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• Global stocks rise as oil steadies

  29-12-2015 23:52 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Global stocks pushed higher Tuesday as a rally in oil prices lifted investor sentiment ahead of the final two trading sessions of 2015.
  
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• The Latest: Corps: 19 levees endangered near St. Louis

  29-12-2015 23:35 via news.yahoo.com
  
  ST. LOUIS (AP) — The latest developments on flooding in the Midwest (all times local):
  
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• No one looking for defensive slugfest in Orange Bowl playoff

  29-12-2015 23:25 via news.yahoo.com
  
  MIAMI GARDENS, Fla. (AP) — No one will be tuning in to the Orange Bowl looking for a defensive slugfest.
  
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• Floods claim 13 lives, force evacuation of US town

  29-12-2015 23:24 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Record flooding has claimed 13 lives in the US state of Missouri and forced residents of a swamped small town to flee their homes, the governor said Tuesday. Aerial images of the evacuated town of West Alton showed muddy waters from the nearby Mississippi River swallowing homes and businesses after overflowing a levee. A monster storm that unleashed rare December tornadoes, flash flooding and freezing rain killed 11 people in Texas, 10 people in Mississippi, six in Tennessee and five in Illinois
  
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• US official: Airstrikes have killed 10 Islamic State leaders

  29-12-2015 23:22 via news.yahoo.com
  
  WASHINGTON (AP) — U.S. and coalition airstrikes killed 10 Islamic State leaders over the past month, including several linked to the Paris attacks or other plots against the West, a U.S. military official in Iraq said Tuesday.
  
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• What's popular in Trump's Twitter feed?

  29-12-2015 23:20 via rss.cnn.com
  
  From slamming Bill Clinton to photoshopped nose-picking, Donald Trump has made the Clintons and Jeb Bush his primary targets on Twitter this week.
  
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• US 'affluenza' teen detained in Mexico

  29-12-2015 23:11 via news.yahoo.com
  
  A notorious Texas teenager has been detained in Mexico with his mother, weeks after holding a "going-away party" and fleeing probation imposed for a deadly drunk-driving crash, officials said Tuesday. Ethan Couch, 18, and his mother Tonya were arrested at an intersection in the Pacific resort city of Puerto Vallarta on Monday night, said the Jalisco state prosecutor's office.
  
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• 'Glee' actor arrested in US on child pornography charges

  29-12-2015 23:11 via news.yahoo.com
  
  US actor Mark Salling, best known for his role on the musical comedy series "Glee," was arrested in Los Angeles on Tuesday for alleged possession of child pornography, police said. Police specialized in investigating Internet crimes against children searched the home of the 33-year-old Salling in the Los Angeles neighborhood of Sunland early Tuesday and took him into custody, police spokesman Ricardo Hernandez told AFP. Bail for Salling -- who played the troubled Noah Puckerman on the Fox series
  
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• Amid attendance attacks, Rubio focuses on Iowa

  29-12-2015 23:07 via news.yahoo.com
  
  DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — Amid new criticisms about his Senate attendance record, Marco Rubio says some of his rival candidates are getting "a little desperate and a little nasty."
  
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• Donald Trump says criticism of Bill Clinton is fair

  29-12-2015 23:06 via news.yahoo.com
  
  WASHINGTON (AP) — Donald Trump is escalating his attacks on Hillary Clinton by reviving memories of her husband's affair with a White House intern and his turbulent interaction with black voters during South Carolina's 2008 primary.
  
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• Orange Bowl to be played on a construction site

  29-12-2015 23:05 via news.yahoo.com
  
  MIAMI GARDENS, Fla. (AP) — Huge cranes are hovering outside the Orange Bowl stadium, as though trying to start a wave. They're ready to raise the roof — after Thursday's game.
  
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• Ex-ministers jailed over Argentina crash

  29-12-2015 23:04 via bbc.co.uk
  
  A court in Buenos Aires has given jail sentences to two former Argentine transport ministers for a train crash which killed 51 people in 2012.
  
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• The Latest: Record water released from dam on Missouri lake

  29-12-2015 22:54 via news.yahoo.com
  
  ST. LOUIS (AP) — The latest developments on flooding in the Midwest (all times local):
  
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• Times Square on New Year's to be 'safest place in the world'

  29-12-2015 22:51 via news.yahoo.com
  
  NEW YORK (AP) — With the nation still jittery over shooting massacres in California and Paris, New York City officials sought to assure revelers Tuesday that the New Year's Eve celebration in Times Square will be the safest place in the world — heavily secured by thousands of New York Police Department officers, including a new specialized counterterrorism unit.
  
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• Stocks rebound as US confidence improves and oil price rises

  29-12-2015 22:42 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Technology and health care companies led a broad rally in U.S. stocks Tuesday that pulled the Standard & Poor's 500 index back into the black for the year.
  
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• End of the road for rideshare operator Sidecar

  29-12-2015 22:35 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Sidecar, a ridesharing operator that sought to compete against bigger rivals Uber and Lyft, announced Tuesday it was shutting down its service on December 31. "I'm extremely proud of our team and all that we've accomplished," founder and chief executive Sunil Paul said in a blog post. San Francisco-based Sidecar was launched in 2012 and backed by Google Ventures and British billionaire Richard Branson, but failed to gain traction against its larger rivals.
  
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• Latest: Mexican official: Resort worker helped in Couch hunt

  29-12-2015 22:32 via news.yahoo.com
  
  FORT WORTH, Texas (AP) — The latest in the case of a Texas teenager serving probation for killing four people in a drunken-driving wreck after invoking an "affluenza" defense (all times local):
  
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• Where do amazing coincidences come from?

  29-12-2015 22:31 via rss.cnn.com
  
  Are they part of some cosmic drama shaped by unseen hands? Or are they the result of a desperate need to find meaning in odd connections?
  
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• 'Extensive' security prep in NY for New Year's Eve

  29-12-2015 22:22 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Measures to protect the hundreds of thousands of revelers who will ring in 2016 in New York are "more extensive than ever," Mayor Bill de Blasio said Tuesday, amid global fears of an attack during New Year's Eve celebrations. "I certainly understand that everyone's concerned and I want everyone to understand and to hear that the NYPD is ready," De Blasio said in a local radio interview. A total of about 6,000 officers will be on hand, the city's police chief Bill Bratton told reporters, noting t
  
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• Barber, 90, to retire after 68 years, laments ugly bowl cut

  29-12-2015 22:17 via news.yahoo.com
  
  CRANSTON, R.I. (AP) — A 90-year-old Rhode Island barber is putting down his clippers after 68 years.
  
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• O???Malley Iowa Campaign Event Draws Just 1 Attendee

  29-12-2015 22:09 via abcnews.go.com
  
  The Democratic presidential candidate held his event in Iowa despite the snow.
  
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• Michigan State, Maryland, Purdue ready for Big Ten race

  29-12-2015 22:09 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Maryland came into the season the popular choice to win the Big Ten, and the Terrapins have done nothing to shake the favorite's label heading into conference play.
  
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• NYC police: We're ready for New Year's Eve in Times Square

  29-12-2015 22:04 via news.yahoo.com
  
  NEW YORK (AP) — New York City officials say the New Year's Eve celebration in Times Square will be the safest place in the world, heavily secured by thousands of officers, including a new specialized counterterrorism unit.
  
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• New York police add 1,123 new officers, including 3 brothers

  29-12-2015 22:04 via news.yahoo.com
  
  NEW YORK (AP) — The New York Police Department is welcoming 1,123 new officers — and for three of them the job is all in the family.
  
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• INSIDE THE PLAYOFF: Spartans inspired by Ali-Frazier fight

  29-12-2015 22:02 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Michigan State's offensive line expects a fight when it plays Alabama's talented defensive line on Thursday night in the Cotton Bowl.
  
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• Severe floods hit Missouri as U.S. storms sweep north

  29-12-2015 21:58 via news.yahoo.com
  
  By Kevin Murphy and Mary Wisniewski KANSAS CITY, Mo./CHICAGO (Reuters) - Missouri residents struggled through a fourth straight day of storms on Tuesday, fighting floodwaters that inundated homes, forced evacuations and closed highways and even part of the Mississippi River. A week of chaotic weather continued throughout the United States as a storm system that created deadly tornadoes in the Midwest and Southwest pushed north. In Missouri, which has been pounded by days of downpours, residents
  
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• Chicago officer who shot black teen pleads not guilty to murder

  29-12-2015 21:55 via news.yahoo.com
  
  By Mary Wisniewski and Renita D. Young CHICAGO (Reuters) - The Chicago police officer who shot a black teenager last year pleaded not guilty to murder on Tuesday, as Mayor Rahm Emanuel cut short a vacation to return to the city to deal with the fallout after two more fatal police shootings over the weekend. Meanwhile, protesters were set to demonstrate in front of the Cuyahoga County prosecutor's office in Cleveland, a day after a grand jury decided not to charge two white police officers in the
  
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• Jaguars owner Khan: Coach Bradley will return next season

  29-12-2015 21:49 via news.yahoo.com
  
  JACKSONVILLE, Fla. (AP) — Jacksonville Jaguars coach Gus Bradley will return in 2016.
  
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• Israel's Olmert to become first leader to go to prison

  29-12-2015 21:47 via news.yahoo.com
  
  JERUSALEM (AP) — Former Prime Minister Ehud Olmert, who claimed to be on the cusp of a historic peace deal with the Palestinians just a few years ago, now is set to become the first Israeli leader to go to prison after the Supreme Court upheld a bribery conviction against him Tuesday.
  
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• Gains in Iraqi city vindicate US-led strategy, at high cost

  29-12-2015 21:47 via news.yahoo.com
  
  BAGHDAD (AP) — The advance of Iraqi forces into the heart of Ramadi, a restive city that fell to the Islamic State group earlier this year, in some ways vindicated the U.S.-led coalition's strategy for rolling back the extremists -- but victory has come at a high cost, and the same tactics might not work elsewhere.
  
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• US criticizes Russia over civilian deaths in Syria

  29-12-2015 21:41 via news.yahoo.com
  
  WASHINGTON (AP) — The United States criticized Russia on Tuesday for killing hundreds of civilians in airstrikes in Syria and accused Moscow of undermining hopes for a cease-fire between Bashar Assad's government and leading rebel groups.
  
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• Longtime broadcasters to call their last Rose Parade

  29-12-2015 21:34 via news.yahoo.com
  
  LOS ANGELES (AP) — Longtime Rose Parade broadcasters Bob Eubanks and Stephanie Edwards will make the 2016 edition their last.
  
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• Stabilizing oil lifts shares and bond yields

  29-12-2015 21:26 via news.yahoo.com
  
  By David Gaffen NEW YORK (Reuters) - Stocks rose around the world and bond yields edged up on Tuesday as oil rebounded from 11-year lows on prospects for lower temperatures on both sides of the Atlantic. The fall in oil prices has been a major driver of financial markets this year, hammering energy companies, lowering inflation expectations and reinforcing bets on loose monetary policy in Europe and a slow tightening in the United States. U.S. West Texas Intermediate (WTI) futures were up $1.06
  
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• St. Louis stadium plan sent to NFL; Chargers, Raiders in mix

  29-12-2015 21:25 via news.yahoo.com
  
  A task force empaneled by Missouri's governor made its formal financing pitch Tuesday to the National Football League for a billion-dollar stadium along the Mississippi River, hoping to keep the St. Louis Rams from bolting for suburban Los Angeles or attract a new team if they do.
  
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• 'Dogs eat crazy things': Vets remove toys from puppy's tummy

  29-12-2015 21:12 via news.yahoo.com
  
  LEVITTOWN, Pa. (AP) — A Philadelphia puppy is getting back to his bouncy self after two plastic squeaky toys were removed from his stomach.
  
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• Rare winter flood threatens homes, closes interstates

  29-12-2015 21:07 via news.yahoo.com
  
  ST. LOUIS (AP) — A rare winter flood shut down portions of two interstates on Tuesday, threatened hundreds of homes and caused sewage to flow unfiltered into waterways.
  
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• The Latest: Missouri National Guard to assist flood fighting

  29-12-2015 21:05 via news.yahoo.com
  
  ST. LOUIS (AP) — The latest developments on flooding in the Midwest (all times local):
  
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• Latest: Mexican official says Couch, mom, to return to US

  29-12-2015 21:04 via news.yahoo.com
  
  FORT WORTH, Texas (AP) — The latest in the case of a Texas teenager serving probation for killing four people in a drunken-driving wreck after invoking an "affluenza" defense (all times local):
  
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• Ex-'Glee' star Mark Salling accused of child porn possession

  29-12-2015 21:02 via news.yahoo.com
  
  LOS ANGELES (AP) — Authorities say former "Glee" star Mark Salling has been arrested in Los Angeles for investigation of possessing child pornography.
  
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• Ex-Glee star held on child porn claims

  29-12-2015 21:02 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Former star of US hit TV show Glee Mark Salling is arrested in Los Angeles over allegations of possessing images of child sex abuse, say police.
  
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• Country singer missing in storm

  29-12-2015 20:51 via rss.cnn.com
  
  As country singer Craig Strickland and his friend Chase Morland set off to hunt ducks during a winter storm in northern Oklahoma over the weekend, Morland sent what is, in retrospect, a haunting tweet.
  
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• Soccer star: Radicalization 'inevitable'

  29-12-2015 20:41 via rss.cnn.com
  
  The failure to deliver the "beauty of democracy" was one of the chief reasons behind the Paris attacks, says Belgian soccer star Vincent Kompany.
  
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• Chicago cop says not guilty in first-degree murder of black teen

  29-12-2015 20:34 via news.yahoo.com
  
  A Chicago police officer pleaded not guilty Tuesday to murder charges in the shooting death of a black teenager that inflamed tensions over racism and police tactics, court officials said. Officer Jason Van Dyke's arraignment comes as the midwestern US city is reeling from another fatal police shooting. Embattled mayor Rahm Emanuel cut his vacation short after police responding to a domestic dispute Saturday killed a young black man who was allegedly holding a baseball bat as he came down the st
  
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• Stung by low oil prices, Saudi makes unprecedented cuts

  29-12-2015 20:33 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Long accustomed to cheap utilities and some of the lowest petrol prices in the world, Saudis woke to a shock Tuesday as authorities made massive subsidy cuts after falling oil prices caused a record deficit. In a clear departure from its decades-old generous welfare system, Riyadh announced prices would rise on fuel, electricity, water and even plane tickets and cigarettes. After years of high spending, authorities moved swiftly to impose unprecedented cuts after announcing Monday a 2015 budget
  
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• After years of drought, cotton farmers welcome West Texas snowstorm

  29-12-2015 20:33 via news.yahoo.com
  
  By Luc Cohen NEW YORK (Reuters) - The worst snowstorm to hit West Texas in more than 30 years has brought much-needed moisture to parched farmland in the top U.S. growing cotton state, potentially helping to boost yields next year and encouraging farmers to increase acreage. With the harvest complete, farmers say there is little chance of major damage to the current crop which is currently being ginned, but precipitation will help prepare the land for sowing in the spring after years of drought.
  
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• US 'affluenza' teen arrested in Mexico resort town

  29-12-2015 20:30 via news.yahoo.com
  
  A wealthy Texas teenager was detained in Mexico along with his mother, weeks after holding a "going-away party" before he fled probation for a deadly drunk-driving crash, officials said Tuesday. Ethan Couch, 18, and his mother Tonya were arrested at an intersection in the Pacific resort city of Puerto Vallarta on Monday night, said the Jalisco state prosecutor's office. A photo released by state prosecutors show Couch with his hands behind his back and shirt open, his hair apparently dyed black
  
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• Latest: Overflowing river swamps eastern Missouri town

  29-12-2015 20:27 via news.yahoo.com
  
  The latest developments on flooding in the Midwest (all times local):
  
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• AP EXPLAINS: What is 'affluenza'?

  29-12-2015 20:27 via news.yahoo.com
  
  DALLAS (AP) — A Texas teenager sentenced to probation for causing a fatal drunken-driving crash was taken into custody late Monday in Mexico, where authorities believe he and his mother fled after he may have violated terms of his probation. Ethan Couch, now 18, received the light sentence after his attorneys said he suffered from "affluenza," which drew widespread ridicule.
  
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• Russian killing of Syrian rebel leader does not serve peace: Saudi Arabia

  29-12-2015 20:21 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Saudi Arabia denounced on Tuesday the killing of a prominent Syrian rebel leader, saying his death in a Russian air strike last week did not serve the cause of peace in Syria. Zahran Alloush, 44, who headed the rebel group Jaysh al-Islam, was killed when Russian warplanes struck near Damascus on Friday. "We believe that assassinating Zahran Alloush or fighting leaders that have supported a peaceful solution and fights Daesh (Islamic State) in Syria does not serve the peace process in Syria," Sau
  
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• Search resumes for missing country singer after severe storm

  29-12-2015 20:11 via news.yahoo.com
  
  TULSA, Okla. (AP) — A search resumed Tuesday along a 38-mile long lake in northern Oklahoma for an Arkansas country singer and a friend who went missing while duck hunting in severe weather.
  
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