-2017 20:53 via yahoo.com
  
  A suicide car bomber detonated near a hotel in Somalia’s capital Monday morning, killing at least six people and injuring four others, police said.
  
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• Death toll in Ethiopian garbage dump landslide rises to 65

  13-03-2017 20:45 via yahoo.com
  
  "My babies, my babies, my little daughter," cried one man wandering through the garbage dump in the Ethiopian capital, tears streaming down his face.The landslide late on Saturday destroyed 49 dwellings and left 28 people injured, city spokesman Amare Mekonen said.Hundreds of people live on the 50-year-old Reppi dump, the city's only landfill site, scavenging for food and items they can sell such as recyclable metal.
  
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• Watch Us Play Mass Effect Andromeda Multiplayer

  13-03-2017 20:27
  Join us live on Wednesday, March 15 at 12pm PT/3pm ET/7pm GMT/6am AEST (March 16) for our reveal of Mass Effect Andromeda's multiplayer mode. BioWare designer Jason Richardson will be joining us to take a look at new maps, character customization, and much more!
  In the meantime, check out our first impressions of Andromeda multiplayer from PAX East, and check out all of our exclusive IGN First coverage so far.
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• Carlos the Jackal regrets not killing 'people I should have'

  13-03-2017 20:25 via yahoo.com
  
  PARIS (AP) — Once the world's most-wanted fugitive, the man known as "Carlos the Jackal" appeared in a French court Monday for a deadly 1974 attack on a Paris shopping arcade, a trial that victims' families awaited for decades.
  
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• Spicer on Apple store confrontation: ‘it’s a free country’

  13-03-2017 20:23 via yahoo.com
  
  During the White House daily press briefing Monday, press secretary Sean Spicer responds to the Apple store confrontation he experienced over the weekend and said, “it’s a free country, and the beauty of it is that people can act how they want.”
  
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• ‘It’s a free country’: Sean Spicer shrugs off viral Apple Store confrontation

  13-03-2017 20:16 via yahoo.com
  
  White House press secretary Sean Spicer is shrugging off his encounter with a woman who confronted him in an Apple Store over the weekend — saying he doesn’t mind fielding critical questions from the public, even when they’re sprung on him in a checkout line.“I interact with individuals all day long,” Spicer said at his daily press briefing on Monday.Shree Chauhan approached Spicer in the Washington store Saturday afternoon and began filming him as she fired off a s
  
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• What to Make of Indian State Election Results

  13-03-2017 20:13 via yahoo.com
  
  Modi isn’t going anywhere, and the opposition needs to start going somewhere.
  
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• Judge nixes stiffer sentence for Dylann Roof's friend

  13-03-2017 20:01 via yahoo.com
  
  COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — Dylann Roof's friend should not get an unusually tough prison sentence for failing to warn police about Roof's plans to kill black worshippers at a Charleston church, a judge ruled on Monday.
  
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• Explaining Trump: The art of the dodge

  13-03-2017 19:59 via yahoo.com
  
  Since taking office, President Trump has continued to say things for which there is no discernible evidence. As a result, his White House staff, from his press secretary to his counselors to his vice president, is asked to defend, justify and explain his misstatements and tweets, with varying results.
  
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• After Learning His Daughter Couldn't Fly, This Woman's Random Act of Kindness Saved the Day

  13-03-2017 19:52 via yahoo.com
  
  This will touch your heart!
  
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• First Drive: 2018 Lexus LC 500

  13-03-2017 19:50 via yahoo.com
  
  Toyota's luxury division grew sleepy. This sexy beast wakes it up.
  
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• Easy-To-Grow Plants You Should Plant This Spring

  13-03-2017 19:49 via yahoo.com
  
  Start your garden this weekend.
  
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• There’s a new Google Pixel in stores, but it’s not the Pixel 2

  13-03-2017 19:41 via yahoo.com
  
  Google recently confirmed that it’ll launch a Pixel 2 and Pixel XL 2 phones this year, though the company stopped short of clarifying the exact names of the next-generation phones. Without revealing any launch details, Google did hint the Pixel 2 will hit stores about a year after its predecessor toward the end of 2017. The company said it’ll continue to target the high-end market, suggesting the Pixel 2 series will have premium prices just like the first Pixel models.
  The Pixels may
  
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• Digital Toolset for Dungeons and Dragons: Fifth Edition Announced

  13-03-2017 19:38
  An official set of digital tools for Dungeons & Dragons is coming this summer.
  The new tools, developed by Wizards of the Coast and game-communication company Curse, includes "rules compendium, character builder, digital character sheets, and more."
  D&D Beyond is coming to "any device," meaning it won't be limited strictly to desktop computers. It also includes access to news, "articles, forums, and more."
  Dungeons & Dragons senior director Nathan Stewart said D&D Beyond represen
  
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• Steve King has a model of the border wall he wants to build to protect our ‘superior civilization’

  13-03-2017 19:32 via yahoo.com
  
  Rep. Steve King, right, shows off his border-wall model to Gen. John Kelly before Kelly took office as secretary of homeland security.Rep. Steve King, R-Iowa, is under fire for a series of inflammatory statements he’s made in recent days about protecting our “superior civilization” from immigrants “living in enclaves” and “refusing to assimilate.” But when it comes to curbing immigration, King isn’t all talk.In a recent interview with Yahoo News, K
  
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• Dutch conservatives, nationalists big winners from Turkey row: poll

  13-03-2017 19:19 via yahoo.com
  
  By Thomas EscrittAMSTERDAM (Reuters) - Dutch conservative and nationalist parties could gain an extra five seats between them following the diplomatic row and weekend rioting over a Turkish minister's attempt to hold a political rally in Rotterdam, a snap poll published on Monday showed.With two days to go until the Dutch vote in a pivotal parliamentary election, pollster Maurice De Hond found that the spat between the Netherlands and Turkey, and Saturday's night of rioting by ethnic Turks in Ro
  
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• Tillerson to East Asia in shadow of North Korea threat

  13-03-2017 18:56 via yahoo.com
  
  With North Korea's drive to field a nuclear-armed missile rapidly emerging as President Donald Trump's first foreign crisis, his top diplomat is heading to a nervous region.US Secretary of State Rex Tillerson, a former oil executive with no government experience, has yet to make an impact in Washington, where he has not even appointed a senior staff.Tillerson will arrive in Tokyo on Wednesday for talks with Prime Minister Shinzo Abe and Foreign Minister Fumio Kishida, who watched Pyongyang's lat
  
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• Firestorm Bringing The Heat To Injustice 2 Roster

  13-03-2017 18:50
  
  WWE wrestler and video game connoisseur Xavier Woods has revealed that Firestorm is the next character joining the Injustice 2 roster. The exclusive reveal was part of a tour for Woods' YouTube channel, UpUpDownDown. During the tour, Woods chats with studio head Ed Boon about Mortal Kombat, and geeks out over various MK-themed memorabilia with his friends. I would do the exact same thing probably.
  While the whole video is definitely worth a watch for fans of NetherRealm studios, Firestorm gamep
  
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• Helen Mirren told Vin Diesel she wanted to be in Fate of the Furious, a week later she was written in

  13-03-2017 18:46 via gamesradar.com
  
  "How on Earth did they convince Helen Mirren to be in The Fate of the Furious," you may have asked yourself when you first heard about her casting
  
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• Trump says Republican healthcare plan to replace Obamacare will not be ‘one-size-fits-all’

  13-03-2017 18:44 via yahoo.com
  
  During a listening session on healthcare Monday, President Trump said the House Republican plan to replace the Affordable Care Act will offer Americans more choices at lower cost.
  
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