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• Report: Texas man not armed when killed by police officer

  01-01-2020 23:52 via news.yahoo.com
  
  A report that police in Temple, Texas, filed with the state's attorney general says a man who was fatally shot last month by an officer did not have a weapon.Police have released little information since the Dec. 2 shooting in Temple, about 70 miles (112 kilometers) northeast of Austin.Police have said Officer Carmen DeCruz fatally shot 28-year-old Michael Dean but haven't said what led DeCruz to open fire.
  
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• Arsenal gets first win under Arteta

  01-01-2020 23:35 via cnn.com
  
  Arsenal and Manchester United, two teams that dominated the English Premier League at the start of the century, began its third decade with a 2-0 victory for the Gunners to give Mikel Arteta his first win in charge.
  
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• Bogota's first woman mayor pledges to fight racism, xenophobia

  01-01-2020 23:31 via news.yahoo.com
  
  The center-left mayor, who married her same-sex partner last month, takes over a city that has become a focal point of countrywide protests against the rule of right-wing President Ivan Duque.Lopez, 49, broke with tradition and held her inauguration event in the city's Simon Bolivar park attended by hundreds of people."Thank you to all for accompanying me in this special moment of my life by taking me as the first woman -- diverse woman -- elected as mayor in the history of Bogota," she told the
  
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• A transgender character is coming to the Marvel Universe

  01-01-2020 23:14 via cnn.com
  
  Coming soon to a theater near you -- a transgender Marvel character.
  
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• Feds say man threatened Ohio State during Michigan game

  01-01-2020 23:00 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Authorities are looking for a man accused of saying he was going to shoot up Ohio State University and hurt players on the football team in a threat made during the university's 2018 game with the University of Michigan, according to a federal indictment.The September indictment unsealed last month in federal court in Columbus accuses Daniel Rippy of making the “electronic communication” threat from California during the game, which was played in Columbus that year.Ohio State won the
  
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• 'I am one of the undecided': With a month to go, many likely Iowa caucusgoers still unsure

  01-01-2020 22:58 via news.yahoo.com
  
  With a month to go before the Feb. 3 caucuses, some Iowans are just starting to explore their choices. Others like several; can't make up their minds.
  
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• Top places to visit in 2020

  01-01-2020 22:54 via cnn.com
  
  Whether you want to relax on a remote island off the coast of Africa, ride Germany's coolest trains or spot howling monkeys in South America, there is much to explore heading into a new decade in 2020.
  
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• Reporter: Bill Gates' 1999 prediction was spot on

  01-01-2020 22:36 via cnn.com
  
  History is filled with predictions and future projections. But do they ever come true? USA Today reporter Grace Hauck reveals 2020 predictions, made in the 90s, that were correct.
  
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• Tumbleweeds blocked a highway, trapping people in their cars

  01-01-2020 22:33 via cnn.com
  
  This is probably not the way motorists in Washington state wanted to spend their New Year's Eve.
  
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• Austrian Conservatives, Greens Agree to Form Governing Coalition

  01-01-2020 22:18 via news.yahoo.com
  
  (Bloomberg) -- Austrian conservative leader Sebastian Kurz on late Jan. 1 announced a deal with the country’s environmentalist Greens to form a government in Vienna, more than three months after the two groups emerged as the clear winners in national elections.Kurz and Werner Kogler, his counterpart at the Green Party, declined to elaborate about further details of the agreement but said it would be presented on Jan. 2 and is still subject to approval by a Green party conference on Saturda
  
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• Pro-Iran protesters leave US embassy in Baghdad

  01-01-2020 22:15 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Pro-Iran demonstrators left the besieged US embassy in Baghdad on Wednesday after the Hashed al-Shaabi paramilitary force ordered them to withdraw a day after their dramatic incursion.Thousands of Iraqi supporters of the largely Iranian-trained Hashed had encircled and vandalised the embassy compound Tuesday, outraged by US air strikes that killed 25 Hashed fighters over the weekend.Iraq's caretaker premier Adel Abdel Mahdi called on the angry crowd to leave the embassy, but most spent the night
  
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• See Iran's response to Trump's threat

  01-01-2020 21:59 via cnn.com
  
  Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei issued a defiant response following President Trump's threat to Iran following attacks on a US embassy in Baghdad, Iraq.
  
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• Israel's Netanyahu asks parliament for immunity

  01-01-2020 21:56 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Wednesday asked parliament for immunity, weeks after the embattled premier was indicted on a range of corruption charges.Netanyahu, Israel's longest-serving premier, is fighting for his political survival on two fronts -- the corruption allegations and stiff opposition from a new centrist party.The immunity request is expected to delay the start of court proceedings for months, as lawmakers are not due to vote on the matter until after March 2 electio
  
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• Tourists Told to Flee as Australia Wildfire Danger Escalates

  01-01-2020 21:54 via news.yahoo.com
  
  (Bloomberg) -- Thousands of tourists holidaying on the south coast of Australia’s New South Wales state have been told to evacuate before extreme weather on Saturday, after wildfires this week destroyed hundreds of homes, cut-off rural towns and left at least seven people dead.In an unprecedented appeal, the Rural Fire Service said anyone in the southeastern tip of the state should get out in the next two days. The 230 kilometer-stretch from Batemans Bay down to the Victoria state border h
  
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• Several thousand protest church bill in Montenegro

  01-01-2020 21:25 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Several thousand people on Wednesday held protests in Montenegro against a religious property bill that is opposed by the Serbian Orthodox Church and Russia.Led by Serbian Orthodox Church priests, pro-Serb Montenegrins have been holding protest marches since last week.Peaceful religious protests were held Wednesday in the capital Podgorica and several other towns.
  
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• Iraq protesters withdraw from US embassy

  01-01-2020 21:23 via cnn.com
  
  • How the Trumps spent their New Year's Eve
  
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• 'America should have received our message': Iraq protesters withdraw from US Embassy

  01-01-2020 21:23 via cnn.com
  
  • How the Trumps spent their New Year's Eve
  
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• Millions of working class Americans to get more money as 50 states and cities raise minimum wage

  01-01-2020 21:11 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Millions of working class Americans are to receive more money after a record number of states and cities increased their minimum wages.Rises to the minimum wage went into effect on January 1 in 20 states and 26 cities and counties, most of them in California.
  
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• Coast Guard suspends search for 5 missing crew in Alaska

  01-01-2020 21:04 via news.yahoo.com
  
  The search for five crew members of a sunken fishing vessel in Alaska has been suspended, the U.S. Coast Guard said.Two other crew members of the Scandies Rose were rescued after the 130-foot crab fishing vessel from Dutch Harbor, Alaska, sank New Year’s Eve, the Coast Guard said."The decision to suspend an active search and rescue case is never easy, and it's only made after careful consideration of a myriad of factors,” Coast Guard Rear Adm. Matthew Bell said in a statement late We
  
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• Coast Guard says 5 missing after crab boat sinks in Alaska

  01-01-2020 21:04 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Five people were missing and two were rescued after a 130-foot crab fishing vessel from Dutch Harbor, Alaska, sank Tuesday night, the U.S. Coast Guard said.Authorities said the vessel's last known position was 170 miles (274 kilometers) southwest of Air Station Kodiak.The Scandies Rose sank at approximately 10 p.m. Tuesday with seven crew members aboard, the Coast Guard said.
  
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• 5 crew members feared dead after Alaska fishing boat sinks

  01-01-2020 21:04 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Five fishermen missing after a crab boat sank in the frigid waters off Alaska were feared dead after authorities called off a search for those working in the one of the most dangerous industries in the U.S.Two other crew members were rescued after the disaster Tuesday, telling authorities they were the only ones who made it into a life raft, the Anchorage Daily News reported.Dean Gribble Jr., who's appeared on the Discovery Channel documentary series “Deadliest Catch," and John Lawler suff
  
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• New Year's Eve sees gun violence across nation, concluding record-high year of mass killings

  01-01-2020 21:03 via news.yahoo.com
  
  2019 was a deadly year for gun violence, and New Year's Eve was no different. Within hours of the new decade, many people had lost their lives.
  
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• Mom of missing Idaho children and her new husband belong to religious group notorious for avoiding authorities

  01-01-2020 20:56 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Troubling new details are emerging about the mother of two Idaho children last seen in September and her new husband; Marianne Rafferty has the details.
  
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• Baghdad embassy attack prompts Pompeo to delay Ukraine visit

  01-01-2020 20:56 via news.yahoo.com
  
  The breach of the U.S. Embassy compound in Baghdad has prompted Secretary of State Mike Pompeo to postpone his trip to Ukraine and four other countries.Pompeo was to arrive in Ukraine late Thursday in his first visit to the country at the center of President Donald Trump's impeachment, then on to Belarus, Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan and Cyprus.In Baghdad, Iran-backed militiamen withdrew from the U.S. Embassy compound after two days of clashes with American security forces.
  
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• 3 Passports and a Plan Hatched in Lebanon: Ghosn's Escape Act

  01-01-2020 20:45 via news.yahoo.com
  
  TOKYO -- By the time most of Japan had woken up on Tuesday, he was gone. One of the country's most famous criminal suspects had slipped past the cameras trained on his house, past the police and border guards and the Japanese citizens who for the past year have followed his every move.Carlos Ghosn, the deposed chief of the Nissan and Renault auto empire facing charges of financial wrongdoing, had fled to Lebanon, and no one in Japan -- not the authorities, the media or even the auto executive's
  
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• Retired general tosses phone during CNN interview

  01-01-2020 20:41 via cnn.com
  
  Retired Gen. Wesley Clark throws his phone after it starts ringing during an interview with CNN's Jim Sciutto.
  
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• Netanyahu seeks immunity from prosecution in corruption cases

  01-01-2020 20:40 via cnn.com
  
  Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has requested immunity from prosecution in three corruption cases in which he faces indictment on charges of bribery, fraud and breach of trust.
  
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• Impeachment Trial Looming, Chief Justice Reflects on Judicial Independence

  01-01-2020 20:29 via news.yahoo.com
  
  WASHINGTON -- As Chief Justice John Roberts prepares to preside over the impeachment trial of President Donald Trump, he issued pointed remarks Tuesday in his year-end report on the state of the federal judiciary that seemed to be addressed, at least in part, to the president himself.The two men have a history of friction, and Roberts used the normally mild report to denounce false information spread on social media and to warn against mob rule. Some passages could be read as a mission statement
  
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• Headless torso in Idaho cave identified as Wild West outlaw killed in 1916

  01-01-2020 20:26 via news.yahoo.com
  
  A headless torso found in a remote cave in Idaho has been identified as belonging to a Wild West outlaw who died a century ago. Joseph Henry Loveless was last seen in 1916 shortly after escaping from jail, where he was being held for allegedly murdering his second wife with an axe. His remains, wrapped in hessian and buried in a shallow grave, were discovered by a family hunting for arrowheads in Buffalo Cave near Dubois, Idaho, in 1979. Twelve years later a girl exploring the same cave found hi
  
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• Fire at German zoo kills scores of animals

  01-01-2020 20:24 via cnn.com
  
  New Year's Day fire at Germany's Krefeld Zoo tore through a monkey enclosure, killing scores of animals including some that were endangered.
  
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• What Kim Jong Un's Latest Threats Say About His Trump Strategy

  01-01-2020 20:23 via news.yahoo.com
  
  SEOUL, South Korea -- North Korea's leader, Kim Jong Un, has long threatened to "find a new way" if the United States persists with sanctions. And when North Korea announced his "revolutionary" new way Wednesday, the strategy revealed both a defiance and a deep caution in confronting President Donald Trump.Kim vowed, in a lengthy policy statement, to expand his country's nuclear force, making vague threats to show off a "new strategic weapon" in the near future​ and "shift to a shocking ac
  
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• U.N. secretary-general 'deeply concerned' North Korea said it could resume weapons tests

  01-01-2020 20:16 via news.yahoo.com
  
  UNITED NATIONS/WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.N. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres is "deeply concerned" that North Korea has indicated it could resume nuclear and missile tests, a U.N. spokesman said on Wednesday.North Korean leader Kim Jong Un said this week that there were no longer grounds for Pyongyang to be bound by a self-declared moratorium on intercontinental ballistic missile and nuclear bomb testing and that a "new strategic weapon" would be introduced in the near future."Diplomatic engage
  
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• Teen T. rexes revealed by fossil find

  01-01-2020 20:06 via cnn.com
  
  Even as teenagers, Tyrannosaurus rex dominated the top of the food chain. Researchers can say that with more certainty after confirming that two small T. rex fossils found in the early 2000s are not a pygmy species of tyrannosaurs, but juveniles of the rex species.
  
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• Paleontologists are unraveling the mysteries of young T. rexes. Creatures they thought were 2 species turned out to be kids and adults.

  01-01-2020 20:00 via news.yahoo.com
  
  A full-grown Tyrannosaurus rex weighed up to 10 tons and was 43 feet long. Much of its growth happened during its teenage years.
  
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• Kevin Bacon shares emotional Instagram post about murdered man with the same name

  01-01-2020 19:57 via news.yahoo.com
  
  ↵Kevin Bacon has paid tribute to a murdered man who shares his name.
  
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• Mystery over identity of decades-old headless torso found in cave partially solved – but not how he got there

  01-01-2020 19:54 via news.yahoo.com
  
  The mystery over the identity of a headless torso that was hidden inside a cave for decades has finally been solved – partly.Investigators say the body belongs to Joseph Henry Loveless, an outlaw who murdered his wife with an axe and was not seen after he escaped from jail in 1916.
  
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• Secretary of State Pompeo postpones Ukraine trip to focus on Iraq

  01-01-2020 19:34 via news.yahoo.com
  
  U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo on Wednesday postponed a trip to Ukraine so he could focus on the situation in Iraq after demonstrators attacked the U.S. embassy.Pompeo postponed his trip to Ukraine, Belarus, Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan, and Cyprus "due to the need for the Secretary to be in Washington, D.C., to continue monitoring the ongoing situation in Iraq and ensure the safety and security of Americans in the Middle East," State Department spokeswoman Morgan Ortagus said in a statement.On T
  
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• Netanyahu to Ask Parliament for Immunity From Graft Charges

  01-01-2020 19:32 via news.yahoo.com
  
  (Bloomberg) -- Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said he’ll ask parliament to grant him immunity from prosecution on corruption charges, blocking the start of his trial for months.“Immunity is designed to protect public figures from being framed, so elected figures can serve the people at the will of the people,” Netanyahu said in a televised statement, vowing to “tear to pieces all the baseless allegations against me.” On Sunday, he called immunity “a
  
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• Reintroduction of beavers could protect land against floods and climate change

  01-01-2020 19:30 via news.yahoo.com
  
  The reintroduction of beavers into Britain’ streams and rivers could help protect land and communities from flooding and the impact of climate change, trials have shown. Dams built by the creature, which died out 300 years ago through culling and hunting for pelts before being reintroduced in key areas over the past decade, are found to significantly slow the flow of water downstream and reduce peak flows after heavy rain. This has the effect of protecting nearby land from flooding as well
  
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• Syria regime fire kills nine in school turned shelter

  01-01-2020 19:29 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Land-to-land missiles fired by Syrian regime forces killed nine civilians including five children in a school in northwestern Syria on Wednesday, a war monitor said.Part of the building in the town of Sarmeen had been turned into a shelter for the displaced, the Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said.Fifteen people were wounded, Observatory head Rami Abdel Rahman said.
  
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• Israel's Netanyahu says will seek parliamentary immunity from prosecution in corruption cases

  01-01-2020 19:23 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said on Wednesday he would seek parliamentary immunity from prosecution in the three graft cases he faces, a move that could delay criminal proceedings against him for months.Netanyahu was indicted in November on charges of bribery, fraud and breach of trust over allegations he granted state favors worth hundreds of millions of dollars to Israeli media barons in return for gifts and favorable coverage.A trial cannot get under way once an immunity request
  
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• Israel's Netanyahu says he will seek immunity in graft cases

  01-01-2020 19:23 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said on Wednesday he would ask parliament to protect him from prosecution in the three graft cases he faces, a politically-risky move that could delay criminal proceedings against him for months.Netanyahu was indicted in November on charges of bribery, fraud and breach of trust over allegations he granted state favors worth hundreds of millions of dollars to Israeli media barons in return for gifts and favorable coverage.A trial cannot get under way once
  
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• North Korea ends test moratoriums, threatens 'new' weapon

  01-01-2020 19:20 via news.yahoo.com
  
  North Korean leader Kim Jong Un has declared an end to moratoriums on nuclear and intercontinental ballistic missile tests and threatened a demonstration of a "new strategic weapon" soon.Analysts said the announcement, reported by state media on Wednesday, amounted to Kim putting a missile "to Donald Trump's head" -- but warned that escalation by Pyongyang would probably backfire.Washington was swift to respond, with Secretary of State Mike Pompeo urging Kim to "take a different course" and stre
  
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• Israel PM seeks immunity, buying time until after vote

  01-01-2020 19:17 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said Wednesday he would seek immunity from corruption charges, likely delaying any trial until after March elections, when he hopes to have a majority coalition that will shield him from prosecution.Wednesday’s announcement essentially turns the upcoming election into a referendum on whether Netanyahu should be granted immunity and remain in office, or step down and stand trial.In a nationally televised address, Netanyahu repeated his assertion tha
  
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• Eight people killed in Syria army bombing in rebel-held Idlib: medics

  01-01-2020 19:15 via news.yahoo.com
  
  At least eight people were killed on Wednesday when the Syrian army launched missiles that struck a shelter for displaced families in the country's northwest, witnesses and residents said.Five children were among those killed in the strike on a disused school in the town of Sarmin in Idlib province, two medics said, adding over 16 people were injured.The school building was being used by families fleeing a Russian-backed bombing campaign in Idlib, the last opposition bastion in the northwest.
  
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• Israel Now Has a Second Squadron of Deadly F-35I Stealth Fighters

  01-01-2020 19:13 via news.yahoo.com
  
  The first public photograph has appeared depicting an F-35 stealth fighter in the livery of Israel’s second squadron of the radar-evading jets.
  
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• Pope Francis Regrets 'Bad Example' He Set After Angrily Slapping Away Hand of Female Worshiper

  01-01-2020 19:11 via news.yahoo.com
  
  He later denounced violence against women in a New Year's address
  
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• China's Air Force Has A Serious Range Problem

  01-01-2020 19:00 via news.yahoo.com
  
  A war game with Thailand revealed shortcomings.
  
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• Server gets festive $2,020 tip on $23 meal

  01-01-2020 18:53 via cnn.com
  
  It's never a bad idea to start the New Year on a generous note.
  
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• Trump's Iran approach is muddled and unpredictable

  01-01-2020 18:50 via cnn.com
  
  Early Tuesday, pro-Iranian Iraqi militia members and demonstrators stormed the US Embassy compound in Baghdad after the Trump administration's airstrikes on a Iranian-backed militia on Sunday. The embassy attack, perhaps the worst crisis between Iraq and the US since 2003, reveals the inconsistency and vulnerability of the Trump administration's policies toward both Iran and Iraq.
  
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