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$1.5B Powerball jackpot: At least 3 winning tickets sold

CBS News - ‎49 minutes ago‎
LOS ANGELES -- A winning ticket for Wednesday night's world record $1.5 billion Powerball jackpot was sold in suburban Los Angeles, another in Florida and a third in Tennessee, California lottery officials told CBS News.
Powerball Has 3 Big Winners, and There May Be More
Winning Jackpot Tickets in $1.5 Billion Powerball Sold in Calif., Fla., Tenn.
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Defense Secretary, in Speech to Deploying Troops, Lauds Push Against ISIS

New York Times - ‎5 hours ago‎
FORT CAMPBELL, Ky. - Defense Secretary Ashton B. Carter provided an upbeat assessment on Wednesday of the Obama administration's efforts to defeat the Islamic State and said that missions now underway by a new deployment of Special Operations ...
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Blasts, gunfight in Indonesian capital; at least six dead

Reuters - ‎35 minutes ago‎
JAKARTA Militants launched a gun and bomb assault in the center of the Indonesian capital on Thursday, killing at least six people, in an attack that followed a threat by Islamic State fighters to put the country in their "spotlight", police said ...
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Al Jazeera America to shut down

USA TODAY - ‎3 hours ago‎
Al Jazeera America, the American cable news outlet owned by Qatar-based Al Jazeera, plans to shut down less than three years after its much-ballyhooed launch, unable to overcome low ratings, operational problems and a lack of advertisers.
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Car bomb attack by Kurdish militants kills 5, wounds 39 in southeast Turkey

Reuters - ‎1 hour ago‎
CINAR, Turkey Kurdish militants launched a car bomb attack on a police station in Turkey's southeastern town of Cinar overnight, killing five people and wounding 39, the provincial governor's office said on Thursday.
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Iran apology video counters Obama narrative on release of captured U.S. sailors

Washington Times - ‎5 hours ago‎
American Navy sailors were held by the Iranian Revolutionary Guards but released Wednesday. The images counter President Obama's narrative that it was diplomacy alone that returned the sailors.
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Turkey Is Being Torn Apart By ISIS Bombings And Kurdish Clashes

Huffington Post - ‎2 hours ago‎
Turkish police cordon off an area in Istanbul. A deadly bombing claimed by the self-described Islamic State killed at least 10 people in the city on Tuesday.
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At least three dead in French Alps avalanche

Fox News - ‎1 hour ago‎
PARIS - A deadly avalanche hit a high school group skiing in the French Alps on Wednesday, killing two students and a Ukrainian skier and seriously injuring three others, officials said.
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Officials: Bomb attack kills 14 in Pakistan polio center

Chicago Tribune - ‎Jan 12, 2016‎
Pakistani security officials examine the site of a bomb blast near a polio vaccination centre in Quetta. Pakistani security officials examine the site of a bomb blast near a polio vaccination centre in Quetta.
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Maine lawmakers to debate impeachment of Gov. LePage

Fox News - ‎28 minutes ago‎
Maine lawmakers are expected to debate an impeachment order against Gov. Paul LePage Thursday after abuse of power allegations. The proposal, submitted by Democratic Rep. Ben Chipman, hopes to punish the Republican governor for using his ...
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It May Be January But There's a Tropical Storm Brewing in the Atlantic

TIME - ‎59 minutes ago‎
The U.S. National Hurricane Center is advising that a subtropical storm has formed in the Atlantic ocean - in January. Subtropical Storm Alex, the center says, has strengthened slightly as it moves toward the Portuguese mid-Atlantic archipelago of the ...
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President to propose incentive to lure more states to expand Medicaid

USA TODAY - ‎2 hours ago‎
President Obama plans to propose giving new states that expand Medicaid coverage to the poorest of the poor more time before they have to chip in to cover the new recipients, the White House said in a blog post early Thursday.
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GE Is Moving Headquarters to Boston and Itself Into the Digital Era

New York Times - ‎5 hours ago‎
General Electric, the nation's largest industrial company, makes products like jet engines, locomotives and gas turbines. Its corporate reputation is tied to producing big, heavy equipment - atoms by the ton, not the ephemeral bits of software.
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US Will Track Secret Buyers of Luxury Real Estate

New York Times - ‎5 hours ago‎
Concerned about illicit money flowing into luxury real estate, the Treasury Department said Wednesday that it would begin identifying and tracking secret buyers of high-end properties.
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Ricketts gains upper hand in Wrigleyville battle

Chicago Tribune - ‎7 hours ago‎
Waveland Avenue rooftop venues are seen on opening day at Wrigley Field on April 5, 2015. (E. Jason Wambsgans / Chicago Tribune). Jared S. HopkinsContact ReporterChicago Tribune.
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Fed's Beige Book Finds Modest Growth in Most Districts

Wall Street Journal - ‎10 hours ago‎
WASHINGTON—Wages and prices remained subdued in most of the U.S. through the first week of the year, according to a survey of economic conditions, a discouraging signal for Federal Reserve officials grappling with the threat of persistently weak ...
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Google Gives Safety Report for Self-Driving Cars to Calif. DMV

eWeek - ‎8 hours ago‎
During road tests of Google's autonomous vehicles, human drivers had to take manual control on 341 occasions in 14 months. Data that Google submitted recently to the California Department of Motor Vehicles shows that during road tests over a 14-month ...
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Outlook for iOS and Android gets Skype call scheduling

Computerworld - ‎11 hours ago‎
Outlook users who need to cook up a videoconference will have an easier time with new updates Microsoft announced for the app on iOS and Android.
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2016 Detroit auto show roundup

CNET - ‎3 hours ago‎
The 2016 North American International Auto Show was buzzing with world debuts of significant production vehicles and interesting concepts that previewed future designs and technologies that may be coming to a showroom near you.
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Colony boss Carlton Cuse previews USA's alien occupation drama

Entertainment Weekly - ‎9 hours ago‎
USA's new drama Colony is not your typical alien-invasion drama. That's because the initial incursion is long over. Humanity capitulated to what are known as the Hosts, who wiped out all higher levels of government and law enforcement before elevating ...
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Review: HBO's 'Sesame Street,' Fancy but Not Free

New York Times - ‎10 hours ago‎
Like many an urban brownstone owner, “Sesame Street” has come into some cash, and it's undertaken a lovely renovation. The new block is so clean you could eat off the pavement.
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As David Bowie's Blackstar Album Sales Soar, Late Legend is Also Remembered as ...

People Magazine - ‎9 hours ago‎
David Bowie had a long and legendary career, but since his passing on Monday, his music is selling better than ever. The late rocker's death has pushed sales of his new album Blackstar to the No.
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Adele covers Nicki Minaj, Spice Girls during Carpool Karaoke with James Harden

New York Daily News - ‎53 minutes ago‎
Adele isn't just a powerhouse vocalist - she can rap too! The Grammy winner showed off her skills when she joined James Corden for his latest installment of Carpool Karaoke on Wednesday's “The Late Late Show.
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Chandler Jones was 'confused'

Boston Herald - ‎2 hours ago‎
BACK AT IT: Patriots defensive end Chandler Jones warms up during practice yesterday after showing up at the Foxboro Police Department on Sunday, according to dispatch recordings obtained by the Herald.
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To Rams' Owner, It's Business; to St. Louis Fans, It's Personal

New York Times - ‎4 hours ago‎
ST. LOUIS - Enos Stanley Kroenke, a native of Missouri and the owner of the Rams, is named after two of this city's most revered baseball figures, the hustling outfielder Enos Slaughter and the gentlemanly hitter Stan Musial.
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Clippers win 10th straight, beat Heat 104-90 without Jordan

Washington Post - ‎1 hour ago‎
LOS ANGELES - Backup center Cole Aldrich had 19 points and seven rebounds in place of ailing DeAndre Jordan, and the Los Angeles Clippers used a thunderous third-quarter surge to beat the Miami Heat 104-90 Wednesday night for their 10th straight ...
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Green pea galaxy provides insights to early universe evolution

Space Daily - ‎2 hours ago‎
Newly formed dwarf galaxies were likely the reason that the universe heated up about 13 billion years ago, according to new work by an international team of scientists that included a University of Virginia researcher.
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Humans may have stalled ice age

Bend Bulletin - ‎25 minutes ago‎
At a time of intense planetary warming, it's odd to even contemplate a counterfactual world in which we might instead be in or heading into a glacial period, sometimes more popularly called an “ice age.
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'Mini Force Fields' Used To Control Individual Microbots Within Groups

Immortal News - ‎3 hours ago‎
Researchers at Purdue University have found a means by which to control individual microbots within groups, a feat never before accomplished, using technology that the researchers themselves related to “mini force fields.
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NASA forms office to detect Earth-bound asteroids

WKBW-TV - ‎7 hours ago‎
View of asteroid 243 Ida, mosaic of 5 image frames aquired by Galileo spacecraft's Solid State Imaging System. (Photo by Time Life Pictures/NASA/JPL/The LIFE Picture Collection/Getty Images).
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Is the cure for cancer real or rhetoric?

CNN International - ‎4 hours ago‎
(CNN) President Barack Obama's State of the Union address announced a new national "moon shot" effort to cure cancer.
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Latest: CDC consulting with Michigan on Legionnaires' cases

Washington Post - ‎5 hours ago‎
FLINT, Mich. - The latest on the drinking water crisis in Flint, Michigan (all times local): 9:10 p.m.. A spokesman with the federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention tells The Associated Press the agency is consulting with state health ...
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Preparing for pandemics could cost less than $1 each a year, review says

Reuters - ‎16 hours ago‎
LONDON Investing less than $0.72 a year for each person would make the world far more resilient to potentially devastating pandemics, according to a global health expert group convened in the wake of the Ebola crisis.
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