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• US asks Russia's RT to register as 'foreign agent'

  12-09-2017 23:50 via yahoo.com
  The US Justice Department has asked Russian broadcaster RT to register its American operations as a "foreign agent," putting fresh pressure on a major media group that Washington regards as Moscow's propaganda arm.RT said late Monday that the company that supplies all the services for its RT America channel was told by the DOJ in a letter that it is obligated to register under the Foreign Agents Registration Act, an act aimed at lobbyists and lawyers representing foreign political interests.RT i
  
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• White House denies Kushner reports

  12-09-2017 23:49 via cnn.com
  The White House rebutted reports that some of President Donald Trump's legal team discussed if his son-in-law Jared Kushner should step down from his role as White House adviser. CNN's Jessica Schneider reports.
  
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• Authorities says 11 killed in clash with Venezuelan soldiers

  12-09-2017 23:46 via feeds.foxnews.com
  Venezuelan authorities say gunmen assaulted an army patrol in an eastern area where illegal mining has become increasingly common, and 11 of the attackers were killed and one soldier was wounded in the gunbattle.
  
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• 2 Americans, Russian head for International Space Station

  12-09-2017 23:34 via feeds.foxnews.com
  A Soyuz space capsule with two Americans and a Russian aboard has blasted off for the International Space Station from Russia's manned launch facility in Kazakhstan.
  
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• US Virgin Islands refusing entry to non-American Irma evacuees, survivors say

  12-09-2017 23:32 via yahoo.com
  British army commandos and local residents take part in recovery efforts after Hurricane Irma passed Tortola, in the British Virgin Islands.The US government is turning away people trying to flee the hurricane-devastated British Virgin Islands for the nearby US Virgin Islands unless they are American citizens, refusing even those with US visitor visas, storm survivors have told the Guardian.
  
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• US limits visas for African, Asian nations over deportations

  12-09-2017 23:29 via yahoo.com
  ADDIS ABABA, Ethiopia (AP) — The United States will stop issuing certain visas to Eritrean nationals and officials of Cambodia, Sierra Leone and Guinea as of Wednesday because they have refused to take back deported citizens, the State Department said Tuesday.
  
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• Rich donor's girlfriends testify at Menendez bribery trial

  12-09-2017 23:22 via yahoo.com
  NEWARK, N.J. (AP) — Prosecutors in the corruption trial of U.S. Sen. Bob Menendez and a wealthy donor put two of the donor's reputed former girlfriends on the witness stand Tuesday in an attempt to put Menendez's efforts to smooth their visa applications into the context of a larger bribery scheme, with mixed results.
  
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• Steven Tyler and his girlfriend both wear white dresses to Italy gala

  12-09-2017 23:21 via yahoo.com
  Steven Tyler donned a white wrap dress in Italy on Sunday, coordinating quite well with his girlfriend, who also wore a white enseble.
  
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• Dalai Lama: Buddha Would Have Helped Persecuted Rohingya Refugees

  12-09-2017 23:19 via yahoo.com
  The Dalai Lama has joined world leaders and advocates in calling on the Myanmar government to protect the country’s persecuted Rohingya minority, as hundreds of thousands of refugees have fled in recent weeks.
  
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• Woman Accused Of Shooting Homeless Man Who Asked Her To Move Porsche

  12-09-2017 23:14 via yahoo.com
  A Nashville woman has been charged with attempted murder after she allegedly shot at a homeless man who asked her to move her Porsche.
  
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• McConnell Says Republicans Got More Out Of Trump's Fiscal Deal Than People Think

  12-09-2017 23:00 via yahoo.com
  WASHINGTON ― Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) raised eyebrows on Capitol Hill this week after he claimed that Democrats had prematurely celebrated the fiscal deal they negotiated with President Donald Trump.
  
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• Hurricane Jose's path: What you should know

  12-09-2017 23:00 via feeds.foxnews.com
  First there was Harvey, next came Katia and Irma and now – in the middle of the Atlantic Ocean – Hurricane Jose is waiting.
  
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• Shhh… 5 Secrets You Can Keep From Your Partner

  12-09-2017 22:59 via yahoo.com
  You don’t have to be 100 percent transparent to have a happy marriage.
  
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• Chicago Teen Found Dead In Hotel Freezer Sparks Outrage, Confusion

  12-09-2017 22:59 via yahoo.com
  The mysterious death of a Chicago teenager at a local hotel has angered her family and friends, some of whom are demanding that the hotel be closed.
  
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• Misery, uncertainty after Irma hits Florida idyll

  12-09-2017 22:57 via yahoo.com
  After Hurricane Irma reduced her home on a Florida Keys trailer park to rubble, Patty Purdo fears it's now only a matter of time before property developers complete her misery.The Florida Keys, a ribbon of islands on the southern tip of the United States, has long been a magnet for millionaires and film stars drawn to its warm waters and sunsets.Islamorada, situated in the middle of the archipelago, counts the actor Gene Hackman among its residents and draws thousands of well-heeled tourists ove
  
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• Police ask Canada government to postpone legal marijuana

  12-09-2017 22:55 via feeds.foxnews.com
  Canada's police services told the Canadian government Tuesday that there is no chance they will be ready to enforce new laws for nationwide legalized marijuana by next summer.
  
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• Benjamin Netanyahu's son deletes anti-Semitic post following uproar

  12-09-2017 22:45 via feeds.foxnews.com
  Israeli political leaders lashed out at Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's eldest son Sunday for posting an anti-Semitic caricature aimed at his father's critics.
  
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• Trump administration doesn't want to talk about climate change

  12-09-2017 22:36 via cnn.com
  Last year was the Earth's warmest recorded year, the third year in a row to set a new record for global average temperatures. Rising temperatures are likely to increase the intensity and impact of major storms, scientists say, yet in the wake of Hurricanes Harvey and Irma, the Trump administration has resisted talking about climate change at all.
  
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• Holly Bobo Trial Reveals Crime Scene Photos

  12-09-2017 22:35 via yahoo.com
  Investigators showed images of bloodstains from Bobo's garage taken on the day she disappeared.
  
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• Warren Buffett Has Made a Killing Off Apple—Here’s the Simple Reason He Invested in It

  12-09-2017 22:33 via yahoo.com
  Warren Buffett invested in Apple and it's paid off.
  
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• Animals Take Refuge in County Jail During Hurricane Irma

  12-09-2017 22:32 via yahoo.com
  The animals were given bedding and food.
  
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• Hope Hicks, New White House Communications Director, Used To Be A Child Book Cover Model

  12-09-2017 22:26 via yahoo.com
  Hope Hicks, who was named President Donald Trump’s official White House Communications Director this week, has stayed out of the spotlight to date, for the most part.
  
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• The White House says Hillary Clinton's new book is 'sad'

  12-09-2017 22:25 via yahoo.com
  White House press secretary Sarah Sanders panned Hillary Clinton’s new book, “What Happened,” when asked if President Trump will read it.
  
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• GALLERY: Hurricane Irma tears through Caribbean

  12-09-2017 22:02 via cnn.com
  Hurricane Irma barreled through the Caribbean, leaving catastrophic damage on islands in its path.
  
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• The Latest: Police: Barcelona church evacuation false alarm

  12-09-2017 21:59 via feeds.foxnews.com
  The Latest on an anti-terror operation in Barcelona (all times local): 9:50 p.m. Police in Barcelona say experts found no explosives after searching a suspicious van near the landmark Sagrada Familia basilica and that concern about a possible extremist attack that prompted evacuations was a false alarm.
  
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• OPINION: Irma exposes inconvenient truth for Europe

  12-09-2017 21:54 via cnn.com
  French President Emmanuel Macron has troubles at home this week. France's second biggest union, the CGT, is leading public sector, rail and energy workers in local strikes in protest at Macron's proposed deregulation of the labor market.
  
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• Escape From Paradise: See the Harrowing Rescue of Americans Stranded on Tropical Island by Irma

  12-09-2017 21:45 via yahoo.com
  Members of the National Guard came to the rescue.
  
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• Hillary Clinton's Supporters Don't Want Her To Shut Up

  12-09-2017 21:41 via yahoo.com
  NEW YORK ― By 6:30 a.m., Perry and Maddie were out of their homes and in a line.
  
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• Brazil's top court authorizes new investigation on president

  12-09-2017 21:41 via feeds.foxnews.com
  Brazil's top court has authorized a new corruption investigation of President Michel Temer.
  
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• Russian defence minister visits Assad ahead of Syrian offensive

  12-09-2017 21:36 via yahoo.com
  Syrian President Bashar al-Assad welcomed Russian Defence Minister Sergei Shoigu to Damascus on Tuesday as Syrian forces supported by the Russian army prepare to make a final push into parts of the eastern city of Deir Ezzor.Shoigu gave a letter from Russian President Vladimir Putin to Assad "congratulating him on lifting the siege imposed by Islamic State terrorists in the city of Deir Ezzor," according to a statement by the Syrian presidency.
  
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• Netanyahu: Only strong position on Iran 'would avert war'

  12-09-2017 21:34 via cnn.com
  Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu warned of Iran's nuclear ambitions and growing presence in the Middle East in an exclusive interview with CNN en Español.
  
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• Israeli court annuls law exempting religious from military

  12-09-2017 21:32 via feeds.foxnews.com
  Israel's Supreme Court has struck down a 2015 law granting exemptions from military service to ultra-Orthodox men.
  
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• Prosecutors to consider charges in Australian woman's death

  12-09-2017 21:27 via yahoo.com
  MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — The case of a Minneapolis police officer who shot and killed an Australian woman in July has been handed over to prosecutors for possible charges, authorities announced Tuesday.
  
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• WATCH: Tiger rejected by mother arrives in San Diego

  12-09-2017 21:26 via abcnews.go.com
  Watch the baby tiger play with other cubs.
  
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• NYFW: Be the belle of the ball with Carolina Herrera Spring 2018

  12-09-2017 21:16 via yahoo.com
  For the first time ever, New York City's famed Museum of Modern Art hosted a fashion presentation in its gorgeous botanical-filled sculpture garden.This place in fashion history wasn't given to just any fashion designer: Instead, the renowned Carolina Herrera swooped in and put on a show that we'll remember for fashion weeks to come.Recognized for her timeless pieces, dramatic and 50s-inspired silhouettes, red and yellow hued patterned stripes and polka dots, Herrera took it one step further for
  
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• Barcelona's Sagrada Familia cathedral area closed off following false alarm reports of terror activity

  12-09-2017 21:15 via feeds.foxnews.com
  Police blocked off streets near the Holy Family cathedral Tuesday in Barcelona, Spain but later said that warnings of a terror activity were a false alarm.
  
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• WATCH: Royal Caribbean sends ship to help St. Martin hurricane victims

  12-09-2017 21:10 via abcnews.go.com
  Royal Caribbean sent a ship to St. Marten to evacuate 300 people and drop off supplies following Hurricane Irma.
  
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• Trump meeting with Malaysian prime minister under scrutiny

  12-09-2017 21:10 via yahoo.com
  WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump praised Malaysian Prime Minister Najib Razak for his country's financial investments in U.S. companies during a meeting Tuesday at the White House and thanked him for helping to fight Islamic State militants.
  
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• Barcelona cathedral evacuated amid anti-terror investigation

  12-09-2017 21:10 via feeds.foxnews.com
  Police in Barcelona say explosives experts are checking a van in the surroundings of the landmark Sagrada Familia cathedral in what they are describing as an anti-terrorism operation.
  
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• WATCH: Plane arrives to help Turks and Caicos after Irma

  12-09-2017 21:07 via abcnews.go.com
  The British Royal Marines deployed to the Turks and Caicos to provide aid to the islands affected by Hurricane Irma.
  
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• Nurses Throw Birthday Party For 3-Year-Old Separated From Family By Hurricane Irma

  12-09-2017 21:07 via yahoo.com
  When Hurricane Irma separated a hospitalized toddler from her family on her birthday, the nurses and child life specialists at Johns Hopkins All Children’s Hospital in St. Petersburg, Florida made sure to throw her a special party.
  
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• WATCH: Colossal lightning strike illuminates sky in California

  12-09-2017 21:05 via abcnews.go.com
  California Highway Patrol officers captured a spectacular lightning strike streaking across the sky in Novato, California, on Sept. 11.
  
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• Trump meets Malaysian leader under investigation

  12-09-2017 21:03 via cnn.com
  Malaysia's prime minister visited the White House on Tuesday seeking a dose of legitimacy amid a US Justice Department investigation into his finances.
  
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• Malaysia's leader, under investigation by US Justice Department, visits White House

  12-09-2017 21:03 via cnn.com
  Malaysia's prime minister visited the White House on Tuesday seeking a dose of legitimacy amid a US Justice Department investigation into his finances.
  
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• Killer asks Ohio Supreme Court to delay Wednesday execution

  12-09-2017 21:02 via yahoo.com
  COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — A condemned killer of two people asked the state's highest court Tuesday to delay his upcoming execution so he can argue he was too young at the time of his crimes to be put to death.
  
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• Florida tourist industry counts the cost of Irma's devastation

  12-09-2017 20:54 via yahoo.com
  Patrons drink at a bar in Miami, Florida, after hurricane Irma passed through.Barely a month ago, Florida proudly announced a record-setting number of visitors to the Sunshine State – more than 60 million tourists coming to enjoy its theme parks, beaches and other attractions since January.Now, in the immediate aftermath of Hurricane Irma, tourism is facing a major challenge.
  
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• UN refugee chief: Hungary severely limits refugee access

  12-09-2017 20:51 via feeds.foxnews.com
  Hungary is displaying "a very clear intention" to curtail the access refugees have to protection in the country, the head of the United Nations' refugee agency said Tuesday while visiting a transit zone for asylum-seekers at the Hungary-Serbia border.
  
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• European leaders arrive in Irma-struck Caribbean as aid effort ramps up

  12-09-2017 20:36 via cnn.com
  The Caribbean islands struck first by Hurricane Irma face a daunting cleanup in the wake of the monster storm, amid reports of looting and shortages of food and fuel.
  
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• What The 2 Deadliest Mass Shootings This Year Have In Common

  12-09-2017 20:35 via yahoo.com
  On Sunday, 27-year-old Meredith Lane invited a group of friends over to her house in Plano, Texas, to watch football and grill.
  
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