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• Trump defends travel bans as thousands protest and criticism rises

  29-01-2017 23:55 via news.yahoo.com
  
  By Doina Chiacu and Steve Holland WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Donald Trump on Sunday defended his move to ban entry of refugees and people from seven Muslim-majority nations and said the United States would resume issuing visas for all countries in the next 90 days as he faced rising criticism at home and abroad and new protests in U.S. cities. Trump signed the directive on Friday, but the policy appeared to be evolving on the fly. Democrats and a growing number of Republicans assailed the
  
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• McConnell Cautions Trump on Travel Ban, Warns Against 'Religious Tests'

  29-01-2017 23:53 via abcnews.go.com
  
  The senate GOP leader said he supports strong vetting for national security.
  
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• 'This is not a Muslim ban,' Trump says of immigration move

  29-01-2017 23:47 via news.yahoo.com
  
  President Donald Trump insisted Sunday that his executive order temporarily halting travel from seven majority-Muslim countries was "not a Muslim ban," after it was met with confusion, global outrage and huge protests across the United States. "America is a proud nation of immigrants and we will continue to show compassion to those fleeing oppression, but we will do so while protecting our own citizens and border. America has always been the land of the free and home of the brave," Trump said in
  
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• Tens of thousands in U.S. cities protest Trump immigration order

  29-01-2017 23:45 via news.yahoo.com
  
  NEW YORK/WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Tens of thousands of people rallied in U.S. cities and at airports on Sunday to voice outrage over President Donald Trump's executive order restricting entry into the country for travelers from seven Muslim-majority nations. In New York, Washington and Boston, a second wave of demonstrations followed spontaneous rallies that broke out at U.S. airports on Saturday as U.S. Customs and Border Protection agents began enforcing Trump's directive.
  
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• Religious groups join outpouring against Trump refugee order

  29-01-2017 23:45 via news.yahoo.com
  Rabbi Joel Mosbacher had just finished the morning's Shabbat service when he got an urgent message: Rabbis were needed at New York's Kennedy Airport. People had being detained under President Donald Trump's ...
  
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• Hard work starts now for France's Socialist candidate

  29-01-2017 23:39 via news.yahoo.com
  
  PARIS (AP) — Beating a politically weakened ex-prime minister proved easy for Benoit Hamon, who will represent France's ruling Socialist Party in the country's presidential election. Far harder will be convincing voters that his hard-left platform isn't the recipe for ruin his critics claim.
  
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• GOPers McCain, Graham rip Trump's order

  29-01-2017 23:36 via cnn.com
  
  Republican Sens. John McCain of Arizona and Lindsey Graham of South Carolina broke the GOP silence on Capitol Hill on Sunday to issue a scathing condemnation of President Donald Trump's ban on travel to the United States from seven Muslim-majority countries.
  
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• Trump defends travel ban and lashes out at GOP critics McCain and Graham

  29-01-2017 23:34 via theguardian.com
  
  President insists executive order is not the ‘Muslim ban’ he promisedChief of staff says ‘couple dozen’ still detained as confusion continuesTrump gives National Security Council seat to ex-Breitbart chief BannonOnly a day after casting airports around the US into confusion and hours after his first defeat in federal court, Donald Trump and his advisers flew into a defense of his vague and chaotically enforced ban on travel from seven Muslim-majority countries. Related: B
  
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• Uber CEO challenged for Trump connection after immigrant ban

  29-01-2017 23:31 via news.yahoo.com
  
  WASHINGTON (AP) — Uber CEO Travis Kalanick is facing criticism online for his relationship with President Donald Trump after the administration imposed a temporary ban on travel to the United States from seven majority Muslim countries.
  
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• Brittany Lincicome wins LPGA Tour opener in playoff

  29-01-2017 23:30 via news.yahoo.com
  
  PARADISE ISLAND, Bahamas (AP) — Brittany Lincicome won the LPGA Tour's Pure Silk Bahamas Classic on Sunday in wind and some late rain, beating U.S. Solheim Cup teammate Lexi Thompson with a birdie on the first hole of a playoff.
  
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• Tens of thousands in U.S. cities protest Trump immigration policies

  29-01-2017 23:23 via news.yahoo.com
  
  By Frank McGurty and Nathan Frandino NEW YORK/WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Tens of thousands of people rallied in U.S. cities and at airports on Sunday to voice outrage over President Donald Trump's executive order restricting entry into the country for travellers from seven Muslim-majority nations. In New York, Washington and Boston, a second wave of demonstrations began the afternoon after spontaneous rallies broke out at U.S. airports on Saturday as U.S. Customs and Border Protection agents began e
  
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• Trump: This is not a Muslim ban

  29-01-2017 23:21 via cnn.com
  
  President Donald Trump on Sunday defended the new executive order on extreme vetting, saying in a statement: "We will continue to show compassion to those fleeing oppression, but we will do while protecting our own citizens and voters."
  
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• Hamon beats ex-PM to French Socialist vote

  29-01-2017 23:16 via cnn.com
  
  Benoit Hamon clinched the socialist nomination for this year's French presidential election Sunday, securing victory over former Prime Minister Manuel Valls.
  
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• Benoit Hamon beats former PM to French Socialist vote

  29-01-2017 23:16 via cnn.com
  
  Benoit Hamon clinched the socialist nomination for this year's French presidential election Sunday, securing victory over former Prime Minister Manuel Valls.
  
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• Dean Obeidallah: Trump's 'extreme vetting' would ban him from US

  29-01-2017 23:06 via cnn.com
  
  Donald Trump's extreme vetting plan of immigrants announced on Friday is truly irony defined.
  
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• Dean Obeidallah: Trump's 'extreme vetting' would ban him

  29-01-2017 23:06 via cnn.com
  
  Donald Trump's extreme vetting plan of immigrants announced on Friday is truly irony defined.
  
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• Falcons arrive for 1st Super Bowl appearance since 1999

  29-01-2017 23:04 via news.yahoo.com
  
  HOUSTON (AP) — They're here.
  
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• Miss Universe to be crowned in the Philippines

  29-01-2017 23:03 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Eighty-six of the world's most beautiful women will be vying for the Miss Universe crown Monday as the Philippines -- last year's winner -- stages the beauty contest in a bid to boost tourism and investment. Last year's host, Emmy Award winner Steve Harvey -- who shot to notoriety for initially announcing the wrong winner -- returns for this year's three-hour pageant that starts at 8:00 am (0000 GMT) in Manila. Latin American beauties led by Miss Colombia Andrea Tovar and Miss Peru's Valeria Pia
  
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• Trump chief of staff: defense officials not off NSC after Bannon move

  29-01-2017 23:02 via theguardian.com
  
  Priebus: chair of joint chiefs, director of national intelligence not excludedSpicer: ex-Breitbart publisher’s seven-year navy career is qualificationWhite House chief of staff Reince Priebus denied on Sunday that Donald Trump had removed two top defense officials from regular seats on the National Security Council in a reshuffle that expanded the influence of senior adviser Steve Bannon. Related: Trump gives National Security Council seat to ex-Breitbart chief Steve BannonContinue reading
  
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• Sudan summons U.S. charge d'affaires over Trump immigration order

  29-01-2017 23:02 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Sudan summoned the U.S. charge d'affaires on Sunday to complain about an order by President Donald Trump that temporarily bans the entry of its citizens to the United States. The Sudanese foreign ministry said in a statement the decision sent a "negative message", coming two weeks after the United States announced it would ease economic sanctions on Sudan. It urged the United States to reconsider the decision.
  
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• Are cell phone screenings next?

  29-01-2017 23:02 via cnn.com
  
  Amid the chaos and confusion of President Donald Trump's new executive order on immigration and refugees, sources tell CNN that White House policy director Stephen Miller spoke with officials of the State Department, Customs and Border Patrol, Department of Homeland Security and others to tell them that the President is deeply committed to the executive order and the public is firmly behind it -- urging them not to get distracted by what he described as hysterical voices on TV.
  
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• Trump says U.S. will resume issuing visas to all countries over next 90 days

  29-01-2017 22:59 via news.yahoo.com
  
  President Donald Trump, trying to quell a backlash over his "extreme vetting" order, said the United States would resume issuing visas to all countries once secure policies are put in place over the next 90 days. Under an order he signed on Friday, immigrants from seven Muslim-majority countries were barred from entering the United States. The decision has drawn large protests at many U.S. airports, where some travelers from those countries have been stranded.
  
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• DiVincenzo beats buzzer as No. 1 Nova tops No. 12 Virginia

  29-01-2017 22:58 via news.yahoo.com
  
  PHILADELPHIA (AP) — Josh Hart was on his back, saw the basketball rest on the rim and wondered how it got there as 20,000 frenzied fans held their breath.
  
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• Cavaliers All-Star Love out with back spasms

  29-01-2017 22:58 via news.yahoo.com
  
  CLEVELAND (AP) — Cavaliers starting All-Star forward Kevin Love left Sunday's game against Oklahoma City with back spasms.
  
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• 5-year-old detained at airport

  29-01-2017 22:58 via cnn.com
  
  A mother was separated from her 5-year-old son at Washington Dulles International Airport after President Trump's executive order that banned travel to seven Muslim-majority countries.
  
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• In call, Trump, Saudi king pledge to step up counter-terrorism push: source

  29-01-2017 22:55 via news.yahoo.com
  
  U.S. President Donald Trump and Saudi King Salman spoke for over an hour by telephone on Sunday, agreeing to step up counter-terrorism and military cooperation and enhance economic relations, a senior Saudi source said. The source had no word on whether the two leaders discussed Trump's order to put a four-month hold on allowing refugees into the United States and temporarily ban travelers from Syria and six other Muslim-majority countries. The 22-member Arab League expressed deep concern on Sun
  
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• France's 5 main contenders in the presidential race

  29-01-2017 22:50 via news.yahoo.com
  
  PARIS (AP) — A look at the five main candidates competing in France's April-May presidential election, whose outcome remains highly uncertain.
  
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• U.S. judges limit Trump immigration order; some officials resist curbs

  29-01-2017 22:45 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Judges in Massachusetts, Virginia and Washington state, each home to international airports, issued their rulings after a similar order was issued on Saturday night by U.S. District Judge Ann Donnelly in New York's Brooklyn borough. Donnelly had ruled in a lawsuit by two men from Iraq being held at John F. Kennedy International Airport.
  
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• French Socialists nominate leftwinger Hamon for president

  29-01-2017 22:34 via news.yahoo.com
  
  France's divided Socialists picked leftwinger Benoit Hamon as their presidential nominee Sunday, in the latest twist of a roller-coaster election race that has seen conservative frontrunner Francois Fillon engulfed in scandal. Results from a Socialist primary runoff vote Sunday showed Hamon beating his centrist rival Manuel Valls with 58.65 percent of the vote in a clear victory for the left-wing of the party. "Our country needs the left but a modern, innovative left turned towards the future,"
  
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• Paris tries something different in the fight against smog

  29-01-2017 22:30 via theguardian.com
  
  Under a new French scheme cars are labelled according to the pollution that they emit. This allows the worst offenders to be banned when necessaryLast week Paris suffered its fourth smog of the winter and tried a new idea to protect its residents from the worst effects. Like many European cities, the Paris region has a well-established system of emergency actions that escalate if smog persists. Initial steps include health warnings, reduced speed limits and restrictions on lorries in the city ce
  
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• Protests spread over Trump travel ban on Muslim majority countries – live

  29-01-2017 22:28 via theguardian.com
  
  Latest updates as political backlash to president’s executive order targeting Muslim-majority countries and shutting down refugee entry continuesFederal judge stays deportations under travel banTrump’s executive order – the full text 9.27pm GMTBritons holding dual citizenship with any of the seven Muslim-majority countries listed as suspended by the United States will still be allowed to enter the US, says the Foreign Office.A statement from the Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson
  
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• Live updates: Protesters across US rally against Trump's immigration ban

  29-01-2017 22:28 via cnn.com
  
  On Friday, US President Donald Trump signed an executive order temporarily banning travel from seven Muslim-majority countries and suspending all refugee admissions.
  
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• Thousands protest second day against Trump travel ban

  29-01-2017 22:27 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Thousands of protesters demonstrated in the United States for a second day Sunday against Donald Trump's ban on travelers from seven Muslim countries as the world responded with outrage and judges issued temporary stays in at least four states. A crowd of several thousand gathered in New York's Battery Park, across the harbor from the Statue of Liberty -- America's famed beacon of freedom and immigration -- while thousands more descended on the White House. Trump signed the executive order on Fr
  
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• Ghana, Egypt into AFCON semis

  29-01-2017 22:25 via cnn.com
  
  Brothers Jordan and Andre Ayew were the heroes for Ghana as the Black Stars edged Democratic Republic of Congo 2-1 to reach the semifinals of the Africa Cup of Nations Sunday.
  
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• Theresa May feels heat over travel ban as Donald Trump stands firm

  29-01-2017 22:20 via theguardian.com
  
  Tory MPs join Labour to criticise PM’s response as condemnation of US president’s policy spreads across the worldDonald Trump has refused to step back from his ban on arrivals to the US from predominantly Muslim countries despite protests around America, chaos at US airports, global condemnation and a stand-off between his administration and its own legal system. His policy, which immediately banned all citizens from seven countries in the Middle East and Africa from entering the US,
  
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• Zakaria gives scathing critique of Trump's ban

  29-01-2017 22:19 via cnn.com
  
  CNN's Fareed Zakaria delivered a scathing critique of Trump's travel ban on his show, "GPS," on Sunday, calling the refugees and foreign nationals affected by the order the "roadkill of Trump's posturing."
  
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• Lincicome wins playoff for LPGA Bahamas crown

  29-01-2017 22:13 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Brittany Lincicome birdied the first playoff hole Sunday to defeat fellow American Lexi Thompson and win the LPGA Tour's season-opening Pure Silk Bahamas Classic. Lincicome birdied the par-5 18th and Thompson missed left on a long effort to match her, giving Lincicome the victory, her second in extra holes after losing her first four LPGA playoffs. It was Lincicome's seventh career LPGA triumph and the first since she captured her first major title at the 2015 ANA Inspiration at Rancho Mirage, C
  
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• Hamon to lead Socialists into French presidential election

  29-01-2017 22:09 via news.yahoo.com
  
  PARIS (AP) — Benoit Hamon, rising from left-wing obscurity on a radical proposal to a pay all adults a monthly basic income, will be the Socialist Party candidate in France's presidential election this spring, after he handily beat ex-Prime Minister Manuel Valls in a primary runoff vote Sunday.
  
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• Longtime US residents, aspiring citizens caught up in ban

  29-01-2017 22:08 via news.yahoo.com
  
  LOS ANGELES (AP) — A woman traveling to Indiana to care for her cancer-stricken mother, a family physician who has lived in the U.S. for two decades, and a Minneapolis woman about to become a U.S. citizen were among those caught in the net cast by President Donald Trump when he banned travelers from entering the country from Muslim-majority nations.
  
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• FA Cup to have 2 non-league teams in last 16

  29-01-2017 22:08 via news.yahoo.com
  
  MANCHESTER, England (AP) — The FA Cup threw up its latest heartwarming story line on Sunday when Sutton United beat second-tier Leeds 1-0 to ensure there would be two non-league teams in the fifth round for the first time since the 19th century.
  
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• White House: Immigration order 'small price' for safety

  29-01-2017 22:07 via news.yahoo.com
  
  WASHINGTON (AP) — The White House on Sunday tried to tamp down concerns about President Donald Trump's sweeping immigration order in the face of widespread protests, as some Republicans in Congress urged him to proceed with caution in the face of legal pushback. Top congressional Republicans, however, remain largely behind the new president.
  
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• Trump travel ban sows chaos at airports, outrage at protests

  29-01-2017 22:00 via news.yahoo.com
  
  NEW YORK (AP) — President Donald Trump's immigration order sowed more chaos and outrage across the country Sunday, with travelers detained at airports, panicked families searching for relatives and protesters registering opposition to the sweeping measure that was blocked by several federal courts.
  
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• Protesters storm US airports

  29-01-2017 21:50 via cnn.com
  
  For a second consecutive day, protesters are rallying across the country against President Donald Trump's immigration policies.
  
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• Gonzaga possibly on the verge of second No. 1 ranking

  29-01-2017 21:50 via news.yahoo.com
  
  The week in college basketball started with three of the top four teams in The AP Top 25 losing by Wednesday. The hits to ranked teams kept coming, leading to what's sure to be a major upheaval in Monday's poll.
  
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• Germany: 6 teenagers found dead in garden house

  29-01-2017 21:50 via news.yahoo.com
  
  BERLIN (AP) — Police in Germany say the bodies of six teenagers have been found dead in a garden house near the southern city of Wuerzburg.
  
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• The Latest: Cuomo: 6 still in detention at Kennedy airport

  29-01-2017 21:43 via news.yahoo.com
  
  LONDON (AP) — The Latest on President Donald Trump, his travel ban on seven Muslim-majority countries and other immigration actions (all times local):
  
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• Sundance awards go to Melanie Lynskey thriller, Syria doc

  29-01-2017 21:40 via news.yahoo.com
  
  LOS ANGELES (AP) — A crime thriller, a murder mystery, a documentary about Syria and one about an unconventional love story were among the top award winners of the 2017 Sundance Film Festival.
  
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• Attorneys general from 15 U.S. states, DC decry immigration order

  29-01-2017 21:38 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Democratic attorneys general across the United States on Sunday condemned President Donald Trump's order to restrict people from seven Muslim-majority countries from entering the country and are discussing whether to challenge the administration in court. Democratic attorneys general are expected to be a source of fierce resistance to Trump, much like Republican attorneys general opposed former President Barack Obama's policies. A lawsuit brought by states would heighten the legal stakes surroun
  
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• Trump faces tide of criticism, protests, legal challenges over travel bans

  29-01-2017 21:32 via news.yahoo.com
  
  By Doina Chiacu and Steve Holland WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. President Donald Trump fought back on Sunday amid growing international criticism, outrage from civil rights activists and legal challenges over his abrupt order for a halt on arrivals of refugees and people from seven Muslim-majority countries. Confusion persisted over details of implementation, in particular for green card holders who are legal residents of the United States. In his most sweeping action since taking office on Jan. 2
  
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• Super Bowl in 8 languages for satellite radio subscribers

  29-01-2017 21:27 via news.yahoo.com
  
  HOUSTON (AP) — Football fans in the United States can listen to the Super Bowl in eight languages next Sunday.
  
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