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• Terrorist kills 39 revelers in shooting attack at Istanbul nightclub

  01-01-2017 22:49 via ktoo.org
  
  The view of Golden Bay and Galata Bridge from Gatata Tower in Istanbul in December 2014. (Creative Commons photo by Juraj Patekar)
  ISTANBUL (AP) — 12:40 a.m. (all times local)
  The U.N. Security Council is condemning “in the strongest terms” the shooting in Istanbul, Turkey, that killed at least 39 people at a night club on New Year’s Eve, calling the assault “a heinous and barbaric terrorist attack.”
  In a press statement, the council members also exp
  
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• Obama has few options to protect young immigrants

  01-01-2017 21:15
  
  WASHINGTON (AP) – Barack Obama is under pressure in his final weeks as president to secure the future for hundreds of thousands of immigrants brought to the U.S. as children who could face deportation under the Trump administration. His options appear to be few.
  Numerous Democrats are pushing Obama to grant pardons for the young immigrants who identified themselves to the government in exchange for a promise that they’d be safe from deportation. The White House, though, has repeatedl
  
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• FAA criticized for oversight as millions of new drones likely unregistered

  01-01-2017 04:06
  
  Fifteen-year-old Keelan Garde has been practicing with a small drone outside Phoenix, getting prepared for a much bigger one he received this holiday season.
  It was one of an estimated 1.2 million drones given as gifts, up 112 percent from 2015.
  But before drones weighing just over half a pound or more take flight, the owner needs to register with the FAA or face the potential of huge fines, something drone makers won’t be required to tell purchasers until at least 2018.
  So far, more than
  
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• Storms continue in northwest Alaska; Fairbanks digs out

  01-01-2017 03:57 via ktoo.org
  
  Blizzard and severe weather warnings remain in effect for communities on the northwest coast of Alaska as a winter storm continues to bring wind, heavy snow and in some cases rain.
  The National Weather Service says visibility in Nome was reduced to near zero at times because of blowing snow.
  Southwest winds Friday are predicted to increase to 25 to 40 mph with gusts to 60 with 4 more inches of snow.
  Similar forecasts were issued for Norton Sound, Seward Peninsula, Lower Yukon and Middle Yukon co
  
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• ‘Naughty’ Facebook locks North Pole Santa Claus out of account

  01-01-2017 03:56 via ktoo.org
  
  North Pole’s Santa Claus (Photo courtesy of Santa Claus’ Facebook page)North Pole resident Santa Claus –yes, that is his legal name — has been living under that name for about 11 years. He was elected to North Pole City Council last year and also served as chair of the North Pole Chamber of Commerce. He said every now and then he has interesting issues with ordering items over the phone and disbelief from various officials. He was surprised however, when Faceboo
  
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• Woman stable after being struck by vehicle while walking downtown

  01-01-2017 03:38 via ktoo.org
  
  A woman, who was walking downtown, was struck by a vehicle and is in stable condition.
  According to the Juneau Police Department, the 56-year-old woman was crossing the street about 4 p.m. Friday and was standing near the median. She was not using a crosswalk. A 53-year-old male driver was driving south on Main Street and began to slowly turn into the parking lot behind the Alaska USA Federal Credit Union.
  He did not see the woman and struck her, knocking her to the ground, a news release s
  
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• A Peer Recovery Coach Walks The Front Lines Of America’s Opioid Epidemic

  01-01-2017 03:33 via ktoo.org
  
  Seth Herald for NPR
  Charlie Oen’s battle with addiction started when he was 16 and his family moved to Lima, Ohio. It was the last stop in a string of moves his military family made — from Panama to North Carolina, Kentucky, Texas and Germany.
  “I went toward a bad group because those were the people that accepted me,” he says. Drugs became a substitute for real friendships.
  He started drinking, popping pills, cooking meth and shooting heroin. He was homeless for a while w
  
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• From Psychedelics To Alzheimer’s, 2016 Was A Good Year For Brain Science

  01-01-2017 03:31 via ktoo.org
  
  Image by Catherine MacBride/Getty Images
  With a president-elect who has publicly supported the debunked claim that vaccines cause autism, suggested that climate change is a hoax dreamed up by the Chinese, and appointed to his Cabinet a retired neurosurgeon who doesn’t buy the theory of evolution, things might look grim for science.
  Yet watching Patti Smith sing “A Hard Rain’s a-Gonna Fall” live streamed from the Nobel Prize ceremony in early December to a room full of phy
  
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• Federal act funds water infrastructure in western AK

  01-01-2017 03:31 via ktoo.org
  
  A crew works on a sewer system in a rural Alaska village. Photo courtesy USDA Rural Development.
  Introduced in February of last year, the Water Resources Development Act, now called the Water Infrastructure Improvements for the Nation Act, has officially been signed into law. After passing the president’s pen December 16th, the bill brings money to improve Alaskan water and sewer conditions all over the state.
  Senator Dan Sullivan says it provides a brand new program: &ldquo
  
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