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• Biles makes history with third world all-around gold

  29-10-2015 23:58 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Simone Biles tumbled her way into the history books on Thursday by winning a record third consecutive all-around women's gold at the world gymnastics championships ahead of US teammate and Olympic champion Gabby Douglas. It may not have been a sleek performance as the 18-year-old fought to stay on the beam and stepped off the mat during the floor routine but it was enough to give her an eighth world gold in total. Romania's Larisa Andreea Iordache snatched bronze in Glasgow's Hydro Arena, to add
  
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• Walmart and Target's Holiday Plans

  29-10-2015 23:57 via news.yahoo.com
  
  NEW YORK (AP) — Wal-Mart and Target, two of the biggest U.S. retailers, on Thursday rolled out plans to lure shoppers into stores during the holiday season that includes discounts, stepped-up marketing and spiffed up stores.
  
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• CVS, Express Scripts cut ties with Valeant-linked pharmacy

  29-10-2015 23:55 via news.yahoo.com
  
  WASHINGTON (AP) — The nation's two largest pharmacy benefit providers said Thursday they are severing ties with a mail-order pharmacy affiliated with embattled drugmaker Valeant Pharmaceuticals after a review of the pharmacy's business practices.
  
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• Plane catches fire on takeoff at Florida airport, 15 hurt

  29-10-2015 23:54 via news.yahoo.com
  
  An engine on a passenger jet bound for Caracas, Venezuela, burst into flames while taxiing for takeoff at a Florida airport on Thursday, forcing frightened passengers to exit the plane using inflatable emergency slides. Fifteen people were injured, one seriously, as 101 passengers and crew evacuated the Dynamic International Airways' Boeing 767-200ER within minutes of the pilots realizing there was a problem. Television images showed the plane surrounded by white foam and firefighters' trucks in
  
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• The Latest: Yost sought home-field edge; Mets wear NYPD caps

  29-10-2015 23:49 via news.yahoo.com
  
  NEW YORK (AP) — The latest on the World Series. The Royals and Mets canceled workouts at Citi Field in New York ahead of Game 3, set for Friday night. Kansas City leads the best-of-seven series 2-0 (all times local):
  
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• Is it too little, too late?

  29-10-2015 23:46 via rss.cnn.com
  
  China ends the one-child policy -- but with an ageing population, is it too little, too late?
  
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• One-child policy ending

  29-10-2015 23:45 via rss.cnn.com
  
  China will allow two children for every couple, the state-run Xinhua news agency reported Thursday, a move that would effectively dismantle the remnants of the country's one-child policy that had been eased in recent years.
  
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• End of China's one-child policy may slow U.S. asylum cases: experts

  29-10-2015 23:43 via news.yahoo.com
  
  By Joseph Ax NEW YORK (Reuters) - China's decision on Thursday to allow couples to have two children after decades of limiting families to a single child may slow the flood of Chinese immigrants receiving political asylum in the United States, legal experts said. In recent years, more immigrants from China have been granted U.S. asylum than from any other country. In part, that reflects an unusual aspect of U.S. immigration law that lowers the bar required for Chinese nationals seeking asylum.
  
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• Speaker Ryan may move Republican tax rhetoric closer to reality

  29-10-2015 23:39 via news.yahoo.com
  
  By Andy Sullivan WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Republican presidential candidates who promise to cut and simplify U.S. taxes would find a powerful ally if they reach the White House: House of Representatives Speaker Paul Ryan. The newly elected speaker is a long-time champion of thoroughly overhauling the tax code, a politically difficult project that has eluded Washington since 1986. "How reassuring it would be if we actually fixed the tax code," said Ryan, who ran for vice president in 2012, in his a
  
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• Don't be fooled

  29-10-2015 23:39 via rss.cnn.com
  
  China's decision to prevent most couples from having more than one baby, imposed more than 35 years ago, has always stood as a symbol of just how far the state was prepared to intrude into the lives of its citizens. It was a classic ends-justifies-the-means policy. Not surprisingly, the one-child policy always figured prominently in the relentlessly harsh criticism of China by human rights organizations.
  
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• 'A good move for China'

  29-10-2015 23:39 via rss.cnn.com
  
  The IMF's Managing Director tells Christiane Amanpour that China's "transitions are huge" and that the end of "one child" could in the short term change expectations.
  
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• Truck spills 22 tons of pizza dough, flour in Arizona crash

  29-10-2015 23:37 via news.yahoo.com
  
  PAGE, Ariz. (AP) — A big rig loaded with more than 22 tons of pizza dough and flour has crashed in northern Arizona and spilled a large portion of its cargo.
  
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• The Latest: Prep school grad to remain free during appeal

  29-10-2015 23:37 via news.yahoo.com
  
  CONCORD, N.H. (AP) — The latest on the sentencing of a former student at an elite prep school who was convicted of sexually assaulting a younger classmate (all times local):
  
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• New Mexico police officer dies after being shot on duty

  29-10-2015 23:34 via news.yahoo.com
  
  ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) — A somber Albuquerque police chief stood surrounded by dozens of law enforcement officials Thursday as he described a well-liked, highly decorated officer who was gunned down outside a pharmacy last week.
  
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• In defeat for Beijing, Hague court to hear China Sea dispute

  29-10-2015 23:33 via news.yahoo.com
  
  By Anthony Deutsch AMSTERDAM (Reuters) - An arbitration court in the Netherlands ruled on Thursday that it has jurisdiction to hear some territorial claims the Philippines has filed against China over disputed areas in the South China Sea. In a legal defeat for China, the Hague-based tribunal rejected Beijing's claim that the disputes were about its territorial sovereignty and said additional hearings would be held to decide the merits of the Philippines' arguments. China has boycotted the proce
  
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• Heat is on: Mets need it from Noah in Game 3 at home

  29-10-2015 23:32 via news.yahoo.com
  
  NEW YORK (AP) — The man-child on the mound was simply getting some work in, two simulated innings to sharpen up for the World Series.
  
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• China policy change not seen as formula for food maker's growth

  29-10-2015 23:32 via news.yahoo.com
  
  By Tom Polansek CHICAGO (Reuters) - Stock prices for baby food makers, which climbed after China pledged on Thursday to ease family planning restrictions, may have surged too soon, with analysts and one leading company predicting little chance of a significant bump in demand from the policy change. Shares for milk-powder maker Danone SA hit a five-month high and Mead Johnson Nutrition Co reached a two-month high after China's ruling Communist Party said it will allow all couples to have two chil
  
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• Father testifies about seeing son trapped under tombstone

  29-10-2015 23:29 via news.yahoo.com
  
  PARK CITY, Utah (AP) — The father of a 4-year-old Utah boy crushed to death by a tombstone while taking pictures with his family testified Thursday that he turned from his camera to see his son looking at him as he lay trapped under the 250-pound stone.
  
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• GM Anthopoulos leaving Jays with new president taking over

  29-10-2015 23:28 via news.yahoo.com
  
  TORONTO (AP) — Toronto general manager Alex Anthopoulos left the team on Thursday, the day he earned executive of the year honors from his peers and rejected an offer to remain in what might have been a diminished role under its new president.
  
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• Guantanamo prisoner from Mauritania back home after 13 years

  29-10-2015 23:27 via news.yahoo.com
  
  MIAMI (AP) — Another prisoner has been released from the detention center on the U.S. military base at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, the Pentagon said Thursday.
  
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• Bush, on defensive, denies 2016 campaign is imploding

  29-10-2015 23:24 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Jeb Bush stumbled at Wednesday's debate, but the following day he spiritedly denied suggestions his White House campaign is on life support, insisting he remains the best candidate to defeat Hillary Clinton. The former Florida governor, a son and brother of two presidents, has not lived up to the hype and monumental fundraising of the first months of his campaign, when he was riding high as presumptive Republican frontrunner. Eager for a breakout moment, he went after his onetime political prote
  
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• Starbucks cafe sales hot, but holiday forecast disappoints

  29-10-2015 23:20 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Starbucks estimated earnings for this fiscal first quarter of 44 cents to 45 cents, excluding items, saying the period would bear the biggest brunt of an expected hit from the strong U.S. dollar. Analysts on average had a target 47 cents for the quarter, the company's biggest for revenue, according to Thomson Reuters I/B/E/S. Starbucks shares bounced back during executives' call with analysts, many of whom say the company is known to issue conservative forecasts at the start of its fiscal year.
  
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• Iran signals readiness to compromise before key Syria talks: officials

  29-10-2015 23:20 via news.yahoo.com
  
  By Parisa Hafezi and Louis Charbonneau VIENNA (Reuters) - On the eve of an international conference aimed at ending Syria's four-year-old civil war, Iran signaled it might be willing to back away from its insistence that President Bashar al-Assad remain in power. Iran could accept a six-month transition period at the end of which Assad's fate would be decided in nationwide elections, a senior official from the Middle East familiar with the Iranian position told Reuters on Thursday. During a war
  
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• Tarantino, condemned by police, gets support from protesters

  29-10-2015 23:18 via news.yahoo.com
  
  NEW YORK (AP) — Organizers of a rally against police brutality spoke up Thursday in support of filmmaker Quentin Tarantino, who has been condemned by the New York Police Department's commissioner and police associations over his remarks at the weekend event.
  
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• National Guard airlifts dino fossils out of wilderness

  29-10-2015 23:18 via news.yahoo.com
  
  ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) — This was something that had never been seen before — the full skeletal remains of a baby Pentaceratops, a plant-eating dinosaur with large horns that once roamed what is now North America tens of millions of years ago.
  
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• Mets confident of World Series fightback despite defeats

  29-10-2015 23:17 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Despite historic losses to Kansas City in the first two games of the World Series, the New York Mets come home confident they can swipe a championship from the Royals. Kansas City won the longest opener in World Series history 5-4 in 14 innings and routed the Mets 7-1 in game two, New York managing only a playoff record low two hits. Now the Royals are halfway to their first crown since 1985 in Major League Baseball's best-of-seven final entering game three Friday.
  
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• Congress on track to OK budget-and-debt pact, send to Obama

  29-10-2015 23:16 via news.yahoo.com
  
  WASHINGTON (AP) — The Senate is marching toward a final vote on a two-year budget-and-debt deal that would avert a catastrophic government default just days away.
  
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• China to allow all couples two children to counter aging population

  29-10-2015 23:15 via news.yahoo.com
  
  By Megha Rajagopalan and Koh Gui Qing BEIJING (Reuters) - China will ease family planning restrictions to allow all couples to have two children after decades of a strict one-child policy, the ruling Communist Party said on Thursday, a move aimed at alleviating demographic strains on the economy. The policy is a major liberalization of the country's family planning restrictions, already eased in late 2013 when Beijing said it would allow more families to have two children when the parents met ce
  
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• Plane catches fire at Florida airport; 1 burned, others hurt

  29-10-2015 23:14 via news.yahoo.com
  
  DANIA BEACH, Fla. (AP) — A jet plane's engine caught fire Thursday as it prepared for takeoff, and more than 100 passengers had to quickly evacuate using emergency slides. One person was seriously injured, officials said.
  
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• Padres hire Arizona third base coach Andy Green as manager

  29-10-2015 23:08 via news.yahoo.com
  
  SAN DIEGO (AP) — The San Diego Padres hired Arizona Diamondbacks third base coach Andy Green as their new manager on Thursday.
  
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• Things to know about Southern California's Santa Ana winds

  29-10-2015 23:05 via news.yahoo.com
  
  LOS ANGELES (AP) — Southern California's first Santa Ana wind event of the season was forecast to occur Thursday night and Friday by the National Weather Service. A look at the often-fierce winds that topple power lines and trees, and can turn a spark into a raging wildfire:
  
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• Rhule leads No. 21 Temple to biggest game in program history

  29-10-2015 23:04 via news.yahoo.com
  
  PHILADELPHIA (AP) — Temple coach Matt Rhule was only 11 the first time he left a stadium drenched in beer and responsible for an amazin' win.
  
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• Pfizer, Allergan drug merger talks raise tax hackles in U.S.

  29-10-2015 23:04 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Both New York-based Pfizer and Dublin-based Allergan said no agreement has been reached and declined to discuss any terms of the deal, which would potentially set up Pfizer to take advantage of Ireland's lower tax rates. Allergan shares rose 6 percent to $304.38 in U.S. trading, while Pfizer closed off 1.9 percent at $34.77.
  
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• Federal prosecutors have copies of alleged Fogle recordings

  29-10-2015 22:58 via news.yahoo.com
  
  INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — Federal prosecutors have copies of audio recordings a Florida woman says she made of former Subway spokesman Jared Fogle talking about sexual encounters he had with children and say they took those recordings "into account" before charging Fogle.
  
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• Trump says he's pleased with his debate performance

  29-10-2015 22:54 via news.yahoo.com
  
  SPARKS, Nev. (AP) — Presidential candidate Donald Trump says he's pleased with his performance during the third GOP debate, even if the media won't give him credit.
  
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• Photos: Lindsay Lohan Dresses Up as a Kitten for Halloween

  29-10-2015 22:54 via abcnews.go.com
  
  Life and Times of Lindsay Lohan
  
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• State police use shotguns to deflate wayward military blimp

  29-10-2015 22:53 via news.yahoo.com
  
  MUNCY, Pa. (AP) — State police used shotguns Thursday to deflate a wayward military surveillance blimp that broke loose in Maryland and floated for hours before coming down into trees in the Pennsylvania countryside.
  
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• NFL still reviewing Johnny Manziel's domestic incident

  29-10-2015 22:53 via news.yahoo.com
  
  BEREA, Ohio (AP) — The NFL's investigation into Johnny Manziel's recent domestic incident remains open.
  
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• CNBC reaches 14 million viewers with GOP debate

  29-10-2015 22:52 via news.yahoo.com
  
  NEW YORK (AP) — CNBC reached its biggest audience ever with the third Republican presidential debate, but paid a price in criticism of how its moderators handled the opportunity to question the candidates.
  
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• Murder suspect in US turned away after trying to surrender

  29-10-2015 22:51 via news.yahoo.com
  
  A California deputy was under investigation on Thursday after a murder suspect trying to surrender was turned away, officials said. Hugo Ernesto Castro, 28, walked into the jail in San Francisco's Santa Clara County on Monday and told the civilian employee that he wanted to turn himself in for murdering his ex-girlfriend. Sheriff Laurie Smith said the deputy who turned away Castro had been reassigned pending the outcome of a probe.
  
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• 'Can't hide it forever': The model who became a meme

  29-10-2015 22:14 via bbc.co.uk
  
  The model who says a meme ruined her life
  
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• Freed ISIS hostages speak out

  29-10-2015 21:31 via rss.cnn.com
  
  Hostages rescued from an ISIS prison speak out about their captivity and the moment they realized they were being set free. CNN's Michael Holmes reports.
  
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• ISIS strongholds

  29-10-2015 21:29 via rss.cnn.com
  
  National security reporter for Washington Post and author of "Black Flags" Joby Warrick discusses ISIS
  
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• The dark art of fake blood and movie corpses

  29-10-2015 21:15 via rss.cnn.com
  
  Artem senior special effects technician, Richard North talks about making severed heads, dead bodies and gruesome effects for the film industry.
  
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• What you need to know about China's one-child policy

  29-10-2015 20:58 via rss.cnn.com
  
  CNN's Kristie Lu Stout explains the significance behind China's decision to change it's one-child policy.
  
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• Watch Brazil's eco-police fight to save the Amazon

  29-10-2015 20:58 via rss.cnn.com
  
  Brazilian police are cracking down on illegal mining and deforestation. CNN's Shasta Darlington joins them on one of their raids.
  
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• See the world in technicolor

  29-10-2015 20:58 via rss.cnn.com
  
  Ben Thomas is a visual artist who wants to challenge how we view the architecture and design surrounding us every day.
  
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• The highs and lows of the latest GOP debate

  29-10-2015 20:57 via rss.cnn.com
  
  The latest CNBC GOP debate involved attacks between the candidates and against the media. CNN's Sara Murray reports.
  
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• China ending one-child policy

  29-10-2015 20:53 via rss.cnn.com
  
  China will allow two children for every couple, the state-run Xinhua news agency reported Thursday, a move that would effectively dismantle the remnants of the country's one-child policy that had been eased in recent years.
  
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• Why some parents can live with one child order

  29-10-2015 20:35 via rss.cnn.com
  
  China may find 30 years of social engineering hard to undo. As it tries to ease its one child policy, many parents say they're OK with it. David McKenzie reports.
  
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