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• Woman, dead since 1997, receives almost $73,000 in pension payments

  02-09-2017 23:59
  
  The city of Wilmington, Delaware, has been sending pension payments to a woman who has been dead since 1997.
  
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• Men vandalize church, one leaves naked, police say

  02-09-2017 23:25
  
  Two men were arrested after they broke into and vandalized a church, city police said.
  
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• Pot shop clashes with tourism stores in eclectic Alaska town

  02-09-2017 23:22 via krqe.com
  TALKEETNA, Alaska (AP) — The presence of a marijuana retail store has caused a deep divide in this quirky tourist town, where hundreds of visitors roam the streets daily browsing in art galleries and souvenir shops housed in historic cabins.
  Most of Talkeetna’s stores line the two long blocks that make up its Main Street, where tourists – many who arrive in Alaska on cruise ships and are bused about two hours north from Anchorage – wander into storefronts like Nagley&rsqu
  
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• NBA star James Harden to donate $1M to aid in Harvey relief

  02-09-2017 22:51
  
  Some people criticized the star for not immediately helping those affected by the disaster.
  
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• A monkey named Spiderman dies in the US at age 43

  02-09-2017 22:13
  
  A monkey named Spiderman has died of cancer at a New York zoo at the unusually old age of 43.
  
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• Dream Chaser spacecraft in captive-carry test over desert

  02-09-2017 21:33 via krqe.com
  EDWARDS AIR FORCE BASE, Calif. (AP) — A test version of a spacecraft resembling a mini space shuttle was carried aloft over the Mojave Desert by a helicopter Wednesday in a precursor to a free flight in which it will be released to autonomously land on a runway as it would in a return from orbit.
  Sierra Nevada Corp.’s Dream Chaser craft was lifted off the ground at 7:21 a.m., at NASA’s Armstrong Flight Research Center on Edwards Air Force Base, California, and was carried to th
  
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• Justice Department: No evidence Obama wiretapped Trump Tower

  02-09-2017 20:58
  
  President Trump earlier this year made the stunning accusation about his predecessor.
  
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• Why hiring remote workers might (or might not) pay off

  02-09-2017 20:42 via krqe.com
  More people are trading in commutes and cubicles for couches and coffee shops: As of 2016, 43 percent of employees worked remotely at least part of the time, up from 39 percent in 2012, according to Gallup’s State of the American Workplace report.
  For small businesses that don’t need employees onsite, high-speed internet, communication apps, and video conferencing make it easier to hire people located virtually anywhere. But forming relationships with remote workers may be more chall
  
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• Man booked for murder after hitting man with car

  02-09-2017 20:15
  
  Police say suspect claimed victim tried to shoot him
  
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• Texas toxic waste sites flooded, EPA not on scene, AP reports

  02-09-2017 20:02
  
  The Superfund sites are designated as being among America’s most intensely contaminated places.
  
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• Trump meets with Harvey victims in Houston

  02-09-2017 20:00
  
  The president is making a return trip to the storm-ravaged Gulf Coast area.
  
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• Protective protest: "Bulletproof Professor" garbed against campus gun law

  02-09-2017 19:24
  
  The Kansas educator is not afraid of his students, but he has a reason for his unusual classroom attire.
  
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• Spain: Air warning lifted for toxic cloud from Madrid fire

  02-09-2017 18:54 via krqe.com
  MADRID (AP) — Emergency officials in Madrid have lifted their warning to residents living near an industrial fire to remain in their homes to avoid a toxic cloud.
  Madrid’s emergency services said via social media on Saturday that firefighters used salt and bulldozers to put out the blaze in the Fuenlabrada neighborhood.
  They said one man was taken to hospital to treat burns that covered 30 percent of his body. A nearby hotel and another industrial building were also evacuated.
  The fi
  
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• Harvey’s dead mourned as search for missing gets desperate

  02-09-2017 18:54 via krqe.com
  HOUSTON (AP) — Benito Juarez Cavazos had come to Texas illegally from Mexico on his own as a young teen and was in the process 28 years later of getting his green card when he was swept away in the floodwaters left by Harvey.
  Cavazos, 42, had recently received a work permit and Social Security card and was scheduled for an appointment toward getting permanent residency the day after he apparently drowned, his cousins said Friday at a memorial service for the auto body shop worker.
  “W
  
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• City struggles to restore water service in Harvey aftermath

  02-09-2017 18:54 via krqe.com
  HOUSTON (AP) — A Texas city that lost its drinking water system to Harvey’s floodwaters struggled Saturday to restore service, and firefighters kept monitoring a crippled chemical plant that has twice been the scene of explosions and fires since the storm roared ashore and stalled over Texas more than a week ago.
  Officials in Beaumont, population almost 120,000, worked to repair their water treatment plant, which failed after the swollen Neches River inundated the main intake system
  
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• Booming Houston built over land meant for flood projects

  02-09-2017 18:54 via krqe.com
  HOUSTON (AP) — The explosive expansion of Houston subdivisions into prairies far to the west helped make the city affordable for the average 345 people who moved there each day, but it also paved over thousands of acres that the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers had intended for a reservoir and other flood-control projects to help against deluges like the ones from Harvey.
  The push of subdivisions and freeways across what once was hundreds of square miles of flood-absorbing tallgrass prairies w
  
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• No decision yet on who gets Trump’s pledge of disaster aid

  02-09-2017 18:53 via krqe.com
  WASHINGTON (AP) — The White House is still trying to decide who will get President Donald Trump’s pledged $1 million donation for Harvey storm relief efforts, one of the largest gifts ever given by a president but one that has evoked his checkered charitable past.
  The president plans to make the donation, which is expected to come from his personal fortune, early next week, and it may be split among several groups doing relief work in storm-ravaged areas of Texas and Louisiana. White
  
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• Honda owners could get up to $500 in air bag settlement

  02-09-2017 18:53 via krqe.com
  DETROIT (AP) — Honda and some of the people suing the company over faulty Takata air bag inflators have agreed to a $605 million settlement.
  The settlement, which still must be approved by a federal judge, covers owners of 16.5 million Honda and Acura vehicles with the inflators dating back to 2001. They could get up to $500.
  Under the deal, Honda gets credit for spending $121 million on rental cars for customers who had to wait for parts. That leaves $484 million. Of that, Honda will spen
  
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• The Latest: Trump arrives in Houston for 2nd Harvey visit

  02-09-2017 18:52 via krqe.com
  HOUSTON (AP) — The Latest on Harvey and the storm’s aftermath (all times local):
  11:45 a.m.
  President Donald Trump is expected to meet with Harvey victims during his second trip to storm-ravaged Texas in the past week.
  Trump and first lady Melania Trump arrived in Houston on Saturday and were greeted by Gov. Greg Abbott at Ellington Field, a military reserve base in the southeast part of the city. Four Cabinet members including Education Secretary Betsy DeVos are joining the presiden
  
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• The Latest: James Harden giving $1 million for Harvey relief

  02-09-2017 18:52 via krqe.com
  HOUSTON (AP) — The Latest on Harvey and the storm’s aftermath (all times local):
  3:30 p.m.
  NBA star James Harden says he will donate $1 million to the city of Houston to aid in Harvey recovery.
  The Houston Rockets point guard made the announcement Saturday with Mayor Sylvester Turner. They spoke at a news conference at the NRG Center, which has housed evacuees since Harvey swamped the Houston area more than a week ago.
  Harden went to high school in California and college in Arizona b
  
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• The Latest: Family finds body of woman, 88, in flooded home

  02-09-2017 18:52 via krqe.com
  HOUSTON (AP) — The Latest on Harvey and the storm’s aftermath (all times local):
  7 p.m.
  Authorities say the family of an elderly woman found her body partially submerged in water in her flooded home in Port Arthur, Texas.
  Justice of the Peace Brad Burnett told TV station KFDM on Saturday that the body of 88-year-old Dorothy Helen Lacobie in her bedroom.
  Burnett says the house had at least 2 feet (60 centimeters) of water in it.
  The woman’s death raises the death count from Harv
  
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• The Latest: Death toll from Harvey reaches at least 44

  02-09-2017 18:52 via krqe.com
  HOUSTON (AP) — The Latest on Harvey and the storm’s aftermath (all times local):
  9:45 p.m.
  The death toll from Harvey has reached at least 44 after the medical examiner in the county that includes Houston confirmed another fatality.
  The latest death is a man who was found floating in Cypress Creek floodwaters. The addition to a list kept by the Harris County Institute for Forensic Sciences brings the total deaths in the county to 29.
  Also, the Houston Chronicle reports that fire offi
  
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• The Latest: 10K-12K Houston students displaced from schools

  02-09-2017 18:52 via krqe.com
  HOUSTON (AP) — The Latest on Harvey and the storm’s aftermath (all times local):
  1:40 p.m.
  Houston’s school superintendent says 10,000 to 12,000 students whose schools were damaged by Harvey will have to attend classes elsewhere once school resumes on Sept. 11.
  Richard Carranza, superintendent of the Houston Independent School District, toured the damaged A. G. Hilliard Elementary School on Saturday along with the school board president and other officials.
  He says the district
  
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• Maine museum preserves Native American canoe from 1700s

  02-09-2017 18:52 via krqe.com
  BRUNSWICK, Maine (AP) — One of the oldest-known Native American birch-bark canoes will go on display at a Maine historical society museum, possibly as early as this fall, after spending three decades in a barn.
  Carbon dating by the Pejepscot Historical Society in Brunswick shows the Wabanaki canoe was likely made sometime between 1729 and 1789. Museum records date the canoe to the mid-1700s.
  The Wabanaki Confederacy is a group of Native American nations who lived primarily in Maine, New Ha
  
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• China says Japan shouldn’t slap North Korea with sanctions

  02-09-2017 18:52 via krqe.com
  BEIJING (AP) — China has advised Japan not to impose sanctions unilaterally on North Korea after Pyongyang launched a test missile that flew over Japan before falling into the Pacific Ocean, the Chinese foreign ministry said Saturday.
  The test-firing Tuesday has intensified fear and reignited a debate in Japan about revising its defense plan after decades of pursuing more pacifist policies. A statement from China’s foreign ministry said the minister also urged his Japanese counterpar
  
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• Post-Harvey problems plague Texas as funerals begin

  02-09-2017 18:35
  
  The danger isn't over yet for Harvey evacuees who are returning to flood-ravaged homes and dragging sodden debris to the curbside.
  
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• Lyft extends service throughout 32 states

  02-09-2017 18:33 via krqe.com
  DETROIT (AP) — Lyft is driving into the countryside in an effort to raise ridership and steal market share from rival Uber.
  The much smaller Lyft announced Thursday that it is offering service to passengers in every corner of 32 U.S. states, including hard-to-reach rural areas. The move boosts the number of states with full coverage to 40.
  Uber, which controls about 70 percent of the U.S. ride-hailing market, says it has near-statewide coverage in 13 states. A spokeswoman was skeptical tha
  
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• Russia calls in US diplomat to protest alleged office search

  02-09-2017 18:13 via krqe.com
  MOSCOW (AP) — Russia’s Foreign Ministry has called in a top United States diplomat in Moscow to protest what the ministry claims is a plan to search the newly closed Russian trade mission office in Washington.
  A ministry statement on Saturday said the United States has threatened to “break down the entrance door” to the office, but did not say who made the threat.
  The office is one of three Russian facilities the U.S. ordered closed this week; the others are the San Franc
  
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• World’s highest sandcastle built in German city

  02-09-2017 18:12 via krqe.com
  BERLIN (AP) — The world’s highest sandcastle is now standing 16.68 meters (54.72 feet) tall in the German city of Duisburg.
  A German travel operator organized the construction of the mammoth sandcastle, bringing in 3,500 tons of sand over the past 3 ½ weeks to the site at a former steelworks in the inland city.
  News agency dpa reported that Jack Brockbank, a representative of Guinness World Records, certified the record on Friday. It takes the title from a 14.84-meter (48.69-f
  
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• Venezuela opposition activist says barred from traveling

  02-09-2017 18:12 via krqe.com
  CARACAS, Venezuela (AP) — Prominent Venezuelan opposition activist Lilian Tintori says she has been barred from leaving the country for planned meetings with leaders from France, Germany, Spain and the United Kingdom.
  Tintori posted a photo on Twitter of herself at Caracas’ international airport Saturday holding a document ordering the seizure of her passport. The previous day she was ordered to appear before a judge on Tuesday to answer questions about a large sum of cash found in h
  
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• Venezuela bars opposition activist from traveling to Europe

  02-09-2017 18:12 via krqe.com
  CARACAS, Venezuela (AP) — A prominent anti-government activist was barred from leaving Venezuela on Saturday for planned meetings with European leaders, dealing a setback to opposition attempts to rally international pressure on President Nicolas Maduro.
  Lilian Tintori posted a photo on Twitter of herself at Caracas’ international airport holding a document signed by immigration officials ordering the seizure of her passport as she was preparing to board an afternoon flight. Tintori
  
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• Mystery continues after removal of object off beach

  02-09-2017 18:12 via krqe.com
  WESTERLY, R.I. (AP) — Questions are still swirling after a mysterious object was removed from the waters off a Rhode Island beach.
  The circular metal object was taken out of the waters off East Beach in Westerly by an excavator Thursday, and it’s much bigger than originally thought.
  Peter Brockmann, president of the East Beach Association, tells The Westerly Sun (http://bit.ly/2epxvti ) he hopes someone who sees a media report about the object knows what it is.
  Before it was removed,
  
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• Harvey shelves 'squabbles and debates' as Congress returns

  02-09-2017 18:04
  
  Lawmakers will return to Washington on Tuesday with a heavy workload.
  
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• Groups sue to protect Yellowstone bears as hunts anticipated

  02-09-2017 17:27 via krqe.com
  BILLINGS, Mont. (AP) — Wildlife advocates and a Montana Indian tribe have asked a U.S. court to restore protections for grizzly bears in and around Yellowstone National Park so that trophy hunting of the fearsome animals would not be allowed.
  The Northern Cheyenne Tribe, the Humane Society and several conservation groups filed three lawsuits Tuesday and Wednesday in federal court in Montana, challenging the government’s recent move to lift protections.
  Idaho, Montana and Wyoming are
  
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• School for the deaf's football team succeeds in silence

  02-09-2017 16:39
  
  Some may think this California team is at a disadvantage, but the players believe they have a unique edge.
  
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• Trump to meet Harvey victims, survey damage in Houston, Louisiana

  02-09-2017 16:14
  
  The president is making a return trip to the storm-ravaged Gulf Coast.
  
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• Man dies in head-on crash in northwest Albuquerque

  02-09-2017 16:13 via krqe.com
  ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (KRQE) – Bernalillo County Sheriff”s Deputies are investigating a deadly crash at Paradise and Golf Course.
  BCSO says Friday night two cars crashed head-on. One man died. His passenger was injured.
  No one in the other car was hurt. Deputies are not sure how the crash happened but say alcohol was not a factor.
  They have not yet released the name of the man who died.
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• Scientists say warming makes storms, like Harvey, wetter

  02-09-2017 15:58 via krqe.com
  WASHINGTON (AP) — By the time the rain stops, Harvey will have dumped about 1 million gallons of water for every man, woman and child in southeastern Texas — a soggy, record-breaking glimpse of the wet and wild future global warming could bring, scientists say.
  While scientists are quick to say climate change didn’t cause Harvey and that they haven’t determined yet whether the storm was made worse by global warming, they do note that warmer air and water mean wetter and p
  
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• Gas poured onto man's car in heated argument at Texas station

  02-09-2017 15:58
  
  Video shows tempers flaring during the fuel shortage in the the wake of Harvey.
  
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• Inoculations give endangered California frog a shot at life

  02-09-2017 15:12 via krqe.com
  FRESNO, Calif. (AP) — Endangered California frogs are getting an immunity boost from scientists who are scooping them up from remote Sierra Nevada ponds and sending them to big city zoos for inoculation, giving them a fighting chance to beat extinction, officials said Wednesday.
  The experiment aims to rescue the 3-inch mountain yellow-legged frog — named for distinctive coloring under its hind legs. Scientists use nets to capture diseased tadpoles and then fly them by helicopter from
  
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• Driver facing murder charge after hitting man with car

  02-09-2017 15:09 via krqe.com
  ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (KRQE) – Albuquerque Police say a driver is facing a murder charge after hitting a man with his car, killing him.
  Police say around 10:15 p.m. on Friday, officers were dispatched to the intersection of 2nd and Gold in reference to a possible shooting.
  When they arrived, they found a man who had been hit by a car. The driver of the car, 31-year-old Ivory Lynch of Albuquerque was stopped.
  Police say the man died from his injuries. He has not been identified.
  Lynch told poli
  
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• Albuquerque Police investigate Downtown Albuquerque death

  02-09-2017 15:09 via krqe.com
  ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (KRQE) – The Albuquerque Police Department is investigating a death in downtown.
  They say a person was found dead in the alley between 3rd and Gold before 11 p.m. Friday.
  Officers said the person died from injuries but did not say what kind.
  Police detained one person for questioning.
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• Singer Tom Jones postpones US tour due to health issues

  02-09-2017 14:46
  
  The 77-year-old "It's Not Unusual" crooner sent his "sincerest apologies" to his fans.
  
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• Trump pitches in at shelter for Harvey victims

  02-09-2017 14:22 via krqe.com
  HOUSTON (AP) — President Donald Trump cupped a boy’s face in his hands and then gave him a high-five. He lifted a girl into his arms to give her a kiss. He snapped on latex gloves to hand out boxed lunches of hot dogs and potato chips.
  On his visit to a shelter for storm victims Saturday, the president declared he sees “a lot of love” in the wake of devastation left by Harvey.
  “We saw a lot of happiness,” he told reporters after he and first lady Melania Trump
  
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• This time with feeling: Trump returns to Harvey’s wake

  02-09-2017 14:22 via krqe.com
  WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump brought plenty of optimism and swagger to Texas this week on his first visit to survey Harvey’s wreckage. He’s getting a chance to return with empathy.
  Trump is slated to visit Houston and Lake Charles, Louisiana, on Saturday to survey the damage wrought by the hurricane and days of historic flooding. The White House says he’ll have time to review the damage, talk at length with residents still recovering from the devastation and m
  
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• Kenya president warns judiciary after it nullifies election

  02-09-2017 14:22 via krqe.com
  NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) — Kenya’s president is promising to “fix” the judicial system after the Supreme Court nullified last month’s election, and he warns the chief justice and judiciary not to interfere with the electoral commission as the country prepares for a new presidential vote.
  President Uhuru Kenyatta on Saturday again accused the court of overturning the will of the people after he was declared the winner of the Aug. 8 election. The court on Friday said the e
  
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• For Trump, chance to return with empathy for Harvey victims

  02-09-2017 14:22 via krqe.com
  WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump brought plenty of optimism and swagger to Texas on his first visit to survey Harvey’s wreckage. He’s getting a chance to return with empathy.
  At stops in Houston and Lake Charles, Louisiana, on Saturday, the president planned to survey storm damage, talk with residents and meet with volunteers. Those elements were missing from Tuesday’s trip to Texas, which was criticized as being off-key for a presidential visit to discuss communi
  
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• Danger not over: Gas leaks, mold loom for Harvey evacuees

  02-09-2017 14:22 via krqe.com
  HOUSTON (AP) — Bound for their Harvey-soaked home east of Houston, Lakeithia Bankhead and her four children left the mass shelter at the city’s convention center Friday after five nights sleeping on cots among thousands of other evacuees. They filled a relative’s sport utility vehicle with trash bags full of donated clothes, food and a baby bed.
  But Bankhead felt ill-equipped to confront health hazards in the form of mold, spoiled food, gas leaks and downed power lines. The 38-
  
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• Trump mulls decision on young immigrants in US illegally

  02-09-2017 14:21 via krqe.com
  WASHINGTON (AP) — Midday protests. Urgent pleas. Furious campaigning. A president torn.
  President Donald Trump stood at the center of a frantic lobbying campaign Friday as he neared a decision on the fate of hundreds of thousands of young people brought into the country illegally as children.
  After months of dragging his feet, the president on Tuesday will announce his plans for the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program, or DACA, which has given nearly 800,000 young immigrants the
  
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• Alexa, Cortana talk to each other in Amazon-Microsoft deal

  02-09-2017 14:08 via krqe.com
  BOSTON (AP) — Alexa, meet Cortana.
  Microsoft and Amazon are pairing their voice assistants together in a collaboration announced Wednesday.
  Both companies say that later this fall, users will be able to access Alexa using Cortana on Windows 10 computers and on Android and Apple devices. They’ll also be able to access Cortana on Alexa-enabled devices such as the Amazon Echo.
  Microsoft says the tie-up will allow Alexa customers to get access to Cortana features such as for booking meet
  
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