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• Iraqi leader says Trump 'more engaged' in terror fight

  20-03-2017 23:56 via yahoo.com
  
  Iraqi Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi said Monday after talks with President Donald Trump that the new US administration appears more focused on the fight against terrorism than its predecessor.Abadi met Trump at the White House on the 14th anniversary of the US invasion of Iraq and two days before a major Washington ministerial meeting on the way ahead in the war against the Islamic State group.Afterward, Abadi said he expected US assistance to the Iraqi forces fighting to drive Islamic State fi
  
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• WATCH: Check out these adorable baby goats

  20-03-2017 23:47
  
  The DeHaven Family Farm gave Facebook fans a delightful break from reality when they shared these cute baby goats playing.
  
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• FBI head confirms Russia election probe, says Moscow backed Trump

  20-03-2017 23:40 via yahoo.com
  
  By Patricia Zengerle and Warren StrobelWASHINGTON (Reuters) - FBI Director James Comey on Monday confirmed for the first time that the bureau is investigating possible ties between Republican Donald Trump's presidential campaign and Russia as Moscow sought to influence the 2016 U.S. election.Comey and Admiral Mike Rogers, the director of the National Security Agency, made clear that their investigation of Moscow and November's U.S. elections could last for months.Appearing before a congressional
  
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• Democrats raise doubts about Trump's high court nominee Gorsuch

  20-03-2017 23:38 via yahoo.com
  
  By Lawrence Hurley and Andrew ChungWASHINGTON (Reuters) - Neil Gorsuch, President Donald Trump's U.S. Supreme Court nominee, on Monday emphasized the need for judicial independence even as Trump castigates jurists who have ruled against him, while Democrats questioned whether he would rule against abortion rights and gun control while favoring corporations.With the ideological balance of the Supreme Court at stake, the Senate Judiciary Committee opened its confirmation hearing for Gorsuch, a con
  
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• FBI confirms probe of Trump team ties to Russia

  20-03-2017 23:33 via yahoo.com
  
  FBI chief James Comey dealt Donald Trump a double blow Monday by confirming a probe into his election campaign's links to Russia last year while repudiating the president's claim that he was wiretapped by Barack Obama.In a high-stakes public hearing televised live from the US Congress, Comey took the extraordinary step of confirming that the Federal Bureau of Investigation is investigating whether Trump campaign aides colluded with a Russian effort to influence the 2016 election.Comey's bombshel
  
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• Tomi Lahren Suspended From The Blaze

  20-03-2017 23:32 via yahoo.com
  
  The Blaze founder Glenn Beck said he was displeased with Lahren’s comments on abortion.
  
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• 2016 Law Opens Floodgate of 9/11 Suits Against Saudi Arabia

  20-03-2017 23:31 via nbcnews.com
  
  The suits allege that Saudi Arabia advanced the attacks by funding al-Qaeda camps and supporting al-Qaeda's transport of weapons, people and money.
  
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• Macron, Le Pen clash in French TV debate

  20-03-2017 23:28 via yahoo.com
  
  By Ingrid Melander and Michel RosePARIS (Reuters) - The top candidates in France's presidential election clashed in a televised debate on Monday, with centrist Emmanuel Macron accusing far-right leader Marine Le Pen of lying and seeking to divide the French.Opinion polls show Macron and Le Pen pulling away from the pack in an election that has been full of twists and turns, and which is taking place against a backdrop of high unemployment and sluggish growth.One of the most heated exchanges came
  
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• Timeline: Trump Associates and Aides And Their Brushes With Russia

  20-03-2017 23:24 via nbcnews.com
  
  Some of the contacts and comments of past and current members of Team Trump that might prove interesting to investigators.
  
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• Map shows US mosques targeted this year

  20-03-2017 23:07 via cnn.com
  
  A mosque in Ypsilanti, Michigan, is burned to the ground. Another in Roseville, California, is spray-painted with anti-Muslim epithets. Yet another -- in Tucson, Arizona--is broken into and its copies of the Quran ripped up.We mapped 33 incidents from January 1 to March 20, 2017, where mosques were targeted. The incidents, tallied by the Council on American-Islamic Relations, span 19 states from Florida to Hawaii. (By comparison:During the same time period in 2016, CAIR counted just 17 incidents
  
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• White House tries to shift discussion amid FBI director’s testimony

  20-03-2017 23:02 via yahoo.com
  
  White House press secretary Sean Spicer, reacting to news from the first day of House Intelligence Committee hearings into the 2016 election, tried to steer reporters away from questions about possible collusion between the Trump campaign and Russian officials — and onto the administration’s preferred topic, news media leaks about intercepted conversations involving fired National Security Adviser Michael Flynn.Spicer’s customary daily press briefing took place in the afternoon
  
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• Export bans hit Brazil's meat industry after scandal

  20-03-2017 23:01 via yahoo.com
  
  Brasília (AFP) - The fallout from Brazil's rotten meat scandal accelerated Monday when China, a huge market, suspended imports and the European Union demanded a partial ban.Another ban on Brazilian meat imposed by Chile sparked fears of a trade spat between the two South American partners.A charm offensive by President Michel Temer, who even invited foreign ambassadors to a traditional meat restaurant in the capital Brasilia late Sunday, failed to calm importers.
  
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• Brother of Teen Allegedly Kidnapped By Teacher: 'I Do Believe He Has Some Control Over Her'

  20-03-2017 22:53 via yahoo.com
  
  The search has intensified for Elizabeth Thomas and Tad Cummins.
  
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• Michael D'Antonio: Trump's self-inflicted humiliation via Twitter

  20-03-2017 22:49 via cnn.com
  
  Let's all agree that no other person ever elected President would have hurled a charge that his predecessor wiretapped him. Especially not in a tweet that referred to a former President this way: "This is Nixon/Watergate. Bad (or sick) guy!"
  
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• White House defends President Trump’s golf habit and argues it’s different than Obama’s

  20-03-2017 22:47 via yahoo.com
  
  In response to a question from Yahoo News, White House press secretary Sean Spicer insisted that President Trump uses his golf course time productively.
  
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• White House defends President Trump’s golf habit and argues it’s different from Obama’s

  20-03-2017 22:47 via yahoo.com
  
  During his daily briefing on Monday, White House press secretary Sean Spicer insisted that President Trump uses his time on the golf course productively.Spicer’s comments came in response to a question from Yahoo News noting that Trump has visited the golf course at least 10 times since taking office eight weeks ago, even though for years he criticized former President Barack Obama for golfing.Spicer said there were “two things” to point out in response to the question.
  
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• TSA, DHS Will Bar Electronic Devices On Some Overseas Flights

  20-03-2017 22:40 via nbcnews.com
  
  Starting Tuesday,passengers traveling to and from some overseas airports won't be permitted to carry laptops and some other devices into the cabin.
  
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• Analysis: Comey Delivers Political Gut Punch to President Trump

  20-03-2017 22:33 via nbcnews.com
  
  At the outset of a pivotal week in Washington, FBI Director James Comey delivered a political gut-punch to President Donald Trump Monday.
  
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• Sen. Durbin on Gorsuch’s 'frozen trucker' ruling: Temperatures that day were freezing, but ‘not as cold as your dissent’

  20-03-2017 22:21 via yahoo.com
  
  On Judge Neil Gorsuch’s first day of his Supreme Court confirmation hearing, Sen. Dick Durbin brought up the case of Alphonse Maddin, a trucker fired after his trailer broke down in subzero temperatures. Gorsuch concluded it wasn’t illegal for the company to fire him for seeking safety when he began to lose feeling in his body after waiting hours for help. Durbin said that the temperatures the day of the incident were freezing, but “not as cold as your dissent.”
  
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• Ivanka Trump Sued for 'Unfair Competition' by Clothing Rival

  20-03-2017 22:19 via nbcnews.com
  
  A San Francisco clothing-industry rival claims Ivanka Trump is unfairly cashing in on the fact that her father just happens to be the president of the United States.
  
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• FBI testimony on Trump links gets little Russian TV play

  20-03-2017 22:18 via cnn.com
  
  As America's FBI chief confirmed an investigation into alleged Kremlin interference in US politics, Russia state TV was knee deep in other news, seemingly ignoring the dramatic events unfolding in Washington.
  
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• U.S. Suddenly Bans Laptops and Tablets on Some Middle Eastern Flights to America

  20-03-2017 22:15 via yahoo.com
  
  DHS won’t talk about the rationale for the drastic change to existing policy.
  
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• Kidnapping Victim Reveals How a Facebook Video Helped Her Escape Car Trunk

  20-03-2017 22:08 via yahoo.com
  
  Surveillance footage captured Brittany Diggs falling from the trunk and running to safety.
  
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• FBI head has 'no information' backing Trump wiretap claims

  20-03-2017 22:08
  
  FBI Director James Comey makes his first public comments on Russia probes.
  
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• Democrats powerless to block Supreme Court nominee

  20-03-2017 22:07 via cnn.com
  
  For the duration of his confirmation hearings, Neil Gorsuch will be cross-examined by skeptical or downright contemptuous Democratic senators. They will seek to paint -- or expose, depending on your point of view -- him as a right wing ideologue. Republicans will praise Gorsuch, touting his judicial sobriety and personal decency.
  
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• Democrats powerless against Gorsuch

  20-03-2017 22:07 via cnn.com
  
  For the duration of his confirmation hearings, Neil Gorsuch will be cross-examined by skeptical or downright contemptuous Democratic senators. They will seek to paint -- or expose, depending on your point of view -- him as a right wing ideologue. Republicans will praise Gorsuch, touting his judicial sobriety and personal decency.
  
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• Macron, Le Pen aim to consolidate poll lead in French TV debate

  20-03-2017 22:03 via yahoo.com
  
  By Ingrid Melander and Michel RosePARIS (Reuters) - The top candidates in France's presidential election went head-to-head in a televised debate on Monday as polls showed centrist Emmanuel Macron and far-right leader Marine Le Pen pulling away from the pack five weeks before the first round.The debate, the first between the five main candidates,may be crucial in helping viewers make up their minds in a French election that has seen major twists and turns.Opinion polls show almost 40 percent of v
  
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• Hong Kong's democracy fighter gets Netflix treatment

  20-03-2017 21:55 via cnn.com
  
  The 15-year-old boy's hair half covers his glasses as he speaks in rapid fire Cantonese into the cluster of microphones, a crowd of protesters surrounding him and the press.
  
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• Impeached South Korean president to meet with prosecutors

  20-03-2017 21:52 via cnn.com
  
  South Korea's ousted President Park Geun-hye will meet with prosecutors Tuesday, the first time since she lost her executive immunity.
  
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• Apple’s own website hints new products might launch tomorrow morning

  20-03-2017 21:52 via yahoo.com
  
  We've been hearing rumors swirling about some kind of Apple product launch this spring, but event invites are still nowhere to be seen. With time running out for a March event to happen, it's increasingly possible that Apple could be planning to quietly release updates to some products with no event and minimal fanfare. And based on hints coming from Apple's own website, it could happen tomorrow morning.
  As MacRumors spotted, Apple's system status page currently shows that the App
  
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• Kurds, Russia Sign Syria Military Base Agreement

  20-03-2017 21:46 via yahoo.com
  
  The YPG militia said Russia will help train its fighters with an eye toward forming a more traditional army; Russia described the base as a "reconciliation center" to separate Kurdish and Turkish forces.
  
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• White House doubles down on wiretap claim after FBI dispels it, ignores probe into Russian election meddling

  20-03-2017 21:40 via cnn.com
  
  FBI Director James Comey is making a dramatic appearance Monday before the House Intelligence Committee and is expected to publicly reject President Donald Trump's claims that he was wiretapped by his predecessor, Barack Obama.
  
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• POTUS tweets put White House spin on Comey’s testimony

  20-03-2017 21:37 via yahoo.com
  
  The White House responded to a day of damaging testimony to Congress on Monday by FBI Director James Comey and NSA Director Adm. Mike Rogers with a series of tweets intended to cast the news in the best possible light.The official @POTUS account sent out a series of clips from the House Intelligence Committee’s hearing into the 2016 election, focusing on three issues: Russian efforts to influence the vote, allegations that the Trump campaign was wiretapped, and the 
  
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• Going to Tokyo? The best sushi and 10 other tips

  20-03-2017 21:37 via cnn.com
  
  The surge in international tourists heading for Japan shows no signs of slowing. In 2015, 19.7 million tourists visited the country -- an all-time high that's partly attributed to the city's successful bid for the 2020 Olympics.
  
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• White House: No evidence of Trump-Russia collusion

  20-03-2017 21:30 via cnn.com
  
  White House Press Secretary Sean Spicer said that despite FBI Director James Comey's confirmation of an investigation into contacts between members of the Trump campaign and Russia, "there is no evidence of collusion." Spicer also said former Trump campaign chairman Paul Manafort had a "limited role" in the campaign.
  
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• Newly Released Video Shows Airport Gunman Taking Soldier Hostage

  20-03-2017 21:24 via nbcnews.com
  
  In the video, which was obtained by The AP, the man can be seen using a French soldier as a human shield in Paris' second busiest airport.
  
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• Plane crash-lands in S.Sudan, at least 37 injured

  20-03-2017 21:13 via yahoo.com
  
  At least 37 people were injured when a passenger jet crash-landed in South Sudan's northwestern city of Wau on Monday, government and airport officials said.There were 40 passengers and five crew members on board the South Supreme Airlines plane that had taken off from the capital Juba, said the airline's manager Gabriel Ngang.State Information Minister Bona Gaudensio said an ambulance had brought the passengers from the airport to the hospital, and most of them were released shortly after.
  
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• Most People Are Betting On Trump's Impeachment

  20-03-2017 21:08 via yahoo.com
  
  A betting house says people can't stop betting on Donald Trump's imminent impeachment from the Oval Office.
  
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• FBI Director dismisses Trump’s characterization of his comments during hearing on Russia

  20-03-2017 21:07 via yahoo.com
  
  During the House Intelligence Committee hearing on Russia’s alleged meddling in the 2016 presidential election, a tweet from the official @POTUS account said, “The NSA and FBI tell Congress that Russia did not influence electoral process.” When FBI Director James Comey was asked about the tweet he responded and said,“We’ve offered no opinion, have no view, have no information on potential impact because it’s never something that we’ve looked at.”
  
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• Survivors recount Ghana tree fall tragedy that killed 20

  20-03-2017 21:06 via yahoo.com
  
  Frank Adansi-Bonnah sat on his bed Monday in the Kintampo Municipal Hospital in central Ghana, his lips covered in bruises and cuts, and his arm in a sling.Eighteen students died at the picturesque spot in the Brong-Ahafo region, some 450 kilometres (281 miles) by road from the capital, Accra."What I remember was I was struggling with the tree," said the 21-year-old Adansi-Bonnah, who is a student at University of Energy and Natural Resources in the regional capital, Sunyani.
  
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• Park goes hi-tech to stop toilet paper thieves

  20-03-2017 20:59 via cnn.com
  
  It seems like the pettiest of powder room problems, but apparently toilet paper theft has gotten so bad at the Temple of Heaven Park in Beijing, authorities have installed facial recognition software in the stalls.
  
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• Canadians cool to migrants: Are Canuck attitudes inching closer to Americans'?

  20-03-2017 20:58 via yahoo.com
  
  Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau has governed on a platform that has garnered international praise by refugee advocates for its welcoming stance.Four out of 10 respondents to a Reuters/Ipsos opinion poll released on Monday said they believed those illegally crossing the Canadian-US border would make the country "less safe." Forty-eight percent said they supported "increasing the deportation of people living in Canada illegally," while 50 percent of Americans support "increasing the deporta
  
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• China’s Fear of U.S. Missile Defense Is Disingenuous

  20-03-2017 20:54 via yahoo.com
  
  Beijing knows that THAAD in South Korea doesn’t pose a military threat to China. Its objects are entirely political.
  
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• Why The Kremlin Intervened In Syria

  20-03-2017 20:52 via yahoo.com
  
  Russia not only had diplomatic advantages to siding with Syria’s government, but economic advantages, too.
  
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• The Latest: Clintons say Rockefeller used fortune for good

  20-03-2017 20:52 via yahoo.com
  
  NEW YORK (AP) — The Latest on the death of billionaire philanthropist David Rockefeller (all times local):
  
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• Mom Says Her Son, 11, Took His Life After He Was Bullied at School: 'I Can't Cry No More'

  20-03-2017 20:52 via yahoo.com
  
  His mother said students were bullying him to sell drugs.
  
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• Exclusive: Almost half of Canadians want illegal border crossers deported - Reuters poll

  20-03-2017 20:51 via yahoo.com
  
  By Rod Nickel and David LjunggrenWINNIPEG, Manitoba/OTTAWA (Reuters) - Nearly half of Canadians want to deport people who are illegally crossing into Canada from the United States, and a similar number disapprove of how Prime Minister Justin Trudeau is handling the influx, according to a Reuters/Ipsos opinion poll released on Monday.A significant minority, four out of 10 respondents, said the border crossers could make Canada "less safe," underlining the potential political risk for Trudeau's Li
  
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• Tbh, this dog really is the employee of the year, and we quit

  20-03-2017 20:47 via yahoo.com
  
  There are good dogs and then there arereally good dogs. And when you have one of the latter—especially a really good, hardworking, business-minded kind of dog—you'd better appreciate it. Michael Reeg's Meeka is one such canine. After Reeg started working from home in his job as district sales manager with the equipment supplier Accuride, he realized just how committed Meeka was to making sure he was never lonely when on the grind.SEE ALSO: Extremely excited dog adorably fails his Cru
  
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• Team behind new ski queen

  20-03-2017 20:44 via cnn.com
  She's American skiing's golden girl, but Mikaela Shiffrin is quick to deflect much of the credit to her backroom team -- especially her mum.
  
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• FBI's Comey Shoots Down Trump's Wiretap Claim, Confirms Russia Probe

  20-03-2017 20:42 via nbcnews.com
  
  Director Comey also confirmed that the FBI is investigating whether there was collusion between the Trump campaign and Russia.
  
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