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• Obama calls Paris climate pact 'best chance' to save the planet

  12-12-2015 23:50 via news.yahoo.com
  
  U.S. President Barack Obama on Saturday hailed the landmark climate accord reached in Paris as strong and historic, calling it the best chance to save the planet from the effects of global climate change. Over the past seven years, we've transformed the United States into the global leader in fighting climate change," Obama said.
  
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• World Leaders Agree to 'Historic' Deal on Climate Change

  12-12-2015 23:46 via feeds.nbcnews.com
  
  The first-ever international accord requires all countries to take steps to reduce emissions and help each other cope with climate change.
  
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• Paris climate deal might just be enough to start turning the tide on global warming | Lenore Taylor

  12-12-2015 23:31 via feeds.theguardian.com
  
  Despite the dysfunctional international process and the imperfect national promises and the arguments over detail, the Paris agreement – setting solid expectations for the world to limit temperature rise – gives even a cynic cause for optimismNo superlative was left unused as the French president François Hollande, the foreign minister Laurent Fabius and the UN secretary general Ban Ki-moon lined up on Saturday to maximise pressure on negotiators in Paris to accept the final d
  
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• Cuba seals 'historic' debt pact with Paris Club

  12-12-2015 23:30 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Cuba on Saturday concluded a "historic accord" over debt that was not paid to foreign creditors for the last 25 years, French Finance Minister Michel Sapin announced. "This accord helps to definitively resolve the issue of Cuba's medium-term debt... which has not been honoured since the 1980s," he said in a statement. The cumulative interest amounting to $4 billion (3.6 billion euros) will be waived while the unpaid debt of $2.6 billion to France will be paid by Cuba over a period of 18 years, d
  
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• Olympic ski champion Shiffrin heading home for knee injury

  12-12-2015 23:29 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Olympic slalom champion Mikaela Shiffrin is going home to the United States for medical care after injuring her right knee while warming up for a World Cup giant slalom in Are, Sweden.
  
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• The Big Business of UFC: How Bravado Brings the Bucks

  12-12-2015 23:25 via feeds.nbcnews.com
  
  The Ultimate Fighting Championship is set to have one of the, if not the, most successful nights in the organization's history.
  
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• Wisconsin gun shop to pay $1m to settle lawsuit in straw buyer case, says lawyer

  12-12-2015 23:11 via feeds.theguardian.com
  
  Case ‘settled and dismissed’, says attorney after jury found Badger Guns negligently sold gun used to injure two Milwaukee police officersAn attorney says a Wisconsin gun shop will pay $1m to settle a lawsuit in which a jury found it negligently sold a gun that was used to injure two Milwaukee police officers. Related: Gun control advocates hail 'significant' victory in Wisconsin gun shop caseContinue reading...
  
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• Michael Cuddyer retiring after 4 injured-filled seasons

  12-12-2015 23:07 via news.yahoo.com
  
  NEW YORK (AP) — Sometime after surgery in early November to repair a core muscle injury, Michael Cuddyer realized his body was not up to a 19th season of professional baseball.
  
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• Americans Dufner and Snedeker win golf Shootout title

  12-12-2015 23:06 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Americans Jason Dufner and Brandt Snedeker combined for an 11-under par 61 in Saturday's closing better-ball format to win the 27th annual Franklin Templeton Shootout by two strokes. The first-time pairing won the title at 30-under par 186 with the US duo of Harris English and Matt Kuchar, the 2013 winners, second on 188 and Americans Daniel Berger and Charley Hoffman third, another shot adrift. The three-day invitational event hosted by retired Australian star Greg Norman in Naples, Florida, ma
  
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• Muslim teen upset after teacher asked if she had a bomb in her backpack

  12-12-2015 23:04 via feeds.theguardian.com
  
  Father says Georgia teacher stopped his 13-year-old daughter, who wears a hijab, and asked if she had a bomb – school says principal apologizedThe father of a Muslim middle school student says a teacher asked his daughter if she was carrying a bomb in her backpack. Related: Muslims in US fear increasing prejudice on wave of anti-Islamic sentimentContinue reading...
  
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• Hillary Clinton hails Paris climate accord

  12-12-2015 23:03 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Hillary Clinton praised the international climate accord reached in Paris as a triumph over "climate skeptics," but cautioned that it is just a first step in turning back the "catastrophic consequences" of global warming. "The Paris agreement is testament to America's ability to lead the world in building a clean energy future where no one is left out or left behind," Clinton said in a statement Saturday, adding that addressing global warming would be a top agenda item if she is elected presiden
  
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• Suspect in Killing of Mississippi Cops Found Dead in Cell

  12-12-2015 23:02 via feeds.nbcnews.com
  
  Marvin Banks was charged in the fatal shooting of two police officers during a May traffic stop.
  
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• Sinatra's hometown caps centennial celebrations

  12-12-2015 23:01 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Frank Sinatra's hometown on Saturday dedicated a plaque in his honor, capping celebrations of the singing legend's centennial year despite his ambivalent relationship with Hoboken, New Jersey. A century after "Ol' Blue Eyes" was born in the working-class town across the Hudson River from New York, several hundred fans turned out to remember him -- mostly local residents, but with a smattering of die-hard Sinatra fans from around the world. Befitting a celebrity who moved to California and rarely
  
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• Wisconsin gun shop to pay $1M to settle officers' lawsuit

  12-12-2015 22:56 via news.yahoo.com
  
  A Wisconsin gun shop will pay $1 million to settle a lawsuit in which a jury found it negligently sold a gun used to injure two Milwaukee police officers, the store's attorney said. The settlement eliminates ...
  
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• Grevers clocks 100m backstroke shortcourse world record

  12-12-2015 22:56 via news.yahoo.com
  
  American Matt Grevers clocked a shortcourse world record of 48.92sec to win the 100m backstroke Saturday at the USA versus Europe Duel in the Pool in Indianapolis, Indiana. Grevers, the 2012 Olympic gold medallist in the 100m back, broke the record of 48.94sec set by American Nick Thoman in 2009 in the era of now-banned high-tech bodysuits. Russian-born Serbian Arkady Vyatchanin took second for Europe in 50.37.
  
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• Key points of the landmark Paris climate agreement

  12-12-2015 22:41 via news.yahoo.com
  
  LE BOURGET, France (AP) — U.N. climate talks reached a milestone Saturday when more than 190 countries adopted the first accord asking all countries to join the fight against global warming.
  
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• Probe for shooters' hard drive continues in California lake

  12-12-2015 22:39 via news.yahoo.com
  
  LOS ANGELES (AP) — A search for a computer hard drive and anything else linked to the husband-and-wife shooters who killed 14 in the California attacks stretched into the weekend, as specialized divers with the FBI looked through a San Bernardino lake for abandoned evidence.
  
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• France seeks to form coalition of ambition, carbon price

  12-12-2015 22:35 via news.yahoo.com
  
  France will revise its domestic goals for cutting greenhouse gases by 2020 and will seek to build a coalition of nations striving for a global carbon price to accelerate a shift toward greener energy, French President Hollande said on Saturday. Hollande, whose presidential term ends in 2017, said he engaged on behalf of France to revise the nation's greenhouse gas goals by 2020 at the latest and to review the amount of money it is giving to help the poorest nations adapt to climate change.
  
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• The Rockettes, eight decades of NY Christmas glamour

  12-12-2015 22:22 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Kicking their legs and dancing in perfect unison since 1933, the Rockettes are an iconic New York Christmas institution watched by one million people each year at the biggest indoor theater in the world. The Radio City Christmas Spectacular is performed up to five times a day from November 13 to January 3 at Radio City Music Hall at Rockefeller Center, America's most popular Christmas destination. It's a 90-minute show of music, ballet, ice skaters, dancing Santas, 3D cinema, fireworks, Christma
  
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• Syria opposition deal under fire ahead of US-Russia meet

  12-12-2015 22:18 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Syria's Al-Qaeda affiliate rejected Saturday the outcome of an opposition summit that agreed to negotiate with President Bashar al-Assad, and Russia denounced the gathering in Saudi Arabia as unrepresentative. The latest developments come with US Secretary of State John Kerry due in Moscow Tuesday in a new bid to push for a peace plan to end Syria's nearly five-year conflict. The Moscow meeting would build on the momentum of Vienna talks last month and an unprecedented two-day gathering this wee
  
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• Hundreds in costumes revel at festive SantaCon

  12-12-2015 22:18 via news.yahoo.com
  
  NEW YORK (AP) — Santas came by the hundreds, reindeer formed a kick line and oversized elves cavorted with saucy Mrs. Clauses as a police helicopter circled overhead.
  
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• Factbox: World reacts to new climate accord

  12-12-2015 22:16 via news.yahoo.com
  
  (Reuters) - From business leaders to politicians, world figures reacted on Saturday to news that climate negotiators in Paris had approved a breakthrough accord that will for the first time unite rich and poor nations in combating climate change. Below are select comments and quotes: EUROPEAN COMMISSION PRESIDENT JEAN-CLAUDE JUNCKER Today the world is united in the fight against climate change. Today the world gets a lifeline, a last chance to hand over to future generations a world that is more
  
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• With landmark climate accord, world marks turn from fossil fuels

  12-12-2015 21:58 via news.yahoo.com
  
  By Alister Doyle and Barbara Lewis PARIS (Reuters) - The global climate summit in Paris agreed a landmark accord on Saturday, setting the course for a historic transformation of the world's fossil fuel-driven economy within decades in a bid to arrest global warming. After four years of fraught U.N. talks often pitting the interests of rich nations against poor, imperiled island states against rising economic powerhouses, French Foreign Minister Laurent Fabius declared the pact adopted to the sta
  
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• Advisory: Obama story on Twitter comment on climate accord withdrawn

  12-12-2015 21:58 via news.yahoo.com
  
  WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The story on Obama making a comment on the climate accord on Twitter is wrong and is withdrawn. The tweet was not sent by President Obama, but by staff at Organizing for Action under the handle @BarackObama. (Washington newsroom)
  
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• White House hails 'most ambitious climate change'

  12-12-2015 21:55 via news.yahoo.com
  
  The White House is praising what it calls "the most ambitious climate change agreement in history" after the United States and nearly 200 other countries backed the deal in Paris. President Barack ...
  
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• NHL's Penguins dump Johnston, name Sullivan as new coach

  12-12-2015 21:48 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Struggling to compete for a National Hockey League playoff position, the Pittsburgh Penguins dumped Mike Johnston as coach on Saturday and replaced him with Mike Sullivan, who guided their top developmental club. The Penguins had 33 points off 15 wins from 28 matches, but stand ninth in the Eastern Conference, level on points with Boston for the last post-season spot. Since Pittsburgh won the Stanley Cup in 2009, the Penguins have gone 4-6 in playoff series and have not returned to the champions
  
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• Shooting Victim Who Shielded Co-Worker Was 'Fearless'

  12-12-2015 21:35 via feeds.nbcnews.com
  
  Shannon Johnson received a hero's funeral Saturday 10 days after he died during the massacre in San Bernardino, California.
  
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• Around 2,000 in Montenegro protest against joining NATO

  12-12-2015 21:26 via news.yahoo.com
  
  PODGORICA, Montenegro (AP) — Chanting "Russia, Russia!" some 2,000 people in Montenegro have demonstrated against membership in NATO only days after the small Balkan country was invited to join the security alliance.
  
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• White House hails 'most ambitious climate change' pact ever

  12-12-2015 21:22 via news.yahoo.com
  
  WASHINGTON (AP) — The White House is praising what it calls "the most ambitious climate change agreement in history" after the United States and nearly 200 other countries backed the deal in Paris.
  
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• Odd Couple Finds Friendship in Christmas Tree Forest

  12-12-2015 21:20 via feeds.nbcnews.com
  
  Deer and dogs are not natural companions, but nobody seems to have told Carla the Labrador.
  
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• Key points of Paris climate agreement

  12-12-2015 21:20 via news.yahoo.com
  
  LE BOURGET, France (AP) — U.N. climate talks reached a milestone Saturday when more than 190 countries adopted the first accord asking all countries to join the fight against global warming.
  
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• The Latest: UN chief Ban: 'History will remember this day'

  12-12-2015 21:18 via news.yahoo.com
  
  LE BOURGET, France (AP) — The latest on the U.N. climate conference outside Paris (all times local):
  
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• Saudi women vote for the first time, testing boundaries

  12-12-2015 21:13 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Women across Saudi Arabia marked a historic milestone on Saturday, both voting and running as candidates in government elections for the first time, but just outside polling stations they waited for male ...
  
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• Olympic ski champion Shiffrin heading home for kne

  12-12-2015 21:13 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Olympic slalom champion Mikaela Shiffrin is going home to the United States for medical care after injuring her right knee while warming up for a World Cup giant slalom in Are, Sweden.
  
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• Ex-neighbor gets probation for harassing comedian Jim Breuer

  12-12-2015 21:12 via news.yahoo.com
  
  MORRISTOWN, N.J. (AP) — A New Jersey man who admitted posting disparaging remarks online about comedian Jim Breuer and his family has been sentenced to five years' probation.
  
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• Euro 2016: Host France gets Romania

  12-12-2015 21:05 via rss.cnn.com
  
  Host France will open Euro 2016 against Romania as the draw for the 24-team tournament was made Saturday in Paris.
  
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• Before Paris climate deal, a landgrab on the web

  12-12-2015 21:03 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Months before the world's nations began forging a climate accord in Paris, a California environmentalist named John Niles was digging into his pockets to buy a slew of internet domain names. A constant presence at past U.N.-sponsored climate deliberations, he had heard that the agreement to be hashed out in France would be named "The Paris Agreement" and he wanted to make sure any website that included those words was his. "We needed that digital real estate," said Niles, a carbon dioxide expert
  
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• Joyful ministers seal landmark Paris Agreement to stop global warming

  12-12-2015 21:01 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Cheering envoys from 195 nations approved in Paris Saturday a historic accord to stop global warming, offering hope that humanity can avert catastrophic climate change and usher in an energy revolution. French Foreign Minister Laurent Fabius ended nearly a fortnight of gruelling UN negotiations with the bang of a gavel, marking consensus among the ministers, who stood for several minutes to clap and shout their joy, with some shedding tears of relief. The Paris climate accord is adopted," Fabius
  
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• Baghdad protest against Turkey reveals Iraqi divisions

  12-12-2015 20:59 via news.yahoo.com
  
  BAGHDAD (AP) — Thousands of Shiite militiamen and supporters rallied on Saturday and demanded that Turkish troops immediately withdraw from Iraqi territory, a show of strength by the country's powerful militia groups and the Shiite political rivals of Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi.
  
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• K-Pop Group Mistaken for 'Sex Workers,' Detained at LAX

  12-12-2015 20:57 via feeds.nbcnews.com
  
  A Korean girl pop group had to return to South Korea after U.S. customs officials denied them entry at LAX on suspicion that they may be sex workers.
  
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• Photos of Hospitalized Soldier and Military Dog Go Viral

  12-12-2015 20:52 via feeds.nbcnews.com
  
  A photo of Spc. Andrew Brown's military dog, Rocky, recovering from injuries with a Purple Heart pinned to his collar has been shared 92,000 times.
  
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• King sharpens Man United pain as City go top

  12-12-2015 20:49 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Josh King returned to haunt Manchester United on Saturday as his goal earned Bournemouth a memorable 2-1 victory that completed a miserable week for Louis van Gaal's beleaguered team. United were hoping to turn the page on their mid-week Champions League exit, but Junior Stanislas put Bournemouth in front straight from a corner after 100 seconds and although Marouane Fellaini equalised, former United trainee King punished slack defending at a corner to claim a 54th-minute winner.
  
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• Third storm in a week to bring rain, snow to California

  12-12-2015 20:38 via news.yahoo.com
  
  SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — A third winter-like storm in a week will bring rain and possible thunderstorms to much of Northern California and snow to the Sierra Nevada, forecasters said.
  
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• Pope Francis to visit Chiapas, Morelia on Mexico trip

  12-12-2015 20:36 via news.yahoo.com
  
  VATICAN CITY (AP) — Pope Francis' upcoming trip to Mexico will include a prayer before the Virgin of Guadalupe, a visit to the nation's poor south and an open-air Mass near the U.S. border that is expected to attract the faithful from both countries.
  
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• Spaniards among at least six dead in Kabul embassy area siege

  12-12-2015 20:35 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Four Afghan policemen and two Spaniards were killed when Taliban insurgents stormed a guesthouse near Spain's embassy in Kabul in a 10-hour siege that lasted into early Saturday, in the latest high-profile insurgent attack. Taliban fighters also burst into the embassy after a car bomb blew off the gate of the compound, Madrid said, branding the assault an "attack on Spain". The raid, which left the guest house littered with piles of rubble, came hours after Afghan President Ashraf Ghani voiced o
  
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• World seals landmark climate accord, marking turn from fossil fuels

  12-12-2015 20:34 via news.yahoo.com
  
  By Alister Doyle and Barbara Lewis PARIS (Reuters) - The global climate summit in Paris agreed a landmark accord on Saturday, setting the course for a "historic" transformation of the world's fossil fuel-driven economy within decades in a bid to arrest global warming. French Foreign Minister Laurent Fabius took just minutes to declare the pact adopted to the standing applause and whistles of delegates from almost 200 nations. "With a small hammer you can achieve great things," Fabius said as he
  
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• Phillies acquire pitcher Charlie Morton from Pirates

  12-12-2015 20:33 via news.yahoo.com
  
  PHILADELPHIA (AP) — The Philadelphia Phillies added depth to their starting rotation on Saturday, acquiring right-hander Charlie Morton from the Pittsburgh Pirates in exchange for minor league pitcher David Whitehead.
  
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• Obama to make statement on climate change deal at White House

  12-12-2015 20:31 via news.yahoo.com
  
  WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. President Barack Obama will deliver a statement on Saturday at the White House on the climate change accord reached in Paris at 5:30 p.m. EST (2230 GMT), the White House said. (Reporting by Will Dunham and Idrees Ali; Editing by Bill Rigby)
  
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• IS attack near hospital in Syria's Homs kills 16, wounds dozens

  12-12-2015 20:31 via news.yahoo.com
  
  A powerful car bomb exploded near a hospital in the central Syrian city of Homs Saturday, killing 16 people and wounding dozens, the provincial governor and a monitoring group said. Governor Talal Barazi said the attack near the Al-Ahli hospital, in the Al-Zahraa neighbourhood where most residents belong to the same Alawite sect as President Bashar al-Assad, killed 16 people. Another 54 were wounded, some seriously, and being treated at hospitals throughout the city.
  
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• Astros get closer Giles from Phils for top pick Appel

  12-12-2015 20:25 via news.yahoo.com
  
  HOUSTON (AP) — Closer Ken Giles has been traded from the Phillies to Houston Astros as part of a seven-player deal that sends former No. 1 overall draft pick Mark Appel to Philadelphia.
  
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