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• Professor who abused disabled man gets 12 years in prison

  15-01-2016 23:57 via news.yahoo.com
  
  NEWARK, N.J. (AP) — A Rutgers University professor convicted of aggravated sexual assault on a disabled man who she claimed consented to the relationship through assisted typing on a keyboard was sentenced to 12 years in prison Friday.
  
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• Mainstream Republicans fret as Trump, Cruz strengthen in presidential race

  15-01-2016 23:56 via news.yahoo.com
  
  By James Oliphant NORTH CHARLESTON, S.C. (Reuters) - Two weeks before the first contest of the 2016 presidential race, Republicans and business leaders who fear the party has been hijacked by the likes of Donald Trump and Ted Cruz found little to comfort them in the latest debate. More mainstream hopefuls such as former Florida Governor Jeb Bush, New Jersey Governor Chris Christie, Ohio Governor John Kasich, and U.S. Senator Marco Rubio from Florida were left nipping at their heels and squabblin
  
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• Dirk Koetter promoted as Buccaneers new head coach

  15-01-2016 23:55 via news.yahoo.com
  
  TAMPA, Fla. (AP) — Dirk Koetter is confident the Tampa Bay Buccaneers are on the verge of becoming relevant again.
  
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• Maher: I want a presidential appearance for birthday

  15-01-2016 23:48 via news.yahoo.com
  
  PASADENA, Calif. (AP) — Bill Maher is hoping for a visit from President Barack Obama for his 60th birthday.
  
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• AP FACT CHECK: Audio refutes Trump's claim on China tariff

  15-01-2016 23:47 via news.yahoo.com
  
  WASHINGTON (AP) — New audio released by The New York Times refutes Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump's claim that he never called for a 45 percent tariff on Chinese exports during a recent editorial board meeting with the paper.
  
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• The Latest: State AG apparently changes mind on Flint probe

  15-01-2016 23:40 via news.yahoo.com
  
  FLINT, Mich. (AP) — The latest on the drinking water crisis in Flint, Michigan (all times local):
  
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• Gunmen attack hotel in Burkina Faso

  15-01-2016 23:36 via rss.cnn.com
  
  Three people entered a hotel frequented by Westerners in the capital of Burkina Faso late Friday and exchanged fire with security forces, the country's state radio said, according to a United Nations spokesman in the Burkinabe capital.
  
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• VIDEO: What does Obama keep in his pocket?

  15-01-2016 23:27 via bbc.co.uk
  
  US President Obama reveals some of the "lucky charms and keepsakes" that people have given to him that he carries around in his pocket.
  
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• Tennessee couple with one of three winning Powerball jackpot tickets to keep jobs

  15-01-2016 23:27 via news.yahoo.com
  
  By Harrison McClary NASHVILLE, Tenn. (Reuters) - A Tennessee couple holding one of three winning tickets for this week's record $1.6 billion U.S. Powerball lottery jackpot said on Friday they will keep their jobs because "you just can't sit down and do nothing." Lisa and John Robinson of Munford, Tennessee, appeared at a press conference at the Tennessee Lottery's offices with their adult daughter Tiffany and black and white dog Abby and said they would take their $528.8 million share in an imme
  
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• US rapper ordered to leave South Africa

  15-01-2016 23:24 via bbc.co.uk
  
  The American rapper best known as Mos Def is ordered to leave South Africa within 14 days after being arrested for breaking immigration laws.
  
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• Spacewalk suspended after leak in U.S. astronaut's helmet

  15-01-2016 23:20 via news.yahoo.com
  
  By Irene Klotz CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (Reuters) - NASA cut short a spacewalk on Friday at the International Space Station after one of the astronauts reported a leak in his spacesuit helmet, the U.S. space agency said. Tim Peake, who on the mission became the first astronaut from Britain to walk in space, and U.S. astronaut Tim Kopra had finished the primary goal of their outing when Kopra reported a water ball had formed in his helmet. The astronauts were not in any danger, but NASA curtailed the
  
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• Bird flu detected in US turkey flock

  15-01-2016 23:20 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Bird flu has been detected in a US turkey flock but is different from the strain that devastated the nation's poultry industry last year, officials said Friday. Nearly 50 million birds were killed or destroyed after bird flu swept across the United States in 2015, infecting 211 commercial flocks in 15 US states from California to Indiana. The current highly pathogenic strain -- H7N8 -- was detected after testing turkeys from an Indiana flock that "experienced increased mortality," the US Departm
  
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• Stock market slides again; worst two-week start to a year

  15-01-2016 23:19 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Never before has Wall Street gotten off to a worse start to a year.
  
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• 'Grizzly Adams' star Dan Haggerty dies at 74

  15-01-2016 23:18 via news.yahoo.com
  
  NEW YORK (AP) — Dan Haggerty, the rugged, bearded actor who starred in the film and TV series "The Life and Times of Grizzly Adams" about a mountain man and animal trainer, has died.
  
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• Attackers still holed up in Ouagadougou hotel: witnesses

  15-01-2016 23:16 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Ouagadougou (AFP) - Armed men are still holed up inside the four-star Splendid hotel in Burkina Faso's capital Ouagadougou, witnesses told an AFP journalist at the scene Friday, with the French embassy calling the assault a "terrorist attack".
  
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• Venezuela decrees economic emergency

  15-01-2016 23:15 via bbc.co.uk
  
  The Venezuelan government announces a 60-day economic emergency to deal with the country's worsening crisis.
  
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• The Latest: Flint water protest planned at governor's speech

  15-01-2016 23:13 via news.yahoo.com
  
  FLINT, Mich. (AP) — The latest on the drinking water crisis in Flint, Michigan (all times local):
  
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• Rapes, mass graves claims in Burundi

  15-01-2016 23:11 via rss.cnn.com
  
  The U.N. human rights chief on Friday called for an investigation into new reports of mass graves and soldiers raping women during home searches in the central African nation of Burundi.
  
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• Peter Dundas makes Cavalli menswear premiere

  15-01-2016 23:11 via news.yahoo.com
  
  MILAN (AP) — David Bowie's pioneering rock 'n' roll femininity is gaining currency, still after decades, on fashion runways and was strongly evident in Peter Dundas' menswear premier for the Roberto Cavalli fashion house.
  
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• Launching cancer moonshot, Biden says politics impeding cure

  15-01-2016 23:07 via news.yahoo.com
  
  PHILADELPHIA (AP) — Vice President Joe Biden launched a "moonshot" initiative Friday to hasten a cure for cancer, aiming to use his final year in office to break down barriers in the medical world he says are holding back progress on eradicating the dreaded disease.
  
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• Trump atypically makes a typical Iowa campaign stop

  15-01-2016 23:04 via news.yahoo.com
  
  WAUKEE, Iowa (AP) — Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump has finally paid a visit to a hallowed mainstay of Iowa politics: A local Pizza Ranch restaurant.
  
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• Warehouse worker takes third of $1.6 billion Powerball pot

  15-01-2016 23:03 via news.yahoo.com
  
  NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — A small town warehouse supervisor turned in one of three tickets splitting the world-record $1.6 billion Powerball jackpot on Friday, and swiftly announced that he would take his money now, giving up hundreds of millions of dollars in the future.
  
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• 'Idol' stars sound unconvinced this will be last season

  15-01-2016 23:02 via news.yahoo.com
  
  PASADENA, Calif. (AP) — Fox is calling this the farewell season of "American Idol," but the stars involved with the singing contest sound unconvinced.
  
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• The Latest: Cosmopolitan says no parking fees like MGM

  15-01-2016 23:01 via news.yahoo.com
  
  LAS VEGAS (AP) — The latest on the plan by MGM Resorts International to charge for parking on the Las Vegas Strip (all times local):
  
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• Wall St. hemorrhages as oil falls and China fears deepen

  15-01-2016 23:00 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Wall Street bled on Friday, with the S&P 500 sinking to its lowest level since October 2014 as oil prices sank below $30 per barrel and fears grew about economic trouble in China. Pain was dealt widely, with the day's trading volume unusually high and more than a fifth of S&P 500 stocks touching 52-week lows. The major S&P sectors all ended sharply lower.
  
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• Baseball teams make deals with top pitchers, avoid arbitration

  15-01-2016 22:59 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Washington (AFP) - American League Cy Young Award winner Dallas Keuchel of Houston and Washington right-hander Stephen Strasburg avoided contract arbitration Friday by agreeing to one-year deals with their Major League Baseball clubs.
  
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• US stocks end sharply lower on oil, China fears

  15-01-2016 22:58 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Wall Street stocks finished decisively lower Friday following a bruising session dominated by worries about tumbling oil prices and the slowing Chinese economy.
  
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• Virginia, Missouri limit media access at state Capitols

  15-01-2016 22:53 via news.yahoo.com
  
  RICHMOND, Va. (AP) — For decades, reporters in Virginia have been allowed to sit on the Senate floor so they could fully see the arm-twisting and other interactions between lawmakers. That suddenly changed this week: Media arrived to find their work tables removed, with security guards telling them they would be relegated to an upstairs visitors' gallery.
  
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• Alex, now a tropical storm, inflicts minor damage in Azores

  15-01-2016 22:53 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Weather officials in the Azores on Friday canceled their storm warnings after Hurricane Alex skirted the eastern Atlantic islands, causing only minor damage before being downgraded to tropical-storm status. Alex was a rarity, the first hurricane to form in the Atlantic in January in nearly 80 years, according to the US National Hurricane Center. The hurricane passed 12 miles (20 kilometers) east of Terceira, one of the archipelago's central islands, according to the Portuguese Meteorological Ins
  
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• Oil plummets to $29, dragging world stocks lower

  15-01-2016 22:51 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Oil prices plummeted to $29 a barrel on Friday on the likely resumption soon of Iranian oil exports into an already flooded market as international sanctions against Iran are lifted, dragging equity indices around the world sharply lower. Skittish investors snapped up gold and other safe-haven assets amid fears of a global economic slowdown, coupled with concerns about a potential credit default as lower commodity prices make payments by creditors in emerging markets difficult. Major stock indic
  
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• Final design for Tucson shooting memorial released

  15-01-2016 22:45 via news.yahoo.com
  
  TUCSON, Ariz. (AP) — Carved symbols along a dark red steel wall will be among the various parts of a large memorial to honor victims of the mass shooting in Tucson that gravely wounded then-U.S. Rep. Gabby Giffords.
  
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• 'Call of Duty' conquered video game market in 2015

  15-01-2016 22:45 via news.yahoo.com
  
  The "Call of Duty" video game installment released in November went on to rule the market, becoming the top-selling title last year at retail outlets, according to industry tracker NPD Group. Blockbuster sales of "Call of Duty: Black Ops III" pushed overall sales for the franchise past 250 million copies, video game publisher Activision said Thursday in a blog post. "Thanks to the community's continued support, 'Black Ops III' was the top-selling game of 2015 worldwide," Activision communication
  
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• Tim Peake spacewalk ends early

  15-01-2016 22:44 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Nasa has ended the spacewalk involving British astronaut Tim Peake after his US colleague reported water in his helmet.
  
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• Citigroup's 4Q earnings rise sharply, as legal expenses drop

  15-01-2016 22:43 via news.yahoo.com
  
  NEW YORK (AP) — Citigroup's said Friday that its profits jumped sharply in the fourth quarter, helped by lower legal and regulatory costs that hammered the bank in the fourth quarter of 2014.
  
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• Ben McAdoo says Giants need to reload, not rebuild

  15-01-2016 22:41 via news.yahoo.com
  
  EAST RUTHERFORD, N.J. (AP) — In deference to predecessor, Ben McAdoo is keeping the New York Giants on Tom Coughlin time.
  
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• Renault shares keep on skidding on emission fears

  15-01-2016 22:39 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Shares in French automaker Renault and other car companies skidded again Friday amid fears that an emissions scandal engulfing Volkswagen may be spreading sector-wide. Renault stocks had slumped by more than 20 percent during Thursday's session after unions reported that anti-fraud investigators had raided several of the company's sites, possibly looking for emissions cheating software on diesel engines, before closing around 10 percent lower. On Friday, Renault shares closed 3.4 percent lower a
  
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• Professor who abused disabled man sentenced to prison

  15-01-2016 22:36 via news.yahoo.com
  
  NEWARK, N.J. (AP) — A Rutgers University professor convicted of sexually assaulting a disabled man who she said had consented to the relationship by communicating on a keyboard was sentenced to 12 years in prison Friday.
  
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• U.S. justices take no action on Obama immigration case

  15-01-2016 22:35 via news.yahoo.com
  
  The U.S. Supreme Court on Friday took no immediate action on whether it will hear President Barack Obama's bid to revive his plan to shield more than 4 million immigrants from deportation, a move that bypassed the Republican-led Congress. The court could make an announcement next week on whether it will hear the immigration dispute. If the justices hear the case it would become one of the centerpiece cases of its current term, which runs until June.
  
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• Jakarta attack 'crime against humanity'

  15-01-2016 22:35 via rss.cnn.com
  
  Local Muslims in Indonesia are condemning the terrorist's attacks that shocked a commercial hub in Jakarta. CNN's Saima Mohsin reports.
  
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• Thursday's GOP debate seen by 11.1 million viewers

  15-01-2016 22:34 via news.yahoo.com
  
  NEW YORK (AP) — Thursday's GOP debate drew 11.1 million viewers to Fox Business Network, according to the Nielsen ratings company.
  
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• Justices will hear ex-Virginia Gov. McDonnell's appeal

  15-01-2016 22:34 via news.yahoo.com
  
  WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court will hear former Virginia governor Bob McDonnell's appeal of his public corruption convictions.
  
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• Taiwan voting: What's at stake?

  15-01-2016 22:33 via rss.cnn.com
  
  Voters in the only Chinese democracy are expected to elect Taiwan's first female leader when they go to the polls Saturday for presidential and parliamentary elections.
  
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• Gov. Snyder asks Obama for federal aid in Flint water crisis

  15-01-2016 22:33 via news.yahoo.com
  
  DETROIT (AP) — The state of Michigan can't meet all the needs of Flint residents whose water system has been contaminated by lead, Gov. Rick Snyder said in a request for a federal disaster declaration and millions of dollars that could pay for clean water, filters and other essentials.
  
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• First group of weary Cubans reach US after long trek

  15-01-2016 22:30 via news.yahoo.com
  
  The first few dozen of thousands of Cubans trying to reach the United States after being stranded for months in Costa Rica crossed the Mexican border into Texas Friday, ending a dangerous odyssey. Migrants group Cubanos en Libertad, an organization which helps Cubans arriving in Texas, said 59 had crossed the border. Most came to join family members already living in the United States, many of them in Florida, said a representative of the group, Alejandro Ruiz.
  
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• Fox bringing back 'Prison Break,' orders new '24' pilot

  15-01-2016 22:28 via news.yahoo.com
  
  PASADENA, Calif. (AP) — A roundup of news Friday from the Television Critics Association winter meeting, at which TV networks and streaming services are presenting details on upcoming programs.
  
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• U.S. seen growing 0.6 percent in fourth quarter: Atlanta Fed

  15-01-2016 22:18 via news.yahoo.com
  
  The U.S. economy is on track to grow 0.6 percent in the fourth quarter after disappointing data on retail sales and industrial output in December, the Atlanta Federal Reserve's GDPNow forecast model showed on Friday. The forecast for fourth-quarter real consumer spending growth fell to 1.7 percent to 2.0 percent, the model showed. The Commerce Department said on Friday retail sales dipped 0.1 percent after increasing 0.4 percent in November, while the Federal Reserve said industrial production f
  
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• Hurricane Alex whips Azores

  15-01-2016 22:18 via rss.cnn.com
  
  Alex, a rare January Atlantic hurricane, set its sights on the Azores, ready to whip the archipelago with its 80 mph winds.
  
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• Slide in share markets continues

  15-01-2016 22:16 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Wall Street tumbles as the FTSE 100 closes down almost 2%, with mining stock again leading the decline.
  
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• Asylum seekers star in premier fashion show

  15-01-2016 22:10 via rss.cnn.com
  
  The fashion industry, often been perceived as frivolous and self-indulgent, seems in recent times to be connecting with its inner activist. For years Vivienne Westwood has worn t-shirts at her runway shows raising awareness about climate change. When Rick Owen sent out mostly black, 'plus-size' dancers to show his Spring/Summer 2014 collection, it sparked a debate about beauty ideals -- one that still rages on today.
  
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• Oil plunges below $29 on prospects of more Iran crude, China worries

  15-01-2016 22:07 via news.yahoo.com
  
  By Devika Krishna Kumar NEW YORK (Reuters) - Oil prices crashed 6 percent on Friday to close below $30 a barrel for the first time in 12 years, resuming this year's breathtaking rout as Chinese stock markets fell further and traders braced for an imminent rise in Iran's exports. After closing higher for the first time in eight sessions on Thursday, U.S. and Brent crude futures plumbed new lows, taking this year's losses to more than 20 percent, the worst two-week decline since the 2008 financial
  
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