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• Gunmen kill 10, including Canadian, in attacks on police

  18-12-2016 23:49 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Gunmen assaulted Jordanian police in a series of attacks Sunday, including at a Crusader castle popular with tourists, killing seven officers, two local civilians and a woman visiting from Canada, officials ...
  
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• Ronaldo hat-trick sinks Japan's Antlers

  18-12-2016 23:42 via cnn.com
  
  A Cristiano Ronaldo hat-trick helped Real Madrid to avoid a major upset against Kashima Antlers to win the Club World Cup final 4-2 after extra time in Yokohoma Sunday.
  
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• Yahoo security problems a story of too little, too late

  18-12-2016 23:39 via news.yahoo.com
  
  By Joseph Menn, Jim Finkle and Dustin Volz SAN FRANCISCO/BOSTON/WASHINGTON (Reuters) - In the summer of 2013, Yahoo Inc launched a project to better secure the passwords of its customers, abandoning the use of a discredited technology for encrypting data known as MD5. In August of that year, hackers got hold of more than a billion Yahoo accounts, stealing the poorly encrypted passwords and other information in the biggest data breach on record. Yahoo only recently uncovered the hack and disclose
  
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• Syrian Observatory: five evacuation buses allowed to pass from Aleppo

  18-12-2016 23:39 via news.yahoo.com
  
  BEIRUT (Reuters) - The Syrian army and its allies on Sunday allowed a convoy of five buses and two ambulances from the rebel-held district of Aleppo to reach rebel-held al-Rashideen outside the city, said the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights war monitor. The convoy had been held for hours after leaving the Ramousah highway junction next to the rebel-held part of the city. (Reporting by Angus McDowall; Editing by Peter Cooney)
  
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• The Latest: Pats' Blount sets franchise rushing TD record

  18-12-2016 23:31 via news.yahoo.com
  
  The Latest on the NFL's 15th Sunday. (all times Eastern):
  
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• Jordan's security forces declare end of castle siege, four 'terrorists" killed'

  18-12-2016 23:20 via news.yahoo.com
  
  AMMAN (Reuters) - Jordanian security forces said they killed four "terrorist outlaws" after flushing them out of a castle in the southern city of Karak where they had holed up after a shoot-out that killed nine people. An official statement said the four assailants, who shot at police targets in the town before heading to the Crusader-era castle, carried automatic weapons. Large quantities of explosives, weapons and suicide belts were seized in a hideout, it added. The statement made no mention
  
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• The Latest: US envoy says UN monitors needed for Aleppo

  18-12-2016 23:18 via news.yahoo.com
  
  BEIRUT (AP) — The Latest on the conflict in Syria (all times local):
  
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• How the Bluest State Became the Reddest

  18-12-2016 23:16 via nbcnews.com
  
  The American political landscape has changed a lot over the past 25 years but there is no more dramatic shift that the one that has
  
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• Succop's 53-yard field goal gives Titans 19-17 win over KC

  18-12-2016 23:14 via news.yahoo.com
  
  KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) — Ryan Succop kicked a 53-yard field goal into the wind as time expired to give Tennessee a 19-17 victory over the Kansas City Chiefs on a frigid Sunday and keep the Titans tied with Houston atop the AFC South.
  
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• Ravens hold on at end to squeeze past Eagles 27-26

  18-12-2016 23:11 via news.yahoo.com
  
  BALTIMORE (AP) — One down, two to go.
  
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• Packers beat Bears 30-27 after Rodgers' big pass to Nelson

  18-12-2016 22:48 via news.yahoo.com
  
  CHICAGO (AP) — Aaron Rodgers hit Jordy Nelson with a 60-yard pass to set up Mason Crosby's 32-yard field goal as time expired to lift the Green Bay Packers to a 30-27 victory over the Bears in one of the coldest games ever played in Chicago on Sunday afternoon.
  
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• Trump: Michelle Obama didn't mean it

  18-12-2016 22:45 via cnn.com
  
  President-elect Donald Trump responds to Michelle Obama's claim that many aren't feeling hope right now.
  
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• How does the process work?

  18-12-2016 22:39 via cnn.com
  
  As electors gather across the U.S. on Monday, CNN's John King breaks down why the electoral college matters & the history of the "faithless elector".
  
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• Boswell's 6 field goals lead Steelers over Bengals 24-20

  18-12-2016 22:30 via news.yahoo.com
  
  CINCINNATI (AP) — Chris Boswell tied the club record with six field goals, and Ben Roethlisberger threw a touchdown pass in the fourth quarter Sunday, rallying Pittsburgh to a 24-20 victory over the Cincinnati Bengals that kept the Steelers in control of the AFC North.
  
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• Gambia's Jammeh to be 'rebel leader' if clings to power: opposition

  18-12-2016 22:22 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Gambian President Yahya Jammeh will effectively become a "rebel leader" if he fails to leave office at the end of his mandate in January, the nation's government-in-waiting said Sunday. Halifa Sallah, a spokesman for the opposition coalition that spurred president-elect Adama Barrow to victory over Jammeh in a December 1 poll, said the longtime leader had no constitutional mandate to remain in office beyond January. The Gambia's top brass have flip-flopped over whether they will remain loyal to
  
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• Still stranded in Aleppo

  18-12-2016 22:19 via cnn.com
  
  The exodus of people from the besieged areas was set to begin under a new complex people-swap deal, but the plan broke down after a number of buses were set on fire.
  
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• Manning's 2 TDs, Beckham one-hander lead Giants past Lions

  18-12-2016 22:15 via news.yahoo.com
  
  EAST RUTHERFORD, N.J. (AP) — Odell Beckham Jr. made another one-hand touchdown catch to delight replay fanatics, the defense turned in another stifling performance and the New York Giants inched closer to their first playoff berth since 2011 with a 17-6 win over Detroit on Sunday that snapped a five-game winning for the NFC North-leading Lions.
  
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• Poland's president talks with opposition, protests spread

  18-12-2016 22:14 via news.yahoo.com
  
  WARSAW, Poland (AP) — Police removed several protesters blocking a prominent Polish governing party member's car Sunday in a southern city as the president met in the capital with opposition leaders to help solve a growing political crisis.
  
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• Braas Monier accepts improved $1.2 billion offer from Standard Industries

  18-12-2016 22:13 via news.yahoo.com
  
  German-based roof tile maker Braas Monier Building Group has agreed to be taken over by U.S. rival Standard Industries [GAFCO.UL], ending its resistance to the bid after Standard Industries raised its offer, valuing the company at around $1.2 billion. The German company said in a statement on Sunday that Standard Industries had raised its offer to 25.27 euros a share in cash from a previous 25 euros. Braas Monier's shares closed at 26.35 euros on Friday but the company said shareholders will rec
  
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• Bitter cold front moves across Plains to Midwest, heads east

  18-12-2016 22:10 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Dangerous, record-low temperatures caused cancellations of some holiday festivities in the Plains and Midwest over the weekend before the cold front pushed into the Ohio Valley and the Eastern Seaboard ...
  
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• Nigerian man charged in hacking of Los Angeles county emails

  18-12-2016 22:09 via theguardian.com
  
  Kelvin Onaghinor faces nine counts, including identity theft, in case that may have exposed personal data of more than 750,000 peopleA Nigerian national has been charged in connection with a hack of Los Angeles County emails that might have exposed personal data from more than 750,000 people who had business with county departments, officials said.Kelvin Onaghinor, 37, faces nine counts, including unauthorized computer access and identity theft, according to the office of the Los Angeles County
  
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• The Latest: Draft UN resolution calls for Aleppo monitors

  18-12-2016 22:08 via news.yahoo.com
  
  BEIRUT (AP) — The Latest on the conflict in Syria (all times local):
  
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• Browns drop to 0-14 following 33-13 loss to Bills

  18-12-2016 22:08 via news.yahoo.com
  
  ORCHARD PARK, N.Y. (AP) — The bumbling Cleveland Browns are two losses short from becoming the NFL's second team to go 0-16 in one season.
  
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• The Latest: Falcons pulling out the black jerseys

  18-12-2016 22:01 via news.yahoo.com
  
  The Latest on the NFL's 15th Sunday. (all times Eastern): 3:40 p.m. The Atlanta Falcons are wearing black throwback jerseys for the second time this season. If they lose to San Francisco, it may be a long ...
  
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• France, Russia reach compromise as Aleppo rescue uncertain

  18-12-2016 22:01 via news.yahoo.com
  
  France struck a compromise Sunday with Russia on a U.N. resolution that it said would prevent "mass atrocities" in besieged areas of Aleppo, where thousands of trapped civilians and rebel fighters ...
  
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• Rob Kardashian announces Blac Chyna split on Instagram

  18-12-2016 21:59 via news.yahoo.com
  
  LOS ANGELES (AP) — Rob Kardashian says in an Instagram post that fiancee Blac Chyna has left him and taken their month-old daughter with her.
  
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• U.N. council to vote Monday on monitoring Aleppo evacuation

  18-12-2016 21:53 via news.yahoo.com
  
  By Michelle Nichols UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) - The U.N. Security Council agreed on a draft resolution aimed at ensuring that U.N. officials can monitor evacuations from the Syrian city of Aleppo and will vote on the text on Monday, diplomats said after several hours of negotiations. The council had been scheduled to vote on Sunday on a French draft, but Russia, an ally of the Syrian government in the civil war, circulated a rival text. Russia raised concerns about sending in U.N. officials unpre
  
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• Corpus Christi lifts water ban after tests find no corrosive

  18-12-2016 21:47 via news.yahoo.com
  
  A nearly four-day ban on drinking the water in Corpus Christi, Texas, was lifted on Sunday after test results showed no contamination due to a chemical leak, the city's mayor announced. Mayor Dan McQueen ...
  
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• Buses set ablaze as evacuations in Aleppo halted

  18-12-2016 21:46 via cnn.com
  
  The exodus of people from the besieged areas was set to begin under a new complex people-swap deal, but the plan broke down after a number of buses were set on fire.
  
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• The Latest: Obama, first lady hike through botanical garden

  18-12-2016 21:42 via news.yahoo.com
  
  KANEOHE, Hawaii (AP) — The latest on President Barack Obama's annual two-week vacation in Hawaii (all times local):
  
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• Michael Floyd inactive for new team New England

  18-12-2016 21:37 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Michael Floyd will not play for his new team New England in the Patriots' showdown with the Denver Broncos.
  
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• Trump aides ask of Russian meddling: Does it matter?

  18-12-2016 21:29 via news.yahoo.com
  
  WASHINGTON (AP) — Donald Trump's top aides on Sunday said the president-elect isn't ready to accept the finding by intelligence officials that Moscow hacked Democratic emails in a bid to elevate Trump. Even if it's true, they said, Trump still won the White House fair and square.
  
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• New Cabinet in Lebanon vows to 'preserve stability'

  18-12-2016 21:26 via news.yahoo.com
  
  BEIRUT (AP) — A new 30-member national unity Cabinet headed by Prime minister Saad Hariri has been announced in Lebanon nearly two months after electing a new president.
  
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• Robert Gates criticises 'laid back' US response to Russia election hack

  18-12-2016 21:12 via theguardian.com
  
  Ex-defense secretary: ‘It seems pretty clear’ Putin regime was involved
  Senators repeat call for committee and Trump aides deny collusionThe former CIA director and defense secretary Robert Gates has criticised the Obama administration and congressional leaders of both parties for a “somewhat laid back” response to the discovery of Russian interference in the US presidential election. Related: Leak reveals Rex Tillerson is director of Bahamas-based US-Russian oil companyC
  
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• British Air, union to hold talks over planned cabin crew strike

  18-12-2016 21:12 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Talks aimed at averting a planned Christmas strike by British Airways cabin crews will be held on Monday, conciliation service Acas said. Last week, British Airways said the Unite trade union had called a strike involving one of its five cabin crew fleets on Christmas Day and Boxing Day, Dec. 26. The union said last week that cabin crews had voted overwhelmingly in favour of strike action in a dispute over pay.
  
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• With Russian meddling, truth is as disturbing as fiction

  18-12-2016 21:10 via cnn.com
  
  David Pepper: Four years ago, I decided to take a stab at writing my first book.I intended it to be fiction. I may have failed.
  
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• Gunmen burn buses, stalling Aleppo evacuation deal

  18-12-2016 21:09 via news.yahoo.com
  
  By Lisa Barrington and Suleiman Al-Khalidi BEIRUT/AMMAN (Reuters) - Armed men burned five buses that were supposed to be used for an evacuation near Idlib in Syria on Sunday, stalling a deal to allow thousands to depart the last rebel pocket in Aleppo, where evacuees crammed into buses for hours, waiting to move. The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, a Britain-based war monitor, said the evacuation of the villages had been postponed as a result, and that meant the evacuation of east Aleppo wa
  
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• Jordanian police storm castle where gunmen were holding tourists

  18-12-2016 21:07 via news.yahoo.com
  
  By Suleiman Al-Khalidi AMMAN (Reuters) - A security operation to flush out around six "terrorists" holed up in a Crusader-era castle in the southern city of Karak was approaching its end, the Jordanian government said on Sunday, after a shoot-out that killed at least nine people. A Canadian woman, three other civilians and five police officers were among the nine killed during the exchange of gunfire between the assailants and security forces. Government minister and spokesman Mohammad al-Momani
  
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• Bob Coburn, longtime host of radio's 'Rockline,' dies at 68

  18-12-2016 21:07 via news.yahoo.com
  
  LOS ANGELES (AP) — Los Angeles radio personality and host of the nationally syndicated show "Rockline" Bob Coburn has died. He was 68.
  
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• Jordan shooting ambushes kill 10, including Canadian tourist

  18-12-2016 21:06 via news.yahoo.com
  
  KARAK, Jordan (AP) — Gunmen ambushed Jordanian police in a series of attacks Sunday, including at a Crusader castle popular with tourists, killing seven officers, two local civilians and a woman visiting from Canada, officials said.
  
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• Israeli occupants of illegal West Bank outpost agree to relocate

  18-12-2016 21:02 via theguardian.com
  
  The 40 families living in Amona have agreed to be relocated, avoiding a clash with government forcesA group of hardline Jewish settlers, who have been living in an unauthorised West Bank outpost, say they have accepted an Israeli government proposal to evacuate the site, apparently ending the potential for a violent confrontation.The 40 or so families who live in the rough-and-ready hilltop outpost of Amona, built illegally on private Palestinian land, have been at the centre of a years-long cou
  
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• Trump gave $10,000 for West Bank settlement, tax form shows

  18-12-2016 20:57 via news.yahoo.com
  
  JERUSALEM (AP) — U.S. President-elect Donald Trump donated $10,000 for a Jewish settlement in the West Bank in 2003.
  
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• Texas city lifts tap water ban after chemical spill fear

  18-12-2016 20:56 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Tap water in Corpus Christi is safe to drink, the mayor of the Texas city said on Sunday, lifting a four-day ban after a chemical spill that forced most of the Texas city's residents to rely on bottled water while tests were underway. Residents of the Gulf of Mexico city were told on Wednesday to stop using tap water for drinking, food preparation and bathing. About 85 percent of Corpus Christi, with a population of about 320,000, was under the restrictions.
  
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• Aleppo evacuations again suspended after deadly attack

  18-12-2016 20:50 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Evacuations Sunday of fighters and civilians from the devastated Syrian city of Aleppo were postponed until further notice after gunmen attacked buses for a similar operation from two rebel-besieged villages. The development came as Syria ally Russia warned it would veto a French-drafted resolution at the Security Council on sending UN observers to Aleppo and submitted a counter draft resolution. Dozens of buses had entered the last rebel-held parts of Aleppo on Sunday to resume the evacuation o
  
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• U.N. council to vote Monday on U.N. monitoring of Aleppo evacuation

  18-12-2016 20:41 via news.yahoo.com
  
  The United Nations Security Council agreed a compromise draft resolution on U.N. monitoring of evacuations from the besieged Syrian city of Aleppo and will vote on Monday, diplomats said. "We expect to vote unanimously for this text tomorrow at 9 a.m.," U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations, Samantha Power, told reporters after more than three hours of negotiations.
  
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• The Latest: Colts dominating Vikings 27-0 at half

  18-12-2016 20:41 via news.yahoo.com
  
  The Latest on the NFL's 15th Sunday. (all times Eastern): 2:35 p.m. The Indianapolis Colts have jumped all over the Minnesota Vikings with a dominant first half. They lead 27-0 at the break and out-gained ...
  
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• Minnesota coach Claeys says he risked job by backing players

  18-12-2016 20:41 via news.yahoo.com
  
  MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — Minnesota head coach Tracy Claeys said Sunday that he knew he was risking his job last week when he expressed support for players who boycotted practices and threatened to skip a bowl game if 10 teammates who were suspended after a sexual assault investigation weren't reinstated.
  
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• Senators call for probe of cyber attacks by Russia

  18-12-2016 20:38 via news.yahoo.com
  
  By David Morgan and Julia Harte WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. Republican and Democratic senators on Sunday called for a special bipartisan panel to investigate cyber attacks against the United States by foreign countries with a focus on Russia's alleged efforts to influence the U.S. presidential election. Charles Schumer, who will be the Senate Democratic leader in the new U.S. Congress in January, and John McCain, the chairman of the Senate Armed Services Committee, said separately on Sunday that
  
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• The Latest: Subzero temps set records; warmer weather ahead

  18-12-2016 20:24 via news.yahoo.com
  
  CHICAGO (AP) — The Latest on bitter cold weather in the Midwest. (all times local):
  
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• Poland is 'on road to autocracy', says constitutional court president

  18-12-2016 20:24 via theguardian.com
  
  Law and Justice party is trying to destroy system of checks on government power, says head of highest constitutional courtThe outgoing president of Poland’s highest constitutional court has accused the ruling rightwing Law and Justice party (PiS) of a systematic attempt to destroy oversight of government activity, describing the country as “on the road to autocracy”.The departure of Prof Andrzej Rzepliński, whose term expires on Monday, is expected to pave the way for PiS
  
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