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• Will Santa be tracked?

  09-12-2015 23:58 via rss.cnn.com
  
  Good boys and girls can rest easier this holiday season knowing that they will be able to track Santa Claus' movements on Christmas Eve.
  
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• VIDEO: Concern for China human rights lawyers

  09-12-2015 23:44 via bbc.co.uk
  
  China has been cracking down on human rights lawyers, raising concern in the global human rights community.
  
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• Who's on Amazon's best-sellers list?

  09-12-2015 23:41 via rss.cnn.com
  
  Harper Lee's "Go Set a Watchman" may have been Goodreads' best fiction book of 2015.
  
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• 'Happy Birthday' copyright case settled

  09-12-2015 23:36 via bbc.co.uk
  
  A legal dispute over copyright fees for the song Happy Birthday To You has been settled out of court.
  
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• English teams beat European scare

  09-12-2015 23:16 via rss.cnn.com
  
  It was supposed to be a week where England was caught up in a football crisis -- in the end it never materialized.
  
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• Terror pair 'extremists before meeting'

  09-12-2015 23:15 via rss.cnn.com
  
  Syed Rizwan Farook and Tashfeen Malik, the husband-wife team behind the San Bernardino attacks, were radicalized before they even met each other, the FBI director said Wednesday.
  
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• FBI: U.S. at greatest threat since 9/11

  09-12-2015 23:14 via rss.cnn.com
  
  FBI Director James Comey said Wednesday that the U.S. is at its greatest threat level from terrorist groups since 9/11.
  
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• Taliban kill dozens at Kandahar airport

  09-12-2015 23:07 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Dozens of people are killed in a Taliban attack on a heavily fortified civilian and military airfield in the southern Afghan city of Kandahar.
  
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• Olympiakos 0-3 Arsenal

  09-12-2015 22:58 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Olivier Giroud's hat-trick ensures Arsenal defeat Olympiakos in Greece and progress to the last 16 of the Champions League.
  
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• VIDEO: How US Muslims feel in five words

  09-12-2015 22:57 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Muslims in America say how they feel after Donald Trump's call to ban followers of Islam from entering the United States.
  
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• Accused rampage killer: I am warrior

  09-12-2015 22:51 via rss.cnn.com
  
  [Breaking news alert, posted at 4:43 p.m. ET]
  
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• Apple CEO: More computer science and coding education needed

  09-12-2015 22:30 via news.yahoo.com
  
  NEW YORK (AP) — Teaching kids to code is just as important as teaching them any other language. And the younger they start learning it, the better, Apple CEO Tim Cook said Wednesday.
  
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• Amazon's best-sellers of 2015

  09-12-2015 22:30 via rss.cnn.com
  
  Harper Lee's "Go Set a Watchman" may have been Goodreads' best fiction book of 2015.
  
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• The Latest: Clinic suspect says he's a 'warrior' for babies

  09-12-2015 22:29 via news.yahoo.com
  
  COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. (AP) — The latest on the man accused in a shooting at a Colorado Planned Parenthood clinic (all times local):
  
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• World's first dengue fever vaccine cleared by Mexico

  09-12-2015 22:24 via news.yahoo.com
  
  The world's first dengue vaccine won regulatory approval in Mexico on Wednesday, raising hopes that it could prevent more than 100 deaths there a year and eventually perhaps millions around the world. Globally, dengue is the fastest-growing mosquito-borne disease, with as many as 400 million people infected every year, according to the World Health Organization. The Dengvaxia vaccine is being manufactured by French pharmaceutical giant Sanofi.
  
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• New Mexico man convicted of beating deaths of 2 transients

  09-12-2015 22:14 via news.yahoo.com
  
  ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) — A jury convicted a 20-year-old man Wednesday of beating two homeless men to death with cinder blocks and other items as they slept last year in New Mexico's largest city.
  
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• Wilder to defend heavyweight crown versus Szpilka

  09-12-2015 22:12 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Unbeaten American Deontay Wilder will defend his share of boxing's fractured heavyweight crown next month in New York against Poland's Artur Szpilka, promoters announced Wednesday. Wilder owns the World Boxing Council title and was looking at a fight against Ukraine's unbeaten Vyacheslav Glazkov, but when Britain's undefeated Tyson Fury dethroned Wladimir Klitschko by unanimous decision last month, the landscape changed and a deal with Szpilka was made.
  
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• The Latest: Chicago protesters head toward Magnificent Mile

  09-12-2015 22:12 via news.yahoo.com
  
  CHICAGO (AP) — The latest developments in the city of Chicago's efforts to deal with fatal police shootings and police accountability (all times local):
  
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• Tech stocks lead a broad decline in the US market

  09-12-2015 22:11 via news.yahoo.com
  
  NEW YORK (AP) — A slump in several big technology companies is leaving the stock market broadly lower at the closing bell.
  
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• VIDEO: Why was Merkel named 'Person of the Year'?

  09-12-2015 22:08 via bbc.co.uk
  
  German Chancellor Angela Merkel is named Time magazine's "Person of the Year", for her leadership role in Europe's migrant and debt crises.
  
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• Trump's controversy drowning out GOP rivals in 2016 race

  09-12-2015 22:03 via news.yahoo.com
  
  MANCHESTER, N.H. (AP) — Donald Trump is drowning out his Republican rivals in an echo chamber of insults and charged pronouncements that are taking over the 2016 presidential contest.
  
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• Obama names favorite song, book and movie of 2015

  09-12-2015 22:01 via news.yahoo.com
  
  WASHINGTON (AP) — President Barack Obama says his favorite song of 2015 is "How Much a Dollar Cost" by Grammy-nominated rapper Kendrick Lamar.
  
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• FBI chief: California killers radicalized before they met

  09-12-2015 22:01 via news.yahoo.com
  
  The Muslim husband and wife who killed 14 people in an attack on a year-end party in San Bernardino, California were radicalized at least two years ago, before they met online, FBI Director James Comey said Wednesday. The Federal Bureau of Investigation's probe has determined that US-born Syed Farook and Tashfeen Malik, a Pakistani national, were inspired by foreign terror groups and discussed "jihad and martyrdom" as early as 2013, Comey said. The investigation "indicates that they were actuall
  
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• APNewsBreak: Feds look to maintain Yellowstone bear numbers

  09-12-2015 21:58 via news.yahoo.com
  
  BILLINGS, Mont. (AP) — Wildlife managers will seek to maintain grizzly bear numbers in the three-state Yellowstone region near current levels as they move toward lifting protections for the threatened species, a U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service spokeswoman said Wednesday.
  
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• Former NY police chief accused of covering up beating

  09-12-2015 21:56 via news.yahoo.com
  
  CENTRAL ISLIP, N.Y. (AP) — The former chief of one of the country's largest local law enforcement agencies was arrested Wednesday on charges he took revenge against a man who broke into his SUV by beating the suspect and then coercing officers to lie about what happened.
  
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• New draft of climate accord leaves big issues unresolved

  09-12-2015 21:54 via news.yahoo.com
  
  LE BOURGET, France (AP) — With just two days left to reach a deal, negotiators at the world climate talks released a new draft Wednesday that drops the most radical ideas — including an international tribunal to punish polluters — but leaves major issues unresolved, such as who should pay to help the most vulnerable nations cope with global warming.
  
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• Obama: Israeli-Palestinian peace elusive, but must still try

  09-12-2015 21:51 via news.yahoo.com
  
  WASHINGTON (AP) — President Barack Obama called on the United States on Tuesday to keep working toward Mideast peace despite slim chances for near-term success.
  
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• Eagles coach: Murray upset with carries but no undercutting

  09-12-2015 21:50 via news.yahoo.com
  
  PHILADELPHIA (AP) — Eagles coach Chip Kelly says running back DeMarco Murray is unhappy with the carries he got in an upset win of the New England Patriots on Sunday, but didn't undercut anyone by speaking with team owner Jeffrey Lurie.
  
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• Death case cop testifying

  09-12-2015 21:48 via rss.cnn.com
  
  Baltimore police Officer William Porter, one of six officers charged in the April death of Freddie Gray, took the stand at his own trial Wednesday, and said there were no signs that Gray -- eventually found to have broken his neck in a police van -- needed immediate medical attention.
  
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• Trump to meet Netanyahu as Muslim remarks raise ire in Israel

  09-12-2015 21:42 via news.yahoo.com
  
  US presidential candidate Donald Trump will visit Israel to meet Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu amid fierce criticism over his call for Muslims to be barred from entering the United States. A government official said Wednesday the meeting with the billionaire Republican presidential frontrunner, set for December 28, was in line with Netanyahu's practice of meeting candidates visiting Israel.
  
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• Palestinian shot dead after wounding two Israelis in West Bank stabbing: army

  09-12-2015 21:42 via news.yahoo.com
  
  A Palestinian was shot dead by security forces after wounding an Israeli soldier and a civilian when he stabbed them in the occupied West Bank town of Hebron on Wednesday, the Israeli army said. A statement from the military said the Palestinian attacked the victims during a "routine security check" in Hebron, a hotspot in the spate of attacks in the West Bank, Israel and Jerusalem in the past two months. The violence has partly been driven by Palestinian anger over an increasing number of Jews
  
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• Obama: important to try to reach peace between Israel, Palestinians

  09-12-2015 21:42 via news.yahoo.com
  
  WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. President Barack Obama said on Wednesday it was important to try to achieve peace between Israelis and Palestinians even though the possibility seemed distant. Obama made his comments during a meeting in the Oval Office with Israeli President Reuven Rivlin. (Reporting by Jeff Mason; Editing by Tim Ahmann)
  
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• 2 sentenced to life in 2010 killing of Border Patrol agent

  09-12-2015 21:41 via news.yahoo.com
  
  TUCSON, Ariz. (AP) — Two men convicted of first-degree murder in the killing of a Border Patrol agent whose death brought to light a bungled federal gun-tracking operation known as Fast and Furious were sentenced to life in prison Wednesday in Arizona.
  
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• VIDEO: Obama: 'We must push back against bigotry'

  09-12-2015 21:40 via bbc.co.uk
  
  US President Barack Obama has urged the American public not to repeat the mistakes of the past, in a speech marking 150 years since the abolition of slavery,
  
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• These awards point way to Oscar glory

  09-12-2015 21:39 via rss.cnn.com
  
  "Trumbo" led in numbers, and "Spotlight" held the spotlight, but some surprising picks -- including "Straight Outta Compton," Sarah Silverman and 9-year-old Jacob Tremblay -- earned some limelight when the nominations for the 22nd annual Screen Actors Guild Awards were announced Wednesday morning.
  
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• Third Kenya lion dies after 'poisoning'

  09-12-2015 21:37 via bbc.co.uk
  
  A third lion dies in Narok, south-west Kenya, after a pride featured on a BBC wildlife programme was allegedly poisoned by Maasai herdsmen.
  
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• North Carolina sued over gay marriage opt-out law

  09-12-2015 21:37 via news.yahoo.com
  
  WINSTON-SALEM, N.C. (Reuters) - A North Carolina law that allows government officials to refuse to perform same-sex marriages if they cite religious objections is unconstitutional and should be struck down, according to a federal lawsuit filed on Wednesday to challenge the measure. The six plaintiffs, who include gay couples, argue the legislation allows magistrates and other officials who perform marriages to put their personal beliefs before their sworn constitutional duty. "And the law spends
  
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• Investor sells Rolls-Royce stake

  09-12-2015 21:37 via bbc.co.uk
  
  The well-known investor Neil Woodford has sold his stake in the engineering firm Rolls-Royce, saying he has lost his confidence in the business model.
  
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• Ceasefire finally allows civilians out

  09-12-2015 21:37 via rss.cnn.com
  
  Few places in Syria have been devastated by the country's four-and-a-half-year civil war than the ancient city of Homs, 100 miles north of Damascus.
  
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• Turkish president says Iranian and Iraqi policies in Syria led to sectarianism: Jazeera TV

  09-12-2015 21:31 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan says that Turkish troops had been stationed at a military base in northern Iraq at the request of Iraq's leader since 2014, al-Jazeera reported on Wednesday. The Turkish leader also blamed the policies of neighboring Iraq and Iran for the rise of sectarianism in Syria.
  
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• Charlotte's Jefferson banned five NBA games for drug violation

  09-12-2015 21:31 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Charlotte Hornets center Al Jefferson, sidelined another week or two by a left calf strain, was issued a five-game suspension by the NBA on Wednesday for vioalting terms of its Anti-Drug Program. No details were given about the nature of the violation or the medication involved, a typical move under US medical privacy laws. Jefferson, who was hurt in the first quarter of a November 29 game against Milwaukee, will miss the first five games for which he is eligible and physically able to play.
  
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• Muslim proposal prompts calls to ban Trump from UK, Israel

  09-12-2015 21:28 via news.yahoo.com
  
  By John Whitesides WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Israeli politicians and more than 250,000 Britons urged their governments on Wednesday to bar Donald Trump from their countries after the Republican presidential front-runner said Muslims should be denied entry into the United States. The calls were part of a growing global backlash against Trump's proposal that cut across nationalities and religions, and began to hit the real estate mogul's brand in the Middle East. Although Israeli politicians demanded
  
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• Clinton says GOP candidates hindering anti-terrorism efforts

  09-12-2015 21:28 via news.yahoo.com
  
  WATERLOO, Iowa (AP) — Hillary Clinton accused Republicans of undermining American efforts to fight Islamic terrorism, saying Wednesday that the "hateful" campaign rhetoric of frontrunner Donald Trump and the rest of the GOP field is providing new material for Islamic State propaganda.
  
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• First planeload of Syria refugees to arrive in Toronto on Thursday

  09-12-2015 21:27 via news.yahoo.com
  
  The first planeload of Syrian refugees from camps in Jordan and Lebanon will arrive in Canada on Thursday, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said on Wednesday. "Resettling refugees demonstrates our commitment to Canadians and the world that Canada understands we can and must do more," said Trudeau. The government last month acknowledged that its original Jan. 1 target for accepting 25,000 Syrian refugees was too difficult to meet.
  
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• North Face founder dies in kayak accident

  09-12-2015 21:21 via bbc.co.uk
  
  The US clothing billionaire and keen environmentalist Douglas Tompkins dies in a kayaking accident in southern Chile, aged 72.
  
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• 'Trumbo','House of Cards' lead US actors' guild award nods

  09-12-2015 21:20 via news.yahoo.com
  
  The Oscars race officially kicked off on Wednesday with the Screen Actors Guild nominations that saw "Trumbo", a biopic about a blacklisted 1940s screenwriter, score the most nominations. The movie received nods in three categories -- best ensemble cast, best leading actor (Bryan Cranston) and best supporting actress (Helen Mirren). On the television side, Netflix's political drama "House of Cards" led the field with three nominations, for best actor (Kevin Spacey), best actress (Robin Wright) a
  
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• The Latest: Prosecutors question officer at Gray trial

  09-12-2015 21:18 via news.yahoo.com
  
  BALTIMORE (AP) — The latest on the trial of a Baltimore police officer who is charged with manslaughter in the death of Freddie Gray, a 25-year-old black man who was injured in the back of a police transport van (all times local).
  
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• SAG awards point way to Oscar glory

  09-12-2015 21:16 via rss.cnn.com
  
  "Trumbo" led in numbers, and "Spotlight" held the spotlight, but some surprising picks -- including "Straight Outta Compton," Sarah Silverman and 9-year-old Jacob Tremblay -- earned some limelight when the nominations for the 22nd annual Screen Actors Guild Awards were announced Wednesday morning.
  
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• The Latest: Hundreds take to Chicago streets in protest

  09-12-2015 21:12 via news.yahoo.com
  
  CHICAGO (AP) — The latest developments in the city of Chicago's efforts to deal with fatal police shootings and police accountability (all times local):
  
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• Alaska governor proposes income tax to help plug budget gap

  09-12-2015 21:07 via news.yahoo.com
  
  JUNEAU, Alaska (AP) — Alaska Gov. Bill Walker is proposing instituting a personal income tax for the first time in 35 years as the oil-dependent state looks to plug a multibillion-dollar budget deficit amid chronically low prices.
  
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