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• Le Pen says voters must choose 'for or against' France

  27-04-2017 23:55 via yahoo.com
  
  Far-right presidential candidate Marine Le Pen delivered a ferocious attack Thursday on her globalist rival Emmanuel Macron, saying voters faced a choice "for or against France".The candidates' starkly differing visions on France's future are at the heart of the May 7 election run-off -- with Macron, a 39-year-old former banker embracing free trade and the EU, while Le Pen wants to seal France's borders and quit the euro."The country Mr Macron wants is no longer France, it's a space, a wasteland
  
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• Some call it 'stealthing,' others call it sexual assault

  27-04-2017 23:17 via cnn.com
  
  Some people call it "stealthing" -- a practice where men secretly remove or damage condoms without their partners' knowledge. Others call it sexual assault.
  
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• Slain trooper's young sons in court as killer gets death

  27-04-2017 23:05 via yahoo.com
  
  MILFORD, Pa. (AP) — With his victim's two young sons in court for the first time, a gunman who shot and killed a Pennsylvania trooper was formally sentenced to death Thursday, one day after a jury determined he should receive a lethal injection for the ambush at a state police barracks.
  
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• Johnny Depp turns up at Disneyland as Jack Sparrow (and fans lose it)

  27-04-2017 23:04 via cnn.com
  
  Johnny Depp surprised fans at Disneyland, by popping up on the "Pirates of the Caribbean" ride in his full Capt. Jack Sparrow costume.
  
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• Delta Passenger Claims He Was Booted From Flight Because He Had to Use the Bathroom

  27-04-2017 22:58 via yahoo.com
  
  The delayed flight returned to the gate when he got back to his seat, and he was asked to get off the plane.
  
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• Texas backs tough 'sanctuary city' ban as federal push slows

  27-04-2017 22:57 via yahoo.com
  
  AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — The Texas House approved a strict ban on "sanctuary cities" Thursday, empowering local police to enforce federal immigration law against anyone they detain and threatening police chiefs and sheriffs who refuse to do so with jail.
  
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• Republicans admit they won't repeal Obamacare this week, as Democrats threaten to shut down the government

  27-04-2017 22:51 via yahoo.com
  
  It appears Donald Trump won’t achieve his campaign promise of repealing and replacing Obamacare before his first 100 days in office, as members of Congress direct their attention to averting a government shutdown.The White House has been scrambling to pass a revised health care bill since their first effort crashed and burned.Mr Trump ordered the White House-backed Affordable Health Care Act (AHCA) to be pulled from a House vote last month, after it became obvious there were not enough vot
  
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• US border residents take sides on the wall

  27-04-2017 22:48 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Donald Trump has continued to promise to build a wall along the US-Mexico border. But he'll have to get through a lot of obstacles first.
  
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• Elizabeth Warren: I’m ‘troubled’ by Obama’s $400,000 Wall Street speaking fee

  27-04-2017 22:45 via yahoo.com
  
  Massachusetts Sen. Elizabeth Warren said Thursday that she’s troubled by former President Barack Obama’s accepting a $400,000 speaking fee from a Wall Street firm.Obama accepted a $400,000 fee from the investment bank Cantor Fitzgerald to speak at a health care conference in September.
  
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• Israeli strikes inside Syria pick up tempo in proxy war

  27-04-2017 22:43 via yahoo.com
  
  BEIRUT (AP) — Syria's military said Israel struck a military installation southwest of Damascus International Airport before dawn Thursday, setting off a series of explosions and raising tensions further between the two neighbors.
  
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• France election: Teenagers protest at candidates Macron and Le Pen

  27-04-2017 22:42 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Riot police clash with protesters in a western city as tension rises in the presidential race.
  
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• Sean Spicer says Obama administration was responsible for Michael Flynn’s vetting

  27-04-2017 22:29 via yahoo.com
  
  White House press secretary Sean Spicer attempted Thursday to shift blame to the Obama administration for its role in vetting retired Lt. Gen. Michael Flynn, the national security adviser dismissed by President Trump.Spicer argued that the Trump transition team didn’t vet Flynn’s appointment because he already held a security clearance at the time.“My only point is that when Gen. Flynn came into the White House, he had an active security clearance that was issued during the Oba
  
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• Cops Hunting for Getaway Driver Who Helped 'Bachelor' Flee Scene of Fatal Crash

  27-04-2017 22:27 via yahoo.com
  
  Witnesses said Chris Soules was picked up in a red truck after walking away from the scene.
  
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• Passenger dragged off United Airlines plane wins settlement

  27-04-2017 22:23 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Dr David Dao will be paid an undisclosed sum after being violently dragged off a United flight.
  
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• Appeals court grants Trump request to delay mercury air pollution case

  27-04-2017 22:21 via yahoo.com
  
  A U.S. appeals court on Thursday granted a request from the Trump administration to put litigation on hold in which states and industry groups are challenging an Obama administration pollution control rule for mercury and other toxic emissions from power plants.The U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit canceled oral arguments that were due to take place on May 18.The rule, known as the MATS rule, has been in place for years and utilities have already complied by upgrading or
  
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• Mom lets daughter's school know her 10-year-old is 'done' with homework

  27-04-2017 22:17 via yahoo.com
  
  Making tough calls for your children is a vital aspect of parenting. One brave mother stepped up to the parenting plate for her child, sharing an email she sent to her daughter's school explaining that her 10 year old is "done with homework" because of the undue stress it causes. SEE ALSO: Instead of telling women who might get pregnant they can't drink, study suggests trusting them Bunmi Laditan, a mom blogger in Quebec, explained on Facebook that she told her daughter's school that her child w
  
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• Bernie Sanders says it is 'likely' he would have beaten Donald Trump

  27-04-2017 21:59 via yahoo.com
  
  Senator Bernie Sanders has said it is “likely” he would have beaten Donald Trump in the 2016 election, but that “it doesn’t matter” now that Mr Trump is president.Trump understood that, by the way, and that's why he said, 'The whole system sucks.Mr Sanders has been an outspoken critic of the president's policy on the environment, healthcare, the economy, and a host of other issues.
  
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• Samsung just confirmed the Galaxy Note 8 is coming this year

  27-04-2017 21:58 via yahoo.com
  
  In case you were wondering whether Samsung will launch a new Galaxy Note model this year, you can rest assured that it’s happening. At least, Samsung just confirmed that a high-end smartphone is planned for the second half of the year, and that can only be Galaxy Note 8.Samsung previewed the year ahead in a press release announcing its financial results for the first quarter of the year, saying that it plans to “successfully” launch “a new flagship smartphone in the secon
  
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• This photo of Donald Trump and kids is epic

  27-04-2017 21:46 via cnn.com
  
  Thursday, as you likely know by now, is "Take Our Daughters and Sons To Work" day. The White House, like CNN and virtually every other company, celebrates this day with a special program of activities. Except, at the White House, you actually get to meet the president of the United States.
  
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• The Latest: Russia criticizes French report on Syria attack

  27-04-2017 21:43 via yahoo.com
  
  BEIRUT (AP) — The Latest on Syria (all times local):
  
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• Verizon wins a network test that isn’t about speed

  27-04-2017 21:37 via yahoo.com
  
  Normally, Verizon wins tests and comparisons based on its network coverage and only its network coverage. But to mix things up a little, Tom's Guide decided to compare basic customer service experiences across all the major postpaid and prepaid carriers, and Verizon ran away with first place.The Tom's Guide testing involved comparing the ease of access and quality of support across all the different platforms. So, they tried phone support, online chat, and even social media h
  
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• Should you be worried about 'Blue Whale' challenge?

  27-04-2017 21:37 via bbc.co.uk
  
  With questions over whether the Blue Whale challenge exists, and no confirmed link to reported deaths, how concerned should you be?
  
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• WATCH: Skydiving through the eyes of a paratrooper

  27-04-2017 21:36 via abcnews.go.com
  
  Paratrooper captures hair-raising footage during a training exercise of skydiving out of a military airplane over Romania.
  
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• Russian opposition leader Navalny hospitalised

  27-04-2017 21:20 via yahoo.com
  
  Russian President Vladimir Putin's principal opponent Alexei Navalny was briefly hospitalised Thursday after being hit in the eye by green dye that he said had damaged his cornea."At the hospital they wrote: 'Chemical burn to the right eye" + it's pretty unpleasant: it's hard to anaesthetise, my eye burns from the fire of hell and I cannot open it," Navalny added.The opposition leader's spokeswoman Kira Larmych told the Interfax news agency that Navalny went to hospital after the dye attack outs
  
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• Please let this iPhone wireless charging feature actually exist

  27-04-2017 21:16 via yahoo.com
  
  It may not happen with this year’s iPhone 8, but Apple dreams of charging its future products with the help of conventional Wi-Fi routers or even other Apple products. The technology would not only offer a way for various devices to potentially be used as wireless chargers but would also fix the most annoying thing about wireless charging nowadays: You still have to place a device in the proximity of a charging mat or device.Early iPhone 8 rumors suggested the iPhone will feature wireless
  
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• Flynn warned in 2014 against taking foreign payments

  27-04-2017 21:10 via cnn.com
  
  Former national security adviser Michael Flynn was warned by the Defense Intelligence Agency in 2014 against accepting foreign payments as he entered retirement, according to new documents obtained by the House oversight committee.
  
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• Arkansas set to carry out final execution before drug expires

  27-04-2017 21:10 via yahoo.com
  
  Arkansas was set to execute another inmate on Thursday, the last in a series of lethal injections that the state has squeezed into a compressed timeline, even as the daughter of one of his victims appealed for clemency.Four of the inmates won reprieves, but the state carried out its first execution since 2005 last Thursday, putting convicted murderer Ledell Lee to death at its Cummins Unit, near Varner, Arksansas.Jack Jones and Marcel Williams, convicted separately of rape and murder in the 1990
  
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• Spicer projects confidence after Mnuchin wouldn’t guarantee middle-class tax cut under new plan

  27-04-2017 21:08 via yahoo.com
  
  White House press secretary Sean Spicer said Thursday that Americans should be concerned about how the administration’s new tax plan would affect them, not how it would benefit the Trump family.Spicer made the comments during a press briefing where he was asked whether it was fair for Americans to question how the proposed tax plan would personally affect President Trump and his family.“The president’s plan right now is something that every American should worry hopefully about
  
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• Press secretary comments on tax plan's effect on middle class

  27-04-2017 21:04 via yahoo.com
  
  ABC News' Cecilia Vega asks Sean Spicer why Secretary of Treasury Steven Mnuchin couldn't guarantee that middle class would not pay more with new tax plan.
  
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• Body of missing Joliet toddler found in mother's home

  27-04-2017 20:53 via yahoo.com
  
  JOLIET, Ill. (AP) — The body of a 1½-year-old girl was found at a "deplorable" northern Illinois home that she and her mother shared with squatters after her mother reluctantly allowed detectives inside to search and a day after she reported her daughter missing, police said Thursday.
  
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• What next? Your questions on N Korea answered

  27-04-2017 20:39 via bbc.co.uk
  
  BBC defence and diplomatic correspondent Jonathan Marcus answers your questions on US-North Korea tensions.
  
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• Spicer says WH didn’t review Flynn’s security clearance issued during Obama administration

  27-04-2017 20:35 via yahoo.com
  
  During the daily White House press briefing, press secretary Sean Spicer said that the Trump White House did not review former National Security Adviser Michael Flynn’s security clearance that was issued during the Obama administration.
  
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• Sheryl Sandberg's mother-in-law stuns her by encouraging her to remarry

  27-04-2017 20:22 via yahoo.com
  
  While Sheryl Sandberg and her mother-in-law, Paula Goldberg, were cleaning out Dave Goldberg’s closet after he passed away, Goldberg said something that stunned Sandberg. "You are not only going to live, but you are going to get remarried one day — and I am going to be there to celebrate with you," she said.
  
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• These iPhone cases are on sale Amazon sale for just $4

  27-04-2017 20:21 via yahoo.com
  
  Protecting your iPhone with a sleek case doesn't necessarily mean having to spend a ton of cash. We share iPhone case sales with you all the time that offer insanely low prices on high-quality cases, and we just found a special limited-time sale that definitely fits the bill.
  From now until the end of the day on Saturday, April 29, a handful of sleek iPhone cases are on sale on Amazon starting at just $4. For the iPhone 7 Plus, you've got the Ace Teah Extreme Scratch-Proof Clear Case that costs
  
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• Anthony Joshua v Wladimir Klitschko: 'Memory stick mind games won't faze me'

  27-04-2017 20:20 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Anthony Joshua calls on Wladimir Klitschko to "stand up to the power" after he is branded just "a puncher" in the run up to their heavyweight bout.
  
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• Spicer: We don't know if Flynn broke law

  27-04-2017 20:18 via cnn.com
  
  White House Press Secretary Sean Spicer responds to reports that President Trump's former national security adviser, Michael Flynn, failed to disclose payments from Russia.
  
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• The BMW M550d xDrive Touring Is the Quad-Turbo Diesel Wagon of Your Dreams

  27-04-2017 20:15 via yahoo.com
  
  And no, it's probably not coming to America.
  
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• The Accord V6 Coupe Is the Last Real American Muscle Car

  27-04-2017 20:15 via yahoo.com
  
  This is not a joke.
  
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• For Sale: 1993 Porsche 911 Carrera RSR, Never Driven

  27-04-2017 20:15 via yahoo.com
  
  The race-ready 911 RSR is one of the rarest 964 variants in existence. This example has only driven six miles since new.
  
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• This Woman Had the Best Response to a Man Who Told Her to "Cover Up" While Breastfeeding

  27-04-2017 20:14 via yahoo.com
  
  She knew her rights and refused to back down.
  
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• Syria to buy latest Russian anti-missile system: Assad

  27-04-2017 20:12 via yahoo.com
  
  Syrian President Bashar al-Assad said Damascus is negotiating with regime ally Moscow to buy the latest Russian anti-missile system to repel Israeli and American attacks."It's natural that we should have such systems," he said, quoted by Syria's official SANA agency on Thursday, the same day as Damascus accused Israel of firing several missiles at a military position near its international airport."Israel has been committing aggressions on the Arab states surrounding it since its creation in 194
  
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• Israeli missile shoots down 'target' over Golan: army

  27-04-2017 20:08 via yahoo.com
  
  Israel shot down what it identified only as "a target" over the occupied Golan Heights on Thursday, hours after Syria accused it of hitting a military position near Damascus airport."The Patriot Aerial Defence System intercepted a target above the Golan Heights," the official Israeli army Twitter account said, without elaborating.A military spokeswoman refused to comment on Israeli media reports that the object was a drone.
  
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• Israel strikes arms depot near Damascus airport: sources

  27-04-2017 19:52 via yahoo.com
  
  By Suleiman Al-Khalidi and Angus McDowallAMMAN/BEIRUT (Reuters) - Israeli warplanes struck a weapons supply hub operated by Lebanese group Hezbollah near Damascus airport on Thursday, targeting arms sent from Iran in commercial and military cargo aircraft, Syrian rebel and regional intelligence sources said.The Israeli military said later that one of its Patriot anti-aircraft missile batteries intercepted a target over the Golan Heights that Israeli media described as an unmanned drone.It was th
  
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• Flynn’s former top deputy: I was ‘apoplectic’ when I learned about RT payment

  27-04-2017 19:50 via yahoo.com
  
  The Defense Department is investigating whether retired Lt. Gen. Michael Flynn, President Trump’s former national security adviser, violated federal ethics rules.
  
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• NASA’s Cassini survived its first Saturn dive, and delivered some mind-blowing photos

  27-04-2017 19:39 via yahoo.com
  NASA delivered some fantastic news very early this morning, announcing that the Cassini spacecraft had successfully survived the first of its "Grand Finale" dives. The craft was out of radio contact for many hours as it ventured closer to the surface of Saturn than any earthly equipment had ever gone, and it shot some really stunning photos that show the planet in greater detail than we've ever seen.Cassini's first dive sent it straight through Saturn's rings, shooting for a gap that measur
  
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• This may be Apple’s first brand new iOS device since 2015

  27-04-2017 19:14 via yahoo.com
  
  The rumors saying that Apple is working on a Siri-based Amazon Echo rival are back, with a noted insider saying that Apple is currently finalizing the design for the unnamed product.“Apple is currently finalizing designs for their Alexa competitor, expected to be marketed as a Siri/AirPlay device,” Sonny Dickson said on Twitter.
  https://twitter.com/SonnyDickson/status/857584682677829633
  Dickson, who has a decent track record when leaking details about unreleased Apple products (
  
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• What it's like to make it through the NFL draft

  27-04-2017 19:08 via cnn.com
  
  They will walk in the footsteps of giants as they descend Philadelphia's Rocky Steps to a life in the NFL.
  
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• Terror knife attack 'foiled' outside British parliament

  27-04-2017 18:42 via cnn.com
  
  UK police have foiled another suspected terror attack in London, arresting a man carrying knives near the British parliament.
  
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• WATCH: Rare baby monkey makes debut at New Orleans zoo

  27-04-2017 18:36 via abcnews.go.com
  
  Visitors to the New Orleans Audubon Zoo will now be able to see rare baby colobus monkey. The one-month-old monkey is part of a threatened species.
  
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• Rep. Maxine Waters: ‘You can’t trust this president’

  27-04-2017 18:33 via yahoo.com
  
  Yahoo News and Finance Anchor Bianna Golodryga asked Rep. Maxine Waters, D-Calif., about President Trump’s new tax plan. She said, “We don’t know what it means.” Waters went on to say, about Trump’s policy positions, “You can’t trust this president. When he comes out with one thing, he’ll change the next day.” She continued: “He backed off of China. He said that they were currency manipulators. He had chocolate cake with President Xi, a
  
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