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• Racial tension over Charlottesville allegedly sparked Omarosa's departure from Trump White House

  13-12-2017 23:55
  Omarosa Manigault-Newman has been an ally of President Donald Trump since her appearance on "The Apprentice" in 2004, but her role in his White House will now come to an end after her departure was announced on Wednesday morning.
  
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• Cancer-battling US Senator John McCain hospitalized

  13-12-2017 23:43
  US Senator John McCain, who is fighting an aggressive form of brain cancer, was in a military hospital Wednesday to treat "normal side effects" of his therapy, his office said.The 81-year-old former prisoner of war and 2008 Republican presidential nominee was diagnosed in July with a brain tumor known as a glioblastoma, after doctors found a blood clot over his left eye during a routine checkup.McCain underwent surgery at the time in his home state of Arizona, and has been treated with radiation
  
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• Shark Viciously Attacks Woman On Her Honeymoon

  13-12-2017 23:38
  Sarah Illig’s dream honeymoon in the Bahamas turned out to be a nightmare after she was bitten by a shark.
  
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• Funeral held in San Antonio for slain San Marcos officer

  13-12-2017 23:35
  SAN ANTONIO (AP) — A Texas police officer who was fatally shot last week was a compassionate man who loved being a police officer and a father, mourners recalled Wednesday at his funeral.
  
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• NTSB investigates Delta plane that nearly landed on taxiway

  13-12-2017 23:25
  WASHINGTON (AP) — A Delta Air Lines plane nearly landed on a taxiway that was occupied by another plane at Hartsfield-Jackson International Airport in Atlanta, federal accident investigators said Wednesday.
  
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• Minnesota's next senator: Quiet organizer came late to power

  13-12-2017 23:22
  ST. PAUL, Minn. (AP) — The woman who will be Minnesota's next U.S. senator is a largely behind-the-scenes player who came to elected office late in her career and passed up a major shot at power just a few months ago.
  
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• Republicans strike deal on tax plan as they rush to pass it before arrival of Alabama's new Democratic senator

  13-12-2017 23:13
  Senate and House Republicans have struck a tentative deal on a tax plan as they race to get a final measure on President Donald Trump’s desk by Christmas.At the same time, Democrats are urging Republicans to delay the process until a newly-elected Democratic senator from Alabama, Doug Jones, is seated - currently expected not to be until after the Senate wraps up its work for the year.In a stunning upset on Tuesday, Mr Jones defeated his Republican opponent Roy Moore in a special election,
  
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• Alabama win thrills Democrats as Republicans point fingers

  13-12-2017 23:02
  Democrats said on Wednesday their U.S. Senate victory in Alabama could lead to a sweeping comeback for the party in 2018 elections, while Republicans sought to assess blame for a defeat in one of the country's most conservative states.Doug Jones, a Democrat and former federal prosecutor, won the special election on Tuesday night after a bitter campaign that drew national attention amid sexual misconduct accusations against conservative Republican candidate Roy Moore.President Donald Trump had en
  
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• Mother who 'blacked out' during baby's death gets 13 years

  13-12-2017 22:53
  BELFAST, Maine (AP) — A woman who drank multiple shots of liquor and smoked marijuana on the night of her infant son's death was ordered Wednesday to serve 13 years in prison.
  
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• US envoy Haley to present 'irrefutable evidence' on Iran

  13-12-2017 22:50
  US Ambassador Nikki Haley will present "irrefutable evidence" that Iran has tried to cover up violations of international obligations, the US mission said Wednesday.The United States and Saudi Arabia have accused Iran of supplying weapons to Yemen's Huthi rebels, who fired a missile intercepted near Riyadh airport on November 4.
  
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• North Korea's Kim Jong Un fetes rocket scientists, promises more weapons

  13-12-2017 22:45
  North Korea's leader Kim Jong Un vowed to develop more nuclear weapons on Tuesday while personally decorating scientists and officials who contributed to the development of Pyongyang's most advanced intercontinental ballistic missile, the Hwasong-15.Hwasong-15, which was test-launched on Nov. 29, has been largely perceived by analysts and government officials to have a range that can reach all of the mainland United States.Kim Jong Un said on Tuesday the scientists and workers would continue man
  
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• Goat Cheese And Roasted Garlic Beehive, The Best Appetizer Ever

  13-12-2017 22:36
  You know a dish is a hit when guests come back after the party to ask if there’s any left over.
  
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• Bannon's war against McConnell just lost its biggest battle

  13-12-2017 22:36
  In going all in on Roy Moore’s Senate campaign, Steve Bannon gambled and lost — big.  His insurgency against the Republican establishment now looks increasingly uncertain.  
  
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• Exclusive: Ford to base Fusion production in China - sources

  13-12-2017 22:35
  Ford Motor Co plans to consolidate global production of midsize sedans in China in 2020, three sources said on Wednesday.In North America, the Fusion sedan currently is built in Hermosillo, Mexico, while in Europe, the companion Mondeo sedan is built in Valencia, Spain.Both models are expected to be redesigned in mid to late 2020, when Ford plans to shift their production to Chongqing, to a joint-venture plant operated with Ford's Chinese partner Changan Automobile Co, according to sources conne
  
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• Video Shows Trump Supporters Saying 5-Year-Old Girl 'Looks Like' A Terrorist

  13-12-2017 22:32
  In a video that went viral on Twitter, people wearing American flag-themed clothing, including one wearing a shirt supporting President Donald Trump, can be seen laughing at a Palestinian-American family who attended a pro-Palestine rally in Los Angeles on Sunday.
  
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• Scientists to investigate if cigar-shaped asteroid could be an alien spacecraft

  13-12-2017 22:32
  A team of researchers, including Stephen Hawking, is investigating whether the first known object from outside the solar system contains the first sign of life beyond our planet.
  
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• Accused N.Y. bomber's family says attack 'our worst nightmare'

  13-12-2017 22:29
  Zulifikar Haider hoped his daughter would live the American dream when she married a fellow Bangladeshi living in the United States, but that dream turned into a nightmare when the family saw pictures of her husband wounded after allegedly trying to set off a bomb in a crowded New York commuter hub.Haider's family had been worried when his son-in-law, Akayed Ullah, 27, missed a regular call to his wife on Monday."Even in our worst nightmares, we could not have foreseen this," Haider, 62, told Re
  
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• Firefighters defend homes as huge California wildfire rages on

  13-12-2017 22:27
  Firefighters grappling with a wildfire that has burned out of control for 10 days on California's scenic coastline, destroying more than 700 homes, sought on Wednesday to defend homes from flames whipped by resurgent Santa Ana winds.The so-called Thomas Fire, already the state's fifth-largest wildland blaze on record, remained a threat to the communities of Santa Barbara, Carpinteria, Summerland and Montecito despite gains made by crews during a lull in the winds a day earlier."Very high fuel lo
  
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• Native American Activists Create Spoof Website To Call For Redskins Name Change

  13-12-2017 22:23
  For a few hours on Wednesday morning, a small group of Native American activists convinced the internet that Washington’s professional football franchise had finally decided to change its racist “Redskins” team name.
  
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• New Twitter ads admit it's too hard to use - The Verge - The Verge

  13-12-2017 22:14
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  New Twitter ads were revealed today that take a jab at one of the service's core problems. No, not Nazis, but that new users struggle to understand how to even use the platform. The two commercials show comedian Romesh Ranganathan, representing Twitter ...
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• 8-year-old Imani McCray may have hung herself after seeing report of another girl's suicide

  13-12-2017 21:47
  An 8-year-old girl from New Jersey committed suicide over the weekend, and sources close to the investigation are reportedly saying she may have been inspired by a story she saw on social media.
  
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• Family of 5-year-old boy shot in Texas church massacre ask public to send him Christmas cards

  13-12-2017 21:45
  The family of a five-year-old boy who was injured last month in a bloody Texas church shooting is appealing to the public to help them bring a bit of holiday cheer to the boy this Christmas.Ryland Ward, who was shot five times in the First Baptist Church last month, is still in the hospital after the shooting.“You got so many nice people that are sending a card and a dollar to Ryland,” Sandy Ward, his grandmother, told local news.
  
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• Rep. Speier on Alabama, North Korea and how Congress is not 'Animal House'

  13-12-2017 21:38
  Rep. Jackie Speier cautioned that Doug Jones’s shock defeat of Roy Moore is a “unique” result that may not apply to the 2018 midterms.
  
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• Putin must nudge Syria into U.N. peace deal, mediator says

  13-12-2017 21:29
  By Stephanie NebehayGENEVA (Reuters) - U.N. Special Envoy for Syria Staffan de Mistura urged Russia on Wednesday to convince its ally the Syrian government of the need to clinch a peace deal to end the nearly seven-year-old war.De Mistura, speaking on Swiss television station RTS, saidfailure to make peace quickly through United Nations mediation could lead to "a fragmentation of Syria".
  
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• North Korean 'ghost ship' washes up on shores of Japan as problem grows

  13-12-2017 21:17
  A new unmanned ship from North Korea washed Japanese shores this week with at least one dead body.
  
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• Bill aims to tackle orchestrated campaigns on social media - RTE.ie

  13-12-2017 21:10
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  A Fianna Fáil TD has tabled a motion in the Dáil aiming to tackle the rise of phoney accounts and orchestrated online campaigns on social media. The bill has been introduced by James Lawless, the party's spokesperson on science, technology, research ...
  
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• Recognise East Jerusalem as Palestinian capital: Islamic leaders

  13-12-2017 20:58
  Istanbul (AFP) - 'Islamic leaders on Wednesday urged world powers to recognise occupied East Jerusalem as the capital of the "State of Palestine", as Palestinian president Mahmoud Abbas warned that the United States no longer had a role to play in the peace process.Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan convened an emergency summit of the world's main pan-Islamic body, the Organisation of Islamic Cooperation (OIC), in Istanbul, seeking a tough response to the recognition by US President Donald T
  
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• Controversial Judicial Nominee Brett Talley Withdraws Nomination

  13-12-2017 20:56
  WASHINGTON ― President Donald Trump is giving up on trying to confirm one of his most controversial judicial nominees, Brett Talley, a White House spokeswoman confirmed Wednesday to HuffPost.
  
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• Republicans want special prosecutor to probe FBI anti-Trump bias

  13-12-2017 20:17
  Republicans pressed the US Justice Department onWednesday to name a new independent prosecutor to probe alleged bias in the FBI after a top agent's anti-Trump text messages were released to the media.With Special Counsel Robert Mueller's Russia investigation increasingly threatening President Donald Trump's inner circle, Republican legislators said the private messages between the agent and a department lawyer, both formerly part of the Mueller team, undermines his investigation's credibility.
  
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• Trump's Lawyer Made A Really Good Case Once For Sitting A New Senator Fast

  13-12-2017 20:14
  Jay Sekulow, one of President Donald Trump’s lawyers, excoriated Senate Democrats in a 2010 blog post for not moving quickly enough to seat Republican Scott Brown after he won a special election for a U.S. Senate seat in Massachusetts.
  
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• Fears of Israeli job cuts at Teva sparks call for general strike

  13-12-2017 20:07
  By Tova CohenTEL AVIV (Reuters) - Reports that Teva Pharmaceutical Industriesis planning a restructuring involving mass layoffs in Israel sparked calls on Wednesday for a half-day general strike to be held in protest.The plan includes closing Teva's research and development center in the coastal city of Netanya, selling its logistics center in Shoham and cutting 3,300 jobs out of 6,430 nation-wide, the Israeli financial news website Calcalist reported.Teva , the world's largest generic drug make
  
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• Facebook and Twitter: Nine Russian Brexit ads found by inquiries ... - BBC News

  13-12-2017 20:07 via bbc.com
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  Facebook says its investigation into Russian attempts to influence the Brexit vote has determined the activity amounted to just three adverts. Twitter says its own inquiry has linked six ads promoting referendum-related content on its platform to ...
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• Family Grows From 5 Members to 11 After the Birth of Sextuplets

  13-12-2017 20:03
  The three boys and three girls are expected to remain in the NICU for the next month.
  
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• Minnesota lieutenant governor to replace Franken in Senate

  13-12-2017 19:54
  Smith, 59, will serve a one-year term concluding in January 2019, Governor Mark Dayton said at a news conference, and will run in a special election for the seat in November next year.Dayton said he listened to the views of many Minnesotans before deciding on Smith.Smith told reporters at the news conference that she will be a fierce advocate on behalf of the state, pushing for economic opportunity and fairness.
  
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• Keaton Jones Visits University of Tennessee Football Team as Reports Say His Dad Might Be a White Supremacist

  13-12-2017 19:54
  Shawn White is currently serving a three-year prison term for assault.
  
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• Net giants 'must pay for news' from which they make billions

  13-12-2017 19:51
  Nine European press agencies, including AFP, called Wednesday on internet giants to be forced to pay copyright for using news content on which they make vast profits.The call comes as the EU is debating a directive to make Facebook, Google, Twitter and other major players pay for the millions of news articles they use or link to."Facebook has become the biggest media in the world," the agencies said in a plea published in the French daily Le Monde.
  
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• GOP seeks excuse for Trump to fire Mueller

  13-12-2017 19:50
  Rep. Eric Swalwell talks with Rachel Maddow about Republicans on the House Judiciary Committee pressing Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein for a reason for Donald Trump to fire Robert Mueller.
  
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• Haunting PSA From Sandy Hook Families Predicts 'Tomorrow's School Shooting'

  13-12-2017 19:45
  Families who lost loved ones in the Sandy Hook Elementary massacre released a powerful video this week, urging parents and teachers to help prevent another school shooting by taking action now.
  
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• Revance will wait to seek backing for Botox-rival

  13-12-2017 19:33
  Revance Therapeutics Incwill wait to seek partnerships with bigger drugmakers until it is closer to regulatory approval for its Botox rival treatment, Chief Executive Dan Browne told Reuters in an interview.The California-based drug developer shook the aesthetic industry last week by reporting data that showed its drug RT002reduced the severity of frown lines for about six months, almost double the 3-4 months Botox and other treatments achieve.The news sent a shiver through investors who have be
  
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• For captured ISIS fighters in Iraq, justice is swift and conviction certain

  13-12-2017 18:49
  Yahoo News gets a rare look inside the courtroom where captured ISIS fighters are being tried in Iraq. The trials last about 20 minutes, convictions are virtually certain, and a lenient sentence is 15 years.
  
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• Schumer pursuing legal options over fake harassment document

  13-12-2017 18:47
  WASHINGTON (AP) — Sen. Chuck Schumer said Wednesday that he is "pursuing every legal path" against whoever circulated a forged document accusing him of sexual harassment.
  
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• Prosecutors move to keep death penalty an option in slayings

  13-12-2017 18:46
  DOYLESTOWN, Pa. (AP) — Prosecutors have moved to hold onto their ability to seek the death penalty against two cousins in the deaths of four men found buried on a Philadelphia-area farm, although attorneys have said a deal with one defendant would take capital punishment off the table.
  
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• Half Of American Voters Believe The Women Accusing Trump Of Sexual Misconduct

  13-12-2017 18:37
  Fifty percent of voters believe that the sexual misconduct allegations against President Donald Trump are “credible,” according to a new survey from Politico and Morning Consult.
  
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• The Latest: GOP: Dayton manipulating state Senate majority

  13-12-2017 18:22
  ST. PAUL, Minn. (AP) — The Latest on Gov. Mark Dayton's appointment of a replacement for Minnesota Sen. Al Franken (all times local):
  
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• The Latest: Israel PM tells Palestinians to 'work for peace'

  13-12-2017 18:18
  ISTANBUL (AP) — The Latest on the gathering of Islamic nations seeking a united stance against the Trump administration's recognition of Jerusalem as Israel's capital (all times local):
  
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• Justice official defends Mueller, sees no cause for firing

  13-12-2017 18:18
  WASHINGTON (AP) — Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein, facing congressional questions about anti-Donald Trump text messages exchanged between two FBI officials assigned to the Russia probe, defended special counsel Robert Mueller on Wednesday and said he had seen no cause to fire him or received encouragement to do so.
  
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• Bodycam Footage of Cop Slapping Handcuffs on Screaming 11-Year-Old Girl Sparks Outrage

  13-12-2017 18:11
  The footage shows a terrified young girl as she's handcuffed during an investigation.
  
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• Alibaba, JD.com Can't Lose in China

  13-12-2017 17:34
  In 2017, Wal-Mart Stores Inc (NYSE: WMT) has proven that there's plenty of room for two e-commerce giants to thrive in the U.S. market.According to Stifel analyst Scott Devitt, there's no need for U.S. investors to pick between Alibaba Group Holding Ltd ( BABA) and JD.com Inc ( JD) in China.While Alibaba and JD continue to compete with each other for market share, both will likely deliver huge growth numbers in the years ahead.
  
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• Texts reveal two FBI officials in Russia inquiry had anti-Trump sentiments

  13-12-2017 17:22
  Peter Strzok was dismissed from the Russia investigation when Robert Mueller found out about a series harshly critical text messages about candidate Donald Trump. The messages were made public Tuesday.
  
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• Trump downplays Roy Moore loss

  13-12-2017 17:21
  Losing the Alabama senate seat is a huge embarrassment for President Donald Trump, who endorsed Moore’s candidacy despite ongoing sexual misconduct allegations.
  
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