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• Clinton outlines five-point plan to take on Islamic State

  15-12-2015 23:54 via news.yahoo.com
  
  MINNEAPOLIS, Minn. (Reuters) - U.S. Democratic presidential front-runner Hillary Clinton on Tuesday outlined how she would stop homegrown terrorist attacks such as the San Bernardino, California, massacre. Clinton said the United States should expect more terrorist attacks and must enlist the help of Silicon Valley entrepreneurs to help identify potentially radicalized individuals on social media platforms. The married couple who shot 14 people to death in the San Bernardino rampage earlier this
  
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• Stop foreign policy fairy tales

  15-12-2015 23:50 via rss.cnn.com
  
  On Tuesday night, when nine hopefuls take the stage in Las Vegas for the main Republican presidential candidate debate, nowhere will the differences between President Obama and that field appear sharper than on foreign policy.
  
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• POWER RANKINGS: Perfect Panthers still on top; Cards 2nd

  15-12-2015 23:48 via news.yahoo.com
  
  NEW YORK (AP) — Cam Newton and the Carolina Panthers are closing in on a perfect regular season.
  
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• Chipotle CEO: No price increase to cover food safety costs

  15-12-2015 23:47 via news.yahoo.com
  
  SEATTLE (AP) — Chipotle will not raise prices to cover the cost of new food safety procedures put in place after an E. coli outbreak sickened more than 50 people, the company's founder and CEO said Tuesday during a visit to Seattle.
  
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• Police: Detective kills self while facing child sex charges

  15-12-2015 23:46 via news.yahoo.com
  
  GAINESVILLE, Va. (AP) — A police detective who once made national news when he took out a search warrant to photograph the genitals of a teen sexting suspect killed himself Tuesday as his fellow law officers were attempting to arrest him on child sex abuse charges, officials said.
  
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• Storm drops up to 2 feet on Colorado; 425 flights canceled

  15-12-2015 23:44 via news.yahoo.com
  
  LONGMONT, Colo. (AP) — A powerful late-autumn storm dumped up to 24 inches of snow in the Colorado mountains on Tuesday before barreling onto the plains, prompting airlines to cancel 425 flights at the Denver airport and leaving hundreds of miles of highways slippery with snow and ice.
  
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• Oil up as covering support stops slide to 11-year low

  15-12-2015 23:43 via news.yahoo.com
  
  By Barani Krishnan NEW YORK (Reuters) - Oil prices rose for a second straight day on Tuesday as short-covering and technical support halted a slide to 11-year lows, but the market remained fundamentally weak from oversupply, traders and analysts said. Government data on U.S. crude inventories and an expected Federal Reserve interest rate increase would dictate Wednesday's direction, they said. Brent crude futures settled up more than 1 percent while U.S. crude's West Texas Intermediate (WTI) fut
  
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• Bowls and bowls and bowls and reasons to watch all of them

  15-12-2015 23:43 via news.yahoo.com
  
  There are 41 FBS games, involving 80 teams, scheduled to be played from Saturday to Jan. 11.
  
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• NY, LA schools receive same email threat; LA cancels classes

  15-12-2015 23:41 via news.yahoo.com
  
  The nation's two biggest school systems — New York City and Los Angeles — received threats of a large-scale attack Tuesday with guns and bombs, and LA reacted by shutting down the entire district, while ...
  
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• TV station reporting live when Minnesota bank robbed again

  15-12-2015 23:40 via news.yahoo.com
  
  ROCHESTER, Minn. (AP) — An Iowa television station was doing a live update on a Minnesota bank robbery when police say the suspect returned to rob it a second time.
  
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• The Latest: Police say student hit, killed on way to school

  15-12-2015 23:37 via news.yahoo.com
  
  LOS ANGELES (AP) — The latest on the closure of Los Angeles Unified School District schools due to a threat (all times local):
  
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• Baltimore police trial jury hits impasse in deliberations

  15-12-2015 23:37 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Jurors deliberating whether a Baltimore police officer's actions led to fatal injuries suffered by an African-American man, told a judge on Tuesday that they were at an impasse. The jury started deliberations Monday in the trial of William Porter, one of six police officers charged in the death of Freddie Gray, 25, who suffered a snapped spine in April while being transported unrestrained in the rear of the police van. Judge Barry Williams told the 12 jurors to keep trying to reach a verdict in
  
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• Trump extends lead, Cruz surges in second ahead of GOP debate

  15-12-2015 23:30 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Donald Trump shook off intense criticism about his anti-Muslim comments to surge to his biggest lead yet in the Republican presidential nominations race, ahead of a Tuesday debate featuring the billionaire and his rivals. Two polls unveiled Monday and Tuesday show Trump at new heights, with maverick US Senator Ted Cruz surging into second place and looking to rattle the frontrunner on the national stage. With seven weeks before voters in the heartland state of Iowa cast the first votes in the no
  
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• Iran's October missile test violated U.N. ban: expert panel

  15-12-2015 23:27 via news.yahoo.com
  
  By Louis Charbonneau UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) - Iran violated a U.N. Security Council resolution in October by test firing a missile capable of delivering a nuclear warhead, a team of sanctions monitors said, leading to calls in the U.S. Congress on Tuesday for more sanctions on Tehran. The White House warned that it would not rule out additional steps against Iran over the test of the medium-range Emad rocket. The Security Council's Panel of Experts on Iran said in a confidential new report, fi
  
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• Parents grapple with talking to scared kids after threat

  15-12-2015 23:25 via news.yahoo.com
  
  LOS ANGELES (AP) — After receiving word that all Los Angeles schools would shut down Tuesday because of a threat of possible attack, many parents' first thoughts were about how to discuss the scary situation with their kids.
  
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• Hill aides: US plans 1st arms sale to Taiwan in 4 years

  15-12-2015 23:23 via news.yahoo.com
  
  WASHINGTON (AP) — The Obama administration is planning its first arms sale to Taiwan in four years, congressional aides said Tuesday, a move that typically draws stiff criticism from Beijing but is unlikely to derail U.S.-China relations.
  
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• Mexican, Dutch firms win Mexico onshore oil deals

  15-12-2015 23:19 via news.yahoo.com
  
  A Dutch-led consortium and Mexican startups won contracts in the first part of Mexico's onshore oil and gas auction Tuesday, as companies were undeterred by the location of fields in violent regions. Fourteen consortiums and 26 individual firms were taking part in the sale involving 25 oil and gas deposits in five states, including three plagued by drug cartel crime: Veracruz, Tamaulipas and Nuevo Leon. Four mature fields each containing more than 100 million barrels of oil and gas were the firs
  
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• Why are Chinese fishermen destroying coral reefs?

  15-12-2015 23:04 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Why are Chinese fishermen smashing coral reefs to bits?
  
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• VIDEO: Chinese poachers destroying coral reefs

  15-12-2015 23:04 via bbc.co.uk
  
  The BBC's Rupert Wingfield-Hayes finds Chinese fisherman destroying coral reefs in the South China Sea and harvesting giant clams.
  
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• Republicans to take debate stage in race reshaped by attacks

  15-12-2015 22:55 via news.yahoo.com
  
  LAS VEGAS (AP) — Republican presidential candidates take the debate stage Tuesday night for the first time in a month, their race reshaped by national security threats but still dominated by outsider contenders. Now it's Ted Cruz challenging front-runner Donald Trump.
  
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• The Latest: Milwaukee police chief had requested DOJ review

  15-12-2015 22:46 via news.yahoo.com
  
  MILWAUKEE (AP) — The latest news on developments with the Milwaukee Police Department in the 2014 death of a black man at a downtown park. All times local:
  
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• The Latest: Gray jury nears end of 2nd day of deliberations

  15-12-2015 22:45 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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• Angry guest rams truck into lobby

  15-12-2015 22:42 via rss.cnn.com
  
  Most hotel guests who are displeased with their hotel experience might complain to the manager or tweet out a complaint.
  
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• Professor finds rare audio of basketball inventor Naismith

  15-12-2015 22:41 via news.yahoo.com
  
  LAWRENCE, Kan. (AP) — A University of Kansas researcher has discovered what is believed to be the only audio recording of basketball inventor James Naismith, during which he describes the first game he organized 124 years ago this month as a bit of a disaster.
  
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• Israel FM glad Trump canceled visit

  15-12-2015 22:40 via rss.cnn.com
  
  CNN's Christiane Amanpour speaks to former Israeli FM Tzipi Livni about Donald Trump's controversial comments about Muslims and their impact on the region.
  
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• How a moderator prepares

  15-12-2015 22:40 via rss.cnn.com
  
  CNN's Wolf Blitzer talks to Ashleigh Banfield about preparing to moderate his ninth presidential debate. The final GOP debate of 2015 airs Tuesday, December 15th in Las Vegas.
  
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• Olympic champion Hughes goes for academic gold at Penn

  15-12-2015 22:39 via news.yahoo.com
  
  PHILADELPHIA (AP) — The verdict was in: Sarah Hughes needed a study break from final exams.
  
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• US general is first woman to oversee cadets at West Point academy

  15-12-2015 22:37 via news.yahoo.com
  
  The Pentagon has for the first time appointed a woman to oversee cadets at the prestigious US Military Academy at West Point, officials announced Tuesday. Brigadier General Diana Holland, a veteran of the US-led wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, will assume her position as the 76th commandant of cadets in January. "It's a privilege to be part of the team that trains and develops leaders of character for our Army," Holland said in a statement.
  
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• Photos: Demi Moore Bundles Up at LAX

  15-12-2015 22:37 via abcnews.go.com
  
  This month's hottest celebrity pictures.
  
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• Dolly Parton movie a hit for NBC

  15-12-2015 22:32 via news.yahoo.com
  
  NEW YORK (AP) — Family-friendly programming is doing well this holiday season for NBC, which has a rare three-week winning streak in the television ratings.
  
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• Teen convicted in rape, killing of high school math teacher

  15-12-2015 22:28 via news.yahoo.com
  
  SALEM, Mass. (AP) — A Massachusetts teenager was convicted Tuesday of raping and killing his high school math teacher.
  
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• Equities rally as oil bounces; Fed decision on deck

  15-12-2015 22:27 via news.yahoo.com
  
  By Chuck Mikolajczak NEW YORK (Reuters) - Global equity markets rallied on Tuesday as oil prices bounced from multi-year lows, though investors remained leery about the possibility of increased volatility with a widely-anticipated increase in U.S. interest rates due later this week. Oil reversed early falls to snap a six-day slide as bargain hunters moved in after crude dropped to its lowest level since December 2008 in the prior session. The jump helped boost equities in both the United States
  
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• Russia, U.S. clear way for Syria meeting after Kerry Moscow talks

  15-12-2015 22:26 via news.yahoo.com
  
  By Lesley Wroughton and Jack Stubbs MOSCOW (Reuters) - Russia and the United States see enough common ground on Syria for world powers to meet on the troubled country's peace process in New York on Friday, but views on the future of President Bashar-al Assad still diverge. Secretary of State John Kerry went into meetings with Russian President Vladimir Putin and Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov on Tuesday not knowing whether Moscow would veto a third round of international talks on Syria on Friday
  
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• EU gets provisional deal on data protection rules

  15-12-2015 22:23 via news.yahoo.com
  
  BRUSSELS (AP) — The European Union late Tuesday took a major step toward approving sweeping new data protection rules that would strengthen online privacy, streamline legislation between the 28 member states and boost police and security cooperation.
  
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• VIDEO: Was Paris attack ringleader in Leros?

  15-12-2015 22:13 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Two independent eyewitnesses tell the BBC they saw the ringleader of the Paris attacks on the Greek island of Leros, in October, placing him on the island at the same time the two Stade de France suicide bombers arrived.
  
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• 2 kids found dead in storage unit; detectives investigating

  15-12-2015 22:11 via news.yahoo.com
  
  SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Homicides detectives were investigating Tuesday after authorities found two children dead inside a commercial storage unit in Northern California.
  
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• Oil up second day as covering support stops slide to 11-year low

  15-12-2015 22:08 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Oil prices rose for a second straight day on Tuesday as short-covering and technical support halted a slide to 11-year lows, but the market remained fundamentally weak from oversupply, traders and analysts said. Government data on U.S. crude inventories and an expected Federal Reserve interest rate increase would dictate Wednesday's direction, they said. Brent crude futures settled up more than 1 percent while U.S. crude's West Texas Intermediate (WTI) futures rose nearly 3 percent as oil bears
  
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• Trump extends lead, Cruz surges in second on eve of GOP debate

  15-12-2015 22:05 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Donald Trump shook off intense criticism about his anti-Muslim comments to surge to his biggest lead yet in the Republican presidential nominations race, ahead of a Tuesday debate featuring the billionaire and his rivals. Two polls unveiled Monday and Tuesday show Trump at new heights, with maverick US Senator Ted Cruz surging into second place and looking to rattle the frontrunner on the national stage. With seven weeks before voters in the heartland state of Iowa cast the first votes in the no
  
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• Baltimore jury deadlocked in police officer's trial

  15-12-2015 22:05 via news.yahoo.com
  
  By Ian Simpson BALTIMORE (Reuters) - A jury is deadlocked in the trial of police officer William Porter, charged in the death of black detainee Freddie Gray, Baltimore City Circuit Court Judge Barry Williams said on Tuesday. Williams said he had received a note from the jury of seven women and five men after it had weighed the fate of Officer William Porter, 26, for almost 10 hours. Williams ordered the jury to keep trying to reach a verdict. It was not immediately clear how the panel was deadlo
  
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• Nielsen's top programs for Dec. 7-13

  15-12-2015 22:03 via news.yahoo.com
  
  NEW YORK (AP) — Prime-time viewership numbers compiled by Nielsen for Dec. 7-13. Listings include the week's ranking and viewership.
  
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• Freddie Gray jurors deadlocked, judge says keep deliberating

  15-12-2015 22:01 via news.yahoo.com
  
  BALTIMORE (AP) — Jurors in the manslaughter trial of a police officer charged in the death of Freddie Gray said Tuesday they were deadlocked, but the judge overseeing the case told them to keep deliberating.
  
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• Assad can stay, for now: Kerry accepts Russian stance

  15-12-2015 22:01 via news.yahoo.com
  
  MOSCOW (AP) — U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry on Tuesday accepted Russia's long-standing demand that President Bashar Assad's future be determined by his own people, as Washington and Moscow edged toward putting aside years of disagreement over how to end Syria's civil war.
  
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• Rock elders AC/DC back on road in 2016

  15-12-2015 21:58 via news.yahoo.com
  
  AC/DC will open their latest tour on February 2 in Tacoma, Washington playing 20 dates across the United States, ending with an April 4 show at New York's Madison Square Garden. AC/DC, who also released an album last year following a six-year gap, returned without founding member Malcolm Young, who has retired due to dementia. Young's brother Angus remains the lead guitarist -- known, even at age 60, for sporting his signature schoolboy outfit.
  
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• Cubs and Heyward finalize $184 million, 8-year contract

  15-12-2015 21:50 via news.yahoo.com
  
  CHICAGO (AP) — The Chicago Cubs finalized their $184 million, eight-year contract with free agent outfielder Jason Heyward on Tuesday, adding a three-time Gold Glove winner in their continuing makeover to build a World Series contender.
  
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• Jury deadlocked in Baltimore police officer's trial

  15-12-2015 21:48 via news.yahoo.com
  
  BALTIMORE (Reuters) - A Baltimore jury is deadlocked in the trial of police officer William Porter, charged in the death of black detainee Freddie Gray, Baltimore City Circuit Court Judge Barry Williams said on Tuesday. Williams received a note from jurors and ordered them to keep deliberating. Porter, 26, is charged with involuntary manslaughter, second-degree assault, reckless endangerment and misconduct in office over Gray's death from a broken neck in April. (Reporting by Ian Simpson; Editin
  
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• The Latest: School threat believed to be hoax, lawmaker says

  15-12-2015 21:44 via news.yahoo.com
  
  LOS ANGELES (AP) — The latest on the closure of Los Angeles Unified School District schools due to a threat (all times local):
  
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• Freddie Gray jurors deadlocked in trial of officer, judge instructs them to keep deliberating

  15-12-2015 21:43 via news.yahoo.com
  
  BALTIMORE (AP) — Freddie Gray jurors deadlocked in trial of officer, judge instructs them to keep deliberating.
  
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• Honduran ex-president accused in FIFA case pleads not guilty

  15-12-2015 21:42 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Former Honduras president Rafael Callejas pleaded not guilty Tuesday in federal court in New York over his alleged role in the corruption scandal shaking world football's governing body FIFA. Callejas, who was president of Honduras from 1990 to 1994 and head of the country's football federation until August this year, faces eight charges of racketeering, fraud and money laundering. The 72-year-old Callejas, a current member of FIFA's Television and Marketing Committee, was remanded into custody.
  
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• US and Russia in Syria peace push

  15-12-2015 21:40 via bbc.co.uk
  
  The US and Russia say world powers will meet in New York on Friday to pass a UN resolution endorsing the Syria peace process.
  
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• Gorilla Glass, used for cell phones, is coming to cars

  15-12-2015 21:39 via news.yahoo.com
  
  DETROIT (AP) — The thin, lightweight glass on your smartphone could soon be found on your car.
  
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