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• Stay-at-home mother identified as Colorado clinic fatality

  29-11-2015 23:52 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Another of the three people killed in last week's rampage at a Colorado Planned Parenthood clinic was identified on Sunday as Jennifer Markovsky, a stay-at-home mother of two young children. Julia Miller, a sister-in-law who lives in California, said in a phone interview that Markovsky was at the clinic to be with a friend. Colorado Springs police have said they would name the two deceased civilians after autopsies were completed, likely on Monday.
  
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• Chiefs hold off Bills 30-22 for fifth straight win

  29-11-2015 23:34 via news.yahoo.com
  
  KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) — The Kansas City Chiefs kept ignoring questions about the playoffs all week, even though Sunday's game against the Buffalo Bills really was a matchup of wildcard contenders.
  
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• Human chains, Hollywood heavyweights in global climate rallies

  29-11-2015 23:29 via news.yahoo.com
  
  From Sydney to London, humid Rio to chilly New York, at least 683,000 hit the streets in 2,300 events across 175 countries at the weekend, co-organiser and campaign group Avaaz said, calling it the largest number of people to protest over climate change all at once. About 50,000 demonstrators gathered in London's Hyde Park alone, many donning animal costumes to resemble bumblebees, cows, polar bears and exotic fish, while others brandished placards bearing stark warnings. "This is the problem of
  
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• Shiffrin takes back-to-back Alpine Skiing triumphs

  29-11-2015 23:21 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Reigning world and Olympic champion Mikaela Shiffrin won Sunday's Alpine Skiing World Cup women's slalom race by 2.65 seconds, giving her back-to-back triumphs before home supporters. In fact, only a botched finish to Friday's giant slalom prevented the 20-year-old American from a treble sweep at Aspen. Two days after faltering three gates from victory and a day after winning the opening World Cup slalom race of the season, Shiffrin won again in a combined two-run time of 1min 40.18secs.
  
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• Police officer shot, killed during call; suspect charged

  29-11-2015 23:20 via news.yahoo.com
  
  NEW FLORENCE, Pa. (AP) — A man suspected of fatally shooting a police officer who responded to a domestic dispute was charged with homicide Sunday.
  
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• Planned Parenthood: Long a lightning rod in US culture wars

  29-11-2015 23:20 via news.yahoo.com
  
  NEW YORK (AP) — As a leading defender of abortion rights and comprehensive sex education, Planned Parenthood deals daily with some of America's most contentious issues, and is well accustomed to receiving verbal threats.
  
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• Clinton will unveil $275 billion infrastructure plan to create jobs

  29-11-2015 23:16 via news.yahoo.com
  
  By Amanda Becker BOSTON (Reuters) - U.S. Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton plans to make job creation the focus of her campaign over the next month, beginning with a $275 billion infrastructure spending plan that will be released this week. Clinton's plan to increase the federal government's spending on infrastructure by $275 billion over the next five years will be fully paid for by changing how businesses are taxed, a campaign aide said, without providing any details. Of the to
  
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• 'Gods of Egypt' studio, director apologize for white cast

  29-11-2015 23:09 via news.yahoo.com
  
  LOS ANGELES (AP) — "Gods of Egypt" director Alex Proyas apologized for casting mostly white actors in his upcoming film based on Egyptian mythology.
  
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• Cameron sees EU talks on Britain next month

  29-11-2015 22:54 via news.yahoo.com
  
  By Alastair Macdonald and Gabriela Baczynska BRUSSELS (Reuters) - British Prime Minister David Cameron expects a "substantive discussion" with fellow EU leaders next month on his demands for reforms of the bloc, officials said after talks on Sunday with the EU's chief negotiator. "All EU leaders will have a substantive discussion of the UK renegotiation at next month's European Council as planned," Cameron's office said in a statement after he met European Council President Donald Tusk following
  
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• Poland says will push hard to keep Britain in EU

  29-11-2015 22:51 via news.yahoo.com
  
  By Gabriela Baczynska BRUSSELS (Reuters) - Poland's new Euro-sceptic government is ready to support many of Britain's demands for staying in the European Union, but will oppose any move to withhold benefits from the thousands of Poles living there, a senior Polish official said on Sunday. Konrad Szymanski, Poland's deputy foreign minister responsible for European affairs, was speaking following a migration summit in Brussels, as the European Council President Donald Tusk and British Prime Minist
  
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• Fathers' rights protesters climb onto Buckingham Palace roof

  29-11-2015 22:48 via news.yahoo.com
  
  LONDON (AP) — British police say two men have scaled Buckingham Palace in an apparent protest over fathers' rights.
  
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• The Latest: EU position on climate acceptable to Poland

  29-11-2015 22:44 via news.yahoo.com
  
  PARIS (AP) — The latest from the much-anticipated U.N. climate conference that gets underway in Paris on Monday. All times local:
  
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• Declaring 'new beginning,' EU and Turkey seal migrant deal

  29-11-2015 22:39 via news.yahoo.com
  
  By Francesco Guarascio and Robin Emmott BRUSSELS (Reuters) - Turkey promised to help stem the flow of migrants to Europe in return for cash, visas and renewed talks on joining the EU in a deal struck on Sunday that the Turkish prime minister called a "new beginning" for the uneasy neighbors. Leaders of the European Union met Turkish premier Ahmet Davutoglu in Brussels on Sunday to finalize an agreement hammered out by diplomats over the past month, as Europeans struggle to limit the strain on th
  
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• The Latest: Polish PM against new quota of sharing migrants

  29-11-2015 22:25 via news.yahoo.com
  
  BRUSSELS (AP) — The latest on the mass movement of asylum-seekers and others seeking refuge in Europe. All times local:
  
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• Rutgers fires coach Flood and AD Hermann after 4-8 failure

  29-11-2015 22:24 via news.yahoo.com
  
  PISCATAWAY, N.J. (AP) — Rutgers fired football coach Kyle Flood and athletic director Julie Hermann on Sunday, stripping the athletic department of its most prominent employees after a season that was a failure on and off the field.
  
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• Europe, Turkey agree migration deal, leaders say

  29-11-2015 21:16 via news.yahoo.com
  
  BRUSSELS (Reuters) - The European Union and Turkey agreed on Sunday a 3-billion euro ($3.2 billion) plan to confront the flows of migrants into Europe, part of a wider deal to speed up Ankara's efforts to join the 28-nation bloc. "We agreed that (Turkey's) accession process needs to be re-energized," European Council President Donald Tusk told a news conference with Turkish Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoglu and European Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker following a summit with the EU's 28 he
  
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• Declaring 'new beginning,' EU, Turkey seal migrant deal

  29-11-2015 21:16 via news.yahoo.com
  
  By Francesco Guarascio and Robin Emmott BRUSSELS (Reuters) - Turkey will help stem the flow of migrants to Europe in return for cash, visas and renewed talks on joining the EU in a deal struck on Sunday that the Turkish prime minister called a "new beginning" for the uneasy neighbors. Leaders of the 28 European Union states met Turkish premier Ahmet Davutoglu in Brussels on Sunday evening to give their collective political blessing to an agreement hammered out by diplomats over the past few week
  
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• Worldwide climate rallies draw hundreds of thousands

  29-11-2015 21:15 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Hundreds of thousands of people have taken part in rallies around the world on Sunday, calling on leaders to halt climate change on the eve of a major conference in Paris. The nearly two-week conference ...
  
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• Iraqis find 3 more mass graves in formerly IS-held Sinjar

  29-11-2015 21:15 via news.yahoo.com
  
  IRBIL, Iraq (AP) — Kurdish officials said Sunday three more mass graves have been found in the northern town of Sinjar, where Kurdish forces backed by heavy U.S.-led airstrikes drove out Islamic State militants earlier this month.
  
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• Republican Christie, seen as alternative to Trump, wins coveted endorsement

  29-11-2015 21:12 via news.yahoo.com
  
  By Alana Wise WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The publisher of an influential newspaper in the early voting state of New Hampshire said on Sunday the paper had endorsed Republican Chris Christie in the U.S. presidential contest because of his experience and potential to take on rival Donald Trump. The New Hampshire Union Leader officially endorsed Christie on Saturday, with publisher Joseph McQuaid calling Christie "the guy who can take the fight" to Trump, who since July has maintained a commanding lead
  
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• Virginia Tech hires Memphis' Justin Fuente to succeed Beamer

  29-11-2015 21:11 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Virginia Tech has hired Memphis' Justin Fuente to be its next football coach.
  
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• Stolen bust of Lincoln found at Gettysburg cemetery

  29-11-2015 21:09 via news.yahoo.com
  
  GETTYSBURG, Pa. (AP) — A bust of Abraham Lincoln that was stolen from outside a museum near where he delivered the Gettysburg Address has been found.
  
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• Weather, flights aid post-Thanksgiving travel efforts

  29-11-2015 20:59 via news.yahoo.com
  
  NEW YORK (AP) — Tens of millions of Americans returning home after the long Thanksgiving holiday weekend Sunday had cooperative weather and mostly efficient airport operations to thank for smooth traveling conditions.
  
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• 5 kidnapped Poles are 'safe and sound,' contacted families

  29-11-2015 20:57 via news.yahoo.com
  
  WARSAW, Poland (AP) — The captain and four other Polish seamen abducted from a ship off Nigeria's coast last week are fine and called their families at home, Poland's Foreign Ministry said Sunday.
  
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• Georgia's Richt stepping down following 'mutual' decision

  29-11-2015 20:53 via news.yahoo.com
  
  ATLANTA (AP) — Mark Richt stepped down as Georgia's coach on Sunday in what was called a "mutual" decision but looked like a firing.
  
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• Israel suspends EU role in peace talks

  29-11-2015 20:50 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Israel suspends diplomatic contact with EU officials involved in the Middle East peace process, after a row over EU moves to label West Bank settlement goods.
  
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• Shiffrin jumps to big lead after 1st run of slalom in Aspen

  29-11-2015 20:49 via news.yahoo.com
  
  ASPEN, Colo. (AP) — Mikaela Shiffrin is leading by a wide margin after the first run once again as she tries to capture back-to-back World Cup slalom races in Aspen.
  
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• Planned Parenthood says Colorado shooter opposed abortion

  29-11-2015 20:46 via news.yahoo.com
  
  By Keith Coffman COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. (Reuters) - Planned Parenthood said on Sunday that news reports that the gunman who attacked its Colorado health clinic had uttered "no more baby parts" during his arrest showed that the suspect was motivated by an anti-abortion agenda. The remark attributed to the suspect, identified by police as Robert Lewis Dear, was an apparent reference to Planned Parenthood's abortion activities and its role in delivering fetal tissue to medical researchers, a hot b
  
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• AP Sources: Rutgers fires coach Flood and AD Hermann

  29-11-2015 20:45 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Rutgers has fired coach Kyle Flood and athletic director Julie Hermann, a university official and a person with direct knowledge of the decisions told The Associated Press.
  
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• Merkel confirms 3 billion euro deal with Turkey on migrants

  29-11-2015 20:44 via news.yahoo.com
  
  BRUSSELS (Reuters) - German Chancellor Angela Merkel confirmed after an EU-Turkey summit on Sunday that the European Union has offered Ankara 3 billion euros to help Syrian refugees in Turkey in return for Turkish help in stemming migrant flows. She also confirmed that the EU would open Chapter 17 of Turkey's accession negotiations with Turkey this year and would speed up visa-free travel for Turks if existing conditions are met. ...
  
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• The Latest: Turkish premier blasts UN for Syria 'failure'

  29-11-2015 20:41 via news.yahoo.com
  
  BRUSSELS (AP) — The latest on the mass movement of asylum-seekers and others seeking refuge in Europe. All times local:
  
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• Turkey and EU strike migrants deal

  29-11-2015 20:40 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Turkey and European leaders have struck a deal to try to control the flow of migrants and refugees to Europe.
  
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• Turkish premier: Turkey, EU paying price for 'failure' of UN system to deal with Syria crisis

  29-11-2015 20:33 via news.yahoo.com
  
  BRUSSELS (AP) — Turkish premier: Turkey, EU paying price for 'failure' of UN system to deal with Syria crisis.
  
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• French police detain scores of climate change protesters after clashes

  29-11-2015 20:33 via news.yahoo.com
  
  French police detained scores of climate change protesters after violent clashes on the Place de la Republique in central Paris on Sunday, a day before the official start of an international conference that aims to tackle global warming. France, host of a conference that will bring together more than 150 heads of state and government, has banned public protests, including a planned march in Paris on Sunday, after deadly attacks in the capital by Islamist militants on Nov. 13 prompted authorities
  
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• 'No Planet B', marchers worldwide tell leaders before U.N. climate summit

  29-11-2015 20:32 via news.yahoo.com
  
  By Megan Rowling and Morag MacKinnon PARIS/PERTH, Australia (Reuters) - Hundreds of thousands of people from Australia to Paraguay joined the biggest day of climate change activism in history on Sunday, telling world leaders gathering for a summit in Paris there is "No Planet B" in the fight against global warming. In the French capital, where demonstrations were banned by the authorities after attacks by Islamic State militants killed 130 people on Nov. 13, activists laid out more than 20,000 s
  
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• No. 2 Alabama faces Florida as SEC's last hope for playoffs

  29-11-2015 20:31 via news.yahoo.com
  
  The once-unstoppable Southeastern Conference is down to one national title contender.
  
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• Negotiators grab head start on monumental climate challenge

  29-11-2015 20:31 via news.yahoo.com
  
  By Barbara Lewis and Bate Felix PARIS (Reuters) - Senior negotiators from almost 200 nations on Sunday began thrashing out a new global deal to curb climate change as the president of China, the world's biggest polluter, landed in Paris. The United Nations conference begins at summit level on Monday, when more than 150 heads of state and government - including U.S. President Barack Obama and Chinese President Xi Jinping - will attend talks at a sprawling complex north of the French capital. Fren
  
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• 'I was 100 percent right' on 9/11 Muslim remarks: Trump

  29-11-2015 20:28 via news.yahoo.com
  
  By Megan Cassella WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump insisted on Sunday he was "100 percent right" when he said he saw thousands of Muslims in Jersey City, New Jersey, cheering the 9/11 attacks on the World Trade Center, even though fact-checkers have debunked his assertion. In a phone interview on NBC's "Meet the Press," Trump said he has heard from "hundreds of people that agree" that there were televised Muslim celebrations of the Sept. 11, 2001, attack
  
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• Mourners at funeral of Kurdish lawyer cast doubt over justice

  29-11-2015 20:26 via news.yahoo.com
  
  By Seyhmus Cakan DIYARBAKIR, Turkey (Reuters) - Mourners at the funeral on Sunday of Tahir Elci, a Kurdish lawyer and human rights activist gunned down a day earlier in Turkey's volatile southeast, said they were skeptical that those responsible for his killing would be brought to justice. Funerals also took place of two policemen killed in the attack in the city of Diyarbakir, the center of unrest in the mostly Kurdish region. Hundreds of people have been killed since a ceasefire between the Ku
  
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• UK, EU leaders to discuss technicalities of EU reform

  29-11-2015 20:15 via news.yahoo.com
  
  BRUSSELS (AP) — A European official says British Prime Minister David Cameron and European Council President Donald Tusk are meeting Sunday night to discuss the EU reforms Britain is asking for ahead of a referendum on continued membership.
  
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• AP Top 25: Oklahoma up to No. 3, Clemson-Alabama still 1-2

  29-11-2015 20:14 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Oklahoma moved up to No. 3 behind Clemson and Alabama and the Big Ten placed three teams in the top six of the new Associated Press college football poll.
  
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• Massive rallies for the climate, but violence in Paris

  29-11-2015 19:59 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Hundreds of thousands of people rallied around the world Sunday on the eve of a Paris summit aimed at averting catastrophic climate change, but violent clashes in the French capital soured the show of people power. The global protests, including an emotional linking of hands near the heart of this month's terror attacks in Paris, were aimed at building grassroots pressure for an historic deal at the UN talks to limit global warming. As US President Brack Obama and other world leaders began flyin
  
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• The Latest: French detain 174 after clashes with police

  29-11-2015 19:56 via news.yahoo.com
  
  The latest from the much-anticipated U.N. climate conference that gets underway in Paris on Monday. All times local:
  
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• Global rallies demand climate action

  29-11-2015 19:49 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Demonstrations take place worldwide to demand action to stop climate change, but a protest in Paris is hit by violence, with tear gas fired and more than 200 arrested.
  
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• Q&A about suspect in deadly Planned Parenthood shooting

  29-11-2015 19:41 via news.yahoo.com
  
  BLACK MOUNTAIN, N.C. (AP) — Robert Lewis Dear, the suspect in the deadly Planned Parenthood attack in Colorado Springs, frightened neighbors, had several run-ins with police and lived in different remote cabins and trailers in North and South Carolina and Colorado.
  
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• The Latest: Colorado church, widow remember fallen officer

  29-11-2015 19:38 via news.yahoo.com
  
  COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. (AP) — The latest on the shooting at a Planned Parenthood clinic in Colorado. (All times local):
  
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• Cool abortion debate - Colorado governor

  29-11-2015 19:35 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Colorado's state governor urges both sides of the US abortion debate to "tone down the rhetoric", following Friday's family planning clinic attack.
  
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• Tens of billions promised to boost clean energy tech

  29-11-2015 19:34 via news.yahoo.com
  
  PARIS (AP) — Government and business leaders are banking on clean energy technology to fight global warming, kicking off this week's high-stakes climate change negotiations by pledging tens of billions of dollars for research and development.
  
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• The Latest: EU to monitor Turkish commitments on refugees

  29-11-2015 19:25 via news.yahoo.com
  
  BRUSSELS (AP) — The latest on the mass movement of asylum-seekers and others seeking refuge in Europe. All times local:
  
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• 'No more baby parts': Reclusive suspect's words draw focus

  29-11-2015 19:25 via news.yahoo.com
  
  COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. (AP) — Robert Lewis Dear was reclusive, and he seldom spoke to neighbors in a desolate stretch of land in rural Colorado where he lived.
  
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