| Sheriff’s deputy killed, others wounded in Colorado ambush Posted: 31 Dec 2017 08:12 AM PST  A Colorado sheriff's deputy was killed and several more were wounded in a shootout while responding to a report of a disturbance, the Douglas County Sheriff's Office said Sunday.
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| CEO Of World’s Biggest Catering Company Among Those Killed In Seaplane Crash Posted: 01 Jan 2018 04:33 AM PST  Richard Cousins, the CEO of one of Britain's biggest companies, and four of his family members were killed in Sydney, Australia on New Year's Eve when their sightseeing seaplane plunged into a river, according to multiple reports.
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| Incredible New Year's Celebrations Around The World Posted: 31 Dec 2017 06:23 PM PST  From the London Eye to Athens' Acropolis, here are some of the most breathtaking scenes from New Year's celebrations around the world.
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| How do protests in Iran differ from 2009? Posted: 31 Dec 2017 05:06 AM PST  Msnbc's Ayman Mohyeldin discusses how current protest in Iran differ from the protests that arose during the 2009 presidential election.
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| 12-Year-Old Girl Charged With Criminal Homicide After Killing Teen, Police Say Posted: 01 Jan 2018 08:03 AM PST  The victim was a 16-year-old girl
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| Las Vegas rings in 2018 under unprecedented security Posted: 01 Jan 2018 01:19 AM PST  LAS VEGAS (AP) — Las Vegas welcomed 2018 with fireworks, big-ticket musical acts and unprecedented security in the wake of the deadliest mass shooting in U.S. modern history just three months ago.
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| A Decorated Soldier Died While Trying to Rescue His Neighbors from the Bronx Apartment Fire Posted: 31 Dec 2017 12:02 PM PST  He reportedly saved multiple people
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| N.J. Teen Killed Parents, Sister, Family Friend in Brutal New Year's Eve Shooting, Police Allege Posted: 01 Jan 2018 10:33 AM PST  Authorities in New Jersey have detained a 16-year-old boy who stands accused of the brutal New Year's Eve slayings of his parents, sister, and a 70-year-old family friend, PEOPLE confirms
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| Donald Trump Heats Up Feud With Iran By Praising Anti-Government Protests Posted: 30 Dec 2017 06:15 PM PST  The Iranian government denounced President Donald Trump on Saturday after he escalated his support for the anti-government protesters who have been holding demonstrations in the country for three days.
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| Best photos of the year from Caters News Posted: 01 Jan 2018 10:13 AM PST ![Best photos of the year from Caters News]( "Best photos of the year from Caters News") They say a picture is worth a thousand words, and these striking images of 2017 are no exception. The photo highlights include incredible snapshots of the natural world as well as some awesome animal and human encounters. The vibrant gallery also shows thrill-seekers pushing themselves to the limit with breathtaking stunts captured in perfect clarity. The pictures have been taken by a host of photographers from around the world. (Caters News)
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| Americans sound off on the 2017 headlines Posted: 31 Dec 2017 08:16 AM PST NBC News talks to Americans across the country to find out which news stories affected them the most this year.
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| UN Secretary-General Puts World On 'Red Alert' In Somber New Year's Eve Address Posted: 01 Jan 2018 12:37 AM PST  United Nations Secretary-General António Guterres issued a grim warning as 2017 drew to a close.
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| 4-day week being tested in some Oklahoma schools Posted: 31 Dec 2017 08:04 AM PST Facing a budget crisis and a teacher shortage, about 20 percent of schools in Oklahoma are trying a new approach: shorter school weeks, but longer days.
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| 10 Americans, Including Family of 5, Killed in Costa Rica Plane Crash Posted: 01 Jan 2018 08:31 AM PST  A family of five from New York City lost their lives in a New Year's Eve crash, authorities said.
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| Compass Group chief, five others killed in Sydney seaplane crash Posted: 01 Jan 2018 04:20 AM PST ![Compass Group chief, five others killed in Sydney seaplane crash]( "Compass Group chief, five others killed in Sydney seaplane crash") SYDNEY/LONDON (Reuters) - The chief executive of British catering giant Compass Group Plc and four members of his family were killed when the seaplane they were flying in crashed into a Sydney river on New Year's Eve. Richard Cousins, 58, chief of the world's biggest catering firm, died together with Emma Bowden, 48, Heather Bowden, 11, Edward Cousins, 23, and William Cousins, 25, according to Detective Superintendent Mark Hutchings of the New South Wales Police.
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| All vehicles destroyed in Liverpool car park blaze Posted: 31 Dec 2017 07:00 PM PST  A blaze has destroyed every vehicle left in a 1,600-capacity car park serving the British city of Liverpool's indoor arena, police said on Monday. The Liverpool International Horse Show, taking place in the northwest English city's neighbouring 11,000-seater arena, was cancelled due to the fire, which broke out after dark on Sunday. Nobody has been seriously injured in the blaze, the local Merseyside Police said, while all horses are accounted for.
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| Witnesses: Residents prevented much worse attack in Egypt Posted: 31 Dec 2017 11:06 AM PST  CAIRO (AP) — Witnesses to an attack outside a Coptic Christian church in Egypt that left nine people dead said it was residents and worshippers, not police, who kept the death toll from soaring even higher. One man in particular — a 53-year-old resident who pounced on the gunman as he was reloading his automatic rifle — likely saved dozens of lives.
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| Donald Trump Rages Against Iran, Pakistan In First Tweets Of 2018 Posted: 01 Jan 2018 08:36 AM PST  President Donald Trump dedicated his first tweets of the new year to lashing out at Pakistan and Iran.
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| Fireworks Barge Explodes In Australia, Forcing Beach Evacuation Posted: 31 Dec 2017 05:25 PM PST  Glad the two men are ok #Terrigal fireworks, was great up until.
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| 2 million at Times Square NYE celebration will see increased security Posted: 31 Dec 2017 08:03 AM PST  The NYPD is ramping up security efforts for this year's New Year's Eve celebration, preparing officers for two big threats: terror attacks and dangerously cold temperatures.
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| Britney Spears Ends Her Vegas Residency with Live New Year's Eve Performance Posted: 01 Jan 2018 08:23 AM PST  An era in Britney Spears' legacy ended with a lively New Year's Eve performance on Sunday night
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| Virginia Man With Suspected Ties to ISIS Arrested for Destroying Evidence Posted: 31 Dec 2017 01:43 PM PST  He may have been interested in a U.S. attack
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| Congolese forces kill at least seven during anti-government protests -UN Posted: 01 Jan 2018 02:23 AM PST ![Congolese forces kill at least seven during anti-government protests -UN]( "Congolese forces kill at least seven during anti-government protests -UN") Security forces killed at least seven people in the Democratic Republic of Congo on Sunday during protests against President Joseph Kabila's refusal to step down from office, United Nations peacekeepers said. A police spokesman said three people had been killed in altercations with security forces in the capital, Kinshasa, and that two of the deaths were being investigated. Catholic activists had called for protests after Sunday worship, one year after Kabila committed to holding an election to choose his successor by the end of 2017 - an election that has now been delayed until December 2018.
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| Bangladesh prosecutors seek death for opposition leader's son Posted: 01 Jan 2018 05:10 AM PST  Bangladesh prosecutors on Monday demanded the death sentence for the son of opposition leader Khaleda Zia for his alleged role in a deadly 2004 grenade attack in which current prime minister Sheikh Hasina was injured. More than 20 people were killed in the assault on a rally led by Hasina when she was in opposition and Zia was in power. Zia's son Tarique Rahman, who lives in exile in London, says the criminal conspiracy case against him is part of a political witch-hunt.
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| Merkel sees Germany split over pace of social change Posted: 30 Dec 2017 07:59 PM PST  BERLIN (AP) — Germans have rarely been so divided about the changes taking place in their society, the country's long-time leader Angela Merkel said Sunday, adding in her New Year's address that she is committed to helping tackle the challenges of the future by swiftly forming a new government.
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| Video captures emotional moment a teenager asks her stepfather to adopt her for Christmas Posted: 31 Dec 2017 08:07 AM PST  A father has shared footage of the moment his 18-year-old stepdaughter asked him to adopt her on Christmas Eve. Makayla Dabney made the decision to ask her stepfather Stephen, the man who raised her for 14 years, to become one of her legal guardians as his Christmas present. The college student from Cuyahoga Falls, Ohio, was inspired by a dream in which she asked him to adopt her.
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| Months Before Fatal Shooting of Deputy, University Had Warned Students About Suspect Posted: 01 Jan 2018 10:47 AM PST  A man fatally shot after reportedly firing on deputies in suburban Denver was the subject of a warning to University of Wyoming students
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| Remember Don Lemon's Drunken NYE Rant Last Year? Turns Out There's A Happy Ending. Posted: 01 Jan 2018 02:05 AM PST  CNN audiences may remember that host Don Lemon had quite the time celebrating New Year's Eve last year.
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| 2018 Is Already Off To A Violent Start Posted: 01 Jan 2018 02:54 PM PST  The cycle of violence in began anew Monday as millions of merrymakers around the country welcomed 2018.
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| Iran protesters rally again, defying warning of crackdown Posted: 31 Dec 2017 03:40 PM PST ![Iran protesters rally again, defying warning of crackdown]( "Iran protesters rally again, defying warning of crackdown") Giving his first public reaction to the protests, President Hassan Rouhani appealed for calm, saying Iranians had the right to protest and criticize the authorities. Police in the center of Tehran fired water cannon to try to disperse demonstrators, according to pictures on social media. Demonstrations turned violent in Shahin Shahr in central Iran.
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| Bernie Sanders Holds Up New York City Mayor As Model For The Trump Opposition Posted: 01 Jan 2018 01:19 PM PST  NEW YORK ― At a ceremony to swear in New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio for his second term, Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) held up his hometown as a bastion of progress and a template for what Americans should strive for in the face of the Trump administration's policies.
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| Three big US cities saw homicides decline last year Posted: 01 Jan 2018 12:26 PM PST  New York, Chicago and Washington all experienced significant declines in homicides in 2017, though the murder rate rose in Baltimore, Maryland amid drug problems and lingering racial tensions. The homicide decline was dramatic in New York, which experienced 2,245 killings as recently as 1990 but just 286 in 2017 as of December 27, according to the New York Times. Chicago, which in 2016 suffered through its deadliest year in two decades with 754 killings, saw its murder total drop last year to 650, the largest year-to-year decline since 2004, the Chicago Tribune reported.
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| Ohio's move to toss inactive voters from rolls goes to court Posted: 31 Dec 2017 11:26 AM PST  COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — Joseph Helle was expecting a different sort of reception when he returned home from Army tours in Iraq and Afghanistan and showed up to vote in his small Ohio town near Lake Erie.
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| Barack Obama Shares His Favorite Books And Songs From 2017 Posted: 01 Jan 2018 12:59 AM PST  Former U.S. President Barack Obama has been closing out 2017 by trying to lift Americans' spirits.
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| Google Rings In the New Year With a Festive Penguin-Themed Doodle Posted: 31 Dec 2017 08:29 PM PST  A special interactive Google Doodle is the final installment in a December global festivities series
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| Donald Trump steps up pressure on Iran as protests continue Posted: 30 Dec 2017 07:58 PM PST  US President Donald Trump on Saturday weighed in on protests in Iran for a second straight day, warning that the country's people want change and "oppressive regimes cannot endure forever." Trump posted on Twitter two clips of his speech to the UN General Assembly in September in which he took aim at the Iranian regime, which Washington has held out as its top adversary in the Middle East. "Oppressive regimes cannot endure forever, and the day will come when the Iranian people will face a choice," he tweeted, quoting from the speech. "The world is watching!" Many reports of peaceful protests by Iranian citizens fed up with regime's corruption & its squandering of the nation's wealth to fund terrorism abroad. Iranian govt should respect their people's rights, including right to express themselves. The world is watching! #IranProtests— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) December 30, 2017 Later on Saturday, Vice President Mike Pence added his voice, saying: "The time has come for the regime in Tehran to end terrorist activities, corruption, & their disregard for human rights." And White House spokeswoman Sarah Sanders added: "The days of America looking the other way ... are over." Trump's posts came as several hundred anti-government demonstrators clashed with police at the University of Tehran in a third straight day of protests. Hundreds of counter-protesters also massed outside the entrance to the university, chanting "Death to the seditionists" in a show of support for the regime. Videos shared by social media users outside Iran but which could not be independently verified claimed to show thousands marching peacefully against the regime in several cities including Khorramabad, Zanjan and Ahvaz, with chants of "Death to the dictator." "The entire world understands that the good people of Iran want change, and, other than the vast military power of the United States, that Iran's people are what their leaders fear the most," Trump said, again quoting from the UN speech. Trump also tweeted in support of the protesters late Friday, prompting Iran's foreign ministry spokesman Bahran Ghasemi to dismiss his remarks as "opportunistic."
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| U.S. Politicians Can Afford To Grow A Spine On Saudi Arabia Posted: 01 Jan 2018 04:00 AM PST  WASHINGTON ― On the morning of Sept. 10, 2016, aircraft bombed a remote area in western Yemen where workers were drilling a well for a nearby village.
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| China tightens rules on oversea cash withdrawals Posted: 30 Dec 2017 05:37 PM PST  China has tightened rules on how much cash cardholders can withdraw overseas in a bid to clamp down on money laundering, terrorist financing and tax evasion, authorities said Saturday. The new rules will "prevent law breakers from withdrawing a large amount of cash with different cards from different banks," the State Administration of Foreign Exchange said according to state news agency Xinhua.
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| Exclusive: Pakistan plans takeover of charities run by Islamist figure U.S. has targeted Posted: 01 Jan 2018 09:16 AM PST ![Exclusive: Pakistan plans takeover of charities run by Islamist figure U.S. has targeted]( "Exclusive: Pakistan plans takeover of charities run by Islamist figure U.S. has targeted") By Asif Shahzad ISLAMABAD (Reuters) - Pakistan's government plans to seize control of charities and financial assets linked to Islamist leader Hafiz Saeed, who Washington has designated a terrorist, according to officials and documents reviewed by Reuters. Pakistan's civilian government detailed its plans in a secret order to various provincial and federal government departments on Dec. 19, three officials who attended one of several high-level meeting discussing the crackdown told Reuters. Marked "secret", a Dec. 19 document from the finance ministry directed law enforcement and governments in Pakistan's five provinces to submit an action plan by Dec. 28 for a "takeover" of Saeed's two charities, Jamaat-ud-Dawa (JuD) and the Falah-e-Insaniat Foundation. The United States has labeled JuD and FIF "terrorist fronts" for Lashkar-e-Taiba ("Army of the Pure" or LeT), a group Saeed founded in 1987 and which Washington and India blame for the 2008 attacks in Mumbai that killed 166 people.
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| 13-Year-Old Girl Killed and 11 Others Injured in Bus Crash Posted: 01 Jan 2018 01:57 PM PST  A Greyhound bus careened from a highway and plunged into a deep wash
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