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• Turpin family: 13 'emaciated' children found shackled to beds in squalid home, California police say

  15-01-2018 23:33 via yahoo.com
  California authorities say they have rescued more than a dozen starving, filthy young people who were chained inside their parents’ home in Perris.One of the captives, a 17-year-old girl, escaped over the weekend and notified the Riverside Sheriff’s Department that her siblings “were being held captive inside the residence by her parents,” some of them “bound with chains and padlocks,” the Sheriff’s Department said.“Further investigation revealed s
  
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• North Carolina mother kills two children, jumps off bridge

  15-01-2018 23:21 via yahoo.com
  After 34-year-old Christina Treadway's suicide on Saturday, police found Isaiah Miller, 7, and Iliyah Miller, 3, with life-threatening injuries at their home, the Charlotte-Mecklenburg Police Department and Charlotte media said.
  
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• Whale Rescued After Being Trapped in 285 Feet of Braided Line

  15-01-2018 22:48 via yahoo.com
  The animal expected to survive.
  
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• Casino company: Boat that caught fire had no past problems

  15-01-2018 22:36 via yahoo.com
  TAMPA, Fla. (AP) — A casino company said Monday it never had a problem with the shuttle boat that burst into flames off Florida's Gulf Coast, leading to the death of a female passenger.
  
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• Netflix 'Still Exploring the Opportunity' for Switch App

  15-01-2018 22:11
  Netflix is still "exploring the opportunity" to bring its streaming app to Nintendo Switch.
  The news comes by way of Polygon, who was told by a Netflix representative, "We are still exploring the opportunity with Nintendo, but don’t have definitive plans to share at this time"
  Over the weekend, customer service account @Netflixhelps told a customer "there are currently no plans for Netflix on Nintendo Switch," but the tweet has since been deleted.
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• Tyler Barriss, accused of making hoax call, regrets death of 'swatting' victim

  15-01-2018 21:49 via yahoo.com
  Tyler Barriss, 25, appears in court for his extradition hearing in Los Angeles, California.Tyler Barriss, the California man accused of making a hoax emergency call that resulted in a fatal police shooting in Kansas, has said he regrets the death of Andrew Finch.Speaking to KWCH-TV from the Kansas jailhouse where he is being held on a $500,000 bond after being charged with involuntary manslaughter, Barris said: “As far as serving any amount of time, I’ll just take responsibility and
  
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• We Thought We Were Going To Die, So We Fought Over A Tractor

  15-01-2018 21:45 via yahoo.com
  A state employee accidentally pushed the wrong button during a routine shift change drill on Saturday, broadcasting an incoming missile alert to the people of Hawaii.
  
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• Selena Gomez's Mom Says She's 'Not Happy' Her Daughter Is Back With Justin Bieber

  15-01-2018 21:42 via yahoo.com
  Selena Gomez’s mother and former manager, Mandy Teefey, is “not happy” the singer has recently rekindled her romance with Justin Bieber, Teefey told celebrity site Gossip Cop.
  
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• Car crashes into second floor dental practice in California

  15-01-2018 21:26 via yahoo.com
  A man who had taken drugs before getting behind the wheel of his Nissan Sedan survived relatively unscathed after crashing his car in the second-floor of a house. Police in Santa Ana, California, say that the car, travelling at high speed, clipped the central reservation before launching into the air. It flew about 60 feet before smashing into the second floor of the building, which contained a dental practice. CCTV footage obtained by a local television station captured the moment, and showed t
  
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• Several dead in operation to arrest rogue Venezuela pilot Óscar Pérez

  15-01-2018 21:22 via yahoo.com
  Two police officers were killed outside Caracas as security forces closed in on a rogue pilot and former policeman who stole a helicopter and bombed government buildings in an audacious stunt that inspired protesters across Venezuela. Police traced Óscar Pérez to a run-down area near the capital on Monday after six months on the run following his air raid in June last year. According to the Ministry of the Interior and Justice, five members of the “terrorist cell” were
  
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• Haitians In Florida Protest Trump's 'Shithole' Comments, Demand Apology

  15-01-2018 21:17 via yahoo.com
  Members of the Haitian community in South Florida gathered Monday to protest President Donald Trump’s comments about immigrants from “shithole” countries.
  
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• UAE accuses Qatar of 'intercepting' 2 passenger planes

  15-01-2018 21:02 via yahoo.com
  The United Arab Emirates accused neighbouring Qatar of "intercepting" two Emirati passenger planes en route to Bahrain on Monday in the latest incident between the Gulf rivals.Qatar denied the allegations as "totally baseless" and hit back that they came "one day after a C-130 UAE military aircraft breached Qatari airspace".Tensions have escalated in the Gulf since Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates, Bahrain and Egypt cut all ties with Qatar in June, accusing it of supporting Islamist extrem
  
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• Heart-Stopping Video Shows NYPD Cop Dragged by Car in Dramatic Times Square Chase

  15-01-2018 20:46 via yahoo.com
  After he's hit by the vehicle, NYPD Officer Ian Wallace gets up and pursues the suspect on foot.
  
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• UK air force scrambles 2 fighters to intercept Russian jets

  15-01-2018 20:32 via yahoo.com
  LONDON (AP) — Britain's Royal Air Force scrambled two fighter jets to intercept Russian strategic bombers near U.K. airspace on Monday, in another illustration of ongoing tensions.
  
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• Saudi Ritz Carlton to reopen after being used as luxury prison in corruption purge

  15-01-2018 20:22 via yahoo.com
  The luxury Riyadh hotel used as a prison during Saudi Arabia's crackdown on corruption will reopen for business next month, suggesting authorities are close to settling the cases of many suspects. Dozens of princes, senior officials and top businessmen were detained and confined in the five-star Ritz-Carlton Riyadh as the government launched the purge in early November. The some 200 detainees occupied half the hotel's 492 rooms. The rest was closed to business. The hotel's website now accepts bo
  
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• MLK's Daughter Says We Must Remember Her Mother's Legacy, Too

  15-01-2018 20:22 via yahoo.com
  Bernice King says those honoring her father on Martin Luther King Jr. Day should also remember another incredibly important figure in the civil rights movement: her mother, Coretta Scott King.
  
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• Pulse-Pounding Rescue Caught on Tape as Firefighters Catch Baby Tossed From Burning Building

  15-01-2018 20:12 via yahoo.com
  Fire captain Scott Stroup twisted his knee while making the grab.
  
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• UAE says Qatar fighter jets intercept flights, Doha denies

  15-01-2018 20:10 via yahoo.com
  DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — The United Arab Emirates on Monday claimed that Qatari fighter jets intercepted two of its commercial airliners in international airspace on the way to Bahrain, allegations denied by Qatar.
  
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• LeBron reflects on MLK's legacy, criticizes Trump on holiday

  15-01-2018 19:53 via yahoo.com
  INDEPENDENCE, Ohio (AP) — On a day for reflecting on race in America, LeBron James considered Martin Luther King Jr.'s ultimate sacrifice.
  
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• New pickups from Ram, Chevy heat up big-truck competition

  15-01-2018 19:34 via yahoo.com
  DETROIT (AP) — The competition for full-size pickup truck customers in the U.S. is as rough-and-tumble as ever, with Ram and Chevrolet rolling out brawny-looking new models that are larger, lighter and more efficient than their predecessors.
  
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• Celebrities React To The Death Of Dolores O'Riordan, Lead Singer Of The Cranberries

  15-01-2018 19:29 via yahoo.com
  Celebrities reacted with a mix of shock and sadness after the sudden death of Dolores O’Riordan, the lead singer of popular ’90s band The Cranberries.
  
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• Top U.S. general says 'not giving up' on Pakistan ties

  15-01-2018 18:59 via yahoo.com
  The top U.S. military officer, Marine General Joseph Dunford, said on Monday he was committed to the U.S.-Pakistan relationship, which has been strained in recent weeks as Washington piles pressure on Islamabad to crack down on militants.The United States has long blamed militant safe-havens in Pakistan for prolonging the war in neighboring Afghanistan, giving insurgents, including from the Haqqani network, a place to plot attacks and rebuild their forces.
  
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• What Bitcoin’s “80% Mined” Landmark Means for Cryptocurrency’s Price

  15-01-2018 18:55 via yahoo.com
  The cryptocurrency has hit a major milestone.
  
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• Mitt Romney: Trump's 'Shithole' Comments 'Antithetical To American Values'

  15-01-2018 18:48 via yahoo.com
  Mitt Romney has joined the chorus of voices condemning the vulgar remarks that President Donald Trump reportedly made about Haiti and African countries, calling them “inconsistent [with] America’s history and antithetical to American values” in a Martin Luther King Jr. Day tweet.
  
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• 1 dead, 7 injured after crash on I-70 in Missouri

  15-01-2018 18:41 via yahoo.com
  A fatal crash occurred on I-70 in Missouri Monday morning. The accident is causing traffic delays, with the eastbound lanes in the area shut down and one westbound lane closed.
  
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• Driver charged after going wrong way at high speed on Interstate: Police

  15-01-2018 18:34 via yahoo.com
  A Connecticut officer's dashcam video shows a wrong-way driver traveling northbound at high speed in the southbound lanes of Interstate 95, police said.
  
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• China races to tackle expanding oil spill after tanker sinks

  15-01-2018 18:34 via yahoo.com
  Chinese ships scrambled Monday to clean up a massive and expanding oil spill after an Iranian tanker sank off China, raising fears of devastating damage to marine life.The Sanchi, carrying 136,000 tonnes of light crude oil from Iran, went under on Sunday after a new and massive fire erupted, sending a cloud of black smoke as high as one kilometre above the East China Sea.The search and rescue effort was cancelled and a clean-up operation began after a fire on the sea surface was finally extingui
  
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• Blog: Why your defect count is defunct

  15-01-2018 18:29
  How do you go about measuring the performance of your QA team? You don't. Here's why you should stop monitoring your teams bug quota and using it as metric to justify their output. ...
  
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• Quantic Dream on defense amid allegations of toxic work environment

  15-01-2018 18:28
  Three French publications have leveled serious misconduct and harassment allegations against Heavy Rain developer Quantic Dream, whose founders have denied accusations. ...
  
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• California rescuers search for victims of deadly mudslides

  15-01-2018 18:23 via yahoo.com
  (Reuters) - The search for victims of last week's deadly Southern California mudslides pushed into Monday, with hundreds of rescue workers with dogs and scanners hunting for four people still listed as missing after the rain-driven slides that killed 20 people.Emergency officials said hopes were diminishing that they would pull more survivors from the ravaged landscape of hardened muck, boulders and twisted debris left behind by the Tuesday mudslides that scoured a landscape already left barren
  
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• Speeding car flies into the air and crashes into top floor of California building

  15-01-2018 18:15 via yahoo.com
  Dramatic video footage shows the Nissan Altima was travelling at high speed in Santa Ana, in Orange County, at around 5.25am on Sunday.It narrowly missed a passing car before hitting a central reservation, missing a passing bus, and then becoming wedged into the second floor of the building.Santa Ana Police Department said the driver admitted to being under the influence and that they will be submitting a DUI/narcotics case to the District Attorney for review.
  
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• German man known as 'Bookkeeper of Auschwitz' asks for clemency

  15-01-2018 18:04 via yahoo.com
  A 96-year-old German convicted over his role in the murders of 300,000 people at the Auschwitz death camp in Nazi-occupied Poland has filed a plea for clemency, a regional justice spokesman said on Monday.Oskar Groening, known as the "bookkeeper of Auschwitz", was sentenced to four years in prison in 2015 for being an accessory to murder at Auschwitz.Christian Lauenstein, spokesman for the justice ministry in the northern state of Lower Saxony where the 2015 trial took place, said Groening's ple
  
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• Past Presidents Volunteered On MLK Day. Donald Trump Is Spending It At His Golf Club.

  15-01-2018 18:00 via yahoo.com
  President Donald Trump is spending Martin Luther King Jr. Day, a federal holiday meant to honor the United States’ most iconic civil rights leader, at his golf club in Florida.
  
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• Out This Week: Street Fighter V Arcade Edition, Blade Runner 2049, Kirby Battle Royale

  15-01-2018 18:00
  
  With so many new games and movies coming out, it can be hard to keep up. Lucky for you, IGN is here to help with a weekly round-up of the biggest releases each and every week. Check out the latest releases for this week, and be sure to come back next Monday for a new update.
  Note: The prices and deals compiled below are accurate at the time we published this story, but all are subject to change.Continue reading…
  
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• Chevrolet's Big Bet: The Larger, Lighter 2019 Silverado Pickup Truck

  15-01-2018 17:56 via yahoo.com
  The 2019 Chevrolet Silverado unveiling was arguably the most important event of this year’s Detroit auto show. The Silverado is not only General Motors’ best-selling vehicle but also the second b...
  
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• Erdogan: we will 'strangle' U.S.-backed force in Syria "before it's even born"

  15-01-2018 17:38 via yahoo.com
  By Ellen Francis and Ezgi ErkoyunBEIRUT/ISTANBUL (Reuters) - Turkey's Tayyip Erdogan threatened on Monday to "strangle" a planned 30,000-strong U.S.-backed force in Syria "before it's even born," as Washington's backing for Kurdish fighters drove awedge into relations with one of its main Middle East allies.The United States announced its support on Sunday for plans for a "border force" to defend territory held by U.S.-backed, Kurdish-led fighters in northern Syria.The Syrian government of Presi
  
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• Egypt's leader seeks to defuse tension with Sudan, Ethiopia

  15-01-2018 17:30 via yahoo.com
  CAIRO (AP) — Egypt's president on Monday sought to defuse tensions with Ethiopia and Sudan, reassuring them that his country was not meddling in their internal affairs or planning to go to war against them.
  
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• Palestinians meet to respond to Trump's 'slap of the century'

  15-01-2018 17:26 via yahoo.com
  Palestinian leaders met Monday to plan a response to what they see as US President Donald Trump's attack on their long bid for statehood, after Mahmud Abbas denounced White House peace efforts as the "slap of the century".The rare meeting of the Palestinian Central Council -- a high-ranking arm of the Palestine Liberation Organisation -- was called after Trump's controversial December 6 recognition of Jerusalem as Israel's capital.Palestinians want the annexed eastern sector of the city as the c
  
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• Nintendo Still Isn't Interested in VR or 4K Support

  15-01-2018 17:26
  Nintendo has reconfirmed there are currently no plans for the company to explore virtual reality or 4K support, citing the relatively small market for those technologies as a main reason behind its reluctance to invest.
  In a French interview (translated by NintendoLife), Managing Director of Nintendo France Philippe Lavoue builds on Nintendo's previous comments, offering further elaboration on Nintendo's hesitance to embrace the new technologies.
  Lavoue expresses his doubts that VR can "appeal t
  
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• All-New 2019 Acura RDX Gains Advanced Safety Systems, Turbo Power

  15-01-2018 17:20 via yahoo.com
  The RDX, Acura’s most reliable new model in Consumer Reports’ reliability survey—and the only Acura that CR currently recommends—is undergoing a full redesign for the 2019 model year. Acura unvei...
  
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• 2019 Acura RDX Prototype: A Thinly Veiled Peek at the Production Model

  15-01-2018 17:20 via yahoo.com
  A return to turbocharging and sportiness.
  
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• Egypt says it does not want war as tension grows with Sudan

  15-01-2018 17:07 via yahoo.com
  President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi said on Monday Egypt is not conspiring against its neighbors and has no intention to fight, a reference to growing tension with Sudan.Relations have deteriorated in recent weeks, including over a Sudan-Turkey naval agreement that angered Cairo and an ongoing dispute over a dam Ethiopia is building on the Nile river that runs through all three countries.In the latest move, Sudan recalled its ambassador to Egypt without saying when he might be back.
  
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• VW unveils all-new Jetta in Detroit but drops it from European markets

  15-01-2018 16:51 via yahoo.com
  One example is the all-new Volkswagen Jetta that's just been unveiled at the North American International Auto Show in Detroit.Although it's a huge deal for the American market as the Jetta is the brand's biggest-selling car over there, it's also been announced the Jetta is being dropped completely from European markets.The headline news about the 2019 Jetta is the fact it's now being built on the MQB platform that already underpins models as diverse as the Atlas and the Golf.
  
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• Erdogan says will destroy US-backed Syria 'terror army'

  15-01-2018 16:44 via yahoo.com
  Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan on Monday threatened to destroy a planned US-backed 30,000-strong border security force in northern Syria, describing it as an "army of terror".Turkey fears that the mooted new force will be comprised of the Kurdish People's Protection Units (YPG) militia, whom Ankara accuses of being terrorists and have been a constant bone of contention in Turkey-US ties.The new upsurge of tensions between Ankara and Washington also comes as Erdogan has repeatedly threate
  
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• U.S. diplomat has talks Pakistan amid tension over Trump 'deceit' tweet

  15-01-2018 16:40 via yahoo.com
  A senior U.S. diplomat had talks in Pakistan on Monday following an outcry over President Donald Trump's accusation that the nuclear-armed South Asian state had engaged in "lies and deceit" as a U.S. ally in the war in neighboring Afghanistan.Alice Wells, principal deputy assistant secretary of state for South and Central Asia, met with Pakistani Foreign Secretary Tehmina Janjua, the Foreign Ministry and U.S. Embassy said.
  
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• Philippine news website's licence revoked after Duterte threat

  15-01-2018 16:35 via yahoo.com
  The Philippine government has revoked the operating licence of leading news website Rappler, officials said Monday in a ruling denounced by President Rodrigo Duterte's critics as the latest blow to press freedom.Rappler, set up in 2012, is among a clutch of Philippine news organisations that have sparred with Duterte over their critical coverage of his brutal drugs war.
  
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• Nissan Xmotion Concept: Is This the Next Xterra?

  15-01-2018 16:35 via yahoo.com
  Compact utility vehicle could preview a new off-roader.
  
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• 2019 Hyundai Veloster N: This Is Hyundai's Hottest Ever Hatch

  15-01-2018 16:30 via yahoo.com
  The second-gen Veloster gains a more credible high-performance variant.
  
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• Games Done Quick raises $2.26M for the Prevent Cancer Foundation

  15-01-2018 16:29
  Charity speedrunning outfit Games Done Quick has raised a record-breaking $2.26 million from its debut 2018 event.  ...
  
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• Turkey vows to 'drown' US-backed Syrian Kurdish force

  15-01-2018 16:27 via yahoo.com
  BEIRUT (AP) — Turkey's president on Monday denounced U.S. plans to form a 30,000-strong Kurdish-led border security force in Syria, vowing to "drown this army of terror before it is born," as Russia and Syria also rejected the idea.
  
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