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• US working to recover 10 US sailors from Iran

  12-01-2016 23:59 via news.yahoo.com
  
  US officials said they were working to recover 10 US Navy personnel who lost radio contact and were apprehended Tuesday after straying into Iranian territorial waters. "Earlier today, we lost contact with two small US naval craft en route from Kuwait to Bahrain," a senior administration official said. "We subsequently have been in communication with Iranian authorities, who have informed us of the safety and well-being of our personnel," the official said.
  
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• Obama administration to announce efforts to boost self-driving cars

  12-01-2016 23:58 via news.yahoo.com
  
  By David Shepardson DETROIT (Reuters) - The Obama administration will announce efforts to boost self-driving cars on Thursday, and President Barack Obama may discuss advanced transportation efforts in his final State of the Union Address on Tuesday, according to government officials. Mark Rosekind, head of the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, told reporters that Transportation Secretary Anthony Foxx will be in Detroit to talk about efforts by the Obama administration to speed the
  
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• Iran holds 10 U.S. sailors; U.S. officials expect prompt return

  12-01-2016 23:56 via news.yahoo.com
  
  By Phil Stewart and Idrees Ali WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Ten sailors aboard two U.S. Navy boats were seized by Iran in the Gulf on Tuesday, and Tehran told the United States the crew members would be promptly returned, U.S. officials said. A senior U.S. defense official said the U.S. had lost contact earlier in the day with two small craft en route from Kuwait to Bahrain. U.S. officials told Reuters it was unclear how or if the boats became disabled.
  
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• House of Representatives backs broader North Korea sanctions, after nuclear test

  12-01-2016 23:55 via news.yahoo.com
  
  By Patricia Zengerle WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. House of Representatives voted nearly unanimously on Tuesday to pass legislation that would broaden sanctions over North Korea's nuclear program, days after Pyongyang announced it had tested a powerful nuclear device. The measure passed by 418-2, with overwhelming support from Republicans and Democrats, and Senate leaders said they expected to consider a similar bill shortly. The House bill had been introduced in early 2015, but was not brough
  
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• Broadway, 'Ghostbusters' actor David Margulies dies at 78

  12-01-2016 23:54 via news.yahoo.com
  
  NEW YORK (AP) — David Margulies, a veteran actor of the stage and screen, whose career spanned decades on Broadway and numerous film roles including the mayor in "Ghostbusters," has died. He was 78.
  
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• Joy, anxiety as US-bound Cubans ready to fly out of Costa Rica

  12-01-2016 23:53 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Elation and trepidation gripped a first group of Cuban migrants about to fly out of Costa Rica on Tuesday on a trial air-and-land journey to ultimately start new lives in the United States. The trip was organized by the various Latin American governments in coordination with the International Organization for Migration (IOM) as the first step to helping nearly 8,000 US-bound Cubans stranded in Costa Rica. "We've heard a lot that in Mexico there are gangs like the Zetas that make attacks on roads
  
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• Poland PM, Juncker speak before EU meeting on Warsaw

  12-01-2016 23:47 via news.yahoo.com
  
  By Alastair Macdonald and Gabriela Baczynska BRUSSELS (Reuters) - The new Polish government has stepped up efforts to address concerns in Brussels about civil rights ahead of a meeting on Wednesday at which the EU executive will review its moves to influence the constitutional court and the public broadcaster. Prime Minister Beata Szydlo had a lengthy telephone call on Tuesday evening with European Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker, EU officials said, and on Wednesday Deputy Foreign Minis
  
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• Media magnate Rupert Murdoch, model Jerry Hall engaged

  12-01-2016 23:46 via news.yahoo.com
  
  LONDON (AP) — Media mogul Rupert Murdoch is engaged to Jerry Hall, the American actress and former supermodel who had a long-time relationship with Mick Jagger.
  
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• Report: NPS river trips hostile to women in Grand Canyon

  12-01-2016 23:43 via news.yahoo.com
  
  FLAGSTAFF, Ariz. (AP) — Deep inside the Grand Canyon, on river trips that stretch for weeks, National Park Service workers have preyed on their female colleagues, demanding sex and retaliating against women who refused, a federal investigation found.
  
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• Google expects partners for self-driving car project

  12-01-2016 23:39 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Google plans to partner with automakers on its self-driving car project, but is not yet ready to announce anything concrete, the head of the project said Tuesday. "We are going to be partnering more and more and more," Google self-driving project chief executive John Krafcik said at a conference held in the shadow of the Detroit Auto Show. As the project evolves, Google is going to need a "lot of help" expanding self-driving cars, said Krafcik, a longtime auto executive, most recently at Hyundai
  
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• Twitter activist arrested in Saudi

  12-01-2016 23:36 via rss.cnn.com
  
  Samar Badawi, a notable human rights activist in Saudi Arabia, was arrested on Tuesday, according to Amnesty International.
  
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• House approves bill to sanction North Korea after nuke test

  12-01-2016 23:35 via news.yahoo.com
  
  WASHINGTON (AP) — House Republicans and Democrats joined together Tuesday to overwhelmingly approve legislation that aims to punish North Korea for conducting its latest nuclear test.
  
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• U.N. appeals for $500 million to get 1 million Syrian children in school

  12-01-2016 23:33 via news.yahoo.com
  
  United Nations education envoy Gordon Brown appealed on Tuesday for $500 million to allow half the two million Syrian children who are refugees in Lebanon, Turkey and Jordan to go to school and offer their families an alternative to fleeing to Europe. The former British prime minister said the aim was then to get all two million refugee children in school in 2017. Brown said that while some 400,000 Syrian children have made their way to Europe and other countries to escape Syria's five-year civi
  
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• Steelers hope Roethlisberger, Brown can play against Broncos

  12-01-2016 23:33 via news.yahoo.com
  
  PITTSBURGH (AP) — Maybe Ben Roethlisberger should consider throwing with his left hand.
  
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• US official: Clapper's online personal accounts hacked

  12-01-2016 23:30 via news.yahoo.com
  
  WASHINGTON (AP) — Just months after reports that someone was hacking CIA Director John Brennan's personal email, a U.S. intelligence official is confirming that online personal accounts linked to Director of National Intelligence James Clapper also have been hacked.
  
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• Poll: Majority of Americans support next president pushing tighter gun laws

  12-01-2016 23:29 via news.yahoo.com
  
  By Megan Cassella WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Half of all Americans support President Barack Obama's executive actions on gun control, a Reuters/Ipsos poll found on Tuesday, with a majority saying they would support the next president taking additional steps to tighten federal gun laws. Obama, frustrated with inaction from lawmakers, ordered stricter gun rules last week that he can impose without Congress' help, angering Republicans who say he is overstepping the boundaries of his office. Fifty perce
  
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• Bowie finale soars on charts after death shock

  12-01-2016 23:26 via news.yahoo.com
  
  David Bowie's final album soared toward the top of the charts Tuesday after the music legend's death from cancer stunned the world, with the details still shrouded in mystery two days on. "Blackstar," released on Bowie's 69th birthday Friday, was on course to be the first number-one album in the United States for the quintessentially avant-garde artist who lived his last two decades in New York but enjoyed greater mainstream success in his native Britain. Billboard, which will publish the benchm
  
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• Pentagon: 2 US Navy boats held by Iran but will be returned

  12-01-2016 23:17 via news.yahoo.com
  
  WASHINGTON (AP) — Iran was holding 10 U.S. Navy sailors and their two small Navy boats after the boats had mechanical problems and drifted into Iranian waters, but American officials have received assurances from Tehran that they will be returned safely and promptly.
  
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• Iranian Revolutionary Guards detain U.S. boats with 10 crew in Gulf: Fars news agency

  12-01-2016 23:15 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Iranian Revolutionary Guards have detained two U.S. boats with 10 crew aboard after the vessels "illegally" entered Iranian territorial waters in the Gulf, the semi-official Fars news agency said early on Wednesday. "These two boats were seized by Revolutionary Guard naval forces near Farsi Island 2 km inside Iranian territorial waters," Fars reported. In Washington on Tuesday, a senior Obama administration official said Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif had told U.S. Secretary of St
  
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• Alabama-Clemson joins list of epic title games

  12-01-2016 23:09 via news.yahoo.com
  
  GLENDALE, Ariz. (AP) — Welcome to the epic national championship club Alabama and Clemson.
  
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• Bush: Trump will cause 'global depression'

  12-01-2016 23:08 via rss.cnn.com
  
  Republican presidential candidate Jeb Bush Tuesday argued that front-runner Donald Trump, if elected president, would create a "global depression" because of his proposal to impose high tariffs on Chinese goods.
  
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• White House says seeks return of Navy personnel in Iranian custody

  12-01-2016 22:59 via news.yahoo.com
  
  The White House said on Tuesday that it was aware of the situation in which two Navy boats were held in Iranian custody and is working to get U.S. personnel returned. Deputy national security adviser Ben Rhodes told reporters at the White House the administration was working to resolve the situation and was hopeful about it.
  
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• Iran's Zarif told Kerry U.S. sailors would be released promptly

  12-01-2016 22:59 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif told U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry on Tuesday that U.S. sailors who ended up in Iranian custody would be allowed to continue their journey promptly, a senior Obama administration official said on condition of anonymity. Kerry and Zarif were two of the main negotiators in the July 14 agreement under which Tehran agreed to restrain its nuclear program in return for relief from economic sanctions. Earlier, a U.S. defense official said the U.S. mili
  
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• Methodist pension board bars investment in 5 Israeli banks

  12-01-2016 22:57 via news.yahoo.com
  
  NEW YORK (AP) — The pension fund for the United Methodist Church has blocked five Israeli banks from its investment portfolio in what it describes as a broad review meant to weed out companies that profit from abuse of human rights.
  
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• Detroit mayor: Dead mouse, cold kids, bad floor in schools

  12-01-2016 22:57 via news.yahoo.com
  
  DETROIT (AP) — Mayor Mike Duggan said he saw a dead mouse, children wearing coats in cold classrooms and a gym floor too warped for play during a tour of some Detroit public schools Tuesday, amid a teacher sick-out that has forced dozens of buildings to close.
  
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• House GOP in election-year probe of presidential 'overreach'

  12-01-2016 22:53 via news.yahoo.com
  
  WASHINGTON (AP) — House Republicans said Tuesday that they will launch an election-year study of what they say has been executive overreach by President Barack Obama and other recent presidents.
  
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• Life and death at 'The Gates of Hell'

  12-01-2016 21:51 via rss.cnn.com
  
  The coast surrounding the Namib Dessert is so inhospitable that Portuguese sailors once referred to it as "The Gates of Hell."
  
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• Best of Arab world shows off in Paris

  12-01-2016 21:51 via rss.cnn.com
  
  As Paris' inaugural contemporary Arab photography festival draws to a close, visitors are reflecting on the importance of the event, which began three days before terrorist attacks rocked the capital -- and has since played backdrop to polarized responses to the city's Muslim residents.
  
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• US authorities rebuff VW diesel recall plan

  12-01-2016 21:48 via news.yahoo.com
  
  US environmental regulators turned down Volkswagen's initial recall plan for its diesel cars equipped with illegal emissions cheat devices Tuesday, a day before its chief holds high-level talks on the scandal in Washington. The California Air Resources Board rejected Volkswagen's recall proposals for its 2.0 liter diesels, and the federal Environmental Protection Agency agreed the plan was not acceptable. CARB said VW's plans "are incomplete, substantially deficient, and fall far short of meetin
  
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• New York jury hears claim GM concealed ignition switch defect

  12-01-2016 21:47 via news.yahoo.com
  
  General Motors Co should pay for concealing an ignition switch defect from its customers that has been linked to nearly 400 injuries and deaths, a lawyer for an Oklahoma man injured in a car crash told a Manhattan jury on Tuesday. "This case is not just about an accident that occurred in Oklahoma in 2014," said Robert Hilliard, who is representing plaintiff Robert Scheuer. Key GM employees knew about the problem for more than 10 years, said Hilliard, adding that evidence would show the automaker
  
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• President Obama to talk self-driving cars in State of the Union speech

  12-01-2016 21:46 via news.yahoo.com
  
  By David Shepardson DETROIT (Reuters) - U.S. President Barack Obama will talk about the prospects for self-driving cars in his final State of the Union Address on Tuesday, according to government officials, the first time the president has used the annual speech to tackle one of the most important issues facing the auto industry. Mark Rosekind, the head of the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) told reporters on Tuesday that Transportation Secretary Anthony Foxx will be in De
  
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• See El Chapo defend drug trade

  12-01-2016 21:43 via rss.cnn.com
  
  Rolling Stone has released new video of Sean Penn's interview with Joaquin "El Chapo" Guzman. CNN's Ashleigh Banfield has more.
  
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• Oil prices fall below $30 a barrel

  12-01-2016 21:42 via news.yahoo.com
  
  US crude prices fell below $30 a barrel for the first time in 12 years on Tuesday as OPEC member Nigeria called for an emergency meeting to address collapsing prices. New York's benchmark West Texas Intermediate (WTI) for February delivery fell to $29.93 a barrel, a level last seen in December 2003. Prices pulled back slightly at the end of trade to end 97 cents lower at $30.44 a barrel.
  
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• Rose says Penn to talk to him about 'El Chapo' interview

  12-01-2016 21:37 via news.yahoo.com
  
  PASADENA, Calif. (AP) — A roundup of news Tuesday from the Television Critics Association winter meeting, at which TV networks and streaming services are presenting details on upcoming programs.
  
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• EU opens probe into Halliburton, Baker Hughes merger

  12-01-2016 21:34 via news.yahoo.com
  
  EU antitrust regulators opened a probe on Tuesday into the proposed acquisition of oilfield service supplier Baker Hughes by rival Halliburton on fears that the deal could hike up energy prices in Europe. The investigation by the European Commission, the EU's executive arm, follows regulatory difficulties in the US, where competition authorities rejected the latest divestment remedies set forward by the companies, delaying the deal. Halliburton and Baker Hughes, both Texas-based, provide well se
  
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• Watching Obama speech? Check out political dynamics

  12-01-2016 21:32 via news.yahoo.com
  
  WASHINGTON (AP) — The White House is promising a nontraditional address for President Barack Obama's final State of the Union. But, no, don't look for him to slow-jam Tuesday's speech or rap it.
  
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• Obama to look beyond his tenure in final State of the Union

  12-01-2016 21:31 via news.yahoo.com
  
  WASHINGTON (AP) — Embarking on his final year in office, President Barack Obama will use Tuesday's State of the Union address to present an optimistic vision built on economic progress under his watch while seeking to ease Americans' growing concern about national security and terrorism.
  
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• US zoo names penguin chick 'Bowie'

  12-01-2016 21:26 via news.yahoo.com
  
  A pygmy blue penguin born at a US zoo has been named "Bowie" in honor of British rock star David Bowie who died late Sunday. The blue penguin was born on Bowie's 69th birthday, January 8, and given his name in a tribute to the music legend.
  
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• State Dept. to review 29,000 pages of Clinton aide's emails

  12-01-2016 21:22 via news.yahoo.com
  
  WASHINGTON (AP) — The State Department has agreed to review 29,000 pages of emails from Huma Abedin, a close aide to Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton, from their days at the State Department for possible public release under a new legal agreement with a conservative legal group. But even as Clinton presses her campaign, many of the emails would not be publicly released until six months after the election.
  
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• U.N. war crimes investigators gathering testimony from starving Syrian town

  12-01-2016 21:18 via news.yahoo.com
  
  By Lisa Barrington and Stephanie Nebehay BEIRUT/GENEVA (Reuters) - Residents of a besieged Syrian town have told U.N. investigators how the weakest in their midst, deprived of food and medicines in violation of international law, are suffering starvation and death, the top U.N. war crimes investigator told Reuters on Tuesday. An aid convoy on Monday brought the first food and medical relief for three months to the western town of Madaya, where 40,000 people are trapped by encircling government f
  
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• Struggling oil dips below $30; Wall St. rally stalls

  12-01-2016 21:14 via news.yahoo.com
  
  By Lewis Krauskopf NEW YORK (Reuters) - Oil prices tumbled again on Tuesday with U.S. crude diving briefly below $30 a barrel, taking down energy shares and undercutting a rally in stocks. Volatile Chinese markets and the deepening oil slide have shaken sentiment in equities to start 2016. "I do think oil is a major driver," said Brad McMillan, chief investment officer for Commonwealth Financial in Waltham, Massachusetts.
  
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• NFL poised for L.A. move after 20 years of hard bargaining with cities.

  12-01-2016 21:14 via news.yahoo.com
  
  By Robin Respaut SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - With resistance mounting to public financing of sport stadiums, the National Football League this week aims to follow through on two decades of threats to relocate franchises to Los Angeles. Both teams, along with the Oakland Raiders, have applied for relocation to L.A., which because of its standing as one of the nation's largest media markets is still able to draw the interest of teams without big subsidies. The last of many teams to flirt with a move
  
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• Senate rejects Rand Paul's 'Audit the Fed' legislation

  12-01-2016 21:11 via news.yahoo.com
  
  WASHINGTON (AP) — The Senate has blocked legislation calling for tougher audits of the Federal Reserve, rebuffing efforts by Republican Sen. Rand Paul to give lawmakers greater oversight of the central bank's moves on interest rates.
  
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• Clinton, Democrats knock Obama over deportation raids

  12-01-2016 21:10 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Democratic lawmakers criticized President Barack Obama Tuesday over a wave of arrests of Central American undocumented migrants as part of the administration's stepped-up deportation efforts. Hillary Clinton also spoke out in opposition to the raids, disassociating herself from Obama policy as she seeks the White House in 2016. "We have laws and we must be guided by those laws, but we shouldn't have armed federal officers showing up at peoples' homes, taking women and children out of their beds
  
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• Chelsea Clinton visits New Hampshire backing mom's campaign

  12-01-2016 21:10 via news.yahoo.com
  
  CONCORD, N.H. (AP) — Making her debut appearance in the 2016 presidential race, Chelsea Clinton pivoted between personal anecdotes and detailed policy points while campaigning for her mother Hillary Clinton in New Hampshire Tuesday ahead of the state's leadoff presidential primary.
  
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• 'Why did it take you so long?' - hope and anger greet aid in Madaya

  12-01-2016 21:08 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Hope mixed with anger and disbelief greeted aid workers bringing the first food and medical supplies in months to the residents of a besieged Syrian town. "You could see a mixture of hope in people's eyes and disbelief that this thing was actually happening," Pawel Krzysiek of the International Committee of the Red Cross told the Thomson Reuters Foundation on Tuesday. The aid convoy arrived on Monday, bringing the first food and medical supplies for months to the western town of Madaya, where 40
  
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• U.N. envoy on Syria to meet major powers on Wednesday: statement

  12-01-2016 21:08 via news.yahoo.com
  
  The United Nations Special Envoy for Syria will meet ambassadors from major powers in Geneva on Wednesday, ahead of planned peace talks set for Jan. 25. Staffan de Mistura was already expected to meet senior U.S. and Russian envoys in the Swiss city on Wednesday. A brief statement issued by his office said that he would also then meet the ambassadors from all five permanent members of the U.N. Security Council - Britain, China and France as well as those of Russia and the United States.
  
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• New CBS entertainment chief vows more prime-time diversity

  12-01-2016 21:08 via news.yahoo.com
  
  PASADENA, Calif. (AP) — CBS is committed to increasing the diversity of its prime-time series, the network's new programming chief said, offering himself as evidence.
  
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• Bombmaker threatens U.S.

  12-01-2016 21:07 via rss.cnn.com
  
  Al Qaeda's master bombmaker made it clear that ISIS is not the only terror group that is a threat to the U.S. CNN's Jim Sciutto reports.
  
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• Stallone thanks 'Creed' director, co-star after Globes

  12-01-2016 21:06 via news.yahoo.com
  
  LOS ANGELES (AP) — Sylvester Stallone has taken to social media to officially thank "Creed" director Ryan Coogler and star Michael B. Jordan days after winning the Golden Globe for best supporting actor in the film.
  
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