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Mexican president cancels visit to Washington as tensions with Trump administration intensify

Washington Post - ‎1 hour ago‎
MEXICO CITY - Mexican President Enrique Peña Nieto on Thursday canceled a planned visit to the White House amid outrage in Mexico about President Trump's efforts to start building a border wall, in what appeared to be one of the most serious rifts in ...
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Trump's talk puts GOP in a jam

CNN - ‎7 hours ago‎
Washington (CNN) In a closed-door meeting Wednesday, House and Senate Republican leaders stressed the importance of party unity and to avoid intraparty fights that could threaten the GOP hold of Washington.
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'Doomsday Clock' Moves 30 Seconds Closer To Midnight

Huffington Post - ‎2 hours ago‎
That's the somber conclusion of the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, a group of scientists who maintain the “Doomsday Clock,” a symbolic representation of humanity's proximity to apocalyptic destruction.
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Trump considers executive order on voter fraud

CNN - ‎19 hours ago‎
(CNN) President Donald Trump could sign an executive order or presidential memorandum initiating an investigation into voter fraud as early as Thursday, a senior administration official tells CNN.
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China's New Year Mass Migration: Still Daunting, if a Little Less Crazy

New York Times - ‎6 hours ago‎
Passengers at the Beijing West Railway Station. Hundreds of millions of Chinese are traveling to their hometowns for the Lunar New Year, the country's most important holiday.
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Barrow returns to warm welcome as Gambia turns a page

Yahoo News - ‎1 hour ago‎
Banjul (Gambia) (AFP) - Jubilant Gambians on Thursday welcomed home their new President Adama Barrow, who was elected almost two months ago but forced to flee to Senegal when his predecessor refused to step aside.
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The Most (And Least) Corrupt Countries In The Middle East

Forbes - ‎4 hours ago‎
Transparency International has released its latest rankings of corruption around the world and, as ever, there is little to cheer about in the Middle East, with five of the world's ten most corrupt countries coming from the region.
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The State Department's entire senior administrative team just resigned

Washington Post - ‎3 hours ago‎
Secretary of State Rex Tillerson's job running the State Department just got considerably more difficult. The entire senior level of management officials resigned Wednesday, part of an ongoing mass exodus of senior foreign service officers who don't ...
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Suspected Cop Killer Markeith Loyd Competent to Represent Himself, Judge Rules

NBCNews.com - ‎2 hours ago‎
A Florida man accused of killing his pregnant ex-wife, and then fatally shooting a police officer during a manhunt that left another cop dead, is competent enough to waive his right to a lawyer, a judge ruled on Thursday.
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Hill Republicans are now aiming for end of year to pass priorities

Washington Post - ‎1 hour ago‎
PHILADELPHIA - Congress will pass legislation to remake health care, reform the federal tax system and secure the U.S. border with Mexico by year's end, House Speaker Paul D. Ryan said Thursday, confirming that lawmakers intend to aggressively push ...
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Leaked Draft of Executive Order Could Revive CIA Prisons

New York Times - ‎16 hours ago‎
Mike Pompeo, President Trump's C.I.A. director, after he was sworn in on Monday. He said in a confirmation hearing that he would not agree to reinstate torture.
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Stocks mostly flat the day after the Dow breaks 20000

Los Angeles Times - ‎2 hours ago‎
U.S. stock indexes were mostly flat in morning trading Thursday, the day after the Dow Jones industrial average closed above 20,000 for the first time.
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Obama's advice to British PM: Befriend Donald Trump

CNN International - ‎4 hours ago‎
(CNN) Before he departed office, President Barack Obama encouraged British Prime Minister Theresa May to form a close relationship with incoming President Donald Trump, according to a British official familiar with their conversations and a former ...
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Hugo Barra joins Facebook to lead VR team

CNET - ‎3 hours ago‎
Facebook's VR team just got a new boss, and it's former Xiaomi exec Hugo Barra. Barra, who had been serving as global lead of the Chinese smartphone manufacturer, announced his departure earlier this week to return to Silicon Valley.
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Facebook is giving media outlets more control over battling fake news

Business Insider - ‎Jan 25, 2017‎
Facebook hasn't given up on Trending, its news section that came under fire last year for allegedly suppressing right-leaning publishers.
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#FreeShia: Was Shia LaBeouf's arrest triggered by anti-Semitic trolling?

USA TODAY - ‎4 hours ago‎
Take an Internet-beloved celebrity who courts controversy, add a Trump element and a live camera, and trouble is bound to follow. Shia LaBeouf's protest art project He Will Not Divide Us, a four-year-long installation, got the actor arrested after just ...
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Vandeweghe exceeds expectations in maiden slam semifinal

Sports Illustrated - ‎2 hours ago‎
MELBOURNE, Australia (AP) CoCo Vandeweghe set two goals for herself at the start of the season: to make the quarterfinals of the Australian Open and then, at some point in the year, go one step further and reach her first Grand Slam semifinal.
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'Jeopardy!' champion trolls Warriors' blown 3-1 Finals lead

ESPN - ‎2 hours ago‎
The Golden State Warriors just can't seem to live down their blown 3-1 series lead in the NBA Finals against the Cleveland Cavaliers last June.
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Dion Waiters praises Erik Spoelstra for benching

Sun Sentinel - ‎4 hours ago‎
This was the rare case when a benching turned into a benefit. That had guard Dion Waiters praising coach Erik Spoelstra in the wake of Wednesday night's victory over the Brooklyn Nets that extended the Miami Heat's winning streak to five.
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Boeing Unveils New Spacesuits for Starliner Astronaut Taxi (Photos)

Space.com - ‎Jan 25, 2017‎
The NASA astronauts who fly aboard Boeing's new spaceship will wear sleek, blue suits that are lighter, simpler and more comfortable than the bulky orange gear of the space shuttle era, company representatives said.
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Human-pig 'chimera embryos' detailed

BBC News - ‎2 hours ago‎
Embryos that are less than 0.001% human - and the rest pig - have been made and analysed by scientists. It is the first proof chimeras - named after the mythical lion-goat-serpent monster - can be made by combining material from humans and animals.
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What The 'Rogue' EPA, NPS and NASA Twitter Accounts Teach Us About The Future Of Social

Forbes - ‎3 hours ago‎
One of the stories that generated a fair bit of coverage today was the rise of “rogue” Twitter accounts popping up for agencies like the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), National Park Service (NPS) and National Aeronautics and Space ...
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Sweet-tooth nation: US can't kick soda habit

Fox News - ‎3 hours ago‎
Soda habits among kids and adults in the U.S. are still going strong: About two-thirds of children and half of adults report drinking at one least one sugar-sweetened beverage a day, two new reports find.
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What Finland's plan to be tobacco-free can teach the world

CNN - ‎9 hours ago‎
(CNN) The Finnish government has set an ambitious goal for residents in a bid to benefit their health -- and their bank balances. Officials plan to make the country tobacco-free by 2040, meaning they want less than 2% of their adults to consume tobacco ...
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Washington state mumps outbreak: 278 cases reported in 5 counties

CNN - ‎3 hours ago‎
(CNN) Washington state reported Wednesday that there have been 278 confirmed and probable cases of mumps across five counties since October: King, Pierce, Snohomish, Spokane and Yakima.
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New Prospects for Growing Human Replacement Organs in Animals

New York Times - ‎1 hour ago‎
A chimera, left, created with a Wistar rat, middle, and a mouse, right. The rat-mouse chimera was generated by injecting mouse iPS cells into a rat embryo.
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