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Yahoo to cut 1,700 workers as CEO tries to save her own job
Yahoo is laying off about 1,700 employees and shedding some of its excess baggage in a shake-up likely to determine whether CEO ...First U.S. Zika virus transmission reported, attributed to sex
The first known case of Zika virus transmission in the United States was reported in Texas on Tuesday by local health officials, ...Obama decries anti-Muslim rhetoric on first mosque visit
Barack Obama offered an impassioned rebuttal of "inexcusable" Republican election rhetoric against Muslims Wednesday, on his first trip to an American mosque ...Cruz upsets Trump in Iowa as Clinton claims narrow victory
US presidential hopefuls trained their sights on New Hampshire and beyond Tuesday, with conservative Ted Cruz keen to build on his dramatic ...WHO declares global health emergency over Zika situation
The World Health Organization on Monday declared that a surge in serious birth defects in South America was "strongly suspected" of being ...Boston bomber appeals death sentence, conviction
Boston bomber Dzhokhar Tsarnaev on Friday filed an appeal against his death sentence and conviction, handed down last year over one of ...Putin is corrupt, says US Treasury
An official of the United States government has directly accused Russian President Vladimir Putin of corruption, in a BBC programme that airs ...Massive blizzard shuts down eastern United States
A deadly blizzard walloped the eastern United States on Saturday, paralyzing Washington and New York under a heavy blanket of snow as ...Four dead in worst Canada school shooting in decade, suspect caught
The gunman suspected of killing four people and injuring several others in Canada\'s worst school violence in a decade first shot his ...Millions in US brace for monster blizzard
The eastern US braced Friday for a monstrous blizzard that has prompted thousands of flight cancelations and the looming shutdown of Washington\'s ...