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• Arctic Marines? an Inside Look at the American Marines Training in the Harshest Elements

  25-03-2017 23:46 via yahoo.com
  
  NBC Nightly News went to northern Norway where American marines are training with Norwegian and British troops this month in Operation Joint Viking — a show of force just a few hundred miles from Russia’s border.
  
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• Pentagon Opens Investigation Into Whether U.S. Airstrikes Killed 200 Civilians in Mosul

  25-03-2017 23:42 via yahoo.com
  
  Senior military and defense officials are investigating reports that scores of civilians — potentially nearly 200 — were killed in a U.S. airstrike in the Iraqi city of Mosul last week.
  
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• Former Penn State President Found Guilty of Child Endangerment

  25-03-2017 23:41 via yahoo.com
  
  The university’s former president Graham Spanier was convicted Friday on a misdemeanor count of child endangerment. The charges came five years after former assistant football coach Jerry Sandusky was convicted of sexually abusing young boys.
  
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• Public memorial held for Carrie Fisher

  25-03-2017 23:37 via cnn.com
  The lives of Debbie Reynolds and Carrie Fisher continue to be celebrated.
  
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• After Stinging Defeat Over Healthcare Bill, White House Moves Ahead to Tax Reform

  25-03-2017 23:31 via yahoo.com
  
  Vice President Mike Pence addressed supporters in West Virginia and President Trump tweeted that Obamacare would “explode” — but both seemed ready to move to another signature campaign promise: tax reform.
  
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• Vegas Strip shooting

  25-03-2017 23:06 via yahoo.com
  
  Las Vegas police say the gunman in a fatal shooting on the Strip who barricaded himself inside a public bus has surrendered peacefully after shutting down the busy tourism corridor for hours.
  
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• Vegas shooting suspect on bus

  25-03-2017 22:57 via cnn.com
  Part of the Las Vegas Strip was shut down Saturday as police investigated a shooting that sent at least one person to the hospital. Police surrounded a bus as they investigated the shooting, Officer Larry Hadfield told CNN. "There is no credible information that there is a second suspect and no other victims have been located, " Hadfield said.
  
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• Moroccan premier forms government, ending 5-month crisis

  25-03-2017 22:54 via feeds.foxnews.com
  
  Morocco's new Prime Minister Saadeddine El Othmani has succeeded in building a governing coalition, ending a five-month political deadlock after just eight days in office.
  
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• US acknowledges its forces were behind airstrike on Mosul

  25-03-2017 22:42 via yahoo.com
  
  BAGHDAD (AP) — An airstrike targeting Islamic State militants in the Iraqi city of Mosul that witnesses say killed at least 100 people was in fact launched by the U.S. military, American officials said Saturday.
  
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• Trump, after stinging defeat, promises a 'great' health plan

  25-03-2017 22:36 via yahoo.com
  
  President Donald Trump sought Saturday to put a good face on his most stinging political setback yet, declaring that Obamacare would collapse and vowing to develop a "great" replacement.Do not worry!" the Republican said on Twitter.Friday's defeat was more than a small stumble: Trump had thrown his full political weight behind the measure, the first big legislative test of his nascent administration.
  
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• US: Airstrikes near alleged civilian deaths

  25-03-2017 22:12 via cnn.com
  The US military conducted airstrikes at a location in western Mosul more than a week ago where there were allegations of civilian casualties, US Central Command said Saturday.
  
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• With asylum grant, did the US just reward hate speech?

  25-03-2017 22:07 via yahoo.com
  
  When Singapore’s first prime minister, Lee Kuan Yew, passed away in 2015, 16-year-old Amos Yee made an obscenity-filled YouTube video denouncing the late leader as a “tyrant.” That and other postings earned him a four-week jail sentence for “wounding religious feelings and obscenity.” Not long after, he earned another six-week sentence for derogatory comments on Islam and Christianity.On Friday, US Immigration Judge Samuel B. Cole granted asylum to Mr. Yee, now 18,
  
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• Pope in Milan region to rally for those in need

  25-03-2017 22:02 via yahoo.com
  
  Pope Francis went to Milan on Saturday where he met families on a working-class housing estate and visited a prison before celebrating mass for hundreds of thousands of faithful in nearby Monza.During his visit to Milan, better known for football, fashion and luxury, the Argentine pontiff put the spotlight on those less fortunate.Francis's first stop was at the Case Bianche (White Houses), a run-down collection of concrete tower blocks from the 1970s on the edge of the wealthy city.
  
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• Sen. Lindsey Graham Fights Back at Rowdy Town Hall

  25-03-2017 22:01 via nbcnews.com
  
  The three-term senator from South Carolina told constituents that their boos and anger weren't persuading him to change his positions.
  
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• Photos of the day - March 25, 2017

  25-03-2017 21:55 via yahoo.com
  
  A woman dressed as “Europa" performs during a rally in Berlin marking the 60th anniversary of the Treaty of Rome; a woman, pushed to the ground by police, tries to defends herself as the police detain an activist during an opposition rally in Minsk, Belarus; Pope Francis waves to the faithful from the Popemobile in Milan, Italy, as Cardinal Angelo Scola, the archbishop of Milan, looks on, after the Angelus in Duomo Square. These are some of the photos of the day. (AP/EPA/Getty/Reuters)
  
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• U.S. confirms coalition strike in Mosul district where dozens reported killed

  25-03-2017 21:52 via yahoo.com
  
  By Patrick MarkeyMOSUL, Iraq (Reuters) - The U.S. military said on Saturday a U.S.-led coalition strike had hit an Islamic State-held area of Iraq's Mosul where residents and officials say as many as 200 civilians may have been killed as result of an air raid.The American confirmation followed a decision by Iraqi government forces to pause their drive to recapture west Mosul on Saturday because of the high rate of civilian casualties, a security forces spokesman said, a move apparently motivated
  
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• Why Japan pays $27,000 for this fruit

  25-03-2017 21:35 via cnn.com
  It looks like a jewelry shop with its high-end exterior.
  
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• Brazil tainted meat: Three key markets resume imports

  25-03-2017 21:32 via yahoo.com
  
  Brasília (AFP) - Brazil won a major victory Saturday in the fight to restore credibility amid a tainted meat scandal, with key markets China, Egypt and Chile lifting their bans on its products.The three countries, which had totally closed their markets to Brazilian meat at the beginning of the week, said they would open them to all but imports from the 21 Brazilian processing plants under investigation.About 20 countries this week -- including the European Union, Japan and Mexico -- close
  
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• Mudslide buries Peruvian village, leaving little to claim

  25-03-2017 21:23 via feeds.foxnews.com
  
  Gathered along the edge of a mountain, the men, women and children of Barbablanca watched in stunned silence as a river of mud washed over their small village.
  
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• Greek police nab 2 truck drivers smuggling in 20 migrants

  25-03-2017 21:13 via feeds.foxnews.com
  
  Greek police say they have arrested a Turkish truck driver and a Bulgarian truck driver who were carrying a total of 20 migrants near Greece's northeastern land border with Turkey.
  
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• Pro-Houthi court sentences Yemen president to death for treason

  25-03-2017 21:10 via yahoo.com
  
  A Yemeni court in territory controlled by the armed Houthi movement sentenced the group's enemy in a two-year-old civil war President Abd-Rabbu Mansour Hadi and six other top officials in his government to death for "high treason" on Saturday.Saudi Arabia and a mostly Gulf Arab military coalition have launched thousands of air strikes and a small number of ground troops to try to dislodge the Houthis and restore Hadi to power.The Houthis, allied to Saudi Arabia's arch-enemy Iran, have progressiv
  
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• Monaco on high alert after brazen Cartier heist

  25-03-2017 21:04 via yahoo.com
  
  Monaco police were hunting for two suspects Saturday after a daring afternoon robbery at the famous French jeweller Cartier, prompting a brief lockdown of the tiny principality and jet set haven.Three men entered the boutique toward 3:40 pm (1440 GMT) while a driver waited in a car, the Monaco prosecutor's office said, adding that no shots were fired and no one was wounded or taken hostage.Clients in the showroom as well as tourists who found themselves in the zone were confined for part of the
  
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• U.N. envoy calls on powers to salvage Syrian ceasefire

  25-03-2017 20:15 via yahoo.com
  
  By Stephanie NebehayGENEVA (Reuters) - U.N. Syria envoy Staffan de Mistura called on Russia, Turkey and Iran on Saturday to salvage the tattered ceasefire in Syria thatwould also help keep peace talks on track.Syrian President Bashar al-Assad and his allies, Russia, Iran and Shi'ite militias from nearby countries, are seeking to staunch the biggest rebel assault in months, which began this week in the capital Damascus and the Hama countryside.
  
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• 'Trump troubadour' loses trust in president over health care: 'I feel betrayed'

  25-03-2017 20:02 via yahoo.com
  
  Kraig Moss followed Trump to more than 45 campaign rallies, but lost faith in the president over his push for the GOP backed health care bill.
  
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• Anti-Brexit protesters hit London streets

  25-03-2017 19:51 via cnn.com
  A sea of EU supporters took to the streets of London on Saturday in protest of the UK's impending exit from the bloc.
  
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• UN Syria envoy urges foreign powers to help restore ceasefire

  25-03-2017 19:49 via yahoo.com
  
  The United Nations' Syria envoy sent an urgent appeal Saturday to Russia, Iran and Turkey seeking help to restore a ceasefire, warning that escalating violence was threatening peace talks in Geneva.UN mediator Staffan de Mistura sent letters to Moscow and Tehran -- which back the Damascus regime -- as well as Ankara which supports the Syrian opposition, expressing concern over surging violence around the Syrian capital and central Hama province."Growing violations in recent days are undermining
  
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• 'Amazing' Arrogate powers to victory on richest race day

  25-03-2017 19:29 via cnn.com
  Arrogate overcame a disastrous start to win Saturday's Dubai World Cup and confirm his status as thoroughbred racing's new superstar.
  
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• 'Amazing' Arrogate powers to victory

  25-03-2017 19:29 via cnn.com
  Arrogate overcame a disastrous start to win Saturday's Dubai World Cup and confirm his status as thoroughbred racing's new superstar.
  
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• Airstrikes across rebel-held Syria kill and wound scores

  25-03-2017 19:22 via yahoo.com
  
  BEIRUT (AP) — Airstrikes hit a women's prison and a clinic in rebel-held parts of Syria on Saturday, killing and wounding scores of people amid clashes on multiple fronts between government forces and insurgent groups in some of the country's worst violence in weeks, opposition activists said.
  
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• 3 dead, 1 injured in Mexico prison riot

  25-03-2017 19:19 via yahoo.com
  
  MEXICO CITY (AP) — A fight between inmates at a northern Mexican prison left three inmates dead and one injured, authorities said Saturday.
  
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• US command: Mosul airstrike occured at the request of Iraq forces

  25-03-2017 19:16 via feeds.foxnews.com
  
  The U.S-led coalition in Iraq said Saturday that one of its airstrikes struck fighters and equipment of the ISIS terror group in West Mosul on March 17 at the location where there were reports of more than 100 civilian casualties.
  
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• Officer is Found Guilty in Shooting Death of 6-Year-Old Boy With Autism

  25-03-2017 19:16 via yahoo.com
  
  Jeremy Mardis was shot to death while in his dad's car in 2015.
  
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• Hacking suspect's parents say he won't flee

  25-03-2017 19:02 via cnn.com
  Karim Baratov's parents want him back home, sitting at the dining table where they shared dinner nearly every night as a family of four, and where they now sit to make the case publicly that the young man accused of hacking emails for Russian agents is not a flight risk.
  
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• Erdogan: Turkey might hold referendum on EU membership

  25-03-2017 18:53 via feeds.foxnews.com
  
  Turkey's president says the country might pursue a Brexit-like referendum on whether to pursue European Union membership.
  
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• East African bloc: Members to allow Somali refugees to work

  25-03-2017 18:36 via feeds.foxnews.com
  
  East Africa's regional bloc says it gradually will allow the hundreds of thousands of Somali refugees sheltering in its countries to work and will include them in planning efforts.
  
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• Hamas vows revenge at slain militant's funeral in Gaza

  25-03-2017 18:31 via yahoo.com
  
  GAZA CITY, Gaza Strip (AP) — Thousands of Hamas supporters waving the movement's green flag marched through the streets of Gaza Saturday for the funeral of a militant leader and high-profile former prisoner who was mysteriously shot dead, as the group's leaders pledged retribution.
  
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• Woman Stunned to Get Her Stolen Wallet Back 8 Years Later... With $141 Still Inside

  25-03-2017 18:30 via yahoo.com
  
  Incredibly, Courtney Connolly desperately needed $140 to enter a competition this summer.
  
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• Serbian PM to visit Putin ahead of April 2 presidential vote

  25-03-2017 18:28 via feeds.foxnews.com
  
  Serbia's populist prime minister says he will pay an official visit to Russian President Vladimir Putin, a trip apparently designed to boost his bid for the Serbian presidency.
  
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• Airstrikes in Mosul kill civilians: Are US rules of engagement getting slacker?

  25-03-2017 18:27 via yahoo.com
  
  Residents of the Iraqi city of Mosul say a series of airstrikes carried out there in recent weeks by the US-led coalition against the Islamic State could have killed as many as 200 civilians, in what would be the highest civilian death toll in a US-led air campaign since the peak of the Iraq war.Iraqi rescue workers Saturday were combing through the rubble of a building where residents say as many as 137 civilians were killed in a single airstrike last week, in a part of the city now under coali
  
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• Pig-masked burglar hits Vegas jewelry store

  25-03-2017 18:13 via cnn.com
  At least three well-dressed masked burglars, carrying sledgehammers, smashed their way into a high-end jewelry store early Saturday at one of Las Vegas' most luxurious hotels.
  
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• Troubled EU renews vows on 60th anniversary

  25-03-2017 18:04 via yahoo.com
  
  European Union leaders renewed their vows at a special summit in Rome on Saturday, celebrating the troubled bloc's 60th anniversary with a commitment to a common future without Britain.With British Prime Minister Theresa May absent, the other 27 countries signed a new declaration on the Capitoline Hill where six founding states signed the Treaty of Rome on March 25, 1957.Pro- and anti-EU protests took place in Rome, while in London tens of thousands of people marched against Brexit, which May wi
  
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• 3 soldiers dead as armed men attack northern Mali army base

  25-03-2017 17:58 via feeds.foxnews.com
  
  Local officials in Mali say three soldiers have been killed and four others injured in an attack by armed men on a military post in the country's north.
  
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• More Americans reach for a daily coffee in 2017: NCA

  25-03-2017 17:48 via yahoo.com
  
  More Americans are drinking a daily cup of coffee in 2017, a reversal of four years of declines, as gourmet brews gain in popularity, according to an industry group's report released on Saturday."More of us are drinking coffee, and younger consumers appear to be leading the charge," said National Coffee Association USA (NCA) Chief Executive Officer Bill Murray."A steadily growing taste for gourmet varieties is also driving a wider trend toward specialty beverages," he said.
  
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• Malaysia Could Soon Analyze Its Own Black Boxes

  25-03-2017 17:40 via yahoo.com
  
  Deputy Transport Minister Datuk Ab Aziz Kaprawi announced Thursday that Malaysia intended to create a laboratory with the capability to analyze flight recorders.
  
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• Ex-CIA chief: Flynn's firm discussed removing cleric from US

  25-03-2017 17:35 via yahoo.com
  
  WASHINGTON (AP) — Former CIA Director James Woolsey has accused the Trump administration's former national security adviser, Michael Flynn, of participating in a discussion with Turkish officials about possibly subverting the U.S. extradition process to remove a Turkish cleric from the United States.
  
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• Inside story: How Trump's health bill failed

  25-03-2017 17:28 via cnn.com
  More than 30 minutes into a meeting White House and House leadership officials wanted -- needed -- to be a breakthrough, it was time for everyone to put their cards on the table.
  
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• How US President's health bill became an epic failure

  25-03-2017 17:28 via cnn.com
  More than 30 minutes into a meeting White House and House leadership officials wanted -- needed -- to be a breakthrough, it was time for everyone to put their cards on the table.
  
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• Somalia's proposed new cabinet challenged by lawmakers

  25-03-2017 17:27 via feeds.foxnews.com
  
  Somalia's parliament speaker is urging the new prime minister to review his proposed cabinet after 105 lawmakers presented a petition calling for changes.
  
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• Remaining EU leaders shrug off Brexit

  25-03-2017 17:26 via cnn.com
  Leaders of the remaining 27 European Union states have gathered in Italy's capital to mark the 60th anniversary of the signing of the Treaty of Rome, which led to the bloc's formation.
  
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• Happy birthday! European Union turns 60

  25-03-2017 17:26 via cnn.com
  Leaders of the remaining 27 European Union states have gathered in Italy's capital to mark the 60th anniversary of the signing of the Treaty of Rome, which led to the bloc's formation.
  
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