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• Paris attacks ex-fugitive a mystery man: chameleon or coward

  18-03-2016 23:28 via feeds.foxnews.com
  
  Beardless, with short-cropped hair and a mild manner, Salah Abdeslam slipped from one world to another as easily as he slipped for four months through an international dragnet.
  
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• UN rights chief says many in Burundi are living in "terror"

  18-03-2016 23:21 via feeds.foxnews.com
  
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• Drone Narrowly Misses Plane Landing at LAX, Pilot Says

  18-03-2016 23:14 via abcnews.go.com
  
  A pilot on Lufthansa Flight 456 reported seeing a drone pass 200 feet overhead.
  
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• Who is the Paris suspect?

  18-03-2016 23:13 via rss.cnn.com
  
  It took authorities four months to capture Salah Abdeslam, the most wanted man in Europe.
  
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• Soyuz heads for space station with 2 Russians, 1 American

  18-03-2016 22:41 via feeds.foxnews.com
  
  A Soyuz space capsule carrying two Russians and an American is heading for the International Space Station after blasting off from Russia's manned space launch complex in Kazakhstan.
  
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• President Obama’s Trip to Cuba: What You Need to Know

  18-03-2016 22:22 via abcnews.go.com
  
  Obama will be the first sitting U.S. president to visit Cuba in nearly 90 years
  
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• American in ISIS heartland blames the girl

  18-03-2016 22:02 via rss.cnn.com
  
  Mohamad Jamal Khweis blames a young woman he met in Turkey.
  
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• Fugitive Paris attacker Salah Abdeslam captured in anti-terror raid

  18-03-2016 22:00 via feeds.foxnews.com
  
  Salah Abdeslam, the main fugitive from Islamic extremist attacks in Paris in November, was arrested in Belgium's capital Friday after four months at large, officials confirmed.
  
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• Man arrested after forcing Toronto bus to Tim Hortons

  18-03-2016 21:57 via feeds.foxnews.com
  
  Toronto police say they have arrested a man who hijacked a city bus and demanded he be taken to Tim Hortons, a popular coffee and doughnut chain.
  
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• Now captured, Abdeslam traveled Europe before Paris attacks

  18-03-2016 21:54 via feeds.foxnews.com
  
  Salah Abdeslam, the Belgian-born Frenchman who was arrested Friday in a police raid in Brussels' Molenbeek neighborhood, had crisscrossed central and southern Europe before taking part in the Paris terror attacks — then going on the lam as Europe's most-wanted fugitive.
  
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• Paris attack cell stretched from Europe to Syria and back

  18-03-2016 21:46 via feeds.foxnews.com
  
  Police, prosecutors, friends, families and acquaintances have unveiled details about the men who carried out the Nov. 13 attacks in Paris.
  
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• Romney to vote for Cruz in Utah caucuses

  18-03-2016 21:34 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Former Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney said Friday he will vote for Texas Sen. Ted Cruz in the upcoming caucuses in his home state of Utah, intensifying his attack against front-runner Donald Trump.
  
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• Judge sends former prep school student to prison

  18-03-2016 21:34 via news.yahoo.com
  
  A New Hampshire judge on Friday ordered a former prep school student to begin serving a one-year prison sentence after violating his curfew in a high-profile case over sex at elite St. Paul's School. The student, Owen Labrie, 20, was sentenced last year for felony luring as well as misdemeanor charges related to having a sexual encounter with a minor in a trial that shone a harsh light on the school and its student tradition of a "senior salute," in which students in their final year seek underc
  
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• Johnson Controls CEO pushes back against Hillary Clinton ad

  18-03-2016 21:33 via news.yahoo.com
  
  MILWAUKEE (AP) — The chief executive of a Wisconsin company that came under fire from Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton for planning to shift its corporate headquarters to Ireland said Friday that the tax savings didn't drive the deal.
  
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• Lawyers abandon federal lawsuit over CIA head's resignation

  18-03-2016 21:32 via news.yahoo.com
  
  WASHINGTON (AP) — A Florida woman's federal lawsuit over an investigation that led to the resignation of former CIA director David Petraeus is collapsing after her lawyers asked a judge Friday to let them withdraw from the case. They cited irreconcilable differences.
  
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• Day grabs five-shot Bay Hill lead with strong 65

  18-03-2016 21:30 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Australia's Jason Day stormed to a five-stroke lead during Friday's second round of the PGA Arnold Palmer Invitational after shooting a a bogey-free seven-under par 65 at Bay Hill. Last year's PGA Championship winner has his eyes firmly set on back-to-back major titles with the Masters looming in only three weeks at Augusta National.
  
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• England, New Zealand win in WT20 final overs

  18-03-2016 21:28 via news.yahoo.com
  
  England stunned South Africa with the highest successful run chase in tournament history while New Zealand edged past Australia on a thrilling day of action at the World Twenty20 Friday. Both matches were dramatically won in the final over as New Zealand made it two victories out of two and England sensationally bounced back from a disappointing opening day defeat. South Africa set England an improbable target after making 229-4 at Mumbai's Wankhede Stadium but a classy 83 from Joe Root propelle
  
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• Belgian minister says of Paris suspect Abdeslam: 'We got him'

  18-03-2016 21:26 via news.yahoo.com
  
  BRUSSELS (Reuters) - The number one fugitive from the Paris attacks was caught in a Brussels raid on Friday, a Belgian minister said on Twitter. "We got him" said Theo Francken, Secretary of State for Asylum and Migration, on Twitter. The Federal Prosecutor's office has also confirmed his arrest, public broadcaster RTBF said. (Reporting by Julia Fioretti, editing by Barbara Lewis)
  
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• The Latest: Wright thinking Villanova-Temple

  18-03-2016 21:25 via news.yahoo.com
  
  The Latest on the second full day of the men's NCAA Tournament, including games being played in St. Louis; Spokane, Washington; New York; and Oklahoma City (All times EDT):
  
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• Report: New Orleans jail inmates in 'significant danger'

  18-03-2016 21:25 via news.yahoo.com
  
  NEW ORLEANS (AP) — Inmates and staff at the New Orleans jail "remain in significant danger" at the violent lockup, court-appointed experts said Friday in a report that says reforms have stalled under Sheriff Marlin Gusman.
  
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• France's Hollande says to seek extradition of Abdeslam

  18-03-2016 21:24 via news.yahoo.com
  
  BRUSSELS (Reuters) - French President Francois Hollande said France would request very soon the extradition of Salah Abdeslam, the most-wanted fugitive from November's Paris Attacks. In a joint news conference with the Belgian Prime Minister Charles Michel, Hollande said he had no doubt judicial authorities would request extradition very soon. "Salah Abdeslam was directly involved in preparing the organization and perpetration of these attacks," Hollande said. (Reporting by Julia Fioretti, editi
  
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• Photos: Jane Seymour Stuns in a Leather Jacket

  18-03-2016 21:22 via abcnews.go.com
  
  Some celebrities never seem to age.
  
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• France's Hollande says security threat level very high

  18-03-2016 21:22 via news.yahoo.com
  
  BRUSSELS (Reuters) - French President Francois Hollande said the security threat level was very high and that many more people than originally thought were involved in the planning of the Islamist attacks in Paris four months ago. "We must catch all those who allowed, organized or facilitated these attacks and we realize that they are a lot more numerous than we thought earlier and had identified," he said at a joint news conference with Belgian Prime Minister Charles Michel. (Reporting by Julia
  
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• First GOP senator calls for vote on Garland court nomination

  18-03-2016 21:20 via news.yahoo.com
  
  WASHINGTON (AP) — Illinois Sen. Mark Kirk has become the first Republican senator to break with party leaders and call for a vote on President Barack Obama's Supreme Court pick.
  
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• French President: Remember the victims

  18-03-2016 21:18 via rss.cnn.com
  
  French President Francois Hollande confirms the Paris terror attacks suspect Salah Abdeslam was arrested and along with two accomplices.
  
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• Runner aims to cover 1,000 miles in 7 deserts in 7 weeks

  18-03-2016 21:16 via news.yahoo.com
  
  LOS ANGELES (AP) — Long-distance runners are water-obsessed by necessity, but Mina Guli is on another level. She's trying to run more than 1,000 miles through seven deserts on seven continents in seven weeks to raise awareness of worldwide water shortages.
  
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• Big banks need tougher audits: US regulator

  18-03-2016 21:15 via news.yahoo.com
  
  US banking supvervisors should beef up their oversight of large banks beyond stress tests with deep-dive audits and greater use of outside examiners, a top regulator said Friday. Under a "full-scope" exam, a team of regulators would converge on the largest US banks to pull ledgers, check whether loan payments are on time and "systematically review a cross-section of bank portfolios," said Thomas Hoenig, vice chair of the Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. Such exams, intended to uncover problems li
  
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• Paris suspect Abdeslam, two others arrested: Belgian PM

  18-03-2016 21:13 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Police arrested three people including key Paris attacks suspect Salah Abdeslam in a raid in Brussels on Friday, Belgian Prime Minister Charles Michel said. "We have just arrested Salah Abdeslam. Three suspects were arrested," Michel told a press conference alongside French President Francois Hollande.
  
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• 'Maze Runner' star injured on set

  18-03-2016 21:13 via rss.cnn.com
  
  Dylan O'Brien, the star of the "Maze Runner" films, was injured in an accident while filming the latest in the postapocalyptic series, according to film studio 20th Century Fox.
  
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• Clinton sidesteps issue of whether she'd nominate Garland

  18-03-2016 21:13 via news.yahoo.com
  
  WASHINGTON (AP) — President Barack Obama's nomination of a merely moderate judge for the Supreme Court is putting one of his potential successors in a political bind.
  
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• White Sox ace Sale accuses GM of lying about LaRoche's son

  18-03-2016 21:12 via news.yahoo.com
  
  GLENDALE, Ariz. (AP) — The uproar over Adam LaRoche's abrupt retirement from the Chicago White Sox turned ugly Friday, with ace Chris Sale accusing the general manager of lying to the team about the reasons LaRoche's son needed to spend less time around the clubhouse.
  
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• First U.S. female combatant commander

  18-03-2016 21:12 via rss.cnn.com
  
  President Barack Obama intends to nominate the first female combatant commander in the military's history, Secretary of Defense Ash Carter said Friday.
  
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• American IS fighter: I made a bad decision

  18-03-2016 21:12 via news.yahoo.com
  
  IRBIL, Iraq (AP) — The American Islamic State group fighter who handed himself over to Kurdish forces in northern Iraq earlier this week said he made "a bad decision" in joining the IS, according to a heavily edited interview he gave to an Iraqi Kurdish television station.
  
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• US stocks rise again on Fed

  18-03-2016 21:11 via news.yahoo.com
  
  New York (AFP) - Wall Street stocks climbed for a third straight session Friday in the wake of the Federal Reserve's lowered path for future interest rate increases.
  
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• Syrian troops push toward Palmyra, with Russian support

  18-03-2016 21:10 via news.yahoo.com
  
  BEIRUT (AP) — Backed by Russian aircraft, Syrian troops pushed Friday toward the historic central town of Palmyra in an offensive to recapture it from the Islamic State group whose fighters have damaged some of the world's most precious archaeological sites since they overran the town last May.
  
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• Deadly Yellow fever outbreak

  18-03-2016 21:08 via rss.cnn.com
  
  An outbreak of yellow fever has killed at least 146 people in Angola since December, according to the World Health Organization.
  
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• NY foster parent charged with sexually abusing boys, dog

  18-03-2016 21:07 via news.yahoo.com
  
  MINEOLA, N.Y. (AP) — A suburban New York foster parent who cared for up to 140 boys over the past two decades has been charged with sexually abusing seven of them and prosecutors say there are more victims.
  
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• Fourteen at nuke base probed for illegal drug activity

  18-03-2016 21:06 via news.yahoo.com
  
  WASHINGTON (AP) — Fourteen members of an Air Force unit responsible for guarding nuclear missiles in Wyoming, Colorado and Nebraska are under investigation for possible illegal drug activity, including cases involving cocaine use, defense officials said Friday.
  
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• Belgian premier confirms Belgian police caught Paris attacks prime suspect

  18-03-2016 21:06 via news.yahoo.com
  
  BRUSSELS (Reuters) - Belgian Prime Minister Charles Michel confirmed three suspects had been detained on Friday following a police raid the Molenbeek district of Brussels, including the most wanted fugitive following the Paris attacks in November. He was speaking in a joint news conference with French President Francois Hollande. "It's a very important result in the battle for democracy, for the values that we want to embody against this abominable form of obscurantism," Michel said. (Reporting
  
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• Golfer Toledo finds way to Masters -- carrying Lyle's bags

  18-03-2016 21:01 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Mexican golfer Esteban Toledo never won a PGA event in eight tour seasons and never qualified for the Masters, but he has found a way to Augusta National next month -- as caddie for Scotland's Sandy Lyle. The 53-year-old from Mexicali, a four-time winner on the 50-and-over Champions Tour, will make his first trip to Augusta National on tournament week after striking a deal with 58-year-old Lyle, the 1988 Masters champion. Toledo said he has been asking Masters players on the seniors circuit abou
  
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• Belgian police end raid related to Paris attacks: RTBF, no official confirmation

  18-03-2016 20:57 via news.yahoo.com
  
  BRUSSELS (Reuters) - A Belgian police operation in a district of Brussels that captured the most wanted fugitive from November's Paris attacks four months ago has ended, Belgian public broadcaster RTBF on Friday. (Reporting by Julia Fioretti; editing by Barbara Lewis)
  
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• Hollande expects Abdeslam extradition 'as quickly as possible'

  18-03-2016 20:54 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Brussels (AFP) - French President Francois Hollande said he expected the extradition of Paris attacks suspect Salah Abdeslam "as quickly as possible" following his capture Friday in Belgium.
  
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• Brazil court clears Lula to take up cabinet post

  18-03-2016 20:49 via news.yahoo.com
  
  A Brazilian court cleared ex-president Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva Friday to start work as chief of staff to his embattled successor Dilma Rousseff, overturning an injunction blocking his appointment. Government lawyers have asked the Supreme Court to issue a definitive ruling putting the 12 cases before it to rest.
  
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• Dylan O'Brien injured on set of 'Maze Runner' sequel

  18-03-2016 20:47 via news.yahoo.com
  
  NEW YORK (AP) — Dylan O'Brien has been injured on the set of "Maze Runner: The Death Cure" during production in Vancouver, Canada.
  
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• Peyton's place as Colts retire Manning's NFL jersey, erect statue

  18-03-2016 20:31 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Retired NFL star Peyton Manning will be celebrated by the Indianapolis Colts with a statue erected of him outside their home stadium and the retirement of his number 18 jersey. Colts owner Jim Irsay announced the moves on Friday as Manning, who retired earlier this month after guiding the Denver Broncos to a Super Bowl crown, spoke in Indianapolis, the city where he spent his first 14 NFL seasons.
  
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• In Zika fight, Brazil bogged down by neglect, recession

  18-03-2016 20:27 via news.yahoo.com
  
  CAMPINA GRANDE, Brazil (AP) — Last May, as the first cases of Zika were being detected in Brazil, cities at the front lines of the epidemic stopped receiving government shipments of insecticide to kill mosquitoes.
  
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• EU, Turkey strike 'historic' deal to send back migrants

  18-03-2016 20:26 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Turkish and EU leaders agreed a "historic" deal to curb the huge flow of asylum seekers to Europe, which will see all migrants arriving in Greece being sent back to Turkey from Sunday. Turkey extracted a string of political and financial concessions from the 28-nation European Union in exchange for becoming a bulwark against asylum seekers from Syria and elsewhere. "It is a historic day because we reached a very important agreement between Turkey and the EU," Turkish Prime Minister Ahmet Davutog
  
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• Turkey confirms 1,734 migrants, 16 smugglers detained in operation

  18-03-2016 20:22 via news.yahoo.com
  
  A total of 1,734 migrants and 16 people smugglers were detained by Turkish coastguard and gendarmerie in an operation on Friday, security forces said in a statement, part of a massive sweep to stop refugees reaching the Greek island of Lesbos. The operation was launched near the town of Dikili, in Izmir province on Turkey's Aegean coast, and involved the coastguard, navy and gendarmerie and was backed by air support, the military said in a statement.
  
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• Northeast expecting wintry weather on 1st day of spring

  18-03-2016 20:22 via news.yahoo.com
  
  BOSTON (AP) — After a mild winter, a weekend storm is bearing down on the Northeast just as residents are looking forward to Sunday's official start of spring.
  
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• Judges knock down challenge to Brazil ex-president

  18-03-2016 20:22 via news.yahoo.com
  
  SAO PAULO (AP) — A Brazilian appeals court on Friday slapped down a second attempt to block a Cabinet post for former President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva and supporters rallied to back an embattled government facing a host of crises.
  
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