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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

    • Americans want Trump to cut back on Twitter, poll finds
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      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
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      • HHS nominee Tom Price goes under the microscope
        HHS nominee Tom Price goes under the microscope
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    • 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'
        Reuters
      • Virginia executes Ricky Gray for killing family in 2006
        Virginia executes Ricky Gray for killing family in 2006
        UPI
    • Bin Laden documents: worry over IS tactics, 'aging' Al-Qaeda
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      Bin Laden documents: worry over IS tactics, 'aging' Al-Qaeda

      Months before his death, Osama bin Laden fretted about the Islamic State group's impatient, violent tactics and the fading of Al-Qaeda, documents released by the CIA Thursday showed. The latest release from the trove of documents found when Navy Seals stormed the Al-Qaeda chief's secret Pakistan compound and killed him in 2011 show bin Laden trying to keep his jihadist followers around the world aligned in his war against the United States.

      • Osama bin Laden, terrorist leader and doting father
        Osama bin Laden, terrorist leader and doting father
        CNN
      • Final batch of Osama bin Laden documents show he saw US occupation of Iraq as positive for al-Qaeda
        Final batch of Osama bin Laden documents show he saw US occupation of Iraq as positive for al-Qaeda
        International Business Times
    • Accused Cop Killer Markeith Loyd Yells 'F*** You!' at Judge, Will Represent Himself
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      Accused Cop Killer Markeith Loyd Yells 'F*** You!' at Judge, Will Represent Himself

      The man accused of killing an Orlando police officer and his pregnant girlfriend said he plans to represent himself at trial, but not without some choice words for the judge. "Y'all portraying this s--t to the news people like I just went there and shot this girl when there were other guns found on the scene," Markeith Loyd told the judge in an unruly first court appearance Thursday. "A gun was pulled on me first, but y'all acting like I just went there and shot her," he said before he was ordered held without bail on charges he murdered his pregnant ex-girlfriend.

      • Alleged Orlando cop killer Markeith Loyd captured
        Alleged Orlando cop killer Markeith Loyd captured
        Next Media Videos
      • Suspected Orlando Cop Killer Goes on Profanity-Laced Rant in Court
        Suspected Orlando Cop Killer Goes on Profanity-Laced Rant in Court
        ABC News
    • 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
    • Japan hotelier's Nanjing Massacre denial sparks tourism boycott calls
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      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
    • US Park Police Equestrian Team Gets Ready for Inauguration
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      US Park Police Equestrian Team Gets Ready for Inauguration

      ABC News' Charli James stops by the National Mall in Washington, D.C to chat with the riders. From the Washington monument behind me and I am here with officer Jack evil and his horse. Guinness I'm they are part of the United States park police mounted.

      • Video: Freedom Riders Equestrian Team Preps for Inauguration
        ABC News
      • Watch the presidential inauguration in 360 video
        Watch the presidential inauguration in 360 video
        Yahoo 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.

    • Obama: How we talk to our daughters about Trump’s election
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      Obama: How we talk to our daughters about Trump’s election

      President Obama concluded his final press conference as commander in chief the same way his began his candidacy for the office — with a message of hope for the United States’ future. The last question posed to Obama in the James S. Brady Press Briefing Room in the West Wing of the White House concerned a popular speech his wife, first lady Michelle Obama, gave in October that put the stakes of the U.S. presidential election in personal terms. Obama was asked how he was interpreting the meaning of former reality TV show host Trump’s startling victory and how he was discussing the issue with his daughters.

      • Obama holds farewell press conference
        Obama holds farewell press conference
        AFP
      • Obama: President not a job you can do alone
        Obama: President not a job you can do alone
        CNN
    • 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
    • US stealth bombers kill more than 80 IS fighters in Libya
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      AFP

      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.

      • DOD: Obama Orders Bombing of 2 ISIS Camps in Libya Overnight
        DOD: Obama Orders Bombing of 2 ISIS Camps in Libya Overnight
        CNS News
      • US airstrike wipes out dozens of ISIS terrorists in Libya
        US airstrike wipes out dozens of ISIS terrorists in Libya
        New York Post
    • 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.
        CNBC Videos
      • First Chinese freight train arrives in London
        First Chinese freight train arrives in London
        Reuters Videos
    • Woman Accused of Collecting Donations From Fake GoFundMe for Woman's Dead 1-Year-Old Son
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      Woman Accused of Collecting Donations From Fake GoFundMe for Woman's Dead 1-Year-Old Son

      A Pennsylvania woman has been arrested after she allegedly created a GoFundMe account to benefit a Florida mother who lost her 1-year-old son, but kept the money instead. Police said Nicole Leahy, of Lititz, started the campaign in December 2015 and raised $500, but the mother, who said she never authorized anyone to give out family information, said she never received any money. The mom reportedly knew Leahy through a Facebook group “Mothers of Twin Children” of which they were both members.

      • US woman arrested after taping her son to the wall
        US woman arrested after taping her son to the wall
        ITN
      • Mom seen in Facebook Live video with 2-year-old son taped to the wall is arrested
        Mom seen in Facebook Live video with 2-year-old son taped to the wall is arrested
        Fox News
    • African troops move into Gambia as new president sworn in
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      AFP

      African troops move into Gambia as new president sworn in

      West African troops entered The Gambia on Thursday to bolster its new President Adama Barrow, as Gambians erupted in celebration at his inauguration to succeed longtime leader Yahya Jammeh, who has refused to quit. Barrow was sworn in at The Gambia's embassy in Dakar in neighbouring Senegal after Jammeh has refused to step down despite international pressure following his December election loss. Dressed all in white, 51-year-old Barrow waved to a crowd of thousands of jubilant Gambians at an inauguration ending Jammeh's 22-year rule.

      • Will he stay or will he go? Gambia president-elect plans inauguration in exile as president refuses to leave
        Will he stay or will he go? Gambia president-elect plans inauguration in exile as president refuses to leave
        Chicago Tribune
      • Two presidents and an intervention: Gambia is not Côte d’Ivoire, but it can learn from it
        Two presidents and an intervention: Gambia is not Côte d’Ivoire, but it can learn from it
        africanarguments.org
    • U.S. sues Oracle, alleges salary and hiring discrimination
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      Reuters

      U.S. sues Oracle, alleges salary and hiring discrimination

      The U.S. Labor Department has sued Oracle America Inc, alleging that the technology company systematically paid its white, male employees more than other workers and unlawfully favored Asian applicants in its recruiting and hiring efforts. The department in a complaint filed with an administrative judge in Washington said the company was prohibited from engaging in racial discrimination given the hundreds of millions of dollars it receives as a contractor with the federal government. Oracle America is a unit of Oracle Corp. Oracle spokeswoman Deborah Hellinger in a statement said the claims were baseless and "politically motivated," and that the company bases employment decisions on experience and merit.

      • Oracle latest tech firm sued by Department of Labor
        Oracle latest tech firm sued by Department of Labor
        CNN Money
      • Oracle Sued By Department Of Labor Over Discriminatory Hiring Practices And Wages
        Oracle Sued By Department Of Labor Over Discriminatory Hiring Practices And Wages
        International Business Times
    • 10 paid iPhone apps on sale for free right now
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      BGR News

      10 paid iPhone apps on sale for free right now

      We’ve got some terrific sales on iPhone and iPad apps for you to check out today, including one app that will record your iPhone’s screen while you browse the web so you can share those recordings with friends or use them to explain things to someone

    • Deadly fire destroys high-rise building in Tehran, Iran
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      Yahoo News Photo Staff

      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
    • U.S. investors see more automation, not jobs, under Trump administration
      Business
      Reuters

      U.S. investors see more automation, not jobs, under Trump administration

      By David Randall NEW YORK (Reuters) - When U.S. President-elect Donald Trump criticized United Technologies Corp's Carrier unit in November for its plan to move some 800 jobs to Mexico, the parent-company made a swift decision to keep the factory in Indiana. Instead, the company decided it would move toward automation as a way to cut costs. "What that ultimately means is there will be fewer jobs." Swapping robots and software for human labor has underpinned much of the productivity gains in the United States over the last 25 years.

      • Op-Ed: JFK learned the hard way that bashing companies is a bad idea
        Op-Ed: JFK learned the hard way that bashing companies is a bad idea
        CNBC.com
      • Trump, NBC spar on jobs; Onion tweets; fired over good spelling
        Trump, NBC spar on jobs; Onion tweets; fired over good spelling
        San Francisco Chronicle
    • 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.

    • US bombers strike 2 Islamic State camps in Libya
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      Associated Press

      US bombers strike 2 Islamic State camps in Libya

      U.S. Air Force B-2 bombers attacked a pair of Islamic State military camps in Libya, killing more than 80 fighters in an unusual mission that may have marked the final demonstration of military force of President Barack Obama's global counterterrorism campaign. The militants targeted in the airstrikes included Islamic State members "actively planning operations against our allies in Europe," Defense Secretary Ash Carter said Thursday. "These were critically important strikes for our campaign and a clear example of our enduring commitment to destroy ISIL's cancer not only in Iraq and Syria but everywhere it emerges," Carter said on his last full day as secretary of defense.

      • DOD: Obama Orders Bombing of 2 ISIS Camps in Libya Overnight
        DOD: Obama Orders Bombing of 2 ISIS Camps in Libya Overnight
        CNS News
      • US airstrike wipes out dozens of ISIS terrorists in Libya
        US airstrike wipes out dozens of ISIS terrorists in Libya
        New York Post
    • Scientists will live in a dome for 8 months to simulate Mars
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      Associated Press

      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
    • 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
        B. Scott | lovebscott.com
    • Outrage over German populist's call to end Nazi guilt
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      Outrage over German populist's call to end Nazi guilt

      A leading member of German right-wing populist party AfD sparked an outcry Wednesday by criticising the Holocaust memorial in Berlin and calling for the country to stop atoning for its Nazi past. Bjoern Hoecke's comments also exposed a damaging split in the anti-immigration party, just months before Germany heads to the polls. "Up to now, our state of mind is still one of a totally defeated people... We Germans, our people, are the only people in the world who have planted a monument of shame in the heart of the capital," Hoecke told party faithful including youth members, according to a video of the speech circulated online.

      • Far-Right German Politician Stirs Outrage With Holocaust Memorial Criticism
        Far-Right German Politician Stirs Outrage With Holocaust Memorial Criticism
        The Huffington Post
      • European nationalists find common ground _ for now
        European nationalists find common ground _ for now
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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.

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