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• Man Fatally Shoots Girlfriend, Her 8-Year-Old Son and Injures 4 Others: Cops

  03-04-2017 23:55
  
  Hours after police broke up an argument between a Florida couple, the boyfriend opened fire with an AK-47, killing his girlfriend, her 8-year-old son and wounding four others, authorities said.
  Sanford cops were twice called to intervene between Latina Herring, 35, and Allen Cashe, 31, who were fighting over keys to her house and his car, according to police.
  Read: Husband Stammers and Stumbles in 911 Call About ‘Injured’ Wife He Allegedly Shot to Death
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• NY Fed President Says It May Be Time To Talk About Free College Tuition

  03-04-2017 23:54 via yahoo.com
  
  Student loan debt is suppressing home ownership and making it problematic for the Federal Reserve to decide on the optimal interest rate.
  
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• Former Fox Contributor Accuses Bill O'Reilly of Inappropriate Behavior

  03-04-2017 23:54 via yahoo.com
  
  Wendy Walsh was later told by an "O'Reilly Factor" producer that she would no longer be appearing on the show.
  
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• Zoo Visitors Shocked to See First Critically Endangered Orangutan Born in Nearly a Decade

  03-04-2017 23:53 via yahoo.com
  
  Officials said the newborn Bornean orangutan is a significant addition to a population classified as "critically endangered" last year.
  
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• Glenn Beck bashes Trump White House for ‘professional nepotism’

  03-04-2017 23:38 via yahoo.com
  
  In light of Jared Kushner’s unexpected arrival in Iraq on Monday, conservative commentator Glenn Beck expressed concerns about President Trump’s son-in-law-turned-senior-adviser’s large role in the White House.“This is professional nepotism,” Beck told Yahoo News and Finance Anchor Bianna Golodryga in a Monday interview.Kushner’s White House portfolio has repeatedly expanded and now includes China policy, tax reform, brokering peace in the Middle East and runn
  
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• Watch their steps: Track journey of Yosemite bears online

  03-04-2017 23:30 via yahoo.com
  
  FRESNO, Calif. (AP) — Wildlife enthusiasts around the world can now follow the daily journey of Yosemite National Park's black bears from their laptops and smartphones, tracking the iconic animals as they lope up steep canyons and cross vast distances in search of food and mates.
  
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• COT-Largest Australian Dollar Speculative Long Position in a Year

  03-04-2017 23:30
  The speculative long position in AUD is the largest since last April, which was a piece top. This doesn’t mean that AUD has to turn lower but it does warrant caution as long as price is capped by the top of the year long range.
  
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• Dog Rescued After Dropping Into 30-Foot Well

  03-04-2017 23:24
  
  A dog was rescued Sunday after she fell into a 30-foot well in California’s Santa Monica mountains.
  Lucy, a 13-year-old Welsh terrier, fell into the dirt well in Malibu at about 11:45 a.m. The Los Angeles Fire Department responded to get the pup to safety.
  Read: Rescuer Dives Into 18-Foot Deep Cave in Epic Mission to Save 9 Abandoned Puppies
  It took rescuers two hours to get the scene due of traffic, but Lucy was eventually rescued by a firefighter who was lowered into the well.
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• Is Trump Russia’s Useful Idiot, or Has He Been Irreparably Compromised?

  03-04-2017 23:17 via yahoo.com
  
  That’s the question that needs answering. Everything else is a distraction.
  
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• Trump donates 3 months’ salary to Interior Department, offsetting 0.005% of proposed budget cut

  03-04-2017 23:14 via yahoo.com
  
  The White House announced Monday that President Trump would be donating his first-quarter salary to the Department of the Interior, which stands to lose $1.6 billion under his budget proposal.
  
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• Abandoned Baby Found Crying In the Grass By Stranger

  03-04-2017 23:12 via yahoo.com
  
  Police said the approximately 3-month-old baby was found after a passerby heard what they thought was an animal in distress.
  
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• 2017 Mini Cooper Countryman Grows Bigger, Gains Power, and Adds Practicality

  03-04-2017 23:09 via yahoo.com
  
  A model from the Mini brand is unmistakable, no matter the guise, version, or body style. Some may consider the all-new 2017 Mini Cooper Countryman—the biggest Mini yet—an SUV, but the model embo...
  
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• Trump Tweets Can't Stop Russia Stories

  03-04-2017 23:04 via yahoo.com
  
  As Donald Trump tries to deflect on Twitter, two new stories detail ties between Trump world and Russia – and in one case, an actual Russian spy. David Corn and Ned Price join Lawrence O'Donnell.
  
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• US, European stocks fall after Russian metro blast

  03-04-2017 23:03 via yahoo.com
  
  European and US stocks fell Monday as a deadly subway explosion in Russia rattled the market, along with anxiety over a key a US-China summit later in the week.
  
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• Trump's son-in-law, Kushner, flies into Iraq with top U.S. general

  03-04-2017 22:59 via yahoo.com
  
  By Phil StewartBAGHDAD (Reuters) - U.S. President Donald Trump's son-in-law, Jared Kushner, flew into Iraq on Monday with the top U.S. general to get a first-hand assessment of the battle against Islamic State from U.S. commanders on the ground and Iraqi leaders.For Kushner, who has not been to Iraq before, the trip comes at a critical time as Trump examines ways to accelerate a U.S.-led coalition campaign that U.S. and Iraqi officials say has so far been largely successful in uprooting Islamic
  
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• 'Not natural friends': Trump, Xi will be 'odd couple' at first summit

  03-04-2017 22:55 via yahoo.com
  
  By David Brunnstrom, Matt Spetalnick and Ben BlanchardWASHINGTON/BEIJING (Reuters) - When U.S. President Donald Trump meets Chinese President Xi Jinping this week, their summit will be marked not only by deep policy divisions but a clash of personalities between America’s brash “tweeter-in-chief” and Beijing’s cautious, calculating leader.Five months after his election on a stridently anti-China platform, Trump appears to have set himself on a course for collision rather
  
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• New Sexual Harassment Allegations Roil Fox News

  03-04-2017 22:53 via yahoo.com
  
  Fox News is facing a new lawsuit against fmr. chairman Roger Ailes and "The O'Reilly Factor" loses a major advertiser after a report Fox News paid $13 million to settle harassment claims against Bill O'Reilly.
  
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• Meeting Egypt’s Sisi, Trump publicly silent on human rights

  03-04-2017 22:35 via yahoo.com
  
  During the 2016 campaign, Donald Trump condemned the Obama administration for not doing more to publicly promote human rights in the Muslim world. But now that he has reached the White House, Trump has muted those concerns — notably declining to raise them publicly as he met Monday with Egyptian President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi.
  
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• Pentagon reviewing how it counts troop numbers

  03-04-2017 22:32
  
  Washington (AFP) – The Pentagon is reviewing how it counts US troop numbers in Iraq and Syria, an official said Monday, as it moves from Obama-era troop limits that critics said were misleading.
  Currently, the Pentagon provides “force management levels” that set limits on how many US troops are supposedly in each country.
  Former president Barack Obama, who tried to end US involvement in Middle East conflicts, set relatively low numbers to avoid the impression America was getti
  
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• Bill Cosby returns to court and more: April 3 in photos

  03-04-2017 22:22
  
  Actor Bill Cosby leaves for a lunch break during a hearing for his upcoming sexual assault trial at Montgomery County Courthouse in Norristown, Pennsylvania; Displaced Iraqis who had fled their homes wait to enter at Hammam al-Alil camp south of Mosul, Iraq; and, A man on stilts points as Travis Gonick, left, and his son T.J., center, both of Nutley N.J., enter Fenway Park for a baseball game between the Boston Red Sox and the Pittsburgh Pirates on opening day in Boston.
  These are just a few of
  
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• Mike Epps Sorry For Kangaroo Stunt, Feds To Get Involved?

  03-04-2017 22:10 via yahoo.com
  
  A stunt by comedian Mike Epps involving a real kangaroo could get him in trouble.
  
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• Regime strikes kill 28 civilians near Damascus: monitor

  03-04-2017 22:00 via yahoo.com
  
  Air strikes by Syrian warplanes on a rebel-held region near Damascus killed at least 28 civilians on Monday, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights monitor said.The highest toll was in Douma, the largest town in the Eastern Ghouta region, where raids killed 22 civilians including at least two children, it said.An AFP correspondent at the town hospital said he saw many wounded people, their faces bloodied.
  
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• Bill O'Reilly Loses Major Advertiser After Reports of Harassment

  03-04-2017 21:49 via yahoo.com
  
  Mercedes-Benz pulls "The O'Reilly Factor" ads after reports of a $13M harassment settlement against Bill O'Reilly. Plus, a new suit against fmr. chairman Roger Ailes. Gabriel Sherman, who literally wrote the book on Fox News.
  
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• No charges against Oklahoma man who killed 3 intruders

  03-04-2017 21:43 via yahoo.com
  
  OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — An Oklahoma prosecutor said Monday no charges will be filed against a 23-year-old man who fatally shot three teenage intruders in his home, but that the woman who drove them there is being charged with first-degree murder.
  
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• Apple has started preparing for crazy iPhone 8 sales

  03-04-2017 21:35 via yahoo.com
  
  Apple has placed an order for 70 million OLED screens from Samsung, according to a new report from Nikkei. The gargantuan order further underscores Apple's belief that the iPhone 8 -- rumored to be the only device in Apple's 2017 iPhone lineup with an OLED display -- will be incredibly popular. What's more, the report adds that Samsung is planning to manufacture 95 million OLED screens for Apple just in case demand for the device is even higher than anticipated.Word of Apple's massive OLED order
  
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• White House on Jared Kushner’s growing portfolio

  03-04-2017 21:32
  
  On Monday, April 3, White House press secretary Sean Spicer answered questions surrounding President Trump’s son-in-law, Jared Kushner. He is currently in Iraq to meet with leaders and to be briefed in the fight against the Islamic State. Spicer also answered questions about Kushner’s growing portfolio in recent weeks.
  The post White House on Jared Kushner’s growing portfolio appeared first on RocketNews |Top News Stories From Around the Globe.
  
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• LuLaRoe Gets Slammed With Lawsuit for Faulty Leggings

  03-04-2017 21:16 via yahoo.com
  
  Fashion brand LuLa Roe is being slammed with a lawsuit over faulty merchandise.
  
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• Years after bizarre events led to buried bodies, trial set

  03-04-2017 21:14 via yahoo.com
  
  PHOENIX (AP) — A landscaper made a discovery four years ago at a Phoenix home that provided a big break in a missing-persons case: A plywood box buried in the backyard that contained the mummified corpses of a couple.
  
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• EPA head Scott Pruitt may have broken integrity rules by denying global warming

  03-04-2017 21:13 via yahoo.com
  
  Well, this is a new one.  Scott Pruitt, the administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), is under investigation by his own agency for misstating the basic scientific consensus on human-caused global warming.   Turns out that providing misguiding scientific information to the public isn't a cool thing to do, after all — even in the Trump administration.SEE ALSO: Looking for hope on climate change under Trump? Cities are where the action is.EPA administrator Scott Pr
  
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• Russia Nixes Former White House Aide for Top U.N. Job in Libya

  03-04-2017 21:10 via yahoo.com
  
  The Trump administration’s torpedoing of a former Palestinian prime minister as U.N. envoy to Libya may have boomeranged on the White House.
  
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• France's Fillon says would launch probe into Hollande if elected

  03-04-2017 21:07 via yahoo.com
  
  By Adrian CroftPARIS (Reuters) - French presidential candidate Francois Fillon, an outsider to win after involvement in a financial scandal, said on Monday he would order a parliamentary inquiry into allegations President Francois Hollande interfered in the justice system, if elected.Once the frontrunner, the conservative former prime minister's poll ratings have slumped since allegations surfaced that he paid his wife, a son and a daughter hundreds of thousands of euros of public money for mini
  
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• Correction: Overpass Collapse-Fire story

  03-04-2017 20:58 via yahoo.com
  
  ATLANTA (AP) — In a story April 2 about a fire that caused part of an interstate highway to collapse, The Associated Press erroneously reported details about a man accused of starting the fire. Arrest warrants say Basil Eleby discussed smoking crack before the fire started, but he is not accused of smoking crack under the highway before it collapsed.
  
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• New York, other states take on Trump over energy efficiency

  03-04-2017 20:54 via yahoo.com
  
  By Jonathan StempelNEW YORK (Reuters) - A coalition of U.S. states has mounted a broad legal challenge against what it called the Trump administration's illegal suspension of rules to improve the energy efficiency of ceiling fans, portable air conditioners and other products.The challenge, also joined by environmental groups, came after the U.S. Department of Energy last month delayed standards proposed under the Obama administration to reduce air pollution and operating costs associated with th
  
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• 'Selfie monkeys' are now endangered because people can't stop eating them

  03-04-2017 20:39 via yahoo.com
  
  Apparently, everyone's favorite adorable "selfie monkey" is cute enough to eat—literally, in Indonesia.   The crested black macaque became legendary after one of them, Naruto, took a selfie of himself in 2011 and catapulted into internet stardom. Though approximately 2,000 of the macaques remain protected in one of the country's reserves, the primate is now critically endangered due to over-hunting, according to a new report from Seeker.SEE ALSO: You can now take selfies... with your
  
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• Democrats to filibuster Neil Gorsuch amid Supreme Court showdown

  03-04-2017 20:36 via yahoo.com
  
  Forty-one Senate Democrats have announced they will filibuster President Trump’s Supreme Court nominee Neil Gorsuch, setting up a partisan showdown over the hidebound institution’s internal rules this week.In a Senate Judiciary Committee hearing Monday afternoon, Sen. Chris Coons, D-Del., became the latest Democrat to say he would vote no on cloture for Gorsuch.Senate precedent requires 60 votes to end a filibuster — an indefinite debate — and proceed to a vote for Suprem
  
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• Hundreds of protesters greet Devin Nunes upon returning to home district in California

  03-04-2017 20:35 via yahoo.com
  
  House Intelligence Committee Chairman Devin Nunes returned to his district office in Fresno, Calif., Friday. There, he was greeted by over 300 angry constituents protesting his handling of the investigation into Russian meddling in the 2016 presidential election.
  
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• USD/CAD Technical Analysis: Jobs Week Meets A Bullish Chart

  03-04-2017 20:30
  Jobs data ahead of BoC next week is likely to dictate whether the USD/CAD uptrend will continue.
  
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• Correction: Grizzly Bears story

  03-04-2017 20:30
  
  JACKSON, Wyo. (AP) — In a story April 2 about grizzly bears expanding their range in the Western U.S., The Associated Press erroneously reported the name and gender of a Center for Biological Diversity attorney. She is Andrea Santarsiere, not Santarsieri.
  A corrected version of the story is below:
  Scientists predict expansion of US grizzly bear habitat
  Grizzly bears continue to expand their range amid an ongoing effort to turn over management of the bears from the US Fish and Wildlife Ser
  
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• College student dies after choking at pancake-eating contest

  03-04-2017 20:26 via yahoo.com
  
  HARTFORD, Conn. (AP) — A college student whose father was killed in the Sept. 11 attacks has died after choking during a pancake-eating contest.
  
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• Fmr Trump Adviser Had Been Russian Spy Target

  03-04-2017 20:25 via yahoo.com
  
  Ali Watkins, national security correspondent for Buzzfeed News, talks with Rachel Maddow about confirming with Carter Page his unwitting contact with Russian spies in 2013, years before he became a foreign policy adviser to Donald Trump.
  
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• The Royal Gifts: 65 years of presents given to Britain’s Queen Elizabeth II

  03-04-2017 19:54
  
  A “royal” version of a London Underground sign, a bronze owl and a beaded throne are some of the gifts given to Queen Elizabeth II that will make up an exhibit to be shown during the annual summer opening of the state rooms at Buckingham Palace.
  Visitors to the exhibition will be able to see more than 250 interesting and unusual gifts given to the queen during her 65-year reign. The presents, which cannot be sold or exchanged, will eventually become part of the Royal Collection, hel
  
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• Man Nearly Electrocuted While Lying in Bed With iPhone: It Was God Who Saved My Life

  03-04-2017 19:36 via yahoo.com
  
  He drove himself to the doctor after the accident.
  
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• Lithuania says Russia has ability to launch Baltic attack in 24 hours

  03-04-2017 19:33 via yahoo.com
  
  By Andrius SytasVILNIUS (Reuters) - Russia has developed the capability to launch an attack on the Baltic states with as little as 24 hours' notice, limiting NATO's options to respond other than to have military forces already deployed in the region, Lithuania's intelligence service said on Monday.Lithuania, Latvia and Estonia, annexed by the Soviet Union in the 1940s but now part of both NATO and the European Union, have been increasingly nervous since the Russian takeover of Crimea in 2014.The
  
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• Desperate hunt for children in Colombia town where 262 died

  03-04-2017 19:25 via yahoo.com
  
  MOCOA, Colombia (AP) — Jose Albeiro Vargas last saw his grandson the night fierce rain unleashed havoc on this small city surrounded by rivers and mountains in southern Colombia.
  
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• Second Lady Criticized For 'Thanking' Female Service Members

  03-04-2017 19:23 via yahoo.com
  
  Karen Pence made spoke and attended events honoring women in the military, but did not address the nude photo-sharing scandal.
  
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• What happens when a small Apple supplier loses its contract

  03-04-2017 19:14
  
  Until Monday morning, Imagination Technologies was a successful processor technology company going through a bit of a rough patch. The company designed some of the underlying architecture of chips that Apple uses in its iPhone range, and as a result, it earns royalty money from every iPhone sold.
  It’s a solid business model, so despite a downturn in iPhone 6s sales causing a cash shortage, Imagination was doing well. Emphasis on the “was.”
  Don’t Miss: Apple’s worki
  
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• Repeat offender who killed New York policeman sentenced to life

  03-04-2017 19:13 via yahoo.com
  
  By Laila KearneyNEW YORK (Reuters) - A New York City man was sentenced to life in prison without parole on Monday for gunning down a police officer in 2015, a murder that particularly incensed city officials, who said the repeat offender should have been in jail at the time of the killing.Tyrone Howard, 32, was convicted of killing Officer Randolph Holder, a crime that took place soon after Howard was sentenced to treatment on a drug charge despite a long history of offenses."The shooting of a N
  
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• Bernie Sanders, Elizabeth Warren Introduce College For All Act

  03-04-2017 19:10 via yahoo.com
  
  Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren are fighting for all students in America to be able to go to college.
  
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• China’s Market News: Banks Report Weak Profits, Funds Suffer Major Losses

  03-04-2017 19:00
  Chinese financial institutions have released their 2016 annual reports; local analysts gave out their forecasts for 2017.
  
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• AUD/USD: RBA Game Plan & Levels to Know

  03-04-2017 19:00
  Aussie in focus ahead of tonight’s RBA interest rate decision. Here are the updated targets & invalidation levels that matter heading into the release.
  
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