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• Vonn says arm break was most painful injury of career

  26-11-2016 23:58 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Lindsey Vonn has had one major injury after another but she says shattering her arm in a training crash earlier this month was the most excruciating pain she has felt in her ski racing career. The winningest female World Cup racer in history severely fractured the humerus bone in her right arm during a training session on November 10 at Copper Mountain in Colorado. "It was by far the most painful injury I have ever had by a long shot," Vonn said.
  
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• Ron Glass, co-star of TV's 'Barney Miller' dead at 71

  26-11-2016 23:56 via news.yahoo.com
  
  LOS ANGELES (AP) — Ron Glass, a prolific character actor best known for his role as Detective Ron Harris, the handsome, good-natured cop in the long-running comedy series "Barney Miller," has died. He was 71.
  
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• LSU goes native; Ed Orgeron to stay on as coach

  26-11-2016 23:48 via news.yahoo.com
  
  BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) — Ed Orgeron, the burly, boisterous Cajun who energized LSU's football program in the wake of coach Les Miles' dismissal, briefly and uncharacteristically struggled to speak.
  
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• Texas gets its top target in Tom Herman

  26-11-2016 23:36 via news.yahoo.com
  
  AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — Tom Herman now gets his chance for a Texas takeover.
  
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• Opinion: Man Americans loved to hate

  26-11-2016 23:24 via cnn.com
  
  For decades, Castro defied, confounded America; even with his death Cuba not likely to bend to U.S.,including demands thrown down by Trump in incoming administration.
  
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• Miami: Crowds flood streets

  26-11-2016 23:23 via cnn.com
  
  News of Fidel Castro's death was quick to reach Miami, the center of the Cuban exile community, where an outpouring of emotion brought jubilant crowds onto the streets of Little Havana.
  
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• Crowds flood streets of Miami's Little Havana

  26-11-2016 23:23 via cnn.com
  
  News of Fidel Castro's death was quick to reach Miami, the center of the Cuban exile community, where an outpouring of emotion brought jubilant crowds onto the streets of Little Havana.
  
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• Anti-pipeline protesters told to leave North Dakota camp by December 5

  26-11-2016 23:21 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Activists protesting plans to run an oil pipeline beneath a lake near the Standing Rock Sioux reservation in North Dakota said on Saturday they have no intention of leaving a protest camp after U.S. authorities warned it must be vacated by Dec. 5. The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, which manages the federal land where the main camp protesting the Dakota Access pipeline is located, said it would close public access to the area north of the Cannonball River, including to protesters. It said this wa
  
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• Castro and Mao: Communists that never saw eye to eye

  26-11-2016 23:20 via cnn.com
  
  When Cuban revolutionary leader Fidel Castro's death was announced on Saturday, China's President Xi Jinpeng remembered him as a "great person of our era."
  
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• Canada PM’s positive Castro remarks spark ire, humor

  26-11-2016 23:20 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, whose family's ties with the late Cuban leader Fidel Castro go back decades, mourned the loss of a "remarkable leader" on Saturday, sparking a flurry of criticism and humor at his favorable tone. Trudeau's comments on Castro were markedly more positive than most Western leaders, who either condemned the revolutionary leader's human rights record or tip-toed around the subject. Instead, Trudeau warmly recalled his late father’s friendship with Castro
  
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• Reaction: A hometown used to rumor

  26-11-2016 23:05 via cnn.com
  
  In the town of Bíran, near the eastern tip of Cuba, people began knocking on Martin Castro's door early Saturday. The phone hasn't stopped ringing.
  
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• Death takes time to absorb in hometown

  26-11-2016 23:05 via cnn.com
  
  In the town of Bíran, near the eastern tip of Cuba, people began knocking on Martin Castro's door early Saturday. The phone hasn't stopped ringing.
  
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• Green nominee responds to Trump's comments

  26-11-2016 22:58 via cnn.com
  
  President-elect Donald Trump blasted the Green Party's effort to recount votes as a "scam" and accused the party's nominee, Jill Stein, of trying to reel in donations that she won't actually spend on a recount.
  
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• Socialism should die with Castro

  26-11-2016 22:42 via cnn.com
  
  A dictator is dead. Another country's citizens may be ready to abandon the discredited and economically disastrous ideology of communism. Citizens can hope that free speech, a free press and human rights will become the order of the day.
  
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• Opinion: Socialism should die with Castro

  26-11-2016 22:42 via cnn.com
  
  A dictator is dead. Another country's citizens may be ready to abandon the discredited and economically disastrous ideology of communism. Citizens can hope that free speech, a free press and human rights will become the order of the day.
  
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• With playoff spots at stake, Ohio St beats Michigan in 2OT

  26-11-2016 22:36 via news.yahoo.com
  
  COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — Curtis Samuel swept in for a 15-yard touchdown after Ohio State barely converted a fourth-and-1 and the second-ranked Buckeyes beat No. 3 Michigan 30-27 in double overtime Saturday to win one of the greatest games in the history of one of college football's greatest rivalries.
  
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• Weeping, hopeful, Cubans look to future without Fidel Castro

  26-11-2016 22:34 via news.yahoo.com
  
  HAVANA (AP) — Music fell silent, weddings were canceled and people wept in the streets Saturday as Cubans faced their first day without the leader who steered their island to both greater social equality and years of economic ruin.
  
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• Miami's Cubans celebrate Castro's death, hopeful for fresh start

  26-11-2016 22:34 via news.yahoo.com
  
  By Francisco Alvarado and Nicole Martinez MIAMI (Reuters) - Cuban-Americans poured into the streets of Miami's Little Havana on Saturday to celebrate the death of Fidel Castro, while leaders of Florida's Cuban emigre community portrayed his passing as a hopeful sign for reform in their homeland. Vendors selling "Cuba Libre" flags and T-shirts set up shop on nearly every street corner, as rows of cars, many of them blaring horns, flooded the streets.
  
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• Grief, and joy, erupt at Fidel Castro's death

  26-11-2016 22:27 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Mourning descended on Havana Saturday and celebrations erupted in Miami at the death of Cuban revolutionary leader Fidel Castro, whose iron-fisted rule defied the United States for half a century. To opponents, including thousands of Cuban exiles living in the United States, he was a cruel communist tyrant. After surviving the failed Bay of Pigs invasion, the Cuban Missile Crisis, a suffocating US embargo and the Cold War itself, Castro lived to see the restoration of diplomatic ties with Washin
  
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• Dialing up deals: Black Friday online sales hit new high

  26-11-2016 22:24 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Holiday shoppers eager to snag big discounts turned to the internet in record fashion this week, one tracking company said, driving online sales on Black Friday to a new high. Consumers spent $3.34 billion ...
  
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• Quotes from Fidel Castro across more than 5 decades

  26-11-2016 22:14 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Quotes from Fidel Castro:
  
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• Cuban revolutionary leader Fidel Castro dies aged 90

  26-11-2016 22:14 via news.yahoo.com
  
  By Marc Frank and Nelson Acosta HAVANA (Reuters) - Fidel Castro, the Cuban revolutionary who built a communist state on the doorstep of the United States and for five decades defied U.S. efforts to topple him, died on Friday. Wearing a green military uniform, a somber Raul Castro, 85, appeared on state television on Friday night to announce Fidel's death, 60 years to the day since the two brothers and dozens of supporters left Mexico on a boat to take revolution to Cuba. "At 10:29 at night, the
  
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• Two cities, opposite reactions to Fidel Castro's death

  26-11-2016 22:07 via cnn.com
  
  Cuba is officially in mourning. But the scene in Little Havana, in Miami, is vastly different.
  
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• Trump slams recount push as 'a scam,' says election is over

  26-11-2016 22:05 via news.yahoo.com
  
  President-elect Donald Trump on Saturday condemned a growing push to force recounts in three states pivotal to his Nov. 8 victory, confronting the Green Party-backed effort for the first time even as he ...
  
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• Israel detains 23 after 'unprecedented' fires

  26-11-2016 22:02 via cnn.com
  
  Police have detained 23 people on suspicion of arson in connection with wildfires that swept across central and northern Israel this week, said police spokeswoman Luba Samri.
  
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• 7 dead, 1 missing in New Zealand fishing boat accident

  26-11-2016 22:00 via feeds.foxnews.com
  
  Seven people were killed and another person was missing in a boating accident near Auckland, New Zealand, on Saturday, police said.
  
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• EPL: Chelsea top after 7th straight win

  26-11-2016 21:58 via cnn.com
  
  Chelsea ended Tottenham Hotspur's unbeaten start to the English Premier League season with a 2-1 victory at Stamford Bridge Saturday to stay top of the standings after a seventh straight win.
  
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• Chelsea tops table after 7th straight win

  26-11-2016 21:58 via cnn.com
  
  Chelsea ended Tottenham Hotspur's unbeaten start to the English Premier League season with a 2-1 victory at Stamford Bridge Saturday to stay top of the standings after a seventh straight win.
  
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• With Castro's death, US loses last Cold War enemy

  26-11-2016 21:52 via news.yahoo.com
  
  With the death of Fidel Castro, the United States has lost its last great Cold War enemy, a leader who long ago passed the baton to his brother and sat on the sidelines during his country's historic rapprochement with its old foe. The loss of the firebrand who flouted America's superpower status under 11 US presidents comes as Washington is poised to undergo a major transition from the administration of Barack Obama to that of the brash Republican billionaire Donald Trump. Trump called Fidel a "
  
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• Growing protests in S. Korea demand Park's resignation

  26-11-2016 21:47 via cnn.com
  
  Approval ratings for South Korean President Park Geun-hye have dipped into single digits -- and protests calling for her ouster are expected to swell to more than a million people Saturday.
  
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• House to vote on bill aimed at speeding approval of drugs

  26-11-2016 21:45 via news.yahoo.com
  
  WASHINGTON (AP) — The House plans to vote Wednesday on a $6.3 billion bill aimed at speeding federal approval of drugs and medical devices and boosting biomedical research.
  
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• Clinton team to take part in U.S. state vote recount, Trump blasts effort

  26-11-2016 21:44 via news.yahoo.com
  
  By Ian Simpson and Roberta Rampton WASHINGTON/WEST PAlM BEACH, Fla. (Reuters) - Democrat Hillary Clinton's campaign will take part in a recount of Wisconsin votes in the U.S. presidential race, an effort Republican winner Donald Trump called "ridiculous" on Saturday. Wisconsin's election board on Friday approved the recount requested by Green Party candidate Jill Stein. Marc Elias, the Clinton campaign counsel, said the campaign would take part in the recount in Wisconsin as well as in the other
  
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• Party in Miami after Fidel Castro's death

  26-11-2016 21:40 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Revelers -- many exiled by Havana's communist regime -- honked car horns, banged on pots and drums, and danced, cried, and waved Cuban flags in a crush of communal euphoria. Castro died late Friday, his brother Cuban President Raul Castro announced on national television around midnight. In Miami -- home to the largest concentration of Cuban-Americans in the United States -- the news spread quickly and with fervor.
  
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• Trump calls Green Party vote recount request a 'scam'

  26-11-2016 21:36 via news.yahoo.com
  
  U.S. President-elect Donald Trump on Saturday called a request for a recount of votes in Wisconsin a "scam" by the Green Party and said even his Democratic challenger Hillary Clinton had said the election results should be accepted. "This is a scam by the Green Party for an election that has already been conceded, and the results of this election should be respected instead of being challenged and abused, which is exactly what (Green Party leader) Jill Stein is doing," Trump said in a state
  
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• 'Viva Fidel!', Cubans begin mass mourning for Castro

  26-11-2016 21:33 via news.yahoo.com
  
  By Nelson Acosta HAVANA (Reuters) - Hundreds of students massed at Havana University on Saturday to honor Fidel Castro, as nine days of official mourning began for the leader who dominated the island's political life for generations. Castro's remains will be cremated, and his ashes toured around Cuba until his state funeral on Dec. 4. Giant rallies are planned in Havana's Revolution Square and in the southern city of Santiago in honor of the late leader who died at age 90.
  
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• Following Fidel: Memories of Cuba from Reuters correspondents

  26-11-2016 21:11 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Reuters first established a presence in Havana before the Second World War and covered every major story of the Fidel Castro era since his 1959 Cuban revolution, from the Bay of Pigs invasion to his sickness in old age. Following Castro's death on Friday, three former Reuters Havana correspondents – Frances Kerry, Andrew Cawthorne and Anthony Boadle – share some memories of reporting on him.
  
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• Chelsea 2-1 Tottenham Hotspur

  26-11-2016 21:05 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Chelsea remain top of the Premier League table after coming from behind to inflict a first league defeat of the season on Tottenham.
  
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• Anti-pipeline protesters told to leave North Dakota camp area by December 5

  26-11-2016 21:02 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Protesters opposed to an oil pipeline planned to run beneath a lake near the Standing Rock Sioux reservation in North Dakota must vacate an area where thousands of demonstrators have been camped by Dec. 5 or face prosecution, according to U.S. authorities. The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, which manages the federal land where the main camp protesting the Dakota Access pipeline is located, said it would close public access to the area north of the Cannonball River, including to protesters, partly
  
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• Syrian army captures part of rebel-held east Aleppo

  26-11-2016 21:01 via news.yahoo.com
  
  By Lisa Barrington and Tom Perry BEIRUT (Reuters) - The Syrian army said it had taken control of an important district in rebel-held eastern Aleppo on Saturday after fierce fighting, with rebels blaming intense air strikes and lack of hospitals for their collapsing frontline. Government forces advanced with a ground and air assault on the edge of the besieged eastern half of the city, a move the rebels say is designed to split their most important urban stronghold in two. Aleppo, which was Syria
  
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• Sister, militant source deny woman arrested in Libya is wife of veteran Islamist

  26-11-2016 20:57 via news.yahoo.com
  
  A Tunisian woman who Libyan authorities said they had arrested and was married to veteran Algerian militant Mokhtar Belmokhtar is not his wife, her sister and an al Qaeda source have told local media. East Libya's counter-terrorism department said they had detained the woman, identified as Asma Kadoussi, after she had traveled to the northeastern city of Derna to give birth to a child.
  
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• Syria government forces 'retake largest Aleppo rebel district'

  26-11-2016 20:51 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Syrian forces have retaken the largest rebel-held district in eastern Aleppo, state media say.
  
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• Syria government forces 'retake' key Aleppo rebel district

  26-11-2016 20:51 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Syrian forces have retaken the largest rebel-held district in eastern Aleppo, state media say.
  
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• Pipeline protesters vow to stay camped on federal land

  26-11-2016 20:49 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Dakota Access oil pipeline protesters will not follow a government directive to leave the federal land where hundreds have camped for months, organizers said Saturday, despite state officials encouraging ...
  
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• Chelsea down Spurs as City, Liverpool keep pace

  26-11-2016 20:46 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Chelsea fought back for a 2-1 win over Tottenham Hotspur that cemented their place on top of the Premier League, while title rivals Manchester City and Liverpool kept pace with the leaders on Saturday. Antonio Conte's Chelsea had been knocked out of pole position by City's 2-1 win at Burnley and Liverpool's 2-0 success against Sunderland earlier in the afternoon.
  
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• Syria says largest rebel area in Aleppo retaken

  26-11-2016 20:45 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Syrian state media said government forces Saturday captured the largest rebel-held district of Aleppo, in what would be a major breakthrough in its offensive to retake the entire second city. Masaken Hanano was the first district the rebels took in the summer of 2012 in a move that divided Aleppo into an eastern area held by the insurgents and a western district controlled by government forces. The capture of Masaken Hanano in northeastern Aleppo is part of a major government offensive now in it
  
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• France's Tessa Worley wins giant slalom in Vermont

  26-11-2016 20:45 via news.yahoo.com
  
  KILLINGTON, Vt. (AP) — France's Tessa Worley won a World Cup giant slalom Saturday, holding off first-run leader Nina Loeseth of Norway. Mikaela Shiffrin of the U.S., runner-up in the season-opening giant slalom in Austria, finished fifth.
  
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• Venezuelan president to honor Fidel Castro at Hugo Chavez's tomb

  26-11-2016 20:39 via feeds.foxnews.com
  
  Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro is going to stage a tribute to Fidel Castro at the military barracks in Caracas.
  
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• Ireland beat Australia in rugby clash

  26-11-2016 20:38 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Ireland beat Australia to secure victories over the 'big three' southern hemisphere teams in the same year for the first time ever.
  
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• Autumn internationals: Ireland 27-24 Australia

  26-11-2016 20:38 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Ireland beat Australia to secure victories over the 'big three' southern hemisphere teams in the same year for the first time ever.
  
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• Cuban-Americans in Miami rejoice at Castro's passing: 'Fidel was Hitler for us'

  26-11-2016 20:32 via feeds.foxnews.com
  
  Castro’s passing comes at a time a majority of Cuban-Americans are changing their minds about opening up free trade and diplomatic relations with Cuba.
  
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