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Lionel Messi prepares for his final match for Argentina
Expect lots of tears when Lionel Messi plays a farewell game for Argentina on Tuesday.
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Scientist who hunts mysterious ghost particles in the Antarctic ice wins Nobel Prize for physics
Belgian-born scientist Francis Halzen won the Nobel Prize in physics Tuesday for his efforts to demystify a rare group of neutrinos, tiny cosmic particles that researchers believe offer clues to how the universe evolved.
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The enduring popularity of Elvis Presley’s Graceland is a monument to his legacy
Elvis Presley's Graceland.
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Grammy-nominated R&B singer Freddie Jackson, known for ’80s hits like ‘You Are My Lady,’ dies
Grammy-nominated R&B singer Freddie Jackson, known for his smooth '80s hits “Rock Me Tonight (For Old Times Sake)” and “You Are My Lady,” has died.
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Trump approves firing squad execution for Fort Hood shooter Nidal Hasan
President Donald Trump has approved the execution by firing squad of Army Maj. Nidal Malik Hasan for the 2009 shooting rampage at Fort Hood, Texas.
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Arkansas campaign ad sparks conservative backlash for portraying lazy welfare recipient as white
A new video from Arkansas Gov. Sarah Huckabee Sanders was standard issue Republican messaging for promoting her state's stricter rules for people on Medicaid. No more could able-bodied people lounge around while receiving taxpayer-funded healthcare, she said — they needed to work.
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Supreme Court rejects Roy Moore’s push to restore $8.2M defamation verdict
The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday rejected Roy Moore's push to restore an $8.2 million defamation verdict over a 2017 Senate race ad funded by a Democratic-aligned super PAC.
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Russia reports a worker at a Siberian plague institute got pneumonia from an unknown cause and died
Russian authorities have quarantined a hospital and are monitoring contacts of an employee at a plague research institute in Siberia who contracted pneumonia of an "unknown" cause. Local state TV said the woman died last week.
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Trump says his super PAC will pay for taxpayer-funded ads that sparked backlash for glorifying him
President Donald Trump said Monday that he will stop using taxpayer funds for television advertisements glorifying himself that sparked a major backlash, and instead tap his super PAC to cover costs going forward.
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Jim Bakker, who built ‘PTL Club’ televangelism empire, has died
Jim Bakker, who along with his first wife Tammy Faye built an evangelical empire around the hugely successful "The PTL Club" TV show, only to lose it all over a sex scandal and financial crimes, has died.
