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• Opinion: Don't count Trump out yet

  01-04-2017 23:53 via cnn.com
  
  It would be a big mistake to count President Trump out too soon. Although he has experienced a difficult two months, it is important to remember that other presidents have survived incredibly rocky starts and gone on to enjoy two-terms.
  
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• France carnival explosion injures many

  01-04-2017 23:50 via bbc.co.uk
  
  A bonfire at the carnival blew up seconds after being ignited, hurting at least 18.
  
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• Bob Dylan finally accepts Nobel Prize, months after ceremony

  01-04-2017 23:45 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Dylan accepted his medal at a small, private meeting while on tour in Stockholm.
  
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• 65 Million Refugees Are Spread Throughout The World

  01-04-2017 23:41 via yahoo.com
  
  One in 100 people on Earth have been forced away from their homes. Here's where they've been resettled.
  
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• Johanna Konta: Miami Open winner is targeting world number one spot

  01-04-2017 23:27 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Britain's Johanna Konta will move to seventh in the rankings after claiming the biggest title of her career at the Miami Open.
  
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• Colombian landslide victims' desperate calls for help

  01-04-2017 23:27 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Colombians made desperate calls from rooftops as landslides moved in to wreck their sleeping town.
  
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• 'Python fever': Hunting for snakes in the Everglades

  01-04-2017 23:07 via cnn.com
  
  Donna Kalil couldn't hear a python slithering in the grass with the wind blowing. But spotting a tunnel-shaped snake trail, she disappeared into the cattails hunting for one.
  
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• Visa issues keep thousands of Chinese tourists from Hawaii

  01-04-2017 23:04 via yahoo.com
  
  HONOLULU (AP) — Rejected visa applications are keeping thousands of Chinese tourists from visiting Hawaii.
  
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• Pop art pioneer James Rosenquist dies at 83

  01-04-2017 22:55 via yahoo.com
  
  Rosenquist helped define the genre of color-bursting displays of common objects that was also championed by the likes Andy Warhol and Roy Lichtenstein.Rosenquist had early experience as a billboard painter, which became a springboard for presentations of images that he culled from sources including print advertisements and magazines, it said."Painting is probably much more exciting than advertising," Rosenquist was quoted as saying by the Museum of Modern Art.
  
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• US House race offers insight into shifting Democratic Party

  01-04-2017 22:53
  
  The race could be viewed as continuation of 2016 presidential primary.
  
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• WATCH: 1 child dead after 6 found unconscious from carbon-monoxide poisoning at hotel

  01-04-2017 22:38
  
  Officials said the children were found unconscious and unresponsive in the indoor-pool area of a Niles, Michigan, hotel.
  
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• Venezuela seeks to cool outrage over court power grab

  01-04-2017 22:38 via yahoo.com
  
  By Andrew Cawthorne and Girish GuptaCARACAS (Reuters) - Venezuela's pro-government Supreme Court revoked its takeover of the opposition-led Congress on Saturday after it drew international condemnation and protests against socialist President Nicolas Maduro."This controversy is over," Maduro said just after midnight at a specially convened state security committee.The committee ordered the top court to reconsider Wednesday's court ruling, which effectively nullified the legislature and brought a
  
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• 1 child dead after 6 found unconscious from carbon-monoxide poisoning at hotel

  01-04-2017 22:31 via yahoo.com
  
  Officials said the children were found unconscious and unresponsive in the indoor-pool area of a Niles, Michigan, hotel.
  
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• 1 Child Dead, 5 Injured After Suffering Carbon Monoxide Poisoning in Hotel Pool Area

  01-04-2017 22:31 via yahoo.com
  
  Authorities are investigating what caused the dangerously high levels.
  
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• White House says real story is about leaking, not Russia

  01-04-2017 22:12 via yahoo.com
  
  WASHINGTON (AP) — On the defensive, the White House is throwing counter punches to deflect attention from three investigations into the Kremlin's interference in last year's election and possible Russian ties to President Donald Trump or his associates.
  
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• Hamas warns 'collaborators' after Gaza killing

  01-04-2017 22:02 via yahoo.com
  
  The Islamist Hamas group in Gaza said Saturday "radical measures" would be taken against Palestinians who "collaborated" with Israel, a week after one of its military commanders was murdered.Interior ministry spokesman Iyad al-Bozum said measures to be taken soon could mean arrests, trials and even executions.During the summer 2014 conflict between Israel and Hamas in the Gaza Strip, the group's armed wing publicly executed six men accused of collaboration.
  
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• Things we wish our pets could say

  01-04-2017 22:00 via yahoo.com
  
  Pets are magical, whimsical mysteries that come into our lives to make us less miserable. Without pets, we'd just live with humans and honestly, who really wants to do that?  If you're like us, whenever you look at your cat or dog (or ferret, if that's your thing) and stare into those big eyes, you can't help but wonder what they're thinking. You feel like there are thoughts and words behind the facade, but alas, animals can't talk and we're left wondering what they would say if they could
  
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• Amazon's Upscale Kindle Voyage Hits Rock Bottom at $149

  01-04-2017 21:36 via yahoo.com
  
  The Kindle Voyage is one of Amazon's upscale e-readers. Traditionally priced at $199.99, Prime members can now buy this rarely discounted e-reader for just $149.99, a $50 price cut.
  
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• Ford recalls 52,000 F-250 pick-up trucks over park fault

  01-04-2017 21:34 via bbc.co.uk
  
  The vehicle could roll in park mode unless the hand brake is on, the company warns.
  
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• California has fewer arrests, but not necessarily less crime

  01-04-2017 21:34 via yahoo.com
  
  LOS ANGELES (AP) — The number of arrests by police in California has plunged in recent years, but that doesn't necessarily represent good news on crime, according to an analysis published Saturday.
  
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• Colombia landslide kills 154 on city outskirts, scores injured

  01-04-2017 21:26 via yahoo.com
  
  By Julia Symmes Cobb and Nelson BocanegraBOGOTA (Reuters) - A landslide in Colombia's southwestern border province of Putumayo sent mud and debris crashing onto houses overnight, killing at least 154 people and injuring scores, officials said on Saturday.Heavy rains caused several rivers to overflow, pushing sediment and rocks onto buildings and roads in the provincial capital of Mocoa and immobilizing cars in several feet of mud.Colombian President Juan Manuel Santos flew to Mocoa, population 3
  
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• New York City's 32nd Annual April Fools' Day Parade

  01-04-2017 21:19 via yahoo.com
  
  The theme for this years parade is MAKE RUSSIA GREAT AGAIN! The Grand Marshall will be a Donald Trump look-alike. The full parade was actually a April Fools’ prank.  During the event, masked activists marched with a hand-pulled “float” featuring a likeness of Donald Trump sitting in an outhouse. (Getty)
  
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• Johanna Konta beats Caroline Wozniacki to claim Miami Open title

  01-04-2017 21:19 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Johanna Konta claims the biggest title of her career with victory over Caroline Wozniacki in the Miami Open final.
  
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• Officials: 18 injured in accidental blast at French carnival

  01-04-2017 21:15 via yahoo.com
  
  PARIS (AP) — An accidental bonfire explosion Saturday at a town fair north of Paris injured 18 people, including three children, as the festive spring event turned into chaos, authorities said.
  
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• Trump Aide Lashes Out, Calls for 'Defeat' of GOP Lawmaker

  01-04-2017 21:14 via nbcnews.com
  
  The relationship between White House and the House Freedom Caucus continues to deteriorate.
  
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• Trump's Putin problem: 4 things to know

  01-04-2017 20:59 via cnn.com
  
  Donald Trump's Russia problem is getting worse -- and more complicated.
  
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• Mudslide kills more than 100 in Colombia

  01-04-2017 20:59 via cnn.com
  
  A mudslide killed at least 93 people and injured many others late Friday night in Colombia's Putumayo province, according to office of President Juan Manuel Santos.
  
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• Soviet-era poet Yevgeny Yevtushenko dies aged 84

  01-04-2017 20:57 via bbc.co.uk
  
  He is best known for writing Babi Yar, about one of the worst Nazi atrocities of World War Two.
  
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• Chelsea's defeat by Crystal Palace makes title race interesting, says Antonio Conte

  01-04-2017 20:51 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Chelsea's surprise defeat by Crystal Palace at Stamford Bridge makes the title race 'ore interesting', says Blues boss Antonio Conte.
  
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• Cleanup begins after severe weather strikes Virginia Beach

  01-04-2017 20:41 via yahoo.com
  
  VIRGINIA BEACH, Va. (AP) — Virginia Beach authorities say local jail inmates are helping with cleanup efforts after strong storms struck the Tidewater area.
  
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• Catholic High School Teacher Charged After Alleged Sexual Relationship With Student

  01-04-2017 20:19 via yahoo.com
  
  The woman allegedly tried to delete evidence off the student's phone.
  
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• Kiev slams Eurovision call to allow Russian singer

  01-04-2017 20:16 via yahoo.com
  
  Ukraine on Saturday hit back at "unprecedented and unacceptable" calls from the Eurovision Song Contest's organisers for it to lift an entry ban on Russia's contestant.In an angry row ahead of the kitsch song contest in May to be hosted in Kiev, Ukraine has barred Russia's 27-year-old singer Yuliya Samoilova over illegally entering Moscow-annexed Crimea for a 2015 performance.Eurovision organisers, the Geneva-based European Broadcasting Union (EBU), have sought to find a compromise but have so f
  
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• Man charged with arson in US freeway fire

  01-04-2017 19:57 via cnn.com
  
  The man accused of arson in a fire that collapsed part of an elevated interstate in Atlanta, triggering what's expected to be months of traffic complications in one of the nation's most congested cities, is being held on $200,000 bond, said a Fulton County, Georgia, Sheriff's Office spokeswoman.
  
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• See a Ravioli Moon, Jovian Swirls and More Space Treats

  01-04-2017 19:51 via nbcnews.com
  
  A tiny moon that looks like pasta, full-color storms on Jupiter, spacewalking in the dark and more of March 2017's best space pictures.
  
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• Over 100 killed in Colombia landslide

  01-04-2017 19:38 via yahoo.com
  
  A landslide in Colombia’s southwestern border province of Putumayo sent mud and debris crashing onto houses overnight, killing 112 people and injuring at least 120, officials said on Saturday.
  
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• New Chinese-French generation speaks up after killing

  01-04-2017 19:37 via yahoo.com
  
  The first generation of Chinese nationals to settle in France, most of whom arrived in a wave in the 1970s, rarely if ever expressed themselves publicly.Many lacked legal working papers and struggled to learn French, but still they found a foothold as workers in textile businesses and restaurants in the French capital.Now their sons and daughters -- who were born and educated in France -- are speaking up in anger over the police killing of a Chinese national in late March.
  
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• U.S.-led fight against ISIS killed four civilians in February: Pentagon

  01-04-2017 19:22 via yahoo.com
  
  Four civilians were killed in February by U.S.-led coalition forces in Iraq and Syria, the U.S. military said on Saturday as it updated a tally of accidental deaths in the fight against the Islamic State militants.At least 229 civilians have been unintentionally killed by air strikes since the U.S.-led operation against the militants began almost three years ago, the Pentagon said in a statement.The official tally of civilian deaths since this campaign started is far lower than what outside grou
  
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• The Latest: 3 arrested in Atlanta fire and overpass collapse

  01-04-2017 19:13 via yahoo.com
  
  ATLANTA (AP) — The Latest on the fire that caused an overpass to collapse in Atlanta (all times local):
  
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• 2 small planes fatally collide mid-air in Florida

  01-04-2017 18:56
  Authorities say two people are dead after their single-engine airplanes collided mid-air over the central Florida coast
  
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• Woman's Remains Found Under Grave of WWII Veteran

  01-04-2017 18:52 via nbcnews.com
  
  John Sandoval, 52, pleaded guilty to second-degree murder and was sentenced to 25 years in prison for the 1995 death of Kristina Tournai-Sandoval.
  
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• As French election race tightens, Macron defies National Front

  01-04-2017 18:45 via yahoo.com
  
  By Marc Leras and Simon CarraudMARSEILLE/BIGUGLIA, France (Reuters) - France's centrist presidential contender Emmanuel Macron singled out the far-right National Front as his chief rival on Saturday, vowing to win the first round on April 23 as a new poll showed the election race getting tighter."The National Front, our main opponent, is attacking us on all sides.Fight them," a defiant Macron told a rally in the southern city of Marseille.
  
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• Kim Jong-nam row: Did N Korea come out on top?

  01-04-2017 18:22 via bbc.co.uk
  
  North Korea played tough over Kim Jong-nam's death and it paid off, Dr John Nilsson-Wright argues.
  
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• Rainbow-painted pad on sale

  01-04-2017 18:15 via yahoo.com
  
  A rainbow home that looks just like a painting has been listed for $499,000. Located at 556 S. Vista Oro in Palm Springs, Calif., the property is unique, to say the least. The eccentric 1937 Spanish home belongs to Carl Tookey and Gregg Featherston, who purchased the property when it was painted plain white.
  
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• Man Who Crashed Into Church Bus, Killing 13, Was Allegedly On His Phone: 'I'm Sorry. I Was Texting'

  01-04-2017 18:03 via yahoo.com
  
  The man remains hospitalized.
  
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• Paraguayan activist killed in a night of political riots

  01-04-2017 18:02 via yahoo.com
  
  Police apparently shot dead a Paraguayan opposition political activist Saturday in a raid after rioters stormed Congress in anger at a contested electoral reform, officials said.Authorities said 30 people, including some opposition leaders, were injured in unrest in the capital after senators approved the bill in a secretive vote.Opposition leaders denounced the vote Friday as a "parliamentary coup," saying it could clear the way for a return to dictatorship in the landlocked South American nati
  
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• White House finance disclosure: Five things we learned

  01-04-2017 17:41 via bbc.co.uk
  
  What does a weird broccoli dish have to do with the financial interests of White House staff?
  
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• What happened today in France's presidential election

  01-04-2017 17:36 via yahoo.com
  
  With just over three weeks to go until the first round of the French presidential election, the conservative candidate Francois Fillon took a swing at frontrunner Emmanuel Macron, after the centrist met a prominent member of Fillon's own party.Francois Fillon, who has seen his poll ratings nosedive since becoming embroiled in a highly publicised "fake jobs" scandal, launched a furious broadside at frontrunner Emmanuel Macron."Macron pretends to be a dissident ... he pretends to be a candidate wh
  
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• Venezuelan court reverses move to strip congress of power

  01-04-2017 17:26 via cnn.com
  
  Venezuelan government leaders on Saturday urged the country's Supreme Court to review its decision to take over the National Assembly's legislative powers, a much-decried move that opposition members have called a coup.
  
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• Venezuela court gives congress back power

  01-04-2017 17:26 via cnn.com
  
  Venezuelan government leaders on Saturday urged the country's Supreme Court to review its decision to take over the National Assembly's legislative powers, a much-decried move that opposition members have called a coup.
  
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• Venezuela reverses ruling to strip congress of legislative powers

  01-04-2017 17:07 via theguardian.com
  
  President Nicolas Maduro asks supreme court to review ruling nullifying lawmaking body following protestsVenezuela’s supreme court has reversed the decision to strip congress of its legislative powers that sparked protests in the country and widespread international condemnation. The move had drawn criticism at home and abroad that the South American country was no longer a democracy, prompting calls from the UN and elsewhere for it to be reconsidered.Continue reading...
  
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