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    • Wyoming school debunks nominee's gun claim

      Wyoming school debunks nominee's gun claim

      Contrary to what education pick Betsy DeVos said at a Senate hearing, no guns are allowed at Wapiti Elementary School.It does have grizzly bear issues, though »

      • Trump supporters urge others to get on board

        Trump supporters urge others to get on board

      • Trump team to keep 50 Obama aides

        Trump team to keep 50 Obama aides

      • Washington braces for massive protests

        Washington braces for massive protests

    • 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.

      • What's Next For Chelsea Manning?
        What's Next For Chelsea Manning?
        International Business Times
      • Obama says justice has been served in Manning case
        Obama says justice has been served in Manning case
        AFP
    • Scott Pruitt on climate change: ‘My personal opinion is immaterial’
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      Scott Pruitt on climate change: ‘My personal opinion is immaterial’

      Pressed by Democratic senators for his views on the causes of climate change, the Trump administration’s choice to run the Environmental Protection Agency insisted at his confirmation hearing Wednesday morning that his “personal opinion” was “immaterial” to how he would do his job. Democrats on the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee questioned Oklahoma Attorney General Scott Pruitt closely on his history of suing the agency he has been nominated to lead, his statements questioning mainstream climate science and his close ties to the oil and gas industries. Republicans were much friendlier, mostly lamenting the impact of regulations on fossil-fuel industry jobs, something Pruitt promised to take into account.

      • Trump's EPA pick casts doubt on California's power to regulate auto emissions
        Trump's EPA pick casts doubt on California's power to regulate auto emissions
        Los Angeles Times
      • Trump's EPA nominee argues for 'debate and dialogue' about climate change
        Trump's EPA nominee argues for 'debate and dialogue' about climate change
        The Week
    • 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'
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      • Virginia executes Ricky Gray for killing family in 2006
        Virginia executes Ricky Gray for killing family in 2006
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      Islamic State kills 12 in Palmyra, among them teachers, soldiers: monitor

      Islamic State militants put at least 12 people to death in execution-style killings in the ancient city of Palmyra, which they re-captured from the government for a second time in December, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights reported on Thursday. The jihadist group beheaded four of the people - state employees and teachers - outside a museum, the group said. The eight others - four of them government soldiers and four of them rebel fighters captured elsewhere in Syria - were shot.

    • Western Union to pay $586 mn to settle US money laundering probe
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      Western Union to pay $586 mn to settle US money laundering probe

      Global payments company Western Union will pay $586 million to settle a US criminal investigation that found it had a weak anti-money laundering program and looked the other way when employees collaborated in fraud. The settlement, which includes a deferred prosecution agreement, concerns violations uncovered between 2004 and 2012 in which the company failed to adequately safeguard its money transfer system from transactions that could have supported illicit activity such as human trafficking, drug dealing and other crimes. Western Union employees also worked to help customers get around requirements to file a currency transaction report when more than $10,000 is wired to a client in a single day.

      • Western Union to pay $586M for turning a blind eye to money laundering criminals
        Western Union to pay $586M for turning a blind eye to money laundering criminals
        Sun-Sentinel
      • Western Union shares fall after it settles US money laundering allegations
        Western Union shares fall after it settles US money laundering allegations
        CNBC.com
    • Deadly fire destroys high-rise building in Tehran, Iran
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      Deadly fire destroys high-rise building in Tehran, Iran

      A high-rise building in Tehran engulfed by a fire collapsed on Thursday, killing at least 30 firefighters and injuring some 75 people, state media reported. The disaster struck the Plasco building, an iconic structure in central Tehran just north of the capital’s sprawling bazaar. Iran’s state-run Press TV announced the firefighters’ deaths, without giving a source for the information.

      • Iranian High-rise Collapses in Huge Fire, Killing Dozens
        Iranian High-rise Collapses in Huge Fire, Killing Dozens
        The Atlantic
      • Iran Plasco building collapse kills Tehran firefighters battling intense fire
        Iran Plasco building collapse kills Tehran firefighters battling intense fire
        CBS News
    • Failed MH370 Search Reveals the Secrets of the Sea Floor
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      Popular Mechanics

      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.

    • Giant Florida Gator Is Not For Tourists, Nature Preserve Staff Warn
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      Giant Florida Gator Is Not For Tourists, Nature Preserve Staff Warn

      A video of a massive alligator walking through a reserve near Lakeland, Florida, had people speculating earlier this week whether it was a hoax. The video, which was uploaded Sunday to Facebook by Florida resident Kim Joiner, shows the massive reptile appearing out of a nearby bush at the Circle B Bar Reserve in Polk County and then casually walking on the reserve's Marsh Rabbit Run. Officials for the county's natural resources division said that while they appreciate the attention the nature reserve has been getting, they are also worried about the safety of visitors and wildlife.

      • Giant Alligator Draws Crowds of Visitors to Florida Nature Reserve, Raises Concerns About Safety
        Giant Alligator Draws Crowds of Visitors to Florida Nature Reserve, Raises Concerns About Safety
        Good Morning America
      • Giant Gator Draws Crowds and Raises Safety Concerns
        Giant Gator Draws Crowds and Raises Safety Concerns
        ABC News
    • 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

      • Video captures school bus plowing into woman
        Video captures school bus plowing into woman
        New York Post
      • Shocking: School Bus Driver Runs Over a Woman Trying to Cross the Street [Video] | B. Scott
        Shocking: School Bus Driver Runs Over a Woman Trying to Cross the Street [Video] | B. Scott
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    • Watch the presidential inauguration in 360 video
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      Watch the presidential inauguration in 360 video

      President-elect Donald Trump will be sworn in as the 45th president of the United States on Jan. 20 and Yahoo News will be there to bring you live coverage of the historic Inauguration Day in 360 video.

      • Facebook’s block of Russian media company RT is super confusing
        Facebook’s block of Russian media company RT is super confusing
        Washington Post
      • First Facebook, now RT's access to Dataminr Twitter news discovery service has been revoked
        First Facebook, now RT's access to Dataminr Twitter news discovery service has been revoked
        International Business Times
    • President Obama defends Chelsea Manning commutation
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      President Obama defends Chelsea Manning commutation

      At his final press conference as president of the United States, Barack Obama defended his controversial decision this week to commute convicted leaker Chelsea Manning’s sentence. Obama was asked if he feared that commuting her sentence might send a message that leaking classified information might send the wrong message to groups like WikiLeaks. The Obama administration has accused Russian hackers of sharing information with WikiLeaks to interfere in the U.S. election.

      • WikiLeaks' Julian Assange Retreats From Extradition Pledge
        WikiLeaks' Julian Assange Retreats From Extradition Pledge
        Time Magazine Videos
      • Wikileaks' founder Assange says stands by U.S. extradition offer
        Wikileaks' founder Assange says stands by U.S. extradition offer
        Reuters
    • 4 quakes shake Italy, isolating towns blanketed under snow
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      Associated Press

      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.

      • Deadly quake nightmare returns to haunt Italy
        Deadly quake nightmare returns to haunt Italy
        AFP
      • Rome metro evacuated as powerful earthquakes rock Italy
        Rome metro evacuated as powerful earthquakes rock Italy
        FOX6Now.com
    • U.S. strikes in Libya kill more than 80 Islamic State fighters
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      Reuters

      U.S. strikes in Libya kill more than 80 Islamic State fighters

      By Idrees Ali and Phil Stewart WASHINGTON (Reuters) - More than 80 Islamic State militants, some of whom were believed to be plotting attacks in Europe, died in U.S. air strikes on camps outside the group's former North African stronghold of Sirte in Libya, the United States said on Thursday. "These strikes were directed against some of ISIL's external plotters," U.S Defense Secretary Ash Carter told a Pentagon briefing, using an acronym for Islamic State, the Syria- and Iraq-based militant group.

      • B-2 Bombers Strike ISIS Camps in Libya
        B-2 Bombers Strike ISIS Camps in Libya
        ABC News
      • Over 80 Isis fighters killed in latest US air strike near Sirte in Libya, Pentagon says
        Over 80 Isis fighters killed in latest US air strike near Sirte in Libya, Pentagon says
        International Business Times
    • Mexican resort area reels from back-to-back shootings
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      AFP

      Mexican resort area reels from back-to-back shootings

      Cancún (Mexico) (AFP) - A tranquil Mexican seaside region reeled Wednesday from two shootings that left nine people dead and shattered the peace in a beach resort area beloved by US and European tourists. Mexico's so-called "Mayan Riviera" had largely avoided the major drug-related violence plaguing other regions. The gunfight came just a day after three foreigners and two Mexicans died in a shooting at an electronic music festival in the seaside town of Playa del Carmen.

      • Back-to-back shootings spark new concern about simmering narco violence in Mexico's tourism heartland
        Back-to-back shootings spark new concern about simmering narco violence in Mexico's tourism heartland
        Business Insider
      • 4 dead in new shooting in Mexico's Caribbean resort region
        4 dead in new shooting in Mexico's Caribbean resort region
        Associated Press
    • When presidential inaugurations go very, very wrong
      Lifestyle
      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.

    • 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).

      • China's first freight train to the U.K.
        China's first freight train to the U.K.
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      • First Chinese freight train arrives in London
        First Chinese freight train arrives in London
        Reuters Videos
    • Japan hotelier's Nanjing Massacre denial sparks tourism boycott calls
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      Reuters

      Japan hotelier's Nanjing Massacre denial sparks tourism boycott calls

      By Elaine Lies and Megumi Lim TOKYO (Reuters) - A Japanese hotelier's denial of a 1937 massacre by Japanese troops in the Chinese city of Nanjing has prompted Chinese social media calls for a boycott of travel to Japan, threatening tourist arrivals days before the Lunar New Year holidays. The furor erupted over books by Toshio Motoya, the president of Tokyo-based hotel and real estate developer APA Group, which contain his revisionist views and are placed in every room of the company's 400-plus APA Hotels. In one, printed in English and Japanese and entitled "The Real History of Japan", he says the "Nanking Massacre story" was "impossible", blaming looting and killings on members of a branch of the Chinese military who had shed their uniforms.

      • Japanese hotel chain under fire from China over WWII massacre denial
        Japanese hotel chain under fire from China over WWII massacre denial
        Newsweek
      • One of Japan's biggest hotel chains is denying that the Nanjing Massacre took place
        One of Japan's biggest hotel chains is denying that the Nanjing Massacre took place
        Mashable
    • Woman Arrested After Accosting Bella Hadid With Palestinian Flag and More News
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      Woman Arrested After Accosting Bella Hadid With Palestinian Flag and More News

      Woman arrested after accosting Bella Hadid with Palestinian flag, Nancy Sinatra destroys Trump for using ‘My Way’ at inauguration, Kanye apparently wasn’t invited to perform at the inauguration, and Gigi Hadid fuels engagement rumors after wearing a ring on *that* finger. Get all the details at MarieClaire.com!

      • Kendall Jenner Wants to Steal THIS From Kylie Jenner's House
        Kendall Jenner Wants to Steal THIS From Kylie Jenner's House
        Celebuzz
      • Kendall Jenner and A$AP Rocky Went Jewelry Shopping Together
        Kendall Jenner and A$AP Rocky Went Jewelry Shopping Together
        Harper's Bazaar
    • Americans want Trump to cut back on Twitter, poll finds
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      Yahoo News

      Americans want Trump to cut back on Twitter, poll finds

      President-elect Donald Trump is known to have an itchy Twitter finger, and says he plans to continue his use of the social media platform after he takes the oath of office. The survey, conducted Jan. 12 to 15, found a vast majority of Democrats (89 percent) have a negative view of Trump’s use of Twitter. In November, Trump said he would be “very restrained” in his use of Twitter as commander in chief, but will reserve the right to use it as a “method” to combat what he perceives as negative stories about him.

      • Idaho exchange's subsidies at risk under health care repeal
        Idaho exchange's subsidies at risk under health care repeal
        KTVB Boise
      • HHS nominee Tom Price goes under the microscope
        HHS nominee Tom Price goes under the microscope
        CNN
    • 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.

      • Accused kidnapper ordered held without bond
        Accused kidnapper ordered held without bond
        WJXT Jacksonville
      • Alexis Manigo: Teen kidnapped as newborn says she has no hate towards woman who raised her Gloria Williams
        Alexis Manigo: Teen kidnapped as newborn says she has no hate towards woman who raised her Gloria Williams
        CBS News
    • Scientists will live in a dome for 8 months to simulate Mars
      Science
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      Scientists will live in a dome for 8 months to simulate Mars

      Six carefully selected scientists have entered a man-made dome on a remote Hawaii volcano as part of a human-behavior study that could help NASA as it draws up plans for sending astronauts on long missions to Mars. The NASA-funded project will study the psychological difficulties associated with living in isolated and confined conditions for an extended period. "We're hoping to figure out how best to select individual astronauts, how to compose a crew and how to support that crew on long-duration space missions," said principal investigator Kim Binsted, a University of Hawaii science professor.

      • NASA is sending 6 strangers to Hawaii to practice living on Mars
        NASA is sending 6 strangers to Hawaii to practice living on Mars
        Vox.com
      • Scientists enter Hawaii dome in eight-month Mars space mission study
        Reuters
    • US stealth bombers kill more than 80 IS fighters in Libya
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      US stealth bombers kill more than 80 IS fighters in Libya

      More than 80 Islamic State jihadists were killed in a US aerial blitz on training camps in Libya, including fighters involved in plotting attacks in Europe, Defense Secretary Ashton Carter said Thursday. The Pentagon made the highly unusual decision to conduct the air strikes with a pair of B-2 stealth bombers that flew to North Africa on a 34-hour mission from their base in Missouri in America's Midwest. The last time the distinctive, bat-shaped planes were used in Libya was in 2011 during the mission that led to the ouster of longtime leader Moamer Kadhafi.

      • B-2 Bombers Strike ISIS Camps in Libya
        B-2 Bombers Strike ISIS Camps in Libya
        ABC News
      • Over 80 Isis fighters killed in latest US air strike near Sirte in Libya, Pentagon says
        Over 80 Isis fighters killed in latest US air strike near Sirte in Libya, Pentagon says
        International Business Times
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      Undocumented worker sues San Francisco for violating sanctuary law

      The lawsuit was filed on Tuesday on behalf of Pedro Figueroa Zarceno, 32, in federal court in San Francisco against the city and its police chief for violating his right to due process and breaking an ordinance barring municipal employees from cooperating with federal immigration authorities seeking to deport a person. Figueroa walked into a police station in November 2015 to report his car stolen, according to the lawsuit. The civil action comes as San Francisco and dozens of other U.S. cities face pressure from President-elect Donald Trump, who takes office on Friday, to abandon their policies of limiting cooperation between law enforcement officers and U.S. immigration authorities.

    • Everything We Think We Know About the Upcoming Ford Bronco and Ranger
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      Everything We Think We Know About the Upcoming Ford Bronco and Ranger

      Late last year, UAW representative Bill Johnson said something he possibly shouldn't have-the Bronco and the Ranger are coming back. For Ford fans who want a midsize pickup or a competent off-roader, this was huge news. Americans can't get enough trucks and SUVs right now, making it a perfect time for Ford to expand its lineup.

    • Foreclosed mall once valued at $190M is auctioned for $100
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      Foreclosed mall once valued at $190M is auctioned for $100

      A Pennsylvania mall that was foreclosed on after its owners failed to repay $143 million has been auctioned off for $100. Wells Fargo Bank was owed the money from a 2006 loan and submitted the winning bid for the 1.1 million-square-foot Galleria at Pittsburgh Mills on Wednesday.

      • Foreclosed Pittsburgh mall sells for $100 at auction
        Foreclosed Pittsburgh mall sells for $100 at auction
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      • Shopping mall sells for just $100
        Shopping mall sells for just $100
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