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• Montreal Is Ending Its Ban On Pit Bulls

  09-12-2017 23:30
  A ban on pit bull-type dogs in Montreal that’s been slammed by animal protection groups will be rolled back later this month.
  
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• California firefighters make gains ahead of strong winds

  09-12-2017 23:25
  By Caroline AndersonVENTURA, Calif. (Reuters) - Firefighters in Southern California made progress on Saturday in their multifront battle against a slew of wildfires that have killed at least one person, destroyed hundreds of buildings and forced more than 200,000 people from their homes this week.As the dry Santa Ana winds that have fueled the blazes abated slightly, officials lifted evacuation orders for parts of Ventura and Santa Barbara counties, and crews started getting the upper hand in co
  
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• Priest who used to be KKK member apologizes 40 years later

  09-12-2017 23:11
  ARLINGTON, Va. (AP) — A former Ku Klux Klan member who burned a cross on a black couple's lawn 40 years ago, before becoming a Roman Catholic priest, has finally written his victims an apology.
  
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• Ukrainian author of Manafort op-ed says sought input to avoid errors

  09-12-2017 22:50
  By Pavel PolityukKIEV (Reuters) - The author of an article that U.S. Special Counsel Robert Mueller believes Trump's former campaign manager Paul Manafort ghost-wrote in violation of a gag order said on Saturday he had sought input on the op-ed before publishing to avoid errors.On Friday, Mueller unveiled evidence against Manafort to convince a judge that he wrote the article to improve his public image.Manafort is facing charges as part of an investigation into accusations of Russian meddling i
  
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• Mom 'Retires' Elf on the Shelf With Funny Letter From the North Pole

  09-12-2017 22:37
  She said it'd become a lot of work.
  
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• U.N. envoy told North Korea urgent need to open channels to cut conflict risk

  09-12-2017 22:09
  By Jane Chung and Michelle NicholsSEOUL/UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) - The United Nations political affairs chief told senior North Korean officials during a visit to Pyongyang this week that there was an "urgent need to prevent miscalculations and open channels to reduce the risks of conflict," the world body said.Jeffrey Feltman, the highest-level U.N. official to visit North Korea since 2012, met with Foreign Minister Ri Yong Ho and Vice Minister Pak Myong Guk, the United Nations said in a statem
  
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• Fox News Corrects Story Claiming Roy Moore Accuser ‘Forged’ Candidate’s Signature

  09-12-2017 21:49
  Fox News updated a story that erroneously claimed one of Roy Moore’s accusers had “forged” evidence she’d presented to bolster her claim against him.
  
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• Honduras opposition demands 'rigged' vote be canceled

  09-12-2017 21:47
  Honduras's leftwing opposition is demanding a presidential election held two weeks ago be voided and its results annulled, alleging it was "rigged" in favor of incumbent President Juan Orlando Hernandez.The Alliance Against the Dictatorship coalition backing Hernandez's chief rival in the poll, Salvador Nasralla, lodged the demand late Friday with the Supreme Electoral Tribunal.Both Hernandez and Nasralla claimed victory after the November 26 election.
  
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• California's Getty museum survives wildfire, ready for quakes

  09-12-2017 21:32
  Southern California's Getty Center, one of the world's wealthiest art institutions, said it had survived a wildfire tearing through Los Angeles thanks to a disaster plan that has it ready for earthquakes as well.Fires that have chased almost 200,000 Californians from their homes covered the Getty's hillside location in smoke this week.Perched above the busy 405 freeway, an artery of California's traffic system, the Getty is among the most visited U.S. museums and reopened on Friday after two day
  
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• Trump visits Mississippi's Civil Rights Museum amid protests

  09-12-2017 21:30
  As Trump visited the new Museum of Mississippi History and the Mississippi Civil Rights Museum, protesters held up signs and shouted "No Trump, no hate, no KKK in the USA."
  
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• White Nationalists Have Been Saying 'Diversity Is Not Our Strength' For Years

  09-12-2017 21:24
  Rep. Steve King (R-Iowa) has again flirted with being an open white nationalist.
  
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• Trump Watches Up To 8 Hours Of TV Per Day

  09-12-2017 21:20
  President Donald Trump, who just last month said he’s too busy “reading documents” to watch much television, spends up to 8 hours in front of the TV each day, according to a new report.
  
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• Al Franken Is Not Sorry

  09-12-2017 20:47
  Even as he resigned from the Senate in disgrace this week, Minnesota Sen. Al Franken couldn't resist a parting shot.
  
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• Norovirus Outbreak Sickens Students at North Carolina State University

  09-12-2017 20:41
  About 60 students have come down with the illness
  
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• PM announces on state TV Iraq's war against IS has ended

  09-12-2017 20:18
  BAGHDAD (AP) — After more than three years of combat operations, Iraq announced Saturday that the fight against the Islamic State group is over after the country's security forces drove the extremists from all of the territory they once held. Iraqi and American officials warned, however, that key challenges remain despite the military victory.
  
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• Your Tax Dollars Are Being Used To Attack Patagonia

  09-12-2017 20:07
  WASHINGTON — The House Committee on Natural Resources has joined Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke’s fight against Patagonia, accusing the American outdoor retailer of lying in order to sell merchandise.
  
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• The Latest: US congratulates Iraq on end of war against IS

  09-12-2017 19:35
  BAGHDAD (AP) — The Latest on developments in Iraq (all times local):
  
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• China's 'tiger mothers' rebel against punitive homework for parents

  09-12-2017 19:33
  Fed up with picking up the slack in terms of helping her son with his heavy school workload, 39-year-old mother, Mrs Wang, has joined millions of like-minded parents who are calling for something that China’s ‘tiger mothers’ would have considered unthinkable only a few years ago – a break from homework. The campaign focuses on the frustrations of parents who believe they shouldn’t be spending their evenings tackling arithmetic questions or reciting complex sent
  
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• Trump says he 'admired' Martin Luther King at civil rights museum opening amid boycotts over his attendance

  09-12-2017 19:30
  Amid protests and boycotts over his attendance, US President Donald Trump said Martin Luther King, Jr was “a man I have studied, watched, and admired for my entire life” during the opening of a civil rights museum in Jackson, Mississippi.The president also mentioned Medgar Evers, a Mississippi civil rights activist and World War II veteran who was murdered by a white supremacist in 1963.
  
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• Detainees on agenda as top British diplomat arrives in Iran

  09-12-2017 19:22
  TEHRAN, Iran (AP) — British Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson arrived in Tehran on Saturday, where he is was expected to discuss the fate of detained dual nationals, including a woman serving a five-year prison sentence for allegedly plotting to overthrow Iran's government.
  
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• Egypt reveals artefacts, mummy from tombs in ancient city of Luxor

  09-12-2017 19:02
  Egypt's authorities on Saturday revealed artefacts and a linen-wrapped mummified body, possibly that of a top official, from two tombs that were discovered two decades ago in the Nile city of Luxor but had not been fully unexplored.The Ministry of Antiquities said the tombs, located in the Draa Abul Naga necropolis on Luxor's west bank, had been noted by German archaeologist Frederica Kampp in 1990s and were either unexcavated or had never been entered.Along with the mummy, archaeologists found
  
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• Iraq declares final victory over Islamic State

  09-12-2017 18:57
  By Maher Chmaytelli and Ahmed AbouleneinBAGHDAD (Reuters) - Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi declared final victory over Islamic State on Saturday after Iraqi forces drove its last remnants from the country, three years after the militant group captured about a third of Iraq's territory.The announcement comes two days after the Russian military announced the defeat of the militants in neighboring Syria, where Moscow is backing Syrian government forces.Iraqi forces recaptured the last areas still u
  
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• US hails end of IS 'vile occupation' in Iraq

  09-12-2017 18:37
  The United States hailed the end of the Islamic State group's "vile occupation" of Iraq Saturday after the Baghdad government declared victory in a three-year war, but warned that the jihadists still posed a threat."The Iraqi announcement signals the last remnants of ISIS's self-proclaimed 'caliphate' in Iraq have been erased and the people living in those areas have been freed from ISIS's brutal control," State Department spokeswoman Heather Nauert said."The United States joins the government o
  
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• This was the year we turned on social media - Mashable

  09-12-2017 18:30
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  This was the year we turned on social media
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  With each passing day comes yet another reason to question the notion that the long arc of the universe bends toward justice. However, this year, in particular, has made it resoundingly clear that — regardless of the direction of that arc — the ...
  
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• Substitute Teacher and Custodian Hailed Heroes After Gunman Opens Fire At School, Killing 2

  09-12-2017 18:28
  A 21-year-old opened fire and then killed himself.
  
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• Archaeologists discover 2 ancient tombs in Egypt's Luxor

  09-12-2017 18:28
  LUXOR, Egypt (AP) — Egypt on Saturday announced the discovery of two small ancient tombs in the southern city Luxor dating back some 3,500 years and hoped it will help the country's efforts to revive its ailing tourism sector.
  
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• Obama Warns Americans Against Following In The Path Of Nazi Germany

  09-12-2017 18:22
  It’s not that democracy is “fragile,” exactly, but it is “reversible,” according to former President Barack Obama.
  
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• Yemen rebels bury Saleh in closed funeral: family source

  09-12-2017 18:05
  Yemen's ex-president Ali Abdullah Saleh, slain this week by his former rebel allies, was buried on Saturday at his home village outside Sanaa, a relative close to the family said.It was held under strictly controlled conditions.The rebels, who over the past week have consolidated control of Sanaa, allowed Saleh's son Madin and a nephew out of detention to attend the burial.
  
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• Man Beat 3-Year-Old Girl to Death Because She Wouldn't Put On Her Pajamas, Police Say

  09-12-2017 18:05
  The man threw the 3-year-old to the ground causing head trauma
  
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• Egypt archaeologists discover mummy in Luxor

  09-12-2017 17:47
  Egyptian archaeologists have discovered a mummy in one of two previously unexplored tombs across the Nile from the southern city of Luxor, the antiquities ministry said Saturday.The tombs were found in the 1990s by German archaeologist Frederica Kampp, though she had only reached the entrance gate "but never entered", the ministry said.Antiquities Minister Khaled al-Enany was in Luxor to announce the discovery in Draa Abul Nagaa necropolis near the famed Valley of the Kings, where many pharaohs,
  
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• Lebanon's Hariri denounces Iraqi Shi'ite paramilitary's visit to border

  09-12-2017 17:42
  The head of an Iran-backed Iraqi Shi'ite militia has visited Lebanon's border with Israel accompanied by Hezbollah fighters, a video released on Saturday showed, in a show of Iranian influence that Lebanon's prime minister called illegal.Qais al-Khazali, leader of the Iraqi paramilitary group Asaib Ahl al-Haq, declared his readiness "to stand together with the Lebanese people and the Palestinian cause", in the video footage widely circulating on social media.
  
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• Tears, pomp, extravagance as France mourns rocker Hallyday

  09-12-2017 17:37
  PARIS (AP) — France bid farewell to its biggest rock star Saturday, honoring Johnny Hallyday with an extravagant funeral procession down Paris' Champs-Elysees Avenue, a presidential speech and a televised church ceremony filled with the country's most famous faces.
  
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• 'Maybe Putin is right': Roy Moore remark on same-sex marriage resurfaces

  09-12-2017 17:33
  As election day in Alabama draws near, a video of controversial Republican Senate candidate Roy Moore telling a Guardian reporter “maybe Putin is right” to condemn same-sex marriage has been widely shared online.The video was shared by CNN, which was itself targeted by Donald Trump on Friday night at a rally in Pensacola, Florida and on Twitter on Saturday morning.
  
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• Opera student raises $40,000 in performance for college tuition

  09-12-2017 17:09
  Drew Anthony raised enough money in a single opera performance to pay for a year of college tuition. After hearing his story, several prestigious universities have tapped him for spots at their school.
  
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• As winds relent, scorched California hopes for fire relief

  09-12-2017 17:05
  Brutal winds that fueled southern California's firestorm finally began to ease Saturday, giving residents and firefighters hope for respite as the destructive toll of multiple blazes came into focus.Despite the intensity of the fires that raged on six different fronts -- stretching from areas north of Los Angeles down to the San Diego region -- authorities have reported only one fatality.In the mountain town of Ojai the air-quality index was hovering over 500 -- at the top of the "hazardous" sca
  
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• Trump has no authority “to give away Jerusalem to an occupying power,” Palestinian official says

  09-12-2017 17:04
  Palestinian leaders are vowing to snub the White House following President Trump’s decision Wednesday to recognize Jerusalem as Israel’s capital.
  
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• Trump’s visit to Mississippi Civil Rights Museum underscores national tension

  09-12-2017 17:03
  President Trump delivered remarks at the opening event for the Mississippi Civil Rights Museum—while Congressman John Lewis—a civil rights icon -- boycotted the President’s visit as an “insult” to the people commemorated there.
  
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• Travel troubles: snow cancels flights along the East Coast

  09-12-2017 17:01
  Atlanta’s airport -- the nation’s busiest -- experienced the bulk of today’s travel troubles after an unexpected blast of winter weather headed southeast.
  
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• Nobel peace laureates urge US, NKorea to de-escalate nuclear threats

  09-12-2017 16:52
  Representatives of the 2017 Nobel Peace Prize laureate, the International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons (ICAN), on Saturday called on the US and North Korea to reduce tensions and end the "urgent threat" posed byweapons of mass destruction."There's an urgent threat right now," ICAN head Beatrice Fihn told a press conference in Oslo."I would very strongly urge these two leaders to back down from this threat, stop threatening to use weapons of mass destruction to slaughter hundreds of thousa
  
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• North Korea Renews 'Dotard' Insult For Donald Trump Over Jerusalem Move

  09-12-2017 16:38
  North Korea reignited its feud with President Donald Trump on Saturday.
  
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• Powerful Iraqi militant appears on Lebanon-Israel border

  09-12-2017 16:36
  BEIRUT (AP) — A powerful Iran-backed Iraqi militant commander has visited the Lebanon-Israel border expressing support for the Lebanese and Palestinians against the Jewish state and sparking harsh criticism from Lebanon's prime minister who ordered him banned from entering the country.
  
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• Russia says it is fully committed to nuclear missile pact

  09-12-2017 16:29
  Russia said on Saturday it was fully committed to a Cold War-era pact with the United States banning intermediate-range cruise missiles, a day after Washington accused Moscow of violating the treaty.The U.S. State Department said on Friday Washington was reviewing military options, including new intermediate-range cruise missile systems, in response to what it said was Russia's ongoing violation of the 1987 Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces Treaty.
  
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• The Republican tax bill: four takeaways | Corey Robin

  09-12-2017 16:09
  The Republicans are already pivoting from tax cuts to the debt, claiming that the next task is to rein in spending.Taxes are the “thunder of world history,” wrote Joseph Schumpeter.Last Saturday, Republicans in the US Senate joined their comrades in the House to write a new chapter in America’s fiscal history.
  
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• 'Vicious and Purposeful Mistake.' Trump Rails Against CNN Over Error

  09-12-2017 16:06
  The report suggested Trump was tipped off about documents damaging to Clinton
  
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• Man Charged With Murder After Allegedly Throwing 3-Year-Old For Not Putting on Pajamas

  09-12-2017 15:58
  She died days later.
  
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• Iraq: War Against Islamic State Group is Over

  09-12-2017 15:56
  Iraq said its war on the IS group is over after over three years of combat
  
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• Ancient Tombs Dating Back 3,500 Years Discovered in Egypt's Luxor

  09-12-2017 15:47
  The latest discovery in the city famed for its temples and tombs
  
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• In California, dozens of horses perish in fires

  09-12-2017 15:24
  A line of charred stables running down blackened hills have become graveyards for dozens of horses caught in the raging flames of a southern California wildfire that burned them alive."It was hell," said a security employee at the San Luis Rey Training Center in Bonsall, an hour north of San Diego.The employee, who asked not to be identified by name, said that 75 percent of the stables burned at the center, where some 500 elite horses were stabled and trained.
  
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• California's Wildfires This Year Have Been Breaking Records

  09-12-2017 15:21
  California has experienced one of the worst years on record for wildfires.
  
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• Health Insurers See Higher Prices And A Big Mess Ahead Without The Obamacare Mandate

  09-12-2017 15:19
  Health insurance companies know that an insurance market without the requirement that everyone get coverage will be worse for them and their customers.
  
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