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• BBC makes history with 'Doctor Who' casting

  16-07-2017 23:57 via cnn.com
  
  BBC has made history with the selection of the newest star of "Doctor Who."
  
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• 72 years later, legacy of first atomic test endures

  16-07-2017 23:54 via cnn.com
  
  Many people in a lot of industries claim to have changed the world with their work. Few actually have.
  
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• 10 days of horror: Grisly killings stun a small town

  16-07-2017 22:57 via cnn.com
  
  On July 5, a young Pennsylvania man disappeared. Three other men went missing two days later.
  
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• The unwanted: Rohingyas in Bangladesh

  16-07-2017 22:54 via cnn.com
  
  Children with henna-painted hands play outside mud-walled hovels with damaged roofs in one of Bangladesh's biggest refugee camps.
  
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• 'No one ever helps us': Life after escaping conflict in Myanmar

  16-07-2017 22:54 via cnn.com
  
  Children with henna-painted hands play outside mud-walled hovels with damaged roofs in one of Bangladesh's biggest refugee camps.
  
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• ‘Doctor Who’ Alums Support Jodie Whittaker

  16-07-2017 22:34 via yahoo.com
  
  Freema Agyeman, Billie Piper, Alex Kingston and more voiced their support for the first female Doctor on “Doctor Who.”
  
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• Big Apple double for Sam Bird

  16-07-2017 22:33 via cnn.com
  
  Britain's Sam Bird completed an historic winning double Sunday as Formula E continued to excite on its first visit to New York.
  
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• Northern United States may see Aurora Borealis

  16-07-2017 22:32 via cnn.com
  
  A geomagnetic storm could bring a spectacular show to skies across the northern United States on Sunday night.
  
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• Justin Trudeau Meets Justin Trudeau, the Baby Syrian Refugee Named After Him

  16-07-2017 22:26 via yahoo.com
  
  His parents came to Canada as refugees
  
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• The Latest: Muslim worshippers visit Jerusalem holy site

  16-07-2017 22:23 via yahoo.com
  
  JERUSALEM (AP) — The Latest on Israeli-Palestinian tensions following last week's attack at a Jerusalem holy site, in which three Arab Israelis shot dead two police officers before being killed (all times local):
  
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• U.S. Secret Service rejects suggestion it vetted Trump son's meeting

  16-07-2017 22:11 via yahoo.com
  
  By Arshad Mohammed and Howard SchneiderWASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. Secret Service on Sunday denied a suggestion from President Donald Trump's personal lawyer that it had vetted a meeting between the president's son and Russian nationals during the 2016 campaign.Donald Trump Jr. has acknowledged that he met in New York with Russian lawyer Natalia Veselnitskaya after he was told she might have damaging information about his father's rival, Democrat Hillary Clinton."Well, I wonder why the Secre
  
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• Doctors Find 27 Lenses In Woman's Eye During Surgery

  16-07-2017 22:10 via yahoo.com
  
  A “routine” cataract surgery in England uncovered nearly 30 contact lenses stuck together in two separate chunks in a 67-year-old British woman’s eye.
  
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• French FM urges 'de-escalation' in Gulf crisis

  16-07-2017 22:06 via yahoo.com
  
  French Foreign Minister Jean-Yves Le Drian called Sunday for a "de-escalation" in the row between Qatar and four Arab countries, as he held talks in the United Arab Emirates and Kuwait, a mediator in the crisis."It would be preferable if the parties could engage in a process of de-escalation, one that is indispensable so that negotiations can take place in a constructive atmosphere," Le Drian said in Abu Dhabi.
  
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• Stressful experiences can age brain 'by years', Alzheimer's experts hear

  16-07-2017 21:56 via theguardian.com
  
  Child’s death, divorce or job loss linked to poorer cognition in later life, study finds, with African Americans more susceptibleStressful life experiences can age the brain by several years, new research suggests. Experts led by a team from Wisconsin University’s school of medicine and public health in the US found that even one major stressful event early in life may have an impact on later brain health.The team examined data for 1,320 people who reported stressful experiences over
  
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• Dems still strive to tell voters what their party stands for

  16-07-2017 21:50 via yahoo.com
  
  NEW YORK (AP) — House Democratic Caucus Chairman Joe Crowley hesitated when asked about his party's core message to voters.
  
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• Teacher, 54, Who Had Sex With Student, 17, Said he Tricked Her Like a 'Used Car Salesman'

  16-07-2017 21:48 via yahoo.com
  
  She admitted to the encounters.
  
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• Detroit at crossroads 50 years after riots devastated city

  16-07-2017 21:48 via yahoo.com
  
  DETROIT (AP) — Deborah Chenault Green is 62, a writer. But 50 years ago she was a pre-teen, sleeping on the porch to escape the oppressive heat, awakening to see a sky that glowed unnaturally.
  
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• Trump rails against Clinton’s emails amid Russia firestorm: ‘My son Don is being scorned’

  16-07-2017 21:32 via yahoo.com
  
  Trump rails against Clinton’s emails amid Russia firestorm: ‘My son Don is being scorned’
  
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• Central California wildfire grows as hot, dry conditions persist

  16-07-2017 21:09 via yahoo.com
  
  (Reuters) - A damaging wildfire burning on California's scenic central coast was expected to expand on Sunday afternoon, with higher temperatures, lower humidity and high winds working against efforts to contain it, officials said.By Sunday morning the so-called Whittier Fire burning near Santa Barbara was 36-percent contained, a reversal since Friday, when the blaze was 50-percent contained, the California Department of Forestry and Fire Protection, or Cal Fire, said.Cal Fire bumped up the numb
  
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• A Female Doctor Who? It's About Timey Wimey

  16-07-2017 21:01 via yahoo.com
  
  The 13th doctor will be played by Jodie Whittaker
  
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• Chicago community activist killed in weekend shooting

  16-07-2017 21:00 via yahoo.com
  
  CHICAGO (AP) — A Chicago community activist who worked to fight violence was fatally shot less than a block from the offices of his nonprofit, according to police and the man's relatives.
  
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• President Trump Just Said This Poll Was the 'Most Inaccurate' Around the Election. It Wasn't

  16-07-2017 20:48 via yahoo.com
  
  The poll slightly underestimated a Trump victory, but so did many others
  
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• Trump brushes off record low approval rating: ‘Not bad at this time’

  16-07-2017 20:46 via yahoo.com
  
  The president reacted to a new ABC News/Washington Post survey that shows his approval rating has slipped to 36 percent — the lowest of any president at six months into his presidency.
  
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• Trudeau meets tiny namesake

  16-07-2017 20:45 via cnn.com
  
  Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau met two-month-old Justin-Trudeau Adam Bilal at a rodeo in Alberta. His parents are Syrian refugees who named their son as a tribute to Trudeau.
  
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• Flood topples statue at iconic Fallingwater house

  16-07-2017 20:41 via yahoo.com
  
  MILL RUN, Pa. (AP) — An overflowing stream following heavy rain toppled a large bronze statue at architect Frank Lloyd Wright's iconic Fallingwater house in Pennsylvania, officials said.
  
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• Venezuelan opposition hopes for big turnout in protest vote

  16-07-2017 20:40 via feeds.foxnews.com
  Venezuela's opposition called for a massive turnout Sunday in a symbolic rejection of President Nicolas Maduro's plan to rewrite the constitution, a proposal that's escalating tensions in a nation stricken by widespread shortages and more than 100 days of anti-government protests.
  
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• Roger Federer beats Cilic to clinch historic eighth Wimbledon title

  16-07-2017 20:37 via cnn.com
  
  An ace at 3:52PM local British time turned Roger Federer into the greatest Wimbledon men's champion of all time.
  
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• Iran detains president's brother, sentences American

  16-07-2017 20:36 via feeds.foxnews.com
  An Iranian news agency is reporting that the brother of President Hassan Rouhani has been detained over financial matters.
  
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• 8 is enough: Federer gets record-breaking Wimbledon title

  16-07-2017 20:27 via feeds.foxnews.com
  Roger Federer's wait for No. 8 at Wimbledon is over.
  
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• Canceled $30K wedding becomes dinner for Indiana homeless

  16-07-2017 20:10 via yahoo.com
  
  INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — An Indiana woman didn't want her canceled $30,000 wedding to go to waste, so she threw a dinner party for the homeless.
  
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• The Latest: Venezuelan opposition turns out voters in US

  16-07-2017 20:07 via feeds.foxnews.com
  The Latest on Venezuela's political crisis and an opposition referendum on government plans to rewrite the constitution.
  
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• What we know from Trump Jr.--Russia meeting

  16-07-2017 20:02 via cnn.com
  
  New revelations about Donald Trump Jr.'s meeting last summer with a Russian lawyer are continuing to surface a week after the revelation rocketed the President's eldest son to the center of allegations of collusion with Russia.
  
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• Kindhearted UPS Driver Adopts Dog She Met on Her Route After Owner Dies

  16-07-2017 19:59 via yahoo.com
  
  The dog is loving his new dog siblings.
  
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• Egypt says 1 killed, 50 injured in clashes on Nile islands

  16-07-2017 19:58 via feeds.foxnews.com
  Egypt's military says its jet-fighters have destroyed 15 all-terrain vehicles carrying weapons and explosives along with "criminal elements" after they were detected getting ready to cross the Libyan border into Egypt.
  
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• Spain: 33 injured in roller coaster collision in Madrid

  16-07-2017 19:55 via feeds.foxnews.com
  
  Spanish authorities say 33 people, including six children under 10 years old, have been injured in a roller coaster collision in Madrid.
  
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• Israel reopens Jerusalem holy site after deadly assault

  16-07-2017 19:52 via feeds.foxnews.com
  Israeli police say security forces have shot dead a Palestinian assailant behind a pair of recent shooting attacks.
  
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• Venezuela vote puts pressure on Maduro

  16-07-2017 19:44 via yahoo.com
  
  Hundreds of thousands of Venezuelans cast ballots Sunday in a symbolic vote seen likely to reject plans by President Nicolas Maduro to rewrite the constitution, upping pressure on the beleaguered leader after months of violent street protests.The call to polls -- described as a "plebiscite" by the opposition, but "illegal" by the government -- is over Maduro's intention to have a citizens' body elected to redraft the country's basic law.To detract from the opposition vote, his government on Sund
  
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• How the Trump Jr. meeting fits into the larger Putin game plan

  16-07-2017 19:12 via cnn.com
  
  Many in the media have focused too narrowly on how Donald Trump Jr.'s June 2016 meeting with a Russian lobbyist and lawyer in Trump Tower looks bad.
  
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• How the Trump Jr. meeting fits into Putin's game plan

  16-07-2017 19:12 via cnn.com
  
  Many in the media have focused too narrowly on how Donald Trump Jr.'s June 2016 meeting with a Russian lobbyist and lawyer in Trump Tower looks bad.
  
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• 16 pilgrims die when bus falls into gorge

  16-07-2017 19:12 via cnn.com
  
  At least 16 Hindu pilgrims were killed Sunday when their bus veered off a national highway and plunged into a gorge in Indian-administered Kashmir, a local official said.
  
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• Publishers prepare big money bids for James Comey's book on the FBI and Donald Trump

  16-07-2017 19:07 via yahoo.com
  
  James Comey, the FBI director fired by Donald Trump as he investigated Trump campaign ties to Russia, is writing a book about his career and its tumultuous conclusion. The assiduous note taker has already proved himself an annoyance to the White House, leaking a memo to the press about how the president asked him to drop one aspect of his probe, fuelling allegations of obstruction of justice. As a result his agents have stoked intense interest in his book proposal which is expected to be the sub
  
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• Police hunt man who 'tried to pull off woman's hijab' at Baker Street Tube station

  16-07-2017 19:07 via yahoo.com
  
  Police are investigating a suspected hate crime after a man tried to pull off a Muslim woman's hijab and spat at her friend. The woman, who posted about the incident on Twitter, was waiting for a Tube at Baker Street in the early hours of Saturday morning when she was set upon. Tweeting under the name Aniso Abdulkadir, she posted a picture of the man who allegedly attacked her, writing: "This man at Baker Street station forcefully attempted to pull my hijab off and when I ins
  
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• Syria says shells hit Russian embassy compound

  16-07-2017 19:03 via feeds.foxnews.com
  Syrian state media say shells have hit the Russian embassy in Damascus causing material damage.
  
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• Thousands in Poland protest government moves on judiciary

  16-07-2017 18:48 via feeds.foxnews.com
  Thousands of government opponents gathered in Warsaw and other cities in Poland on Sunday to protest the latest changes in legislation that reorganized the judiciary.
  
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• Wildfires rage along Adriatic coast in Croatia, Montenegro

  16-07-2017 18:42 via feeds.foxnews.com
  
  Firefighters in Croatia and Montenegro have been struggling to contain wild fires that have erupted along the Adriatic coast in the two countries at the height of the tourism season.
  
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• Merkel stands by Hamburg G20 despite violent protests

  16-07-2017 18:41 via yahoo.com
  
  German Chancellor Angela Merkel said Sunday she stood by her decision to hold a G20 summit in Hamburg even after it was marred by street protests that turned violent.Local lawmakers from her centre-right Christian Democratic Union have blamed Hamburg mayor Olaf Scholz for failing to organise sufficient police protection."It was clear that it had to take place in a big city, and I was pleased that Olaf Scholz agreed... I've made it clear to the Hamburg CDU that I think they're wrong" to criticise
  
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• Iran sentences US national to 10 years in jail for spying

  16-07-2017 18:40 via feeds.foxnews.com
  An Iranian court has sentenced a United States national, who is also a dual citizen of another country other than Iran, to a decade behind bars under the conviction of spying.
  
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• Brazilian politician pelted with eggs by protesters at her own wedding

  16-07-2017 18:34 via yahoo.com
  
  A Brazilian politician was forced to leave her own wedding in an armoured vehicle after being pelted with eggs by protesters.Political tensions reached a head as hundreds of protesters assembled outside the church where her wedding was being held on Friday evening.Maria Victoria Barros, 25, a member of the state assembly in Parana and daughter of President Michel Termer’s health minister, had to leave the church in the secure vehicle after being bombarded with eggs.
  
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• NATO urges Turkey, Germany to settle air base row

  16-07-2017 18:33 via yahoo.com
  
  BRUSSELS/BERLIN (Reuters) - NATO's Secretary General has urged the Turkish and German foreign ministers to resolve their differences over visits to Turkish air bases, part of a wider row between the two allies.Germany has refused to extradite asylum seekers Turkey says were involved in a coup attempt last year, Berlin is demanding the release of a Turkish-German journalist, and Ankara has refused to let German lawmakers visit soldiers at two air bases.German soldiers contribute to a NATO air sur
  
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• Jordan court to rule Monday in killings of 3 US troops

  16-07-2017 18:29 via feeds.foxnews.com
  A military court is set rule Monday in the murder trial of a Jordanian soldier accused of gunning down three U.S. military trainers in a shooting spree at a Jordanian air base.
  
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