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• Updated: Hitler’s phone is up for auction; bids to start at $100k

  17-02-2017 23:55
  
  CHESAPEAKE CITY, Md. — A Maryland auction house is selling a telephone owned by Adolf Hitler. Bill Panagopulos of Alexander Historical Auctions in Chesapeake City says occupying Russian officers gave the phone to Brig. Sir Ralph Rayner during a visit to Hitler’s Berlin bunker. Rayner’s son is now selling the red phone with a Nazi […]
  
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• Senator says New Mexico elementary kids need more P.E.

  17-02-2017 23:53 via krqe.com
  
  SANTA FE, N.M. (KRQE) – One state lawmaker says rising rates of youth obesity and diabetes led her to introduce legislation that would implement more physical education in New Mexico schools.
  The legislation is a Senate Joint Memorial sponsored by Sen. Mimi Stewart, D-Albuquerque, who says kids these days just aren’t as active as they could be.
  Sen. Stewart’s memorial addresses the Public Education Department and asks for a study to be done on how much time students &mdash
  
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• New Mexico bill halting immigration law enforcement moves

  17-02-2017 23:53
  
  SANTA FE, N.M. — A proposal that would prevent New Mexico law enforcement agencies from enforcing federal immigration laws has cleared a Senate hurdle. The Senate Public Affairs Committee voted 4-2 on Friday to move the bill that would prohibit New Mexico police departments or sheriff’s offices from cooperating with federal agents in deporting immigrants […]
  
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• Santa Fe cardiologist admits health care fraud, faces federal prison term

  17-02-2017 23:40
  
  A Santa Fe cardiologist could spend two years in federal prison after entering a plea agreement Friday related to charges that he committed health care and wire fraud by submitting false claims to Medicare and other health benefit programs. Dr. Roy G. Heilbron, 53, pleaded guilty to one count of submitting false claims for medical […]
  
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• Expo New Mexico hosts Hunting and Fishing Show this weekend

  17-02-2017 23:37 via krqe.com
  
  ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (KRQE) – If you’re over the winter weather and ready to get outdoors, stop by the Fairgrounds this weekend. That’s where you’ll find the Outdoor Adventures Hunting and Fishing Show.
  Vendors are offering everything from tools to RV’s, and off-road vehicles. There are even simulators so people can practice fishing and off-road driving.
  “It keeps them inspired. It keeps them feeling like, ‘Wow, I want to go onto this and better and bi
  
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• UNM opens new virtual reality stations on campus for students

  17-02-2017 23:05 via krqe.com
  
  ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (KRQE) – Students at the University of New Mexico are visiting places around the world right from campus.
  Students at the Centennial Science and Engineering Library can now test out virtual reality technology.
  The school opened two new, high-tech spaces Friday with stations to experience VR. It allows the students to visit any place in the world from one place.
  Friday’s event runs until 5 p.m.
  Filed under: Albuquerque - Metro, Education, Home, News, SmartTV, Top Vid
  
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• Man accused in intentional hit and run arraigned on new assault charges

  17-02-2017 21:47
  
  A man already out on bond for a death at a party has been arrested again after allegedly assaulting his ex-girlfriend, who was also a witness to the incident in the original charge.
  
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• More evacuations urged as storm hits California

  17-02-2017 21:20 via krqe.com
  
  LOS ANGELES (AP) — Southern California authorities have urged more residents to leave areas northwest of Los Angeles that could be endangered by a powerful storm.
  Wind-driven rain has been falling since early Friday on coastal counties northwest of Los Angeles and is expected to spread across the metropolitan region through the day.
  The Ventura County Office of Emergency Services urged a voluntary evacuation of some homes in Camarillo Springs, where past storms unleashed mudflows from hill
  
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• NBA joins NFL in warning Texas over proposed ‘bathroom bill’

  17-02-2017 21:14 via krqe.com
  
  AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — The NBA is warning Texas over a proposed “bathroom bill” targeting transgender people that is similar to a North Carolina law that prompted the league to move the All-Star Game out of that state.
  The NBA on Friday joined the NFL in suggesting that Texas will be overlooked for future big events if lawmakers pass a bill requiring people to use bathrooms that correspond to the sex on their birth certificate.
  NBA spokesman Mike Bass says an environment where pe
  
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• LGBT employees ask Education Secretary to keep protections

  17-02-2017 21:12 via krqe.com
  
  WASHINGTON (AP) — LGBT employees are asking Education Secretary Betsy DeVos to commit to safeguarding anti-discrimination regulations.
  The staffers sent an email to DeVos that was obtained Friday by The Associated Press. In the email, staffers urge the new education secretary to issue a statement confirming her commitment to Title IX rules, which prohibit discrimination based on sex in educational programs.
  The email was sent Wednesday by a group of LGBT Education Department employees and
  
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• Pence arrives in Germany for meetings with world leaders

  17-02-2017 21:11 via krqe.com
  
  MUNICH (AP) — Making his debut on the world stage, Vice President Mike Pence is looking to reassure skeptical allies in Europe about U.S. foreign policy under President Donald Trump, who has made his “America First” mantra a centerpiece of his new administration.
  Pence arrived Friday in Germany, his first overseas trip as vice president, on a mission to ease concerns about the U.S. commitment to multinational institutions like NATO and the European Union. The visit, which will
  
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• Pence aiming to reassure allies at start of Trump presidency

  17-02-2017 21:11 via krqe.com
  
  WASHINGTON (AP) — Making his debut on the world stage, Vice President Mike Pence will seek to reassure skeptical allies in Europe about U.S. foreign policy under President Donald Trump, who has made his “America First” mantra a centerpiece of his new administration.
  Pence’s trip to Germany and Belgium, his first overseas trip as vice president, is aimed at reassuring European and Middle Eastern partners about the U.S. commitment to multinational institutions like NATO and
  
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• McConnell intends to replace ‘Obamacare’ without Democrats

  17-02-2017 21:09 via krqe.com
  
  WASHINGTON (AP) — Republicans will repeal and replace the health care law and overhaul the tax code without Democratic help or votes, Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell said Friday.
  “It’s clear that in the early months it’s going to be a Republicans-only exercise,” the Kentucky senator said at a news conference before lawmakers left for a weeklong President’s Day recess. “We don’t expect any Democratic cooperation on the replacement of Obamacar
  
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• Cities ask federal judge to keep Trump travel ban on hold

  17-02-2017 20:41 via krqe.com
  
  NEW YORK (AP) — Municipalities nationwide including New York, Los Angeles, Chicago, Minneapolis, and Skokie, Illinois, are urging a federal judge to continue blocking President Donald Trump’s travel ban.
  New York City’s chief lawyer Zachary Carter filed papers Friday in federal court in Brooklyn on behalf of nearly three dozen cities. Carter and Senior Counsel Susan Greenberg say in the filing that the ban against seven predominantly Muslim countries damages the economies and c
  
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• Man accused of voluntary manslaughter, assault could be released again

  17-02-2017 20:28 via krqe.com
  
  ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (KRQE) – The family of a 22-year-old man killed after being hit by a car outside a party last summer left the courtroom in tears Friday because their son’s accused killer has the opportunity of bonding out of jail yet again.
  Joseph Perea, 21, went before a judge Friday. Police arrested him last month after his ex-girlfriend told officers he pulled a knife on her.
  Perea was out on bond for an August voluntary manslaughter charge. He’s accused of hitting Devon M
  
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• Updated: Samson says multiple groups interested in Marlins

  17-02-2017 20:27
  
  JUPITER, Fla. — Miami Marlins president David Samson says multiple groups are interested in purchasing the team. Speaking Friday before the club’s first full-squad workout, Samson confirmed owner Jeffrey Loria is being considered for nomination as U.S. ambassador to France. Loria, the former Montreal Expos owner, bought the Marlins for $158.5 million in 2002 from […]
  
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• South Texas man sentenced for role in human smuggling ring

  17-02-2017 20:23
  
  BROWNSVILLE, Texas — A South Texas man has been sentenced to nearly 20 years in prison for smuggling people into the country and then holding them against their will until they paid additional money for their release. Federal authorities said in a statement Friday that 24-year-old Reynaldo Lerma-Pichardo of Brownsville was sentenced earlier in the […]
  
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• Texas woman says she was blinded after using flea market contact lenses

  17-02-2017 20:14 via krqe.com
  
  LUBBOCK, Texas (KLBK/KAMC) — A woman now considered legally blind has filed a lawsuit for more than a million dollars after her lawyer says she lost her eyesight after buying contact lenses at a flea market in Lubbock, Texas.
  According to the lawsuit, Liza Garcia purchased the contacts from the One Stop Contact Lenses booth at the National Flea Market of Lubbock in February of 2016.
  The actual lenses, Bella brand cosmetic contacts, were not vision corrective contacts but the kind that chan
  
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• Man charged after video shows him dragging dog behind scooter

  17-02-2017 20:13 via krqe.com
  
  MISSION, Texas (KVEO) — Police in Mission, Texas, arrested a 59-year-old man after video showed him dragging a dog by its neck behind his motorized scooter.
  Mario Cardona, 59, is charged with animal cruelty for dragging a dog by its neck behind his motorized scooter. (KVEO)The shocking, profanity-laced video was posted to Facebook by Melissa Janelle Torres. It’s been viewed thousands of times.
  The woman filming the video yells, “Don’t worry I’ll call the cops on you
  
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• Fort Collins parents get 15 years for child abuse

  17-02-2017 20:03
  
  FORT COLLINS, Colo. — A Fort Collins couple convicted of abusing their 7-year-old daughter so that she weighed only 37 pounds and unable to speak when she was removed from their home has been sentenced to 15 years in prison. The Coloradoan reports (http://noconow.co/2m2Rwrr ) that on Thursday Doug and Leah Dyer were sentenced for […]
  
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• Updated: 1 state or 2? Mixed messages from US on Mideast peace plans

  17-02-2017 19:59
  
  WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump and his envoys are sending mixed messages about their support for an independent Palestinian state, confusing a world that has traditionally looked to America for leadership on one of the Mideast’s most intractable conflicts. After Trump broke with decades of precedent by backing away from U.S. insistence on a “two-state […]
  
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• About the cover: February 17, 2017

  17-02-2017 19:46
  
  1112 Avenida Los Suenos Bernalillo, NM 87004 $650,000 3,408 sq. ft. 4 bed / 3 bath Boyden Team ERA Sellers and Buyers Real Estate 505.238.0259 Welcome to 1112 Avenida Los Suenos. This Joe Boyden custom property was a Parade of Homes Fall 2015 Award Winner, and is surrounded by picturesque views of the Bosque and […]
  
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• New Mexico city to appeal Commandments case to Supreme Court

  17-02-2017 18:58 via krqe.com
  
  BLOOMFIELD, N.M. (AP) – A New Mexico city will ask the U.S. Supreme Court to hear its appeal of a lower court ruling requiring the removal of a Ten Commandments monument outside City Hall.
  The Daily Times reports that Bloomfield city councilors voted to appeal the case the nation’s highest court after about half an hour in a closed session Monday night. The U.S. Court of Appeals for the 10th circuit left in place a lower court ruling that concluded that the Christian monument violate
  
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• New Mexico governor has not seen Trump draft

  17-02-2017 18:56 via krqe.com
  
  ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) – New Mexico Gov. Susana Martinez says she has not seen a Trump administration proposal to mobilize as many as 100,000 National Guard troops in 11 states to round up unauthorized immigrants.
  Chris Sanchez, a spokesman for Martinez, said the Trump administration did not share the draft memo with the nation’s only Latina governor.
  A draft memo obtained by The Associated Press outlines a Trump administration proposal under consideration to mobilize as many as
  
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• Powerful storm enters California and brings risk of flooding

  17-02-2017 18:55 via krqe.com
  
  LOS ANGELES (AP) — The leading edge of a powerful Pacific storm entered southern and central California early Friday, bringing rains that forecasters said could become the strongest in years if not decades.
  With the storm feeding on an atmospheric river of moisture stretching far out into the Pacific, some precautionary evacuations of homes in the Los Angeles region were requested due to the potential for mudslides and debris flows.
  California’s latest round of drought-busting wet we
  
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• Army formally ends study of disputed pipeline crossing

  17-02-2017 18:53 via krqe.com
  
  BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) — The Army on Friday formally ended further environmental study of the Dakota Access oil pipeline’s disputed crossing beneath a Missouri River reservoir in southern North Dakota.
  Meanwhile, its Corps of Engineers branch continued efforts to accelerate cleanup at a protest camp near the drilling site that’s threatened by spring flooding.
  The Corps launched the study on Jan. 18 in light of concerns from the Standing Rock Sioux and other Native American tribes
  
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• Updated: Immigrant-rich Miami-Dade split over sanctuary city order

  17-02-2017 18:45
  
  MIAMI — The mayor is an immigrant, and more than half its residents are foreign born. But unlike many cities with large numbers of immigrants, there’s no sanctuary for people living illegally in Miami-Dade County, Florida. A recent decision by Mayor Carlos Gimenez requires local authorities to cooperate with federal officials to enforce immigration law. […]
  
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• Updated: Army formally ends study of disputed pipeline crossing

  17-02-2017 18:44
  
  BISMARCK, N.D. — The Army on Friday formally ended further environmental study of the Dakota Access oil pipeline’s disputed crossing beneath a Missouri River reservoir in southern North Dakota. Meanwhile, its Corps of Engineers branch continued efforts to accelerate cleanup at a protest camp near the drilling site that’s threatened by spring flooding. The Corps […]
  
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• Wells Fargo seeing fewer new customers after sales scandal

  17-02-2017 18:40
  
  NEW YORK — Wells Fargo is still seeing a slowdown in activity at branches nationwide as it tries to recover from a scandal over its sales practices. The bank said Friday that the number of new checking accounts opened fell 31 percent in January from a year ago, and applications for credit cards were down […]
  
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• Updated: New supercomputer aids climate research in top coal state

  17-02-2017 18:39
  
  CHEYENNE, Wyo. — A new supercomputer in the top coal-mining state has begun critical climate-change research with support from even some global warming doubters, but scientists worry President Donald Trump could cut funding for such programs. The $30 million, house-sized supercomputer named Cheyenne belongs to a federally funded research center. It got to work a […]
  
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• New supercomputer aids climate research in top coal state

  17-02-2017 18:39 via krqe.com
  
  CHEYENNE, Wyo. (AP) — A new supercomputer in the top coal-mining state has begun critical climate-change research with support from even some global warming doubters, but scientists worry President Donald Trump could cut funding for such programs.
  The $30 million, house-sized supercomputer named Cheyenne belongs to a federally funded research center. It got to work a few weeks ago crunching numbers for several ambitious projects, from modeling air currents at wind farms to figuring out how
  
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• Updated: Moonshot pad roaring back into action with SpaceX launch

  17-02-2017 18:31
  
  CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. — The launch pad used to send Americans to the moon and shuttle astronauts into orbit is roaring back into action. Dormant for nearly six years, Launch Complex 39A at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center should see its first commercial flight this weekend. A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket will use the pad to […]
  
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• Updated: The Latest: Woman says Michigan sports doctor molested her

  17-02-2017 17:18
  
  MASON, Mich. — The Latest on a criminal case against a Michigan sports doctor who is charged with sexual assault (all times local): ___ 11:10 a.m. A 25-year-old woman has testified that a former Michigan State University sports doctor repeatedly molested her as a child during family visits to his home near Lansing. The woman’s […]
  
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• Couple’s bodies recovered at site of helicopter crash

  17-02-2017 17:15
  
  MANY, La. — Authorities have recovered the bodies of a Texas couple killed in a helicopter crash in Louisiana. Desoto Parish Chief Deputy Coroner Billy Locke on Thursday identified the two victims as the plane’s owner, 54-year-old Terry Glenn Bailey, and his 57-year-old wife, Pamela Jo. The Federal Aviation Administration said the helicopter had departed […]
  
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• Chris Christie calls Phillies fans 'angry, bitter'

  17-02-2017 17:14
  
  Many of Chris Christie's constituents live outside Philadelphia, but the New Jersey governor apparently has a low opinion of the…
  
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• 4 arrested at rally supporting undocumented immigrants

  17-02-2017 17:09
  
  TUCSON, Ariz. — A rally in downtown Tucson against President Donald Trump’s immigration policies led to a clash between police officers and protesters. Police say three officers sustained minor injuries and three men were arrested on suspicion of aggravated assault on a peace officer after Thursday night’s protest. A woman faces several misdemeanor charges. About […]
  
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• Updated: UK, French prime ministers meet to ease Brexit concerns

  17-02-2017 16:56
  
  LONDON — British Prime Minister Theresa May is seeking to reassure France that the U.K. won’t try to “cherry-pick” benefits of European Union membership when it leaves the bloc. May met with French Prime Minister Bernard Cazeneuve at 10 Downing St. on Friday at what she called “an interesting time” for Britain. May plans to […]
  
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• Trump weighs mobilizing Nat Guard for immigration roundups

  17-02-2017 16:22 via krqe.com
  
  WASHINGTON (AP) — The Trump administration is considering a proposal to mobilize as many as 100,000 National Guard troops to round up unauthorized immigrants, including millions living nowhere near the Mexico border, according to a draft memo obtained by The Associated Press.
  The 11-page document calls for the unprecedented militarization of immigration enforcement as far north as Portland, Oregon, and as far east as New Orleans, Louisiana.
  Four states that border on Mexico are included in
  
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• Thousands join Rep. Pearce’s telephone town hall

  17-02-2017 16:00 via krqe.com
  
  CARLSBAD, N.M. (AP) – Nearly 10,000 callers participated in U.S. Rep. Steve Pearce’s telephone town hall, which his office said was an alternative way for the Republican congressman to meet with his constituents who are spread throughout New Mexico’s rural 2nd District.
  The Current-Argus reports that callers brought up a range of issues for Pearce on Wednesday, including housing, regulation of state and federal lands and Republicans’ efforts to repeal the Affordable Care
  
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• Feds propose wolf releases in southwestern New Mexico

  17-02-2017 15:51 via krqe.com
  
  ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) – Federal officials want to release two packs of Mexican gray wolves in wilderness areas near the Arizona-New Mexico border this year in an effort to bolster a struggling population threatened by inbreeding.
  It will ultimately be up to New Mexico and a federal court whether that happens since the state and the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service are locked in a legal battle over the endangered predator.
  New Mexico contends there’s no way to determine whether the pro
  
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• New Mexico reconsiders subsidies to high-risk insurance pool

  17-02-2017 15:50 via krqe.com
  
  SANTA FE, N.M. (AP) – The administration of New Mexico Gov. Susana Martinez is seeking to shift the state’s financial obligations for a group of 2,700 people with serious and expensive medical conditions onto the private health insurance market.
  Legislation drafted by the administration in response to a state budget crisis would reduce tax credits and other subsidies that help underwrite New Mexico’s high-risk medical insurance pool for the chronically ill.
  The reforms would us
  
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• Wenger to coach next season, even if he leaves Arsenal

  17-02-2017 15:44
  
  LONDON — Arsene Wenger wants to continue coaching next season, even if it’s not at Arsenal. The 67-year-old Frenchman’s contract with Arsenal expires at the end of the season. He has yet to commit to extending a reign that began in 1996, saying a decision is expected by April. “No matter what happens I will […]
  
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• Updated: Trump, fond of executive orders, awaits more fancy pens

  17-02-2017 15:43
  
  PROVIDENCE, R.I. — It didn’t take long for President Donald Trump to start running out of the custom-made Cross pens he uses to sign executive orders. “I think we’re going to need some more pens, by the way,” he said on Inauguration Day four weeks ago. Trump was handing them out as souvenirs for members […]
  
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• Former Bosnian tax chief charged in mayor corruption case

  17-02-2017 15:42
  
  SARAJEVO, Bosnia-Herzegovina — Bosnia’s prosecution office says it has brought charges against a former head of the country’s tax authority over accepting close to 1 million euros ($1.1 million) in bribes to defraud the state of customs revenue. The prosecution office said in a statement Friday that it charged Kemal Causevic, who led the country’s […]
  
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• Florida man accused in plot to bomb Target stores

  17-02-2017 15:41
  
  OCALA, Fla. — A Florida man is accused in a plot to blow up several Target stores along the East Coast in an attempt to acquire cheap stock in the company if the stock value plunged after the explosions. The U.S Attorney’s Office in the middle district of Florida said in a news release on […]
  
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• Pakistan reeling after IS bombing at Sufi shrine killed 88

  17-02-2017 15:32 via krqe.com
  
  SEHWAN, Pakistan (AP) — Pakistani forces killed and arrested dozens of suspects in sweeping raids as the death toll from a massive suicide bombing by the Islamic State group that targeted a famed Sufi shrine the day before rose to 88 on Friday.
  The terror attack — Pakistan’s deadliest in years — stunned the nation and raised questions about the authorities’ ability to rein in militant groups despite several military offensives targeting militant hideouts.
  It also th
  
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• Pakistan cracks down on militants after IS shrine attack

  17-02-2017 15:32 via krqe.com
  
  ISLAMABAD (AP) — A brutal attack on a beloved Sufi shrine that killed 88 people raised fears that the Islamic State group has become emboldened in Pakistan, aided by an army of homegrown militants benefiting from hideouts in neighboring Afghanistan, analysts and officials said Friday.
  Pakistani security forces have carried out sweeping country-wide raids following Thursday’s bombing of the shrine in Pakistan’s southern Sindh province that also wounded 343 people. The military&r
  
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• IS ’emboldened’ in Pakistan, say analysts, officials

  17-02-2017 15:32 via krqe.com
  
  ISLAMABAD (AP) — A brutal attack on a beloved Sufi shrine that killed 88 people raised fears that the Islamic State group has become emboldened in Pakistan, aided by an army of homegrown militants benefiting from hideouts in neighboring Afghanistan, analysts and officials said Friday.
  Pakistani security forces have carried out sweeping country-wide raids following Thursday’s bombing of the shrine in Pakistan’s southern Sindh province that also wounded 343 people. The military&r
  
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• Tillerson holds first set of talks with Chinese counterpart

  17-02-2017 15:31 via krqe.com
  
  BONN, Germany (AP) — U.S. Secretary of State Rex Tillerson has met with his Chinese counterpart for the first time since becoming America’s top diplomat and urged China to do more to rein in North Korea’s provocative actions.
  Tillerson spoke with Foreign Minister Wang Yi Friday in the German city of Bonn. The State Department said they agreed to address differences constructively and that Tillerson highlighted the need for China “to use all available tools to moderate Nor
  
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• Britax recalls strollers for potential fall hazard

  17-02-2017 15:30 via krqe.com
  
  (NEXSTAR MEDIA) — Britax has recalled more than 600,000 strollers after discovering an issue that could cause child seats to disengage from the device.
  The recall affects Britax B-Agile and BOB Motion strollers, according to the Consumer Product Safety Commission.Britax has received 33 reports of car seats unexpectedly disconnecting from the strollers and falling to the ground. Of those 33 reports, 26 said their child was injured in the incident, including scratches, bruises and cuts, acco
  
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