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• Singaporeans rally for gay pride amid ban on foreigners

  01-07-2017 23:47 via cnn.com
  
  Thousands of Singaporeans on Saturday rallied for LGBT rights at the annual Pink Dot celebration, despite a new government policy banning foreigners from participating.
  
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• Singaporeans rally for gay pride

  01-07-2017 23:47 via cnn.com
  
  Thousands of Singaporeans on Saturday rallied for LGBT rights at the annual Pink Dot celebration, despite a new government policy banning foreigners from participating.
  
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• Can Republicans Repeal Obamacare And Not Replace it?

  01-07-2017 23:46 via yahoo.com
  
  Repealing without replacing Obamacare would be a disaster and Republicans know it.
  
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• 25 wounded, three trampled during US nightclub shooting

  01-07-2017 23:44 via yahoo.com
  
  Twenty-five people were wounded, two of whom were in critical condition, during a nightclub shooting early Saturday in the southern US state of Arkansas, officials said.Authorities said three more people were injured by stampeding patrons fleeing the shooting."I want to reassure our public that this was not an act of terrorism but a tragedy... It does not appear to be a planned shooting," Mayor Mark Stodola told a press conference.
  
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• Man held in Chinese scholar's kidnapping was grad student

  01-07-2017 23:22 via yahoo.com
  
  CHICAGO (AP) — The 28-year-old Illinois man charged with kidnapping a Chinese scholar now believed to be dead was among a select few admitted to the University of Illinois' highly competitive physics graduate program in 2013.
  
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• At least 25 people shot at Arkansas club

  01-07-2017 23:22 via cnn.com
  
  At least 17 people were shot at a concert in Arkansas early Saturday morning and others injured as they tried to escape, police said.
  
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• Qatar says Arab demands 'made to be rejected'

  01-07-2017 22:48 via yahoo.com
  
  Qatar said Saturday a series of demands made by several Arab states to lift a crippling blockade were designed to be spurned and clearly aimed at infringing its sovereignty."This list of demands is made to be rejected," Qatar's Foreign Minister Sheikh Mohammed bin Abdulrahman Al-Thani said, referring to 13 demands placed on Doha by Saudi Arabia and its allies as the price for lifting an almost month-long "blockade" on Qatar.Qatar said it had received the demands on June 22 with just 10 days to m
  
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• Missing Chinese student likely dead, police say; man arrested

  01-07-2017 22:45 via cnn.com
  
  A man has been arrested in connection with the disappearance of a visiting Chinese graduate student last seen June 9 on the University of Illinois campus, the US Attorney's Office for Central Illinois said Friday.
  
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• Qatar says Arab states' demands 'made to be rejected', says open to talks

  01-07-2017 22:41 via yahoo.com
  
  By Philip PullellaROME (Reuters) - Demands made of Qatar by four other Arab states were designed to be rejected, Doha's foreign minister said on Saturday, explaining that their ultimatum was aimed not at tackling terrorism but at curtailing his country's sovereignty.Officials say they are aimed at ending a rift that erupted last month over accusations that Qatar supports terrorism, charges it denies.
  
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• Erdogan slams opposition as 'justice march' nears Istanbul

  01-07-2017 22:33 via yahoo.com
  
  President Recep Tayyip Erdogan on Saturday accused Turkey's main opposition party of siding with terrorism, as a three-week "march for justice" led by its chief advanced towards its endpoint of Istanbul.Some analysts have seen the 450-kilometre (280 mile) trek from Ankara to Istanbul led by Republican People's Party (CHP) leader Kemal Kilicdaroglu as a significant challenge to Erdogan but the Turkish strongman has regarded it with disdain.Kilicdaroglu began the march on June 15 after former jour
  
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• Pope shakes up Vatican by replacing conservative doctrinal chief

  01-07-2017 22:05 via yahoo.com
  
  By Philip PullellaVATICAN CITY (Reuters) - In a major shake-up of the Vatican's administration on Saturday, Pope Francis replaced Catholicism's top theologian, a conservative German cardinal who has been at odds with the pontiff's vision of a more inclusive Church.A brief Vatican statement said Cardinal Gerhard Ludwig Mueller's five-year mandate as head of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, a department charged with defending Catholic doctrine, would not be renewed.The position is t
  
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• Brazilian police nab 'phantom' cocaine kingpin

  01-07-2017 21:58 via yahoo.com
  
  One of South America's biggest cocaine kingpins, who evaded police for three decades and even underwent surgery to change his face, has been captured, Brazilian authorities said Saturday.Luiz Carlos da Rocha, nicknamed White Head, was arrested in the western state of Mato Grosso in a city called Sorriso, which means "smile," the federal police said in a statement.Da Rocha had changed his name to Vitor Luiz de Moraes and undergone plastic surgery to successfully dodge police while continuing to r
  
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• Justin Trudeau forgot a whole province during his Canada Day speech

  01-07-2017 21:43 via yahoo.com
  
  Well, well, well... look who's human after all. Justin Trudeau accidentally forgot to mention Alberta while passionately listing Canada's states and provinces during his Canada Day speech Saturday. SEE ALSO: Ring in Canada Day with Trudeau's best moments (and forget about Trump for a while) The gaffe did not go unnoticed.We're only counting 12 in this list... is there something we should know, Alberta? (just kidding, it was a slip) #Canada150 pic.twitter.com/uuPp1p4uOF — CBC Politics (@CBC
  
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• Pope removes German cardinal as sex abuse crisis catches up

  01-07-2017 21:28 via yahoo.com
  
  VATICAN CITY (AP) — Pope Francis sacked the head of the Vatican office that handles sex abuse cases Saturday, just days after he released another top Vatican cardinal to return home to stand trial for alleged sexual assault.
  
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• The Latest: Professor saw no signs of trouble with suspect

  01-07-2017 21:27 via yahoo.com
  
  CHICAGO (AP) — The Latest on the disappearance of a missing University of Illinois scholar from China: (all times local):
  
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• Man held for theft of rocket launchers from French train

  01-07-2017 21:21 via yahoo.com
  
  French police have charged a 23-year-old man in southern France for allegedly stealing army rocket launchers and a stock of armour-piercing shells off a freight train, a source close to the case said Saturday.The theft happened at the end of June as the train travelled between an army logistics base in Miramas near Marseille and another base in Brienne-le-Chateau, 200 kilometres (125 miles) east of Paris, the source said.Four rocket launchers and four cases of armour-piercing shells were taken,
  
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• Gay Spouses May Not Be Entitled to Workplace Benefits in Texas

  01-07-2017 21:17 via yahoo.com
  
  Gay rights groups denounced the ruling as an "absurd distortion"
  
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• GOP Operative Seeking Clinton Emails Cited Top Trump Campaign Officials

  01-07-2017 20:56 via yahoo.com
  
  They were named under a header labeled “Trump Campaign"
  
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• Democrats Weigh Pelosi's Role

  01-07-2017 20:46 via yahoo.com
  
  "You'd have to be an idiot to think we could win the House with Pelosi," said one House member.
  
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• Congress taking back powers from Trump

  01-07-2017 20:46 via cnn.com
  
  In ways big and small, Congress is taking back power from President Donald Trump on national security matters.
  
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• Congress taking back power from Trump on national security

  01-07-2017 20:46 via cnn.com
  
  In ways big and small, Congress is taking back power from President Donald Trump on national security matters.
  
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• 11-year-old Alaska boy shoots bear charging fishing party

  01-07-2017 20:27 via yahoo.com
  
  HOONAH, Alaska (AP) — Quick action from an 11-year-old boy saved a fishing party from a charging brown bear, Alaska State Troopers said.
  
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• Prince Charles, Duchess of Cornwall celebrate Canada 150

  01-07-2017 20:23 via yahoo.com
  
  OTTAWA, Ontario (AP) — Prince Charles praised Canada for inclusiveness and fairness as the country marked its 150th anniversary with a celebration on Parliament Hill that drew thousands and included a performance from Bono and the Edge from U2.
  
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• Obama Warns Against an 'Aggressive Kind of Nationalism'

  01-07-2017 20:20 via yahoo.com
  
  The former president referenced Trump's decision without mentioning him by name
  
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• Man Arrested for Kidnapping as Missing Scholar Feared Dead

  01-07-2017 20:14 via yahoo.com
  
  A man has been charged with kidnapping a visiting University of Illinois scholar from China who authorities believe to be dead
  
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• Tower of human skulls in Mexico casts new light on Aztecs

  01-07-2017 20:07 via yahoo.com
  
  By Roberto RamirezMEXICO CITY (Reuters) - A tower of human skulls unearthed beneath the heart of Mexico City has raised new questions about the culture of sacrifice in the Aztec Empire after crania of women and children surfaced among the hundreds embedded in the forbidding structure.Archaeologists have found more than 650 skulls caked in lime and thousands of fragments in the cylindrical edifice near the site of the Templo Mayor, one of the main temples in the Aztec capital Tenochtitlan, which
  
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• Samsung Galaxy Note 8 Phone Specs May Include Internal Storage Upgrades

  01-07-2017 19:55 via yahoo.com
  
  With the Galaxy Note 8, Samsung may once again attempt to match Apple in internal storage.
  
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• Here's How the Wealthy Gain From GOP Health Care Bill

  01-07-2017 19:54
  
  The Republican bill can cut taxes or it can pay for more health care, but the math doesn't add up for both.
  
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• Man held in kidnapping of Chinese scholar who is feared dead

  01-07-2017 19:41 via yahoo.com
  
  Man held in kidnapping of Chinese scholar who is feared dead.
  
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• Syrian government dismisses report on sarin attack

  01-07-2017 19:27 via yahoo.com
  
  The Syrian government on Saturday dismissed a report by the international chemical weapons watchdog that said the banned nerve agent sarin was used in an April attack in northern Syria, saying it lacked "any credibility".Western governments including the United States have said the Syrian government carried out the attack in the town of Khan Sheikhoun which killed dozens of people.The Syrian government has denied using chemical weapons.
  
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• Body of Missing Boy, 5, Turns Up Near Lake Months After Father Was Found Passed Out In His Car

  01-07-2017 19:08 via yahoo.com
  
  The body of Aramazd Andressian was found near Lake Cachuma in Santa Barbara County, cops said Saturday.
  
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• Putin has phone talks with Qatar, Bahrain on Gulf row

  01-07-2017 18:59 via yahoo.com
  
  Russian President Vladimir Putin had telephone discussions with the leaders of Qatar and Bahrain, stressing the need for diplomacy to end the dispute between Qatar and several other Arab states, the Kremlin said on Saturday.Saudi Arabia, Egypt, the United Arab Emirates and Bahrain severed ties with Qatar last month, accusing it of supporting terrorism and opening up the worst rift in years among some of the most powerful states in the Arab world.
  
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• 5 faces of crisis in three months of Venezuela unrest

  01-07-2017 18:26 via yahoo.com
  
  Venezuela's political and economic crisis has thrown people's everyday lives into chaos and left 82 of them dead.Killings, looting, traffic jams and clouds of tear gas fired by riots cops at anti-government protesters are making ordinary people's lives a nightmare.Looters emptied the freezers and seized computers and even carving knives from Ricardo Rivas's butcher's shop on May 16.
  
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• State laws expand concealed guns to public facilities

  01-07-2017 18:18 via yahoo.com
  
  Starting Saturday, concealed guns are allowed at college campuses in Georgia and Kansas, more public buildings and bus stations in Tennessee, and at the Iowa state Capitol as new laws took effect continuing the steady expansion of gun rights in Republican-controlled states.
  
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• Trump resumes attacks on 'Morning Joe' hosts

  01-07-2017 17:55 via cnn.com
  
  A defiant President Donald Trump resumed his attacks on MSNBC's "Morning Joe" co-hosts Joe Scarborough and Mika Brzezinski on Saturday morning, calling Scarborough "crazy" and Brzezinski "dumb as a rock," despite days of bipartisan criticism over his initial attacks on the pair earlier this week.
  
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• New York doctor sent email to paper before hospital rampage

  01-07-2017 17:54 via yahoo.com
  
  A doctor who killed another physician at a New York City medical center and wounded six other people before taking his own life had sent an email to a newspaper blaming hospital officials for wrecking his career, the New York Daily News reported on Saturday.The paper posted on its website a copy of the email that appeared to have been sent by Dr Henry Bello hours before the deadly shooting on Friday afternoon at Bronx-Lebanon Hospital Center.The gunman, wearing a white medical lab coat, stalked
  
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• San Diego Hikers Reunited With Family After Going Missing in Mexico

  01-07-2017 17:52 via yahoo.com
  
  On June 20, 61-year-old Morgan Fox and his two daughters went missing in Mexico’s Baja peninsula. After days of searching, a Mexican helicopter spotted them on Tuesday and launched an operation to rescue them.
  
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• Will Germany Finally Pay the Holocaust Survivors of the Romanian Death Train?

  01-07-2017 17:41 via yahoo.com
  
  Over the last 65 years, the German government has paid out more than $70 billion in reparations to Jewish victims of the Holocaust. However, a small group of Jews in the Romanian city of Iasi have received nothing.
  
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• The Fight for Mosul: U.S.-Backed Iraqi Forces Corner ISIS Fighters

  01-07-2017 17:39 via yahoo.com
  
  On Saturday, U.S.-backed forces squeezed the remaining ISIS militants into the narrow streets of Mosul's Old City as they looked to re-take full control of the strategic city.
  
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• Illinois Fiscal Crisis: State Approaches Third Year Without Budget

  01-07-2017 17:37 via yahoo.com
  
  Illinois now has $15 billion in unpaid bills and, with no budget, state agencies have had to cut back — in some cases — life-saving services.
  
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• Defiant Pres. Trump Continues Twitter Storm Against Media

  01-07-2017 17:35 via yahoo.com
  
  The president, on vacation at his resort in New Jersey, unleashed another Twitter tirade on Saturday. He again attacked the hosts of ‘Morning Joe’ and referred to CNN as ‘Fraud News CNN.’
  
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• Bronx Hospital Alleged Shooter Sent Email to Newspaper Before Rampage

  01-07-2017 17:33 via yahoo.com
  
  In a chilling e-mail sent to the New York Daily News, suspect Henry Bello complained he was forced out of his job at Bronx Lebanon Hospital because of “bogus” complaints from colleagues.
  
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• Little Rock Mass Shooting: At Least 28 Injured in Arkansas Club

  01-07-2017 17:31 via yahoo.com
  
  Little Rock Police said 25 people were shot, while three club-goers suffered other injuries, during a dispute at the Power Ultra Lounge nightclub in the Arkansas capital.
  
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• Is Eating McDonald's Better Than Eating Nothing?

  01-07-2017 17:30 via yahoo.com
  
  It’s easy to vilify McDonald’s by employing hyperbole.
  
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• Doctor who shot 7 at NYC hospital had made threats to kill

  01-07-2017 17:29 via yahoo.com
  
  Doctor who shot 7 at NYC hospital had made threats to kill.
  
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• Adele cancels final shows, may stop touring

  01-07-2017 17:25 via cnn.com
  
  Adele may be dropping the mic, literally.
  
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• Adele cancels final shows, may be done touring for good

  01-07-2017 17:25 via cnn.com
  
  Adele may be dropping the mic, literally.
  
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• Five N. Koreans sail across tense border to S. Korea

  01-07-2017 17:09 via yahoo.com
  
  Five North Koreans in a small boat crossed the sea border into South Korean waters Saturday, a Coast Guard official said, in an apparent bid to defect to the South.The five people, including four men and one woman, have expressed their wish to live in the South as defectors, the Yonhap news agency reported.Government authorities were questioning the five North Koreans, he added.
  
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• Philippines, US hold joint patrol in dangerous waters

  01-07-2017 17:06 via yahoo.com
  
  US and Philippine warships on Saturday conducted a joint patrol of southern waters known as a hunting ground for local Muslim militants, amid rising concern over Islamic militancy and piracy in the region.U.S. Navy combat ship USS Coronado and the Philippine frigate BRP Ramon Alcaraz carried out their joint patrol of the Sulu Sea, a body of water off the southern Philippines where militant groups have carried out kidnappings, a US embassy statement said."These patrols enhance regional peace and
  
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• Q&A: Marijuana is legal in Nevada but not in casinos or bars

  01-07-2017 17:00 via yahoo.com
  
  LAS VEGAS (AP) — Sin City has launched its latest legal vice.
  
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