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How to preorder the iPhone 7 and iPhone 7 Plus

The Verge - ‎1 hour ago‎
The second weekend of September is nearly upon us, and tradition says we must now gather around the collective browser window to show our devotion to Apple's annual iPhone refresh.
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Shallow Earthquake Detected Near North Korea Nuclear Test Site

Bloomberg - ‎9 minutes ago‎
A shallow 5.0-magnitude earthquake was detected near North Korea's nuclear test site, according to the European Mediterranean Seismological Centre.
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Next Stop, Bennu! NASA Launches Bold Asteroid-Sampling Mission

Space.com - ‎1 hour ago‎
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. - NASA's bold mission to bring pieces of an asteroid down to Earth has taken flight. The agency's OSIRIS-REx spacecraft lifted off from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station here today (Sept.
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Dozens stuck overnight on cable cars in French Alps

CNN - ‎3 hours ago‎
(CNN) Forty-five people remain trapped overnight in cable cars dangling high above the ground in the French Alps, officials said. Rescue operations will resume Friday during daylight, authorities said.
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US Gets Ready to Assist Offensive to Retake Key Iraq City From Islamic State

Wall Street Journal - ‎1 hour ago‎
The U.S. is gearing up to assist in an offensive to reclaim the Iraqi city of Mosul from Islamic State, and has sent 400 additional troops to the country in anticipation Iraqi forces will begin the long-delayed battle in October, officials said.
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7 Detained Over Gas Canisters Found Near Paris' Notre Dame

New York Times - ‎3 hours ago‎
PARIS - Three women radicals with apparent plans for "imminent" violence were detained Thursday after a standoff with French police, as part of a terrorism investigation into six gas canisters found in a car abandoned near Notre Dame Cathedral in ...
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Gaza was really looking forward to elections. Now voters feel robbed.

Washington Post - ‎5 hours ago‎
GAZA CITY - For the first time in a decade, voters here were going to the polls next month. They were psyched. But after Thursday's decision to suspend the campaigns, many said they felt robbed.
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Prosecutors will drop cases against former Va. governor Robert McDonnell, wife

Washington Post - ‎2 hours ago‎
Federal prosecutors will not attempt to retry former Virginia governor Robert F. McDonnell and his wife, Maureen, on corruption charges, ending a years-long saga that rocked the commonwealth's political class and cut short the rise of a Republican ...
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Democrats rally around Clinton and paint Trump as unfit for office

Washington Post - ‎1 hour ago‎
On Thursday, the full force of the Democratic Party, including President Obama, rallied around Hillary Clinton, saying that rival Donald Trump is unfit for office.
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Election Complaint Filed With DOJ Against Florida AG for 2013 Trump Foundation Contribution

ABC News - ‎2 hours ago‎
A Democratic group affiliated with an anti-Trump super PAC filed a complaint with the Department of Justice on Wednesday night against Florida Attorney General Pam Bondi for the $25,000 her re-election fundraising group accepted from the Trump ...
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Clinton, projecting a softer image, opens up about her faith

Politico - ‎34 minutes ago‎
KANSAS CITY, Mo. - Hillary Clinton spent the morning savaging Donald Trump as unfit to serve as commander in chief. She spent the evening presenting herself as the only religious candidate in a 2016 election that has utterly redrawn the usual partisan ...
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Watch Jarrett Hill Take On the Trump-Clinton Forum

Hollywood Reporter - ‎7 hours ago‎
The journalist, who was the first to famously accuse Melania Trump of lifting passages from Michelle Obama during the RNC, hosts a discussion on the 'Commander-in-Chief Forum.
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Wells Fargo Fined for Years of Harm to Customers

New York Times - ‎47 minutes ago‎
Wells Fargo employees opened roughly 1.5 million bank accounts and applied for 565,000 credit cards that may not have been authorized by their customers, regulators said.
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Rocket carrying NASA asteroid probe blasts off from Florida

Reuters - ‎2 hours ago‎
The United Launch Alliance Atlas V rocket carrying NASA's Origins, Spectral Interpretation, Resource Identification, Security-Regolith Explorer (OSIRIS-REx) spacecraft lifts off from Space Launch Complex 41 at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, Florida ...
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Airbnb Adopts Rules in Effort to Fight Discrimination by Its Hosts

New York Times - ‎3 hours ago‎
Airbnb, whose San Francisco headquarters are seen here, said that it would institute a new nondiscrimination policy that goes beyond what is outlined in several anti-discrimination laws.
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Google's enterprise boss explains why it spent $625 million to help non-tech companies make apps

Recode - ‎5 hours ago‎
Google wants its next big business, enterprise services, to be just as all-encompassing and unavoidable. That's the primary motivation behind its move, announced this morning, to acquire Apigee, a company that went public last year, for $625 million.
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Why You Should or Shouldn't Buy Sony's PlayStation 4 Pro

Fortune - ‎5 hours ago‎
Here's how to decide if it's right for you. We're about to have a moment, and it's a moment that revolves around a number and a letter: 4K, a way of referring to how many pixels your television can display.
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Ranking every 'Star Trek' movie and TV series from first to worst

Los Angeles Times - ‎7 hours ago‎
We get the science fiction we need at the time we need it. When “Star Trek” premiered on Sept. 8, 1966, the United States was escalating its involvement in the Vietnam War while also reckoning with the civil rights movement - not to mention waging a ...
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'Full House' Home Up for Rent, and You'll Never Guess How Much it Costs

TheWrap - ‎1 hour ago‎
The house that's used as the facade for the Tanner residence on “Full House” and Netflix spinoff “Fuller House” is available to rent, but it's not for every fan.
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PFT's 2016 season predictions

NBCSports.com - ‎8 hours ago‎
The regular season is finally upon us, which means it's time for PFT's preseason predictions. Guaranteed to look dumb in 17 weeks.
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Broncos' Brandon Marshall kneels during national anthem in season opener

USA TODAY - ‎20 minutes ago‎
Brandon Marshall of the Denver Broncos became the latest NFL player to take a knee in protest during the singing of the national anthem before a game when he did it before Thursday night's nationally televised game between the Broncos and Carolina ...
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Giraffe genetic secret: Four species of tallest mammal identified

BBC News - ‎8 hours ago‎
It is a famous, gentle giant of the African savannah, but the giraffe's genetics have just revealed that there is not one species, but four.
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Parasitologist bestows squirmy honor on his distant cousin, President Obama

Los Angeles Times - ‎4 hours ago‎
How does a scientist honor a president who happens to be a distant relative? By naming a turtle parasite after him. Baracktrema obamai isn't just any parasite.
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The world's wilderness is disappearing

The Verge - ‎6 hours ago‎
The untouched wilderness on this planet is disappearing - and disappearing fast. That's bad news, and not just because trees look nice: we depend on vast swathes of pristine nature to support diverse forms of life, to keep climate change at bay, and ...
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Zika doubled devastating birth defects in Brazil

CNN - ‎8 hours ago‎
(CNN) The pictures from Brazil are heartbreaking: baby after baby born with a small head and damaged brain after an attack by the Zika virus during pregnancy.
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Statins or not? New study aims to help doctors and patients decide

CNN - ‎1 hour ago‎
(CNN) The thought that comes to mind when you hear the word "statin" may depend on your age. Below the age of 40 and you may not have come across them, but for everyone else, these drugs can be something they love, or equally as often, loathe.
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FDA warns against widely used ovarian cancer screening test

Fox News - ‎9 hours ago‎
WASHINGTON - The Food and Drug Administration on Wednesdaywarned women and their doctors that current screening tests for ovarian cancer are unreliable and could lead to false diagnoses.
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Decompressive Surgery Cuts Death in Traumatic Brain Injury

Medscape - ‎4 hours ago‎
Patients with traumatic brain injury and raised intracranial pressure who underwent decompressive craniectomy - in which a large section of the skull is removed to allow the brain to expand - had a far lower mortality rate but were more likely to be ...
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