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What we learned from Sean Penn’s Rolling Stone interview with El Chapo
Syrian refugee among first lady's guests for State of Union
Powerball jackpot world's largest at $1.3 billion
France pays tribute to 2015 terrorism victims in silent ceremony
Mexico: Sean Penn interview helped locate drug lord

What we learned from Sean Penn’s Rolling Stone interview with El Chapo

Posted: 10 Jan 2016 09:49 AM PST

Actor Sean Penn secretly interviewed Joaquín "El Chapo" Guzmán for a Rolling Stone article as the world's most notorious drug kingpin was on the run from Mexican authorities three months after escaping a maximum security prison. Penn's 10,000-word piece was published online Saturday, a day after El Chapo was recaptured in Mexico.

Syrian refugee among first lady's guests for State of Union

Posted: 10 Jan 2016 11:29 AM PST

WASHINGTON (AP) — A Syrian scientist stricken with cancer and seeking a new start for his family in Michigan will represent Syrian refugees as a guest of first lady Michelle Obama for the president's final State of the Union address.

Powerball jackpot world's largest at $1.3 billion

Posted: 10 Jan 2016 02:41 PM PST

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France pays tribute to 2015 terrorism victims in silent ceremony

Posted: 10 Jan 2016 05:11 AM PST

By Geert De Clercq PARIS (Reuters) - France honored the victims of Islamist militant attacks last year in a thinly attended silent ceremony on Sunday, almost a year to the day when more than a million people marched in Paris to protest killings at the satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo. President Francois Hollande and Paris Mayor Anne Hidalgo laid a wreath by the statue of Marianne, symbol of the French republic, in central Paris. The statue has become a shrine to the 17 victims of the January 2015 attacks on Charlie Hebdo and a Jewish deli, and to the 130 people shot dead by militants on Nov. 13 at a concert, and in bars and restaurants in Paris.