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• Witnesses describe 'horrendous' Parliament attack

  22-03-2017 23:58 via cnn.com
  
  Watch and hear firsthand accounts of the Parliament attack in London.
  
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• You can now use Google Maps to show people exactly where you are

  22-03-2017 23:57 via yahoo.com
  
  Google Maps is the undisputed champion of mobile navigation and it's an extremely powerful tool for helping you find locations, but what about people? The search giant wants that to be just as easy and, as long as you're cool with it, you can now use Google Maps to share your real-time location with whoever you choose, and for however long you want. The feature isn't live for everyone just yet, but it's coming very soon to all iOS and Android users. Google describes its functionality &
  
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• Ex-head of Colorado Republicans charged with voter fraud

  22-03-2017 23:46 via yahoo.com
  
  By Keith CoffmanDENVER (Reuters) - A Colorado talk radio host who once chaired the state Republican Party and has accused Democrats of widespread voter fraud has been charged with forging his ex-wife’s signature on a mail-in ballot in the 2016 election, court records showed on Wednesday.Steven Curtis, 57, who served as state GOP boss from 1997 until 1999, is charged with one felony count of forgery and one misdemeanor count of tampering with a mail-in ballot, according to a criminal compla
  
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• Ex-pharmacy exec convicted in deadly meningitis outbreak

  22-03-2017 23:42 via yahoo.com
  
  BOSTON (AP) — The former head of a Massachusetts pharmacy was acquitted Wednesday of murder allegations but convicted of racketeering and other crimes in a meningitis outbreak that was traced to fungus-contaminated drugs and killed 64 people across the country.
  
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• 7 Richard Simmons Quotes We Love

  22-03-2017 23:41 via yahoo.com
  
  Richards Simmons took the fitness world by storm over three decades ago, with his inspiring story of weight loss and believing in himself. Watch the video to revisit all the times he reminded us to love yourself.
  
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• The Latest: Gorsuch flatters senators as questioning wraps

  22-03-2017 23:40 via yahoo.com
  
  WASHINGTON (AP) — The Latest on Senate confirmation hearings for Supreme Court nominee Judge Neil Gorsuch: (all times EDT):
  
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• House Intel Cmte. Creates Confusion As Chairman Releases New Trump Details

  22-03-2017 23:38 via yahoo.com
  
  House Intel Committee Chairman Devin Nunes made revelations concerning "incidentally collected" intelligence related to the Trump campaign, triggering confusion about why he revealed the information.
  
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• US helicopters land behind enemy lines in assault against ISIS in Syria

  22-03-2017 23:36 via cnn.com
  
  Fighters in Syria have begun a major ground offensive, backed up by US forces, to retake a vital dam near Raqqa, Syria, from ISIS, a US official told CNN Wednesday.
  
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• The Latest: Mayor: Sword killing 'unspeakable human tragedy'

  22-03-2017 23:35 via yahoo.com
  
  NEW YORK (AP) — The Latest on the sword attack death of a black man in what police say was a racially motivated killing (all times local):
  
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• London Terror Attack: At Least 5 Killed, 40 Injured Outside Parliament

  22-03-2017 23:31 via yahoo.com
  
  An attacker plowed through pedestrians on Westminster Bridge before stabbing and killing a police officer outside Parliament in London on Wednesday.
  
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• British politicians tweet through their lockdown

  22-03-2017 23:31 via cnn.com
  
  British lawmakers were locked down inside Parliament on Wednesday as a frightening scene unfolded outside.
  
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• White House says it’s ‘insane’ to suggest Trump knew campaign chairman worked on pro-Putin project

  22-03-2017 23:20 via yahoo.com
  
  On Wednesday, White House press secretary Sean Spicer sought to put additional distance between President Trump and his former campaign chairman, Paul Manafort.Yahoo News asked Spicer about an Associated Press report that Manafort crafted a plan to advance Putin’s interests in 2005 for a billionaire client with ties to the Russian president.
  
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• GOP Health Insurance Plan Hits Older People Hardest

  22-03-2017 23:18 via yahoo.com
  
  Helen Bell, a 59-year-old former hospital worker, suffers from several chronic conditions that often land her in the hospital and require frequent doctor visits and expensive medications. But hea...
  
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• Trump's Ex-Aide Paul Manafort Denies Signing Contract With Russian Billionaire to 'Benefit Putin's Government'

  22-03-2017 23:03 via yahoo.com
  
  A report said the former Trump campaign chair signed the $10 million contract in 2005.
  
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• Woman who emerged from Peru mudslide recounts survival

  22-03-2017 22:58 via cnn.com
  
  The world now knows Evangelina Chamorro as the woman in the viral video of a Peruvian mudslide, the young mother who dramatically emerged from a river of muck and debris like a ghostly apparition less than a week ago.
  
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• Tim Kaine on the investigation into Russian interference in the 2016 election

  22-03-2017 22:58 via yahoo.com
  
  On Wednesday, March 22, 2017, Senator Tim Kaine speaks with Yahoo News Global Anchor Katie Couric about the investigations into Russian interference in the 2016 election as well as the revelations from Rep. Devin Nunes about alleged communications collection of President Trump prior to the inauguration.
  
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• GOP Rep. Brooks bashes party’s health care bill ahead of key vote

  22-03-2017 22:43 via yahoo.com
  
  The American Health Care Act, embraced by Speaker Paul Ryan, is in danger of losing too many Republican votes to pass during Thursday’s vote in the House.Brooks’s Freedom Caucus, a group of staunchly conservative lawmakers, is opposing the bill in its current form, and there was speculation Wednesday that the vote may be delayed.“The best argument that the proponents of the legislation have right now is that it’s not as bad as Obamacare.
  
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• 911 call: Mom tried to resuscitate unresponsive twin babies

  22-03-2017 22:33 via yahoo.com
  
  LINDENWOLD, N.J. (AP) — The mother of twin baby girls who were found dead in an apartment can be heard screaming on a 911 call that they "are not breathing and both are purple."
  
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• Can you tally up world progress?

  22-03-2017 22:28 via yahoo.com
  
  When the cold war ended a quarter century ago, and with it the division of the world into two “camps,” the United Nations decided to start measuring the progress of humanity as a whole.The hope behind such alternative indicators is that an attempt to measure something might help reveal what causes it or could push it along.
  
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• What Does It Mean That Trump May Have Been 'Incidentally' Surveilled?

  22-03-2017 22:27 via nbcnews.com
  
  Rep. Devin Nunes, House Intel Committee chair, said the conversations of Trump team members may've been captured "incidentally." An explainer.
  
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• House Intel chairman: Trump's personal comms collected?

  22-03-2017 22:27 via cnn.com
  
  House Intelligence Chairman Devin Nunes said Wednesday that President Donald Trump's personal communications may have been picked up by investigators through "incidental collection."
  
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• WATCH: Detroit-based nonprofit holds goat yoga fundraiser

  22-03-2017 22:21
  
  Downward facing goat: A Detroit-based nonprofit dedicated to urban agriculture has begun offering yoga classes with goats as a fundraiser.
  
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• GOP's mad scramble for health care votes

  22-03-2017 22:20 via cnn.com
  
  President Donald Trump warned his fellow Republicans of big losses at the ballot box if they fail to repeal and replace Obamacare.
  
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• After ISIS: For Iraqis, reconciliation in Mosul will be challenging, and vital

  22-03-2017 22:17 via yahoo.com
  
  The colonel is a quintessential Iraqi military man: shaved head, bushy black mustache, and very proud of how the Iraqi Army has rebuilt and “proved it is professional” in the fight to oust the Islamic State from Mosul.Like many in Iraq, the colonel is wary that the challenges of reconciliation and winning the peace in Mosul and across the complex ethnic mosaic of Nineveh Province will be harder than winning the war.Recommended:How much do you know about the Islamic State?
  
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• Teacher Accused of Sexual Relations With Student Smiled in Mugshot Because She's Innocent: Lawyer

  22-03-2017 22:11 via yahoo.com
  
  Sarah Fowlkes was pictured grinning in her mugshot.
  
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• US military helping op to seize strategic dam near Syria's Raqa

  22-03-2017 22:08 via yahoo.com
  
  The US military provided air and artillery support -- and transported local forces -- in an offensive for a vitally important dam near the Islamic State group's stronghold of Raqa in Syria, officials said Wednesday.Colonel Joseph Scrocca, a spokesman for the US-led coalition helping local fighters, said US support came overnight Tuesday-Wednesday via Apache helicopter gunships, airlifts, air strikes and advice to the Syrian Democratic Forces, an Arab-Kurdish alliance.In a first, US forces helico
  
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• Justice Department Sees Drop In Cases Against Corrupt Officials

  22-03-2017 22:07 via yahoo.com
  
  Government corruption has been in general decline over the past two decades, but the trend might've been difficult for the average American to notice.
  
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• Tillerson pledges safe areas for refugees, more pressure on Islamic State

  22-03-2017 21:59 via yahoo.com
  
  By Lesley Wroughton and Yara BayoumyWASHINGTON (Reuters) - Secretary of State Rex Tillerson said on Wednesday the United States would set up "interim zones of stability" to help refugees return home in the next phase of the fight against Islamic State and al Qaeda in Syria and Iraq.The top U.S. diplomat did not make clear where these zones were to be set up.
  
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• Billionaire raises questions about Putin critic’s mysterious fall

  22-03-2017 21:57 via yahoo.com
  
  A U.K.-based billionaire is raising pointed questions about the most recent in a series of mysterious accidents, illnesses and muggings to befall critics of Russian President Vladimir Putin: lawyer Nikolai Gorokhov’s fall from a window of his fourth-floor apartment near Moscow earlier this week.“People don’t just go falling out of their apartments,” Bill Browder, the American-born CEO of Hermitage Capital Management, told Yahoo News and Finance Anchor Bianna Golodryg
  
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• Sea ice hits new record low at both poles

  22-03-2017 21:56 via yahoo.com
  
  The sea ice cover in the Arctic and Antarctic hit new record lows for this time of year, marking the smallest polar ice caps in the 38-year satellite record, US government scientists said Wednesday.In March, the Arctic ice sheet should be at its biggest, but on March 7 the ice cover reached "a record low wintertime maximum extent," said a statement by the US space agency NASA.The disappearing sea ice comes as the planet has marked three years in a row of record-breaking heat, raising new concern
  
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• Julian Zelizer: A historic vote on the end of Obamacare

  22-03-2017 21:52 via cnn.com
  
  This week's vote on the health care plan will be a key moment in the political history of the Trump presidency. A huge amount of political capital, for everyone involved, rests on the outcome of the vote in the House. The final decision will also have massive policy implications for the President and both parties on Capitol Hill.
  
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• ‘Dare to be tender’: One year after attack, Belgian king urges kindness

  22-03-2017 21:48 via yahoo.com
  
  Brussels on Wednesday marked the first anniversary of suicide bombings that killed 32 people at the airport and subway, with ceremonies timed with the blasts and the dedication of a new memorial.Recommended:How much do you know about Islam and violence?"Above all, let us dare to be tender," he said, at the unveiling of a new monument to all the victims near the headquarters of the European Union in Brussels’ European Quarter.
  
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• South Korea raises sunken ferry: Yonhap

  22-03-2017 21:47 via yahoo.com
  
  Salvage operators raised part of South Korea's sunken Sewol ferry early Thursday, Yonhap news agency reported, nearly three years after the disaster killed more than 300 people and dealt a crippling blow to now-ousted president Park Geun-Hye."As of 3:45 am (1845 GMT Wednesday), part of the Sewol's structure, which is believed to be its stabilizer, can be seen above the water with the naked eye," an official from the Oceans and Fisheries Ministry was quoted as saying by Yonhap news agency.The ves
  
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• 2018 Toyota Sienna: Updated Looks and Tech to Match the Updated Powertrain

  22-03-2017 21:46 via yahoo.com
  
  New face and new tech for Toyota's preeminent people mover.
  
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• Trump Wishes Persians A Happy Nowruz

  22-03-2017 21:35 via yahoo.com
  
  The six-day holiday between March 18 and 24, is widely known for the ritual of participants jumping over bonfires as a symbol of “rebirth, rejuvenation and reconciliation’ for the New Year and the arrival of springtime.
  
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• Snapshot: How the attack unfolded

  22-03-2017 21:30 via cnn.com
  
  An area around the Houses of Parliament and Westminster Bridge in central London has been locked down Wednesday as the city's Metropolitan Police deal with what they are treating as a terrorist incident.
  
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• What we know about Trump team Russia links – and why that matters

  22-03-2017 21:29 via yahoo.com
  
  Paul Manafort was Donald Trump’s campaign manager for months in 2016.Mr. Manafort “played a very limited role for a very limited amount of time,” White House press secretary Sean Spicer said Monday at his daily briefing.Ditto longtime Trump associate Roger Stone and former foreign policy adviser Carter Page.
  
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• Trump feels “somewhat” vindicated after Nunes’ announcement

  22-03-2017 21:21 via yahoo.com
  
  On March 22, President Trump said that he felt “somewhat” vindicated after Rep. Devin Nunes, the chairman of the House Intelligence Committee, stated that the communications of Trump transition officials may have been "monitored" as part of an "incidental collection."
  
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• People trapped on London Eye following attack

  22-03-2017 21:20 via cnn.com
  
  Some found themselves stranded on London's famous tourist attraction after the suspected terrorist incident in Westminster.
  
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• White House all in before crucial health care vote: 'There is no Plan B'

  22-03-2017 21:05 via yahoo.com
  
  On what could be the eve of a crucial health care vote and with the reported numbers still seemingly unfavorable, the White House remained confident that the American Health Care Act would pass the House on Thursday.“Piece by piece, member by member, we’re getting there, and we’re getting much closer,” White House press secretary Sean Spicer said Wednesday of gathering the votes necessary to repeal Obamacare.The White House team did have some success on Wednesday, flippin
  
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• Puerto Rico governor, bondholders divided on PREPA deal

  22-03-2017 21:04 via yahoo.com
  
  Puerto Rico's governor told U.S. lawmakers on Wednesday the island's struggling power utility, PREPA, could undergo an in-court restructuring process akin to U.S. bankruptcy if a consensual deal with creditors cannot be achieved.Governor Ricardo Rossello said at a U.S. House Natural Resources subcommittee hearing his administration would prefer a consensual deal to bankruptcy, as lawmakers questioned him about delays in completing a $9 billion restructuring at PREPA.The hearing showcased growing
  
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• Photos of the day - March 22, 2017

  22-03-2017 21:03 via yahoo.com
  
  A peek at Boris in Washington; members of a Chinese honor guard salute caskets of Korean War dead; heavy snowfall in Northumberland, England; and people embrace during anniversary service for Brussels suicide attacks victims.
  
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• Final push: Will Iraq survive victory over ISIS in Mosul?

  22-03-2017 21:03 via cnn.com
  In a tea room in Sulaimani's old bazaar that's dense with the smoke of scores of cigarettes, bunches of grizzled, middle-aged men -- some wearing traditional Kurdish baggy trousers, other wearing suits without ties -- are arguing furiously about the great question of the day:
  
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• WATCH: Neil Gorsuch uses 'bigly' at confirmation hearing

  22-03-2017 21:02
  
  The SCOTUS nominee used President Trump's term to describe a "John Hancock."
  
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• Trump, US lawmakers react to UK attack

  22-03-2017 20:37 via cnn.com
  
  US officials are offering assistance to British authorities after an attack Wednesday on the Houses of Parliament in London that police there are treating as terrorism.
  
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• 'Horrific acts:' Trump, US lawmakers react to UK attack

  22-03-2017 20:37 via cnn.com
  
  US officials are offering assistance to British authorities after an attack Wednesday on the Houses of Parliament in London that police there are treating as terrorism.
  
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• Spicer says GOP health care bill will pass: ‘If you want to see Obamacare repealed and replaced, this is the vote’

  22-03-2017 20:34 via yahoo.com
  
  During his daily press briefing on March 22, White House press secretary Sean Spicer said multiple times that he believes the GOP's health care bill will pass on Thursday when it comes up for a vote in the House. Spicer added, “If you want to see Obamacare repealed and replaced, this is the vote,” and “If you’re waiting for your chance, this is it.”
  
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• Laptop ban sparks ire among Mideast travellers

  22-03-2017 20:29 via yahoo.com
  
  Travellers across the Middle East expressed frustration Wednesday at a ban on large electronic devices for flights to the United States and Britain that has sparked confusion and speculation.From Saturday, passengers on flights to the United States and Britain from major hubs in Turkey and the Arab world will have to check in any device larger than a smartphone, including laptops and tablets.The United States and Britain have cited intelligence indicating passenger jets could be targeted via exp
  
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• Wisconsin man who threatened to kill Obama loses appeal

  22-03-2017 20:25 via yahoo.com
  
  The 7th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in Chicago on Wednesday rejected Brian Dutcher's request that his January 2016 jury conviction be set aside because of a lack of evidence.Dutcher, 56, of Tomah, said he had been unable to carry out his threat, having been armed only with a slingshot, and no one took him seriously.Dutcher had written on Facebook that he planned to attend a July 2, 2015 event in La Crosse, Wisconsin, where Obama was giving a speech, and hoped to "get a clear shot at the preten
  
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