| Gruesome murder leaves 2 children, 2 adults dead Posted: 28 Dec 2017 08:05 AM PST  Investigators in Troy, New York are on the hunt for the people responsible for murdering two children, their mother and her girlfriend. The bodies were found a day after Christmas.
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| Alabama officials dismiss Moore claims of voter fraud; Jones certified as winner Posted: 28 Dec 2017 11:47 AM PST  Alabama Secretary of State John Merrill laughed off the assertion by Roy Moore campaign spokeswoman Janet Porter that there is a "one in 15 billion" chance voter fraud did not occur in the state's special U.S. Senate election.
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| Female Comedian From 'Last Comic Standing' Sued For Banning Men From Show Posted: 28 Dec 2017 01:04 PM PST  A man is suing comedian Iliza Shlesinger for waging a "War On Men" after he was denied entry to her November show, "Girls Night In With Iliza — No Boys Allowed."
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| Report: White House intern appears to flash 'white power' hand gesture in photo with Trump Posted: 29 Dec 2017 07:00 AM PST  A White House intern appeared to flash a white power hand gesture in a photo with President Donald Trump, a signal that some far-right groups have adopted in recent months.
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| Woman's Mother and Baby Daughter Die in Bronx Fire: 'I Lost Everything in a Matter of Minutes' Posted: 29 Dec 2017 11:47 AM PST  Before Maria Batiz was killed, she called her daughter to say their building was on fire. "I never heard from her again," her daughter said.
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| Solange Opens Up About Autonomic Disorder She's Been Battling For Months Posted: 28 Dec 2017 07:35 AM PST  Solange just revealed she won't be performing in South Africa at Afropunk's upcoming New Year's Eve show due to medical issues.
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| Most popular Yahoo News photo galleries of 2017 – The countdown Posted: 29 Dec 2017 04:50 AM PST  The countdown of photo galleries that our Yahoo readers liked the best this year! Check back in as we'll be counting down the top 10 until New Year's Eve.
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| Shy 10-year-old Oklahoma boy looking for a permanent home Posted: 28 Dec 2017 07:54 AM PST  A shy fourth grader from Oklahoma is turning to the public in hopes that someone will read his story and make him a part of their family.
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| Tuscon Police Release Footage of Man Impersonating a Police Officer Posted: 27 Dec 2017 09:00 PM PST  The suspect allegedly made fake traffic stops in Arizona and handcuffed one of his victims.
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| Alabama certifies Jones as Senate winner over Moore’s objections Posted: 28 Dec 2017 03:25 AM PST  The Alabama Secretary of State's office certified the Senate election results, just after a judge rejected Roy Moore's attempt to block his defeat. NBC's Vaughn Hillyard reports.
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| Tehran Police Say Women Will No Longer Be Arrested For Violating 'Islamic' Dress Code Posted: 28 Dec 2017 11:26 AM PST  Police in Iran's capital are loosening up restrictions regarding dress code after decades of pushback from women in the country.
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| Trump Administration Moves To Weaken Offshore Safety Rules Prompted By 2010 Spill Posted: 28 Dec 2017 07:21 PM PST  The Trump administration moved on Thursday to eliminate key offshore safety regulations adopted in the wake of the deadly Deepwater Horizon oil spill, the biggest in the nation's history.
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| Increased police presence in Times Square on New Year’s Eve Posted: 28 Dec 2017 08:05 AM PST In the wake of the recent attempted suicide bombing in New York City and the Las Vegas hotel shooting, the New York Police Department announced new steps to protect people in Times Square on New Year's Eve.
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| At Least 15 People Have Been Killed in Mumbai After a Fire Engulfs a Building Posted: 28 Dec 2017 10:21 PM PST  A fire broke out early Friday in an upscale rooftop restaurant in Mumbai, India's financial and entertainment capital, leaving at least 15 dead and a dozen injured, officials said.
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| Brazil's top court suspends parts of President Temer's Christmas pardons Posted: 28 Dec 2017 02:51 PM PST ![Brazil's top court suspends parts of President Temer's Christmas pardons]( "Brazil's top court suspends parts of President Temer's Christmas pardons") By Ricardo Brito and Jake Spring BRASILIA (Reuters) - The head of Brazil's Supreme Court suspended parts of a Christmas decree from President Michel Temer granting pardons to convicted criminals on Thursday, saying Temer's actions needed further examination by the court. Cármen Lúcia ruled largely in favor of a legal challenge by Brazil's top prosecutor, Raquel Dodge, who said on Wednesday that the pardons were unconstitutional and threatened a probe into the country's largest-ever corruption scandal.
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| Trump lawyers to attack Flynn credibility: Wash Post Posted: 28 Dec 2017 12:44 AM PST  Washington Post reporter Carol Leonning joins MSNBC to discuss her new report that President Trump's legal team is preparing to attack Michael Flynn's credibility, should he accuse the president or his aides of wrongdoing.
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| 10 Winter Hats For Natural Hair That'll Protect Your Beautiful Curls Posted: 29 Dec 2017 11:52 AM PST  I know the struggle that is trying to find a winter hat or beanie that will stylishly fit over my massive head of hair ― which I recently transitioned back to its naturally curly state.
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| Blue Apron Is Launching A Whole30 Meal Plan Just In Time For The New Year Posted: 29 Dec 2017 11:54 AM PST  If your New Year's resolution is to eat cleaner and healthier, the challenge just got a little bit easier.
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| Branch Davidian follower calls 911 as ATF raids compound: 'There are children and women in here!' Posted: 29 Dec 2017 08:45 AM PST  Wayne Martin, a member of the Branch Davidians, called 911 to call off the raid as gunfire broke out at the Mount Carmel Center near Waco, Texas on Feb. 28, 1993.
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| Bronx fire that killed 12 people 'caused by child playing with stove' Posted: 29 Dec 2017 07:15 AM PST  New York City Mayor Bill De Blasio said investigators believe the Bronx fire which killed 12 people was caused by a child playing with a stove. The four-alarm fire – five being the highest level of alert – began on Thursday evening in a neighbourhood near the Bronx Zoo and by the next morning had turned into the city's deadliest blaze in nearly 25 years. Mr De Blasio called it "an unspeakable tragedy in the middle of the holiday season" during a news conference at the scene, amid subfreezing temperatures in the city.
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| Pour One Out, Flavortown Fans: Guy Fieri's Times Square Restaurant Is Closing Posted: 29 Dec 2017 08:57 AM PST  "Flavortown" fans, put on your best flame shirt and prepare to bury your feelings in a whole lot of donkey sauce.
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| Fighting in northwestern Syria kills 66: monitor Posted: 29 Dec 2017 01:34 AM PST  Clashes pitting mainly jihadist and rebel fighters against regime forces backed by Russian warplanes killed at 66 people on the edge of Syria's northwestern Idlib province, a monitor said Friday. Among the victims were at least 19 civilians killed by air strikes, the Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said, adding that the casualties were over 24 hours of fighting in an area straddling Idlib and Hama provinces. The head of the Observatory, Rami Abdel Rahman, said seven children were among the civilian victims.
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| Remembering Those Lost in 2017 Posted: 27 Dec 2017 09:00 PM PST  "World News Tonight" remembers some of the people who helped shape history.
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| Mother Says Alabama Police Beat Black 17-Year-Old Son Posted: 29 Dec 2017 09:17 AM PST  Angela Williams shared a photo of her son's bloodied face on Facebook
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| Turkey's Erdogan seeks to mend strained ties with Europe Posted: 28 Dec 2017 02:23 PM PST  ANKARA, Turkey (AP) — Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has signaled he wants to mend fences with the governments of several European nations he's quarreled with this year, saying Turkey must "decrease the number of enemies and increase friends."
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| California set for New Year's buzz with recreational marijuana sales Posted: 29 Dec 2017 05:59 AM PST ![California set for New Year's buzz with recreational marijuana sales]( "California set for New Year's buzz with recreational marijuana sales") California adults not content to ring in the New Year with the traditional fizz of champagne can look forward to celebrating with the buzz of marijuana, purchased for the first time from state-licensed retailers of recreational pot. Dozens of newly authorized marijuana stores are due to open for business across California on Jan. 1, launching yet another chapter in America's drug culture and the largest regulated commercial market for cannabis in the United States - one valued at several billion dollars. Newly permitted retailers will rely on a hodge-podge of marijuana producers in the state's illicit "gray market" to stock their shelves for the next six months, until state-licensed growers can harvest their first crops.
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| Ivanka Trump's Vacation Picture Has A Confederate Flag In The Background Posted: 28 Dec 2017 11:18 AM PST  One of Ivanka Trump's photos from her family's holiday break in Florida is causing quite the stir.
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| India's 'moonwalking' traffic cop turns heads Posted: 29 Dec 2017 01:17 AM PST  "I have been a Michael Jackson fan for years and copied his moonwalk step to halt traffic 12 years ago," Singh told AFP. "It's a tiring task maintaining traffic amid noise pollution and reckless motorists but moonwalking amuses commuters and drivers," Singh added, after another tiring day seemingly gliding backwards across the street. Singh claims the number of traffic violations at the high court intersection where he spends most days has fallen over the years.
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| Apartment building fire in Bronx, N.Y., is deadliest in decades Posted: 29 Dec 2017 07:26 AM PST ![Apartment building fire in Bronx, N.Y., is deadliest in decades]( "Apartment building fire in Bronx, N.Y., is deadliest in decades") New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio says investigators believe a Bronx fire that killed 12 was caused by a child playing with a stove.
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| Death Of Argentine Prosecutor Investigating Massive Terror Attack Ruled A Murder Posted: 28 Dec 2017 10:18 AM PST  More than two decades after the deadliest bombing in Argentina's history, the details of the unresolved massacre are only becoming more mysterious.
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| Venezuela blames Portugal for sabotaging Christmas with ham delays as protesters urge 'pork revolution' Posted: 29 Dec 2017 09:01 AM PST  Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro accused Portugal of sabotaging Christmas as a shorage of pork led to anti-government protests spilling onto the streets. According to Mr Maduro and his socialist government, the Portuguese authorities were pressured into preventing the delivery of two "giant boats" laden with government-subsidized ham, a favoured seasonal meat, due to an international conspiracy led by the United States. "So, what happened to the ham?" Mr Maduro asked in a televised Christmas address on Wednesday after hundreds of people took to the streets in poor parts of Caracas on Wednesday night in protest at the shortage. "We were sabotaged. I can name one country: Portugal. Everything was ready because we bought up all the ham there was in Venezuela, but we had to import [more] so I gave the order and signed off on the payments." Some pockets of protests continued on Thursday morning, in what some social media users dubbed the "pork revolution". Venezuela's President Nicolas Maduro took to state television to denounce a US-led conspiracy Credit: REUTERS Diosdado Cabello, the former speaker of parliament and a key figure in Venezuela's ruling party, placed ultimate blame for the ham shortage at the feet of the "gringo" US government. "And why didn't the ham arrive? Because of the blockage against us. The Portuguese made an agreement, then they were frightened by the gringos and they didn't send the hams." But the Portuguese government has denied any involvement in the alleged Christmas sabotage. "I know that ham to Venezuelans is as important as cod is to us at Christmas, but the fact that distribution has been delayed has nothing to do with the Portuguese government", said Portugal's foreign minister, Augusto Santos Silva. A bemused Mr Santos Silva explained that the only restrictions on trade with Venezuela are "sanctions against that country approved in the framework of the European Union", naming the freezing of certain assets if found in Europe and the sale of some military material. As Venezuelans protest in Caracas demanding the government's prommised pork -the main dish of the Christmas and New Year's dinner-, President Nicolas Maduro attributes the shortage to international sabotage Credit: FEDERICO PARRA/ AFP But on Thursday a statement by food company Raporal appeared to clarify the crux of the dispute, explaining that it and other Portuguese exporters had yet to be paid in full for last year's consignment of meat products shipped to Venezuela. According to Raporal, a contract of €63.5 million was signed in 2016 for the supply of 14,000 tons of meat, but "€40 million remains unpaid". Venezuela's acute economic crisis has led to shortages of many consumer products in recent months, including petrol, despite the country being a major oil producer. Street protests turned violent earlier this year after President Maduro stripped the powers of the opposition-controlled legislative, replacing it with a puppet assembly.
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| Quadruple Homicide in Upstate New York Unfolded Just Miles from Cold Case Killing of Another Family of 4 Posted: 28 Dec 2017 12:18 PM PST  The 2014 killings of the Chen family have never been solved.
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| Israel retaliates to Gaza rocket attack, no injuries Posted: 29 Dec 2017 08:25 AM PST  JERUSALEM (AP) — Israel's military retaliated to rocket attacks from the Gaza Strip on Friday with strikes on posts used by the Islamic militant group Hamas that rules the territory. The exchange caused no casualties on either side.
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| World's Wealthiest Billionaires Got Nearly $1 Trillion Richer In 2017: Bloomberg Posted: 28 Dec 2017 06:43 AM PST  The rich aren't just getting richer — they're getting much, much richer.
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| Brazil defense ministry opposes giving up Embraer control to Boeing Posted: 28 Dec 2017 08:12 AM PST ![Brazil defense ministry opposes giving up Embraer control to Boeing]( "Brazil defense ministry opposes giving up Embraer control to Boeing") (Reuters) - Brazil's defense minister voiced opposition on Thursday to selling control in Embraer SA to Boeing Co , saying the defense operations of the Brazilian planemaker cannot be separated from the commercial business. Boeing and Embraer said last week they were discussing a "potential combination", in a move that would consolidate a global passenger jet duopoly provided Brazil's government gives its blessing. Defense Minister Raul Jungmann said on Thursday the ministry was concerned that the negotiations between the aerospace companies had advanced without its knowledge.
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| Trump Says He Has An 'Absolute Right' To Control The Justice Department Posted: 28 Dec 2017 08:53 PM PST  President Donald Trump on Thursday said he believes he holds ultimate authority to direct the Department of Justice as he sees fit, while noting the ongoing inquiry into Russian intervention in the 2016 presidential election has made the country "look very bad."
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| Recy Taylor, who fought for justice after 1944 rape, dies Posted: 28 Dec 2017 08:14 PM PST  ABBEVILLE, Ala. (AP) — Recy Taylor, a black Alabama woman whose rape by six white men in 1944 drew national attention, died Thursday. She was 97.
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| NYPD Officers Suspended After Witnesses Say They Didn't Check On Woman Later Found Dead Posted: 29 Dec 2017 12:55 AM PST  Two New York City police officers were suspended after witnesses said they failed to leave their car to check on a young woman who was later found dead at the bottom of a stairwell.
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| China pledges support for Cambodia's 2018 poll: official Posted: 28 Dec 2017 02:55 AM PST  China will donate ballot boxes and voting booths for Cambodia's 2018 election, an official said Thursday, weeks after Western democracies pulled their support in protest over a crackdown on opposition politicians. The US and the European Union withdrew their backing after a Phnom Penh court dissolved the main opposition party in November -- a move they said stripped next year's election of any legitimacy.
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| Rare public protests spread across Iran amid spiraling inflation Posted: 29 Dec 2017 12:06 PM PST  Iranian police clashed with protesters demonstrating against government corruption on Friday, in a rare public show of discontent in the Islamic republic. About 300 people gathered in the western city of Kermanshah on Friday calling for a "revolution", shouting "where's my paycheck?", "the people are begging, the clerics act like God" and "death to the dictator". It followed a day after similar protests in the northeastern city of Mashhad, where more than 50 were arrested. President Hassan Rouhani's government has been unable to control spiralling prices - the costs of basics such as milk and eggs has doubled in a week. And despite the loosening of international sanctions in 2015, the country has seen little economic growth and few ordinary residents feel they have benefitted. There have been calls on social media for protests up and down the country, despite warnings from the government against illegal gatherings. Protestors attack security forces in Iran (location unknown) #iranprotestspic.twitter.com/aeS8zVyM9X— Wladimir (@vvanwilgenburg) December 29, 2017 The outbreak of unrest reflects growing discontent over rising prices and alleged corruption, as well as concern over the country's costly involvement in regional conflicts such as Syria and Iraq. There were also chants in Mashhad on Thursday of "not Gaza, not Lebanon, my life for Iran" and "leave Syria, think about us". Mohsen Nasj Hamadani, deputy security chief in Tehran province, said about 50 people had rallied in a Tehran square and most left after being asked to by police, but a few who refused were "temporarily detained", the ILNA news agency reported. In the central city of Isfahan, a resident said protesters joined a rally held by factory workers demanding back-pay. "The slogans quickly changed from the economy to those against Rouhani and the Supreme Leader (Ayatollah Ali Khamenei)," the resident said by telephone. Chants in the holy city of Qom tonight, the spiritual center of #Iran: "We don't want an Islamic Republic!" pic.twitter.com/ilawigFGej— Holly Dagres (@hdagres) December 29, 2017 In Qom, a stronghold of the Shi'ite clergy, footage posted on social media showed protesters attacking Ayatollah Khamenei by name. "Seyyed Ali should be ashamed and leave the country alone," they chanted. Police arrested 52 people in Thursday's protests, Fars quoted a judicial official as saying in Mashhad, one of the holiest places in Shi'ite Islam. In social media footage, riot police were seen using water cannon and tear gas to disperse crowds. Some social media videos showed demonstrators chanting "Death to Rouhani" and "Death to the dictator". Protests were also held in at least two other northeastern cities. Openly political protests are rare in Iran, where security services are omnipresent. The last unrest of national significance occurred in 2009 when Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's re-election as president ignited eight months of street protests. Pro-reform rivals said the vote was rigged. The protests came as Tehran looked to have bowed to internal pressure to relax its strict Islamic dress codes. Morality police in the capital said they will no longer automatically arrest women for failing to women seen without the proper hijab head-covering in public, mandated since the 1979 revolution. For nearly 40 years, women in Iran have been forced to cover their hair and wear long, loose garments. Younger and more liberal-minded women have long pushed the boundaries of the official dress code, wearing loose headscarves that do not fully cover their hair and painting their nails, drawing the ire of conservatives. The announcement signalled an easing of punishments for violating the country's conservative dress code, as called for by the reform-minded Iranians who helped re-elect President Rouhani, a relative moderate, earlier this year.
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| AP PHOTOS: Jerusalem walls offer glimpse of city's richness Posted: 28 Dec 2017 10:28 PM PST  JERUSALEM (AP) — What would Jerusalem be without its walls? Poets have sung of them since ancient times, they are mentioned in the Book of Psalms, and they have shadowed conflicts past and present.
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| Court rules 'Bookkeeper of Auschwitz', 96, must go to jail Posted: 29 Dec 2017 05:08 AM PST ![Court rules 'Bookkeeper of Auschwitz', 96, must go to jail]( "Court rules 'Bookkeeper of Auschwitz', 96, must go to jail") Germany's constitutional court has ruled that a 96-year-old German must go to jail over his role in mass murders committed at the Nazi death camp at Auschwitz during World War Two, refusing to overturn a lower court ruling. Oskar Groening, known as the "bookkeeper of Auschwitz" for his job counting cash taken from the camp's victims, was sentenced to four years' jail in 2015, but wrangling over his health and age have delayed the start of his sentence. The constitutional court rejected the argument by Groening's lawyers that imprisonment at his advanced age would violate his right to life, adding that the gravity of his crimes meant there was a particular need for him to be seen to be punished.
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| 'I’m Not Giving up My Voice.' Sen. Al Franken Makes First Public Statement Since Resigning Posted: 28 Dec 2017 10:21 PM PST  Sen. Al Franken spoke to his supporters in Minneapolis Thursday evening after resigning due to sexual harassment allegations made against him.
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