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• Throw out the 'granny' stereotype

  02-03-2016 23:59 via rss.cnn.com
  
  Ari Seth Cohen doesn't agree with how society tends to portray older people.
  
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• Ovechkin, McDavid among stars named to World Cup of Hockey

  02-03-2016 23:59 via news.yahoo.com
  
  New York (AFP) - Alexander Ovechkin, on pace to lead the National Hockey League in goals for a fourth consecutive season, and star rookie Connor McDavid were among those named Wednesday to 2016 World Cup of Hockey rosters.
  
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• Super rich rush to buy superyachts

  02-03-2016 23:58 via rss.cnn.com
  
  It's smooth sailing ahead for the mega-wealthy, as global sales of superyachts took off last year.
  
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• Crown Princess gives birth

  02-03-2016 23:54 via rss.cnn.com
  
  Crown Princess Victoria of Sweden has given birth to a son.
  
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• Tottenham misses chance to go top by losing 1-0 at West Ham

  02-03-2016 23:52 via news.yahoo.com
  
  LONDON (AP) — Tottenham missed a rare chance to go top of the Premier League on Wednesday when West Ham won their London derby 1-0 to go within a point of the four Champions League places.
  
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• Photos: Katy Perry and Orlando Bloom Get Cozy in Hawaii

  02-03-2016 23:51
  
  When they're not on set, stars kick back at the beach and pool.
  
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• Judge: Teen who killed family to remain in custody until 21

  02-03-2016 23:50 via news.yahoo.com
  
  ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) — A judge has ruled a teenager who pleaded guilty to killing his parents and three young siblings will remain in state custody until he is 21.
  
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• How extreme is Donald Trump?

  02-03-2016 23:50 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Where do Donald Trump and his Republican rivals stand on the issues - and how do they fit on an ideological spectrum alongside past American presidents?
  
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• Mozambique debris likely same model plane as MH370: Malaysia

  02-03-2016 23:46 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Suspected aircraft debris has been found on the coast of Mozambique, and Malaysia's transport minister said Wednesday there was a "high possibility" it came from a Boeing 777, the same model as missing flight MH370. "Based on early reports, high possibility debris found in Mozambique belongs to a B777," Liow Tiong Lai said on his Twitter feed. US television network NBC earlier reported a piece of debris had been found along the eastern African coast between Mozambique and Madagascar.
  
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• Vatican cardinal denies attempts to cover up child sex abuse in church

  02-03-2016 23:44 via news.yahoo.com
  
  By Philip Pullella and Jane Wardell ROME/SYDNEY (Reuters) - A high-ranking Vatican official on Wednesday denied trying to bribe an Australian man who was sexually abused as a child by a Roman Catholic priest to ensure his silence in a bid to protect the church. Cardinal George Pell, the Vatican's treasurer, was giving evidence via video link from Rome for the fourth consecutive day to Australia's Royal Commission into Institutional Response to Child Sexual Abuse. Given Pell's high rank within th
  
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• Does Kanye West use Pirate Bay?

  02-03-2016 23:42 via rss.cnn.com
  
  Another day, another controversial Kanye West tweet.
  
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• Outspoken Ronaldo gets Madrid back on track

  02-03-2016 23:39 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Cristiano Ronaldo made amends for recent critical comments of his Real Madrid teammates with a goal and an assist in a 3-1 win at Levante on Wednesday to cut the gap on La Liga leaders Barcelona to nine points. Ronaldo's penalty and an own goal from Levante 'keeper Diego Marino put the visitors in command before Deyverson pulled one back for Levante before half-time. Real trail second-placed Atletico Madrid by four points, but do open up a four-point lead of their own on Villarreal after they we
  
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• Obama honors Alabama's championship football team

  02-03-2016 23:39 via news.yahoo.com
  
  WASHINGTON (AP) — Bellowing out "Roll Tide," President Barack Obama on Wednesday welcomed the University of Alabama football team to the White House for the fourth time since he became president and said he must have brought it some good luck.
  
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• Syria: Russian bombing ahead of peace talks prepares for future fighting

  02-03-2016 23:35 via feeds.foxnews.com
  
  Despite the fragile “cessation of hostilities” over much of Syria, a steady barrage of Russian air strikes is still aimed at moderate and U.S.-supported rebel forces, further complicating desperately strained humanitarian relief efforts and preparing the way for a renewed offensive by the dictatorial regime of Bashar al-Assad, sayexperts keeping tabs on the air assault.
  
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• US Republicans express Trump fears

  02-03-2016 23:30 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Senior Republicans are speaking out against front-runner Donald Trump after his seven-state victory in the race for the party's presidential pick.
  
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• Indicted former CEO of Chesapeake Energy dead in crash: police

  02-03-2016 23:30 via news.yahoo.com
  
  The former head of Chesapeake Energy and pioneer of the US fracking industry was killed in a one-car crash in Oklahoma early Wednesday, a day after he was indicted for bid-fixing, police said. Aubrey McClendon's car rammed into a bridge wall in northeast Oklahoma City, Sergeant Gary Knight, a police spokesman, told AFP. McClendon, 56, died at the scene, Knight said.
  
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• Trump triumph leaves Republican party in disarray

  02-03-2016 23:28 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Donald Trump's triumphal march toward the Republican presidential nomination left his party in disarray Wednesday, as Democrats coalesced around their White House frontrunner Hillary Clinton after her slew of Super Tuesday victories. Both candidates emerged the clear winners on Tuesday after several party nominating contests, piling up delegates on the biggest, most pivotal day of primaries in the race to succeed President Barack Obama. Trump was victorious in seven of 11 states, weakening but n
  
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• Yearlong spacemen embrace fresh, frigid air back on Earth

  02-03-2016 23:24 via news.yahoo.com
  
  CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — Ah, there's nothing like a blast of fresh, frigid air to welcome you back to the planet after nearly a year cooped up in space.
  
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• VIDEO: 'I woke up to my husband's fist'

  02-03-2016 23:24 via bbc.co.uk
  
  A new law prohibiting any form of domestic violence against women in China came into effect on 1 March.
  
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• Judge ends Debra Messing's marriage to writer-producer

  02-03-2016 23:24 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Debra Messing and her husband are officially divorced.
  
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• Zynga shares spike after new CEO named

  02-03-2016 23:21 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Zynga shares shot higher in early trade Wednesday after the struggling social gaming company named industry veteran Frank Gibeau as its chief executive in its latest effort to reboot. Shares in Zynga -- which hit the market in a highly anticipated 2011 public offering but have sputtered since -- rallied 4.2 percent to close at $2.25. Company founder Mark Pincus, who stepped back into the CEO job a year ago, said he would remain active in the role of executive chairman, as he announced Gibeau's a
  
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• Ohio school shooting suspect's family says it's 'devastated'

  02-03-2016 23:21 via news.yahoo.com
  
  CINCINNATI (AP) — The family of the 14-year-old boy charged in a southwest Ohio school shooting said Wednesday it is "devastated" by his alleged actions and is praying for the quick recovery of the injured students.
  
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• Socialist power bid in Spain rejected

  02-03-2016 23:19 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Spain's Socialist leader has lost a bid to form a government after both main rival parties voted down his attempts to form a coalition.
  
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• Rattled Republicans seek a last-ditch strategy to stop Trump

  02-03-2016 23:19 via news.yahoo.com
  
  WASHINGTON (AP) — Staring down the prospect of nominating Donald Trump for president, Republicans spiraled into a chaotic, last-ditch search Wednesday for a way to save the GOP from hitching its fortunes to an unpredictable celebrity candidate without alienating his throng of followers.
  
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• Key justice Kennedy wavers as Supreme Court confronts abortion

  02-03-2016 23:19 via news.yahoo.com
  
  By Lawrence Hurley WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A closely divided Supreme Court struggled with its biggest abortion case in years on Wednesday, with pivotal Justice Anthony Kennedy voicing concerns about a restrictive Texas law yet stopping short of signaling he would strike it down. The court's four liberal justices indicated they believed the law, which imposes strict regulations on abortion doctors and clinic buildings, intrudes on a woman's constitutional right to end a pregnancy established in a
  
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• Eerie beauty in Soviet wastelands

  02-03-2016 23:14 via rss.cnn.com
  
  The site of one of the 20th century's worst nuclear disasters probably isn't on most people's list of ideal road trip destinations. But then, most people aren't urban explorer David de Rueda.
  
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• Man admits Virginia student murders

  02-03-2016 23:06 via bbc.co.uk
  
  A US man is given four consecutive life sentences after admitting the murder and abduction of two students, including Briton Hannah Graham.
  
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• U.S. tourist found debris

  02-03-2016 22:45 via rss.cnn.com
  
  CNN's Richard Quest talks to the American tourist who discovered the likely MH370 debris off the coast of Mozambique.
  
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• Carson doesn't see 'a political path forward'

  02-03-2016 22:33 via rss.cnn.com
  
  Ben Carson doesn't "see a political path forward" in the Republican presidential nomination process, and will not attend Thursday's GOP presidential debate in his hometown of Detroit, he said in a statement.
  
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• VIDEO: Cashier wrestles with armed robber

  02-03-2016 22:23 via bbc.co.uk
  
  A woman cashier fended off an armed robber in the US state of Georgia on Tuesday, grabbing his weapon before he fled.
  
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• Mexico seals records in lop-sided shootout that killed 42

  02-03-2016 22:15 via feeds.foxnews.com
  
  Mexico's transparency watchdog agency has taken the government's side in denying an appeal to release autopsy reports on 42 suspects killed by federal police in 2015.
  
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• Investigation into Brazil's speaker of the house approved

  02-03-2016 22:15 via feeds.foxnews.com
  
  The speaker of the lower house in Brazil's Congress faced new efforts Wednesday to strip him of his office or put him behind bars.
  
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• Brazil mudslide £800m deal reached

  02-03-2016 22:06 via bbc.co.uk
  
  The owners of a Brazilian mine that breached a dam, setting off a deadly mudslide, has agreed to pay 4.4bn reais (£804m) in damages.
  
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• UN imposes toughest-ever North Korea sanctions

  02-03-2016 21:49 via news.yahoo.com
  
  The United Nations on Wednesday adopted the toughest sanctions to date on North Korea in response to its fourth nuclear test and rocket launch, but all eyes were on China and Russia to see if they fully enact the sweeping measures. The Security Council unanimously passed a resolution imposing new sanctions after seven weeks of arduous negotiations between the United States and China, Pyongyang's sole ally. Among the unprecedented measures is a new requirement that all countries must inspect carg
  
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• OAS rights commission finds 'serious crisis' in Mexico

  02-03-2016 21:45 via feeds.foxnews.com
  
  The human rights commission of the Organization of American States is warning about what it calls an "alarming" and "tragic" situation in Mexico involving not just drug violence but excessive use of force, impunity, torture and police collusion with criminals.
  
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• Mining company behind dam burst sign clean-up deal

  02-03-2016 21:45 via feeds.foxnews.com
  
  The company running an iron ore mine whose dam break caused the worst environmental disaster in Brazil's history has agreed to initially pay 4.4 billion reais ($1.1 billion) to clean up the Doce River over the next three years Samarco says in a Wednesday news release that it will pay the money to a foundation in charge of restoring the river basin.
  
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• Mitt Romney wants a word on 2016

  02-03-2016 21:44 via rss.cnn.com
  
  Mitt Romney will speak Thursday on "the state of the 2016 presidential race," he said in a press release.
  
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• Emotions run high outside courthouse for abortion showdown

  02-03-2016 21:43 via news.yahoo.com
  
  "If you support life, let me hear you scream," South Carolina Republican U.S. Senator Tim Scott told anti-abortion demonstrators, eliciting yells and applause. "We are talking about 10 fingers and 10 toes and one precious heart. The court heard arguments in a legal challenge to a restrictive, Republican-backed Texas abortion law, with a ruling expected by the end of June. Christina Bennett, a member of the National Black Pro-Life Coalition, shared her story during the anti-abortion rally ab
  
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• Obama praises Oregon's new landmark minimum wage law

  02-03-2016 21:40 via news.yahoo.com
  
  SALEM, Ore. (AP) — Oregon's governor on Wednesday signed trailblazing legislation that will raise the minimum wage to nearly $15 in six years and do so through a three-tiered system that has not been tried anywhere else in the country.
  
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• Kelly says she doesn't expect Trump hostility in debate

  02-03-2016 21:40 via news.yahoo.com
  
  NEW YORK (AP) — Anticipating another appearance on a debate stage with Donald Trump, Fox News Channel's Megyn Kelly says their public feud hasn't affected her preparation and she doesn't expect a renewal of hostilities with the Republican presidential front runner.
  
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• US working to fix language issues with Syria truce hotline

  02-03-2016 21:39 via news.yahoo.com
  
  WASHINGTON (AP) — The State Department says it is working to fix language issues with staff at a 24-hour telephone hotline it set up for Syrians to report alleged violations of the cease-fire that took effect last weekend.
  
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• Police: Ex-Chesapeake CEO Aubrey McClendon dies in crash

  02-03-2016 21:37 via news.yahoo.com
  
  OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — Aubrey McClendon, a natural gas industry titan, was killed in a fiery single-vehicle crash in Oklahoma City on Wednesday, a day after he was indicted on a charge of conspiring to rig bids to buy oil and natural gas leases in northwest Oklahoma.
  
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• Virginia man pleads guilty to killing 2 college students

  02-03-2016 21:36 via news.yahoo.com
  
  CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va. (AP) — A convicted rapist pleaded guilty Wednesday to killing two Virginia college students and avoided the death penalty by taking a deal that calls for him to spend the rest of his life in prison.
  
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• Syrian opposition casts doubt on U.N. peace talk plan

  02-03-2016 21:36 via news.yahoo.com
  
  By Lisa Barrington and John Davison BEIRUT (Reuters) - Syrian rebels said on Wednesday they were under fierce government attack near the Turkish border despite a cessation of hostilities agreement and a representative cast doubt on whether U.N.-backed peace talks would go ahead on March 9 as planned. The agreement does not include Islamic State or al Qaeda's Nusra Front, which is widely deployed in opposition areas. The United Nations said on Tuesday a new attempt at peace talks would begin on M
  
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• Energy CEO McClendon dies in Oklahoma car crash, a day after indictment

  02-03-2016 21:35 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Aubrey McClendon, the co-founder of Chesapeake Energy Corp who led it to become one of the world's biggest natural gas producers before he was tarred by federal anti-trust charges, died on Wednesday in a car accident in Oklahoma City, police said. McClendon resigned from Chesapeake in 2013 after a corporate governance crisis and investor concerns over his heavy spending. Police said they were investigating the cause of the crash that occurred when McClendon was driving his 2013 Chevy Tahoe.
  
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• US bans use of e-cigarettes on airline flights

  02-03-2016 21:32 via news.yahoo.com
  
  WASHINGTON (AP) — Electronic cigarettes are prohibited on any domestic or foreign airline flying to, from or within the United States under a final rule the government issued Wednesday.
  
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• No charges for students behind racial slurs at Texas A&M

  02-03-2016 21:32 via news.yahoo.com
  
  COLLEGE STATION, Texas (AP) — No charges will be filed after an incident at Texas A&M University in which black high school students touring campus reported being subjected to racial slurs and taunts, the university said Wednesday.
  
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• Glass slide hangs 1,000 feet above LA

  02-03-2016 21:29 via rss.cnn.com
  
  Why walk on a glass platform when you can slide?
  
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• Crews work to clear NY tracks where 16 freight cars derailed

  02-03-2016 21:29 via news.yahoo.com
  
  RIPLEY, N.Y. (AP) — Crews worked Wednesday to clear the site of a 16-car Norfolk Southern freight train derailment that forced the evacuation of dozens of western New York homes after ethanol leaked from two tankers.
  
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• World considers a Trump presidency, and many shudder

  02-03-2016 21:28 via news.yahoo.com
  
  BRUSSELS (AP) — Following Donald Trump's breathtaking string of Super Tuesday victories, politicians, editorial writers and ordinary people worldwide were coming to grips Wednesday with the growing possibility the brash New York billionaire might become America's next president_a thought that aroused widespread befuddlement and a good deal of horror.
  
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