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• Canada: Ontario to pay guaranteed incomes to the poor

  24-04-2017 23:53 via yahoo.com
  
  Ontario has launched a pilot program to provide a guaranteed basic income to a few thousand people to test its effects on recipients and public finances, the Canadian province announced Monday.Provincial Premier Kathleen Wynne said the program would provide a "basic income" for three years to 4,000 people living under the poverty line.
  
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• With execs in hot seat, Wells Fargo gets OK for bankruptcy plan

  24-04-2017 23:49 via yahoo.com
  
  Retail banking giant Wells Fargo has fixed problems in its 2015 bankruptcy plan and will now be allowed to open new international branches, US banking regulators said Monday.A Treasury Department agency found this month found the bank's board as early as 2005 had received "regular" reports that employee firings and internal ethics complaints were related to unethical sales practices.Monday's announcement reversed an action taken by the Federal Reserve Board and Federal Deposit Insurance Corporat
  
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• Democratic state attorneys general decry student loan rework by Republicans

  24-04-2017 23:47 via yahoo.com
  
  By Lisa LambertWASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. Education Secretary Betsy DeVos has been reworking student lending since her appointment in February, raising concerns among Democrats that she will undo former President Barack Obama's overhaul of college financial aid.On Monday, 21 state attorneys general, all Democrats, wrote to Republican DeVos decrying her decision to end the Education Department's work on reforming loan servicing, steps intended to ensure that borrowers understand their outstandin
  
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• Comcast knows you’ll pay anything for good Wi-Fi

  24-04-2017 23:44 via yahoo.com
  
  A new survey commissioned by Comcast has ranked apartment-dweller's need for good internet, relative to other niceties like basic hygiene. The conclusion seems to be that good Wi-Fi and high-speed internet are viewed as being the most critical.Comcast probably commissioned this survey to show how relevant its brand is to millennials or something, but the only actual truth to be found is this: Comcast knows that you will put up with basically anything to get good internet, so it's going to squeez
  
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• Former Haiti coup leader admits drug-money laundering charge

  24-04-2017 23:34 via yahoo.com
  
  A former Haitian coup leader who was elected to be a senator pleaded guilty in the US on Monday to conspiring to launder drug money, American officials said.Guy Philippe, a 49-year-old former senior police officer accused of taking bribes from drug traffickers, entered the plea in court in Miami, where he has been held since his arrest and extradition from Haiti in January.
  
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• Haiti leader pleads guilty to money laundering in drug case

  24-04-2017 23:26 via yahoo.com
  
  MIAMI (AP) — A former Haitian coup leader and recently elected senator in that country pleaded guilty Monday to a U.S. drug money-laundering charge under a deal that should allow him to avoid a potential sentence of life in prison for cocaine trafficking.
  
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• Pulse-Pounding Video Shows Girl Falling Out of Church Bus

  24-04-2017 23:18 via yahoo.com
  
  The 4-year-old suffered a broken jaw and is the process of recovering.
  
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• US Supreme Court opts to leave CIA 'torture report' secret

  24-04-2017 23:16 via yahoo.com
  
  The US Supreme Court on Monday turned back an appeal by rights groups seeking to make public a damning report on the CIA's post-September 11 torture program, ensuring it will remain secret.The court rebuffed arguments from the American Civil Liberties Union that the highly classified report, compiled in 2014 by the Senate Intelligence Committee, should be released based on US government transparency rules."We are disappointed by this major setback for government transparency and accountability.
  
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• Chelsea Clinton Responds To SNL Cast Member’s Joke

  24-04-2017 23:16 via yahoo.com
  
  Chelsea Clinton responded to a joke made by ‘Saturday Night Live’ star Vanessa Bayer at the expense of former Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton.
  
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• Trump-backed Navy expansion would boost costs some $400 billion over 30 years: study

  24-04-2017 23:14 via yahoo.com
  
  Expanding the U.S. Navy to 355 ships as recommended by military leaders and backed by President Donald Trump would cost some $400 billion more over the next 30 years than the currently planned 308-ship fleet, according to a study released on Monday.The annual cost to build, crew and operate a 355-ship fleet would be about $102 billion, or 13 percent more than the $90 billion needed for the currently planned Navy, according to the study by the nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office.The $102 bill
  
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• Up in Smoke: Marijuana activists cuffed after lighting up at U.S. Capitol

  24-04-2017 23:00 via yahoo.com
  
  Two dozen red-hatted protesters gathered on the grounds of the U.S. Capitol on Monday to call for easing federal marijuana laws, but police snuffed out the party by arresting four of them after they lit up joints.The activists, who carried marijuana-leaf flags and a sign saying "Let DC Tax and Regulate Marijuana," were calling for coast-to-coast legalization of the recreational use of marijuana and protections for those who use cannabis for medical reasons.The protest included the recitation of
  
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• Hollande urges French to reject Le Pen in presidential run-off vote

  24-04-2017 22:59 via yahoo.com
  
  By Bate Felix and John IrishPARIS (Reuters) - France's outgoing president, Francois Hollande, on Monday urged people to back centrist Emmanuel Macron in a vote to choose his successor next month and reject far-right leader Marine Le Pen, whose place in the run-off represented a "risk" for France.Macron and Le Pen, leader of the National Front (FN), go head-to-head on May 7 after taking the top two places in Sunday's first round.Opinion polls indicate that the business-friendly Macron, who has ne
  
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• Former Haiti coup leader pleads guilty in U.S. drug case

  24-04-2017 22:57 via yahoo.com
  
  The leader of a 2004 coup that toppled Haitian President Jean-Bertrand Aristide pleaded guilty on Monday to a money laundering charge related to an international drug trafficking scheme, the U.S. Department of Justice said.Guy Philippe, 49, admitted to one count of conspiracy to commit money laundering stemming from his receipt of cash payments tied to narcotics sales in the late 1990s and early 2000s, the Justice Department said.Prosecutors said Philippe, a former high-ranking official in the H
  
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• T-Mobile keeps growing like crazy

  24-04-2017 22:53 via yahoo.com
  
  T-Mobile's results for the first three months of 2017 are out, and it's good news for anyone wearing a magenta onesie. The company is once again the industry leader for customers added and net revenue, while total income was up by nearly 50%. Coming just after T-Mobile bought up new spectrum nation-wide for a great deal, it means T-Mobile's in a stellar place to challenge Verizon and AT&T.Financially, T-Mobile had a great quarter. Total revenue and service revenue were at $9.6 billion and $7
  
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• Swedish midwife to take abortion beliefs fight to higher European Court

  24-04-2017 22:43 via feeds.foxnews.com
  The Swedish midwife who lost her legal battle to be exempt from assisting in abortions—an act she has said violates her religious freedom—has decided to push her case to the European Court of Human Rights even though she will likely not return to Sweden.
  
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• French President, vote losers reject far-right leader

  24-04-2017 22:32 via cnn.com
  
  France's defeated political establishment has begun to rally against the far-right leader Marine Le Pen as she goes head-to-head against political novice Emmanuel Macron in the final race for the French presidency.
  
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• France urged to reject Le Pen in presidential vote runoff

  24-04-2017 22:32 via cnn.com
  
  France's defeated political establishment has begun to rally against far-right leader Marine Le Pen as she goes head-to-head against political novice Emmanuel Macron in the final race for the French presidency.
  
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• Old-guard rallies around newcomer Macron for French runoff

  24-04-2017 22:31 via yahoo.com
  
  PARIS (AP) — France's established parties are rallying around the man who helped shut them out of the presidential runoff, maverick centrist Emmanuel Macron — an alliance of convenience aimed at keeping far-right Marine Le Pen out of the Elysee Palace.
  
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• Obama returns to the public stage and more: April 24 in photos

  24-04-2017 22:22 via yahoo.com
  
  Former President Barack Obama hosts a conversation on civic engagement and community organizing, Monday, April 24, 2017, at the University of Chicago in Chicago; President Donald Trump, accompanied by his daughter Ivanka Trump, talks via video conference with International Space Station Commander Peggy Whitson and Jack Fischer on the Space Station from the Oval Office of the White House in Washington; and, An attendee smokes a marijuana cigarette, during a rally to support the legalization of ma
  
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• Russia flies multiple bomber missions near Alaska: Pentagon

  24-04-2017 22:20 via yahoo.com
  
  Russian warplanes last week flew a series of missions near Alaska, prompting the North American air defense agency to scramble US and Canadian jets, officials said Monday.The North American Aerospace Defense Command (NORAD) and the Pentagon said Tu-95 Bear bombers were spotted in international air space on three occasions -- twice near the Aleutian Islands and once near mainland Alaska and Canada.The bomber missions occurred April 17, 18 and 20, and on two occasions NORAD launched fighters to co
  
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• Netanyahu gives German FM 'ultimatum' over meeting with NGOs

  24-04-2017 22:19 via feeds.foxnews.com
  
  Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has threatened to cancel an upcoming meeting with Germany's foreign minister unless the visiting diplomat cancels an appointment with two groups critical of Israel's actions in the West Bank.
  
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• Cameroon sentences RFI journalist to 10 years in prison

  24-04-2017 22:19 via feeds.foxnews.com
  
  A Cameroon military court has sentenced a correspondent of Radio France International's Hausa service to 10 years in jail after convicting him of non-denunciation of acts of terrorism and laundering proceeds of terrorist acts.
  
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• The Latest: Mistrial declared for 4 in Cliven Bundy standoff

  24-04-2017 22:13 via yahoo.com
  
  LAS VEGAS (AP) — The Latest on the trial of six men charged in an armed standoff with federal agents (all times local):
  
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• Croatian police prevent nationalists from disrupting play

  24-04-2017 22:13 via feeds.foxnews.com
  Croatian police have intervened to stop a group of extreme nationalists from disrupting a controversial play that contains scenes of nudity and rape.
  
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• Marine Le Pen steps down as head of France's National Front party

  24-04-2017 22:00 via feeds.foxnews.com
  French presidential candidate Marine Le Pen has announced that she is temporarily stepping down as head of her National Front party.
  
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• Israeli president: Le Pen's Holocaust denial 'disturbing'

  24-04-2017 21:58 via feeds.foxnews.com
  
  Israel's president on Monday denounced French far-right presidential candidate Marine Le Pen's recent comments denying France's role in the Holocaust as "uniquely disturbing" and urged his country not to make "unholy alliances" with rising nationalist parties in Europe.
  
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• Ann Coulter's backers at UC Berkeley file lawsuit

  24-04-2017 21:58 via yahoo.com
  
  BERKELEY, Calif. (AP) — University of California, Berkeley students who invited Ann Coulter to speak on campus filed a lawsuit Monday against the university, saying it is discriminating against conservative speakers and violating students' rights to free speech.
  
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• Pentagon chief warns of 'tough year' for Afghanistan

  24-04-2017 21:49 via yahoo.com
  
  US Defense Secretary Jim Mattis warned of "another tough year" in Afghanistan as he arrived on an unannounced visit Monday, hours after his Afghan counterpart resigned over a deadly Taliban attack that triggered anger and left the embattled army in disarray.Paying his first visit to Afghanistan as Pentagon chief, Mattis met with President Ashraf Ghani and other officials and US military commanders."We're under no illusions about the challenges associated with this mission," he said at a press co
  
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• Armenians commemorate start of massacre by Ottoman Turks

  24-04-2017 21:42 via feeds.foxnews.com
  
  Tens of thousands of people have marched to a hilltop memorial complex in Armenia's capital to lay flowers in commemoration of the massacre of 1.5 million Armenians a century ago by Ottoman Turks.
  
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• Pres. Trump's Threat to Congress Fails

  24-04-2017 21:40 via yahoo.com
  
  President Trump lost his first fight over health care and Monday night he appeared to back off threats to force Democrats and Republicans to pay for the border wall. Fmr. GOP Congressman David Jolly and MNSBC's Joy Reid join Lawrence O'Donnell.
  
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• Closed parks, furloughs, 'Green Eggs': A look at shutdowns

  24-04-2017 21:40 via yahoo.com
  
  Disputes over spending and health care in a divided Washington have triggered shutdowns of the federal government in recent years. Republicans now control the White House and Congress, and if lawmakers and President Donald Trump fail to agree on a spending bill by midnight Friday, a shutdown of an all-GOP government would occur for the first time in modern history.
  
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• Watch the 2017 Honda Civic Type R Set a New FWD Nurburgring Lap Record

  24-04-2017 21:37 via yahoo.com
  
  With a 7:43.80 lap time, the 306-horsepower turbocharged Type R snatches front-drive victory from the hottest VW GTI.
  
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• Amid global donor fatigue, UN asks new billions for famine relief

  24-04-2017 21:37 via feeds.foxnews.com
  Amid dire predictions of mass starvation, the United Nations is calling on the developed world to pour billions of dollars into humanitarian relief in Africa, starting with Yemen, where atwo-year civil war and drought have displaced more than 3 million people.
  
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• State Department Gets New Spokesperson From ‘Fox and Friends’

  24-04-2017 21:34 via yahoo.com
  
  Out with the old, in with the president’s favorite cable programming.
  
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• Donald Trump may be willing to shut down the government over his wall with Mexico

  24-04-2017 21:32 via yahoo.com
  
  Donald Trump has demanded congress provide funds to build his controversial border wall with Mexico - apparently willing to threaten Democrats even if he risks a government shutdown.Mr Trump is also seeking to persuade Democrats to fund the border wall, while avoiding a looming shutdown of the federal government.
  
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• First malaria vaccine to be widely tested

  24-04-2017 21:31 via cnn.com
  
  The World Health Organization announced Monday that it has the go-ahead to try the first malaria vaccine in the field in real-world settings next year. The organization made the announcement on the eve of World Malaria Day.
  
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• At least global warming may get Americans off the couch more

  24-04-2017 21:30 via yahoo.com
  
  WASHINGTON (AP) — Global warming's milder winters will likely nudge Americans off the couch more in the future, a rare, small benefit of climate change, a new study finds.
  
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• Cop Apprehends 2 Pygmy Goats Caught Wreaking Havoc and Eating Cat Food in Garage

  24-04-2017 21:29 via yahoo.com
  
  Sgt. Daniel Fitzpatrick was able to lure them into his patrol car using cat leashes, but he wasn't sure what to do with them next.
  
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• Macron married his school teacher

  24-04-2017 21:28 via cnn.com
  
  It's an improbable love story that, in some countries, would violate social norms.
  
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• Budapest protesters see growing Russian sway over Hungary

  24-04-2017 21:17 via feeds.foxnews.com
  
  About 2,000 people have rallied against what they say is Russia's growing influence on Hungary and the authoritarian tendencies of Prime Minister Viktor Orban.
  
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• Dashcam Video Captures 4-Year-Old's Fall Off Bus

  24-04-2017 20:58 via yahoo.com
  
  A 4-year-old girl fell through the open back door of a moving church bus onto an Arkansas state highway, but was rescued from the road by a volunteer firefighter who happened to be driving behind. (April 24)
  
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• Emmanuel Macron: The next surprise president?

  24-04-2017 20:56 via cnn.com
  
  He was once the subject of mockery in French political circles -- now it appears that Emmanuel Macron could have the last laugh.
  
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• Macron gains backing of French political establishment fearful of Le Pen

  24-04-2017 20:50 via feeds.foxnews.com
  Following Macron’s win on Sunday – and the second place finish by far-right National Front candidate Marine Le Pen - many of the defeated presidential contenders threw their voice behind the centrist frontrunner ahead of the May 7 run-off.
  
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• Venezuelans shut down roads and highways as protests enter 4th week

  24-04-2017 20:46 via feeds.foxnews.com
  Maduro said he wouldn't give in to opponents and again urged them rejoin negotiations.
  
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• US general in Afghanistan suggests Russia arming the Taliban

  24-04-2017 20:43 via yahoo.com
  
  KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) — The United States must confront Russia for providing weapons to the Taliban for use against American-backed forces in Afghanistan, top U.S. military officials said Monday.
  
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• Paraguay: armed robbers use explosives to break into vault

  24-04-2017 20:43 via feeds.foxnews.com
  Paraguayan authorities say dozens of attackers armed with assault rifles used explosives to blast open the vault of an armored car company and then apparently escaped into Brazil with an undetermined amount of cash.
  
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• Hollywood adulation of Venezuela’s socialist government proven wrong -- again

  24-04-2017 20:30 via feeds.foxnews.com
  The actor clearly admired the socialist leader – taking in sports games with him and greeting him with embraces at airports.
  
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• American killed in Ukraine named

  24-04-2017 20:27 via cnn.com
  
  The American paramedic killed during a monitoring mission in Ukraine has been identified.
  
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• No phone has ever performed worse than the Galaxy S8 in SquareTrade’s drop test

  24-04-2017 20:26 via yahoo.com
  
  The Galaxy S8 has “a screen without limits, except one: sidewalks." That’s how SquareTrade ends its breakability test for the newly released phone. This is hardly the first Galaxy S8 drop test we’ve seen, and the results reinforce the findings shared by earlier tests. Moreover, becauseSquareTrade puts all smartphones through exactly the same paces to test their durability, this might be one of the best indications yet as far as indicating how durable the Galaxy S8 is
  
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• Off-Duty NYPD Officer Critically Injures 2 Women While Drunk Behind the Wheel: Cops

  24-04-2017 20:24 via yahoo.com
  
  Neville Smith, 32, rear-ended a Honda as he merged onto a highway before dawn Sunday.
  
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