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Day Before Iowa Caucus, Donald Trump Surprised by His Own Lead

Posted: 31 Jan 2016 12:17 PM PST

Day Before Iowa Caucus, Donald Trump Surprised by His Own LeadTrump touted his support in Iowa and bashed rival Texas Sen. Ted Cruz, whom he holds a slight lead over in the latest Des Moines Register / Bloomberg Politics poll. Trump called Cruz a "total liar" for saying the billionaire businessman supports a health care system similar to Obamacare. "Look, Ted Cruz is a total liar.


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California sheriff 'concerned' by slow response to jail escape

Posted: 31 Jan 2016 10:15 AM PST

Escaped inmates seen in undated photo released by the Orange County Sheriff's Department in CaliforniaHours after the last two fugitives were captured, Orange County Sheriff Sandra Hutchens said she had ordered an investigation into how the trio broke out of a maximum-security jail in Santa Ana and went unnoticed for about 16 hours, according to a letter her office released late on Saturday. "I have been very clear from the onset of the jail escape investigation that I am deeply concerned about the length of time it took to recognize that three maximum security inmates were unaccounted for," Hutchens wrote in response to a letter she had received from the Association of Orange County Deputy Sheriffs about the escapes. "I have initiated an internal administrative investigation to determine the facts of what occurred, contributing factors to the escape and inmate count procedures," Hutchens continued in the letter, which she later disclosed in an emailed statement.


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Saudi police arrest 9 American 'terror' suspects: report

Posted: 31 Jan 2016 07:34 AM PST

Members of a Saudi special police unitSaudi authorities have arrested nine American citizens among 33 "terror" suspects rounded up over the past days, the Saudi Gazette newspaper reported on Sunday. It did not say if any of the "terror suspects" was linked to the Islamic State group, which has claimed several deadly attacks against security forces and Shiites in the kingdom in recent months. The Saudi Gazette said some 532 IS suspects accused of plotting attacks in the kingdom are being questioned ahead of their trial at the criminal court in Riyadh.


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Ministry: Blasts close to Damascus' main Shiite shrine kill 45

Posted: 31 Jan 2016 04:58 AM PST

A bombed bus outside a Shiite holy shrine in the Sayyida Zeinab suburb of Damascus, after a suicide car bomb exploded there early on June 14, 2012AMMAN/BEIRUT (Reuters) - At least 45 people were killed and 110 wounded on Sunday by a car bomb and two suicide bombers in the Sayeda Zeinab district of Damascus, where Syria's holiest Shi'ite shrine is located, the interior ministry said. Syrian state news agency SANA, quoting an interior ministry source, said a group of militants had detonated a car bomb near a public transport garage in the neighborhood's Koua Sudan area. Two suicide bombers then blew themselves up nearby as people were being rescued.


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Djokovic dominates Murray again at Aussie Open, wins 11th Grand Slam title

Posted: 31 Jan 2016 04:22 AM PST


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Hillary Clinton makes emotional gun control pitch to Iowa voters

Posted: 30 Jan 2016 11:07 PM PST


Holder, free to speak his mind, takes on Congress, and more

Posted: 30 Jan 2016 03:41 PM PST


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Ex-general, CIA chief David Petraeus to receive no further punishment

Posted: 30 Jan 2016 12:36 PM PST

Former CIA director David Petraeus speaks after leaving the Federal Courthouse in CharlotteU.S. Defense Secretary Ashton Carter has decided not to take any further action against David Petraeus, a former U.S. military commander and CIA director who pleaded guilty to mishandling classified information, according to a letter seen by Reuters. The short letter was sent by Stephen Hedger, the assistant secretary of defense for legislative affairs, and the decision is in line with an Army review. It was addressed to Senate Armed Service Committee Chairman Senator John McCain and Senator Jack Reed, who had recently asked Carter not to take further action.


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Turkey says 33 migrants drown, toll could rise

Posted: 30 Jan 2016 04:31 AM PST

File photograph shows a volunteer carrying a Syrian refugee child off an overcrowded dinghy at a beach after the migrants crossed part of the Aegean Sea from Turkey to the Greek island of LesbosThe latest developments in Europe's migrant crisis.


Angelique Kerber stuns Serena Williams, wins Australian Open title

Posted: 30 Jan 2016 03:55 AM PST


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The Unabomber’s media strategy

Posted: 29 Jan 2016 11:35 PM PST


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Iowa gets brief glimpse of a dense, intellectual Kasich

Posted: 29 Jan 2016 07:18 PM PST


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vendredi 29 janvier 2016

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Gov't declares 22 Clinton emails 'top secret'

Posted: 29 Jan 2016 12:44 PM PST

FILE - In this Oct. 18, 2011, file photo, then-Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton checks her Blackberry from a desk inside a C-17 military plane upon her departure from Malta, in the Mediterranean Sea, bound for Tripoli, Libya. The Obama administration is confirming, Friday, Jan. 29, 2016, for the first time that Hillary Clinton's unsecured home server contained some closely guarded secrets, including material requiring one of the highest levels of classification. (Kevin Lamarque/Pool Photo via AP, File)


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Exclusive: EgyptAir mechanic suspected in Russian plane crash

Posted: 29 Jan 2016 06:01 AM PST

A child's shoe is seen in front of debris from a Russian airliner which crashed at the Hassana area in Arish cityAn EgyptAir mechanic whose cousin joined Islamic State in Syria is suspected of planting a bomb on a Russian passenger plane that was blown out of Egypt's skies in late October, according to sources familiar with the matter. A senior security official at the airline denied that any of its employees had been arrested or were under suspicion, and an Interior Ministry official also said there had been no arrests. "After learning that one of its members had a relative that worked at the airport, Islamic State delivered a bomb in a handbag to that person," said one of the sources, adding the suspect's cousin joined Islamic State in Syria a year and a half ago.


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At Trump rally, a rare spotlight on Huckabee and Santorum

Posted: 28 Jan 2016 10:55 PM PST


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FBI releases video of Oregon standoff shooting as new details emerge

Posted: 28 Jan 2016 10:04 PM PST


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Ted Cruz mocks Donald Trump for boycotting the debate

Posted: 28 Jan 2016 07:19 PM PST


Republican Cruz derides missing front-runner Trump at presidential debate

Posted: 28 Jan 2016 06:45 PM PST

U.S. Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump waves to the crowd as he leaves a campaign rally at the University of Iowa in Iowa City, Iowa


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jeudi 28 janvier 2016

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Mexican authorities release El Chapo booking video, escape animation

Posted: 28 Jan 2016 09:58 AM PST

Earlier this month, Mexican authorities released dramatic footage of the deadly raid that ended in the capture of Joaquín "El Chapo" Guzmán. They've now released the boring sequel: El Chapo's booking video.

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So much for the political revolution. In 2016, everything old is new again.

Posted: 28 Jan 2016 02:44 AM PST


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The Unabomber takes on the Internet

Posted: 28 Jan 2016 01:47 AM PST

Unabomber Tech NHTed Kaczynski has never sent an email or seen Facebook, but he has strong views on technology.


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Arrested Oregon protest leader tells holdouts to go home

Posted: 27 Jan 2016 06:18 PM PST

Eight people including Ammon Bundy (C) were taken into custody and one of his group killed in a dramatic twist to the tense three-week standoff in OregonThe leader of an anti-government siege at a US wildlife refuge until his arrest in an operation that left one protester dead urged the remaining armed occupiers to go home. Eight people including Ammon Bundy were taken into custody and one of his group killed in a dramatic twist late Tuesday to the tense three-week standoff in Oregon involving ranchers and farmers angry over federal land management policies. Let us take this fight from here," said a statement issued via Bundy's attorney Michael Arnold.


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30 years later, Challenger widow tells her story

Posted: 27 Jan 2016 04:26 PM PST


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You can’t drink the water in Flint, but you still have to pay for it

Posted: 27 Jan 2016 11:07 AM PST

Takeisha Major and her two sons moved into their home on Agree Avenue in East Flint, Mich., on Nov. 1, 2015. By Dec. 11, Major had already received two bills from the city of Flint for water and sewer fees totaling $655.64. She refuses to pay.

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Donald Trump once scolded GOP candidates for boycotting Iowa debate he was supposed to moderate

Posted: 27 Jan 2016 09:56 AM PST


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North Korea a 'threat to the world': Kerry

Posted: 27 Jan 2016 05:52 AM PST

Nuclear-armed North Korea poses an "overt threat, a declared threat to the world", US Secretary of State John Kerry said in Beijing Wednesday following Pyongyang's fourth nuclear test earlier this month. Washington is pushing for a strong United Nations response to the North's latest atomic blast -- which Pyongyang said was a miniaturised hydrogen bomb, a claim largely dismissed by experts -- with enhanced sanctions.

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Meet Wantwaz Davis, the ex-con who tried to save Flint

Posted: 27 Jan 2016 02:26 AM PST

Flint WaterAfter spending nearly 20 years in prison, Flint, Mich., resident Wantwaz Davis emerged to become a member of the City Council — and one of the earliest and most vocal critics of the city's use of water from the contaminated Flint River.


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1 killed as Oregon standoff leaders arrested

Posted: 27 Jan 2016 01:47 AM PST

Highway 395 is blocked at Seneca between John Day and Burns, Ore., by Oregon State police officers the evening of Tuesday, Jan. 26, 2016. A more than 50-mile stretch of highway in Oregon has been closed near where an armed group has been occupying a national wildlife refuge. A group led by Ammon Bundy seized the headquarters of the Malheur National Wildlife Refuge south of Burns on Jan. 2 as part of a long-running dispute over public lands in the West. (Dave Killen/The Oregonian via AP) MAGS OUT; TV OUT; NO LOCAL INTERNET; THE MERCURY OUT; WILLAMETTE WEEK OUT; PAMPLIN MEDIA GROUP OUT; MANDATORY CREDITAmmon Bundy and several of his followers were arrested during a traffic stop.


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The lawyer who saved the Unabomber's life

Posted: 26 Jan 2016 10:11 PM PST

Unabomber Attorneys NHFamed lawyer Judy Clarke befriended Ted Kaczynski as she sought to keep him from being executed. She succeeded — and he hates her for it.


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Leader of Oregon wildlife refuge occupation arrested, one person killed

Posted: 26 Jan 2016 07:41 PM PST

Leader of a group of armed protesters Ammon Bundy talks to the media at the Malheur National Wildlife Refuge near Burns, Oregon(Reuters) - One person was killed when federal authorities arrested the leader of an armed occupation at a wildlife refuge in Oregon and several of his companions during a traffic stop on Tuesday, law enforcement sources said. It was not immediately clear if other armed individuals remained occupying the remote Malheur National Wildlife Refuge in eastern Oregon or if Ammon Bundy's arrest had ended the standoff, which began on Jan. 2. Some 25 miles (40 km) of Highway 395 in northeast Oregon was shut down in both directions, a spokesman for the state department of transportation said.


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How an investigation into Planned Parenthood boomeranged against its accusers

Posted: 26 Jan 2016 05:49 PM PST

Planned Parenthood cleared by Texas jury over videos, activists indictedFor Houston prosecutors, the crucial evidence was two forged California driver's licenses with phony names.


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Trump refuses to debate; calls Fox's Kelly 'a lightweight'

Posted: 26 Jan 2016 05:28 PM PST

Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump speaks during a campaign event at the Roundhouse Gymnasium, Tuesday, Jan. 26, 2016, in Marshalltown, Iowa. (AP Photo/Mary Altaffer)MARSHALLTOWN, Iowa (AP) — Republican Donald Trump on Tuesday bowed out of the final Republican presidential debate before the leadoff Iowa caucuses, saying Fox News moderator Megyn Kelly is "a lightweight."


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Trump will 'definitely not' participate in Thursday Fox debate -Wash Post

Posted: 26 Jan 2016 05:13 PM PST

Donald Trump will "definitely not" participate in Thursday's Fox News U.S. Republican presidential debate, Trump's campaign manager told the Washington Post. "He's definitely not participating in the Fox News debate," the Post quoted campaign manager Corey Lewandowski as saying.

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