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Home sales flatten in November after a busy few months After a stronger-than-expected surge through much of the fall, homebuyers took a breather in November. Signed contracts to buy existing homes were flat for the month, up just 0.2 percent from October, according to the National Association of Realtors' seasonally adjusted monthly index of pending ...
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| The best health care stories I read in 2017 This is the web version of VoxCare, a daily newsletter from Vox on the latest twists and turns in America's health care debate. Like what you're reading? Sign up to get VoxCare in your inbox here. I, quite obviously, do a lot of writing about health care at Vox. But I also do a lot of reading — and in my ...
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| Suspected French Islamist militants detained in Syria: source PARIS (Reuters) - Several suspected French Islamist militants have been arrested in northern Syria, including a man once convicted of running a jihadist recruitment network in France, a source close to the matter said on Wednesday. According to French news channel LCI, the Syrian Kurdish YPG ...
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| Ukraine and pro-Russia rebels in mass prisoner swap Ukraine and Russian-backed rebels swapped hundreds of prisoners in the war-torn east of the country on Wednesday, one of the largest such exchanges since the outbreak of an insurgency almost four years ago. The swap of captives on a dusty road close to the town of Gorlivka, 40 kilometres (25 ...
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| Barack Obama Expertly Snubbed Trump in Prince Harry Interview Barack Obama has mastered the art of elegantly eliding questions about Donald Trump. In a lengthy BBC Radio 4 interview with Prince Harry that aired Wednesday, the former president managed to shunt questions alluding to the current president, never once saying his name. He opted instead to make ...
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| Obama beats Trump again as most admired American man in poll Trump is not the first incumbent president not to be named most-admired man: Harry Truman, Lyndon Johnson, Richard Nixon, Gerald Ford, Jimmy Carter and George W Bush all missed out in years corresponding to poor approval ratings. Many of Trump's actions in his first year in office have been ...
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| UN chief commends peaceful vote in Liberia, dispatches Nigeria's Obasanjo 27 December 2017 – United Nations Secretary-General António Guterres on Wednesday welcomed the peaceful conduct of the second round of the presidential election in Liberia, and announced he is sending former Nigerian leader Olusegun Obasanjo to support the country in the first peaceful ...
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| Samsung and Microsoft's Odyssey headset has me excited for VR in 2018 You plug in the Odyssey's USB and HDMI cables, then launch a "Mixed Reality Portal" built into the Creators Update. To draw a boundary, you just drag the headset around your available space. It detects visual features that it can use as reference points, then calculates your motion based on them.
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| Huawei's Mate 10 will reportedly come to AT&T in February The world's third-largest smartphone brand remains relatively unknown in the United States, but next year, that could start to change. According to The Information, Chinese smartphone giant Huawei hopes to make a big splash in the US in 2018 by debuting a flagship phone on AT&T. It would mark the ...
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At Least 4 Injured in St. Petersburg Supermarket Explosion (MOSCOW) — Russian news reports say at least four people have been injured by an explosion at a supermarket in St. Petersburg. Russian news agencies quoted St. Petersburg's branch of the Emergencies Ministry as saying that a device containing 200 grams of explosives went off on Wednesday at ...
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| Blast rips through supermarket in Russia Reuters Anton Vaganov A policeman stands guard near the supermarket after the explosion in St. Petersburg, Russia, on Wednesday. MOSCOW — A blast ripped through a supermarket in Russia's St. Petersburg on Wednesday evening, injuring at least 10 shoppers, investigators said. The explosion was ...
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| In Defense of Tolkien's Deus Ex Machina Much has been said—over and over again and usually with well-intentioned sciolism—about those blasted Eagles in The Lord of the Rings. There is actually precious little written about Tolkien's imperious birds of prey, and I suppose that's why it's easy to armchair criticize the good professor for his use ...
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