| 'The Interview' is back on Posted: 23 Dec 2014 11:00 AM PST  Sony has reportedly reversed course on pulling the film.
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| Big news for Obamacare Posted: 23 Dec 2014 09:01 AM PST  Healthcare.gov's recent open enrollment period boasts big numbers.
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| Canadian found guilty of murdering, dismembering Chinese student Posted: 23 Dec 2014 10:29 AM PST  By Nelson Wyatt MONTREAL (Reuters) - A Canadian man who killed and dismembered a Chinese student in Montreal in 2012 was found guilty of first-degree murder on Tuesday, with the jury delivering the verdict after more than a week of deliberating the gruesome case. Luka Magnotta, 32, had admitted to killing and dismembering engineering student Jun Lin, 33, but pleaded not guilty on grounds of mental illness. ...
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| 'The Interview' is back on Posted: Sony has reportedly reversed course and the film will come out. |
| Abbas says to cut ties with Israel if UN move fails Posted: 23 Dec 2014 07:36 AM PST  Palestinian president Mahmud Abbas warned on Tuesday that his administration would "no longer deal" with Israel if a United Nations Security Council resolution calling for a final peace deal fails. The Palestinian draft resolution sets a 12-month deadline for wrapping up negotiations on a final peace settlement and the end of 2017 as the timeframe for completing an Israeli withdrawal from Palestinian territories. A final peace deal would pave the way to the creation of a Palestinian state with Jerusalem as a shared capital, according to the text. Speculation has been mounting since the death in December of a Palestinian official who was struck by an Israeli soldier that the Palestinian Authority could suspend security coordination with Israel in the West Bank if the resolution fails to pass.
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| Economy grows at fast 5% annual rate Posted: US economy grew at fast 5 pct. annual rate in Q3 |
| N. Korea's Internet back online after outage Posted: 23 Dec 2014 10:39 AM PST  The hours-long shutdown followed a U.S. vow to respond to a cyberattack on Sony Pictures.
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| New York mayor calls for pause in protests after police killings Posted: 23 Dec 2014 10:38 AM PST  By Jonathan Allen and Laila Kearney NEW YORK (Reuters) - (This Dec 22 story corrects age of police officer Liu to 32 from 28, paragraph 3) New York Mayor Bill de Blasio implored protesters on Monday to wait until after the funerals of two policemen shot dead in an ambush before resuming rallies that have roiled the city and beyond over the deaths of black men at the hands of police. ...
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| Argentine Orangutan unfazed by right to freedom ruling Posted: 22 Dec 2014 11:32 PM PST  Sandra the orangutan took her newfound fame in stride after an Argentine court upheld her right to be freed from a zoo, munching a melon and putting the rind on her head for the cameras. In a world first, a court ruled that Sandra was entitled to some of the basic rights of a human being and as such was being subjected to unjust confinement at the Buenos Aires Zoo, where she has lived for the past 20 years. Zoo officials said they were still scratching their heads at the court's decision. It's a large space, there are specialists who take care of her diet, monitor her health, and in general she lives in very good conditions," said Adrian Sestelo, chief biologist at the zoo.
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| Activists reject NY mayor's plea to pause protests over police Posted: 23 Dec 2014 10:49 AM PST  By Jonathan Allen NEW YORK (Reuters) - Protesters who have rallied for weeks over excessive use of police force rejected New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio's plea to suspend demonstrations after the killing of two officers, vowing to march in the center of Manhattan on Tuesday evening. ...
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| Off duty, black cops in New York feel threat from fellow police Posted: 23 Dec 2014 09:33 AM PST  By Michelle Conlin NEW YORK (Reuters) - From the dingy donut shops of Manhattan to the cloistered police watering holes in Brooklyn, a number of black NYPD officers say they have experienced the same racial profiling that cost Eric Garner his life. Garner, a 43-year-old black man suspected of illegally peddling loose cigarettes, died in July after a white officer put him in a chokehold. On Saturday, those tensions escalated after a black gunman, who wrote of avenging the black deaths on social media, shot dead two New York policemen. The protests and the ambush of the uniformed officers pose a major challenge for New York Mayor Bill De Blasio. The mayor must try to ease damaged relations with a police force that feels he hasn't fully supported them, while at the same time bridging a chasm with communities who say the police unfairly target them. What's emerging now is that, within the thin blue line of the NYPD, there is another divide - between black and white officers. Reuters interviewed 25 African American male officers on the NYPD, 15 of whom are retired and 10 of whom are still serving.
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| Boston bombing suspect wants 'supporters’ moved away from courthouse Posted: 22 Dec 2014 03:29 PM PST  Bombing suspect Dzhokhar Tsarnaev is pressing a judge to move his so-called supporters away from the Boston courthouse where his trial begins next month.
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| Judge OK's Oklahoma's lethal injection protocol Posted: 22 Dec 2014 05:29 PM PST  OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — Oklahoma's lethal injection protocol is constitutional and the state can proceed with the scheduled executions of four death row inmates early next year, a federal judge ruled on Monday.
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| North Korea Internet outage in wake of Sony attack over Posted: 22 Dec 2014 08:19 PM PST  WASHINGTON (AP) — North Korea experienced sweeping Internet outages for hours before coming back online late Monday. One computer expert said the country's online access was "totally down."
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| Ten injured as attacker rams van into French Christmas market Posted: 23 Dec 2014 02:31 AM PST  A driver ploughed into a Christmas market in western France, injuring 10 people before stabbing himself, a day after a similar attack in another French city, as authorities played down fears of a terrorist motive. At least four people were badly hurt, one of whom was critical, after the latest incident in the city of Nantes, the third attack in three days by individuals against civilians or security forces in France, sparking fears of possible copycat action. On Sunday a man shouting "Allahu Akbar" drove into pedestrians on the streets of the eastern city of Dijon, injuring 13. He too had yelled "Allahu Akbar".
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