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• NYPD arrests two teen suspects in fatal beating of man robbed of $1

  11-01-2020 23:59 via cnn.com
  
  The New York Police Department has arrested two more suspects in the fatal beating of a 60-year-old man on Christmas Eve from whom they allegedly robbed $1, according to Detective Sophia Mason.
  
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• Trump tweets support to Iranian protesters

  11-01-2020 23:52 via politico.com
  
  “We are following your protests closely, and are inspired by your courage," President Donald Trump tweeted.
  
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• Venezuela's Guaido calls for more protests against Maduro

  11-01-2020 23:43 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Venezuelan opposition leader Juan Guaido on Saturday called for more protests against the government of President Nicolas Maduro in the wake of a failed attempt by the ruling Socialist Party to install allied leadership in congress.Guaido held his first rally since troops six days ago blocked his access to congress long enough for the Socialist Party to declare an allied legislator as head of parliament.Opposition legislators in a separate session on Jan. 5 re-elected him anyway, and they later
  
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• US troops knew Al-Asad air base would be attacked and sheltered in bunkers

  11-01-2020 23:32 via cnn.com
  
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• US troops knew Al-Asad air base would be attacked

  11-01-2020 23:32 via cnn.com
  
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• US knew air base would be attacked

  11-01-2020 23:32 via cnn.com
  
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• More than 1,100 Chicago flights canceled due to winter weather

  11-01-2020 23:28 via news.yahoo.com
  
  More than 1,100 flights have been canceled in and out of Chicago according to the flight tracking service FlightAware.
  
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• Popeyes gives 'Family Feud' contestant $10,000 worth of food after wrong answer goes viral

  11-01-2020 23:19 via cnn.com
  
  A woman missed out on $10,000 with her wrong answer on "Family Feud Canada." But the viral video of her answer got her $10,000 worth of free food.
  
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• Popeyes gives 'Family Feud Canada' contestant $10,000 worth of food after her wrong answer goes viral

  11-01-2020 23:19 via cnn.com
  
  A woman missed out on $10,000 with her wrong answer on "Family Feud Canada." But the viral video of her answer got her $10,000 worth of free food.
  
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• British ambassador to Iran arrested and held for several hours in Tehran after attending vigil

  11-01-2020 23:16 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Britain’s ambassador to Iran, Rob Macaire, has been arrested and held for several hours after attending a vigil for the victims of the Ukraine plane crash which turned into demonstration. Details of his arrest were announced by the country’s semi-official Tasnim news agency and prompted an angry response from Foreign Secretary, Dominic Raab. "The arrest of our Ambassador in Tehran without grounds or explanation is a flagrant violation of international law,” he said. "The I
  
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• Another earthquake hits Puerto Rico with 5.9 magnitude

  11-01-2020 23:11 via cnn.com
  
  An 5.9 magnitude earthquake rattled Puerto Rico on Saturday, fueling anxiety among residents and sending them running in terror.
  
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• Man survived in the Alaskan wilderness for 3 weeks after a fire burned his house

  11-01-2020 23:00 via cnn.com
  
  A Utah man has been rescued from the Alaskan wilderness, approximately three weeks after a fire burned his home to the ground, killed his dog and left him without much food, clothing or shelter.
  
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• Australian PM proposes high-powered inquiry into bushfires response

  11-01-2020 22:55 via news.yahoo.com
  
  After weeks of criticism over the handling of the bushfires scorching Australia, Prime Minister Scott Morrison said on Sunday he will propose a national review into the response to the disaster, as the fires claimed another firefighter's life."There is obviously a need for a national review of the response," Morrison said in an interview with ABC television.
  
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• Australian firefighter dies battling blazes, raising death toll to 28

  11-01-2020 22:55 via news.yahoo.com
  
  A firefighter died while on duty on Saturday in Australia's state of Victoria, raising the toll from this season's devastating bushfires to 28 deaths as the government deploys mental health services to aid those in affected areas."It is with great sadness that we confirm that a ... firefighter from Parks Victoria has been involved in an incident while working on a fire in the Omeo area resulting in a fatality," Forest Fire Management Victoria Chief Fire Officer Chris Hardman said in a statement.
  
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• The royal family will hold a summit Monday to discuss Harry and Meghan

  11-01-2020 22:54 via cnn.com
  
  • Analysis: Race has everything to do with how Meghan is treated
  • Britain's top tabloids were already going after Meghan. Now they're twisting the knife
  • Meghan heads back to Canada
  
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• Liverpool make best-ever start to a Premier League season with win at Tottenham

  11-01-2020 22:53 via cnn.com
  
  It's official. Liverpool have made the best start to a season in the history of the English Premier League.
  
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• A severe winter storm is ripping through the US, killing 9 and cancelling more than 1,500 flights

  11-01-2020 22:43 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Hurricane-force winds, tornadoes, and hail have pelted states in the south, while snow storms, wind, and ice have hit northern states.
  
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• Canada, under pressure over plane crash, warns Iran 'world is watching'

  11-01-2020 22:26 via news.yahoo.com
  
  The Canadian government, under pressure at home to be tougher on Iran over it shooting down a passenger jet, on Friday reiterated calls for an investigation into the disaster and warned Tehran that "the world is watching".
  
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• Alaska State Troopers Rescued a Man Stranded for Weeks in Sub-Zero Temperatures After His Cabin Burned Down

  11-01-2020 22:26 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Tyson Steele was outside in Alaska's freezing weather for 23 days
  
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• Democratic presidential hopeful Biden aims to keep Nevada on his side

  11-01-2020 22:24 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Democratic U.S. presidential candidate Joe Biden, who wears the nickname "working class Joe" with pride and courts a multi-racial voter base, faces a stern test of his ability to win nationally in Nevada's mining towns and unionized gambling parlors.Nevada's Feb. 22 nominating contest is the third one in the state-by-state process of picking a Democratic nominee to face Republican President Donald Trump in the Nov. 3 general election.The former vice president's advisers have said Biden's strengt
  
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• Can anyone get Boeing through this mess? He's going to try

  11-01-2020 22:17 via cnn.com
  
  Dave Calhoun might have the toughest job in corporate America: Fixing Boeing.
  
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• Alcohol-related deaths have increased dramatically among women, according to a new study

  11-01-2020 22:16 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Alcohol-related deaths increased among women by 85%, according to a study from the National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism.
  
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• Tina Fey and Amy Poehler will be back to host the 2021 Golden Globes

  11-01-2020 22:15 via cnn.com
  
  It hasn't even been a week since this year's Golden Globes, but the focus has already shifted to next year's awards -- with the announcement of Tina Fey and Amy Poehler as co-hosts.
  
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• Democratic 2020 candidates vie for unions, Latinos in Nevada

  11-01-2020 22:11 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Democratic presidential candidates descended on Nevada on Saturday in an attempt to build relationships with Latino voters and win the coveted endorsement of the powerful casino workers’ Culinary Union.Amy Klobuchar and Pete Buttigieg, both running as Midwestern moderates who’ve warned against liberal plans to move the U.S. to a government-run health insurance system, pitched themselves Saturday morning to Culinary Union workers, who prize their robust health plans.
  
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• Iran's sole female Olympic medallist defects

  11-01-2020 22:09 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Iran's only female Olympic medallist Kimia Alizadeh announced Saturday she has permanently left her country, citing the "hypocrisy" of a system she claims humiliates athletes while using them for political ends."Should I start with hello, goodbye, or condolences?" she wrote on Instagram, as Iran reeled from Wednesday's accidental shooting down of a Ukrainian airliner that killed all 176 people onboard.Alizadeh, who won a bronze medal in taekwondo at the 2016 Rio Olympics, cited oppression by aut
  
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• Canada's Trudeau wins plaudits at home as Iran admits causing crash

  11-01-2020 22:08 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau's diplomacy was vindicated on Saturday when Iran admitted that it accidentally shot down a Ukrainian airliner as Trudeau had suggested, and his handling of the incident may increase support at home, Canadian political observers said.The crash on Wednesday killed 176 people, including 57 from Canada.Iran insisted for days that it did not down the plane, but Trudeau said on Thursday he had received intelligence that suggested it did.
  
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• Iranians marched in fiery protests to demand Ayatollah Khamenei's resignation after officials shot down a commercial plane

  11-01-2020 21:36 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Angry protestors reportedly chanted "death to the dictator" and "shameless" shortly after the government admitted to shooting down a Ukrainian flight.
  
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• The Navy’s Phantom Ghost Fleet Problem: They Aren’t Yet Considered 'Ships'

  11-01-2020 21:30 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Balancing the operational needs of the present with the technological needs of the future is a difficult equation to solve. But a healthy initial step towards solving it would be to count armed 2,000-ton vessels as “ships”, even if they don’t have humans onboard.
  
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• The Beatles' handwritten lyrics are for sale

  11-01-2020 21:29 via cnn.com
  
  "While My Guitar Gently Weeps" is a legendary song off The Beatles' ninth album. And now, a piece of it could be yours.
  
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• George and Ringo's handwritten lyrics to The Beatles' 'While My Guitar Gently Weeps' are for sale

  11-01-2020 21:29 via cnn.com
  
  "While My Guitar Gently Weeps" is a legendary song off The Beatles' ninth album. And now, a piece of it could be yours.
  
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• Iran police disperse student air crash protesters: news agency

  11-01-2020 21:04 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Iranian police dispersed students chanting "radical" slogans during a Saturday gathering in Tehran to honour the 176 people killed when an airliner was mistakenly shot down, Fars news agency reported.AFP correspondents said hundreds of students had gathered early in the evening at Amir Kabir University, in downtown Tehran, to pay respects to those killed in the air disaster.The students chanted slogans denouncing "liars" and demanded the resignation and prosecution of those responsible for downi
  
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• The US warned Iraq that its access to a key bank account holding billions is in jeopardy if the country expels American troops

  11-01-2020 21:03 via news.yahoo.com
  
  The warning to Iraq is the latest in the fallout from the US missile strike on Iraqi soil last week that killed a top Iranian general.
  
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• Japanese Women Face a Future of Poverty

  11-01-2020 21:00 via news.yahoo.com
  
  (Bloomberg) -- At first glance, things seem to be getting better for Japanese women. In an economy that’s historically lagged other developed nations when it comes to female workforce participation, a record 71% are now employed, an 11 point leap over a decade ago.The Japanese government boasts one of the most generous parental leave laws in the world and recently created a “limited full-time worker” category aimed primarily at mothers lo
  
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• Concern over long-term future of Invictus Games as Prince Harry steps back from Royal role

  11-01-2020 21:00 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Fears have been raised for the future of the Invictus games amid uncertainty over the long term role of its founder Prince Harry.  Military backers of the games, which have brought together wounded servicemen and women since they first launched in London in 2014 are known to be concerned the event may fall into a “limbo”. The Invictus Games have relied heavily on the Duke of Sussex as its public figurehead, and his close association with the event has guaranteed them a high prof
  
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• People are finding one final image of a deceased loved one, thanks to Google Maps' Street View

  11-01-2020 20:48 via cnn.com
  
  When you lose a loved one, sometimes the best way to keep the memories close is to revisit old photos. That's exactly what hundreds of people on social media are doing right now, thanks to Google Maps.
  
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• Trump's shifting stories on Soleimani strike is raising huge doubts

  11-01-2020 20:39 via cnn.com
  
  A week after the US killed Iran's second most powerful official, spiking tensions in the region and triggering fears of war, the Trump administration continues to present conflicting justifications for the deadly Reaper drone strike and clashing narratives about what has followed.
  
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• Storm cancels over 1,000 flights in Chicago and triggers flooding along lakeshore

  11-01-2020 20:38 via news.yahoo.com
  
  A potent storm traversing the eastern half of the country has produced flooding rain, deadly tornadoes and travel-halting ice and snow and its impacts are far from over.Chicago wasn't immune from the storm's impacts as winds increased Friday night into early Saturday, gusting as high as 50 mph.On Saturday morning, the storm caused flight delays as long as four and a half hours at Chicago's O'Hare International Airport, according to FlightAware.Delays escalated later in the day to more than six h
  
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• Putin says Nord Stream 2 to be completed by early 2021

  11-01-2020 20:38 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Russian President Vladimir Putin said Saturday that he hopes work on the Nord Stream 2 gas pipeline will be finished by early next year."I hope that by the end of this year, or in the first quarter of next year, work will be finished and the gas pipeline will start operating," Putin told a joint press conference with German Chancellor Angela Merkel after talks at the Kremlin.The United States last month imposed sanctions on firms working on the almost-completed pipeline, which will double gas sh
  
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• Trudeau tells Iran Canada wants 'full clarity' on shootdown

  11-01-2020 20:34 via news.yahoo.com
  
  A "furious" Prime Minister Justin Trudeau demanded Saturday that Iran provide Canada with "full clarity" on the shootdown near Tehran of a Ukrainian airliner that killed all 176 aboard, including dozens of Canadian citizens.Trudeau said he made the demand in a call with Iran's President Hassan Rouhani, who admitted earlier Saturday that the airliner was mistakenly shot down by Iranian missiles.
  
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• Teens who changed a digital billboard to display pornography identified by police

  11-01-2020 20:34 via cnn.com
  
  Police in a Detroit suburb have identified two teenage boys responsible for changing a digital billboard along an interstate highway to display pornography, according to Auburn Hills police Lt. Ryan Gagnon.
  
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• Magnitude 5.9 aftershock rocks Puerto Rico

  11-01-2020 20:32 via news.yahoo.com
  
  A magnitude 5.9 quake shook Puerto Rico on Saturday, causing further damage along the island’s southern coast.
  
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• This playboy tortoise had so much sex he saved his entire species. Now he's going home

  11-01-2020 20:28 via cnn.com
  
  A womanizing tortoise whose rampant sex life may have single-handedly saved his entire species from extinction has retired from his playboy lifestyle, returning to the wild with his mission accomplished.
  
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• He had so much sex he saved his entire species

  11-01-2020 20:28 via cnn.com
  
  A womanizing tortoise whose rampant sex life may have single-handedly saved his entire species from extinction has retired from his playboy lifestyle, returning to the wild with his mission accomplished.
  
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• Here's how partisan wrath over Trump's impeachment changed the future of 2 lawmakers

  11-01-2020 20:24 via news.yahoo.com
  
  The reactions to Reps. Jeff Van Drew and Francis Rooney are examples of partisan intolerance on both sides of the aisle over Trump's impeachment.
  
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• Republican senator backs Bernie Sanders’ plan to cut off Trump's funding for military action in Iran

  11-01-2020 20:04 via news.yahoo.com
  
  One of America’s most conservative senators has teamed up with the Senate’s only socialist to try to limit Donald Trump‘s ability to send US forces to war in the Middle East.Utah Republican Mike Lee said he would co-sponsor Bernie Sanders‘ No War With Iran Act, which would prevent federal funds being used for military action against Iran without Congress’s express approval.
  
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• The Trump administration has apparently changed its mind on one aspect of China talks

  11-01-2020 19:51 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Within the "Phase 1" trade deal between the U.S. and China expected to be signed on Jan. 15 is a sub-agreement that would revive a format of semi-annual discussions between the two powers similar to those utilized by the Bush and Obama administrations, The Wall Street Journal reports.The discussions, which will be led by Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin and likely Chinese Vice Premier Liu He, are different from the next phase of the trade deal. They'll be more general in scope and reportedly a
  
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• Giant pandas caught on camera

  11-01-2020 19:50 via cnn.com
  
  The giant pandas' antics were caught on camera in Foping County in northwest China
  
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• Storms sweep southern US, Midwest as death toll rises to 11

  11-01-2020 19:49 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Severe storms sweeping across southern portions of the U.S. and up into the Midwest were blamed Saturday in the deaths of at least 11 people, including two first responders, as high winds, tornadoes and unrelenting rain battered large swaths of the country.Storm-related fatalities were reported in Texas due to icy weather, in Alabama from a deadly tornado and in Louisiana, where winds were so strong that a trailer home was lifted off its foundation and carried several hundred feet.A man drowned
  
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• Magnitude 5.9 shock again rocks quake-stunned Puerto Rico

  11-01-2020 19:39 via news.yahoo.com
  
  A magnitude 5.9 quake shook Puerto Rico on Saturday, causing further damage along the island’s southern coast, where previous recent quakes have toppled homes and schools. The U.S. Geological Survey said the 8:54 a.m. (1254 GMT) quake hit 8 miles (13 kilometers) southeast of Guanica at a shallow depth of 3 miles (5 kilometers). Puerto Rico's Electric Power Authority said outages were reported across much of southern Puerto Rico and crews were assessing possible damage at power plants.
  
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• Taiwan's President thanks voters after winning reelection

  11-01-2020 19:37 via cnn.com
  
  Taiwan's President Tsai Ing-wen thanked the island's electorate Saturday for putting "democratic values into practice" after securing more than 57% of the vote.
  
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