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• Fight against ISIS rages on in Syria

  17-01-2019 23:54 via cnn.com
  CNN's Clarissa Ward reports.
  
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• CNN goes to Syrian front lines in fight against ISIS

  17-01-2019 23:54 via cnn.com
  CNN's Clarissa Ward reports.
  
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• This manicure just gave birth, and you have to see the baby

  17-01-2019 23:31 via news.yahoo.com
  Umbilical cords are not usually part of the traditional manicure experience. Thankfully, there are exceptions to the rule. Russian nail artist Nail Sunny recently shared intricate nail art featuring a detailed chair (with stirrups) and a little woman in a pink hospital gown. The nail appears to be giving birth.> View this post on Instagram
  >> Baby birth-❤️ or? Video by @edo_movs #nailsunnytutorial
  >> A post shared byNail Sunny (@nail_sunny) on Jan 17, 2019
  
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• China's envoy to Canada says Huawei 5G ban would have repercussions

  17-01-2019 23:28 via news.yahoo.com
  China's envoy to Canada on Thursday warned Ottawa there would be repercussions if it banned technology firm Huawei Technologies Co Ltd [HWT.UL] from supplying equipment to Canadian 5G networks, the latest blast in a deepening bilateral dispute.Ambassador Lu Shaye, speaking at a news conference, did not give details.Canada is currently studying the security implications of 5G networks, but unlike some allies has not announced Huawei equipment will be excluded.
  
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• US President denies Nancy Pelosi military aircraft for war zone trip, a day after she asked him to delay State of the Union

  17-01-2019 23:18 via cnn.com
  President Donald Trump responded Thursday to House Speaker Nancy Pelosi's letter suggesting they reschedule his State of the Union address by informing Pelosi that an apparent trip she had planned to "Brussels, Egypt, and Afghanistan has been postponed" while the government shutdown continues.
  
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• Trump denies Pelosi military aircraft for war zone trip

  17-01-2019 23:18 via cnn.com
  President Donald Trump responded Thursday to House Speaker Nancy Pelosi's letter suggesting they reschedule his State of the Union address by informing Pelosi that an apparent trip she had planned to "Brussels, Egypt, and Afghanistan has been postponed" while the government shutdown continues.
  
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• Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez's first House speech breaks online viewing records

  17-01-2019 23:10 via news.yahoo.com
  Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez’s first speech on the floor of Congress broke digital viewing records for C-SPAN, Capitol Hill’s public affairs network, garnering over a million views on Twitter in roughly 12 hours.The progressive freshman Gouse member took to the floor on Wednesday to decry Donald Trump’s demands for border wall funding to be included in the next federal spending bill — a battle that has spurred the longest government shutdown in American history.“The tru
  
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• Saturn's famous rings are a 'recent' addition to the giant planet

  17-01-2019 22:48 via news.yahoo.com
  They're the solar system's most iconic feature, but Saturn's glorious rings haven't always been there, a new study suggests.
  
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• How will history judge President Trump?

  17-01-2019 22:43 via bbc.co.uk
  Two years into a history-defying presidency, the BBC's Nick Bryant assesses how Donald Trump may be remembered.
  
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• Why did Democrats vote for a barrier along the southern border in 2013, but won’t now?

  17-01-2019 22:42 via news.yahoo.com
  Former U.S. Border Patrol Chief under former President Barack Obama Mark Morgan says that the border wall needs to be built.
  
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• Duke of Edinburgh, 97, in car crash while driving but unhurt

  17-01-2019 22:42 via cnn.com
  Great Britain's Prince Philip, husband of Queen Elizabeth II, was involved in a traffic accident Thursday but he was not injured, Buckingham Palace told CNN.
  
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• Explosion on roof of Lyon university in France – video

  17-01-2019 22:35 via theguardian.com
  Video footage captured the moment an explosion took place on the top of a university in the French city of Lyon. Police say the accident was caused by a gas bottle that exploded, causing a fire.Continue reading...
  
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• Law firm tied to Manafort's Ukraine work reaches settlement with Justice Department

  17-01-2019 22:32 via foxnews.com
  A prominent law firm with ties to former Trump campaign chairman Paul Manafort's work for pro-Russian politicians in Ukraine has agreed to pay $4.6 million and retroactively register as a foreign agent, the Justice Department announced Thursday.
  
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• Violent Sex Offender Arrested Again After Woman Says He Forced Her into Prostitution

  17-01-2019 22:17 via news.yahoo.com
  A violent sex offender in Memphis was taken into custody again after a woman claimed she was the victim of sex trafficking.
  
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• Cohen: Trump told me to have polls rigged

  17-01-2019 22:17 via cnn.com
  President Donald Trump's former "fixer" Michael Cohen said Thursday that he paid the head of a small technology company thousands in 2015 to rig online polls at "the direction of and for the sole benefit of" Trump.
  
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• Theresa May’s allies keep her in power by warning of hard-left takeover if she falls

  17-01-2019 22:08 via foxnews.com
  Prime Minister Theresa May’s government narrowly survived a motion of no-confidence Wednesday, and it achieved that in part not by talking up May’s strengths -- but by warning of a grim future for Britain if hard-left Labour Party Jeremy Corbyn stepped foot in 10 Downing Street.
  
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• Trump proves there is no road too low for him to take

  17-01-2019 22:07 via cnn.com
  Less than 24 hours after House Speaker Nancy Pelosi told President Donald Trump that he should reconsider delivering his State of the Union on January 29, the famed counter-puncher struck back. Bigly.
  
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• 6 Ways to Beat the Lines at Airport Security During the Government Shutdown

  17-01-2019 22:06 via news.yahoo.com
  Worried about long security lines at the airport due to the federal government shutdown? There’s a lot you can do to navigate around them if you know what special programs are worth paying up for...
  
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• Detroit auto show models -- the human ones -- embrace new role

  17-01-2019 22:03 via news.yahoo.com
  Every year at the Detroit auto show, good-looking women -- and men -- are deployed by the carmakers to present their new vehicles.The "product specialists" still have picture-perfect smiles, but they also can tick off the features of each car and prices with such assurance that the iPads they carry for reference can seem merely decorative.Perched on stilettos, Priscilla Tejeda is working for Toyota.
  
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• Chicago police officers acquitted of trying to cover up death of Laquan McDonald

  17-01-2019 22:01 via foxnews.com
  Three Chicago police officers who were charged with trying to cover up the 2014 shooting death of black teenager Laquan McDonald were acquitted Thursday.
  
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• IRS Workers Say Trump Is Just Trying to Save Face With Employee Recall

  17-01-2019 22:00 via news.yahoo.com
  "IRS employees who process federal tax returns and refunds do not protect human life or property from imminent threat," the legal standard for ordering federal employees to work without pay during a government shutdown, the National Treasury Employees Union said on Thursday, the 27th day of the shutdown.It had sued Office of Management and Budget Director Mick Mulvaney in an unsuccessful bid to win a temporary court order forcing the U.S. to pay its employees or let them take other jobs.
  
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• 'Mini pigs' become growing problem as animal shelters become inundated with overgrown swine

  17-01-2019 21:59 via foxnews.com
  Animal shelters across the country are facing an influx of fully-grown pigs from owners who claimed they were duped. As it turns out, there really is no such thing as a true mini pig.
  
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• Pelosi plays by her own rules and strikes out Trump

  17-01-2019 21:58 via cnn.com
  On Wednesday morning, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi introduced President Donald Trump, and her expanded Democratic caucus, to the big leagues.
  
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• Buddhist poker player wins $600G, donates all to charity

  17-01-2019 21:54 via foxnews.com
  A Canadian Buddhist poker player is being hailed as the “people’s hero” after vowing to give away more than a half million dollars in prize money from a high-stakes gambling tournament
  
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• Air Force adjusts attack strategies to prep for fighter jet-fired laser weapons

  17-01-2019 21:54 via foxnews.com
  The U.S. Air Force is refining its combat strategy, tactics and concepts of operation to accommodate the rapid emergence of laser weapons, technologies which promise to alter the landscape of modern warfare and substantially expand the envelope of attack possibilities for fighter jets.
  
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• Education Secretary Betsy DeVos recovering in wheelchair from bicycle accident injuries

  17-01-2019 21:53 via foxnews.com
  Education Secretary Betsy DeVos is wheelchair-bound after breaking her pelvis and hip socket in a bicycling accident over the holidays.
  
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• House Republicans join rebuke of Trump for easing Russia sanctions

  17-01-2019 21:52 via news.yahoo.com
  More than 130 US House Republicans joined Democrats Thursday in opposing the easing of sanctions against an ally of Russia's Vladimir Putin, dealing a rebuke to President Donald Trump's administration.The Democratic-controlled chamber overwhelmingly voted 362 to 53 approving the bill that would block the Treasury Department's December move to lift sanctions on companies connected to Oleg Deripaska.The oligarch was targeted last year as part of US congressional efforts to punish Russia for interf
  
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• On day Jayme escaped, suspect sought job _ with dodgy resume

  17-01-2019 21:51 via news.yahoo.com
  BARRON, Wis. (AP) — The Wisconsin man suspected of kidnapping 13-year-old Jayme Closs and killing her parents apparently applied for a job online the day that Jayme escaped, calling himself an "honest guy" even though his resume contains inaccuracies about his work experience.
  
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• Sarah Silverman calls Women's March anti-Semitism reports 'heartbreaking,' says she won't give up on founder

  17-01-2019 21:48 via foxnews.com
  Sarah Silverman called out the Women's March over its ties to anti-Semitism but said she is still holding out hope for founder Tamika Mallory after she failed to condemn controversial figure Louis Farrakhan.
  
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• Gun safety courses will be mandatory for some Iowa middle school students

  17-01-2019 21:46 via foxnews.com
  Two Iowa middle schools to begin gun safety classes.
  
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• The Best Winter Sales over MLK Day Weekend

  17-01-2019 21:30 via news.yahoo.com
  Get discounts on mattress, rugs, and everything in between
  
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• Saturn's rings haven't always been there, and may be disappearing

  17-01-2019 21:20 via cnn.com
  While Saturn's rings may disappear in less than 100 million years because gravity is pulling them into the planet, apparently they haven't always surrounded the planet, either. The finding was published in the journal Science on Thursday.
  
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• In third year, U.S. women's marches turn to 2020 elections

  17-01-2019 21:11 via news.yahoo.com
  Millions of people took part in the women's marches in Washington and other cities in the United States and abroad on Jan. 21, 2017, the day after the Republican president was sworn in.Vanessa Wruble, a co-founder of the original Women's March on Washington who left to start March On, a separate grassroots coalition, said the movement has evolved from being a reaction to Trump's presidency.Women's March, a national nonprofit organization that evolved from the initial Washington march, is using i
  
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• US congressman says he's an 'Asian trapped in a white body'

  17-01-2019 21:02 via cnn.com
  A white member of Congress said Wednesday that he regrets offending Asian people after he reportedly said he is an "Asian trapped in a white body."
  
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• Corbyn could face string of resignations if he backs 'people's vote'

  17-01-2019 21:00 via theguardian.com
  A number of Labour frontbenchers say they would consider their positions if leader backed ideaJeremy Corbyn could face up to a dozen resignations from the Labour frontbench if the party backs a second referendum as a way out of the Brexit crisis.A string of junior shadow ministers have told the Guardian they are strongly opposed to the idea of a second referendum, which they fear would expose Labour to a vicious backlash in leave-voting constituencies. Continue reading...
  
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• Journalist who exposed soccer corruption shot dead

  17-01-2019 20:56 via cnn.com
  A journalist who exposed corruption in soccer in Ghana was killed by two gunmen, an attorney for his employer told CNN.
  
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• Tulsi Gabbard apologizes, again, for past antigay views

  17-01-2019 20:53 via news.yahoo.com
  A week after announcing her presidential candidacy, the representative from Hawaii releases a video apology.
  
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• SAS hero of Nairobi terror attack in line to receive George Cross

  17-01-2019 20:53 via news.yahoo.com
  The SAS soldier who saved “dozens of lives” in the Nairobi hotel massacre is in line to receive the George Cross for his “remarkable bravery”. The trooper was off-duty when he dashed to the scene of intense fighting after Islamist terrorists laid siege to the DusitD2 five-star hotel. At least 21 people were killed in a drawn-out assault that saw hundreds of civilians trapped in the hotel complex.  A well-placed source said the SAS man - understood to be a Senior Non-
  
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• Read the President's letter to Speaker Pelosi

  17-01-2019 20:50 via cnn.com
  President Donald Trump sent a letter to House Speaker Nancy Pelosi on Thursday, informing her that an apparent trip she had planned to Brussels, Egypt and Afghanistan "has been postponed" while the government shutdown continues. Pelosi a day earlier sent Trump a letter suggesting they reschedule his State of the Union address due to the shutdown.
  
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• Scientists: Saturn spent billions of years without its rings

  17-01-2019 20:48 via news.yahoo.com
  CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — Saturn may have flown solo for billions of years — almost its entire existence — before getting its stunning set of rings, a new study suggests.
  
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• Trump admin calls thousands back to work, without pay

  17-01-2019 20:33 via cnn.com
  Tens of thousands of government workers are returning to work. They're just not being paid.
  
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• Duke of Edinburgh, 97, 'in a car accident while driving but uninjured'

  17-01-2019 20:27 via cnn.com
  Great Britain's Prince Philip, husband of Queen Elizabeth II, was involved in a traffic accident Thursday but he was not injured, Buckingham Palace told CNN.
  
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• Second grader pens heartwarming letter to Alshon Jeffery

  17-01-2019 20:24 via news.yahoo.com
  One second grader has captured the sentiment of many Eagles fans in a heartfelt letter to Alshon Jeffery.
  
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• More asteroids strike Earth since age of dinosaurs: study

  17-01-2019 20:22 via news.yahoo.com
  Between two and three times as many asteroids have struck the Earth and the Moon since the age of the dinosaurs, when one massive space rock collision wiped them out forever, researchers said Thursday.The mounting pace began around 290 million years ago, and likely coincides with some kind of large cosmic smashup in the main asteroid belt between the orbits of Mars and Jupiter, researchers reported in the US journal Science.The result was space debris, some of which made its way to the Earth and
  
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• Giuliani undid 18 months of Trump's collusion denials in 1 moment

  17-01-2019 20:20 via cnn.com
  If you know anything about the White House's reaction to the ongoing special counsel probe into Russia interference in the 2016 election, it's these two words: "No collusion."
  
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• Illinois parents get 25 years in death of boy, 6, who weighed 17 pounds when he died

  17-01-2019 20:17 via news.yahoo.com
  An Illinois father and stepmother will spend decades in prison in the starvation death of their 6-year-old son, who authorities say weighed just 17 pounds when he died.
  
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• Russia detains model claiming Trump secrets

  17-01-2019 20:10 via news.yahoo.com
  Russia on Thursday detained a Belarusian model who claimed she had evidence of Russian efforts to help Donald Trump win office, witnesses told AFP.Anastasia Vashukevich, known by her pen-name Nastya Rybka, was held for questioning at a Moscow airport on Thursday evening after she was deported from Thailand as part of a group convicted of participating in a "sex training course," other passengers on the flight told AFP.Russian authorities detained her and several others including Alex Kirillov, a
  
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• Lord of the rings: Saturn's halo may be relatively recent trait

  17-01-2019 20:05 via news.yahoo.com
  Scientists said on Thursday a calculation of the mass of the rings based on gravitational measurements of the planet collected by Cassini indicated they formed between 100 million and 10 million years ago in roughly the final 2 percent of Saturn's current age.The findings challenge the notion favored by some astronomers that the rings developed soon after Saturn formed about 4.5 billion years ago along with the other planets including Earth."I like the rings and their fascinating dynamics, wheth
  
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• Powerful California storms prompt flooding, mudslides and avalanches warnings

  17-01-2019 20:04 via news.yahoo.com
  Amid a relentless series of storms, a powerful storm has been wreaking havoc in California from Wednesday into Thursday, further raising concerns of flooding, mudslides and avalanches.
  
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• Photos: At least 6 fatalities reported as intense storms slam California

  17-01-2019 20:04 via news.yahoo.com
  Amid a relentless series of storms, a powerful storm has been wreaking havoc in California from Wednesday into Thursday, further raising concerns of flooding, mudslides and avalanches.
  
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