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• Consumer watchdog agency asks court to reconsider ruling

  18-11-2016 23:56 via news.yahoo.com
  
  WASHINGTON (AP) — The government's consumer finance watchdog is asking a federal appeals court to reconsider its ruling that said the agency's structure is unconstitutional.
  
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• Minnesota Cop Who Killed Philando Castile Released on Own Recognizance

  18-11-2016 23:54 via abcnews.go.com
  
  St. Anthony Officer Jeronimo Yanez made his first court appearance today.
  
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• The Latest: Police seek public's help in search for newborn

  18-11-2016 23:51 via news.yahoo.com
  
  WICHITA, Kan. (AP) — The Latest on the search for a missing Kansas infant whose mother was killed (all times local):
  
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• Developer says Dakota Access pipeline will not be rerouted: AP

  18-11-2016 23:49 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Energy Transfer Partners LP Chief Executive Officer Kelcy Warren said the company will not consider rerouting its Dakota Access oil pipeline despite concerns voiced by U.S. native groups, according to an Associated Press interview published on Friday. President Barack Obama said earlier this month that the government was examining ways to reroute the pipeline. The Dakota Access Pipeline has been delayed since September, when federal regulators including the Army Corps of Engineers decided to re-
  
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• Lydia Ko shots 10-under 62, leads LPGA Tour finale

  18-11-2016 23:47 via news.yahoo.com
  
  NAPLES, Fla. (AP) — Lydia Ko shot a tournament-record 10-under 62 on Friday to take a three-stroke lead in the CME Group Tour Championship, putting the top-ranked New Zealander in position to win the player of the year award with a victory Sunday.
  
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• New York jury convicts 2 nephews of Venezuela's first lady of charges they conspired to send drugs to the United States

  18-11-2016 23:46 via news.yahoo.com
  
  NEW YORK (AP) — New York jury convicts 2 nephews of Venezuela's first lady of charges they conspired to send drugs to the United States.
  
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• US, European stocks fall as markets focus on strong dollar

  18-11-2016 23:44 via news.yahoo.com
  
  New York (AFP) - US and European stocks drifted lower on Friday while the euro struck a near 12-month low against the dollar on persistent market expectations of US interest rate hike next month.
  
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• Canadian rookie Mackenzie Hughes up by 2 shots at Sea Island

  18-11-2016 23:44 via news.yahoo.com
  
  ST. SIMONS ISLAND, Ga. (AP) — Five tournaments into his rookie season on the PGA Tour, Mackenzie Hughes has the 36-hole lead at Sea Island and expects a few nerves.
  
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• Minnesota officer charged in fatal shooting of black motorist appears in court

  18-11-2016 23:43 via news.yahoo.com
  
  By Xan Holston ST. PAUL, Minn. (Reuters) - A Minnesota police officer charged in the shooting death of a black motorist that received national attention after part of the incident was broadcast on the internet made his first court appearance on Friday, but did not enter a plea. Jeronimo Yanez, 28, a police officer in St. Anthony, Minnesota, did not enter a plea at the brief hearing and waived the reading of charges, the most serious of which is one count of second-degree manslaughter. Yanez shot
  
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• Mustard gas: a legacy of WWI

  18-11-2016 23:36 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Mustard gas, which a watchdog on Friday said the so-called Islamic State group may have manufactured and used in Syria and Iraq, first terrorised battlefields during World War I. The Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons also said IS was behind a mustard gas attack in August 2015. A so-called vesicant agent officially identified as bis-(2-chloroethyl)sulfide, mustard gas has also been dubbed Yperite because it was first used near the northwestern Belgian city of Ypres in July 1917
  
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• Leaders mark Soviet dissolution, urge Ukraine dialogue

  18-11-2016 23:35 via news.yahoo.com
  
  WASHINGTON (AP) — Three former top Soviet officials on Friday marked the signing 25 years ago of the treaty that formally dissolved the Soviet Union, and they used the occasion to urge dialogue on the deadly separatist conflict in Ukraine.
  
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• Deputy US marshal, fugitive killed in Georgia shootout

  18-11-2016 23:35 via news.yahoo.com
  
  LUDOWICI, Ga. (AP) — A fugitive accused of attempting to murder police officers fatally shot a deputy U.S. marshal trying to arrest him Friday in southeast Georgia, where other law officers returned fire and killed the suspect, federal authorities said.
  
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• Autographed Trump Hats and Books Sold on His Website Were Signed by Machine

  18-11-2016 23:32 via abcnews.go.com
  
  The items were signed with an autopen machine.
  
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• Trump Settles Trump University Suits for $25M

  18-11-2016 23:27 via abcnews.go.com
  
  NY AG says he's "pleased" with settlement.
  
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• Former 'Survivor' contestant convicted on child porn charges

  18-11-2016 23:25 via news.yahoo.com
  
  DETROIT (AP) — A former "Survivor" contestant who had to be medivacked after falling into a campfire and burning his hands has been convicted of possessing child pornography.
  
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• Officials Outline Beefed-Up Security Plan for Area Around Trump Tower in NYC

  18-11-2016 23:24 via abcnews.go.com
  
  "This is a big challenge and an unprecedented challenge," the mayor said.
  
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• Wilkins headlines latest college hoops Hall of Fame class

  18-11-2016 23:21 via news.yahoo.com
  
  KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) — Dominique Wilkins still doesn't know how Hugh Durham got him out of North Carolina.
  
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• Pushing US policy rightward, Trump taps Sessions and Flynn

  18-11-2016 23:21 via news.yahoo.com
  
  NEW YORK (AP) — President-elect Donald Trump signaled a sharp rightward shift in U.S. national security policy Friday with his announcement that he will nominate Alabama Sen. Jeff Sessions as attorney general and Kansas Rep. Mike Pompeo to head the CIA, turning to a pair of staunch conservatives as he begins to fill out his Cabinet.
  
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• 23 Students Injured in Nashville School Bus Crash: Authorities

  18-11-2016 23:21 via abcnews.go.com
  
  Images show an overturned school bus on a Nashville highway.
  
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• Titans' Lewan, Falcons' Neal hit with big NFL fines

  18-11-2016 23:19 via news.yahoo.com
  
  NEW YORK (AP) — Tennessee left tackle Taylor Lewan and Atlanta rookie safety Keanu Neal drew hefty fines from the NFL on Friday for their actions last weekend.
  
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• Chile battles raging wildfires fueled by heat wave, winds

  18-11-2016 23:15 via feeds.foxnews.com
  
  About 20 wildfires are spreading quickly in Chile's central region, forcing the evacuation of hundreds of people, authorities said Friday.
  
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• Flynn: Critic of Muslim militancy and culture

  18-11-2016 23:12 via news.yahoo.com
  
  WASHINGTON (AP) — Michael Flynn, the retired Army lieutenant general and intelligence officer who is Donald Trump's pick to serve as his national security adviser, is a harsh critic of Muslim extremism and the religion itself, calling "radical Islam" an existential threat to the United States.
  
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• WATCH: Donald Trump Agrees to Settle Trump University Lawsuits

  18-11-2016 23:08 via abcnews.go.com
  
  The president-elect's legal team has decided to pay $25 million to settle the class-action suits in California and New York.
  
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• Trump settles Trump University lawsuits for $25 mn

  18-11-2016 23:08 via news.yahoo.com
  
  US President-elect Donald Trump has agreed to a $25 million settlement in class action lawsuits accusing the now-defunct Trump University of fraud -- a deal that will spare him the embarrassment of further legal wrangling as he prepares to enter the White House. "Today's $25 million settlement agreement is a stunning reversal by Donald Trump and a major victory for the over 6,000 victims of his fraudulent university," New York state attorney general Eric Schneiderman said in a statement Friday.
  
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• This bird looks like Donald Trump

  18-11-2016 23:08 via cnn.com
  
  A curious creature with audacious golden plumage has fascinated the world. We all watch intently as he struts about, soaking in the attention he knows he commands. An enigma, is he. What secret intent lies behind those sharp blue eyes?
  
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• WHO ends Zika public health emergency

  18-11-2016 23:06 via cnn.com
  
  The Zika virus outbreak and related clusters of microcephaly are no longer a public health emergency of international concern, the World Health Organization said Friday.
  
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• US seeks sanctions on South Sudan rebel leader, army chief

  18-11-2016 23:00 via feeds.foxnews.com
  
  The United States is seeking to impose sanctions on South Sudan's rebel leader, army chief of staff and information minister for obstructing peace in the world's newest nation.
  
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• Amid 'locker room talk,' Harvard to play Yale in The Game

  18-11-2016 22:52 via news.yahoo.com
  
  CAMBRIDGE, Mass. (AP) — The men's soccer season was canceled after a demeaning "scouting report" on the women's team. Cross-country is under investigation for a similar strain of locker room talk.
  
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• Man Linked to Famed NYC Jeweler Suspected of Murder

  18-11-2016 22:50 via abcnews.go.com
  
  New details have emerged about the two men charged in connection with the stabbing death of 26-year-old Joseph “Joey” Comunale.
  
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• Urgent pleas to Trump at UN climate talks

  18-11-2016 22:48 via news.yahoo.com
  
  The Moroccan head of UN climate talks and the leader of Fiji, whose nation is being resculpted by rising seas, on Friday pleaded with Donald Trump to join the fight against global warming. Invoking World War II, Prime Minister Frank Bainimarama urged the United States to play its part in rescuing his Pacific island state -- and the world at large -- from climate change. Bainimarama invited the US president-elect -- who has repeatedly called global warming a hoax -- to visit Fiji to see for himse
  
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• WHO declares end of Zika emergency, but still urges action

  18-11-2016 22:47 via news.yahoo.com
  
  By Stephanie Nebehay GENEVA (Reuters) - The World Health Organization (WHO) declared on Friday that the Zika virus no longer constitutes an international emergency, but it stressed a need for a long-term effort to address Zika, which has been linked to birth defects and neurological complications. The WHO's Emergency Committee, which declared a public health emergency of international concern (PHEIC) in February, said the virus is still a long-term problem. "The Zika virus and associated consequ
  
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• Oklahoma residents hit by quakes sue 27 energy companies

  18-11-2016 22:47 via news.yahoo.com
  
  TULSA, Okla. (AP) — Residents of a town hit by Oklahoma's strongest earthquake have filed a class-action lawsuit against dozens of energy companies, accusing them of triggering destructive temblors by injecting wastewater from oil and natural gas production underground.
  
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• Trump Settles Trump University Suits for $25M: Official

  18-11-2016 22:39 via abcnews.go.com
  
  NY AG says he's "pleased" with settlement.
  
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• Tennessee School Bus Crash Sends 23 Students to Hospital

  18-11-2016 22:36 via abcnews.go.com
  
  Authorities say a school bus has crashed and rolled over on an interstate near Nashville, Tennessee, injuring 23 students, all of whom are expected to survive
  
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• Mexico tells US migrants: Keep 'calm'

  18-11-2016 22:34 via cnn.com
  
  Mexico has a message for its citizens living in the United States who are fearful of what may come under President-elect Donald Trump: Don't be afraid, the government is here.
  
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• Panama warns France over inclusion on tax haven list

  18-11-2016 22:30 via feeds.foxnews.com
  
  Panama's president is warning France that his country will retaliate diplomatically if it is not removed from a list of tax haven countries.
  
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• Teen arrested in France for alleged link to jihadi who claimed responsibility for truck attack

  18-11-2016 22:29 via feeds.foxnews.com
  
  French authorities say a teenager was arrested this week for allegedly being linked to a French jihadi who claimed responsibility for the Bastille Day truck attack in Nice on behalf of the Islamic State group.
  
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• The Next Global Arms Race: Perfecting Artificial Intelligence

  18-11-2016 22:21 via nbcnews.com
  
  Echoing the 1960s space race, countries are using brains over brawn to flex their national strength. But the implications could be disastrous.
  
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• The Latest: Trump University lawsuits settled for $25M

  18-11-2016 22:21 via news.yahoo.com
  
  The Latest on litigation over Trump University (all times local): 4:20 p.m. New York's attorney general says President-elect Donald Trump has agreed to a $25 million settlement to resolve three lawsuits ...
  
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• Trump taps hard-liner, Iran nuke deal foe for CIA

  18-11-2016 22:15 via news.yahoo.com
  
  WASHINGTON (AP) — Mike Pompeo, Donald Trump's pick to be director of the CIA, is a hard-line Republican congressman who shares the president-elect's pugnacious worldview and, like Trump, spent years as a businessman before becoming a politician.
  
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• Iraqi Christians reveal untold brutality of living under ISIS rule

  18-11-2016 22:15 via feeds.foxnews.com
  
  Iraqi Christians who survived living under Islamic State rule in occupied territories are now speaking about the various ways they were brutally tortured and threatened by the radical extremists, and have revealed some of the humiliating and degrading acts they were forced to commit.
  
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• Colombia to ratify peace deal with rebels in congress

  18-11-2016 22:15 via feeds.foxnews.com
  
  Colombian President Juan Manuel Santos is vowing to have congress ratify a modified peace deal with the nation's largest rebel group rather than submit it again to voters, who rejected the first pact last month.
  
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• Baltimore Cop Charged in Freddie Gray Case Eager to Return to the Streets

  18-11-2016 22:15 via abcnews.go.com
  
  Sgt. Alicia White said she was "blindsided" by the now-dismissed charges.
  
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• New York attorney general announces $25 million settlement in Trump University case

  18-11-2016 22:14 via news.yahoo.com
  
  New York attorney general announces $25 million settlement in Trump University case.
  
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• Patriots TE Rob Gronkowski to miss game against 49ers

  18-11-2016 22:13 via news.yahoo.com
  
  FOXBOROUGH, Mass. (AP) — New England Patriots tight end Rob Gronkowski will miss Sunday's game against the San Francisco 49ers with a chest injury, according to the injury report filed by the team on Friday.
  
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• Sadler looks to cap career renaissance with Xfinity title

  18-11-2016 22:12 via news.yahoo.com
  
  HOMESTEAD, Fla. (AP) — Elliott Sadler raced in NASCAR's inaugural Chase, competing with Mark Martin, Jeremy Mayfield and Jimmie Johnson for a shot at the championship.
  
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• Syria regime steps up fierce Aleppo assault

  18-11-2016 22:11 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Air strikes and ferocious artillery fire pounded rebel-held east Aleppo on Friday as an escalating military offensive underscored the Syrian regime's determination to take full control of the divided city. Streets were deserted and residents took refuge indoors on the fourth straight day of government bombardment of opposition-controlled parts of Syria's second city. The artillery fire was the most intense in east Aleppo in around two years, AFP's correspondent there said, and rescue workers sai
  
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• College quarterback runs down purse snatcher and tackles him

  18-11-2016 22:03 via news.yahoo.com
  
  ROCHESTER, N.Y. (AP) — Daniel Bronson's biggest play on a record-setting day as the quarterback at the University of Rochester happened away from the football field.
  
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• Burmese exorcist admits killing 3 'possessed' children

  18-11-2016 22:00 via feeds.foxnews.com
  
  A Burmese man pleaded guilty Friday to killing three children in front of their families over two days in a horrific display of ancient superstition.
  
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• Accused in 2012 Quebec election death sentenced to life

  18-11-2016 22:00 via feeds.foxnews.com
  
  A Canadian man who killed a lighting technician in a deadly shooting at a rally following the 2012 election of Quebec's separatist premier has been sentenced life in prison with no eligibility for parole for at least 20 years.
  
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