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  CMA Awards to feature Carrie Underwood, Chris Stapleton

  November 14, 2018 20:30 IST

  Carrie Underwood will be working triple-duty at the 2018 Country Music Association Awards as co-host, performer and nominee

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  Markets Right Now: Tech companies drive US stocks higher

  November 14, 2018 20:30 IST

  Stocks are opening broadly higher on Wall Street as the market recoups some of its losses from a day earlier

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  Judge hearing arguments in disputed congressional race

  November 14, 2018 20:15 IST

  A judge is hearing arguments aimed at stopping Maine's ranked-balloting system, even as votes are being scanned in preparation for declaration of a winner in a congressional race

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  Macy's heads into the holiday season like a boss

  November 14, 2018 19:45 IST

  Macy's is hitting on all cylinders heading into the holiday season with growth online and in stores

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  Long hidden, Marie Antoinette's jewels go up for auction

  November 14, 2018 19:45 IST

  Diamond and pearl earrings, pearl necklaces, a giant pearl pendant and other jewelry once belonging to French queen Marie Antoinette are set to go on auction in Geneva, showcasing perhaps the quintessential emblems of pre-Revolutionary royal opulence.

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  Rare conservation win: Mountain gorilla population ticks up

  November 14, 2018 19:45 IST

  After facing near-extinction, the total number of mountain gorillas is slowly rebounding

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  France fires back at Trump's lack of "common decency"

  November 14, 2018 19:15 IST

  France's government has fired back at a flurry of critical tweets by Donald Trump, suggesting the U.S. president lacked "common decency" by launching his broadside on a day when France was mourning victims of the November 2015 terror attacks

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  Ukrainian PM blames local officials for heating crisis

  November 14, 2018 19:15 IST

  Ukraine's prime minister has accused local officials of causing a crisis that has left hundreds of thousands without heating in freezing weather

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  Georgia election uncertainty lingers amid legal wrangling

  November 14, 2018 19:00 IST

  After two federal court rulings and a flurry of legal filings, uncertainty looms over Georgia's still- undecided race for governor

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  Woman wears wedding gown alone after fiance dies on Lion Air

  November 14, 2018 18:45 IST

  An Indonesian woman who was engaged to a man who died on a Lion Air flight that plunged into the sea has worn her wedding dress on the day they were to have been married

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  Bollywood meets Hollywood as Indian stars wed at Italy villa

  November 14, 2018 18:30 IST

  Bollywood stars Deepika Padukone and Ranveer Singh are getting married at a villa on Italy's Lake Como with screen credits of its own

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  The Latest: Irish PM: EU could hold Nov. 25 Brexit summit

  November 14, 2018 18:30 IST

  Irish Prime Minister Leo Varadkar says the European Union has penciled in a Nov. 25 summit to discuss a Brexit deal if the British Cabinet approves the draft document

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  Authorities: Prosecuting Ohio massacre case could last years

  November 14, 2018 18:30 IST

  Authorities say prosecuting an Ohio family of four arrested in the gruesome slayings of eight people from another family could take years

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  Dozens of migrants refuse to leave container ship in Libya

  November 14, 2018 18:00 IST

  Dozens of migrants holed up in Libyan port city after being picked them up in foundering raft in Mediterranean

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  North Korean delegation visits South to attend history forum

  November 14, 2018 17:45 IST

  A five-member North Korean delegation is visiting South Korea to attend an academic forum on Japan's wartime actions

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  Skipping a few thousand years: Rapid domestication of the groundcherry using gene editing

  November 14, 2018 17:45 IST

  (The Conversation is an independent and nonprofit source of news, analysis and commentary from academic experts.) Nathan T. Reem, Cornell University and Esperanza Shenstone, Cornell University(THE CONVERSATION) Shopping in your supermarket’s produce section is like strolling through a museum of humanity’s greatest inventions. Perfect ears of golden sweet corn; tomatoes of different sizes, shapes and colors; and spicy jalapeño peppers are all a testament to human ingenuity. You may not consider

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  Craigslist can cut solid waste, one used sofa at a time

  November 14, 2018 17:45 IST

  (The Conversation is an independent and nonprofit source of news, analysis and commentary from academic experts.) Suvrat Dhanorkar, Pennsylvania State University(THE CONVERSATION) The average American generates about 1,500 pounds of garbage annually, and then spends lots of tax dollars disposing of it. Even as recycling has taken off across the country in recent decades, the volume of all this trash has kept growing – albeit at a slower pace. Since I research how people are using the internet

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  The counties where the anti-vaccine movement thrives in the US

  November 14, 2018 17:45 IST

  (The Conversation is an independent and nonprofit source of news, analysis and commentary from academic experts.) Peter J Hotez, Baylor College of Medicine (THE CONVERSATION) As a pediatrician-scientist who develops new vaccines for neglected diseases, I spent most of my career in the Boston-Washington, D.C. corridor. While working in the Northeast, I had heard a few things about the anti-vaccine movement. As both a vaccine scientist and a father of four, including a daughter diagnosed with

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  Partial mycoheterotrophs: The green plants that feed on fungi

  November 14, 2018 17:45 IST

  (The Conversation is an independent and nonprofit source of news, analysis and commentary from academic experts.) Nicole Hynson, University of Hawaii(THE CONVERSATION) You probably learned this basic lesson of biology in elementary school: Plants are self-feeders. These so-called autotrophs use the sun’s energy and water to turn carbon dioxide from the air into food through the process known as photosynthesis. Autotrophic organisms sit at the base of every food chain on Earth and sustain all

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  A county in Idaho offered Spanish-language ballots for the first time and here's what happened

  November 14, 2018 17:45 IST

  (The Conversation is an independent and nonprofit source of news, analysis and commentary from academic experts.) Gabe Osterhout, Boise State University(THE CONVERSATION) On the morning of Election Day, the top trending search on Google was “donde votar,” which means “where to vote” in Spanish.Voter access to the polls was a major issue during the 2018 midterm elections in the U.S. Charges of voter suppression were made in in Georgia and North Dakota. Critics of new voting rules claimed they

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  From bicycle to social movements, the changing role of chaplains in the US

  November 14, 2018 17:45 IST

  (The Conversation is an independent and nonprofit source of news, analysis and commentary from academic experts.) Wendy Cadge, Brandeis University and Michael Skaggs, Brandeis University(THE CONVERSATION) More and more institutions across the United States are hiring chaplains and other spiritual care providers. Some are places that have long employed chaplains, but others may come as a surprise.The Massachusetts Institute of Technology, for example, recently installed a new chaplain. Various

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  Can artisanal weed compete with 'Big Marijuana'?

  November 14, 2018 17:45 IST

  (The Conversation is an independent and nonprofit source of news, analysis and commentary from academic experts.) Ryan Stoa, Concordia University(THE CONVERSATION) You’ve heard of Big Pharma and Big Tobacco. How about Big Marijuana? The drug’s growing legalization is raising concerns among small-scale marijuana farmers and retailers that the corporatization of weed may be right around the corner. For example, earlier this year NASDAQ became the first major U.S. stock exchange to list shares of

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  Macedonia detains 2 former officials after ex-PM's flight

  November 14, 2018 17:15 IST

  Macedonian authorities have temporarily jailed two former government officials on trial for corruption, after the former prime minister fled to Hungary to avoid serving a two-year prison term

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  Dan Gilbert selling Detroit's Greektown casino in $1B deal

  November 14, 2018 17:15 IST

  Businessman and Cleveland Cavaliers owner Dan Gilbert has reached an agreement to sell Greektown Casino-Hotel in downtown Detroit for $1 billion

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  10 Things to Know for Today

  November 14, 2018 17:15 IST

  Among 10 Things to Know: Wildfire death toll rises in California as search for missing continues; Pence says Myanmar's handling of Rohingya 'without excuse'; Amazon's 2 chosen cities face higher housing prices and mass transit stress

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  Danish shipper: US-China trade war hits container trade

  November 14, 2018 17:15 IST

  Danish shipping group A.P. Moller-Maersk is warning that trade tensions between the United States and China could weigh on business.

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  Santa's work begins answering Christmas wish mail in Germany

  November 14, 2018 17:00 IST

  Santa Claus and his helpers have begun answering Christmas letters from children around the world sent to a special post office in the German town of Himmelpfort

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  The Latest: Van carrying migrants crashes; 18 hospitalized

  November 14, 2018 17:00 IST

  Greek authorities say 18 people were hospitalized after the latest in a string of often fatal road accidents involving vehicles smuggling migrants through northern Greece