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Intelligence Chief Defends Finding Russia Meddled in Election

Wall Street Journal - ‎5 hours ago‎
WASHINGTON—Top American intelligence officials reaffirmed and broadened their accusations of Russian interference in the 2016 U.S.
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Donald Trump, intelligence community need trust
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Poll: Most Americans Say Don't Repeal Obamacare Without A Replacement

NPR - ‎30 minutes ago‎
An overwhelming majority of people disapprove of Republican lawmakers' plan to repeal the Affordable Care Act without having a ready replacement for the health care law, according to a poll released Friday.
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Hate crime charges filed after 'reprehensible' video shows attack on mentally ill man in Chicago

Washington Post - ‎9 hours ago‎
Authorities in Chicago charged four young African American adults with hate crimes Thursday after a video broadcast live on Facebook appeared to show them shouting obscenities about President-elect Donald Trump and white people while abusing a man ...
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Wartime Sex Slave Dispute Resurfaces to Rattle Japan-Korea Ties

Bloomberg - ‎29 minutes ago‎
Just an hour after Japan's first cabinet meeting of the year, the nation's top government spokesman surprised reporters by firing a diplomatic salvo at South Korea over a longstanding historical dispute that the two U.S.
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Following North Carolina's example, Texas Republicans unveil 'bathroom bill'

Washington Post - ‎10 hours ago‎
After months of sparring over whether transgender Texans should be allowed to use bathrooms that align with their gender identity, Republican Lt.
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Turkey: 2 dead in explosion near courthouse in Izmir

CNN - ‎15 hours ago‎
(CNN) Two people were killed in an explosion Thursday near a courthouse in the city of Izmir in western Turkey, according to the country's state-run Anadolu news agency.
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Syrian army, allies press assault to secure capital's water supply

Reuters - ‎7 hours ago‎
AMMAN The Syrian army and its allies pressed ahead on Friday with a two-week-long offensive to seize a strategic valley where a key spring provides supplies to four million people in the capital, Damascus, residents and rebels said.
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Donald Trump and the art of messaging

Washington Times - ‎7 hours ago‎
Last week, after the Obama administration broke with 36 years of tradition, by abstaining from a U.N. Security Council vote that declared every Jewish home in east Jerusalem and the West Bank in “flagrant violation of international law,” President ...
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Winter storm: South braces for snow, sleet and freezing rain

U.S. News & World Report - ‎23 minutes ago‎
Lucinda Anderson, of Bowling Green, Ky., left, and her daughter Shaye Rabold, of Lexington, Ky., walk through Fountain Square Park to get to their car in Bowling Green on Thursday, Jan. 5, 2017.
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Legislators: Rep. Accused of Beating His Wife Should Resign

ABC News - ‎14 hours ago‎
A legislator indicted on allegations of beating his wife should resign, leaders of the South Carolina Legislature said Thursday, with one lawmaker calling it "terrifying and horrific" to hear children on a 911 call screaming for their daddy to stop ...
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What's Trump doing tonight? Settling vendettas.

CNN - ‎5 hours ago‎
(CNN) Fifteen days from his presidential inauguration, President-elect Donald Trump is looking to settle some scores. The President-elect spent part of his day Thursday dialing Ohio Republicans in the hopes of swaying their decision in Friday's vote ...
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California braces for 'once-in-10-year' storm amid fears of flooding, avalanches, blizzards

Los Angeles Times - ‎10 hours ago‎
Sierra travelers trapped by back-to-back storms that dropped more than 2 feet of snow have a brief window to pass before the arrival of a weather system Saturday so wet forecasters are calling it an "atmospheric river.
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Toyota stock dips after Trump tweet on planned Mexico plant

Washington Post - ‎1 hour ago‎
TOKYO - Toyota Motor Corp. is a “good corporate citizen” and intends to work with President-elect Donald Trump to help make America strong, the Japanese automaker's president, Akio Toyoda, says.
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Ailing retail giant Sears may not survive

USA TODAY - ‎11 hours ago‎
Sears is closing 150 stores and selling its vaunted Craftsman tool brand, but those steps may not be enough to stop the unraveling of the American icon.
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Department Stores, Once Anchors at Malls, Become Millstones

New York Times - ‎6 hours ago‎
Discount retailers like T.J. Maxx are posing a stern challenge to department stores like Macy's and Sears, which have announced job and location reductions.
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Google pushes virtual reality harder with new phones from partners

Business Insider - ‎3 hours ago‎
Jan 5 (Reuters) - Alphabet Inc's Google quickened the pace of its push into virtual and augmented reality this week as its hardware partners announced new devices featuring the company's technology at the CES electronics show in Las Vegas.
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Samsung predicts biggest profits in three years, just three months after Note 7 recall

The Verge - ‎55 minutes ago‎
It's been less than four months since Samsung was forced to issue an embarrassing recall of one of its flagship phones, but the company has announced that it is expecting a big increase in year-on-year operating profit for the fourth quarter of 2016.
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Amazon Is Already Winning the Next Big Arms Race in Tech

TIME - ‎11 hours ago‎
Companies like Apple, Google, Samsung, and Microsoft have all vied for control over the phones we carry in our pockets, the computers at our desks, and even the watches on our wrists.
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Hear Ed Sheeran's 'Castle on the Hill,' 'Shape of You'

RollingStone.com - ‎2 hours ago‎
Ed Sheeran is back with two new songs, "Castle on the Hill" and "Shape of You." After a yearlong hiatus from social media, he took to Twitter, Instagram, Facebook and Snapchat to tease the songs before releasing them around midnight on Friday morning.
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Carrie Fisher Remembered at Star-Studded Memorial One Day Before Debbie Reynold's Funeral

E! Online - ‎6 hours ago‎
A private memorial for Carrie Fisher was held at her home in Beverly Hills Thursday, a day before the funeral of her mother, Debbie Reynolds, who passed away one day after Fisher last month.
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What time are the Golden Globes? And other burning questions answered!

Entertainment Weekly - ‎14 hours ago‎
Happy New Year! Now that we've finally made it to 2017, it's time to put the worst of 2016 behind us and celebrate the best - movies and TV, that is.
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Connor Cook's CFB coach: QB won't be intimidated by playoffs

NFL.com - ‎Jan 4, 2017‎
Jack Del Rio isn't the only coach who is expressing faith in the ability of quarterback Connor Cook, who will become the first QB of the Super Bowl era to make his first career start in a playoff game on Saturday when the Raiders visit the Texans.
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Frosty the Snowman Just Became a Major Health Hazard in China

TIME - ‎2 hours ago‎
China's children are having it tough this winter, and it's not just the freezing temperatures. Their still developing lungs are subjected to some of the worst air pollution on the planet, much of it caused by the nation's power stations burning more ...
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US-trained dolphins to help locate Mexico's vaquita porpoise

NavyTimes.com - ‎Jan 3, 2017‎
MEXICO CITY - U.S. Navy-trained dolphins and their handlers will participate in a last-ditch effort to catch, enclose and protect the last few dozen of Mexico's critically endangered vaquita porpoises to save them from extinction.
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Death rate from cancer now 25% lower than it was 25 years ago, report says

Los Angeles Times - ‎12 hours ago‎
In the year to come, an estimated 1,688,780 people in the United States are expected to get a cancer diagnosis, and cancer will claim the lives of a projected 600,920.
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Ebola virus found hiding in lungs of health-care worker

Washington Post - ‎13 hours ago‎
Ebola has proven itself a tricky foe to get rid of in the human body. In numerous cases in which it was thought to be gone and patients fully recovered, the virus has been found in the eyes, semen, amniotic fluid, placenta, breast milk and central ...
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Now hear this: Stop cleaning your ears!

USA TODAY - ‎17 hours ago‎
(NEWSER) - There's a reason Q-tips come with a warning to never use them in your ears —and it's about time we heeded the advice, says the American Academy of Otolaryngology.
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