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• Latest from the NFL: Chargers lost WR Inman to injury

  06-12-2015 23:47 via news.yahoo.com
  
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• Jets beat Giants in OT on Bullock field goal and Brown miss

  06-12-2015 23:46 via news.yahoo.com
  
  EAST RUTHERFORD, N.J. (AP) — Randy Bullock kicked a 31-yard field goal on the first possession of overtime to give the Jets a stunning 23-20 win Sunday that sent the reeling Giants to their third straight loss.
  
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• Venezuela Socialists at risk in high-stakes legislative vote

  06-12-2015 23:45 via news.yahoo.com
  
  By Brian Ellsworth and Andrew Cawthorne CARACAS (Reuters) - Venezuelans voted for a new legislature on Sunday in an election that may punish the ruling Socialists for a brutal economic crisis and give the opposition a long-sought platform to challenge President Nicolas Maduro. Chronic product shortages and the world's highest inflation could hand "Chavismo" a first loss in the National Assembly since the movement's charismatic late founder, Hugo Chavez, took office in 1999, polls show. It would
  
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• San Bernardino mourns its dead, calls for unity, not rancor

  06-12-2015 23:29 via news.yahoo.com
  
  SAN BERNARDINO, Calif. (AP) — At a church, a mosque, a makeshift street-corner memorial and other sites, they gathered Sunday to mourn the 14 victims of the San Bernardino massacre and lament that the community has now been added to the tragic list of U.S. cities scarred by terrible violence.
  
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• Latest from the NFL: Seattle's big win knots up NFC North

  06-12-2015 23:29 via news.yahoo.com
  
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• Burkina Faso coup leader charged with complicity in murder

  06-12-2015 23:24 via news.yahoo.com
  
  OUAGADOUGOU, Burkina Faso (AP) — Burkina Faso's military tribunal has charged the general who briefly took power in a failed September coup with complicity in the assassination of the West African nation's former revolutionary leader in 1987.
  
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• Hirscher cruises to World Cup giant slalom win

  06-12-2015 23:22 via news.yahoo.com
  
  BEAVER CREEK, Colo. (AP) — Austrian Marcel Hirscher held on to his first-run lead to easily win a World Cup giant slalom Sunday on a day when American Ted Ligety and some other top rivals crashed.
  
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• Iraq threatens Turkey with UN action

  06-12-2015 23:20 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Iraq says it might turn to the UN within 48 hours unless Turkey withdraws troops it sent to areas near the northern IS-held city of Mosul.
  
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• Father of shooter: Farook 'agreed with IS ideology', report says

  06-12-2015 23:19 via news.yahoo.com
  
  The father of Syed Farook, who with his wife shot dead 14 people in San Bernardino, California, says his son approved of the ideas of the Islamic State group and was fixated with Israel, the Italian daily La Stampa reported Sunday. "He said he agreed with (IS chief Abu Bakr) al-Baghdadi's ideas for creating the Islamic State, and he was obsessed by Israel," La Stampa quoted the father of the shooter, also named Syed Farook, as saying. "I always used to say to him, be calm, patience, in two years
  
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• The Latest: US to open probe of Chicago Police Department

  06-12-2015 23:18 via news.yahoo.com
  
  CHICAGO (AP) — These are the latest developments in the case involving the 2014 killing of a black teenager by a white police officer who shot him 16 times (all times local).
  
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• Orbital cargo ship blasts off toward space station

  06-12-2015 23:18 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Orbital ATK on Sunday launched its Cygnus cargo ship to resupply astronauts at the International Space Station, one year after a sudden rocket accident delivered a setback to commercial spaceflight. "Liftoff, on the shoulders of Atlas," NASA spokesman Mike Curie said as the unmanned spacecraft blasted off from Cape Canaveral, Florida atop a white Atlas V rocket at 4:44 pm (2144 GMT). The launch marks Orbital's fourth scheduled mission to the orbiting outpost, as part of a $1.9 billion contract w
  
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• Burkina Faso coup head charged with complicity in killing of ex-president Sankara in 1987

  06-12-2015 23:18 via news.yahoo.com
  
  OUAGADOUGOU, Burkina Faso (AP) — Burkina Faso coup head charged with complicity in killing of ex-president Sankara in 1987.
  
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• Liftoff: 1st US shipment in months flying to space station

  06-12-2015 23:17 via news.yahoo.com
  
  CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — A U.S. shipment of much-needed groceries and other astronaut supplies rocketed toward the International Space Station for the first time in months Sunday, reigniting NASA's commercial delivery service.
  
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• Baylor, North Carolina to meet in Russell Athletic Bowl

  06-12-2015 23:15 via news.yahoo.com
  
  The latest on the college football playoffs, bowl matchups and other news on selection Sunday (all times EST).
  
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• Clinton: Possible IS gains if Palestinian leadership vacuum

  06-12-2015 23:14 via news.yahoo.com
  
  WASHINGTON (AP) — Hillary Clinton says "the black flag" of the Islamic State group could be flying over the Palestinian territories if the Palestinian Authority and President Mahmoud Abbas fail to keep order.
  
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• French regional vote: National Front dominates first round

  06-12-2015 23:13 via news.yahoo.com
  
  PARIS (AP) — France's far right National Front won more support than any other party in the first round of regional elections Sunday, according to polling agency projections, in a new boost for Marine Le Pen's anti-immigration strategy and a new blow to President Francois Hollande's Socialists.
  
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• FBI probes Blatter bribe scandal role

  06-12-2015 23:00 via bbc.co.uk
  
  The FBI is investigating the role played by Fifa president Sepp Blatter in a $100m bribes scandal, Panorama has discovered.
  
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• Challenge for socialists as Venezuelans elect legislature

  06-12-2015 22:52 via news.yahoo.com
  
  CARACAS, Venezuela (AP) — The socialist system built by Hugo Chavez faced its gravest electoral test Sunday as Venezuelans cast ballots in what seems to have become a tightening race for control of the national legislature. 
  
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• Marine Le Pen and niece lead France's FN into dominant territory

  06-12-2015 22:49 via news.yahoo.com
  
  One is a pragmatist: a 47-year-old lawyer by training who has steered France's far-right National Front (FN) from pariah status to mainstream. On Sunday, Marine Le Pen and Marion Marechal-Le Pen -- respectively the daughter and grand-daughter of the FN's firebrand founder, Jean-Marie Le Pen -- established themselves as major players in France's political landscape. The first round of regional elections placed the FN on track to break the grip of Socialists and conservatives, cementing the party'
  
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• Turkey fury at missile-wielding Russian

  06-12-2015 22:42 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Turkey says images showing a Russian soldier holding a missile launcher are a "provocation", with the two sides at odds over the downing of a Russian jet.
  
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• Johnson, Arizona defense thrive in 27-3 win over Rams

  06-12-2015 22:42 via news.yahoo.com
  
  ST. LOUIS (AP) — Replacement running backs David Johnson and Kerwynn Williams scored a touchdown apiece and the Arizona Cardinals stuffed the punchless St. Louis Rams 27-3 on Sunday.
  
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• The Latest: Venezuela leader admits party can't always win

  06-12-2015 22:41 via news.yahoo.com
  
  CARACAS, Venezuela (AP) — Here's the latest on Sunday's important congressional elections in Venezuela (all times local):
  
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• California's strict gun laws failed to stop mass shooting

  06-12-2015 22:26 via news.yahoo.com
  
  SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — The deadly shooting in San Bernardino happened in a state with some of the nation's toughest gun laws: California bars assault weapons, blocks the sale of large-capacity magazines and requires universal background checks for all gun purchases.
  
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• Seahawks fly past Vikings 38-7 for 3rd straight victory

  06-12-2015 22:06 via news.yahoo.com
  
  MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — Russell Wilson threw for three touchdowns and rushed for another, Seattle's defense didn't allow a score, and the surging Seahawks won their third straight game Sunday with a 38-7 romp over the Minnesota Vikings.
  
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• Tragic deaths of home-schooled kids rarely lead to new rules

  06-12-2015 22:03 via news.yahoo.com
  
  KANSAS CITY, Kan. (AP) — The case of a missing 7-year-old Kansas boy who is believed to be dead has renewed calls for better oversight of home-schooled children, but state lawmakers say there's no reason to make any changes to home-schooling laws.
  
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• Storm Desmond: Lancaster's small businesses face 'zombie apocalypse'

  06-12-2015 21:59 via feeds.theguardian.com
  
  There was cheerfulness to be found on the streets but the flooding is a nightmare scenario of many of the city’s business ownersWarned to expect at least two more days without electricity following the weekend’s floods, Lancaster’s hardy residents faced the darkness with sunny stoicism.“I was telling my kids, this is what it must have been like in the war,” said Rohina Caterina, surveying the muddy floor of her pub, the Stonewell Tavern, which closed on Saturday nig
  
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• Corbyn rejects call to pull out of Stop the War fundraising event

  06-12-2015 21:56 via feeds.theguardian.com
  
  Labour leader says anti-war group ‘repeatedly called it right’ after former shadow cabinet member Tristram Hunt described coalition as ‘disreputable’Jeremy Corbyn has launched a strong defence of the Stop the War Coalition describing them as “a vital democratic campaign” as he rejected a call by the former shadow education secretary Tristram Hunt to pull out of a Christmas fundraising event.In a sign of a bolder approach, in light of Labour’s byelection
  
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• ST. PETERSBURG BOWL: UConn-Marshall at Tropicana Field

  06-12-2015 21:54 via news.yahoo.com
  
  The latest on the college football playoffs, bowl matchups and other news on selection Sunday (all times EST).
  
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• Front National wins opening round in France's regional elections

  06-12-2015 21:54 via feeds.theguardian.com
  
  Marine Le Pen’s party capitalises on Paris attacks to win 27-30% of national vote, the highest the party has ever scored in a local electionThe far-right Front National has made historic gains in the wake of the Paris terrorist attacks, emerging as the winner in the opening round of regional elections and coming top in half of France’s regions.
  The projected score is the highest vote that the anti-immigration, anti-European party has ever registered in a local election and, if the pa
  
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• Royal commission returns to Ballarat child abuse and George Pell's response

  06-12-2015 21:52 via feeds.theguardian.com
  
  The second session of hearings into child sexual abuse by Catholic clergy in Ballarat begins in Melbourne on Monday and is to end with evidence from PellThe second part of public hearings into child sexual abuse by the Catholic clergy within Ballarat institutions begins in Melbourne on Monday, culminating in evidence from Australia’s most senior Catholic and the Vatican’s secretary for the economy in Rome, George Pell.The first part of the hearings was heard in Ballarat in May, when
  
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• Latest from the NFL: Hopkins breaks Johnson's TD record

  06-12-2015 21:52 via news.yahoo.com
  
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• Investigators: Wife may have been driving force in rampage

  06-12-2015 21:29 via news.yahoo.com
  
  SAN BERNARDINO, Calif. (AP) — Investigators are looking into whether Tashfeen Malik radicalized her American-born husband and was the driving force in the San Bernardino massacre plot, two officials said Sunday.
  
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• Drama-filled season ends with consensus on playoff field

  06-12-2015 21:28 via news.yahoo.com
  
  A college football season filled with fantastic finishes led to a sleepy selection Sunday.
  
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• IS-claimed bombing kills Yemeni governor, 6 guards in Aden

  06-12-2015 21:27 via news.yahoo.com
  
  SANAA, Yemen (AP) — A huge explosion killed the governor of Yemen's southern Aden province and six of his bodyguards on Sunday, security officials said, in an attack that was later claimed by a local Islamic State affiliate.
  
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• French far right sees record score in first poll since attacks

  06-12-2015 21:25 via news.yahoo.com
  
  France's far-right National Front saw record-high results in regional polls on Sunday, held under a state of emergency just three weeks after Islamic extremists killed 130 people in Paris. The National Front (FN) came first with between 27.2 and 30.8 percent of the vote nationwide, and found itself topping the list in at least six of 13 regions, according to early estimates. FN leader Marine Le Pen and her 25-year-old niece Marion Marechal-Le Pen broke the 40-percent mark in their respective reg
  
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• Rose: Iowa-Stanford; Fiesta: Ohio St-Notre Dame

  06-12-2015 21:23 via news.yahoo.com
  
  The latest on the college football playoffs, bowl matchups and other news on selection Sunday (all times EST).
  
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• UN called for asylum seeker Sayed Abdellatif's release six months ago

  06-12-2015 21:22 via feeds.theguardian.com
  
  Abdellatif, his wife and six children remain in indefinite ‘arbitrary’ detention, despite the UN’s call in June for Australia to release them immediately Sayed Abdellatif, an Egyptian asylum seeker falsely condemned as a terrorist by political leaders, should be immediately released from his “arbitrary” and “disproportionate” detention, which breaches international law, the UN has told Australia.Abdellatif, his wife and six children have been held in det
  
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• Exclusive: California shooters likely planned multiple attacks - official

  06-12-2015 21:20 via news.yahoo.com
  
  U.S. investigators are increasingly convinced the California shooters planned multiple attacks, given their stockpile of weapons, and are looking at whether the Pakistani woman involved radicalized her American husband, officials said on Sunday. Investigators believe the weapons cache collected by Tashfeen Malik, 29, and her husband, Syed Rizwan Farook, 28, points to more attacks but they do not have evidence on other possible targets, a senior U.S. government source told Reuters. The couple sto
  
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• Latest from the NFL: McCoy cleared after concussion scare

  06-12-2015 21:18 via news.yahoo.com
  
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• Nuclear is not the answer to the climate crisis | Letters

  06-12-2015 21:11 via feeds.theguardian.com
  
  Contrary to the article by James Hansen, Kerry Emanuel, Ken Caldeira and Tom Wigley (Nuclear power paves the only viable path forward on climate change, 3 December), many scientists around the world remain sceptical that nuclear is the answer, or even part of the answer, to climate change. The academic authors have a fine record in identifying the causes and consequences of climate change, but their proposed solution simply doesn’t make sense.The main problem is that, contrary what many th
  
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• Holy grail of shipwrecks caught in three-way court battle

  06-12-2015 21:04 via feeds.theguardian.com
  
  The salvage of the legendary San José and its cargo of gold, emeralds and other treasure could be worth as much as $17bn if ownership agreement can be reachedThe discovery of the “holy grail of shipwrecks” off the coast of Colombia this week has provoked a three-cornered fight over ownership of the gold, emeralds and other treasures on the ocean floor. Related: New battle looms over rights to the world's richest shipwreckContinue reading...
  
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• Schubert’s Winter Journey by Ian Bostridge should not be overlooked | Letters

  06-12-2015 20:51 via feeds.theguardian.com
  
  Richard Williams’ article on the year’s best music books (Review, 5 December) was too narrowly focused and so missed Ian Bostridge’s magnificent book on Schubert’s song cycle Winterreise – Schubert’s Winter Journey. Bostridge devotes a chapter of the book to each of the cycle’s 24 songs, and his relationship to them as a performer, discussing in detail his approach to the songs. But it is much more than that. He ponders the place of song in German cultur
  
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• Get McKinty – he’s up there with Elmore | Letters

  06-12-2015 20:49 via feeds.theguardian.com
  
  I am sorry to see that your roundup of the year’s best thrillers (Review, 5 December) makes no mention of Adrian McKinty, whose intelligent, razor sharp thrillers star a deeply flawed Royal Ulster Constabulary inspector, Sean Duffy. Taut, lean prose and dialogue up there with Elmore Leonard. McKinty has not had the attention he deserves. Gun Street Girl is his latest. If you pick it up, I guarantee you won’t put it down.
  Chris Mullin
  Northumberland• I learned to code in the
  
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• Leytonstone knife attack: police step up patrols after 'terrorist incident'

  06-12-2015 20:45 via feeds.theguardian.com
  
  Detectives search address in east London after man held on suspicion of attempted murder over knife attack in which two people were injuredDetectives and the security services are investigating whether an attacker who slashed a man with a knife and threatened other passengers at a London tube station was acting alone or as part of an Isis-inspired drive to kill on Britain’s streets.After Saturday’s attack at Leytonstone underground station, east London, one witness said the attacker
  
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• Airstrikes kill 32 Isis fighters in Raqqa, activists say

  06-12-2015 20:43 via feeds.theguardian.com
  
  Forty more are wounded in bombings, says Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, as it is unclear who carried them outAt least 32 Islamic State fighters have been killed and another 40 wounded in a series of airstrikes on bases around its de-facto capital Raqqa, activists have said.Rami Abdurrahman, the head of the UK-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, reportedly said there were about 15 strikes on the northern Syrian city on Sunday.Continue reading...
  
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• Ashley Dyball, Australian who fought against Isis in Syria, released after return

  06-12-2015 20:40 via feeds.theguardian.com
  
  The Queensland man who fought with Kurdish forces in Syria was interviewed by police after arriving in Melbourne, then released, his lawyer saysA Queensland man who fought against Islamic State in Syria has arrived back in Australia and is understood to have been released without charge after police interviewed him at Melbourne airport.Ashley Dyball, 23, was deported from Germany on Saturday night and arrived in Melbourne on Sunday night. Continue reading...
  
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• Erdogan’s dreams of empire are perilous for Turkey | Norman Stone

  06-12-2015 20:26 via feeds.theguardian.com
  
  Ankara is becoming far bolder with its foreign policy. Provoking Russia over Syria may be a step too far, thoughThe aggressiveness of Turkish foreign policy is something new. It goes back to 2009 when, at Davos, President Erdoğan insulted Shimon Peres, then Israel’s president, using the Turkish form of “you” that is normally used for dogs, and accusing him of atrocities in Gaza. That went down very well with his home constituency, less well with Turks who think about thing
  
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• Liverpool loss caps EPL upsets

  06-12-2015 20:25 via rss.cnn.com
  
  Relegation survivors last season, few would have tipped Leicester City to be topping the English Premier League in December.
  
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• The Guardian view on the French regional elections: the remarkable resilience of the far right | Editorial

  06-12-2015 20:23 via feeds.theguardian.com
  
  The terrorist outrage in Paris three weeks ago coincided with the resurgence of an anti-immigration, anti-Muslim populism in FranceFrance’s political prospects appear as ominous as at any time in the republic’s recent history. After the first round of the regional elections, the far-right Front National of Marine Le Pen, with a 30% share of the vote nationwide and more than 40% in some areas, is ahead of the mainstream parties, and poised for breakthrough. This is not only a conseque
  
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• Man charged over Facebook messages to MP

  06-12-2015 20:15 via feeds.theguardian.com
  
  Craig Wallace, 23, also known as Muhammad Mujahid Islam, of north London, charged with malicious communicationsA man has been charged with malicious communications by police investigating Facebook messages sent to an MP.Craig Wallace, 23, also known as Muhammad Mujahid Islam, was arrested at his home in north London on Saturday in connection with messages sent last Thursday. Continue reading...
  
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