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• OPINION: After firing Preet Bharara, President Trump beware

  11-03-2017 23:52 via cnn.com
  
  There is nothing unusual about a newly elected president replacing all of the United States attorneys with his own personal appointments. These individuals are the nation's most powerful federal prosecutors with the power to even investigate the president himself.
  
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• Intruder scaled fence to enter White House grounds Friday night

  11-03-2017 23:37
  
  Secret Service agents arrested the individual.
  
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• Hoverboard eyed in fire that killed girl, critically hurt 2

  11-03-2017 23:35 via yahoo.com
  
  HARRISBURG, Pa. (AP) — A fire that killed a toddler and critically injured two others, and also led to critical injuries to a responding fire official, appears to have been sparked by a recharging hoverboard, authorities said.
  
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• Dutch PM bars Turkish minister as rally dispute escalates

  11-03-2017 23:23 via yahoo.com
  
  By Tuvan Gumrukcu and Thomas EscrittANKARA/ROTTERDAM (Reuters) - The Netherlands barred Turkey's foreign minister from landing in Rotterdam on Saturday in a row over Ankara's political campaigning among Turkish emigres, leading President Tayyip Erdogan to brand its fellow NATO member a "Nazi remnant".The dispute escalated in the evening as Turkey's family minister was prevented by police from entering the Turkish consulate in the Rotterdam while hundreds of protesters waving Turkish flags gather
  
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• US accuses Moscow of aiding warlord in battle for Libya oil ports

  11-03-2017 23:20 via theguardian.com
  
  Pentagon says Russia has intervened to support opponents of the western-backed governmentA fierce battle for control of Libya’s oil ports is raging this weekend as worried American officials claim that Russia is trying to “do a Syria” in the country, supporting the eastern strongman Khalifa Haftar in an attempt to control its main source of wealth.The fighting between Haftar’s forces and militias from western Libya is focused on Sidra, Libya’s biggest oil port, and
  
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• Trump: 'Troubled' Intruder Breached White House Grounds

  11-03-2017 23:19 via nbcnews.com
  
  Trump would have been at the White House at the time, according to his schedule, but the intruder didn't manage to get far after hopping a fence.
  
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• U.S. Attorney Preet Bharara Says He Was Fired by DOJ

  11-03-2017 23:15 via nbcnews.com
  
  Federal prosecutor Preet Bharara of New York said he was fired Saturday after refusing the Justice Department's order to resign.
  
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• UN report: How to save 20 million people from starvation

  11-03-2017 23:15 via yahoo.com
  
  Stephen O’Brien, the UN undersecretary-general for humanitarian affairs, said on Friday that more than 20 million people in Yemen, Somalia, South Sudan, and Nigeria are facing the threat of starvation and famine."We stand at a critical point in history," O'Brien told the Security Council on Friday.
  
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• Photos of the day - March 11, 2017

  11-03-2017 22:53 via yahoo.com
  
  Seppe Smits of Belgium competes during the Women’s Slopestyle Final in the FIS Freestyle Ski and Snowboard World Championships 2017, in Sierra Nevada, Spain; Katie McCloughlin lies with Topsy, her English setter, during the Crufts dog show in Birmingham, Britain; displaced Iraqi get on a truck to be carried to a safe place, as Iraqi forces battle with Islamic State militants in western Mosul, Iraq. These are some of the photos of the day. (AP/EPA/Getty/Reuters)
  
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• The Latest: Protesters gather at Dutch consulate in Istanbul

  11-03-2017 22:45 via yahoo.com
  
  THE HAGUE, Netherlands (AP) — The Latest on Dutch barring Turkish foreign minister (all times local):
  
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• Millennial engagement: Youth are spurred by causes, not party loyalty

  11-03-2017 22:30 via yahoo.com
  
  Millennials attend the IMF/World Bank Group’s Spring summit featuring young world leaders in Washington, D.C., in 2014.A new report suggests that millennials care less about party loyalty than previous generations and increasingly feel that the terms “liberal” and “conservative” fail to capture the diversity of contemporary political affiliations.The 2016 Millennial Impact Report, released Saturday, focuses on how millennials, broadly defined as those born between 1
  
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• Prominent US Attorney Preet Bharara says he was 'fired' after not resigning

  11-03-2017 22:28
  
  The U.S. Department of Justice is seeking the resignations of all the U.S. attorneys who were holdovers from the Obama administration, except for two.
  
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• UK could have taken 100 child refugees a week, says charity

  11-03-2017 22:25 via theguardian.com
  
  The chief executive of Tact Care, the UK’s largest fostering charity, said the Home Office repeatedly declined his offers to helpThe Home Office turned down repeated offers from fostering agencies that would have allowed up to 100 child refugees a week to be given sanctuary in Britain, according to the chief executive of the UK’s largest fostering and adoption charity. Continue reading...
  
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• Alleged Drunk Man Steals Forklift Because He 'Needed to Drive': Cops

  11-03-2017 22:09 via yahoo.com
  
  He has been charged.
  
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• Trump ordered high-profile prosecutor fired, source says

  11-03-2017 21:57 via cnn.com
  
  The high-profile US attorney for Manhattan, Preet Bharara, has indicated he will not submit a letter of resignation as requested by the Trump administration Friday -- placing the President in the position of having to fire him in a public standoff, sources tell CNN.
  
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• Pence appeals for complete GOP support for health overhaul

  11-03-2017 21:57
  
  Vice President Mike Pence has appealed for total GOP congressional support for a White House-backed health overhaul during a brief visit to Kentucky _ where the Republican governor and junior senator are among the plan's skeptics
  
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• U.S. civil liberties group ACLU seeks to tap anti-Trump energy

  11-03-2017 21:53 via yahoo.com
  
  By Joseph AxNEW YORK (Reuters) - The American Civil Liberties Union is launching what it bills as the first grassroots mobilization effort in its nearly 100-year history, as it seeks to harness a surge of energy among left-leaning activists since the November election of Republican Donald Trump as U.S. president.The campaign, known as PeoplePower, kicks off on Saturday with a town hall-style event in Miami featuring "resistance training" that will be streamed live at more than 2,300 local gather
  
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• Man who jumped White House fence arrested by US secret service

  11-03-2017 21:40 via theguardian.com
  
  The 26-year-old climbed the fence and got onto the south grounds while Donald Trump was at the White House late Friday night
  The US secret service arrested a person who climbed the White House perimeter fence and breached the mansion’s south grounds on Friday night, claiming to be “a friend of the president”.The breach happened at about 11.38pm Friday night, the agency said, while Donald Trump was at the White House. The person “scaled the outer perimeter fence by the Tre
  
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• Resistance Report: The fight against the Dakota Access pipeline came to Washington with the Native Nations Rise march

  11-03-2017 21:35 via yahoo.com
  
  They came from across the United States, and from as far away as Mexico and Canada.Miss Standing Rock H.S., in braces and pale blue beaded moccasins, led the march along with other Standing Rock Sioux youth who had been a critical part of the movement against the Dakota Access pipeline.
  
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• Will gerrymandering ruling turn Texas blue?

  11-03-2017 21:22 via yahoo.com
  
  In the ongoing struggle over voting rights in Texas, a federal ruling may have given voting rights advocates reason to hope.On Friday evening, a panel of federal judges in the Western District of Texas ruled 2-1 that three Congressional districts must be redrawn.The ruling affects the districts currently represented by Reps. Blake Farenthold (R), Will Hurd (R), and Lloyd Doggett (D).
  
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• President Trump commends US Secret Service for its handling of White House intruder

  11-03-2017 21:17 via yahoo.com
  
  During a working lunch at Trump National Golf Club in Virginia, the president commented on the intruder who scaled a fence to enter the White House grounds Friday.
  
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• Twin Damascus bombs kill 59, mostly Iraqi pilgrims

  11-03-2017 21:03 via yahoo.com
  
  Twin bombs targeting Shiite pilgrims killed 59 people in Damascus on Saturday, most of them Iraqis, a monitoring group said of one of the bloodiest attacks in the Syrian capital.There have been periodic bombings in Damascus, but the stronghold of the regime of President Bashar al-Assad has been largely spared the destruction faced by other major cities in six years of civil war.A roadside bomb detonated as a bus passed by and a suicide bomber blew himself up in the Bab al-Saghir area, which hous
  
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• T-Mobile adds more data to its unlimited plan before it starts throttling you

  11-03-2017 21:03 via yahoo.com
  
  So far, 2017 has seen more changes to cellphone plans than the last five years before. In the space of a couple of weeks, all the big carriers suddenly started offering unlimited data plans for reasonable prices. AT&T even removed its ridiculous triple-play requirement for unlimited customers, which was generous.
  For T-Mobile, which started the unlimited data trend last year, it didn't seem like things could get much better. But the entry of Verizon and AT&T forced it to remove the last
  
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• Puerto Rico governor ups revenue forecast in revised fiscal plan

  11-03-2017 21:03 via yahoo.com
  
  Governor Ricardo Rossello's initial plan, presented on Feb. 28, was rejected by the board, which said it relied on overly optimistic baseline revenue and economic growth forecasts.The board must approve a turnaround blueprint for the island under the federal Puerto Rico rescue law known as PROMESA.Francisco Cimadevilla, a spokesman for the board, said the seven-member panel is still evaluating the new proposal and will not have any comment before a public hearing in New York on Monday.
  
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• US Attorney to Trump: Fire me

  11-03-2017 20:53 via cnn.com
  
  The high-profile US attorney for Manhattan, Preet Bharara, has indicated he will not submit a letter of resignation as requested by the Trump administration Friday -- placing the President in the position of having to fire him in a public standoff, sources tell CNN.
  
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• Damascus twin bombings kills dozens

  11-03-2017 20:32 via yahoo.com
  
  Twin bombs targeting Shiite pilgrims on Saturday killed 46 people in Damascus, most of them Iraqis, a monitoring group said, in one of the bloodiest attacks in the Syrian capital.
  
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• Death toll in Guatemala fire rises to 38 girls

  11-03-2017 20:13
  
  Hospital officials say the death toll from a fire that roared through a youth shelter where mattresses were set ablaze has now risen to 38 girls
  
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• Thousands gather to mourn former Haitian president Preval

  11-03-2017 20:10 via yahoo.com
  
  PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (AP) — Thousands of people from around Haiti gathered at a city park Saturday for former President Rene Preval's state funeral capping six days of mourning for the man who led the country during a devastating January 2010 earthquake and its chaotic aftermath.
  
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• De-icing truck collides with Alaska Airlines jet at Boston airport

  11-03-2017 20:10
  
  The injured individual was the worker who was in the truck's basket.
  
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• Malala Yousafzai receives offer to study at UK university

  11-03-2017 20:06 via theguardian.com
  
  The 19-year-old Nobel prize winner did not reveal which institution had offered her a conditional place during a Birmingham talk
  Nobel peace prize winner Malala Yousafzai has told an education conference that she has received an offer to study at a UK university. The 19-year-old is currently preparing for her A-Levels at a girls’ school in Birmingham. Continue reading...
  
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• S.Koreans celebrate Park's removal, but ousted leader silent

  11-03-2017 20:00 via yahoo.com
  
  SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — A day after a court removed her from power over a corruption scandal, ousted South Korean President Park Geun-hye maintained her silence on Saturday as her opponents and supporters divided the capital's streets with massive rallies that showed a nation deeply split over its future.
  
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• How the ACLU is gearing up to take on Trump, one city at a time

  11-03-2017 19:56 via yahoo.com
  
  WASHINGTON — The American Civil Liberties Union wants to take over your town.Trump’s administration is currently asking for cooperation from local law enforcement for the president’s crackdown on illegal immigration and on immigration from certain predominantly Muslim countries.The ACLU’s new strategy is designed to pressure city officials to reject that request.
  
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• England thrash Scotland to equal world record

  11-03-2017 19:54 via cnn.com
  
  It was supposed to be their toughest test of the Six Nations yet, a would-be grueling encounter against their in-form oldest of enemies.
  
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• Bear killed in German zoo after it escapes from compound

  11-03-2017 19:42 via feeds.foxnews.com
  
  A bear has been killed after it escaped from its enclosure at a zoo in the northern German town of Osnabrueck.
  
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• Pope considering Egypt trip: Vatican

  11-03-2017 19:37 via yahoo.com
  
  The Vatican is examining the possibility of Pope Francis visiting Egypt, but no dates have been set, his spokesman said Saturday after Italian reports suggested the trip would happen in May."A trip by the Holy Father to Egypt is under study but neither dates nor a programme have been finalised," the spokesman, Greg Burke, said in a statement.Italy's national broadcaster RAI had claimed that Pope Francis would visit Cairo from May 20-21 and that his programme would include a stop at the Al-Azhar
  
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• Cop Visits 3-Week-Old Baby Whose Life He Helped Save After He Stopped Breathing

  11-03-2017 19:32 via yahoo.com
  
  The baby is now doing well.
  
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• Cyclone kills at least 50, affects 176,000 in Madagascar

  11-03-2017 19:26 via yahoo.com
  
  Cyclone Enawo killed at least 50 people and affected 176,000 people after it hit Madagascar earlier this week, the national disaster management agency said Saturday, with thousands forced into emergency shelters.The toll issued by the head of the BNGRC agency Thierry Venty was significantly higher than the earlier estimate of just four deaths and 10,000 people displaced issued on Thursday.More than 53,000 people have been displaced and 180 injured by the storm, the agency said in a statement on
  
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• Do Chimpanzees Deserve 'Personhood' Rights?

  11-03-2017 19:15 via nbcnews.com
  
  Attorney Steve Wise is arguing that two of his clients, chimpanzees Kiko and Tommy,should be afforded the rights of "personhood."
  
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• Unlikely squad of Americans help Team Israel crush it in 2017 World Baseball Classic

  11-03-2017 18:52
  
  Team Israel entered the 2017 World Baseball Classic as the ultimate underdogs.
  
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• Turkey's president angry after foreign minister shut out

  11-03-2017 18:17 via cnn.com
  
  The Netherlands barred a plane carrying Turkey's foreign minister from landing to stop him from addressing a political rally Saturday in Rotterdam.
  
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• Scars of looting, destruction all that remain at Mosul museum

  11-03-2017 18:08 via yahoo.com
  
  By Kawa OmarMOSUL, Iraq (Reuters) - After two and a half years under Islamic State control, all that is left in Mosul's museum are the traces of looting and destruction.Inside the rubble-strewn building, where militants filmed themselves destroying ancient artifacts, the large stone wing of a statue of lamassu -- an Assyrian winged bull deity -- lies on the dusty floor among other broken remnants of the past.A block engraved with Arabic Islamic calligraphy lies close by, and some Islamic manuscr
  
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• Ex-Trump adviser swaps messages with DNC hacking suspect

  11-03-2017 18:06
  A political consultant and former campaign adviser to President Donald Trump says he communicated last year with an individual who was involved in hacking Democratic National Committee emails
  
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• Pence takes White House health care pitch on the road

  11-03-2017 18:05
  
  The vice president will be in Kentucky on Saturday.
  
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• GOP acts fast on health care, aims to avoid ire Dems faced

  11-03-2017 18:05
  
  When Congress passed President Barack Obama's health plan, it culminated a tedious monthslong process that allowed plenty of time for public opposition to boil over
  
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• Obamas meet Bono for lunch in NYC

  11-03-2017 18:01
  
  Diners applauded and cheered the former president and former first lady.
  
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• Possible change in governors not altering Kansas tax debate

  11-03-2017 18:00 via yahoo.com
  
  TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — As Kansas legislators debate raising income taxes to fix the state's big budget problems, they're not tying any of their plans to whether Republican Gov. Sam Brownback departs for President Donald Trump's administration.
  
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• German police order mall to stay closed after attack threat

  11-03-2017 17:53
  
  German police have ordered a shopping mall in the western city of Essen not to open after receiving credible tips for an imminent attack
  
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• Couple Charged After Allegedly Staging Fake Murder and Texting Friends: 'It Did Go a Bit Too Far'

  11-03-2017 17:49 via yahoo.com
  
  They were charged with inducing panic.
  
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• Twin blasts kill 40 near religious sites in Syria's capital

  11-03-2017 17:48
  Twin explosions near religious shrines frequented by Shiite pilgrims in the Syrian capital Damascus kill at least 40 people, most of them Iraqis, according to Syrian and Iraqi officials
  
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• Million Women Rise: thousands march through central London

  11-03-2017 17:47 via theguardian.com
  
  Annual rally to campaign for an end to violence against women celebrates its 10th anniversaryThousands of women marched through central London on Saturday to call for an end to violence against women and girls, days after International Women’s Day.Gathering for the 10th annual Million Women Rise march, the protesters marched through Oxford Circus chanting: “Whatever I wear, wherever I go, yes means yes and no means no”.Continue reading...
  
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