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• Fox draws 12.5 million viewers to Trump-less GOP debate

  29-01-2016 23:58 via news.yahoo.com
  
  NEW YORK (AP) — The seventh Republican presidential debate — and the first one without drawing card Donald Trump — was seen by 12.5 million viewers on Fox News Channel.
  
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• How Earth got its moon: New clues

  29-01-2016 23:56 via rss.cnn.com
  
  It's the only world besides Earth that man has set foot on. But we still don't know exactly how it got there.
  
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• Kerry says can't comment on content of Clinton emails

  29-01-2016 23:53 via news.yahoo.com
  
  QUEBEC CITY (Reuters) - U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry on Friday said he could not comment on private email chains of his predecessor Hillary Clinton, saying they were being withheld at the request of the U.S. intelligence community. "I can't speak to the specifics of anything with respect to the technicalities, the contents ... because that's not our job," Kerry told a news conference in Canada. "We don't know about it, it's in other hands." (Reporting by Lesley Wroughton Writing by David L
  
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• Geometry helped ancient Babylonians track planets

  29-01-2016 23:53 via news.yahoo.com
  
  People in ancient Babylon used geometry to calculate the position of Jupiter some 1,400 years earlier than previously thought, researchers said Friday. The findings in the US journal Science are based on an analysis of four ancient tablets that were written in Babylon between 350 and 50 BC. "These tablets are the earliest known examples of using geometry to calculate positions in time-space and suggest that ancient Babylonian astronomers may have influenced the emergence of such techniques in We
  
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• Clinton probe: Some emails now top secret

  29-01-2016 23:48 via rss.cnn.com
  
  The State Department announced Friday that it will not release 22 emails from former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton because they contain "top secret" information, the highest level of government classification.
  
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• Missing hunter of $2 million treasure followed these clues

  29-01-2016 23:42 via news.yahoo.com
  
  ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) — Santa Fe, New Mexico, antiquities dealer Forrest Fenn wrote in his memoir "The Thrill of the Chase," self-published in 2010, that somewhere high in the Rocky Mountains, he had hidden a small bronze treasure chest containing nearly $2 million in gold coins, jewelry and precious artifacts. Since then, tens of thousands of people have tried in vain to find the bounty, following clues he dropped in a poem as part of the memoir.
  
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• Global stocks gain as BoJ goes negative on interest rates

  29-01-2016 23:41 via news.yahoo.com
  
  New York (AFP) - Stock markets around the world rebounded Friday, ending a volatile month with a bang after the Bank of Japan unexpectedly slashed interest rates into negative territory for the first time.
  
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• Treasure hunter disappears searching for $2 million in gold

  29-01-2016 23:40 via news.yahoo.com
  
  ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) — An antiquities dealer who inspired tens of thousands to search the Rocky Mountains for $2 million in hidden treasure now leads an increasingly desperate mission to find one of his fans.
  
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• Factbox - How EU offer to Cameron is shaping up

  29-01-2016 23:38 via news.yahoo.com
  
  (Reuters) - A draft EU reform package to help keep Britain in the European Union could be circulated on Monday following meetings between Prime Minister David Cameron and top EU officials. The following are key points of what Reuters has been told by sources close to the negotiations could be the proposal European Council President Donald Tusk will send to EU governments after talks over dinner with Cameron in London on Sunday: THE FORM Negotiators will work through the weekend to craft a single
  
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• ASPCA seizes near-record 600 animals from no-kill shelter

  29-01-2016 23:31 via news.yahoo.com
  
  RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — One of the largest rescues of companion animals in the history of the ASPCA is being carried out in North Carolina, where 600 or more dogs, cats, horses and other animals have been seized from a no-kill shelter.
  
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• AP PHOTOS: The 2016 race heats up ahead of the Iowa caucuses

  29-01-2016 23:30 via news.yahoo.com
  
  WASHINGTON (AP) — Billionaire businessman Donald Trump opted to host his own rally Thursday at the exact same time that his GOP presidential rivals fought to present their closing arguments to the people of Iowa ahead of Monday's first-in-the-nation caucuses.
  
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• Blind, Mata lift Van Gaal in Man Utd FA Cup win

  29-01-2016 23:26 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Second-half goals by Daley Blind and Juan Mata brought relief for manager Louis van Gaal as Manchester United overcame second-tier Derby County 3-1 in the FA Cup on Friday. Van Gaal had admitted prior to the fourth-round tie that defeat at the iPro Stadium could cost him his job, having seen his side booed off following last weekend's abject 1-0 loss to Southampton at Old Trafford.
  
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• Appeals court orders EPA to issue rules on mining cleanups

  29-01-2016 23:23 via news.yahoo.com
  
  WASHINGTON (AP) — The Environmental Protection Agency was ordered Friday to begin issuing long-overdue rules aimed at stopping mining companies from declaring bankruptcy to avoid pollution cleanups.
  
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• Apple quietly working on virtual reality: report

  29-01-2016 23:21 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Apple has a team secretly working on virtual and augmented reality gear in a budding challenge to Facebook-owned Oculus Rift and Microsoft HoloLens, the Financial Times reported on Friday. Apple also has a trove of patents related to technology that could be put to work in reality-altering gear. California-based Apple has not commented on reports it is exploring virtual reality, but chief executive Tim Cook voiced interest while answering a question during a quarterly earnings call this week.
  
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• Escaped California Inmate in Police Custody

  29-01-2016 23:01
  
  One of the three inmates who escaped a California prison has been caught.
  
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• How the Dow Jones Industrial Average Fared on Friday

  29-01-2016 22:59
  Stocks soar on the last trading day of January, with Microsoft, Visa and other tech stocks making biggest gains during the widespread buying
  
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• ASPCA Makes Huge Seizure of 600 Animals From No-Kill Shelter

  29-01-2016 22:58
  One of the largest rescues of companion animals in the history of the ASPCA is being carried out in North Carolina, where 600 or more dogs, cats, horses and other animals have been seized from a no-kill shelter
  
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• US Stocks Soar to Finish Tough Month as Tech Stocks Climb

  29-01-2016 22:57
  US stocks soar as Microsoft leads tech stocks higher
  
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• Mexico City Gets New Status as Near-State

  29-01-2016 22:55
  Mexico City is getting a new status after long being considered an administrative district run by the central government
  
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• Vietnamese Gang Connected to Escape of 3 Inmates From California Prison, Police Say

  29-01-2016 22:54
  
  Police say the inmates had help planning their escape.
  
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• UConn Names Interim Athletic Director, Search Committee

  29-01-2016 22:54
  Univeristy of Connecticut President Susan Herbst has named her chief of staff as interim athletic director and appointed a search committee to find a permanent replacement for Warde Manuel
  
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• Mainz pull-off shock win over Gladbach

  29-01-2016 22:42 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Mainz climbed into the Bundesliga's top six on Friday by scoring their first goal in four games to seal their 1-0 upset win at home to Borussia Moenchengladbach. After Gladbach's Guinea international Ibrahima Traore was robbed of possession, Mainz Spanish midfielder Jairo darted into space. Despite plenty of possession, Gladbach could not force the equaliser at Mainz's Coface Arena with Borussia's attacking midfielder Lars Stindl twice going close.
  
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• Chinese miners rescued after 36 days

  29-01-2016 22:41 via rss.cnn.com
  
  For 36 days, they were trapped 700 feet underground, dependent on food lowered to them by the rescue workers who were plotting to get them out.
  
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• UN working group suggests US work on racial reconciliation

  29-01-2016 22:36 via news.yahoo.com
  
  WASHINGTON (AP) — The United States should consider reparations to African-American descendants of slavery, establish a national human rights commission and publicly acknowledge that the trans-Atlantic slave trade was a crime against humanity, a United Nations working group said Friday.
  
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• One of three escaped California inmates surrenders to police

  29-01-2016 22:35 via news.yahoo.com
  
  By Dan Whitcomb LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - One of three inmates who escaped a week ago from a maximum-security jail unit in Southern California has been taken into custody after surrendering to law enforcement, police said on Friday Bac Duong, 43, gave himself up to police in Santa Ana, California, shortly before noon, Orange County Sheriff Sandra Hutchens told a press conference. Carrie Braun, a sheriff's spokeswoman, said Duong apparently surrendered "because of the pressure that was being put on
  
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• The Latest: Christie says he owns up to evolving positions

  29-01-2016 22:32 via news.yahoo.com
  
  NASHUA, N.H. (AP) — The Latest on developments from the 2016 Republican race for president, just days out from the Iowa caucuses (all times local):
  
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• US stocks jump 2.4%, joining global rally

  29-01-2016 22:25 via news.yahoo.com
  
  New York (AFP) - US stocks jumped about 2.4 percent Friday, joining a global rally after surprise stimulus by the Bank of Japan raised confidence of further central bank moves to boost growth.
  
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• In Kentucky, a push for engineers over French lit scholars

  29-01-2016 22:25 via news.yahoo.com
  
  FRANKFORT, Ky. (AP) — Kentucky Gov. Matt Bevin wants state colleges and universities to produce more electrical engineers and less French literature scholars.
  
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• The Latest: MSF: Starvation deaths in besieged Syrian town

  29-01-2016 22:23 via news.yahoo.com
  
  GENEVA (AP) — The Latest on U.N.-hosted peace talks for the Syrian civil war in Geneva (all times local):
  
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• Stage set for chaos as New Hampshire primary looms

  29-01-2016 22:20 via news.yahoo.com
  
  CONCORD, N.H. (AP) — Uncertainties are mounting in New Hampshire as Republican presidential candidates fail to sway the state's many fence-sitters one way or the other, despite months of outreach by the various campaigns.
  
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• NSA files reveal extent of spying on Israel

  29-01-2016 22:17 via rss.cnn.com
  
  American and British spies have secretly monitored Israeli military drones, according to the latest investigative report by The Intercept.
  
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• Factbox: Why the Zika virus is causing alarm in the Americas

  29-01-2016 22:17 via news.yahoo.com
  
  (Reuters) - Global health officials say the Zika virus, linked to severe birth defects in thousands of babies in Brazil, is spreading rapidly in the Americas and could infect 3 million to 4 million people. The virus is transmitted to people through the bite of infected female Aedes mosquitoes, the same type of mosquito that spreads dengue, chikungunya and yellow fever. The Pan American Health Organization (PAHO) said Aedes mosquitoes are found in all countries in the Americas except Canada and c
  
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• The Latest: Paralyzed victim to attend Couch's hearing

  29-01-2016 22:16 via news.yahoo.com
  
  FORT WORTH, Texas (AP) — The Latest on the case of Ethan Couch, the 18-year-old who used an "affluenza" defense in a fatal 2013 drunken driving wreck in Texas and was recently deported from Mexico (all times local):
  
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• Albanian ex-minister arrested on abuse of power charges

  29-01-2016 22:15 via feeds.foxnews.com
  
  Police say a former Albanian labor minister, Spiro Ksera, has been arrested on charges of abuse of power.
  
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• Syrian opposition to go to Geneva as peace talks open

  29-01-2016 22:12 via news.yahoo.com
  
  By Tom Miles and Tom Perry GENEVA/BEIRUT (Reuters) - Syria's main opposition group agreed to travel to Geneva, where the United Nations on Friday opened peace talks to end the country's five-year-old war, but said it wanted to discuss humanitarian issues before engaging in political negotiations. On the ground, opponents of President Bashar al-Assad said they were facing a Russian-backed military onslaught, with hundreds of civilians reported to be fleeing as the Syrian army and allied militia t
  
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• 'Top Secret' emails on Clinton server, no public release: State Dept

  29-01-2016 22:06 via news.yahoo.com
  
  The State Department said Friday that material that should have been marked "Top Secret" has been found in seven email chains from former secretary of state Hillary Clinton's private server. Spokesman John Kirby said the emails, which he described as "22 documents covering 37 pages," would therefore not be released publicly along with other emails from the Democratic White House candidate's controversial archive. The revelation comes three days before Clinton -- the frontrunner for the Democrati
  
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• The Latest: Authorities say 1 of 3 fugitive inmates arrested

  29-01-2016 22:05 via news.yahoo.com
  
  SANTA ANA, Calif. (AP) — The Latest on the manhunt for three inmates who escaped from a jail in Orange County, California, a week ago (all times local):
  
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• U.N. says expects Syria talks with opposition on Sunday

  29-01-2016 22:03 via news.yahoo.com
  
  By Tom Miles GENEVA (Reuters) - United Nations Syria envoy Staffan de Mistura hopes to talk with the Syrian opposition delegation on Sunday, he said on Friday, and the main opposition body said it had agreed to travel to Geneva to meet him. The opposition's High Negotiating Committee (HNC) has been meeting in Riyadh for several days to debate whether to join the talks or insist the government of President Bashar al-Assad first stop bombing civilian areas and allow in humanitarian aid. "They&rsqu
  
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• Some struggle with how to mark death of Buddy Cianci

  29-01-2016 21:58 via news.yahoo.com
  
  PROVIDENCE, R.I. (AP) — As affection poured in following the death of former Providence Mayor Buddy Cianci and city officials made plans for him to lie in repose at City Hall, other leaders struggled Friday to come up with the appropriate way to mark the death of a man forced from office twice due to felonies.
  
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• U.S. to withhold some Clinton emails with top secret information

  29-01-2016 21:53 via news.yahoo.com
  
  By Arshad Mohammed and Jonathan Allen WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Seven of former U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton's private email chains will be withheld from public release because they have been found to contain top secret information, the U.S. State Department said on Friday. "The State Department will be denying in full seven email chains, found in 22 documents representing 37 pages," said State Department spokesman John Kirby. "The documents are being upgraded at the request of the Intel
  
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• APNewsBreak: US declares 22 Clinton emails 'top secret'

  29-01-2016 21:46 via news.yahoo.com
  
  The Obama administration confirmed for the first time Friday that Hillary Clinton's unsecured home server contained closely guarded government secrets, censoring 22 emails with material requiring one of ...
  
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• Hilary Duff Opens Up About Relationship With Ex-Husband

  29-01-2016 21:45
  
  Duff and ex-husband Mike Comrie share custody of their son, Luca.
  
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• Vid shows killing of Oregon occupier

  29-01-2016 21:41 via rss.cnn.com
  
  The FBI on Thursday released video that shows the Tuesday night confrontation between officials and people who were part of an occupation at a wildlife refuge in Oregon.
  
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• The Latest: Paralyzing illness grows in Colombia, Venezuela

  29-01-2016 21:41 via news.yahoo.com
  
  RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) — The Latest on the Zika virus and fears it could be linked to birth defects (all times local):
  
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• U.S. urges Syrian government, opposition to attend Geneva peace talks

  29-01-2016 21:40 via news.yahoo.com
  
  WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The United States encouraged the Syrian government and opposition groups to attend peace talks in Geneva that began on Friday, a State Department spokesman said. Syria's main opposition body has agreed to travel to Geneva, following a phone call from U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry and after receiving guarantees that their demands would be met, its spokesman said earlier on Friday. (Reporting by Arshad Mohammad and Eric Walsh; Editing by James Dalgleish)
  
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• Fox News draws 12.5 mn for debate, despite Trump no-show

  29-01-2016 21:40 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Fox News Channel drew 12.5 million viewers for Thursday's Republican presidential debate, its second largest TV audience ever despite the absence of frontrunner Donald Trump, who hosted a rival event, Nielsen said. Fox News's Thursday primetime broadcast handily beat out competing cable channels CNN and MSNBC, even combined. CNN averaged 1.76 million viewers for the period, and MSNBC drew 1.02 million, respectable numbers but far short of the huge haul for Fox News, according to the Hollywood Re
  
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• Jefferson Airplane founder dies

  29-01-2016 21:39 via rss.cnn.com
  
  Paul Kantner, a founding member and guitarist in the '60s psychedelic rock band Jefferson Airplane and its successor, Jefferson Starship, has died, the Grammy Awards Twitter page said. He was 74.
  
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• 'Half of ISIS executions are civilians'

  29-01-2016 21:39 via rss.cnn.com
  
  ISIS has executed 3,895 people, more than half of them civilians, since announcing the establishment of a "caliphate state" in June 2014, the UK-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said Friday.
  
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• 'Bachelor' Chris Soules Says Chris Christie Tweet Not 'Endorsement'

  29-01-2016 21:37
  
  Chris Soules may have taken a photo with Republican Presidential candidate Chris Christie, but the former "Bachelor" star, 34, says it does not mean he's endorsing the fo
  
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• Navy officer sentenced to 40 months in bribery case

  29-01-2016 21:31 via news.yahoo.com
  
  SAN DIEGO (AP) — A federal judge has sentenced a Navy officer to 40 months in federal prison for providing ships and submarine schedules to a Malaysian contractor in exchange for cash and luxury hotel stays in Singapore, Hong Kong and the island of Tonga.
  
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