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• 1,000 shot in Chicago so far this year

  25-04-2017 23:59 via yahoo.com
  
  Chicago hit a grim milestone Tuesday, with more than a thousand people shot in the Midwestern US city since the beginning of the year.According to the Chicago Tribune newspaper 1,008 people have been shot in the city -- at least 182 fatally -- since the beginning of January, a pace roughly unchanged since the same period last year.The Chicago Police Department (CPD) offered conflicting data for the first four months of 2017, saying 172 people were killed and 954 shot -- a nine percent decline co
  
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• Will Sonny Perdue, Trump's agriculture pick, stand up for the little guy? Don't bank on it

  25-04-2017 23:58 via theguardian.com
  
  In November, America’s beleaguered rural citizens voted against the status quo – but that’s exactly what Trump’s new agriculture secretary looks set to ensureDonald Trump owes his election in no small part to the support of farm country. But since entering office, almost all his actions and pronouncements have betrayed an abysmal understanding of farm and rural concerns. No surprise, then, that food and farm advocates have looked eagerly to Sonny Perdue, who was sworn in
  
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• Trump scores an 'F' with millennials

  25-04-2017 23:58 via cnn.com
  
  With President Donald Trump's 100th day in office looming in the distance, only 32 percent of millennials approve of his performance so far, according to a poll released Tuesday by the Harvard Kennedy School's Institute of Politics.
  
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• US 'deeply concerned' after Turkey bombs allies in Iraq, Syria

  25-04-2017 23:50 via cnn.com
  
  US officials said they were "deeply concerned" after Turkey carried out a series of airstrikes Tuesday against US allies fighting ISIS in Syria and Iraq.
  
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• US 'deeply concerned' after Turkey bombs allies in Iraq and Syria

  25-04-2017 23:50 via cnn.com
  
  US officials said they were "deeply concerned" after Turkey carried out a series of airstrikes Tuesday against US allies fighting ISIS in Syria and Iraq.
  
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• Chobani yogurt company sues conspiracy theorist and InfoWars host Alex Jones for alleged defamation

  25-04-2017 23:43 via abcnews.go.com
  
  The suit is tied to an InfoWars video published earlier this month.
  
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• What we do in the next 5 years will determine the fate of the melting Arctic

  25-04-2017 23:39 via yahoo.com
  
  Global warming has pushed the Arctic into a new state unprecedented in human history, with thinning and retreating sea ice, skyrocketing air and sea temperatures, melting permafrost, and glaciers that are shedding ice at increasing rates.  All of these impacts and more may seem remote at first — after all, few of us live in Nunavut — but if you're a coastal resident anywhere in the world, from New York City to Dhaka, Bangladesh, what happens in the Arctic will affect you during
  
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• Chelsea 4-2 Southampton

  25-04-2017 23:39 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Diego Costa scores twice as Premier League leaders Chelsea edge closer to the title with victory over Southampton.
  
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• How Chinese farmers made the find of the 20th Century

  25-04-2017 23:34 via bbc.co.uk
  
  In March 1974, Chinese farmers unearthed the greatest archaeological find of the century, the Terracotta Army. Archaeologist Li Xiuzhen has worked on the site since the 1980s.
  
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• The Latest: Le Pen sees French presidential vote 'surprise'

  25-04-2017 23:33 via yahoo.com
  
  PARIS (AP) — The latest on the French presidential runoff on May 7 (all times local):
  
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• Last male northern white rhino joins Tinder to raise money

  25-04-2017 23:33 via bbc.co.uk
  
  This is part of fundraising efforts by conservationists to save the near extinct species.
  
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• Thai man kills baby on Facebook Live then takes own life

  25-04-2017 23:31 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Facebook's processes were already under scrutiny after video of a US killing stayed online for hours.
  
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• You Thought It Was An Urgent Care Center, Until You Got the Bill

  25-04-2017 23:26 via nbcnews.com
  
  Patients are confusing free-standing emergency rooms with urgent care centers, and paying a price.
  
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• World's last male northern white rhino gets help from Tinder

  25-04-2017 23:22 via yahoo.com
  
  NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) — The world's last male northern white rhino has joined the Tinder dating app as wildlife experts make a last-chance breeding effort to keep his species alive.
  
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• In defense of Ivanka after she was booed in Germany

  25-04-2017 23:21 via cnn.com
  
  During an appearance on a panel discussion in Germany on Tuesday, Ivanka Trump was booed and hissed at when she offered a defense of her father's policies regarding paid leave for women in the workplace.
  
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• Obama criticised for '$400,000 Wall Street speech'

  25-04-2017 23:15 via bbc.co.uk
  
  The former US president previously admonished "fat cat bankers".
  
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• President Trump says ‘the wall is gonna get built’

  25-04-2017 23:10 via yahoo.com
  
  President Trump told reporters at the White House today that his proposed wall along the length of the U.S. border with Mexico is going to be built. His announcement comes as reports say funding for the construction of the wall may not be in the spending bill put forth by Congress this week.
  
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• Trump pledges on Holocaust Remembrance Day to stamp out antisemitism – video

  25-04-2017 23:05 via theguardian.com
  
  The US president gives a speech on Capitol Hill on Tuesday to mark Holocaust Remembrance Day and says he will always stand with ‘our great friend and partner, the state of Israel’. Trump has previously been criticised for his administration’s remarks on the Holocaust after spokesman Sean Spicer claimed that Hitler had not used chemical weapons against ‘his own people’Trump tries to mend relationship with Jewish community after past slightsContinue reading...
  
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• Christian Dior and LVMH combined by French billionaire

  25-04-2017 23:04 via bbc.co.uk
  
  France's richest man makes £10bn move to combine Christian Dior fashion house with luxury firm LVMH.
  
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• World Championship 2017: Ding Junhui takes charge against Ronnie O'Sullivan

  25-04-2017 23:02 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Ding Junhui dominates the second session of his World Championship quarter-final with Ronnie O'Sullivan to take a 10-6 lead.
  
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• Wolverhampton Wanderers 0-1 Huddersfield Town

  25-04-2017 22:59 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Izzy Brown's strike is enough to give Huddersfield Town a narrow win at Wolves to secure a Championship play-off spot.
  
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• Meeting an organ trafficker who preys on Syrian refugees

  25-04-2017 22:59 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Abu Jaafar's job is to find people desperate enough to give up parts of their body for money.
  
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• Why nobody's happy with this Michelle Obama mural

  25-04-2017 22:48 via cnn.com
  
  A new mural of former first lady Michelle Obama, painted on a building in the Chicago neighborhood where she lived as a child and remains popular, would seem like an innocuous project.
  
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• Primitive human 'lived much more recently'

  25-04-2017 22:46 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Homo naledi could be from just 200,000 years ago, not three million, a study suggests.
  
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• Erdogan says Turkey won't wait at Europe's door forever

  25-04-2017 22:44 via yahoo.com
  
  By Samia Nakhoul, Nick Tattersall and Orhan CoskunANKARA (Reuters) - Turkey will not wait at Europe's door forever and is ready to walk away from EU accession talks if rising Islamophobia and hostility from some member states persist, President Tayyip Erdogan told Reuters in a wide-ranging interview on Tuesday.Speaking at the presidential palace less than two weeks after winning sweeping new powers in a referendum, a relaxed Erdogan said a decision by a leading European human rights body to put
  
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• North Korea celebrates as South Korea, US keep watch

  25-04-2017 22:35 via abcnews.go.com
  
  North Korea held a major live-fire drill in the Wonsan city area.
  
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• 'Frozen': Why kids can't 'Let It Go'

  25-04-2017 22:32 via cnn.com
  
  You can't escape Disney's phenomenon "Frozen."
  
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• Lawyers want Aaron Hernandez's murder conviction dismissed

  25-04-2017 22:28 via yahoo.com
  
  BOSTON (AP) — Lawyers for former NFL star Aaron Hernandez formally asked a court on Tuesday to dismiss his first-degree murder conviction now that he has died.
  
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• Hezbollah's defiant signal to Israel, Lebanon, and the UN

  25-04-2017 22:26 via yahoo.com
  
  The stated objective of the Hezbollah-coordinated press tour of southern Lebanon was to see new Israeli defensive installations on the border – indications, according to the powerful Shiite Lebanese militia, of Israeli fears of Hezbollah’s growing military might.The unprecedented spectacle appeared to be a deliberate and calculated breach of a UN Security Council resolution that bans non-state forces from bearing arms in southern Lebanon, and it illustrated the unmatched sway Hezboll
  
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• Fitbit contradicts husband's story of wife's murder - police

  25-04-2017 22:20 via bbc.co.uk
  
  The Connecticut man said his wife was killed by an intruder with a voice like actor Vin Diesel's.
  
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• Long-Range Bull: Driving a 250,000-Mile Lamborghini Murcielago

  25-04-2017 22:18 via yahoo.com
  
  We slide behind the wheel of the highest-mileage modern Lambo in the world.
  
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• WATCH: Powerful 6.9 quake shakes central Chile

  25-04-2017 22:16 via abcnews.go.com
  
  Man records the effects of a 6.9 magnitude earthquake in his apartment in Chile; no injuries or damage was reported.
  
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• WATCH: NASA astronaut teaches you how to make PB&J

  25-04-2017 22:16 via abcnews.go.com
  
  Robert Kimbrough demonstrates how to make a peanut butter and jelly sandwich in zero gravity aboard the International Space Station.
  
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• Bloomberg on the roles of Ivanka Trump and Jared Kushner in the Trump White House

  25-04-2017 22:11 via yahoo.com
  
  Yahoo Global News Anchor Katie Couric asked former New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg what he thought about the roles of Ivanka Trump and Jared Kushner in the White House. He said, “If he has confidence in both of them, there’s nothing wrong with him asking them for advice.”
  
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• Kelly Sotherton: British athlete feels third Olympic medal gives career 'more meaning'

  25-04-2017 22:08 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Kelly Sotherton feels her career has "more meaning" after she is upgraded to a three-time Olympic medallist following retrospective drug tests.
  
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• 'Bachelor' Held Behind Bars: Reality TV Star Charged in Fatal Hit and Run

  25-04-2017 22:08 via yahoo.com
  
  Chris Soules was charged with leaving the scene of an accident causing death.
  
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• Turkish strikes kill Kurdish fighters in Syria, Iraq

  25-04-2017 22:03 via yahoo.com
  
  AL-MALIKIYAH (Syria) (AFP) - Turkish warplanes killed more than two dozen Kurdish fighters Tuesday in strikes in Syria and Iraq, where the Kurds are key players in the battle against the Islamic State group.Turkey said it had carried out the strikes against "terrorist havens", vowing to continue acting against groups it links to the outlawed Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK).In northeast Syria, strikes targeting the Kurdish People's Protection Units (YPG) -- who are leading the offensive against IS
  
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• Tom Hardy apprehends 'fleeing motorbike thief' in London

  25-04-2017 22:02 via bbc.co.uk
  
  The Hollywood star helped detain the teenage rider after he jumped a red light and crashed into a car.
  
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• Michael D'Antonio: A presidency playing out in dog years

  25-04-2017 21:53 via cnn.com
  
  Aboard Air Force One, which he has used to commute almost weekly to his resort in Florida, Trump recently bragged of his great early success."I think we've had one of the most successful 13 weeks in the history of the presidency," he said as, oddly, the image of Darth Vader flashed on a video screen beside him.
  
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• Couple charged in shooting of protester at Milo Yiannopoulos event in Seattle

  25-04-2017 21:47 via theguardian.com
  
  Elizabeth Hokoana charged with first-degree assault for shooting 34-year-old protester in abdomen, and her husband was charged with third-degree assault
  Why the man shot while protesting Milo Yiannopoulos doesn’t want revengeProsecutors on Monday charged a couple in connection with a Seattle shooting during a demonstration over an appearance by the rightwing provocateur Milo Yiannopoulos in January. Elizabeth Hokoana, 29, was charged with first-degree assault for shooting a 34-year-old pro
  
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• Turkey air strikes on Kurds in Syria and Iraq spark US concern

  25-04-2017 21:43 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Air strikes in Syria and Iraq kill about two dozen fighters from two Kurdish groups.
  
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• Stock markets surge to new highs ahead of Trump's tax reform plan

  25-04-2017 21:43 via theguardian.com
  
  US technology shares rise while investors bet on Emmanuel Macron victory in French electionWorld markets have hit new peaks, pushed higher by continuing optimism about the outcome of the French presidential election, a series of positive US company results and growing anticipation over Donald Trump’s promised tax reforms.The biggest gains on Tuesday came from the US, with the technology-heavy Nasdaq Composite breaking the 6,000 barrier for the first time, 17 years after it first reached 5,
  
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• Despite vaccination success, US still faces outbreaks

  25-04-2017 21:40 via abcnews.go.com
  
  Mumps and measles outbreaks have been reported in recent months.
  
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• Turkey strikes Kurds in Iraq, Syria, drawing condemnation

  25-04-2017 21:37 via yahoo.com
  
  ANKARA, Turkey (AP) — Turkish warplanes struck suspected Kurdish rebel positions in Iraq and Syria on Tuesday, drawing condemnation from Baghdad and criticism from the U.S.-led coalition fighting the Islamic State group, which is allied with Kurdish factions in both countries.
  
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• U.S. slams South Sudan's Kiir over 'man-made' famine, urges truce

  25-04-2017 21:32 via yahoo.com
  
  By Michelle NicholsUNITED NATIONS (Reuters) - The United States slammed South Sudan's President Salva Kiir on Tuesday for the African state's "man-made" famine and ongoing conflict, urging him to fulfill a month-old pledge of a unilateral truce by ordering his troops back to their barracks."We must see a sign that progress is possible," U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations Nikki Haley told a United Nations Security Council briefing on South Sudan."We must see that ceasefire implemented."South S
  
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• Justin Trudeau: ‘My father’s resources cleared brother’s cannabis charge’ – video

  25-04-2017 21:31 via theguardian.com
  
  The Canadian prime minister, Justin Trudeau, speaks to Vice Canada about his government’s plans to legalise marijuana. He tells a story about how his late brother was charged with cannabis possession nearly two decades ago but his father’s connections made the charge ‘go away’Justin Trudeau: father’s influence made my brother’s marijuana charge ‘go away’Continue reading...
  
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• Flynn may have broken law over Russia payments

  25-04-2017 21:30 via cnn.com
  
  President Donald Trump's former national security adviser did not properly disclose payments from Russia and does not appear to have complied with the law, House Oversight Chairman Jason Chaffetz and ranking Democrat Elijah Cummings said Tuesday after reviewing Michael Flynn's application for a security clearance.
  
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• Two-thirds of people in Mexico, Chile and Ecuador are obese, UN finds

  25-04-2017 21:29 via theguardian.com
  
  Study calls epidemic frightening and finds that ‘overnutrition’ and sedentary lifestyles are costing countries tens of billions of dollars every yearMore than two-thirds of people living in Mexico, Chile and Ecuador are overweight or obese, costing their economies tens of billions of dollars every year, driving rates of disease and straining health services, according to a new UN report. While the number of hungry people in Latin America and the Caribbean has halved in the past 25 ye
  
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• Has the US started a lumber trade war with Canada?

  25-04-2017 21:29 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Canada is calling new tariffs on softwood lumber imports to the US "unfair and punitive".
  
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• Uber Is Planning a Fleet of Flying Taxi Cabs by 2020

  25-04-2017 21:26 via nbcnews.com
  
  Flying cars have long been the stuff of science fiction, but Uber is just one of a number of companies developing flying taxi services.
  
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