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Amazon Fire TV devices now point people towards the YouTube website instead. from BBC News - Technology http://ift.tt/2zLYmIe

Data links to Angosat-1 have been restored after it went missing for two days. from BBC News - Technology http://ift.tt/2Cm8Q40

The alleged attack took place in Washington DC just days before Donald Trump's inauguration. from BBC News - Technology http://ift.tt/2lpvCzL

Reports say men in balaclavas kidnapped Pavel Lerner in the Ukrainian capital two days ago. from BBC News - Technology http://ift.tt/2CjiHrj

Cyber-security pioneer reports his Twitter account was hacked and used to promote crypto-currencies. from BBC News - Technology http://ift.tt/2Ciz1bU

Authorities arrested a 25-year-old man in California for a “swatting” prank emergency call that led to the death of an innocent 28-year-old Kansas man who was shot by police responders on Thursday evening as he stood on his front doorstep. from Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines http://ift.tt/2zPruhD

Speaking with the New York Times, the president acknowledged he’s “been soft” on China on trade, and decried the Russia investigation, but said he thinks Robert Mueller is “going to be fair.” from Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines http://ift.tt/2Ehfclw

For the New Year, former President Barack Obama shared three uplifting news stories from 2017, encouraging Americans to look beyond the negativity that has seemed to dominate the news this year. from Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines http://ift.tt/2BUITHx

Investigators were also looking into allegations Michael Hamill had consensual sex while on the job. from Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines http://ift.tt/2zRVLwg

California adults not content to ring in the New Year with the traditional fizz of champagne can look forward to celebrating with the buzz of marijuana, purchased for the first time from state-licensed retailers of recreational pot. Dozens of newly authorized marijuana stores are due to open for business across California on Jan. 1, launching yet another chapter in America's drug culture and the largest regulated commercial market for cannabis in the United States - one valued at several billion dollars. Newly permitted retailers will rely on a hodge-podge of marijuana producers in the state's illicit "gray market" to stock their shelves for the next six months, until state-licensed growers can harvest their first crops. from Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines http://ift.tt/2CaqsDa

One-hundred days after Hurricane Maria struck Puerto Rico, San Juan Mayor Carmen Yulin Cruz on Friday again slammed President Donald Trump’s response to a disaster the president says wasn’t a “real catastrophe,” even though it left at least 64 dead. from Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines http://ift.tt/2BUJ1XM

The countdown of photo galleries that our Yahoo readers liked the best this year! Check back in as we’ll be counting down the top 10 until New Year’s Eve. from Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines http://ift.tt/2l0ZjYz

Days after her headline-making arrest, Luann de Lesseps is heading to rehab from Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines http://ift.tt/2ChvgWz

Secretary of Defense James Mattis previewed what’s next in the fight against ISIS, telling reporters that the U.S. will rely less on special forces and more on general forces, especially in Africa. NBC’s Hans Nichols reports. from Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines http://ift.tt/2CdAbsc

A shooter opened fire at a southern California law firm Friday, killing one man and injuring another before fatally turning the gun on himself, police said. from Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines http://ift.tt/2zR1mTB

We spoke with Americans on their hopes for the U.S. in 2018. Here’s what they had to say. from Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines http://ift.tt/2CfEWSe

The White House has reportedly fired the members of Presidential Advisory Council on HIV/AIDS (PACHA) without explanation. from Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines http://ift.tt/2lsMJAS

There are barely any traces of fire on the apartment building's facade, no puddles of water on the ground, and only a handful of onlookers. On Friday, only two fire trucks, their lights still flashing, hinted at the drama that had unfolded the evening before in the Bronx. from Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines http://ift.tt/2Eho5M3

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The Iranian government denounced President Donald Trump on Saturday after he escalated his support for the anti-government protesters who have been holding demonstrations in the country for three days. from Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines http://ift.tt/2pZogIR

NEW YORK (AP) — The latest on New York City's deadliest residential fire in decades (all times local): from Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines http://ift.tt/2Dy9QkW

A North Korean nuclear scientist deported back to his home country after defecting to China has reportedly committed suicide in his prison cell hours before he was due to be interrogated. The defector, who is in his 50s, was a lead researcher in the physics centre of the State Academy of Sciences in Pyongyang. He was identified by Radio Free Asia as Hyun Cheol-huh, although it is not known if this was his real name. A source in North Hamgyong province told RFA that he was forced back on November 17 and placed in solitary confinement at the state security department in Sinuiju city, where he consumed poison. “He died before he could be questioned about the reasons for his escape, who had helped him and what his route had been,” he said. Mr Hyun is said to have taken leave from his job “because he was showing signs of anxiety over his research projects,” added the source. “Suddenly, he visited relatives near the border without letting his family know and without carrying valid documents

By Pavel Polityuk KIEV (Reuters) - Kidnappers in Ukraine have released an employee at a United Kingdom-registered cryptocurrency exchange after getting more than $1 million in bitcoins as ransom, an adviser to the Ukrainian interior minister told Reuters on Friday. Pavel Lerner, a leading analyst and blockchain expert, was abducted by unknown masked people on Dec. 26, according to a statement by his company, EXMO Finance, on its website. "This is the first such case in Ukraine linked to bitcoins," Anton Gerashchenko, an adviser to Interior Minister Arsen Avakov, said in a phone text message. from Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines http://ift.tt/2Cm6S5Z

Police in Slidell, Louisiana, have arrested a man who allegedly helped scam people out of thousands of dollars in “Nigerian prince”-style email schemes. from Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines http://ift.tt/2q5YPFG

On Dec. 23, 2016, school psychologist Heather Lindsay was diagnosed with the breast cancer that would eventually take her life. from Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines http://ift.tt/2DCyjFO

The zoo's general manager Tim Faulkner explained the eggs wouldn't hatch in the Australian heat if they were not moved. from Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines http://ift.tt/2zQnRIj

Nepal has banned solo climbers from scaling its mountains, including Mount Everest, in a bid to reduce accidents, an official said Saturday. The cabinet late Thursday endorsed a revision to the Himalayan nation's mountaineering regulations, banning solo climbers from its mountains -- one of a string of measures being flagged ahead of the 2018 spring climbing season. "The changes have barred solo expeditions, which were allowed before," Maheshwor Neupane, secretary at the Ministry of Culture, Tourism and Civil Aviation, told AFP. from Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines http://ift.tt/2lnSCjo

Clips show the gunman who killed nine walking away unchallenged for 10 minutes from Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines http://ift.tt/2lumbPO

Lauren Wasser is again opening up about the toll toxic shock syndrome has taken on her life from Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines http://ift.tt/2pYMTW9

From "Rocket Man" to glowing orbs and all the awkward handshakes in between, take a look back at all the ways President Trump shook up global diplomacy in his first year in office. from Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines http://ift.tt/2EcUtiX

MOSCOW (AP) — The Kremlin views the continued strain on Russia's relations with the United States as a major disappointment of the year, President Vladimir Putin's spokesman said Friday. from Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines http://ift.tt/2luHHnu

“Teen Mom OG” reality star Catelynn Lowell Baltierra is heading back home to Michigan after six weeks in a treatment center following a struggle with suicidal thoughts. from Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines http://ift.tt/2CnObyQ

I know the struggle that is trying to find a winter hat or beanie that will stylishly fit over my massive head of hair ― which I recently transitioned back to its naturally curly state. from Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines http://ift.tt/2pRvQVQ

“Flavortown” fans, put on your best flame shirt and prepare to bury your feelings in a whole lot of donkey sauce. from Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines http://ift.tt/2CidFxA

Coming up on 'Fox News Sunday:' December 31 President Trump warns Iran as the world watches

Former State Dept. official reacts to Trump's Iran remarks Dr. Paul Bonicelli weighs in as protests erupt in Iran.

2017's foreign policy highs and lows Gen. Jack Keane looks back at the busy year and ahead to the global challenges in 2018.

Are predictions of a 'blue wave' in 2018 premature? Larry Sabato looks into his crystal ball for the midterm elections on 'Journal Editorial Report.'

Australian diplomat's tip a factor in FBI's Russia probe An Australian diplomat's tip appears to have helped persuade the FBI to investigate Russian meddling in the U.S. election and possible coordination with the Trump campaign, The New York Times reported Saturday.

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