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• He has a dream: Liberty University defends choice of Trump as MLK Day speaker
• Oscar nominations announced in Los Angeles
• IS claims Jakarta attacks that left 5 gunmen, 2 others dead
• At least 3 winners in nearly $1.6B Powerball jackpot
• Time to take Bernie Sanders seriously
• WHO declares Ebola outbreak over

He has a dream: Liberty University defends choice of Trump as MLK Day speaker Posted: 14 Jan 2016 02:42 PM PST Donald Trump speaks at Convocation at Liberty University, near Chancellor Jerry Falwell, Jr., left, and Michele Bachmann, right, in Lynchburg, Va., on Sept. 24, 2012. In the face of opposition from students, Liberty University officials are defending the school's invitation to Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump to speak on campus Monday – Martin Luther King, Jr. Day. A peaceful protest is planned by demonstrators who will hold signs and sing when Trump speaks at "convocation," a thrice-weekly student gathering at the evangelical Christian school in Lynchburg, Va.

Oscar nominations announced in Los Angeles Posted: 14 Jan 2016 06:23 AM PST The brutal frontier saga The Revenant leads the 88th annual Academy Awards with 12 nominations, while the acting categories were again filled entirely by white performers.

IS claims Jakarta attacks that left 5 gunmen, 2 others dead Posted: 14 Jan 2016 07:38 AM PST JAKARTA, Indonesia (AP) — Attackers set off suicide bombs and exchanged gunfire outside a Starbucks cafe in Indonesia's capital in a brazen assault Thursday that police said "imitated" the recent Paris attacks. Backers of the Islamic State group claimed responsibility.

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WHO declares Ebola outbreak over Posted: 14 Jan 2016 07:47 AM PST The world breathed a sigh of relief Thursday as a two-year Ebola epidemic that killed 11,000 and triggered a global health alert was declared over, with Liberia the last country given the all-clear. The deadliest outbreak in the history of the feared tropical virus wrecked the economies and health systems of the three worst-hit west African nations after it emerged in southern Guinea in December 2013. At its peak, it devastated Guinea, Liberia and Sierra Leone, with bodies piling up in the streets and overwhelmed hospitals recording hundreds of new cases a week.

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