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“The Interview” now available on Google Play and YouTube Movies — Last Wednesday Sony began contacting a number of companies, including Google, to ask if we'd be able to make their movie, “The Interview,” available online. We'd had a similar thought and were eager to help …
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YouTube tentatively agrees to stream ‘The Interview’ — YouTube, the world's largest video web site, has tentatively agreed to help Sony Pictures distribute “The Interview” via the Internet, according to sources with direct knowledge of the ongoing negotiations. — The sources cautioned that the deal could still fall apart.

“The Interview” now available on Xbox Video
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CDC reports potential Ebola exposure in Atlanta lab — One scientist may have been exposed to the Ebola virus and as many as a dozen others are being assessed for potential exposure at a lab of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in Atlanta, agency officials said Wednesday.
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Ebola Sample Is Mishandled at C.D.C. Lab in Latest Error — A laboratory mistake at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in Atlanta may have exposed a technician to the deadly Ebola virus, federal officials said on Wednesday. The technician will be monitored for signs of infection for 21 days …
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CDC lab breach may have exposed technician to Ebola — A technician at the CDC's special pathogens laboratory in Atlanta may have been exposed to Ebola this week when a sample of the deadly virus was incorrectly marked and moved within the facility, officials said Wednesday.


Berkeley officer kills suspect who pulled gun; police say victim was ‘known’ to police — A Berkeley police officer fired at least three shots at a suspect who pulled a gun on him, the St. Louis County Police chief said at a Wednesday morning news conference.
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Police release video of officer-involved shooting
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Berkeley officer fatally shoots teenager at gas station
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Video Shows Moments Before Police Shooting Near Ferguson, Missouri
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Antonio Martin, Black Teenager, Fatally Shot By Police 2 Miles From Ferguson: Report
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Jeb Bush e-mails offer a look at the Republican's hands-on style as governor — The new governor of Florida was feeling exhausted and beleaguered. It was after 10 o'clock at night, and Jeb Bush was still going through angry e-mails. — He forwarded a message lambasting him as …
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Again? Really? What if it's Bush-Clinton in 2016?
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Obama plays round of golf with Malaysia's prime minster — President Obama golfed with the prime minister of Malaysia on Wednesday as he continued his annual winter vacation in Hawaii. — Prime Minister Najib Razak joined the president on the golf course. The foursome was completed by White House aides Joe Paulsen and Mike Brush.
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Bachmann: Obama Supports The Agenda Of Islamic Jihad “At Every Turn” — “And I have been very surprised, to answer your question, to see the president of the United States, at every turn, cut the legs off of our ally, Israel, and in fact embrace and lift up the agenda of Islamic jihad.”
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CUNY newspaper editorial calls for violent protests — Gordon Barnes, the editor-in-chief of The Advocate, penned the disturbing editorial calling for violent protests. — A disturbing editorial in a CUNY grad-student newspaper calls for rioters protesting the deaths of Eric Garner …
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Oh come all ye faithful? — Obama rarely seen in church, but advisers say his beliefs remain strong. — President Barack Obama rarely goes to church and has spent just one Christmas morning of his presidency in the pews. — But that's not for lack of faith, members of his small circle of religious confidants say.


That time Obama wore a tiara — Sporting a tiara in a photo posted Wednesday, President Barack Obama seems to have broken his own rule of “you don't put stuff on your head if you're president.” — But that's the power of the Girl Scouts. — Story Continued Below
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This Christmas, Be Grateful You Didn't Put All Your Money in Oil and Gold — The Ron Paul portfolio hasn't done so well. — Two days after the 2012 election, gold seller Doug Eberhardt told readers that his site was experiencing a traffic surge. “I noticed quite a few hits on my site …
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Woman who makes $6K a month off Airbnb rental ordered to stop — A woman has been “profiteering” from her government-subsidized, rent-controlled Central Park duplex by renting out bedrooms through Airbnb, a Manhattan judge said, ordering her to stop immediately.


Pope urges ‘tenderness’ as millions celebrate Christmas — Sarah Benhaida, Jean-Louis de la Vaissière — Vatican City (AFP) - Pope Francis led Christmas Eve mass in the Vatican calling for “tenderness” and “warmth” after a violence-plagued year as millions of Christians began marking the holiday.
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