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ISIS member behind deadly Istanbul suicide blast, PM says

CNN - ‎1 hour ago‎
Read more about this story at CNN Turk. Istanbul (CNN) The suicide bomber who killed at least 10 foreigners Tuesday in a popular central Istanbul tourist area belonged to ISIS, officials said -- an attack that shows the group's nerve, reach and ...
Deadly suicide blast hits Istanbul tourist area; Officials claim Islamic State ...
Istanbul's Sultanahmet District Hit by Blast; At Least 10 Dead, 15 Wounded
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In his final State of the Union address, Obama seeks to stay relevant

Los Angeles Times - ‎2 hours ago‎
President Obama delivers his State of the Union address to a joint session of Congress in 2015. President Obama delivers his State of the Union address to a joint session of Congress in 2015.
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Bernie Sanders Takes Slim Lead Over Hillary Clinton in New Iowa Poll

ABC News - ‎34 minutes ago‎
With just 20 days remaining until the first-in-the-nation caucus, a Quinnipiac University poll released today shows Sanders leading Clinton for the first time in the Hawkeye State with 49 percent support -- his highest support in any Iowa poll yet ...
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How to play Powerball so you don't have to share the jackpot

Washington Post - ‎2 hours ago‎
Something weird happened in March of 2005: 110 people in 26 states correctly picked five out of six Powerball numbers, good enough for second-places prizes of between $100,000 and $500,000 each.
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Biden says Obama offered financial help amid son's illness

CNN - ‎3 hours ago‎
Washington (CNN) As his eldest son faced the prospect of resigning as Delaware's attorney general amid health concerns, Vice President Joe Biden received an offer that floored him: financial support from his boss, President Barack Obama.
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Germany: Pakistanis, Syrian Attacked in Cologne Amid Tension

ABC News - ‎1 hour ago‎
Demonstrators protest against racism and sexism in the wake of the sexual assaults on New Year's Eve, in front of the main station in Cologne, Germany, Saturday Jan. 9, 2016.
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Mobile clinics, medical teams needed in Madaya: WHO official tells Reuters

Reuters - ‎5 hours ago‎
GENEVA The World Health Organization has asked the Syrian government for permission to send mobile clinics and medical teams to the besieged town of Madaya to assess the extent of malnutrition and evacuate the worst cases, its representative said on ...
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Vladimir Putin hints that Russia could grant asylum to Syria's president

Washington Post - ‎2 hours ago‎
MOSCOW - If Syrian President Bashar al-Assad ever feels the need to flee the hot winds of Damascus, he may be able to claim asylum in frigid Moscow, Russian President Vladimir Putin hinted in an interview released Tuesday.
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Iraqi PM Vows to Rout IS After Mall Bombing, Mosque Attacks

New York Times - ‎4 hours ago‎
BAGHDAD - Iraq's prime minister vowed Tuesday to keep up the fight against the Islamic State group, a day after an IS suicide attack on a shopping mall in Baghdad killed 18 people and a wave of retaliatory attacks targeted Sunni mosques.
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Tonya Couch, mom of "affluenza" teen, released from jail

CBS News - ‎1 hour ago‎
FORT WORTH, Texas - The mother of "affluenza" teen Ethan Couch walked out of prison on Tuesday morning. Tonya Couch posted bond Monday night after a judge agreed to significantly lower the amount to just $75,000, reports CBS DFW.
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Four teens charged in New York gang rape, fifth is sought

Reuters - ‎1 hour ago‎
NEW YORK Four teens as young as 14 were charged as adults in last week's gang rape of an 18-year-old woman in a Brooklyn playground, while authorities sought a fifth suspect, New York City police said on Tuesday.
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Parents and Their 2 Daughters Are Killed in Ohio House Explosion

People Magazine - ‎4 hours ago‎
Authorities were combing through the charred remains of a house in Northfield Center Township, Ohio, early Tuesday to determine why the home suddenly exploded Monday night, killing a family of four, including two children.
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Kim Davis, Known for Opposing SCOTUS Gay Marriage Decision, to Attend ...

Newsweek - ‎38 minutes ago‎
112kimdavis Kim Davis, a clerk who refused to issue same-sex marriage licenses, will attend the State of the Union address on January 12.
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Stocks give back gains and turn lower as oil slump persists

USA TODAY - ‎52 minutes ago‎
Stocks have given up big early gains Tuesday and have turned lower in late-morning trading as a renewed dip in oil prices offset the positive start to the day following a second straight day of market stability in China.
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Struggling Philadelphia Inquirer is donated to nonprofit in groundbreaking deal

Washington Post - ‎3 hours ago‎
“If newspapers are having trouble turning a profit without deep annual cuts, how about becoming a nonprofit?” That was the question posed just a few months ago by an article in NiemanLab, a news industry publication.
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Nigeria Says OPEC May Meet Soon as Oil Even Hurting Saudi Arabia

Bloomberg - ‎5 hours ago‎
OPEC will soon make efforts to convene before the next scheduled meeting in June as the slump in oil prices is hurting producers, including the world's biggest exporter, Saudi Arabia, said Emmanuel Kachikwu, Nigeria's minister of state for petroleum ...
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BP to Cut 4000 Jobs as Oil Prices Continue to Fall

New York Times - ‎59 minutes ago‎
LONDON - The persistent plunge in oil prices has translated into a new round of industry job cuts. The British oil giant BP said on Tuesday it would eliminate 4,000 of the approximately 24,000 positions in its exploration and production units this year.
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Windows users face a dangerous world with end of support for older Internet ...

ZDNet - ‎2 hours ago‎
For Microsoft, backward compatibility is a tremendous competitive advantage. It's also a support nightmare, not just for the engineers who have to deliver patches but for third-party developers and web designers who have to support outdated code.
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Twitter brings Periscope video streams into iOS users' timelines

Apple Insider - ‎1 hour ago‎
People using the Twitter iOS app can now see Periscope video feeds embedded in tweets, instead of having to switch to the separate Periscope app, Twitter announced on Tuesday.
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Apple Now Lets Developers Track Their Apple TV Apps' Analytics Data

TechCrunch - ‎2 hours ago‎
Along with the release of new versions of its software across all of its platforms yesterday, Apple also rolled out a change that will have a major impact on those publishers building apps for Apple TV.
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Pokémon 20 year celebration kicks off with a Super Bowl 50 ad

Gaming Age - ‎21 minutes ago‎
Pokemon-20th_Logo Just in time for its big 20th anniversary, The Pokémon Company is spending big bucks to celebrate the Pokémon brand's latest milestone.
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Musician David Bowie Has Died at 69

ABC News - ‎2 hours ago‎
Musician David Bowie has died at the age of 69, his representative confirmed to ABC News. The singer had been battling cancer for more than a year, according to a statement on his official Facebook page.
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Rupert Murdoch, ex-model Jerry Hall announce engagement

Reuters - ‎36 minutes ago‎
LONDON Media mogul Rupert Murdoch and former supermodel Jerry Hall got engaged over the weekend, announcing their plans to tie the knot in a classified ad on Tuesday in the Times newspaper, which is owned by Murdoch's News Corp.
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Ricky Gervais Posts Defiant Tweet Defending Caitlyn Jenner Joke at the Golden ...

People Magazine - ‎48 minutes ago‎
The 2016 Golden Globes host drew jeers during his opening monologue Sunday after making a controversial joke about Caitlyn Jenner and the transgender movement.
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Blackhawks' Quenneville gets three-year extension

NHL.com - ‎1 hour ago‎
The Chicago Blackhawks announced today a three-year contract extension for Head Coach Joel Quenneville, which runs through the end of the 2019-20 National Hockey League season.
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Can MIT save the incandescent lightbulb?

Christian Science Monitor - ‎36 minutes ago‎
Bright but inefficient incandescent bulbs have been on the way out for years, in favor of low-wattage LEDs. Researchers at MIT and Purdue University may figured out how to change that trend.
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New Nanoparticle Battery Shuts Down Before Overheating

ValueWalk - ‎2 hours ago‎
Current lithium-ion batteries can hold a charge for a long time, but pose a significant fire risk. These commonly used batteries, found in a broad range of consumer electronics including smartphones, have been implicated in fires in electric vehicles ...
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Why is this famous physicist tweeting rumors about gravitational waves?

Washington Post - ‎2 hours ago‎
The science-y corners of the Internet are positively buzzing with rumors that gravitational waves have been detected. Where is this coming from, and what does it all mean?
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Our final chance to get information from the Philae comet lander probably failed

The Verge - ‎2 hours ago‎
One of the final attempts by the European Space Agency to communicate with the Philae comet lander has most likely failed. The agency sent a command to the spacecraft yesterday in a last-ditch attempt to trigger some kind of response and potentially ...
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This Is Why Britain's Doctors Have Gone on Strike Today

Fortune - ‎13 minutes ago‎
Junior doctors are up in arms about changes to their contract–and giving the government a proper headache. Tens of thousands of junior doctors across England have gone on strike Tuesday over government plans to change their work contracts in a way that ...
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When Should You Get A Mammogram? A Definitive Guide

Huffington Post - ‎34 minutes ago‎
The answer depends on who you ask. New breast cancer screening guidelines from the U.S. Preventive Services Task Force, a government-convened committee of independent medical experts, say the research is clear: Women between the ages of 50 and ...
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Sugary Drink Intake Tied to Belly Fat

MedPage Today - ‎3 hours ago‎
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Merck, BioLineRX to study drug combo to fight pancreatic cancer

Reuters - ‎4 hours ago‎
JERUSALEM Israeli biopharmaceutical company BioLineRX Ltd said on Tuesday it would collaborate with U.S. industry heavyweight Merck to test a combination of drugs for the treatment of pancreatic cancer.
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