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• Bundy: Meeting between armed group, locals in limbo

  14-01-2016 23:57 via news.yahoo.com
  
  BURNS, Ore. (AP) — The leader of an armed group occupying a national wildlife refuge said Thursday a meeting with local residents will happen but it's not clear when and where because the group is struggling to find a place for the gathering.
  
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• Céline Dion's husband dies

  14-01-2016 23:52 via rss.cnn.com
  
  René Angélil, the husband of singer Céline Dion, died Thursday.
  
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• Adele joins James Corden for carpool karaoke

  14-01-2016 23:45 via rss.cnn.com
  
  Adele sang and danced during carpool karaoke on "The Late Late Show with James Corden."
  
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• LeBron James enters reality TV fray with 'Cleveland Hustles'

  14-01-2016 23:40 via news.yahoo.com
  
  PASADENA, Calif. (AP) — LeBron James is getting into reality TV. Think business, not catfights.
  
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• Carter announce new commander for Middle East

  14-01-2016 23:35 via news.yahoo.com
  
  MACDILL AIR FORCE BASE, Fla. (AP) — Defense Secretary Ash Carter is announcing that the general who heads his special operations forces will be nominated as the next commander for the Middle East.
  
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• Security Council calls emergency meeting on Syrian sieges

  14-01-2016 23:33 via news.yahoo.com
  
  UNITED NATIONS (AP) — The Security Council will hold an emergency meeting Friday at the request of Western countries trying to press Syria's warring parties to lift sieges on towns where hundreds of thousands have been cut off from aid and many are starving.
  
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• Sanders endorsed by former DNC chairman Kirk

  14-01-2016 23:32 via news.yahoo.com
  
  WASHINGTON (AP) — Democratic presidential candidate Bernie Sanders is picking up the endorsement of former Democratic National Committee chairman Paul Kirk, an ally of the late Massachusetts Sen. Ted Kennedy.
  
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• 'Power Ranger' charged in sword killing

  14-01-2016 23:24 via rss.cnn.com
  
  Former "Power Rangers" actor Ricardo Medina was arrested Thursday and charged with murder in the 2015 fatal stabbing of his roommate, the Los Angeles County District Attorney's Office said in a statement.
  
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• Top GOP female says judge Gov. Haley on ability, not looks

  14-01-2016 23:22 via news.yahoo.com
  
  BALTIMORE (AP) — The House's highest-ranking Republican woman said Thursday that South Carolina Gov. Nikki Haley should be judged on her abilities, not her looks, dismissing a remark by fellow Republican Rep. Steve King.
  
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• Indonesians defiant

  14-01-2016 23:16 via rss.cnn.com
  
  Soon after explosions rocked central Jakarta on Thursday, Indonesians rose up on social media sharing a defiant message: "We are not afraid."
  
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• ISIS claims brutal Starbucks attack

  14-01-2016 23:15 via rss.cnn.com
  
  ISIS claims responsibility for deadly attack in Indonesian capita
  
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• JPMorgan Chase profits up, upbeat on US economy

  14-01-2016 23:06 via news.yahoo.com
  
  New York (AFP) - Bolstered by lower costs and a strong performance in consumer lending, JPMorgan Chase reported higher earnings Thursday and offered a generally upbeat appraisal of the US economy.
  
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• Formal American football -- playing in a three -piece suit

  14-01-2016 23:04 via rss.cnn.com
  
  When Cameron Miller stepped onto the muddy grass at an Atlanta park Sunday to officiate a football game, he wasn't wearing the traditional black-and-white referee stripes.
  
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• Goldman in $5.1 bn deal to settle mortgage bond fraud claims

  14-01-2016 23:03 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Goldman Sachs said Thursday that it had reached a $5.1 billion deal with US and state authorities to settle allegations related to fraudulent marketing of mortgage bonds before the financial crisis. Goldman said the tentative deal is with the Department of Justice's Financial Fraud Enforcement Task Force which has been investigating fraud by banks in marketing residential mortgage-backed securities (RMBS), the financial assets that were at the heart of the 2007-2008 meltdown of the US financial
  
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• Coroner: Rene Angelil, husband of Celine Dion, dies

  14-01-2016 22:57 via news.yahoo.com
  
  LAS VEGAS (AP) — Authorities say Rene Angelil, the husband and manager of Celine Dion, has died in Las Vegas. He was 73 and had battled throat cancer.
  
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• Key figure in MLB steroids scandal gets shorter sentence

  14-01-2016 22:52 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Anthony Bosch, whose Florida clinic was at the heart of a Major League Baseball doping scandal that led to a lengthy ban for star Alex Rodriguez, had his prison sentence reduced Thursday. The four-year sentence imposed on Biogenesis founder Bosch was trimmed by 16 months to two years and eight months by US District Judge Darrin Gayles, granting a request by prosecutors because of cooperation by Bosch. Bosch revealed major evidence against four others in the Biogenesis scandal, linking records an
  
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• Chicago releases videos of police shooting of black teen

  14-01-2016 22:51 via news.yahoo.com
  
  By Mary Wisniewski CHICAGO (Reuters) - Chicago on Thursday released video footage of a fatal Chicago police shooting of a black teenager in 2013 after a court ruling, as protesters renewed criticism of Mayor Rahm Emanuel for the handling of police killings. Images from neighborhood surveillance cameras showing the killing of Cedrick Chatman, 17, in January 2013 had been sealed under a protective order. One 10-second segment of video shows two officers chasing Chatman, who then runs around a corn
  
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• Singer Celine Dion's husband, René Angélil, dies after cancer battle

  14-01-2016 22:50 via news.yahoo.com
  
  By Allison Lampert MONTREAL (Reuters) - René Angélil, the husband of award-winning singer Celine Dion, died on Thursday at the age of 73 after a long battle with cancer, Dion said in a post on her Facebook page. The Canadian entertainment manager, who discovered Dion when she was 12-years-old and drove her career to stardom before marrying her, died at the family's home in Las Vegas. Angélil married Dion, 47, in 1994 at a lavish wedding in Montreal's Notre Dame Basilica.
  
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• FBI: No evidence man who attacked cop part of organized cell

  14-01-2016 22:50 via news.yahoo.com
  
  PHILADELPHIA (AP) — The head of the FBI said Thursday the agency has found no indication that the man who ambushed a Philadelphia policeman was part of an organized terror cell, or that there are plans for another such attack in the city.
  
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• Who are the 3 winners of the $1.6 billion Powerball jackpot?

  14-01-2016 22:49 via news.yahoo.com
  
  MUNFORD, Tenn. (AP) — Mystery winners in Tennessee, Florida and California should get their affairs in order before they claim their thirds of the unprecedented $1.6 billion Powerball jackpot, lottery officials advised Thursday.
  
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• Clinton cries foul over Sanders TV ad on Wall Street

  14-01-2016 22:49 via news.yahoo.com
  
  WASHINGTON (AP) — Hillary Clinton and Bernie Sanders are at odds over a new ad by the Sanders campaign that suggests Clinton wouldn't be tough enough on Wall Street.
  
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• Panic on the streets

  14-01-2016 22:48 via rss.cnn.com
  
  In an online statement ISIS has claimed responsibility for the bomb attack on the Indonesian capital of Jakarta, killing at least two and injuring 24 others. CNN's Barbara Starr reports.
  
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• Q&A: Legionnaires' disease adds to water concerns in Flint

  14-01-2016 22:47 via news.yahoo.com
  
  DETROIT (AP) — A water crisis in Flint has focused mostly on the impact of drinking supplies containing lead that had leached from old plumbing after the city switched sources to save money. But Michigan officials stunned the community this week when they also reported an increase in Legionnaires' disease cases over the past two years in Genesee County, where Flint is located.
  
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• New Mexico is 1st to issue plans to sue EPA over mine spill

  14-01-2016 22:47 via news.yahoo.com
  
  ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) — New Mexico plans to sue the federal government and the owners of two Colorado mines that were the source of a massive spill last year that contaminated rivers in three Western states, officials said Thursday.
  
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• IRS chief sets April 18 filing date; promises better service

  14-01-2016 22:47 via news.yahoo.com
  
  WASHINGTON (AP) — Taxpayers nationwide will get a few days' grace this year to file their returns thanks to a little-known holiday in the nation's capital. And the head of the IRS promises 1,000 more customer services representatives will be available to ease waiting times on information lines.
  
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• Appeals court troubled over official's private email account

  14-01-2016 22:46 via news.yahoo.com
  
  WASHINGTON (AP) — A federal appeals panel seems likely to rule that work-related emails on a private account used by the White House's top science adviser are subject to the Freedom of Information Act.
  
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• House, Senate GOP going separate ways in an election year

  14-01-2016 22:45 via news.yahoo.com
  
  BALTIMORE (AP) — The year ahead promises to be one of bold ideas in the House, if Speaker Paul Ryan gets his way, with lawmakers debating sweeping initiatives on taxes, health care and foreign policy.
  
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• Senator says the US is losing the messaging campaign in Iraq

  14-01-2016 22:44 via news.yahoo.com
  
  WASHINGTON (AP) — In Iraq, the United States is pounding the Islamic State with air strikes but losing the airwaves.
  
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• U.S boats seized near Iran island

  14-01-2016 22:42 via rss.cnn.com
  
  The two U.S. Navy boats seized by Iran with 10 sailors on board were within three miles of Iran's Farsi Island when the Iranians took them, according to a U.S. defense official directly familiar with the latest information about the incident.
  
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• Head of heir location firm to plead guilty in antitrust case

  14-01-2016 22:42 via news.yahoo.com
  
  WASHINGTON (AP) — The owner of a company that tracks down heirs entitled to an inheritance has agreed to plead guilty to a federal antitrust violation.
  
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• 'Power Rangers' actor arrested in stabbing death last year

  14-01-2016 22:40 via news.yahoo.com
  
  LANCASTER, Calif. (AP) — A former "Power Rangers" actor has been arrested for allegedly stabbing his roommate to death with a sword at their Southern California home.
  
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• The Latest: Mayor hopes lottery winner invests in small town

  14-01-2016 22:39 via news.yahoo.com
  
  LOS ANGELES (AP) — The latest on winners in the world-record Powerball drawing (all times local):
  
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• Maine governor calls failed impeachment effort 'foolishness'

  14-01-2016 22:37 via news.yahoo.com
  
  AUGUSTA, Maine (AP) — Critics of Maine Gov. Paul LePage failed to muster support for a vote Thursday on an independent investigation that could have led to impeachment for alleged abuse of power.
  
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• Yosemite: Famed hotel name to change in trademark dispute

  14-01-2016 22:25 via news.yahoo.com
  
  FRESNO, Calif. (AP) — The names of iconic hotels and other landmarks in the world-famous Yosemite National Park will soon change in an ongoing battle over who owns the intellectual property, park officials said Thursday.
  
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• It's all about China for Taiwan's likely new leader, and history's against her

  14-01-2016 22:24 via news.yahoo.com
  
  By J.R. Wu and James Pomfret TAIPEI (Reuters) - Bespectacled and gently spoken, more don than politician, Tsai Ing-wen is almost certain to be voted Taiwan's first woman president on Saturday and, with China pointing hundreds of missiles at the island, thrust into one of Asia's toughest and most dangerous jobs. If she wins, she will lead an island which China claims as its sacred territory and will have to balance the superpower interests of China and the United States with those of her freewhee
  
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• France, UK call for UN meeting on lifting Syrian sieges

  14-01-2016 22:23 via news.yahoo.com
  
  UNITED NATIONS (AP) — France and Britain called Thursday for an emergency U.N. Security Council meeting to press Syria's warring parties to lift sieges on towns where hundreds of thousands have been cut off from aid and reports of starvation have emerged.
  
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• Video released of 2013 Chicago police shooting of black teen

  14-01-2016 22:07 via news.yahoo.com
  
  CHICAGO (AP) — City attorneys on Thursday released grainy 2013 surveillance video showing the fatal shooting of a 17-year-old black carjacking suspect by a white police officer.
  
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• The Latest: Video of 2013 Chicago police shooting released

  14-01-2016 22:07 via news.yahoo.com
  
  CHICAGO (AP) — The latest on the fatal police shootings in Chicago (all times local):
  
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• USA network tries to take advantage of 'Mr. Robot' wins

  14-01-2016 22:03 via news.yahoo.com
  
  PASADENA, Calif. (AP) — The creator of "Mr. Robot" promises more twists for the show's second season, as USA moves to take advantage of two Golden Globe Awards for the freshman drama that is a key part of its strategy to appeal to a younger and hipper audience.
  
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• Macedonia premier to step down under Western-brokered deal

  14-01-2016 22:02 via news.yahoo.com
  
  SKOPJE, Macedonia (AP) — Macedonia's prime minister has confirmed he will step down Friday before an early election on April 24, under the timeline of last year's Western-brokered deal to solve a deep political crisis triggered by a wiretapping scandal.
  
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• Elton John plays musical tribute to David Bowie in concert

  14-01-2016 21:59 via news.yahoo.com
  
  LOS ANGELES (AP) — Elton John didn't just premiere tracks from his new album at his most recent concert, he offered a tribute to his late friend David Bowie.
  
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• Moldova: Thousands protest against proposed PM candidate

  14-01-2016 21:56 via news.yahoo.com
  
  CHISINAU, Moldova (AP) — Thousands demonstrated in Moldova on Thursday against a proposal to nominate an influential politician and businessman to become the next prime minister of the country, which is mired in political uncertainty.
  
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• IS suicide attackers hit Indonesian capital

  14-01-2016 21:45 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Islamic State suicide bombers and gunmen struck the capital of Muslim-majority Indonesia Thursday, executing a Westerner and blowing up a Starbucks in an assault police said bore the hallmarks of the Paris attacks. The assault on a district packed with malls, embassies and United Nations offices also left an Indonesian man dead and 20 others injured, in what the country's president called "acts of terror". The Islamic State group claimed responsibility, saying that the attack was carried out by
  
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• Giants name Ben McAdoo to replace Coughlin

  14-01-2016 21:44 via news.yahoo.com
  
  EAST RUTHERFORD, N.J. (AP) — Ben McAdoo has been named the New York Giants coach.
  
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• Planned Parenthood files U.S. lawsuit against group behind secret videos

  14-01-2016 21:43 via news.yahoo.com
  
  By Curtis Skinner SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Planned Parenthood filed a federal lawsuit on Thursday arguing that a group acted illegally when it secretly recorded videos alleging the women's health organization profited from selling fetal tissue from abortions. The lawsuit filed in federal court in San Francisco against anti-abortion group the Center for Medical Progress alleges conspiracy and fraud among other violations in connection with the recordings. The videos, which were released in July,
  
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• Fractured field for big GOP Iowa debate

  14-01-2016 21:43 via news.yahoo.com
  
  NORTH CHARLESTON, S.C. (AP) — A smaller cast of Republican presidential candidates takes the debate stage Thursday night, with Ted Cruz under new scrutiny for a big loan from Goldman Sachs and Donald Trump labeled by his main rival as embodying "New York values."
  
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• The Latest: US condemns terrorist attack in Jakarta

  14-01-2016 21:41 via news.yahoo.com
  
  JAKARTA, Indonesia (AP) — The latest on explosions in downtown Jakarta (all times local):
  
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• Oil up after eight-day rout; worries remain Iran will add to glut

  14-01-2016 21:39 via news.yahoo.com
  
  By Barani Krishnan NEW YORK (Reuters) - Oil rebounded on Thursday, snapping an eight-day rout, as investors covered short positions but the market settled not far from 12-year lows on worries Iran may add barrels to a glutted global market sooner than expected. Global crude benchmark Brent broke below $30 a barrel, its lowest since 2004, for a second straight day before rebounding. It also settled off the day's highs, after the U.S. State Department indicated a key Iranian nuclear reactor had be
  
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• Same-sex marriage turmoil in Church

  14-01-2016 21:34 via rss.cnn.com
  
  The Episcopal Church, long the church of the establishment in the United States, has been suspended by the international Anglican Communion over its acceptance of same-sex marriage.
  
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• New plan moves Gitmo detainees to U.S.

  14-01-2016 21:34 via rss.cnn.com
  
  Defense Secretary Ash Carter said Thursday he is readying a plan for President Barack Obama that would house some remaining Guantanamo Bay detainees in a secure facility in the U.S.
  
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