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  Gunman fires at Mass in Brazil cathedral, kills at least 4

  December 11, 2018 22:45 IST

  Authorities say an armed man entered a cathedral in southern Brazil and opened fire during Mass, killing at least four people before killing himself

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  Markets Right Now: US stocks higher at midday

  December 11, 2018 22:45 IST

  Stocks are higher on Wall Street in midday trading as traders hoped for a thaw in the trade tensions between the U.S. and China.

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  Column: Reviewing 2018 based on all 14 clubs in the bag

  December 11, 2018 22:30 IST

  Column: Memorable shots from all 14 clubs in the bag that shaped 2018 on the PGA Tour

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  Yaya Toure leaves Olympiakos after just 3 months

  December 11, 2018 22:30 IST

  Former Barcelona and Manchester City midfielder Toure leaves Olympiakos after disappointing Greece return

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  Farm bill compromise unveiled, clearing way for vote

  December 11, 2018 22:15 IST

  After months of negotiations lawmakers have reached a deal on the massive $867 billion farm bill

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  CBS sells Television City for $750M to LA developer

  December 11, 2018 22:15 IST

  CBS says it has sold Television City, its Los Angeles headquarters and production facility, to a real estate developer for $750 million

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  Andrew Gillum to address Democratic donors amid 2020 buzz

  December 11, 2018 22:00 IST

  Sure to fuel speculation that he may jump in the Democratic presidential primary field, Florida's Andrew Gillum is set to address top national party donors gathered in Washington

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  Jury resumes deliberations on white nationalist's sentence

  December 11, 2018 22:00 IST

  A jury has started its second day of deliberations on a sentencing recommendation for a man convicted of killing a woman and injuring dozens when he drove his car into counterprotesters at a white nationalist rally in Virginia

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  US demands answers from Cuba on political prisoners

  December 11, 2018 22:00 IST

  The Trump administration is demanding answers from Cuba about eight of more than 100 people it says are political prisoners held by the communist government.

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  Trump administration proposing major rollback of water rules

  December 11, 2018 21:45 IST

  The Trump administration is poised to withdraw federal protections for countless waterways and wetlands across the country

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  Lawsuit filed over fatal Army helicopter crash in Maryland

  December 11, 2018 21:45 IST

  The widow of an Army specialist killed in a Black Hawk helicopter crash in Maryland last year and two other soldiers who were critically injured have filed a wrongful death lawsuit against Sikorsky Aircraft in Connecticut

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  'Big Tech' isn't one big monopoly – it's 5 companies all in different businesses

  December 11, 2018 21:45 IST

  (The Conversation is an independent and nonprofit source of news, analysis and commentary from academic experts.) Amanda Lotz, University of Michigan(THE CONVERSATION) Public concern about Facebook’s power in society – and in politics – has skyrocketed in the wake of revelations that users’ data was analyzed by a U.K.-based marketing firm and used to construct highly targeted political propaganda in advance of the 2016 U.S. presidential election. Other technology giants have also sparked

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  Hope's unbeaten 146 leads West Indies to level ODI series

  December 11, 2018 21:45 IST

  Opener Shai Hope smashed an unbeaten 146 for West Indies to beat Bangladesh off the third-to-last ball and send their one-day international series to a decider on Tuesday

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  Want to live longer? Consider the ethics

  December 11, 2018 21:45 IST

  (The Conversation is an independent and nonprofit source of news, analysis and commentary from academic experts.) John K. Davis, California State University, Fullerton (THE CONVERSATION) Life extension – using science to slow or halt human aging so that people live far longer than they do naturally – may one day be possible. Big business is taking this possibility seriously. In 2013 Google founded a company called Calico to develop life extension methods, and Silicon Valley billionaires Jeff

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  With federal funding for science on the decline, what's the role of a profit motive in research?

  December 11, 2018 21:45 IST

  (The Conversation is an independent and nonprofit source of news, analysis and commentary from academic experts.) David R. Johnson, University of Nevada, Reno(THE CONVERSATION) What is the place of a profit motive in the production of knowledge at public universities?The Trump administration’s initial budget request presented in 2017 offered one answer to that question. According to the American Association for the Advancement of Science, the budget proposal included a 17 percent reduction in

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  Stocks veer back upward on hopes for US-China trade talks

  December 11, 2018 21:45 IST

  Stock markets around the world jumped Tuesday on hopes that trade tensions between the world's largest economies may ease after U.S. and Chinese officials spoke on the phone

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  FDR's forest army: How the New Deal helped seed the modern environmental movement 85 years ago

  December 11, 2018 21:45 IST

  (The Conversation is an independent and nonprofit source of news, analysis and commentary from academic experts.) Benjamin Alexander, City University of New York(THE CONVERSATION) Eighty-five years ago, on April 5, 1933, President Franklin D. Roosevelt signed an executive order allocating US$10 million for “Emergency Conservation Work.” This step launched one of the New Deal’s signature relief programs: the Civilian Conservation Corps, or CCC. Its mission was to put unemployed Americans to work

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  Ford Argentina ex-executives sentenced in torture cases

  December 11, 2018 21:30 IST

  A court in Argentina has sentenced two former Ford Motor Co. executives to prison for crimes against humanity committed against Argentine union workers during the country's 1976-1983 military dictatorship

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  The Latest: China vows to defend citizens abroad

  December 11, 2018 21:30 IST

  China's foreign minister vows to defend its citizens as Huawei executive arrested in Canada sits in jail

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  FANTASY PLAYS: Waiver adds for fantasy playoff semifinals

  December 11, 2018 21:30 IST

  FANTASY PLAYS: Waiver adds for fantasy playoff semifinals

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  The Latest: House committee kicks of grilling of Google CEO

  December 11, 2018 21:15 IST

  Google's CEO faces grilling from U.S. lawmakers on how the web search giant handled an alarming data breach and whether it may bend to Chinese government censorship demands

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  Despite predictions of their demise, college textbooks aren't going away

  December 11, 2018 21:00 IST

  (The Conversation is an independent and nonprofit source of news, analysis and commentary from academic experts.) Norm Friesen, Boise State University(THE CONVERSATION) The textbook has been declared dead many times over. Progressive educator John Dewey decried the “text-book fetish” back in the 1890s. Former U.S. Education Secretary Arne Duncan wished out loud for textbooks to become obsolete. Articles on the demise of textbooks regularly appear with each new school year. They describe these

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  Kathie Lee Gifford to leave NBC's 'Today' show in April

  December 11, 2018 21:00 IST

  Kathie Lee Gifford will be putting aside her morning glass of wine and will step away from NBC's "Today" show in April

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  Former Canadian diplomat reportedly arrested in China

  December 11, 2018 21:00 IST

  A former Canadian diplomat has been reportedly arrested in China

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  Lawyers for Michael Flynn to make sentencing recommendation

  December 11, 2018 21:00 IST

  Lawyers for former Trump administration national security adviser Michael Flynn are expected to make a sentencing recommendation to the judge

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  The Latest: Yemen's warring sides set date for prisoner swap

  December 11, 2018 21:00 IST

  Yemen's warring government and the Houthi rebels say they have set Jan. 20 as a final date to exchange more than 15,000 prisoners from both sides

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  Kenyan police: Key suspect in Italian's kidnapping arrested

  December 11, 2018 20:15 IST

  Kenyan police say key suspect in Italian volunteer's kidnapping is arrested

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  Cambodian court gives suspended sentences to labor leaders

  December 11, 2018 20:00 IST

  Six Cambodian union leaders have each received suspended 2 1/2-year prison terms in connection with labor protests about five years ago in which four garment workers were killed and around 20 others hurt