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• Racing legend Stirling Moss hospitalized

  14-01-2017 23:44 via cnn.com
  
  British motor racing legend Stirling Moss is stable in hospital after being admitted with a serious chest infection late last month, a statement posted on his website Saturday revealed.
  
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• US troops in Poland a message to Russia

  14-01-2017 23:38 via cnn.com
  
  Poland's leaders are set to stage a formal welcome ceremony Saturday for the biggest US troop deployment to Europe in decades.
  
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• Northwestern women's hoops wins 1st game since Hankins death

  14-01-2017 23:29 via news.yahoo.com
  
  EVANSTON, Ill. (AP) — The Northwestern women's basketball team honored Jordan Hankins by wearing her name and number during warmups and then, in a gym filled with the school's athletes, won in its first game since her death.
  
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• Trump unleashes attack on US civil rights icon

  14-01-2017 23:28 via news.yahoo.com
  
  President-elect Donald Trump lashed out Saturday at a prominent civil rights icon and lawmaker who said he is skipping next week's inauguration ceremony because he sees the New York businessman's election as illegitimate. Trump aimed his latest Twitter blast at longtime congressman John Lewis and the majority-black district in Georgia he represents, drawing widespread criticism just days before the holiday honoring slain civil rights leader Martin Luther King Jr. A park near the monument to King
  
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• IOM: Only 4 survivors from migrant shipwreck off Libya

  14-01-2017 23:28 via news.yahoo.com
  
  ROME (AP) — A migrant ship carrying around 100 people capsized in the frigid waters off Libya on Saturday and only four survivors had been rescued after hours of searching, aid groups said.
  
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• Chinese citizens allegedly linked to attack

  14-01-2017 23:23 via cnn.com
  
  Turkish authorities arrested two Chinese citizens over alleged links to the New Year's nightclub terrorist attack in Istanbul, according to the state-run Anadolu news agency.
  
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• Dolce&Gabbana court millennials, Plein launches activewear

  14-01-2017 23:22 via news.yahoo.com
  
  MILAN (AP) — If turmoil brings innovation and renovation, Italian menswear is in for a creative burst.
  
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• On sensitive U.S. stopover, Taiwan leader connects to Twitter

  14-01-2017 23:16 via news.yahoo.com
  
  By Jane Lanhee Lee SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Taiwan President Tsai Ing-wen, carving a careful diplomatic path on her stopovers in the United States, visited the headquarters of micro-messaging service Twitter Inc and opened her official account on Saturday. A source with knowledge of the president's travel through San Francisco told Reuters she met with the "head of Twitter" but declined to confirm if that person was CEO and co-founder Jack Dorsey. The source, who spoke on the condition of anony
  
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• No. 11 North Carolina beats No. 9 Florida State 96-83

  14-01-2017 22:47 via news.yahoo.com
  
  CHAPEL HILL, N.C. (AP) — Joel Berry II scored 26 points, and No. 11 North Carolina snapped No. 9 Florida State's school-record win streak with a 96-83 victory on Saturday.
  
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• No. 14 Louisville trips up No. 7 Duke 78-69

  14-01-2017 22:46 via news.yahoo.com
  
  LOUISVILLE, Ky. (AP) — Anas Mahmoud established the post presence that No. 14 Louisville needed against Duke before teammates began chipping in timely baskets and making stops.
  
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• Mali urges Gambia's leader to avoid 'bloodbath' and step down

  14-01-2017 22:39 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Mali's president called Saturday for Gambian leader Yahya Jammeh to step down and avoid an unnecessary "bloodbath" by clinging to power and forcing a potential military intervention. The Gambia's political crisis dominated a summit co-organised by Mali and France as Gambian president-elect Adama Barrow made a surprise appearance to meet with west African leaders seeking their help to end the impasse. "On January 19, I dare to hope that African wisdom will convince our brother (Jammeh) that the g
  
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• Marchers brave cold, rain for MLK march in DC

  14-01-2017 22:36 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Despite rain and cold weather, marchers filled several blocks in Washington on Saturday as they rallied in a Martin Luther King Jr. Day march that was at times also a rally against President-elect Donald ...
  
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• Burkina Faso fight back to hold Cameroon

  14-01-2017 22:32 via news.yahoo.com
  
  A brilliant Benjamin Moukandjo free-kick was not enough for Cameroon to win their opening game at the Africa Cup of Nations on Saturday as Burkina Faso battled back to draw 1-1. The result means there is nothing between any of the sides in Group A after hosts Gabon were held to a 1-1 draw by Guinea-Bissau in the tournament's opening match earlier in the day.
  
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• Rodgers, Packers visit Cowboys for Prescott's playoff debut

  14-01-2017 22:20 via news.yahoo.com
  
  ARLINGTON, Texas (AP) — Aaron Rodgers has been unbeatable on a seven-game run that carried Green Bay to the divisional round.
  
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• Witherspoon: Hollywood has to change

  14-01-2017 22:19 via cnn.com
  
  Reese Witherspoon and Nicole Kidman are hoping their upcoming HBO limited series "Big Little Lies" is one small step toward big changes in Hollywood.
  
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• SpaceX Returns to Flight With Successful Falcon 9 Launch

  14-01-2017 22:15 via abcnews.go.com
  Launch comes just less than 5 months after explosion destroyed rocket.
  
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• Trump Under Fire for Attacking Civil Rights Icon

  14-01-2017 22:13 via abcnews.go.com
  
  The president-elect is facing heat for attacking a civil rights icon on the weekend prior to Martin Luther King Day
  
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• Africa Cup of Nations kicks off

  14-01-2017 22:11 via cnn.com
  
  The 2017 Africa Cup of Nations kicked off in Libreville, Gabon, Saturday with football fans out in force for the occasion.
  
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• AP Interview: Lynch says US must hold police accountable

  14-01-2017 22:10 via news.yahoo.com
  
  BALTIMORE (AP) — As a younger lawyer, Loretta Lynch prosecuted New York police officers who sodomized a Haitian immigrant in a precinct bathroom. As attorney general, she's broadened her focus to go after entire police departments for unconstitutional practices.
  
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• Iraqi forces fight on at Mosul university, find chemicals: officers

  14-01-2017 22:07 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Iraqi special forces battled Islamic State militants inside the Mosul University campus on Saturday in a second day of fierce clashes in the complex and also discovered chemicals used to try to make weapons, officers said. As they unfurled a map of the area, a suspected Islamic State drone flew overhead and they shot at it. The Iraqi forces also found chemical substances IS had used to try to make weapons, CTS commander Sami al-Aridhi said.
  
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• Iraqi forces advance at Mosul University, take areas along Tigris: officials

  14-01-2017 22:07 via news.yahoo.com
  
  By Isabel Coles and John Davison MOSUL, Iraq/BAGHDAD (Reuters) - Iraqi special forces drove back Islamic State militants in the Mosul University campus on Saturday, while elite police units took over large areas along the east bank of the Tigris river, military officials said. The head of Iraq's Counter Terrorism Service (CTS) said security forces were close to seizing the entire east bank of the Tigris, which bisects Mosul north to south.
  
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• 'Bridge ninjas' gain internet fame after Nevada flooding

  14-01-2017 22:07 via news.yahoo.com
  
  RENO, Nev. (AP) — A team of heavy-machine operators drew a crowd of camera-toting spectators as they plucked downed trees and other dangerous debris from raging floodwaters in Nevada.
  
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• Marchand has 2 goals, 3 assists and Bruins pound Flyers 6-3

  14-01-2017 22:06 via news.yahoo.com
  
  BOSTON (AP) — Brad Marchand had two goals and three assists to lift the Boston Bruins to a 6-3 win over the slumping Philadelphia Flyers on Saturday.
  
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• Tensions flare as Serb nationalist train halts at border

  14-01-2017 22:04 via news.yahoo.com
  
  BELGRADE, Serbia (AP) — An elaborately decorated Serbian nationalist train took off Saturday from Belgrade aiming for northern Kosovo but halted at the border in a stunt that triggered a dramatic escalation of tensions between the former wartime foes.
  
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• Obama Gives Final Weekly Address: 'We Can't Take Our Democracy for Granted'

  14-01-2017 22:04 via abcnews.go.com
  
  In his final weekly address to the nation, President Obama urged the American people to be engaged citizens in the years ahead.
  
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• House votes to begin repealing Obamacare

  14-01-2017 22:04 via news.yahoo.com
  
  By Richard Cowan and Susan Cornwell WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. House Republicans on Friday won passage of a measure starting the process of dismantling Obamacare, despite concerns about not having a ready replacement and the potential financial cost of repealing Democratic President Barack Obama's landmark health insurance law. The House of Representatives voted 227-198 to instruct committees to draft legislation by a target date of Jan. 27 that would repeal the 2010 Affordable Health Care Act,
  
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• Cost to Fix Michigan Sinkhole Estimated at More Than $78M

  14-01-2017 22:04 via abcnews.go.com
  Repairs to a broken sewer line that caused a massive sinkhole
  
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• Trump attacks civil rights leader who questioned his election win

  14-01-2017 21:58 via news.yahoo.com
  
  By Timothy Gardner WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President-elect Donald Trump began a long holiday weekend that honors slain black civil rights leader Martin Luther King Jr. by attacking another rights activist and politician who had said he doesn't see Trump as a "legitimate president". Democratic Representative John Lewis, of Georgia, said on a segment of "Meet the Press" released by NBC on Friday he thought hacking by Russians had helped Trump, a Republican, get elected in November. Lewis said he do
  
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• At Paris meeting, major powers to warn Trump over Middle East peace

  14-01-2017 21:54 via news.yahoo.com
  
  By John Irish and Lesley Wroughton PARIS (Reuters) - Major powers will send a message to U.S. President-elect Donald Trump on Sunday that a two-state solution between Israelis and Palestinians is the only way forward, and warn that his plan to move the U.S. Embassy to Jerusalem could derail peace efforts. Some 70 countries, including key European and Arab states as well as the permanent members of the U.N. Security Council, are due in Paris for a meeting that Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Neta
  
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• Aubameyang, Gabon denied in Cup of Nations opener

  14-01-2017 21:42 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Juary Soares grabbed a dramatic late equaliser for debutants Guinea-Bissau as they recovered from a Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang strike to hold hosts Gabon to a 1-1 draw in the Africa Cup of Nations opening game. Gabon appeared to be heading for victory in Saturday's Group A curtain-raiser after Borussia Dortmund striker Aubameyang turned the ball in from close range seven minutes into the second half at the Stade de l'Amitie in the capital Libreville. Despite our country's difficulties we managed
  
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• Correction: Norway-Reindeer Slaughter story

  14-01-2017 21:40 via news.yahoo.com
  
  OSLO, Norway (AP) — In a story Jan. 13 about Norwegian children viewing the slaughter of reindeer, The Associated Press misspelled the name of the town where the preschool is located. It is Steinkjer.
  
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• Wild viper strike caught on camera

  14-01-2017 21:39 via cnn.com
  
  Little is known about the striking performance of rattlesnakes in the wild, but improvements in technology are now changing that.
  
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• Protesters Denounce Trump's Anti-Immigrant Rhetoric, Plans

  14-01-2017 21:36 via abcnews.go.com
  Protesters are gathering in Washington and other cities.
  
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• Falcons and Patriots favorites as NFL playoffs resume

  14-01-2017 21:34 via news.yahoo.com
  
  The Atlanta Falcons and New England Patriots are the favorites as the NFL playoffs resume on Saturday. The Falcons get the weekend started hosting the Seattle Seahawks in the NFC divisional playoff game, ...
  
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• Why we need more US troops in Europe right now

  14-01-2017 21:15 via cnn.com
  
  In 1975, the Cold War was at its peak. I was a new tank lieutenant starting my career with a three-year assignment in US Army Europe. There were 250,000 US soldiers on the continent, and our job was patrolling the border fences between West Germany and the Warsaw Pact nations and defending Europe from Soviet aggression.
  
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• More US troops in Europe -- a timely move

  14-01-2017 21:15 via cnn.com
  
  In 1975, the Cold War was at its peak. I was a new tank lieutenant starting my career with a three-year assignment in US Army Europe. There were 250,000 US soldiers on the continent, and our job was patrolling the border fences between West Germany and the Warsaw Pact nations and defending Europe from Soviet aggression.
  
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• Bahraini demonstrators protest pending executions

  14-01-2017 21:02 via news.yahoo.com
  
  DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — Witnesses say demonstrators have marched in Bahrain to protest the pending executions of three men found guilty of a deadly attack on police in 2014.
  
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• SpaceX returns to flight, nails rocket landing

  14-01-2017 20:57 via cnn.com
  
  SpaceX's Falcon 9 rocket is set to take off from Vandenberg Air Force Base in California on Saturday, the company website said.
  
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• Broadway star Jennifer Holliday pulls out of Trump concert

  14-01-2017 20:47 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Facing fan backlash, Broadway star Jennifer Holliday has backed out of performing at Donald Trump's inauguration concert, the singer said in an open letter posted Saturday. Trump's inaugural committee had announced Friday that Holliday, a Tony award winner who is black, would perform in a concert at the Lincoln Memorial on the eve of the tycoon's inauguration, joining a lineup featuring country stars Toby Keith and Lee Greenwood. "#JenniferHolliday singing at Trump's inauguration is a betrayal o
  
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• Jennifer Holliday backs out of Trump inauguration gig

  14-01-2017 20:44 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Broadway star Jennifer Holliday has backed out as a performer at next week's presidential inaugural, saying she did not realize that her participation would be interpreted as a statement of support for ...
  
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• Washington protesters vow to fight for civil rights under Trump

  14-01-2017 20:43 via news.yahoo.com
  
  By Lacey Johnson WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. civil rights activists vowed on Saturday to defend hard-fought gains in voting rights and criminal justice during the presidency of Donald Trump, kicking off a week of protests ahead of the Republican's inauguration. About 2,000 mostly black protesters ignored steady rain to march and rally near Washington's Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial, as speakers urged them to fight for minority rights and President Barack Obama's signature healthcare law, which
  
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• No. 14 Louisville tops No. 7 Duke 78-69

  14-01-2017 20:41 via news.yahoo.com
  
  LOUISVILLE, Ky. (AP) — Anas Mahmoud had a career-high 17 points and 11 rebounds, Donovan Mitchell added 15 points and No. 14 Louisville shot 59 percent in the second half to top No. 7 Duke 78-69 on Saturday.
  
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• SpaceX launches, lands rocket for first time since September blast

  14-01-2017 20:39 via news.yahoo.com
  
  SpaceX on Saturday successfully launched and landed its first unmanned Falcon 9 rocket since a costly and complicated launchpad explosion in September. "Liftoff of the Falcon 9," a SpaceX commentator said as the tall white rocket launched from Vandenberg Air Force Base in California at 9:54 am (1754 GMT), carrying a payload of 10 satellites for Iridium, a mobile and data communications company. Cheers erupted at SpaceX mission control in Hawthorne, California as live video images showed the firs
  
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• SpaceX launches first rocket since explosion in Florida

  14-01-2017 20:39 via news.yahoo.com
  
  A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket blasted off from California on Saturday and placed a constellation of satellites in orbit, marking the company's first launch since a fireball engulfed a similar rocket on a Florida ...
  
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• Women knit pink 'pussyhats' for rally after Trump inauguration

  14-01-2017 20:34 via news.yahoo.com
  
  The National Mall in Washington could become a sea of bright pink the day after Donald Trump is inaugurated as U.S. president if the vision of a pair of Los Angeles women is realized. For two months, Krista Suh and Jayna Zweiman have called on people around the world to make 1.17 million pink "pussyhats" for those attending the Women's March, a rally on Jan. 21 organized with hopes of bringing attention to civil and human rights issues.
  
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• Soccer history made in AFCON opener

  14-01-2017 20:29 via cnn.com
  
  Guinea-Bissau shocked Africa Cup of Nations hosts Gabon with a dramatic late equalizer in its first ever match at an international tournament Saturday.
  
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• The Latest: SpaceX launch places satellites in orbit

  14-01-2017 20:24 via news.yahoo.com
  
  The Latest on the launch of a SpaceX rocket in California (all times local): 11:25 a.m. SpaceX says its first launch of a Falcon 9 rocket since a fiery September accident has successfully placed a constellation ...
  
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• Berlin official fired over past as Stasi secret police

  14-01-2017 20:15 via news.yahoo.com
  
  The mayor of Berlin announced Saturday that a senior regional official had been fired for having worked in the Stasi, the former East Germany's dreaded secret police. Andrej Holm, in charge of housing in the state of Berlin, showed "by his statements and in interviews" about his past that "he was unable to look clearly at himself and to draw the consequences," the head of the regional government, Michael Mueller, said in a statement. The mayor added that "especially in Berlin, which was the epit
  
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• Pope meets Palestinian leader; Vatican calls Jerusalem holy

  14-01-2017 20:03 via news.yahoo.com
  
  VATICAN CITY (AP) — The Vatican stressed the sacred nature of Jerusalem on Saturday as the Palestinian leader warned that prospects for peace could suffer if the incoming Trump administration goes ahead with plans to move the U.S. embassy in Israel from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem.
  
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• Guinea-Bissau deny hosts Gabon as Cup of Nations begins

  14-01-2017 20:01 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Minnows Guinea-Bissau made it a memorable start to the Africa Cup of Nations as a late Juary Soares equaliser saw them hold hosts Gabon to a 1-1 draw in Saturday's opening game. Soares headed home for the tournament debutants in the 90th minute to cancel out Gabonese poster boy Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang's opener in the Group A game at the Stade de l'Amitie in capital Libreville. The final whistle was greeted with jeers from the home support but there was delight for Guinea-Bissau, for whom just
  
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