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• Massive Crack in Antarctic Ice Shelf Grows 11 Miles in 6 Days, Potentially Creating World’s Largest Iceberg

  01-06-2017 23:58 via rocketnews.com
  
  View photosAn aerial view of the Antarctic Peninsula’s Larsen C ice shelf. According to NASA, IceBridge scientists measured the Larsen C fracture to be about 70 miles long, more than 300 feet wide and about a third of a mile deep. (Photo: John Sonntag/NASA via AP)
  MoreIn the six days before President Trump announced his decision to withdraw from the Paris Agreement on climate change, an enormous crack in an Antarctic ice shelf grew 11 miles, according to a report by British Antarctic
  
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• Pittsburgh mayor fires back after Trump invokes Steel City in Paris accord withdrawal

  01-06-2017 23:54 via yahoo.com
  
  President Trump zeroed in on western Pennsylvania in his announcement Thursday that he would withdraw the United States from the Paris climate accord.“I was elected to represent the citizens of Pittsburgh, not Paris,” he said in remarks delivered in the White House rose garden.
  
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• How to stuff your face with free doughnuts on National Doughnut Day

  01-06-2017 23:48 via rocketnews.com
  
  View photosJune 2 is National Doughnut Day, and you know what that means…free doughnuts!
  National Doughnut Day was established in 1938 by the Chicago Salvation Army to honor women who served doughnuts to soldiers during World War I. The holiday is traditionally celebrated on the first Friday of June.
  SEE ALSO: These weed-infused doughnuts taste like pot but won’t get you stoned
  Lucky for us, our doughnut retailer friends are dishing out free treats in honor of everyone’s favor
  
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• Sheriff's deputy among 8 killed in Miss. lauded as 'a hero'

  01-06-2017 23:44 via yahoo.com
  
  BROOKHAVEN, Miss. (AP) — Mississippi Gov. Phil Bryant and others on Thursday saluted a sheriff's deputy who was among the eight people killed in a series of shootings Saturday and Sunday.
  
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• Gunman spreads panic at Philippines casino, robbery suspected – police

  01-06-2017 23:40 via rocketnews.com
  By Peter Blaza and Clare Baldwin
  MANILA (Reuters) – A gunman burst into a casino, fired shots and set gaming tables alight in the Philippine capital early on Friday, sowing panic in a country on high alert after martial law was declared in the south, but police said the motive was likely robbery.
  National police chief Ronald dela Rosa told DZMM radio the lone gunman had not aimed his assault rifle at people at the Resorts World Manila entertainment complex, and may have been trying to ste
  
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• Rescued Pup Hailed a Hero for Saving Owner Who Was Dragged by Horse and Left in the Desert

  01-06-2017 23:25 via yahoo.com
  
  "She literally saved my life," 4-year-old Becky Jo's owner said.
  
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• Sen. Al Franken says Hillary Clinton should ‘move on’ from the 2016 presidential election

  01-06-2017 23:18 via yahoo.com
  
  Yahoo Global News Anchor Katie Couric spoke with Sen. Al Franken (D-MN) about Hillary Clinton’s loss in the 2016 presidential election. Franken said she was “very prepared to be president” but also said she should also “move on.”
  
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• Franken: Clinton should ‘move on’ from election loss

  01-06-2017 23:14 via yahoo.com
  
  Sen. Al Franken told Yahoo Global News Anchor Katie Couric Thursday that Hillary Clinton should “move on” from her failed presidential bid.
  
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• Trump budget chief under fire over attack on Congressional budget analysts

  01-06-2017 23:12 via yahoo.com
  
  By Amanda BeckerWASHINGTON (Reuters) - The White House's budget chief came under fire on Thursday from Democrats and others over his attack on the budget research office of the U.S. Congress, escalating tensions between Republicans and professional staffers on Capitol Hill.Office of Management and Budget Director Mick Mulvaney called "absurd" a recent finding by the nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office (CBO) that a Republican healthcare bill would cause 23 million people to lose health insura
  
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• Obama condemns Trump for 'rejecting the future' by exiting Paris deal

  01-06-2017 23:10 via yahoo.com
  
  Barack Obama led condemnation of his successor’s decision to withdraw from the landmark Paris climate accord, which the former president’s administration painstakingly negotiated over the course of several years.In a statement released just before Donald Trump officially announced that the US would remove itself from the deal, Obama said the administration had joined “a small handful of nations that reject the future”.
  
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• Ex-captive of Islamic State sheds tears on return to village in northern Iraq

  01-06-2017 23:10 via yahoo.com
  
  By Isabel ColesKOJO, Iraq (Reuters) - Nadia Murad made an emotional return on Thursday to the Yazidi village in northern Iraq where she was captured and sold as a slave by Islamic State three years ago.On her return, Murad went to see her house and emerged clutching some clothing left there since 2014.A Yazidi fighter said it belonged to Murad's mother, who was killed during the purge because she was considered too old to be taken as a slave.
  
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• Arista wins round in Cisco patent fight over network technology

  01-06-2017 23:09 via rocketnews.com
  
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  FILE PHOTO –The logo of Dow Jones Industrial Average stock market index listed company Cisco is seen in San Diego, California April 25, 2016.REUTERS/Mike Blake/File Photo
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  (Reuters) – Arista Networks Inc <ANET.N> won a ruling on Thursday in its legal battle with Cisco Systems Inc <CSCO.O> over networking device technology, setting the stage for Arista to undo a U.S. agency’s order blocking importation of some of its products.
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• Recent immigrants to the U.S. are better educated: report

  01-06-2017 23:08 via rocketnews.com
  
  FILE PHOTO: Graduating students arrive for Commencement Exercises at Boston College in Boston, Massachusetts, U.S. on May 20, 2013. REUTERS/Brian Snyder/File Photo
  MoreBy Chris Kenning
  CHICAGO (Reuters) – Nearly half the recent immigrants to the United States have college degrees, reflecting a steady increase in educational attainment fueled largely by growing numbers of people from Asia, a study released on Thursday showed.
  Rising immigration from countries such as India, China and the P
  
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• Horrifying Video Shows Intense Moments Car Dealership Shootout That Left 3 Dead

  01-06-2017 22:53 via rocketnews.com
  Two bounty hunters and the fugitive they were looking for all wound up dead in a hail of bullets inside a Dallas car dealership Wednesday in a harrowing situation caught on camera.
  Read: Man Kills Estranged Wife and Her Girlfriend During Shootout Before Killing Himself: Police
  The arrest by two bounty hunters, identified as F.N.G. Security and Investigations employees Fidel Garcia, Jr. and Gabriel Bernal, went wrong after fugitive Ramon Hutchinson, who was wanted in Minnesota, rea
  
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• 2017 Jaguar F-Pace 35t

  01-06-2017 22:50 via yahoo.com
  
  A volume seller, as only Jaguar could build it.
  
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• Obamas buy house they were renting in tony DC neighborhood

  01-06-2017 22:47 via yahoo.com
  
  Obamas buy house they were renting in tony DC neighborhood
  
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• Trump is pulling the U.S. from Paris Agreement: 'I was elected to represent the citizens of Pittsburgh not Paris'

  01-06-2017 22:31 via yahoo.com
  
  President Trump announced his decision to withdraw the United States from the Paris Agreement on climate change Thursday afternoon. He described the move as a re-assertion of American sovereignty.
  
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• Rejecting the Paris Agreement, the United States joins Syria and Nicaragua

  01-06-2017 22:30 via yahoo.com
  
  If President Trump abandons the Paris agreement, the U.S. would become the third country in the world to reject the pact intended to slow the rate of global warming.
  
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• 2019 Volkswagen Touareg Is Spotted Nearly Undisguised

  01-06-2017 22:30 via yahoo.com
  
  VeeDub's upmarket SUV maintains its position.
  
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• Signs of the time: Fake U.S. immigration control posters found in Washington

  01-06-2017 22:29 via yahoo.com
  
  Residents of at least one Washington D.C. neighborhood woke up on Thursday to find the area plastered with posters urging them to turn in illegal immigrants, but federal authorities denied putting up the signs and denounced them as inciting fear.The bogus posters bearing the seal of the Department of Homeland Security warned about criminal offenses related to harboring or helping people in the country illegally, and gave phone numbers to report information about them to the U.S. Immigration and
  
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• Saudi Arabia Prepared for Trump Visit by Hiring Former Trump Advisors

  01-06-2017 22:28 via yahoo.com
  
  The Saudis are still learning how to play Washington’s game.
  
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• Obama: Withdrawal from Paris Agreement signifies ‘absence of American leadership’

  01-06-2017 22:23 via yahoo.com
  
  “The nations that remain in the Paris Agreement will be the nations that reap the benefits in jobs and industries created,” Obama said.
  
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• 'Trump' Toilet Paper Unrolling in Mexico

  01-06-2017 21:41 via yahoo.com
  
  Antonio Battaglia, a corporate lawyer and businessman, is introducing "Trump" brand toilet paper in Mexico later this year.
  
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• Trump is pulling the U.S. from Paris Agreement: ‘I was elected to represent the citizens of Pittsburgh, not Paris’

  01-06-2017 21:37 via yahoo.com
  
  President Trump announced his decision to remove the U.S. from the Paris accord in the White House Rose Garden on Thursday.
  
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• U.S. sanctions more, including Russians, over North Korea arms

  01-06-2017 21:21 via yahoo.com
  
  By Yeganeh TorbatiWASHINGTON (Reuters) - The United States on Thursday blacklisted nine companies and government institutions, including two Russian firms, and three people for their support of North Korea's weapons programs.The announcement from the U.S. Treasury came as diplomats said the United States and China were likely to propose on Thursday that the U.N. Security Council blacklist more North Korean individuals and entities over the country's repeated ballistic missile launches.Russia's I
  
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• Serial Child Killer Found Volunteering at Private Elementary School: Report

  01-06-2017 21:04 via yahoo.com
  
  Karla Homolka and her then-husband Paul Bernardo raped and murdered at least three women in the early 1990s.
  
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• Lawrence On Jared Kushner and 'Putin's Slush Fund'

  01-06-2017 21:02 via yahoo.com
  
  Jared Kushner's explanation for meeting with a Russian banker contradicts the Russian bank's explanation, and Trump reportedly tried to lift sanctions on Russia just after taking office, reports say.
  
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• Heavily armed men storm hotel and a casino resort in Philippine capital

  01-06-2017 21:01 via yahoo.com
  
  Gunfire was reported at a hotel and a casino resort in the Philippine capital on Friday, the operator of the complex said, and the Islamic State group (IS) quickly claimed responsibility.“Resorts World Manila is currently on lockdown following reports of gunfire from unidentified men,” the company said on its Twitter account.“The company is working closely with the Philippine National Police to ensure that all guests and employees are safe.” IS said “lonewolf soldie
  
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• 'Am I going to die?' Gay man testifies at church trial

  01-06-2017 20:58 via yahoo.com
  
  RUTHERFORDTON, N.C. (AP) — A North Carolina man thought he was "going to die" when members of his evangelical church beat and choked him for two hours to expel his "homosexual demons," he testified Thursday.
  
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• Did ISIS Attack Manila?

  01-06-2017 20:56 via yahoo.com
  
  It's unknown how many people were injured or killed.
  
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• A huge ice crack in Antarctica grew 11 miles in 6 days, and a giant iceberg is coming

  01-06-2017 20:36 via yahoo.com
  
  On the same day that President Donald Trump is making his big announcement on whether to keep the U.S. in the Paris Agreement on climate change, potentially ominous news has emerged from a group of scientists keeping watch on Antarctica's ice sheet.  A crack that has been spreading across the Larsen C Ice Shelf in the Antarctic Peninsula accelerated its progress in late May and is about to break off a Delaware-sized iceberg, scientists reported on Wednesday in a blog post.  SEE ALSO: O
  
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• Man Gets 70 Years for Throwing Infant Son Off Bridge: 'The Utter Depravity... Speaks for Itself'

  01-06-2017 20:21 via yahoo.com
  
  In July 2015, Tony Moreno threw his 7-month-old baby boy, Aaden, off the Arrigoni Bridge, sending the child down a 90-foot drop into the Connecticut River.
  
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• Surprise, no one wants to be Ted Cruz's Secret Santa

  01-06-2017 20:06 via yahoo.com
  
  Here's something that will probably not surprise you: nobody likes Ted Cruz. Al Franken's new bookGiant of the Senate contains some great stories about the Texas senator who is like if Grandpa Munster started reading Ayn Rand. Turns out he's even despised by his fellow senators. A week or so ago, Franken revealed a particularly biting joke that actually managed to silence Ted, who he says has had it coming due to his insufferable and smarmy nature. SEE ALSO: You're wrong, media: There's plenty o
  
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• Trump Sought Lift of Russia Sanctions: Report

  01-06-2017 20:00 via yahoo.com
  
  Dan Fried, former State Department chief coordinator for sanctions policy, talks about what he heard from colleagues about the eagerness of the Trump administration in its early days to lift sanctions on Russia without condition.
  
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• Taliban warns against retaliation over Kabul attack

  01-06-2017 19:47 via yahoo.com
  
  By Sayed Hassib and Samar ZwakKABUL (Reuters) - The Taliban warned the Afghan government on Thursday against harming any of their prisoners after reports that President Ashraf Ghani would order the execution of 11 militants on death row in revenge for the devastating truck bomb attack in Kabul.Ghani's fragile and divided government has come under increasing pressure over its failure to provide security following a series of high-profile attacks that have killed hundreds of soldiers and civilians
  
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• Australia’s unconventional rural mailboxes

  01-06-2017 19:40 via rocketnews.com
  
  A variety of odd mailboxes — including old washing machines, refrigerators, car engines, beer kegs, and even a microwave — found along roads in rural areas of New South Wales, north of Sydney. (Reuters)
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• The Latest: Gay congregant testifies at minister's trial

  01-06-2017 19:34 via rocketnews.com
  
  View photosThis photo taken May 19, 2017, shows Brooke Covington, a member of the Word of Faith Fellowship church in Spindle, N.C., leaving a hearing at Rutherford County Courthouse in Rutherfordton, N.C. Covington and other church members are accused of kidnapping and assaulting Matthew Fenner, a former church member, because he is gay. Covington, 58, has pleaded innocent to one count each of kidnapping and assault. If convicted, she faces up to two years in prison. (AP Photo/Kathy Kmonicek)
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• The Latest: Gay congregant testifies at minister's trial

  01-06-2017 19:34 via yahoo.com
  
  RUTHERFORDTON, N.C. (AP) — The Latest on the trial of a North Carolina minister who is accused of assaulting and kidnapping a gay church member (all times local):
  
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• Stratolaunch debuts: World's largest plane revealed

  01-06-2017 19:10 via yahoo.com
  
  Paul Allen's Stratolaunch, the world's largest plane, which is capable of delivering rockets into space has finally been revealed
  
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• Droughts, floods, storms and more: what climate change looks like around the world

  01-06-2017 19:09 via rocketnews.com
  
  President Donald Trump on Thursday will announce his decision on whether to keep the United States in a global pact to fight climate change, as a source close to the matter said he was preparing to pull out of the Paris accord.
  Trump said in a Twitter post on Wednesday night that he would make the announcement at 3 p.m. EDT (1900 GMT) on Thursday in the White House Rose Garden, ending his tweet with “MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN!”
  A U.S. withdrawal would deepen a rift with U.S. allies a
  
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• Girl, 16, Is Charged as an Adult in Fatal Stabbing of Uber Driver

  01-06-2017 19:04 via rocketnews.com
  
  An Illinois Uber driver was butchered to death this week and cops say a 16-year-old girl is the culprit.
  Witnesses reportedly heard Grant Nelson screaming for help in the early morning darkness Tuesday in the Chicago suburb of Lincolnwood.
  Watch: Why Woman With Internal Bleeding Used Uber Over Ambulance for Ride to Hospital
  Before the 34-year-old died, he told responding officers that a female passenger had stabbed him in his gray 2015 Hyundai. Photos from the scene show the vehicle streaked in
  
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• Paul Allen's Enormous Stratolaunch Carrier Aircraft Rolls Out of Hangar for First Time

  01-06-2017 18:30 via rocketnews.com
  
  View photosPhoto credit: Stratolaunch Systems
  MoreFrom Popular Mechanics
  The gargantuan Stratolaunch carrier aircraft, built by Scaled Composites and nicknamed the “Roc,” has the longest wingspan of any aircraft ever built: 385 feet from tip to tip. The six-engine mothership is designed to carry rockets between its two fuselages. Once at altitude, the mega-plane will drop the launch vehicle, which will then fire its boosters and launch to space from the air.
  It’s a new way of a
  
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• UPDATED: Starbucks Has Officially Added This Stunning Ombre Drink To Its Menu

  01-06-2017 18:24 via yahoo.com
  
  You *have* to try it.
  
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• Taco Bell Has A New Breakfast Salsa And We Have Questions

  01-06-2017 18:24 via yahoo.com
  
  Your AM Crunchwraps may never be the same.
  
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• Trump administration 'spying on journalists to find out who is leaking information'

  01-06-2017 17:57 via yahoo.com
  
  Donald Trump’s administration is spying on journalists who have been handed leaked information, it has been claimed.The US Justice Department has obtained a legal warrant from the US Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court to conduct electronic surveillance on reporters who were known to have published articles based on leaked information, according to the New York Post.The surveillance is said to be part of the Trump administration’s attempts to clamp down on leaks from within the W
  
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• Jurassic Park Is Dead: ‘Dinosaur Protein’ Doesn’t Exist

  01-06-2017 17:53 via yahoo.com
  
  A prehistoric protein discovered in a dinosaur fossil was actually from a modern ostrich, so our hopes of using it to recreate dinosaurs and make a real-life Jurassic Park are as dead as they are.
  
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• The Meaning of #Covfefe

  01-06-2017 17:47 via yahoo.com
  
  It turns out the design world has more than a few good uses for the newly famous word
  
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• LeBron James: Being Black in America Is Tough

  01-06-2017 17:46 via yahoo.com
  
  The basketball star spoke out Wednesday on race relations in the US after his home was vandalized with a racial slur. His comments come the same week that a noose was found inside the museum of African American history.
  
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• Deadly Shootout Captured On Camera in Car Dealership

  01-06-2017 17:40 via yahoo.com
  
  Two bounty hunters and the fugitive they were looking for were killed in a shooting at a Greenville, Texas, car dealership on Tuesday, May 30.The Dallas News, citing officials, said the dead were bounty hunters Fidel Garcia Jr and Gabriel Bernal, and a Minnesota fugitive named Ramon Michael Hutchinson.Video by a bystander was released by police, showing the incident.
  
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• Pres. Putin: Election Hackers May Have Been 'Patriotic' Russians

  01-06-2017 17:36 via yahoo.com
  
  Russian Pres. Putin on Thursday backpedaled on repeated denials of Russian interference in last year's election, acknowledging that private Russian hackers could have been involved.
  
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