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90 held in anti-Mafia raids across Europe
Ninety people have been arrested in a series of operations targeting suspected 'Ndrangheta members across Europe and in Suriname, South America, officials said Wednesday.
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Rival sides in Yemen's war to hold first direct talks in years
Officials from Yemen's internationally-recognized government are set to hold direct talks with Houthi rebels in Sweden on Thursday in the most significant step to end the country's conflict in more than two years.
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Trump changes his tone on China deal after market slide
After President Donald Trump helped send markets tanking by feeding doubts about his trade deal with China, he stepped in Wednesday to pump up optimism in a series of early-morning tweets.
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Why German bread is the best in the world (opinion)
You've seen the French sauntering around with slender baguettes under their arms or sporting jaunty berets as they pedal bicycles laden with crusty bread.
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Rare pre-Prohibition whiskeys offer a taste of American history
When Jean-Baptiste (J.B.) Leonis, the early 20th-century builder, banker, and wine and liquor merchant who founded the town of Vernon, California, spotted Prohibition on the horizon, he was not about to take any chances with his beloved whiskey.
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'Black Panther,' 'Mary Poppins' join list of AFI honorees
A pair of major Disney-released blockbusters, "Black Panther" and the upcoming "Mary Poppins Returns," join "A Star is Born" and a mix of smaller movies in the American Film Institute's annual roster of the most outstanding achievements in film and television.
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Kevin Hart to host the Oscars
Kevin Hart is headed to the Oscars stage. The comedian took to Instagram on Tuesday to announce he's been selected to host the 2019 Academy Awards for the first time.
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Priyanka Chopra and Nick Jonas share pictures from their gorgeous wedding
Actress Priyanka Chopra shared photos and video on Tuesday of her breathtakingly beautiful wedding to singer Nick Jonas.
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'Surviving R. Kelly' documentary screening evacuated due to threats
A New York screening of the Lifetime documentary "Surviving R. Kelly" was evacuated after "several anonymous threats were called in," the network said.
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Former Secret Service agent: Why we loved Bush 41 (aka Timberwolf)
Just before midnight on Friday evening, I received the news from a current US Secret Service agent. His message said, "We lost Timberwolf -- a part of us is gone."
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South Florida doctor arrested, accused of drugging woman's drink
A South Florida doctor is under arrest, accused of drugging a woman's drink. According to Boca Raton police, a customer said she saw Mircea Morariu pour a powder-like substance into a woman's drink while she was in the bathroom at Ouzo Bay, a restaurant at 201 Plaza Real, on Sept. 10.
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Republican-led Wisconsin legislature approves bills to diminish executive power after Democratic election wins
Wisconsin Republicans moved overnight to strip power from newly elected Democratic leaders, advancing legislation that would limit early voting, enact Medicaid work requirements and potentially block the incoming attorney general from withdrawing the state from a lawsuit over Obamacare.
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Florida Democrat Andrew Gillum meets with Obama amid 2020 speculation
Andrew Gillum met with former President Barack Obama in Washington on Tuesday, two sources familiar with the matter tell CNN, amid ongoing speculation that the former Democratic nominee for Florida governor might be considering a potential 2020 presidential bid.
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Bush once asked if anyone would attend his memorial services
Amid the long lines of people waiting in the Capitol Rotunda to pay their respects to former President George H.W. Bush and the outpouring of admiration for his life, it's hard to imagine that anyone could have doubted that his memorial services wouldn't be well-attended.
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Einstein's 'God letter' breaks record and sells for $2.9M at auction
A letter penned by Albert Einstein in which he challenges the concept of religion has broken sale records at auction, fetching close to $2.9 million.
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Toxic: Oxford Dictionaries sums up the mood of 2018 with word of the year
2018 was toxic. That's the view of the esteemed Oxford Dictionaries, the British publisher that has been defining language -- and our times -- for over 150 years.
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Nation says goodbye to Bush
The hilltop cathedral in Washington filled on Wednesday with recollections of George H.W. Bush as a modest but mighty president, a man whose characteristic humility was belied one final time with all the pageantry of a state funeral.
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Facebook internal emails show Zuckerberg targeting competitor Vine
Mark Zuckerberg and his colleagues were apparently concerned enough about Vine, a video app from Twitter, that on the day it launched in January 2013, they moved to restrict its access to Facebook user data, a trove of internal Facebook emails released by the U.K. Parliament on Tuesday shows.
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Trump praises death penalty for Chinese fentanyl 'distributors and pushers'
President Donald Trump on Wednesday praised the potential for capital punishment in China against "distributors and pushers" of fentanyl -- an opioid 50 to 100 times more powerful than morphine.
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With new member Trump, uneasy presidents club to convene at Bush funeral
In the cavernous sanctuary of the National Cathedral on Wednesday, President Donald Trump came face-to-face for the first time with his four living predecessors, an encounter occasioned only by a loss to the most exclusive club in American politics -- indeed, in the world.
