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• Husband of California mom found by freeway details ordeal

  29-11-2016 23:58 via news.yahoo.com
  
  SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — The husband of a California mother who went missing for three weeks said his wife was covered with bruises and burns and was chained at the waist and wrists when she was found on Thanksgiving.
  
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• New York drug charges against rapper Desiigner are dropped

  29-11-2016 23:56 via news.yahoo.com
  
  NEW YORK (AP) — Misdemeanor drug and menacing charges against rapper Desiigner have effectively been dropped less than three months after his arrest in New York.
  
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• Invasive strep outbreak claims lives of 4 Alaskans

  29-11-2016 23:54 via news.yahoo.com
  
  ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) — Four Alaskans have died this year in an outbreak of invasive strep bacteria that has mostly affected the homeless and Alaska Natives in the state's two largest cities, State epidemiologist Joe McLaughlin said Tuesday.
  
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• In call to jail flag-burners, Trump hits resistance

  29-11-2016 23:51 via news.yahoo.com
  
  President-elect Donald Trump's latest proposal -- to jail anyone who burns the American flag -- faced a backlash from much of political Washington on Tuesday, including from within his Republican Party. "Nobody should be allowed to burn the American flag," Trump posted on Twitter early Tuesday. White House spokesman Josh Earnest succinctly noted that "the freedom that we all have to express ourselves in the way that we choose" is protected under the US Constitution.
  
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• Colombia plane crash: Brazil mourns victims from Chapecoense team flight

  29-11-2016 23:49 via theguardian.com
  
  Brazilian president announces three days of national mourning after plane carrying Chapecoense football team crashes, killing 71 peopleChapecoense: who are the Brazilian team?Brazil has declared three days of mourning after a plane carrying the Chapecoense football team crashed in Colombia in the early hours of Tuesday, killing 71 players, journalists and crew members.
  Six of the 77 people on the plane – three footballers, two crew and a journalist – survived the disaster. One footba
  
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• Panthers look to move on after Gallant's dismissal

  29-11-2016 23:45 via news.yahoo.com
  
  CHICAGO (AP) — New Florida coach Tom Rowe met with captain Derek MacKenzie and the rest of the Panthers' leadership on Monday. He talked to the whole team on Tuesday.
  
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• US high court takes up death penalty and mental disability

  29-11-2016 23:41 via news.yahoo.com
  
  The US Supreme Court took up Tuesday the case of a longtime Texas death row inmate who claims his mental disabilities should exempt him from capital punishment -- an argument the eight justices seemed inclined to support. No one disputes the fact that Bobby Moore, 57, shot dead a cashier at a Houston store in 1980 during a robbery gone wrong. A few months later, Moore was sentenced to death in Texas, the state that carries out the most executions nationwide.
  
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• How soldiers survive in the Arctic

  29-11-2016 23:27 via cnn.com
  
  Norwegian border guards train in the freezing wilderness near the town of Kirkenes, a key area to securing NATO's border with Russia. CNN's Nick Paton Walsh has more.
  
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• Syringe exchanges help reduce rates of HIV, CDC says

  29-11-2016 23:09 via cnn.com
  
  A new report from the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, released Tuesday, finds that the use of syringe or needle exchanges has contributed to significant drops in the rates of HIV among African-American and Latino drug users.
  
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• Ohio attack likely ISIS-linked

  29-11-2016 23:09 via cnn.com
  
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• Trump closes in on America's next top diplomat

  29-11-2016 22:57 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Donald Trump on Tuesday stepped up his contentious search for a secretary of state that has split loyalists and sparked a backlash over candidates considered frontrunners to be America's next top diplomat. The president-elect's nominee for the job will be America's public face to the rest of the world, the person who will succeed John Kerry, head up a department of 70,000 staff and lead the largest diplomatic operation in the world. The prospective candidates touted most frequently have been ers
  
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• Trump nominates Pence ally to oversee Medicaid

  29-11-2016 22:56 via news.yahoo.com
  
  INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — The architect of Indiana Gov. Mike Pence's expansion of Medicaid may now play a key role in implementing any plan that might replace President Barack Obama's signature health care law.
  
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• Three women of color Trump has appointed

  29-11-2016 22:56 via cnn.com
  
  As Donald Trump's Cabinet begins to take shape, the President-elect has selected three women of color so far to serve in top positions in his administration, including South Carolina Gov. Nikki Haley, who was a sharp critic of Trump during the 2016 Republican primary campaign.
  
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• Truck driver who struck Tracy Morgan's van pleads guilty

  29-11-2016 22:53 via news.yahoo.com
  
  NEW BRUNSWICK, N.J. (AP) — The truck driver who slammed into the back of a van carrying actor-comedian Tracy Morgan and several other people, killing one of them, pleaded guilty Tuesday and could avoid jail time.
  
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• The Latest: Colombia lowers plane crash death toll to 71

  29-11-2016 22:52 via news.yahoo.com
  
  The latest on the Colombia plane crash involving members of a Brazilian soccer team (all times local): 4:45 p.m. Colombian aviation authorities have lowered the death toll from the charter plane crash ...
  
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• The Latest: Pa. lawmaker discusses Labor job with Trump

  29-11-2016 22:51 via news.yahoo.com
  
  NEW YORK (AP) — The Latest on President-elect Donald Trump and his administration (all times EST):
  
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• Kellogg pulls ads from Breitbart over company 'values'

  29-11-2016 22:51 via news.yahoo.com
  
  BATTLE CREEK, Mich. (AP) — Kellogg has announced that it will no longer advertise on Breitbart.com, the website formerly run by one of President-elect Donald Trump's top aides, Steve Bannon.
  
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• Electric car factory planned in Arizona to have 2000 workers

  29-11-2016 22:50 via news.yahoo.com
  
  PHOENIX (AP) — Electric car maker Lucid Motors said Tuesday it will build a manufacturing plant in Arizona that will begin production in 2018 as it looks to compete in the fast-growing market for luxury electric vehicles.
  
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• Ex-Marine gets prison in murder of fellow Marine's wife

  29-11-2016 22:47 via news.yahoo.com
  
  SAN BERNARDINO, Calif. (AP) — A former Marine who killed another serviceman's wife in the Mojave Desert while they were having an affair has been sentenced to life in prison without possibility of parole.
  
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• CORRECTS: Colombian officials lower crash death toll to 71 from 75, saying 4 people didn't board flight

  29-11-2016 22:47 via news.yahoo.com
  
  BOGOTA, Colombia (AP) — CORRECTS: Colombian officials lower crash death toll to 71 from 75, saying 4 people didn't board flight. (Corrects APNewsAlert that said the death toll was lowered from 81 to 77.)
  
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• Ex-coach Bennell charged with child abuse

  29-11-2016 22:46 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Former coach Barry Bennell, who is at the centre of a scandal rocking English football, was on Tuesday charged with eight counts of child abuse, prosecutors said. Bennell, who has already served three jail terms for previous child sex offences, has faced a slew of new allegations by at least 20 former footballers spanning three decades beginning in the 1970s when he was working for Crewe Alexandra, Manchester City and Stoke City. "Following a review of the evidence, in accordance with the Code f
  
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• Big blunders behind botched U.S.-led strike in Syria in September: inquiry

  29-11-2016 22:45 via news.yahoo.com
  
  By Idrees Ali and Phil Stewart WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A U.S. military investigation has concluded that a series of "unintentional human errors" led to a coalition air strike on Sept. 17 that killed fighters aligned with the Syrian regime instead of the Islamic State militants they were targeting. The incident, which Moscow said killed more than 60 Syrian soldiers, sparked a controversy and prompted an emergency U.N. Security Council meeting as tensions between Russia and the United States spiked
  
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• 20,000 Syrians have fled east Aleppo this week: Red Cross

  29-11-2016 22:45 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Some 20,000 people have fled intensified attacks on rebel-held eastern Aleppo in Syria since Sunday, the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) said on Tuesday. The ICRC called again for access to east Aleppo, which it has not been able to reach with food, medicines and other relief supplies since April. Syria and its allies aim to drive rebels from Aleppo before Donald Trump takes office as U.S. president, a senior official in the pro-Damascus military alliance said, as pro-government
  
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• Police surround San Jose home where escaped inmate might be

  29-11-2016 22:44 via news.yahoo.com
  
  SAN JOSE, Calif. (AP) — The Santa Clara County Sheriff's SWAT team has surrounded an east San Jose home where they believe an escaped inmate may be hiding.
  
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• Q&A: A look at Texas' first homegrown case of Zika

  29-11-2016 22:39 via news.yahoo.com
  
  DALLAS (AP) — Health officials are going door-to-door in the Texas neighborhood of a woman who is believed to be the first person to contract the Zika virus by getting bitten by a mosquito in that state.
  
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• Stocks close higher, helped by health care companies

  29-11-2016 22:38 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Stocks closed slightly higher on Tuesday, boosted by health-care companies like UnitedHealth Group, which helped outweigh steep declines in energy companies. Tiffany jumped after it reported better quarterly ...
  
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• Church shooting defendant eases into role as own attorney

  29-11-2016 22:38 via news.yahoo.com
  
  CHARLESTON, S.C. (AP) — The white man prosecutors accuse of gunning down nine black parishioners in a bid to start a race war showed no signs of a racial agenda Tuesday, taking a calm, businesslike approach to selecting a jury that would ultimately decide whether he's put to death.
  
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• Arena: US 'fighting for our lives' in World Cup qualifying

  29-11-2016 22:37 via news.yahoo.com
  
  NEW YORK (AP) — Bruce Arena opened a binder to a page with 48 names, his depth chart for the U.S. soccer team.
  
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• Eric Thames joins Brewers, who cut Chris Carter

  29-11-2016 22:36 via news.yahoo.com
  
  MILWAUKEE (AP) — Free agent Eric Thames agreed Tuesday to a $16 million, three-year contract with the Milwaukee Brewers, who cut first baseman Chris Carter after a 41-homer season that tied for the National League lead.
  
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• Turkey: Fire at a dormitory for girls kills 12, injures 22

  29-11-2016 22:35 via news.yahoo.com
  
  ISTANBUL (AP) — A fire at a middle school dormitory for girls in southern Turkey left 12 people dead and 22 injured Tuesday night, a Turkish governor and state-run media said.
  
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• Accused South Carolina church shooter, acting as own lawyer, helps pick jurors

  29-11-2016 22:34 via news.yahoo.com
  
  The man accused of killing nine people at a historic black church in Charleston, South Carolina, last year helped choose jurors on Tuesday for his federal death penalty trial after being allowed to serve as his own lawyer. Federal prosecutors are seeking the death penalty against 22-year-old avowed white supremacist Dylann Roof, who is charged with acts of hate crimes, obstruction of religion and firearm use that resulted in death. U.S. District Judge Richard Gergel said he was not inclined to l
  
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• Ex-NFL star Sharper sentenced to 20 years in drugging rapes

  29-11-2016 22:28 via news.yahoo.com
  
  LOS ANGELES (AP) — Former NFL star Darren Sharper was sentenced Tuesday a 20-year prison term, ending a tour of shame and punishment in the courthouse where he first admitted drugging and raping women in four states.
  
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• Stocks edge up on U.S. data, healthcare sector; oil flops

  29-11-2016 22:21 via news.yahoo.com
  
  By Richard Leong NEW YORK (Reuters) - Stock prices around the world rose on Tuesday following upbeat U.S. growth data and strength in U.S. healthcare shares, while oil prices tumbled to the weakest level in over a week on doubts OPEC could reach an accord to reduce output. The dollar fell against a basket of currencies on profit-taking. The dollar index had hit a near 14-year peak last week on expectations a Trump administration would result in tax cuts and a surge in federal spending to bolster
  
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• Rwanda to probe French officials' genocide role

  29-11-2016 22:21 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Rwanda on Tuesday opened a formal probe into 20 French officials suspected of playing a role in the 1994 genocide, in a move likely to further sour diplomatic ties with France. Kigali has long accused France of complicity in the genocide of some 800,000 mostly ethnic Tutsis, at the hands of Hutu extremists, angering Paris and straining relations. "The inquiry, for now, is focused on 20 individuals whom, according to information gathered so far, are required by the prosecution authority to explai
  
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• FANTASY PLAYS: Waiver picks to lead you to playoffs

  29-11-2016 22:19 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Week 13 is the last chance for most fantasy teams to make the playoffs, and owners will do it without any Browns or Titans on bye.
  
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• The Latest: Officials say 3 dead in Tennessee wildfires

  29-11-2016 22:18 via news.yahoo.com
  
  GATLINBURG, Tenn. (AP) — The Latest on wildfires burning across the South (all times local):
  
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• Trump gets third intel briefing, far fewer than predecessors

  29-11-2016 22:16 via news.yahoo.com
  
  WASHINGTON (AP) — President-elect Donald Trump has received only his third top-secret intelligence briefing since his election four weeks ago.
  
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• Trump taps 'Obamacare' foe, champion of privatizing Medicare

  29-11-2016 22:14 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Reaching deep into conservative territory, President-elect Donald Trump chose Georgia Rep. Tom Price to oversee the nation's health care system on Tuesday, picking a fierce "Obamacare" critic ...
  
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• North Dakota officials back away from blockade plans for pipeline protesters

  29-11-2016 22:13 via news.yahoo.com
  
  North Dakota state officials on Tuesday backed away from plans to block supplies from reaching protesters at a camp near the construction site of an oil pipeline project after the governor’s office said no such action was planned. Activists have spent months protesting plans to route the $3.8 billion Dakota Access Pipeline beneath a lake near the Standing Rock Sioux reservation, saying the project poses a threat to water resources and sacred Native American sites. Earlier on Tuesday, Maxin
  
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• Ohio State attacker may have self-radicalized, officials say

  29-11-2016 22:12 via news.yahoo.com
  
  By Mark Hosenball and Kim Palmer WASHINGTON/COLUMBUS, Ohio (Reuters) - A Somali immigrant who injured 11 people at Ohio State University in a vehicle and stabbing attack before he was shot dead may have followed the same path to self-radicalization as militants in a number of "lone wolf" attacks, U.S. officials said on Tuesday. The Islamic State militant group claimed responsibility on Tuesday for the attack. Abdul Razak Ali Artan, 20, was shot dead by a police officer on Monday moments after he
  
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• Boston's Porcello, Washington's Rendon win comeback awards

  29-11-2016 22:12 via news.yahoo.com
  
  NEW YORK (AP) — Boston Red Sox pitcher Rick Porcello has won the AL Comeback Player of the Year award, while Washington Nationals third baseman Anthony Rendon received the NL honor.
  
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• White House opposes Trump's tweet on flag burning, citing constitution – video

  29-11-2016 22:10 via theguardian.com
  
  White House spokesman Josh Earnest weighs in on a tweet from President-elect Donald Trump that said burning the US flag should be punishable as a crime. Earnest said that while he and many other Americans find the burning of the flag ‘offensive’, the country also had a responsibility to ‘carefully protect’ constitutional rights such as freedom of speech Continue reading...
  
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• What Castro funeral RSVPs reveal

  29-11-2016 22:08 via cnn.com
  
  Fidel Castro's funeral will bring together an unlikely mix of world leaders, royalty, Marxist guerillas and Hollywood actors.
  
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• LATEST: 75 dead

  29-11-2016 21:14 via cnn.com
  
  A plane carrying 72 passengers and nine crew members was involved in an accident near Rionegro, Colombia, according to the country's civil aviation department.
  
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• Dolly Parton heartbroken by wildfires torching her hometown

  29-11-2016 20:46 via news.yahoo.com
  
  ATLANTA (AP) — Country music icon Dolly Parton says she's heartbroken about wildfires that tore through the Tennessee county where she grew up, but spared the Dollywood theme park that bears her name.
  
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• Turkish military says contact lost with 2 soldiers in northern Syria

  29-11-2016 20:41 via news.yahoo.com
  
  ANKARA/CAIRO (Reuters) - The Turkish military said it lost contact on Tuesday with two of its soldiers deployed in northern Syria, although it stopped short of confirming an Islamic State claim that the militant group had kidnapped a pair of Turkish soldiers. Islamic State's Amaq news agency earlier said that Islamic State fighters had captured two Turkish soldiers near a village west of al-Bab in the Aleppo countryside. Turkey launched an incursion into northern Syria in August, sending tanks,
  
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• Islamic State claims responsibility for Ohio University attack

  29-11-2016 20:41 via news.yahoo.com
  
  The Islamic State group claimed responsibility on Tuesday for an attack at Ohio State University in which a man ran down pedestrians in a car and stabbed others with a butcher's knife. The Islamic State news agency AMAQ posted a photo of Abdul Razak Ali Artan wearing a blue shirt and sitting with greenery in the background. "Brother Abdul Razak Ali Artan, God accept him, implementer of the Ohio attack, a student in his third year in university," the caption read.
  
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• Former British soccer coach charged with sexual assaults on boy

  29-11-2016 20:41 via news.yahoo.com
  
  A British former soccer coach was charged on Tuesday with eight historical offences of sexual assault against a boy under the age of 14. The charges against Barry Bennell, 62, who was a talent spotter at Crewe Alexandra and a coach at Manchester City, relate to "non-recent" child sexual abuse, the state prosecution service said without giving details. The charges include indecent assault, inciting a boy to commit an act of gross indecency and assault with intent to commit buggery.
  
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• Peterson takes part in workout after knee operation

  29-11-2016 20:39 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Minnesota Vikings running back Adrian Peterson began sprinting again Tuesday as he battles back to fitness after a knee injury that has left him a frustrated spectator for the last nine games. Peterson, 31, has not played since suffering a torn meniscus in his right knee during the Vikings' September 18 clash with the Green Bay Packers. The injury was initially feared to have ended Peterson's season but Vikings coach Mike Zimmer is still holding out hope the star running back may yet be availabl
  
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• Park, trail dedicated to 19 fallen Arizona firefighters

  29-11-2016 20:39 via news.yahoo.com
  
  YARNELL, Ariz. (AP) — A memorial park and a hiking trail were dedicated Tuesday to 19 elite Arizona wildland firefighters who died in 2013 in a brush choked box canyon while battling one of the state's most devastating wildfires.
  
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