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• 'Hotel California' closes with legend's death

  19-01-2016 23:58 via rss.cnn.com
  
  The passing of Glenn Frey both recalls and closes the book on one of rock's most celebrated rock 'n' roll songwriting teams, but for many of us it also signals something more personal: the passing of a time when the Eagles' "Hotel California" was the anthem for the youth of America in the '70s -- the way Beatles music was for the children of the '60s.
  
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• A grim life under ISIS

  19-01-2016 23:50 via rss.cnn.com
  
  A new report from the UN paints a grim picture of life in Iraq since the rise of ISIS. CNN's Hala Gorani reports
  
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• Saudi: No confidence in Iran

  19-01-2016 23:45 via rss.cnn.com
  
  In an interview with CNN's Wolf Blitzer on Tuesday, Saudi Arabia's foreign minister expressed cautious optimism about the Iran nuclear deal and defended his country's execution of a Shiite cleric beloved by Iran.
  
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• U.S. agency says its response to Flint water crisis too slow

  19-01-2016 23:40 via news.yahoo.com
  
  By David Shepardson WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency said on Tuesday it was reviewing its handling of a crisis over lead-contaminated drinking water in the Michigan city of Flint and acknowledged it did not respond fast enough. "Our first priority is to make sure the water in Flint is safe, but we also must look at what the agency could have done differently," the agency said in a statement. An EPA spokeswoman confirmed the agency believed it did not act fast enoug
  
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• Cruz dons face paint in appeal to hunters, gun owners

  19-01-2016 23:37 via news.yahoo.com
  
  WASHINGTON (AP) — It's an image football fans in Iowa are likely to see this weekend: Ted Cruz, his face smeared with black greasepaint, sitting in a Louisiana duck blind with a borrowed shotgun.
  
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• Arizona city made famous by Eagles song celebrates Frey

  19-01-2016 23:37 via news.yahoo.com
  
  FLAGSTAFF, Ariz. (AP) — Winslow, Arizona, was all but forgotten when Interstate 40 displaced Route 66 and began whisking travelers around its downtown in the late 1970s.
  
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• AP Exclusive: Video footage shows Burkina Faso attackers

  19-01-2016 23:34 via news.yahoo.com
  
  OUAGADOUGOU, Burkina Faso (AP) — Three jihadis can be seen on video standing next to burning cars a little more than an hour after an assault began on a hotel and cafe in Burkina Faso's capital, raising new questions Tuesday about why it took so long for security forces to find and kill the militants blamed for at least 30 deaths.
  
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• Former Eagle Don Felder mourns death of Glenn Frey

  19-01-2016 23:31 via news.yahoo.com
  
  NEW YORK (AP) — Don Felder had still not given up on speaking again to Glenn Frey.
  
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• Rally calls for keeping Confederate emblem on state flag

  19-01-2016 23:25 via news.yahoo.com
  
  JACKSON, Miss. (AP) — About 200 people who want to keep the Confederate battle emblem on the Mississippi flag are rallying outside the state Capitol.
  
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• Man charged with stealing $1,600 dog, trading it for crack

  19-01-2016 23:23 via news.yahoo.com
  
  LARGO, Fla. (AP) — Florida authorities are searching for a $1,600 Yorkshire terrier that they say a man stole from a pet store and traded for crack cocaine.
  
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• Immigration case could hurt Republican outreach to U.S. Hispanics

  19-01-2016 23:21 via news.yahoo.com
  
  By James Oliphant WASHINGTON (Reuters) - For a Republican Party trying to woo Hispanic voters, the timing of the U.S. Supreme Court's review of the legality of President Barack Obama's executive action on immigration could not come at a more awkward time. The case, which will consider whether Obama exceeded his constitutional authority to spare from deportation millions of immigrants in the country illegally, is set to be argued in the coming months with a decision due by the end of June. A Supr
  
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• Experts: Willingness claim unlikely to help "affluenza" teen

  19-01-2016 23:17 via news.yahoo.com
  
  FORT WORTH, Texas (AP) — An argument raised Tuesday by lawyers for a Texas teenager known for using an "affluenza" defense in a fatal drunken-driving wreck — that he may have been taken to Mexico against his will — is unlikely to help his case, outside juvenile defense attorneys said.
  
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• Trump wins key tea party supporter

  19-01-2016 23:16 via rss.cnn.com
  
  Former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin is endorsing Republican presidential front-runner Donald Trump Tuesday at an Iowa campaign stop, a source familiar with the plans told CNN.
  
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• US stocks rise in shaky trading, led by utilities

  19-01-2016 23:10 via news.yahoo.com
  
  NEW YORK (AP) — U.S. stocks struggled through a turbulent day of trading Tuesday and eked out small gains, led by utility and consumer stocks. The price of crude oil continued to fall, and energy and mining stocks tumbled.
  
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• Malaysia counts cost of bauxite mining

  19-01-2016 23:08 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Malaysia counts cost of bauxite mining
  
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• Northern California bus crash kills 2, sends 8 to hospital

  19-01-2016 23:05 via news.yahoo.com
  
  SAN JOSE, Calif. (AP) — A Greyhound bus rolled onto its side during a rainy Tuesday morning commute in Northern California, killing two women and sending at least eight others to the hospital, authorities said.
  
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• Judge rules against Justice Dept. in Fast and Furious fight

  19-01-2016 23:02 via news.yahoo.com
  
  WASHINGTON (AP) — A federal judge on Tuesday rejected the Justice Department's claim of executive privilege used to withhold certain documents tied to the Fast and Furious "gun-walking" scandal from release to a congressional committee.
  
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• Netflix membership climbs with global growth

  19-01-2016 23:00 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Netflix on Tuesday reported that it remained profitable and added a record number of new subscribers in the final quarter of last year as it pushed to expand globally. Netflix shares jumped more than five percent to $113.84 after revealing that its ranks of members has topped 75 million and made a profit of $43 million in the final quarter of last year. Northern California-based Netflix added a record 5.59 million members in the final three months of last year, topping market forecasts.
  
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• Stevie Wonder, Pearl Jam, Nick Jonas on tap for Jazz Fest

  19-01-2016 22:48 via news.yahoo.com
  
  NEW ORLEANS (AP) — Stevie Wonder, Pearl Jam and Neil Young are among those returning to entertain fans at this year's New Orleans Jazz and Heritage Festival, while Nick Jonas, Maxwell, Beck, Snoop Dogg and the Red Hot Chili Peppers are making their festival debut.
  
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• More cell phones than water

  19-01-2016 22:41 via rss.cnn.com
  
  In Africa, less than one in three people have a proper drainage system, half of the population live in areas without paved roads, and only 63% have access to piped water. Yet, 93% of Africans have cell phone service.
  
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• Islamic State media outlet confirms death of 'Jihadi John'

  19-01-2016 22:40 via news.yahoo.com
  
  A media outlet associated with Islamic State on Tuesday released a eulogy for "Jihadi John", a member of the militant group who gained notoriety for his filmed execution of hostages, the monitoring organisation SITE reported. The militant was identified as Mohammed Emwazi, a British citizen of Arab origin. Emwazi was described in Islamic State's Dabiq magazine by his nickname "Abu Muharib al-Muhajir".
  
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• Iowa governor calls for anti-Cruz vote on ethanol issue

  19-01-2016 22:32 via news.yahoo.com
  
  ALTOONA, Iowa (AP) — Republican presidential hopeful Ted Cruz received an anti-endorsement from the governor of Iowa, Tuesday, host of the country's lead-off presidential caucus, on account of his failure to support renewable fuels like ethanol.
  
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• Texas attorney general says daily fantasy sports illegal in state

  19-01-2016 22:24 via news.yahoo.com
  
  By Jon Herskovitz AUSTIN, Texas (Reuters) - Daily fantasy sports games that charge players to compete cannot operate legally in Texas, the state's attorney general said on Tuesday, making it the latest U.S. state to challenge the legality of such online contests. Online operators' claims that they can "operate as an unregulated house" do not "square with existing Texas law," Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton said in a statement on his office's website. "A court would likely determine that partic
  
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• Twitter disruption silences swaths of US, Europe for hours

  19-01-2016 22:23 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Some Twitter users had to do without early Tuesday after sporadic outages knocked the social media site offline in the U.S. and Europe.
  
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• The Latest: Lawyers: Willingness question won't help Couch

  19-01-2016 22:22 via news.yahoo.com
  
  FORT WORTH, Texas (AP) — The latest in the case of Ethan Couch, the Texas teenager who used an "affluenza" defense in a fatal drunken-driving accident (all local times):
  
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• Colombia and Farc request UN observers

  19-01-2016 22:22 via bbc.co.uk
  
  The Colombian government and the left-wing Farc rebel movement jointly request a UN mission to oversee the end of their decades-long conflict.
  
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• Calls for boycott over diversity throw Oscars into turmoil

  19-01-2016 22:22 via news.yahoo.com
  
  NEW YORK (AP) — Growing calls for a boycott of the Academy Awards over the lack of diversity among this year's Oscar nominees are forcing stars to choose sides and threatening to throw the movie industry's biggest night of the year into turmoil.
  
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• Djokovic, Serena out to build on Aussie momentum

  19-01-2016 22:19 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Novak Djokovic faces a French test at the Australian Open on Wednesday as fellow world number one Serena Williams looks to build on her early tournament momentum in a quest to win a 22nd Grand Slam. Roger Federer and Maria Sharapova are also in action, while Canadian Eugenie Bouchard, a semi-finalist in 2014, faces her hardest assignment yet after coming back from slipping and suffering concussion at the US Open.
  
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• Global unemployment set to rise through 2017: ILO

  19-01-2016 22:16 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Global unemployment rose in 2015 and is expected to worsen further over the next two years, the International Labour Organization said Tuesday, citing downturns in key emerging economies. In a new report, the ILO estimated that 197.1 million working-age people were unemployed in 2015, an uptick of 0.7 percent compared to 2014 figures. The figures also made clear that employment rates have not recovered from the financial crash of 2008, as 27 million more people were out of work last year as comp
  
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• SEAL allegedly kept dead bin Laden pic

  19-01-2016 22:06 via rss.cnn.com
  
  A Navy SEAL who helped kill Osama bin Laden allegedly kept an unauthorized photo of his corpse, The Intercept reported Tuesday.
  
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• U.S. Supreme Court to decide major case on Obama immigration plan

  19-01-2016 22:05 via news.yahoo.com
  
  By Lawrence Hurley WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. Supreme Court on Tuesday paved the way for a major ruling on the limits of presidential powers, agreeing to decide the legality of President Barack Obama's unilateral action to shield more than 4 million illegal immigrants from deportation. The court agreed to hear Obama's bid to resurrect his plan, undertaken in 2014 through executive action bypassing the Republican-led Congress, that was blocked last year by lower courts after Texas and 25 oth
  
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• Officials: All life rafts from copters found and none used

  19-01-2016 22:02 via news.yahoo.com
  
  HONOLULU (AP) — The Coast Guard has found the fourth life raft from two Marine helicopters that crashed off Hawaii, but no sign has emerged of any of the 12 missing crew members.
  
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• Cruz backers: Should he temper conservatism with moderation?

  19-01-2016 21:53 via news.yahoo.com
  
  WHITEFIELD, New Hampshire (AP) — Ted Cruz says he is the first true conservative running for president since Ronald Reagan — and that will carry him to the Republican nomination come July.
  
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• New Jersey schools briefly evacuated over bomb threats

  19-01-2016 21:52 via news.yahoo.com
  
  US authorities on Tuesday briefly evacuated nine schools in New Jersey after receiving anonymous bomb and shooting threats, authorities said. The schools affected were in Bergen County in the northeastern part of the state, across the Hudson River from Manhattan. Police in the town of Clifton said "numerous school districts in the area" had received a bomb threat by voice mail early Tuesday.
  
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• Iran's elite Guards to gain regional, economic power in post-sanctions era

  19-01-2016 21:52 via news.yahoo.com
  
  By Parisa Hafezi ANKARA (Reuters) - Iran's Revolutionary Guards did well under international sanctions, and the elite military force is destined to become still richer now they've been lifted. Iran's clerical rulers have supported economic growth of the Guards, rewarding the group for sanctions-busting as well as suppressing dissent at home and helping Tehran's allies abroad - notably Syrian President Bashar al-Assad. Now the country is expecting an economic boom in the post-sanctions era and th
  
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• Nadal defeat leads day of shocks

  19-01-2016 21:51 via rss.cnn.com
  
  If 2015 was bad for Rafael Nadal, then 2016 isn't looking much better.
  
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• Michigan governor expected to devote speech to water crisis

  19-01-2016 21:44 via news.yahoo.com
  
  LANSING, Mich. (AP) — Only a year ago, Rick Snyder began his second term as Michigan governor promoting the same achievements that had propelled him to victory in 2014: The state was at last in the midst of an economic comeback, and Detroit had emerged from bankruptcy.
  
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• IRS again warns of phone scams as filing season opens

  19-01-2016 21:31 via news.yahoo.com
  
  WASHINGTON (AP) — The IRS says taxpayer losses from phone scammers impersonating agency tax collectors have hit $26.5 million over the past couple of years and it's again warning people to just hang up on anyone claiming they're from the agency and demanding immediate payment.
  
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• Oil prices may fall further this year, the IEA says

  19-01-2016 21:29 via news.yahoo.com
  
  NEW YORK (AP) — The International Energy Agency says oil prices may fall further this year due to low demand, warm winter weather and an oversupply of crude.
  
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• Germany: 3 ex-Red Army Faction suspects linked to robberies

  19-01-2016 21:29 via news.yahoo.com
  
  BERLIN (AP) — Three former members of the disbanded leftist militant group Red Army Faction have been linked to two botched armored car robberies after spending years in hiding, in what German authorities said Tuesday may have been attempts to continue financing their life underground.
  
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• Ben Carson team in car crash, campaigning suspended

  19-01-2016 21:23 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Republican Ben Carson temporarily suspended his US presidential bid Tuesday when four members of his campaign team were in a serious car accident in Iowa, where the first votes in the nomination process will be cast. A van transporting the group "hit a patch of ice and flipped on its side where it was struck by another vehicle," Carson's campaign said in a statement. One volunteer was being transported to a trauma center in Omaha, Nebraska, while three others including a campaign staffer who was
  
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• Filmmaker Ken Burns to deliver prestigious Jefferson Lecture

  19-01-2016 21:19 via news.yahoo.com
  
  NEW YORK (AP) — Acclaimed documentary filmmaker Ken Burns has been chosen to deliver the 2016 Jefferson Lecture in the Humanities, according to the National Endowment for the Humanities, which produces the event.
  
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• Motion sensors guard El Chapo

  19-01-2016 21:07 via rss.cnn.com
  
  Motion sensors monitor his every move; dogs trained to detect his scent stand guard and prison floors have been reinforced with steel rods. These are just some of the security measures Mexican authorities have taken to make sure Joaquin "El Chapo" Guzman doesn't break out for a third time.
  
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• 'Fresh Prince' star slams Smiths

  19-01-2016 21:00 via rss.cnn.com
  
  Janet Hubert is the latest celebrity to speak out about the #OscarsSoWhite controversy, but she is aiming her thoughts at two people in particular: Jada Pinkett and Will Smith.
  
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• Mexico quizzes actress over Guzman cash

  19-01-2016 20:28 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Mexican actress Kate del Castillo, who set up a meeting between drug baron Joaquin "El Chapo" Guzman and Sean Penn, is investigated for money laundering.
  
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• American freed by Iran feels 'born again'

  19-01-2016 20:13 via rss.cnn.com
  
  Amir Hekmati, one of the five Americans released by Iran, said Tuesday that his freedom was "like being born again."
  
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• Young artist among 30 killed in siege

  19-01-2016 20:11 via rss.cnn.com
  
  Photographer and visual artist Leila Alaoui had traveled to Burkina Faso to work on the kind of project she loved.
  
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• Gov't report: Budget deficit to rise to $544B this year

  19-01-2016 20:08 via news.yahoo.com
  
  WASHINGTON (AP) — A government report released Tuesday estimates that this year's budget deficit will rise to $544 billion, an increase over prior estimates that can be attributed largely to tax cuts and spending increases passed by Congress last month. The deficit and debt picture over the long-term has also worsened considerably.
  
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• Latest gauge on China slowdown brings relief it wasn't worse

  19-01-2016 20:01 via news.yahoo.com
  
  BEIJING (AP) — The slowdown of China's once-sizzling economy has fueled anxiety over its impact on the rest of the world. Yet when Beijing reported Tuesday that its economy grew last year at the slowest pace in a quarter-century, the reaction seemed to be mainly relief it wasn't worse.
  
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• East Coast, Ohio Valley brace for possible big snowstorm

  19-01-2016 19:59 via news.yahoo.com
  
  WASHINGTON (AP) — Meteorologists say tens of millions of Americans from Washington to Boston and the Ohio Valley could be walloped by an end-of-the-week snowstorm.
  
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