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Friday, March 06, 2015

Today's headlines from CNN

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Amid brazen, deadly attacks, gay Syrians tell of fear of ISIS persecution
The photographs released by ISIS in its stronghold of Raqqa are dated March 2015. The first ones show a large crowd, mostly men, but also among them a handful of women and children, all looking up.

MH370: 21st century technology might have solved the mystery
A year later, it still sounds impossible: A sophisticated $270 million airliner carrying 239 people disappears, leaving very few clues about where it went.

U.S.
Selma's historic bridge deserves a better name
There were three Selma to Montgomery marches in March 1965, and Rosa Parks had missed the first one. Parks, whose act of civil disobedience sparked the Montgomery bus boycott in 1955, moved to Detroit two years later for safety reasons. Death threats, in Alabama, were too much for her to endure.

'Seinfeld' actor Daniel von Bargen dies at 64
Daniel von Bargen, the talented character actor perhaps best known for playing George Costanza's imbecilic boss Mr. Kruger during the last season of "Seinfeld," has died. He was 64.

Navy's newest crew: 'The Three Presidents'
The U.S. Navy doesn't just do stuff "for fun," says the command master chief of the aircraft carrier USS Ronald Reagan, but what 30% of the ship's crew will be up to over the next year or so can at least be termed pretty cool. And it will certainly be unprecedented.

Feds fight 'maternity tourism' with raids on California 'maternity hotels'
Federal agents on Tuesday raided more than three dozen "maternity hotels" in Southern California where foreign women give birth, allegedly for the sole purpose of having a U.S.-citizen baby, authorities said.

WORLD
South Korean police investigate attacker's links to North Korea
A man opposed to joint South Korean-U.S. military drills attacked the American ambassador in Seoul, slashing his face and arm as he was about to give a speech Thursday morning.

Lost city discovered in Honduran jungle
Archaeologists searching for a lost city in the jungles of Honduras have discovered the urban remains of what they believe is a vanished ancient civilization, National Geographic reports.

Hundreds of skeletons found under Paris supermarket
Workers digging underneath a Paris supermarket have made an unsettling discovery: as many as 200 skeletons.

China to narrow gap with U.S. by increasing military spending
China says its military budget will increase by 10.1% in 2015, the latest in a series of double-digit increases that will narrow the still-significant gap with the United States on defense spending.

BUSINESS
Fed: Banks could lose $490 billion in next crisis
America's biggest banks would lose $490 billion -- most of that due to bad loans -- over the next nine quarters in a worst-case scenario devised by the Federal Reserve.

Losers! These 9 stocks missed the bull market
How great has the bull market of the past six years been? Only nine stocks in the S&P 500 have a negative total return since the S&P 500 bottomed.

HEALTH
Science to Carson: You're wrong
Researchers say Dr. Ben Carson may be a brain surgeon, but science shows he's dead wrong about how sexual orientation works.

Deadly superbug-related scopes sold without FDA approval
CNN has learned that the manufacturer of the endoscope involved in two superbug deaths at UCLA never obtained permission to sell the device, according to an official at the Food and Drug Administration.

TECHNOLOGY
The social network that you can wear
Once was a time when finding out if you were compatible with someone involved a complex social interplay of body language, conversational nuance and good food and wine.

'Modern Family' airs Apple-centric episode
Talk about a "Modern Family."

ENTERTAINMENT
Jennifer Lawrence, Steven Spielberg to adapt war photographer's memoir
Warner Bros. has won a bidding war for the movie rights to "It's What I Do: A Photographer's Life of Love and War," a memoir by Lynsey Addario.

New 'Beauty' finds its Beast -- and Gaston
"Beauty" has found its Beast.

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