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• Report details sexual abuse claims nationwide

  15-12-2016 23:47 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Los Angeles (AFP) - USA Gymnastics is under scrutiny after an Indianapolis Star investigation into claims by at least 368 young gymnasts that they were sexually assaulted by coaches or other adults involved in the sport.
  
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• DuPont to pay $50M over mercury-contaminated Virginia rivers

  15-12-2016 23:43 via news.yahoo.com
  
  RICHMOND, Va. (AP) — Chemical giant DuPont will pay more than $50 million but admit no fault under a proposed environmental settlement after releasing toxic mercury for decades that made its way into Shenandoah Valley waterways, authorities announced Thursday.
  
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• Yahoo under scrutiny after latest hack, Verizon seeks new deal terms

  15-12-2016 23:42 via news.yahoo.com
  
  By Greg Roumeliotis and Jessica Toonkel NEW YORK (Reuters) - Yahoo Inc came under renewed scrutiny by federal investigators and lawmakers on Thursday after disclosing the largest known data breach in history, prompting Verizon Communications Inc to demand better terms for its planned purchase of Yahoo's internet business. Verizon, which agreed to buy Yahoo's core internet business in July for $4.8 billion, is now trying to persuade Yahoo to amend the terms of the acquisition agreement to reflect
  
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• Sean Woods resigns as Morehead State men's basketball coach

  15-12-2016 23:41 via news.yahoo.com
  
  MOREHEAD, Ky. (AP) — Sean Woods has resigned as Morehead State's coach following an independent investigation into allegations by two players that Woods assaulted them.
  
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• Trump supporters spotted in Moscow

  15-12-2016 23:39 via cnn.com
  
  A Donald Trump supporter and former member of Congress is in Russia this week, as questions about the President-elect's policies toward Moscow roil his transition.
  
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• EU leaders agree to give Parliament role in preparing for Brexit talks - Tusk

  15-12-2016 23:38 via news.yahoo.com
  
  BRUSSELS (Reuters) - EU leaders have agreed to invite representatives of the European Parliament to participate in meetings to prepare for Britain's departure from the bloc, European Council President Donald Tusk said on Thursday. At a news conference, Tusk said leaders had discussed the Parliament's plea for a greater role in negotiations on Britain's divorce after the chamber's outgoing speaker warned them that it could block a Brexit deal. (Reporting by Alastair Macdonald, editing by Elizabet
  
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• What's next, what has happened during Dylann Roof trial

  15-12-2016 23:37 via news.yahoo.com
  
  CHARLESTON, S.C. (AP) — Dylann Roof was convicted Thursday of last year's grisly massacre at a historic black church that left nine parishioners slain at a Bible study. A federal jury found Roof guilty of all 33 counts, including hate crimes and obstruction of religion. Jurors took less than two hours to reach their verdict.
  
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• Sources: Intel shows Putin OK'd hacking

  15-12-2016 23:37 via cnn.com
  
  A US official familiar with the US intelligence assessment of the Russia election-related hacking said the understanding is that the operation was carried out with sophisticated hacking tools, the equivalent of those used by the US National Security Agency.
  
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• Putin turned Russia election hacks in Trump's favor: U.S. officials

  15-12-2016 23:37 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Russian President Vladimir Putin supervised his intelligence agencies' hacking of the U.S. presidential election and turned it from a general attempt to discredit American democracy to an effort to help Donald Trump, three U.S. officials said on Thursday. U.S. intelligence agencies' conclusion that Russia tried to influence the election by hacking people and institutions, including Democratic Party bodies, has angered President-elect Trump, who says he won the Nov. 8 vote fairly.
  
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• Old kidneys, new life?

  15-12-2016 23:37 via cnn.com
  
  Transplant centers come up short more often than not when treating patients in need of a kidney, as there is a shortage of donors. Yet kidneys donated by people 65 or older can still function for many years after transplantation, according to a study published Thursday in the Clinical Journal of the American Society of Nephrology. The results suggest that a new source of quality kidneys could be available to patients in need of life-saving transplants.
  
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• U.S. election agency breached by hackers after vote

  15-12-2016 23:34 via news.yahoo.com
  
  The U.S. agency charged with ensuring that voting machines meet security standards was itself penetrated by a hacker after the elections in November, according to a security firm working with law enforcement on the matter. The security firm, Recorded Future, was monitoring underground electronic markets where hackers buy and sell wares and discovered someone offering logon credentials for access to computers at the U.S. Election Assistance Commission, company executives said. Posing as a potenti
  
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• Ethics panel looks at California Rep. Duncan Hunter

  15-12-2016 23:31 via news.yahoo.com
  
  WASHINGTON (AP) — The House Ethics Committee said Thursday it is continuing an investigation into possible ethics violations by Rep. Duncan Hunter, R-Calif., following an inquiry launched by the independent Office of Congressional Ethics.
  
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• Soulja Boy arrested in Los Angeles on probation violation

  15-12-2016 23:30 via news.yahoo.com
  
  LOS ANGELES (AP) — Los Angeles police say rapper Soulja Boy has been arrested on a suspected probation violation after they found a firearm in his Hollywood Hills home.
  
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• Herrera, Phillies agree to a $30.5 million, 5-year contract

  15-12-2016 23:30 via news.yahoo.com
  
  PHILADELPHIA (AP) — Outfielder Odubel Herrera and the Philadelphia Phillies have agreed to a $30.5 million, five-year contract.
  
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• New Jersey lawmakers clear path toward Christie book deal

  15-12-2016 23:27 via news.yahoo.com
  
  TRENTON, N.J. (AP) — New Jersey's Democrat-led Legislature advanced a bill on Thursday that would let Republican Gov. Chris Christie cash in on a book deal before he leaves office while also raising legislative staff, judges' and other officials' salaries.
  
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• Judge blocks Texas from requiring fetal remains be buried

  15-12-2016 23:27 via news.yahoo.com
  
  AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — A federal judge on Thursday blocked until at least next month hotly debated Texas rules mandating burial or cremation of fetal remains that were set to go into effect within days.
  
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• Feds deny leases for Minnesota mine; company to press ahead

  15-12-2016 23:26 via news.yahoo.com
  
  MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — Two longstanding mineral rights leases that are critical for a proposed large underground copper-nickel mine upstream from the pristine Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness in northeastern Minnesota will not be renewed, two federal agencies announced Thursday, but the company said it will press forward.
  
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• Thousands leave Aleppo under rebel withdrawal deal

  15-12-2016 23:25 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Thousands of civilians and rebels left Aleppo on Thursday under an evacuation deal that will allow Syria's regime to take full control of the city after years of fighting. The withdrawal began a month to the day after Syrian government forces launched a major offensive to retake all of Aleppo, and will hand the regime its biggest victory in more than five years of civil war. In a video message to Syrians, President Bashar al-Assad said the "liberation" of Aleppo was "history in the making".
  
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• Legal-marijuana activists celebrate new Massachusetts law

  15-12-2016 23:25 via news.yahoo.com
  
  BOSTON (AP) — Legal-marijuana activists were in a celebratory mood Thursday as a new voter-approved law took effect in Massachusetts, allowing people 21 and over to possess, grow and use limited amounts of recreational pot.
  
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• EU agrees to extend Russia sanctions until mid-2017

  15-12-2016 23:24 via news.yahoo.com
  
  By Gabriela Baczynska BRUSSELS (Reuters) - European Union leaders agreed on Thursday to extend the bloc's main economic sanctions against Russia over the turmoil in Ukraine for six months until mid-2017, diplomats said. The decision was expected and the formal process to extend the sanctions on Russia's defense, energy and financial sectors will take place early next week, they said. "We welcome unanimous decision by the EU to extend economic and sectoral sanctions against Russia," Ukraine's pre
  
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• Federal Reserve propels stocks, dollar higher

  15-12-2016 23:23 via news.yahoo.com
  
  New York (AFP) - Stock markets in Europe scored big gains on Thursday, US equities resumed their upward march and the dollar rallied, a day after the Federal Reserve hiked interest rates.
  
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• Biggest D-I women's rout: No. 3 Baylor tops Winthrop 140-32

  15-12-2016 23:23 via news.yahoo.com
  
  WACO, Texas (AP) — No matter how many substitutions Baylor coach Kim Mulkey made, the lead kept growing.
  
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• Texas city's water deemed unsafe due to chemical leak

  15-12-2016 23:19 via news.yahoo.com
  
  CORPUS CHRISTI, Texas (AP) — A harmful chemical from an asphalt plant leaked into the water supply in Corpus Christi, forcing school closures, disrupting commerce and causing a run on bottled water at supermarkets in the Gulf Coast city.
  
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• Oregon's largest city grapples with aftermath of snow storm

  15-12-2016 23:18 via news.yahoo.com
  
  PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) — Erick Daza's girlfriend had to abandon her car in the winter storm that paralyzed the Portland area.
  
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• Feds give 20 more years to Glen Canyon Dam on Colorado River

  15-12-2016 23:17 via news.yahoo.com
  
  LAS VEGAS (AP) — The federal government is committing to at least another 20 years of use from a huge Colorado River dam it calls crucial to water and power in the West, but that critics say is unstable and should be removed.
  
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• Murdoch's 21st Century Fox widens footprint with Sky buy

  15-12-2016 23:14 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Rupert Murdoch's 21st Century Fox on Thursday sealed a $14.8 billion (14-billion-euro) cash deal for control of European pay-TV giant Sky, expanding the footprint of the media-entertainment powerhouse. Fox said it had reached a formal agreement to buy the 61 percent stake in Sky that it does not already own. The deal valuing Sky at £18.5 billion comes five years after Australian-born media mogul Murdoch failed to clinch a takeover after a notorious phone-hacking scandal at his newspaper em
  
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• Justice Department probing California jail snitch scandal

  15-12-2016 23:14 via news.yahoo.com
  
  SANTA ANA, Calif. (AP) — The U.S. Justice Department on Thursday opened an investigation into a long-running scandal over the use of jailhouse informants in Orange County, California, federal authorities said.
  
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• Dylann Roof convicted of all counts in church slaughter

  15-12-2016 23:14 via news.yahoo.com
  
  CHARLESTON, S.C. (AP) — Dylann Roof was convicted Thursday in the chilling slaughter of nine black church members who had welcomed him to their Bible study, a devastating crime in a country that was already deeply embroiled in racial tension.
  
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• The Latest: Survivor won't say if Roof should face death

  15-12-2016 23:10 via news.yahoo.com
  
  CHARLESTON, S.C. (AP) — The Latest on the federal death penalty trial of Dylann Roof, who was convicted of killing nine black people during a South Carolina church Bible study (all times local):
  
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• The Latest: DC police issue permit for women's march

  15-12-2016 23:09 via news.yahoo.com
  
  WASHINGTON (AP) — The Latest on President-elect Donald Trump (all times EST):
  
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• Ian Katz: In hacking, does truth trump all?

  15-12-2016 23:07 via bbc.co.uk
  
  BBC Newsnight Editor Ian Katz asks if truth trumps all in a world of hacking
  
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• Call for probe into protesters' deaths

  15-12-2016 23:06 via cnn.com
  
  International human rights groups are calling for an investigation into the deaths of as many as four protesters in Cameroon last week during a series of demonstrations in the country's English-speaking regions.
  
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• UN: Threat of a hacking attack on nuclear plants is growing

  15-12-2016 23:03 via news.yahoo.com
  
  UNITED NATIONS (AP) — The "nightmare scenario" is rising for a hacking attack on a nuclear power plant's computer system that causes the uncontrolled release of radiation, the United Nations' deputy chief warned Thursday.
  
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• Domestic violence case against Familia dropped

  15-12-2016 23:00 via news.yahoo.com
  
  FORT LEE, N.J. (AP) — A judge dismissed a charge Thursday stemming from a domestic violence complaint against New York Mets star relief pitcher Jeurys Familia after the player's wife told a prosecutor that her husband did not hurt her.
  
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• Banks lead stock indexes higher, and US dollar soars

  15-12-2016 22:58 via news.yahoo.com
  
  NEW YORK (AP) — A surge in banks and other financial stocks that stand to benefit from higher interest rates pushed indexes to the edge of record highs Thursday. The dollar rose sharply against other currencies and the price of gold sank on expectations that the Federal Reserve will follow up Wednesday's rate increase with several more next year.
  
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• Yahoo's mega breach shows how just how vulnerable data is

  15-12-2016 22:57 via news.yahoo.com
  
  NEW YORK (AP) — The revelation of Yahoo's latest hack underscores what many Americans have known for years: All those emails, photos and other personal files stored online can easily be stolen, and there's little anyone can do about it.
  
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• California, Uber meet amid self-driving car legal showdown

  15-12-2016 22:56 via news.yahoo.com
  
  California regulators are meeting privately Thursday with officials from Uber to hammer home their demand that the ride-hailing company immediately stop picking up San Francisco passengers in self-driving cars — or face legal action.
  
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• Rare plant named after rock guitarist Jimi Hendrix

  15-12-2016 22:54 via news.yahoo.com
  
  SAN DIEGO (AP) — California researchers have named a newly discovered rare plant after Jimi Hendrix.
  
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• Legendary sports reporter dies of cancer

  15-12-2016 22:51 via cnn.com
  
  The suits and ties were so loud, at times they were screaming. But Craig Sager wore them so well.
  
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• US Sen. Warren "100" percent concerned about Russian hacking

  15-12-2016 22:50 via news.yahoo.com
  
  BOSTON (AP) — U.S. Sen. Elizabeth Warren says she's "100" percent concerned about reports of Russian hacking into the email accounts of Democratic officials.
  
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• APNewsBreak: Army says some misconduct trends are increasing

  15-12-2016 22:49 via news.yahoo.com
  
  WASHINGTON (AP) — Sexual misconduct and harassment allegations against senior Army leaders increased this year and more were substantiated than in 2015, according to a closely held report by the Army Inspector General.
  
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• Aleppo: One war zone to another

  15-12-2016 22:22 via cnn.com
  
  Residents in eastern Aleppo are holding out hope that they'll be able to evacuate their besieged neighborhoods after rebels said new ceasefire agreement was reached overnight.
  
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• Dylann Roof trial: Guilty

  15-12-2016 22:16 via cnn.com
  
  [Breaking news update, posted at 3:27 p.m. ET]
  
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• Longtime sports reporter dies

  15-12-2016 22:13 via cnn.com
  
  The suits and ties were so loud, at times they were screaming. But Craig Sager wore them so well.
  
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• Aleppo joins Rwanda, Srebrenica, Halabja

  15-12-2016 22:02 via cnn.com
  
  They are places synonymous with mass slaughter.
  
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• Trump Org ends 3 overseas projects

  15-12-2016 21:51 via cnn.com
  
  The Trump Organization has recently terminated three overseas deals in what the company's attorney described to CNN on Thursday as "housecleaning."
  
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• It's time for the Electoral College to fall on its sword

  15-12-2016 21:28 via cnn.com
  
  Amid the last month's exhausting drama around Cabinet picks and presidential tweetstorms, one date stands out -- December 19, the day the Electoral College picks our next president.
  
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• Victims of Duterte's war on drugs

  15-12-2016 21:19 via cnn.com
  
  Since taking power in June, President Rodrigo Duterte has waged a brutal "war on drugs." The crackdown has been linked to more than 5,900 deaths.
  
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• Incoming UN chief names three women to top posts

  15-12-2016 21:13 via news.yahoo.com
  
  United Nations (United States) (AFP) - Incoming UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres on Thursday announced his choice of Nigeria's Environment Minister Amina Mohammed to be the UN's number two official and tabbed two other women for key leadership posts.
  
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• Kerry says Assad government carrying out 'massacre' in Aleppo

  15-12-2016 21:08 via news.yahoo.com
  
  WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry said on Thursday that the government of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad is carrying out "nothing short of a massacre" in Aleppo. Kerry, speaking at a news briefing, said the United States was seeking an immediate, verifiable, and durable cessation of hostilities in Aleppo, and he called on the international community to exert pressure to move the process forward. (Reporting by David Alexander and Yeganeh Torbati; Editing by Jonathan Oati
  
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