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• Titans start search for new GM and coach, Mularkey candidate

  04-01-2016 23:52 via news.yahoo.com
  
  NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — The Tennessee Titans are looking for a new general manager and coach with no timeline to fill either job.
  
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• SpaceX's returned booster rocket back in hangar

  04-01-2016 23:52 via news.yahoo.com
  
  CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — SpaceX's booster rocket, the Falcon, is back in its nest following a historic landing.
  
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• Texans look to derail Kansas City's winning streak

  04-01-2016 23:50 via news.yahoo.com
  
  HOUSTON (AP) — The Texans are back in the playoffs for the first time since 2012 and now have to come up with a plan to derail the Kansas City Chiefs, winners of 10 in a row.
  
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• Jail records: Ex-officer charged with shooting unarmed black motorist makes bail, is released

  04-01-2016 23:48 via news.yahoo.com
  
  CHARLESTON, S.C. (AP) — Jail records: Ex-officer charged with shooting unarmed black motorist makes bail, is released.
  
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• Oregon wildlife refuge occupiers denounce U.S. government

  04-01-2016 23:44 via news.yahoo.com
  
  By Jim Urquhart and Jonathan Allen PRINCETON, Ore. (Reuters) - The leaders of a group of self-styled militiamen who took over a remote U.S. wildlife refuge center in Oregon over the weekend said on Monday they acted to protest the federal government's role in managing millions of acres of wild lands. The anti-government occupation, which began on Saturday at the Malheur National Wildlife Refuge, 30 miles (50 km) south of the small town of Burns, was the latest skirmish over federal land manageme
  
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• The Latest: Trump campaign concedes Morocco footage in ad

  04-01-2016 23:36 via news.yahoo.com
  
  WASHINGTON (AP) — The latest developments in the 2016 presidential campaign (all times EST):
  
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• The latest on gadgets: This year's CES smaller _ yet bigger

  04-01-2016 23:32 via news.yahoo.com
  
  LAS VEGAS (AP) — The latest developments surrounding the consumer-electronics show in Las Vegas known as CES (all times local):
  
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• Obama to speak on Tuesday on executive actions to reduce gun violence

  04-01-2016 23:32 via news.yahoo.com
  
  WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Barack Obama will deliver remarks on Tuesday at 11:40 a.m. EST (1640 GMT) on executive actions he is taking to reduce gun violence, the White House said on Monday. (Reporting by Roberta Rampton and Jeff Mason; Editing by Eric Walsh)
  
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• AJ McCarron gets ready to try to end Bengals' 25-year slump

  04-01-2016 23:09 via news.yahoo.com
  
  CINCINNATI (AP) — The Bengals are preparing quarterback AJ McCarron to lead them into the playoffs, where they haven't won a game in 25 years.
  
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• The Latest: Britain urges reduction of Iran-Saudi tensions

  04-01-2016 23:06 via news.yahoo.com
  
  TEHRAN, Iran (AP) — The latest developments after Saudi Arabia severs diplomatic ties with Tehran amid a dispute over Riyadh's execution of an opposition Shiite cleric and attacks on Saudi diplomatic posts in Iran. (All times local.)
  
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• Pentagon: Hundreds of military kids sexually abused annually

  04-01-2016 23:00 via news.yahoo.com
  
  WASHINGTON (AP) — Cpl. Aaron C. Masa befriended a fellow Marine during field training in North Carolina. But behind his buddy's back, Masa sexually abused his 3-year-old stepdaughter and took sexually explicit photos of her and the Marine's baby girl.
  
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• 2 Clintons and plenty of Republicans in motion

  04-01-2016 23:00 via news.yahoo.com
  
  BOONE, Iowa (AP) — The sprint to the Iowa caucuses opened Monday with nearly a dozen presidential candidates in motion, a rather restrained Bill Clinton stepping up for his wife and a pledge by the only billionaire in the race to start spending serious money.
  
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• Trump fans fresh controversy with first TV campaign ad

  04-01-2016 22:58 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Republican frontrunner Donald Trump on Monday unveiled his first TV ad of the presidential election campaign, fanning fresh controversy by incorporating footage of migrants fleeing into a Spanish enclave. The 30-second ad will be broadcast in Iowa and New Hampshire from Tuesday, costing $2 million a week ahead of the state's first-in-the-nation voting contests, his campaign said. The commercial spotlights his call for a ban on Muslims entering the United States, decapitation of the so-called Isl
  
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• Trump: Gun-free is a sign for whackos

  04-01-2016 22:54 via rss.cnn.com
  
  Donald Trump on Monday warned that President Barack Obama's planned executive actions to expand background checks on gun purchases are a step toward even greater restrictions on Americans' access to firearms.
  
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• US stocks fall on China worries; Dow loses 1.6% 

  04-01-2016 22:51 via news.yahoo.com
  
  New York (AFP) - US stocks opened 2016 on a dreary note Monday, falling sharply on worries about plunging Chinese equities and a brewing diplomatic crisis between Saudi Arabia and Iran.
  
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• Obama confident for gun control

  04-01-2016 22:49 via rss.cnn.com
  
  President Barack Obama said Monday he was confident his plan to go around Congress and implement new gun control measures by executive action would withstand any legal challenge.
  
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• Key things to know about federal land ownership in the West

  04-01-2016 22:45 via news.yahoo.com
  
  An armed group occupying the headquarters of a national wildlife refuge in southeastern Oregon wants the federal government to relinquish the land to local officials so it becomes more accessible for ranching, mining and other uses.
  
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• Puerto Rico to be subject of U.S. House committee hearing on January 12

  04-01-2016 22:41 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Puerto Rico will be the subject of two hearings by the U.S. House of Representatives in January, a spokesman for the House Committee on Natural Resources said on Monday, with the first to be held next week. The U.S. House speaker, Republican Paul Ryan, has instructed committees to work with Puerto Rico's government to come up with a solution to the island's financial problems, which he has said should be crafted by the end of March. The first House hearing on Puerto Rico will be held on Jan. 12,
  
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• Stocks sink on first day of 2016 on China, Mideast worries

  04-01-2016 22:38 via news.yahoo.com
  
  NEW YORK (AP) — The new year got off to an inauspicious start on Wall Street as stocks tumbled Monday in a global sell-off triggered by new fears of a slowdown in China and rising tensions in the Middle East.
  
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• Syria's opposition urges all Arab states to cut Iran ties

  04-01-2016 22:35 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Syria's political opposition in exile urged all Arab countries on Monday to sever diplomatic ties with Iran after Saudi Arabia, a strong supporter of the Syrian opposition, cut relations with Tehran. Saudi Arabia has been rallying Sunni allies to its side in a growing diplomatic row with Iran, deepening a sectarian split across the Middle East following its execution of a prominent Shi'ite cleric. The Turkey-based Syrian National Coalition declared its support for Riyadh's move, calling on "all
  
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• Horse whisperer's incredible skills

  04-01-2016 22:34 via rss.cnn.com
  
  If there is such a thing as animal magnetism, then Jean-Francois Pignon has it in spades.
  
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• Puerto Rico governor on default: 'We ran out of cash'

  04-01-2016 22:32 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Puerto Rico's governor called for Congress to help it address its heavy debts, saying the island would default on some payments Monday as it no longer has the money to pay. Speaking on CNBC television, Alejandro Garcia Padilla, governor of the US island territory struggling with $70 billion in debt, defended his decision last week to miss about $37 million in payments at the deadline at midnight Monday. While the territory will still pay most of the total $1 billion due to creditors late Monday,
  
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• Tiniest chameleons have fastest tongues

  04-01-2016 22:23 via news.yahoo.com
  
  The tiniest chameleons on Earth lash out their tongues with amazing speed, going from zero to 60 miles (97 kilometers) per hour in one hundredth of a second, researchers said Monday. All in the name of snagging a cricket to eat, the thumb-sized Rhampholeon spinosus "produced a peak acceleration 264 times greater than the acceleration due to gravity," said the journal Scientific Reports. The total power output of the chameleon's tongue was 14,040 watts per kilogram.
  
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• ISIS vid insults UK PM

  04-01-2016 22:21 via rss.cnn.com
  
  An English-speaking child, and a British-sounding militant who brings to mind ISIS' previous propagandist, 'Jihadi John,' appear in the latest, chilling propaganda video from ISIS.
  
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• Trump pushes Muslim ban in opening TV ads

  04-01-2016 22:14 via news.yahoo.com
  
  MANCHESTER, N.H. (AP) — Donald Trump is highlighting some of the most divisive proposals of his campaign in his first major television advertising campaign.
  
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• Obama: New gun control measures are legal, could save lives

  04-01-2016 22:07 via news.yahoo.com
  
  By Jeff Mason WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Barack Obama said on Monday his new executive actions to tighten gun rules were "well within" his legal authority and consistent with the U.S. right to bear arms, a warning to opponents who are likely to challenge them in court. Speaking to reporters in the Oval Office, Obama said his administration would unveil the new measures over the next several days. Obama is igniting a political firestorm by bypassing Congress with the measures, which are lik
  
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• Oregon refuge occupiers voice ire at U.S. government reach

  04-01-2016 22:04 via news.yahoo.com
  
  By Jim Urquhart and Jonathan Allen PRINCETON, Ore. (Reuters) - The leaders of a group of self-styled militiamen who took over a U.S. wildlife refuge headquarters over the weekend said on Monday they had acted to protest the federal government's role in governing wild lands. The anti-government occupation, which began on Saturday, was the latest skirmish over federal land management in the American West. Ammon Bundy, a leader of the group, told reporters outside the occupied facility on Monday th
  
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• Kyrgyzstan to deport Briton who 'insulted country'

  04-01-2016 22:04 via news.yahoo.com
  
  MOSCOW (AP) — Kyrgyzstan's Interior Ministry says a British citizen who made rude remarks about the country on social media is to be deported within a day.
  
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• Broadway has a great holiday but data not great for 2015

  04-01-2016 22:03 via news.yahoo.com
  
  NEW YORK (AP) — Broadway ended 2015 and started the new year with a bang, generating the best attended and highest grossing week in history. But box office receipts and overall attendance for 2015 dipped from the previous year.
  
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• Unusual shooting attack sets off panic in Israeli heartland

  04-01-2016 22:00 via news.yahoo.com
  
  TEL AVIV, Israel (AP) — For all its years of strife, Israel has rarely seen anything quite like this: an armed, wanted Arab killer on the loose, spreading fear across the land.
  
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• NFL Playoffs: Breaking down the wild-card round matchups

  04-01-2016 21:59 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Here's a look at the four wild-card round matchups this weekend in the NFL playoffs:
  
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• US towns at risk as levees fail amid rare winter floods

  04-01-2016 21:49 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Rare winter flooding continued to wreak havoc in the US states of Illinois and Missouri Monday as waterlogged levees strained to hold back frigid river waters that have claimed the lives of 25 people. "Levees that hold the water in the Illinois River valley are saturated and some of them are failing," Steve Buan, a hydrologist with the National Weather Service, told AFP. The trouble started over Christmas when a huge storm dumped as much as 10 inches of rain along the Mississippi River valley, w
  
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• VIDEO: Sheila the sheep sheared after six years

  04-01-2016 21:47 via bbc.co.uk
  
  A sheep which had disappeared for six years in Hobart, Tasmania, has finally been sheared.
  
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• US opposes China's runway test on artificial island

  04-01-2016 21:46 via news.yahoo.com
  
  WASHINGTON (AP) — The United States said Monday that China's recent test of a newly completed runway on one of seven islands Beijing has constructed in the disputed South China Sea raises tensions and threatens regional stability.
  
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• Oregon protesters find support and scorn on social media

  04-01-2016 21:44 via news.yahoo.com
  
  A group of self-styled militiamen occupying the headquarters of a U.S. national wildlife refuge in eastern Oregon to protest the imminent imprisonment of two ranchers took to social media on Monday to drum up support for their cause. As the standoff with law enforcement authorities entered its third day, the group's leader Ammon Bundy was active on Twitter. A Facebook page associated with the Bundy family ranch featured numerous sympathetic posts and videos and was garnering hundreds of "likes"
  
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• The latest on gadgets: LG floor-cleaning robot

  04-01-2016 21:39 via news.yahoo.com
  
  LAS VEGAS (AP) — The latest developments surrounding the consumer-electronics show in Las Vegas known as CES (all times local):
  
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• Puerto Rico to be subject of January 12 U.S. House Committee hearing: spokesman

  04-01-2016 21:30 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Puerto Rico will be the subject of two hearings in January, a spokesman for the U.S. House Committee on Natural Resources said on Monday, with the first being held on Jan.12. U.S. House of Representatives Speaker, Republican Paul Ryan, has instructed committees to work with Puerto Rico's government to come up with a solution to the island's financial problems and has said this should be crafted by the end of March. The spokesman for the House Committee on Natural Resources said on Monday that a
  
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• Attackers still in India air base

  04-01-2016 21:28 via rss.cnn.com
  
  An attack on an Indian air base that the home ministry had said was contained is, in fact, ongoing.
  
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• Two-time Super Bowl winner Coughlin resigns as Giants coach

  04-01-2016 21:27 via news.yahoo.com
  
  EAST RUTHERFORD, N.J. (AP) — Tom Coughlin, who returned the Giants to NFL prominence by winning two Super Bowls, resigned Monday after missing the playoffs for the fourth consecutive year.
  
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• Low-rated 'Meredith Vieira Show' ending after 2 seasons

  04-01-2016 21:27 via news.yahoo.com
  
  LOS ANGELES (AP) — "The Meredith Vieira Show" is ending after two seasons.
  
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• Oculus to start taking virtual reality headset orders

  04-01-2016 21:22 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Facebook-owned Oculus VR will begin taking orders for its Rift virtual reality headsets on Wednesday, as the doors of Consumer Electronics Show gadget extravaganza officially open in Las Vegas. Oculus on Monday did not disclose pricing or when headsets would ship, but promised to share "everything you need to know to order your Rift" when pre-orders go live at 8:00 am (1600 GMT) in California, where the company is based. Oculus founder Palmer Luckey will field questions during a Reddit AMA set t
  
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• Volkswagen faces billions in penalties as U.S. sues for environment violations

  04-01-2016 21:16 via news.yahoo.com
  
  By Julia Edwards and Joel Schectman WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. Justice Department on Monday filed a civil lawsuit against Volkswagen AG for allegedly violating the Clean Air Act by installing illegal devices to impair emission control systems in nearly 600,000 vehicles. The allegations against Volkswagen, along with its Audi and Porsche units, carry penalties that could cost the automaker billions of dollars, a senior Justice Department official said. "The United States will pursue all appr
  
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• Factory slumps in US and China heighten global economy fears

  04-01-2016 21:16 via news.yahoo.com
  
  WASHINGTON (AP) — Fears escalated Monday that the global economy could struggle more than expected this year — a prospect that contributed to a plunge in financial markets.
  
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• California braces for series of El Nino storms

  04-01-2016 21:15 via news.yahoo.com
  
  SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — After all the talk, El Niño storms have finally lined up over the Pacific and started soaking drought-parched California with rain expected to last for most of the next two weeks, forecasters said Monday.
  
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• General Motors CEO Mary Barra adds chairman to her title

  04-01-2016 21:14 via news.yahoo.com
  
  DETROIT (AP) — General Motors CEO Mary Barra is taking on the added role of chairman at the nation's largest automaker.
  
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• Injured Serena starts with a stutter

  04-01-2016 21:12 via rss.cnn.com
  
  After a majestic 2015, Serena Williams' new season got off to a stuttering start after she withdrew from Monday's Hopman Cup matches due to a minor knee injury.
  
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• How to ease this crisis

  04-01-2016 21:11 via rss.cnn.com
  
  The execution of Shia cleric Sheikh Nimr al-Nimr in Saudi Arabia at the weekend has triggered a predictable diplomatic crisis.
  
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• Siege near India's Afghan consulate ends after 25 hours

  04-01-2016 21:09 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Mazar-i-Sharif (Afghanistan) (AFP) - A 25-hour gun and bomb siege near the Indian consulate in Afghanistan's Mazar-i-Sharif city ended late Monday, after a bloody weekend assault on an air base in India near the Pakistan border. Separately Monday a Taliban truck bomb struck a compound housing foreign civilian contractors near Kabul airport, wounding dozens of people just hours after a suicide bomber blew himself up around the same area. The lethal assaults on Indian installations threaten to der
  
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• The Latest: Turkey urges Iran, Saudis to ease tensions

  04-01-2016 21:08 via news.yahoo.com
  
  TEHRAN, Iran (AP) — The latest developments after Saudi Arabia severs diplomatic ties with Tehran amid a dispute over Riyadh's execution of an opposition Shiite cleric and attacks on Saudi diplomatic posts in Iran. (All times local.)
  
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• The Latest: Armed group wants inquiry of federal government

  04-01-2016 21:06 via news.yahoo.com
  
  BURNS, Ore. (AP) — The latest on armed people who have taken over a federal building at an Oregon wildlife refuge (all times local):
  
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