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• Baby Born Using 'Three Parent' Technique, Doctors Say

  27-09-2016 23:57 via nbcnews.com
  
  A healthy baby boy has been born after he was conceived using a 'three-parent' technique to manipulate his DNA, doctors said Tuesday.
  
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• 'Deeply disappointed' Allardyce forced to leave England job

  27-09-2016 23:56 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Sam Allardyce's reign as England manager came to a humiliating end on Tuesday as he departed after just 67 days in charge following his controversial comments in a newspaper sting. Allardyce's reign was sensationally brought to a close as he paid the price for indiscreetly talking with undercover Daily Telegraph reporters posing as Far East businessmen. The 61-year-old was secretly filmed giving advice on how to circumnavigate transfer rules, criticised the FA's decision to rebuild Wembley and m
  
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• As Clinton cheers, Donald Trump digs in after debate

  27-09-2016 23:52 via news.yahoo.com
  
  RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — A defensive Donald Trump gave Hillary Clinton plenty of fresh material for the next phase of her presidential campaign on Tuesday, choosing to publicly reopen and relitigate some her most damaging attacks.
  
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• Spate of whale entanglements could inform regulations

  27-09-2016 23:50 via news.yahoo.com
  
  PORTLAND, Maine (AP) — A recent spate of entanglements of rare whales off of New England could help shape future regulations to preserve the endangered animals, federal authorities said Tuesday.
  
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• Street named after late country music star Marty Robbins

  27-09-2016 23:47 via news.yahoo.com
  
  GLENDALE, Ariz. (AP) — City officials in Glendale have named a street after late country music star Marty Robbins, who was born in the Phoenix suburb in 1925.
  
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• Debate renews attention on Trump's tax returns

  27-09-2016 23:41 via news.yahoo.com
  
  JERSEY CITY, N.J. (AP) — Donald Trump says "you don't learn that much from tax returns," a dubious assertion that has renewed attention on his refusal to release documents that could shed light on his tax rate, charitable giving and foreign business ties.
  
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• Clinton energized after showdown with Trump

  27-09-2016 23:39 via news.yahoo.com
  
  An exuberant Hillary Clinton came out swinging Tuesday against Donald Trump after their pointed first presidential debate, lashing him as "dangerously incoherent," while her rival threatened to hit back harder in the campaign's final stretch. Clinton's bearing suggested she was climbing out from perhaps the worst period of her 15-month campaign, when she blundered by belittling Trump supporters earlier this month and was then laid up with pneumonia. "I felt so positive about it," Clinton told re
  
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• Obama names career diplomat as US ambassador to Cuba

  27-09-2016 23:38 via news.yahoo.com
  
  WASHINGTON (AP) — President Barack Obama has tapped a career diplomat to be the first U.S. ambassador to Cuba in more than 50 years.
  
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• California heat wave intensifies wildfire threatening homes

  27-09-2016 23:37 via news.yahoo.com
  
  MORGAN HILL, Calif. (AP) — A heat wave stifling drought-stricken California worsened a wildfire Tuesday that burned buildings and forced people from their homes in remote communities along the Santa Cruz Mountains.
  
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• Colombia's road to peace marred by multiple obstacles

  27-09-2016 23:34 via news.yahoo.com
  
  The contrast couldn't be more dramatic: As Colombia's president and the head of its largest guerrilla movement were putting their signatures on a historic peace deal, a 6-year-old boy was killed when he ...
  
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• Trump launches harsh new fat attack on ex-Miss Universe

  27-09-2016 23:33 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Fresh off his presidential clash with Hillary Clinton, Donald Trump doubled down Tuesday on criticism of a former Miss Universe he accused of getting too fat, comments that could repel women voters. Alicia Machado, who won the crown in 1996, has accused Trump -- whose company owned the Miss Universe pageant until last year -- of calling her "Miss Piggy" and "Miss Housekeeping," and publicly humiliating her over her post-victory weight gain. The morning after Clinton, the Democratic presidential
  
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• Before mall shooting, courts ordered mental health treatment

  27-09-2016 23:33 via news.yahoo.com
  
  SEATTLE (AP) — Assaults on his parents and inappropriate sexual behavior at school led judges to order mental health treatment for the young man charged with killing five people at a Washington state department store, but weekly counseling sessions failed to help him.
  
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• Elon Musk unveils plan for Mars 'city'

  27-09-2016 23:29 via news.yahoo.com
  
  SpaceX chief Elon Musk unveiled on Tuesday ambitious plans to establish a "city" on Mars by sending humans on massive spacecraft with cabins, at a cost as low as $100,000 per person. "We need to go from these early exploration missions to actually building a city," he said to an overflow crowd at an expo center with a few thousand seats in the western Mexican city of Guadalajara. Musk showed a futuristic video depicting his concept of an interplanetary transport system based on re-usable rockets
  
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• SpaceX chief envisions 1,000 passenger ships flying to Mars

  27-09-2016 23:27 via news.yahoo.com
  
  CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — SpaceX founder Elon Musk envisions 1,000 passenger ships flying en masse to Mars within a century, "Battlestar Galactica" style.
  
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• Muslim woman to appear in Playboy in a hijab

  27-09-2016 23:14 via cnn.com
  
  A Muslim-American journalist Noor Tagouri will appear in Playboy magazine's October issue wearing a hijab, a decision that has elicited praise in some quarters and provoked condemnation in others.
  
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• More frustration for Ronaldo

  27-09-2016 23:05 via cnn.com
  
  No team has ever retained the Champions League title -- and Real Madrid got a taste of how difficult it might prove after being held 2-2 by Borussia Dortmund Tuesday.
  
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• 65 tons of chicken nuggets recalled

  27-09-2016 22:45 via cnn.com
  
  Tyson Foods is voluntarily recalling more than 130,000 pounds of cooked chicken nuggets because they may contain hard plastic, the US Department of Agriculture's Food Safety Inspection Service said Tuesday.
  
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• Howard Dean Stands By Donald Trump Cocaine Tweet

  27-09-2016 22:30 via nbcnews.com
  
  The Republican candidate sniffled repeatedly during Monday night's debate — setting off social-media memes and sparking the hashtag #TrumpSniffle.
  
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• Coming to a park in Paris...

  27-09-2016 22:27 via cnn.com
  
  Nudists in Paris will soon be able to shed their clothes without fear of arrest, as city council members have approved plans for an official park for naked people.
  
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• Pair Who Rushed Stage With 'Dancing' Ryan Lochte Charged

  27-09-2016 22:25 via nbcnews.com
  
  Sam Sotoodeh and Barzeen Soroudi were charged Monday with interfering with a performance and leaving a spectator area and entering a stage.
  
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• How Congress Can Override President Obama's Veto of the 9/11 Bill

  27-09-2016 22:24 via abcnews.go.com
  
  Both houses of congresses would need to vote again despite Obama's objection.
  
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• Charlotte Police Chief Has Discussed His Distrust of Cops

  27-09-2016 22:18 via nbcnews.com
  
  Kerr Putney was always an unlikely candidate to wear the badge. But he wanted to make a difference 'from within,' say those who know him.
  
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• You may be eating Ramen wrong

  27-09-2016 22:11 via cnn.com
  
  Katie Quinn learns the art of the slurp with ramen master Ivan Orkin.
  
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• Trump's sniffles spawn memes

  27-09-2016 22:10 via cnn.com
  
  The first face-to-face confrontation between Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump proceeded more or less as expected with the presidential candidates perspiring over their different views of the economy, taxation laws and foreign policy.
  
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• Labor Dept to Start 'Top-to-Bottom' Probe of Wells Fargo

  27-09-2016 22:02 via nbcnews.com
  
  The Labor Department will launch a probe into whether Wells Fargo may have violated wage and working hour laws.
  
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• DAY AFTER: Trump fumes

  27-09-2016 22:00 via cnn.com
  
  As soon as the first debate of the 2016 presidential election was over, both Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton were quick to claim victory.
  
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• Trump-Clinton debate seen by record 80.9 million TV viewers - CNN

  27-09-2016 21:47 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Some 80.9 million Americans watched the first, raucous, U.S. presidential debate between Democrat Hillary Clinton and Republican Donald Trump on television, smashing a decades old record for such events, CNN said on Tuesday. The figure includes the approximately 45 million who watched the 90-minute debate on the four main TV networks, as well as millions more who watched cable channels, CNN, MSNBC, Fox News and other smaller outlets, CNN said. If confirmed, the audience, due to be finalised late
  
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• How the AP-GfK poll on the candidates' health was conducted

  27-09-2016 21:47 via news.yahoo.com
  
  The Associated Press-GfK poll on health and the presidential race was conducted by GfK Public Affairs and Corporate Communications Sept. 15-19. It is based on online interviews of 1,694 adults, including 1,476 registered voters and 1,251 likely voters, who are members of GfK's nationally representative KnowledgePanel.
  
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• Former Miss Universe Hopes 'Piggy' Story Will Hurt Trump

  27-09-2016 21:47 via nbcnews.com
  
  The former beauty queen said on Tuesday that she was surprised her story was told during Monday night's debate.
  
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• 'This isn't Pompeii'

  27-09-2016 21:46 via cnn.com
  
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• Judge's ruling weakens Election Day registration in Illinois

  27-09-2016 21:46 via news.yahoo.com
  
  CHICAGO (AP) — Voters in highly populated areas of Illinois will have fewer options to register on Election Day this November after a federal judge on Tuesday temporarily halted broader registration rules that Republicans call unconstitutional.
  
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• How she handled Trump could energize undecided women

  27-09-2016 21:44 via cnn.com
  
  After 30 years in the spotlight, Hillary Clinton finally found the balance on gender that has bedeviled her throughout her career during the debate at Hofstra Monday night.
  
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• Nationals catcher Ramos out for playoffs with torn ACL

  27-09-2016 21:43 via news.yahoo.com
  
  WASHINGTON (AP) — Washington Nationals All-Star catcher Wilson Ramos is out for the rest of the season, including the playoffs, after tearing the ACL in his right knee.
  
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• Battle for besieged Syrian city of Aleppo intensifies

  27-09-2016 21:42 via news.yahoo.com
  
  With international diplomacy in tatters and the U.S. focused on its election, the Syrian government and its Russian allies are seizing the moment to wage an all-out campaign to recapture Aleppo, unleashing ...
  
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• AP poll: Voters more confident in Trump's health for office

  27-09-2016 21:42 via news.yahoo.com
  
  The "stamina," the "look": A new poll suggests voters are buying in to Donald Trump's insinuations about Hillary Clinton's health. They're ignoring the medical reports. Voters — especially ...
  
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• England manager loses job after undercover sting

  27-09-2016 21:39 via cnn.com
  
  England soccer coach Sam Allardyce is fighting for his future after seemingly admitting on video that he's skirted FIFA rules on player ownership.
  
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• England coach out after undercover sting

  27-09-2016 21:39 via cnn.com
  
  England soccer coach Sam Allardyce is fighting for his future after seemingly admitting on video that he's skirted FIFA rules on player ownership.
  
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• Confidential UN report details South Sudan threats, violence

  27-09-2016 21:39 via news.yahoo.com
  
  The U.N. ambulance carried an urgent patient: a local woman in labor. South Sudan government soldiers stopped the ambulance 15 times at checkpoints in the capital, Juba. The Aug. 2 journey, which usually ...
  
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• Syrian government launches Aleppo ground attack

  27-09-2016 21:38 via news.yahoo.com
  
  By Tom Perry and Angus McDowall BEIRUT (Reuters) - Syrian government forces and their allies attacked the opposition-held sector of Aleppo on several fronts on Tuesday, the biggest ground assault yet in a massive new campaign that has destroyed a U.S.-backed ceasefire. The United States says the assault on Aleppo is proof that President Bashar al-Assad and his Russian and regional allies have abandoned an international peace process to pursue victory on the battlefield after nearly six years of
  
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• Senior national security official to leave Justice Department

  27-09-2016 21:38 via news.yahoo.com
  
  By Dustin Volz WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A senior U.S. Justice Department official who oversaw efforts to prosecute Islamic State sympathizers and pursue cyber criminals is leaving the Obama administration next month, he told Reuters on Tuesday. Assistant Attorney General John Carlin, chief of the national security division at the Justice Department, is departing on Oct. 15, less than a month before the U.S. presidential election. Carlin, who has served in government for more than 15 years, oversaw
  
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• What the debaters failed to say

  27-09-2016 21:37 via cnn.com
  
  Peter Bergen: Very little attention in the debate was devoted to Afghanistan and Syria, two of the biggest challenges facing the new president
  
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• What Presidential debaters failed to say

  27-09-2016 21:37 via cnn.com
  
  The first debate between Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump had plenty of energy and substance when it came to issues of the economy and trade, but it did not have enough substance when it came to the key issue of how the president will act as commander in chief.
  
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• The Latest: Flake says Trump debated poorly against Clinton

  27-09-2016 21:37 via news.yahoo.com
  
  WASHINGTON (AP) — The Latest on the U.S. presidential race (all times EDT):
  
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• Bergen: What they failed to say

  27-09-2016 21:37 via cnn.com
  
  The first debate between Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump had plenty of energy and substance when it came to issues of the economy and trade, but it did not have enough substance when it came to the key issue of how the president will act as commander in chief.
  
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• Voter Registration Emerges as Political Flash-Point

  27-09-2016 21:36 via nbcnews.com
  
  National Voter Registration Day comes as fierce disputes over restrictive registration rules play out in the courts.
  
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• The Latest: Unflappable in pool, Phelps shaky on the tee

  27-09-2016 21:36 via news.yahoo.com
  
  CHASKA, Minn. (AP) — The Latest on the Ryder Cup (all times local):
  
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• 'Anti-migrant' spray backlash

  27-09-2016 21:35 via cnn.com
  
  A Danish anti-immigration party faces an international backlash after handing out "Asyl-spray" with an aim of protecting citizens against migrant attacks.
  
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• Senate blocks stopgap bill to prevent shutdown this weekend

  27-09-2016 21:30 via news.yahoo.com
  
  WASHINGTON (AP) — The Senate on Tuesday stumbled over a must-do bill to prevent the government from shutting down this weekend and to fund the fight against the Zika virus. Democrats, demanding money so Flint, Michigan, can address its lead-contaminated water crisis, overwhelmingly opposed the measure, as did a dozen of the Senate's most conservative members.
  
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• England boss Allardyce sacked after newspaper sting

  27-09-2016 21:29 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Sam Allardyce has been sacked as England manager after one match and 67 days in charge having behaved "inappropriately" when caught up in a newspaper sting, the Football Association said on Tuesday. The 61-year-old's departure follows a Daily Telegraph investigation claiming he offered advice to a bogus group of Far East businessmen on how to get around rules on player transfers. Allardyce was reported to have used his role to negotiate a deal worth 400,000 pounds ($520,840.00) to represent a Fa
  
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• Did Millennials Get Left Out of the Debate?

  27-09-2016 21:28 via nbcnews.com
  
  While Hillary Clinton last night made obvious appeals to minorities and women, her appeal to young voters was decidedly less obvious.
  
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