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• Exclusive: Sullivan lawyer Jay Clayton seen as Trump’s top choice for SEC

  03-01-2017 23:57 via news.yahoo.com
  
  WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Wall Street lawyer Jay Clayton has emerged as the top candidate to head the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission for the Trump administration, two sources familiar with the matter said on Tuesday.
  
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• Why Did Dinosaurs Die Out? Answer Could Be in Their Teeth

  03-01-2017 23:56 via nbcnews.com
  
  Baby dinosaurs stayed up to six months in their eggs before they hatched, new research suggests — and that may have contributed to their extinction.
  
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• Reality TV's Omarosa hired for Trump's White House outreach

  03-01-2017 23:54 via news.yahoo.com
  
  WASHINGTON (AP) — Omarosa Manigault is getting hired.
  
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• Despite Trump tweet, anti-violence options for feds limited

  03-01-2017 23:53 via news.yahoo.com
  
  CHICAGO (AP) — President-elect Donald Trump says Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel should ask for federal help if he isn't able to bring down a homicide count that soared last year to 762 — the most killings in nearly two decades and more than New York and Los Angeles combined.
  
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• Trump recognizes 'urgency' of North Korea nuclear threat: South Korea

  03-01-2017 23:51 via news.yahoo.com
  
  SEOUL/WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. President-elect Donald Trump's "clear warning" to North Korea shows he is aware of the urgency of the threat posed by North Korea's nuclear program and will not waver from a policy of sanctions against the isolated country, South Korea said on Tuesday. North Korean leader Kim Jong Un said on Sunday his nuclear-capable country was close to test-launching an intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM), raising the prospect of putting parts of the United States in ra
  
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• The Latest: House adopts new rules package along party lines

  03-01-2017 23:48 via news.yahoo.com
  
  The Latest on Congress convening for a new session (all times EST): 5:45 p.m. The Republican-led House has adopted, largely along party lines, its rules package for the 115th Congress, with Democrats protesting ...
  
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• Why you shouldn't use cotton swabs to clean your ears

  03-01-2017 23:39 via cnn.com
  
  The doctors' advice hasn't changed much, but it's still so unsatisfying: You should not use cotton swabs to clean your ears.
  
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• North Korea nuclear threat Trump's first challenge

  03-01-2017 23:37 via news.yahoo.com
  
  North Korea's determined quest for a nuclear-tipped missile capable of hitting the US mainland is the first major US foreign policy challenge of the Donald Trump era. Kim marked the New Year by announcing that North Korea plans to test launch an intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM) of the kind he would need to threaten US soil. "North Korea just stated that it is in the final stages of developing a nuclear weapon capable of reaching parts of the US," he declared.
  
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• Tesla posts 9.4 percent fall in quarterly deliveries

  03-01-2017 23:35 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Deliveries fell to about 22,200 vehicles in the fourth quarter from 24,500 vehicles in the preceding quarter. Tesla said production challenges, which started at the end of October and lasted through early December, shifted vehicle production toward the end of the quarter, resulting in delayed deliveries. "We tried to recover these deliveries and expedite others by the end of the quarter, time ran out before we could deliver all customer cars," the electric carmaker said.
  
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• Police hunt $6m jewellery heist suspects

  03-01-2017 23:29 via bbc.co.uk
  
  CCTV footage shows two men alleged to have stolen $6m (£4.9m) of jewellery from a wholesalers in New York.
  
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• Whole lotta latte: Barista wins $900,000 on NFL bet

  03-01-2017 23:22 via news.yahoo.com
  
  LAS VEGAS (AP) — Damon Graham spent much of his Sunday at Starbucks working as he usually does, making lattes and double espressos for thirsty customers.
  
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• PHOTOS: Menendez Brothers: Their Childhood, the Murder, the Trial

  03-01-2017 23:20 via abcnews.go.com
  
  Lyle and Erik Menendez shot and killed their parents in 1989 in Beverly Hills.
  
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• Strong data lifts dollar to 14-year high; oil falls

  03-01-2017 23:00 via news.yahoo.com
  
  By Rodrigo Campos NEW YORK (Reuters) - The U.S. dollar touched a 14-year high and major stock markets got off to a solid start in the new year, boosted by strong data, while debt yields edged up after upbeat economic figures out of China and Europe. Crude oil gave up a 2 percent advance and fell more than 2 percent, restrained by the strong dollar, as U.S. factory activity accelerated to a two-year high in December amid a surge in measures of new orders and employment.
  
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• Box office records made as Broadway says goodbye to 2016

  03-01-2017 22:55 via news.yahoo.com
  
  NEW YORK (AP) — The year on Broadway came to an explosive and sparkly end for theater producers as many shows recorded their best weeks ever — and not just the fresh new offerings.
  
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• Automakers in headlights as Trump set to take the wheel

  03-01-2017 22:52 via news.yahoo.com
  
  US automakers found themselves in the political hot seat Tuesday, with President-elect Donald Trump lambasting GM for importing Mexican-made cars into the United States and Ford scrapping plans for a new plant south of the border. Trump, who won the presidency in part with tough talk on trade, has shown his willingness to single out individual companies by name if they displease him, and Ford seems to be the latest to fall in line. Also on Tuesday, Trump nominated Reagan-era protectionist lawyer
  
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• WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange interviewed on 'Hannity'

  03-01-2017 22:48 via news.yahoo.com
  
  NEW YORK (AP) — Sean Hannity interviews WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange tonight on "Hannity."
  
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• Trump's tweets aren't Paul Ryan's kryptonite

  03-01-2017 22:47 via cnn.com
  
  Donald Trump, either by design or default, sure got the headline he wanted on Tuesday. There it was, on CNN.com: "House Republicans pull plan to gut independent ethics panel after Trump tweets."
  
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• California snowpack measures low, but big storms coming

  03-01-2017 22:46 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Surveyors plunged a pole into the Sierra Nevada snowpack on Tuesday and took the first manual measurement of the wet season, finding water content was about half of normal as California flirts with a possible ...
  
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• The Latest: Dick Cheney attends daughter's swearing-in

  03-01-2017 22:41 via news.yahoo.com
  
  WASHINGTON (AP) — The Latest on Congress convening for a new session (all times EST):
  
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• 'The Rohingya Alan Kurdi': Will the world take notice now?

  03-01-2017 22:37 via cnn.com
  
  Face down in the mud, a baby boy lies still after washing up on a river bank.
  
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• Health care rises as US indexes ring in new year with gains

  03-01-2017 22:37 via news.yahoo.com
  
  NEW YORK (AP) — U.S. stocks broke a three-day losing streak Tuesday and ushered in the new year with broad gains. Health care stocks, which struggled for most of last year, climbed.
  
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• Story on Rockettes meeting over Trump performance criticized

  03-01-2017 22:35 via news.yahoo.com
  
  NEW YORK (AP) — The Madison Square Garden Co. is slamming an article from Marie Claire that details a private meeting between its executive chairman and the Radio City Rockettes over a performance at President-elect Donald Trump's inauguration.
  
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• Grim vigil for families after Brazil prison massacre

  03-01-2017 22:29 via news.yahoo.com
  
  By Ueslei Marcelino MANAUS, Brazil (Reuters) - Brazil's justice minister on Tuesday proposed an overhaul of the penal system a day after 56 inmates were massacred in the deadliest riot in two decades. The minister, Alexandre de Moraes, said Brazil needed to improve conditions in its jails, which are home to an estimated 600,000 inmates, after visiting the prison in the jungle city of Manaus where violence erupted between rival drug gangs on Monday. Meanwhile, hundreds of anguished relatives, hug
  
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• China sends first freight train to London

  03-01-2017 22:29 via cnn.com
  
  Time for a long trip along the new silk road.
  
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• Drew Storen, Reds agree to $3 million, 1-year contract

  03-01-2017 22:25 via news.yahoo.com
  
  CINCINNATI (AP) — The Reds agreed to a $3 million, one-year contract with right-hander Drew Storen, their first move to improve Cincinnati's historically bad bullpen.
  
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• Bill and Hillary Clinton to attend Trump inauguration

  03-01-2017 22:22 via news.yahoo.com
  
  WASHINGTON (AP) — Falling in line with tradition, Bill and Hillary Clinton plan to attend Donald Trump's inauguration. It's a decision that will put Hillary Clinton on the inaugural platform as her bitter rival from the 2016 campaign assumes the office she long sought.
  
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• The Latest: Omarosa getting hired by Trump White House

  03-01-2017 22:20 via news.yahoo.com
  
  WASHINGTON (AP) — The Latest on President-elect Donald Trump (all times EST):
  
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• Everything You Need to Know About the Office of Congressional Ethics

  03-01-2017 22:16 via abcnews.go.com
  
  Comes after Congress withdrew controversial proposed changes.
  
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• Brazil hunts escaped inmates after bloody prison riot

  03-01-2017 22:16 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Brazilian police staged a massive manhunt Tuesday for scores of convicts who escaped during a prison riot that ended with 56 inmates killed by their rivals, many of them beheaded. In all, 184 inmates escaped from two prisons in Amazonas state as a local drug gang took gruesome revenge on members of a rival gang, authorities said. "We hope to have caught nearly all the prisoners by the end of the week," the state security minister Sergio Fontes told reporters.
  
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• The Latest at CES: Outlook for wearable gadgets declines

  03-01-2017 22:15 via news.yahoo.com
  
  The Latest on CES gadget show in Las Vegas (all times local): 10:20 a.m. Neither the holiday season nor New Year's fitness resolutions seem to be helping wearable gadgets break into the mainstream. Research ...
  
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• Mexico says does not expect Ford move to spark similar decisions

  03-01-2017 22:12 via news.yahoo.com
  
  MEXICO CITY (Reuters) - Mexico's economy minister said on Tuesday he did not believe that Ford Motor Co.'s decision to cancel its planned $1.6 billion factory in San Luis Potosi state will trigger a series of similar decisions.
  
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• Republicans lock horns with Trump as new Congress sworn in

  03-01-2017 22:07 via news.yahoo.com
  
  House Republicans were forced to back down Tuesday on plans to gut a congressional ethics office as Donald Trump rebuked them over the move, in an embarrassing clash with the president-elect on the day the new Congress was sworn in. When Trump takes office on January 20, Republicans will run both chambers of Congress and the White House for the first time since 2007, having retained control of the Senate and House of Representatives in November's vote. Emboldened Republican leaders are due to la
  
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• U.S. fines TransUnion, Equifax for deceit over credit scores

  03-01-2017 22:06 via news.yahoo.com
  
  A U.S. regulator on Tuesday ordered credit reporting agencies TransUnion and Equifax Inc to pay more than $23.2 million in fines and restitution for deceiving consumers about the usefulness and cost of credit scores they bought. The U.S. Consumer Financial Protection Bureau said the payments also resolve charges that TransUnion and Equifax lured consumers into enrolling in credit services advertised as free or costing only $1, but which could cost more than $200 a year. TransUnion will reimburse
  
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• Retreating after Trump tweet, GOP won't gut ethics office

  03-01-2017 22:04 via news.yahoo.com
  
  The new GOP era in Washington got off to a messy start Tuesday as House Republicans, under pressure from President-elect Donald Trump, abruptly dropped plans to gut an independent congressional ethics ...
  
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• Hillary, Bill Clinton to Attend Trump's Inauguration

  03-01-2017 22:04 via abcnews.go.com
  Clinton won the popular vote but lost the Electoral College to Donald Trump.
  
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• Chided by Trump, Ford scraps Mexico factory, adds Michigan jobs

  03-01-2017 22:02 via news.yahoo.com
  
  FLAT ROCK, Mich./WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Ford Motor Co on Tuesday scrapped a planned Mexican car factory and added 700 jobs in Michigan following criticism by Donald Trump, as the U.S. president-elect turned his attention toward rival General Motors Co with the threat of a "big border tax" over compact cars made in Mexico. Ford CEO Mark Fields called the move "a vote of confidence" in Trump, but primarily a response to a decline in the North American demand for small cars like those that would ha
  
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• Veteran TV, stage director Jeffrey Hayden dies at 90

  03-01-2017 22:00 via news.yahoo.com
  
  LOS ANGELES (AP) — A spokesman says veteran TV and stage director Jeffrey Hayden has died.
  
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• British Airways' cabin crew announce 48-hour strike for January 10

  03-01-2017 21:59 via news.yahoo.com
  
  British Airways cabin crew plan to hold a 48-hour strike starting on Jan. 10, after suspending previous plans to walk out over Christmas, trade union Unite said on Tuesday. Crew who serve as part of British Airways' 'mixed fleet' - and have poorer terms and conditions than some longer-serving staff - rejected a pay offer from BA shortly before Christmas. "Unite remains hopeful that a negotiated settlement which meets our members' aspirations can be achieved and would urge British Airways to enga
  
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• Carson Wentz gives Eagles hope for future

  03-01-2017 21:57 via news.yahoo.com
  
  PHILADELPHIA (AP) — Carson Wentz is the real deal.
  
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• Texas abortion provider says fetal tissue burial rule is 'offensive'

  03-01-2017 21:48 via news.yahoo.com
  
  By Jon Herskovitz AUSTIN, Texas (Reuters) - The president of an abortion provider told a federal court on Tuesday a proposed Texas regulation requiring facilities to dispose of aborted fetal tissue through burial or cremation is unnecessary and "offensive." Women's health providers, which provide abortions, among other services, argue the rules are part of a nationwide agenda to place restrictions on abortions and make it harder for women to get the procedure. Texas is the most populous state in
  
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• Oil dives two percent, strong dollar knocks crude off 18-month high

  03-01-2017 21:41 via news.yahoo.com
  
  By Scott DiSavino NEW YORK (Reuters) - Oil prices slid more than 2 percent on the first trading day of 2017, knocked off 18-month highs hit in early trade as the U.S. dollar rallied to its highest level since 2002 and traders took profits. Brent futures fell $1.35, or 2.4 percent, to settle at $55.47 a barrel, while U.S. West Texas Intermediate (WTI) crude lost $1.39, or 2.6 percent, to settle at $52.33, its lowest close in two weeks. Before the slide began, both contracts hit their highest leve
  
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• AP Power Rankings: Pats finish regular season at No. 1

  03-01-2017 21:39 via news.yahoo.com
  
  NEW YORK (AP) — Going into the playoffs, the New England Patriots are once again a strong favorite to reach the Super Bowl.
  
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• Browns owners send letter of apology to ticket holders

  03-01-2017 21:37 via news.yahoo.com
  
  CLEVELAND (AP) — Browns owners Dee and Jimmy Haslam have apologized to the team's season-ticket holders following a 1-15 season.
  
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• Joe Scarborough says he was with Trump, but not to party

  03-01-2017 21:36 via news.yahoo.com
  
  NEW YORK (AP) — Joe Scarborough's year-end meet-up with Donald Trump has unleashed criticism of the MSNBC commentator for being too cozy with a high elected figure. But Scarborough says he's just doing his job as a journalist, and suggests he was targeted only because the politician was Trump.
  
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• Federal judge mulling fate of Texas fetal remains rules

  03-01-2017 21:19 via news.yahoo.com
  
  AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — Abortion providers told a federal judge Tuesday that Texas' attempt to require burial or cremation of fetal remains was "government interference" without public health benefits, while state lawyers countered that clinics want to be allowed to continue disposing of such remains in landfills.
  
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• German police search locations linked to Berlin attacker

  03-01-2017 21:15 via news.yahoo.com
  
  BERLIN (AP) — German police have searched two locations in Berlin linked to the man suspected of carrying out a deadly truck attack on a Christmas market in the capital last month.
  
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• Quick Decisions Meant Life or Death in Southeastern Storms

  03-01-2017 21:14 via abcnews.go.com
  
  Quick decisions meant life or death as deadly storms raked the Southeast
  
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• McDonald's crosses cardinals to offer 'Big Vac'

  03-01-2017 21:09 via news.yahoo.com
  
  McDonald's is dishing up "hallowed" hamburgers after the Vatican backed it in a fight with cardinals over a new outlet at the foot of the tiny city state in Rome. Big Macs were being scoffed with glee Tuesday at the US fast food giant a stone's throw from Saint Peter's Square. Cardinals had warned the Vatican against supping with that symbol of Western consumerism, including a group of the red-hatted "Princes of the Church" who live above the Vatican-owned site.
  
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• Ford Cancels Plan to Build New Mexican Plant, Adds US Jobs

  03-01-2017 21:07 via abcnews.go.com
  
  The auto industry's relationship with President-elect Donald Trump took a dramatic turn as Ford decided to shift investment dollars targeted for Mexico to the U.S., while Trump threatened GM with a tax on some imported small cars
  
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