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    • Here's how Trump will tackle Mexico and China

      Here's how Trump will tackle Mexico and China

      Wilbur Ross is the president-elect's point man on trade, and he gave some important clues during his confirmation hearing.China has plenty to worry about »

      • Dozens killed in Iran high-rise collapse

        Dozens killed in Iran high-rise collapse

      • Trump's election means end of the American Century

        Trump's election means end of the American Century

      • At least 30 missing in Italy hotel avalanche

        At least 30 missing in Italy hotel avalanche

    • Trump continues railing against John Lewis
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      Trump continues railing against John Lewis

      Rep. John Lewis, D-Ga., testifies on Capitol Hill on Jan. 11. Donald Trump’s feud with Rep. John Lewis entered its fourth day Tuesday when the president-elect fired off still more tweets ripping Rep. John Lewis for skipping his inauguration. “John Lewis said about my inauguration, ‘It will be the first one that I’ve missed.’ WRONG (or lie)!” Trump tweeted Tuesday morning.

      • 10 highlights from Paul LePage's deplorable governorship
        10 highlights from Paul LePage's deplorable governorship
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      • Rep. Alan Lowenthal is skipping inauguration over Trump's comments about Rep. John Lewis
        Rep. Alan Lowenthal is skipping inauguration over Trump's comments about Rep. John Lewis
        Los Angeles Times
    • Obama’s ‘favorite general’ wins pardon in leak probe
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      Obama’s ‘favorite general’ wins pardon in leak probe

      Retired Marine Gen. James Cartwright. President Obama gave a full pardon Tuesday to retired Gen. James “Hoss” Cartwright, who was convicted of lying to the FBI during an investigation into a leak about American efforts to sabotage the Iranian nuclear program. The pardon followed an intense lobbying campaign on behalf of Cartwright that included expressions of support, relayed by Cartwright’s lawyer, from former President George W. Bush and Vice President Dick Cheney, according to sources familiar with the effort.

      • Obama shortens sentence of Manning, who gave cables to WikiLeaks
        Obama shortens sentence of Manning, who gave cables to WikiLeaks
        Reuters
      • Obama Says 'Justice Has Been Served' in Chelsea Manning Case
        Obama Says 'Justice Has Been Served' in Chelsea Manning Case
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    • Spate of strong earthquakes hit snowbound central Italy, one dead
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      Spate of strong earthquakes hit snowbound central Italy, one dead

      By Philip Pullella ROME (Reuters) - A series of strong earthquakes hit snowbound central Italy on Wednesday, a region devastated by deadly tremors last year, killing one man and forcing schools and rail links to close. Much of the area had already been abandoned after last year's earthquakes. Prime Minister Paolo Gentiloni said soldiers would help rescue teams get to the affected villages.

      • 5.3-magnitude earthquake rocks Italy
        5.3-magnitude earthquake rocks Italy
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      • Rome metro closes after earthquake in central Italy
        Rome metro closes after earthquake in central Italy
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      The Evolution of Maternity Style

      From billowing dresses and maternity corsets intended to conceal a woman's baby bump to the bodycon trend seen on expectant mothers today, see how pregnancy fashion has changed over the years.

    • Virginia man convicted of 2006 slaying of family is executed
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      Virginia man convicted of 2006 slaying of family is executed

      Ricky Gray was pronounced dead at 9:42 p.m. following a lethal injection at the Greensville Correctional Center in Jarratt. Gray showed no emotion as he was walked into the execution chamber wearing blue jeans and handcuffs. Gray was condemned to death in 2006 for the murders of 9-year-old Stella Harvey and 4-year-old sister Ruby, and sentenced to life in prison for the slaying of their parents, Bryan and Kathryn Harvey.

      • Virginia inmate executed despite arguments against drug 'cocktail'
        Virginia inmate executed despite arguments against drug 'cocktail'
        Reuters
      • Virginia executes Ricky Gray for killing family in 2006
        Virginia executes Ricky Gray for killing family in 2006
        UPI
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      Christian Science Monitor

      Study: US abortions now at lowest rate since Roe v. Wade

      The number of abortions performed in the United States has fallen to the lowest rate since 1974, the year after the Supreme Court legalized the practice in the historic 1973 Roe v. Wade decision, according to a new study. The report comes from the Guttmacher Institute, which researches sexual and reproductive health-related policy. The total number of abortions performed in 2014 hovered around 926,000, showing a gradual, yet consistent, downward trend over the past two decades.

    • Failed MH370 Search Reveals the Secrets of the Sea Floor
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      Failed MH370 Search Reveals the Secrets of the Sea Floor

      The deep-sea sonar search for Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 may not have found the plane but will reveal more about how land beneath the Indian Ocean formed over millions of years and where oil fields could lie. National geoscience agency Geoscience Australia will soon release detailed sonar mapping of 120,000 square kilometers (46,000 square miles) of seabed that was searched for the wreckage of the Boeing 777 that vanished with 239 passengers and crew on March 8, 2014. The unique information about plate tectonics would interest geoscientists as well as oil and gas explorers, said Australian National University marine geologist Neville Exon, who has advised Geoscience Australia on the sonar data.

      • Australia on the defensive offers hope of new MH370 hunt
        Australia on the defensive offers hope of new MH370 hunt
        AFP
      • MH370 and 5 Other Unsolved Aviation Mysteries
        MH370 and 5 Other Unsolved Aviation Mysteries
        ABC News
    • Photos of the day — January 17, 2017
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      Photos of the day — January 17, 2017

      Impoverished Indian children watch a performance as part of advocacy against child labor in Allahabad, India; women loyal to the Houthi movement parade to show support to the movement in Sanaa, Yemen; and dogs are blessed by a priest outside San Anton

    • Teen Abducted 18 Years Ago Says She Will Have '2 Moms,' but Still Loves Accused Kidnapper
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      Teen Abducted 18 Years Ago Says She Will Have '2 Moms,' but Still Loves Accused Kidnapper

      “I love her,” 18-year-old Alexis Manigo told Inside Edition. Manigo said she had a “fantastic” and “normal” life while living with Williams, who she believed to be her mother. While she is learning about her biological family, Manigo says she will still recognize Williams as her mother.

      • Teen Abducted at Birth Breaks Her Silence, Defends Alleged Kidnapper: 'I Will Always Love Her'
        Teen Abducted at Birth Breaks Her Silence, Defends Alleged Kidnapper: 'I Will Always Love Her'
        Us Weekly
      • Woman Abducted as Newborn Speaks Out: 'She Will Always Be Mom'
        Woman Abducted as Newborn Speaks Out: 'She Will Always Be Mom'
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    • More than 40 House Democrats to skip Trump’s inauguration
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      More than 40 House Democrats to skip Trump’s inauguration

      More than 40 Democratic lawmakers have announced they intend to skip Donald Trump’s inauguration this week to protest the president-elect’s plans for the country. The boycotters now make up one in five of all House Democrats, and their decision to protest represents a break with tradition that they say is warranted by Trump’s agenda. Rep. Barbara Lee, D-Calif., told Yahoo News she decided she couldn’t celebrate Trump’s inauguration because of his comments during the campaign about temporarily barring Muslims from entering the country and his vow to build a wall on the U.S.-Mexico border.

      • Capuano will also skip Trump inauguration
        Capuano will also skip Trump inauguration
        POLITICO
      • Here’s How You Can Livestream Donald Trump’s Inauguration
        Here’s How You Can Livestream Donald Trump’s Inauguration
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    • Tense Gambia awaits inauguration of new president Barrow
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      Tense Gambia awaits inauguration of new president Barrow

      Gambian president-elect Adama Barrow was to take power Thursday, capping weeks of tension over Yahya Jammeh's refusal to quit which has seen Senegalese and Nigerian troops massing at the border and tourists racing to leave. With Senegalese troops backed by Nigerian forces and fighter jets gathering, the country appeared on the brink of a military crisis although the army chief insisted his soldiers would not get involved in a "political dispute" nor prevent foreign forces from entering The Gambia. Despite a midnight (0000 GMT) deadline for the expiry of Jammeh's term, the situation remained calm in the city overnight, witnesses said following a last-minute mediation attempt by the Mauritanian president.

      • Senegal army ready to enter Gambia if president refuses to quit
        Senegal army ready to enter Gambia if president refuses to quit
        Reuters
      • Gambia's President-elect to be sworn in at embassy in Senegal -officials
        Gambia's President-elect to be sworn in at embassy in Senegal -officials
        Reuters
    • 4 quakes shake Italy, isolating towns blanketed under snow
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      4 quakes shake Italy, isolating towns blanketed under snow

      Four strong earthquakes on Wednesday shook the same region of central Italy that suffered deadly temblors last year, sending quake-rattled residents into panic and further isolating towns that have been buried under more than a meter (3 feet) of snow for days. Premier Paolo Gentiloni said it appeared no one was killed, but that it was a "difficult day" for Italy. Several towns and hamlets in the quake zone had already sounded the alarm in recent days that they were without electricity and were isolated from highways due to the unusually heavy snowfall that has blanketed much of central Italy.

      • Rome metro closes after earthquake in central Italy
        Rome metro closes after earthquake in central Italy
        Reuters Videos
      • Spate of strong earthquakes hit snowbound central Italy, one dead
        Spate of strong earthquakes hit snowbound central Italy, one dead
        Reuters
    • Father files suit against police in California for son's fatal shooting
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      Father files suit against police in California for son's fatal shooting

      The father of Alfred Olango, an unarmed black man shot to death by police in Southern California last year, has filed a lawsuit against the officer involved and his department, accusing them of unjustly killing his son who was suffering from a mental breakdown. The slaying last September of Ugandan-born Alfred Olango, 38, in the San Diego suburb of El Cajon sparked several days of street protests after video of the deadly incident emerged online. The civil suit, filed on Friday in federal court in San Diego, came three days after local prosecutors announced that the officer who opened fire, Richard Gonsalves, would not be criminally charged for the shooting.

      • District Attorney to release details in Sharon shooting by police
        District Attorney to release details in Sharon shooting by police
        WKBN 27 Youngstown
      • Alfred Olango's father sues El Cajon police in fatal shooting
        Alfred Olango's father sues El Cajon police in fatal shooting
        sandiegouniontribune.com
    • When presidential inaugurations go very, very wrong
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      National Constitution Center

      When presidential inaugurations go very, very wrong

      As Constitution Daily counts down to Inauguration Day,  we look back at three presidential ceremonies from the 1800s that ended very badly. Mobs descend on Jackson’s White House. For example, there were constant rumors that Abraham Lincoln would be killed at his 1861 inauguration.

      • Inauguration 360 -
        Inauguration 360 -
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      • Gingrich: Boycotting an inauguration is 'abandoning America'
        Gingrich: Boycotting an inauguration is 'abandoning America'
        FOX News Videos
    • Virginia inmate executed despite arguments against drug 'cocktail'
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      Virginia inmate executed despite arguments against drug 'cocktail'

      A Virginia inmate was executed on Wednesday for murdering two young sisters during a 2006 killing spree, after the Supreme Court denied a stay request where he argued the use of compounded lethal drugs violated his constitutional rights.     Ricky Gray, 39, died by lethal injection at 9:42 p.m. at the Greensville Correctional Center, Virginia Department of Corrections spokeswoman Lisa Kinney said in an emailed statement. Gray's lawyers filed an emergency petition with the Supreme Court on Tuesday, saying that the three-drug combination could cause Gray unnecessary suffering and thereby violate constitutional guarantees against cruel and unusual punishment.

      • Man convicted of killing family of 4 is executed in Virginia
        Man convicted of killing family of 4 is executed in Virginia
        Associated Press
      • Virginia executes Ricky Gray for killing family in 2006
        Virginia executes Ricky Gray for killing family in 2006
        UPI
    • New Silk Road? 1st China-London freight train arrives
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      Associated Press

      New Silk Road? 1st China-London freight train arrives

      The first direct freight train service from China to Britain arrived in London Wednesday, another leg in Beijing's plans for closer trade ties with Europe along a modern-day Silk Road. The 18-day trip saw dozens of containers packed mainly with clothes and household goods transported from the city of Yiwu in eastern China to a freight terminal in Barking in east London, via Kazakhstan, Russia, Belarus, Poland and western Europe. The train entered Britain from France through the Channel Tunnel, completing a journey of some 7,500 miles (12,000 kilometers).

      • First 'Silk Road' train arrives in UK from China
        First 'Silk Road' train arrives in UK from China
        AFP
      • First Chinese freight train arrives in London
        First Chinese freight train arrives in London
        Reuters Videos
    • Verizon is about to cripple your Galaxy Note 7 and you can’t do anything to stop it
      Technology
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      Verizon is about to cripple your Galaxy Note 7 and you can’t do anything to stop it

      Verizon may have been late to take measures against its customers who still use the recalled Galaxy Note 7, but the carrier is ready to significantly step up its game and force every single Galaxy Note 7 user out there to finally swap out their phablets. Oh, and unlike software updates that you might have avoided so far, there’s nothing you can do to stop Verizon this time. Thousands of Verizon customers still use the Galaxy Note 7, the carrier told Fortune.

      • This Is How Verizon Is Punishing Galaxy Note 7 Holdouts
        This Is How Verizon Is Punishing Galaxy Note 7 Holdouts
        Tech Media Network (Tom's Guide)
      • Verizon takes yet more evasive action as ‘thousands’ of customers refuse to give up their Note 7
        Verizon takes yet more evasive action as ‘thousands’ of customers refuse to give up their Note 7
        TechCrunch
    • Horrifying Video Shows Woman in Crosswalk Being Run Over and Dragged by School Bus
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      Horrifying Video Shows Woman in Crosswalk Being Run Over and Dragged by School Bus

      Startling surveillance video posted to Twitter this week shows a woman in New York being hit by a school bus, which then runs her over.   The victim was crossing a Brooklyn intersection when she was struck by a yellow mini-bus. She suffered non-life-threatening

      • School bus crash in northern India leaves 13 dead
        School bus crash in northern India leaves 13 dead
        AFP
      • School bus with one student on board gets stuck in high water
        School bus with one student on board gets stuck in high water
        FOX 12 Oregon
    • Trump’s team says he’s ‘troubled’ by Chelsea Manning commutation
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      Trump’s team says he’s ‘troubled’ by Chelsea Manning commutation

      WASHINGTON, D.C. — Incoming White House press secretary Sean Spicer said President-elect Donald Trump is disturbed by President Obama’s decision to commute the prison sentence of convicted leaker Chelsea Manning. “I think the president-elect is troubled by this action,” Spicer said during a Wednesday news conference at Trump’s presidential transition team headquarters. Spicer was also asked if Trump wanted to see WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange make good on a promise to allow himself to be extradited to the United States if Manning was given a deal.

      • Trump’s transition websites suffer technical problems
        Trump’s transition websites suffer technical problems
        New York Post
      • Obama Gives Last Press Conference As President
        Obama Gives Last Press Conference As President
        The Huffington Post
    • Israel army gets new ballistic missile interceptors
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      Israel army gets new ballistic missile interceptors

      The Israeli army on Wednesday received new ballistic missile interceptors that significantly upgrade the Jewish state's aerial defence systems in the face of "emerging threats", the defence ministry said. The Arrow 3 interceptor, designed to shoot down missiles above the atmosphere, was handed to air force bases in Israel after successful testing by Israel and the United States at the end of 2015. A defence ministry statement said Israel and the US were dedicated to the continued development and enhancement of ballistic missile defence systems as "threats continue to grow and new emerging threats surface".

      • Israel deploys 'Star Wars' missile killer system
        Israel deploys 'Star Wars' missile killer system
        Reuters
      • Israel bolsters air defences with 3 new ballistic missile interceptors
        Israel bolsters air defences with 3 new ballistic missile interceptors
        International Business Times UK
    • Anger at skeletal sun bears in Indonesian zoo
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      Anger at skeletal sun bears in Indonesian zoo

      Animal rights activists Wednesday demanded the closure of an Indonesian zoo after skeletal sun bears were pictured begging for food from visitors and eating their own dung. The bears at the zoo in the city of Bandung were shown waving their arms in the air inside their enclosure -- with their ribs visible through their fur -- as people hurled food at them. Bandung zoo came under fire last year after the death of a critically endangered Sumatran elephant.

      • Emaciated bears beg for food
        Emaciated bears beg for food
        CNN
      • Urgent! Sign This Petition to Shut Down Indonesian Zoo Where Animals are Starving
        Urgent! Sign This Petition to Shut Down Indonesian Zoo Where Animals are Starving
        OneGreenPlanet
    • The Latest: Woman charged in infant kidnapping denied bail
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      The Latest: Woman charged in infant kidnapping denied bail

      The woman charged with kidnapping a baby 18 years ago and raising the child as her own daughter, appeared briefly in court and was ordered to be held without bail. Gloria Williams, who appeared in a Jacksonville courtroom Wednesday, is charged with kidnapping and other counts related to the 1998 abduction of Kamiyah Mobley, who was just eight hours old. No attorney has been listed for Williams.

      • No Bond for Woman Accused of Kidnapping Newborn
        No Bond for Woman Accused of Kidnapping Newborn
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      • Woman accused of kidnapping newborn 18 years ago is extradited, charged
        Woman accused of kidnapping newborn 18 years ago is extradited, charged
        CNN
    • Remembering Eugene Cernan
      Science
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      Remembering Eugene Cernan

      Astronaut Eugene Cernan, commander of Apollo 17 and the last man to walk on the moon, died Jan. 16, 2017. Cernan was one of 14 astronauts selected by NASA in October 1963. In May 1969, he was the lunar module pilot of Apollo 10, the first comprehensive lunar-orbital qualification and verification test of the lunar lander.

      • Gene Cernan, the Last Man to Leave Footprints on the Moon, Is Dead at 82
        Gene Cernan, the Last Man to Leave Footprints on the Moon, Is Dead at 82
        Esquire
      • Last Astronaut to Walk on the Moon, Gene Cernan, Dies at 82
        Last Astronaut to Walk on the Moon, Gene Cernan, Dies at 82
        Popular Mechanics
    • Brazil police separate gangs in prison where 26 killed
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      Brazil police separate gangs in prison where 26 killed

      By Eduardo Simões SAO PAULO (Reuters) - Heavily armed police on Wednesday entered the prison where 26 inmates were butchered in recent days and separated members of rival drug gangs waging a turf war that set off a wave of riots in Brazil's overcrowded penitentiary system. About 220 gang members will be transferred in buses from the Alcaçuz penitentiary in the state of Rio Grande do Norte to another prison at Parnamirim, outside the state capital, Natal, authorities said. The police SWAT team searched the cells and founds firearms, a bullet-proof jacket and a large quantity of knives, the state's security chief, Caio Bezerra, told reporters.

      • Gangs clash inside Brazil prison where 26 massacred this week
        Gangs clash inside Brazil prison where 26 massacred this week
        Reuters
      • Brazil transfers inmates from seething gangland prison
        Brazil transfers inmates from seething gangland prison
        AFP
    • Airbus Wants to Test Its Prototype Flying Car in 2017
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      Airbus Wants to Test Its Prototype Flying Car in 2017

      Airbus Group announced today that it plans to test an autonomous airborne taxi prototype for one passenger by the end of 2017, according to a report from Reuters. Full design schematics have not been released, but it is likely that the first prototype vehicle will use four rotors, possibly looking more like Ehang's quadcopter-style drone-which is currently in flight testing-than the aircraft pictured above. "One hundred years ago, urban transport went underground, now we have the technological wherewithal to go above ground," Airbus CEO Tom Enders said at the DLD digital tech conference in Munich, as reported by Reuters.

      • Airbus CEO Eyes Flying Car in 2017 (EADSY)
        Airbus CEO Eyes Flying Car in 2017 (EADSY)
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      • Airbus is planning to test a self-flying “air taxi” by the end of the year
        Airbus is planning to test a self-flying “air taxi” by the end of the year
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